Feeling extremely shocked.
He even thought that if Shen Lele was born a few years later and participated in Super Girl five or six years later, he would not dare to win the national championship, but Haolai would definitely be able to get a relatively high ranking.
After all, in his eyes, there are many Super Girls who have become popular over the past few years, but not many who are truly capable.
It's a pity that it's 1999.
In Chinese society in 1999, it was basically impossible to create a civilian idol.
Basically all of the film and television stars who are popular now are graduates from several top film schools and drama academies.
Most of the singers who are popular now have a professional background, or they are talented singers who have been in the market for many years.
For an ordinary person, whether he wants to be a movie star or a popular singer, it is actually very, very difficult.
Before the birth of Super Girl, the entertainment industry was like ancient Japan without imperial examinations.
In ancient Japan, ordinary civilians had no possibility of becoming officials, and the authority did not provide a ladder for ordinary people to rise.
Super Girl is the first ladder that the entertainment industry opens to ordinary people. Subsequently, more and more talent shows are opening up more ladders and channels for ordinary people in the entertainment industry.
Since then, there has been a more feasible route for ordinary people to enter the entertainment industry.
In the era of universal Internet, becoming a star couldn't be easier.
Some people become opinion leaders sought after by countless people just because they smashed a refrigerator;
Some people become internet celebrities with tens of millions of fans just because of a dance;
Some people even shot a funny short video and it became popular all over the Internet;
The most interesting thing is that someone moved the TV shopping model that did not require 5888 or 3888, but only 998 to the Internet. As a result, he became a live broadcast platform salesman with an annual income of over 100 million.
Based on Shen Lele's external conditions and vocal conditions, if she had been 18 years old in 2020, she would have become a girl idol just by shooting a few TikTok videos.
Apart from anything else, her conditions in all aspects are indeed much better than that of the Koi sister who sings and sings.
Because he had gone through that era of national idols, Xu Yiyang didn't want Shen Lele to bury his own strengths and advantages.
In the 1970s and 1980s, and even in the 1990s, many singers from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia were appreciated by others through an accidental competition or performance. He wanted to package Shen Lele well. , regardless of whether she has the opportunity to expand her strengths, at least she must leave a perfect memory of her youth.
It is not easy for college students these days to keep a few photos that record their youth, and it is even more difficult to keep a video of a performance.
Fortunately, Xu Yiyang has video equipment. During the performance, he can use it to record the whole process for Shen Lele and Gu Sijia to keep a good memory.
So, at noon the next day, Xu Yiyang took the time to go out and look for several recording studios.
There are not many privately owned recording studios these days, so I finally found one near the Conservatory of Music.
The owner of the recording studio is Wang Yupeng. He used to be a recording art student at the Conservatory of Music. After graduation, he first worked as a recording engineer in a record company. Later, when he made some money, he opened a recording studio like this and worked alone.
Xu Yiyang communicated with him and made several demands.
First, if I want his help, I need to find a rock band, and the level of the players must be above the standard, to help me re-arrange "Bad Boy" into a rock version, and then record the accompaniment;
Second, find a few girls studying vocal music from the conservatory to record the harmony;
Third, he recorded the accompaniment and harmony in his recording studio.
Eighty to ninety percent of rock music in mainland China is concentrated north of the Yangtze River, so it is indeed difficult to find rock bands in China.
However, there is nothing that money cannot solve.
For an appearance fee of 5,000 yuan, a well-known original rock band in Zhonghai was invited to come over.
Girls from music conservatories are easy to find. They can be found for as much as two hundred yuan a person.
The cost of recording is not expensive. It is recorded to the highest standards here, which costs one thousand and fifty yuan per song.
Xu Yiyang didn't bargain. As long as the recording was finished, he made an appointment with Wang Yupeng. The band and teacher would come over in the evening and everyone would try out the songs first.
In the evening, Xu Yiyang took Shen Lele to the recording studio.
The four girls from the band and conservatory have arrived.
I heard that Zhang Huimei's song was to be re-accompanied. Everyone was also very curious and wanted to know who was willing to spend this unjust money
Isn't it just singing? After all, the original accompaniment was recorded by the top musicians in Taiwan. Why bother to go far away
Everyone suddenly realized that the person who paid the money was a young man, and he also brought a beautiful woman with him.
I guess he was a rich young man who wanted to woo a girl who loved music, so he put a lot of effort into this kind of thing.
When Xu Yiyang said he wanted to make a rock version of "Bad Boy", several band members were stunned. The guitarist asked him: "Isn't the original rock and roll enough?"
Xu Yiyang said: "The electronic taste is too strong, I want to add heavy metals."
The guitarist asked, "Brother, how much do you weigh?"
Xu Yiyang said: "The arrangement and the timbre of the instrumental music should be similar to Joan Jett's style. For example, the metallic timbre of the guitar should be thick and heavy, and the sound of the snare drum of the drum set should not be bang bang, but the sound should be Explosive enough.”
The people in the band immediately took it seriously.
The first thing I want to say is Joan Jett, this is a knowledgeable owner!
The drummer said awkwardly: "Brother, the kind of sound you want, the drum set in the recording studio can't produce that effect. No matter what, I need a high-end Tama set."
Xu Yiyang asked: "Do you have it?"
The drummer shook his head: "I can't afford it..."
Xu Yiyang asked: "Where is it?"
The drummer said: "I know a music store has one, and you can rent it, but the price is relatively expensive, costing thousands of yuan a day."
"Rent it, I'll pay for it." Xu Yiyang said: "Today you use this drum set to record first, then rent that drum set over tomorrow, and you can re-record the drum track."
"Okay!" The drummer nodded without hesitation when he heard how happy he was, and said with a smile: "I have long been coveting the high-end Tama set from that music store. His single-match snare drum costs thousands, and the complete set of drums The drum head alone is as good as other people's drum sets, and the sound is great. Many big names rent his set when they come to Zhonghai for performances."
The band members immediately began seriously thinking about rearranging the song.
After discussing for a while, they had a rough idea and said to Xu Yiyang and Shen Lele: "How about we try it together first? We also listen to the characteristics of this lady's voice and make subtle adjustments based on her characteristics."
Xu Yiyang nodded and said to Shen Lele: "Then you try to get along with them first."
Shen Lele responded, and the band's guitarist asked her: "Beauty, what key can you sing this song in?"
Shen Lele said: "I don't understand music theory either, and I don't know what the specific key is."
The other party asked in surprise: "You are not from the Conservatory of Music?"
"No." Shen Lele said, "We are from China Overseas International Studies University."
"I see." The other party nodded and said, "Let me put it more simply. Can you sing the original key of this song? Do you need us to change it to another key?"
Shen Lele said: "No, I have no problem with the original tune. I can sing it."
"Really?" the other party said in surprise: "The tune of this song is not low."
Shen Lele nodded and said, "I feel like I can handle it while singing."
The guitarist said: "Okay, let's try it in the original tune first."
The band used a rough version of the arrangement and sang it with Shen Lele first. Shen Lele opened her voice and sang, which immediately surprised everyone present.
Although "Bad Boy" is a popular song, the key is not low and the requirements for breath are not low. There are not many singers who can sing it well.
But I didn't expect that Shen Lele, who was not a music major, could control this song so well.
This inspired the band members to get the song out, so several people immediately got together and began to discuss in detail how to arrange the song in more detail.
Wang Yupeng, the owner and sound engineer of the recording studio, asked curiously: "Brothers, you are from China Overseas College, so you recorded this for your school's New Year's Day party, right?"
Xu Yiyang asked: "Do you know about the party?"
"I know." Wang Yupeng smiled and said: "There is a boy in your school who invited two people to come over last weekend to record a song. The song they recorded was "For Whom" which was used to fight the flood last year."
Xu Yiyang asked in confusion: "Isn't this song very popular? It's being covered everywhere, but you can't find an accompaniment?"
Wang Yupeng chuckled and said, "This guy is not here to record accompaniment, he is here to record vocals for mixing."
Xu Yiyang was even more puzzled: "Recorded in advance? Is this lip-synching?"
"It's not just lip-synching..." Wang Yupeng said with a disdainful smile: "This guy didn't sing well and wanted to show his face in school performances, so he paid a boy who studied vocal music from the conservatory to record a version of his male voice. However, his song is a male and female duet, and the female part was not recorded. It had to be sung live, so he asked the young man from the music school to record the male part for him in advance in the accompaniment tape."
"So shameless?" Xu Yiyang was really convinced. He even lip-synched during the school performance. The key was that he specifically asked students from the music school to help him lip-sync. As for that
Wang Yupeng smiled and said: "It's not just shameless, it's downright shameless."
Xu Yiyang asked subconsciously: "What is this person's name?"
"Who knows?" Wang Yupeng said, "I didn't even ask."
After saying that, Wang Yupeng hurriedly said: "Brother, don't talk nonsense later, otherwise people might come to me."
Xu Yiyang nodded and said, "Of course."
By this time, the band members had already started discussing a prototype.
Because Xu Yiyang needed the song to be more explosive and wild, they decided to use drums and heavy metal guitar riffs to make the rhythm from the beginning. To a certain extent, they imitated the hard rock style of the famous band AC/DC.
This kind of intro is straightforward and can bring up the atmosphere and rhythm as soon as it comes up.
Then they began to discuss in depth, such as the few bars of the intro, when the bass came in, when the rhythm guitar came in, when Shen Lele sang the first line, how to change the rhythm pattern in the chorus to enhance the atmosphere, and how the harmony should be Write, how to edit, and when to enter.
Xu Yiyang didn't understand this, so he simply left it to professionals to solve it.
Soon, they had already released the first version.
The musicians cooperated with each other for a while, and then called Shen Lele over to sing along again.
The band's instrument configuration is two guitarists, a bassist, a keyboard player and a drummer, and the feeling comes out at once.
Xu Yiyang feels that the style of this arrangement is very similar to Joan Jett's style.
Xu Yiyang can already predict how explosive this song will be if it is placed on the stage of China Overseas Gala!
The third update is here!
(End of chapter)