Entertaining Children

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Xiao Yao didn't argue with Nicky Thompson. He didn't really want to talk about the old things back then, and when he saw Nicky Thompson's assistant checking the Internet with his mobile phone, he was even less interested in talking about it.

"Ms. Hatton, can I go to the performance hall to watch Mr. Scott's rehearsal?" Xiao Yao turned and asked Amy Hatton.

"Let me help you ask, it shouldn't be a big problem." Amy Hatton nodded.

This question was what they were talking about before, and she had already agreed to Xiao Yao, but was interrupted by the group of Koreans coming in. Since Nicky Thompson behaved like this before, since he promised it before, Amy Hatton does not intend to go back on his word.

Amy Hatton opened the door and went out, and returned to the lounge with a young man with a work badge around his neck after a while. Amy Haduan gave a brief introduction to the two parties, and the young man with a work card took Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis to the performance hall.

When Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis entered the performance hall, rehearsals were going on on the stage. Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis found a seat in the front row of the audience and sat down in a very low-key manner, watching the rehearsal on the stage.

Rehearsing on the stage is a middle-aged white man who looks to be in his forties.

The middle-aged man's name is Cody Scott. He is a very well-known and long-established singer-songwriter in the United States. His music style is mainly country music.

At this time, Cordy Scott on the stage was also dressed in a very country style. His upper body was a red and white plaid shirt with a brown vest, his lower body was jeans and boots, and he looked like a cowboy. With a guitar on his back, he played and sang with the cooperation of the band, and what he sang was a song in the style of American country music.

American country music and folk songs are not the same concept, but a relatively unique music. Xiao Yao is very interested in this unique type of music in the United States. In addition, the one on the stage can be said to be a top-notch country musician in the United States. Xiao Yao watched the rehearsals with pauses, interruptions, and discussions about adjustments with great interest.

Xiao Yao sat and watched for about ten minutes, only to see that Cordy Scott sang a song from beginning to end without interruption twice, and then discovered that Cordy Scott's rehearsal It seems to be over.

Cordy Scott on the stage went to the edge of the stage and knelt down to communicate with a middle-aged man wearing earphones. He turned around and stood up to bow to the musicians on the stage. The guitar he was wearing was removed.

After handing over the guitar on his body to the staff on one side, Cordy Scott did not return to the backstage from the passage behind the stage, but jumped down from the front of the stage and walked towards the auditorium.

"Excuse me, who are you?" Cordy Scott walked up to Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis and asked.

Cordy Scott was facing the front of the stage during rehearsals. Although Xiao Yao and the two were very low-key when they came in, they walked to the auditorium with a bent waist, but Cody Scott on the stage still saw it. Cordy Scott was very curious about the two people sitting in the auditorium, but he was rehearsing at the time, so it was not easy to interrupt. Now that the rehearsal is over, he came over to find out.

"Mr. Scott, hello!" Xiao Yao replied with a smile, "We are the lucky audience, and we were arranged to watch the rehearsal of the stars!"

"Lucky audience? Arranged to watch the star rehearsal?" Cordy Scott asked strangely, "Is this a benefit for the audience? The organizer still has this kind of operation this year?"

With that said, Cordy Scott looked back at the middle-aged man wearing earphones who was talking to him on the side of the stage just now and shouted: "Hey, David, why didn't you tell us in advance that we would arrange for the audience to watch?" We're rehearsing?"

The middle-aged man named David came over strangely and asked, "Kordy, what are you talking about?"

"I said you also arranged for an audience to watch our rehearsal this year?" Cordy Scott pointed to Xiao Yao,

"Why didn't you tell us in advance?"

David looked in the direction Cordy Scott pointed in a little strangely, and then showed a dazed expression, and stretched out his hand to Xiao Yao: "Yang, hello! Welcome!"

This middle-aged man is called David Green, and he is the on-site director and supervisor of the stage performance of this awards ceremony. The most important thing for Xiao Yao to come to the performance hall to watch the rehearsal is to obtain his consent. Since he was busy supervising the star's rehearsal, he didn't meet Xiao Yao on purpose, but he knew Xiao Yao was here.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Green!" Xiao Yao smiled and shook hands with the other party.

When Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis came in, the staff who led the way pointed to him and introduced them to them. Because David Green was supervising Cordy Scott's rehearsal at the time, Xiao Yao didn't bother him, and just sat down, and now the two sides officially met.

"Jan?" Cordy Scott looked at David Green with some doubts, "You know each other?"

"Today is the first time I met him, but I have heard of him a long time ago." David Green smiled at Cody Scott, "Don't you recognize who he is?"

"Who?" Cordy Scott looked at Xiao Yao and asked.

"Yan Xiao, a celebrity artist from China." David Green said, "A member of the Immortals band, the creator of the song "Sugar" in Daydream, the Huaxia who participated in the Eva Show and the All-Star Celebrity Competition star."

"Are you the Jan Xiao who sang "Perfect"?" Cody Scott asked Xiao Yao.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded.

"Why do you say you are a lucky audience?" Cordy Scott asked.

"I'm indeed a lucky audience!" Xiao Yao said, "I was not invited to participate in this award ceremony, neither a performer nor an award presenter. I only have tickets for ordinary audience seats, so I will be an ordinary audience at that time. The organizer allows I came to see your rehearsal, and I feel very lucky, so I am a lucky audience. It has nothing to do with whether I am a star or not, right?"

"Uh..." Cordy Scott choked.

"Yan, now I know why Thompson called you a liar!" Tim Haggis rubbed his forehead and smiled wryly.

"This is?" Cody Scott looked at Tim Haggis.

"Tim Haggis, my friend." Xiao Yao introduced, "Ordinary people, not celebrities, nor members of my team. The two of us traveled to LV together!"

"Hello!" Tim Haggis raised his hand in greeting.

"Kordy, talk slowly!" David Green nodded to Tim Haggis, and then said to Cody Scott, "I'm going to watch the next rehearsal."

"Okay, go get busy!" Cordy Scott nodded.

Cordy Scott is different from Nicky Thompson, he doesn't care much about Xiao Yao's way of playing word games. After David Green turned to leave, he did not go backstage, but pulled Xiao Yao to sit in the auditorium together.

"Yan, I really like your song "Perfect"!" Cody Scott said to Xiao Yao.

"Thank you," Xiao Yao smiled, "Your music is also very good! I just listened to your rehearsal and liked it very much!"

"Oh?" Cordy Scott laughed, "Do you like country music? Are there any works in this field?"

"Hmm~" Xiao Yao hesitated, and said, "There is no satisfactory complete work yet."

"Then what do you think of my rehearsal just now?" Cordy Scott asked.

"It's great!" Xiao Yao said, "As I said, I like it very much."

"Is there no place you think could be better?" Cordy Scott said, "You can just say it."

"Okay," Xiao Yao thought for a while, and said, "This song is from your album released at the end of last year. The lyrics and music are great, and the results are very good. As an official version, I don't have any suggestions, but the scene When it comes to performances, I think we might as well play some tricks, which can further stimulate the atmosphere of the scene.”

"How to play?" Cordy Scott asked.

"For example, at the end of the first song, you can have a yodeling," Xiao Yao said, "I think it will be very interesting, and the effect should be very good!"

"Yordle?" Cordy Scott stared, "Will you?"

The so-called yodel is a special singing method and song derived from the Swiss Alps. Later, some of the pioneers of American country music combined this special singing method and song form with blues and folk songs and other musical styles to form A unique style of country music. Therefore, in American country music, many songs are expressed by Yodel singing.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "I think that many children used to sing this way when they were young, but most of them were strangled by their parents on the grounds of not allowing ghost calls."

The yodel singing method is that the singer uses the same pitch in a high voice to switch back and forth in different ranges, and repeats this change of pitch back and forth to produce a special sound. This is actually a very mature technique to control the overlapping of sounds in different ranges, but from the appearance, it is a bit like the voice of a child screaming. Of course, the essence of the two must be different.

"No ghost screaming?" Cordy Scott was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and said with a big smile, "Yang, you're so funny!"

"Okay, no kidding!" Cordy Scott smiled for a while, put away his smile and said to Xiao Yao, "Give me a yordle!"

Cody Scott knew that Xiao Yao was a professional singer and musician, so he definitely wouldn't really think that Yodel was just a kid screaming.

"Okay!" Xiao Yao cleared his throat and said, "Oh, eh, eh, eh, eh~"

"Wow~" Cordy Scott clapped his hands with a smile, "It's great!"

"Yan, are you willing to cooperate with me?" Cordy Scott said, "Just as you said just now, add a yodeling at the end of the first verse of the song, and you will sing this yodeling !Of course, it's awkward to just sing this part, but I heard you play the guitar very well, you can be my guest star guitarist, stand in the front row most of the time and help me with the guitar, go to the yordle place , you sing!"

"No, he doesn't want to!" Before Xiao Yao could answer, a voice suddenly came from beside him.

Xiao Yao and Cordy Scott looked up together and found Nicky Thompson walking over.

It turned out that after Cordy Scott's rehearsal was over, the staff notified Nicky Thompson to come to the rehearsal. Since the band configurations and musicians of the two are different, after the rehearsal for Cordy Scott, the instrument equipment needs to be replaced on the stage. When Nicky Thompson arrived, the preparations on the stage hadn't been done yet, so she glanced at the auditorium and came towards Xiao Yao's direction.

"Hi, Nicky!" Cordy Scott greeted with a smile and raised his hand.

Both of them are well-known musicians in the United States. Although they have different styles and have not collaborated much, they often meet in various performances and award ceremonies, and they are relatively familiar.

"Hi, Cordy!" Nicky Thompson smiled back.

"You were talking about Yang just now?" Cordy Scott said, "You know each other?"

"I brought him!" Nicky Thompson said, "He is the stage director that Amy hired for me."

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded when he saw Cody Scott looking at him with questioning eyes.

"So that's how it is," Cody Scott smiled and said to Nicky Thompson, "Even if he is the stage director you invited, it doesn't prevent him from working with me, right? You can make decisions for him ?"

"Of course I can't make decisions for him!" Nicky Thompson said, "But I also asked him to be my guitarist at a show before, and he refused. He said he quit Immortals, and he didn't want people in the band to think He quit the band because he hates the band, so he won't be on the stage of this awards ceremony with an American star who is more popular than the band. I am more famous than Immortals, and you are more famous than Immortals. I just asked him to play guitar Accompanist, you not only asked him to play the guitar, but also asked him to sing for you, if he rejected me, of course he would also reject you."

"Really?" Nicky Thompson finally looked at Xiao Yao and said.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao smiled and spread his hands.

Xiao Yao originally had no intention of agreeing to Cody Scott to help him play the guitar and sing yodeling, nor did he change his mind just because of Nicky Thompson's words.

"You quit Immortals?" Cordy Scott asked.

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded, "They are in the United States, and I am in China. They are rarely together. In fact, I should have quit a long time ago."

"You really don't intend to cooperate?" Cordy Scott asked again.

"Forget it this time." Xiao Yao shook his head, "If there is a chance in the future, I am willing to cooperate with you."

"Okay!" Cordy Scott patted Xiao Yao's shoulder with a smile, "There will be a chance to cooperate in the future!"

"Nicky!" On-site director David Green walked over and said to Nicky Thompson, "The stage is ready, we can rehearse!"

"Okay!" Nicky Thompson nodded.

Nicky Thompson turned around and walked towards the stage. Just as he started to walk, he suddenly saw a staff member running towards him, so he stopped curiously.

"David!" A young man with a work badge hurried up to David Green and said, "We're in trouble!"

"What happened?" David Green asked.

"I just received a call from Neil Hopson's manager," the young man said, "Neil Hopson is in the hospital right now!"

"Hospital? What happened?" David Green asked.

"Food poisoning!" The young man said, "He is in danger now, but he must be observed in the hospital for two days. In other words, he cannot participate in tonight's rehearsal, nor will he be able to participate in tomorrow night's awards ceremony."

"It doesn't matter if one person is missing from the red carpet show. If he wins, his team can also send someone to accept the award on his behalf, but he is still a guest performer," the young man continued, "In this way, we will lose one person." a show."

"Then one less game." David Green said, "Isn't it good to change the script of the host and remove this item from the process?"

"No way!" the young man said, "This award ceremony will be broadcast on TV. Although it is recorded and broadcast, post-editing can be done, but the contract we signed with the TV station stipulates the duration of the award ceremony and the number of performances. Yes. Now there is one performance missing, we have to find a way to make up for it!"

"Lack of a show?" Cody Scott and Nicky Thompson, who hadn't left yet, heard this and looked at Xiao Yao at the side in unison.