Chapter 161: Juan Zong Discovers the Key Point
Right after finishing his call with Su Wan, Jiang Shu saw a message from Choi Ji-yeon.
"Is the court session starting?" Jiang Shu raised an eyebrow as he read the message.
Xu Suizhen's case had been officially accepted by the Seoul District Court and scheduled for a private hearing this Wednesday.
Speaking of which, Wu Haiyuan's father also worked at this court, though he wasn't a judge, but rather a staff member.
Shu: Arrange for someone to follow up and pay attention to developments.
Choi Ji-yeon: Understood.
Putting down his phone, Jiang Shu leaned back in his chair, lost in thought as he looked at the musical instruments before him.
In the adjacent music practice room.
Jeon Soyeon, wearing headphones, intently stared at the audio tracks on the screen.
"Teacher's songs..."
Jeon Soyeon frowned, looking at the cross-referenced audio tracks and combining them with her initial auditory impression.
"Why do they sound like a hodgepodge?"
ITZY's chief producer was Jiang Shu, but in reality, the chief producer was Jeon Soyeon. During this time, Jeon Soyeon had gradually adapted to this role and actively taken on responsibility.
ITZY's debut had received a good response, so preparations for their second mini-album comeback were already underway. She had also produced the title track at Jiang Shu's request, and the entire mini-album was completed under her supervision.
Jeon Soyeon wasn't working on the second mini-album right now; ITZY's second mini-album had already been produced. The members were currently recording the music video and audio sources, so she, as the chief producer, didn't need to constantly monitor them.
She was currently studying Jiang Shu's small music library.
To better enhance Jeon Soyeon's experience, Jiang Shu had sent her some songs he had "written," but this act of sending them revealed a problem.
How could Jiang Shu's style change so drastically?
It's well-known that people have habits, especially geniuses, whose habits are even more deeply ingrained.
Musical style is like a writer's literary style; familiar people can tell who wrote a work just by looking at it.
It's the same for musicians; even a versatile musician will have their own unique flavor in their works.
But what about Jiang Shu?
He had none.
Every song he wrote had its own unique flavor, and each song seemed to be written by a different person, as if it wasn't one person writing songs, but a group of people.
Is this reasonable?
This is unreasonable!
But sometimes, extreme unreasonableness is, on the contrary, a kind of reasonableness.
If it were just one or two songs, it would be fine, but the songs he sent to Jeon Soyeon, plus the songs Jiang Shu had already given to various groups, added up to more than ten songs.
More than ten songs without a common personal style actually further proved that Jiang Shu was a genius.
Surely Jiang Shu doesn't have a dozen producers behind him writing songs for him to copy, right?
That's impossible.
Jeon Soyeon tugged at her hair in frustration. Unaware, she pulled out a strand of hair without noticing.
This is truly unreasonable.
She tried very hard to keep up with her teacher's rhythm, but she couldn't do it.
How is this person's brain wired? Why does he have no personal style at all?
Leaving everything else aside, could "APT" and this "Psycho" in front of her possibly be written by the same person?
These two songs don't look like they were made by the same producer, do they?
But the truth is, he did write them alone.
Jeon Soyeon was already numb.
I don't understand!
I really don't understand!
Jeon Soyeon held her cheeks with both hands, staring blankly at the screen.
She couldn't write either "APT" or "Psycho." She really wanted to know what her teacher was thinking and how he wrote songs.
Ding-dong.
Jeon Soyeon's phone rang, but she, in her numb state, showed no reaction.
This state lasted for two minutes before Jeon Soyeon gradually came back to her senses.
Looking at the "Psycho" audio track on the screen, Jeon Soyeon estimated that this song probably wasn't for ITZY.
ITZY couldn't handle such an eerie song.
Currently, among the company's groups, even if IVE hadn't disbanded, this song wouldn't be suitable for them, so...
Red Velvet.
This concept girl group that can fit anything is the most suitable candidate.
"Concept girl group," Jeon Soyeon mumbled, "Should I give it a try?"
She tried to follow Jiang Shu's thought process and found that with her limited talent, she couldn't do it.
Since this path didn't work, she would try another path and see if she could follow her teacher's ideas.
Feasible!
Thinking this, Jeon Soyeon cheered up again and casually picked up her phone.
【The blogger Shu you follow has updated a new post.】
Seeing this, Jeon Soyeon opened Instagram.
Shu: Inheriting national studies, singing classics. CCTV's large-scale music variety show "Classic咏流传" has now aired. I am honored that my "three character classic" was included in the first episode. Please enjoy 【video】.
This text was in Chinese, but after machine translation and a bit of self-taught basic Chinese, she could roughly understand what it meant.
Then she clicked on the video, and what appeared was a somewhat familiar-looking singer. Never mind, it wasn't important.
The music then began.
"People at birth, are naturally good..."
Korea has the "three character classic." Although she couldn't understand the Chinese version, she could listen to the melody.
The melody was very simple; she could write ten such songs in a day if she wanted, but if she had to combine it with a literary work like the "three character classic"...
She could still write it, but it might not have this level of compatibility.
Jeon Soyeon couldn't help but scratch her head.
Actually, a simple melody doesn't mean the song isn't good; on the contrary, the simpler the melody, the harder it is to write a pleasant song.
Jeon Soyeon originally thought her teacher's expertise in various styles of girl group songs was already abnormal enough, but she didn't expect him to be able to write this kind of educational Chinese song.
"Could Teacher be a reborn person from a novel?" Jeon Soyeon couldn't help but mutter.
As ITZY's associate chief producer, she had come into contact with many top producers, such as S.M.'s Yoo Young-jin, JYP's Park Jin-young, YG's Teddy, as well as independent producers like Kwon Ji-yong, Sinsa-dong Tiger, and Black Eyed Pilseung. Each of their styles was very distinct; industry insiders could tell which producer wrote a song just by listening to it.
Only her teacher.
His style was no style.
He could write any style and handle any style.
"No, it could also be a transmigrator. The songs from his world don't exist in our world." Jeon Soyeon continued her baseless speculation.
Slumped in her chair, looking at the audio tracks, she couldn't help but sigh.
"I wish I could be as talented as Teacher."
As for reborn or transmigrated, it was just that his level was different from hers, and the musical notes he saw were also different.
Shaking her head, she sat up.
Cheer up, Jeon Soyeon! Don't embarrass Teacher!
Closing the audio track page, she created a new folder and, after a moment of frowning, typed a line of text.
"HAWW."