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Different from the deep affection carved out of almost the same mold after it became popular, Xue You either did it by himself or cooperated with small partners during the downturn period between becoming famous because of the draft and becoming popular because of jokes, and tried some less popular ones. style.

"Circus Clown" is one of them.

Essentially, "Circus Clown" is a collaborative song composed by Xue You. The part in the song is similar to the accompanying vocals, and there is also a part of rap. The main rap part is composed by Luo Kai, a little friend Xue You met in the draft. and deductive.Luo Kai is one of the few hip-hop people in China. Later, he did not develop well and switched to e-commerce for his livelihood.After deciding to sing "Circus Clown", Xue You contacted him and told Zheng Zhiyong back: "He said that he had watched "showmethemoney", and you can change it as you want."

Zheng Zhiyong: Is there another subtext that is "I can't fly anywhere anyway?"

Because the original song is a collaboration between Xue You and the rapper, Xue You also rapped a few lines in it. The adaptation of "Circus Clown" is not difficult, especially its lyrics still have a certain meaning, which is exactly what Zheng Zhiyong likes , apart from changing some of the lyrics into the Korean version that Song Minho can sing, there is no difficult work.

This time in the live performance, Xue You seldom talked about rap. It is not enough to judge him among rappers, but "Circus Clown" is not the kind of song that requires a high level. Most of Song Minhao's lyrics are A small part of Korean is barely pronounced Chinese, and the audience present are all Chinese, so the auditory effect is pulled to a horizontal line.Song Minho's performance was as stable as ever, Xue You also performed well this time, and the final effect was unexpectedly harmonious.

At the beginning, Song Minhao uttered the original Luo Kai's words in Chinese, "I grew up in the ruins", "Flow to and fro to become exhausted", "Life can't choose to go back", and Xue You sang in the middle Sing "My Tears" and "I Know" as transitions and tandems.Then there is a rap by Xue You, which tells about the circus life of a born dwarf. This kind of style that integrates feelings into the narrative and reveals emotions in a calm manner, Xue You's performance is actually good.Although it is a little difficult to do well in this way, the intense lyricism is not so crooked as to be embarrassing, which is even more difficult for non-professionals to grasp.

The strong lyrical work was handed over to Song Minho, and Zheng Zhiyong changed Luo Kai's words about the confusion and pain of the clown into the Korean version. Although most of the audience could not speak Korean, Song Minhao used patience When the trembling voice asks "is it worth it", the emotion can still be understood beyond the language.

"Will the story continue in the dream tomorrow night?"

"Parents always leave in a hurry at dawn."

In the hymn-like accompaniment, Xue You's singing completely set the tone of the song.

The following rap, Zheng Zhiyong, made relatively large changes after negotiating with Xue You and Song Minho.The rap that was originally completed in the form of Luo Kai and Xue You was changed to Xue You alone. Zheng Zhiyong revised the arrangement and slowed down the rhythm, so that Xue You's self-expression will be smooth and natural, and it will not be too embarrassing Lung capacity, after he asked "Should I make up for a wrong movement—" followed by Song Minho's English sentence "whonevermakesamitakeinitslifetime?"—the original song is "A lovely life, can you not make mistakes?".

Later, the circus clown's plea to the boss was changed to Korean again, and some simple English such as "This is my destiny, I will not back down" directly became "it'smydestinyandican'tback".This is naturally Song Minho's part.Song Minho's rap is mainly dominated by powerful swag, and the sincere and lyrical category is almost the only one left.

Next came Xue You’s performance time, Song Minho’s first Korean rap, he spoke the Chinese version at this time, and later in the original song, Luo Kai said in a complacent tone, “I’m coming on stage, the ticket price has risen” , also made by Xue You.And Song Minho digested the sadness of Xue You in the original song when he looked at the "skinny, dark yellow face" in the mirror.

There are more changes made at the end of the song. There were a lot of repetitions there, which were largely deleted by Zheng Zhiyong and replaced with another form.It turned out to be a repetition of the rap part that had already been spoken once in both Chinese and Korean languages—it was repeated four times at the end, but in this collaboration version, half of the time was moved to the front. "I think I don’t have to think too much, as long as the audience likes the confession, so that Xue You and Song Minhao can play the Chinese-Korean bilingual version again, and the remaining half is also changed to the Chinese-Korean bilingual form, but it’s not a paragraph, it’s Sentence by sentence, after Xue You finished speaking in Chinese, Song Minho answered in Korean, the content and meaning were the same, and the sound effect was probably the Korean echo aroused by Chinese rap.

Xue You: "Can those who laugh at me stop whistling, I should..."

Song Minho: "Youshouldnevermakeamistake, inyourlifetime."

Chinese is a repetition of the previous lyrics, and Song Minho's English rap is the answer, and it is also a meaningful turning point.

For the sake of popularity, money, ambition or dreams, it is normal for artists to hide themselves and accept the setting.It’s hard to say right or wrong, but sometimes it does make people confuse who they are, forget what they really want, and have an absurd feeling of “I’m just a clown pleasing the public in front of the camera”.Coupled with the conflict with the brokerage company, it constitutes the extended meaning of "Circus Clown".

And this 2007 song is still not outdated today, the 2016 "Battle Idol".Xue You goes back and forth on various variety shows for popularity and income. Song Minho joins a group known for its lyrical songs, uses "village idiots" to set up activities, and also appears in variety shows. Are they considered "circus clowns"...Next There is not enough basis for the conclusion, so it is okay to doubt occasionally, right?

Song Minho said at the end, "You can't make mistakes in a human life", which gave the symbolic thing of "circus clown" a practical meaning. This sentence is more like Song Minho's answer to Xue You. I said it myself.From participating in the survival battle at YG, making his debut in Winner, and participating in "ShowMeTheMoney", until now, he has hardly made any mistakes, and there is no room for them to make mistakes.

On the basis of retaining the original meaning, adjust the arrangement, so that the song becomes bilingual in Chinese and Korean without violating the harmony. At the end, I listened to Song Minhao's opinion and used this adjustment to deepen it a little.For the adaptation of "The Circus Clown", with Zheng Zhiyong's ability, he can only do this for the time being.

After the stage ended, Xue You and Song Minho became Zheng Zhiyong by coincidence. Because Song Minho couldn't understand the language, Xue You became the main force of praise, pulling Zheng Zhiyong to praise him. "It feels great to be able to re-perform past songs and get compliments." He explained the reason for his excitement in this way.

Zheng Zhiyong didn't hold back his host mode and complained: "I thought it was because I knew "The Circus Clown"."

The results of the on-site voting are a bit ironic. Last time "Cowardice" sang poorly and won the first place. This time "Circus Clown" performed well, and the first place became Zico and Hu Xia.But on-site voting is the same thing, and the show "Fighting Idol" is the same thing. Zheng Zhiyong no longer cares about the results, but only cares about what he has done.

There is also Xue You who has no feeling. The point of being tall is that he experienced his original intention on stage. The point of conspiracy theory is that he has perfected his character design of "saving the country for all kinds of music curves". It is not a bad thing anyway. As for the result, we will It doesn't matter anymore.

"When this episode airs, I plan to use my social media account to promote it." When the recording was over and discussing the selection of the next episode, Xue You dragged Zheng Zhiyong over again, and said with great interest, "Can you help me to make this episode better?" Will the draft I prepared be translated for Min Ho? You can also take a look at it."

Jung Ji Yong turned his head and started muttering to Song Min Ho.

Xue You: "I haven't shown you the draft yet?"

"I'm explaining to him that your account has a lot of fans, and it will have a publicity effect, similar to the Korean draft." Zheng Zhiyong looked at Xue You's dumbfounded expression, and made another joke, "Will you write about the previous competition?"

Xue You also knows that "Cowardice" is his dark history, and he knows that Zheng Zhiyong will be ridiculed to some extent after the extra chapter of Zheng Zhiyong singing "Cowardice" during the rehearsal is aired. He will not blame others, nor will he Self-defeating plan: "I only want to say good things about myself."

After reading the draft, Zheng Zhiyong's suggestion to Xue You is to downplay his sense of existence and find ways to write more about Song Minho's cuteness.

"It's not how good our relationship is." He joked again, "I don't have any stable way to make money except releasing new songs in various forms. Overseas popularity is of little use. Even if the awareness increases, I will release Chinese in the future. Songs don’t receive much copyright fees.”

"Besides, the words that my predecessors praised me seemed a bit too forceful." At this time, Zheng Zhiyong became "shy", "I am a foreigner after all, it is better to restrain myself."

Xue You: ...

"You still know to 'restrain'." When this matter was mentioned to other people later, Zheng Zhiyong was laughed at by Zico as expected, "So many powerful people come to do the show, and the process is almost all done by you. carry".

Zheng Zhiyong glanced at him suspiciously: "Have you started playing lol?" Suddenly, a game language popped up, which is very dramatic.

"No, I just understand the buzzwords", Zico said that he didn't have the time in the United States, "Oh, yes, there is something, Brother Rhymer just called me and said he wanted to see you."

"He? Did you say something?"

"I didn't say anything, but listening to his tone, it seems that there is something embarrassing."

"It seems that there are not many things that can embarrass Senior Rhymer," Zheng Zhiyong said, "Has he said the time? If it is convenient, I will go directly to Brandnew when I go back."

He had a reason for saying that, Rhymer was no ordinary person.Brandnewmusic, which he established by himself, has sane, verbaljint, p-type masters and powerful rappers such as Zheng Hanhai and kittib. He is doing hip-hop, a non-mainstream music genre, and has a very good development in the mainstream. It can almost be regarded as hip -Sm in the hop world.And Rhymer himself is a very experienced producer. In the early years, he founded brandnewstardom with Zhao pd and formed blockb. Many early songs of blockb were composed by him and Zico. Later, Rhymer and Zhao pd disagreed and left the company to establish brandnewmusic, blockb There were also conflicts with the original company, and the lawsuit was brought to court, and finally the contract was transferred to the current sevenseasons.Although they are no longer in the same camp and their ambitions are not very compatible, Zico and Rhymer still maintain a good relationship.

As for how to "difference in ambition"... After Zico became famous, he was busy writing songs, writing songs, and writing songs. Rhymer was busy with management and supporting the backward. The former is reflected in the various movements of brandnewmusic to move closer to the mainstream, and the latter is reflected in Rhymer. I am a frequent visitor to various debut survival battles—almost every debut-related variety show, rap teacher or judge is produced by brandnewmusic.

Reviewing other people's children all day long, Rhymer loves nurturing the next generation so much that he never thought about raising a few in brandnewmusic?

Fortunately, Zheng Zhiyong just thought about it, because he was slapped in the face after he arrived at Brandnew.

"Brandnew has signed a new rapper, who looks very young."

Rhymer came out to entertain enthusiastically: "The child who passed by just now is a trainee of our company."

Zheng Zhiyong: ...my face hurts.