Entertaining Children

"Singer" was originally a trump card program with a very high ratings on Shonan Satellite TV, and the final was broadcast live. Therefore, on the second day after the final, a large number of related reports and media comments appeared.

The first focus of media reports and comments is naturally the affiliation of the "King of Songs". According to the experience of the previous seasons, the title of "King of Songs" is generally given to middle-aged singers who have debuted for a long time, have rich experience, and have a relatively high status in the music scene. At the beginning of the show, Hong Wei and Xiao Siqi were the two most popular candidates for the "King of Songs" this season. In the end, Xiao Siqi and Hong Wei won the championship and runner-up respectively, which is not unexpected. Even if Xiao Yao, an extremely eye-catching "big dark horse" appeared in the show and reached the finals in one fell swoop, not many people thought that Xiao Yao would be able to win the final championship.

However, looking at the entire process of the finals, most of the audience felt that the most impressive singer was Xiao Yao!

First of all, he was the only singer who brought two groups of celebrity guests, and these two groups of guests were not only foreigners, but also sang Chinese songs with Xiao Yao. This point has been a hot topic among netizens watching the live broadcast on the Internet as early as the live broadcast. After the finals, the media did not let go of this highlight, and made extensive reports and comments on it. Like netizens, most media also gave very positive comments on Xiao Yao's behavior of attracting foreign stars to sing Chinese songs, and praised Xiao Yao fiercely.

Secondly, it was Xiao Yao's "Immortals" band that ignited to the extreme when performing the rock song "No Place to Shame", and exploded the performance of the scene. In the whole final, the performance that impressed the audience the most, apart from Xiao Siqi's song "The Hill" which touched countless people, was the "Immortals" band's song "Shame on You", which sang countless people. The results of Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao from the second and fourth place in the first round to the first and third place in the final total score are also a good proof of this point.

The most important thing is that the two songs "No Place to Shame" and "The Hill", which are both moving and quiet, and each achieves the ultimate, are actually Xiao Yao's works. In fact, not only these two songs, but also the two chorus songs by Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao and Hong Xiuyan in the first round were also written by Xiao Yao. There are a total of 13 songs in a final, and Xiao Yao's songs accounted for four. During the breakout competition, it was already a special concert of Xiao Yao's work. In the final, almost one-third of the songs were written by Xiao Yao, and they were all new songs. Xiao Yao's ability to write songs once again made the audience and The industry is collectively speechless.

Although he only won the third place in the finals, overall, many people think that Xiao Yao is the most outstanding singer in this season of "Singer".

Even if you don't look at Xiao Yao's special highlights in almost every period, and only compare the results of a single period, Xiao Yao won the first place three times in a single period, and created Liang Xueying's first place in a single period. Although she also won the seventh place once, but Except for the seventh time and the fifth time, all other performances were in the top four. This result is definitely among the best among all singers. In terms of performance in a single game, Xiao Yao won the first place in the breakout competition, and the song "Flastic" sung without a microphone even surpassed Xiao Siqi's "Hill" and "Immortals" in the finals.

It is the most exciting performance of this season and this show so far in the hearts of the audience.

The performance was the best but he didn’t win the championship. This reminds people of the scene when Xiao Yao participated in "The Voice" two years ago: he is also recognized as the player with the best overall performance in the show, just like "Flastic" without a microphone. "New Drunken Concubine" was also the most exciting performance in the show, but it turned out to be the runner-up. At that time, many people attributed the reason to Xiao Yao's random selection of the last two songs, and at the last moment, he ran to help his opponent save the scene with the accompaniment; this time, some people attributed the reason to Xiao Yao's writing songs for his opponent.

Although Xiao Siqi is Xiao Yao's father, and the relationship is much closer than that of Fan Linxuan at that time, but in the show, they are competitors on the same stage after all. In the regular program, if there is no danger of being eliminated, it is nothing more than helping Liang Xueying, a competitor, to arrange and design the stage. During the finals, he even helped the opponent write songs, and even wrote two songs. I care about the champion.

As a result, there was a rumor quietly rising on the Internet, saying that Xiao Siqi's championship was all thanks to Xiao Yao's help, and Xiao Yao himself didn't care about the championship at all. Xiao Siqi's championship was actually given to him by Xiao Yao on purpose!

Soon, this kind of speech spread on the Internet, and some media also reported and reprinted it. In response to this kind of remarks, Xiao Yao accepted a rare media interview and publicly responded:

"Isn't it normal for me to write songs for my dad? It's not like I haven't written songs for other people! I can write songs for other singers in our studio, and I have even written songs for singers who are not in our studio, Why can’t I write songs for my dad? He is my dad, of course I hope he can win the championship, so I have a problem writing songs for him to sing in the finals? Are you saying that I deliberately gave up the championship to him? Is the championship mine? , Let it go when you say it? There is Teacher Hong in front of me!

Said I don't care about the championship? I don't care if the champion specially finds two groups of guests and brings "Immortals" from the United States? Besides me, which singer is the star guest of the two groups? My performance in the two songs in the two rounds was not enough? Who dares to say that I deliberately released water during the game? Just because I can write any song doesn't mean I can sing any song, can you imagine me singing "Faded" by myself? I want to sing "The Hill" myself, but can I sing "The Hill" like my dad? "

After making such a response, Xiao Yao stopped paying attention to those comments on the Internet. After the "Singer" final, he still has a lot of things to do.

The first step is to release an album. I participated in "The Voice" two years ago to fulfill my father's wish to help me release an album. The purpose of participating in "Singer" this time is actually the same. When Xiao Siqi recommended Xiao Yao to the "Singer" program group, he saved This is also the thought.

When Xiao Yao accepted Tao Ran's invitation, he had already guessed that the person who recommended him was his father Xiao Siqi, so he naturally knew Xiao Siqi's thoughts. I haven't released an album for almost two years. At that time, I agreed to Tao Ran to participate in the show. In addition to the attractiveness of the show itself and being able to compete with my father and a group of top Chinese singers on the same stage, the purpose of satisfying my father and myself to release an album is also one of the reasons. Now that the show is over, I have become popular again because of this show, and it is only natural to take advantage of the trend to release an album.

At the beginning, I sang eight songs on "The Voice", and seven of them were originals. It was only by adding up the four old songs that had been released before that I could make an album. This time, Xiao Yao sang twelve songs in this show alone, and all of them were original songs. Adding the Cantonese version of "Red Rose" "White Rose", there are already thirteen songs, which is not the same as before. The songs released sporadically are enough for the number of songs in an album.

But since the album is going to be released, it is also reasonable to include the previous singles and re-release them together. Xiao Yao sorted out the original songs he made after the release of his first album.

"Mai Ba" and "The Great Wall", the two chorus songs that have already been released as singles, Xiao Yao is not very interested in. He is planning to leave one for Fan Linxuan to release an album and the other for Chen Chen to release an album. Next is the flash-mob "How Lucky", "Yanjing One Night" and "Flying Higher" during the Shenxi Arts Examination, "You at the Same Table" on the one-stop show, and then last year at Chamberlain. I sang "Love Is Your Last resort" to Sun Tingting on the streets of Sri Lanka. The English version was sung at the time, and it would be better to use the Chinese version for the album. Next, the spoof song that ridiculed American Airlines is no longer needed. Next up is "Vincent" at the brand press conference. I sang a jazz version of this song in France, but for the album, the original folk song is enough. The lyrics and music of the jazz version are the same. After the official version, it will not be included in the album to recharge.

In this way, the solo songs I sang before are six songs, plus the thirteen songs in "Singer", adding up to nineteen songs, which is almost enough for two albums. A double CD version of the album? But nineteen songs were released on double CDs, Xiao Yao felt that it seemed a bit unkind, so he wanted to add one or two more songs, and he had to keep the regular number of at least ten songs on one CD.

In the show, I even sang a few lines of "Not Afraid, Not Afraid" jokingly, but Xiao Yao gave this song to Pass immediately. This kind of song can be written, sung and played, but Xiao Yao will never record himself singing The official version of "Pig Song" that was sung to Sun Tingting back then was thrown to Fan Linxuan. The anchor wrote the song, and it happened that this song matched Yi Yi's cute style very well.

Thinking of the two anchors of Youyu, Xiao Yao thought of the four new songs he sang when he was the anchor of Youyu. When going live on other platforms in the next few days, Xiao Yao sang the same new songs, so Xiao Yao had four more new songs to choose from. The nursery rhyme "Counting the Stars" will naturally not be released by itself, but the three songs "Xingqing", "Chengdu" and "Two Little Flower Dogs" are all very suitable for release on the album, and These three songs were all sung when I was the host, and I have also released them on other occasions now, and they are more consistent with the style of the songs on my own album that are first released on other occasions.

Nineteen plus three makes twenty-two! Seeing this number, Xiao Yao smiled helplessly again.

Since he already had the idea of ​​releasing an album before participating in "Singer", during the weekly preparations for "Singer", besides practicing, Xiao Yao also directly recorded the official version of the song. It was that time when I went to the United States to find Sun Tingting to shoot the MV of "Thinkingoutloud", and Xiao Yao also recorded the Chinese and Cantonese versions of "Red Rose" and "White Rose" at one time. Now that the album is going to be released, what Xiao Yao needs to record additionally is the original Chinese version of "Love Is What You Need" and the official version of the three songs he sang during the live broadcast.

The four songs were all sung by Xiao Yao, and the lyrics, music, arrangement and soundtrack were already in his mind, so it wasn't too difficult to record them. Three days later, Xiao Yao recorded the official version of the four songs, and then sent the official version of the sound source files of the twenty-two songs and the cover photos designed and taken by himself to Xiao Siqi.

Why was it sent to Xiao Siqi? Because after the final of "Singer", Xiao Yao still didn't return to Yanjing's home for summer vacation. Now that Shencheng has already rented a house, and Xiao Yao has the final say on the recording studio in Yin Xi's studio, he returned to the studio again to avoid competing with Xiao Siqi for the right to use the recording studio of Qi Jia's studio. Shencheng.

This reason is quite tenable, because after the "Singer" finals, not only Xiao Yao has plans to release an album, Xiao Siqi himself also has music actions, which also need to be used in the recording studio.

When Xiao Yao finished the regular season and Xiao Siqi advanced to the finals ahead of schedule, he told Xiao Siqi that Xiao Siqi asked Ye Jiaying to be a guest singer, and that he wrote a chorus song for them. As a result, Xiao Siqi asked Xiao Yao for the second round. solo song. At that time, Xiao Yao promised to give Xiao Siqi a chorus song and three solo songs for him to choose. In fact, Xiao Yao later gave Xiao Siqi the lyrics and music scores of five songs in total.

In addition to "You Are the Most Precious" and "The Hill" sung by Xiao Siqi in the final, Xiao Yao also gave Xiao Siqi another classic song "Song for Myself" by Li Zongsheng in his previous life and "She Comes to Listen to My Sing" by the song god Jacky Cheung. Meeting" and another chorus song, "Choice" by Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen. These songs are very suitable for Xiao Siqi's solo and Xiao Siqi's duet with Ye Jiaying. On the contrary, they are quite different from Xiao Yao's style. Although Xiao Siqi sang "You Are the Most Precious" and "The Hill" in the final after making a decision, the other three songs are also classic songs in his heart, and he did not intend to let them go.

Xiao Siqi does not have Xiao Yao's habit of singing the live version in other public venues before releasing a single or album, so after the "Singer" final, Xiao Siqi also plans to record the other three songs.

Speaking of which, Xiao Siqi himself hasn't released a new song for a long time. The new song that was released last time was the theme song "Sword Like a Dream" that Xiao Yao wrote for Gong Chen under XY's name when he helped Gong Chen get the chance to sing the ending song of a martial arts drama. But for several years, he just released such a new song.

Xiao Siqi himself also wants to release an album, but he has relatively high requirements for the quality of the songs he sings. After opening the studio, the time for writing songs is much less than before. He is not as perverted as Xiao Yao, a time traveler. It has been a long time since he wrote a work that satisfies him and suits him at the same time. . Shen Yinan is getting old, and her energy is not as good as before. This kind of mind-wrenching creative work has been done much less than before. Although it is also possible to buy songs from outside songwriters, it is easier to find songs that can satisfy a new singer like Fan Linxuan, but it is difficult to find songs that can make an old singer like Xiao Siqi feel excited, so they have never been released. new song. Now I have the five songs given by Xiao Yao all of a sudden, and they are all good songs for me to sing. Although it is not enough to make an album, it is not bad to release an EP first to enjoy myself.

After the "Singer" finals, Xiao Siqi also wanted to record a new EP for himself, and Xiao Yao had a recording studio in Shanghai that he had full control over. Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying who participated in the brand conference also saw it with their own eyes. . So Xiao Yao wanted to return to Shencheng on the grounds of avoiding competing for the right to use the recording studio in the studio, and Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying couldn't give any reason to object.

Xiao Siqi is a veteran singer and a senior music producer, and beside him is a more senior old man Shen Yinan. These two people have much more experience in music production than Xiao Yao. The speed of the song is not slower than Xiao Yao's recording four songs by himself. Therefore, within a week after the "Singer" finals, Xiao Yao's double-CD album containing 22 songs and Xiao Siqi's EP containing five songs were released to the public and released online successively.