Xiao Yao didn't argue with Nicky Thompson. He didn't really want to talk about the old things, and when he saw Nicky Thompson's assistant using his mobile phone to check the Internet, he was even less interested in talking about it.

"Ms. Hatton, can I go to the performance hall to see Mr. Scott rehearse?" Xiao Yao asked Amy Hatton.

"I'll help you ask, it shouldn't be a big problem. Amy Hatton nodded.

This question was what they were talking about before, and she had promised Xiao Yao, only to be interrupted by the group of Koreans coming in. Since he promised before, and Nicky Thompson behaved like this, Amy Hatton has no intention of going back.

Amy Hatton opened the door and went out, and soon returned to the break room with a young man with a work badge around his neck. Amy Hadan gave a brief introduction to both sides, and the young man with the work badge took Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis to the performance hall.

When Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis entered the performance hall, rehearsals were going on stage. Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis found a seat in the front row of the audience in a very low-key manner, watching the rehearsal on stage.

Rehearsing on stage is a middle-aged white man who looks to be in his forties.

This middle-aged man, Cordy Scott, is a very well-known and long-established singer-songwriter in the United States, and his music style is mainly country music.

At this time, Cordy Scott on the stage was also dressed in a very rustic manner, with a red and white plaid shirt and a brown vest on the top, jeans and boots on the bottom, a cowboy dress. He carries a guitar on his back and plays and sings to himself with the band, singing an American country music style song.

American country music and folk are not a concept, they are a relatively unique kind of music. Xiao Yao is very interested in this unique music genre in the United States, and the one on the stage can be said to be the first-class country musician in the United States now, both in writing and singing, is very powerful, so even if there may be pauses, interruptions, and rehearsals in the middle, Xiao Yao also sees it with relish.

Xiao Yao sat and watched for about ten minutes, and only then did he see Kordy Scott sing a song from beginning to end without interruption twice, and found that Kordy Scott's rehearsal seemed to be over.

On stage, Cordy Scott walked to the edge of the stage and squatted down to communicate with a middle-aged man wearing headphones in the audience, turned around and stood up to bow to the musicians on the stage to thank him, and raised his hand to remove the guitar he was carrying.

After handing over his guitar to the staff on the side, Cordy Scott did not return to the backstage from the back of the stage, but jumped from the front of the stage and walked to the audience.

"Excuse me, who are you?" asked Cordy Scott, who walked up to Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis.

Cordy Scott was rehearsing in front of the stage. Although Xiao Yao and the others behaved very low-key when they came in, bending over and walking to the audience, Cordy Scott on the stage still saw it. Cordy Scott was curious about the two people sitting in the audience, but it was rehearsing at the time, so it was hard to interrupt, and now that the rehearsal was over, he came over to find out.

"Hello, Mr. Scott!" Xiao Yao replied with a smile, "We are lucky spectators, arranged to watch the stars rehearse!"

"Lucky viewers are scheduled to come to see the star rehearsals?" said Cordy Scott curiously, "Is this a benefit for the audience?

As he spoke, Cordy Scott looked back at the middle-aged man wearing headphones who had just been communicating with him on the side of the stage and shouted, "Hey, David, why didn't you tell us in advance that the audience would come to see our rehearsal?"

The middle-aged man known as David walked over strangely and asked, "Cordy, what are you talking about?"

"I said you also arranged for the audience to come to our rehearsal this year?" Cordy Scott pointed to Xiao Yao, "Why didn't you tell us in advance?"

David looked a little strangely in the direction pointed by Cordy Scott, and then showed a sudden expression, stretched out his hand to Xiao Yao and said, "Hello, Yang!

The middle-aged man, David Green, was the on-site director and supervisor of the stage performance portion of the awards ceremony. Xiao Yao wants to come to the performance hall to watch the rehearsal, and the most important thing is to get his consent. Because he was busy supervising the rehearsals of the stars, he didn't specifically meet Xiao Yao, but he knew that Xiao Yao was here.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Green!" Xiao Yao smiled and shook his hand.

When Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis came in, the staff who led the way pointed to him and introduced them to them. Because David Green was supervising Cordie Scott's rehearsal at the time, Xiao Yao didn't bother and sat down, and now the two sides have officially met.

"Jan?" Cordy Scott looked at David Green with some confusion, "You know?"

"Today is the first time we have met, but I have heard of him for a long time. David Green smiled at Cordy Scott, "Don't you recognize who he is?"

"Who?" said Cordy Scott, looking at Xiao Yao.

"Jan Xiao, a star artist from China. "David Greenway," a member of the band Immortals, the creator of Daydream's "Sugar," and the Chinese star who competed in The Eva Show and the All-Star Celebrity Game. ”

"You're the Jan Shaw who sang 'Perfect'?" Cordie Scott asked Shaw.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded.

"Why do you say you're a lucky spectator?" said Cordy Scott.

"I'm indeed a lucky audience!" Xiao Yao said, "I wasn't invited to this awards ceremony, I'm not a guest performer, I'm not an award presenter, I only have a ticket for an ordinary audience, and I'll be an ordinary audience at that time." The organizers allowed me to come and see your rehearsal, and I felt very lucky, so I was a lucky audience. It has nothing to do with whether I'm a celebrity or not, right?"

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"Jan, I now know why Thompson called you a liar!" Tim Haggis smiled bitterly as he stroked his forehead.

"Who is this?" said Cordy Scott, looking at Tim Haggis.

"Tim Haggis, my friend. Xiao Yao introduced, "Ordinary people are not stars, nor are they members of my team. The two of us came to LV for a trip together!"

"Hello!" Tim Haggis beckoned with a raised hand.

"Cordy, talk slowly!" David Green nodded to Tim Haggis and said to Cordie Scott, "I'm going to see the next rehearsal." ”

"Alright, go get busy!" Cordie Scott nodded.

Unlike Nicky Thompson, Cordy Scott doesn't care much about the way Xiao Yao speaks in a play on words. After David Green turned to leave, he did not go backstage, but pulled Xiao Yao to sit in the audience together.

"Jan, I love your song "Perfect"!" Cordy Scott said to Xiao Yao.

"Thank you," Xiao Yao smiled, "Your music is also very good! I just listened to your rehearsal, and I like it very much!"

"Oh?" laughed Cordy Scott, "you like country music?

"Hmm~" Xiao Yao hesitated for a moment and said, "I haven't finished the work that I'm satisfied with yet." ”

"What do you think of my rehearsal?" asked Cordy Scott.

"It's great!" Xiao Yao said, "I said it, I like it very much." ”

"Is there no place you think could be better?" said Cordy Scott, "you can be outspoken." ”

"Okay," Xiao Yao thought for a moment and said, "This song is a song from the album you released at the end of last year, the lyrics and songs are very good, and the results are very good, as an official version, I don't have any suggestions, but if you perform live, I think you might as well play some tricks, which can drive the atmosphere of the scene even more." ”

"How do you play?" said Cordy Scott.

"For example, at the end of the first song, you can have a yodeer," Xiao Yao said, "I think it will be very interesting, and the effect should be very good!"

"Yodel?" Cordie Scott glared, "will you?"

The so-called yodel is a special singing style and song originated in the Swiss Alps, and later some of the pioneers of American country music fused this special singing style and song form with a variety of musical styles such as blues and folk songs to form a unique country music style. Therefore, in American country music, there are many songs that are expressed in yodel singing.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "I think that many children used to sing this way when they were young, but most of them were stifled by their parents on the grounds that ghosts were not allowed to scream." ”

Yodele singing is in which the singer uses the same tone to switch back and forth in different vocal ranges, repeating this change of tone back and forth to produce a special sound. This is actually a very mature technique for controlling the overlap of sounds in different registers, but on the surface, it is a bit like the sound of a child's ghost. Of course, the essence of the two is certainly different.

"No ghosts?" Coldie Scott was stunned, then reacted and laughed, "Young, you're so funny!"

"Okay, no kidding!" Kordy Scott laughed for a while, put away his smile and said to Xiao Yao, "Give me a yodele!"

Cordy Scott knew that Xiao Yao was a professional singer and musician, and he would definitely not really think that Yodel was a child's ghost.

"Okay!" Xiao Yao cleared his throat and said, "Oh hey~"

"Wow~" Cordy Scott smiled and clapped his hands, "Great!"

"Jan, would you like to work with me?" said Cordy Scott, "just like you said, add a yodel at the end of the first stanza of the song, and you will sing this yodel!" Of course, it's abrupt to just sing this one, but I've heard that you play the guitar so well that you can be my guest star guitarist, stand in the front row most of the time and help me with the guitar, and you sing it when you get to the yodel's place!"

"No, he doesn't want to!" Before Xiao Yao could answer, a voice suddenly came from next to him.

Xiao Yao looked up with Cordie Scott and saw Nicky Thompson walking over.

It turned out that after Cordy Scott's rehearsal, the staff notified Nicky Thompson to come over for the rehearsal. Due to the different band configurations and musicians of the two, Cordie Scott needed to change the instruments on stage after the rehearsal. When Nicky Thompson arrived, the preparations for the stage were not ready, she glanced at the audience and came in the direction of Xiao Yao.

"Hi, Nicky!" said Cordy Scott with a smile and raised his hand.

Both of them are well-known musicians in the United States, although they have different styles and have not worked together much, but they often meet in various performances and award ceremonies and other occasions, and they are relatively familiar.

"Hey, Coledy!" said Nicky Thompson with a smile.

"What were you talking about?" said Cordy Scott, "you know?"

"He's what I brought him!" said Nicky Thompson, "and he's the stage manager Amy hired for me." ”

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded when he saw Cordy Scott with an inquiring look.

"I see," said Cordy Scott, smiling at Nicky Thompson, "even if he is the stage director you hired, it doesn't prevent him from working with me, right?

"Of course I can't make decisions for him!" says Nicky Thompson, "but I asked him to be my guitarist before, and he turned it down." He said that he quit the band Immortals, and he didn't want people in the band to think that he quit the band because he disliked the band, so he wouldn't work with an American star who was more popular than the band on the stage of this awards ceremony. I'm more famous than the Immortals, and you're more famous than the Immortals. I just asked him to play guitar, and you not only asked him to play guitar, but you also asked him to sing for you, and he rejected me, and of course he would refuse you. ”

"Really?" said Nicky Thompson, looking at Xiao Yao one last time.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao smiled and spread his hands.

Xiao Yao had no intention of agreeing to Cordie Scott to help him play guitar and sing yodel, nor did he change his mind because of Nicky Thompson's words.

"You're quitting the Immortals?" asked Cordy Scott.

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded, "They are in the United States, I am in Huaxia, and they are rarely together, in fact, I should have quit a long time ago." ”

"You're really not going to cooperate?" asked Cordy Scott again.

"Forget it this time. Xiao Yao shook his head, "If I have the opportunity in the future, I am willing to cooperate with you." ”

"Okay!" Cordy Scott smiled and patted Xiao Yao on the shoulder, "There will be a chance to cooperate in the future!"

"Nicky!" David Green, the director of the scene, walked over and said to Nicky Thompson, "The stage is ready for rehearsal!"

"Okay!" Nicky Thompson nodded.

Nicky Thompson turned around and walked in the direction of the stage, and just as he took a step, he suddenly saw a staff member running towards him, and he stopped curiously.

"David!" a young man with a work sign hurried up to David Green, "we're in trouble!"

"What's wrong?" asked David Green.

"I just got a call from Neil Hopson's agent," the young man said, "Neil Hopson is in the hospital right now!"

"What's going on in the hospital?" asked David Green.

"Food poisoning!" said the young man, "and now his life is in danger, but he must be observed in the hospital for two days." In other words, he won't be able to attend tonight's rehearsal, and he won't be able to attend tomorrow night's awards ceremony. ”

"It doesn't matter if there's one less person on the red carpet, and if he wins, his team can send someone to accept the award on his behalf, but he's still a guest performer," the young man continued, "so we have one less show." ”

"Then one less game. David Greene said, "Wouldn't it be nice to change the host's script and remove this item from the process?"

"No," said the young man, "the ceremony will be broadcast on television." Although it is recorded and can be edited in post-production, the contract we signed with the TV station has an agreement on the duration of the award ceremony and the number of performances. Now that there's one less show, we have to find a way to make up for it!"Nickname Strange Novel Worm|w~w~w.

"Missing a show?" Cordie Scott and Nicky Thompson, who hadn't left yet, heard this and looked at Xiao Yao on the side.