Why bother writing songs? Fast forward to the "Don't Laugh Challenge"

Since the Mistan incident, he has increasingly realized that he is no longer the fledgling musician with no influence and whose actions have no impact on anything, but a mature public figure with extremely high influence.

His every word and action will affect countless people, and countless people are watching his every move.

In fact, having reached this point, many things are no longer the same as for ordinary people, even daily life and living are no longer the same.

For someone like him, a single wrong word or a small mistake might be insignificant to an ordinary person, but for him, it could be enough to plunge him into an abyss.

There have been countless examples before, such as many senior figures in the entertainment industry, who have proven certain things.

His influence is already quite extensive.

He didn't want his influence to cause another tragedy like Mistan's. Even if he could prevent it a little bit, it would be a contribution to society and a way to do good with his influence.

These two organizations will definitely continue operating.

He didn't actually consider seeking anything for himself when he did this, including fame or any other benefits; he didn't think about any of those things.

After all, if he wanted to gain fame, he had countless ways to do so, so why choose this most laborious and thankless method? Besides, he had to spend real money on it all.

Burning hundreds of millions every year is a huge expense, especially considering that Deep Space Entertainment is not a big business. Currently, most of the company's cash flow is supported by him alone, and 90% of the profits are also on his shoulders.

In Lao Chen's words, this behavior pattern is actually very unhealthy. The company needs more diversified development, and they have been working hard towards this path.

Aside from a small amount of incidental legitimate tax avoidance, the two foundations have mostly been side effects that drag companies down.

But he did it anyway.

For Xia Shen, if he puts his heart and soul into something, then writing songs is naturally the first thing he'll do.
After all, he is first and foremost a music producer.
Given this, the album can only have one general direction: inspirational songs.

Actually, he had written inspirational songs before, and "The Wind Rises" was one of them.

This song is still played regularly during the college entrance examination and is also used by many cancer patients as background music for videos or as inspirational music.

However, this song has one shortcoming: if you ask whether it can be considered a truly inspirational song, it can't really be called one at all.

There's even a sense of 'the more you have, the more at ease you become,' and 'that's just how life is.'

It shows more of a detached attitude.

He felt it was inappropriate to use such a song as a promotional jingle for a foundation.

During this time, Xia Shen carefully selected a series of works from his otherworld music library.

Every single one of these works is very suitable, at least more suitable than "The Wind Rises".

The first one is the first song, "The Lone Warrior".

Then there's "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky".

"My Sky", "The Me You See", "Chasing Dreams with a Pure Heart".

Of course, most importantly, the title track is a song called "We Are The World".

There are six songs in total, which makes up an album.

This album encompasses various styles, and as always, it is filled with Xia Shen's style, rather than simply limiting an album to one style.

It has rock, pop, rap—basically everything you could want.

He also attaches great importance to this album. The songs on it include those that encourage people to do good, those that boost morale, and those that are people-oriented and focus on the human heart.

Of course, it's not just about people; he also included "We Are The World" at the end, a work with a very grand vision.

Why did he choose this song as the title track?
That's because their foundation doesn't just focus on helping people; other areas like environmental protection and other acts of love are also part of their plans.

That's how the song "We Are The World" came about.

Moreover, Xia Shen had another idea for this song: he didn't plan to sing it alone.

He wants many people to sing this song, ideally a group of stars, as many people as possible, the more the better.

Therefore, after setting the tone, Xia Shen immediately went to work hard to prepare.

Soon, news broke that Xia Shen was recruiting people everywhere to work on his new album.

Many bigwigs have said that Xia Shen approached them.

Many bigwigs agreed without hesitation, expressing their determination to join the collaboration.

This is Xia Shen's current level of recognition; although he has never been certified or called a gold medal producer by anyone.

But everyone knows that Xia Shen's talent is far beyond what a simple gold medal producer can achieve.

Among the top producers in China, which one can write works that can match Xia Shen's achievements?

Xia Shen's works are now widely recognized both at home and abroad, and countless musicians around the world are eager to collaborate with him.

However, Xia Shen usually only writes songs for Zhou Yumeng and artists in his own company.

Even in July, there is very little cooperation between the two sides now.

Although Xia Shen and July signed a production contract, July is generally quite sensible and rarely asks Xia Shen to write songs anymore.

They also realized that times had changed.

In fact, if July were to find him, Xia Shen would still write works for her without any complaints.

He understood perfectly well whose help he had initially gained to rise to prominence.

It was July who helped him contact Ultra; it was July who gave him this opportunity.

Xia Shen is not a person who is ungrateful.

So this time, he specifically contacted July Records and squeezed in the entire July Records team.

However, everything was actually going smoothly, but then a problem arose.

The other party was Hou Li-hsieh, an older generation musician from Taiwan.

In his early years, he worked in R&B, and also dabbled in rap music and pop rock, which was a very important part of the Chinese music scene during the heyday of the millennium.

Although his activities decreased in recent years, he only returned to the music scene last year.

However, his comeback at that time caused quite a stir, with every concert sold out. (End of Chapter)