Chapter 258: I Want Us to Be Together

In the studio, Xiao Yao, who finished the opening remarks, did not talk to the audience anymore, and directly entered the next link according to the process, which was also a reserved program for himself as the host, and quickly read the advertising words. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info counted Liang Xueying's substitute host, Xiao Yao wore a costume costume after the performance to make up for it, this is the seventh time Xiao Yao has read an advertisement like this, but the audience is not tired at all, or as excited as when they first listened to it, after the advertising words ended, the applause and cheers were also given to Xiao Yao on the stage without hesitation.

Next, Xiao Yao began to follow the script written by the screenwriter of the program group, and introduced the competition repertoire to be sung by the singers step by step. Although Xiao Yao will revise the script written by the screenwriter every time, most of them only modify the introduction of his appearance, and occasionally change the chatting and interaction with the audience at the beginning, Xiao Yao rarely moves the introduction words of other singers.

More than half an hour later, the first four singers appeared in turn to present their performances, and the fifth singer next to the scene was Xiao Yao's turn.

"The next person to appear is the fifth competing singer in this scene. After guiding the audience to bid farewell to Tian Wei, who appeared in the fourth place, with another round of applause, Xiao Yao began the introduction of the fifth singer.

"First of all, let me state that the following remarks only represent personal views and have nothing to do with the position of the program team!" Xiao Yao did not directly introduce the song, but suddenly came to such a sentence, and then began to evaluate the next singer who appeared, "I personally think that the next singer should be the weakest singer in this show." ”

"Huh?" Hearing Xiao Yao's comment, many viewers were subconsciously stunned, "Publicly commenting on other singers in the show, saying that people are the weakest, is this really good?

"Unless...", many viewers who reacted quickly immediately thought of a possibility.

Sure enough, Xiao Yao's next words immediately made the audience at the scene suddenly realize.

"Why do you say that?" Xiao Yao continued: "Because I have recently read a lot of comments and comments from the audience on the Internet, saying that this singer has to play tricks in every episode of the show, that's because he can't sing well, he can't sing well at all, he can only rely on those clothes, musical instruments and other things to attract attention, attract everyone's attention, and rely on these off-board tricks to win some additional audience votes, so he can always rely on this show." After reading these comments, I think it makes sense, so I also think this guy is weak, what do you think?"

"No!" shouted a lot of people in the audience who shook their heads.

Before the plagiarism incident came out, the most talked about this show on the Internet was Xiao Yao's performance in the show. Everyone has also read these comments, and as soon as Xiao Yao said this, the audience at the scene immediately understood who he was talking about. Before yesterday's press conference, Xiao Yao had never responded publicly, but he didn't expect him to say it, once he said it, not only angrily scolded reporters at the press conference, but also brought this topic to the stage.

"Isn't it?" Xiao Yao smiled, and suddenly changed his expression of disgust to the audience, "You are just not as knowledgeable as some netizens! Everyone has said that this show is called a singer, not a musician, and it is not an opera program, except for the episode of the opera, what is the matter with you singing with a musical instrument on stage every day? If you have the ability, you don't take any musical instrument, and sing honestly and in a regular manner, see what you can sing!"

"Huh~" There was a boo from the audience, and I don't know if it was some netizens who booed, or Xiao Yao on the stage.

"Could it be that there are no flowers in this time, and he doesn't have any musical instruments, is he going to sing honestly?" Many viewers guessed in their hearts following Xiao Yao's words, and at the same time, a wave of disappointment surged in their hearts.

"So how did the singer respond?" Xiao Yao stretched out his hand to the side of the stage and pointed, "Please look!"

The audience looked in the direction Xiao Yao pointed out and found that while Xiao Yao was talking just now, the staff of the program team had moved a black grand piano to the stage.

"He said, I just want to be both a singer and a musician, you bite me?!" Xiao Yao said loudly.

"Hah!" the audience laughed and burst into applause.

"The next song, "I want us to be together", give it to everyone!" Xiao Yao finally reported the title of the song, turned around and walked to the piano and sat down, and put the microphone in his hand on the microphone stand next to him.

In this performance, Xiao Yao did not nod to the orchestra conductor Liu Tong, exhaled lightly, and stretched out his hands to play directly on the piano keys.

As soon as the prelude to the piano sounded, many audience members lit up. It's not that these few seconds of prelude melody are amazing or catchy, but judging from the melody of the prelude and Xiao Yao's state through his facial expressions when playing, I feel that this is a song that is very different from the style of Xiao Yao's previous works. And when the prelude ended and Xiao Yao opened his mouth to sing, this feeling was even stronger.

"The wind ~ blows far away on my face, my hands, my hair, my heart, my eyes~

You stay far away in that city, that road, that house, that lamp, that window~"

"Wow~" was just the first two sentences, and Xiao Yao made the audience let out a burst of exclamations.

With the performance of reading the advertising slogans so many times before, the audience was not surprised that Xiao Yao could sing these two unusually long sentences, but it was very unexpected to write a song like this and sing it with this taste.

"It's a jazzy song, it's so good to listen to!" said Verstila as he watched the live TV footage.

"I'm a good girl, this little guy is playing jazz again?" Hong Wei, who was sitting next to him, even changed his verbal words of exclamation, turned his head to look at Xiao Siqi on the other side and said, "Old Xiao, your son can even play jazz music?" In my impression, it seems that you have never written jazz songs, right?"

Xiao Yao is the fifth to appear, and now except for Liang Xueying in sixth and Hua Xiaoyun in seventh, the first four singers who have finished singing have all returned to the rest hall to watch the live broadcast of the singers in the back.

"It was also the first time I heard a jazz song he wrote. Xiao Siqi smiled, "Just because I haven't written jazz songs doesn't mean he can't write them." I haven't written a rap song yet, but if you look at how many rap songs he has written? His music style is more miscellaneous than mine, no, it's much richer. He said that his style is that there is no style, and he will try any style and type. I taught him basic music theory and composition, but in terms of musical style, I have always been influenced by him. ”

"I remember that you used to hold me with your eyes closed, as if I was your face and grin~

I don't know how to laugh at you, cry at you, ignore you with my mouth open, like a machine~"

On the stage in the studio, after Xiao Yao finished singing the four sentences of the first main song, the song did not enter the chorus, but another main song composed of the same melody and the same long sentence lyrics.

At the end of the second verse, the audience who could see the lyric teleprompter could already hear that this was a slightly decadent sad love song. After so many episodes of the show, everyone is not too surprised that Xiao Yao wrote this type of song, and what surprised the audience was the strong jazz style in Xiao Yao's song. In the audience's impression, Xiao Yao has played folk songs, rock, R&B, hip-hop, and even opera. Jazz? This seems like the first time.

In addition to the surprise brought to the audience by the style and type of this song, the audience also discovered that Xiao Yao was also different in his performance today. It's not the first time that Xiao Yao has performed piano playing and singing on stage, but whether it is "It's Now" or "Red Rose", Xiao Yao's piano performance is not throughout, and he hasn't used the piano as the only soundtrack for a long time. And this time, Xiao Yao sat in front of the piano peacefully, and sang the first two main songs with the accompaniment of the piano instrument he played.

This song "I Want Us to Be Together" is a masterpiece created by Li Quan for Fan Xiaoxuan's transformation in the previous life. Li Quan studied piano since he was a child, and also majored in piano at the Conservatory of Music. In his works, the piano has always dominated the soundtrack, and it is also the biggest feature of the soundtrack arrangement. In this jazzy song, the piano also occupies a dominant position, and the characteristics are very distinct.

The piano sound in this song is originally very attractive, and this kind of pure piano accompaniment, without other instruments to disturb the situation, made the audience at the scene preoccupied with Xiao Yao. In addition to being amazed by Xiao Yao's rare jazz style and singing, Xiao Yao's free-flowing piano performance also impressed the audience.

"I'll go, Xiao Yao's piano is too slippery!"

"Looking at his state, this piano is like playing!"

Many of the audience sighed in their hearts.

When I saw Xiao Yao's piano performance on stage the first two times, it was obvious that the piano playing was only an auxiliary in the song performance, and most of the audience's impressions were just "Xiao Yao can also play the piano", "Xiao Yao can play and sing by himself" and so on, at most he was surprised by his age and the fact that he could play, as for how well he played, most of the audience felt that it was not much different from many singers who played the piano when singing.

But this time, such a long solo piano soundtrack gave the audience a different feeling. This kind of jazz style that feels very casual, and Xiao Yao's performance state on the spot, suddenly made many people distinguish Xiao Yao from other singers who perform piano playing in concerts or TV shows. I think it's the kind of performance that can be performed at the level of a solo piano recital.

Although Xiao Yao did hold a piano recital for more than half an hour in the show, the singers have long seen his piano level, but because of the time constraints of the show, this kind of tidbits can be broadcast on TV, and what the audience can see is only a few dozen seconds of clips. For many audiences, the singer's concert-level piano performance on stage was the first time they felt it live.

Even those singers who had heard Xiao Yao's private piano recital were a little surprised at the moment. However, what surprised them was not Xiao Yao's piano playing skills, but Xiao Yao's song.

"I know!" Tian Wei suddenly clapped her hands and screamed.

"What do you know?" Hong Wei looked at Tian Wei and said, "What are you doing, surprised?"

"When I was in the middle of the rehearsal, I listened to the musicians of the band chatting about Xiao Yao's song in the middle of this competition, and I now know why!" Tian Wei said, "The piano in this song is so brilliant, he deliberately used this way to respond to the accusations on the Internet that he plagiarized other people's piano music! It turned out that it was just a development conference, and it was not enough to tell everyone that he was XY, he also had to use his works and actions on the stage to further prove himself!"

"Really?" Hong Wei looked at Xiao Siqi, "Don't you tell me that he wrote this song after the plagiarism incident came out?"

"Don't look at me, don't ask me!" Xiao Siqi spread his hands, "I don't even know about him changing songs halfway." We don't ask each other what they're singing. ”

"Oh, I said you father and son, as for it?" Hong Wei rolled his eyes and said.

"Alas, yo~

You said you said we should be together~"

Moving on to the chorus of the song, the soundtrack finally includes the sounds of other instruments such as the drum kit.

It's not that Xiao Yao didn't think that the whole song was completed with the accompaniment of a single piano, in his previous life, Li Quan himself had a pure piano accompaniment version of this song, and Xiao Yao himself was not unable to play like this. But considering that this is a competition scene after all, not playing casually in the recording studio, and how much needs to consider the audio-visual experience and appreciation needs of the audience, Xiao Yao still used Fan Xiaoxuan's version of the soundtrack, and added the accompaniment of other instruments such as drums, accordions, violas, and violins to the chorus to enrich the expressiveness of the song during live performances.

However, even with the addition of other instruments, the main soundtrack of this song is still the piano sound played by Xiao Yao.

This song is a relatively rare structure of two consecutive main songs followed by three consecutive choruses, with a relatively long interlude between the first and second choruses. In this interlude, neither the long accordion that characterizes the first half, nor the snare drum in the first half of the second half, and the accordion, violin, and drum kit in the second half, do not overpower the piano in the slightest. The piano has always been one of the most recognizable and distinctive accompaniment instruments throughout the song. Xiao Yao never left the piano bench under his butt from beginning to end, and he completed the piano part of the whole song by himself.

"It's not like now, it can only be far away, singing you~"

Among the three choruses, the first two are exactly the same, and the third chorus at the end of the year, in addition to changing "life is effortless" to "love you effortlessly", only adds this very melancholy and mournful sentence at the end.

After singing the last sentence, Xiao Yao raised his head slightly, left the microphone in front of him, closed his eyes and played the ensemble with the accordion at the end of the song.

"Xiao Yao!"

"Xiao Yao!"

When the piano sound of the last note dissipated and Xiao Yao withdrew his hands to the knees of his legs, many audience members couldn't wait to stand up from their seats, raise their hands and shout loudly while clapping. This time, no one in the excited audience deliberately shouted XY anymore, all of them shouted his real name Xiao Yao.