Entertaining Children

During the Spring Festival this year, Xiao Yao gave himself a total of four days off. After visiting the homes of Zhao Rui, Zhou Zhihao and others on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Yao set off for Shanghai early in the morning on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

According to the previously arranged itinerary, Xiao Yao's next jobs are "The Voice of Dreams" on Zhedong Satellite TV, "Instant Electronic Music" on Haiyan Video, and "The Character of an Actor" on Troll.com. The first two programs were recorded in Hangzhou, which is not far from Shanghai, so Xiao Yao returned to Shanghai in advance to prepare.

In terms of time, the recording of "The Voice of Dreams" is the closest. However, the rules of this program are to assign songs to the guests on the day of recording and require the guests to compose on the spot. There is no way to prepare in advance, so after Xiao Yao returned to Shanghai , mainly to prepare for the opening performance of "Instant Electronic Music".

"Instant Electronic Music" is an electronic music program. Although Xiao Yao is not a professional electronic musician, he has also produced electronic music works. In terms of the performance of music works alone, Xiao Yao’s electronic music works are even the best and most well-known on various foreign electronic music charts. His stage name ys can even be called the most famous abroad. Huaxia electronic music producer.

Among all Xiao Yao's electronic music works, the song "faded" he collaborated with Gong Chen is the best-scoring electronic music song on foreign electronic music charts, and is well-known among electronic music lovers at home and abroad. very high. When the program group first contacted Xiao Yao, they suggested that Xiao Yao perform this song by Xiao Yao at the opening of the program.

This song is a collaboration with Gong Chen. To perform live, under normal circumstances, the singer Gong Chen would be added. Unfortunately, the recording time of the first episode of the show happened to conflict with Gong Chen's schedule. After learning of this, the program team of "Instant Electronic Music" suggested that several girls from the 101 girl group should cooperate with Xiao Yao instead.

The 101 girl group came out of their own program, and now the brokerage contract is also with the brokerage company under the parent company group, so they are considered as their own. Arranging the members of the girl group to cooperate with Xiao Yao in the opening performance is naturally Haiyan Video's strategy to take the opportunity to praise its own people.

But this is an electronic music program after all, not a girl group program. There are a total of eleven girls in the girl group. Considering the effect of the show, the program team did not ask Xiao Yao to bring all eleven girls. They only recommended Wei Yunjing, Ai Jun, and Jojo, who are relatively outstanding in the group.

These three people have their own specialties. Ai Jun is in charge of vocal, Wei Yunjing is in charge of dance, and jojo is in charge of rap. The program team thinks that the singer has changed, and the overall feeling of the song is best to make some changes. Xiao Yao is suggested to make some adaptations of the song, and it is best to add some passages that let Wei Yunjing perform the dance that he is good at, and the rap that Jojo is good at.

Xiao Yao himself also felt that it would not be interesting to make a live version similar to the original version when the singer was replaced. But specifically for this song, Xiao Yao likes this song because he likes the ethereal and ethereal feeling. He doesn't even want to change the singer, let alone make an adaptation, add some dance and rap.

It was just an opening performance, Xiao Yao had no intention of letting Gong Chen lose a chance to be a long-term guest on a music show to accommodate himself, and he didn't want to listen to the program group's adaptation, so he offered to perform a new work. But if you want to perform a new work, then naturally you have to choose the musicians and singers to cooperate with.

Without violating the established rules of the show, Xiao Yao has never been afraid to perform new musical works on the show. To some extent, this has even become a habit label of Xiao Yao, which can arouse some topics every time. .

Should Xiao Yao lead the three girl group members to perform an adapted version of an old song, or let Xiao Yao choose someone to perform a new electronic music work? This multiple-choice question is not very difficult for the program group.

In the comparison between praising one's own person and the program's effect and topicality, the program group chose the latter without hesitation. After all, it is incidental to praise one's own people, and it is the most basic for the program group to do a good job in this program.

When discussing these at the beginning, Xiao Yao's new electronic music work had not yet been completed, so it was impossible for the music director of the program group to review it. However, Xiao Yao's reputation is well known, and the program team is very confident in Xiao Yao's creative ability, but they don't care much about this.

These things were determined years ago. Before the new year, Xiao Yao was busy with other things, and he didn't care about the new electronic music works. After returning to Shanghai on the fourth day of the lunar new year, Xiao Yao really started to get busy with this matter.

Although the new work that Xiao Yao confirmed is an electronic music work, there are many other musical instruments in the soundtrack. For live performances, Xiao Yao still needs to find some more musicians. In addition, there is a singing part in this work, which is suitable for female singers to sing. Xiao Yao still needs to find a female singer to cooperate with.

It is still during the Spring Festival holiday, but as an entertainer, working during the Spring Festival is also a normal thing. Cooperating with Xiao Yao and doing the opening performance on Haiyan's show are both very attractive, and Xiao Yao probably won't have too much trouble finding someone.

As for the musicians, Xiao Yao's first contact was Sun Tingting. There is a violin in the soundtrack of this new work. Since Sun Tingting returned to China, whenever Xiao Yao needed a violinist, Sun Tingting was naturally his first choice.

Sun Tingting originally planned to come to Shanghai to join Xiao Yao after the Chinese New Year. Now that Xiao Yao needs her help, it is not a problem to come a few days in advance. As for other musicians, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting knew a lot, Xiao Yao found some, and Sun Tingting helped to recommend some, and it was quickly confirmed.

As for the singer, Xiao Yao thought about it and contacted Ai Jun first. Ai Jun is a co-singer recommended to her by the program group before, so there shouldn't be any problem with the original schedule. But after all, Xiao Yao had rejected the recommendation of the program group before, and I don't know if the brokerage company will arrange any other activities for her during this period after the rejection.

Ai Jun herself didn't know that the program team recommended her and two other teammates to cooperate with Xiao Yao, but the agency of their girl group knew about it.

After receiving a call from Xiao Yao's studio and learning that Xiao Yao had found Ai Jun to cooperate again, Haiyan Entertainment was a little overjoyed. Although the company actually arranged commercial performances for the girl group, compared with Xiao Yao's side, of course, the opportunity to cooperate with Xiao Yao to do the opening performance on Haiyan Video's new program is even rarer. Haiyan Entertainment didn't let Xiao Yao know about Ai Jun's schedule conflict, so they agreed on the phone on the spot, and then arranged to take Ai Jun out of the commercial performance.

On the fifth day of the new year, Sun Tingting and other musicians and Ai Jun, the female vocalist, all gathered in the rehearsal room of Xiao Yao's recording studio in Shencheng, and began to rehearse and prepare.

However, everyone's rehearsal lasted only two days. On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Xiao Yao temporarily bid farewell to the entire rehearsal team and went to Hangzhou alone to participate in the recording of "The Voice of Dreams" on Zhedong Satellite TV. .

"The Voice of Dreams" was not recorded in the studio of Zhedong TV Station, but in a recording studio in Hangzhou that specializes in recording such programs.

In this program, star guests are assigned to perform songs on the spot, adapted and rehearsed on the spot. The stage performance part is recorded at night, the designated song is announced at noon, and the time for adaptation and rehearsal is six hours in the afternoon. This also means that Xiao Yao, the flying guest, is the same as the four fixed celebrity guests, and they all arrive at the shooting location before noon.

"Hello Xiao Yao, I'm your follow-up director Huang Qi." Xiao Yao came to the recording studio from the hotel in the vehicle arranged by the program group, and just as he got off the car at the door, a woman in her thirties greeted her greeted. Behind her is a videographer with a video camera.

This is a music-type reality show. In addition to the performances on the stage, some behind-the-scenes footage of the guests will also be shown in the show, so from the moment Xiao Yao entered the recording studio, there was a follow-up production team to follow the filming.

"Hello Director Huang!" Xiao Yao smiled and reached out to shake hands with Huang Qi.

"Huh? Did you come alone?" Huang Qi asked a little strangely when he found that no one got out of the car behind Xiao Yao, and the car that picked him up actually drove away.

"What? Do you have to bring other people?" Xiao Yao asked strangely.

"In our program, the guest teachers are required to adapt the songs. Very few guest teachers do this kind of work by themselves." Huang Qi explained with a smile, "Even for Mr. Rong Jun, who is good at writing songs, The singer-songwriter also brought his own producer and other members of the music team to help with the adaptation."

"I don't have a music team, just me!" Xiao Yao smiled.

"Oh," Huang Qi remembered that Xiao Yao's behind-the-scenes production list for the album announced at the Golden Disc Awards that year was almost all Xiao Yao's name. That's all, why don't you even have a personal team member like an assistant?"

"My assistant has something to do at home and hasn't come back to work yet!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "It's not that I can't go out without my assistant, it's fine without an assistant."

After Pei Minyi finished working with the crew of "Donkey Gets Water", she resigned and started her own studio. Xiao Yao's personal studio helped Xiao Yao hire a new personal assistant. When the new personal assistant came home for the Chinese New Year, something unexpected happened at home, so he called Xiao Yao to ask for a few days off. Xiao Yao only let him go home on New Year's Eve, so he was allowed to leave. Today's itinerary was arranged years ago. Since Xiao Yao was allowed to leave, he was still in the Spring Festival holiday, and he didn't want the studio to find someone to replace him temporarily, so he came here alone.

In fact, Sun Tingting originally wanted to come to Hangzhou with Xiao Yao, and act as an assistant for Xiao Yao temporarily. But Xiao Yao refused on the grounds that he would never use his wife as an assistant, and left Sun Tingting in Shanghai to continue rehearsing with the musicians.

"What a good boss!" Huang Qi smiled, and waved her hand as a gesture of invitation, "Let's go to your lounge first, which is also the preparation room for your song adaptation. This way please!"

"Okay, thank you." Xiao Yao bent slightly and followed Huang Qi to the lounge.

On the way to the lounge, Huang Qi thought of another question and asked, "I heard that your assistant is a part-time makeup artist, so you didn't even bring a makeup artist?"

"Yeah." Xiao Yao nodded, "But your show crew should have a makeup artist, right? Even if you don't have one, it doesn't matter, I can do my own makeup and styling. My performance styling is not complicated, and I can do it myself !"

Since Xiao Yao didn't like too many people following him, the new assistant candidate was the same as Pei Minyi in the past, and he was also an assistant and a makeup artist. Generally speaking, such a person is difficult to find, because it means that a professional makeup artist has to do the work of an assistant. But with Pei Minyi as an example, there is still no shortage of professional makeup artists who are willing to be Xiao Yao's assistants.

"That's what I said," Huang Qi smiled wryly, "Our program team has makeup artists and assistants. If you need it, we can also temporarily arrange someone to help you. You don't have to do everything yourself. of."

"Really?" Xiao Yao smiled, "Then can I still ask for some arrangers?"

"That can't be done!" Huang Qi said immediately, "Music matters can only be handled by you or your team. Our program team will not provide you with any help in this regard."

"However," Huang Qi paused, then reminded in a low voice with a smile, "Celebrity guests help each other, and the program team does not forbid it. If you need help, you can talk to other celebrity mentors."

"Okay, I will remember, thank you!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile.

While speaking, Xiao Yao had already come to his lounge.

The star guest lounge in this program also functions as an arrangement and creation studio. There are electronic keyboards, guitars and other musical instruments in it, which are very well arranged.

"It's really good!" Xiao Yao looked around in the lounge, tried the musical instruments inside, and praised with a satisfied smile.

"As long as you like it!" Huang Qi smiled.

"Well, are all the other teachers here? Can I drop by now or something?" Xiao Yao raised his head and asked.

The program team said that the designated songs for the celebrity guests were not announced until twelve o'clock in the noon. The time has not yet come, and there is no way to make arrangements in advance. This lounge is good, but it would be a bit boring to stay like this all the time.

"You are here, but the director said that your identity must be kept secret, and you cannot meet the four mentors in advance." Huang Qi said.

"Ah?" Xiao Yao was surprised, and then dissatisfied, "You said just now that I can communicate with other celebrity mentors! This is a confidential identity, and I can't meet in advance, so how can I communicate? Could it be to call them? Wouldn't it be revealing if you didn't say it?"

"No!" Huang Qi shook her head, "The director means that you can't meet them until the designated song is revealed!"

"Isn't that right?" Xiao Yao asked suspiciously, "I've also watched the previous episodes, and sometimes the flying guests and regular guests sit together to announce the designated songs!"

"You also said that there are times, and not every episode is like that." Huang Qi laughed, "The arrangement of this part of each episode is different, and today's episode, you announced it separately from them. "

"Since each program is not fixed, it is not a fixed rule, and it is not impossible to change." Xiao Yao said to Huang Qi, "Do you see how lonely and boring I am sitting here by myself? Why don't you talk to the director about it? , change the arrangement for this issue, let me meet them in advance?"

"This~" Huang Qi hesitated.

"Think about it, Sister Xueying and I know each other. If I go there early, I will definitely contribute some highlights to the show." Xiao Yao said again, "Don't you want the show to have more highlights?"

"That's right!" Huang Qi couldn't help but nodded, remembering Xiao Yao's performance in various variety shows in the past.

"Even without considering the personal relationship between Xiao Yao and Liang Xueying, Xiao Yao himself has a great sense of variety show and is very good at making shows interesting. Such a good condition is not necessary. I really don't know how the person who made the process of this show was. Thinking about it?" Huang Qi slandered in her heart, stood by Xiao Yao's side, and said to Xiao Yao, "Wait a minute, I'll discuss it with the director!"

"Okay, please trouble Director Huang!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"Wait a minute, I'll be back soon!" Huang Qi said, and hurriedly opened the door and went out.

Although there is a walkie-talkie and a phone on her body, Huang Qi thinks it is better to talk about this kind of thing in person.

After a while, Huang Qi came back.

As soon as he entered the door, Huang Qi smiled and said to Xiao Yao: "The director agrees! Those few are eating hot pot in the hall of dreams now, let's go give them a surprise!"

"What?" Xiao Yao jumped up from the chair, "They were eating hot pot in the hall lively, but I was sitting here alone. Isn't the difference in treatment too big? Fortunately, I fought for it myself. !"

"Uh~" Huang Qi choked, and explained with a smile, "Their eating hot pot is an arrangement related to the announcement of the designated song process. Besides, didn't they ask you to go together?"