It's obviously a very cheerful song, but why does a sadness well up in my heart?
At first, Taylor just hummed a few lines of "Walk-Away" and subconsciously thought it was a very upbeat and beautiful song.
But when I sang the lyrics of this song, I was greeted by a huge sadness that was difficult to hide.
The sadness was filled with tears that kept falling, making Taylor's heart tremble.
"Looking back at that time when I was young, everything is gone
everything has changed
She is such a beautiful little girl
She has sparkling eyes and golden curly hair
On that summer night under the stars
She hopes those people go to hell
To commemorate (the harm she suffered)
She waits for her Superman to come and take her to the Neverland
He knows how to get there..."
Taylor's sudden silence made Zhou Shu a little surprised.
She noticed the dimness in Taylor's eyes and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"
"I saw a very helpless little girl."
Taylor held the lyrics and music sheet in her hand and whispered: "She is really helpless..."
"What?"
Zhou Shu was a little confused. She wanted to take the lyrics and music score from Taylor's hand, but found that Taylor had kept the score tightly.
She frowned, approached Taylor from another angle, and looked at the lyrics and music sheet in Taylor's hand.
"What else are you trying to hide in those dirty eyes of yours?
I want to drive away in the heavy rain and stay away from here
But they don't know that their hands are already full of evidence of crime
Her name is unforgettable
She cannot understand that love is given, not given up
…”
Zhou Shu murmured to herself, she was a little surprised at this time.
In her impression, Li Qing had never written such dark lyrics.
His style has always been positive and emotional.
This song "Walk-away" is indeed a bit inconsistent with Li Qing's style.
At this time, Taylor raised his head with red eyes: "Joy, tell me, is this story true?"
…
"Do you think it's real?"
On the phone, facing Zhou Shu's inquiry, Li Qing asked.
Zhou Shu thought for a while and said hesitantly: "It stands to reason that the creation of an excellent work cannot be separated from the support of true emotions..."
Li Qing hummed: "I don't want to say it is true, but what I can say is that it is indeed a story."
Zhou Shu asked curiously: "What story?"
"That was a little girl who was only eight years old. She was given by her father to those gangsters and allowed them to have fun and desecrate themselves."
Li Qing didn't want to talk more, so he briefly described it.
Zhou Shu was silent for a moment and said distressedly: "What about the ending? Did the girl call the police? Or..."
"The end of the story is that the little girl didn't take any revenge."
Li Qingdao: "The author thought it was worthless, so he wrote this song. The content of the lyrics in the song means that the little girl is coming back to take revenge on those bastards!"
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Shu looked at the song "walk-away" again, his eyes full of sadness.
She didn't realize that when Li Qing said what he just said, he was speaking from the perspective of a third party.
At this moment she only felt filled with anger.
She also has a daughter who is about to be eight years old. If such darkness really exists in the world, then she is willing to do her best to eliminate these evils for her children.
Next to him, Taylor also heard Li Qing's explanation clearly from the speaker phone.
She gritted her teeth and said, "These bastards!"
"That must have been a long time ago."
Zhou Shu touched Taylor's bangs and forced a smile: "May goodness last forever and evil fall to the ground. May God bless that little girl."
Taylor nodded, and then suddenly said loudly: "I want to sing this song, and I must let that girl hear this song! Hear these words! Let her have the courage to retaliate against them! Even if she can't hear it, she will
Let those bastards hear it and let them live in shameful inferiority, self-blame and sin forever!"
Zhou Shu smiled and said: "Yes, you can definitely do it!"
Taylor held her pink fist hard, her eyes full of tenacity, and she obviously felt that she could do it.
So I picked up the lyrics and music book in my hand, opened my eyes wide, and began to memorize those dense lyrics.
Time passes quickly.
In mid-March, the advance single CD album of 100,000 copies of "tik-tok" has been completed.
At the same time, under the arrangement of Julia, Taylor also began to have a song chart for the second time in his life.
"The electronic music queen Taylor is making a comeback!"
"After "faded", another electronic music song "tik-tok" is coming!"
"Remember the fear that hung over the Billboard charts for four weeks? Remember that lingering shadow?"
"The release of Taylor Masefield's new song will bring you a different feeling but the same shock!"
"Let's wait and see whether the talented singer Taylor Macefield can dominate the Billboard charts again with her new song "Tik-tok"!"
A lot of operating funds were spent, and countless reports about the release of Taylor's new songs came one after another.
At the same time, with Julia's help, Taylor also began to have singles charting on radio stations in Europe and the United States.
Radio charts in European and American countries are different from those in China. In China, only new songs can chart.
In Europe and the United States, as far as the United States is concerned, rankings are divided into regional rankings and national rankings.
Regional charting, as the name suggests, is to chart radio stations in a certain urban area or town. There are many such radio stations, as many as hundreds in the United States.
The national charting means charting on the three major radio stations in the United States.
The three major radio stations in the United States are abc, cbs, nbc, namely American Broadcasting Company, CBS and National Broadcasting Company.
These three companies operate more than 80% of the country's radio stations and have many affiliated radio stations.
It is worth mentioning that these three major radio stations are all commercial radio stations and do not belong to the state.
In a capitalist society, it can be said that whoever has the money has the final say. The government generally will not interfere in the decisions of private enterprises unless it is for military intelligence needs, such as releasing information, eavesdropping, etc.
There are many types of charts for radio stations, but the most valuable list in Europe and the United States is naturally the Billboard chart. This is undisputed.
The Billboard charts also have their own rules for charting.
In this era, radio and album sales accounted for 67% and 33% of the chart index respectively.
In other words, the Billboard charts focus more on radio listeners.
If you want to be on the list, you must gain radio listeners.
Album sales only accounted for 33%, less than half of radio stations.
In the United States, there are two satellite organizations that compile rankings and calculate the value of radio station data.
One is bds and the other is mdb, but because the expansion of mdb is too great, a bunch of useless advertising company radio stations and small country radio stations have been expanded, causing the values to be too exaggerated, so under normal circumstances, bulletin boards only use the data of bds.
The data of bds radio stations is generally 75%-85% of that of mdb radio stations.
Radio values are mainly measured in millions, and when we talk about radio performance, we refer to listeners.
But this audience is not a real audience, but data converted from the number of song playbacks.
In other words, even if a family of five sits in front of the radio and listens to a song, it can only be regarded as being known to one person.
Of course, if you turn on five or six radios and listen to the same song on the same radio station at the same time, then when the satellite collects data, it will also be calculated according to the number of radios.
In other words, as long as you have money, you can control the Billboard charts, such as buying a million radios.
Of course, this is a joke, no one will actually buy a million radios, and even if they did buy a million radios, it would not have much impact on the Billboard charts.
It is worth mentioning that in the United States, it is not free for singers to hit the charts.
Especially foreign singers will pay a fee to appear on the charts on major radio stations in the United States.
For example, if the three major radio stations hit the charts once, they start with $100,000 and the time is one to two months.
If there is a peak period and there are more singers on the charts, then whoever pays more will have more time for their songs to appear on the radio.
Capitalism is such a reality.
Fortunately, when Taylor was charting, there weren't many god-level singers charting.
Although there are already two platinum record singers on the Billboard charts, for Taylor now, platinum-level singers do not pose much of a threat to her.
According to the album sales of "faded", in the nearly two months since "faded" was on the charts, its album sales have steadily exceeded 500,000 copies per week on average. In six weeks, "faded" has exceeded 3 million copies.
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It is worth mentioning that only the United States region was calculated.
You must know that the statistical rules of the Billboard charts cover more than ten countries in Europe and the United States.
Europe and America, as the name suggests, is North America where Europe and the United States are located.
This "beauty" mainly refers to the United States and Canada. As a developing country, Mexico is not qualified to be included in it.
The so-called "Europe" does not include Eastern Europe, but only refers to some developed countries in Western Europe.
To put it simply, in reality, the “Europe and America” that everyone agrees on mainly refers to some capitalist countries in Western Europe and North America.
Mainly the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Benelux, Switzerland, etc.
Each of these ten countries is a developed country and is summarized by the world as "Europe and the United States".
The area covered by the Billboard list is a developed country.
It can be seen from this that Taylor is extremely popular today.
In addition to the United States, in nine other countries, the sales of "Faded" are even more terrifying. Although there is no detailed statistics yet, I know from the bottom of my feet that "Faded" has topped the billboard for four consecutive weeks, and there is definitely a chance that it will be sold.
Ten million!
If it weren't because "Faded" is just a single album and not a real album, then Taylor is definitely capable of being certified as a diamond record and becoming a world-class diamond singer.
Topping the Billboard charts for four consecutive weeks is equivalent to being on the front page of ten developed countries' most popular entertainment circles for a month.
With this kind of exposure, it’s hard not to become famous.
Even the current Li Qing may not be able to match Taylor in terms of popularity in the pop music world.
This is also the reason why Li Qing actively writes songs for Taylor.
Li Qing was really scared to hold this kind of mobile bank in his hands.
As for why Li Qing didn't go into battle himself?
The only reason is that Li Qing has an oriental face.
The difficulty for yellow people to get on the bulletin board is not much different from the difficulty for landing on the moon.
The Korean song "Gangnam Style", which was a global hit in its previous life, only managed to reach the runner-up position on the Billboard singles chart.
If he couldn't find the right time, even Li Qing wouldn't dare to rush into publishing films in Europe and the United States.
You know, throughout Asia, the number of singers who have failed in the United States is like a crucian carp crossing a river.