Chapter 195: "It's Now"
"He's going to be a big guy as soon as he comes, is he going to play and sing by himself?" Cai Ruoqi said as she looked at the black grand piano that was moving to the stage. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Watching the show on TV, the stage was empty when the singer appeared, but by the time the singer was ready to start performing, there were already instrumental musicians and even dancers on the stage. Naturally, these people and objects did not appear out of thin air, but these preparatory processes were cut out during post-editing. This process is not visible to the TV audience, but to the people in the live and lounge.
"It should be, he can play the piano on Bayi!" Xiao Siqi nodded.
"What should it be?" Hong Wei turned sideways to Xiao Siqi as if he remembered something, "Old Xiao, your son is coming to play in the gym, do you know if you are a father? Is the arrangement of this song also done by you for him? You have been pretending to be with us just now, right? Are you interesting?"
"It's really not!" Xiao Siqi raised his hands and said, "I admit that I recommended him to the director team of the show, but the director team didn't tell me whether he agreed to come." Even if I guessed that he might come, the program team wouldn't tell me which one he came, and I really didn't know that he was today's kicking singer. ”
"As for the songs he sings, from lyrics to arrangement, he has always done it himself, and I have never interfered. Xiao Siqi continued, "Unless it's a song written for someone else, he may throw the lyrics and music to me and let me do the arrangement." I don't even know what song he's going to sing today, and I've never heard this song "It's Now". ”
"Is there such a bull?" said several agents in a deliberately suspicious tone.
"Of course there is," Xiao Siqi glared, "His arranging ability has also been affirmed at the "Golden Disc Award". ”
"Come on, I know you have a great son, so you don't have to show off. Hong Wei waved his hand, pointed to the TV and said, "The scene is ready, your son is about to start singing." Anyway, I haven't heard your son sing live, I have to hear how good his live singing is. Who's that? Can you help me turn it up a little bit? They're so loud I can't hear them clearly!"
"Who is the one who talks the most here?" Xiao Siqi and the few people next to him looked at each other.
The preparations on the stage were ready, Xiao Yao sat in front of the piano, his hands gently put on the keys, and in front of his mouth, there was also a microphone placed on the microphone stand, which was obviously going to be played and sung at the same time.
Seeing such a scene, the audience at the scene immediately couldn't wait to send a round of applause.
The lights on the stage dimmed, and the audience consciously stopped applauding. Xiao Yao, who was sitting on the piano bench, nodded slightly to Liu Tong, the conductor of the orchestra, and pressed his fingers on the piano keys.
"Don't drag mud and water, don't be lazy and wasteful, this is my time, hmm~"
This is a song without a prelude, and as the piano sounds, Xiao Yao's singing also sounds. At the beginning of the song, Xiao Yao fully showed his high-pitched voice.
"The planets line up, it's time to strike while the iron is hot, my dream is not the future, it's the present~"
Still playing with pure piano accompaniment, Xiao Yao continued to sing the second stanza, and the long tail part at the end soared out a higher note again.
In the previous part, Xiao Yao's piano performance and singing are all in a rhythm, but when he sings "Not the Future", Xiao Yao's piano performance stops, and the sentence "It's Now" is sung a cappella without a cappella, and when the end of the word "in" is lengthened, the piano sound played by Xiao Yao sounded again, but there was obviously a change in rhythm and speed, becoming more compact and faster than before.
"My dream is not the future, it's the present~"
With the accompaniment of the piano with different rhythms, Xiao Yao repeated the last two sentences with the same rhythm.
This opening alone made the audience and the singers in the lounge open their mouths in surprise.
"So handsome!" Cai Ruoqi also repeated Liang Xueying's evaluation. It's just that Liang Xueying was talking about Xiao Yao's image just now, and Cai Ruoqi was talking about Xiao Yao's performance at the beginning.
"At the beginning, such a long section is accompanied by pure piano, your son is not small. But his voice is really good, both high and accurate. Hong Wei turned his head and glanced at Xiao Siqi, and sighed sincerely, "And these last two sentences, the same singing, different accompaniment, play beautifully!"
"He's really good at playing. Xiao Siqi nodded and said, "But I guess there should be more to this song than this." It's a very important tournament and if he doesn't finish in the top four, he's going to have to get out of the way, and he can't accept that. ”
Sure enough, when the first part of the singing was over, Xiao Yao stood up from the piano bench, took off the microphone from the microphone stand in front of him, and stood in front of the stage. At this time, the accompaniment has also changed, with the sound of an electronic drum, the live accompaniment has become the main sound of the electronic piano on the MIDI keyboard, and the accompaniment of the rhythm of the electronic drum beat has been added.
"On the eve of the competition, I worked hard in the recording studio, and the accumulated potential is the traces left by the years, where there is a dragon, I will work hard to put the finishing touch..." To the surprise of many people, what he sang next turned out to be a rap.
This is a song by Wang Leehom in the previous life, when Xiao Yao moved over, the lyrics of the song and the chorus did not change much, but in the lyrics of the first main song, Xiao Yao modified some things that were not suitable for him.
For example, in the original lyrics, "crying in the studio on the eve of the millennium", the millennium is too far away from Xiao Yao, and he who was born in 98 could not appear in the studio on the eve of the millennium anyway, let alone cry. There is also the fact that there is no movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in this world, and Xiao Yao did not fight for the role of "Luo Xiaohu" who partnered with Zhang Ziyi in the movie like Wang Leehom, and it is inexplicable to retain the "Luo Xiaohu and Ziyi" in the original lyrics. So Xiao Yao made some changes to these lyrics that felt inappropriate.
"Singing rap is really the style of young people. Hong Wei moved his body to the rhythm of Xiao Yao's music, but what he said next was: "Novelty, novelty, young people should like it very much." But there are five age groups in the audience for voting, and singing rap alone does not have much advantage. ”
After the end of the first main song, Xiao Yao did not return to the piano, but continued to sing the chorus of the song with the microphone in front of the stage. After the high-pitched chorus, the song moves on to the main part of the second stanza. The main song of this second paragraph is not rapping, but slow shaking.
"I'm not superstitious, but I believe it's not a coincidence!"
"It's not a coincidence, what can't defeat me is learning~"
In the main song of the second paragraph, the audience found a very novel place, that is, several backup singers standing at the back of the stage actually used rap to harmonize, although the speed was relatively slow, but it was indeed rap, and it was sung with words, and Xiao Yao in front was still singing with rock and roll emphasis. And the content of Xiao Yao's singing is still followed by the backing singer, who is singing in harmony with whom?
"Now I finally understand what the definition of luck is~ No need to wait, ThisIsMyTime~"
"Now understand what the definition of luck is. ThisIsOurTime!”
In the second half of the main song, the harmony reappears, and it is still two lines. But this time, although Xiao Yao is singing in front and harmony in the back, it is still Xiao Yao singing and harmonic talking!
"I'll go! I've only heard singers rap in harmony before, but I didn't expect your son to be able to do the opposite. Hong Wei leaned back on the sofa, shook his head and said, "I have nothing to say to your son." Because the second main song is not rap, Hong Wei stopped the rhythm of his body.
I hear this, it seems that there is a third paragraph. Xiao Siqi was noncommittal, just looked at Xiao Yaodao, who sang the chorus again in a very regular way on TV.
On the stage of the studio, Xiao Yao, who had finished singing the third chorus, suddenly ran to the side of the stage close to the band, stretched out his hand to probe underground, and when he ran back to the front of the stage, there was already a common hand-held megaphone on his right hand.
Everyone in the lounge was as wide-eyed as the audience. Although Xiao Yao's previous singing has given them enough shock, what kind of trouble are you going to make when you come up with a loudspeaker?
"Forehead drop mother, what are you doing here?" Hong Wei no longer asked Xiao Siqi, leaned forward and stared at Xiao Yao on the TV, "Do you think the volume is not loud enough? Wouldn't it be good to let the sound engineer turn up the volume of your microphone? I've never seen anyone use this stuff at an indoor show other than at an open-air rock festival!"
Of course, Xiao Yao didn't hold a hand-held megaphone to raise the volume. I saw that he put the megaphone in his right hand in front of his mouth, stretched out his left hand and raised the microphone to the front of the speaker, and instead of roaring, he sang the third main song at a normal volume.
The third main song is rap again, but through the loudspeaker in his hand, Xiao Yao's voice has undergone a similar change to electronic music, which makes Xiao Yao's rap very peculiar with a reggae music-like taste.
"Ah~" Looking at Xiao Yao holding a loudspeaker on the stage, listening to the obviously out of shape but such a special voice, the audience at the scene was about to go crazy, and let out a crazy scream unscrupulously.
"I'll go!" In the rest hall, the singers and agents were also going crazy, but they didn't shout, including Xiao Siqi, they all looked at Xiao Yao on TV with a ghostly expression.
This is a singing competition, and the practice of using a hand-held megaphone to change one's voice is actually a very risky move here, and it is easy to be caught and say that he is not relying on his original voice to compete. That is, the main song of the third paragraph is only four sentences in total, and it is less than half the length of the first two main songs, and the proportion of such a song with four choruses and three main songs is very small, so Xiao Yao dares to play like this.
"Now...", saying the last two words of the third main song, Xiao Yao directly threw the hand-held megaphone in his hand to a staff member on the side of the stage. One turned and turned to the piano, skillfully and quickly put the microphone back on the microphone stand next to the piano, and sat down at the piano again.
"Don't drag mud and water, don't be lazy and wasteful, this is my time, hmm~"
After Xiao Yao sang the last two words with the loudspeaker, the sound of the live musical accompaniment slowly disappeared, and Xiao Yao, who returned to the piano, sang the last chorus in the pure piano accompaniment mode of self-playing as at the beginning.
"The planets line up, it's time to strike while the iron is hot, my dream is not the future, it's the present~"
"Suddenly, this moment, is now. ”
Will Xiao Yao make the ending exactly the same as the beginning? Of course not, when Xiao Yao sang the second half of the chorus, the sound of the electronic drums and MIDI keyboards in the accompaniment also sounded again. By the end of the third sentence, the rap harmony of the backing singers also reappeared. Accompanied by the piano, electronic drums, and MIDI keyboard, Xiao Yao once again burst out of an extremely shocking treble that lasted for several beats at the end of the sentence.
"My dream is not the future, it's the present~"
In the closing stage, it is still the repetition of the last two sentences, but whether it is the volume or pitch, Xiao Yao has dropped a little, giving the whole song a relatively soothing ending. At the end, the accompaniment suddenly stopped, so that the aftersound of Xiao Yao's last word "in" seemed to echo in the air for a long time.
"Thank you!" Sitting on the piano bench to ease his emotions a little, Xiao Yao took the microphone from the microphone stand, stood up again and walked to the front of the stage to bow to the audience.
"Wow~" Almost half of the audience stood up from their seats, raised their hands and clapped while shouting and screaming.
"Xiao Yao!"
"Xiao Yao!"
I don't know where to start, the audience sounded shouting Xiao Yao's name, and then the momentum expanded rapidly, and the audience quickly changed from cheering and screaming to shouting Xiao Yao's name in unison.