Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1092 Ordinary friends

Although Chen Manli is not a professional musician, as the artist director of a large entertainment company, some of the artists directly managed by her have transformed from singers to film actors. She has also seen many musicians who write songs and produce composer soundtracks. .

It was enough to hear that Xiao Yao wrote a complete song in one night. It was enough to surprise her. Now I heard that Xiao Yao not only completed the arrangement and soundtrack of that song in just a few hours after she left, but also She started to work on the arrangement of another song, she couldn't believe it. Unless, that other song was written long ago!

  Generally speaking, a very good musician is already a good arranger and soundtrack for a song in the afternoon. Chen Manli admitted that Xiao Yao is a very powerful musician. After all, Xiao Yao has already won many music awards at a young age. The results are there. Xu Wenxiang also said before that Xiao Yao would not be able to do so in the afternoon. You can make the arrangement and soundtrack for that song. However, Xu Wenxiang clearly said that Xiao Yao wrote another song for Yang Shiyun, not Xiao Yao took out another song for Yang Shiyun.

   "Don't Xiao Yao take time to write songs?!" Chen Manli suspected that she had auditory hallucinations!

   "Mr. Xu, did you say that Xiao Yao wrote another song to Ah Yun?" Chen Manli asked Xu Wenxiang in confirmation, "I just wrote it here?"

   "No, I actually wrote it before, but I just took it out just now." Xiao Yao smiled and waved his hand while looking at Chen Manli with a **** expression.

Chen Manli just breathed a sigh of relief, but saw Xu Wenxiang slap Xiao Yao on the back, and said to her: "Don't listen to him talking big! Although I also want to think that this is a song he wrote before, in fact, , 80% of this song really took ten minutes to write it out just now!"

   "80%? Are you not sure?" Chen Manli asked with a face full of doubt, "What the **** is going on?"

"It's like this!" Xu Wenxiang said, "When he made the arrangement and soundtrack for "Wedding Invitation Street", the whole process was very smooth. It seems that there is no need to think about it. The repeated recording of the instrument track is only used as the material for post-processing. The soundtrack recorded by this instrument is the same. In this way, it is obvious that a complete arrangement plan is already in place. But I really can’t believe that I don’t touch anything. Just sit for ten minutes and you can come out a song. His complete arrangement plan. So after he finished the soundtrack for "Wedding Invitation Street", I asked him if he had already thought about the arrangement plan."

   "Then what?" Chen Manli asked next.

"He said he thought it out by sitting there for ten minutes. If I don't believe it, it's okay for him to finish the arrangement last night." Xu Wenxiang said, "This kid looks like he believes it or not. , The attitude is very arrogant."

   "Arrogant? But how do I feel that your relationship seems to be very good." Chen Manli said strangely.

  She clearly saw Xu Wenxiang slap Xiao Yao on the back just now, Xiao Yao looked grinning, not annoyed at all, it was not like Xu Wenxiang said that Xiao Yao's attitude was arrogant.

"Even if he did the arrangement last night, the efficiency is a bit scary." Xu Wenxiang did not answer Chen Manli, but continued on his own, "So I said that he could not compose lyrics and music overnight. Then I’ll do a good job of the arrangement. Maybe I’ve been to Hong Kong Island before, and I’ve been to Lee Tung Street. I know the history and stories of Wedding Street. I wrote this song a long time ago and I’m just waiting to meet Ah Yun. Then let Ah Yun bring him here to show off, and deliberately stimulated him!"

   "Mr. Xu, when you speak like this, it seems that your senior is not polite!" Chen Manli smiled bitterly, "What then?"

"Then this kid gave me a blank look," Xu Wenxiang smiled, "Say I can't do it, it doesn't mean he can't do it either! Don't talk about it all night, if he wants to, he can compose a song with lyrics and music in half an hour. All the plans for the music score were worked out. He said so, of course I would not let him go, so I asked him to write a song for me on the spot."

   "So he wrote it?" Chen Manli said, "Is it really in front of you, and it was written in half an hour?"

   "Hmm!" Xu Wenxiang nodded.

   "This is really a genius!" Chen Manli shook her head and sighed.

   "There's more." Xu Wenxiang said, "Do you think he just wrote a song casually?"

   "More?" Chen Manli asked strangely.

"This kid is a famous music creator, and he is also famous for his good memory. I heard that there is also a habit of singing original and innovative songs on various occasions." Xu Wenxiang said, "He took out one in half an hour. The lyrics and arrangement of the song, who knows whether he wrote it now or the stock that he wrote before has not been published? So I set the title for him."

   "Regulate the title?" Chen Manli was a little dumbfounded, and said with a wry smile, "It's already difficult to create a song in half an hour on the spot. You also specify the title. Isn't this deliberately tricking him?"

"Is this kid not a genius? The attitude is so arrogant, what's he afraid of?" Xu Wenxiang smiled indifferently, "I didn't expect this kid to be sharper than I thought. He knew I was deliberately stimulating him. He is not afraid that I will prank him. He not only agreed to let me set the title, but he also increased the difficulty himself, saying that since he is on Hong Kong Island, he would write another Cantonese song according to the title I set."

  "Is it another Cantonese song?" Chen Manli has no idea what to say. "Is this a response to our suspicion that he wrote "Wedding Street"?"

   "Then what problem did you give him?" Chen Manli asked curiously.

   "I didn't embarrass him too much." Xu Wenxiang smiled, "I took out a piece of paper, and drew a circle on the paper, let him write a song!"

"He sat in a chair thinking for ten minutes, and then he wrote a song called "Yuan". Looking at the lyrics, it is indeed in Cantonese." Xu Wenxiang said, "I only read the lyrics and music twice, and he just I started to dictate to me how to arrange the music and plan to use those instruments as the soundtrack. Calculating the time, it really didn't take half an hour."

  "Proposition creation, a song in half an hour, with lyrics and music arrangement?" Chen Manli was completely speechless.

  It’s not that no one can make a song in half an hour, but the quality of the song must be recognized by the record company and the level of preparation for recording and distribution is very rare. The song "Wedding Invitation Street" was shown to Xu Wenxiang in advance. Xu Wenxiang decided to buy the copyright and record and release it. That's why they were surprised that Xiao Yao wrote that song overnight. Now Xu Wenxiang and Xiao Yao are already working on the arrangement of the second song. Chen Manli doesn't need to ask to know that the quality of the song created in half an hour is absolutely excellent, not much worse than the song of "Wedding Invitation Street".

   "There's more!" Xu Wenxiang smiled again.

   "More?" Chen Manli felt like she was going crazy.

  "It is indeed a song for half an hour, but two versions!" Xu Wenxiang said.

  "Two versions?" Chen Manli said.

"After the song "Circle" was written, I certainly didn't want to let it go, so I just decided to buy the copyright from him." Xu Wenxiang said, "He promised to agree, but he made a condition with me and said that the song would be sold. If you give it to our company, you must also let Ah Yun sing."

   "Speaking of this, I have some doubts whether this kid has a special relationship with Ah Yun." Xu Wenxiang looked at Xiao Yao and said, "But he told me that he and Ah Yun are ordinary friends."

  Chen Manli also glanced at Xiao Yao. If it hadn't been for Yang Shiyun to tell her about the relationship experience between Xiao Yao and his girlfriend, and she also found those things on the Internet, she would also doubt that there was something between Xiao Yao and Yang Shiyun.

  "In your company, I am really familiar with Yang Shiyun!" Xiao Yao said with a hand.

"Really?" Xu Wenxiang smiled, "You forgot Lixun so soon? When I see him next time, I will tell him that among the singers in our company, Xiao Yao is only familiar with Ah Yun! "

   "Hiss~" Xiao Yao patted his forehead in annoyance.

  When I participated in the "Singer" of Shonan Satellite TV, the Hong Kong Island singer Zhao Lixun in that season was a singer under the YH banner.

"No, mainly because this song is suitable for girls to sing. Otherwise, I will sing it by myself, why should I sell it to you? I don't know Cantonese!" Xiao Yao quickly remedied, "Furthermore, Li Xun My eldest brother has long been a big figure in the music industry, and he will be famous. Shi Yun has been in your company for a few years, and he is still a newcomer. He is not bad in singing, but there is no chance. He is always embarrassed to fight with Shi Yun as a newcomer?

   "Have you heard?" Xu Wenxiang pointed at Xiao Yao with a smile, and said to Chen Manli, "He means that our company does not spend resources on poems and has a bad vision! You are the artist director, this is what I said to you!"

   "Mr. Xu, you are deliberately targeting me!" Xiao Yao smiled helplessly.

"The company's resources are limited. I don't have the final say on who it is used!" Chen Manli smiled, "Mr Xu should promise you that this song should be sung to Ah Yun? With you two songs Song, I think the future of Shiyun will definitely be much easier."

   "Mr. Xu, you haven't talked about the two versions yet." Chen Manli brought the topic back again and said to Xu Wenxiang.

"Oh, yes!" Xu Wenxiang smiled and nodded, and then said, "He said he wanted to give that song to Ah Yun, and I knew he wanted to praise Ah Yun. But we all know that the market on Hong Kong Island is very good now. Limited. Both of his songs are in Cantonese, and the prospects in the mainland market are limited, so I told him, if you really want to praise Ah Yun, you should write her a Mandarin song. He said Ah Yun is very foreign It’s more appropriate to sing English songs, and English songs are also good in the mainland market. He didn’t write another song for Ah Yun, so he used the song "Circle" to fill in a new version of English lyrics.

"He said before that he wrote a Mandarin version of "Wedding Invitation Street" and tore it up when he was dissatisfied. We asked him to show it to us in silence, but he didn't give it to us!" Xu Wenxiang continued, "Now he writes two different versions of a piece of music. I think he is telling me that he can really fill in different words according to the tune. You said that he is a mainland musician who has written both Cantonese and English lyrics. Can he not write the Mandarin lyrics? This is also deliberately made for me!"

   "Mr. Xu, you have so many things in your brain?" Xiao Yao smiled bitterly.

"For such a guy, what else can I say!" Xu Wenxiang said, "After listening to the English lyrics he wrote, I felt that I just met a monster and kept staring at him. He was seen by me. I have to get a hairy, and asked me what to look at. I said I wanted to open his head to see how his brain grows, and also said I wanted to send him to a scientific research institution for biopsy research!"

"As a result, this kid heard what I said, so he immediately changed his words, saying that "The Circle" was a work he had written before." Xu Wenxiang smiled and pointed to Xiao Yao again, "He said he has a good memory. , I remembered the lyrics and arrangement of this song. Seeing that the title I made was exactly a circle, he wrote the song silently. It was not written on-site at all."

   "So he also told me just now that this song was written by him before, and he only took it out now!" Chen Manli understood.

"Yeah!" Xu Wenxiang nodded, then smiled and shook his head. "I drew a circle at random. He happened to write a song called "Circle" before. It is in Cantonese, or in Cantonese and English. Lyrics! Such a coincidence, do you believe it?"

   "You don't really think that we will open your brain and send you to do scientific research?" Chen Manli also smiled.

   "I have been called an evildoer since I was a child," Xiao Yao scratched his head, pretending to be serious, "I'm really afraid!"

  "Haha~" After seeing Xiao Yao's performance, Xu Wenxiang and Chen Manli both laughed again.

  After listening to Xu Wenxiang’s narration, Chen Manli seemed to understand why the relationship between Xu Wenxiang and Xiao Yao looked so good in just a few hours. How can someone like Xu Wenxiang dislike a talented and interesting young man?

"Okay, I have figured it out about you writing another song. It's late now, and I still have dinner." After laughing, Chen Manli returned to the original story and said to Xiao Yao, "It's better to go to dinner first, arrange the music and arrange the music, or wait until tomorrow or after dinner, and then continue!"

   "Sister Mandy, where's Shi Yun?" Xiao Yao asked.

"I'm afraid you will be looking for Shi Yun recordings in the afternoon or evening, and specifically told her not to run around. She should still practice your "Wedding Invitation Street" in the company's practice room now." Chen Manli said, "I'll let someone call her She will come over and we will go together for dinner. Of course there is also Mr. Xu. I think you are very happy to stay together. Let's be together at night! I have already booked a seat at Yuehai Building!"

   "Sorry, I have already arranged for the evening!" Xiao Yao said to Chen Manli, "Thank you for your kindness."

   "Already have an arrangement? Is it for the movie?" Chen Manli asked tentatively.

   "No!" Xiao Yao was taken aback for a while, and shook his head at Chen Manli, "I plan to let Shi Yun take me to Temple Street to eat at night!"

  "Are you going to eat at Temple Street?" Chen Manli asked unexpectedly.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao said, "Compared to big restaurants, I prefer to go to some places in the market. Since I am on Hong Kong Island, I can't help but go to Temple Street. Shi Yun took me to Temple Street last night, but When we met a crew filming on Temple Street, we only went halfway around. I don’t think there will be a crew filming night scenes there tonight. I plan to let Shi Yun take me to finish the other half of Temple Street. Dinner is going to be there. Eat on Temple Street."

"Alright!" Xu Wenxiang interrupted with a smile, "Art comes from life. Going to those places to see and increase your knowledge and experience is also good for your artistic creation. After visiting Lidong Street yesterday, I can write a song. "Wedding Invitation Street", maybe I can write another song "Temple Street" after visiting Temple Street tonight!"

"Mr. Xu, where is it so easy? I said it was written before!" Xiao Yao turned his head and smiled helplessly at Xu Wenxiang, "By the way, the arrangement is here today. I won't be back tonight. , Let's continue tomorrow!"

   "Okay," Xu Wenxiang said with a smile, "Tomorrow is tomorrow, you are not in a hurry, of course I am not in a hurry. I have been bored in the studio for a day, have fun in the evening!"

  "The company's practice room is downstairs. I heard that Ah Yun took you to visit the company. You should know that?" Chen Manli said, "Since you want to go out with Shi Yun, then go find her by yourself!"

   "Okay, thank you!" Xiao Yao nodded, got up and left the recording studio.

   "Mandy, are this kid and Ah Yun really just ordinary friends?" After Xiao Yao left, Xu Wenxiang asked Chen Manli.

  (End of this chapter)