332 Issue 10(4)
It's finally time for the last episode of "XXX who can't sing is not a good cook?" She was nervous about the current game, and she looked forward to tonight, and the work that took her two months of time and energy came to an end.
The first half was the singing final of Xu Xiaojing, Zeng Jinjin and Ding Zhengyang. The order of appearance in the finals has already been decided when choosing a theme.
[Life: Beginning] - [Life: Growth] - [Life: End]
The first one to play was Xu Xiaojing, who brought the song: "To the Child". She said that children are the starting point of human life, and she hopes that every child in the world can have a happy childhood and grow up healthily.
The stage design is very interesting, the opening, is the beginning of a dark scene, "ding", like the sound of lighting up the stars, a beam of chasing light cast, under the light stood a little girl of four or five years old, wearing a nurse's uniform, holding a big syringe in her hand, and very professionally doing the action of flicking the needle. Then there was a "ding" sound, and another beam of chasing light was cast, and a little boy stood under the light, with a straight suit, a pair of old pedantic glasses under his head, holding a thick book in one hand, and holding a pair of glasses that were about to fall off from time to time with the other hand. "Ding", "Ding", "Ding", "Ding", "Ding", "Ding", "Ding", ...... One child after another appeared on the stage, dressed as adults of different professions, cooks, flight attendants, traffic policemen, photographers, programmers, pretending to be old and innocent and childish.
As the song music officially began, the last beam of chasing light fell on Xu Xiaojing's body. She looked at the children around her with the eyes of a mother and sang.
"Maybe it's the nurse who is white and warm, maybe it's the philosopher who enlightens the darkness, we should look up to every little face, and every child is a light. A bed for a child to dream about, a window for a child to look out on. See how beautiful they will take us. Give children a sail to fly far, give children an oars of courage, and the world will surely become brighter......"
Unlike any bold attempt in previous episodes, the truth in her singing voice gives her voice the temperature of maternal love, and her true feelings that are almost not mixed with the slightest performance component make her glow with maternal brilliance, so the presentation of the whole show is extraordinarily moving.
Fathers and mothers will resonate, and sons and daughters will be grateful.
Zeng Jinjin sat in the audience, listening to such a warm singing, looking at such soft eyes, and suddenly remembered Bao Xiaofan, remembered her selfless upbringing and wholehearted cultivation since she was a child, and remembered her tolerance and blessing to her daughter who did not tolerate secular traditional love, she should be the best mother in the world, Zeng Jinjin thought partially.
After Xu Xiaojing, it was Ding Zhengyang who came on the stage, and he was about to bring the song "Natural Growth". Xu Xiaojing had already returned to her seat, right next to Zeng Jinjin, and she asked, "The seat behind you in the third row of the audience, is that Ding Zhengyang's boyfriend?"
Zeng Jin blinked, turned his head and looked back. The audience in the first two rows saw it and turned their heads to look back. A group of people turned their curious eyes to the road, and for some reason, they inquired left and right, and they also knew that it was Ding Zhengyang's boyfriend who came.
"Oh, it's him. Zeng Jinjin said, and saw that the No. 3 position was already aimed at the main road, which was bad and harmful.
The stage was ready, it was a rainforest setting, the music started, the birdsong was accompanied by a quiet guitar, Ding Zhengyang walked out of the corner of the stage, dressed as an old-school explorer. He looked up at the tall trees, looked down at the tender green grass, and sang:
"I've been looking for a beautiful life, and I've often wondered what happiness is. Like a wild horse running on the prairie, more like a breeze drying out of the eyes. You always told me to live bravely, no matter what, to protect my faith. It is planted in this way, and it sprouts alone in the soil, and time nourishes it, and one day it will bloom beautifully......"
I really like the way he sings this song, he is light on the surface, but he is persistent and brave in his bones. As for Ding Zhengyang's purpose in doing this look, it should be to express that life is an adventure, looking for and seeking, looking for a place where you can put your dreams. When I heard him sing for the first time, I judged that he was singing about his sexual orientation, but she never verified it, she looked at Mo Yijiu, and saw that her chin raised the jaw line that represented interest...... Isn't there the same conjecture? But no matter what you think, no one will talk about sensitive issues when commenting.
After Ding Zhengyang, it is the past and the present. She took a deep breath to dispel the tension, and Xu Xiaojing patted her back to cheer her on. She got up and smiled at the guests and the audience behind her before going backstage.
Zeng Jinjin saw Mo Yijiu's encouraging eyes just now, she hadn't seen this work with her own eyes, but Zeng Jinjin was confident that she would like and be satisfied.
The stylist directly put on a wide dress for her, as if it were a few pieces of gray and rust-red homespun cloth, layered and broken around her body, making her look mysterious, distant and poor. The makeup artist touched up her makeup, the staff put on the microphone for her, she looked at the waiting area on the other side of the stage, Hu Wenxuan was preparing for stretching, it seemed that she was more nervous about the performance of a young girl than her own song.
On stage, the group performance is already in place. In order to match the scene and plot set on the stage, on the basis of the first version of the adaptation, some changes were made in the arrangement, soundtrack performance and song singing, such as changing the main instrument from guitar to ruan in order to add Chinese elements, and adding a tune to the original monologue to make a melodic title song, and adding some chanting in the second half of the song, which is very different from the earliest version.
The stage is divided into two halves with blue and yellow lights, one half in the sky where swans are flying, and the other in the land where the villagers live. As one of the villagers, the only woman in red, she blended in and stayed out of it. She is an outlier among the villagers, just a spectator, a singer, always standing still, observing, singing.
After the backstage preparations were completed, she stepped into the middle of the villagers and sat down. There are 8 people in the villagers, including a young boy, two young men in their 20s, a middle-aged woman with her hair coiled, a middle-aged man with a mustache, and an elderly couple. The old man sat cross-legged on the stage, holding a ruan, calmly playing the prelude, while his wife sat beside him, holding the half-asleep boy in her arms, and patting his back slowly to the rhythm. The rest of the people sat in different positions and listened carefully to the old man's performance. I feel that gathering together to enjoy the life of music quietly can best symbolize the purity of human nature, which is also the reason for the setting of the opening scene, a prelude of more than 40 seconds, just to let the audience feel the simple beauty.
As the music progresses, Zeng Jin sings the main song, using the ethereal voice she learned in her previous performances to sing about the barren village and the kind people like the swans.
She left the lyrics behind the first lyrics a little blank, because the characters who were more eye-catching would come on at this time. As the swans danced, the villagers stood up, raised their heads, and looked curiously at the other side of the stage, towards the sky.
This is a tired and injured swan, and the slight incoordination of her body movements does not affect her beauty. Zeng Jin continued to sing the story of the villagers and the swan, but at the same time, the swan was physically exhausted, and fell on the side of the stage with the chaotic and rhythmic dance steps.
The villagers all hugged up, except for the old man and Zeng Jin, who surrounded the swan, either standing or squatting, and after a while, they scattered together, looking at the swan that had fallen to the ground with hopeful eyes.
The swan slowly revived and slowly pulled herself together, she glanced at the villagers, then flapped her wings and flew into the sky again. The song also entered the chorus department, and Zeng Jinjin injected some strength into the song, singing: "Blue sky, white feathers, soaring in the sky." Blue sky, white feathers, and blood-red sunset. Blue sky, white feathers, soaring in the sky. Blue sky, white feathers, and the last hope. โ
Interlude passage, all members exit. The swans flew away, and the villagers went back to their own businesses. Only once and now, still standing in the same position, she closed her eyes, singing an ancient tune that no one could understand the lyrics, but the ancient tune seemed to span a whole round of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
"A year later, the big bird is back in this place, and the people in its eyes are still as kind as before......"
The swan appeared again, this time with kindness and gratitude, and she flew in the sky above the land for a long time, just to see the people who saved her.
"One day the people found the barrenness and wanted to take off the garment, so they saw the big bird and raised their guns at it......"
The villagers also appeared again, but without the old man who played the ruan, they stood in the corner of the stage, staring at the swan, with a greedy light in their eyes.
The song entered the chorus again, and with more strength and emotion on her back, she still stood in place and sang: "Blue sky, white feathers, soaring in the sky." Blue sky, white feathers, and blood-red sunset. Blue sky, white feathers, and the last hope. Blue sky, white feathers, and red-hot โกโก. โ
With a loud bang, the swan's body trembled, and the smile froze on his face. Her eyes were incredulous, tears of sadness running down her face. After a moment of stagnation, she fell to the ground in a tragic posture as if she had lost her life. The blue light on the stage is gradually swallowed up by the yellow light, implying that the blue sky has left her life, and her life has also left her body.
Looking at the swan that had lost its life, compassion spread across her face, and she opened her mouth to end the song with the last sad chant, which is also a mourning for the swan and a beautiful tribute to human nature.
At the end of the show, the lights in the studio came back on. The applause at the scene was thunderous, and I saw it now, as if many people had red eyes as if they had cried, the audience, the contestants, and the judges. Zeng Jinjin took Hu Wenxuan, a dancer who played the swan, to bow to the audience, and when he got up, he saw Mo Yijiu with the corner of his eye, and seemed to show a touched and comforting smile. 166 Reading Network