Entertaining Children

  Chapter 256 First Album

  The recording of "The Voice of China" came to an end, and Xiao Yao finally lost to Fan Linxuan by two votes. This is also the smallest difference in the number of votes between the champions and runners-up in this show so far. Many people think that if Xiao Yao didn't help Fan Linxuan to accompany the piano at the last moment, even if he performed two songs with the same play later, Xiao Yao could win the championship with the huge advantage of the first song. For his behavior, some people think that he has carried forward his style to the extreme, and some people think that he has lost his own championship and is not a model of immortality.

  In any case, the result cannot be changed, and everyone cannot know Xiao Yao’s true inner feelings. But at least on the surface, neither Shen Na nor Xiao Yao disagrees with this result.

  After the recording, Xiao Yao and his group of relatives and friends took a rest in Hangzhou for one night. Early the next morning, the few friends who got together because of Xiao Yao's participation in the final recording also parted ways again. Zhao Rui returned to the crew and filmed, Zhou Zhihao returned to the National Youth Team to continue to participate in the training camp, Lin Qisan returned to Donghai's home to continue the summer vacation, and Xiao Yao returned to Yanjing with Sun Tingting, Ma Peng, and Chen Mingfei. Because the show is over, Xiao Yao and others don't have to continue walking with Shen Na.

Although Xiao Yao failed to win the final championship of the show this time, as far as the overall performance of the show is concerned, Xiao Yao undoubtedly ranked first among all the students in this season, especially in the finals. The performance of the field not only surpassed Fan Linxuan, who won the championship in the end, but even surpassed the limelight of several instructors. After the show is broadcast on TV, Xiao Yao will properly occupy the headlines of entertainment news for a period of time.

  This program was only broadcast on TV until the fourteen trainees of the tutor team competed for the top four seats in the tutor team. The most recent episode of the show was the mentor selection battle of the Yi Kun team. According to the broadcast plan of the TV station, the mentor selection battle of the Shen Na team that appeared last will be available next week, that is, the weekend after half a month. Broadcast on TV. Since the program is recorded and broadcast, the on-site tutors, students and audiences have signed a confidentiality agreement with the program team. It is impossible to disclose in advance the specific situation and results of the recording site that has not been broadcast, so the remaining few days During the holidays, Xiao Yao is relatively relaxed. By the time the finals actually aired, Xiao Yao's senior year of high school should have started for more than a month.

  For Xiao Yao's final runner-up result, Xiao Siqi did not have much dissatisfaction except for expressing regret over the small gap of only two votes. When Xiao Yao participated in the show, he did not ask Xiao Yao to return with a championship. He knew that Xiao Yao was going to play, as long as he had fun. After all, this is a music program that is more than singing, not more than creating. In Xiao Siqi's expectation, he is satisfied with the hope that Xiao Yao can enter the final finals. This result is even better than he expected. What's more, his original intention for Xiaoyao to participate in this show has been perfectly achieved.

  After Xiaoyao spent the last three days of summer vacation very freely, Xiao Siqi also found Xiao Yao the day before the start of Xiaoyao’s senior year and had a serious conversation with him.

   "August 1st, have you had a good time with Duoer these days? You should have enough rest?" Xiao Siqi smiled and looked at Xiao Yao.

   "Well, have fun and have enough rest." Xiao Yao nodded.

"Since I am with Doer, I have to treat them well. You are still young and will grow up in the future. Also, after all, we are so familiar with each other. We also watched Doer grow up. No matter what happens in the future. , You can't hurt the feelings of the two families." Xiao Siqi continued.

"Dad, I understand the truth, I will treat Duoer well. Don't you understand your son?" Xiao Yao looked at Xiao Siqi and said, "You shouldn't specifically come and talk to me about this, right? Isn't there anything else?"

   "It's true." Xiao Siqi stopped talking about Sun Tingting, and asked with a smile, "When do you think we will record your first album?"

  "Record the album?" Xiao Yao was taken aback.

"Yes," Xiao Siqi said, "Look, you sang eight songs in total in "The Voice of China" this time. Except for the chorus song with Chen Yuhan, the other seven songs are all your own originals. These seven The first song, plus two of your previous singles, the "Lazy Song" you played and sang on Weibo, and the opening performance of "BeWhatYouWannaBe" when you were a guest of that fashion show, under your own real name The total number of songs written is eleven, which is enough for you to produce a personal original album."

   "Really." Xiao Yao quickly passed it in his heart, and it was indeed the minimum number of album songs for more than ten songs.

"So, then we might as well record the official versions of the other nine songs and make them into albums for you to release." Xiao Siqi said, "You said that you released your first album before the age of twenty. Now that the number of songs is enough, we might as well put the album on the agenda now. You don’t really have to wait until you are twenty?" Xiao Siqi smiled and said, "I have heard all the seven songs in the show. , The quality is very good, all are enough to be included in the album for recording and distribution. Of course, if you want to release only ten songs according to the minimum standard, we can discuss which one to remove. My personal opinion is "New Guifei Drunk" anyway Keep it."

   Xiao Yao looked suspiciously at Xiao Siqi and said, “You asked me to participate in this show at the beginning, didn’t you just save the thought of making me release the album?

"This is a show that is more than singing instead of creating. In fact, at the beginning, I thought it would be nice if you could write two or three original new songs. After all, you are one step closer to the album," Xiao Siqi said, "but when I'm here The show team passed to me when you saw in the highlights video on the show that you told Chen Nan that all the following songs should use your own original songs, I think this album is almost ready. Although I did not go to the scene , But I have seen all your performances on the show, and every song you perform on the show is enough to be released into the album."

"Okay, let's record it and release it." Xiao Yao knew that his father was obsessed with releasing an album for himself, and he himself did not resist the release of the album, so he simply agreed, "Don't choose, just post this. Eleven songs."

   "Okay, I also think these eleven capitals are pretty good." Xiao Siqi said.

   "But when will it be recorded? I will start school tomorrow." Xiao Yao said again.

"You don't need to worry about recording this album." Xiao Siqi said, "You have seven of the eleven songs you sang on the "The Voice of China" program, so it is not suitable for us before the program is completely broadcast. Release this album. It’s better to leave the song’s first appearance on this show, so that it can give viewers a sense of anticipation and promote the ratings of the show. At the same time, we also make this The show will help you promote your new album for free. After everyone has seen your performance on the show, let's take advantage of the opportunity to release this album. At that time, there will be no shortage of hot topics, and the effect will definitely be better than before the show. The distribution is better, we can also save a considerable amount of publicity expenses."

   "Dad, you are more and more like a shrewd businessman." Xiao Yao smiled, "No wonder the studio is getting better and better in the past two years."

"Yeah, we are in the studio now, and we are the boss, don't we have to be a businessman?" Xiao Siqi smiled, and then said, "So there is no need for recording time too quickly. You said that it won't be due to work after school starts. I agree, but you will always have free time on weekends. There are still five episodes of this show that have not been broadcast, which means that we have at least five weeks to make the album. Two singles have been released before I already have the official version of the sound source. Do you want to re-record it? There are nine songs left, five weekends and weekends. Even if you record one song a day, this time is enough."

   "At our level, with all the lyrics, music and arrangement, how can it take a day to record a song?" Xiao Yao said with a curled mouth.

   "I'm counting on the slowest progress." Xiao Siqi said, "And besides recording songs, there are other things."

   "Is there anything else?" Xiao Yao looked at Xiao Siqi and said.

   "Don't worry, it's about the album." Xiao Siqi held up three fingers and said, "One is the album name, the other is the album cover, and the other is the musician."

"First of all, it's the question of the name. Come on yourself. Tell me what name you plan to give this album." Xiao Siqi said, "The songs of your album are too complicated. The language is Chinese songs and English songs. Yes, the style is also rock, dance, folk, lyric, hip-hop, dance with hip-hop, pop with Beijing rhyme, anyway, if I want to name the album, I don’t know what it is."

"What name do you want?" Xiao Yao laughed. "Isn't the first album usually named after me? The album name is also my name. All the songs in the album are written by me. My style is the style of the album. What else should I consider?"

"Yeah," Xiao Siqi patted his forehead, "My first album back then was also a idiom with my name, which is a semi-titled album, and the following albums have different names. I haven't given them to anyone in these years. I have forgotten all about the personal first."

  "Why do you have a half-named name? Let me think about it...How about Xianyaoyou?" Xiao Siqi suggested with interest, "The first chapter of "Zhuangzi" also seems to be literate."

"There is a fish in the North Ming, whose name is Kun?" Xiao Yao felt a bit of a cold, and said decisively: "No. Just Xiao Yao, the original name, just simple, nothing is added, and the words remain the same. Don't make me a free ride."

   "Okay," Xiao Siqi nodded unwillingly and agreed, "What about the cover? Are you going to shoot it yourself? At least you have to show your face for the first album. Are you good to shoot yourself?"

"Let's get Chen Xuan to shoot," Xiao Yao said, "I'm a student of the album. It shouldn't be a problem for him as a teacher to help take a cover photo. I don't know where he is now. Let me contact him. , Ask him to take the time to take a picture. One day is enough. We have one month. He can always spare one day to come. But I will do the cover design by myself. I will give it to you and the studio after it’s done. Audited by the art director."

"Yes." Xiao Siqi nodded, "The following is the problem of the musicians. In fact, the studio has a fixed group of musicians with very good levels, but the "Huatian Mistakes" and "New Guifei Drunkenness" in this album require you. In addition, I will find some musicians who play folk music. You don’t need to worry about this, I can handle it. What I want to discuss with you is, should you still find Duoer to record the violin in "Courage"?"

"No, it's not a live performance. The accompaniment and singing in the studio are recorded separately. I don't have to listen to her violin to sing. And even if I want to find a feeling, let her come to the studio and stop. Just let me watch it in front of me, she doesn't have to do hard work." Xiao Yao thought for a while.

   "Okay, I know you will feel sorry for others." Xiao Siqi shook the goose bumps on his body.

"Also, there is no need to find the musicians of Erhu and Xun, I will come by myself. You can find Guzheng, Pipa, Xiao and Dizi." Xiao Yao said, "In other songs, guitar or piano, they are all the same. I can use the instrument I know. Anyway, there is enough time to record one song a day."

   "Okay, you are willing to help the studio save money, dad of course can't ask for it." Xiao Siqi smiled and nodded.

   "The last question." Xiao Siqi put up another finger and said.

   "Also, is it so troublesome to release an album?" Xiao Yao shouted.

"The last problem is the MV." Xiao Siqi ignored Xiao Yao's complaint. "You have to choose a few songs to record the MV for an album. You don't have to worry about the production team and the script writing of the MV. The studio can handle it. But in As for the actors of the MV, you can act, right? Do you have to take part in this MV? And shooting a MV is not like shooting a TV or a movie. As long as we have done enough in the preliminary preparations, the actual shooting will take a few minutes of the MV. One weekend and two days are enough time to complete the filming. How about it, are you interested in acting by yourself?"

  "Taking a MV?" Xiao Yao pondered for a moment. It has been a few years since the last filming, Xiao Yao really missed the feeling of acting in front of the camera. And the shooting of the MV was something he hadn't experienced before, and it was also a very novel experience. The MV of a song shot two days on the weekend also sounded very reliable, so Xiao Yao was not surprised.

   "Okay, I'm filming." Xiao Yao nodded, and then said, "But you know that I choose the script for filming, so I ask for the right to review the MV script. Only when the MV script is satisfied can I start shooting."

   "Yes," Xiao Siqi smiled and nodded, "Anyway, you write the lyrics and music of all songs. You are most familiar with the songs, or you can just write it yourself."

"Write a script?" Xiao Yao thought, touching his chin. "You can try it. Although I have only acted in one TV series, I have seen a lot of scripts. The MV is only a few minutes, and the script is relatively simple. You can really try it."

   "Okay, then I'll try." Xiao Yao nodded and agreed, "Start with a simple script like the MV. Maybe I won't sing or act in the future, and I can try to be a screenwriter."

  (End of this chapter)