Entertaining Children

  Chapter 279 Practice Room Edition

After the release of Chen Chen's single, the song "There is a kind of warmth to call my sisters" is not surprisingly popular. Even though the length of the song and the content of the lyrics of this song are stronger than those of "Buddy", the female voice sings the male voice in a more novel and interesting way than the more traditional songs like "A Summer and An Autumn", and it is not common to everyone. Like Lin Xiaojie, I think this song is stronger than those two songs, but at least there is a consensus among fans and audiences, that is, this is indeed a good song that is not only good to listen to but also can sing in the hearts of girls.

  One of the singers of this song, Fan Linxuan, as the champion of "The Voice of China", originally had a very solid foundation of popularity. After the release of the new album, the popularity has become even more explosive. The appearance of this song naturally brought her already popular popularity to a higher level. Although Chen Chen, another singer, is not as popular as Fan Linxuan's current popularity, but with the popularity of this song, his popularity has begun to accumulate quickly, and many people have also realized that this song is relatively fresh in style. Rapper.

  Chen Chen’s single has two songs. After more and more people became familiar with and fell in love with Chen Chen through "There is a kind of warmth called sisters", the other single "Yenching Indigenous" also began to be heard by more and more people.

When many people hear the accompaniment at the beginning of this song, their first reaction is: "Isn't it a rap song? Isn't this a genius? Sanxian? Jingyun drum? Are you singing or rap?" Especially the first sentence at the beginning. Countless people started to be dumbfounded when the voice of "Bing Tang Hao Lu skewer~" was still screaming.

  But when everyone listened to a song completely, countless people began to applaud this peculiar song. The accompaniment music is the accompaniment of various traditional musical instruments and melody. The singing also has a taste of opera, but the rap part is indeed the kind of rap that everyone knows.

  As for the lyrics, it’s even better. Even people who have never been to Yanjing can see that these lyrics are all describing the indigenous life of the old Yanjinger. As soon as the very characteristic words such as Douzhier, Jiaohuan and Tianqiao came out, the smell of old Yanjing in the whole song came to my face.

Those fans in the north, especially the fans of Yanjing, listened with a special enthusiasm, with a unique feeling of empathy, as if they had returned to the old alley of Yanjing, where they were in it, and the natives of Yanjing lived by their side. With. Those in areas outside of Yanjing seem to have seen a picture of the leisurely and lively daily life of the natives of old Yanjing from this song.

  In this type of rap, the dialect rap in many places is very characteristic, and there is also a very fixed local preference group. Of course, the so-called dialect rap here is not rap in a dozen dialects like Xiao Yao’s "China Girl", but the whole song is performed in the local dialect rap. Among them, the dialects of Sichuan, Guangdong, and Shaanxi provinces are relatively well-known, and their dialect rap has a certain market across the country. And this song "Yenching Indigenous" can be regarded as a rap in the dialect of Yenching. Although the pronunciation of individual characters in Yanjing dialect and Mandarin is basically the same, there are still some differences between the real Yanjing dialect and the Mandarin taught in schools, and this characteristic of Yanjing dialect is also reflected in this song. To be incisively and vividly.

  Chen Chen was originally a native of Yanjing, and his authentic Yanjing dialect expresses the native Yanjing flavor in the song very well. After the song became popular, not only was it highly praised by many young people, but even many middle-aged and elderly people in Yanjing who were not familiar with the music form of rap were treated as listening to the opera. He began to listen to this song by Chen Chen cheerfully.

This song is very pleasing, and Chen Chen's popularity in Yanjing suddenly became much higher because of this song. But in the final analysis, the most rare part of this song is neither the song Chen Chen’s Yanjing accent nor singing and talking. The part of the song requires so difficult skills, but it lies in how the lyrics and music of this song are created. In other words, how did Xiao Yao write such a song?

   Putting aside the element of feelings, this is a song that feels very fun first. The most interesting place is the genius idea of ​​using traditional musical instruments to score rap songs, except for the lyrics that accurately describe the living conditions of the indigenous people in Old Yanjing. Everyone knows for the first time that things like Sanxian, Drum, and Erhu can also be used as the soundtrack for rap songs, and they sound incomparably harmonious.

Reminiscent of Xiao Yao personally pulling the erhu in "Hua Tian Mi" in "The Voice of China", there are not only a large number of traditional national musical instrument soundtracks in "The New Drunken Concubine", and even half of the song is directly similar to that of Peking Opera. This kind of traditional Beijing rhyme singing, it can be seen that Xiao Yao seems to have very unusual preferences and accomplishments for traditional Chinese national musical instruments.

Some people even pulled out the video material of Xiao Yao performing pulling the erhu on the show when he was five years old when he participated in "Where Are You Going, Dad", to prove that Xiao Yao has a special preference for traditional Chinese musical instruments since he was a child. Started to learn.

  In addition, another song composed by Xiao Yao by Fan Linxuan turned in was also mentioned. The chorus of this "Song of Love" contains the familiar lyrics of the folk song "The Love Song of Kangding". In the soundtrack, there are also several passages that are obviously used as the soundtrack of the traditional national instruments of Pipa, Guzheng and Yangqin. . In this very lazy sound, like a blues jazz-style song, the soundtrack of these national instruments also sounds very good, not at all incompatible with this very western style of music.

  The concentrated appearance of these songs also brought a wave of discussion about national musical instruments. Many music critics have also begun to discuss Xiao Yao’s soundtrack style, which combines folk music with modern music, and even exaggerated the evaluation of Xiao Yao’s pioneering move, which will arouse more common audiences’ opinions. The pursuit and love of national musical instruments. On a larger scale, he is a great pioneering work to promote the Chinese national culture and opened up a new path for the development of Chinese national instrumental music.

  Of course, there are also many well-known and music critics who sneered at this statement, and even publicly criticized Xiao Yao's combination of national and western instruments as nondescript, completely losing the charm and beauty of folk music. What's more, it is straightforward to say that Xiao Yao's approach is tarnishing the Chinese folk music with a long history and heritage.

  In this piece of discussion and controversy, the third group of newcomers from Qijia Studio, "Women Band" also appeared on the Internet. Since Xiao Yao referred to "Women's Band" as "visual music", "Women's Band" did not make its debut by releasing albums, but directly chose to use stage performances to appear in front of the public. As an orchestra that no one has ever heard of, and even the form of performance is completely new, opportunities for stage performances are not so easy to find.

To say that the best way is to appear as a guest performer at a star’s concert, but at the end of the year, when various TV stations are preparing for the New Year’s Eve party, stars all value the opportunity of the TV station’s New Year’s Eve party. Few people will be at this time. Concert. Therefore, Qi Jia Studio is ready to directly fight for the performance of a local TV New Year's Eve party for the "Women's Band". But if you want to be seen by the TV station, it seems that you don't have a little reputation, so the studio puts the idea on the Internet. Xiao Yao provided an idea that combines the concept of internet celebrity and the practice of many Korean brokerage companies putting idol group practice room practice videos. In the studio, a practice room with very good radio effects was specially prepared, and a "girl music" was filmed. The video of the “Fang” exercise was posted online.

  Although it is a practice video, the "Women's Band" in the video is an uninterrupted performance of a complete piece of music, and even the actions, expressions, and demeanor of the performance are consistent with the requirements of the performance on the stage.

  First of all, "Women Band" applied for an account with real-name authentication on Weibo. The first Weibo post was just such a practice video. All the top artists in the studio, including Xiao Siqi, Ye Jiaying, Cheng Xi, Chen Chen, Fan Linxuan, Xiao Yao, reposted this video on Weibo and recommended it to their fans.

  Next, the MV section of various video sites and music sites also began to appear this video titled ""Women's Band" Practice Room Video", trying to spread this video on the Internet with the greatest strength.

  In the initial preview screen of the video, there are a dozen girls playing various ethnic instruments in the front, and a modern western band composed of drums, electric guitars, bass, electronic keyboards and other instruments in the back row. This configuration is easily reminiscent of the now controversial Xiao Yao’s music form that combines folk music with modern Western instruments. How come a national orchestra that specializes in playing like Xiao Yao has emerged again? Is this also Xiao Yao's handwriting?

  Sure enough, after clicking the video to start playing, a few lines appeared in the center of the video:

  "Kangding Love Song" practice room version

  Performance: Women's Band

  Adaptation + Arrangement: Xiao Yao

  Although it is only a practice room video, this video was shot with a professional high-definition camera. Before the performance started, the beautiful faces and temperaments of a dozen young girls that appeared in the picture were enough to catch the attention of many netizens.

  After the performance started, everyone found that the girls in this video not only looked eye-catching, but the music they played was also very attractive. "Kangding Love Song" is a nationally well-known folk song, but when it comes to these girls and the band behind them, it gives a completely different feeling.

  Not only has the beautiful melody in the original song, but also has a passion that is completely different from the original traditional folk music. After the adaptation and re-arrangement of the soundtrack, modern instruments such as drums and electric guitars are added to make people feel the beautiful melody of folk music, but also feel the shock of listening to a rock band. Of course, there is already a rock band configuration here, but even in the intermission of modern Western musical instruments, the flute and pipa solo passages can still give people the shock of listening to rock music. Coupled with the high-definition lens with more than a dozen beautiful faces with their own characteristics, or elegant or passionate actions, or quiet, happy or serious expressions, this kind of audio-visual enjoyment is definitely not experienced by netizens who watch the video before. of.

  So, no matter what the critics say, countless people immediately fell in love with this kind of musical expression, and also fell in love with this ethnic orchestra, which only has a high-profile appearance and can also give people a special shock.

  "Women's Band" in this way successfully gained the first large number of loyal fans.

  (End of this chapter)