Chapter 236: Dream Chaser
After Liang Xueying's introduction, the audience couldn't wait to be the first to see Xiao Yao's performance. www.biquge.info It's a pity that Xiao Yao's appearance in this field is very low, and the first few competing singers who appeared are not Xiao Yao, and they can't meet the audience's desire to get a sneak peek.
"The next competing singer will bring you a new song of his own original. After the performance of Liu Youyuan, who appeared in the fifth place, Liang Xueying began to introduce the competition repertoire of the sixth singer.
"It's finally here!" cheered the audience. As soon as I heard Liang Xueying's introduction, I knew that the next singer to appear was finally Xiao Yao's turn.
"When you hear this, you know who the next singer will be, right?" Liang Xueying continued to the cheering audience with a smile, "Of course, there is only one singer left in our first six who did not appear, and there can be no one else besides him." The name of the song he brought is called "Dream Chaser", a name that sounds very ancient, as for what this song and this performance are like, let's immediately invite the next competing singer to take a look. ”
In the applause and cheers that rang out again at the scene, Liang Xueying walked off the stage and stood in the open space in front of the audience, looking forward to Xiao Yao's appearance with the audience.
The lights on the stage dimmed, and a figure appeared in the backlit exit passage behind the stage.
"Huh?" looked at the figure that appeared in the passage, and the audience let out a startled sound.
Although it is not possible to look at the face and costume yet, just from this figure, whether it is Liang Xueying, the audience, or the other singers and agents watching the live broadcast in the lounge, they can't help but wonder if the person in the passage is Xiao Yao. Judging from the backlit shadow, the singer who appeared on the stage looked very long and wide at the bottom of his shirt, and the hem even exceeded the ankle position, dragging to the ground, which looked like a skirt, and what was even more conspicuous was the singer's head, which seemed to be standing in a high bun. Xiao Yao is a boy, and he has short broken hair, judging from this shadow, he doesn't look like Xiao Yao.
In the astonishment of the audience, the backlit figure slowly walked out of the passage to the front of the stage. And looking at the posture of the figure walking, everyone's suspicion is even greater.
Xiao Yao grows taller, and when he walks, he takes big steps, and when he appears for the second and third time, he runs back from the stage and comes out again, and he walks very fast, even when he makes his first appearance as a singer, the speed of his appearance is relatively slow, and it is only a slow cadence, and every step is also very open. But this time, the figure clearly moved forward slowly with small steps, and with the movement of the steps, the whole body of the figure also swayed slightly and rhythmically, looking completely like a woman.
Finally, when the figure reached the center of the stage, the lights above the stage still did not turn on, but directly began to make preparations. Some of the staff moved musical instruments and chairs to the stage, and then a dozen or so figures that also appeared to be women walked up to the stage from behind the side of the stage, sitting or standing behind the figure in the center of the stage. And all the audiences, including the singers and agents, are still confused and continue to wonder.
All the figures on the stage were still, indicating that the preparations had been completed, and the audience was completely silent. At this time, the lights above the stage were lit up, and everyone finally saw the figures on the stage.
"Damn! Is this Xiao Yao?" Many audience members jumped up from their seats in surprise, and those who were still in their seats hugged their heads in disbelief.
"Oh my God!" Liang Xueying, who was in front of the audience, also covered her mouth in surprise.
"Ouch, I'll go!" In the rest hall, after the competition, Hong Wei, who was watching the live broadcast, also bounced up from the sofa in shock, turned his head to look at Xiao Siqi and said, "Old Xiao, is this your son?"
"I can't tell it from my face. Xiao Siqi spread his hands and said, "But we have already appeared, this can't be that Wei Shile, right? Also, have you forgotten his song "The New Concubine Drunk" in the final of "The Voice"?"
"He's turning half of his makeup into all the costumes," Qin Xiaodong also said in surprise, "Is he going to be a male dan, singing Peking Opera on stage?"
On the other side, Zhang Qiaohe kept whispering something in Liu Youyuan's ear, Liu Youyuan also changed from a puzzled expression to surprise, and his eyes, which originally looked small, were getting wider and wider, and they were about to stare round!
"Is this the big boy just now?" Wei Shile, who was still waiting in the room, also left the sofa where he was sitting, stood in front of the live TV, pointed to the TV screen and asked the agent next to him.
It's no wonder that everyone is so surprised, because the one who appeared in the center of the stage at this time is the costume of Hua Dan in Peking Opera.
A silk costume in ancient costume, the red coat is covered with flowers and birds embroidered with gold and silver threads, looking up from the wide belt with a rounded convex arc in the middle of the waist, the upper body of the robe is a placket style, and the open neckline reveals a moon-white undershirt with silver thread trim inside, and the hem of the lower skirt is not only wide enough to cover the entire foot, but the tail is also long and dragged on the ground. The hair on both sides of the head is close to the sides, covering the entire ear, and a bun with a length of more than 20 centimeters is combed on the top of the head, and many delicate headdresses are hung on the head and on the bun, showing what it means to be "full of pearls".
The most distinctive thing is the makeup. On the snow-white face is a red lip, and under the eyebrows that have turned into willow leaf thin eyebrows is a pair of red eyes, below the eyebrows, the eye area of the two eyes is covered with red, and gradually fades from below the lower eyelashes.
If it weren't for appearing on this stage, and it was such an appearance, I believe no one would dare to say that the enchanting Hua Dan standing in the center of the stage now is Xiao Yao.
Facing the frantic screams of the audience, Xiao Yao on the stage did not say anything, but just nodded to the band leader Liu Tong on the side of the stage.
However, at this time, Liu Tong, the music director and band conductor of the show, did not react immediately, but stared at Xiao Yao in a daze like the audience under the stage. There was no makeup during the rehearsal, each singer was rehearsed in casual clothes, and the band conductor, who was also the first time to see Xiao Yao dressed like this, was also a little stupid, and even a little doubtful that this was Xiao Yao on the stage, so it was rare for a short period of distraction. Fortunately, Liu Tong quickly came back to his senses, and he coughed lightly, raised his hands and waved down, and the accompaniment of the band also sounded.
The prelude begins with the sound of drums, dulcimer and guzheng, and there are some piano and guitar sounds in between, but in general, it is still dominated by two kinds of folk music, dulcimer and guzheng, and after ten seconds, the four beautiful erhu players sitting on the chair on the stage also moved, and the accompaniment added the sound of erhu and violin.
There are folk music and Western instruments in the prelude, and Xiao Yao seems to have really made another song like "The New Concubine Drunk", which combines folk music and modern music. Hong Wei looked at Xiao Yao on TV, nodded and said to Xiao Siqi. Although the TV screen is a close-up of Xiao Yao, a professional singer like Hong Wei, can hear what instruments are used in the accompaniment just by relying on the music of this prelude.
The audience can see the movements of the musicians of the modern instruments on both sides of the stage, and even if they can't hear the difference between the sounds of various instruments in the accompaniment like a professional singer like Hong Wei, they can also see that Xiao Yao's soundtrack combines modern Western instruments with traditional Chinese folk music. Many viewers also thought that although Xiao Yao is completely dressed as an ancient costume of Hua Dan in Peking Opera, his performance this time is definitely not simply to sing Peking Opera to everyone.
"Sandalwood leads, window flowers through the window lattice, dark night comes, paper-cut memories silhouette. I read through it, my hair is gray, my hair is gray, the story is craggy, my heart is uneven, and I say my fate~"
Sure enough, when Xiao Yao opened his mouth to sing the first main song at the beginning of the song, although he sang as gently as a girl, in terms of timbre, he still sang with the original male voice.
"It seems to be really a song like "The New Concubine is Drunk", but the lyrics seem to be more ancient, like ancient poems. Hearing Xiao Yao's opening paragraph, many people who shifted their attention from Xiao Yao's appearance to Xiao Yao's singing nodded secretly in their hearts.
This is a song composed by Chou Dong in the previous life, lyrics written by his old partner Fang Wenshan, and written to Li Yugang, the original singer of "The New Concubine Drunk", this song is very similar to "The New Concubine is Drunk" in style, but in the lyrics of the main song, the words written by the ghost genius Fang Wenshan sound like an ancient word, which is more concise and ancient than the narrative lyrics of "The New Concubine is Drunk". Xiao Yao moved this song to this world, the melody and lyrics have not changed a word, but in the arrangement and accompaniment, the soundtrack of pipa and flute has been added according to the configuration of "Women's Music Workshop", which makes the folk music taste of the whole song stronger.
"Dream chasing order~ floating life and half awake, who is thin, sighing at the city's fame. I'm slightly drunk~ facing North Sijun, waiting for the dawn, haggard into the bronze mirror~"
Coming to the chorus part of the song, Xiao Yao, who was originally standing still and singing, took two steps forward, straightened his chest and posed sideways with the graceful movements of Hua Dan in Peking Opera, and raised an extremely ecstatic orchid finger with his left hand, and his mouth was also converted into a female Beijing rhyme singing voice imitating Peking Opera Hua Dan, which gave the audience at the scene and in the lounge goosebumps.
"Wow~" The audience, who had already been prepared, heard Xiao Yao's Jingyun singing, and they were all excited, and they let out a scream and cheer.
After the first chorus, the song enters an interlude. Xiao Yao on the stage lowered his arms, and his wide water sleeves fell and hung to the ground. Xiao Yao raised his elbow with one hand, and slightly behind him with the other hand, and spun gracefully on the stage, and the two water sleeves also fluttered and swayed with Xiao Yao's rotation.
"Oh my God!" Seeing Xiao Yao actually dancing a classical dance while still in the interlude, the audience in the audience widened their eyes again, applauding and screaming like crazy.
"Sandalwood leads, window flowers penetrate the window lattice, the dark night comes, and the paper-cut reminiscences of the silhouette..."
At the beginning of the second main song, Xiao Yao's classical water sleeve dance also came to an end, changing from the graceful Hua Dan posture to the original relatively ordinary standing posture, and also switched back to the original male voice in terms of timbre and tone of singing. It was also at this time that the voices of the audience slowly became quieter.
"Emei, sorrow as a neighbor, fate is over~ I am midnight, full of tears, I don't believe ~ Yiren is in love with autumn into the forest, but the marriage is like a leaf drifting, and I am in a hurry to find it in my previous life~"
The lyrics of the two main songs and choruses of Xiao Yao's previous "New Concubine Drunk" are the same, and the lyrics of the first half of the second main song of this "Dream Chasing Order" are the same as the first main song, but in the second half, it is a different lyric. This lyric is the same as the first main song in terms of sentence structure and word count, and the same beautiful, concise, and ancient words reflect Xiao Yao's strong writing skills. This also makes the audience feel that Xiao Yao's song sounds better than "The New Concubine is Drunk", whether in creation or singing, this song is like an advanced work of Xiao Yao's songs, and the audience seems to feel Xiao Yao's progress on this song.
"Dream chasing order~ floating life half-awake, who listens, my heart is in the piano. The voice-over ~ plucked the mess once, the silk and bamboo were light, but the heart was heavy ~"
In the second chorus, Xiao Yao incarnated as Hua Dan in Peking Opera, posed for Hua Dan on the stage of Peking Opera, and changed his mouth to imitate Hua Dan's Beijing rhyme singing again.
The goosebumps on the audience rose again, and the cheers and screams resounded throughout the studio again.
After the second chorus, the song came to the end stage, Xiao Yao did not convert to the male voice that came to him, but continued to sing two choruses in Hua Dan's Beijing rhyme singing voice. During this stage of singing, Xiao Yao walked around the stage while singing. Audiences who are a little more knowledgeable can see that Xiao Yao's gait, posture, and movements on his left hand are all slow-version classic movements often demonstrated by Hua Dan on the Peking Opera stage. This is also the result of Xiao Yao's special training with Mr. Mei Qingchang in Yanjing in the past week.
Seeing Xiao Yao, who was alive and well on the stage at the end of the final stage, the audience at the scene was also excited, the applause and cheers almost never stopped, and the sound was still higher than a while, as if the ceiling of the studio was going to be torn off.
"The voiceover ~ Stir up the mess once, the silk and bamboo are light, but the heart is heavy ~" After singing the last sentence, Xiao Yao has turned into kneeling sideways facing the audience, his head lowered, his hands on his chest, and the expression on his face is also a heartbroken look.
"Xiao Yao!"
"Xiao Yao!"
The lights on the stage dimmed, but the audience in the audience stood up excitedly, raised their hands and clapped and shouted rhythmically.
"Thank you~" The lights on the stage turned on, Xiao Yao, who had stood up and faced the audience again, continued to thank the audience in a female voice of Jingyun, and then raised his hands to his left chest, bent his right leg back, slowly bent his knees, squatted and bowed his head, and gave everyone an ancient woman's blessing ceremony.
The female voice, combined with the etiquette of ancient women, caused the audience to think that the performance was over in a trance again, and then even louder cheers and shouts rang out.