Entertaining Children

"You asked 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 it's serious," Keith Craig said. "You can write songs for "Daydream" and "Immortals" for us, why can't I ask you to write songs for the new singers in our studio? We work The studio signed a young female singer, her style is different from our band, and I haven’t written any songs suitable for her now. But your music style is very diverse, and your age is about the same as hers, I believe You should be able to write songs for her to sing."

"Okay, I'll try." Xiao Yao nodded, "But I can't guarantee that I can write a song suitable for her. I think I should at least meet her first and hear her voice."

"No problem," Keith Craig nodded, "Should I call her over now? She lives in downtown Los Angeles. I'll call her now, and she should arrive in an hour."

"Come to your house now? Of course not." Xiao Yao waved his hand, "We came to your house as guests, not to work. Isn't your recording studio in downtown Los Angeles? Since she lives in downtown Los Angeles, we It’s also going to Los Angeles, so let’s meet directly at the recording studio.”

"Okay, I'll inform her to meet at the recording studio in the afternoon." Keith Craig took out his phone and said.

"By the way, Jan." Keith Craig asked Xiao Yao again after making the phone call, "Is the song you sang just now written for Ellie? What's the name? Can you sing it from the beginning?"

"That's right," Xiao Yao smiled, "To be precise, it was sung for children of Ellie's age. The title of the song is "Never Grow Up."

"Don't grow up? It does sound like it was sung for children." Betty Bellett said with a smile, then turned to ask Ye Jiaying next to her, "Does Yang want to get married and have children, or do you want to let you all sing?" Give him a younger sibling?"

"Neither." Xiao Yao interjected, "Actually, this is a song more suitable for girls to sing. It is written from a girl's perspective and does not fully represent my thoughts. I also wrote a song called " "Baby" in Chinese, the lyrics sound like parents wrote for their children, and I don't have children."

"I don't know, he has never expressed his thoughts on this to us." Ye Jiaying still shook her head and answered Betty Bellett, "But he seems to like children very much and gets along very well with them. In Huaxia , he accepted a thirteen-year-old girl as a student, and he told the little girl not to call him teacher, but to call him brother."

"I'd better sing this song again." Xiao Yao said, "Actually, this song is more suitable for accompaniment with an acoustic guitar, but Ellie said that there is no acoustic guitar in Keith's piano room, so she only gave me one." Electric guitar, I will use the electric guitar to accompany it." Then, Xiao Yao plucked the strings of the electric guitar in his hand, and began to sing.

The song "NeverGrowUp" sung by Xiao Yao is the song of "Taylor" Taylor Swift in her previous life, and "Taylor" once said, "Whenever I look down at those seven or eight-year-old girls, I really hope I could tell her what I knew. So I wrote this song for those little girls." So, this song is actually an older girl telling a little girl about "growing up". Xiao Yao thought of this song when he heard Alicia Craig talk about wanting to grow up soon in the piano room.

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 touching things in the lyrics, and the song sung with the accompaniment of electric guitar still moved everyone at the scene a little.

At the end of the song, Betty Bellett and Ye Jiaying, who are mothers, both felt a little emotional, especially Betty Bellett, who has a daughter, through this song, imagined the scene of her daughter leaving her when she grew up, and her eyes were a little red . As fathers, Keith Craig and Xiao 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. It's a pity that Liv can't play the guitar, and the effect may be slightly worse when performing live. Dot. Maybe I can start teaching her how to play the guitar now?"

"You mean, my mission has been completed?" Xiao Yao, with sharp ears, heard Keith Craig talking to himself, and asked with a smile.

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

"Of course I would." Xiao Yao said, "This song suitable for female vocals was not originally written for me to sing, but it is also an English song. Of course there is no problem selling it to you. I trust your professional judgment. If you think the female singer is suitable for singing this song, she should be suitable."

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

"Let's meet, anyway, I'm free this afternoon, maybe there are other possibilities for cooperation." Xiao Yao said.

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

Now Xiao Yao is very popular in the American media. Keith Craig asked Xiao Yao to invite him to sing. In addition to his recognition of his songwriting ability, it is not because of Xiao Yao's enthusiasm to bring the newcomer in the studio. mean. If Xiao Yao could have more cooperation with the newcomer he was more interested in, he would naturally wish for it.

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

After having a hearty lunch at Craig's house at noon, everyone set off for Los Angeles. When going from Los Angeles to Calabasas, Xiao Yao and his party consisted of five people in one car, but when they returned to Los Angeles, they became three cars with more than ten people, and the team size 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, they naturally want to go with them. Betty Bellett and Ye Jiaying, two beauties who are not music professionals, have gone to the recording studio to watch their husband and children's recordings quite a few times, and the novelty has long since disappeared. The dozen or so people all ran to the recording studio, which would be a bit crowded, so the two of them didn't follow along to join in the fun.

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

In the "Daydream" recording studio, Xiao Yao also met the newly signed female singer of the "Daydream" studio. This female singer named Liv Paremo is a black-haired white man, twenty-two years old, not much different from Xiao Yao's age. Since she was a teenager, she has successively uploaded some videos of herself covering popular songs of well-known singers on video websites. Last year, she was noticed by netizens because of a video covering the American pop queen's champion single, and gained some fame on the Internet. After graduating from university this year, she moved to Los Angeles to realize her dream of being a singer and star, and she successively posted several cover videos on the Internet, gaining 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 in 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 left a deep impression on Keith Craig. Before the end of this year's season, Keith Craig Reg signed her into his band's studio.

Xiao Yao has written songs for both the band "Daydream" and the band "Immortals". His grades are relatively familiar, and he has also paid attention to the news about Xiao Yao recently. Seeing that the boss, Keith Craig, actually hired this young Chinese musician who has been popular in the media recently to write a song for him, Liv Paremo was also very happy and excited.

Liv Paremo is only about 1.6 meters tall, which is considered petite among Europeans and Americans, and there is a little baby sound in her voice. Liv Paremo is far from "Taylor" in her previous life in terms of image and voice characteristics, but Xiao Yao thinks her song "NeverGrowUp" by "Taylor" is no problem. Even because of her girly image and voice, singing "Don't Grow Up" gives people a very harmonious and very interesting feeling.

Xiao Yao first watched some videos of Liv Paremo singing, then chatted with her for a while, and finally put on the earphones to listen to her singing a few verses in the recording room, Keith Craig smiled and asked Xiao Yao: :"how do you feel?"

"Very good, there is nothing wrong with the sound quality and singing skills." Xiao Yao took off the earphones, nodded with a smile, "And a girl who doesn't seem to have grown up, singing "Don't grow up", I think it should be Interesting."

"Don't grow up?" Liv Paremer, who came out of the recording room and opened the door to enter the control room, happened to hear Xiao Yao's words, and looked at the two in a strange way.

"Young wrote a song called "Never Grow Up", and he has decided to sell the copyright of the song to me, and I decided to teach you to sing this song." Keith Craig explained with a smile.

"Really? The song has already been written?" Liv Paremer said excitedly, "Thank you, Jan!"

Keith Craig just asked Xiao Yao to help her write the song on the phone before, but he didn't say when it would be finished. It is inevitable that there will be some variables, and I am a little nervous. Now knowing that the song has been written and even the copyright has been bought, Liv Paremo is naturally cheering.

"Is it just suitable for singing "NeverGrowUp"?" Keith Craig looked at Xiao Yao with a smile again and said, "Don't you have any other ideas?"

"Other ideas?" Liv Paremo 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, it was Keith Craig and Liv Paremo who looked at Xiao Yao strangely.

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

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

"Another song? Really?" Keith Craig and Liv Paremer said happily together.

"Don't be too happy too early." Xiao Yao waved his hands, "The song is about me, the copyright of the song will not be sold to you, and the distribution will not be entrusted to you."

"Chorus song, both of you?" Keith Craig guessed.

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

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

"That's an electronic music song." Xiao Yao smiled, "I'm 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 Paremer said, "Is it the songs like "faded" and "SingMeToSleep"? Among those two songs, it is true that everyone knows you as an electronic music DJ than you know that you are responsible for singing. There are many female singers."

"Yes, and it is in the same style as those two songs." Xiao Yao nodded, "So, although that song will have Liv's name, it cannot be released by you as a work to promote Liv. "

"Understood, no problem." Keith Craig thought for a moment, nodded in agreement.

What Xiao Yao promised Keith Craig was to write a song for a new singer in his studio, and "NeverGrowUp" has already fulfilled the promise. The latter song would have been extra. Although it's a pity that it can't be promoted as Liv Paremer's work, at least Liv's name will appear on the singer of the song, which will still be beneficial to increase her popularity.

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

Keith Craig has seen the MVs of those two electronic songs. Although the protagonists in most MVs are hooded and masked, the female singer did show her face in the string version of the song "Faded". If Xiao Yao wants to shoot a new electronic song MV in the United States, and if there is a heroine in it, most likely he will still find the original female singer to play the role, then Liv Paremo will have to show his face in the MV Opportunity. If it was going back to Huaxia to shoot, he probably wouldn't be so troublesome to call Liv Paremo to China to shoot the MV.

Xiao Yao's previous two electronic music songs and MV are very popular, and this song and this MV are probably not bad. If Liv Paremo can show her face in the MV, it will also be of great 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 Paremer.

"Of course we will," 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 than the first two, and it will be more troublesome."

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

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

"Okay," Xiao Yao said happily, "you can help me contact a shooting team first, you must be familiar with outdoor shooting. I will give you other requirements as soon as possible. Now I will write out the lyrics and score of the song first, and we will record it first. .”

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

""alone"!" Xiao Yao said.

"What? Isn't "alone" a Korean song?" Xiao Siqi, who had been silent all this time, asked in surprise, "I thought you wrote a new English song."

"It's not a Korean song," Xiao Yao said, "Although that song is also a song with an electronic sound, it is obviously not in the same style as "Faded" and "SingMeToSleep", and I have sold the copyright of that song long ago. This is another song, but the title just happens to be called "alone" too. It's another "alone"!")!!