"Hey, Brother Kan, do you want to watch "Youth Without Regrets: Campus Love Song" together tonight?"
At noon, Jiang Kan wanted to change his taste and go downstairs for lunch, but he happened to meet Zhang Lingling in the elevator who was also going downstairs for lunch.
"Ugh, I really don't want to watch this movie a second time..."
There were not many people in the elevator. The two stood shoulder to shoulder. Jiang Kan was embarrassed to reject Zhang Lingling's kindness.
After all, he had already watched it once in the company's screening room before in order to write the theme song for it.
He was not a masochistic person, and he really didn't want to torture himself again.
"Oh fine……"
Zhang Lingling was a little disappointed when she heard this, but she quickly cheered up.
"Everyone is saying that the theme song of this movie - the one you wrote "My Deskmate" is very nice. I also want to go to the cinema to experience it immersively, or just listen to it on my mobile phone. What's the smell?"
They reached the first floor while talking in the elevator. The two of them walked out while chatting, planning to find a restaurant to treat themselves to a good meal for lunch.
But I saw a familiar figure walking back and forth outside the gate downstairs of Feiyang Entertainment, wanting to go in, but looking a little hesitant.
"Hey, Boss Zhou!"
Now that they had met, it was unreasonable not to say hello, so Jiang Kan stretched out his hand to wave to him with a smile and said hello.
"Ah, little... no, Brother Jiang, long time no see!"
Seeing that it was Jiang Kan, Boss Zhou's eyes suddenly lit up with a frown on his face, and he immediately ran over in three steps and two steps at a time, grabbed Jiang Kan's hands, and shook them vigorously.
"What's wrong, Boss Zhou, are you so polite today?"
Jiang Kan was frightened by the other party's enthusiasm and asked strangely.
"Hey, Brother Jiang, I thought I had learned how powerful you are, Old Zhou, but I didn't expect that I still didn't know much about your abilities!"
As Boss Zhou spoke, he held Jiang Kan's hands and shook them back and forth, with a look of emotion and sadness on his face.
"Where do you start talking about this?"
Jiang Kan was also puzzled. Boss Zhou seemed to be in a bad mood today. What happened?
"well……"
Zhou Dong glanced at Jiang Kan, who was confused, and then at Zhang Lingling, who seemed to know what he ordered but didn't say anything, and sighed depressedly.
"This... it's a long story, so let's do this. Brother Jiang, Miss Zhang, you see, it's dinner time now. Let's go to the Sichuan restaurant next door to order some dishes. How about chatting while we eat?"
Boss Zhou is still holding Jiang Kan's hand, and he has a tendency not to let go unless he agrees.
"I'm just casual, haha, it's up to Brother Kan."
Zhang Lingling didn't care, she smiled, shook her head and said.
"This... okay, but as promised, I will treat you to this meal. The reward you gave me last time, Boss Zhou, made me a small profit!"
Jiang Kan also thought about it, it was just a meal, and he was so familiar with the person, and he was afraid that he would eat him.
"Hey, how is this okay? Brother, I'm going to invite Brother Jiang to dinner and I have to ask you to treat me? Come on, come on, don't be polite to me, just order whatever you want. How can you praise me, Old Zhou, for eating in a restaurant of this level?"
…
As they talked, a few people came to a restaurant next door called "Giant Panda Sichuan Restaurant", which looked very high-end at first glance, and opened a private room.
"Would you like some wine?"
Although there were only three people, Boss Zhou very politely let Jiang Kan take the seat first, and then sat next to him with Zhang Lingling.
"No, no, I have to work in the afternoon, just have some tea."
"Okay, let's have a pot of Biluochun."
Boss Zhou turned his head and said to the waiter.
After a while, the dishes were served, and Lao Zhou didn't say anything else. He kept toasting Jiang Kan with tea instead of wine and choosing dishes, which made Jiang Kan very embarrassed. He thought to himself, is this necessary...
Zhang Lingling was smiling and drinking by herself. She ordered a small bottle of sake, which did not affect her afternoon work.
"Lao Zhou, if you have anything to say, just say it. You are so enthusiastic and I feel a little panicked."
Jiang Kan couldn't resist anymore, and finally spoke out after being offered three cups of tea.
"Hey, what should I say about this...what should I say about this?"
Boss Zhou was a little hesitant, but finally said it.
"Brother Jiang, thanks to you last month, the song "Cold Rain Night" by our Dongyu band won the tenth place on the new artist and new song championship list. Brother, I will always keep this sentiment in my heart. What will happen in the future? Just tell me what's going on, brother, as long as I can do it, I won't give a shit!"
"It's just that this month, didn't I ask you before? You said there are no suitable songs for us, and you are also very busy, so we had to rely on our connections to ask someone else... who is also from your company. A songwriter from Shanghai helped us write a song suitable for the band to sing, called "No Longer Ordinary"..."
As he spoke, he picked up the tea cup again, clinked it with Jiang Kan's cup, and drank it all without saying a toast.
"We had high hopes for this song from the beginning, and everyone was very enthusiastic. After all, this is a song that your company has internally rated from B to B+. To think that underground singers like us can't even be considered third-tier singers. It’s also a very powerful song for the band!”
At this point, Boss Zhou's face became even more bitter, and his entire eyebrows and beard were wrinkled together, feeling like a withered bitter melon.
"But who would have thought that we released it on January 1st, and now on the 10th, it has not even been downloaded 30,000 times!"
He took out his mobile phone, unlocked the screen and it was this song, and pressed the play button without waiting for Jiang Kan to say anything.
Then the whole room was filled with the sound of this song.
The style of the song is rock-oriented, with many high-pitched and roaring parts, and the lyrics are also relatively radical. Most of them accuse social injustice and the injustice of the world. The main theme of the lyrics from the perspective of the lead singer is to survive in this complicated world. Find a way out and make your life no longer ordinary.
The song is about three and a half minutes long.
After listening, Jiang Kan's ears were still buzzing.
Zhang Lingling was also rubbing her ears, with a look of disdain on her face, which she politely hid.
"Look, this is the song. We think it's quite good, but as I said just now, the sales volume is very... I'm not saying it's not good, but compared to "Cold Rain Night", it's really down by more than one level... …”
Boss Zhou's face wrinkled more and more like a bitter gourd, and the unwillingness and depression in his words were so strong that they were almost water-splitting.
"Indeed...haha, the style of this song is indeed very different from the songs I wrote..."
Because they were acquaintances after all, and the composer was one of his colleagues, so Jiang Kan couldn't say bad things about others behind their backs.
But he really couldn't appreciate this noisy and cynical type of music.
Not to mention anything else, this song made his head hurt.
This kind of band's song creation concept may still be stuck in the era thirty years ago, when the band era was just emerging.
What they focus on is to accuse, scream, and be cynical, otherwise they cannot reflect the unique spiritual outlook of rock musicians.
