Chapter 14: Rock You! (1)
“Showtime!” All the members of the Scottish Club who came to the scene stood shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, in a circle, and let out a loud roar. The time for their performance is up, and in the next hour and a half, they will take over the land outside, and they will be the ruler of the land and all the people of the land, and they will laugh when they are happy, and they will be sad when they are angry, they will be the light, the gods, the fate above all else.
The players on the field walked out of the temporary rest shed, this time both the main players and the substitutes wore blue plaid skirts and blue plaid berets of the same material on their heads.
At the beginning, when each player went out, he could still hear an iron horn announcing the names of the players on the field, but it didn't take long for the stadium to sound the singing of the audience, at first it was just a few sporadic sounds, but after two or three seconds, the sound was overwhelming, and it was accompanied by the sound of "tom tom, tom tom" foot palm hitting the beat, which was even more earth-shattering.
This is Gao Yi's team song. However, the voice is a little messy, and the rhythm of the crowd is not completely consistent.
"Aidan, you go up first, it's already singing outside." Gao Yi patted Aidan Middleton on the shoulder, who was in his forties. Gao Yi specially poached him from Bain's amateur drama club to be the lead singer.
Middleton ran to the front of the line, adjusted his breath a little, and walked out the door.
Soon, he spoke with a Scottish accent in the East End, his voice was as hard as steel, rough as a whetstone, and even in such a noisy environment, he did not fall into the wind, and quickly suppressed the voices of the crowd.
Naturally, it couldn't be the running drill song of the US menstrual team in the morning-
“Buddy,you're a boy make a big noise
Playing in the streets gonna be a big man someday
You got mud on your face
You big disgrace
Kicking your can All over the place”
“Singing!”
This time, the audience's voices sounded in unison with the rhythm of "tom tom":
“We will, we will rock you!
We will, we will rock you! ”
This is Queen's We will rock you, and there is no song more emotional than this one.
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When the first player came out of the shed, Daisy was surprised by the dress he was wearing, and the beanie hat on his head that had never been seen before, when suddenly it was dark in front of her, and the woman sitting in front of her stood up. Most of the women in the first row were thick and strong, and standing in front of her looked like a mountain of flesh.
Daisy initially thought she had something to do to stand up, but found that she didn't make any follow-up moves, and was hesitating whether to remind the other party. At this time, Miss McBride and several teachers next to her also stood up, and Miss McBride also tugged at her arm, meaning to make her stand up too. So, she could only stand up.
She looked around and saw that many people had already stood up, or were about to do so, including Principal Lian Jisheng. And Principal Lian Jisheng was still constantly signaling the other teachers and girls who didn't stand up to stand up quickly.
At this moment, there were at least three or four places in the distance that sounded sporadic singing almost at the same time, and at the sound of this singing, a large number of people suddenly stood up around Daisy. Even the two noblewomen behind her stood up.
"Has it started?" Mrs. Lian Jisheng wondered.
"I don't know, I don't think it's yet, but it seems that someone is singing it themselves." Madame de Grey replied hesitantly.
"Hey, guys, I said let's start too!" Daisy was about to ask Miss McBride what was going on, when the fat woman in front of her, the first of them to stand up, turned back and said.
As she spoke, the fat woman's body swayed, first she stepped on her left leg and stepped on the spot hard, then she stepped on her right leg and stepped on it vigorously, and then her waist twisted somehow, and she snapped her palms together, and a series of movements were smooth and flexible so that they didn't match her body shape at all.
"Come on! Let's do it together! The fat woman invited again, repeating the previous routine as she spoke herself.
Gradually, people joined in to keep up with her rhythm, and the addition of these people drove the people around them, one or two, ten or twenty, like a snowball, and it didn't take long for almost all the people around to participate. Daisy is naturally one of them.
At this time, those sporadic singing voices have gradually become louder, and they have merged into a chorus, but the source of this chorus is not a single one, and there is always a slight unevenness between the voices. The fat woman in front of her and some of the people around Daisy also began to try to join in the chorus, but the singing was always a little out of touch with the movements of their hands and feet, and instead disrupted the rhythm of the beat.
At this time, a metal grinding sand and gravel voice suddenly sounded in the center of the stadium, which immediately suppressed the chaotic voices of everyone, and many people subconsciously stopped singing in their mouths. Daisy looked towards the source of the sound, and saw a middle-aged man with a gray beard standing in the center of the room, also dressed in a plaid skirt and beanie, singing a song while his hands above the top and beating the beat.
These hands seemed to have some kind of magic, so that everyone adjusted their rhythm according to its beat, and the originally slightly noisy singing completely subsided, and the only sound in the audience was "tom pop" became louder and louder, more and more uniform.
“Buddy,you're a boy make a big noise……”
Daisy heard the full lyrics of this song clearly for the first time, it was completely different from the Western songs she had been exposed to before, although she could fully understand the literal meaning of this song, but it was only literal, a noisy boy, a boy with mud on his face, a boy kicking a jar, this boy lost face, this boy will grow up to be an adult one day, is there any deeper meaning to this? And the "rock you" she just heard, someone sang before, shake you? What does this mean? Yes, rocking chairs, rocking cradles, you can use this word, but what does "shake you" do?
“Singing——”
“We will, we will rock you!”
With the sound of "sing-" from the singers on the field, the voices of thousands of spectators on the sidelines suddenly burst out, neatly like a voice, resounding and stopping. The rhythm of "tom, tom, tom" was also unprecedentedly unified, and Daisy only felt the entire wooden frame under her feet rumbling to this rhythm, as if if if she didn't dance to this beat, the whole person would be overturned to the ground. She now finally understood why the first row was full of stout women, and if she were allowed to stand on the wooden steps, she was afraid that the whole grandstand would be trampled by them. Even if they were stepping on the mud now, they would make no less noise than stepping on a wooden plank.
But Daisy's thoughts were soon completely interrupted, as she sang along with herself.
“We will, we will rock you!”
The lyrics are so simple that you can remember them once you hear them; It's so catchy that once you've heard it once, it's hard not to sing along. As for "rock you", who cares about it? What's more, isn't she "shaking" now?
“Buddy you're a young man, hard man……”
The metallic grinding voice on the field sounded again, but this time he didn't beat the beat, but spread his palms and kept waving upwards, as if to let everyone continue singing without stopping. So, after a little confusion, the crowd's singing continued.
“Shouting in the street gonna take on the world someday
You got blood on your face
You big disgrace
Waving your banner all over the place”
And then it's extremely familiar, it's incomparably refreshing—
“We will, we will rock you!”
Daisy struggled to memorize the lyrics and keep up with the rhythm. Gradually, when she stepped on the beat, her movements were no longer stiff, but gently twisted, just like the fat woman in front of her, the trampling force under her feet was transmitted to her arms like water waves along her waist, and then she took advantage of the momentum and waved "pop", and the whole set of movements was completed smoothly, and it was more energetic than before, more crisp and neat, and the timbre was cleaner and louder.
“Buddy,you're a boy make a big noise……”
By the time the song was sung for the third time, Daisy had fully integrated into it, sometimes shaking her lips as if she was teaching the noisy little boy a lesson, sometimes frowning as if she was looking at the bloodied young man, sometimes with pity in her eyes as if she was seeing the destitute old man, but all these expressions, these feelings, vanished when it came to "we will, we will rock you", because no matter who you are, what you are, what you have done, What you are facing, as long as you sing this song, it can "shake" you and give you the courage to face everything.
Daisy had no idea how many times the song had been sung before it stopped, only that by the time she had completely withdrawn from the song, half of the other team, the Scottish opponents, had already taken to the field, and they were a bunch of guys in red hats. The tin horn was still spitting out new names, but no one cared about them, and everyone was still immersed in the shock of the song just now.
"With a neat beat and a slogan-like chorus, I can't find a song more suitable for such a competition than this one."
"Yes, it's a pity that this kind of song is only suitable for singing during sports competitions."
The two ladies in the back were talking, Daisy didn't even have the slightest interest in getting involved, she just wanted to savor the current feelings, and the same was true of Miss McBride next to her, many people in the stands were silent, of course, some people were excited before the excitement passed, and the fat woman in front of Daisy was still writhing slightly, looking unfinished.
At this time, the Red Hats' team called Shanghai FC had finished their debut, and they waved below, but not many people paid attention to them. Soon, the two groups of squares and red hats parted and walked towards their own half, preparing near their own goals.
Daisy suddenly noticed that a big fat man in a plaid skirt came out of the Scottish Club, he came to the middle of the pitch, and then turned his back in the direction of the red hat, and then he bent down, pouted his butt, and jerked off his skirt.