Chapter 434 Heart-piercing lyrics
Xiao Yao returned to the backstage, and Pei Minyi immediately greeted him with a smile on her face: "Congratulations boss!
"I'll play with you for a while!" Xiao Yao smiled and stuffed the trophy in his hand into Pei Minyi's hand, and asked as he walked briskly to the dressing room, "I have to change my clothes quickly and get ready to play, are the clothes ready?" Xiao Yao was going to sing a ballad, and he felt that it was not appropriate to perform in a black suit, and he needed to change his costume before appearing.
"Don't worry, it's all ready, put it in the locker room!" Pei Minyi walked to the lounge with Xiao Yao with the trophy, "Do you want me to help change it?" Of course, Pei Minyi will not follow Xiao Yao into the locker room, but helping Xiao Yao untie his shoelaces and buttons can also help Xiao Yao save some time. After spending so much time in the studio of Yin Xi's studio, Pei Minyi has also learned the ability to help models change clothes, which is now comparable to professional clothing assistants and styling assistants.
"No, although the time is relatively rushed, it is not so stressful. You can help me guard the powder room door and don't let people in. Xiao Yao smiled.
The awards ceremony is different from ordinary TV shows, and the celebrity guests who have not yet reached the performance time are all sitting in the front audience to watch the awards, and only when they are about to perform will they come to the makeup artist in advance to change clothes and do styling. Therefore, the organizers did not prepare many lounges, but only arranged two dressing rooms with dressing rooms for the stars who were ready to take turns to use.
Xiao Yao's speed of changing clothes is also very fast. In less than three minutes, Xiao Yao came out of the locker room, dressed in a black formal suit that had changed into a gray T-shirt covered with a black and white plaid cotton shirt, blue jeans and black casual shoes. Rubbing his hair in front of the makeup mirror, fluffy the originally delicate hairstyle, Xiao Yao took the harmonica handed by Pei Minyi, and walked quickly to the passage at the back of the stage.
"It's fast enough! Wait a minute!" Seeing Xiao Yao appear at the entrance of the passage, the on-site director turned around and praised Xiao Yao, and notified him into the headset, "Xiao Yao is already in place, set up the stage, speed up!"
The live stage of the "Golden Disc" Award is composed of a trapezoidal and a circular stage connected together. The larger trapezoidal stage behind it is the performance stage, while the smaller and much larger circular stage in front of the trapezoidal stage is the area where the host announces the curtain and awards the awards. During the awards, the host retreats to the edge of the big stage at the back, close to the audience.
Xiao Yao secretly looked over and found that the musicians and backing vocals of the band had already played, and he was the only one left among the performers. However, the musicians and staff of the band are still working together to prepare, and it is clear that they are not quite ready.
The preparations on stage did not attract much attention from the audience, except for the dim lighting on the stage behind, and because everyone's attention was all focused on the female singer who was standing behind the standing microphone and giving her acceptance speech on the small and brightly lit stage in front of her. Xiao Yao recognized it as a female folk singer named Shao Yun, who seemed to be the winner of the best folk album. Remembering that the female singer's age seemed to be around thirty years old, Xiao Yao touched his nose a little unnaturally.
"Okay, let's play!" Seeing Shao Yun finish his acceptance speech, the preparations on the stage have been completed, and the director at the exit of the passage handed Xiao Yao the microphone in his hand and signaled Xiao Yao to go on the stage.
The two award presenters and the award-winning female singer did not need to return to the backstage, they walked directly from the front of the small stage and returned to their seats, Lu Ke also walked from the side of the big stage behind to the small stage, and introduced to the audience: "Next, the winner of the best folk song just now will bring his performance to all of us!"
"Wow~" After listening to Lu Ke's introduction, the applause that had just stopped in the audience rang out again. Although the name was not directly mentioned, the winner of the best folk song had just left the stage from the back a few minutes ago, and everyone knew that Lu Ke was referring to Xiao Yao.
"He's bringing you an original new song, and tonight is the first public performance!" Lu Ke continued.
"Oh~" heard that it was the premiere of the original new song, and the applause and cheers from the audience were a little louder, and at the same time, there were some discussions on the scene and on the Internet.
"It's an original new song again! Sure enough, it's Xiao Yao's consistent style!"
"It's the live version again, yes, it's very Xiao Yao!"
"He just said on the red carpet that he would sing new songs, I expected it!"
"I just don't know what kind of song he will sing in this scene. ”
"I bet it's a ballad. ”
"Just because he just won a Best Folk Song? He got a lot of nominations this year, how do you know he won't win another award?"
"No, you didn't pay attention to what he said? He said that he had already released seven folk songs, and after tonight it will be eight, which means that he must be singing a new folk song tonight. Unless he has a performance later, this song must be a ballad. ”
"Does he want to book next year's Best Folk Song Award?"
"Next, I invite Xiao Yao to bring his performance!" Lu Ke finally turned sideways slightly behind him, raised his hand and pointed behind him, and quickly stepped aside.
"Wow~" The lights above the big stage behind him lit up, and Xiao Yao, who had changed his clothes, appeared in front of the audience, and the cheers of the audience were a few points higher.
"Huh?" In the midst of this cheer, there were also a few soft exclamations, "Isn't it singing a ballad? What about his guitar, why didn't he carry it?"
So far, Xiao Yao has sung all the ballads live with a guitar and sung by himself. It seems that many viewers have become accustomed to Xiao Yao playing the guitar and singing folk songs.
After the lights on the stage at the back came on, the picture on the stage also appeared on the big screen of the scene. However, in front of these images, six large white characters appeared - "Thirty-year-old woman".
"Is this the title of the song?" many viewers understood, "a thirty-year-old woman? a song for a thirty-year-old woman?"
"As long as you'll be back tomorrow. Before the music started, Xiao Yao raised the microphone in his left hand to his mouth, but he didn't sing, but lowered his head and said a monologue with a little helplessness in his tone.
After saying this, Xiao Yao's left hand holding the microphone handle was released, and the microphone in his hand fell down. But before the audience could exclaim, Xiao Yao's left hand closed again and pinched the mesh cover of the microphone head with the lower half of his palm.
After the monologue, the guitarist in the band plucks the strings, and a guitar sounds. Xiao Yao also raised his right hand in front of his mouth, and his left hand, which was holding the microphone grille, was also closed.
After the "Woo~" bar, the guitar sound at the beginning of the song adds the sound of the harmonica. Only then did everyone understand that Xiao Yao was still holding a harmonica in his right hand, and he deliberately held the microphone in his left hand to the position of the grille, in order to facilitate the use of both hands to hold the harmonica and play at the same time, so that the microphone could clearly receive the sound of the harmonica.
After the harmonica sounded, it took turns with the guitar to become the main body of the music in the prelude, this peculiar collocation gave the audience a very novel listening experience, and the melody of this prelude was also very beautiful, the audience was quickly attracted by this prelude music, and the scene quickly quieted down.
In addition to being attracted by the melody of the prelude, many viewers were fascinated by Xiao Yao's slightly bowed head on the big screen, holding the harmonica and microphone in both hands.
"Even if you don't have a guitar, you're still handsome!" Many female stars and female viewers couldn't help but fold their hands and sigh in their hearts.
In terms of stage performances, Xiao Yao has only performed the harmonica twice before, once "Those Flowers" played by three instruments at the same time on "The Voice", and once "When You Are Old" when two instruments were played at the same time on "Singer". In those two times, Xiao Yao was still playing the guitar when he played the harmonica, and he couldn't free his hands, so he put the harmonica on the harmonica stand and hung it around his neck to play, and the audience had never seen Xiao Yao play the harmonica alone on the stage.
Although there is a video of Xiao Yao playing the harmonica to the wounded in the medical tent in the disaster area last year, Xiao Yao, who was sitting at the door of the tent and playing the harmonica at that time, obviously cannot be compared with Xiao Yao who is still holding a microphone on the stage now, whether it is his movements or expressions, so even if he does not have the iconic guitar on his back, Xiao Yao always makes the audience focus on him with the shape of playing the harmonica alone.
"She is a thirty-year-old ~ a woman who has not yet married ~ There are already a few ripples in her eyes with a smile on her face~"
At the end of the prelude, Xiao Yao put down his right hand holding the harmonica, and as soon as the palm of his left hand was loosened, he held it down, and then pinched the microphone handle again, raised the microphone to his mouth and sang.
"I'll go, what are you singing about, a woman who is not married at the age of thirty? ripples, wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles at the age of thirty? How do you feel like she was stabbing a knife from the beginning?" Many viewers were slightly stunned.
Because it is a new song, the big screen at the scene not only plays the picture of Xiao Yao on the stage, but also presents the lyrics of the song sung by Xiao Yao at the same time, and even the sentence "As long as you can come back tomorrow" in Xiao Yao's monologue just now was not omitted, so the audience all knew very well what Xiao Yao was singing.
"Thirty years old~ The light and passion have been polished by the years. Is it true that one person's life is faster than two people's?"
Xiao Yao's singing continued, and the eyes of many audiences in the audience began to change, especially those single young women who were about thirty years old or even over thirty.
"I like it, the gentleness peculiar to a thirty-year-old woman. I know that the loneliness in the middle of the night is unbearable~"
Xiao Yao sang softly, and the eyes and expressions of many older single young women at the scene also changed with the lyrics. When the first sentence came out, many people let out a knowing smile, but when the latter sentence came out, the smiles on the faces of those people disappeared, and their eyes and expressions became dim.
"You said that you have been busy at work for too long, and before you know it, it has been 30 years. Picky, rotated, you choose again and again~"
Xiao Yao on the stage swayed his body slightly from side to side, while many of the female audience listening to the song bowed their heads thoughtfully.
After this verse, the song comes to the interlude. Xiao Yao's left hand released and grasped it again, pinched the mesh cover of the microphone, and the harmonica in his right hand was raised to his mouth again, and the harmonica began to play like the prelude. The harmonica melody in the interlude is a bit more complex than the prelude, and Xiao Yao also shows more harmonica blowing skills. It's just that at this time, except for some male viewers who stared at him a little and raised their eyebrows, there were no female celebrities and female viewers thinking about how handsome he looked when he played the harmonica.
"She is a thirty-year-old woman who has not yet lost her shape~ Can such a woman have a trace of innocence back then?"
After the interlude, Xiao Yao's singing voice sounded again, and the somewhat heart-wrenching lyrics also caught the eyes of many audiences again. The audience under the stage was unusually quiet, and even the ordinary audience of those celebrity fans behind them did not move at all, and they all looked at Xiao Yao's singing on the stage with complicated eyes.
"But in this world~ sometimes appearance determines everything. No matter how brilliant your appearance is, you can't bear aging~"
Xiao Yao's singing continued, but the harmonica sound in the accompaniment sounded again, and it was another harmonica player in the band who began to play. After the singing was added to the melodious harmonica, it obviously made people feel low and beautiful, but many young audiences unconsciously touched their faces, and wanted to shout to Xiao Yao on the stage, "Stop, don't sing anymore"!
"I hear, the lonely heels and your laughter. You can, just find someone to rely on!"
The female audience at the scene was completely moved by this song, and asked themselves in their hearts along with the lyrics sung by Xiao Yao: "Can you really find someone to rely on?"
"So after the cold winter, before the hot summer, who will give you the love like spring? After sunset, the most beautiful, time has slipped away. ”
The structure of this song is slightly different, there is no standard chorus, but these two more lines are added very smoothly after the main song of the second stanza. And it is these two sentences that make many viewers feel extremely heartbroken.
After the two paragraphs of "Tick Da ~ Da Da ~ Oh ~~~~ Oh ~~~~~" two paragraphs, Xiao Yao hummed a seemingly improvised hum with the accompaniment of harmonica sounds, and in the last "Oh~" humming, several harmony actors on the stage also joined in, and the live appeal of the whole song was a little stronger.
At this point in the song, many viewers have red eyes. Among them, not only female audiences of about 30 or more, but also young female audiences and male audiences can also feel the feelings expressed in the song.
"I've been busy at work for too long, and before I know it, it's been 30 years. Picky, rotated, you choose again and again~ So after the cold winter, before the hot summer, who will give you the same love as spring? After sunset, the most beautiful, time has slipped away. ”
After a humming session, the end of the first stanza and the last two verses of the second stanza of the song are combined to form the final stanza of the song. When singing "You Choose Again", Xiao Yao also deliberately accentuated his tone, which seemed to make people recall the whole song again.
"After sunset, the most beautiful has slipped away~"
In the crescendo accompaniment, Xiao Yao sang the last lyrics in a slower rhythm, and deliberately omitted the word "time", as if the most beautiful thing that slipped away was not just time.
"yes yes ~ oh ~ ~ ~" After singing "has slipped away" in the gradually low accompaniment, the song did not end, the accompaniment was strengthened again, and Xiao Yao began to hum again in the harmonica sound. However, this humming did not last too long, Xiao Yao took out the harmonica again, and finally used his own harmonica to finish the whole song and his performance.
"Thank you!" After the music stopped completely, Xiao Yao put down the harmonica and bowed to the audience.
There were no cheers at the scene, but including the celebrity guests in front, many audience members stood up from their seats and applauded Xiao Yao on the stage with red eyes. Although the lyrics sound very heart-wrenching and make many people's eyes red, it also shows that this song has reached the hearts of these people and touched them greatly. So among these red-eyed standing ovations, they are also dominated by single female stars and female audiences around thirty years old.