System: Master Your Life

The remaining three people who want Xu Lin to write songs are named Xu Zilong, Yao Fangqian, and Liu Minghai, two men and one woman.

Xu Lin also gathered some information about them.

Xu Zilong is a student at a private college, currently in his sophomore year.

Yao Fangqian is also a college student, significantly better than Xu Zilong, attending a key university.

Liu Minghai, on the other hand, is an unknown indie musician.

All three of them coincidentally expressed that they have musical dreams and want to pursue them.

However, the music industry is like that; having a dream isn't enough to pursue it. First, you must have certain strengths, like decent singing skills. As for your voice, it doesn't seem as crucial; being on pitch is fine. Li Xingliang's voice is truly unpleasant, even hard to listen to in Xu Lin's opinion, but "Wish to Win One's Heart" is indeed quite popular.

So, Xu Lin thinks that a critical aspect of mixing in the music industry is having good works. Whether you can be famous depends on fate. The industry never lacks examples of songs being famous while the artist isn't. It might be because the voice isn't distinctive enough or the person isn't good-looking enough; there are too many reasons.

However, if you sing impressively, there are quite a few people in the music world who are unattractive but still powerful. As long as your personal ability is outstanding, combined with remarkable works, you'll take off.

But Xu Lin doesn't worry about that here. The work will definitely be good. As for what kind of person you are, that's up to you. He really can't do much. As the ancients said, "One's fate is first, fortune second, Feng Shui third, accumulating good deeds fourth, and reading is fifth."

Xu Lin chatted with them for a while; the first impression was not bad.

Xu Lin responded collectively: "It's the cooperation model we just talked about, one hundred thousand per song, I'll take care of everything. In the next few days, we'll sign a contract which includes the profit-sharing issues. If you agree, reply 'ok,' and we'll have a pleasant collaboration."

After all, they were already selected from dozens of people, so all three sent back an 'ok.'

"Saying 'ok' is no problem then!"

Xu Lin felt quite good.

However, just at this moment.

[Your songwriting mainline has triggered a new task+.]

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[Task available: Songwriting Branch—Music Dream Master!]

[Note: Become the man behind famous musicians, nurturing at least three hot musicians to unlock two random rewards, and five musicians to unlock three random rewards.]

[Note: Due to the considerable difficulty of this task, the deadline is two years!]

"This task seems somewhat similar to 'The Man Behind the Gods'..."

Xu Lin noticed the similarities. The latter requires Xu Lin to train web novel influencers, essentially industry experts, and this task should be close to completion.

Now, this Music Dream Master is about nurturing hot musicians, and essentially, Xu Lin has to train industry experts too.

So, these two tasks are quite similar.

"But there are also some differences, especially in the difficulty level."

In the web novel area, the few people Xu Lin first got to know, like Toutuo, were mid-level strong authors in the industry, so nurturing them was relatively easier. In music, the people seeking Xu Lin have varying levels, so nurturing them will be more challenging.

"Let me think..."

"It seems I can only play the game of quantity at first."

Xu Lin thought it over and finally decided that initially, he would recruit more people, and later, he'd select and focus on those with relatively outstanding personal abilities.

Actually, it's like this in every industry. If you have average talent, no matter how hard you try, you can't go far because talent determines a person's ceiling, period. Like in music here, to become a hot musician, first, your personal ability has to be strong, and then you need good works. These two things are crucial, but actually, the most important thing is for personal ability to stand out enough, which means being naturally gifted, and with the works, you'll soar.

As for those who worked to the extreme and overcame inferior innate skills through effort, that's also a survivor bias, not worth discussing, because such people might be even fewer than those with excellent innate skills.

So, for individuals with outstanding abilities, Xu Lin will pay special attention.

With this in mind, Xu Lin sent them three messages.

A uniform reply: "Sing a song and let me hear it. Anything is fine, but you must sing seriously. I want to see your level. It's best if it can highlight your personal style and musical ability."

Xu Lin waited for ten minutes, and they each sent a voice or video clip.

Xu Lin put on headphones and started listening one by one.

Now he's proficient in singing and can immediately tell what problems they have.

Interestingly, Yao Fangqian is a soprano, and she sounds quite nice.

Generally, compared to men, women have an easier time hitting high notes, and it's quite complicated. One reason is the physiological structure, specifically the vocal cords; women's vocal cords are more adaptable to hitting high notes.

"The soprano is good, at least it has something outstanding. As for Xu Zilong and Liu Minghai, they're okay too... Forget it, maybe my expectations are too high. After all, I'm kind of cheating; actually, they're both quite alright. I'll just have to teach them some singing techniques later."

Then Xu Lin asked them to send their selfies over.

In the music industry, you can't avoid being in the spotlight, and if you look decent, it's quite advantageous.

Soon, all three sent their selfies,

and they could only be described as ordinary people. But thinking about it, that's quite normal. How could there easily be stunning looks?

"Actually, you can spruce up a bit afterwards."

Xu Zilong looks like that honest guy, wearing glasses. His hairstyle is similar to Feike's, and his clothes are a bit outdated.