Entertaining Children

After Chen Chen's single was released, the song "There's a Kind of Warmth Called Sisters" became popular without any surprise. Even though the song length and lyrics of this song are stronger than "Buddies", and the form of female voice singing male voice is more novel and interesting than more traditional songs like "One Like Summer and One Like Autumn", it is not everyone's favorite song. Like Lin Xiaojie, I think that this song is better than those two songs, but at least one thing the fans and listeners agree on is that this is indeed a good song that is not only beautiful but also can be sung to the hearts of girls.

One of the singers of this song, Fan Linxuan, as the champion of "The Voice of China", already has a very solid foundation of popularity. After the release of the new album, her popularity has exploded even more. The appearance of this song naturally brought her already popular popularity to a higher level. The other singer, Chen Chen, is not as popular as Fan Linxuan at present, but with the popularity of this song, his popularity has begun to accumulate rapidly, and many people have also realized that this song has a fresher style through this song rapper.

Chen Chen's single has two songs. After more and more people became familiar with and fell in love with Chen Chen through "There is a Kind of Warmth Called Sisters", the other song "Yanjing Natives" in the single began to be heard by more and more people.

When many people hear the accompaniment at the beginning of this song, their first reaction is: "Isn't it a rap song? What is it? Sanxian? Jingyun Dagu? Are you singing opera or rap?" Especially the first sentence at the beginning Countless people were dumbfounded when the human voice turned out to be the cry of "Candied haws on a string~".

But when everyone listened to a song in its entirety, countless people began to applaud this peculiar song. The accompaniment music is the accompaniment of various instruments and melodies in traditional folk arts, and the singing also has a taste of opera, but the rap part is indeed the kind of rap that everyone knows.

As for the lyrics, it's even better. Even those who have never been to Yanjing can see that these lyrics all describe the aboriginal life of the old Yanjing. As soon as the very distinctive words such as Douzhier, Jiaoquan, and Tianqiao come out, the whole song has a taste of old Yanjing.

Those fans in the north, especially Yanjing fans, listened with great enthusiasm, and had a special feeling of sympathy, as if they had returned to the old alleys of Yanjing, where they were surrounded by the natives of Yanjing. with. And those outside of Yanjing seem to see a picture of the leisurely and lively daily life of the old Yanjing natives from this song.

In the genre of rap, the dialect rap in many places is very characteristic, and there is also a very fixed local group of people who like it. Of course, the so-called dialect rap here is not the rap of more than a dozen dialects in the song "Huaxia Girl" by Xiao Yao, but the whole song is performed in the local dialect. Among them, the dialects of Sichuan, Guangdong, and Shaanxi provinces are relatively well-known, and their dialect rap also has a certain market across the country. And this song "Yanjing Natives" can be regarded as a rap in Yanjing's dialect. Although Yanjing dialect and Mandarin Chinese have basically the same pronunciation of individual characters, there are still some differences between the real Yanjing dialect and the Mandarin taught in the school, and this Yanjing dialect characteristic is also expressed in this song To the fullest.

Chen Chen was born and raised in Yanjing, and his authentic Yanjing dialect conveyed the native flavor of Yanjing in the song very well. After this song became popular, not only many young people admired this song, but also many middle-aged and elderly people in Yanjing City who are not familiar with the music form of rap, they also regarded it as listening to an opera. Cheerfully, he began to listen to this song by Chen Chen.

This song is very pleasing, and because of this song, Chen Chen's popularity in Yanjing has increased a lot, but in the end, the most rare thing about this song is neither Chen Chen's Yanjing accent, nor singing and speaking. The part of the song requires such incredible skills, but how the lyrics and music of this song were created. In other words, how did Xiao Yao write such a song.

Leaving aside the factor of feelings, this is first of all a song that feels very fun. And the most interesting part, apart from the lyrics that accurately describe the living conditions of the natives in old Yanjing, is the genius idea of ​​using traditional musical instruments to score rap songs. For the first time, everyone knew that Sanxian, Dagu, and Erhu can also be used as soundtracks for rap songs, and it sounds extremely harmonious.

Reminiscent of Xiao Yao playing the erhu himself in "Flower Field Wrong" performed in "The Voice of China", "The Drunken Concubine" not only has a large number of traditional folk instrument soundtracks, even half of the songs are directly similar to those of Peking Opera. This kind of traditional Beijing rhyme singing, it can be seen that Xiao Yao seems to have a very unusual preference and attainment for China's traditional national musical instruments.

Some people even found a video of Xiao Yao performing the erhu on the show when he was five years old when he participated in "Where Are We Going, Dad?" I started to study.

In addition, another song composed by Xiao Yao in Fan Linxuan's transfer was also mentioned. The chorus of this song "Liu Liu's Love Song" contains the lyrics and phrases that are familiar to everyone in the folk song "Kangding Love Song". In the soundtrack, there are also several passages that obviously use traditional national musical instruments such as pipa, guzheng and dulcimer as the soundtrack . In this very lazy, blues-jazz-like song, the soundtrack of these ethnic instruments also sounds very good, and there is no sense of incongruity with this very Western music style.

The concentrated appearance of these songs also brought about a trend of discussing ethnic musical instruments. Many music critics have also begun to discuss Xiao Yao's soundtrack style that combines folk music and modern music, and even some exaggerated evaluation of Xiao Yao's pioneering move, which will cause more ordinary listeners to pay attention to the music. The pursuit and love of national musical instruments. On a bigger scale, this is a great initiative to promote the Chinese national culture, and it has opened up a new path for the development of Chinese national instrumental music.

Of course, there are also quite a few public intellectuals and music critics who sneered at this statement, and even publicly criticized Xiao Yao for mixing national and Western instruments together, which is neither fish nor fowl, completely losing the charm and beauty of folk music. What's more, it is directly said that Xiao Yao's approach is a tarnish to the Chinese folk music with a long history and inheritance.

Amidst all the discussions and controversies, Qi Jia Studio's third group of newcomers "Women's Orchestra" also appeared on the Internet. Since Xiao Yao described "Women's Band" as "visual music", "Women's Band" did not make its debut by releasing an album, but directly chose to use stage performances to appear in front of the public. As a completely new band that no one has heard of, and even the performance form is brand new, the opportunity to perform on stage is not so easy to find.

To say that the best way is to appear as a guest performer at a star's concert, but at the end of the year, when various TV stations are preparing for the New Year's Eve party, stars value the TV station's New Year's Eve party very much, and few people will be there at this time Concert. Therefore, Qijia Studio is going to directly fight for the performance opportunity of a certain local satellite TV's New Year's Eve party for the "Women's Orchestra". And wanting to be favored by the TV station seems to be unreasonable without a bit of fame, so the studio put its idea on the Internet. Xiao Yao provided an idea, which was to combine the concept of Internet celebrities with the practice of many South Korean brokerage companies to release practice videos of idol group practice rooms. In the studio, a practice room with very good radio effects was specially prepared, and a "girl music" was shot. The video of the "workshop" practice was posted on the Internet.

Although it is a practice video, the "Women's Orchestra" in the video played a complete piece of music without interruption, and even the movements, expressions, and demeanor during the performance were consistent with the requirements when performing on stage.

First of all, the "Women's Band" applied for an account with real-name authentication on Weibo, and the first Weibo post was such a practice video. Including Xiao Siqi, Ye Jiaying, Cheng Xi, Chen Chen, Fan Linxuan, and Xiao Yao, all the top artists in the studio reposted this video on Weibo immediately, recommending it to their fans.

Then, the video titled ""Women's Orchestra" Practice Room Video" began to appear in the MV sections of various video sites and music sites, trying to spread this video on the Internet with the greatest force.

In the initial preview screen of the video, there are more than a dozen girls playing various national musical instruments in the front, and there is a modern Western band composed of drums, electric guitars, bass, electronic keyboards and other instruments in the back row. This configuration is easily reminiscent of Xiao Yao's music form that combines folk music and modern Western instruments, which is now causing controversy. How come there is another folk band that plays like Xiao Yao? Is this also Xiao Yao's work?

Sure enough, after clicking the video to start playing, a few lines appeared in the center of the video:

"Kangding Love Song" Practice Room Edition

Performed by: Women's Orchestra

Adaptation + Arrangement: Xiao Yao

Although it is only a practice room version of the video, this video was shot with a professional high-definition camera. Before the performance started, the beautiful faces and temperament of the dozen or so young girls who appeared on the screen were enough to catch the attention of many netizens.

After the performance started, everyone found that the girls in this video not only looked seductive, but also played very attractive music. "Kangding Love Song" is a well-known folk song in the whole country, but it gives people a completely different feeling under the hands of this group of girls and the band behind them.

Not only does it have the beautiful melody of the original piece, but it also has a passion that is completely different from the original traditional folk music. Drums, electric guitars and other modern instruments are added to the adapted and re-arranged soundtrack, which makes people feel the shock of listening to a rock band live while feeling the melodic folk music. Of course, there is already a rock band configuration here, but even in the intervals of modern western instruments, the flute and pipa solo passages can still give people the shock of listening to rock music. Coupled with the high-definition footage of more than a dozen beautiful faces with their own characteristics, or elegant or passionate movements, or various expressions of tranquility, happiness, or seriousness, this kind of audio-visual enjoyment is definitely something that netizens who watched the video have never experienced before. of.

So, no matter what the critics say, countless people immediately fell in love with this way of musical expression, and also fell in love with this national orchestra that is not only good-looking but also can bring people a different kind of shock.

In this way, the "Women's Band" successfully gained the first batch of loyal fans with a large number. (To be continued.)