Chapter 58: Goosebumps
"Did Xiaoying sleep?"
At about nine o'clock in the evening, Chen Jiaqing suddenly called back, and asked him if Xiaoying had slept in the first sentence.
Zhuang Yan glanced at Xiaoying's door and said, "Well, she just fell asleep, what's wrong?"
"Just sleep. Chen Jiaqing seemed to be very happy, and she smiled: "If you are free now, can you come to the bar?"
"Going to the bar?" Zhuang Yan hesitated, "What's the matter with going to the bar?"
"I want you to listen to the new song, the song you wrote yourself, don't you want to see how others react when they hear it?" Chen Jiaqing said.
"You haven't sung the new song yet?" Zhuang Yan looked at the time, it was already past nine o'clock, and Chen Jiaqing had been going to the bar for more than two hours.
"No, I just told the boss, she agreed, you come on, I'll sing in a while. After saying that, Zhuang Yan seemed to hear someone calling her on the other side, and Chen Jiaqing hurriedly said: "Come quickly, I'm going to go on stage." ”
After saying that, he hung up the phone, and Zhuang Yan didn't think about it for long, so he went out with the wallet key.
Chen Jiaqing is right, he really wants to see how others react when they hear "On the Shore of Lake Baikal". But it's not because he wrote the song himself, but because he wants to see if there is a market for songs from another world in this world.
The Purple Flower Bar is not far from the Blue Moon Bar where Chen Jiaqing sang before, Zhuang Yan drove over by himself, found a place to park the car, and walked into the bar.
As soon as he entered the bar, Zhuang Yan nodded, because this bar gave him a much better feeling than the blue moon, although it was not a quiet bar, but probably because the boss was a woman, the bar was not very noisy.
The lights are dim, and the occasional spotlights are not very dazzling. However, in terms of area, this bar is a little smaller than Blue Moon, and the foot traffic is also a little less.
Just enter the door, there is a small stage in front of it, and there is no one else on the stage at this time, so Chen Jiaqing is holding a guitar on it.
The song that Chen Jiaqing is singing is very soft, it sounds like a ballad, a bit like Miss Dong, but Zhuang Yan doesn't like this style very much.
It's not that Zhuang Yan doesn't like folk songs, it's just that in his impression, the main lyrics of folk songs are lyrics, on the contrary, the melody is not too important. However, there are also good ballads, but there are relatively few of them.
It has been said before that the lyrics of a folk song are very moving, and if the melody is slightly better, it can become a good song. Zhuang Yan agrees with this sentence, and the reason why he doesn't appreciate "Miss Dong" very much is because he doesn't approve of its melody.
Another folk song "Nanshan Nan" at the same time as Miss Dong, Zhuang Yan liked it more, and later "When You Are Old" and "Chengdu", Zhuang Yan also felt very good.
Even if you don't talk about other people's songs, just Song Dongye's own songs, Zhuang Yan also thinks that "Zebra Zebra" is much better than "Miss Dong".
Of course, Zhuang Yan is a music lover, and his preferences are based on feelings.
Not long after Chen Jiaqing's song was sung, Zhuang Yan found a seat by himself, then ordered a glass of fruit wine and sat down.
Of course, he didn't like to drink fruit wine, and if he could, he would choose a bottle of whiskey, but since the last time he had a barbecue with the duck, he probably knew how much alcohol his body could handle now, so he didn't even dare to order a beer.
About two or three minutes later, his fruit wine arrived, and Chen Jiaqing on the stage also finished singing.
After singing, Chen Jiaqing bent down to the audience, and the audience also cooperated with a burst of applause. The applause was not enthusiastic, it sounded more of a courtesy. It's no wonder that singing ballads in bars isn't very flattering in the first place.
Chen Jiaqing held the guitar on the stage, her eyes wandered below, as if she was looking for something, and when she saw where Zhuang Yan was, her eyes lit up and she laughed. Then she held up the microphone and said: "Now I will bring you a new song, this song is called "Baikal Shore", a song written by a friend of mine when he saw Baikal when he traveled to Russia before, I hope you can like it." ”
Zhuang Yan smiled, Chen Jiaqing is also quite good at things, she didn't sing directly, but first said a few words to pave the way to warm up the scene, which is also good for the later singing.
Sure enough, as soon as she finished saying this, the customers below became interested, the bar's resident singers sang original songs very little, and Chen Jiaqing's statement that he traveled to Russia and passed by the shore of Lake Baikal to compose the next song is indeed quite compelling.
So customers pricked up their ears to hear what this song for the shores of Lake Baikal was like.
Chen Jiaqing also saw the reaction of the customers, she quietly raised her chin in the direction of Zhuang Yan, showing a smile that had succeeded in her plan, as if she was saying to Zhuang Yan: Look, my method is amazing.
Zhuang Yan also gave her a thumbs up, which was a response to her.
Chen Jiaqing adjusted his posture and flicked his fingers on the guitar.
The soothing finger attack in the front, although it is quite pleasant, but it sounds unremarkable, and the audience below does not react. Some even pouted, not as if they were not very satisfied with this prelude.
In fact, the second half of the prelude of the original version has the melody of this song, but Chen Jiaqing did not add it, and directly entered the song part after a finger play.
"In your arms, in my eyes
There the spring breeze is intoxicating, and the grass is green there
……”
After the first two sentences slowly came out of Chen Jiaqing's mouth, the audience's expressions became different, and the melodious and soothing tune flowed into the ears of the audience like flowing water, making people feel like they were clear.
Until Chen Jiaqing sang "How many years later, like a cloud, the changing footsteps, but we are difficult to hold hands", people feel that the flowing water that just flowed into their ears slowly merged into a big river, gently splashing waves.
As the emotion progressed, the waves slowly became larger, and finally in the final true and false sound transformation of the sentence "swallowed in the moonlight like water", the torrent surged, and people felt that they were beaten by this wave and trembled.
Then, when this sentence ends, the waves scatter and return to calm, and the river divides into a trickle and flows out from the ear.
The process after that was similar to the previous one, but the advancement of the relationship became more and more urgent, and he sang until the last chorus, and Zhuang Yan even heard someone behind him can't help but say: "It's coming, it's coming, that sentence is coming again." ”
Zhuang Yan smiled, dare to love this guy to listen to the song just to listen to the chorus.
Of course, Chen Jiaqing did not disappoint them, and reunited the stream that had just been dispersed into a big river, churning up huge waves, and the people below were all over for a while.
"Oops, I'm getting goosebumps. It was the same person just now, Zhuang Yan finally couldn't help but turn his head to look, a black-faced fat man was rubbing his arm, as if he was smoothing the cold hair standing up.