Entertaining Children

   Chapter 1090

"Okay, I understand." Xu Wenxiang stared at Xiao Yao for a while, then nodded, "It is also a very common thing for the creator to designate the original singer in the industry. Now that you, the creator, has identified it. Yun, I have nothing to say, I promise you!"

"Just now you said you plan to record this song yourself," Xu Wenxiang continued, "The target market for this song is on Hong Kong Island. When the song is released, Ah Yun will do some promotional activities on Hong Kong Island. Our company has Very professional recording studio, I don’t know if you are interested in recording this song in our studio? This way, you can avoid Ah Yunfei from going to Shencheng and then flying back to run the publicity. Secondly, as a musician, I I also want to see what it looks like when you record your music, maybe you can communicate with each other."

   "I wanted to record this song on Hong Kong Island, and by the way, I saw your company's recording studio," Xiao Yao glanced at Yang Shiyun's agent next to him, "Didn't Sister Yan tell you?"

   "Really? That's right!" Xu Wenxiang smiled.

   "Mr. Xiao, I have another request." Chen Manli interrupted.

   "Please speak!" Xiao Yao waved his hand.

"Just now Mr. Xu said that the target market for this song is Hong Kong Island," Chen Manli said. "But we all know that the mainland market is much larger than Hong Kong Island. I know you are brilliant. I don't know if you can give it to Hong Kong. This song is filled with a version of the lyrics in Mandarin, and then a Mandarin version of the work is made."

"Good idea!" Before Xiao Yao answered, Xu Wenxiang smiled and took the conversation, "I remember your "Red Rose" and "White Rose" are like this. The tunes are exactly the same, one Mandarin and one Cantonese. This pair It shouldn't be difficult for you? We can count on two songs."

   "You tell me," Xiao Yao smiled bitterly, "When I wrote this song last night, I also wrote a version of the lyrics in Mandarin, but I tore it later!"

   "Why?" Xu Wenxiang asked strangely.

"I'm not satisfied," Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head. "The Mandarin version of the lyrics I wrote is okay, but compared with the Cantonese version, I have no interest in recording it at all. Back then "White Rose" and "Red Rose", I am very satisfied with the lyrics of the two editions, so I published them together. This time I feel that the two editions are quite different and I don't want to publish them."

   "Can you show it to me?" Xu Wenxiang asked, "I know you said that you have torn it, but I heard that you have a very good memory. Even if it has been torn, you should still be able to write it silently?"

"I can't get it, I don't want to write!" Xiao Yao waved his hand, "I know that the Mandarin market is larger than the Cantonese market, and I will not prevent you from publishing the Mandarin version. The original Cantonese version of this song can only be sung in poetry, so I won’t authorize the copyright for the cover at least half a year. But you can find someone to fill in the lyrics in the Mandarin version. I can give you the cover rights for the Mandarin version now. As for the singer, it doesn’t matter whether it’s poetry or not."

   "You are confident that no one can write better Mandarin lyrics?" Xu Wenxiang laughed, "You are really confident about yourself!"

   Xiao Yao smiled, but did not answer.

   "Then it's settled, I'll ask someone to prepare the contract." When Xu Wenxiang saw that Xiao Yao didn't answer, he didn't continue the topic, and instead wanted to finalize it.

"Don't worry!" Xiao Yao smiled, "As long as the general direction is agreed, I don't care about the details of the contract, so I generally don't discuss the contract personally. Since we have reached an agreement verbally, I believe we can Reached an agreement. I will notify my studio to send someone over in a while, and they should arrive tomorrow. The contract will be handled by professional people. Now, I think I should be able to go to your recording studio and start working, right? "

  "Start now?" Xu Wenxiang asked in surprise.

   "Well," Xiao Yao nodded, "I will return to Shanghai in a few days. I guess I can only stay on Hong Kong Island for four days at most, so I want to record this song as soon as possible."

   "Four days? It should be no problem if you just record, but now you only have a score, no arrangement, no soundtrack, is four days enough?" Xu Wenxiang said.

   "If it goes well, I think it should take less than four days." Xiao Yao said, "This time I came to Hong Kong Island, I just went out for a day yesterday, and there are still some places I haven't visited!"

   "Hiss~" Except for Yang Shiyun, everyone else took a breath and looked at Xiao Yao in surprise.

"Let's do it," Xu Wenxiang looked at his wrist watch, "It's not too early now. I'm going to be a party. Please go to lunch first. By the way, let the studio do some preparations and help you contact what you need. Musician and sound engineer. After lunch, I will accompany you to the recording studio to see how you make the arrangement and soundtrack."

   "No," Xiao Yao said, "I don't need a sound engineer and musician, I can do it by myself. Just have a casual lunch, if I can, I think it’s a good choice to have a lunch in the studio."

   Xiao Yao saw that Xu Wenxiang and others still had some contempt for mainlanders in their bones, and doubted their ability to record a song in four days. In that case, I don’t need YH’s free labor at all, and I plan to let them see how they can record alone.

   "Senior, can I go see you do the arranger and score?" Yang Shiyun said, "I haven't seen it yet."

  Yang Shiyun is very confident in Xiao Yao. When he was on the show last year, Xiao Yao wrote the score for "Learning to Meow" and threw it to the six of them, went to the recording studio by himself, and brought back the soundtrack in one afternoon. Yang Shiyun absolutely believes that Xiao Yao can do the arrangement and soundtrack in one afternoon, but he doesn't know how he does it. I have a chance this time, and of course I want to see it.

   "Yes, don't delay the recording tomorrow." Xiao Yao looked at Yang Shiyun and nodded.

  "Recording tomorrow?" Xu Wenxiang and Chen Manli looked at each other, a little speechless.

  Xu Wenxiang went out and ordered people to prepare the recording studio, while Xiao Yao took advantage of this time to call Fang and asked her to send someone to Hong Kong Island to help him negotiate a song copyright contract. Fang is still Xiao Yao's agent, but since the establishment of Xiao Yao's personal studio, Fang still rarely shows up in person. For such trivial matters as the copyright of a song, it is obvious that there is no need for Fang to do it himself, just let the studio send someone over.

  After Xiao Yao finished the phone call with Fang, Xu Wenxiang arranged a recording studio there, and Xiao Yao followed Xu Wenxiang to a recording studio on the third floor. In addition to these two people, Chen Manli and Yang Shiyun and Yang Shiyun's agent also followed.

It’s not that Xu Wenxiang has never seen some musicians make arrangements and scores independently, but most of the people I have seen use software to arrange various musical instruments on a computer, and they are basically arranged in a section by section. Constantly modify and debug, but Xiao Yao is different.

After entering the recording studio, Xiao Yao first checked the various equipment in the recording studio, and after seeing them all, he sat on the chair of the console, put his elbows on the arm of the chair, tilted his body and placed his chin on the chair. On his fist, he closed his eyes and thought.

  "He didn't come to sleep, right?" Looking at Xiao Yao's appearance, Xu Wenxiang and Chen Manli looked at each other silently.

   More than ten minutes later, just as Chen Manli looked a little impatient and wanted to speak, she saw Xiao Yao suddenly sitting upright, manipulating her hands on the console, and then pushing the door and walking out. After a while, everyone saw through the glass window in front of the console that the door of the recording room opposite was opened, and Xiao Yao walked in. After turning back and closing the door of the recording room, Xiao Yao moved an electronic piano, adjusted it, connected the equipment, and pressed his hands on the keys to play.

  Xu Wenxiang was able to understand Xiao Yao's operations, and immediately took out a pair of headphones, plugged them into the headphone jack on the console, and then put on the headphones and listened.

  After playing for a few minutes, Xiao Yao stopped playing the electronic piano, turned around and opened the door of the recording room, and returned to the operating room for a moment.

  After Xu Wenxiang saw Xiao Yao stop playing, he took the earphones from his head and sat aside, but the earphone jack was not unplugged. Xiao Yao came back and saw the headphones plugged in. He didn't say a word. He sat in front of the console and put on the headphones, and then operated the equipment on the console again.

  Xu Wenxiang was sitting next to Xiao Yao, and he clearly saw Xiao Yao pinch off a recorded audio track back and forth, then made some adjustments in the middle part, and then saved it.

  "Is this ready for a soundtrack?" Xu Wenxiang asked in surprise when he saw Xiao Yao take off the earphones.

   "Almost, I am going to record another one." With that, Xiao Yao turned around and went out again, and went to the opposite recording room again.

  After playing the electronic organ for a few more minutes, Xiao Yao returned again, listened to the second part of the recording, and did some processing.

  When he got up and entered the recording room for the third time, instead of touching the keyboard, he moved a microphone to a set of drums, sat on a stool behind the drums, and picked up the drumsticks.

  Although Xiao Yao's running back and forth seemed a bit silly, but no one in the studio smiled at Xiao Yao stupidly, but all showed a shocked expression.

   "A Yun, he really wrote this song last night?" Xu Wenxiang looked at Yang Shiyun and asked.

"Should~ right?" Yang Shiyun said with some uncertainty, "He didn't come to Hong Kong Island to find me. I met him by accident yesterday. I did take him to Lee Tung Street yesterday, and I also told him I talked about the history of Lidong Street and some stories I know about Lidong Street, and when I went to see him this morning, he showed me the score of this song. Maybe, he wrote this song last night At the time, I already thought about the arrangement of this song?"

  As far as Xiao Yao’s performance is now, it is obvious that the arrangement of the entire song is already in his mind. Although I spent more than ten minutes in front of the console before, it is hard to believe that just sitting for more than ten minutes, the arrangement of a song can fully appear in the mind.

"Even if he did it last night, it's very scary." Xu Wenxiang shook his head, "I can write such a song when I walk around Lidong Street with you. A song from inspiration to lyrics and music, When it comes to making a plan for the arrangement, it will take a total of one night. This kind of musical talent and talent can be said to be overflowing."

"Looking at him like this, it takes less than an afternoon to make this soundtrack. If you play well enough, you might be able to record the official version tonight." Xu Wenxiang sighed again, "One song." It only took a day for the song to be inspired and finished. This included sleeping and meeting with us to discuss copyright! He is only in his early twenties? Don’t say we are the young musicians on Hong Kong Island now, it’s me. At that time, it couldn't be done like this!"

"Mr. Xu, you don’t need to be like this." Chen Manli heard Xu Wenxiang’s words and comforted her aloud, "He is not an ordinary person. He wins awards for singing and writing songs, awards for acting, and also for being a director of cartoons. The two films produced have won billions of box offices around the world. Young people like him, let alone Hong Kong Island, the mainland, or even the world, I am afraid it will be difficult to find the second one."

"It's just buying a song. If it's another musician, we need our two directors to go out in person? Don't you just want to see this amazing kid with your own eyes!" Chen Manli continued, "If he is like others, how can he get it? Those results? Now that he is different from others, shouldn't it be right?"

"Yes!" Xu Wenxiang nodded, "If he has no special place, it will make people suspect that his achievements are false. It's just a pity that such a young genius did not come from Hong Kong Island or from Hong Kong. In our company."

"The mainland market surpasses Hong Kong Island, this is the general trend. He is in our company, I am afraid we can't control it." Chen Manli smiled, "From his performance when talking to us about the copyright of the song, we can see his character. . His parents are both well-known celebrities in the Mainland. There is a studio at home, but he independently opened his own studio and started a film and television company with a few friends. His family’s studio has actors and singers, but in recent years He has collaborated with singers and actors, but there are almost no artists under his parents’ studio. Let alone we can’t control him, I’m afraid his parents have very limited influence on him.”

"A Yun," Chen Manli curiously turned her head to look at Yang Shiyun and said, "I'm curious, why did Xiao Yao suddenly write a song for you, and you have to appoint the original singer? It's really just because of you yesterday. Did you take him shopping late? Do you have any other connections?"

"Yeah~" Yang Shiyun thought for a while before repliing, "Maybe because we are friends? Last year, when we participated in the women's team audition show in Hangzhou, the mainland, he was the senior of our team. We stayed together for a long time. For a full week, I get along very well and should be regarded as friends."

  After thinking about it, she decided to conceal that Xiao Yao asked her uncle to be the art director. Xiao Yao said that writing songs for himself was in return for being a tour guide for him yesterday. At least on the surface, Xiao Yao did not show that he wrote songs for himself because of his uncle. She felt that even if Xiao Yao had that consideration in his mind, he definitely didn't want others to say that.

   "I remember you just said that he didn't come to Hong Kong Island to look for you. You met by accident." Chen Manli asked again, "Do you know what he came to Hong Kong Island for, just for fun?"

   "He is here for his new movie." Yang Shiyun did not hide this time, "He came to find an art director for his new movie."

   "That~" Chen Manli was about to say something, and suddenly she felt Xu Wenxiang touch her. Turning to see Xiao Yao coming out of the recording room opposite, Chen Manli said to Yang Shiyun, "Let’s not bother Xiao Yao doing the soundtrack. Come to the office with me. Let’s talk alone."

  (End of this chapter)