Chapter 40 Sitting on the Edge of the Storm
"There don't seem to be any good songs recently?" Tom listened to the top ten songs on the B list, and they were basically all rap songs.
People who like rap music will like it very much, and people who hate it will also hate it. They just think this kind of music is noisy, and Tom belongs to the latter.
After turning off the B list, he entered the YouTube music channel again.
Compared with the B list, the music resources on YouTube are more all-encompassing. There are music creators from all over the world, but most of them are not visible. However, as long as you are willing to search patiently, you can still find a lot of high-quality music.
But this time, Tom obviously doesn't have to search as hard as before. There is a new song on the hot list on the home page.
He has never seen the author of this song before. He can beat so many popular stars to the top of the popularity list. There must be something special about his work.
Tom immediately became interested and clicked in.
It has only been four hours since it was released, but the number of views has already exceeded five million, which is really amazing.
"The title of the song is "Faded". The singer...Izumi is Japanese?" Tom frowned. In his mind, only Japanese singers' English names use Roman pinyin.
As for Japanese songs... Tom can't say he doesn't like them. At least he still likes the pure music of that country, but he doesn't listen to much pop music.
However, the praise rate of this song has reached an astonishing 99%, which is a bit scary. Regardless of whether he understands it or not, Tom has to listen to it.
After clicking play, the side face of a blond girl appeared on the phone. Her eyes were lazy and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised. She was so beautiful, peaceful and natural.
"So beautiful!" Tom's eyes lit up. This was not a white girl, but she was really beautiful. It had been a long time since he had seen such a girl who could make him dream about her for a moment.
Just when Tom was still immersed in the girl's beauty, a soft piano sound came to his ears, and then a dreamlike singing.
"Faded"
You were the shadow to my light
You are a shadow in the light of my life
Did you feel us
Can you feel each other's presence?
Another start
It's a new beginning again
You fade away
Your figure is gradually blurring
Afraid our aim is out of sight
Lest our goal be lost in sight
Wanna see us
I just hope we can all
Alight
The light remains
Where are you now
where are you now
Where are you now
where are you now
Where are you now
where are you now
Was it all in my fantasy
Is this all just my fantasy
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These three and a half minutes were like fireflies in the dark night, disappearing without a trace in a trance. When the piano sound at the end suddenly stopped, Tom woke up from the chaos.
The ethereal and distant singing instantly pulled his mind into a dreamy and vast world, where he was alone in chasing and searching on the endless plains.
He didn't know what he was pursuing, but there was a magical force urging him to take action, and he couldn't stop at all!
After calming down, Tom immediately liked, saved, and followed three times in a row, and then went to the comment area to leave his own mark: "I absolutely love this song! And this singer, her singing voice and her appearance are both beautiful. It has to be dazzling!”
After doing all this, Tom did not stop. He immediately dialed his friend's phone number and wanted to share this song with him:
"For God's sake, Jerry, you gotta listen to this song!"
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"Sometimes I really want to crack your head open to see how the structure inside is different from ordinary people!" Wen Xia stared at Luo Quan fiercely while playing "Faded" in a loop.
That’s right, this electronic music song that Luo Quan took three hours to create has become a hit again. Within four hours of its release, it has hit the YouTube music channel’s trending list and the Twitter trending list. There is no doubt that this will be a hit. Songs, not even limited to Japan!
"Is the gap between people's talents really that big?" Junko's expression was very aggrieved. She had thought about writing songs before, but she couldn't read the five-line notation for introductory music, but Izumi-chan could. She can combine these profound things at will and create beautiful songs one after another, which really makes her incomprehensible.
Luo Quan didn't care: "It doesn't matter. There are still many good songs in my new album. If they are released in a few days, it will be called an explosion."
"Look how sultry you are..." Wen Xia raised the cup and took a sip of ice lemon juice.
Luo Quan flipped through his phone, tilting his head and beaming with joy.
Just as she expected, the song "Faded" became a hit.
These days, she is one of the top traffic figures in Japan. Any move she makes can attract the attention of countless people. What's more, the quality of "Faded" is so explosive that it is only a matter of time before it slaughters various charts.
It's just that the whole process happened faster than Luo Quan thought.
The timeline of this world is still different from that of the previous life. For example, TikTok (the international version of Douyin) became popular earlier than in the previous life.
As a world-renowned video app, TikTok is a mainstream app in almost all countries, with more than one billion users.
This short video app likes to add a melodic or dynamic music clip to the content.
In the past, people on TikTok would use whatever song became popular as BGM, but now, whatever song people on TikTok use as BGM would become popular!
This place has almost become a bellwether for young people’s music preferences.
Although some songs are used by millions, it will inevitably cause aesthetic fatigue. This is how the so-called Douyin destroys songs. No matter how beautiful things are, once they go bad, they will become very low in an instant. Although it is unreasonable, this situation does exist.
However, the trend on TikTok these days seems to have returned to its original state. Everyone is using popular songs on the Oricon charts as BGM, especially "Lemon".
Now "Lemon" has surpassed "Once I Thought I Was Over It" on the Oricon Chart, ranking first. Sure enough, people still prefer songs with more upbeat melody.
"Lemon" is all over TikTok these days. It can be added to any video content, making it a versatile little prince in BGM.
And this song, which is almost worn out, has also entered TikTok’s hometown, China, not long ago.
Because "Lemon" is exclusively authorized for release by Sony, China's music platform has no way to introduce the song for the time being. However, Douyin's Japanese branch was the first to buy the right to use the song, along with China's parent company Also got the light.
But this is all old history.
When "Faded" came out, Japanese users who liked the new and disliked the old immediately abandoned "Lemon" and embraced a new love.
This fairy-like singing voice captures every young person who hears this song, and then they can’t wait to add it to the BGM of their own videos.
This is the market’s greatest recognition of “Faded”.
In addition to TikTok, the data of "Faded" on YouTube, the first platform, has also increased exponentially. It exceeded 10 million in half a day and 50 million in three days. It is the song with the fastest growth in clicks on YouTube in the past three years, no one!
The explosive data has already made it onto the recommended homepage of YouTube, which means that billions of users around the world can see this song in the most prominent position as soon as they open YouTube!
The cover is of course the selfie that Luo Quan uploaded. It is a beautiful picture that people can click on without caring about the content.
With the popularity of "Faded", Luo Quan's Twitter followers have soared from just over 800,000 to 1.2 million, and I believe it will exceed 2 million soon.
No one seems to care about the previous controversy between her fans and Chris Suzuki fans.
China, which has always been slow to respond to foreign entertainment news, finally became popular after "Faded" YouTube views exceeded 100 million.