Chapter 429 The Waves Are Soaring!

In the rehearsal room, Liao Liao was wearing earphones, humming something while walking magically, when Sun Meimei suddenly opened the door and came in.

She even walked lightly, but Liao Liao seemed to be very involved in practicing singing, but in fact he was quite restless. As soon as Sun Meimei pushed the door, she immediately looked over.

Seeing this, Sun Meimei smiled and asked her, "How's your practice going, baby?"

廖辽的肩膀一下子夸张地垮下来，“他说让我找自己的风格，说我有好几个地方的转音都不够漂亮, 所以，啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊……”她摇晃着, The long hair that was originally smooth quickly turned into "disheveled hair". Then, she walked over and hugged Sun Meimei's arm pitifully, "I really want to go out and play for a while, how about a vacation?" good?"

Seeing her coming, Sun Meimei quickly raised her arms, "Hey, hey, baby, be careful! Soup, soup!"

Liao Liao turned his head subconsciously, only then noticed the thermos cup Sun Meimei was holding in her hand, sniffed, and suddenly became excited, the lazy energy just now disappeared all of a sudden, and suddenly turned into a greedy cat, "Oh my god, are you making soup?"

Sun Meimei smiled, took the thermos cup to the rest area, put it down, and unscrewed the lid, "Look, the authentic chicken soup, Sun's ancestral soup cooking method! The ingredients I bought in Chinatown are absolutely authentic!"

Not to mention, the chicken soup in the thermos cup has turned pure white, and there is almost no oil. As soon as the lid is lifted, the strong fragrance immediately wafts out. Just at this moment, Liao Liaolian's halazi is about to flow out .

"Sister, you are really my own sister!"

Liao Liao quickly went over and sat down obediently. He didn't even want to leave his thermos. He watched with his own eyes that Sun Meimei filled a small bowl for her and took it with her chopsticks. Afraid of the heat, he blew carefully a few times, and then After taking a sip, the chicken soup was tender and smooth, and she immediately showed an expression that she was about to melt!

"It's delicious!" she muttered.

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Five minutes later, Liao Liao was sitting cross-legged on the sofa in a disfigured manner, holding a small bowl in his hand, and complained while eating chicken, "You don't know, the food made by Americans is so bad! It turns out that in China, occasionally I went to have a western meal, and I thought the steak was pretty good, but I can’t eat it all the time. The hot dog was too caloric, so I didn’t dare to eat it. In the end...ah, my God, the taste of that toast bread is really ...It makes you feel like you have nothing to love in your life! Really, you have nothing to love in your life!"

Sun Meimei smiled and asked, "Isn't he good at cooking? You don't know how to cook?"

"I'm doing it, I've done it several times! We took a taxi to Chinatown to buy our homemade induction cooker, just one meal, two dishes, and smoked the hotel suite... Well, you don't know, anyway When the waiter went to clean the room, when he smelled the smell in the room, his face turned pale with fright, and he thought there was a fire in the room, and then we had to order instant noodles, which smelled a little bit less."

Sun Meimei couldn't help laughing as she imagined Li Qian's cooking and the reaction of the hotel staff.

If it is said that after so many days in the United States, what impressed Liao Liao the most is definitely not the happiness of the American people, or the development of the American music industry, or something else, but definitely because the food in the United States is too unpalatable!

The diet of Westerners is okay for Chinese people to eat occasionally, but it’s really unbearable to try something new and eat it every day! What's more, even when they were in China, Liao Liao and Li Qian were not people who preferred western food.

Of course, there are not no Chinese restaurants in Los Angeles, and there are even quite a few, but most of them are tastes that have been improved according to the preferences of Americans. Even in Chinatown, most of them are from the Guangdong and Fujian areas, which are sweeter, greasy, fishy and fresher. , let the three northerners, Li Qian, Liao Liao and Xie Mingyuan, eat what they didn't like.

Xie Mingyuan is fine, he is used to staying abroad, he has already adapted to the way of eating western food, and he enjoys it very much, but Li Qian and Liao Liao didn't eat American food for a few days, and their mouths started to blister.

Therefore, instead of saying that Li Qian brought Sun Meimei here to be Liao Liao's personal assistant or special assistant in Europe and the United States, or to call him a manager according to the name in the United States, as Liao Liao understands, it is better to say that she came here to be a nanny , is more appropriate.

Sun Meimei's culinary skills are quite good, and for her sudden jumping out of the country, it is obviously more fulfilling for her to let her stay in the country and be completely suppressed by Zou Wenhuai from all aspects. So, as soon as Li Qian said, she quickly nodded in agreement, and then, on the second day after arriving in Los Angeles, she went out and rented a not too big apartment. From the fourth day onwards, she started cooking in earnest.

Don't even think about it, every day for dinner, Li Qian and Liao Liao are bound to go over for dinner.

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Liao Liao killed more than half of a large thermos of chicken soup by herself, and suddenly felt that after eating only half a piece of bread at noon, the resentment of "I will starve to death here sooner or later" was gone. Jumped up and down a lot.

Sun Meimei tidied up briefly, and chatted with her without rushing away, "Your boss just ignores you like this? Just throw it here for you? Why did he go by himself?"

As soon as this was mentioned, Liao Liao sat down on the sofa again, looking like a bastard who was about to cry, sighed deeply, and said like a resentful woman: "Why else, play, play everywhere! Every night when I go back, I tell her, where I think I have improved today, she will hum twice, and then show off to me-look, where did I take this photo today, isn’t it beautiful?”

Sun Meimei laughed out loud, "Really? He's just like that... Shouldn't he guide you at this time?"

Liao Liao sighed, grabbed the songbook that was thrown on the sofa just now, shook it, and said: "I did it myself, I said, I can sing English songs absolutely fine, I don't need your guidance, you can go and play at ease! Then... he really went to play by himself!"

Sun Meimei shrugged, with a smile on her lips.

I don’t know if it’s because of being in the United States for so many days. Recently, Liao Liao has a tendency to turn into a chatterbox. After finally catching someone who can chat, he said to his death that his children and grandchildren will not pick each other up, and even fight. Packing up her things, she pretended to be leaving, but she grabbed him and said, "Don't leave in such a hurry, just chat with me for a while!"

Sun Meimei shook her head helplessly, put down her things, and said, "It's fine for me to chat with you, but you have to practice singing, baby, time is very tight. I heard from Mr. Xie that it seems that the Rolling Stones are planning to release the money according to the contract. On the first day of the album, I arranged for this album to be released, and to grab a little more market from that movie's soundtrack, do the math, how long do you have to practice singing?"

Liao Liao let go of her hand when she heard the words, and sighed again. This time, it can be seen that she is not pretending, but feeling a little from the bottom of her heart, "After I came here, I didn't take it seriously at first, and it was all for a trip. Later, I understood what he meant, and felt that the pressure on my body suddenly became great..."

Sun Meimei thought for a while, put her arms around her shoulders with a smile, and said, "He thinks the opportunity is right, so he wants to push you internationally. Think about it, Sister Runqing and Zhou Mo, they all belong to If you want this opportunity, you still can't get it! With this kind of opportunity, the first thing he thinks of is you, right?"

Liao Liao looked back at her, his eyes gradually brightened a lot, and he said proudly, "That's true!"

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In mid-March, Li Qian had already submitted the songbooks of all ten songs needed for the entire album, together with his arrangements, to Rolling Stone Records.

So next, under the green light of Rolling Stone Records, the recording of this album was immediately accelerated.

However, after all, Liao Liao was not the kind who grew up in the atmosphere of Western music. Although she herself liked to listen to some European and American records and sang in private, her singing style was still Eastern in the final analysis. .

She can handle soul music and country music quite well, but she can't handle R&B style well, and she can't always find a more mellow way to handle it, especially the transition sound, she often handles it well Relatively blunt.

However, there is no good solution for this, only a lot of listening, and then a lot of singing.

And in this respect, Li Qian's level is not much better than hers to be honest, he can listen to it, he can hear how well Liao Liao sings, and where are the shortcomings, but let him teach, he is really good. I don't feel like I have much to teach.

Therefore, everything depends on Liao Liao himself.

But fortunately, at this time, the role of going to the United States to record this album began to be reflected.

Here, from the record company staff, musicians, musicians, to the hot dog sellers on the street, to the cashiers in the supermarket, all speak English, so after coming here, the English proficiency of Li Qian and Liao Liao is very high. Soaring. Especially the oral dialogue in English, it is even more rapid - the better the spoken language, the better the sense of language will be, and in the end, singing is an art of vocalization, and the sense of language is right, and many aspects will be easier to do Get twice the result with half the effort.

Another advantage of staying here is that there are many street performers on the streets of Los Angeles, and many of them can sing R&B. Although they are far behind mature singers in all aspects, Li Qian and Liao Liao and Liao went to the street, listened to each other for a while, and walked over to exchange R&B singing skills with each other, and they could always gain more or less.

Especially in the aspect of R&B's most exquisite and dazzling transliteration, Liao Liao quickly made progress.

Xie Mingyuan was in charge of the band and was in charge of contacting Rolling Stone Records, while Li Qian and Sun Meimei were only in charge of Liao Liao. By the end of March, the album "My-heart-will-go-on" was officially recorded in the recording studio in Los Angeles.

At this time, there is still one and a half months before the release of "Titanic" in mid-May, and it is about 80 days before the earliest time this album can be released—considering the need for post-production and pre-production Set aside about a month or so, for making a brand new album, fifty days is really not enough.

Not to mention, there are still four Chinese songs in this album, which need to be recorded after returning to China after completing the work here-this calculation, leaving the recording time of the six English songs here, even more It's as short as one month!

"My-heart-will-go-on" is the easiest, Liao Liao is also the most familiar, and the genre is relatively easy for her, so this must be recorded first, and then "I-will- always-love-you".

These two songs are not a problem at all in front of Liao Liao, who is at his peak.

It took less than four days for Liao Liao to complete the recording of these two songs, and the musicians from the Rolling Stones who participated in the recording were full of praise——

"Her voice is so powerful!"

"I feel like the roof is about to come off!"

"Feminine, strong and powerful, confident love... believe me honey, you are the best soul singer I have ever heard!"

Next, when recording the duet love song "Could-I-have-this-kiss-forever", Li Qian's control over the voice was almost unanimously praised by the Rolling Stone musicians.

"I believe that no one can resist such a beautiful love song. Please believe me, this song is as good as the previous two. Qiang, your voice processing skills are the best singers I have ever seen One of those guys! Liao is going to be big, and you're going to be big...in America!" said David Collison, Rolling Stone's associate global music director in charge of the matter.

Undoubtedly, Liao Liao's first international record after Dongfang Song is a tripartite cooperation between Rolling Stone Records, Minghu Culture and the producer of "Titanic". Even for a company like Rolling Stone Records, it is enough to attract attention. Considerable attention has been paid.

Therefore, in addition to Michael Johnson, the general manager of Rolling Stone China, returning to Los Angeles to participate in the whole process, Rolling Stone Records also sent their heavyweight to supervise the production, that is, their global music deputy director, David Collison.

It's just that this very gentlemanly deputy director has not been happy for a few days, and his brows are gradually wrinkled——

"Oh baby, your transposition... please forgive me, it's a bit blunt, maybe you can try this..."

Words like this began to come out of his mouth frequently.

However, Liao Liao's musical talent is indeed very strong-even, if one puts aside the music library in his mind and his singing experience in the past twenty years, Li Qian feels that the two of himself are both Not as good as a Liao Liao.

Moreover, she is a northeastern girl who is unwilling to admit defeat from the bottom of her heart!

Therefore, R&B is very difficult and challenging for her, but the more so, the more energetic she is!

So, once, again, again...

Finally, recording, recording, and singing, her performance began to get better and better. In many cases, it was not even quite satisfactory. She was even able to amaze David Collison and Michael Johnson.

So, after more than ten days of being stuck, the recording of "No-one" was finally successfully completed.

As for the following "Through-the-rain", Liao Liao felt that it was out of control. In just three days, this highly showy work, despite repeated control by Li Qian, had already been suppressed. She minimized the element of showmanship, but she was still able to perform it so well!

After finishing this song, the American country song "You're-still-the-One" at the end is not a difficult problem, especially for Liao Liao who is in a high state. ——In just 28 days, the trio of Li Qian, Xie Mingyuan and Liao Liao successfully completed all the tasks of this trip to the United States!

At this time, there is only half a month left before the release of "Titanic" in North America.

So, apart from keeping Sun Meimei in the United States, Li Qian, Xie Mingyuan and Liao Liao left Los Angeles by plane the next day and returned to China to continue recording the remaining four Chinese songs.

After returning to China, Xie Mingyuan will formally join Minghu Culture Company after a short break, succeeding Li Qian as the company's music director. After Xie Mingyuan joins the job, Li Qian will be transferred to the art director of Minghu Culture.

From then on, Xie Mingyuan became the leader of Minghu Culture in music affairs. Li Qian, on the other hand, can be freed from his previous position and focus on a wider scope including the investment and production of movies and TV dramas, as well as the production of music records, especially for Minghu, which has just started. The video department of the cultural company can be more focused.

And at this time, it was the end of April. It is said that Li Qian and Liao Liao had disappeared in the country for two full months, even disappearing without any news. Normally, the media would probably go crazy.

But this time, no.

Kind of weird, but there it is.

After "Once Upon a Time" was released on February 10, it swept all the major charts. On the sales list of Dongguan Bookstore, it not only broke 100,000 copies for three consecutive weeks, but also maintained a fairly healthy sales volume in the following weeks. However, until now, after the eleventh week of its release, this album still has an astonishing sales volume of 38,581 copies in a single week. It can be said that, even according to common sense, Li Qian and Liao Liao should still be the top sellers in the domestic media. , especially the focus of the entertainment media.

but none.

Even the new album "At Least You" by Minghu Cultural Company's newcomer singer Zhuang Meiyue, which was released on April 13, quickly set off a wave of enthusiasm for two consecutive weeks. However, it still won the second place in the sales ranking of Dongguan Bookstore for two consecutive weeks. Although the gap is not that big, as a rookie, he firmly suppressed the little queen Li Xinru, and for a while, the domestic music scene once again marveled at Li Qian's songwriting ability, production ability and Minghu Culture's star-making ability!

However, Zhuang Meiyue is not the most popular in the domestic entertainment circle.

Because just in mid-April, a Japanese TV series introduced by Sony Records China and Sony Corporation of Japan in conjunction with China TV, and premiered on a program of China TV, suddenly became popular.

Even, it is said that the ratings of this TV series are already close to that of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!

Just two weeks later, some domestic media have already chanted slogans, and they called this: "Daily Invasion!"

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