Chapter 545: Chapter 365: Changed the world? Maybe.
One hour after Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu performed "Moonlight" at the Dragon Violin Cup.
Although the on-site competition continues, the final result has not yet been announced.
But outside the arena,
the online platform is already bustling!
Zhang Dong just decided to end the live broadcast and opened his phone eagerly.
Suddenly, he was shocked by the flood of Weibo messages on the backend!
In just one short hour.
Three trending topics.
[#Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu - "Moonlight"]
[#Lin Tian, Impressionist Music]
[#Re-understand Classical Music!]
.....
The live recording of Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu’s performance has been widely spread on Weibo.
It hasn’t been long, and yet it’s already garnered 80,000 likes!
Among them,
closely following this viral performance, Zhang Dong’s own live broadcast clip is also becoming popular.
There’s also his own matter!
Thinking of his total goofball style during the live broadcast, Zhang Dong nervously clicked on the video.
The content was his explanation to viewers about "classical music" and the subsequent interpretation of "Moonlight."
[Whoa! No wonder Dong is praised; he’s really got some skills!]
[You can laugh at Dong’s violin skills, but you can’t say he doesn’t understand Moonlight and Cat!]
[Truly, "The one who knows Moonlight and Cat best online" is gaining credibility!]
[Watching live broadcasts on Channel Two, Dong is the one to trust... It’s a pity he only watched Moonlight and Cat’s performance and didn’t chat for long before ending the broadcast.]
[.....]
Seeing his interpretation going beyond circles, Zhang Dong felt a bit embarrassed.
In fact, the piece "Moonlight" is undoubtedly a highly challenging piece to understand, incomprehensible with mere listening for an amateur. For the professionals... they might not necessarily understand it.
He could quickly grasp it, akin to the on-site commentators and judges, because
Miss Cat performed so well!
She truly interpreted this abstract musical core beautifully.
Zhang Dong felt deeply guilty about this.
It’s not that he understands!
Gan Yanyu almost shoved the references in his face!
Anyone with certain musical aesthetic ability could understand.
...
To Zhang Dong, he doesn’t deserve so much attention.
However, to the vast number of netizens, his interpretations did genuinely help many people.
The more skilled Zhang Dong’s interpretation, the more it indirectly shows how remarkable Moonlight is!
When netizens realized that this piece "Moonlight" was performed just for them,
they all went wild.
[I admit, I’m the superficial person Mr. Moonlight criticized! Boohoo...]
[Honest truth, when I first listened to Moonlight and Cat, it genuinely felt sophisticated.]
[Mr. Moonlight is really hitting our backbone!]
[I like listening to classical music because it calms my mind... Thinking back, I was merely chasing the emotional value it brought; I never truly understood them.]
[I’ve decided, I’ll go back and listen to all of Mr. Moonlight’s music! Starting with thoroughly understanding "Moonlight"]
Soon,
a wave of reflections surged online!
How much everyone once loved Moonlight and Cat; seeing them now willing to lose the competition just to play "Moonlight," they feel equally ashamed!
Of course, reflection upon oneself and upon society exists among these reflective commenters.
The latter’s behavior is quite extreme.
Everyone rushed to Mao Weiang’s Weibo comments section.
Although the competition results have not yet come out, nearly everyone knows.
— "Moonlight," has already won over Mao Weiang too much!
[Some do commercial music just for money, while some devote themselves to art!]
["Moonlight" is exactly satirizing your audience! Damn, always mindlessly chasing after music without any substance!]
[The superiority is clear; do you feel ashamed to see Mr. Moonlight’s music?]
[Honestly, you listen to "Gun Out Like a Dragon" privately, but you insist on bringing it to the Dragon Violin Cup’s stage. Is it suitable?]
More and more comments filled Mao Weiang and related topic’s posts.
The silence from those fandom girls at that moment was deafeningly loud.
Almost no one dared to refute!
Now, even the dumbest netizens can see it.
This "Moonlight" strikes the death spot of pop music; it is a nuclear weapon aiming at them.
Adding to that, 3 out of 10 trending topics involve "Moonlight."
The tides have turned!
Previously, the one-sided situation is now completely overtaken by classical music.
And on Weibo,
heavyweights also expressed their views.
For example, Tong Tai, a famous musician in Tian Chao, has always been keen on speaking up for Moonlight and Cat.
This time, less than 20 minutes after the competition ended, he even directly posted a video!
In the video,
many people saw the face of this musical field paramount figure for the first time.
Though over fifty, this old man is still full of vitality and said solemnly in the video:
"Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu’s ’Moonlight’ is a milestone achievement in music!"
"It brings us back to the original intention of classical music, back to the era of ’difficult listening’ of classical music."
"True classical music should be like this, requiring us to explore actively; good works should withstand repeated interpretation...."
"Here, I want to say, through this ’Moonlight,’ all still persisting in creating classical music should truly think it over..."
After Tong Tai’s speech.
Forget the music world; netizens were brought to tears!
Soon a booming trend took over Douyin.
Since "Moonlight" is originally an impressionist piece.
Its idea might be unified, but various perspectives on appreciation and interpretation are possible.
More and more netizens, claiming deep inspiration from Moonlight and Cat, began posting videos, replaying, and building a brand new scenery around "Moonlight."
Some simply used "Moonlight" as background music according to their ideas to perform painting, photography, cross-dressing....
Displaying a series of works with artistic flair on Douyin.
Countless netizens claimed they received inspiration from "Moonlight,"
and pledged to carefully listen to each piece from now on.....
....
"Lin Tian, do you think we’ve really changed the world?"
In a hotpot restaurant,
Gan Yanyu bit on the straw of his orange juice, looked at the posts and videos on his phone curiously and asked,
"It’s great... More and more people are truly listening to our performance of ’Moonlight’....."
"’Changing the world’ and all that..."
Lin Tian hesitated and scratched his head.
At that moment,
a woman’s phone rang at the table next to them.
Gan Yanyu paused in surprise,
listening carefully, wasn’t this ringtone the "Moonlight" they’d just performed two hours ago?
The woman answered the phone, chatted happily for a while, and when she hung up, her gaze unexpectedly met Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu’s.
However, the woman didn’t react at all, lowered her head, and continued picking dishes as if she didn’t know them at all.
Gan Yanyu was dumbfounded for a long time.
Lin Tian laughed beside him:
"See."
"They’re just moving from one ’formalism’ to another ’formalism.’"
"Changing the world and all that... It’s not that easy, the only thing we can do is to continue playing the music well."
said Lin Tian.
"Hmm...." Gan Yanyu nodded.
"We don’t need to take it too seriously, like....."
Lin Tian paused, lifted his phone,
"Mao Weiang just added me, wanting to discuss a commercial collaboration with us."