Entertaining Children

"Thank you Brother Youyuan for your wonderful performance!" After the second Liu Youyuan sang and walked off the stage, Xiao Yao also returned to the stage again and began to continue the work of the host. Before introducing the next competition song, Xiao Yao also specially praised: "Leaving aside other things, I think Brother Youyuan has made great progress in Chinese. What do you think?"

Just now Liu Youyuan sang a Chinese song. This is also the second time he sang a Chinese song in this show. At least in terms of pronunciation, it is indeed much better than when he sang a Chinese song last time. This is the recording of the eighth game of this season, and it took almost two months. Obviously, in these two months, Liu Youyuan has been studying Chinese continuously and hard. Xiao Yao could hear it, and pointed it out to the audience by the way.

"Yes!" The audience applauded and shouted.

"Thank you!" Liu Youyuan, who had already walked to the middle of the aisle in front of the stage, stopped after hearing the translation from manager Zhang Qiao next to him, turned around and bowed slightly to thank Xiao Yao on the stage with his palms folded. He didn't have a microphone in his hand at this time, and he was some distance away from Xiao Yao. The noisy environment made him not sure whether Xiao Yao could hear him, and he didn't want to yell, so when he was talking, he He also deliberately exaggerated the mouth shape of the two Chinese characters "thank you". Because at this time Xiao Yao was attracted by the movement of him stopping, and looked in his direction. Whether he can hear it or not, he can still see it.

"Next, I will introduce the next competition song to everyone," Xiao Yao continued to introduce the next competition song after seeing Liu Youyuan thanked and left, "The name of this song is "When You Are Old". It is based on a poem of the same name written by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats."

"Wow~" Hearing that the song was adapted from a poem by a great foreign poet, there was a burst of exclamation from the audience, and Xiao Yao smiled very satisfied.

"Qin Xiaodong!"

"Qin Xiaodong!"

Someone in the audience shouted, and Xiao Yao's smile froze on his face.

In fact, it is not surprising that the audience reacted this way. Qin Xiaodong originally made his debut as a campus singer. Although he graduated from Shuimu University with a major in science and engineering, his elegant temperament, elegant conversation, and the full of youthful atmosphere in the songs he created before also won him a lot of attention. A "music poet" nickname. Moreover, among the songs he performed before, not only was there a semi-original work that rewritten the lyrics of a Korean song in Chinese, but he even brought an unpublished original new song in the last show just like Xiao Yao. Although Xiao Yao also published three well-known modern poems, as well as a re-composition work for the Song Ci "Shui Tiao Ge Tou", his image is really more changeable and jumpy, far less than Qin Xiaodong who maintained more than a dozen poems. The image of the "music poet" in 2010 is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so when Xiao Yao talked about songs adapted from poems, the audience's first reaction was Qin Xiaodong, not Xiao Yao.

"Huh? Hehe~" Qin Xiaodong, who was watching the live broadcast in the room, was also stunned by the shouts of the audience.

After he realized it, he was amused seeing Xiao Yao's displeased expression.

"Stop!" Xiao Yao raised his hand in displeasure and said, "Although Brother Xiaodong has the nickname of "Music Poet", he is not the only singer who can write poems, he is the one who can turn poems into songs." He's not alone either!"

"I knew that there was a singer in this program who also wrote poetry. Have you heard of "Flying Birds and Fish"? Have you heard of "Seeing and Not Seeing"? Have you heard of "If Talent Is Not Recognized"? Also, Gong Have you heard "Water Tune Getou" sung by Chen?" Xiao Yao threw out a series of questions to the audience.

"Oh~" The audience reacted, and some shouts of "heard" were mixed with the cheers.

"If he didn't say it, I really didn't think of it. This little guy has also written a lot of excellent modern poems." Qin Xiaodong stopped laughing, looked at Xiao Yao on TV, and said, "Listen to what he said now. , why do I feel that the nickname "Music Poet" is more suitable for him?"

"I've heard of "Water Tune Getou". Did he write the poems he mentioned earlier?" In another room, Hong Wei also looked at Xiao Yao on TV and asked Wu You, the manager next to him.

"Well," Wu You nodded and said, ""Flying Birds and Fish" was written by him for his girlfriend, "Seeing and Not Seeing" and "If Talent Is Not Recognized" are both performances he participated in Shenxi last year. The art exams were all modern poems. In fact, when he participated in the "Ancient Poetry Conference", he recited an ancient poem "Qinyuanchun. Snow", which was also written by himself. These were all written in the Excellent poems that have been popular in the literary circle for a long time, and have been published in literary magazines."

"It's no wonder that he was able to write the ancient poetry-like lyrics of the previous "Dream Chasing Order", and he turned out to be a poet." Hong Wei shook his head and said, "What kind of monstrous son did this old Xiao give birth to! "

On the stage of the studio, when Xiao Yao introduced his song, some staff members had already come up to make preparations. There were only two staff members who came up, one of whom was carrying a chair in one hand and a microphone stand in the other, and the other was carrying a guitar in one hand and a metal stand in the other. After Xiao Yao asked the audience a series of questions, one had already set up chairs and microphones in the center of the stage, while the other stood with a guitar and waited for Xiao Yao.

"Next, please enjoy the performance brought by the next singer." Xiao Yao said, turned around and walked to the dimly lit place in the center of the stage, sat down on that chair, and put the microphone in his hand on the microphone. After installing it on the rack, I took the guitar and the metal rack handed over by a staff member next to me.

The staff left, and the lights in the middle above the stage were turned on. The audience who saw Xiao Yao immediately burst into cheers and screams.

At this time, Xiao Yao was the only one on the whole stage. He was sitting on a black chair, holding a very ordinary-looking primary-color acoustic guitar in his hand, and a harmonica stand and a harmonica hanging around his neck. It sits on the harmonica stand, just below his mouth. In front of him is a microphone stand that props the microphone up to the front of his mouth, almost at the same height as his mouth.

Such a scene immediately reminded many people of the scene where Xiao Yao played three instruments and sang "Those Flowers" in the last blind selection of "The Voice" the year before last. Although Xiao Yao only had two musical instruments this time, compared to that time, there was one less tambourine under his feet, but the audience was very excited to see the singer playing two musical instruments at the same time on this stage.

Some viewers with better memories even remembered that when Xiao Yao played three musical instruments at the same time in the blind selection of "The Voice", he seemed to be dressed in the same refreshing white shirt and blue jeans as today, and made some nonsensical guesses: "Is it Is this the standard for Xiao Yao to sing folk songs?"

In Xiao Yao's mind, he had played all three instruments together in "The Voice" the year before last, but this time it was just playing two instruments at the same time, which was not a gimmick or a big move to him at all, but others obviously didn't. think so. Except for Xiao Siqi's relatively calm performance, several singers in the lounge had their own reactions to Xiao Yao's preparation to play two instruments at the same time.

"Playing two instruments at the same time? Awesome!" Liang Xueying looked at Xiao Yao on TV and praised.

"I knew it, this kid has to come up with some tricks every game!" Hong Wei stroked his forehead and sighed.

"It seems to be less than last year's "The Voice". Is he giving us face?" Qin Xiaodong laughed.

"Does he want to play two instruments at the same time? Can he do it?" Liu Youyuan in the hall looked back at his manager Zhang Qiao in surprise. Because Wei Shile, who had completed the competition, was sitting next to her, Liu Youyuan asked this question in Chinese while gesturing.

"Yes," Zhang Qiao nodded, and also replied in Chinese, "When he participated in a competition the year before last, he once performed three musical instruments at the same time. In addition to the guitar and harmonica, there was also a tambourine, which was placed on the ground with his feet. Here to knock. There is a video of his match on the Internet, if you want to watch it, I will find it later and show it to you.”

"Really? I want to watch it too, can we watch it together?" Wei Shile also asked. Wei Shile was also surprised by Xiao Yao's image, and was also very interested in how Xiao Yao could play three instruments at the same time.

"Okay, no problem!" Zhang Qiao said, "Back then it was a very popular topic for Xiao Yao to play three instruments at the same time. You can easily find the video of the competition two years ago on the Internet."

On the stage, Xiao Yao, who was ready, signaled to the band conductor Liu Tong, and gently plucked the strings of the guitar in his hand. As the guitar sounded, the piano sound in the live band also sounded.

"When you are old, your hair is gray, sleepy ~ drowsy. When you are old and can't walk anymore, keep warm by the fire and recall your youth..."

After a simple but extremely moving prelude, Xiao Yao's clean and simple voice sounded. The gentle voice and gentle expression easily quieted the audience and listened to Xiao Yao's singing quietly.

This is a song adapted by Zhao Zhao in his previous life based on the poems of the Irish poet Yeats, but what impresses people more is the interpretation of Li Jian and Karen Mok in the "I Am a Singer" in his previous life. Xiao Yao felt that this song was not suitable for female voices, so he basically ignored the version sung by Karen Mok. The song now brought to this stage is a synthesis of the two versions of the original authors Zhao Zhao and Li Jian. Come.

Although the "I Am a Singer" that Xiao Yao participated in in his previous life and Xiao Yao's current "Singer" are very similar programs, but Xiao Yao's current song appears as an original song, which he never planned to show in this program His own ability to "splicing" songs, and this world does not have the world-famous "La Vie en Rose", so in the arrangement, Xiao Yao still used Zhao Zhao's original version as the basis, and did not use it in the prelude like Li Jian did. Go to "August Photo Studio", and add a melody of "La Vie en Rose" in the middle.

But Zhao Zhao’s original version was written for his mother, and the whole song is a bit decadent, while Li Jian is more in line with the meaning of the original poem and sang for his lover, so Xiao Yao, who has never been decadent, is less than Zhao Zhao in singing. It's a bit decadent, but it's more positive and sunny, and it also retains two changes to the lyrics in Li Jian's version. Changed "snoozing by the fire" at the beginning to "keep warm by the fire" and "I wish this song was for you" at the end to "I'm going to sing this heartfelt song for you" The song." Just because there is no melody of "La Vie en Rose", the section "I can't keep all the years" added by Li Jian was also given up by Xiao Yao.

This song by Zhao Zhao is basically two repetitions of two sections of "When You Are Old" with different lengths. In the middle of the two repetitions, there is a musical interlude containing the sound of a harmonica, and this interlude is also It became Xiao Yao's moment of showing off his skills in this performance.

"Woo~"

After the first half of the song was sung, the song came to the interlude. Xiao Yao also lowered his head, put his mouth on the harmonica in front of him, and started playing. Playing the guitar in his hand.

Seeing the expected scene, many viewers wanted to stand up and cheer and scream. But Xiao Yao's gentle and soothing song is a song that needs to be listened to quietly. The audience who have been emotionally aroused by Xiao Yao's previous singing really couldn't bear to make too loud and too intense a sound to destroy the song. Therefore, everyone just expressed their attitude towards Xiao Yao's performance with a burst of applause that was not very warm.

"It's really great!" In the lounge, several other singers were also intoxicated listening to Xiao Yao's singing and performance, even Wei Shile and Liu Youyuan, who saw Xiao Yao playing two instruments at the same time for the first time , also suppressed the shock in my heart, and did not express it with too intense words and body movements, destroying my emotions listening to this song.

"When I am old, I will sing this song in my heart for you~"

In the original version of Zhao Zhao in the previous life, after the song is sung, it ends with an instrument performance of about half a minute. In this place, Xiao Yao retained the way of ending the passage with musical instruments, but added an additional harmonica accompaniment to the original soundtrack. So after singing the last sentence, he lowered his head to the harmonica again, and once again showed the audience the skill of playing both harmonica and guitar at the same time.

Seeing Xiao Yao once again demonstrated the skill of playing the two instruments at the same time, there was another burst of applause that was not too intense, and as Xiao Yao continued to play, the applause was not as it was during the interlude Instead of disappearing, it slowly turned into the audience shaking their bodies or heads and clapping their hands to respond to Xiao Yao.

Amidst the soft clapping of the audience, Xiao Yao's right hand swept over the guitar strings for the last time, and his mouth also left the harmonica. At the same time, the sounds of the piano and drum set in the accompaniment also gradually dissipated into the sound of the guitar and harmonica. in the air. After the performance of the whole song, Xiao Yao raised his head to look at the audience for the first time, with a gentle smile on his face.

This time, the audience's reaction was obviously much more enthusiastic, and many audience members stood up with red eyes. However, there was still no cheering or screaming. Even the audience who stood up with red eyes, just applauded silently, just like the audience sitting in their seats.