Entertaining Children

  Chapter 585 "I Want Us Together"

  In the studio, after finishing the opening remarks, Xiao Yao didn't chat with the audience anymore, and proceeded directly to the next link in accordance with the process. He also acted as a host’s repertoire and quickly read the advertisement. Counting Liang Xueying’s acting host, the time Xiao Yao wore a costume and costume to make up after the performance was the seventh time Xiao Yao read an advertisement like this, but the audience was not bored at all. I was just as excited when I heard it the second time. After the advertisement was over, the applause and cheers were also generously given to Xiao Yao on the stage.

  Next, Xiao Yao began to follow the script written by the program crew, step by step introduction to the competition songs the singer would sing. Although Xiao Yao would revise the script written by the screenwriter every time, most of them only revise the introduction of his appearance, and occasionally change the chat and interaction with the audience at the beginning. Xiao Yao rarely moves the introduction words of other singers.

   More than half an hour later, the first four singers appeared one after another to give their performances, and the fifth singer immediately followed, it was Xiao Yao's turn.

   "The next one to appear is the fifth singer in the competition." After guiding the audience to bid farewell to the fourth player Tian Wei with another round of applause, Xiao Yao started the introduction of the fifth singer.

"First of all, the following remarks only represent personal opinions, and have nothing to do with the position of the program group!" Xiao Yao did not directly introduce the song, but suddenly came such a sentence, and then began to evaluate the next singer to appear, "I personally I think the next singer should be the weakest singer in this show."

"Huh?" Hearing Xiao Yao's comment, many live audiences were subconsciously stunned. "I publicly commented on other singers in the show, saying that they are the weakest, is this really good? Although you are not afraid of offending people, But there is no need to deliberately offend people, is it really crazy?"

   "Unless..." Many fast-reacting viewers immediately thought of a possibility.

  Sure enough, Xiao Yao’s next words immediately made the audience suddenly realize.

"Why do you say that?" Xiao Yao continued: "Because I have read a lot of comments and comments from viewers on the Internet recently, saying that the singer has to play tricks in every episode of the show. That's because he can't sing well. I can’t sing well at all, I can only rely on those clothes, musical instruments and other things to gain attention and attract everyone’s attention, and rely on these off-market recruits to win some extra audience votes, so I can always rely on this show. I see After these comments, I think it makes sense, so I also think this guy is weak, what do you think?"

   "No!" Many viewers shook their heads and shouted.

  Before the plagiarism incident came out, the most talked about the program on the Internet was Xiao Yao’s performance in the program. Everyone has read these comments. When Xiao Yao said this, the audience immediately understood who he was talking about. Before yesterday's press conference, Xiao Yao had never responded publicly. He did not expect that he would not say anything. Once this is said, he not only angered reporters at the press conference, but also brought this topic to the stage.

"No?" Xiao Yao smiled, and suddenly put on an expression of disgust and said to the audience in the audience, "You are not as knowledgeable as some netizens! People have said that this show is called a singer, no Calling a musician, it’s not a drama program. Except for the stage when you sing, how can you sing with a musical instrument on stage every day? If you have the ability, don’t take any musical instrument, and sing it honestly and rulesly. , See what you can sing!"

  "Yu~" There was a boo in the audience, and I didn't know whether it was some netizens who boo or Xiao Yao on the stage.

   "Is there no flower heads, no musical instruments, is he going to sing honestly?" Many viewers followed Xiao Yao's words and guessed in their hearts, and at the same time, a feeling of disappointment surged in their hearts.

   "So how did this singer respond?" Xiao Yao reached out and pointed to the side of the stage, "Look!"

  The audience looked in the direction pointed by Xiao Yao and found that while Xiao Yao was talking, the staff of the program group had moved a black grand piano onto the stage.

   "He said, I just want to be both a singer and a musician, are you biting me?!" Xiao Yao said loudly.

   "Ha!" The audience laughed and burst into applause.

"The next song, "I Want Us To Be Together", for everyone!" Xiao Yao finally reported the title of the song, turned around and walked to the piano and sat down with the microphone in his hand on the microphone stand next to him. Loaded up.

  In this performance, Xiao Yao did not nod to the orchestra conductor Liu Tong. He breathed out softly, and stretched out his hands to play directly on the piano keys.

  As soon as the prelude to the piano sounded, many audiences were brightened. It’s not that the prelude melody in these few seconds is amazing or catching, but judging from the prelude melody and the state of Xiao Yao’s expressions when playing, it feels like this is a song similar to Xiao Yao’s previous work Songs with very different styles sound a bit jazzy at first glance. When Xiao Yao started to sing at the end of the current performance, this feeling became even stronger.

   "The wind~ My face is blowing far away, my hands, my hair, my heart, my eyes~

  You stay far away in that city, that road, that room, that lamp, and window~"

  "Wow~" was just the first two sentences, and Xiao Yao made the audience shout in exclamation.

With the performance of reading the advertisements so many times before, the audience was not surprised that Xiao Yao was able to sing these two unusually long sentences, but writing a song in this way, sang it in this way, it is very It was beyond their expectation.

   "This is a jazzy song, it makes me feel good when I listen to it!" Wei Shile said, watching the live TV screen.

"I'm a good boy, is this little guy playing jazz again?" Hong Wei, who was sitting next to him, even changed his sighing verbal language. He turned to look at Xiao Siqi on the other side and said, "Old Xiao, your son can even play jazz? In my impression, it seems that you have never written a jazz-style song, right?"

  Xiao Yao is the fifth player to play. Now, with the exception of Liang Xueying in sixth and Hua Xiaoyun in seventh, the first four singers who have finished singing have returned to the lounge to watch the live performance of the singers behind them.

"It's also the first time I heard a jazz song he wrote." Xiao Siqi smiled, "I haven't written a jazz-style song, it doesn't mean that he can't write it. I haven't written a rap song yet, look at him. How many rap songs have been written? His music style is more complicated than mine, no, it is much richer. He said that his style is no style, and he will try any style and genre. He has basic knowledge of music theory and composition. I taught it, but in terms of music style, I have always been influenced by him."

   "I remember you used to close your eyes and hold me as if I were your face, smiling~

  I don’t know how to laugh at you, cry at you, open my mouth and ignore you like a machine~"

  On the stage in the studio, after Xiao Yao finished singing the four sentences of the first verse, the song did not enter the chorus, but another verse composed of the same melody and the same long-sentence lyrics.

  At the end of the second verse, the audience who could see the lyric teleprompter had already heard that it was a sad love song with a bit of a decadent breath. After so many episodes of programs, everyone is not too surprised that Xiao Yao wrote this type of song. What surprised the audience was the strong jazz style in Xiao Yao's song. In the audience's impression, Xiao Yao has played folk songs, rock, R&B, hip-hop, and even opera. jazz? This seems to be the first time.

  In addition to the surprise that the style of the song brought to the audience, the audience also discovered that Xiao Yao was performing differently today. It’s not the first time that Xiao Yao played and sang a piano on stage. It’s just that whether it’s the song "It's Now" or the song "Red Rose", Xiao Yao's piano performance is not continuous, nor does it last for a long time. Use the piano as the only soundtrack. And this time, Xiao Yao sat calmly in front of the piano, and sang the entire two verses in front of him with the accompaniment of the piano he played.

  This song "I Want Us Together" is a masterpiece created for Fan Xiaoxuan's transformation by Li Quan in the previous life. Li Quan studied piano since childhood, and also majored in piano at the Conservatory of Music. In his works, the piano has always dominated the soundtrack, and it is also the biggest feature in the arrangement of the soundtrack. In this jazzy song, the piano also occupies a dominant position, with very distinct characteristics.

  The piano sound in this song is already very attractive. This kind of pure piano accompaniment without interruption by other instruments made the audience engrossed in Xiao Yao's body. In addition to being amazed by Xiao Yao's rare jazz style and singing, Xiao Yao's free and easy piano performance also impressed the audience.

   "I'm going, Xiao Yao plays the piano too slippery!"

   "Look at his state, playing the piano is almost like playing!"

  Many live audiences sighed in their hearts.

When I saw Xiao Yao’s piano performance on the stage two times earlier, it was obvious that the piano playing was only an aid in the song performance, and most of the audience’s impression was that "Xiao Yao can also play the piano" and "Xiao Yao can play by himself "Singing by myself", at most he was surprised at his age and how he can play. As for how he plays, most audiences feel that it is not much different from many singers who have played the piano while singing.

  But this time, such a long piano solo soundtrack gives the audience a different feeling. This kind of casual jazz style, Xiao Yao’s performance on the spot, suddenly made many people different in their hearts Xiao Yao from other singers who played piano in concert evenings or TV shows. Open. I think this is the kind of performance that can hold a piano concert alone.

Although Xiao Yao did have a piano recital for more than half an hour in the program, the singers had already seen his piano skills, but due to the time limit of the program, this kind of tidbit can be broadcast on TV. The audience can only see fragments of tens of seconds. For many audiences, this was the first time they experienced the concert-level piano performance on the singer's stage.

  Even the singers who have listened to Xiao Yao’s private piano recital are somewhat surprised at this moment. However, they were surprised not by Xiao Yao's piano playing skills, but by Xiao Yao's song.

   "I see!" Tian Wei suddenly slapped and shouted.

   "What do you know?" Hong Wei looked at Tian Wei and said, "What are you doing, surprised?"

"When I took a break during the rehearsal, I listened to the band's musicians chatting that Xiao Yao had changed songs in the middle of this competition. I now know why!" Tian Wei said, "The piano in this song is really too good. It's brilliant, he deliberately used this method to respond to the accusations that he copied other people's piano music on the Internet! It turned out that it was not enough to develop a conference and tell everyone that he is XY. He still needs to use his works and actions on the stage to make further progress. prove yourself!"

   "Really?" Hong Wei looked at Xiao Siqi, "Don't tell me that he wrote this song specially after the plagiarism incident came out?"

  "Don't look at me, and don't ask me!" Xiao Siqi said, "I don't even know about his change of songs in the middle. We don't even ask each other what song each other sings."

   "Oh, I said you father and son, as for you?" Hong Wei rolled his eyes and said.

   "Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

  You said you said we want to be together~"

  Enter the chorus part of the song, and finally the sound of other instruments such as drums has been added to the soundtrack.

  It’s not that Xiao Yao didn’t think that the whole song would be completed with a single piano accompaniment. In his previous life, Li Quan himself had a pure piano accompaniment version of this song, and Xiao Yao himself could not play that way. But considering that this is a competition scene after all, not just playing in the studio by yourself, you still need to consider the audiovisual experience and appreciation needs of the audience, so Xiao Yao still adopted Fan Xiaoxuan’s version of the soundtrack, in the chorus part. The accompaniment of other instruments such as drums, accordion, viola, violin, etc. have been added to enrich the expressiveness of this song during live performances.

   But even if other instruments are added, the main soundtrack of this song is still the piano sound played by Xiao Yao.

  This song is a relatively rare structure consisting of two consecutive verses followed by three consecutive choruses. There is a relatively long interlude between the first chorus and the second chorus. In this interlude, whether it is a very characteristic long accordion performance in the first half, or the snare drum in the first half of the drum set in the second half, and the accordion, violin and drum ensemble in the second half, there is no pressure at all. The sound of the piano. The piano has always been the most recognizable and characteristic accompaniment instrument throughout this song. Xiao Yao never left the piano bench under his buttocks from start to finish, and he finished the piano part of the whole song by himself.

  "Unlike now, I can only be far away, singing to you~"

Among the three choruses, the first two paragraphs are exactly the same. The third chorus at the end, in addition to changing "life effortless" into "love you effortlessly", but also added this very A mournful and sad sentence.

  After singing the last sentence, Xiao Yao raised his head slightly, left the microphone in front of him, closed his eyes and played the ensemble with the accordion at the end of the song.

   "Xiao Yao!"

   "Xiao Yao!"

  When the piano sound of the last note disappeared, when Xiao Yao retracted his hands to his knees, many audience members couldn't wait to get up from their seats, raising their hands and shouting loudly while applauding. This time, no one in the excited audience deliberately called XY anymore, they were all calling his real name Xiao Yao.

  (End of this chapter)