Entertaining Children

"Okay, I understand." Xu Wenxiang stared at Xiao Yao for a while, then nodded, "It is also very common in the industry for creators to appoint original singers. Since you, the creator, have identified Ah Yun, I have nothing to say, I promise you!"

"Just now you said that you plan to record this song yourself," Xu Wenxiang continued, "The target market for this song is Hong Kong Island. When the song is released, Ah Yun will do some promotional activities in Hong Kong Island. Our company has Very professional recording studio, I wonder if you are interested in recording this song in our recording studio? This will save Ah Yun from flying to Shencheng and then flying back for publicity. Second, as a musician, I I also want to see what it's like when you record your music, and maybe we can communicate with each other."

"I originally wanted to record this song on Hong Kong Island, so I can see your company's recording studio by the way," Xiao Yao glanced at Yang Shiyun's manager next to him, "Didn't Sister Yan tell you?"

"Really? That's just right!" Xu Wenxiang laughed.

"Mr. Xiao, I have another request." Chen Manli interrupted.

"Please speak!" Xiao Yao waved his hand.

"Mr. Xu said just now that the target market for this song is Hong Kong Island," Chen Manli said, "but we all know that the mainland market is much larger than Hong Kong Island. I know you are talented, but I don't know if you can give it to me again." Fill in the lyrics of this song in Mandarin, and then make a Mandarin version of the work.”

"Good idea!" Before Xiao Yao could answer, Xu Wenxiang took over the conversation with a smile, "I remember your "Red Rose" and "White Rose" are like this. The songs are exactly the same, one in Mandarin and one in Cantonese. This pair It shouldn’t be difficult for you, right? We can calculate it based on two songs.”

"To tell you the truth," Xiao Yao said with a wry smile, "When I was writing this song last night, I also wrote a version of the lyrics in Mandarin, but I tore it up later!"

"Why?" Xu Wenxiang asked strangely.

"I'm not satisfied," Xiao Yao shook his head with a smile, "The Mandarin version of the lyrics I wrote is okay, but compared with the Cantonese version, I'm not interested in recording it at all. Back then "White Rose" and "Red Rose", I am very satisfied with the lyrics of the two versions, so I released them together, this time I feel that the two versions are quite different, so I don't want to release them."

"Can you show me?" Xu Wenxiang asked, "I know you said that you have torn it up, but I heard that your memory is very good. Even if you have torn it up, you should be able to write it out silently, right?"

"I can't do it, I don't want to write!" Xiao Yao waved his hand, "I know that the Mandarin market is bigger than the Cantonese market, and I won't stop you from publishing the Mandarin version. The original Cantonese version of this song,

The original song can only be poetry rhyme, so I will not authorize the copyright of the cover song at least half a year later. But you can find someone to refill the lyrics in the Mandarin version. I can give you the cover rights of the Mandarin version right now. As for the singer, it doesn't matter if it is poetic or not. "

"Are you confident that no one can write better Mandarin lyrics?" Xu Wenxiang laughed, "You really have extraordinary confidence in yourself!"

Xiao Yao smiled, but did not answer.

"Then it's settled. I'll ask someone to prepare the contract." Seeing that Xiao Yao didn't answer, Xu Wenxiang didn't continue the topic, and wanted to finalize it instead.

"Don't worry!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "As long as the general direction is agreed, I don't care about the details of the contract, so I usually don't negotiate the contract in person. Since we have reached an agreement verbally, I believe we can Reach an agreement. I will notify my studio to send someone over in a while, and it should arrive tomorrow. Let the professional people handle the contract matters. Now, I think I should be able to go to your recording studio and start working, right? "

"Start now?" Xu Wenxiang asked in surprise.

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded, "I'm going back to Shencheng in a few days, and I can only stay in Hong Kong Island for four days at most, so I want to record this song as soon as possible."

"Four days? It shouldn't be a problem if it's just recording, but now you only have the score, no arrangement, no soundtrack, is four days enough?" Xu Wenxiang said.

"If it goes well, I don't think it will take four days." Xiao Yao said, "This time I came to Hong Kong Island, I just went out for a day yesterday, and there are still some places I haven't visited!"

"Hiss~" Except for Yang Shiyun, everyone took a breath and looked at Xiao Yao in surprise.

"Well," Xu Wenxiang looked at the watch on his wrist, "It's getting late now, I'll be the host, I'll invite you to lunch first, and let the recording studio make some preparations by the way, and help you contact the people you need. Musician and sound engineer. After lunch, I will accompany you to the recording studio to see how you arrange and soundtrack."

"No," Xiao Yao said, "I don't need a sound engineer and musicians, I can do it by myself. Just casual lunch, if possible, I think it would be a good choice to have a bento in the recording studio."

Xiao Yao saw that Xu Wenxiang and others still had some contempt for mainlanders in their bones, and they also had doubts about their ability to record a song in four days. That being the case, I simply don't need the free labor of YH Company, and I plan to let them experience my ability to record alone.

"Senior, can I go and watch you make an arrangement and soundtrack?" Yang Shiyun said, "I haven't seen it yet."

Yang Shiyun has great confidence in Xiao Yao. When he was on the show last year, Xiao Yao wrote the score of "Learning to Meow" and threw it to the six of them. He went to the recording studio by himself, and then brought back the soundtrack in one afternoon. Yang Shiyun absolutely believes that Xiao Yao can arrange and make music in one afternoon, but she doesn't know how he does it. This time I have the opportunity, of course I also want to see it.

"Okay, just don't delay the recording tomorrow." Xiao Yao looked at Yang Shiyun and nodded.

"Recording tomorrow?" Xu Wenxiang and Chen Manli looked at each other, a little speechless.

Xu Wenxiang went out to order someone to prepare the recording studio, and Xiao Yao took advantage of this time to call Fang Yiran and asked her to send someone to Hong Kong Island to help him negotiate the song copyright contract. Fang is still Xiao Yao's agent, but since Xiao Yao's personal studio was established, Fang still rarely appears in person. For such a small matter as the copyright of a song, it is obvious that Fang still doesn't need to do it himself, and the studio can send someone over.

After Xiao Yao finished the phone call with Fang Yiran, Xu Wenxiang also arranged a recording studio, and Xiao Yao followed Xu Wenxiang to a recording studio on the third floor. Besides these two, Chen Manli, Yang Shiyun and Yang Shiyun's manager also followed in.

It's not that Xu Wenxiang has never seen some musicians independently arrange and make music, but most of the people they see usually arrange various instruments on the computer through software, and basically they are one by one. Constantly modify and debug, but Xiao Yao is different.

After entering the recording studio, Xiao Yao first checked the various equipment in the recording studio, and after reviewing all of them, he sat down on the chair at the operating table, propped his elbows on the armrest of the chair, tilted his body and put his chin on the He closed his eyes and meditated.

"He didn't come to sleep, did he?" Seeing Xiao Yao's appearance, Xu Wenxiang and Chen Manli looked at each other silently.

Ten minutes later, just as Chen Manli was looking impatient and wanted to speak, Xiao Yao suddenly sat upright, operated the console with both hands, and then pushed the door and walked out. After a while, everyone saw through the glass window in front of the console that the door of the opposite recording room was opened, and Xiao Yao walked in. After turning back and closing the door of the recording room, Xiao Yao moved an electronic piano, adjusted it, connected the equipment, and pressed his hands on the keys to play.

Xu Wenxiang was able to understand Xiao Yao's operations, so he immediately took out a pair of headphones, plugged them into the headphone jack on the console, and then put on the headphones to listen.

After playing for a few minutes, Xiao Yao stopped playing the electronic organ, turned around and opened the door of the recording room to come out, and returned to the operation room after a while.

After seeing Xiao Yao stop playing, Xu Wenxiang took the earphones off his head and sat aside, but the earphone jack was not unplugged. When Xiao Yao came back and saw the plugged-in earphones, he didn't say a word. He sat in front of the console, put on the earphones, and operated the devices on the console again.

Xu Wenxiang was sitting next to Xiao Yao, and clearly saw Xiao Yao cut out a recorded audio track back and forth, then made some adjustments in the middle part, and then saved it.

"Is this a sound track ready?" Xu Wenxiang asked in surprise when he saw Xiao Yao take off the earphones.

"Almost, I'm going to record another episode." Saying that, Xiao Yao turned and went out again, and went to the recording room opposite again.

After playing the electronic organ for a few more minutes, Xiao Yao returned again, listened to the second section he had recorded, and did some processing.

When he got up for the third time and entered the studio, he wasn't touching the keyboard, but moved a microphone to the front of a drum kit, sat on a stool behind the drum kit, and picked up the sticks.

Although Xiao Yao seemed a little silly running back and forth like this, no one in the recording studio laughed at Xiao Yao's stupidity, but all showed expressions of astonishment.

"Ah Yun, did he really write this song last night?" Xu Wenxiang looked at Yang Shiyun and asked.

"Should~ right?" Yang Shiyun also said with some uncertainty, "He didn't come to Hong Kong Island to look for me. I met him by accident yesterday. I did take him to Lee Tung Street yesterday, and I also talked to him told the history of Lee Tung Street and some stories about Lee Tung Street that I know, and then when I went to him this morning, he showed me the score of this song. Maybe, he wrote this song last night Did you already think about the arrangement of this song when you were young?"

As far as Xiao Yao's current performance is concerned, it is obvious that the arrangement of the entire song is already in his mind. Although I worked in front of the console for more than ten minutes, it is hard to believe that the arrangement of a song can be completely presented in my mind after just sitting there for more than ten minutes.

"Even if he did it last night, it's terrifying." Xu Wenxiang shook his head and said, "Walk around Lee Tung Street with you, and you can write such a song. From the inspiration of a song to the lyrics and music, It took a total of one night to make an arrangement plan. This kind of musical talent and talent can be said to be overflowing."

"Looking at him like this, it won't take an entire afternoon to complete the soundtrack. If Ah Yun plays well enough, you might be able to record the official version tonight." Xu Wenxiang sighed again, "A song It took a total of one day from the inspiration for the song to the completion of the production, including sleeping and having a meeting with us to discuss the copyright! He is only in his early twenties? Let alone the young musicians in Hong Kong Island, it is my young Time, you can't do this!"

"Mr. Xu, you don't have to act like this." Hearing what Xu Wenxiang said, Chen Manli comforted her, "He is not an ordinary person. He wins awards for singing and writing songs, awards for acting, and awards for directing cartoons. The two films he produced have won billions of dollars at the global box office, and a young man like him, not to mention our Hong Kong Island, even the mainland, or even the whole world, I am afraid it will be difficult to find a second one."

"It's just to buy a song. If it's another musician, we need two directors to do it in person? Or just want to see this amazing boy with my own eyes!" Those results? Now that he is different, shouldn’t he be?”

"That's right!" Xu Wenxiang nodded, "If he has no special features, people will suspect that his achievements are fake. It's just a pity that such a young genius didn't come from Hong Kong Island, or from Hong Kong Island. In our company."

"The mainland market surpasses that of Hong Kong Island. This is the general trend. Even if he comes from our company, I'm afraid we won't be able to grasp it." Chen Manli said with a smile, "You can see his character from the way he talked about the copyright of the song with us just now. .His parents are both well-known stars in the mainland. They have a studio at home, but he became independent and started his own studio. He also opened a film and television company with a few friends. His family studio has actors and singers under his umbrella, but in recent years , the singers and actors he cooperates with, but there are almost no artists under his parents' studio. Don't say we can't control him, I'm afraid his parents have very limited influence on him."

"A Yun," said Chen Manli curiously, turning her head to look at Yang Shiyun who was beside her, "I'm curious why Xiao Yao suddenly wrote a song for you and appointed you as the original singer? It's really just because you yesterday Did you take him shopping late? Do you have any other contacts? "

"Hmm~" Yang Shiyun thought for a while before answering, "Maybe it's because we are friends? Last year when he participated in the girl group talent show in Hangzhou in the Mainland, he was the senior of our group. We stayed together for a long time. For a whole week, we got along very well and should be regarded as friends."

After thinking about it, she still decided to hide the fact that Xiao Yao asked her uncle to be an art director. Xiao Yao said that writing songs for himself was in return for being a tour guide for him yesterday. At least on the surface, Xiao Yao did not show that he wrote songs for himself because of his uncle. She felt that even if Xiao Yao had that consideration in mind, he definitely didn't want others to say that.

"I remember you said just now that he didn't come to Hong Kong Island to look for you, you met by accident." Chen Manli continued to ask, "Then do you know what he came to Hong Kong Island for, just for fun?"

"He came for his new movie." Yang Shiyun didn't hide it this time, "He came to find an art director for his new movie."

"That~" Chen Manli was about to say something more when she suddenly felt Xu Wenxiang touch her. Turning around and seeing Xiao Yao coming out of the recording room opposite, Chen Manli said to Yang Shiyun, "We won't bother Xiao Yao to make the soundtrack anymore, come with me to the office, let's talk alone."