"I'll tell you the name of the song on the phone, and you can record it." Yu Tong looked at the people who were looking around in her office, "Why bother to come and toss!" ”

She's also busy, okay!

"Some time ago, the confidentiality committee of our unit specifically emphasized that everyone is not allowed to use office phones to contact private business. Although my participation in the Youth Song Contest is a business matter, chatting in the office also affects other people's work. Besides, I have good news for you! ”

Yu Tong put down the pen and waited for his next step.

"Two days ago, I just swapped rooms with that Uncle Lu!"

"Aren't you suspicious that the area of the house is small and you refuse to change?"

"He added me a 20-meter front room, and now it's running a barber shop!"

Yu Tong: "......"

Jealousy made her unrecognizable.

This Uncle Lu really has capital!

However, the two-entry courtyard becomes a three-entry one.

It's really hard to say who of these two people will take advantage and who will suffer.

"Congratulations, the matter is perfectly solved!"

"When I move, please come and be a guest! Lao Lu's yard is neatly tied, without those bells and whistles decoration. Disco sincerely invited, "Last time, Lao Lu wanted to take us to see the house, didn't we go, this time I will take you to visit!" ”

Yu Tong was very curious about Lao Lu's house, but she didn't want to meet Guo Meifeng for the time being.

I used to meet at the family building of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, but this time I went to someone's house.

It's a little embarrassing.

"Besides, I've been busy looking for a house lately!"

Hearing this, Disco had something to talk about again, and he shared with Yu Tong what happened to Uncle Lu when he was wronged before.

"You see that he is so arrogant, and he is frightened by the speed of price increases. So, if you want to buy a house, you have to buy it as soon as possible, and now it's really a price a day. Disco took out a pile of blank paper from his bag and handed it over, "When I went to the Housing Authority to go through the procedures, the manager was looking for Sister Fan, the champion of the house exchange. I asked her to help find a few listings with relatively low unit prices, in addition to the houses in Tuanjiehu, you can also go and see other places. ”

Yu Tong flipped through a few pages, and said with a touched face: "Ergou, you are quite willing to spend money, these pieces of paper have to cost more than ten yuan, right?" ”

The computer queries the listing information, and it is a dollar to check it once.

When Disco changed his own house, he only spent a dollar to check it once.

"I didn't spend any money," Disco didn't take the opportunity to ask for credit, and said honestly, "This is a friendly gift from Sister Fan." ”

The two of them, one is a new owner who has just gotten a yard, and the other is a prospective owner who is about to buy a house.

When it comes to the house, that's a lot to talk about.

The water in the teacup was refilled three times, and seeing that the twilight had completely darkened, the two of them had not done a single thing of business.

When Yu Tong felt empty in her stomach, she suddenly came back to her senses, and she patronized and gossiped with him, and the overtime plan was in vain!

She pushed the playlist she had prepared in advance to the other party, took out a pack of cookies and chewed two pieces.

"This year is the first time to introduce popular songs, I specially inquired about the rules of the popular singing competition, which are basically similar to bel canto and ethnic, but the jury is more tolerant of the contestants in the popular group. When it comes to choosing songs, you can be bold. ”

"How bold is that? "Beautiful Girl, Look at Me"? ”

"......" Yu Tong, who suspected that he was being molested, suppressed the subtle emotions in his heart and said as seriously as possible, "You don't have to be so bold." The judges of the six groups are actually the same group of people, they are still more traditional and conservative in their bones, and they still maintain an eye for appreciating orthodox singing, so you can choose songs a little boldly in the preliminary round, but try to be as conservative as possible in terms of costumes. ”

The semi-finals of the preliminary round are not held in public, and only the final is broadcast live.

Therefore, in order to take care of the aesthetic vision of the judges, the costumes for the preliminary and semi-finals should be decent.

If he really let him go out of his shit luck and successfully enter the finals, then he won't have to pay attention to the judges.

You can dress as unconventional as possible to highlight your personality and attract the audience's attention.

"Spring Beauty", "Nostalgia" and "Don't See Me Off" are all popular songs that the judges prefer. The Hong Kong and Taiwan repertoire you sang in the dance hall before was too much for you to appear on the stage of a singing competition. ”

Disco took the playlist and counted the titles one by one, and there were eight out of ten songs that he couldn't sing.

When these songs are brought to the dance hall, they will be said to be old-fashioned, and no singer will make money from these songs.

"The preliminary round requires two songs, one fixed and one optional. The playlist I gave you is basically within a fixed range of songs, and you can choose any song you can sing in it. As for the repertoire," Yu Tong paused and said, "Given your status as a quasi-translator, I suggest that you package yourself a little more internationally to impress the judges." ”

"How international? Do you sing English songs? ”

"On the stage of the Youth Song Competition, the contestants who sang the whole foreign language song have not yet appeared, so let's not try it lightly. Isn't there a lot of English songs with Chinese lyrics on the market, you choose one yourself, half sing in Chinese, half sing in English. Let's try the water in the preliminary round first. ”

Disco had no objection and accepted Tong's suggestion in its entirety.

This kind of singing may be considered nondescript in later generations, but in the current singing competition, it is already a breakthrough attempt.

If he was filmed dead on the promotion line of the preliminary round because of singing foreign language songs, it would be regarded as a sacrifice for the development of the mainland music scene.

The preliminary round of the Youth Song Contest is jointly organized by the provincial and municipal governments and local TV stations, and a round of screening is conducted in the province first.

A total of four cadres from the Ministry of Economic and Trade participated in the competition, and except for Disco, the remaining three were female comrades.

And there is one person in the amateur group bel canto, ethnic and popular singing.

When the four of them went to participate in the preliminary competition, no one in the unit knew their competition arrangements except for their respective top bosses.

The players in units like them are basically one or two rounds of tours, mainly to give the organizers a face, and the emphasis is on participation.

So, no one will make a big deal about the news so as not to be embarrassed in the future.

In the popular group with Disco is the youth officer of the Youth League Committee Office, Long Junhua.

On the car to the preliminary race, Long Junhua complained: "Xiao Di, why did you sign up so late?" Even if it's a day earlier, I don't have to go into battle myself! ”

The grassroots trade union organizations in the ministry are not yet perfect, and the party committees and youth league committees are responsible for organizing such activities.

The work of recruiting contestants for this Youth Song Contest is again in charge of the Youth League Committee.

The leader requires at least one person from each of the three amateur categories to compete.

Long Junhua is the main person in charge of this event, she drew a circle of literary and artistic activists in the unit, and finally brought in two singing level passes, but there is still one less.

After she politely rejected those activists who sang out of tune but had no self-consciousness, she couldn't wait for the third reliable contestant, so she had to fill in her name on the list with a stroke of the pen.

However, the day after she filled in her name, Disco signed up with his still hot tape!

"Sister Long, I heard that your singing level is very high, and it is really buried if you don't participate in the competition." Disco smiled and said, "Let's give the popular group a double insurance, two people will participate, and the organizer will always let us advance to one, right?" ”

Long Junhua waved his hand and said: "Come on, in the last competition, our department also selected singers, and five people went, and the preliminary round was brushed back." Those old men are strict! ”

Disco consciously prepared quite well, and the selection of songs is also in line with the aesthetic vision of the judges, and should be able to be liked by the judges.

However, when he really stood in front of the judges, he knew that he was naïve.

The preliminary round borrowed the venue of a song and dance troupe, and the contestants sang on the stage, and there was a row of six judges sitting under the stage.

And it's all gay men who are not young.

When Disco finished singing the fixed track "Spring Beauty", only one of the six judges gave him a score of 9.5.

The remaining scores are 8.9, 8.6, 8.3, 8 and 7.5 respectively.

According to the scoring rules, the highest score is removed, and the lowest score is removed.

His fixed track score is only 8.45 points.

Disco was the seventeenth player in the popular group, and he didn't know the scores of the others.

But the No. 16 female contestant selected by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions scored 8.8 points, and he heard it very well.

This is a bit of a big gap with others!

"No. 17, you can sing your own repertoire." Sitting on the far right of the judges' bench, the youngest judge reminds.

Disco has prepared two English songs, one is the English version of "Love You More Than I Can Say" from "Love You in My Heart".

The other is "Sailing", which is not available in Chinese for the time being.

A score of 8.45 hit him hard, and Disco felt that if he didn't fight for his own tracks, he might really want to play a round.

He held the microphone and said, "Judges and teachers, the self-selected piece I prepared is "Sailing" translated into Chinese as "Sailing". ”

The judge, who had given him a 9.5, asked, "Are you going to sing an English song on our stage?" ”

The amateur group plus the professional group, all the contestants combined, this is the first to sing an English song.

Actually, it's more risky.

"I am an English translator in the translation office of the Ministry of Economic and Trade and I like the sense of power in the lyrics of this song. However, there are no lyricists on the market who have filled in Chinese lyrics for this song, so I tried to fill in some Chinese lyrics myself. I would like to take advantage of the opportunity to sing in the Youth Song Competition, and ask the teachers to criticize and correct. ”

Hearing that he still has the ability to fill in the lyrics, several judges felt that it was quite fresh.

The 9.5 judges smiled and said, "Having creative passion is something to be encouraged, and I am looking forward to your performance." ”

Disco held up a finger to the staff and asked them to help play the first accompaniment tape.

As the soft and soothing melody sounded, Disco opened his mouth and sang the first foreign language lyrics on the stage of the Youth Song Competition.

“I am sailing～ I am sailing～ Home again 'cross the sea……”

His voice is not as hoarse as the original song, less mellow than the precipitation of the years, and more of the expectations and yearning of young people for a free voyage.

The gentle melody complements his magnetic voice.

This fashionable style of music is highly compatible with his international vocal cavity, and the effect is indeed better than "Spring Beauty".

Disco remembered Yu Tong's advice that the aesthetics of the judges of the singing competition were not so open.

Therefore, the English lyrics were only sung for a short time, and soon moved on to the part where he wrote the lyrics himself.

He felt that the song "Sailing" was similar to the Soviet poet Lermontov's work "A Lonely Boat".

Therefore, when writing the lyrics, he appropriately referred to the mood of the poem, such as 'It just sails forward, with a calm blue sea below, and a golden sun overhead'.

It adds some romanticism to the boat in pursuit of freedom and ideals.

At the end of the song, the judges scored their own points.

The judges with a score of 9.5 gave the highest score of 9.8 in the audience, but unfortunately it was removed.

Of the remaining scores, two were 9.2, one was 9.1 and one was 8.8, and one was the oldest judge, who only gave 4 points.

The judge, who gave 4 points, obviously didn't like Disco's Western singing style.

Fortunately, his 4 points have also been removed and will not be counted in the total score.