"You asked me to write a song for the singer in your studio?" Xiao Yao confirmed with a smile, "Are you serious?

"Seriously, of course. Keith Craig said, "You can write songs for our Daydreams and Immortals, why can't I ask you to write songs for the new singers in our studio? And your music style is very diverse, and you're about the same age as her, so I'm sure you can write songs that fit her. ”

"Okay, I'll try. Xiao Yao nodded, "But I can't guarantee that I will be able to write a song suitable for her to sing." I think I'll have to at least meet her first and hear her voice. ”

"No problem," Keith Craig nodded, "would you like to call her over now?" she lives in downtown Los Angeles, and I'll call her now, and she'll be there in an hour." ”

"Come to your house now? Of course not. Xiao Yao waved his hand and said, "We came to your house as guests, not to work." Isn't your recording studio in downtown Los Angeles? Since she lives in downtown Los Angeles, we're going to Los Angeles in the afternoon, so let's just go to the studio and meet. ”

"Okay, I'll tell her to meet at the studio in the afternoon. Keith Craig pulled out his phone and said.

"That's right, Jan. Keith Craig finished the phone call and asked Xiao Yao again, "The song you just sang was written for Elle? What is the name, can you sing it again?"

"Sort of," Xiao Yao smiled, "To be precise, it's sung to children of Ellie's age, and the song is called "NeverGroUp." ”

"Don't grow up? It sounds like it's for children. Betty Bellet said with a smile, turned her head and asked Ye Jiaying next to her, "Does Yang want to get married and have children, or do you want you to add a younger brother and sister to him?"

"None of them. Xiao Yao interjected, "Actually, this is a song that is more suitable for girls to sing, written from a girl's point of view, and does not fully represent my thoughts." I also wrote a Chinese song called "Baby", and the lyrics sounded like parents wrote for their children, and I didn't have children. ”

"I don't know, he never expressed his thoughts to us about it. Ye Jiaying still shook her head and replied to Betty Bellet, "But he does seem to like children very much, and he gets along well with them." In Huaxia, he took a thirteen-year-old girl as a student, and he asked the little girl not to call him teacher, but to call him brother. ”

"I'd better sing this song all over again. Xiao Yao said, "Actually, this song is more suitable for accompaniment with acoustic guitar, but Elle said that there was no acoustic guitar in Keith's piano room, so she only gave me an electric guitar, and I used an electric guitar to accompany me." As he spoke, Xiao Yao plucked the strings of the electric guitar in his hand with his fingers and began to sing.

The song "NeverGroUp" sung by Xiao Yao is a song by Taylor Swift, who once said, "Whenever I look down at those seven or eight-year-old girls, I wish I could tell her what I know." "So I wrote this song to the little girls. Therefore, this song is actually a big girl telling a little girl about "growing up". When he heard Alicia Craig talk about wanting to grow up faster in the piano room just now, Xiao Yao remembered this song.

Although Xiao Yao said that this is a song that is more suitable for girls to sing and more suitable for accompaniment with acoustic guitar, after all, there are many things in the lyrics that can move people, and the song sung with electric guitar accompaniment still moved everyone at the scene.

At the end of the song, Betty Belette and Ye Jiaying, who are mothers, are a little emotional, especially Betty Belette, who has a daughter, imagined through this song that her daughter would leave her when she grew up, and her eyes were a little red. As fathers, Keith Craig and Xiao Siqi also have some feelings, but as professional musicians, they still pay more attention to the musicality of the song.

Keith Craig nodded and said to himself, "It's really more suitable for girls to sing, maybe Liv can try this song." It's a pity that Liv can't play the guitar, and the effect may be a little worse when performing live. Maybe I can start teaching her to play guitar right now?"

"You mean that my mission is complete?" Xiao Yao, who had very sharp ears, asked with a smile when he heard Keith Craig's self-talk.

"Will you sell me this song?" asked Keith Craig.

"Of course I do. Xiao Yao said, "This song suitable for female singing was not originally written for me to sing, and it is an English song, of course there is no problem in selling it to you." I trust your professional judgment, and you think that female singer is suitable for singing this song, and it should be suitable. ”

"Thank you for believing in me. Keith Craig laughed, "Do you still need to meet Liv?"

"Let's meet, anyway, if you are free in the afternoon, maybe there are other possibilities for cooperation. Xiao Yao said.

"Okay," Keith Craig said happily, "and I hope you and she can work together more." ”

Now Xiao Yao is very popular in the media in the United States, Keith Craig asked Xiao Yao to invite him to sing, in addition to his recognition of his ability to write songs, it is not without the intention of taking advantage of Xiao Yao's popularity to bring the newcomer in the studio. If Xiao Yao could have more cooperation with the newcomer he fancied, he would naturally be unable to ask for it.

Alicia Craig had been pestering Xiao Yao to play with her for half an hour, and her excitement had subsided a lot. Everyone left the piano room and went downstairs to the living room.

After a hearty lunch at Craig's house at noon, everyone set off for Los Angeles. When he went from Los Angeles to Calabasas, Xiao Yao and his party were only one car, five people, but when they returned to Los Angeles, they became three cars and more than ten people, and the number of people in the team almost doubled.

Today is still the weekend, and the four members of the "Immortals" band are not in a hurry to go to school, knowing that Xiao Yao is going to the recording studio, they naturally want to go with them. Betty Belette and Ye Jiaying, two beautiful women who are not music professionals, have entered the recording studio to watch the recordings of their husbands and children a lot of times, and they have long lost their freshness. The more than ten people all went to the recording studio, which would be a little crowded, and the two didn't go with them to join in the fun.

After arriving in Los Angeles in the afternoon, the group went to find the hotel first, and asked Xiao Yao and others to go to the room to put their luggage. After settling down, Betty Bellet enthusiastically took Ye Jiaying to go shopping, and the rest of them all went to the recording studio of "Daydream".

In the recording studio of "Daydream", Xiao Yao also met the newly signed female singer of the "Daydream" studio. The singer named Liv Paremer was a white-haired man with black hair, twenty-two years old, not much different from Xiao Yao's age. Since she was a teenager, she has successively uploaded some videos of herself covering popular songs of well-known singers on video sites. Last year, he was noticed by netizens because of a video covering the top single of the American pop diva, and he gained some fame on the Internet. After graduating from college this year, she moved to Los Angeles to fulfill her dream of being a singer star, and posted several cover videos on the Internet one after another, gaining greater popularity on the Internet.

She then participated in the American version of "The Voice", and was won over to her team by Keith Craig, who was the show's mentor in the blind audition stage. Although she only made it to the quarterfinals that season and was eliminated in the eight-in-four stage, Keith Craig was so impressed by her voice that Keith Craig signed her into his band's studio before the show was all over this year.

Xiao Yao has written songs for both Daydreams and Immortals, and as a contracted artist of Daydreams Studio, Liv Parremer is familiar with Jan Sean's musical works and the achievements of those works, and has been following the news about Xiao Yao recently. Seeing that the owner Keith Craig actually found this young Chinese musician who has recently become hot in the media to write songs for him, Liv Paremer was also very happy and excited.

Liv Paremer is only about 1.6 meters tall, which is very petite among Europeans and Americans, and there is a little baby voice in her voice. Whether it is in terms of image or voice characteristics, Liv Paremer is far from the "Moldy" in her previous life, but Xiao Yao feels that she has no problem singing the song "NeverGroUp" of "Moldy", and even because she is such a girlish image and voice, singing "Don't grow up" will give people a particularly harmonious and very interesting feeling.

Xiao Yao first watched some videos of Liv Paremer singing, chatted with her for a while, and finally put on headphones and listened to her enter the studio and sing a few live songs, Keith Craig asked Xiao Yao with a smile, "How do you feel?"

"Very good, there is nothing wrong with the vocal qualities and singing skills. Xiao Yao took off his headphones and nodded with a smile, "And a girl who doesn't seem to have grown up, singing "Don't grow up", it should be very interesting." ”

"Don't grow up?" Liv Paremer, who came out of the recording room and pushed the door into the control room, happened to hear Xiao Yao's words, and looked at the two of them a little strangely.

"Jan wrote a song called 'NeverGroUp' and has decided to sell me the rights to the song, and I have decided to teach you to sing it. Keith Craig explains with a smile.

"Really, the song has already been written?" said Liv Parremer excitedly, "Jan, thank you!"

Keith Craig only said on the phone that he was looking for Xiao Yao to help her write the song, but he didn't say when he could write it. It is inevitable that there will be some variables, and I am a little apprehensive. Now that the song has been written and even the rights have been bought, Liv Paremer is naturally overjoyed.

"Is it just appropriate to sing 'NeverGroUp'?" Keith Craig looked at Xiao Yao with a smile and said, "Don't you have any other ideas?"

"Other ideas?" Liv Parremer looked at the two of them curiously again.

"I really have other ideas. Xiao Yao smiled, "But this time I want you to lend her to me!"

"Lend it to you?" this time it was Keith Craig and Liv Paremer who looked at Xiao Yao strangely.

"What do you want to do?" Keith Craig asked Xiao Yao.

"Of course it's cooperation!" Xiao Yao said, "I have another song for her to sing." ”

"And a song, really?" said Keith Craig and Liv Parremer happily.

"Don't rejoice too soon. Xiao Yao waved his hand and said, "That song is dominated by me, the copyright of the song will not be sold to you, and the matter of distribution will not be handed over to you." ”

"Chorus song, you two sing together?" Keith Craig guessed.

"No!" Xiao Yao shook his head, "She is responsible for the singing part!"

"How can her solo songs be about you?" said Keith Craig curiously.

"It was an electronic song. Xiao Yao smiled, "I'm going to include it in the electronic music album that I don't know when it will be completed in the future." ”

"I see," said Liv Parremer, "is it faded and SingMeToSleep? In those two songs, there are more people who know you as an electronic DJ than the female singer who sings it." ”

"Yes, and it's in the same vein as those two songs. Xiao Yao nodded, "So, although that song will have Liv's name, it can't be handed over to you to release as a promotion of Liv's work." ”

"Understood, no problem. Keith Craig thought about it for a moment and nodded in agreement.

Xiao Yao promised Keith Craig to write a song for the new singer in his studio, and "NeverGroUp" has already fulfilled his promise. The latter song was meant to be extra. It's a shame that it can't be promoted as Liv Parremer's work, but at least Liv's name will appear on the singer of the song, which will still be good for her popularity.

"By the way, will you make a music video for this song?" Keith Craig asked, "and if it's going to be done in the United States, I think I can help you." "Xiao Yao's song will most likely be recorded in their studio, but it doesn't have to be filmed in the United States to shoot the MV.

Keith Craig has seen the music videos for those two electronic songs. Although most of the MVs feature the protagonist with a hood and a mask, the female singer in the string version of the MV for "Faded" does show her face. If Xiao Yao wants to shoot a new electronic music song MV in the United States, and there is a heroine in it, most of them will still find the original female singer to star in it, so Liv Paremer will also have the opportunity to show her face in the MV. If he went back to Huaxia to shoot, it is estimated that he would not have been so troublesome to call Liv Parremer to Huaxia to shoot the MV.

Xiao Yao's two previous electronic music songs and MVs are very popular, and this song and this MV are estimated to be no worse. If Liv Parremer can show her face in the music video, it will also be of good help to increase her popularity. So Keith Craig wants to get Xiao Yao to shoot the MV of this song in the United States, which is more beneficial to Liv Parremer.

"Of course it will be filmed," Xiao Yao said, "The MV of this song and the MV of the first two songs are also related in content, but the MV of this song will be more complicated and troublesome than the first two." ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Yao's heart moved, looked up at Keith Craig and said: "I decided that the MV for this song will be filmed in the United States, and it will definitely be necessary to trouble you at that time!"

"Whatever you need, as long as I can do it. Keith Craig said immediately.

"Okay," Xiao Yao said happily, "You can help me contact a shooting team first, and I want to be familiar with outdoor shooting." I will give you other requirements as soon as possible. Now I'll write out the lyrics and score of the song first, and let's record it first. ”

"By the way, what's the name of this song?" asked Liv Parremer.

“《alone》!” Xiao Yao said.

"What? Isn't "alone" a Korean song?" Xiao Siqi, who had never spoken, asked in surprise, "I thought you were writing a new song in English." ”

"It's not a Korean song," Xiao Yao said, "Although that song is also a song with electric music, it is obviously not the same style as "Faded" and "SingMeToSleep", and I have sold the copyright to that song a long time ago." It's a different song, but the title of the song happens to be "alone". It's another "alone"!"