Chapter 658 Chapter 170: Picking Things Up!

The three Americans expressed surprise, but Liao Liao was very calm, not feeling anything wrong at all.

If the so-called artistic talent and musical talent are defined by singing, then of course there is something wrong with Li Qian’s words. Not to mention, the three queens of Minghu Culture are all masters of singing, Zhao Xinfu, Liu Mingliang, those are also top-notch voices. To put it mildly, in terms of the width, thickness, and singing skills of the voice alone, Geri Leng, a Mongolian guy, can kill Li Qian in seconds, and Zhou Ye's high-pitched voice can smash Li Qian into the ground. go!

But it is obvious that Li Qian's talent in music creation kills all of them in seconds!

As early as in college, Liao Liao tried to create a lot of works by himself. Later, he signed a contract with a record company and released a single to test the waters. He could barely be regarded as a professional singer, and he worked hard to create. , she was not reconciled to being just a "singer", and even went out to collect songs, trying to write a few songs of sufficient standard for herself.

It's a pity that after all these years, she has to admit that in terms of creative talent, she is indeed far inferior to Li Qian.

Not to mention Li Qian, as far as the domestic music scene is concerned, I'm afraid I won't even be able to make it to the top. It's not at the same level as my talent in voice and singing!

As for after coming to the United States, she made it clear that she would take an international route in the future. On the one hand, she expanded her scope of listening to music, and on the other hand, she worked hard to understand Western music culture. In the past six months, she also tried to write a lot of English works. , but the more she understands, the more she writes by herself, the more she understands the huge difference between Eastern and Western music.

As we all know, in the past few hundred years, first Europe, then the United States, has successively become the center of the entire world, especially in recent decades, the United States, because of its developed economy and open mind, is indisputably like the Tang Dynasty in China thousands of years ago. Leading the global culture, not just movies, novels, but also music.

Not to mention the contention of music genres in Europe and the United States, people of all skin colors and music of different races collide here, constantly producing fresh music elements, attracting music-loving ears all over the world, just talking about music There is a huge difference in the creative process between the East and the West!

It has been consistent in China for thousands of years, and even today, it still habitually regards music creation and lyrics creation as a matter for cultural people, and singers are pure singers who are responsible for singing. Therefore, many Chinese Many singers, like Liao Liao, either don't know how to write songs at all, or they rarely sing their own songs when they write songs. There are even many singers who don't even know the staff at all!

It wasn't until recent years that a group of so-called "singing and composing" singers began to appear in China, and a group of people began to become popular one after another, gradually establishing their own status in the music scene.

In Europe and the United States, there has been a legacy of bards for a long time, writing songs, arranging music, playing the piano, and singing! So here, although singing songs composed by others is still very common, so-called "singer-songwriter" singers have been everywhere for decades.

Therefore, most of the Chinese singers are selected. What everyone compares is purely the voice, the control of the voice, and the singing skills. In Europe and the United States, the voice is only part of it. In addition, there will be many People, their voices are not very beautiful, but they write their own songs and sing their own songs. Because of their outstanding creative talents, they can still become superstars despite their mediocre voices!

And this kind of situation is more difficult in China, especially in China in the early years!

It's hard to say which of the two models is better, let alone jump to conclusions, but at least, the current Western model is popular all over the world!

And at least in recent decades, although China has been increasing contact and exchanges with the outside world, cultural circles such as music and film circles have also been deeply affected, constantly absorbing nutrients from mainstream Western cultural circles, Improve yourself, but to be honest, because of various problems, although this gap has been narrowed a little bit, but at present, the gap is still very large.

Speaking of singers, such as China's He Runqing, Liao Liao, Zhou Mo, Zhen Zhen, Zhao Xinfu, Liu Mingliang, etc., if they only talk about their voices, to be honest, they have no problem traveling all over the world. The ones who stand out among a billion people all have top-notch good voices, and all of them are particularly good at singing. Compared with many top singers in Western society, Europe and the United States, they are not inferior!

But when it comes to music creation, the Western music circle is far ahead of China in terms of the freedom of creative ideas, the breadth of music categories, and the complexity and variety of genres.

On this point, just look at Li Qian's "First Experience of Love" and Wang Jingxue's "Thirty-Six Strategies of Love". Just because a few songs use extremely new styles, they have been attacked and criticized by domestic critics. , the atmosphere and state of the domestic music circle can be imagined.

Therefore, in the past ten years, there have been Chinese singers trying to go abroad and go to the world, but except for Liao Liao, no one has succeeded so far!

Chinese singers are the top in the world, at least there is no shortage of world-class voices, but domestic music creation does not match the voice level of domestic singers.

To put it bluntly, it is about ten or eight years behind the entire international level.

This kind of thing involves the vision, habits, atmosphere, and other aspects of the entire music circle, but it also has a certain relationship with the appreciation tastes of domestic music audiences and listeners-creators can’t write it, and people who appreciate it can temporarily Accepting the current standard, there is not too strong and urgent a need to hear international music!

And it was against this background that Li Qian suddenly appeared!

Not only can he be very Chinese, very ethnic, very classical, and very folk songs, but he can also be very international and global!

An Oscar trophy for best soundtrack, a "My-heart-will-go-on", all illustrate this point!

Otherwise, how could a person who is so proud of Liao Liao and so powerful in his own abilities be willing to follow him, and even bear the status of being a concubine by default before entering the door, even if there is a woman on the other arm Zhou Mo, who didn't like to be seen very much, she also tolerated it, even if she became an international queen, even if she is actually qualified and capable of getting rid of Li Qian, she is enough to stand on her own in the international music scene, but so far she has no complaints or regrets?

In fact, it can be said that from the coolness and shock of tearing up a few songs on the rooftop at that time, to the shock when I heard "Farewell" later, this journey, whether it is musical talent or personality charm, Liao Liao has already become Li Qian's No. 1 fan in Tianzi!

Li Qian said that he was a little bit stronger than Liao Liao, in Liao Liao's view, of course it was extremely correct, and she even felt that what Li Qian said was justified!

Saying "a little bit stronger" is already a relatively modest statement!

Yet, of course, the American people do not know.

In particular, after knowing each other for a few months, interacting a lot, and even starting to work closely together, Millie Faile, Serena Twain and Jon Brown, who already knew Liao Liao's musical talent very well, Ridges, it is inevitable to be skeptical about this!

Liao is so talented and powerful, how can Liao say that he is better than her?

Really?

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It was Millie Mayfair again, who couldn't help but said, "Qian, Liao is making a new album. It is said that you must have written a new song for her, right? She also invited me to write a new song for her. Shall we compare Compare?"

American girls are straightforward and proud.

However, Li Qian, who was used to staying in the country, did not expect the other party to be so stubborn.

And... since ancient times, there is no first in literature, and there is no second in martial arts. How can music compare?

Do you score?

Li Qian shrugged, before Liao Liao said with a smile: "Millie, I advise you not to compare with him, you will be hit hard!"

Li Qian looked sideways at her.

This girl is making trouble!

After Liao Liao finished speaking, he turned his head to look over and gave him a wink, which seemed to mean: Yes, sir, I'm just picking things up!

This is a bit embarrassing.

First of all, in Li Qian's opinion, there must be a difference in music, otherwise there will be decades of waves washing the sand, so many songs have appeared, released, and sold, but in the end there are only those who are popular. It is a classic, but the quality of music needs time, and the ears and hearts of the audience and fans to judge it!

Don't look at what he does in the domestic talent show, promoting newcomers, etc., but in his opinion, this kind of face-to-face instant so-called PK, you sing one song, I sing another song, and the audience and judges score, it is very unobjective , it is also very unfair, it will be affected by many non-musical factors.

But... Liao Liao is deliberately picking things up!

Whether it's out of absolute trust in myself, or because I want to show off to the three American friends on the opposite side, whether it's not a fight or a deal, in short, if you are forced to talk to this point, you can't admit cowardice Bar?

Li Qian turned his head to look at Xie Mingyuan.

Xie Mingyuan shrugged his shoulders, smiled all over his face, and put on a posture of watching the excitement.

Li Qian had no choice but to say: "I am very happy that you wrote a song for Liao Liao, and I think that there is no difference between who is better than the other when creating music. No one can judge who is better than the song we two wrote. Who is better..."

Before he could finish speaking, the upright girl on the opposite side waved her hand, "No, no, no!"

Pointing to her left chest, she said tremblingly, earnestly: "We are all musicians, our hearts, mine, Serena, Jon, our hearts, can all make judgments!"

Li Qian was speechless.

But at this time, both Serena and Jon nodded solemnly, and said: "Yes, that's right! Our hearts can perceive the power of music! We can distinguish their strength!"

Sounds like a bunch of fanatics!

Come on, there are machines for measuring decibels that can be bought outside, but do you have software to measure whether the music is beautiful or the movement is sublime?

At this time, Millie Fair said more seriously: "Yes! Qian, trust us! If my music is not as good as yours, I will admit it frankly, and they will all admit it!"

Li Qian looked over, and the two fanatics nodded.

Reluctantly looking up at the big chandelier on the ceiling, Li Qian shrugged his head, "Okay, okay! Then I can..."

Millie Fairy immediately jumped up from the sofa excitedly, "YES! No problem, I'll come first!"

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In Liao Liao's mansion, there is a piano room with a fairly large area.

There are at least a dozen kinds of musical instruments in it, and there is even a Guqin among them—Li Qian knows that she can't play this at all, so she probably bought it and put it here just to show off to American friends?

A group of people ran into the piano room enthusiastically, even Sun Meimei, Liao Min, and Liao Liao's American assistant Taylor Barnes rushed over after hearing the news, and a group of people squeezed into the piano room.

When the piano cover was opened, Millie Fell fiddled with a string of notes, showing her solid piano skills, then she turned her head and smiled at Li Qian and Liao Liao, and played the piano.

Liao Liao hugged Li Qian's arm, smiled and leaned into his ear, whispering: "This song is great!"

Li Qian squinted over.

Liao Liao returned a look proudly.

Full of provocation!

Or it can be understood that she has too much confidence in Li Qian, and she is not worried that Li Qian will not come up with a masterpiece that can suppress the American trio's heart!

The piano sounds, and Millie Mayfair's piano is really good.

The song is in a lyrical style, Li Qian knew it was a soul song when she sang it together.

The genre of soul music requires quite high control over the singer's voice.

And Millie Mayfair is a typical "sing out" singer, and the songs are written by herself, which are very emotional. She sings not only with full skill, but also with unusually abundant emotions. With her at that time, she was agile and sometimes heavy. listening to the piano, Li Qian closed his eyes unconsciously.

Li Qian's English is not very good. When he came to the United States last time, he made up for it for a while, and then he improved his oral English quite well, but now it is the first time in a year or two. To be honest, it has been a long time since I haven't used it for a long time, and I have regressed. , which caused him to sound unsure about a small part of the lyrics in Millie Mayfair's singing, but following the previous and next sentences of the lyrics, he could probably connect them together, and the basic meaning was still understandable.

A nice soul song.

The general meaning of the lyrics should be a story about a little girl discovering herself, discovering love, and discovering the true meaning of life-this kind of inspirational and heart-warming lyrics are relatively common in the works of many European and American singers. Surprisingly, the lyrics of Millie Mayfair's song should be slightly inferior to her composition ability!

In addition, I have to say that in the eyes of the Chinese who have been influenced by various poems and songs for thousands of years, you can hardly translate the lyrics of many foreigners. If you translate them, you will think, I will go, this is too simple. ?

Well, if you have to rate it, in Li Qian's opinion, this should be a masterpiece in the ratings!

On the 100-point system, it should be able to get 65 to 70 points!

Don't think that this score is too low. According to Li Qian's standard, this already means that this is a good enough work!

So, the pressure really came!

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