Chapter 254: The Ten-Year-Old Photographer
"It's my decision, so I'll answer it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" Xiao Yao took over again, "First of all, answer your previous question. Although I was ready to be famous when I was sixteen years old, it didn't necessarily have anything to do with me announcing that I was XY!"
"After playing the role of "Chengying" in "Lingyunzhi", I knew that it was inevitable to enter the media spotlight. Xiao Yao continued, "The song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" made its first public appearance at the graduation ceremony of my junior high school. Since I was destined to become famous for "Chengying" that summer, and that song was a song I gave to my junior high school classmates, I told them that it was my original and didn't use XY's name anymore. The song "My Microphone" was the inspiration I had when my classmates and I sang at KTV, and they had already heard me sing the fragments, and it was impossible to say that it was XY's work.
Nearly 1,000 people listened to the live version of the song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" at my junior high school graduation ceremony, and later there was also a video of me singing at my junior high school graduation ceremony circulating on the Internet. Now that many people know about it, I finished "My Microphone" and released a single under my own name that summer. However, even if I officially debut, it doesn't mean that I have to tell everyone that XY is me, because I don't need XY's aura to help me attract attention, create topics, and increase popularity. ”
Hearing Xiao Yao say this, many reporters nodded secretly in their hearts. Indeed, the halo on Xiao Yao's head is indeed enough, as a young star whose name has crossed from the media and entertainment version to the social and people's livelihood version several times, Xiao Yao has no shortage of popularity at all. And judging from his dislike of being interviewed, his attitude towards scandals, and so on, he really doesn't care about XY's aura.
"Also," Xiao Yao continued, "there are some additional benefits to keeping the name XY. This brings us to the second question I just asked. Since I've already released albums, why did last year's songs "Love Letter to Fate" and "Sword Like a Dream" still use XY's name instead of my own real name? Because these two songs are not for Gong Chen or my dad to release singles, but songs specially written for TV dramas.
It is not up to us to decide whether to use these two songs as the opening and ending songs of the TV series, but by the director and producer of the TV series. We are not the only one who solicited the opening and ending songs of the TV series, and the songs they received were definitely not only the two songs given by our studio. In order to make sure that I could write these two songs to be selected by the director and producer, I put these two songs under the name XY. ”
"You mean to say that you think XY's song is more likely to be chosen by the producers of the TV series than Xiao Yao's?" the reporter who asked the question confirmed.
"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "At that time, there were no songs specially composed for film and television works among the songs published under my own real name. Although the song "Immortals" I wrote was also the theme song of an animated film, it was more of a band work than my own solo work, and the song was chosen after the video of our band's school anniversary performance was seen by the film's soundtrack, and it was not written specifically for the film. What's more, it is an English song that is favored by an American animated film, and I can't guarantee how much influence it has on the directors and producers of domestic film and television dramas in China.
The film and television soundtracks and OST songs of "The Original Scenery of Hometown", "Insects Flying" and "Red Face" under the name of XY have performed very well in film and television works, and "Red Face" is a song specially composed for "Lingyunzhi". The name XY has a certain reputation among domestic directors and producers, so putting these two songs under XY's name has a higher chance of being selected than putting them under my real name. ”
"I don't think so!" the reporter said, "At that time, you had already released albums, and your performance on "The Voice" and "Super Cool Electronic Music" were amazing, and at that time, you had just experienced a scandal with Gong Chen. In terms of fame, the name Xiao Yao was already much stronger than the XY who only appeared in works every few years and didn't even know who his real identity was. The producer should pay more attention to the works under the name Xiao Yao, right?"
"Maybe? Xiao Yao smiled and spread his hands and said, "Maybe the producer has the same idea as you, and values the creator's fame more, but you can't customize the filmmaker to have the same idea as mine, and pay more attention to the possibility of word-of-mouth, right? At that time, we can't always ask the producer, the same two songs, do you want the creator to sign Xiao Yao or XY? But with XY's name, I can at least be sure of one thing, that is, after the TV series is broadcast, the producer will definitely not ask me to help them run the publicity, I was a senior in high school at that time!"
"I know what you're going to say," seeing that the reporter was about to speak again, Xiao Yao smiled and waved his hand to stop, "Indeed, I can refuse to help others run propaganda." The reason for being a senior high school student is very good, and I am notoriously fond of publicity, and I don't reject others once or twice, but no matter how good the reason is, the person who is rejected will still feel a little uncomfortable in his heart, right? Wouldn't it be better for me to refuse someone less than once if I didn't even mention this request?"
"So you're deliberately continuing to deceive people for fear of trouble?" another reporter asked.
"I'm really afraid of trouble, but it's not right to lie to people!" Xiao Yao pointed to the reporter and said, "Neither my father nor myself have ever said in public that XY is not Xiao Yao, or denied it when others asked if XY was Xiao Yao." What we tell you is that XY is a friend of his, who doesn't want to reveal his true identity. Father and son get along like friends, everyone should have heard a lot of this kind of talk, my father and I got along like friends when I was four years old, which should be seen in the show "Where Are You Going, Dad" back then. It's true that I didn't want to reveal my true identity and asked him to keep it secret, so it's not a lie, it's just that people didn't think of it. ”
The only time Xiao Siqi denied that XY was Xiao Yao was when he was chatting with Sun Zhihao in the program "Where Are You Going, Dad", Xiao Siqi denied it at the time because of the camera, and later privately asked Sun Zhihao to admit it. Although the part of the denial was recorded by the camera of the program team, the two asked the show to be cut on the grounds of privacy, and it was not broadcast, so it is not public, so there is no problem for Xiao Yao to say so.
"Father and son are like friends, that's just a description, where is there really a description of a father and son who don't say father and son but only say that they are friends," the reporter said dissatisfiedly, "You are obviously deliberately misleading everyone!"
"You can say misleading!" Xiao Yao nodded generously in acknowledgement, and then smiled with his hands spread, "But we really didn't deliberately deceive people." ”
"Do you still have any questions?" Seeing that the reporter stopped talking, Xiao Yao simply became the host of the press conference and asked the media reporters below.
"I have!" said a bespectacled reporter standing up with his hands raised, "The post that broke the news on the Internet that you plagiarized said that 'Serenade' was written by Horne Burnie three years ago, and that was when you were an exchange student in the United States, and the timing was right." But "Childhood Memories" and "Daydreaming" were written by Horn Burnie ten years ago. You were only nine years old at the time, and you hadn't been to the United States yet, and Horn Burnie had never been to China. How did you sell these two pieces to that American pianist?"
"I'll correct you first for a mistake, oh no, a mistake on the part of the author of that post. "Of course, those two pieces are not the work of Mr. Horne Burnie, and even the first time he played them publicly at a recital, it was not ten years ago, but at a recital in Los Angeles nine years ago. ”
"Well, just as you're right! But it doesn't seem to me that there was any difference between nine years ago and ten years ago, that's not the point, you didn't answer my question directly," the reporter said, "please don't shy away. ”
"I didn't shy away from it," Xiao Yao said, "I pointed this out just to answer your question head-on." Whether it was nine years ago or ten years ago is important in my answer, so I have to say it beforehand. ”
Xiao Yao continued: "When I was ten years old, I went to the United States. I attended the Eva Show in New York at the end of '08. At that Eva show, I met a lot of world-class models, including my current friend and partner, China's supermodel Yin Xi, and American supermodel Betty Belette. In the restaurant where Betty Bellette invited me to dinner, I thanked Betty Bellette by playing "Childhood Memories" and "Daydreams" for her. She recorded me playing the two pieces on her phone and sent the video to her good friend Horne Burnie. After reading these two pieces, Horn Bernie liked them very much, so he contacted Betty Berlet and told me that I wanted to buy the rights to the original author for commercial performances. ”
"Isn't it?" the reporter frowned, "If I'm not mistaken, you once said when you broke the news that you were the photographer YS in the show "Goddess's Fashion Dress", you were the live photographer of the Eva Show the year before last, and you were sixteen at that time, which means that you were the live photographer of the Eva Show when you were fourteen years old, not ten years old!"
"I said that," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "but I'm talking about being a live photographer for the Eva Show for 12 years, not saying that 12 years is the first time I've been to the Eva Show live." Actually, I went to the Eva show when I was 10 years old. ”
"Even if you were a spectator at the Eva Show when you were 10 years old," the reporter disagreed, "Betty Bellet has no reason to have a private relationship with one of your 10-year-olds, let alone eat?"
"Who said I was going to be an audience?" Xiao Yao said, "As far as the identity of a photographer is concerned, when I was nine years old, my photographic works signed YS had already appeared in professional photography magazines in Europe and the United States. By the way, if it weren't for Mr. Xiao Yong who publicly questioned my qualifications as a judge on the show, I wouldn't have disclosed my identity as YS. Just like today, if someone hadn't said I plagiarized, I wouldn't have publicly stated that I was XY. To get back to the point, I went to the Eva Show when I was 10 years old and was asked to be a photographer..."