Chapter 319: Double CD and EP
"Singer" is a trump card program with extremely high ratings on Shonan Satellite TV, and the finals are broadcast live, so on the second day after the finals, a large number of relevant reports and media comments appeared.
The first focus of media reports and comments is naturally the attribution of the "King of Singers". According to the experience of previous seasons, the title of "King of Singers" generally falls on the heads of middle-aged singers who have debuted for a long time, have very rich experience, and have a relatively high status in the music world. At the beginning of the show, Hong Wei and Xiao Siqi were the two popular candidates for this season's "King of Singers", and it was not surprising that Xiao Siqi and Hong Wei won the championship and runner-up respectively. Even if Xiao Yao is such an unusually eye-catching "big dark horse" in the show, and he reaches the finals in one fell swoop, not many people think that Xiao Yao can win the final championship.
However, throughout the whole process of the finals, most of the audience felt that the most impressive singer was Xiao Yao!
First of all, he is the only singer to bring two sets of celebrity guests, and these two groups of guests are not only foreigners, but also collaborated with Xiao Yao to sing Chinese songs. This point has been a hot topic of discussion among netizens watching the live broadcast on the Internet as early as the live broadcast. After the finals, the media did not let go of this big attraction, and they all reported and commented on it significantly. Like netizens, most of the media also gave very positive comments on Xiao Yao's behavior of bringing foreign stars to sing Chinese songs, and praised Xiao Yao.
Secondly, it was Xiao Yao's "Immortals" band that burned to the extreme when performing the rock song "No Place for Shame", which exploded the scene. In the whole final, the most impressive performance of the audience, in addition to Xiao Siqi's "Hills" that touched countless people, was the "Immortals" band's "No Place for Self-Shame", which sang countless people. And Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao's results from the second and fourth places in the first round to the first and third places in the final overall score are also a good confirmation of this.
The most important thing is that "No Land for Yourself" and "The Hill", two works that move and stillness, each achieve the extreme, are actually Xiao Yao's works. In fact, not only these two songs, but also the two chorus songs of Xiao Siqi and his wife and Xiao Yao and Hong Xiuyan in the first round were also written by Xiao Yao, with a total of thirteen songs in one final, and Xiao Yao's songs accounted for four. At the time of the breakout competition, it was already a special concert of Xiao Yao's works, and almost one-third of the songs in the finals were written by Xiao Yao, and they were all new songs, Xiao Yao's ability to write songs once again made the audience and the industry collectively speechless.
Although he only won the third place in the finals, overall, many people think that Xiao Yao is the singer with the best performance in this season's "Singer".
Even if you don't look at the special highlights that Xiao Yao has in almost every issue, only compare the results of a single period, Xiao Yao has won the first place in a single period three times, and created Liang Xueying to be the first in a single period, although she also won the seventh once, but except for the seventh and the fifth once, the other performances are all in the top four, which is definitely among the best among all singers. In terms of single-game performance, Xiao Yao won the first place in the breakout competition and sang "Exaggerated" without a microphone even surpassed Xiao Siqi's "Hills" and "Immortals" in the finals, which is the most exciting performance in the hearts of the audience this season and even so far in this show.
performed the best but didn't win the championship, which can't help but remind people of the scene when Xiao Yao participated in "The Voice" two years ago: he is also recognized as the best overall performance contestant in the show, and like "Exaggeration" without a microphone, "The New Concubine Drunk" is also the most exciting performance in the show, but the result is the runner-up. That time, many people attributed the reason to Xiao Yao's casual selection of the last two songs and the last-minute rush to help the opponent save the accompaniment, and this time, some people attributed the reason to Xiao Yao writing songs for the opponent.
Although Xiao Siqi is Xiao Yao's father, the relationship is much closer than Fan Linxuan at that time, but after all, he is an opponent competing on the same stage in the show. In the regular program, when there is no danger of elimination, it is just enough to help Liang Xueying, a competitor, arrange and design the stage, and in the finals, he also helped the opponent write songs, and he wrote two songs, which is no longer a big heart, but some people don't care about the champion at all.
As a result, there is a kind of remark quietly rising on the Internet, saying that Xiao Siqi won this championship all thanks to Xiao Yao's help, and Xiao Yao himself didn't care about the championship at all, Xiao Siqi's championship was actually deliberately given to him by Xiao Yao!
Soon, this kind of rhetoric spread on the Internet, and some media outlets also reported and reprinted it. In response to this kind of remarks, Xiao Yao rarely accepted a media interview and publicly responded:
"Isn't it normal for me to write songs for my dad? It's not like I haven't written for other people! I can write songs for other singers in our studio, and even for singers who are not in our studio, so I can't write songs for my dad? He's my dad, of course I hope he can win the championship, so I have a problem writing songs for him and singing in the finals? Say I deliberately gave him the championship? Is the championship mine? I still have a teacher Hong in front of me!
Say I don't care about the champion? I don't care if the champion deliberately found two sets of guests and brought "Immortals" from the United States? Which other singer besides me is a star guest in two groups? I didn't try my best enough to perform two songs in two rounds? Who dares to say that I deliberately let out water during the competition? I can write any song does not mean that I can sing any song, can you imagine me singing "Faded" by myself? I would like to sing "The Hills" myself, but can I sing "The Hills" with the taste of my father?"
After making such a response, Xiao Yao didn't pay attention to the comments on the Internet. After the finals of "Singer", he still has a lot to do.
First of all, the first step is to release an album. Two years ago, I went to participate in "The Voice" in order to fulfill my father's wish to help him release an album, and the purpose of participating in "Singer" this time is actually similar.
When Xiao Yao accepted Tao Ran's invitation, he had already guessed that the person who recommended him was his father Xiao Siqi, and naturally knew Xiao Siqi's thoughts. I haven't released an album for almost two years, and I promised Tao Ran to participate in the show at that time, in addition to the attraction of the show itself, being able to compete with my father and a group of top Chinese singers on the same stage, satisfying my father and his purpose of releasing an album is also one of the reasons. Now that the show is over, I have become popular again because of this show, and it is a matter of course to take advantage of the situation to release an album.
At the beginning, I sang eight songs on "The Voice", seven of which were original, or I added up the four old songs I had released before to make an album. This time, Xiao Yao sang twelve songs in this show alone, and all of them were original, plus the Cantonese version of "Red Rose" "White Rose", there are already thirteen songs, and the number of songs released sporadically in the past is enough for an album.
But since the album is going to be released, it is also necessary to include the previous singles and reissue them together. Xiao Yao sorted out the original songs he made after the release of his first album.
Xiao Yao, the two chorus songs of "Mai Ba" and "The Great Wall", which have already released singles, is not much interested, and is ready to leave one for Fan Linxuan to release an album and one for Chen Chen to release an album. Next is to play the flash mob "How Lucky", "One Night in Yanjing" and "Fly Higher" during the Shen Opera Art Exam, "You at the Same Table" standing to the bottom, and then "Love Must Be Enough" sung to Sun Tingting on the streets of Chambers last year, which was sung in English at that time, and it was better to release the album in Chinese. Next, the spoof song that ridiculed American Airlines was gone. Then there is "Vincent" at the brand press conference, which also sang a jazz version when I was in France, but the album, the original folk version is enough, the jazz version of the lyrics and songs are the same, it is still a song, and the official version has not been recorded, so it will not be put on the album to fill the number.
In this way, the original solo songs he sang before were six songs, plus the thirteen songs in "Singer", adding up to nineteen songs, which is almost enough for two albums. But nineteen songs are released on double CD, Xiao Yao feels a little unkind, so he wants to put together one or two more songs, how can he maintain the regular number of at least ten songs on a CD.
In the show, he jokingly sang a few words of "Not Afraid, Not Afraid", but Xiao Yao passed this song as soon as possible, this kind of song can be written, can be sung and played, but Xiao Yao will never record the official version of his own singing, and the "Song of the Pig" that he sang to Sun Tingting was thrown to Fan Linxuan, this song... It seems that I can give Yiyi, and I also promised to write songs for Yiyi and Sissi, the two female anchors, and it just so happens that this song matches Yiyi's cute style very well.
Thinking of the two fish anchors, Xiao Yao thought of the four new songs he sang when he was a fish anchor. When he went to live broadcast on other platforms in the next few days, Xiao Yao sang those new songs, so Xiao Yao had four more new songs to choose from. The children's song "Counting the Stars" will naturally not be sung and released by itself, but the three songs "Xingqing", "Chengdu" and "Two Little Flower Dogs" are all very suitable for release on the album, and these three songs have been sung when they were anchors, and they have also been released on other occasions now, and the style of the songs that he released on the album first appeared on other occasions is also more consistent.
Nineteen plus three, twenty-two! Seeing this number, Xiao Yao showed a helpless wry smile again.
Because he had already saved the idea of releasing an album before participating in "Singer", during the weekly preparation of "Singer", Xiao Yao directly recorded the official version of the song in addition to practicing. It was that time I went to the United States to find Sun Tingting to shoot the MV of "Thinkingoutloud", and Xiao Yao also recorded the Chinese and Cantonese versions of "Red Rose" and "White Rose" at one time. Now to release an album, Xiao Yao needs to record the official version of the original Chinese version of "Love Must Be Done" and the three songs he sang during the live broadcast.
The four songs were all sung by Xiao Yao, and the lyrics, arrangements, and soundtracks were already in his head, so it was not so difficult to record. Three days later, Xiao Yao recorded the official versions of the four songs, and then sent the official version of the twenty-two songs and the front and back cover photos designed and taken by himself to Xiao Siqi.
Why did it send it to Xiao Siqi? Because after the final of "Singer", Xiao Yao still did not go back to Yanjing's home for the summer vacation. Since Shencheng had already rented a house, and the recording studio in Yin Xi's studio was completely up to Xiao Yao, he returned to Shencheng again on the grounds of avoiding competing with Xiao Siqi for the right to use the recording studio of Qijia Studio.
This reason is quite tenable, because after the final of "Singer", not only Xiao Yao has plans to release an album, but Xiao Siqi himself also has musical actions, which also need to use the recording studio.
At the beginning, Xiao Yao was all over in the regular season, and after Xiao Siqi advanced to the finals in advance, he told Xiao Siqi to ask Xiao Siqi to find Ye Jiaying as a guest singer, and also said that he helped them write a chorus song, but Xiao Siqi took the initiative to ask Xiao Yao for the second round of solo songs. At that time, Xiao Yao promised Xiao Siqi a choral song and three solo songs for him to choose, in fact, Xiao Yao later gave Xiao Siqi a total of five song lyrics and music scores.
In addition to Xiao Siqi's "You Are the Most Precious" and "The Hill" sung in the finals, Xiao Yao also gave Xiao Siqi another classic song "Song for Myself" by Li Zongsheng in his previous life and "She Came to Listen to My Concert" by the singer Jacky Cheung and another choral song, "Choice" by Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen. These songs are all very suitable for Xiao Siqi's solo singing and Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying's singing songs, but on the contrary, they are far from Xiao Yao's style. Although Xiao Siqi sang "You Are the Most Precious" and "Hills" in the finals after making a choice, the other three songs are also classic songs in his heart, and he also does not plan to let them go.
Xiao Siqi does not have Xiao Yao's habit of singing live versions in other public venues before releasing a single or album, so after the finals of "Singer", Xiao Siqi also plans to record the other three songs.
Speaking of which, Xiao Siqi himself hasn't released a new song for a long time. The last time he released a new song, it was the theme song of the martial arts drama "Sword Like a Dream" written by Xiao Yao with the name XY when he helped Gong Chen fight for the opportunity to sing the ending song of a martial arts drama. But in the past few years, he has just released such a new song.
Xiao Siqi himself also wants to release an album, but he has high requirements for the quality of the songs he sings. After opening the studio, the time to write songs was much less than before, and he was not as perverted as Xiao Yao, a traverser, and he hadn't written works that satisfied him and suited him for a long time. Shen Yinan Shen is old, and his energy is not as good as before, and this kind of brain-wrenching creative work has also been done a lot less than before. Although you can also buy songs from outside creators, it is better to find some songs that can satisfy newcomer singers like Fan Linxuan, but it is difficult to find songs that can make veteran singers like Xiao Siqi excited, and they have never been able to release new songs. Now there are five songs given by Xiao Yao all of a sudden, and they are all good songs suitable for me to sing, although it is not enough to release an album, it is good to release an EP first to enjoy it.
After the finals of "Singer", Xiao Siqi also wanted to record a new EP for himself, and Xiao Yao had a recording studio in Shencheng that he had full control, and Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying, who had participated in the brand press conference, had also seen it with their own eyes. Therefore, Xiao Yao wanted to return to Shencheng on the grounds of avoiding fighting for the right to use the recording studio in the studio, and Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying couldn't say a reason to oppose it.
Xiao Siqi is a veteran singer and a senior music producer, and there is a more senior old man Shen Yinan next to him, these two people have much more experience in music production than Xiao Yao, even if they don't write their own songs, the speed of recording five songs is not slower than the speed at which Xiao Yao recorded four songs by himself. So, within a week of the end of the "Singer" finals, Xiao Yao's double CD album containing 22 songs and Xiao Siqi's EP containing five songs were publicly released and released online.