Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1280 Missing a show?

   Xiao Yao did not argue with Nicky Thompson. He didn't really want to talk about the old things that year. When he saw Nicky Thompson's assistant use his mobile phone to check the Internet, 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 his head and asked Amy Hatton.

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

  This issue was what they were talking about before. She had agreed to Xiao Yao, but was interrupted by the group of Koreans coming in. Since he had promised before, and Nicky Thompson had performed like this again, Amy Hatton did not intend to go back.

  Amy Hatton opened the door and went out. After a while, he returned to the lounge with a young man with a work sign hanging around his neck. Amy Harduan gave a brief introduction to both parties. 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, they were rehearsing on the stage. Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis found a place in the front row of the audience in a low-key manner and sat down, watching the rehearsal on stage.

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

  The middle-aged man's name is Cordy Scott. He is a 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 is also very rustic. The upper body is a red and white plaid shirt and a brown vest, and the lower body is jeans and boots, a cowboy outfit. With a guitar on his back, he plays and sings with the cooperation of the band, singing an American country music style song.

  American country music and folk songs are not a concept, but rather unique music. Xiao Yao is very interested in this kind of music that is unique to the United States. In addition, the one on the stage can be said to be the top country musician in the United States. Both creation and singing are very good, so even if it is possible in the middle Xiao Yao watched the rehearsal that would pause, interrupt, and discuss adjustments with gusto.

Xiao Yao sat and watched for about ten minutes, only to see Cordy Scott sing a song from beginning to end two times without interruption, and then he found Cordy Scott's rehearsal. It seems to be over.

On the stage, Cordy Scott walked to the edge of the stage and squatted down to communicate with a middle-aged man wearing headphones. He turned around and stood up and bowed to the musicians on the stage to thank the musicians, raising his hands and back The guitar was taken off.

  After handing over the guitar to the staff on the side, Cordy Scott did not return to the backstage from the aisle behind the stage, but jumped off from the front of the stage and walked to the auditorium.

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

  Cordie Scott was facing the front of the stage during rehearsal. Although Xiao Yao and the two were very low-key when they came in, and they bent over and walked to the auditorium, they still saw Cordy Scott on the stage. Cordy Scott was very curious about the two people sitting in the audience, but they were rehearsing at the time and it was difficult to interrupt. Now that the rehearsal is over, I will come over to find out.

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

   "Lucky audience? Arranged to watch the star rehearsal?" Cordy Scott asked strangely, "This is 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 headphones who was talking to him on the stage and shouted: "Hey, David, why didn’t you tell us in advance that we will arrange the audience to watch Shall we rehearse?"

  The middle-aged man called David came up strangely and asked: "Cordy, what are you talking about?"

   "I said you also arranged for the audience to come to our rehearsal this year?" Cordy Scott pointed to Xiao Yao, "Why didn't you tell us in advance?"

   Looking strangely in the direction that Cordy Scott was pointing, David immediately showed a dazed expression and stretched out his hand to Xiao Yao: "Yang, hello! Welcome!"

  The middle-aged man is called David Green, who is the live 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. Because he was busy supervising the star's rehearsal, he didn't meet Xiao Yao specifically, but he knew that Xiao Yao was here.

   "It's 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 leading 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 in the past and sat down. Now it is the official meeting of the two sides.

   "Young?" Cordy Scott looked at David Green with some confusion, "Do you know?"

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

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

"Young Xiao, a star artist from China." David Green said, "A member of the Immortals band, the creator of the daydream song "Sugar", and the China player who participated in the Eva Show and the All-Star Celebrity. Celebrity."

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

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded.

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

"I am indeed a lucky audience!" Xiao Yao said, "I have not been invited to participate in this awards ceremony. I am not a performer or an award-giving guest. I only have tickets for the ordinary auditorium, and then it will be an ordinary audience. The organizer allows it. I came to see you rehearsal and I feel very lucky, so I am a lucky audience. Does it have nothing to do with me being a star?"

   "Uh..." Cordy Scott choked.

   "Young, I now know why Thompson said you are a liar!" Tim Haggis smiled bitterly while stroking his forehead.

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

  "Tim Haggis, my friend." Xiao Yao introduced, "Ordinary people, not celebrities, nor members of my team. We two came to LV to travel together!"

   "Hello!" Tim Haggis raised his hand and greeted him.

   "Cordy, talk slowly!" After David Green nodded to Tim Haggis, he said to Cordy Scott, "I'm going to watch the next rehearsal."

   "Okay, go ahead!" Cordy Sko nodded characteristically.

  Cordie Scott, unlike Nicky Thompson, doesn’t care much about Xiao Yao’s way of talking in word games. After David Green turned and left, he did not return to the backstage, but sat in the audience with Xiao Yao.

   "Young, I like your "perfect" very much!" Cordy Scott said to Xiao Yao.

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

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

   "Hmm~" Xiao Yao hesitated for a moment, 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, "I said it, I like it very much."

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

"Okay," Xiao Yao thought for a moment and said, "This song is from the album you released at the end of last year. The lyrics and music are very good, and the results are very good. As the official version, I don't have any suggestions. If you are performing, I think you might as well play tricks, which can further boost the atmosphere of the scene."

   "How to play?" Cordy Scott said.

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

   "Yordel?" 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 various musical styles such as blues and folk songs to form A unique style of country music. Therefore, in American country music, many songs are performed by Jodel.

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao smiled and nodded, "I think many children used to sing this way when they were young, but then most of them were stifled by their parents for not allowing ghosts."

The   Yordel singing method is a singer who uses the same pitch to switch back and forth in different ranges with a high voice, and repeats this changing pitch back and forth to produce a special sound. This is actually a very mature technique for controlling the overlap of sounds in different ranges, but from the surface, it looks like a child's ghost screaming. Of course, the nature of the two is definitely different.

   "No ghosts allowed?" Cordy Scott was stunned, then reacted, laughing and saying, "Yang, you are so funny!"

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

  Cordie Scott knows that Xiao Yao is a professional singer and musician, and he certainly wouldn’t really think that Yordel is a kid.

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

   "Wow~" Cordy Scott smiled and clapped his hands, "Great!"

"Young, would you like to work with me?" Cordy Scott said, "Just as you said, add a yodel at the end of the first paragraph of the song, and you will sing this yodel. ！Of course, it’s very abrupt to sing only this section, but I heard that you play the guitar very well, you can be my guest star guitarist, standing in the front row most of the time to help me with guitar accompaniment, to Yodel’s place , You sing!"

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

   Xiao Yao and Cordy Scott looked up together, and found Nicky Thompson approaching.

  It turned out that after Cordy Scott's rehearsal was over, the staff notified Nicky Thompson to come to the rehearsal. Due to the different band configurations and musicians of the two, after the rehearsal, Cordy Scott still needed to replace the musical instruments on the stage. When Nicky Thompson arrived, the preparations on the stage hadn't been done yet. She glanced at the auditorium and came in the direction of Xiao Yao.

   "Hi, Nicky!" Cordy Scott smiled and raised his hand to say hello.

  Both are well-known American musicians. Although they have different styles and haven't collaborated much, they often meet them in various performances and awards ceremonies, and they are relatively familiar.

   "Hi, Cordy!" Nicky Thompson smiled in return.

   "Are you talking about Jan?" Cordy Scott said, "You know?"

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

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded when seeing Cordy Scott with questioning eyes.

"It turns out that it is," Cordy Scott smiled and said to Nicky Thompson, "Even if he is the stage director you invited, it will not prevent him from cooperating with me? Can you make the decision for him? ?"

"Of course I can't make the decision for him!" Nicky Thompson said, "But I also invited him to be the guitarist when I performed, but he refused. He said that he had quit the Immortals band, and he didn't want the people in the band to think He quit the band because he dislikes the band, so he will not work with an American star who is more popular than the band on the stage of this awards ceremony. I am more famous than Immortals, and you are more famous than Immortals. I just ask him to play the guitar. Accompaniment, you not only ask him to accompany him with guitar, but he also sings for you. He rejected me, and of course he will reject you."

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

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

   Xiaoyao originally had no intention of agreeing to Cordy Scott to help him play the guitar and sing Yodel, nor did he change his mind because of Nicky Thompson’s words.

  "Have you quit the Immortals band?" Cordy Scott asked.

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

   "Are you really not going to cooperate?" Cordy Scott asked again.

   "Forget it this time." Xiao Yao shook his head, "I am willing to cooperate with you if I have the opportunity in the future."

   "Okay!" Cordy Scott smiled and patted Xiao Yao on the shoulder, "I have a chance to cooperate in the future!"

   "Nicky!" David Green, the live director, came over and said to Nicky Thompson, "The stage is ready and we can rehearse!"

   "Okay!" Nicky Thompson nodded.

  Nicky Thompson turned and walked towards the stage. Just stepping forward, he suddenly saw a staff member running towards this side and stopped curiously.

   "David!" A young man with a work card hurried to David Green and said, "We are in trouble!"

   "What's the matter?" David Green asked.

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

   "Hospital? What happened?" David Green asked.

   "Food poisoning!" The young man said, "Now his life is in danger, but he must be observed in the hospital for two days. In other words, he cannot participate in tonight's rehearsal, and tomorrow night's awards ceremony will not be available."

"It doesn't matter if there is one less person on the red carpet show. If he wins, his team can send someone to accept the award on his behalf, but he is still a guest performer," the young man continued, "As a result, we will lose one. Show."

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

"No way!" said the young man. "This award ceremony will be broadcast on the TV station. Although it is recorded and broadcast, post-editing is possible, 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 must find a way to make up for one!"

   "Lack of a show?" Cordy Scott and Nicky Thompson, who had not left yet, heard this and invariably looked at Xiao Yao aside.

  (End of this chapter)