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Chapter 252 "Blue and White Porcelain"

"Xu Kong is really handsome!"

"Finally I can listen to Xu Kong's new song. I've been looking forward to it since the program list was released."

"For song and dance shows, the one that was discussed the most before they started was probably Xu Kong."

Looking at the discussion in the live broadcast room, Feiniao had no intention of starting to comment directly.

After all, Xu Kong was about to start his singing.

Along with the prelude, the name of the new song that had been on the hot search list when the Spring Festival Gala program was released appeared on the screen.

"Blue and White Porcelain"

"Singer: Xu Kong"

"Lyrics: Xu Kong"

"Composition: Xu Kong"

……

Although it was expected, I knew that Xu Kong’s new song would most likely be the same as the previous ones, all produced by Xu Kong himself.

But when Feiniao saw that the name of the lyricist and composer was Xu Kong, he felt reassured.

After all, at present, Feiniao only has such great trust in the songs written by Xu Kong himself.

“Is this a bamboo flute?”

As soon as the prelude of this song "Blue and White Porcelain" came out, it was quite recognizable.

This is one of the major characteristics of Xu Kong himself.

Many people know that Xu Kong is very good at composing lyrics and music, but in fact, Xu Kong also won the relevant awards of the three major domestic music awards last year for his arrangement.

Even in Feiniao's opinion, Xu Kong's ability to arrange music is only due to the relatively low attention he receives. Otherwise, he would probably be one of the best producers in the industry just by arranging music.

This time, it is similar to the previous "Rice Fragrance". It is obvious that although Xu Kong's new song arrangement does not contain various samples, the instruments used are obviously not traditional ones.

And the most important thing is that as soon as the prelude of "Blue and White Porcelain" came out, he felt a feeling that was different from many of his previous songs.

But what it was specifically, Fat Bird didn’t know how to describe it for a moment.

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"The blank outlines the blue and white strokes, which then become lighter and thicker"

"The peonies depicted on the bottle are just like your first makeup"

"The scent of sandalwood comes through the window and I understand my thoughts."

"The pen is half written on the rice paper."

As Xu Kong opened his mouth, the background of the stage happened to change into the appearance of blue and white porcelain.

The Spring Festival Gala is responsible for the stage design of the entire stage.

Overall it's not particularly complex, but it does fit the song.

"This song……"

Although Feiniao is still not a professional, and has been making up for the so-called music theory, he still only has a basic understanding of most of it.

But even so, Fat Bird quickly noticed the specialness of Xu Kong's song.

The entire song, from the arrangement to the melody and lyrics, gives people a sense of ancient charm.

But what’s more interesting is that ancient style songs have appeared before.

Just because it doesn't particularly conform to the public's aesthetic taste, it always makes people feel a little old-fashioned or for various reasons. Although there have been one or two songs that have become popular, overall, this type of song has nothing to do with the current popular songs in the Chinese music scene.

But although Xu Kong's song retains the charm of ancient style, the most crucial melody and arrangement give people a completely different experience.

The arrangement and melody have everything a current pop song should have, and some are even more outstanding.

It's so special that even for Fei Niao, who is a jack of all trades and can say a thing or two about every type of music, he didn't know how to comment on it for a moment.

……

"The sky is blue and waiting for the rain, and I am waiting for you"

"The smoke from the kitchen is rising thousands of miles across the river."

"The Han Dynasty writings on the bottom of the bottle imitate the elegance of the previous dynasties"

"Just think of me as foreshadowing my meeting with you."

When it comes to the chorus, there aren't too many high notes or showy singing styles.

But it was such a gentle stage that seemed to be telling a story, and it instantly gave Fei Niao goosebumps.

"Fuck, that sounds really good!"

"What type of song is Xu Kong's new song? How come I can't even find a similar song style?"

"There's something about this lyric. It looks like blue and white porcelain, but it's a metaphor for people. I feel like there's a lot of detail in it..."

At this time, the barrage began to give their own comments.

However, compared with Fat Bird, most ordinary viewers can't say anything.

For them, whether a song is good or not is a very subjective matter.

So even though they are all praising it, it's nothing more than words like it sounds good and the lyrics are well-written, which don't contain much information.

……

"The sky is blue and waiting for the rain, and I am waiting for you"

"The moonlight was salvaged and the ending fainted"

“Like the blue and white porcelain handed down from generation to generation, it is beautiful in its own right”

"Your eyes are smiling"

Xu Kong's singing is still going on.

The unique style of the song even attracted many people who originally listened to the Spring Festival Gala as background music to stop what they were doing and shift their attention to Xu Kong on TV.

"Xu Kong is a very handsome kid."

“It looks excellent…”

For Su Zhi, the reason she took the initiative to watch the Spring Festival Gala this year.

Apart from the fact that he finally had time to spend with his parents, it was simply because Xu Kong was going to be on the Spring Festival Gala this year.

But what she didn't expect was that her parents cared more about Xu Kong than she did.

At this time, Xu Kong's performance had not yet ended, but the two elders began to nod and praise him at the same time.

This made Su Zhi quite helpless, and she didn't know how to respond.

But apart from that, what attracted her most attention was Xu Kong's new song in this Spring Festival Gala.

Of course she knew that Xu Kong would sing the new song, and when she asked the real person, Xu Kong even took the initiative to say that he could sing it to her over the phone in advance.

But in order to keep some suspense and expectations, Su Zhi still refused.

Unexpectedly, when she really heard it, as a professional singer, she of course knew how special Xu Kong's song was.

Although it has the same charm as some of the music that claims to be ancient opera in recent years, the whole song is very different in melody, arrangement and other aspects.

It can be said that they are completely different things.

In other words, Xu Kong's song "Blue and White Porcelain" is a completely new type of pop music.

It completely broke the previous dilemma of ancient opera music being niche and unable to become completely popular.

It is no exaggeration to say that the new song written by Xu Kong this time has created a new style that has never been seen in the Chinese music scene.

The most important thing is that generally, when songwriters write songs of a new style, or without any reference examples in the industry, they should go through a process of exploration, progress, and eventual maturity.

But Xu Kong's poem "Blue and White Porcelain" can be said to be a little too complete.

It's not an experimental work at all.

Even though Su Zhi knew Xu Kong very well, she couldn't help but ask:
"How on earth did he do it?"

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"The sky is blue and waiting for the rain, and I am waiting for you" "The moonlight is salvaged, and the ending is blurred"

“Like the blue and white porcelain handed down from generation to generation, it is beautiful in its own right”

"Your eyes are smiling"

……

As Xu Kong finished singing the last line of the lyrics, the accompaniment slowly ended, and Xu Kong's performance came to a relatively perfect end.

Overall, Xu Kong was quite satisfied.

Although it was indeed a bit stressful, the intensive rehearsals and stage rehearsals during this period played a big role.

There were almost no mistakes and the performance was perfect.

It was even the best singing he had done in recent times.

In fact, the difficulty of singing this song is not too high. At least for Xu Kong at the moment, it cannot be considered a challenge.

It’s purely because of the special nature of the Spring Festival Gala stage that it brings some pressure that we don’t have on ordinary days.

In addition, it was a live broadcast, so Xu Kong felt greatly relieved after successfully completing his performance.

The director team mentioned before that Xu Kong could also choose to lip sync.

After all, it's the Spring Festival Gala, and the most important thing is to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

For example, for some singers who do not have good singing skills or are not professional singers, lip-syncing is a mandatory requirement of the Spring Festival Gala program team.

But Xu Kong himself still rejected such a proposal.

However, due to the performance during the previous rehearsal, the director team did not have any major objections and agreed immediately.

The main reason is that Xu Kong’s performance on stage is really stable. For a singer who has always sung live, suddenly asking him to lip sync is likely to cause problems due to lack of habit.

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"Thank you Mr. Xu Kong for bringing us this new song."

As Xu Kong's performance ended, the two hosts of the Spring Festival Gala walked onto the stage.

However, after the performance, Xu Kong did not leave the stage, but was kept on the stage by the other party.

Of course, all this was already planned.

Even during the rehearsal, the script was reviewed several times.

"Teacher Xu Kong, I want to know, from this song "Blue and White Porcelain", I can feel the unique ancient charm of our China, which I have never felt in other songs before."

"How on earth is this done?"

The host who was speaking is an official host with relatively seniority and experience.

Even in recent years, they have appeared in each other's Spring Festival Gala.

Therefore, his ability to control the situation is certainly not something that people would worry too much about.

Of course, the script was well-written in the first place, and Xu Kong was indeed the protagonist in the dialogue segment during the show, so both hosts played their supporting roles very competently.

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"In this regard, we mainly rely on adding some of our own instruments into the arrangement, such as the porcelain flute..."

Xu Kong began to answer very seriously.

The two hosts also listened attentively and nodded seriously.

But no one will know whether you understood it or not.

However, among those who were watching the Spring Festival Gala at this time, people like Feiniao and some of his colleagues in the current Chinese music scene were quite serious.

"That seems to be a song of this type, there hasn't been one before, right?"

— “Anyway, I’ve never heard a song similar to “Blue and White Porcelain” before.”

The two hosts sang in unison.

Then Xu Kong spoke up and said:

"I named it Chinese style..."

When Xu Kong said this, it seemed like he was talking about something completely ordinary.

But at this moment, the fat bird in front of the screen couldn't help but speak:
"Fuck!"

He could already feel that the style of Xu Kong's song was something he had never heard before.

But what I didn’t expect was that Xu Kong actually planned to do so.

Are you planning to create a new genre of pop music?

And it was on a stage like the Spring Festival Gala.

What is certain is that given the quality of the song "Blue and White Porcelain" and Xu Kong's words.

It is estimated that after this year's Spring Festival Gala, this so-called "Chinese style" will become the most discussed topic in the music industry this year!
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"Chinese style?"

"What a good name. Teacher Xu Kong, do you have any criteria for defining this type of song?"

Of course, it’s not that the host knows Xu Kong very well, so he didn’t specifically come up to ask such a question.

The relevant scripts had been reviewed before.

And most of them were written by Xu Kong himself.

"In fact, I am just starting to try it myself, so there is no so-called standard."

“But I do have some thoughts that I can share a little bit.”

"In the past, many excellent musicians have tried to incorporate Chinese cultural characteristics into current pop music. I think I got some inspiration from this."

"My personal opinion on Chinese style should be in line with the pattern of three ancient and three new."

"The three ancients are our traditional Chinese ancient poetry, ancient culture, and ancient melodies..."

"In terms of the three new aspects, we need to add some new singing methods, new arrangements, and new concepts to the tradition. After all, strictly speaking, Chinese style is still a type of modern pop music..."

……

In fact, the conversation between Xu Kong and the two hosts only lasted two or three minutes in total.

Under Xu Kong's personal suggestion at the time, the previous meaningless chat finally turned into a conversation centered on the song "Blue and White Porcelain" which he had just sung and the concept of "Chinese style".

After the director team read the relevant script, they agreed very directly.

The name "Hua Xia Feng", coupled with the theme and style of the song itself, is indeed perfect for a stage like the Spring Festival Gala.

Of course, for Xu Kong himself, it was an even more horrible treatment.

There is probably no other publicity channel with such a wide coverage and such a great influence as the Spring Festival Gala stage.

It can be said that although Xu Kong only gave a brief introduction, it is foreseeable that after the end of this year's Spring Festival Gala, the popularity of the Chinese style is expected to completely sweep the entire Chinese music scene, and even the entire domestic entertainment industry.

……

When Xu Kong mentioned the so-called "Chinese style", a type of song that had never existed before, some of his colleagues did not take it seriously.

At most, people would think that Xu Kong had indeed written a new song with a unique style this time, and then he casually gave this type of song a rather arrogant name.

Chinese style, Xu Kong really dares to come up with it casually.

But after Xu Kong put forward the concepts of "three ancients and three new" and the idea of ​​"palace mode" as the main melody, the expressions of some colleagues who were watching the Spring Festival Gala inevitably changed greatly.

Xu Kong didn't just come up with this name randomly on the spur of the moment; he was well prepared.

And it even seems like Xu Kong had written this song a long time ago, just waiting for a stage and opportunity like the Spring Festival Gala to release it.

Otherwise, with so many ideas and research, why haven't you released similar songs before, or even mentioned the ideas?

They waited until a clearly mature song like "Blue and White Porcelain" was polished out, and even waited until the Spring Festival Gala, the most influential evening party stage, before releasing it.

This is a bit too much to bear!
Although the Spring Festival Gala has not ended yet, Feiniao can almost think of tomorrow's related hot searches.

Xu Kong is really outrageous. Even during the Spring Festival Gala, with so many participants and programs, he can still become the focus.

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(End of this chapter)