Entertaining Children

  Chapter 574 "Give Me Time for a Song"

   "One more song!" After Xiao Yao smiled and bowed to several singers and agents, Hong Wei and Liang Xueying couldn't wait to say in the same voice.

   "It's so lively, did I miss something?" Wei Shile, who opened the door, looked at the lively singer's lounge.

   "Of course I missed it," Hong Wei said with a smile, "Xiao Yao is having a concert again, this time he is playing the saxophone."

   "Oh, what a pity!" Wei Shile clapped her hands regretfully, and then asked, "Is it over? Is there anything to listen to later?"

  Hong Wei was about to answer that just after the beginning, another staff member pushed in. It turned out that it was time for Xiao Yao to rehearse. This is to inform Xiao Yao to go to the studio to rehearse.

   "I'm going to the rehearsal first," Xiao Yao smiled and spread out his hands, and handed the saxophone in his hand to Hong Wei, "Play slowly by yourself."

   "One piece is not enough, we wait for you to come back." Hong Wei shouted. The rehearsal must not be delayed, but she didn't plan to just let Xiao Yao go.

   "Come back and talk about it." Xiao Yao waved his hand and walked to the door of the singer's lounge.

  Xiao Yao’s concert was suspended, and Tian Wei also took a gift to the new Wei Shile. Xiao Siqi was called to the rehearsal after arriving. She had already seen it just now. Wei Shile, who had just come in, was the last singer to arrive today. After Xiao Yao left, everyone's focus was again on today's newcomer Tian Wei.

  Xiao Yao’s performance in this competition is to sing and dance, so it is natural to sing and dance during the rehearsal. By the end of the rehearsal, Xiao Yao, who had danced for more than half an hour, returned to the lounge with his visibly drenched shirt and sweat. Seeing him like that, the other singers were too embarrassed to pull him to play the saxophone immediately, but urged him to go back to the room to clean up and change clothes so as not to catch a cold.

Xiao Yao, who had dried himself and changed his clothes, came out and was called to film the pre-match interview. When he returned to the lounge, Hong Wei, the most active person, was called to the rehearsal and said hello to Tian, ​​who had given gifts to everyone. Wei said goodbye to everyone and went back to her room, and the other singers also went back to their rooms. As for Xiao Yao, everyone knew from his rehearsal that he was going to sing and dance today. It was hard work, so they didn't insist on letting him continue to play for everyone, so he could recharge his energy with peace of mind.

  The rehearsal of several singers was all over, and the seven singers who had regrouped together also left the room. They went to the lobby on the first floor to start the fixed process of the show and determine the order of appearance.

  The way to decide this time was to draw lots, and Xiao Yao still sent Shen Man to draw for him. This time, Shen Man helped Xiao Yao draw a spot that he hadn't had before, but looked very good, and ranked fifth.

  The lottery is over, Xiao Yao will go back to the room to meet the screenwriter as usual, and take the host notebook for the show. After making small changes to a few places, Xiao Yao quickly memorized the Taiwanese notebook.

  The competition began, and after the sound of the five-second countdown on the scene, Xiao Yao once again appeared on the stage in the studio.

   "Oh, how did this kid dress up so coquettishly today? Is it because of dancing?" Hong Wei pointed to Xiao Yao on the TV and laughed.

Xiao Yao on the stage is wearing a purple-red suit, this color is rarely seen in Xiao Yao's dress style, not to mention some fine gold and silver threads are mixed in the fabric of the clothes, on the left chest The geometric pattern decorations composed of crystal stones all have a slight reflection under the light, making his whole person shining on the stage. Excluding the two more special costumes, the armor suit that Xiao Yao used to sing "The Descendants of the Dragon" and the Hua Dan dress when performing "Dream Order", this is the most attractive one of the regular costumes worn by Xiao Yao. Up.

Everyone knows that with Xiao Yao’s personality, he would definitely not choose this outfit for the purpose of being a host. In addition, he said last time that he will not go back to the backstage and change clothes for the performance, so everyone guessed it. Xiao Yao must be his performance costume during the competition today. For Xiao Yao, who will bring them extra surprises in addition to the song and the singing itself every time, the audience is also looking forward to what tricks he will play today.

The opening remarks reminded the audience that today is the last kick-off match. There will be singers who will be eliminated today, and then it will be time for the audience to scream and read the advertisement. Xiao Yao hosted according to the habits of the Taiwanese and previous episodes. After the completion of several fixed procedures, Xiao Yao began to introduce to everyone today's first competition repertoire.

  Four singers Xiao Siqi, Wei Shile, Qin Xiaodong, and Hong Wei gave wonderful performances under the introduction of Xiao Yao. Then, it was the turn of Xiao Yao who played the fifth.

"Thank you very much for the wonderful performance of Sister Hong! Let's give the applause to Teacher Hong Wei again!" Xiao Yao, who was on the stage again, guided the audience to the audience who had just left the stage and was still on the exit channel as usual. Hong Wei applauded.

"Okay, I'm going to introduce you to the next competition song." Xiao Yao waited for the audience's applause to rest for a while, and then continued, "Everyone knows that our show, every singer in each issue There is only one chance to be on stage and give everyone a chance to sing a song. We singers prepare carefully every week for the performance of that song on the stage. Here, what we have and what we need is just one The time of the song."

"The title of the next song happens to be "Give Me Time for a Song"." Xiao Yao smiled and said, "Why would the next singer choose such a song? I guess, this This is exactly what he wants to say to everyone. I hope that after listening to this song, he will still have time to have a song on this stage next week. Of course, except for hosting time! Please applaud next. A competing singer!"

   "Wow~"

   "Call~"

  There was a burst of cheers mixed with boos from the audience under the stage. When everyone heard the name of the song that they had never heard before, the audience's first reaction was that the next singer to appear was Xiao Yao, but the phrase "I guess" made the audience a little bit suspicious. If it is Xiao Yao, you shouldn't use the words "I guess", but the last sentence "except for hosting time" has made everyone confirm that the next singer is Xiao Yao, so I made a mystery about Xiao Yao's previous words. Some viewers also booed with a smile.

   "I'm going, Bayi, this kid has started to use the song title to solicit votes directly!" In the lobby of the singer's lounge, Xiao Siqi smiled and looked at Xiao Yao on the live TV screen.

"Then he has to be able to write such a song." Qin Xiaodong said, "He doesn't necessarily just put a song that does not match the content of the lyrics in order to say this on the stage. The name of the song?"

  On the stage in the studio, when Xiao Yao introduced the next competition song, several figures appeared behind the stage. When Xiao Yao finished the introduction, the audience realized that they did not exit from the front of the stage, but turned to the back of the dimly lit stage.

Although the light is not good, the audience can't see Xiao Yao's appearance for the time being, but from the action of Xiao Yao's figure, it seems that Xiao Yao took a hat from the hand of someone who appeared on the stage and put it on. On his head, he took a pair of gloves from that person and put them on his hands.

Xiao Yao's figure put on his hat and gloves. After turning to face the audience, he did not look sideways at the band conductor Liu Tong, and signaled to him that he could start. The scene above the stage was still dim, and he was not in Xiao Yao. Turn on the lights when you are ready.

Just when the audience was a little puzzled, the scene rang like a countdown to the opening bell, but this time, the bell did not ring five times, but after the third bell fell, the stage suddenly lit up, and the band There was also moving at the same time. Accompanied by the sound of music, all the scenes on the stage were clearly displayed in front of the audience.

  There are no musicians on the stage, instead there are four men, four women and eight people. Xiao Yao held the microphone and stood in the center, with three boys on the left, three girls on the right, and a girl behind him standing directly behind Xiao Yao, her face blocked by Xiao Yao, temporarily unable to see her face. . The entire team formed a diamond-shaped position. Following the prelude to the song that sounded on the scene, the eight people moved forward on the stage in a neat and consistent manner while doing dance moves.

   "Is this going to sing and dance?!" Looking at the eight people on the stage, the audience immediately understood, and there was a burst of applause and cheers.

Now Xiao Yao’s "ThinkingOutLoud" MV is very popular, and many people have watched it. Everyone has a very high evaluation of Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting’s professional modern dance in the MV. When Xiao Yao was interested in his dance skills, I didn't expect Xiao Yao to show you a dance today.

  Among the eight people, the most eye-catching is undoubtedly Xiao Yao standing in the middle of the front. Everyone’s guess is correct. Xiao Yao now has a black top hat with fuchsia sequins on his head, and a pair of black fingerless gloves with small crystal particles on his hands, coupled with handsome dance moves. The whole person seems to be shining.

   "So handsome~" After the cheers, many viewers commented in their hearts. This includes several singers who have finished singing in the lounge lobby and Liang Xueying and Tian Wei who are still waiting in the room.

   "The rain has wet the sky, and it is ruined very carefully~" After the music in the prelude was over, Xiao Yao raised the microphone to his mouth and began to sing. At the same time, his dance moves did not stop. Except for the left hand holding the microphone, all his dance moves still maintained very neat and consistent with the other seven dancers on the stage.

  This is a song by Jay Chou in the previous life. Xiao Yao’s performance is also inspired by Jay Chou’s performance of this song with Jolin Tsai at a concert. It's just that in Jay Chou's concert and Jolin Tsai's performance, the dance part accounted for only half of the whole song, so most of Xiao Yao's dance in this competition was designed by Xiao Yao.

Just look at the difficulty and technical content of the movements, let alone the dance moves Xiao Yao designed for this performance is compared with the very professional modern dance in the MV of "ThinkingOutLoud", even if it is compared with the previous collaboration with Chen Chen The dance in "The Great Wall" is also very inferior.

  The last time Xiao Yao sang and danced on the stage, it should be time to perform the song "The Great Wall" on the spring evening. Because that song was performed by Xiao Yao and Chen Chen in cooperation, except for the interlude in the middle and the end of the last song, they both performed the same actions. At other times, he and Chen Chen took turns to stand in front to sing and dance without joining the backing dancers. Both of them don't dance when they sing, and they don't sing when they dance, so they can't be regarded as singing and dancing in the true sense.

For this reason, the dance moves of "The Great Wall" designed by Xiao Yao are much more difficult in technical difficulty than the usual singing and dancing backing dancers, and even used a lot of the "Rapid Current" dance troupe to participate in the "National Street Dance". It’s just that because the LED lighting suit is too eye-catching, there are not too many people who discuss the difficulty of dance movements separately.

  This time, Xiao Yao can only perform alone. What Xiao Yao wants is not for a group of people to accompany him when he sings, but for himself to participate in the entire dance, to have a real singing and dancing. However, due to the limitation of holding a microphone, Xiao Yao's dance moves designed for this performance could not be so difficult. There is no alternative.

  From the perspective of the difficulty of the dance movements in the previous group dance, Xiao Yao’s dance is the difficulty level of the dance performed by the average star in the concert. For the audience on the scene, seeing the singer on the "Singer" stage show a general concert-level dance during the singing and dancing process will already make them satisfied, let alone Xiao Yao still here. A lot of novel actions that don't seem difficult, but feel particularly handsome or cool are added in one paragraph.

  Although the audience seemed satisfied, Xiao Yao was not satisfied. Since there is no way to increase the difficulty of his dance moves, Xiao Yao wants to play tricks in other places, which is why Xiao Yao specially invited Cheng Xi.

  Of course, Cheng Xi is not the first bright spot in the dance of this song. The first highlight was the help of Xiao Yao by several accompaniment harmony singers on the high stage behind the live stage.

   "Even if this is a mistake, I'm just afraid of it~"

  "Over~"

When Xiao Yao sang the fourth sentence of the first verse, he deliberately dragged a long note on the penultimate word, and the last word in this sentence was followed by four backing singers. Sing it out. The word they sang is also a prolonged sound. When Xiao Yao also sang this word with the backing chorus singers, he held the microphone with his left hand and left his mouth, opened his arms, and joined the dancers. Made a handsome hip-hop action.

  "Called together~"

   "Dream~"

   "Split and called~"

   "Pain~"

  This action is completed. The dance action is just to retract his arms. Xiao Yao also retracted his left hand to his mouth along the way, and then sang the next sentence of the song. When the first half of the fifth sentence was sung, Xiao Yao still left the last word for the accompaniment of the harmony singers. At this time, the dance happened to be an action of spreading arms from the chest to the sides. Xiao Yao also let the left hand holding the microphone leave his mouth again, and together with the dancers, he fully demonstrated this action. In the second half of the sentence, this situation also appeared again.

   "Wow~" Seeing Xiao Yao's very smooth one-handed dance and the seamless switching between two-handed dance, the audience was excited to applaud and cheer.

  This section of movement is almost technically without difficulty, but to have such a smooth effect, it is a very test of the ability to arrange music, choreography, and the combination of the two. Now everyone knows that Xiao Yao has very outstanding abilities in these two aspects, and since Xiao Yao participated in the show, he has never made any artificial hands on the two aspects of choreography and arrangement, and he has always designed it himself. The applause was also the audience's affirmation of Xiao Yao's talent in choreography and arrangement.

  (End of this chapter)