Chapter 22: At night, the stars shine
In Qian Zhen's opinion, the obviously good "Ji Mei" can't move Xiao Ning, it can only be because "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" is even more explosive than "Ji Mei"!
A strong curiosity prompted him to say something like this to Xiao Ning.
However, as soon as the words were spoken, Qian Zhen regretted it.
"I just got a little better with him just now, and as soon as this comes out, won't it be bad again?"
Xiao Ning didn't know what Qian Zhen was thinking, and he was also very puzzled at this time.
What's the situation with this senior brother?
Before, I said hum to you, you said no, and now you want me to hum?
Weird.
However, the personalities of the artists of Hummingbird are more mavericks, and Senior Brother Qian, who became famous when he debuted, is weird and nothing at all.
That's it.
Hmph, just hum.
"Hum Jing......" Before Xiao Ning could fully say the word "just", the voice of the staff sounded at the door of the lounge.
"Please go to Studio 3 and wait backstage."
Jiangcheng TV, backstage in Studio Hall 3.
Because of the reason why he was notified to come over to wait, Xiao Ning couldn't hum the song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky". After coming over, he was watching the performance of the fifteenth contestant seriously, chatting with Liu Weiwei, who had just rushed over, and ignored this matter for the time being.
However, Qian Zhen felt like an ant crawling in his heart at this moment, looking at the live broadcast screen in the background for a while, and glancing at Xiao Ning, who was talking to Liu Weiwei with a calm face.
"Senior brother just said hum......"
"It must be because I was angry when I asked him to hum the song before, and by snorting coldly, I was expressing ridicule and disdain, right?"
"But when he said the word 'hum', his tone didn't seem to be particularly disdainful......
"But if that's not the case, then how can this 'hum' be explained?"
"Although I think I am a musical genius and is sought after and loved by thousands of girls and boys, but Senior Brother Xiao's 'hum', he can't be coquettish to me, right?"
"Can't you?"
When Qian Zhen was still crazy about making up his brain from various angles, the song of the fifteenth contestant had already been sung.
Xiao Wang, the assistant on the side, saw that Qian Zhen seemed to be still distracted, and patted him on the shoulder cautiously: "Brother Zhen, it's time for you to play." ”
……
Jiangcheng TV, in a dressing room.
Xu Minghao, an artist under Xuanji Entertainment, is sitting quietly in front of the mirror with a shallow smile, and the professional makeup artist on the left is helping him remove his makeup.
On his right-hand side sat his agent, Wei Min.
Don't look at Xu Minghao at this time, he looks very happy, in fact, he has been in a bad mood recently.
As soon as his new song "Remnant" was released at the end of last month, it jumped to the top of the new song list with a rather rapid momentum, and it has rushed to the first place on the new song list in less than half a month, and the data is even more difficult to open up with the second every day after ranking first.
But last week's song "The Lonely Brave" suddenly made him feel faintly uneasy, and this uneasiness continued until he sang "Ji Mei" today.
If it weren't for the fact that he also participated in this program on Jiangcheng TV, Xu Minghao, who has been well-connected in the music circle for six years after his debut, wouldn't even know who Xiao Ning is.
In his cognition, this Xiao Ning is the existence of the hummingbird that temporarily pulls out a round of swimming.
But what he didn't expect was that this person came up to be a first-hand king bomb, and he went directly to the finals in the knockout round of fifty into thirty, and it seemed that he played casually in "The Lonely Brave".
Although Xu Minghao has been annoyed recently because "The Lonely Brave" poses a threat to his position as the number one on the list, he himself admits that this "The Lonely Brave" is indeed a rare and excellent work from the song itself to the audience level.
Xu Minghao is willing to admit that others are excellent, but he is not willing to admit that he is not as good as others.
Who is not a little arrogant when it comes to music?
The reason why he took out an unreleased original single today, instead of singing those songs that have been released, is to use this "Ji Mei", which has a production level that surpasses his current No. 1 song "Remnant" to tell everyone that I, Xu Minghao, are not weaker than others in my life.
Of course, he actually knows in his heart that this "Ji Mei" can't catch up with "The Lonely Brave" from the perspective of the song itself.
But after all, he is an original musician who has debuted for six years, although his status in the music industry is not a first-line for the time being, even if many passers-by who are not his fans have more or less heard his songs and know him as a person, his fame is completely incomparable to Xiao Ning's small transparency.
Xu Minghao's idea is simple.
As long as he shows the unreleased "Ji Mei" on the show, with the help of the popularity of the show, he will naturally make many people have a new impression of him, absorb as many passers-by as possible through the amazing "Ji Mei", and then convert them into the data of the first list "Remnant", and widen the gap with "The Lonely Brave" as much as possible.
Even if "The Lonely Brave" itself is stronger than "Remnant", the future popularity and fame of this song will inevitably be higher than "Remnant", but so what?
In terms of the number of fans and fame, he and Xiao Ning are not on the same level at all.
What's more, the new song list is only one month away, and he, Xu Minghao, just wants "Remnant" to stay firmly in the first place until the last day to get off the list.
Therefore, it is theoretically feasible for him to do this.
This is also the reason why Xu Minghao can laugh at this time.
At the end of the song "Ji Mei" just now, the applause at the scene was not necessarily smaller than that of "The Lonely Brave", and the judges' evaluation was also quite good.
He was very satisfied.
In the dressing room at this time, in addition to the makeup artist who was busy removing Xu Minghao's makeup, Xu Minghao and Wei Qingqing were staring at the broadcast screen of the dressing room.
On the screen, it is Qian Zhen who is singing.
The song that Qian Zhen sang at this time was the title song of his album last year, and when it was released as a single, the song rushed to the eighth place on the new song list, both in terms of production and song quality, it is a relatively excellent work.
However, compared with the song "Ji Mei" sung by Xu Minghao just now, this song is more ordinary.
Wei Min, who looked cold, said: "Qian Zhen originally made do with his song, although it is indeed much worse than Ji Meibi, but it is not enough to sing like this, several of his trebles are a little trembling, it is estimated that it was affected by your performance just now." ”
Xu Minghao didn't say anything, just quietly looked at the broadcast screen.
At this time, Qian Zhen's singing just ended, although it seemed that he was not in good shape and could not play his full strength, but after all, the strength was still there, the judges had already announced the "promotion" results, and the next contestant had already appeared.
When the contestant began to sing, Wei Min muttered: "Qian Zhen's performance is poor, but after all, he is a singer that Hummingbird is now cultivating on the front line, this kind of thirty-in-ten knockout competition, there is naturally no suspense in promotion......"
Wei Min glanced at Xu Minghao, and then looked at the broadcast screen again: "Since we have decided to put the two songs at the bottom of your box in the finals of thirty into ten and ten into five, then the first strength of this season must be our Xuanji Entertainment, hummingbird can't snatch it, Qian Zhen can't snatch it, and Xiao Ning can't snatch it." ”
The smile on Xu Minghao's face suddenly disappeared without warning.
"Amin."
"What star song is Xiao Ning tonight, what do you think?"
Wei Min frowned slightly: "Didn't I check Xiao Ning's information for you before?" ”
"He was signed by Hummingbird after graduating from Jiangcheng Music Academy, and then it was an obscure year, and he didn't take the original route, and he didn't learn to write songs at all before, and he was a complete amateur player in the original piece."
""The Lonely Brave" is really good, but that's all, an amateur player like him can make up a song like this is already smoking from the ancestral grave, you must know that even those music senior-level music fathers are estimated to have one or two songs of the level of "The Lonely Brave" in their lifetime."
Speaking of this, Wei Min smiled faintly: "You ask me what I think, but there is actually nothing to see." ”
"If a person's creative inspiration is limited, then the song "The Lonely Brave" can be said to have exhausted Xiao Ning's creative inspiration, and even overdrafted."
"Relax, it's not impossible that he will be eliminated directly, even if he is lucky enough to enter the finals......"
"The song you left in the finals is better than Himemi."
"The champion of the strength creator is yours, and the number one on the new song list will also be yours."
Xu Minghao nodded calmly after a few seconds: "Indeed." ”
While the two were chatting, the No. 16 contestant had finished singing.
No. 17 Xiao Ning slowly walked to the center of the stage.
"Good evening, everyone, a song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", thank you."
Xiao Ning didn't talk a bunch of nonsense before singing like other contestants, but simply said it.
At the same time as the studio lights dimmed, the song accompaniment was launched shallowly.
Crisp and pure guitar tunes.
The prelude to the original version of "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" of the Runaway Plan is not complicated, and it has nothing to do with fancy at all.
It's the ultimate simplicity and purity.
But this purity, such a prelude to just the sound of a folk guitar, sounds very comfortable.
It's as if people are really looking up at the night sky on a summer night, comfortable, cozy, and quiet.
in the dressing room.
As Xu Minghao's agent, although Wei Min's musical knowledge is okay, for this song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", her feeling is that this prelude is a little interesting, but it doesn't seem to be much.
And Xu Minghao, as an original musician, was stunned only after a few guitar notes in the prelude appeared.
For Xu Minghao, who gets along with music day and night, music is to him like water to fish.
He could sense a certain comfortable and tranquil mood from the simple and pure prelude of "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", from the rhythm and melody, and even, a picture had appeared in his mind-
The sky is like ink, and the stars are shining.
The night is adorned with bright stars, which is picturesque.
And the frequencies of those blinks seem to be like the intervals of each guitar note in this prelude.
The prelude of this song directly stunned Xu Minghao!
He quickly came back to his senses, and his brow furrowed slightly.
Problematic!
This song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" is not quite right!
Something is wrong!
This Xiao Ning has never learned to write songs at all!
How did he write such a graphic prelude?
How did he do it?
"The Lonely Brave" is an accident......
So what's going on with this one?
What the hell is going on?
Xu Minghao felt faintly uneasy in his heart.
At the scene in the studio, Xiao Ning's singing slowly sounded.
"The brightest star in the night sky
Can you hear clearly
The one who looks
Loneliness and sighs in the bottom of my heart......
The brightest star in the night sky
Can you remember
Walked with me
The figure that disappeared into the wind......"
The melody is as simple as the prelude, but this eloquent singing and lyrics, and the faint sense of sadness, make everyone feel emotional at the same time.
The audience at the scene was infected.
Liu Weiwei, who was standing behind the audience, had her eyes lit up.
Qian Zhen, who was waiting for Xiao Ning in the background, opened his mouth wide.
Sun Ye, who was watching TV at home, was in a daze.
in the dressing room.
Wei Min was so surprised that he couldn't say a word for a long time.
And Xu Minghao, who always maintained an indifferent face before Xiao Ning took the stage.
By this time, his fist was already hot.