Chapter 499: Tour Follow-up
The first half of that online comment is the truth, Xiao Yao's tour, the guests are indeed all female singers. As for the second half, Xiao Yao's connections in the music industry are certainly not limited to female singers. In the Chinese music scene, male singers like Shazhou, Qin Xiaodong, and Yi Kun also have a good relationship with Xiao Yao.
The problem is that these male singers who have a good relationship with Xiao Yao are all first-line celebrities in the Mesozoic era. A LiveHouse tour with only a few hundred viewers per show, Xiao Yao is embarrassed to open up to these big names and let them come as guests for their tour for free.
None of Xiao Yao's guests on this tour are over 30 years old, and they basically belong to the new generation of singers. In addition to the coffee position is smaller, the age is younger, and Xiao Yao is more able to hold it, these singers are all Xiao Yao has written songs and cooperated with them, and Xiao Yao is more embarrassed to let people sing for free.
When it comes to the new generation of singers for whom Xiao Yao has written songs, most of them are female singers. This is the real reason why the guests on this tour are all female singers. And the reason for this situation is related to Xiao Yao's own identity and personality.
Xiao Yao is not only a songwriter, but also a singer himself, and he is also the kind of singer who can control a variety of different styles. The songs he wrote, those suitable for male singers are generally sung by himself, and only songs suitable for female singers will be sung by others.
From his official debut to the present, Xiao Yao has only written songs for two male singers in China. One of these two is Xiao Yao's father Xiao Siqi, and the other is Xiao Yao's colleague and friend and teacher of hip-hop and rap Chen Chen. The songs for Xiao Siqi all need years of precipitation to sing the taste, and the two solo songs for Chen Chen are both rap, and several chorus songs are also responsible for the rap part, all of which Xiao Yao feels is more suitable to sing to them than himself.
Among the songs suitable for female singers, except for Liang Xueying's English song "Fighter", the other female singers are all new generations under the age of 30.
As for why most of the songs suitable for female singers are sung by young new generation female singers, it is related to Xiao Yao's character. Since recording his first album, Xiao Yao has been working as a producer himself. Since then, he has made as many of his own songs as possible.
But big-name singers generally have their own exclusive producers, and the producers are usually big-name names. Xiao Yao, a little guy in his twenties, conducted a famous female singer in her teens in the recording studio? Not to mention whether people were convinced or not, Xiao Yao himself felt that the picture was a little awkward.
That is, Liang Xueying took the initiative to find Xiao Yao during "Singer" and asked him to help her arrange the music, and she had the experience of working together, plus English is Xiao Yao's strength, Xiao Yao is confident that she is stronger than Liang Xueying and even her queen producer in terms of English pronunciation, so she will help Liang Xueying record the song "Fighter".
However, so far, there is only one exception to Liang Xueying's "Fighter". Xiao Yao didn't need to help him increase his popularity by singing his works by big-name singers, of course, he chose those new-generation female singers who would not have any discomfort under his guidance in the recording studio to cooperate.
Xiao Yao knows these reasons in his heart, but it is not suitable to explain them to the public public. Chen Chen and Guo Qi both ridiculed Xiao Yao for "heavy color and light friends", plus the previous documentary of the Eva swimsuit show, many people on the Internet laughed that "Xiao Yao only likes to play with girls". Opposites attract, Xiao Yao let netizens continue to discuss his "connections in the music industry are limited to women" under the comment of "all female guests".
Although Xiao Yao did not respond to the comments and discussions of netizens, the discussion about Xiao Yao on the Internet did not disappear soon, because of this tour, Xiao Yao still has some follow-up things to complete.
Some singers release a DVD of the concert after the concert. On the one hand, it is to let people who have been to the scene take a commemorative memory, let those who have not been to the scene feel the atmosphere of the scene to make up for regrets, and on the other hand, the release of concert DVDs in some iconic venues can also play a certain role in promoting singers.
Of course, not all concerts of all singers will be released on DVD. Among them, there are reasons for the popularity of the venue, commercial reasons for the inconsistency between the sales prospects and the cost budget, the reasons for the singer's copyright of singing songs at the concert, and the biggest reason is the problem of the singer himself. Some singers have limited singing skills, and the live performance effect is not suitable for DVD.
Although Xiao Yao's tour is not a large-scale concert, there are still many fans who regret not being able to buy tickets to the scene. The number of tickets for this tour is very small, the tickets for the nine performances have all been sold out two days before the start of the first show, Xiao Yao's Weibo is full of messages from netizens complaining that they can't buy tickets, Xiao Yao also understands the psychology of these fans, so he wants to make up for some regrets for those fans who didn't buy tickets.
Xiao Yao is very confident in his singing skills and the effect of the live performance, all the songs he sings are his own songs, and there is no problem with copyright, so when he was touring, Xiao Yao also arranged a professional film team to record the whole process of the performance.
Since he wanted to make up for the fans, Xiao Yao didn't want them to spend money. Therefore, Xiao Yao did not plan to release the DVD, but planned to put the videos of these nine performances on the Internet in the form of videos for netizens to watch for free.
Although there are now many live audience videos of performances shot with mobile phones circulating on the Internet, on the one hand, there is almost no complete video of any performance on the Internet, on the other hand, whether it is picture quality or sound quality, the video shot by mobile phones is obviously not comparable to the video shot by the professional film crew arranged by Xiao Yao and the direct audio radio, so Xiao Yao's official version of the complete video is still very necessary for those fans and netizens.
All nine performances were recorded with professional cameras and audio equipment, not just uploaded to the Internet like a video shot by a mobile phone, but also some post-production of editing and picture and sound synthesis.
Xiao Yao is ready to use his Weibo account to do the work of releasing the video, but Xiao Yao is not ready to participate in the post-production of the video. Although Xiao Yao will also do the post-production himself now, because he has other things to do, he did not do it himself, but handed it over to professionals who specialize in this kind of work.
Xiao Yao's post-production is in the nature of playing tickets, and director, actor and musician talent are his real profession. Now Xiao Yao has no work in acting, and the only thing that can make Xiao Yao put down post-production is to record songs.
After the tour, Xiao Yao just rested for a day, and then plunged into the recording studio again. This time, he has three songs that need to be recorded in the official version.
The first song is naturally the fixed opening song "I want to sing me to you" for the nine performances that Xiao Yao and A Zi collaborated on, which is also a necessary move for Xiao Yao to help A Zi further enhance his fame. After this tour, the song has begun to become popular, and of course Xiao Yao wants to launch the official version while the iron is hot.
The second song that needed to be recorded was the song "Painting" that Xiao Yao sang for the first time on tour when he was in Xi'an, and he also sang it many times later.
In fact, this song should have been recorded as early as the beginning of the year after going to Wuyou County to donate things to the four schools, but after coming back, he first took Zhan Youcheng to Germany, and then arranged for Ah Zi to go to the live broadcast room of the three female anchors of Youyu as a guest, and then he also broadcast live on several live broadcast platforms with different content, during which he also went to Zhan Youcheng every weekend to experience the role, and finally made a movie, went to Puerto Rico for vacation, and helped Ah Zi release singles and do publicity.
The last time I performed in bars and campsites was not a formal occasion, Xiao Yao was not in a hurry. Since they all sang on the tour this time, Xiao Yao wanted to record the official version of the song as well.
The first two songs that Xiao Yao wants to record have been performed on the tour, and this third song is not a song on the tour, but a newly written song that has not yet appeared in any form.
There is also a certain element of chance that this song will appear.
It was at the fifth stop of the tour, that is, when he was in Jiangcheng, Xiao Yao once took Fan Linxuan and A Zi to visit Jiangcheng for a morning. Fan Linxuan and Ah Zi both knew that Xiao Yao had a girlfriend, and there was a girl next to him, no one was too close to Xiao Yao, plus Xiao Yao was a tour guide, both of them followed Xiao Yao, and after listening to Xiao Yao, the two girls naturally got together. That was the first time Fan Linxuan and A Zi came into contact, and the two who were not familiar with each other before quickly became friends.
While visiting Jiangcheng, the three of them once took a short break in a café. At that time, Xiao Yao once went out and left his seat to answer a phone call, and when he came back, he saw the two girls chatting very happily, and a song suddenly popped up in his head.
The two songs in the single that Xiao Yao helped Ah Zi out were both songs of Jin Haixin in his previous life, and when he saw the picture of Ah Zi and Fan Linxuan drinking coffee and chatting about the sky, Xiao Yao suddenly remembered another song sung by Jin Haixin in his previous life, "Women's Coffee".
This song "Women's Coffee" is a song sung by Jin Haixin and Cai Chunjia in the previous life, describing the scene of two women drinking coffee together. Fan Linxuan and A Zi are both female singers, and they happen to be drinking coffee, although Xiao Yao doesn't know what they are talking about, but the scene at that time is very consistent with the scene described in this song, so Xiao Yao decided to write this song and give it to the two of them to sing.
It was during the tour. Although there is a band in the group, there is already a rehearsal task for the evening performance in the afternoon. If you temporarily add a completely unfamiliar song, it will be a very difficult thing for both the band and the two female singers, so Xiao Yao did not rush to put this very feminine song sung by the two women into his tour, but decided to find two people to go into the recording studio after the tour to record the official version directly.
Although he did not perform this song during the tour, Xiao Yao told the two at that time that he planned to let the two collaborate on a song, and agreed with them to record a new song, so after the tour, Fan Linxuan also came to Shencheng to record the song according to the time agreed with Xiao Yao.
Although "Women's Coffee" is the one Xiao Yao most wanted to record among the three songs, Xiao Yao still recorded the two songs performed on the tour first in line with the principle of easy first and then difficult, and put this real new song at the end. Of course, Xiao Yao's efficiency has always been very high, and in less than a week, all three songs were recorded.
Although Xiao Yao's tour has ended, for Xiao Yao's fans, there are still surprises during this time.
The first is that Xiao Yao released the full version of the high-definition video of the tour on his Weibo at a rate of one per day, and also provided a free network disk download address of the original video, indicating that it is available for netizens to download and collect for free, and it can also be forwarded and uploaded to any video website to share with netizens.
High-definition picture quality, clear sound effects, Xiao Yao's videos are much better than those videos taken by mobile phones sent by the audience, and they are all Blu-ray DVD level worthy of collection. Xiao Yao did not sell it as a DVD, but directly put it on the Internet in the form of a video for netizens to download for free. This time, the resentment of those fans who did not grab tickets for Xiao Yao's tour finally dissipated.
Because Xiao Yao said on Weibo that he could forward and upload to various video websites at will, these complete videos of Xiao Yao's tour also quickly appeared on various online social media and various video websites. In terms of viewing experience, Xiao Yao's "official" video is not comparable to the mobile phone videos of those viewers, so after these videos appeared on video websites, the click-through rate and playback also soared.
With the emergence and proliferation of these high-quality performance videos, more netizens on the Internet have participated in the discussion of Xiao Yao's tour. Xiao Yao's tour has once again become a hot topic on the Internet.
After all the nine full version of the performance videos came out, more people noticed the only similarity in the nine performances, that is, the opening track was the only one that had not changed, and it was the song that Xiao Yao and A Zi sang together.
I have to say that the quality of this song is very good, and the live version of Xiao Yao and A Zi is also very good. After the video of the previous live audience meal came out, many people have already liked this song. After the "official" video came out with better quality, there were even more fans who liked the song.
But for fans, videos are clearly not enough. Not to mention that Xiao Yao's videos are the complete version of the whole performance, and not many people have the ability or interest to intercept and divide the video, watching videos and listening to songs are two completely different experiences, and everyone has run to Xiao Yao's Weibo to call for the official version of this song. From this point of view, Xiao Yao's choice of recording order is also very correct.
It didn't take long for Xiao Yao to fulfill the wishes of the fans. On the third day after the tour, the official version of the song "Want to Sing Me to You" sung by Xiao Yao and A Zi was launched on several major music websites.
After watching Xiao Yao's performance video, many netizens and fans have re-added Xiao Yao's songs to the latest playback list of their music software, and everyone easily found that there are two songs that Xiao Yao has not yet officially released. In addition to the fans who like "I Want to Sing to You", there are also many who like "Painting". Now that the official version of "Want to Sing Me to You" is online, what about "Painting"?
"Painting", which is not sung in every performance and has no fixed singing period, is not as eye-catching as the fixed opening song "Want to Sing Me to You", but there are many people who want the official version of this song. However, before that part of the fans went to Xiao Yao's Weibo to call, Xiao Yao released the official version of "Painting" two days after releasing "Want to Sing Me to You".
For the first two songs, Xiao Yao didn't want netizens to wait for the performance video, so after the recording was completed, he didn't think about releasing a single song, and the fastest way to release these two songs to netizens and fans was the fastest way to meet them. The last song "Women's Coffee" did not participate in Xiao Yao's singing, nor did it appear on the tour, so there was no need to be in such a hurry to release it.
Regarding the song "Women's Coffee", Xiao Yao felt that helping the two female singers record it was to complete his task. As for how to distribute and publicize, that is the matter of the publicity and distribution departments of the two female singers, Qijia Studio and Haiyin Entertainment.
The performance videos were all released, and the official versions of the two unreleased songs were also launched one after another, and at this time, the follow-up matters of Xiao Yao's tour were all over.