Entertaining Children

  Chapter 730 Another Song "alone"

  "Will you ask me to write songs for the singers under your studio?" Xiao Yao confirmed with a smile, "Are you serious? Are you kidding me?"

"Of course serious." Keith Craig said. "You can write songs for "Daydream" and "Immortals". Why can't I ask you to write songs for the new singers in our studio? We work Shio signed a young female singer. Her style is different from our band. I have not yet written any songs that suit her. And your music styles are very diverse and your age is about the same as hers, I believe You should be able to write a song suitable for her to sing."

   "Okay, I will try." Xiao Yao nodded, "But I can't guarantee that I will be able to write a song suitable for her to sing. I think I must at least see her first and listen to her voice."

   "No problem," Keith Craig nodded. "Should you call her over now? She lives in downtown Los Angeles. I call her now. She should be able to arrive in an hour."

"Come to your house now? Of course not." Xiao Yao waved his hand. "We came to your house to be guests, not to work. Isn't your recording studio in downtown Los Angeles? Since she lives in downtown Los Angeles, we have I'm also going to Los Angeles, so let's just go to the recording studio and meet up directly."

   "Okay, I will tell her to meet in the recording studio this afternoon." Keith Craig took out the phone and said.

   "Right, Jan." Keith Craig finished the call and asked Xiao Yao again, "The song you just sang was written for Ellie? What's the name? Can I sing it again from the beginning?"

   "Right," Xiao Yao smiled, "To be precise, it was sung for children of Ai Li and their age. The song is called "NeverGrowUp"."

"Don't grow up? It sounds like it is really for children." Betty Beilette said with a smile, then turned to ask Ye Jiaying next to him, "Does Yang want to get married and have children, or do you want you Give him a younger brother and sister?"

"None." Xiao Yao interrupted, "In fact, this is a song that is more suitable for girls to sing. It is written from the perspective of a girl and does not fully represent my thoughts. I also wrote a song called " In the Chinese song of "Baby", the lyrics sound like they were written by parents to children, and I have no children."

"I don't know, he has never expressed this idea to us." Ye Jiaying still shook his head and replied to Betty Belet, "but he does seem to like children very much and gets along well with them. In China , He accepted a 13-year-old girl as a student, and he told that little girl not to call him a teacher, but to call him his brother."

"I'll sing this song again." Xiao Yao said, "Actually, this song is more suitable for accompaniment with an acoustic guitar, but Ali said that Keith’s piano room does not have an acoustic guitar, so she only gave me one. For the electric guitar, I will use the electric guitar to accompany it.” As he said, Xiao Yao plucked the strings of the electric guitar in his hand and started singing.

The song "NeverGrowUp" sung by Xiao Yao is a song by Taylor Swift, "Mold" in his previous life, and "Mold" once said, "Whenever I look down at those seven or eight-year-old girls, I really hope I can tell her what I know." "So I wrote this song to the little girls." So, this song is actually a big girl telling a little girl about "growing up". When I heard Alicia Craig in the piano room just now that he wanted to grow up faster, Xiao Yao remembered this song.

Although Xiao Yao said that this is a song that is more suitable for girls to sing and is more suitable for accompaniment with acoustic guitar, but after all, there are many things in the lyrics that can move people. The song sung with electric guitar accompaniment is still Everyone at the scene was touched.

At the end of the song, mothers Betty Betty and Ye Jiaying were a little bit emotional, especially Betty Betty, who has a daughter. Through this song, they imagined the scenario of their daughter leaving her when she grew up in the future, and her eyes were a little red. . As fathers, Keith Craig and Shaw Siqi also had some feelings, but as professional musicians, they still paid more attention to the musicality of this song.

Keith Craig nodded and said to himself: "It is indeed more suitable for girls to sing. Maybe Liv can try this song. Unfortunately, Liv doesn't know how to play the guitar, and the effect may be slightly worse during live performances. Point. Maybe I can start teaching her to play guitar now?"

   "Do you mean that my mission has been completed?" Xiao Yao, with sharp ears, heard Keith Craig's self-talk and asked with a smile.

   "Will you sell this song to me?" Keith Craig asked.

"Of course I do." Xiao Yao said, "This song suitable for female vocals was not originally written for me to sing. It is also an English song. Of course it is no problem to sell it to you. I trust your professional judgment. Do you think that female singer is suitable for singing this song, it should be suitable."

   "Thank you for trusting me." Keith Craig smiled, "Then do you still need to meet Liv?"

   "Let's see you, anyway, I'm free in the afternoon, maybe there are other possibilities for cooperation." Xiao Yao said.

   "Okay," Keith Craig said happily, "I also hope you can have more cooperation with her."

Now Xiao Yao is very popular in the American media. Keith Craig asked Xiao Yao to invite him. In addition to his recognition of his ability to write songs, it is not that Xiao Yao’s enthusiasm has brought the newcomer to the studio. meaning. If Xiao Yao can have more cooperation with the newcomer he prefers, he naturally cannot ask for it.

   Alicia Craig has been playing with Xiao Yao for half an hour, and the excitement has subsided a lot. Everyone left the piano room and returned to the living room downstairs.

  After a good lunch at Craig's house at noon, everyone set off for Los Angeles. When traveling from Los Angeles to Calabasas, Xiao Yao and his entourage were just a car with five people. When they returned to Los Angeles, they became three cars with more than a dozen people. The number of the team has almost doubled.

  Today is still the weekend, and the four members of the "Immortals" band are not in a hurry to go to school, knowing that Xiao Yao is going to the recording studio, he naturally wants to go with him. Betty Bellett and Ye Jiaying, two big beauties who are not music professionals, have gone into the recording studio to see their husbands and children recording a lot, and they have long lost their freshness. These more than a dozen people all ran to the recording studio, it would seem a bit crowded, and the two of them did not go to join in the fun.

  After arriving in Los Angeles in the afternoon, the group first went to the hotel and asked Xiao Yao and others to go to the room to put their luggage. After settling down, Betty Belet enthusiastically took Ye Jiaying to go shopping, and the others all went to the "Daydream" recording studio.

  In the recording studio of "Daydream", Xiao Yao also met the newly signed female singer of "Daydream" studio. This female singer named Liv Palmer is a black-haired white man, 22 years old, not much different from Xiao Yao's age. Since she was a teenager, she has successively uploaded videos of herself covering popular songs of well-known singers on video sites. Last year, it was noticed by netizens for a video covering the title single of the American pop queen, and gained some fame on the Internet. After graduating from college this year, she wanted to fulfill her dream of being a singer star and moved to Los Angeles. She has posted several cover videos on the Internet and gained a greater popularity on the Internet.

   Then she participated in the US version of "The Voice", and Keith Craig, who was used as a program mentor during the blind selection stage, won her team. Although she only made it to the quarter-finals that season and was eliminated in the eight-to-four stage, her voice impressed Keith Craig. Before the end of this season's programs, Keith Keith was completely impressed. Reger signed her into his band's studio.

Xiao Yao has written songs for both the "Daydream" and "immortals" bands. As a contract artist of the "Daydream" studio, Liv Palemer has written for Young Sean's music and obtained those works. The results of Xiao Yao are all familiar. Recently, I have also paid attention to the news about Xiao Yao. Seeing that the boss Keith Craig actually asked this young Chinese musician who has recently been hot in the media to write a song for herself, Liv Palmer was also very happy and excited.

  Liv. Palemer is only about 1.6 meters tall. Among Europeans and Americans, she is very petite, and her voice still has a little baby-like sound. In terms of image and sound characteristics, Liv Palmer is a far cry from the "mold" in the previous life, but Xiao Yao feels that the song "NeverGrowUp" that she sings of "mold" is not a problem. Even because of her image and voice as a young girl, singing "Don't grow up" will give people a particularly harmonious and interesting feeling.

Xiao Yao first watched some videos of Liv Palmer’s singing, then chatted with her for a while, and finally put on headphones to listen to her entering the recording room and sing a few live, Keith Craig asked Xiao Yao with a smile :"how do you feel?"

"Very well, there is nothing wrong with the voice characteristics and singing skills." Xiao Yao took off the headphones and nodded with a smile. "And a girl who seems to have not grown up, sings "Don't grow up", it feels like she should be able to. Interesting."

  "Don't grow up?" Liv Palemer, who came out of the recording room and opened the door to enter the control room, just heard Xiao Yao's words, and looked at the two strangely.

   "Young wrote a song called "NeverGrowUp" and has decided to sell me the copyright of the song, and I decided to teach you this song to sing." Keith Craig explained with a smile.

   "Really? The song has been written?" Liv Palmer said with joy, "Young, thank you!"

   Keith Craig had only said on the phone that she would find Xiao Yao to help her write the song, but she didn’t say when she could write it. There will inevitably be some variables in this, and I am also a little worried. Now that the song has been written and even the copyright has been bought, Liv Palmer is naturally cheering.

  "Is it just suitable to sing "NeverGrowUp"?" Keith Craig smiled and looked at Xiao Yao again, "Don't you have any other ideas?"

   "Other thoughts?" Liv Palmer looked at the two curiously again.

   "I really have other ideas." Xiao Yao smiled, "but this time I want you to lend her to me!"

   "Lend it to you?" This time Keith Craig and Liv Palmer looked at Xiao Yao strangely.

   "What do you want to do?" Keith Craig asked Xiao Yao.

   "Of course it is cooperation!" Xiao Yao said, "I have another song for her to sing."

   "There is another song? Really?" Keith Craig and Liv Palmer said happily together.

   "Don't be too happy." Xiao Yao waved his hand, "That song is based on me. The copyright of the song will not be sold to you, nor will the release be left to you.

   "A chorus song, do you two sing together?" Keith Craig guessed.

   "No!" Xiao Yao shook his head, "She is responsible for the singing part!"

   "How could her solo song be based on you?" Keith Craig asked strangely.

   "That is an electronic music song." Xiao Yao smiled, "I am going to include it in the electronic music album that I don't know when I will finish it in the future."

"I see," Liv Palmer said, "Are they "faded" and "SingMeToSleep" songs? In those two songs, it is true that the person who knows you as an electronic music DJ is better than the one who is responsible for singing. There are many female singers."

"Yes, and it is in the same style as those two songs." Xiao Yao nodded and said, "Therefore, although that song will have Liv's name, it cannot be handed over to you to promote Liv's work for distribution. "

   "Understood, there is no problem." Keith Craig considered it for a moment and nodded in agreement.

  What Xiaoyao promised Keith Craig was to write a song for the rookie singer in his studio, and "NeverGrowUp" had already fulfilled his promise. The latter song was originally extra. Although it's a pity that it can't be promoted as Liv Palmer's work, at least Liv's name will appear on the singer of the song, which will be good for increasing her popularity.

"By the way, will you make a MV for this song?" Keith Craig asked again, "If it is filmed in the United States, I think I can help you." Xiao Yao's song will probably be on them. It was recorded in this studio, but the MV does not necessarily have to be shot in the United States.

   Keith Craig has watched the MVs of those two electronic songs. Although most of the protagonists in the MV are hooded and face masked, the female singer appears in the string version of the song "Faded". If Xiao Yao wants to shoot a new electronic music music video in the United States, and there is a heroine in it, most of the time he will find the original female singer to star in himself, then Liv Palmer will have his face in the MV. Opportunity. If he was going back to China for filming, he probably wouldn't be so troublesome to call Liv Palmer to China for filming the MV.

   The two previous electronic music songs and MVs of Xiao Yao are very popular, and this song and this MV are probably not bad. If Liv Palmer can show her face in the MV, it will also help to increase her popularity. So Keith Craig wanted to get Xiao Yao to shoot the MV of this song in the United States, which would be more beneficial to Liv Palemer.

   "Of course I will shoot," Xiao Yao said. "The MV of this song is also related to the MV of the first two songs in terms of content, but the MV of this song will be more complicated and troublesome than the previous two."

  Speaking of this, Xiao Yao's heart moved, and he looked up at Keith Craig and said: "I decided to shoot the MV of this song in the United States. I will definitely need to trouble you at that time!"

   "Anything you need, as long as I can do it." Keith Craig said immediately.

   "By the way, what's the name of this song?" Liv Palmer asked.

   ""alone"!" Xiao Yao said.

   "What? Don't you have a Korean song called "alone"?" Xiao Siqi frowned and asked, "Will it be the English version of that song? I thought you wrote a new English song."

"Of course it's not the English version of that Korean song," Xiao Yao said, shaking his head. "Although that Korean song is also a song with electronic sound, it is obviously not in the same style as "Faded" and "SingMeToSleep", and the song has a different style. I’ve sold the copyright long ago, and I’m sure I won’t include the songs for which I sold the copyright into my album. This is another song, but the title is also called "alone"."

  (End of this chapter)