This Star is Legal But Sick

Chapter 178 "Lanting Preface"

 The content of the lyrics has not changed, it is the content of the chorus that was just sung.

 But this time, Xu Ye changed his singing style and completed the emotional progression of the entire song.

 “It has nothing to do with Fengyue, I am waiting for your reply...

 But I only lack your lifelong understanding. "

 The moment the operatic voice started to sing, the audience immediately burst into cheers.

 The audience was really surprised.

　　When the title of the song appeared, it gave them enough shock. When Xu Ye sang the song quietly with a soft voice, it gave them an unparalleled experience.

 Now Xu Ye has lost his drama.

 Many ancient songs use the element of drama, which can make the whole song more charming.

 It’s just that Xu Ye has never demonstrated this ability in his previous creations and performances.

 After all, opera requires a certain amount of opera skills.

Xu Ye’s acting style is indeed quite professional.

If I had to use two words to describe this paragraph, the only word would be stunning.

 After singing the first section B, Xu Ye repeated it again.

However, the ending of this section is slightly different from the lyrics of the previous section.

 The last sentence of the former is "And I only lack your understanding in my life."

 The last sentence here is "What I lack is your lifetime understanding."

Xu Ye personally feels that the change in lyrics is on the one hand a progression of emotions, and on the other hand it is to connect the following content.

For example, "I miss you, miss you" is a stronger expression of emotion than a simple "I miss you".

 After singing this section, Xu Ye's hand movements stopped.

 He put down the erhu in his hand, picked up the microphone with one hand and stood up slowly.

 The singing came again.

 “In the blink of an eye, the beautiful city was destroyed in an instant.”

“On the bluestone street, you look back and smile gracefully.”

"Hate it or not? You shake your head and sigh softly, who made you frown?"

“And in purdah, only the smell of rouge remains.”

While singing, Xu Ye walked to the front of the stage.

 In the auditorium, Qi Dongxiang and a group of senior officials from the Forbidden City listened with great interest.

 Xu Ye’s song is really to their liking in both lyrics and composition.

 In the arrangement, a large number of traditional Chinese musical instruments are also used.

“It seems that we have chosen the right person to write a promotional song for our Forbidden City, Xu Ye!”

You must know that if Qi Dongxiang chooses Xu Ye to write a promotional song for the Forbidden City, there will definitely be objections.

No matter how awesome Xu Ye is, he can't be liked by everyone.

There are always people who think his songs just don’t sound good.

 There are also some leaders in the Forbidden City who feel it is inappropriate.

Besides, there are no Chinese-style songs in Xu Ye’s works so far. Who knows if he will write them.

 But as soon as the preface to Lanting came out, these doubts were ignored.

If this song is not good, then find a good song for me!

Qi Dongxiang is now looking forward to the promotional song Xu Ye composed for the Forbidden City.

Lao Zhang on the side laughed and said: "I think it is more comfortable to listen to this song with your eyes closed. I want to laugh when I see his face now."

After saying this, Lao Zhang closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair and listened carefully to the Lanting preface.

 The singing continues.

 “The geese are flying south, and I turn around and see you crying.”

“Hold a handful of the moon, hold it in your hand and remember how to sleep.”

　　　“How could it be that my thoughts are so dense that my embroidery shoes and needles are filled with resentment.”

“If a flower resents a butterfly, who will you blame?”

　　When Xu Ye sang this, everyone had already anticipated that the chorus was coming.

The song "Lanting Preface", although the song is called "Lanting Preface", to be honest, the content has little to do with the historical "Lanting Preface".

Even Fang Wenshan himself once said that it would be better to call the song "Nothing to do with the Wind and Moon".

But after the song became popular, it was too late to change it.

 In fact, Xu Ye thinks the title of the song "Lanting Xu" is not bad.

 A good song is a good song, the title of the song is not important.

 In a private room.

Xu Nanjia and Xie Qiong were already looking at Xu Ye on the stage with their mouths wide open.

 They really like this song.

And at this time, Xu Ye is really hard to imagine that his mind is not normal.

 Is this reasonable?

 This is unreasonable!

Xie Qiong glanced sideways at Xu Nanjia, quickly picked up a piece of paper and covered Xu Nanjia's mouth.

“Why are you drooling just looking at me?” Xie Qiong said speechlessly.

 Then she also picked up a piece of paper and wiped the corners of her mouth.

 “Xu Ye is so handsome!”

 Xu Nanjia is now like Xu Ye’s little fan girl.

 This time I came to the site and it was really a worthwhile trip.

"Jiajia, do you think we can ask Xu Ye to write a song for us?" Xie Qiong said suddenly.

Xu Nanjia thought carefully and said, "It should be okay? If he doesn't agree to this request, I will..."

 “What do you want?” Xie Qiong asked.

Xu Nanjia thought for a long time and couldn't think of anything that could threaten Xu Ye, so she simply said: "I'll just beg him!"

At this time on the stage, Xu Ye was still singing the chorus.

The song "Lanting Preface" adopts a low-pitched and high-pitched approach, and the mood of the whole song progresses bit by bit.

 In the accompaniment of the last two choruses, there is also a large ensemble of instruments, which gives people a stronger feeling.

 Finally, Xu Ye sang the last verse.

 “It has nothing to do with Fengyue, I am waiting for your reply with the preface.”

“Handwriting has no shame and no fear of right and wrong in the world.”

 “The rain beat down on the banana leaves, and it continued to rain for a few nights.”

 “I’m waiting for Chun Lei to remind you who you love.”

Xu Ye’s singing skills are now able to do light things with ease. When he sang to the end, he just returned to his chair, picked up the erhu and continued to play.

 Finally, in the accompaniment, the sounds of other string instruments, pipa, zither, etc. disappeared one by one.

 Only the sound of the erhu is left.

The whole song starts with the sound of erhu and gradually incorporates other instruments.

 At the end, the other instruments gradually disappear, ending with the sound of the erhu.

On the big screen behind him, while Xu Ye was singing, all the ink animations were playing.

 Chinese style, ink painting.

When the final erhu came to an end, those ink paintings once again turned into the three characters "Lanting Preface" on the screen.

Three large characters spread out like ink on paper, eventually dyeing the entire large screen black.

 It starts with ink and ends with ink.

 It starts with Erhu and ends with Erhu.

 All lights and sounds fell into silence.

 At this moment, the audience applauded.

 The applause was enthusiastic, and everyone’s faces were full of appreciation.

  A group of big bosses from the Forbidden City applauded enthusiastically.

Lao Zhang, who had just opened his eyes, frowned. Although he was also applauding, he seemed a little confused.

 In the waiting room.

 The singers who had finished their performances in front were also applauding.

  Lin Ge and Malu drummed most vigorously.

"That's awesome! That's awesome! Xu Ye's brain is really not what a normal person should have!" Lin Ge praised repeatedly.

 He has listened to too many Chinese or ancient songs.

 It’s just that in today’s music scene, the quality of Chinese-style songs varies.

It seems that as long as you use some words with ancient meanings and add them to some traditional Chinese instruments and melodies, it will be Chinese style.

The lyrics are a mess and the music is also very poor.

 It makes people feel uncomfortable to hear.

 Ke Xu Ye’s song directly refreshed his understanding of Chinese style.

Can you still write songs like this?

The other two singers were also applauding, but their eyes were obviously solemn.

 This one is dangerous.

 The original theme of this issue, in everyone’s opinion, was that Xu Ye should be able to sing an old song.

　　After all, Xu Ye has never composed this type of song.

 But damn, it turns out he doesn’t know how to create.

 He just hasn’t created anything before.

 The quality of Lanting's preface is excellent.

 Under the theme of traces of history, it can be said to be a killer.

 Use things to express emotions and use things to metaphor people.

You should know that the singer who ranks last in this issue will be eliminated.

 Xu Ye’s song will definitely not be eliminated if it is thrown out.

 That means they may be eliminated.

The two of them glanced at Cheng Tianlei, who was sitting in the middle.

 At this time, Cheng Tianlei's face was extremely solemn.

 He just wants to shout now that Zhou Mengru mistook me!

Who told you that Xu Ye can’t write Chinese-style songs?

Then tell me what this is?

Zhou Mengru’s songs have not yet jumped out of the traditional ancient style of writing, and the overall expression of the songs is still a bit fluttery.

The preface to Lanting is completely different.

 Cheng Tianlei really had great hopes for the song he sang at the beginning.

 But after listening to Lanting's preface, he only felt that his songs were a piece of shit.

 There is no harm without contrast.

Taking calligraphy as the starting point, he also innovated in composition and arrangement, crushing Zhou Mengru in all aspects.

 Cheng Tianlei felt liver pain.

 “Damn it, the songs written by Zhou Mengru are so bad, I can’t save them no matter how good I sing!”

 He comforted himself in his heart.

However, the final score has not been released yet, and everything is still unclear.

 In the audience, the applause has stopped.

 Lao Zhang asked Qi Dongxiang: "Don't you think there was something wrong with Xu Ye's lyrics just now?"

Qi Dongxiang asked in confusion: "Which lyrics are wrong?"

 Lao Zhang said: "The lyrics of the penultimate sentence just now, he sang, 'You also have little corns on your feet.' This has nothing to do with the context."

As soon as he said this, the other Forbidden City bosses all laughed.

 Qi Dongxiang looked helpless.

“The lyrics are about the rain hitting the banana leaves and the rain blowing on the leaves for a few nights. However, the words are indeed a bit unclear. We only knew the lyrics by looking at the lyrics on the screen.”

 Lao Zhang had a question mark on his face.

Just now he was wondering if the lyrics "You also have little corns on your feet" had any special meaning.

 I really couldn’t figure out what the meaning was, so I wondered if I had heard it wrong.

 At this time, the female host has already stepped onto the stage.

Even when she finally stopped, she was very close to Xu Ye. As long as she moved a little, their arms would touch each other.

“Thank you Xu Ye for bringing you the preface to Lanting. Voting begins now!” the host announced.

 After the voting ended, the host looked in the direction of the jury.

“Teachers, do you have anything to say?”

 At this time, a member of the jury answered directly.

 But after he said a few words, no sound came out.

His speed was so fast that the backstage didn’t even have time to turn on his microphone.

When the microphone was turned on, this unattractive member of the jury loudly said: "In my heart, the song "Lanting Preface" is enough to be ranked among the top three Chinese-style songs! I'm done!"

 (End of this chapter)