Entertainment: Is this how you play music?!

Chapter 428 I also wanted to slack off, but they were offering too much.

"Impossible. It can't be released, but it can be published."

Li Can's attitude was very firm.

How can a xylophone be sold?

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Chen Gang's eyes were opened.

Sure enough, the longer you live, the more outrageous things you see, especially when you're with Brother Can, you don't miss a single one of the must-eat lists along the way.

One night.

"Your Xylophone" was quietly posted online.

I don't know if it was intentional or accidental.

Posted using the official DP band account.

After all, the band's official account is also Li Can's official account, and even more so, Li Can's personal account. He takes on multiple roles simply because he's lazy.

DP has an astonishing number of fans. Only a small portion of people have the time to go online all the time and regularly watch live streams. Even many core fans only follow social media accounts and occasionally post on interactive platforms.

But something seemed off that night.

Many people habitually open their phones before going to bed, thinking they'll just casually scroll through them, and that's when they see the pop-up announcements.

This isn't even an ad push.

[The @Devil Power band account you follow has updated: "You sold your xylophone"]

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"what?"

It's hard to imagine how fans would feel if they accidentally saw such a post.

It was a bizarre feeling that the world was absurd and that one might suspect that their eyesight was seriously impaired.

It was more like a sudden, unexpected lightning strike.

"What kind of package is this? It's strange, I have to take a look."

Click to view the feed.

Then I came across a song, let's just call it a song for now.

The click was almost entirely thoughtless, but the brain was already useless when the first line of lyrics was heard.

The bullet comments and reviews were filled with a massive number of question marks.

Countless netizens are questioning whether Li Can is mentally sound.

Among these countless question marks, there are always one or two comments that make people laugh.

[When things weren't abstract, you guys were always clamoring for Chan to be abstract, but after he did become abstract once, you're still not happy.]

But actually, for the fans...

I wasn't unhappy at all; on the contrary, I was extremely happy, and very happy.

My brain is just temporarily overloaded and needs a break.

Wait until you hear the whole song.

Fans were amazed by the crude production of today's "shit," but also by its profound content, which was thought-provoking.

[The use of homophones and attacks reveals a sense of self-inflicted pain, a helpless deconstruction through entertainment. Such venting is a miracle on the surface of literary garbage; it touches the sacred and gains insight, the pen soaring to express myriad meanings. Thumbs up.jpg.]

[Bengbu has settled down, and postmodern music says so.]

[My vision went completely black.]

[Great, it's Li Can. We're doomed.]

This song doesn't sound very friendly.

[Such a strong aggressive tone, I got it from listening to rock music.]

[As expected of a percussionist, very percussive.]

The entire passage is filled with reading comprehension exercises, brimming with understanding.

Li Can has been normal for far too long.

Hit pop songs, profound works of art, and avant-garde musical experiments.

For a long time, I couldn't see anything outrageous.

Is this correct? It's clearly not.

But today it tastes just right!

The forum exploded.

In the Egyptian forum, countless believers laughed with tears in their eyes, welcoming the Pharaoh's return, and held a cyber bonfire party amidst congratulatory messages from the "Idiots" forum.

Cyberbullying is unacceptable, and I frowned at that. But when I saw that cyberbullying was rare, I relaxed. Well, that's fine. Directly venting emotions through cyberbullying is a simple and efficient approach.

There's no such thing as cyberbullying; this is more like a business war, roughly equivalent to cybernetically pouring boiling water on the other party's cash cow.

[Brother Can is a top-tier entertainer who, even after achieving global fame, remains steadfastly committed to the path of abstract expression.]

[When it comes to staying true to our original aspirations, it has to be my brother Can!]

According to research by two neuroscience professors at Johns Hopkins University, when rock musicians can improvise freely, the areas of their brains responsible for self-monitoring and self-suppression are automatically shut down.

[Bad news: Chan-ge's brain has broken down. Good news: It's always been broken, so there's no intention to treat it.]

If it's just about pooping, then it's purely out of curiosity.

That would not have caused such a big reaction from fans; in fact, some fans would have been furious that Li Can's abstract ideas were becoming increasingly superficial.

However, Li Can continued with his inherent approach of abstract deconstruction, and subtly surpassed it in some ways.

This is much more polished than "I Am a Reverse Butterfly".

Some people have already begun to forget that this incident originated from someone smearing the black monkey.

Like Li Can, countless netizens are immersed in art, oblivious to the outside world.

It's different from what netizens find amusing.

Li Can is followed not only by fans, but also by many industry insiders.

Everyone thought DP had released a new song.

But I never expected it to be this kind of thing.

My vision went black for a moment, then suddenly brightened; my eyes flickered, but the overall atmosphere was dark.

"What the hell is this rotten stuff? What's Li Can doing with his potion?"

Even the online music world is divided into above-ground and underground.

The songs that are currently trending are "Born Stubborn" and "As You Wish".

And from the underground fire, new strange things began to appear.

Its reach in the entertainment market is astonishing, which has led countless people to discover business opportunities.

However, the invitations for commercial marketing were met with absolutely no response from Star Media Entertainment.

Li Can's impulsive act ultimately harmed Wang Yongchang.

“Screw out all those marketing deals that try to be abstract and outrageous. Yes, we don’t want that kind of work.”

Star Media Entertainment has entered a state of combat readiness.

In stark contrast to Wang Yongchang's enthusiastic atmosphere, Li Can was thoroughly enjoying his slacking off.

In game music production, there is often a mismatch between the production cycle and the progress.

Right now.

The game was made too slowly, while the music was made too fast.

Even in animation production, let alone games, similar situations are frequently encountered.

The script is being polished, but the modelers and animators are idle, and the editors and music and sound effects artists are even more bored. With the game having more dimensions, this is even more true.

Generally speaking, reputable music studios will take on other projects in addition to this.

But clearly, Li Can isn't very serious.

Wang Yongchang entered the studio with documents and was greeted by Li Can, who was sprawled on the sofa like a puddle of mud, playing a game with a controller in hand.

Winnie sat to the side, smiling, feeding Li Can sliced ​​watermelon while her eyes were glued to the screen. She would occasionally nudge Li Can, saying, "It's my turn! It's my turn!" They looked like a young couple addicted to the internet.

"Ah Chan, there's a job, want to come take a look?"

Wang Yongchang tried his best to keep his expression from faltering, and as soon as he asked a question, he was met with a quick response from Li Can.

"I won't answer. I won't answer."

"Please take a look, please."

Wang Yongchang's eyelids twitched, and his expression immediately collapsed.

What else can we do? We have to worship our ancestors.

"Oh no! He's dead!"

“It’s my turn, it’s my turn!!”

The game character in the video suddenly dies on the spot.

Li Can stood up grumbling and handed the controller to Winnie.

He kissed Wang Yongchang as if he didn't exist, and then looked at Wang Yongchang's face, which was full of unbearable pain.

What kind of work is it?

Li Can's reluctant expression suggested that he had absolutely no desire to work.

Even a fool could tell that this guy was only thinking about finding a reason to refuse.

"The game's theme song production was originally intended to be entirely handled by you, but you kept refusing. So, they settled for a theme song, preferably with an ending theme, and even better if there were promotional songs."

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Seeing Wang Yongchang's expectant look, Li Can nodded, took the document, and began to read it carefully.

After all, it was quite difficult for Wang Yongchang on a regular basis.

Finding a legitimate, high-quality business order among a huge pile of abstract business orders is incredibly satisfying.

If the work is interesting and the pay is good, it's worth a try.

"Hmm? This is interesting."

Li Can's eyes lit up.

It's true that I'm slacking off, but then again...

Cyberpunk by C Company.

High unit price, low workload, and separate digital music album release.

Furthermore, if appropriate, it can be incorporated into the linked animation as an Easter egg.

Spanning multiple industries, even within the entire gaming sector, this individual is considered a high-quality client willing to invest heavily in music.

"catch."

In short, it's concise and to the point.

This made Wang Yongchang breathe a sigh of relief.

"We really need you for this kind of work. When are you going to talk to them? I'll arrange a time for you."

"As soon as possible."

"to make."

Make a decision in just a few words.

Wang Yongchang left the office, and Li Can carefully examined the contents of the document.

Winnie stopped playing, stood up, and curiously leaned on Li Can's shoulder, looking at the business form.

"Cyberpunk? That's a bit tricky."

"It's not easy to handle."

A look of seriousness appeared in Winnie's eyes.

The so-called "cyberpunk" music is not a musical style.

Because "cyberpunk" itself is a huge cultural collection.

From a literary perspective, it is a cybernetic world under a highly mechanized civilization, that is, a story structure in which assets are concentrated to the extreme and the social structure begins to collapse. The character arcs born in this dystopian extreme environment are the marginal groups in society.

And this extends from literature to aesthetics.

It represents a vision of a future high-tech society conceived by people of the previous era.

It was a night of colorful neon lights, with light pollution flashing everywhere. Amidst the dazzling visual impact, a stark contrast was created between the squalor and the filth in the corners of the slums within an extremely prosperous city, hinting at the filth beneath the glamour.

Hackers, artificial intelligence, large dictatorships.

Faced with extreme exploitation, ordinary people struggle in hell.

If this theme were to extend to music, the elements would be so numerous as to be almost excessive.

Trendy, technological, retro.

The alcohol in the neon-lit neighborhood stimulates the slums under high technology, and the industrial music combined with powerful synthesizers, with sampling mostly of industrial noise, expresses the tightness and suffocation brought by the machinery in terms of rhythm.

Perhaps it's electronic music?
But if you really think that way, it's actually a stereotype of cyberpunk culture.

In fact, what kind of music would be played by marginalized people in a cyberpunk society?

Yes, it's scathing and satirical rap, it's rebellious rock and roll.

Similarly, there will be groups that yearn for the past, are anti-intellectual, anti-high-tech, or even anti-modern, creating a retro and nostalgic trend.

Therefore, it is perfectly normal for classical symphonies, saxophone, jazz, and blues to appear under the theme of cyberpunk. Moreover, the selection of each style must conform to the theme of the cyberpunk story and cannot be done haphazardly.

Exploitation, conflict, violence, high technology, nostalgia, irony, the stimulation of violence and electronic noise, industrial machinery.

All these complex elements make it an incredibly demanding task for music producers.

Generally speaking, when a game commissions a music producer to compose music, the music producer can either be familiar with the game or remain completely unfamiliar with it.

It simply provides some vocabulary for style definitions.

For example, "medieval dark mythology".

In this way, one can grasp the direction of the musical style simply by relying on the vocabulary. If it is a theme song, one can even determine the production concept of a work just by using these seven words.

[Gregorian chant] + [Dissonant accents] + [The recapitulation's distortion of the exposition's theme]

But cyberpunk is different.

It's almost impossible to create something based solely on a few stylistic terms.

It's possible to create using stereotypes, but that will inevitably lead to inferiority. For top music studios, it would be a disgrace, as they can't simply define themselves like other styles.

Even for a music producer like Li Can, who has a thorough understanding of any genre, the deconstruction of the story is still quite perplexing when faced with such a vast and broad theme as cyberpunk.

However, great challenges also represent great opportunities.

The game's music is entirely independently produced, and its copyright settings are quite groundbreaking.

The game has full rights to the music, including streaming.

This is to ensure that no additional copyright disputes arise during the subsequent release of the game, and that the dissemination of game-related videos on streaming media is not affected due to the lack of authorization from the platform.

Therefore, the initial quote will be very high.

Correspondingly, the game's soundtrack albums will also be operated by the game company, but the revenue will be separate, with royalties flowing continuously into the creators' pockets.

At the same time, creators can also use game music for their own commercial activities. Company C does not participate in the revenue sharing of these music-related products, but only requires them to be associated with the game name for promotional purposes.

With music accounting for nearly 20% of the total production cost, it's clear how demanding the music is, and it also shows that the producer deeply understands that music plays a crucial role in conveying emotions and creating an atmosphere in cyberpunk-themed games.

However, thanks to Li Can's industry standing and reputation, coupled with the top-notch music he created for the game.

The initial price alone reached a top-tier market premium of 16 million for the theme song alone, and 38 million for the complete set of theme song, ending song, and promotional songs.

This doesn't even include the revenue from subsequent digital albums.

This coincided with Li Can's thoughts.

Li Can exchanged a glance with Winnie, and the power of money pulled at the corners of his mouth, causing him to involuntarily let out a slight grin.

"I can't help it. I want to slack off too, but they respect me too much."

"This is too much; I can't refuse."

(End of this chapter)