Chapter 978: New Song?
Amid the applause and cheers of the audience, Xiao Yao walked to the side of the stage, took back the microphone stand that he had moved before, and placed it in the middle of the front of the stage. After installing the microphone in his hand on the microphone stand, Xiao Yao walked to the side of the rear band, picked up an acoustic guitar on the guitar stand and carried it on his back, and when he came back, he moved another vacant microphone stand next to him and put it in front of Sun Tingting.
The accompaniment of this "Lucky" soundtrack has a guitar and no violin, and Xiao Yao chose to play and sing by himself. Xiao Yao played and sang by himself, so he naturally needed to use a microphone stand. Sun Tingting doesn't need to play the violin, in fact, she can do without a microphone stand, but in order to maintain a certain visual consistency in the performance, Sun Tingting still chose to use the microphone stand like Xiao Yao.
There is no host for this show, and the performers and musicians stay on stage all the time during the performance, and they do not leave the break in between. Xiao Yao didn't want the staff to affect the audience's perception up and down, so he simply came by himself to take and place musical instruments and move the microphone stand.
After Xiao Yao moved the microphone stand, Sun Tingting installed the microphone in her hand on the stand. Xiao Yao saw that the height of the microphone was a little off, and helped Sun Tingting adjust the height of the microphone stand.
"Oh~" Seeing Xiao Yao helping Sun Tingting take the microphone stand and help adjust the height of the microphone stand pole, there was another coaxing cry in the audience area below.
When Xiao Yao helped Sun Tingting finish the microphone stand and walked back behind his microphone with the guitar on his back, the various voices of the audience disappeared. Xiao Yao turned around and nodded to the band behind him, turned his head and waved his hand to pluck the strings of the guitar on his body.
Although Xiao Yao turned his head to signal to the band behind him, the prelude part of the song, and even the beginning part, was nothing to do with the band behind him, because the beginning of the song only had a single acoustic guitar sound as an accompaniment. The acoustic guitar in Xiao Yao's hand played the prelude for two bars, and then he began to sing:
“DoYouHearMe,I',AcrossTheDeepBlueOcean~UnderTheOpenSky,OhMy,BabyI'mTrying~”
This song is a new English song that has not been released before, and when Xiao Yao sang it, the lyrics of the song were also displayed simultaneously on the display screen behind the stage and hanging in the air above the stage. However, there were not many people in the audience who focused on reading the lyrics, and most of them still focused on Xiao Yao, who performed on the stage.
When Xiao Yao sang this song, his state was very different from when he sang the previous song. In the previous song, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting basically looked at each other face-to-face and sang the whole song, but at the beginning of this song, Xiao Yao was still facing the audience, but he turned sideways slightly in the direction of Sun Tingting, tilting his head to look at Sun Tingting from the side. Although the eyes are still very gentle, the expression when singing is smiling, and this smile is not all gentle, but also a little bit of ruffian and hippie.
Judging from the opening tune and Xiao Yao's performance when singing, the audience felt that this song was very different from the previous one in terms of style and emotion.
“BoyIHearYou,YourWhisper,YouWithMeInMy Heart,YouMakeItEasierWhenLifeGetsHard!”
After Xiao Yao finished singing the first paragraph, Sun Tingting opened her mouth and continued to sing the second paragraph. This section is still only accompanied by Xiao Yao's acoustic guitar, and Sun Tingting only turned her head slightly sideways and looked at Xiao Yao with a smile from the side. Except that she didn't play with an acoustic guitar on her back, Sun Tingting's state when she sang was almost exactly the same as Xiao Yao.
"I'll go, it's so sweet!" Looking at the performance of the two people on the stage, many audience members sighed.
Although Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting sang an English song, the lyrics were relatively not difficult, and the vast majority of the audience understood them. If Xiao Yao's first song about wanting to talk to each other across the sea under the sky still has a bit of a "sad" taste, then Sun Tingting sang in the second paragraph of the dream and heard the other party's whispers across the sea, put the other party in her heart, and the other party made a difficult life easy These lyrics made the audience clearly feel the sweet taste.
The clothes of the two people swapping colors, the scene layout of a microphone stand in front of each person on the stage, and the expressions and movements when singing all have a high degree of consistency, coupled with such sweet lyrics, many audiences were severely stimulated by the two.
At the end of the second stanza sung by Sun Tingting, the sound of other instruments such as drums and electric guitars in the band sounded to join the accompaniment, and the song immediately entered the chorus. The chorus part is the chorus of Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting:
“LuckyI'mInLoveWithMyBestFriend,LuckyToHaveBeenWhatIHaveBeen,LuckyToBe ComingHomeAgain~”
The first sentence of the chorus surprised the audience a little, and many people also had a sudden feeling.
"LuckyI'mInLoveWithMyBestFriend, Xiao Yao's special lyrics are this one, right?" many viewers thought to themselves.
“Ooohhh~”
At the end of the chorus, there is a humming between the two. This humming is followed by a transition section in the song.
“TheyDon'tKnow HowLongItTakes,”
“TheyDon'tKnow HowLongItTakes,”
“WaitingForALoveLikeThis…”
In this transition paragraph, the two have a special arrangement in singing. Although the two sang the same lyrics, the first sentence Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's singing was not consistent, it was Sun Tingting who sang first, Xiao Yao followed a little later, a little behind Sun Tingting, the second sentence became a synchronous chorus, and then the third sentence Xiao Yao sang later than Sun Tingting, and the fourth and fifth sentences became a synchronous chorus of the two.
Although it is the premiere of a new song, the two of them are changing continuously in staggering and synchronization in this place, but the two of them handle one place quite well, and it doesn't sound chaotic at all, and the audience feels the tacit understanding between the two from another place.
The transition is followed by a chorus of two people.
“LuckyI'mInLoveWithMyBestFriend,LuckyToHaveBeenWhatIHaveBeen,LuckyToBe ComingHomeAgain~”
“LuckyWe'reInLoveInEveryWay,LuckyToHaveStayedWhatWeHaveStay,LuckyToBe ComingHomeSomeday~”
This chorus is twice as long as the previous one, and in addition to repeating the three lines of the previous chorus, the next three extra lines are the same as the previous three sentences, but the content changes the subject's "I" to "we", which makes the song more emotional and sweet.
After the chorus, the main song is next. This main song is similar in structure and arrangement to the first main song at the beginning, both Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting have solo, but in terms of content, it is also a step further, from the two expressing their thoughts to each other across the sea to the scene where the two are looking forward to and imagining that the two are together.
Scenes such as "You will listen to the music floating in the air, I will put a flower on your head" and "At this moment, you hold me, the whole world is spinning", also made the audience feel sweet again.
After repeating the full refrain of six sentences again, the whole song finally ended with another humming by Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting.
"Oh~"
After the voices of Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting stopped with the accompaniment of the instruments, the audience at the scene burst into a burst of applause and cheers.
"Thank you!" Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting on the stage bowed their heads to the audience below.
"Does it sound good?" Xiao Yao raised his head and asked the audience.
"That's good!" shouted the audience.
"Thank you!" Xiao Yao smiled.
"It's so sweet!" shouted another viewer.
"Isn't it good?" Xiao Yao said as he looked at the bottom of the stage, "Anyway, most of you are a couple!"
"As for the few who came alone," Xiao Yao shrugged his shoulders and continued, "I warned you!
"Ha~" burst into laughter below.
"Wow~" There were some boos at the same time.
Listening to the movement, it seems that it is not only the few people who raised their hands to indicate that they came singlely.
"Hey~" Xiao Yao glared, "I understand to tell you, tonight is a special love song show, all of them are love songs, and there are no bitter love songs of breaking up and falling out of love, all of them are sweeter!"
"Wow~"
"Ha~"
The boos and laughter were louder.
"Alright," Xiao Yao regained his smiling expression, "Let's continue!"
"Next are a few solo songs," Xiao Yao looked at Sun Tingting and said, "First invite our special guests to go and take a break!"
The audience gave a round of applause, Sun Tingting waved to the audience, and in the applause, she picked up the microphone stand and walked to the relatively dim area of the band behind.
Sun Tingting picked up the microphone stand and left, and Xiao Yao didn't go over to help her. After turning his head to send Sun Tingting back to the back band, Xiao Yao turned back to the audience and said, "I sang a new version of an old song and a new song just now, and then I will sing a few old songs to everyone." ”
"The next song," Xiao Yao continued, "the original singer is not me, and the songwriter is not all me, but it can be said that it is the first song I participated in the creation." ”
"The first song you participated in?" Many viewers at the scene couldn't remember what Xiao Yao said about the first song they participated in, and they lowered their heads and thought in their hearts.
""The Most Beautiful, for everyone!" Xiao Yao did not deliberately let the audience guess, and directly announced the name of the song.
"His father Xiao Siqi's song? By the way, the songwriter of that song has XY's name, and XY is Xiao Yao!"
After the introduction, Xiao Yao waved his hand to pluck the strings of the guitar he was carrying, and the sound of the drum kit followed, followed by the sound of other instruments such as electric guitars.
"Baby~For this date, I couldn't sleep peacefully last night~"
After the prelude ended, Xiao Yao's voice sounded.
In this world, this "The Most Beautiful" is already an old song from twenty years ago. In the past 20 years, in addition to Xiao Siqi, many singers have covered this song, but Xiao Yao, as one of the songwriters, has never sung this song in public, and this is the first time he has sung this song in public.
Compared with Xiao Siqi's original version, the version sung by Xiao Yao has not changed much in terms of arrangement, which is basically a normal difference between the live version and the studio version. However, for the audience, the feeling of watching Xiao Yao sing this song is very different from listening to Xiao Siqi sing this song.
Watching a twenty-four-year-old singer sing a song that he participated in when he was four years old is a very peculiar thing, plus this song is also a love song that makes love feel very wonderful and beautiful, and it is also very in line with the theme of tonight's performance that Xiao Yao said, so the audience listened to this relatively relaxed and cheerful song, but they inexplicably felt a lot more touched and moved.
After the performance of this song, the audience also gave warm applause and cheers, but unlike before, this time no audience booed Xiao Yao because Xiao Yao sang another love song.
"Thank you!" Xiao Yao thanked the audience for the applause and cheers, and continued, "I sang a song that someone else originally sang, and then sang an old song that I originally sang." This song is the song I sang on Valentine's Day one year, and it's probably the most well-known song in the world and the most people I've seen at my premiere. ”
"Oh~" The audience cheered again.
After listening to Xiao Yao's introduction, everyone has already guessed which song it is. The most well-known song in the world and the most watched song at the premiere on Valentine's Day was the song "Perfect" sung by Xiao Yao during the halftime performance of the American Professional Basketball All-Star Celebrity Game.
"Perfect!" some viewers shouted impatiently.
"Yes," Xiao Yao smiled and nodded, and said loudly, "Perfect for everyone!"
This is a song with almost no prelude, and the accompaniment at the beginning of the song comes out with an electric guitar and an acoustic guitar, so Xiao Yao turned around and gestured to the band. When the audience saw Xiao Yao's movements, they immediately quieted down.
"IFoundLove, ForMe~" Xiao Yao's singing voice sounded at the same time as the acoustic guitar in his hand and the electric guitar in the band, and the scene immediately fell into a gentle and sweet atmosphere.
Xiao Yao did not make any changes to the live performance of this song, almost the same as the live version of the halftime performance in the American Professional Basketball All-Star Celebrity Game. The only difference is that now Sun Tingting is standing behind Xiao Yao's side, Xiao Yao is still facing the audience in front of the stage, and he didn't look back to watch Sun Tingting sing.
However, even if he couldn't watch Sun Tingting sing, Xiao Yao's performance and eyes when singing were still gentle and affectionate, and his singing was still soft and moving, which also made the audience very moved to see and listen.
After the song ended, bowing his head to thank the audience's applause and cheers, Xiao Yao continued to introduce the next song: "I sang an old English song, and then a new Chinese song!"
"And a new song?" thought some viewers in slightly surprise.
Fans who are familiar with Xiao Yao and even ordinary audiences know that Xiao Yao often sings new songs when he performs in public, but in their opinion, the song "Lucky" that Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting sang just now is a new song, and it can be regarded as a new song.
Although Xiao Yao is recognized as a musical talent in the eyes of everyone, it is not uncommon for him to come up with more than one new song in a performance before, but Xiao Yao has just set the theme for this performance, which shows that all the songs in this performance are relatively sweet love songs, which is equivalent to limiting a framework and scope for himself. No matter how talented you are, once you put restrictions on it, it will definitely affect your creation. Even if you can still write it, this amount will always be affected.
Xiao Yao rarely sings other people's songs, even if he writes songs himself, he sings relatively little. He just took out all the old songs that Xiao Siqi sang originally, and many viewers thought that Xiao Yao's own songs in this area were not enough, so in order to maintain the unity of tonight's theme, he took out his father's song and sang it, thinking that Xiao Yao had no new songs, but he didn't expect Xiao Yao to have new songs.
But in any case, it is a good thing for the audience to have a new song to listen to, so after being slightly surprised, the audience gave more enthusiastic applause and cheers.