Chapter Forty-Nine: Midsummer Lightyear
In the applause of the audience, Gong Chen turned around and walked to the passage leading to the backstage. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info staggered past Xu Yuan on the stage on the passage, and the two clapped each other as if encouraging.
"Do you want to talk to me so badly? You're helping me pull hatred. When the two staggered by, Xu Yuan couldn't help but laugh and joke.
"You should be happy when I say that, right?" Gong Chen smiled.
"Next, I invite the black witch who doesn't know magic to bring her solo song, "Midsummer Lightyear"!" Seeing Xu Yuan, who walked to the middle of the stage, ready to prepare, Yang Hao also immediately announced loudly.
"Midsummer Lightyear? It's really a new song, I don't know what it looks like. The audience and the guessing panel were very interested, and their eyes focused on Xu Yuan on the stage.
"The destruction of my pride, the ordinariness I hate, only to remember those are my favorites~" After a prelude with piano, drums, cello and electronic percussion, Xu Yuan on the stage sang in a low voice. From the melody, rhythm and lyrics at the beginning alone, the audience felt that this should be a rock song with a strong sense of power.
"Midsummer Lightyear" is the theme song of the same name composed by Chen Xinhong of Mayday in his previous life for the movie "Midsummer Lightyear". When Xiao Yao heard this song for the first time in his previous life, he didn't listen to the original version of Chen Xinhong, but was shocked by Chen Bing's version on the reality show. When he saw that the songwriter on the TV screen was Ah Xin, his first reaction was to think that this Ah Xin was Su Jianxin of the Xin Orchestra, not Chen Xinhong of Mayday. However, when he later found the original version and listened to it, he was not too interested in Mayday and Chen Xinhong, but he almost immediately turned to fans.
In fact, purely from the perspective of listening to songs, he still thinks that listening to Chen Bing's version is more enjoyable for the ears, but if you really want to hear something deeper from the song, it is still Chen Xinhong's original version that feels better. Especially when he compared it and found that Chen Bing's version also omitted the two very unpositive lyrics of "make the law simpler and the order more chaotic" in the original lyrics, his feeling was even worse. Whether it was a helpless move because of the length of the show, anyway, in Xiao Yao's heart in his previous life, this song should not be as simple as an inspirational song. Chen Bing's version always seems to have a feeling of missing an inner soul. Chen Xinhong's version, purely from the performance of the singing, he always felt that it was not enjoyable.
Coming to this life, Xiao Yao naturally wanted to synthesize these two versions to make up for some imperfect shortcomings.
In terms of tune, Xiao Yao referred to Chen Bing's version in his previous life, and raised the tone on the basis of Ashin's original version. In terms of soundtrack, Xiao Yao has made some enrichments on the basis of Ashin's original version. After polishing several songs such as "faded", "nonsense", "who said", Xiao Yao, who has more experience in the combination of psychedelic electronic, string and electronic music and rock, increased the electronic music soundtrack that was already very present in the original soundtrack, so as to highlight the despair and confusion in the song, and added violin to the soundtrack that also highlights the rock and roll strength such as drums, electric guitar, and bass in the chorus part to further strengthen the singer's strength when he erupts.
In terms of the singer's performance, Xu Yuan's vocal range and sound quality are not inferior to Chen Bing in his previous life, in addition to pointing out a few small broken sounds in Chen Bing's live performance in his previous life for him to pay a little attention to, Xiao Yao directly told Xu Yuan the storyline of the movie "Midsummer Light Year" in his previous life to guide her emotional expression in this song. Really calculated, whether it is the difficulty of singing the song, the difficulty of emotional expression, or the richness and complexity of the soundtrack, this song "Midsummer Light Year" for Xu Yuan is much higher than the song "Water Tune Song Head: When Will the Bright Moon Be There" for Gong Chen, and Xiao Yao spent much more time and energy on this song than Gong Chen.
Judging from the reactions of the audience and guests, Xiao Yao's efforts seem to be completely worth it.
In the first part of the song, Xu Yuan's voice fully showed a decadent and confused atmosphere, and many viewers and guests of the guessing panel looked at her with complicated expressions and frowned.
And when the song slowly walked through the main song and chorus of the first paragraph, the occasional small burst of sound exploded in the audience's ears from time to time, and the audience's emotions were also mobilized by Xu Yuan, gradually following Xu Yuan from confusion to despair, and finally to an extreme explosion.
"A carnival in midsummer has come to light years away, is growing up a festering that people must go through?!" With Xu Yuan's rather wild roar accompanied by heavy steps, almost half of the audience at the scene was sung by her and stood up from their seats.
"I don't turn, I don't turn, I don't turn, I don't turn, oh~" With the gradually rising tone, when Xu Yuan's last treble burst out, the rest of the audience and the guests on the guessing panel couldn't help but stand up. The guests were still more reserved and stood and applauded with admiration on their faces, while the audience at the scene began to raise their hands and shout with her subconsciously.
When Xu Yuan stepped on the last high note, Xiao Yao, who was also a live performance version, did not let the whole song come to an abrupt end like Chen Bing's version, in addition to letting the intense drum beat and electric guitar sound that continued for a measure end to her singing, Xiao Yao also added an electro-processed piano melody to the end of the soundtrack. But after all, this is a live performance, and he can't make Xu Yuan and everyone on the scene stand stupidly for more than a minute like Chen Xinhong's original version to make Xu Yuan and everyone on the scene stand stupidly for more than a minute without doing anything, but condensed this melody to about ten seconds. When everyone took a slight breath in this melody and calmed down a little, this futuristic piano sound also came to an end, and the whole song ended.
After the sound of the soundtrack completely disappeared, it was obvious from the ups and downs of his chest that Xu Yuan, who was still a little excited and a little panting, bowed deeply to the audience.
"Oh~" With Xu Yuan's thanks this time, the audience who had not all sat down at the scene stood up again, and they raised their hands with a little strength and throat, and once again let out a scream and cheer that was about to overturn the roof of the studio.
On the side of the guessing panel, several younger singers and guests even raised their hands and bent down to Xu Yuan to make a "worship" action.
"Thank you, thank you!" Xu Yuan clenched the microphone with both hands, and once again thanked the audience and the guests of the guessing panel. Even after the treatment of the voice changer, everyone can still hear the excitement in her voice.
"This song of hers is so good!" In the lounge, even Gong Chen, who had always been elegant, couldn't help but say excitedly to Xiao Yao on the side.
"yes, better than I could have imagined, better than all the people I remember. Xiao Yao was also excited, his hands clenched into fists, and he nodded again and again.
"Better than all the people you remember?" Gong Chen said a little strangely, "Isn't this the song you wrote for her?"
"No, no one else in this world has sung this song except her. Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I was too excited just now, talking nonsense." "The so-called people in memory are naturally those singers in the previous life. They are not in this world, Xu Yuan is indeed the only person in this world who has sung this song at present, and even Xiao Yao has not tried it after writing it himself.
As he spoke, Xiao Yao exhaled heavily and sat down on the sofa with Gong Chen. The two of them were the same as the audience at the scene just now, and they were sung by Xu Yuan halfway through it, and they stood in front of the TV screen and listened to the back half.
"I don't know how to describe it. Chen Zhihan spoke first, touched his chin and said, "I feel like my jaw is about to dislocate." ”
"I felt like my heart and head were going to explode when I heard this song. Wei Dazhang commented.
"Very, very impressive. Xie Xinhua gave a thumbs up.
"It's the first time I've heard a singer sing a song like this. Li Yu shook his head and said.
"Thank you, thank you teachers. Listening to these comments, Xu Yuan didn't know what to say or do except say thank you.
"This is a very difficult song," Chen Zhihan began his normal comment, "The transposition and vocal range span, especially the high-pitched scale, are very challenging for singers, and I dare not say that your live singing is completely flawless." But in this atmosphere and environment of the scene, especially in the atmosphere and environment created by your infectiousness, expressiveness, and emotional expression ability, you can sing like this and sing this effect, I can only say one sentence, I can't think of a better situation. ”
"I agree with Mr. Chen Zhihan," Xie Xinhua continued, "but I am more interested in the infectious energy and emotional expression of your voice than your singing skills, your transposition, and your explosive high-pitched voice." At first, there was decadence, confusion, and even a bit of psychedelic flavor, and then it slowly reached despair, and finally the outburst that struggled out of despair shocked me too much. ”
"Listen to your voice, and your external image," Xie Xinhua stretched out his hand and pointed up and down at Xu Yuan on the stage, "I guess you shouldn't be that old, and how do you express a song so rich and... Profound?" Finally, Xie Xinhua pondered his words.
Xu Yuan's costume is mysterious and sexy, compared to those singers who wrap themselves tightly, everyone thinks that they can still guess her age from her exposed body parts.
"Did our music director, Mr. Gong Yushang, give you any special guidance?" asked Li Yu curiously.
"It's not Teacher Gong, it's a demon younger than me. Xu Yuan said with a smile.
"Let me make a statement," Miyawa Shoya, who was standing in front of the band, took a microphone and skimmed out, "I didn't do the arrangement and soundtrack of the three songs of the Kraken and the Witch, let alone guide their singing. I'm just the conductor of the band's accompaniment. ”
"Are you talking about the demon who is removing Gong Chen's makeup in the backstage lounge now?" Wei Dazhang pointed in surprise and pointed in the direction of the backstage passage.
"Yes," Xu Yuan nodded, "It seems that we haven't introduced it completely, in fact, I and the Kraken... and Gong Chen sang three songs today, two and a half of which were created by Xiao Yao, and only the lyricist of Gong Chen's song was Mr. Dongpo of the Song Dynasty. And all the arrangements and soundtracks for these three songs, as well as the singing guidance when we practiced, were also from him. He's a good producer in his own right, and he's good at that. ”
"Wow!" Wei Dazhang couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, "This demon is too demonic, right?"
In this way, he won four awards at this year's Golden Disc Awards, but I'm afraid he still won't get enough. Chen Zhihan also shook his head and said.
The audience at the scene let out a large number of exclamations.
"Speaking of this song specifically. When the voice on the scene was a little quieter, Xu Yuan continued, "In addition to purely technical guidance, he told me a story about the emotional expression of the song. ”
"Storytelling again?" many people were surprised.
"Yes, it's called 'Midsummer Light Year,' a story about two teenagers growing up," Xu said, "and he said the song was based on this story." It's interesting to listen to his stories, and he has a strong sense of images when he tells stories. It made me feel like I wasn't just listening to a story, I was watching a movie under his guidance. ”