Chapter 429: Backing
This year, if Huaxia wants to evaluate a topic of the year in the entertainment industry, Xiao Yao will definitely be at the top of the list.
Since the personal brand launch at the beginning of the year, he has hardly been out of the public eye for a long time.
The first is that the short film won an award at a foreign film festival. Although this film festival is not well-known among ordinary people, its artistry and authority are very high in the industry. This is a short film he wrote, directed and acted in, as a director and screenwriter, his award is to create a record for the age of these two professional Chinese people to win awards abroad.
The next thing is the popularity during the participation in "Singer". Not to mention the topic of the period since the debut, there are three pure music albums in the middle. After being accused of plagiarism, it was revealed that he started writing at the age of four and started writing songs at the age of five. In addition, he not only made a magical dance that swept the Internet during "Singer", but also went to play live broadcast anonymously and plunged into the online live broadcast circle. After the end of "Singer", a total of dozens of songs were released in the original song and written for others, which almost contracted the ears of fans during the entire summer vacation.
Traveling alone, I happened to encounter the earthquake in Wuyou County, and the performance of running to the affected area to help was on CCTV's social news, and after returning from the disaster area, I participated in the charity gala, CCTV disaster relief gala, and star charity basketball game. He was the most eye-catching star during the earthquake and the one who was praised the most. Even if you don't look at what he actually did in the disaster area, from a purely economic point of view, although he has not publicly donated a penny, the money he brought to the disaster area ranks among the top ten among all acting stars.
Next, after writing four theme songs and promotional songs for the Basketball Association, he went to New York to participate in Fashion Week, during which he broadcast live, posted star street photography, and made a new performance art, not to mention the movements of these things, but also encountered robberies and ticket kidnapping cases, and incidentally participated in a hijacking case last year, which once attracted the attention of the world. Finally, all the things in the case were solved, and the shooting of a MV created a trend of performance art, which caused a group of sanitation workers to scold the street every day.
When I came back from the United States, I made a live broadcast when I moved, threw out a new song again, and made a "Love Gesture Dance" that was not inferior to "Seve".
Some good people counted these things and found that from beginning to end of the year, Xiao Yao alone occupied almost one-third of the entertainment headlines of the year. In addition to entertainment news, Xiao Yao has also appeared on social news a lot. Based on his performance during the earthquake and several cases he experienced in the United States, Xiao Yao is even the name that appears the most on social news this year, not counting the country's leaders.
is such a topical star, and there is no negative news in it, the Spring Festival Gala program team will naturally not ignore it. Without waiting for Qi Jia's studio to send an application, the Spring Festival Gala program team took the initiative to send an invitation to Xiao Yao.
Judging from the music works released by Xiao Yao this year, at least three songs are very suitable for the Spring Festival Gala stage.
The live expressiveness of the rock song "Descendants of the Dragon" is very helpful, and the content of the lyrics and the national spirit expressed are not inferior to the "Great Wall" performed by Xiao Yao at the Spring Festival Gala last year, which is naturally very suitable for the Spring Festival Gala stage.
"Dream Chasing Order" is not inferior to "The New Concubine Drunk" favored by the Spring Festival Gala program team the year before last, and even surpasses it. The combination of tradition and modernity was originally what the Spring Festival Gala program team wanted to see, in terms of song style and content, the two songs are both a combination of Beijing rhyme and modern pop, but judging from the amazing ancient costumes on the stage of "Singer" at that time and the dance movements during the performance, this song is more attractive than the performance form of each half of the face of "The New Concubine is Drunk", and there is no need for the program team to make design changes, and it can be directly put into the opera unit to perform.
There is also Xiao Yao's chorus song "Because of You". The Wuyou County earthquake is the biggest event of the year, and it is impossible not to mention it at the Spring Festival Gala. The public welfare effect of this song is no worse than last year's song "A Song Not for Anyone", and it was premiered at the disaster relief party, which has a natural connection with disaster relief. The Spring Festival Gala is not a disaster relief party, and it is impossible to find a bunch of big names to do a chorus, so this song, which was evaluated by netizens and the media as the most popular and audible at the disaster relief party, and is only sung by two people, has naturally become the first choice for the Spring Festival Gala program team to express condolences to the people in the disaster area.
In addition to these three songs, some of Xiao Yao's other songs released this year are more suitable for the Spring Festival Gala stage. For example, "It's Now" and "When You're Old", one is high-spirited, the other is full of warmth, and the program team can also accept their appearance on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Because there are too many repertoire to choose from, the Spring Festival Gala program team not only took the initiative to send Xiao Yao an invitation to perform, but also gave Xiao Yao an unprecedented performance time for the two programs, and finally gave Xiao Yao a great degree of freedom, allowing him to choose the repertoire to perform. If they want to sing "Because of You", they don't even force Xiao Yao to cooperate with the more famous Liang Xueying like at the disaster relief party, and there is no problem with bringing the official version of the female singer Fan Linxuan to perform on stage.
Although the Spring Festival Gala program team put forward such generous conditions, it still did not impress Xiao Yao, who had already participated in the Spring Festival Gala once last year. Xiao Yao was not particularly interested in the Spring Festival Gala, a particularly serious party, and last year's participation in the Spring Festival Gala was a joke with Xu Yuan at the New Year's Eve party, and he was caught talking, and the song he liked in the Spring Festival Gala was just enough for him to advertise his brand, plus he had already refused once before, and it was not good to refuse again this time, and he agreed to go only after several conditions were combined. I already participated in the Spring Festival Gala once last year, and even that freshness is gone, Xiao Yao doesn't want to go again this year anyway.
Of course, not being interested and feeling bored is just Xiao Yao's inner thoughts, and he can't reply to the program team directly. The reason Xiao Yao gave was the same as what he told Ah Zi, that he needed to accompany his family. The companion family that Xiao Yao said is not to accompany his parents for the New Year, but to accompany his grandfather Xiao Chengru.
It's just Xiao Yao who is popular this year. With his performance in "Singer", Xiao Siqi, who won the championship, also received an active invitation from the Spring Festival Gala program group, and Xiao Siqi's program that the program team liked was not the song "Hill" in the finals of "Singer", but the song "You Are the Most Precious" sung by him and Ye Jiaying as husband and wife. What the program team thought was that so that their family of three appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala together in the same year, which can be regarded as a good story. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yao moved out of another member of the family as a reason for refusal.
According to the tradition of the Xiao family, on the day of the New Year, they accompanied the old man in Xiao Chengru's courtyard. If Xiao Siqi's family of three all went to the Spring Festival Gala to perform, it would be necessary to leave the seventy-year-old man alone for Chinese New Year's Eve, and the three of them felt that it was not appropriate. If the Spring Festival Gala program group is selected, they would prefer Xiao Yao to participate in the Spring Festival Gala and let Xiao Siqi and his wife accompany the old man for the New Year, but they have sent invitations to Xiao Yao and Xiao Siqi, and the choice is not in their hands.
Xiao Yao participated in the Spring Festival Gala last year, and it was Xiao Siqi and his wife who accompanied the old man for the New Year. It stands to reason that this year it should be Xiao Yao's turn to accompany the old man. This year is the first natural year of Xiao Yao's college career, and it is the first time that he has not been in Yanjing all year round, and he has not returned to Yanjing much during the summer vacation, and the number of meetings with the old man is much less than in previous years. The old man thinks more about his grandson than he thinks about his son, and it is more appropriate for Xiao Yao to stay with the old man.
In addition, Xiao Yao also felt that he had much more opportunities to go to the Spring Festival Gala in the future than his parents, and it was rare that the program team of this year's Spring Festival Gala took a fancy to the program performed by his parents, and the opportunity was even more rare, so he naturally insisted on staying with the old man and letting his parents go to the Spring Festival Gala.
Mr. Xiao Chengru is a performing artist of the older generation, even if he doesn't perform a show, he is qualified to be an audience at the Spring Festival Gala. The Spring Festival Gala program team didn't want to invite the old man to the scene of the Spring Festival Gala as an audience, such a family of four, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren can reunite in the CCTV studio for the New Year, but the old man who knew Xiao Yao's thoughts did not agree and insisted on staying at home for the New Year. As a result, Xiao Yao, the hottest star of the year, could only "helplessly" miss this year's Spring Festival Gala.
On the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, in Xiao Chengru's courtyard, Xiao Chengru and Xiao Yao's grandfather and grandson gathered together to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner while watching the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala. Although the two of them are not too lively, they are still very warm.
"Yo, Baoqing's cross talk! Baoqing has personally come out this year!" Seeing Zhang Baoqing's cross talk program on TV, Xiao Chengru remembered what Xiao Yao asked him about some time ago, so he asked Xiao Yao curiously, "Bayi, what did you ask me about the old Zhang family some time ago?"
"It's about his daughter!" Xiao Yao said.
"Of course I know it has something to do with his daughter! Isn't it the relationship between Baoqing and his daughter that you asked me to inquire about?" Xiao Chengru said, "You can't always be interested in Baoqing's half-pulled old man, right? What is your relationship with his daughter?"
"Well, I'll tell you from the beginning. Xiao Yao said, "Here's the thing..."
When Xiao Chengru was asked to inquire about the news, Xiao Yao didn't tell Xiao Chengru too specifically on the phone, but now that Xiao Chengru asked, he simply told the whole thing.
"That's the whole thing," Xiao Yao told Xiao Chengru about Zhang Huanian, and finally reminded him, "Grandpa, don't tell Mr. Baoqing that I already know that his daughter is his daughter!"
"Ouch, what already knows that his daughter is his daughter, how can you say it so roundly!" Xiao Chengru said with a smile, "You said that this Baoqing is true, what does the child want to do is the child's freedom, he even has to take care of this? Don't worry, I won't tell him!"
"Mr. Baoqing doesn't want his daughter to be a singer, didn't you also want your father to be a singer?" Xiao Yao smiled, "I thought you supported Mr. Baoqing!"
"I don't want your dad to be a singer, but he really wants to sing, and I didn't stop him! Don't compare me with this Baoqing, I'm not the same as him!" Xiao Chengru glared and said, "Besides, what kind of cross talk does the girl's family say? You see how many famous female cross talk actors there are now? Women talk about cross talk, and they are born with disadvantages." ”
"Grandpa, you're sexist!" Xiao Yao smiled, "Less doesn't mean no, a few decades ago, there were still excellent female cross talk artists, but in recent years, no young female cross talk actors have come out." Even actresses who learned cross talk later transformed into sketches or film and television dramas. Maybe it's because there are few female cross talk actors now, and it's almost out of gear, that Mr. Baoqing wants to train his daughter to be a cross talk actor to fill this gap. Besides, Mr. Ren Baoqing also said that it is not necessary for his daughter to say cross talk, even if she is an ordinary office worker who works from 9 to 5, she can accept it, but she just doesn't want her to be a singer. ”
"What kind of sexism? You don't give your grandfather and I button my hat indiscriminately. Xiao Chengru glared at Xiao Yao, and then said, "Listening to what you mean, it seems that you understand Baoqing's appearance very well, so what are you still doing with him?"
"I understand that his thoughts do not mean that I support his approach! Of course I'm standing on Ah Zi~ Oh, it's Mr. Baoqing's daughter Zhang Huanian's side. Xiao Yao said.
"Hey, why do I sound a little insinuating?" Xiao Chengru smiled, "Do you have an opinion about me and your mother, or do you have an opinion about your father?"
"Absolutely not!" Xiao Yao immediately shook his head and said, "I know that you and my father want me to inherit your profession, but you have never forced me to do anything, being an actor and a singer are things I want to do and am willing to do." ”
Xiao Yao raised his hands and continued: "You see that I can write songs when I am five years old, and I didn't release a single until I was sixteen years old. At the age of eight, he acted in dramas, at the age of fourteen he made a TV series, and at the age of eighteen, he made a short film. How long has it been since I was singing or acting? And when I was more than eight years old, I left singing and acting, went to learn photography, and now I'm a photographer. These are unthinkable in other families, and you are all enough to come by my temperament. I feel happy enough to be able to be reweight~ to be born in such a family. ”
"Yes, what I said~ You can really make people happy!" Xiao Chengru didn't notice Xiao Yao's very small slip of the tongue, and said with a hearty smile, "You guy has been so creative since he was a child, we just want to force you to do anything, and we can't force it! If you had that agreement with your family, you would have already met those conditions on your own. Maybe he will stay in the United States and not come back, and he will be famous in the United States. ”
"That has to be taught well by you since childhood," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I wasn't born to know everything." ”
"Okay, okay, let's not blow each other. Xiao Chengru waved his hand and smiled, "Anyway, you can do whatever you want, if Baoqing wants to find you trouble, grandpa, I will help you block it." I had a relationship with Baoqing's father back then, and he had to call me uncle when he saw me!"
"Yes, with grandpa as the backing, I'm not afraid of anything!" Xiao Yao smiled and poured wine into the empty cup in front of Xiao Chengru.
"Yo, your parents are out. Xiao Chengru looked at the figures of Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying on TV, and said with a smile.
"Singing in the Spring Festival Gala, my parents are the first couple, right?" Xiao Yao also turned his head to look at the TV and asked with a smile.
"Think about it," Xiao Chengru thought for a while before nodding and said, "There are couples who partner in sketches together in the Spring Festival Gala, but couples who sing the same song together, your parents seem to be the first couple!"
"Then my parents have created a history of the Spring Festival Gala?" Xiao Yao said with a smile.
"Hehe, it's really!" Xiao Chengru said with a smile, "Actually, there were two couples who were both singers who participated in the same Spring Festival Gala before, but they didn't sing the same song at that time." The Spring Festival Gala program team asked your parents to sing this song by name because they sang it on "Singer", and the effect was particularly good. At the end of the day, it's the song you wrote for your parents that you wrote well!"
"Grandpa, didn't you say that you shouldn't blow each other?" Xiao Yao said with a smile.
"Okay, okay, let's stop blowing you, let's talk about something else. Xiao Chengru waved his hand again, and continued, "Bayi, it's good that you just said that grandpa is your backing, but your backing is not only grandpa and me, but your parents are also your backing, and our whole family is your backing." ”
"Of course!" Xiao Yao nodded, "Let's not talk about life, I know that my parents opened that studio for me, and that studio did provide me with a lot of convenience." ”
"Then shouldn't you also do something for your parents and help them?" Xiao Chengru said.
"Are they in any trouble?" Xiao Yao straightened his face and asked seriously.
If Xiao Siqi said this, Xiao Yao might still feel that this was a fool of his father who wanted to "exploit" him, and maybe he would gag, but Xiao Chengru said this, Xiao Yao was much more serious.
"Don't be so serious, it's not a nuisance. Xiao Chengru waved his hand, shook his head and smiled, "It's that Jiaying plans to transform behind the scenes, wants to be a director and make movies, and is looking for a good book recently." ”
"I don't think you ever wrote the script for a TV series, and you wrote the book for that short film yourself? If you have any good books, you might as well show them to your mother. Xiao Chengru continued, "If not, it doesn't matter, you read a lot of books, if you find something suitable for adaptation into a movie, you might as well recommend it to your mother." ”