As soon as 21 guns was released, it soon ranked in the top three authoritative lists in many parts of the world. It has made very proud achievements in all English speaking countries in the world.
Even in China, Japan and South Korea, they have become the top five.
Li Mu also uses his own propaganda channels to promote the theme song in the global scope, and uses the song to enhance the influence with the film.
In order to better serve the film, Li Mu asked yytunes to open the copyright of the song to all radio and television stations for free. In addition, yytunes provided free trial listening and downloading for global users.
At present, the record industry is relatively good, not reduced to the situation that digital music has almost completely replaced in the future. Few songs will choose all channels for free, especially for ordinary users to listen and download.
In developed countries with relatively sound copyright awareness, the only way to store a song privately and listen to it at any time is to buy an album, or buy a digital album directly on the online platform. There is almost no other way.
Because of this, the singers are also very good at arranging troops when they send films.
For example, for an album, there are only one or two real main songs. Even if a singer has several very good songs in the same period, he will not consider sending them in the same album, because users often choose to buy an album for one or two songs.
Just like the early Jay Chou album, few singers can guarantee the high quality of most songs.
Often they only need one or two main songs, with some forgotten slogans, they can produce an album, and then use the influence of the main songs to quickly circle money, and then use one or two main songs with several slogans to produce a second album and another wave of money.
21 guns has a growing global influence. If you can provide users with the option of paid download in yytunes, you can earn at least a few million dollars. But Li Mu still decides to take the free route.
There is a big difference between being completely free and receiving only one cent. In any part of the world, free can attract the most users.
Just a few days after the song went online, it topped several lists in North America, and Europe also ranked second in the UK, with a strong momentum.
As well as the song, the singer, Du Wei, who is less than 20 years old, is also in the spotlight.
Although it is somewhat unrealistic to want to be a first-line singer overseas by relying on one song, this song has obviously laid a solid foundation for Dewey in the overseas market.
Li Mu thinks that after the film is released, Dewey's popularity will definitely be higher. When the time comes, she will strike while the iron is hot and release several classic English singles for her to consolidate her influence in the overseas market.
No matter the singer or the movie star, only if there are good works coming out continuously, can they keep growing on the basis of ensuring their popularity and influence. But once they lose the support of good works, the famous stars will also start to decline because they lose the power to rise.
Li muzao has already planned the follow-up song route for Du Wei. He has been focusing on the three popular female Grand Slam singers in Europe and America, Adele Adkins, Taylor swift and Lady Gaga.
Many of these three female singers have hit songs that are popular all over the world.
For example, Adele Adkins' Daydreamer, someone like you, rolling in the deep, set fire to the rain, etc.;
Taylor Swift's love story, fearless, we are never ever getting back together, etc.;
Lady Gaga's poker face, just dance, bad romance, the fire to the rain, etc Cure》。
Almost any one of these songs has the potential to single out the world's top music charts. An ordinary singer can produce such a divine single, which can basically rank in the front line, can have three or five songs, and can basically win a grand slam in all music awards and rank among the world's top singers.
Du Wei has a background in music and excellent voice conditions. With such conditions, as long as she has good songs, she will definitely be able to catch fire. If she has pop songs, she can almost kill in the world.
Thinking of this, Li Mu's mind suddenly flashed out a song, Adele's set fire to the rain, which is more appropriate in Chinese translation.
The melody of the song is majestic and tragic, and the lyrics describe a love ending in failure as a whole.
There are many very infatuated lyrics in the lyrics, such as closing your eyes, feeling that you will always be with me, I burn the rain with fire, throw us all into the fire, with the rain falling, some things also quietly pass away, because I know this is the last time, this is the last time! I burn the rain with fire. I watch it pour down when I touch your cheek. OK, I cry when it burnsLi Mu thinks that this song can be used for the second stage of the movie. With a little modification of the lyrics, the lyrics can be changed into a farewell between lovers. It also burns the rain with fire, but it does not mean that love is lost in the rain or in the fire, but it means the despair and pain of the girl who loves him when the pilot dies generously in the air.
As long as some changes are made, it is particularly in line with Anne Hathaway's mood when Liu Ye died in the Flying Tigers.
The song itself is a very popular song, which is one level higher than 21 guns in all aspects. Therefore, if it is used for the final sprint before the release, the song will definitely catch fire, and at the same time, it will push the promotion of the film to a new height.
Li Mu thought of doing it. He immediately wrote out the lyrics of set fire to the rain according to his memory, and then adjusted the lyrics accordingly.
In the lyrics, "I burn the rain with fire" is changed to "you burn the rain with fire", which means that from the perspective of female singers, watching the situation when the male leader explodes in the air and fires and dies for his country.
The general implication of this song is that the male Lord and the female lord love each other, but because the male Lord went to the national calamity generously and finally died in the battlefield of the long sky, the female Lord can only fall into endless pain.
However, Li Mu did not describe the national disaster and sacrifice in a very straightforward way. Instead, he used words like "you fly into the air, you burn the rain with fire" to convey such thoughts implicitly.
When this song is combined with this movie, people will naturally think of the picture of men fighting in the air and finally spilling blood in the air;
when this song is taken out and listened to alone, it can also be understood that a man leaves his mistress for freedom, or for other pursuits, leaving her in great pain, which is more in line with a love song Number of routes.
Anyway, the core of love songs in the world is just a few: we love each other, I love you but you don't love me, you love me but I don't love you, I love you but you don't know.
Of course, if we have to follow the operation of coquetting and create a core like "I love you but I love him", it is basically to be scolded.
Therefore, as long as you write love songs around these four basic core points, from the perspective of intention, you can gain a large number of audiences, and this song just can cut into the point where I love you, but you don't love me, so to speak pun, it's perfect.
After finishing the lyrics, Li Mu immediately contacted the best music producer team in China and was ready to start composing the song.
This time, Li Mu invited all the top musicians in China, many of whom were not even the same record company. However, due to Li Mu's transcendent position in the entertainment circle, everyone immediately put down their work and went to Yanjing to report to him.
Spielberg set up a cast for the roadshow.
Asian countries, such as China, Japan and South Korea, are headed by Tom Hanks, Liu Ye and Anne Hathaway, while western countries are headed by Leonardo and Dewey.
One reason for this arrangement is that Liu Ye, Anne Hathaway, Leonardo and Dewey are the potential lovers and lovers in the film, so this combination is more attractive to the audience.
As for why Dewey went to Europe and America, Anne Hathaway came to Asia, mainly for two girls. Now Dewey needs to open up the western market, and Anne Hathaway also needs to open up the Eastern market, so it is most appropriate for them to exchange with each other.
As for Liu Ye, he is still a newcomer. He doesn't have a high reputation in mainland China. Unlike Du Wei, he has a 21 Guns "as a foreshadowing, now go to the west to publicize, and definitely be a passer-by, so it's better to do business in China, Japan and South Korea first. After all, his face value is better in East Asia, and more importantly, he really has a bit of a tough guy's taste. Taking the opportunity of road show well, it should be able to improve a lot of popularity.
According to the agreement, Dewey will soon leave for the United States. First, she will do about ten roadshows in several big cities in the United States, and then she will go straight to Europe. There are about ten roadshows in four countries, France, Germany and Italy. Basically, the movie should be released.
So, Li Mu wants to record this song before Du Wei leaves.
Even if there are adjustments after the arrangement, as long as the overall tone of the song, singing style, speed, strength and other key links are determined, and Dewey is allowed to record the song, the rest of the arrangement team can continue to make fine modifications, and then adapt to the track recorded by Dewey.
This kind of routine is very common in the recording process. It means that first let the model determine the body proportion and size, then give the production of clothes to a group of experienced designers and tailors, and then put them on after they have finished the clothes.
Du Wei didn't expect Li Mu to write a song before he was about to go to the U.S. road show. He hurriedly pushed all the arrangements before he left, and with Li Mu, he plunged into the studio.
For her, what she likes most is the process of recording songs with Li Mu, because in this process, Li Mu will almost always be with her, not only will she be very dedicated to tell her the feeling and key points needed for songs, but also will always be outside the recording room, across the sound proof glass to cheer her up.For Du Wei, who is just in love, if she can see Li Mu outside when recording, she can almost exert her potential to the extreme, because she is reluctant to let Li Mu down at the bottom of her heart, and even thinks of making Li Mu proud of herself!