Chapter 413 Du Xinghe's B-Box
Last week, "Flower Heart" ranked 47th on the new song list of "The Chinese Song Chart", which is still far behind. However, it was able to become the top 50 new songs on the first week, which is already a good result for a pure newcomer. After all, Yi Yan has not started to make a large number of variety shows to let the audience know him. The reason why many listeners voted for "Flower Heart" was actually because of the name Du Xinghe.
Many senior fans have already begun to pay attention to the music of Yunshi, or rather, they have begun to pay attention to Du Xinghe's music. Zhai Xiaofeng's popular album "The Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly Dream", all the creators' names are Du Xinghe alone, which made many listeners who don't know Yunshi and don't know Du Xinghe remember the name Du Xinghe deeply.
Some people may think that except for two or three main songs, the other songs of "The Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly Dream" are not so attractive to them, but they still have great interest in Du Xinghe, the behind-the-scenes master, because they have never seen any album's lyrics, music and arrangements completed by one person. Such a miracle has made almost every fan who bought the "The Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly Dream" remember the name Du Xinghe. In many people's hearts, Du Xinghe's name is even more profound than the original singer Zhai Xiaofeng.
There are also many local fans of Fuwan and friends who are also novel fans. They began to discover that Du Xinghe, the little boss of Yunshi, has the same name as Du Xinghe, the author of "The Legend of Qin" serialized by "The Legend of Qin". The audience who are not curious all call the hotline of "The Legend of Qin" or write a letter to "The Legend of Qin" to ask if Du Xinghe, who wrote "The Legend of Qin", is Du Xinghe, the little boss of Yunshi.
Usually, the editor of the Star Newspaper does not shy away from telling readers that Du Xinghe is the one Du Xinghe, and he should make a point of praise. Du Xinghe is a cross-border genius writer who is here to build momentum for Du Xinghe's new book release in June.
However, the reporter of the Star News never replied to the massive letters, nor did he forward them to Du Xinghe, and continued to let the secret be covered and leaked on a large scale.
There are also many careful fans who call to write letters to Yunshi to ask about Du Xinghe’s relationship with "The Legend of Qin". Yunshi’s public relations deal with this, just like "Star", they admit it by phone, but they don’t reply to the letters. Because there are too many, there are hundreds of letters every day. They don’t have that much energy to reply to. This plane of mobile phones and the Internet are not very popular yet. The most common way for fans to communicate with their idols is actually to write letters.
Since Xu Nuo's "Little Bird" became a hit, in the past few months, Yunshi has received hundreds of letters from fans almost every day. After Fang Yajun announced his signing of Yunshi, fans from all over the country rushed into Yunshi's office like the sea. The average daily letter received by Yunshi can reach more than 500.
For this reason, Yunshi also took special care of three new members from the Public Relations Department. They did not do anything else every day, just to identify letters from fans and gifts sent by fans, and selected representative ones to pass them on to Xu Nuo, Fang Yajun and others. Of course, many of them were also for Du Xinghe.
But Du Xinghe basically doesn't read letters to his fans because he doesn't have that much energy. He has to process a large number of textual documents every day, such as copy novels, or writing songs, etc. If he reads more letters, he will be really tired. So he asks his subordinates to sort out the letters written by his fans in categories and save them first, and read them when he is in the mood. Or he directly asks his subordinates to help him read them all, and some fans have put forward constructive opinions or the content is more special. He will only pass them on to him, but he will not read the general letters.
Fang Yajun is even more so. She doesn't even accept gifts from fans to avoid any terrorist attacks in her fantasy. Her gifts are all in an idol gift warehouse specially opened by Yunshi. Many of Xu Nuo's gifts are also in the company's gift warehouse. In case there is a program to interview in the future, when it comes to fans, they can take them out and display them at any time.
Fang Yajun's letter, like Du Xinghe, also asked Yunshi's public relations to help read and process it. In this article, she specifically instructed Du Xinghe to ask Yunshi's public relations to help pay attention to whether there is a letter from the "stranger" who has been following her. If so, she must forward it to her.
That stranger has a great significance to Fang Yajun. This time, the last song of the second and second discs of her new album "He Loved Me for a Long Time" was given to this stranger.
Unlike Fang Yajun and Du Xinghe did not read the letters from fans at all, Xu Nuo asked Yunshi's public relations to transfer most of the fans' letters to her. Except for those letters scolding her or those perverted letters that were directly blocked by the public relations, most of the fans' enthusiastic letters will be transferred to Xu Nuo. When Xu Nuo was in the mood, he would actually reply to some fans' letters, and then asked Yunshi's public relations to send the letters to fans.
There are many record companies' public relations to help singers reply to maintain the relationship between idol singers and fans. This kind of interaction is very important. However, most singers will not reply to the fans in person unless they act in front of the camera when doing a show. Most singers do not reply to the fans in private.
Xu Nuo is an exception. She will read letters from fans and reply to some interesting friends when she is fine, especially those little girls who ask her for advice. She will reply to others more seriously, like a close sister.
Whenever I see Xu Nuo replying to my fans, Du Xinghe will feel very bored, and even think of Li Dongbao, the intimate sister of the editorial department of "Guide to the World" in the classic TV series "The Story of the Editorial Department" I watched in the early 1990s.
Du Xinghe really never replied to his fans, especially those letters asking him if he was the author of "The Legend of Qin", Yunshi will never reply.
But even so, after the phone told many fans that Du Xinghe, who was a fan of novels, was a Du Xinghe, Du Xinghe was still highly recognized by cross-border geniuses among a small group of people.
Especially some senior fans are now looking forward to Du Xinghe's works, so after learning that Yi Yan's "Flower Heart" was produced by Du Xinghe, many fans listened to it carefully. The extremely high quality and popularity of the song itself made many fans remember the name of the song as soon as they heard it, and even the catchy melody of the song.
Du Xinghe's reputation is in the top 50 new songs of "Flower Heart" in the first week of the ranking.
However, starting from the second week, fans like "Flower Heart" and pay attention to "Flower Heart". Most of the reason for Ihiko's promotion.
The reason why the promotion and distribution route of China Entertainment is strong is that they can rely on a strong network of relationships to promote any newcomer to popular variety shows to play songs.
The most common way for fans of this era to understand newcomers and new songs is various variety shows, especially popular singing programs.
In this era, singing programs had a very high ratings. Because there was no Internet, no mobile phone, and no entertainment methods. Most people rely on watching singing programs on TV to cultivate their sentiments and chase stars.
For example, "Music Watch" broadcast by Fuwan Comprehensive Channel at 7:30 pm every Friday is a super popular singing variety show with a national viewership of 4.
As for Du Xinghe's observation, this pure singing and performance program is much more popular than the singing programs of "The Voice of China" and "I Am a Singer" in the previous plane!
However, the production and process of these programs, including the content, are quite boring in Du Xinghe's opinion. After all, people in this era are not very open-minded, and variety shows are not particularly open-minded. As long as the host is a little humorous, the program will basically become very popular and does not require any exquisite designs.
For example, "Music Watching" is a program where artists and singers performed various talents and singing under the control of the popular big brother host Liu Yunfei.
The content of the program is very consistent.
As soon as each episode begins, it is like a revolving lantern. The artists participating in the current program sing the pre-prepared songs one by one. After all, these artists line up and stood beside their elder brother Liu Yunfei, and started chatting with Liu Yunfei one by one. After that, each person also had to perform a special talent, which brought fun to the audience in the process and made the audience more impressed.
This is the content of the most popular variety show in China at this plane.
Du Xinghe was baptized by various variety shows in the previous plane. He knew all the variety shows in the circle, including history, and he really felt bored when he turned around and watched a very retro music program like "Music Walk". Basically, he watched the songs sung by the singer in the beginning every episode, and then he stopped watching it on the turntable.
The singers in front sing like a lantern. They are all singing live, and the musicians give them music. This cannot be lip-synced, which tests the singer's singing skills. Those singers with poor basic skills will not only go off the tune, but sometimes they cannot keep up with the rhythm, because the musicians will not break the music when these singers sing one after another. After the former singer sang, the musicians will seamlessly connect the accompaniment and then make the music for the next singer. The next singer will quickly go on stage to take the singing. If they can't step on the right, they will miss the rhythm. Then they will sing more and more scattered, and the unevenness of their musical sense will be revealed.
Du Xinghe loves to watch singers sing and then find out their faults. Many senior producers, like Du Xinghe, also love to watch the first ten minutes of this show to observe the potential of those singers and those singers make a living.
After the previous round, senior musicians like Du Xinghe basically stopped watching because the talent performance of the singers behind him was really boring from a musical perspective.
Although some singers perform special talents related to music such as singing dramas or bel canto, most singers practice more funny and have nothing to do with music. For example, the singers participating in the previous episode of "Music Walk" made Du Xinghe speechless.
Because Yi Yan decided to participate in this program, Du Xinghe specially watched the show from beginning to end in the last episode. As a result, Du Xinghe's talent performance was about to fall asleep after watching the singer. Among them, Zheng Long, the little king of BV, came to promote this program because he was about to release a film. He performed well at the opening round, but when it came to the talent performance later, the little king of dance changed his dance expertise and even performed for everyone! One top can match more than a dozen! That level is no less than the acrobatic troupe! He was confused when he watched it for Du Xinghe. He really didn't know how the BV team arranged for Zheng Long to hold the bowl, which was so far from his image of the Little Dance King of Pili.
There was also an arrow target in that episode, which was considered a famous female singer. She performed a streamer, but the elder sister danced and turned herself into a mummy while dancing. The streamer completely entangled her, making her feel extremely embarrassed.
I don’t know if she did it on purpose. In short, after she performed, she laughed all over the place. Du Xinghe looked at it in front of the TV and thought it was so fake that she couldn’t laugh at all.
Later, a pair of performers made Du Xinghe laugh, which was a laughing and crying. The pair of performers Du Xinghe met at Guoyu. It was a newly promoted twin double women's group group called Sweet Yan Miyu. One girl was called "Sweet Yan" and the other girl was called "Sweet Yan".
The signed singers and groups selected by Guoyu are all handsome men and beautiful women. The sweet girls also have excellent appearance. They are sweet like two peaches, and their faces are tender and they feel like they are biting.
Their singing voices are a little baby sound and are also very distinctive, but their basic singing skills are relatively poor, and they take the purely cute appearance route.
Du Xinghe never expected the talent performance of the two girls. They actually performed crosstalk! When he saw the two girls appearing in crosstalk robes, Du Xinghe laughed and laughed.
At that time, Du Xinghe thought that when I was waiting for Yi Yan to appear on the show, he would never perform such speechless talent. This talent can attract attention, but what he received was Fu Zhixiao's eyeball. After watching it, everyone must have smiled and couldn't remember anything.
Yi Yan is a new person who can't be new. The first time he is on such a popular variety show, he must perform his amazing talents so that people can remember him.
Du Xinghe asked Yi Yan if there was anything that could make people remember his specialties all at once. Yi Yan thought about it for a long time and told Du Xinghe that his best talent might be the guitar SOLO performance.
Du Xinghe immediately rejected Yi Yan. If the guitar SOLO is really strong, it will indeed impress professionals, but for ordinary fans and audiences, there is actually not much difference between a master playing guitar and an ordinary singer playing guitar. And too many people can play guitar, which is not considered a special talent in the eyes of ordinary fans.
Du Xinghe later personally taught Yi Yan a special talent related to music: B-BOX!
In this plane, there are already electronic drums, but no one has used ventriloquism to play the rhythm. This skill is quite avant-garde and fresh in this plane, and almost no Chinese people have ever seen it.
The so-called B-BOX is actually "Beatbox". In the previous plane, this ventricular technique originated in the United States. It is a special music culture that emerged in the 1980s and developed in the early 21st century. It can be widely understood as "rhythmic ventricular technique", which is different from traditional Chinese vocal ventricular technique.
It mainly involves the use of the sounds of lips, teeth, tongue, mouth and throat to imitate drum sounds, rhythms and music. It also includes: singing, using vocal cords to imitate discs, imitate trumpets, strings and other instruments.
The development of mature Beatbox is closely related to hip-hop culture and is one of the important factors of hip-hop.
In this plane, hip-hop culture has not yet been popular in China, so Beatbox naturally cannot become popular.
Du Xinghe demonstrated a short section of Beatbox to Yi Yan and others in the company's piano room, but he looked at Yi Yan, Xu Nuo, Duan Xiaoxuan, including the new He Miao, Lie Yinghong and others. They all doubted whether Du Xinghe had a rhythmic device hidden in his mouth. They could not imagine that a person's throat could emit such a rhythmic melody!
Due to the brute force supporting the throat and mouth, the Beatbox sound made by Du Xinghe is extremely realistic and has a very loud sound, which is really like a DJ in a bar playing dials on the spot. The magical musical charm is extremely convincing, making everyone attracted as soon as they hear it.
Everyone agreed that Yi Yan performed Du Xinghe's "rhythm ventriloquism" in "Music Turn" and made a lot of amazing success than playing guitar. Yi Yan was also conquered by Du Xinghe's rhythm ventriloquism, and then he kept learning Beatbox from Du Xinghe.
Beatbox looks very simple, and if you really practice it well, you really have to work hard. Fortunately, this ventral skill does not need to be practiced too well. As long as you choose the right song, it will be very impressive after performing it.
So Du Xinghe arranged a Beatbox for Yiyan's "Flower Heart" version, asking Yiyan to set the rhythm for herself, and at the same time, he had to sing "Flower Heart" in intervals, which was quite difficult to challenge.
Du Xinghe gave Yi Yan a Beatbox class for three consecutive days, carefully compared Yi Yan's mouth, and taught Yi Yan to speak step by step.
"The most important change of this song is to add Bass drums. Bass drums are the core and soul of this Beatbox. You must learn to make the sound of Bass drums. Look at me, like me..." Du Xinghe concealed Yi Yan in the piano room: "Press your lips together, use your tongue and chin to create pressure in the mouth, and then push the tongue from behind to forward, and open the mouth jaw at the same time. Move the lips to both sides, so that the air can escape under pressure for only one moment - bang, this is the pronunciation of the bass drum: bang... bang... bang..."
PS: Another new month has begun. Please vote for a few guaranteed monthly tickets! Xiaoge will continue to work hard!
Chapter completed!