Aesthetics of Violence [Entertainment]

Near noon the next day, Zhong Mingcan came to the door of Qianli Entertainment Building.

Qianli Entertainment has developed rapidly over the years. It took less than six years from occupying the top floor of an old-style building on the street to owning its own independent building. For a company that mainly trains actors, it is already It was quite a success.

The house in front of me, although not as grand as the Hertz building, is really exquisite.It looks like a small red-painted foreign-style building, only about five or six stories high. In front of the building, there is a thick old locust tree, whose age cannot be seen. The branches are messy and spread out in all directions. It stands abruptly at the door Beside him, he looked like a terrifying door god who was baring his teeth and claws.

The appearance of this lonely old locust tree here makes the Qianli Entertainment Building more mysterious and quiet.

Zhong Mingcan rang the doorbell, waiting for someone to respond, while watching the new buds emerging from the old locust tree.

"Hello, who are you?" A sweet female voice rang from the doorbell.

"Hi, I'm Zhong Mingcan, a music producer from Hertz, and I have an appointment with Lucifer's manager, Mr. Liu. Could you please open the door for me?"

"Wait a moment, please," said the female voice.

After a while, Zhong Mingcan squinted his eyes and counted the No. 30 six buds and leaves growing on the old locust tree. The door finally opened, and a tall, thin man came up to him. He didn't look old. Big, in his early thirties at most, wearing a pair of black wide-rimmed glasses, smiling, courteous.

"Mr. Zhong, ouch, sorry to keep you waiting!" Hearing the voice, this is Mr. Liu who called yesterday, and he led Zhong Mingcan into the building, "Please come in, the children are already in the practice room Ready."

Manager Liu took Zhong Mingcan to the basement floor. This place was originally a dark place, so the incandescent lights were turned on from morning to night, but it was as bright as the outside of the building.

"Forgive me, it's a bit boring here," Manager Liu groped a few times on the wall, and then Zhong Mingcan heard the slight sound of the air conditioner starting, "Our company didn't do idol groups before, so we didn't have a dance practice room. After Xifa, the basement was dug out and transformed into a practice room. To be honest, all kinds of training conditions are quite poor, and it must not be compared with your Hertz..." After a pause, he continued, "Fortunately, the children are good enough..."

Zhong Mingcan said "Yes" and followed behind him silently.

Manager Liu continued to talk attentively: "I have heard several of your works, "The Sensual Colors of Qiuma", "Suo Lin Nang Shuo", and "Lilliputian", they are all very stylized works, but I also I didn't expect you to say that you would release a love song this time..."

"It's a ballad, not necessarily a love song." Zhong Mingcan corrected.

Manager Liu was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly laughed loudly: "I'm sorry, sorry, I don't know music very well, don't mind." He walked to the end of the corridor, opened a door, and shouted inside: "Kids! , welcome Teacher Zhong!"

"Hello, Teacher Zhong!" All the energetic voices rang out.

Zhong Mingcan saw four straight figures standing in the center of the practice room, their movements were uniform, and their hands were clasped in front of them. After shouting this sentence, they bowed at ninety degrees one after another, and then looked at them with smiles on their faces. look at yourself.They all have good looks and gorgeous clothes. It seems that they have spent a lot of time dressing up. They seem to regard this meeting as an interview.

Zhong Mingcan was flattered: "You... How are you..."

The white-haired boy standing on the far left was the first to respond: "It's an honor to meet you!"

Manager Liu introduced to Zhong Mingcan: "This is Lucifer's lead singer, Qu Ying, who can write his own songs, play and sing by himself. This time, the follow-up song of "SkyLoop" "Growing Up" is his participation in the lyrics and composition!"

Immediately afterwards, the boy next to the white-haired boy in ripped black jeans bowed again: "It's an honor to meet you! I will work hard!"

Manager Liu continued to act as the commentator: "This is the main dancer, Sui Qiang. He is good at all kinds of dances, especially freestyle. He can make up a dance for you if you play the first duo!" Then he glanced at the young man, lowered his voice and called out Said, "Why don't you wear sweatpants if you are told to wear them! Can you dance well in this later?!"

The boy lowered his head, stuck out his tongue and smiled.

On the right side of the ripped black jeans is a slightly shorter boy, with big watery eyes, blinking, he is a little shy, pursing his lips, and murmured softly with a stiff body: "Hi, I I am the youngest member of Lucifer, my name is Kale..."

Manager Liu was still doing his duty. He smiled embarrassedly: "Kale is still young and a little shy. He usually follows his brothers in everything he does, and he is not very good at dealing with people alone..."

Zhong Mingcan nodded, didn't mind, and said, "What about the last one?"

The boy standing on the far right is very suitable for this head of black hair. He looks very clean and fresh. There is a standard idol smile on the corner of his mouth, with two small dimples on his cheeks. This smile seems to grow on him. From just now to Now he has kept it, motionless, Zhong Mingcan couldn't help but look at him more.

"This is Ah Qing, Lucifer's captain and lead singer," Manager Liu said, "The fans say it's the voice kissed by an angel. Of course, it's not that exaggerated. You still need to judge... "

"Hello," the dimpled boy said, "My name is Aqing. It's an honor to meet you." Compared with the other three, his tone sounded the calmest, or in other words, the least sense of urgency.

But Zhong Mingcan was taken aback for a moment, his ears were so sharp, and he immediately recognized that this was the voice he was looking for.But there are three other pairs of piercing big eyes shining with anticipation in front of them. If they open their mouths now, wouldn't their practice last night become useless?

In the end, he said: "Everyone relax, don't be nervous, I'm not here for assessment, I'm here to watch your performance, just treat me as an ordinary audience. You are all excellent artists, and it is my honor to meet you. Even if we don't have the chance to cooperate this time, there will definitely be chances in the future!" He turned his head and asked Manager Liu, "Why don't we start directly, and I'll come to learn from the experience and see how powerful the popular boy group is."

"Okay, okay!" Manager Liu responded, and ran to the side to bring the guitar and a chair standing by the wall. The chair was placed in the middle of the practice room next to the large floor-to-ceiling mirror, "You sit first, Here it goes."

He handed the guitar to Quying again, and whispered "Perform well", the voice was not too loud, Zhong Mingcan couldn't hear it, but the three players who were close to him all heard it.

"Tsk, Brother Liu is still biased." Sui Qiang muttered.

"You should also behave well," Ah Qing was standing beside him. Hearing this, he glanced at him. "There is nothing wrong with people who are good enough and get enough attention."

Sui Qiang gave another "tsk" and pouted, "The captain is partial too!"

Ah Qing smiled helplessly, raised his hand to rub his hair, and then patted his shoulder: "Who am I?"

"Okay, okay, stop chatting, who will start first? Don't make Teacher Zhong wait too long!" Manager Liu yelled, interrupting all the whisperings.

"I'll go first." Quying stood in the center of the practice room, facing Zhong Mingcan, picked up the guitar and shook it, hung up the shoulder straps, found the most comfortable position, and bowed again, "I'm ready, I can start gone."

He sang an acoustic guitar adaptation of "SkyLoop", using an acoustic guitar to beat out the fast-paced electronic drum beats, which had a special charm.

Manager Liu was very satisfied, and couldn't help showing a fatherly smile. He secretly glanced at Zhong Mingcan, but found that he was indifferent, without even the slightest admiration. , cleared his throat: "Cough, Quying, you go down first, next, um... Kale?"

Although this kid is indeed cautious, it can be seen that he has put in a lot of effort for today's "interview". He sang a very difficult English rap. Standing on the stage, Kale looks more confident than when he introduced himself a lot.

But the rap brought up bad memories of Zhong Mingcan, and he couldn't help frowning.

Kale was still at a sensitive age. When he saw Zhong Mingcan's slightly moving eyebrows, he thought it was because he was too bad, so he immediately closed his mouth tightly, lowered his head and remained silent.

The aria stopped abruptly before it was over, and Zhong Mingcan came back to his senses: "What's wrong? Why didn't you continue?"

Kale's head was almost buried in his chest, and he cried: "...I'm sorry..."

Zhong Mingcan didn't understand the situation, and said in astonishment, "Why are you crying?"

It's okay if you don't say anything, as soon as the words came out, Kale shook, and big jade beads began to fall down.

Before Manager Liu could react, Ah Qing had already rushed forward and hugged Kale, blocking Zhong Mingcan's sight, and patted Kale's back soothingly. He whispered in Kale's ear: "Don't Don't be afraid, it doesn't matter, you performed very well, the most difficult sentence just now is better than yesterday's practice, isn't it?"

Zhong Mingcan stared blankly at the scene in front of him.

Manager Liu was also dumbfounded, but he was their manager after all, and he was proficient in his business. He hurriedly greeted A Qing: "Take him aside quickly! What does he look like! He... is what you are used to!" He gritted his teeth, Stop talking, and didn't say anything outrageous in front of Zhong Mingcan.

"The next one, you come." Zhong Mingcan looked at A Qing and said something.

"Okay." Ah Qing wiped Kale's face, wiped away his tears, squeezed the seam of his trousers with his fingers, and stood in the middle of the practice room.

Manager Liu was watching the situation from the sidelines, and he understood it after a while. Zhong Mingcan didn't know how to hide his emotions, so he just glanced at him. Manager Liu immediately knew that the overall situation was settled—A Qing was definitely the final candidate.In fact, Zhong Mingcan's expression was the same as before, he was also concentrating on enjoying the performance, and his expression remained unchanged, but his toes revealed everything, and he was gently tapping to the rhythm of Ah Qing's singing.

After singing, Zhong Mingcan asked: "Whose song is this? I haven't heard it before."

Ah Qing nodded slightly, and replied: "This is my own composition, called "Boneless Flower."

Zhong Ming smiled.In fact, from his professional point of view, this song is really obscure, although it can be seen that the person who created this song had a lot of ideas and wanted to give each melody a unique meaning, just because these ideas are too trivial There is no chapter, and the creator doesn't know how to choose, the moon will lose when it is full, and the water will overflow when it is full, but it loses the spirituality that the song should have.To put it bluntly, Ah Qing's performance was not even half as good as Qu Ying's performance just now.

But this did not affect Zhong Mingcan's favor for his voice in the slightest.

The voice kissed by an angel?

This title is too false, and there is no exact standard to define it, so Zhong Mingcan doesn't like it.However, Zhong Mingcan couldn't think of other words to correctly describe the feeling his voice brought to him. When composing music and lyrics, he would indeed avoid burdening the audience because of too much emotion, but if this extremely sensitive and delicate thought Put it into the singing, but it is a symbol of talent.

This talent has an extremely powerful soul, it can easily pull people into illusions, and it can make people have strong empathy for the meaning expressed by the lyrics and melody.There are countless people in the world who love to sing, and everyone's love is sacred. Among them, those who are proficient in singing skills can be called "singers". Magnetic bass for the ear, yet not all voices can shake hearts.

How many years has it been rare to meet such a soul, and Ah Qing is one of them.

Because it is delicate and sensitive enough, even the most ordinary listeners can easily hear his voice clearly.Zhong Mingcan heard a long-preserved mellow fragrance from his voice, understood his cautious confusion, and even a little sadness, but it was not obvious, no, it should be said to be very weak, as if he was deliberately resisting or suppressing , as if trying to capture it but accidentally escaped, it was the most unstable emotion in his voice, appearing and disappearing, sometimes strong and sometimes weak.

It was this kind of subtle sadness, and the song in his hand, it was a match made in heaven.

Zhong Mingcan successfully completed today's task, and he finally confirmed his urgent desire for that voice at a very close distance.

However, there is one person left.

"That..." After Ah Qing retreated to the side, Sui Qiang had already done warm-up exercises. He walked to the center and said, "Mr. Zhong, I am the main dancer in the team. To be honest, singing is not my strong point. But... I have a lot of lung capacity! I can dance very vigorously and sing at the same time, thank you for giving me this opportunity!" After speaking, he scratched his head and smiled a little shyly.

Zhong Mingcan smiled encouragingly: "Then you are really good. Dancing consumes your energy very quickly. It is not easy to persevere and sing and dance at the same time."

He sat motionless, appreciating his performance with the same sincere expression, until the end, Sui Qiang was panting and trying to calm his breath, he looked back at the members, then at Brother Liu, then at Zhong Mingcan again, and bowed again He bowed, and this time he used too much force, almost turning 180 degrees. He shouted: "Mr. Zhong! Thank you very much for your attention to Lucifer. I know that my strength is not strong enough, but I believe my members We will definitely do well! Quying and brother Aqing are strong members of our group, I hope you will give them a chance!"

Zhong Mingcan's congratulatory speech about cooperating with Ah Qing was choked back in his throat. He opened his mouth but made no sound.

Brother Liu nimbly slipped to Sui Qiang's side, slapped Sui Qiang on the back with a "slap", and muttered "What are you talking about?" but he didn't mean to blame him, he turned his head and said to Zhong Mingcan with a flattering smile : "Hey, don't mind, this kid just loves the combination and hopes that his brothers will have a future. In fact, in our company, Qu Ying and A Qing are really on par, and they are often tied for the first place in the evaluation at the end of the month. One, one is clear and the other is gentle, it would be great to cooperate! It would be icing on the cake if two people can be together..." He stopped talking suddenly, and stretched out his hand in a "please" gesture, "It's all up to you, up to you, you It's up to you!"

Zhong Mingcan felt the vague oppression from this experienced manager, but this was not enough to pose a threat, let alone make him change his mind.

"Qu Ying is indeed a musician who has attracted much attention. The ability to arrange music is indeed very strong. The artificial overtone playing in the section just now is very clever, which makes me feel very amazing. To be honest, I may not even think of combining these The syllables are incorporated into the melody." He looked at Quying, nodded slightly, smiled, paused, and then looked at Aqing again, "Aqing's self-composed music, I can see from it that you still have unlimited possibilities in the future, practice hard Composition skills, I will be able to write more good works in the future, you are all great."

He stood up, facing the five people with their own strengths and ideas, and continued: "I have written the song a long time ago, and I have a certain idea of ​​what kind of atmosphere it should present, but I have never heard of it." Can decide who should perform, the purpose of this trip is to find the most suitable voice for this song, there can only be one person, so I still stick to my instinct, Ah Qing is the best candidate.”

Finally, he looked at Manager Liu: "Everyone prepared very hard, the performance was wonderful, thank you all, Mr. Liu, I hope to cooperate with Ah Qing, and formally invite him to join Hertz's 'Music Lab' project, Can I be the second guest?"

A Qing remained silent all the time, and when he heard his name from these people, he still had his firm smile, which neither weakened nor deepened, making it hard to fathom his thoughts.

And Zhong Mingcan seemed to be asking, but in fact his firm tone could not be refuted at all. Manager Liu opened his mouth slightly, but in the end he couldn't be ashamed to fight for another spot for Quying.

He only hesitated for a moment, and soon recovered his smiling face. He responded, took Zhong Mingcan out of the practice room, called A Qing by the way, and was going to go upstairs to discuss the detailed arrangements for the cooperation.Manager Liu walked quickly, A Qing was thrown away by them for a distance, he followed at the end, and the moment he closed the door with his backhand, his face changed so quickly, the face that had lost the smile was full of skilled tranquility and stiffness .

A ray of voice accidentally drifted out along the crack of the door, and then accidentally got into his ears.

"That 'old dog' still keeps him? Doesn't it mean that he fell out of favor..."