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Chapter 126 Chinese Horror

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The word "hee" appeared in Liang Xiaobo's mind for the first time, but then he heard Zhou Dingran say again: "Double happiness."

Without further explanation, Zhou Dingran directly printed out the lyrics and music of "囍" on the printer.

Then I started to sit in front of the arranger and synthesizer. After getting a little familiar with the operation method of the arranger software, based on the complete version of the song "囍" in my mind, I started to quickly record the chords of various instruments into the synthesizer again and again. device.

It was not until he saw the content on the lyrics and music score that Liang Xiaobo understood the high level of the song "囍".

When the story-telling lyrics and slightly eerie melody appeared in front of him, Liang Xiaobo felt his heart skip a beat.

Because this song is different from the traditional way of writing lyrics and music, every note and every lyric on the lyrics and music score is full of "new ideas" for him.

But he still couldn't believe it.

It wasn't until he witnessed Zhou Dingran personally recording the suona, erhu, pipa and other sounds into the synthesizer one by one that Liang Xiaobo finally understood what the main tone of the song was.

“When the suona sounds, it’s either great joy or great sadness!”

"The whole song is obviously about a woman's marriage, and getting married itself is also a very happy thing, but..." Liang Xiaobo said with horror on his face: "The whole song gives people a mixed feeling of sadness and joy. Even more sad than happy.”

"Is it a ghost marriage?"

Liang Xiaobo suddenly remembered the opening lyrics, the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, an auspicious day, the sorghum is lifted...

The timbre properties of the erhu in the prelude and the discordant notes of the piano seem to lay the tragic theme for the entire song.

It’s really a ghost marriage...

The moment of realization made Liang Xiaobo's hair stand on end, and his whole scalp became numb.

In traditional ancient times, the eighteenth day of the first lunar month was the time when the moon was broken and everything was unfavorable.

If you get married on this day, you are definitely heading towards a ghost marriage.

The "auspicious day" behind it is obviously ironic, and raising the stalks was used to ward off evil spirits in ancient times...

"Are these lyrics and music written by Wen Chao Gong? Why did he write such lyrics and music for Zhou Dingran?"

Just thinking about it makes me feel unlucky. Liang Xiaobo is puzzled. Can such a song really be liked by the world?
However, when Zhou Dingran asked him to find a suona-playing instrument teacher to record a piece of suona music, Liang Xiaobo suddenly felt the excitement of this song.

"The suona teacher plays so festively, but the more lively and festive the music is, the more it makes people despair, as if everything is irreversible and irreversible."

Liang Xiaobo played this suona solo several times in a loop, and gradually realized, "This suona solo is indeed festive when taken alone, but after the overall orchestration and harmony are integrated, its background is full of sadness..." "

Throughout the whole day, Zhou Dingran and Liang Xiaobo were arranging the song "囍".

During this period, it took more than two hours to find a suona teacher to play the suona. It was not until four or five o'clock in the afternoon that the arrangement of the entire song was officially completed.

"Start recording songs!"

Zhou Dingran also showed his workaholic spirit.

After the arrangement was completed, I went straight into the recording studio without any rest.

The song "囍" incorporates rap, dialect and drama, and the arrangement is more festive and lively, and it sounds a little complicated. But in fact, the lyrics of the whole song are very easy to remember. For Zhou Dingran, as early as when he arrived, In front of the East China Sea, it took him less than 10 minutes to know the lyrics of this song by heart.

The next thing to do is to memorize the singing method and melody of the song, and sing the whole song according to the rhythm of the arrangement.

Because there is a reference to the previous version, and the difficulty of singing this song is not high, Zhou Dingran is completely capable of it with his master-level singing skills.

Although some of the lyrics were in the northern Shaanxi dialect, Zhou Dingran was completely competent, so the whole song was recorded very quickly. After only about half an hour, the song "囍" was officially recorded.

When Zhou Dingran walked out of the recording studio, he saw Liang Xiaobo looking at him in shock.

Zhou Dingran touched his face and made sure there was nothing dirty, then he frowned and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"I really didn't expect that Mr. Zhou, your singing skills are so amazing."

Liang Xiaobo felt a sense of admiration for Zhou Dingran.

In fact, Zhou Dingran's singing skills have already begun to take shape when he sang "My Place", but because the song "My Place" is almost all rap lyrics, and the singing of the chorus part is not outstanding, so including Everyone, including Song Xinran and Yu Xiaoye, believed that although Zhou Dingran's singing skills were pretty good, his ability to sing "My Territory" probably relied on Zhou Dingran's lung capacity, which was so powerful that he didn't need to ventilate during the performance.

But now it seems that Zhou Dingran's singing skills definitely exceed everyone's ability to understand.

For example, Liang Xiaobo couldn't figure out how the young Zhou Dingran could have such terrifying singing skills.

Even some celebrities in the music industry would have to spend at least 30 to [-] years in the music industry if they want to have singing skills like Zhou Dingran's.

But this guy’s age…

"Did you start practicing since you were in your mother's womb?"

He thought of Zhou Dingran's experience and felt the impact of difference again.

When he was in the Miracle Boys, he knew nothing about it and struggled with everything. How come after leaving the idol group, his singing and dancing skills have reached such a terrifying level.

How on earth did Tianmang bury a superstar seedling like this?

……

"That's it for today."

After recording "囍", Zhou Dingran looked at the time. It was almost six o'clock in the afternoon, and the staff of Fanghua Entertainment had also arrived at get off work time.

Before Song Xinran and others came to see him off, Zhou Dingran packed his backpack and said to Liang Xiaobo: "Thank you for your cooperation today, Brother Bo. I will treat you to dinner another day."

"It's a word."

Liang Xiaobo was a little excited and said quickly: "Mr. Zhou, is it convenient for you to add us on WeChat?"

Zhou Dingran hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

After adding each other on WeChat, Liang Xiaobo personally escorted Zhou Dingran out of the recording studio.

Seeing the other party leaving in a taxi, Liang Xiaobo smacked his lips. Thinking of the lyrics and music of the song "囍", he was quite unsatisfied: "Zhou Dingran was a bit awesome this week. He actually embraced Wen Chao Gong and got the opportunity to sing two songs in a row. "My Land" and "囍" will definitely become his comeback."

"What are you muttering about?" Song Xinran appeared behind him at some point and asked, "Where is Zhou Dingran? Why didn't you see anyone else?"

"left already."

Liang Xiaobo replied, he turned around and saw Song Xinran and general manager Wan He looking at him eagerly, so he explained: "He said he didn't need to tell you, and then left alone."

"Why don't you keep him? It's hard for people to come to the East China Sea. As hosts, we have to keep him for a while before leaving." Song Xinran scolded.

Liang Xiaobo said helplessly: "I stayed, but he insisted on leaving."

Wan He waved his hand and said, "Let's go. Didn't he record two songs today? Let's go to the recording studio and play them. After all, it is Wen Chao Gong's work. Although it would be a waste of money to sing for Zhou Dingran..."

"That's not the case, Mr. Wan. Zhou Dingran's singing skills are very good, beyond imagination. I conservatively estimate that his singing skills are definitely as good as those of a four-star singer, and he is completely suitable for these two songs."

Seeing Wan He's doubtful expression, Liang Xiaobo quickly added: "You can doubt me, but you can't doubt Duke Wen Chao's vision." Song Xinran also followed up and said, "That's true. Zhou Dingran's singing skills are obviously much better than before." The changes are nothing short of reborn.”

"So powerful?" Wan He was doubtful.

The three of them then headed to the recording studio.

Zhou Dingran did not delete the two songs recorded today from the recorder before leaving, so the three of them quickly found the two songs and played them one after another.

When "My Land" was played, even Wan He, who was full of distrust of Zhou Dingran, finally believed what Song Xinran and Liang Xiaobo said.

"Damn it, Zhou Dingran... does have something."

And when "囍" was played, not only Wan He, but also Song Xinran who heard this song for the first time, fell silent.

"In this song, the suona is the soul and the erhu is the skeleton. With these two instruments, the whole song has this weird but moving atmosphere."

Song Xinran opened her mouth, only to feel the shock in her heart.

Especially after hearing the line in the song, "One bow to heaven and earth, two bows to heaven", my whole body felt numb.

"Ah, yes, yes, really, with the suona and erhu, this song has a Chinese horror feel, and you can hear the connotation of the whole song!" Liang Xiaobo nodded repeatedly in agreement.

General Manager Wan He frowned.

Although he doesn't know much about songwriting, he is a master of marketing.

They have been in the entertainment industry for many years and have a relatively sharp eye. They can tell whether a song has a market or not.

Obviously, in Wan He's eyes, neither "My Place" nor the song "囍" has popular factors.

In comparison, "My Territory" may become popular all over the country due to its catchy chorus melody in a large-scale mobile communication advertising campaign.

But the song "囍" will definitely not be in the mainstream crowd's attention.

This is a very typical niche song. It can be said to be Chinese horror, but its popularity is definitely not that high.

"It's a pity. If it's a song like "The Lonely Warrior", maybe Zhou Dingran can rise quickly with these two songs." Wan He sighed.

Although this song "囍" does sound interesting, it only goes so far.

The actual effect is not even as high as "My Land".

At this moment, Wanhe's views also represent the public's views to a certain extent.

This is why "My Land" is priced at 200 million favorability points in the system mall, while "囍" can only reach 80.

In terms of the value of lyrics and music alone, "My Land", written by Fang Wenshan and composed by Jay Chou, is obviously higher.

But what if it is paired with choreography?
The choreography of "My Territory" is obviously weak among weak chickens. For Zhou Dingran, it has no technical content at all.

But "囍" is different.

The choreography of "囍" can match the song and penetrate into the soul, making everyone who watches the dance unforgettable for a long time.

After leaving Fanghua Entertainment, Zhou Dingran continued to call the crew to ask for leave the next day, and then went straight to the Peking Theater Academy.

At the invitation of Yu Ono, the general manager of the campus card business group of a mobile communications company, he wanted to shoot the "My Land" MV here.

At the same time, he also called Wang Ke directly the day before and asked if Wang Ke had time to shoot the MV and help shoot the Douyin short video.

Wang Ke agreed without even thinking.

After some inquiries during the period, Zhou Dingran learned that although Wang Ke was signed by the Hengdian "War Correspondent" crew, he was only a supporting role with dozens of lines.

And the entire main cast of the crew needs to go abroad for filming.

Only marginal supporting characters such as Wang Ke had no need to go abroad. They were directly arranged in Hengdian, where green cloth was pulled up to shoot, and all post-production shots relied on special effects.

And Wang Ke's role in this film and television work is just a translator.

It has been ten days since Nortel's troops arrived in Hengdian, but Wang Ke has still not had his turn to film a scene except for the makeup trial on the first day.

This made Wang Ke a little unbearable.

During this period, I also secretly went to other crews to take private jobs. Although I also had few lines, I was very busy every day.

When he received Zhou Dingran's call, Wang Ke had just finished filming a movie and was about to go to the group leader to make appointments for a few more movies.

Now that I heard that Zhou Dingran was going to shoot Douyin again and also shoot a song MV, I immediately dropped everything in my hands and bought a flight ticket back to Beijing without stopping.

The two gathered at the Peking Theater Academy early in the morning.

The filming team led by Yu Xiaoye did not keep them waiting, and arrived at the scene in three to five minutes. After everyone gathered, they entered the Peking Theater Academy and started shooting the "My Land" MV.

Because the mobile official had reported to the school in advance, the process of everyone entering the campus was very smooth.

The lyrics of "My Place" are all about promoting youth and highlighting individuality, so the filming team finally used dance studios, basketball courts, canteens and other places as filming locations.

The plot of the MV is very simple, it is the story of Zhou Dingran helping Wang Ke, his best friend, to chase girls in college.

The heroine has already made her choice. She is a junior female student in the dance department of Peking Theater Academy. Her name is Yang Liying. She has a very outstanding figure and appearance. She is known as the beauty of the dance department. Wang Ke was attracted by this beast at first sight. .

"I have to catch up with her!"

"It was love at first sight!"

Wang Ke was obviously really attracted to her, but in Zhou Dingran's view, there was no such thing as love at first sight in the world, and love at first sight would never be the same again. This animal was just interested in the girl because she had a good figure.

Wang Ke did show his sincerity.

Not only was he extremely courteous to Yang Liying during the filming, but he also acted like a licking dog in private, which made Zhou Dingran quite disdainful.

But when the filming progressed into the afternoon, Zhou Dingran suddenly looked at Yang Liying with admiration.

Because he discovered that although Yang Liying mainly studied folk dance and ballet, she also had a lot of research on hip-hop dance, so he took the initiative to inquire about it in his spare time.

Yang Liying is the beauty of the dance department of Peking Theater Academy. Although she was a little aloof and reserved when getting along with her classmates in the past, she even ignored Wang Ke.

But when Zhou Dingran took the initiative to strike up a conversation and inquired, he did not hold back on his persona. He became pretty, flushed, slightly excited, and answered all questions. He even took the initiative to bring milk tea to Zhou Dingran and Wang Ke when they met again in the afternoon.

The latter was obviously just a sidekick, but Wang Ke was so excited. He felt that his enthusiasm was responded to, and he started licking even more vigorously.

After Zhou Dingran thought about it again and again, he finally decided to let Yang Liying, a hip-hop expert, be the heroine in his new work "囍".

Yang Liying was naturally filled with joy.

But when he learned that the theme of the song "囍" was ghost marriage, his expression changed slightly.

(End of this chapter)