Chapter 1368: There’s no heavy tal music in China?
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
The plane took off.
It was soaring tens of thousands of feet up in the air.
Ning Lan closed her eyes and slept.
Xu ilan was reading a book.
Chen Guang and Zhao Wuliu were discussing tonight’s music festival.
“Old Zhao, which song did you prepare?”
“‘Bobo.'”
“Oh, that one.”
“There’s so difficulty to it, so it will have to depend on my condition. What about you?”
“I don’t really know too many heavy tal songs either. I’ll probably go ahead with ‘Chariot.'”
“Neither of us are true tal singers, so we’d be forcing ourselves to sing in that style.”
“But we have no heavy tal to call our own in China.”
“Yeah. Hai, in the end, we still have to do covers of other singers’ songs.”
“There are so heavy tal songs that ca out in our country in recent years, but they’re still not mature enough to be called good. We’re still starting, so let’s take it slowly. I’m sure there will be a day when we can finally have good songs of our own.”
“Hopefully so.”
Zhang Ye was wearing an eye mask to nap and had overheard their conversation.
Surely not, right?
China does not have any heavy tal music to call its own?
Then what is the heavy tal scene like internationally?
He got curious about this. After all, he wasn’t from this world and had slowly gotten to understand many matters in China. But there were still a lot of things he did not know about in the international scene. Since he was now thinking about aiming for the overseas market, he would naturally have to start getting a picture of how things worked abroad, especially for things like the style of music, as well as the culture. This was the other objective that Zhang Ye had for this trip to Korea. He was going to scout for intel.
An hour.
Two hours.
The plane landed. They had arrived in Korea.
Seoul.
The airport.
When they ca out to Arrivals, they were t by soone from the charity banquet’s organizers. Perhaps there was also a leak in the news, so a lot of Korean fans and Chinese international students could also be seen standing in wait.
“Ah!”
“Xu ilan!”
“Xu ilan!”
“Jiang Hanwei!”
“It’s Xiaodong!”
A lot of people were shouting in Korean.
Many of them were even holding up signs and cheering for their idols.
Zhang Ye could not understand nor read the Korean letters, but he could still sense that no one was shouting his na. This showed that there was a significant drop in his popularity once he got out of China. In China, Zhang Ye was of equal status to Heavenly Queen Xu ilan. He would have all kinds of fans surrounding him where he went, like at the airport lounge where two passengers approached Zhang Ye and Xu ilan for their autographs and pictures. However, once they arrived in Korea, Xu ilan was still enjoying the sa kind of attention while Zhang Ye was not as well-known anymore, with his popularity dropping by a notch. Without ntioning Xu ilan, even Jiang Hanwei, Xiaodong, Amy, and the others were more popular than Zhang Ye. It was to the point that a lot of the people did not seem to know who Zhang Ye was as they did not even cast a glance at him.
On the bus.
Zhang Ye looked out of the window and took in the exotic scenery, feeling very relaxed.
Ning Lan asked, “You seem to be in a good mood, don’t you?”
Zhang Ye smiled and said, “Yeah, it’s rare that I can go sowhere without getting recognized.”
Xiaodong rolled her eyes and said, “But you’re an Asian A-lister.”
Zhang Ye said in amusent, “I’m at the bottom of the A-list, and it’s also only because of the stats that I’m in it.”
“There are also lots of people who know you here.” Chen Guang said, “But it’s just that not many of them are fans of yours. This is because you haven’t had any art that’s made it overseas, nor did you participate in any of the regional Asian activities.”
Amy said, “But coming back to the point, the people who have the greatest influence and popularity in the Asian region are mainly the Korean celebrities. Of the Asian Heavenly Kings and Queens, over half of them are Korean stars. The Korean entertainnt industry is world famous. From their selection criteria, to the training and promotions, all of it is quite professionally handled. I feel that we’re lacking compared to them in this area.”
Jiang Hanwei spoke at this mont, “The Korean celebrities are indeed very popular. They might not have many successful examples on the international stage, nor do they have that many international superstars, but they have it really good in Asia. Just using China as an example, as long as a Korean star has a good act and is slightly better looking, they’ll be quite popular in China. At the very least, they can develop pretty well in our market. But for our own celebrities, if they’re thinking of expanding into the Korean or Japanese markets and doing well, that becos a really difficult thing to achieve.”
The bus traveled down the road.
Everyone chatted along the way.
Reaching the hotel.
Unpacking their luggage.
Eating.
By the ti everything was done, it was already afternoon.
They had free ti now since the charity banquet would be held tomorrow. Since everyone had nothing to do, they decided to accompany Chen Guang and Zhao Wuliu.
“Shall we leave?”
“Alright, let’s head to the heavy tal music festival to see what it’s about.”
“I hardly ever listen to tal.”
“Old Chen and Old Zhao will both be singing?”
“Yeah, don’t mind us if we embarrass ourselves.”
“Haha, we’ll be cheering both of you on from the audience.”
After arranging for the transportation and an interpreter, they set off for the venue.
…
Later that afternoon.
A little after 5 PM.
At a venue in Seoul, the music was pumping hard.
They had gone in via the back entrance and were ushered to the VIP seats.
Once they got in, Ning Lan covered her ears. “It hasn’t started yet, right? Why is it so noisy then?”
Amy laughed. “This is exactly the kind of atmosphere they’re aiming for. Heavy tal music is very enjoyable to listen to. You need to feel it with your heart. It’s a pity that we don’t have many songs in our country. Most of the performances we have are just imitating what they do overseas and are only covers of foreign songs.”
Big Qi asked, “What about Korea and Japan?”
Amy was a professional musician, so she naturally knew about the scene. She explained, “Korea and Japan also have their own styles of heavy tal. For example in Japan, their style is closer to that of the earlier heavy tal scene. anwhile, for Korea, I personally do not feel that they have a very clear style. What they do is forcefully switch English heavy tal songs into Korean. But if you want to say that that’s Korea’s very own genre of heavy tal, then I guess it wouldn’t be wrong either.”
Xiaodong said, “It’s only China that doesn’t have their own identity of tal to speak of.”
Amy said, “There’s nothing we can do about that. This is a path that we have to slowly find our way in. We have to see how we can use the Chinese language to bring about our very own style of tal. It may sound very simple, but it’s in fact far too difficult to achieve.”
There wasn’t a style of tal that belonged to China?
They were talking about this again?
This was already Zhang Ye’s second ti hearing this today.
He was getting more and more curious about what this world’s heavy tal scene was really like.
The audience filed into the venue. There were Chinese international students, Koreans, and many Westerners attending the event. The scene was bouncing and everyone was dressed in very unique ways. So of them were more alternative, while so were fully dressed in leather jackets and leather pants. So people had dyed their hair all kinds of different colors. A majority of the crowd were young adults, and they were all pretty unique in their own ways.
20 minutes later.
Everyone had been admitted.
The International Heavy tal Music Festival officially began.
A Korean band ca out onstage.
The mont they appeared, loud screams rang out from the audience!
It was in Korean. They were all shouting the sa thing.
Obviously, Zhang Ye and the others did not understand what was being said.
The interpreter who had co along smiled and explained, “They’re calling out the band’s na: Storm.”
Zhang Ye remarked, “Thunder didn’t co with them?”
Amy rolled her eyes and said, “This is one of the most popular heavy tal bands in Korea.”
Xiaodong shouted, “They’re starting!”
Xu ilan looked to the stage curiously. She wasn’t really soone who listened to heavy tal music either.
All of a sudden, the stage lights flashed and dazzled!
Violent music rocked the arena!
Guitar!
Bass!
It set the arena off!
All the shouting was in Korean. They couldn’t understand what was being sung and could only feel the music.
Amy was an expert in this area. She said loudly, “This is really quite good!”
Xiaodong also knew a little about this. “This tal voice, their lead singer has got a really good voice!”
Xu ilan quietly listened in appreciation.
Ning Lan was sitting with her legs crossed and covering her ears. She found the noise unbearable.
Only Zhang Ye had a different expression from the others. He was stunned.
The second band ca out!
It was a heavy tal band from Japan!
They were followed by a third band, which was one of the Arican representatives!
The fourth band was from Finland!
The fifth one was from England!
In the audience, many of the Chinese international students were hooked by the performances. They were waving their hands wildly to the music!
“This is aweso!”
“What a great song!”
“I like Storm so much!”
“It’s still more amazing to hear it live!”
“Yeah, it was really worth the effort to co here today!”
“Have Chen Guang and Zhao Wuliu made their appearance yet?”
“Soon, soon!”
“It’s a pity that we don’t have any heavy tal music to call our own!”
Xu ilan gave her evaluation.
Jiang Hanwei and Big Qi were also discussing the performances.
Only Zhang Ye alone was stunned as he listened to the bands perform one after another!
That was it?
Was that it?
Damn, and I was wondering how special the heavy tal scene would be after listening to everyone talking today. I thought that this world’s heavy tal music would be very different from my previous world. Well, isn’t it the sa, after all? Isn’t this just ordinary heavy tal?
They didn’t have sothing like this in China?
Are you kidding ?
Reviews
All reviews (0)