Liu Jian used to be so high-spirited.

He who stood in Li Zhifan that day was also arrogant.

But today's Liu Jian has indeed declined a lot, and fate has hit him very hard over the years.

After Xue Jingfei's plagiarism incident, all the relevant personnel were fined, Xue Jingfei and the producer child were both imprisoned, and Liu Jian was also sentenced to six months, and was removed from the position of music director of Golden Emperor Entertainment after being released from prison.

After a year at home, Liu Jian and a few friends formed a band, all uncles, he played guitar in the band, just released a Cantonese album in the middle of the year, and there is still some popularity on the ground in Hong Kong, but he can only take on some performances in China.

The possibility of entering the mainland is not impossible, but every member of this band has reached a certain age, and everyone wants to be stable, and they are content to be able to eat and support their families in Xiangjiang, and they do not expect to become bigger, nor do they want to become too busy.

This time I came to the Christmas carnival, not because of how popular their band is, but because of the connections they have accumulated over the years.

What's more, the local Christmas carnival in Hong Kong certainly supports local musicians and Cantonese songs that are about to disappear, so the organizers are also willing to give them this opportunity.

didn't expect Li Zhifan and Liu Jian to meet on this occasion.

In fact, when Liu Jian came, he knew that he would definitely meet Li Zhifan today, so he walked carefully, dodged, and brought sunglasses, but he was still seen by Li Zhifan.

The moment the two looked at each other, Liu Jian hurriedly lowered his head, avoiding Li Zhifan's gaze, trying to divert his gaze.

Lin Feng, the lead singer of the band on the side, knew Liu Jian's affairs very well, and when he saw such a scene, he immediately patted him on the shoulder and said: "What are you afraid of him? This is our territory, cheer up, and use our music to prove yourself on stage in a while!"

Liu Jian was silent for a moment, and then said: "I still remember what he said back then, Chinese music is the most hanging! Yes, if I insisted on creating at that time, at least I would have created it internally, and I would not have encouraged Xiaohai to copy foreign music, and there would be no follow-up, and Fei Fei would not have gone to prison!"

"Fei Fei will come out in another year, you relax, wait for her to come out, you use your results to tell her that we haven't been in vain all these years!" Lin Feng glanced at Li Zhifan's direction, and then said, "This is Xiangjiang, our songs are the most cordial Cantonese for most of the audience in the audience, as long as the atmosphere and momentum are up, it is not a problem to press him." ”

"This ......"

Is it possible?

Liu Jian smiled bitterly, but under Lin Feng's encouraging gaze, he still nodded: "Okay!"

……

Carnival is the same as music festival, each guest has at least 10-30 minutes of time, and those who can sing for 30 minutes are big names, like Li Zhifan, who was originally 30 minutes, but because he carried K2M, and K2M's performance time is also counted in these 30 minutes, so he will only have 25 or 6 minutes of time.

The band is still Chaoyang Park, Zhang Yao and the others came three days ago, but they were not guests, so they went backstage with Liu Zexin in advance, and now they are all resting in the car in the backstage parking lot.

Seeing Liu Jian, Li Zhifan didn't know in what capacity he was participating in the event, so he arranged for Liu Zexin to inquire.

Liu Zexin glanced at Liu Jian's direction, and immediately got up to ask the organizer.

After a while, Liu Zexin walked back and said, "He is now the guitarist of the Tiannan Band, and the Tiannan Band also participated in this carnival event, and they performed right before you!"

"The previous one?" Li Zhifan narrowed his eyes, "It's so coincidentally arranged?"

"Is it a coincidence?" Liu Zexin said, "You are performing at ten o'clock, they can be regarded as the hot scene in front of you! Every hot guest at this carnival is arranged to sing Cantonese songs, and the organizer wants to support them." ”

Under the general trend, Cantonese songs have shown a decline, even if a musician in Xiangjiang writes a very good song, the first time is to find a big lyricist to write Chinese lyrics, and then recommend it to big-name singers to sing.

For example, the company plans to send Cantonese records to a Cantonese singer, so it will first find a lyricist to write Cantonese lyrics, and then contact the composer to compose the music, or find a similar song from those selected and leftover scores, and then hand it over to the lyricist.

There is also a form like the Tiannan Band, which writes their own songs and lyrics, and their work direction is to serve the local performance market and the opening and ending songs of Hong Kong films, so they only write Cantonese songs.

But they also expect their songs to be popular, because once they become popular, they have a great chance of being picked by big-name first-line artists to fill in the cover of Chinese lyrics.

"I see!"

Li Zhifan thought for a while, stood up and said, "I'll go talk to Zhang Yao and them, and I'll be back soon." ”

"Go ahead, think about what you need to prepare, don't fall off the stage. Liu Zexin instructed.

"I know!"

Li Zhifan walked to the back parking lot and saw Zhang Yao and Xu Ming smoking cigarettes while chatting with a few musicians.

Seeing Li Zhifan, Zhang Yao hurriedly stepped on the cigarette butt, walked up and asked, "Has the plan changed?"

"Hmm!" Li Zhifan nodded, "Let's talk about getting in the car." ”

After working together for so long, several people have developed a very high tacit understanding, Li Zhifan is coming over now, there must be something, and the biggest thing should be the change of plan.

There are several reasons for this change, one is the change in time, and the other is the change in the content of the song.

Although I don't know which one it is, since Li Zhifan admitted it and came to find it in person, it means that the matter is quite big.

As a result, after getting in the car, Li Zhifan said: "Just adjust the song sequence, the original "Seven Friends" will be put in the first one!"

"Okay! but ...... Why change?"

Although everyone agreed, doubts were raised.

Li Zhifan said truthfully: "Because the person in front of me is Liu Jian, the former music director of Golden Emperor Entertainment, who told you about it." ”

"Is it him? Why did he become a singer?" Xu Ming said curiously.

"He's not a singer!" Li Zhifan explained, "He is the guitarist of the band, and now he has formed a band, it seems that he should only be active in Hong Kong, and only sing Cantonese songs!"

"Got it!"

Zhang Yao smiled, "Zhifan, you won't still hate him now, right?"

"What do you hold a grudge!" Li Zhifan smiled calmly, "To be honest, if I hadn't seen him today, I would have forgotten about this guy, but if I sang a Cantonese song after them, it would definitely cause the audience to be amazed, and I wanted them to have this reaction." ”

Zhang Yao nodded and asked Li Zhifan: "Are there any other changes?"

"No, it's cold today, put on your coat when you go on stage, don't catch a cold!" Li Zhifan came to open the door and got out of the car.

"This temperature is not cold, the capital is cold!" Ye Bei waved her hand and handed over her scarf, "If you are afraid of the cold, I have a scarf here, do you want to put it on!"

Without waiting for Li Zhifan to speak, Xu Ming teased: "Forget it, he wants to go back with this scarf, and my sister-in-law may not be jealous!"

"Yes, then I won't give it!"

"You're ......"

Li Zhifan smiled, and he had nothing to say.

……

Background.

After Li Zhifan came back again, it was already nine o'clock, and the carnival activities officially began.

After the host solemnly introduced the event, it was already 20 minutes later, and he began to invite the first guest to the stage.

There are only two performances at 10 o'clock and 0 o'clock tonight, Li Zhifan is 10 o'clock, and Chen Yilei, who has just won the Golden Music Award for Best Cantonese Male Singer, is at 0 o'clock.

If it was Chen Yilei before the Golden Sound Award, his level would not be enough to perform at this point, but it was precisely because of winning this award that his resume in the industry became beautiful all of a sudden, and his level was raised to a higher level.

At this moment, Chen Yilei is not in the background, after all, he only took the stage at 0:00, and it is estimated that he will either rest in the hotel or eat and drink at the nearby night market stalls.

Nine forty.

The Tiannan band left the backstage and went to prepare.

Before leaving, Liu Jian couldn't help but glance back at Li Zhifan, his eyes were dim and revealing resentment, but after just a quick glance, he quickly turned around and left with the team.

Li Zhifan also glanced at it casually, but even if he saw his eyes, he didn't take it to heart.

Until they took the stage, Lin Feng, the lead singer on the stage, shouted in Cantonese: "This is Xiangjiang! Cantonese is our home field! Hurry up! Let's roar!"

As soon as the Chinese language falls, it is exciting heavy metal rock music.

Although rock and roll is not dead, now the rock style of Tiannan Band has really become an old-school music style, and like the pop music of the 80s of the last century, it can no longer attract a new generation of fans.

However, the audience is also divided into age groups, they still have an audience, those stubborn, old, conservative Hong Kong locals, are their fans, but the vast majority of these fans are because of the "Cantonese" itself, and a very small part is because of the genre.

……

"Zhifan, it's time for you to prepare!"

When the Tiannan Band sang the first song, Liu Zexin reminded Li Zhifan.

"Okay!"

Li Zhifan stood up, "What about Zhang Yao?"

"It's been notified, they went directly to the side of the stage to prepare, and they won't come in!"

Liu Zexin said, "It's cold outside, you wear a coat!"

"No need!" Li Zhifan waved his hand, "You look at the time, almost 20 minutes later, let the two of them go backstage to prepare, and they can't be late one step earlier." ”

"Don't worry, I know!"

Liu Zexin put the jacket in his hand back into the bag, watched Li Zhifan walk out of the backstage, and then sat down.

Tableside.

Zhang Yao's five people have arrived.

"Are you ready?" Li Zhifan walked up and asked.

"Then you don't need to say!" Xu Ming pouted, "This is where to go, it's a piece of cake, our hope is your national tour." ”

"Haha, it's easy to say!" Li Zhifan grinned and felt bitter in his heart, it seems that many people around him are looking forward to this concert, but he is really busy and can't spare time, but it seems that it is time to put it on the agenda.

Nine fifty-five a.m.

Zhang Yao took the band members to the stage and began to prepare.

Li Zhifan also picked up his own customized exclusive microphone.

The performance is seamless, given a minute at most, so the instrument must not go wrong, the tuning or something has been tested yesterday, but today and now, I still have to test it again.

Nine fifty-eight a.m.

The Tiannan band finished the show and left the stage from the other side.

Li Zhifan walked onto the stage under the dark light and walked directly to the front of the stage.

The stage is 15 meters away from the audience, and there are three rows of fences, just for fear that the audience will rush up and cause accidents.

Li Zhifan stood at the very edge of the front of the stage, at the moment of ten o'clock, the moment the piano fell, he took a deep breath and was ready to sing.

After the prelude, a beam of white light hit Li Zhifan from behind, and his voice also rose:

"For her sake, I reluctantly talked about love!"

"Pick yourself up again to get to know others!"

"If it's hard to get back together, let it go as soon as possible, and see everything!"

"Again, you can still love yourself when you don't have a lover!"

"Forget or feel for yourself!"

"Laughing and saying that sinking into those bitter seas will be harmful!"

The moment the song was sung, the audience was stunned-

"Cantonese?"

"Li Zhifan sings this is ......"

"Wow! what standard Cantonese!"

"I didn't expect that!"

"When did he learn Cantonese?"

"Isn't Li Zhifan from Beijing? Even many Xiangjiang singers don't have such standards, right?"

The stage has no backdrop, so the lyrics can only be listened to.

If the Cantonese pronunciation is not accurate, the audience will definitely not understand what he sings, and they have to think about it, but the time of a song is limited, only a few minutes, and each sentence is very fast and dense, which cannot make people think at all.

But at this moment, at least in the ears of all local Hong Kong audiences, they can clearly hear what Li Zhifan is singing.

However, Cantonese is also divided into Hong Kong and Guangdong, and the Cantonese in each place in the two regions is different, plus there are audiences from other cities in the mainland, so some people can't understand what Li Zhifan sings, but tonight this part of the people only accounts for a very small part.

……

"Because I'm strong enough to use my pain and convert it into love, and resist me worrying about her!"

"I can't remember that I have the right to love people!"

The stage lights suddenly brightened, Li Zhifan raised his head in an instant, took a few steps back towards the stage, opened his left arm widely, and held the microphone in front of the stage with his right hand, looking like he was hugging the audience with his left hand from a distance.

And the chorus part is also sung from his mouth in the next moment:

"Who has taken care of my feelings!"

"Be gentle with me and kiss my wounds!"

"The consolation that can be obtained is that the lovelorn is grateful to the faithful dog after being saved!"

On the side of the stage, the Tian'an band, who had just left the stage and had not returned to the backstage, were all shocked, from the moment Li Zhifan opened his mouth to now, they finally reacted - this guy TM sings really Cantonese!

And it's very standard Cantonese, not the kind of Cantonese that you only learn for a few months or even a few years with a slight foreign accent.

This kind of bite is very clear, and the breath is full, which is not something that ordinary Cantonese singers can achieve at present, even if Chen Yilei comes up, he will definitely lose to Li Zhifan.