Entertaining Children

"Yang, you are so powerful, come down and fight!" Will Foster said, pulling Xiao Yao's arm.

One of the people who stood up on the East Celebrity bench to pull Xiao Yao was Xiao Yao's teammate in last year's Celebrity Game, Will Foster. The two communicated a lot during the competition last year, so they are quite familiar with each other. Moreover, Will Foster is a comedian with a very lively personality and a strong sense of entertainment. He is the one who took the lead at this time.

"No, no, no," Xiao Yao huddled on the seat and waved his hands repeatedly, while holding his collar with his other hand to signal, "I'm not a team member!"

The tugging between the two appeared on the big screen at the scene, and it caused the audience to laugh again.

"Di~" The referee standing on the sideline blew his whistle again, then waved to the player who picked up the basketball under the basket for the ball, and signaled that the Western Celebrities sent someone over to the sideline to deliver the sideline ball.

The Masters Tournament is an exhibition game, and I don't mind the stars playing and acting, but the competition is still in progress, and there is a limit to the extras outside the venue. After the referee blew his whistle, the Eastern Celebrities on the bench let go of Xiao Yao and sat down again, and everyone turned their attention back to the court.

"Just now a player from the Eastern Celebrity Team passed the ball over the sideline, and it just landed in the hands of Xiao Yao in the audience. Xiao Yao stood in the audience and shot a super long-range three-pointer, but unexpectedly made it." Do For the commentary of the game, Li Jun also cooperated with the broadcast screen to explain the situation just now to the Huaxia audience.

"No, three points, four points!" Zhang Yuan corrected with a smile, "Just now Xiao Yao stood farther than the four-point line on the court, and Xiao Yao himself made a four-point gesture."

"Yes, but it's a pity that the referee waved his hand to indicate that he didn't remember the score!" Li Jun laughed.

"Of course, the ball scored by the audience cannot be counted on the Eastern team." Zhang Yuandao, "But I have to say that Xiao Yao's shot just now was quite amazing, and the audience gave him applause and praise." Cheers, someone on the Eastern team's bench even pointed at the court and pulled Xiao Yao down, and seeing Foster's meaning, it seemed to be saying to Xiao Yao, buddy, you are amazing, go up!"

"I don't know if Xiao Yao will really change his jersey and play for a while," Li Jun said, "That would be interesting!"

"Xiao Yao is waving his hands and pulling his clothes, as if he is saying that he is not a player and will not play!" Zhang Yuan looked at the broadcast screen and said, "It's a pity. In fact, if Xiao Yao really wants to fight, I think the organizers I should agree to him joining temporarily, after all, he is one of the MVPs of last year, not only his playing skills are good, but also his playing is very entertaining, and his popularity on this occasion is very high!"

"But even if Xiao Yao doesn't play,

The performance just now was enough to attract attention. "Li Jun laughed, "Standing in the auditorium, he can throw a basketball into the hoop, and even made a solemn gesture of celebration. I didn't expect Xiao Yao to be so good at stealing the show while sitting in the audience! "

"This shows that Xiao Yao's mentality is good. He has a strong desire for performance and entertainment, which is very suitable for this kind of exhibition game atmosphere." Zhang Yuan said, "Xiao Yao is the guest performer at the middle of today's game. He can do this when sitting in the audience. Performance, I'm looking forward to what his half-time performance will look like."

"I heard that Xiao Yao is performing a rock song with the band this time." Li Jun said, "Rock songs are very suitable for today's atmosphere. The scene should explode! I look forward to it just like you."

"Okay, the referee blew his whistle to signal the Western Celebrities to serve the sideline, and the game resumed. Let's watch the game!" Seeing the live broadcast, Zhang Yuan cut back to the court, and ended the topic about Xiao Yao.

"Thank you!" Seeing the scene where the big screen switched back to the stadium, Samion Smith tilted his head in Xiao Yao's direction and said in a low voice.

Although everyone's attention was on Xiao Yao's long-range shot just now, but Samion Smith knew clearly that Xiao Yao actually stopped the basketball that hit him just now, and the deepest thing in his heart was This is also what I care about. It's just that Xiao Yao's camera was always on the big screen at the scene just now, and she didn't feel embarrassed to express it. She waited until the camera moved away before she thanked Xiao Yao in a low voice.

"It's nothing." Xiao Yao smiled indifferently, "It just happened to give me a rare opportunity to perform!"

"I really want to show off, why don't you play as a player?" Samien glanced at Xiao Yao.

"I want a halftime show!" Xiao Yao said.

"You can play and perform at the same time." Samien said, "Let's not talk about physical problems, that's what you did last year!"

"Uh~" Xiao Yao choked for a moment, and finally said helplessly, "Last year I was alone, and I wasn't afraid if my performance failed, but this year I'm with you, and I don't want you to embarrass yourself with me."

"You~" Samien glanced at Xiao Yao, and stopped talking.

The episode where Xiao Yao shot from the audience happened about five minutes into the second quarter. After watching for two minutes, the on-site staff walked up to them and whispered a reminder that Xiao Yao quietly left the venue with the rest of the band, and ran to the dressing room to change clothes to prepare for the halftime performance.

By the time Xiao Yao and the others had changed their clothes and stood at the entrance of the player's tunnel, the first half of the game had already ended, and the first program of the halftime show had begun.

There was more than one performance during the intermission, but most of them were traditional performances on the basketball court such as cheerleaders and mascots. There was only one real star guest performance, which was arranged to appear in the middle.

After a cheerleading dance and a funny performance by a mascot, it was Xiao Yao's band's turn.

After the mascots left, the lights above the court went out, and the staff quickly pushed a stage into the middle of the court.

This time the band performance was still not performed directly on the wooden floor of the stadium, but a small movable stage was used in addition. It's just that today is not Valentine's Day, and the stage is not a red heart shape, but a cool diamond-shaped stage with black background and white border.

"Immortals, ladies and gentlemen!"

With the loud introduction of the live host, the lights above the stadium were turned on again.

"o~" Seeing the five-member band in the middle of the court, there was a burst of applause and cheers.

"Good evening everyone!" Xiao Yao, who was carrying an electric guitar, approached the stand microphone in front of him, and greeted the audience with a smile.

Hearing Xiao Yao's voice, the cheers suddenly rose a few decibels.

""It'sMyLife" is for everyone!" Dean also leaned in front of his stand microphone and introduced the performance to the audience.

Although they are all live performances, the Huaxia premiere and the halftime performance of the Masters in the United States are different performance occasions, and the live performance of this song by the band is also somewhat different.

When Xiao Yao greeted the audience and Dean introduced the name of the song, Samien, who was sitting behind the drum set, turned the drum stick in his right hand with a cool expression. When the voices of the two fell, Samien happened to hold back the drum stick rotated between the index finger and middle finger of his right hand, and struck the hi-hat on the drum set in front of him amidst the cheers of the audience.

The so-called hi-hat is actually a double-sided cymbal in the drum kit, and the sound is controlled by stepping on the hi-hat pedal, but this does not mean that the drumstick cannot be sounded when it is hit on the hi-hat. Samien tapped the hi-hat four times in a row, and after hitting the rhythm of a measure, he and Xiao Yao played two electric guitar sounds at the same time and struck the tom drum twice, starting the prelude to the song.

In terms of the style of the song and the meaning of the lyrics, this song "It's My Life" is undoubtedly very suitable for today's occasion. After the band's performance started, the atmosphere on the scene immediately heated up. Many audience listened and watched, unconsciously raised their hands and stood up.

Unlike the new song that Xiao Yao sang during the halftime performance of the Celebrity Game last year, this song by the "Immortals" band is not a new song, but has been officially released half a month ago. Regardless of the style of music or the attitude towards life expressed in the lyrics, this song is very popular with American rock fans.

Speaking of the lyrics, there are three names in the original lyrics of this song related to the previous life, but Xiao Yao didn't make any changes when he got this world, and it didn't arouse questions from Dean and others and music fans.

The name "Frankie" sung in the lyrics refers to Frank Sinatra, a famous American entertainer in his previous life, who was also the idol of many people in the United States in his previous life. However, although there is no Frank Sinatra in this world, there is also a well-known old American entertainer named Frank.

In the rock music circle, there is a very popular old rock band in the 1970s and 1980s named Frank in this world. He is also a lot of rock singers and fans including Keith Craig. Idol, everyone took it for granted that the one who said the phrase "Did It Myay" was the veteran rock singer named Frank Sinclair. As for Xiao Yao, who is the tail of the post-90s, writing an old artist who was popular 20 or 30 years before he was born into the song? Everyone didn't think it was strange that this happened to Xiao Yao, a creative genius.

The other two names "Tommy" and "Gina" in the lyrics are actually characters that appeared in another song of BonJovi in ​​the previous life. Although Xiao Yao didn't bring over BonJovi's "Livin' On A Arayer", the characters played by Xiao Yao and Zhou Jingyi in the Parkour movie happen to be called "Tom" and "Gina", anyway, the lyrics are The phrase "Never Backed Don" is also appropriate for the two characters who never back down in the movie.

This song is an interlude to the movie, and it came out with the first trailer of the movie. In the first movie trailer, there are pictures of characters calling each other's names. The audience can easily find a reasonable explanation from the movie, and of course they won't have any doubts about it.

Since Xiao Yao and several other leading actors were not in the United States before, in the promotional activities before the movie's release, these two movie songs accounted for a large proportion in the publisher's promotional plan, especially this song "It's My Life". Fang and Keith Craig's studios have put a lot of effort into promoting it. This song has achieved very good results on the Billboard, and it has been ranked in the top ten in the latest issue. It is already a very popular and popular song in the United States.

When the band sang the chorus, many audience members excitedly joined the chorus.

A rock song that is very suitable for the atmosphere of the scene, and can make the audience stand up from the auditorium and wave their arms to sing along with the band. The effect and atmosphere of this live performance are naturally indisputable. After the band's performance, there was a burst of applause and cheers and screams.

After exiting the stage amid cheers and screams from the audience, the halftime show continued. But the star of the halftime show was their band, and the cheerleading and stunt basketball shows paled in comparison to the "Immortals" show.

After all the halftime performances are over, the time for the halftime break is almost here. Two minutes later, in the second half of the game, Xiao Yao and others also returned to the auditorium.

But this time Xiao Yao didn't sit in the auditorium for long, and a staff member on the scene ran over again, saying that the commentator at the scene invited him to the commentary seat.

In last year's Celebrity Game, it happened that the official commentator invited some guest performers and star players to the commentary booth. In fact, it is not to invite people to go up to explain the game, but to have an interview chat with two official commentators. Last year, Brandon Brown, a child of the Western Celebrities, and Jason Danforth, the star of the Eastern Celebrities, both attended the commentary booth. However, these people have special identities, are interesting, and they are not the main players of the team, so they will not affect the team's game, so they will be invited.

Although Xiao Yao's performance last year was very good and very topical, he is obviously the core player of the team and did not get such an opportunity. This year, Xiao Yao was an audience member. After the halftime performance, he was fine. He had a big show in the audience in the second quarter, and the halftime performance was also very exciting. Instead, he had this opportunity.

Xiao Yao has never sat in the live commentary seat next to the game, and of course he is very interested in it, but he came with the whole band today, and he always thinks of his friends around him, so he didn't directly agree, but asked The staff asked: "Are you only invited? Or can I bring someone with me?"

"Well, there are only three sets of headphones in the commentary booth, and there can only be three people in the commentary booth!" The staff replied with embarrassment.

"Yang, go by yourself!" Seeing Xiao Yao's hesitation, Samien first spoke to Xiao Yao.

"Yeah, such a good opportunity, go and play by yourself, don't worry about us!" Dean and others also said.

"Okay then!" Xiao Yao nodded, stood up, and walked to the commentary booth with the staff.

The official commentary of the game was not the two on-site commentators of Haiyan Video, but the two full-time basketball commentators of the sports TV station in the United States that was in charge of broadcasting the game. They usually comment on NBA games, and they are also two very famous commentators among American basketball fans.

Although these two don't pay as much attention to the entertainment circle as they do to the sports circle and basketball circle, they also commented on the celebrity game last year, and they still have a deep impression on Xiao Yao, a Chinese star. Seeing that Xiao Yao came to the back of the commentary booth with the staff, both of them paused to explain, and greeted Xiao Yao with a smile.

Although Xiao Yao is from China, he has no problems communicating in English, and he has no stage fright. After greeting the two narrators with a smile, he sat calmly between the two American narrators and put on the earphones connected to the microphone.