Chapter 433: Folk Songs
After the three newcomer awards were awarded, the award ceremony came to the performance time. Wei Zhihao, who was nominated for Best New Male Singer, gave a performance. Although Wei Zhihao's popularity is not as good as Liang Xueying in the opening performance, and the whole stage effect shown is not as shocking as Liang Xueying, he belongs to the singing and dancing artist, and the song he performed is the most well-known title song in his debut album released last year, and it is also a very lively dance music, so the atmosphere at the performance is still very good.
"Thank you Wei Zhihao for your wonderful performance, and we will present the award in the Best Single category below. After Wei Zhihao left the stage with the backup dancers, the two hosts appeared on the side of the stage and continued to introduce the following process. Except for the four hosts who appeared together at the beginning, the four hosts appeared in pairs in the following time. After one host finished speaking, the other also continued, "Next, we will first present the awards for the best folk song and the best folk album, and we will invite the award presenters Yi Kun and Qin Xiaodong." ”
In a burst of music, Yi Kun, who was wearing a dark red and black suit respectively, walked onto the stage with Qin Xiaodong and stood in front of the microphone.
"Hello everyone!" the two first greeted the audience, causing a round of applause and cheers, and then chatted briefly.
"Hello Xiaodong, long time no see!" Yi Kun looked sideways at Qin Xiaodong and said hello.
"Hello Kun'er, long time no see!" Qin Xiaodong smiled gently and responded.
"Today we are presenting the awards for the best folk single and album of the year, and it is only fitting that you, the "musical poet" of the folk industry, are the guest of honor for these two awards, and I am honored to present them with you. Yi Kun smiled and complimented.
"Thank you," Qin Xiaodong thanked politely, although he still had a smile on his face, his mouth suddenly became unpolite, "But I think it's a bit strange to present the award with you! I don't understand why the organizer arranged for you to be the guest of honor for these two awards with me!"
"Am I good at singing folk songs to make my debut?" Yi Kun said, "Why can't I give this award?"
"But you haven't sung folk songs for more than ten years, so I think you should give the pop award. Qin Xiaodong continued to say unceremoniously.
Another feature of the "Golden Saucer" award is that the award presenters are arranged according to the classification of the awards. That is, those who sing folk songs will be awarded ballad awards, and those who play rock will be awarded rock awards. It's not entirely absolute, but it's basically all based on this rule.
"Anyway, I've sung folk songs before, and I have to come to present these two awards with a shy face!" Yi Kun said as a scoundrel.
"Of course," Qin Xiaodong shrugged, "I didn't want to drive you down, I just wanted to know why!"
"Well, I'll tell you later!" Yi Kun pretended to smile mysteriously, turned to the big screen and said, "Let's first take a look at the list of nominees for the best folk song of the year at this year's "Golden Disc" Awards. ”
With Yi Kun's movements, five songs nominated for Best Folk Song began to play on the big screen at the scene, and the narration on the scene also synchronized with the pictures on the big screen to introduce the nominated songs. Among the five nominated songs, Xiao Yao is the most eye-catching, and the applause and cheers he received are also the largest, because two of the five nominated songs are Xiao Yao's works.
Xiao Yao's two nominated songs are "When You're Old" and "Chengdu". In fact, in the eyes of many music critics and music fans, Xiao Yao's "Vincent" and "ThinkingOutLoud" are also very good folk songs, enough to be nominated for the "Golden Disc" Award for Best Folk Song, but the "Golden Disc" Award is a Chinese music award after all, which generally gives priority to nominating Chinese songs and rarely nominates English songs. In recent years, only the English song "Faded" composed by Xiao Yao and sung by Gong Chen has been nominated for the best electronic music song last year.
Electronic music songs are an emerging genre category, and they are also relatively international, and the "Golden Disc" award has only been established in recent years, so it is relatively relaxed. But folk songs are different, since the establishment of the "Golden Disc" Awards, folk songs have been one of the fixed categories, and the judging in this regard is relatively traditional. And Xiao Yao has already had two songs nominated for this award, if these two English songs are added, then Xiao Yao alone occupies four nominations, and there are only two winners of this award, which is not suitable no matter how you look at it.
"Let's find out the winners of this award. Turning his head and watching the fragment of the nominated song played on the big screen with the audience, Yi Kun turned around and raised a folded card in his hand with the logo of the "Golden Disc" award printed on the back, unwrapped the seal on the inward side, leaned in front of the microphone and read it, "The winner of the best folk song of this year's "Golden Disc" Award is ~"
"Why don't you come?" When he read "yes", Yi Kun deliberately paused and handed the card to Qin Xiaodong, who was looking at the card with his head sideways.
"Ha~"
"Phew~"
Yi Kun's behavior caused some audience members to chuckle, and some people booed dissatisfiedly.
Qin Xiaodong waved his hand, shook his head with a smile, and signaled not to.
"Okay," Yi Kun took the card back, "The winner of this year's "Golden Disc" Award for Best Folk Song is ~"
""When You're Old"! Singer, Xiao Yao!" Qin Xiaodong suddenly leaned in front of the microphone and interjected. Obviously, when Yi Kun handed the card to Qin Xiaodong just now, Qin Xiaodong had already seen the contents of the card clearly.
"Hey!" Yi Kun glared at Qin Xiaodong.
"Please Xiao Yao come to the stage to accept the award!" Qin Xiaodong ignored Yi Kun and looked at the audience with his own eyes.
Yi Kun's personality is relatively lively, he did a lot of funny things when he was a mentor in "The Voice" a few years ago, and everyone is not surprised by his performance, but Qin Xiaodong, a gentle and elegant "music poet", can also be so lively, which is something that most people didn't expect. Could it be that after participating in "Singer" once, Qin Xiaodong's comic side was also developed?
"Haha~" The audience was stunned for a moment, and then there was a burst of happy laughter.
In the laughter of the audience, Xiao Yao stood up from his seat, first hugged Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying beside him, and then touched his fists with Gong Chen, who was two positions away, and then walked quickly onto the stage.
After announcing the results of the award, the big screen switched to Xiao Yao offstage, giving him a picture of interacting with relatives and friends offstage, and Miss Etiquette also took advantage of this time to walk on the stage with the trophy in her hand and stood behind the two award presenters. After Xiao Yao came to the stage, he first took turns hugging the two award presenters, and then Yi Kun took the trophy from the hostess next to him and handed it to Xiao Yao.
"Thank you!" Xiao Yao took the trophy with both hands and whispered thanks to Yi Kun before facing the audience and standing in front of the microphone.
"When I was watching the nomination clip from the audience just now, I suddenly thought of a question. Xiao Yao spoke into the microphone, but he didn't say a word of thanks, but came quite unexpectedly. The audience suddenly fell silent and looked at Xiao Yao in the audience with curiosity.
"I think Shonan Satellite TV and the "Singer" program team should give me an advertising fee. Xiao Yao smiled.
"Huh?" the audience all showed puzzled expressions. Although the award ceremony, which was broadcast live by CCTV 3 and Haiyan Video simultaneously, did not prohibit mentioning the names of local satellite TV and variety shows, Xiao Yao asked Xiangnan Satellite TV and the "Singer" program team for money after winning the award?
"I found that among the song clips just nominated, everyone else is a MV clip, only two of my songs, one is a live video clip, and the other is a clip of my live performance on the stage of "Singer". Xiao Yao continued, "Of course, the organizer is not to blame, because I didn't shoot a MV for these two songs, only the live performance can be played." But when I thought about it later, I found that the few songs I was nominated for this year were not MVs, except for "Chengdu" just now, the other songs that got nominated were all sung on "Singer". ”
Xiao Yao filmed two MVs last year, except for "Thinking OutLoud", which was not nominated for the best song in the folk category, it was another English song "Alone". According to the rules of the "Golden Disc" Awards, the nomination is for the singer of the song, and "Alone" is sung by an American female singer, so naturally it was not nominated for the "Golden Disc" Award for Best Electronic Song.
"Forget about the fish, after all, it only appears once, but the stage of Shonan Satellite TV's "Singer" will appear here many times, what a big music event is the "Golden Disc" award, and how much advertising effect does this have?" Xiao Yao waved his hand exaggeratedly, "So, I think they should give me advertising money." What do you think?"
"Agreed!"
"Yes!"
"Give money!"
The audience laughed and coaxed.
"Director Qu, Director Tao Ran, did you hear the voices of the masses?" Xiao Yao smiled and pointed to the camera lens, "I know you will definitely see it!"
"I'll go!"
"Profiteers!"
Including Yi Kun and Qin Xiaodong on the stage, many celebrity guests complained helplessly in their hearts.
"Okay, let's get serious!" Xiao Yao put away the exaggerated expression on his face and smiled, "Thank you to the jury for giving me this award, thank you to the two award presenters, thank you William Butler Yeats, thank you fans, thank you to my family, thank you!"
Not everyone knows Yeats, and not everyone has seen Xiao Yao's song introduction on "The Singer", so hearing Xiao Yao's acceptance speech, some viewers, including celebrity guests, couldn't help but whisper: "Hmm, thank you, William Butler, Yeats, what's the matter, who is William Butler Yeats?"
"Yeats was a famous Irish playwright and poet of the nineteenth century. The song "When You're Old" that Xiao Yao won the award is based on Yeats's poem of the same name, so he will thank Yeats. But fortunately, there are many people who know the origin of Xiao Yao's song, and those who are puzzled quickly get answers from those who know around them.
"I'll go, I can't understand the acceptance speech, Xiao Yao, do you want to be so good?"
After Xiao Yao finished his acceptance speech, he bowed to the audience, got up and raised the trophy he was holding up, and was about to turn around and leave from the back of the stage.
"Wait!" Yi Kun, who had originally retreated behind Xiao Yao, stepped forward to stop Xiao Yao and pulled him to stand in front of the microphone together, "Now I can tell Xiaodong why I took the initiative to ask to be this award presenter today, because I want to have a few words with you on this occasion!"
"Huh?" the audience was a little confused, "Why did tonight's awards ceremony add the interaction between the award presenters and the winners, and why didn't the previous awards happen?"
"Huh?" Xiao Yao was also a little stunned, the organizer hadn't told him that there was this one before.
"Is that okay?" Yi Kun asked the two hosts on the other side of the stage.
"Of course you can!" nodded to the two presenters.
"What do you want to say?" Xiao Yao looked at Yi Kundao.
"Remember what we said on The Voice?" asked Yi Kun.
"I remember every sentence, but we have said so many words, I don't know which one you are referring to, I can't repeat it all here, right?" Xiao Yao smiled bitterly.
"Do you remember every word on the show three years ago?" Yi Kun glared, then shook his head and said, "No matter that, what I want to say is that I will let you into my team during the blind audition, and we will revitalize the folk songs together, how did you answer?"
"The responsibility of revitalizing folk songs is too great, my shoulders are still immature and I can't carry it, and..."Xiao Yao repeated truthfully.
"It's okay," Yi Kun cut off Xiao Yao's words, "And now, do you still think so?"
"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded.
"In three years, five nominations for the best folk song, three consecutive years of best folk song, this is what you call not moving?" Yi Kun said.
"Wow~" The audience below let out a burst of exclamations.
As soon as Yi Kun said this, most people also remembered that since Xiao Yao had the qualification for the "Golden Disc" award, the award for the best folk song has never been lost, and he won the award every year.
"Hehe," Xiao Yao smiled embarrassedly, "Even so, it can't be said that I carried the ballad, right?"
"I don't say if I don't carry it, the fans know it in their hearts. Yi Kundao, "Folk is the category of songs that you win awards every year, and I think it's the genre you're best at. I just want to help the majority of folk lovers ask you, after three years, you have won three best folk songs, when will you be able to give our folk lovers a complete folk album?"
"Huh, out of the album? I thought you were going to kill me!" Xiao Yao patted his chest exaggeratedly, and then quickly calculated in his mind, and said, "It's not difficult to release an album! I seem to have seven folk songs that I have released now, no, after tonight, it will be eight, according to the minimum standard of an album, there are still two songs left, I promise to complete it this year!"
"I thought you weren't afraid of heaven and earth, but you were still afraid of killing?" Yi Kun smiled, "Actually, this is also a task given to me by a certain fan group, since you have promised in public to complete the folk album this year, my task is also completed." ”
"What? The task assigned by the fan group? and this kind of thing?" Xiao Yao glared. He had been wondering why Yi Kun had behaved like this tonight.
"As long as it's about you, nothing strange will surprise me too much. Qin Xiaodong smiled and leaned over and interjected, "I seem to have seen a similar discussion post on a folk forum, just complaining that your album style is too mixed, and their folk music fans are very unhappy to listen to, why don't you publish a special folk album." ”
"Okay, fans are food and clothing parents, whatever album you ask me to release, I will release any album. Xiao Yao bowed to the camera lens.
"Really?" said Yi Kun and Qin Xiaodong in surprise.
"Of course it's fake!" Xiao Yao immediately said, "If other fans also ask for this, I will release one of each type, do I want to live?"
"Well, I'm already running out of time, and I'm going to perform in a while, so I'll go back and prepare first. Xiao Yao waved his hand to the audience again and ran quickly to the backstage.
Seeing Xiao Yao running away with the trophy, the audience was naturally laughing again.
"Okay, let's award the Best Folk Album Award," Xiao Yao's acceptance of the award was indeed a lot overtime, so as soon as Qin Xiaodong saw Xiao Yao leave the stage, he immediately started the following award process, looked back at the big screen and said, "Let's take a look at the nominees for the best folk album of the year at this year's "Golden Disc" Awards. ”