Producer System: My Girlfriend is a Cellist-Chapter 193 - 162 Yingqin Cup Pre-competition Preview (4K) (Requesting Monthly Tickets)
Chapter 193: Chapter 162 Yingqin Cup Pre-competition Preview (4K) (Requesting Monthly Tickets)
After returning home, the process for the next few days was quite simple.
Due to He Zhichen’s presence, the signing process went smoothly, and the studio, as expected, slowly began to take shape, with everything proceeding in an orderly manner.
Especially after Lin Tian specifically addressed the most important issue of music copyright royalties—since Lin Tian had been burned by this issue before, he paid extra attention. He Zhichen was also negotiating intensely on Lin Tian’s behalf with the senior management.
According to He Zhichen, he had plenty of data to prove the immense commercial value of Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu’s music, so negotiating a profitable revenue split for Lin Tian was not difficult.
Exactly how He Zhichen boasted, Lin Tian didn’t know.
But based on the fact that he dared to boast about 180,000 CD sales to Lin Tian before signing, a figure Lin Tian himself wouldn’t even dare to think of, Lin Tian could only say, trust!
However, compared to other messy issues, what troubled Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu the most was seemingly the most inconspicuous one - their stage name.
"....."
"What should it be called?"
At Lin Tian’s home, Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu seriously discussed it.
Choosing under what alias to release the album was indeed a question.
In fact, in recent years, many singers and music bloggers on Douyin and Bilibili have debuted, transitioning from internet celebrities to official idols.
Almost without exception, they abandoned their online aliases and adopted stage names closer to their real names.
After all, ’Moonlight and Cat’ obviously sounds like an online handle.
But using real names would mean revealing their pseudonyms prematurely.
Although due to the release of ’One Step Away,’ it’s almost completely confirmed that Moonlight and Cat are locals from Qingzhou, many in the local music circle have already started guessing the identities of Gan Yanyu and Lin Tian.
...Residents of Qingzhou, high school students, 18 years old, and moreover, only perform songs by Moonlight and Cat in every competition.
These buffs pile up.
Many in the Qingzhou music circle already feel certain that the two are Moonlight and Cat.
The only thing missing is concrete evidence.
When the Yingqin Cup officially starts, it will undoubtedly be a lively event, drawing a crowd eager for confirmation.
However, even though many already believe so, in the face of Moonlight and Cat’s extremely high popularity, Gan Yanyu, who is only famous in the Qingjiang music scene, has not yet reached the level of breaking out of the circle.
On Weibo, long discussions about the true identities of the two don’t get much traffic.
Plainly speaking, there are many discussions, but most are overshadowed.
Every video of ’Moonlight and Cat’ garners quite a few trending topics; discussions about unboxing posts, without even concrete evidence, indeed worthless mentioning.
What’s needed is explosive news, something definitive, to truly ignite this matter, then there’s a chance.
This matter could actually be the debut of ’Moonlight and Cat.’
"Let’s see what the two mentors decide."
Over WeChat call, He Zhichen said,
"Actually, revealing your true identities is just a moment’s affair. With the current popularity of both mentors, just announcing the release of an album and MV would already likely top all major websites’ trending searches. Revealing true identities would just be a cherry on top to boost popularity further.
In my opinion, this can be used as a handy tool. Since no one has concrete proof, it doesn’t matter how they guess; we can save this ’bomb’ for when we need a traffic explosion, like when needing to divert the topic or aiming for a surge on the HX-board charts—it’s a very effective trump card—of course, if you simply don’t want to continue hiding and wish to reveal yourselves using the debut album as an opportunity, that’s fine too, it mainly depends on the wishes of both mentors."
He Zhichen’s suggestion was from the perspective of a professional music agent.
Lin Tian also found it reasonable.
Especially the part about public relations, which really struck a chord with Lin Tian.
For example: if Lin Tian’s candid upper body abs photo accidentally got leaked, causing chaos across the internet, with women worldwide fighting over him, to be Lin Tian’s wife and blood is spilled...
That’s when a more explosive piece of news would be needed to divert the topic.
It couldn’t be about leaking another photo of his lower half, right?
However, if one must say, Lin Tian isn’t lacking in such "explosive news."
Anyway, even if the cover is blown, after a while, there will be another new one—
Of course, it’s the official Weibo announcement of Mr. Lin Tian and Miss Gan Yanyu!
By then, all the fans across the net better come over to celebrate!
"...."
After expressing the professional reasons, He Zhichen didn’t forget to consider from Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu’s perspective, playing the role of "family head":
"If you’re not interested in revealing yourselves, I think there’s no need to expose yourselves now. After all, both mentors are still high school students, right? It’s quite a lot of trouble for the school and family, and the place you both are currently living...isn’t exactly hard to find... Stalker fans can be terrifying..."
Indeed.
Gan Yanyu might not know how.
But Lin Tian just thinking about it, already felt his scalp tingle.
The security guard of this old neighborhood looks drained every day, it’s hard to say who would collapse first if real trouble came.
But if you must mention something impressive about this seemingly half-dead security guard, there is also.
