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Chapter 147 Where Are We Going?

[Starlight] This album should be regarded as a concept album, that is, all the music in the album revolves around a music album with the same theme.

Lance's earliest inspiration came from the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club, which was also the ancestor of the concept album.

His creative concept at that time was very simple and crude, just want to come up with an album with a unified theme.

At the same time, in order to oppose the decadent and depressing style of grunge, I deliberately reversed it and wanted to make some positive things. Therefore, the theme of the album [Starlight] was set as-hope lasts forever.

For the theme of 'Longevity of Hope', twelve songs were made into a set of songs, with a fictional character 'Starlight' as a clue, connecting the twelve songs in series.

Therefore, Lance specially wrote a story on the inner page of the album jacket.

The rough outline of the story is:

An ordinary person Xingguang (genderless, can represent anyone) was born in a working family.

When he was born, it was the most impoverished period in his family, as the lyrics say, "born under the black sky, surrounded by wild beasts in the city".But the emergence of a new life still brings joy to this family, this is——, perplexed and difficult but full of hope;

Then, there is a peaceful family life, a very sweet soft rock, a beautiful melody with tenderness, and from time to time it is "Baby, let's take a look at Peter Rabbit".Here, there is no doubt that love and hope are everywhere.

Next, due to the series of disasters brought about by the economic depression and the surge in unemployment, the father died of illness and his mother died in a car accident. After the happy life was gone, the protagonist asked hoarsely: Why? Lock me out of heaven?Why shut me out of heaven?

At this point, there will be a small climax, which is ?

This is also a powerful question after the protagonist loses hope.

Drummer Baldwin will hit the drums heavily, showing the protagonist's inner anger with an exaggerated strong rhythm, and Lance's electric guitar will also deliberately create sharp noises to match.

The lead singer James will also sing a voice that is crazy to the extreme, as if he can't wait to roar out his internal organs and throw them off the stage, and he can't wait to bite every word and spit it on people's faces.

So, when James sang the song...

The audience in the audience could hardly control their emotions. They rolled up and down like waves off the stage, shouting wildly with the bands, and the scene almost became a sea of ​​sounds.

"Two Years Later" is cold and violent on campus. As an orphan, Xingguang belongs to the marginalized people of society and is squeezed out and bullied; "What's wrong with the city" describes the problem of urbanization expansion.

Together, the two songs slowed down the tempo of the show.

The blond-haired lead singer will use a cold tone to describe the scene of cold violence in the school. Without a word of criticism, he will show the cruelty of the world before his eyes; similarly, he will only describe the over-urbanization of the UK's blindly developing economy in recent years. Some phenomena, about noise pollution, environmental pollution, traffic congestion, deterioration of law and order...Lance used a big monster to symbolize the city, and wrote in the lyrics that "the monster swallowed up the green space and greedily devoured hope". These two songs It was later considered to be a rare connotative work by Lance.

After that, Xingguang, who lived alone in the city, fell in love, and there was a series of love songs.

"I want to make love with you" is the protagonist's inner voice when he meets someone he likes in loneliness; "Cheese, Whiskey, Christmas Turkey" is a warm love life.

But when it came to , the person Xingguang liked left again. The mood of this song was extremely low, but it was decadent but not decadent.

While cheering up, there is also .

The devil came to tempt Starlight, claiming that he could fulfill all wishes, so appeared.

In these songs, the light of hope seems to be dimly extinguished at any time, but it never disappears.

Although the protagonist is lost, the angel of hope will bring him out of despair one day.

Therefore, letters from fans pieced together the lyrics of .

I hope that the angel will finally reach out and break the dark world of starlight, so that he will find his way back and welcome a new life amidst the enthusiasm and surging love.

So far, the theme of 'hope forever' has successfully run through twelve songs.

In addition to James's admirable and enviable voice, Lance also displays the most unpredictable and superb guitar skills throughout the twelve melodies.

On the occasion of a formal performance, no one, including James, could see the slightest bit of tension on the black-haired guitarist.

He confidently uses the electric guitar to construct a huge and magnificent music world, sometimes it is bright and elegant like a serenade, and sometimes it is a mournful howl echoing in the wilderness. His slender fingers dance freely on the guitar strings, tap, pause, There are various playing techniques, dazzling and amazing, but no matter how you play, you can make a sound of nature, sometimes strong, sometimes uninhibited melody completely conquered the hearts of all the audience present.

However, what makes the audience most excited is the wonderful cooperation between the two.

The vocals and guitars are perfectly matched, and the tacit understanding is almost natural.

In this regard, there is no one who feels more than the parties concerned.

Therefore, when singing the love part, James can't help but look at the guitarist and sing the lyrics line by line, while Lance wants to restrain himself, but he can't help but stare at his lead singer.

The two people looked at each other as if no one else was there, and the wonderful chemical reaction was so obvious that they always formed a world by themselves, communicating silently with their eyes, music, and soul...

At this moment, the two stood in the center of the stage, like a pair of twin stars hanging high in the night sky.

It may be due to the wonderfulness of the performance on the one hand, and the fact that the audience who came to the venue tonight are all fans of the band Planet.

Therefore, the fanatical atmosphere on the scene has almost reached its peak.

In the eyes of more than [-] fans, the performance of the Planetary Band on this night can be regarded as brilliant.

Of course, their favorite is still lead singer James.

The blonde lead singer still likes to interact with fans so much.

When the atmosphere was at its hottest, no one was sitting under the stage, so the audience rushed forward enthusiastically like a normal tide, and even rushed all the way to the bottom of the stage.

James would walk over to them as soon as he saw them, stooping to shake hands.

However, when he stood up straight again and sang, many fans in the front row who could not shake hands with him stretched out their hands unwillingly to touch his feet, ankles and calves... It's like touching a god.

After James noticed it, he lowered his head slightly in surprise, with a pair of green eyes shining so brightly, and smiled shyly at them again.

Lance habitually stood in a safe place under the stage where the audience couldn't reach him.

After seeing James' actions, he glanced over and didn't speak, but clearly showed disapproval.

It's interesting to say...

Performances are often very tiring. Therefore, in order to ensure the quality of performances, most musicians will do some exercise in private to ensure that they have enough physical strength to support them for two or three hours.

Therefore, James, who is active by nature and restless on stage, decisively chose dancing and fitness.

And Lance naturally made a choice, a choice - to stand still on the stage...to save energy.

Therefore, in the past few years, people can still see the blonde lead singer running around on the stage, dancing up and down with the stand of the vertical microphone from time to time;

As for the black-haired guitarist who was also standing in the center of the stage, he ran around a little in those years when he debuted, but he didn't want to move at all in the past few years. He was just a tall, thin clothes hanger standing there motionless.Sometimes the blonde lead singer is tired from running, and he will hang himself on the "hanger" very naturally for a while.

But no matter how different their stage expressions are.

On this night, in the eyes of the [-] or so fans, they were all shining on the stage. Although they sang the life that the British people are familiar with, they were not boring at all, but full of novelty; Each of their songs is so beautiful and beautiful, but it doesn't look like the emptiness and confusion after listening to grunge and venting negative emotions. Like the theme of this album, it seems that you can feel and touch the substantive hope. So comforting; they look so handsome and sexy, you want to give them your heart...

Needless to say, the Planetary Band won their first battle.

[Starlight] also won.

When the excited fans lingered outside the venue for a long time, trying to chase and intercept the band...

The members of the Planetary Band are eating supper in the dressing room backstage.

They planned to follow the old rules, hide for a while, and wait for the fans to disperse before going out.

Dazed after the excitement, Baldwin bit his sandwich in a daze.

Sanderson also looked tired, but also a little happy because he participated in this show.

Lance lit a cigarette, concealing his uneasiness and excitement.

Because, despite the show's success, he's still not sure if he's getting what he wants?

After the show, James has put everything behind him and can't think about anything.

He poured himself a glass of light beer first, and asked casually, "Where are we going (later), Lance?"

Lance missed 'later' in Liverpool's slurred accent.

So, he seemed half-jokingly to give an ambitious answer: "To the top of the world."