"Lately, I've been feeling a little under the weather."
"Sitting for too long makes my legs go weak."
"Looking at the computer for too long makes my neck ache, too."
"The digital age seems to have sped up the pace of life."
"And made people slower to act."
What no one expected was that Jiang Siming's new song wasn't the Chinese-style song everyone had guessed online.
The title, "Beautiful Rivers and Mountains," naturally led everyone to assume it was a Chinese-style ancient song.
But now, it had completely exceeded everyone's expectations.
Not only did the lyrics lack the depth and artistic conception of Jiang Siming's previous songs, they had instead become simple and easy to understand, written entirely in plain language.
Moreover, Jiang Siming's singing had none of its former passion or sadness. Instead, it was exceptionally lively, and the lyrics were delivered at an incredibly fast pace.
This... seemed to be rap!
"Busy, busy, busy, busy—what are we so busy for?"
"Even without anyone, the Earth still revolves and rotates."
"Sigh, sigh, sigh—life is short, gone in the blink of an eye."
"The destination is unknown, so enjoy the scenery along the way."
It was only from this point onward that the audience became convinced this was rap.
No one had expected Jiang Siming to write a rap song one day.
In theory, once they learned it was rap, the older generation of viewers should have disliked it.
After all, the rap songs currently appearing on television were a complete mess. Those self-proclaimed rappers would scream mindlessly in front of the camera, spout lyrics that had been clumsily pieced together just to force rhymes, throw in some English halfway through, and curse a few times for good measure.
Not only did the older generation find such songs hard to