Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

Yunnan, Ximeng.

This is a small border town with rain forests, banana trees, mountains and sea of ​​clouds.

The geographical location happens to be almost at the same latitude as Jamaica, the hometown of reggae music. Of course, most people will not pay attention to this detail, but Lao Long has known it for a long time.

Because his Wazoo band is a reggae band in this small town, but it's not the only one.

This small town is home to the Wa, Dai, Hani and other ethnic minorities. They combine this foreign music method with their own national music to form a unique music style.

He has always believed that for China, Yunnan is the most suitable place to play reggae music because there are ethnic minorities here who are good at dancing, such as Lao Long, who is from the Wa ethnic group.

Coincidentally: the rhythm of the Wa rhythm is also recorded behind the scenes, which is a seamless connection with reggae music!

However, this place is too remote, 600 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming!

Due to geographical location, financial expenses and other reasons, the band basically entertains itself, and of course most of them work part-time. For example, Lao Long himself is a barber shop owner.

The business in the store was relatively slow this afternoon. He casually picked up his mobile phone and scrolled through it. He accidentally saw a message: Yu Dongqing's studio has hired a singer who is good at singing reggae music and will sing in the upcoming movie "Chinese Youth". 》theme song.

Of course Lao Long has heard of the name Yu Dongqing.

A very good musician.

His creative styles are very diverse, including folk, rock, pop, and even RAP. Unexpectedly, he is now playing reggae again.

A reggae-style song is used in a youth campus movie that sounds like it?

This made him very suspicious.

But this is not his focus. What he is curious about is whether the other party can really write reggae music?

He thought about it and told the news in the band’s WeChat group.

"Boss, what do you want to do?" The message was from drummer Dayong.

"I think we should try it." Lao Long replied: "The days are boring anyway. Also, is that stuff he wrote really reggae?"

It was a week after Yu Dongqing received the email from Wazoo Band.

All post-production of "Chinese Youth" has been completed, including the promotional video. Now we just need a singer for the theme song. If we can't find a suitable singer, Yu Dongqing decided to sing it himself.

This morning, Yu Dongqing got up as usual, prepared milk and bread and then asked his wife to get up.

Meimei's belly became more and more obvious, and it was a bit inconvenient to work, so Yu Dongqing took care of the housework - it wasn't much anyway. She had her own housekeeping service to do the cooking, washing clothes, and cleaning the courtyard.

After dinner, Yu Dongqing accompanied Meimei for a walk along the lakeside in Qianhai. As for watching the old men playing chess, he didn't want his wife to wait nearby.

After the walk, the weather got hot. The couple returned to their small courtyard. Yu Dongqing brewed a pot of Longjing tea for herself, sat on a wicker chair under the eaves of the corridor, drank it comfortably, and watched the bean sprouts rolling among the flowers. Chasing butterflies.

Mingliang fed the goldfish in the jar - there weren't many of them anyway, most of them were eaten by Doubao.

She didn't care, and ran to her parents' house to get a few fish back when they were gone.

Yu Dongqing squinted her eyes and had not finished drinking the pot of tea when her cell phone rang. It was Li Wei calling and saying that he had received an email from a band, saying that he was willing to try out the song and attached a video of them singing the song. , the singing is very good, very reggae style.

"Which band?"

"It's from Yunnan, a place called Ximeng."

It’s really from Yunnan!

"Okay, send it over and let me take a look."

Soon, a video file appeared on WeChat.

Yu Dongqing turned on her phone and listened carefully.

Damn it!

Sure enough, it’s reggae style music!

The song is called "Pure Man":

thirty years ago

I am exactly eight years old

This is an era when you can’t afford a schoolbag when studying.

The age when you go to school with a book under your arm

Wear pants without buttons on the crotch

There is no age that is imprisoned by zippers

Yu Dongqing discovered that the arrangement also included duxianqin and ethnic minority percussion. I wonder which ethnic minority it is from?

From the Wa ethnic group? Or from the Yi ethnic group?

"Meiliang, come and listen!" Yu Dongqing shouted excitedly into the house.

Meili had just finished her maternity exercises and was about to change clothes. When she heard her husband's words, she walked out. Yu Dongqing played the song again.

"It's pretty good." After listening to it, Meiliang said, "Well, it should be sung by the ethnic minorities in Yunnan."

Ah?

You know it too.

"I asked Li Wei to contact the person from Ximeng, Yunnan." Yu Dongqing said and picked up the phone.

Lao Long didn't expect to get a reply from the other party so quickly: I appreciate your music and are willing to cooperate. The singing fee is: 100,000. At the same time, I received the lyrics written by the other party.

The music has actually been arranged.

This is what Lao Long is most interested in. Open the audio file and listen quietly.

Although it was just an accompaniment tape, Lao Long could already hear the strong reggae style: the downbeat mid-bar was omitted and the upward slap of the guitar played

There is also a hip-hop section in the front, which has a sense of ups and downs like rumba dancing.

There’s even a flute!

This flute solo is really great!

Sure enough, what belongs to the nation is what belongs to the world.

It's a pity that it is synthesized with electronic music. It would be better if it was a real person playing the flute.

Take another look at the lyrics:

Lao Long was happy.

It is written about a rebellious child.

Think about it, which boy has not been rebellious when he was young, and he is also different?

It is indeed "Chinese Youth"

He grew up being chased by his parents.

Lao Long then sent the lyrics and arrangements to the band group.

"Brother, don't do anything else at night. Go practice singing at the same place. I still have 100,000 yuan in kung fu money, haha."

Three days later, Yu Dongqing received the audio file from the other party. He listened carefully and felt that it was pretty good.

The other party re-arranged it based on their own arrangement, using the duxianqin and Wa percussion that they are good at. In his reply, Lao Long asked Yu Dongqing for permission.

And the flute!

Instead of using electronic music to synthesize it myself, I used the Dong flute, a special musical instrument for the Dong people. The sound is clear and beautiful, and has a strong national style.

After such modifications by the other party, although it is different from what Dou Wei sang in the original time and space, it is full of a very lively life atmosphere.

Yu Dongqing immediately called Li Wei and said he would adopt it immediately.

Also, the band's song "Pure Man" is well written and worth recommending.

"Okay. It's time to get busy again." Yu Dongqing touched the bean bag lying on his lap and stood up.

The road show of "Chinese Youth" will start soon.

Although he is not as hard-working as Zhang Yang in promoting "The Piano of Steel", he still has to run when he has to.

Yanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Kunming, Chengdu, Xi'an.

Just when Yu Dongqing and the creative team were rushing to major cities non-stop, an unknown reggae band suddenly became popular.

First of all, domestic music mogul Yu Dongqing recommended a song written by the band on his Weibo for the first time - this is the first time Yu Dongqing has recommended a song written by someone else on his Weibo.

At the same time, with the promotion of the "Chinese Youth" road show and promotional video, the song "Oh, Be Good" quickly became popular all over the country.

People also began to know these men from the southwest border.

Yu Dongqing took advantage of the opportunity of the road show to meet this band, but it was in Kunming instead of Ximeng.

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