1990: Starting from Baojia Street

After waving her hand, Akina Nakamori wanted to return the microphone to Kong Chao and prepared to continue drinking and eating, but Zhou Yan had no intention of letting her go.

"Since we've already started, please take the trouble to sing the complete Snow Flower for everyone."

Nakamori Akina didn't act coy, but smiled and asked Zhou Yan, "Then can you cooperate with me?"

When the classmates heard Akina Nakamori say this, they all started to make a noise.

"Teacher Zhou, cooperate!"

"Teacher Zhou!"

"cooperate!"

In fact, they had long wanted Zhou Yan to go on stage and play an instrument or something, but they had never been brave enough to ask. Now that Akina Nakamori had asked, they were of course excited.

Zhou Yan was also very straightforward and nodded with a smile, "No problem, I'll accompany you."

Now the students were even more excited. They didn’t expect that today they would not only meet a big star like Akina Nakamori, but also have the opportunity to hear Zhou Yan perform live.

Amid the cheers of the crowd, Akina Nakamori walked onto the stage with the microphone.

Zhou Yan first went to get a guitar, and then walked onto the stage.

When he got closer, Zhou Yan saw that Akina Nakamori's face was already red, and it seemed that she had drunk a lot of alcohol.

Because today is New Year's Day, Zhou Yan specifically asked the kitchen to prepare a sumptuous meal for Akina Nakamori and the others, and also specifically instructed the chef to arrange the dishes.

There was also red wine, which Zhou Yan bought specially to entertain the guests. However, it was not a particularly expensive wine, only about 7,000 to 8,000 yuan a bottle. It could not be compared with the special wines from well-known wineries that cost tens of thousands of yuan a bottle.

It’s probably only five or six years old, and it’s time to drink it.

"I'll use the version I made up before for the accompaniment. Is that okay?"

Akina Nakamori looked at Zhou Yan with twinkling eyes and said with a smile, "I'll just sing according to the original rhythm."

"That's okay too."

Theoretically, as long as both parties can grasp the rhythm very accurately, there is no need to discuss it at all and they can directly carry out the accompaniment, because the accompanist knows when the singer will sing what part.

However, this requires a high sense of rhythm, which many people cannot do.

Of course, when you are actually accompanying someone, you don’t need to be so demanding, and it’s normal to have some instability in the rhythm. And it doesn’t necessarily depend entirely on the rhythm, the direction of the chords is inherently regular, and people with good musical sense can naturally keep up.

Because of this, many singers are able to express themselves freely when performing live.

If the accompanist is of a high level, he or she can improvise accompaniment very freely for a simple song like this.

After discussing with Akina Nakamori, Zhou Yan first tried his fingers. He hadn't played the guitar for a long time and was a little rusty.

Guitar was not an instrument he was good at, and he would easily mess up if he was not careful. However, the guitar accompaniment of "Snow Flower" was not difficult to play, or in other words, the accompaniment of most pop songs was not very difficult to play.

As long as he tries to avoid using complicated techniques when playing and deliberately increases his intensity, he will basically not fail.

He just tried a paragraph casually, and the students in the audience started screaming.

Zhou Yan smiled and said into the microphone, "You guys called me too early. I haven't started yet."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Hearing this, the students all laughed.

Akina Nakamori, who was standing next to him, also smiled. In fact, she rarely saw Zhou Yan like this. Usually when they met, Zhou Yan was quite cold.

Sometimes, Akina Nakamori would hear some people from the Piano Youth Orchestra talking about Zhou Yan, and everyone had different understandings of Zhou Yan.

People who knew Zhou Yan earlier generally think that Zhou Yan is a person with high emotional intelligence, good at talking, cheerful and warm. However, people who knew Zhou Yan later think that Zhou Yan is quite serious and does not talk much.

Zhou Yan at this moment is more like the Zhou Yan described by the old people.

Perhaps, Zhou Yan at this moment is the real Zhou Yan.

Just as Akina Nakamori was staring at Zhou Yan and thinking about something, Zhou Yan had already started playing the guitar.

Soon, the prelude ended. Akina Nakamori had not yet come to her senses the first time and missed the beginning of the song. Zhou Yan had to play the first two bars again.

This time, Akina Nakamori finally reacted and sang along perfectly.

"You freed your hands and walked through the darkness to hold me..."

The speakers in the cafeteria are certainly not very good, but Akina Nakamori made the music sound very high-end with these broken speakers.

When Chen Ying was singing before, everyone thought she sang very well, but now when they compared them, they found that a professional is still a professional. Whether it is breath, resonance, sense of language or timbre, they are not comparable to non-professionals.

Moreover, Akina Nakamori is not an ordinary singer. Her level is definitely top-notch among singers, especially in the middle range. Her voice expressiveness is definitely ranked first.

What is rare is that with such control over the middle range, her performance in the high range is not bad at all. Although she cannot compare with those top high-pitched singers, she is better than ordinary singers.

The slightly tipsy state not only did not affect her voice, but made her singing more hazy and intoxicated, making this song "Snow Flower" a little different from the usual version.

Zhou Yan quite likes this version. Unlike the previous version which was a bit sad, this version is full of more expectations.

Many students in the audience were impressed not only by Akina Nakamori's beautiful singing, but also by her excellent Chinese pronunciation. In some lines of the lyrics, one could not even detect her accent.

Chang Li watched Zhou Yan playing the guitar on the stage and secretly sighed that Director Zhou was so popular with young girls.

If Zhou Yan was a teacher in their school, the dean would probably be worried every day, afraid that he would get too close to the female students.

Teacher-student love is not a strange thing in art schools. Chang Li has seen too many such cases in her many years of teaching in the school.

As someone who has been through this, Chang Li knew that Akina Nakamori had feelings for Zhou Yan as soon as she saw the look in her eyes.

Of course, Akina Nakamori's look may have been acted out, but if it was acted out, Chang Li can only say that Akina Nakamori has a great talent as an actor.

Chang Li didn't know that Akina Nakamori was not only a singer, but also had acted in many film and television dramas, and her performance was pretty good.

In Chang Li's opinion, even a famous star like Akina Nakamori couldn't resist Zhou Yan, let alone the little girls in the school.

She had to be careful about letting the girls in her class get too close to Zhou Yan, otherwise it would be easy to get into trouble.

Tian Youliang didn't notice the look in Nakamori Akina's eyes. He was just looking at Zhou Yan.

Seeing Zhou Yan playing guitar on the stage, Tian Youliang was really envious.

This is so damn handsome.

Tian Youliang himself likes music and plays the guitar regularly, and his level is not bad, but I always feel that he is not as good as Zhou Yan in playing the guitar.

In Tian Youliang's opinion, playing a musical instrument well is a talent that is difficult to train.

In fact, as long as you work hard and accumulate experience over time, you can generally play a musical instrument very well. Even if you cannot become a top master, it will be no problem for you to become a master in the general sense.

But if you want to play well, it is not something that can be achieved by accumulating time. Of course, what Tian Youliang envied more was Zhou Yan's ability in playing instruments.

He heard that Zhou Yan could play more than a dozen musical instruments, and guitar was just one of his many instruments. He should be able to play other instruments better than guitar.

Most of the girls in the acting department had their eyes fixed on Zhou Yan.

When Zhou Yan was sitting there just now, they felt that he was very handsome, but they didn't have any special feelings about him. But now that Zhou Yan walked onto the stage and hugged his guitar, his whole aura was completely different.

The song was completed very quickly, and there were no accidents during the collaboration between Zhou Yan and Akina Nakamori.

"thank you all."

"Thank you everyone."

The two of them thanked the audience respectively.

But this time the audience didn't let them go.

"Teacher Zhou, one more."

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"another one."

"Nakamori Akina, one more song."

"Mingna, Mingna, one more song."

……

Seeing the students so enthusiastic, Zhou Yan looked at Akina Nakamori with a questioning look in his eyes.

Receiving Zhou Yan's questioning look, Nakamori Akina nodded and said, "I have no problem at all, but what should I sing?"

They have only collaborated on one song, "Snow Flower", and if they were to sing another one, I really don't know what to sing.

"How about we sing 'Station'? Can you do that?"

"station……"

The song "Station" quickly flashed through Zhou Yan's mind.

He was not unfamiliar with this song, and he had heard many versions, including the original version sung by Akina Nakamori, the original version by Maria Takeuchi, and the Chinese version by Li Jian.

"Of course I have no problem." Zhou Yan said.

As long as it is a song he has heard, he can directly play the accompaniment, and there is basically no limit to the instrument.

Even if it's a song you haven't heard before, you can get it as long as you have a general idea of ​​the style or listen to the singer sing a few lines.

He had heard this song before, so it was easy for him to play the accompaniment and he just started playing it right away.

After the prelude, Akina Nakamori began to sing.

"This raincoat in front of me looks familiar.

Standing at the station at dusk, my heart is pounding..."

Zhou Yan was quite surprised when he heard the first few sentences, because it was very different from the version sung by Akina Nakamori before.

Akina Nakamori's previous versions were basically very sad, similar to her other love song "The Hard-to-Break Ship".

Many people like to say that Akina Nakamori has a sense of brokenness, also because the love songs she sings are indeed very sad.

But the song "Station" she sang today was obviously different.

Maybe it was because of the alcohol.

After people drink, their current emotions will be magnified. Maybe she was happy at the moment, so she didn't sing out that sad feeling.

And the more I sing, the more free and easy I feel.

Although Zhou Yan didn't understand the lyrics and didn't know whether Akina Nakamori had changed the lyrics, he could clearly feel that the song was different from the original.

If "Station" is a sad love story, according to Akina Nakamori's previous singing style, she is the heroine of this tragic story.

But with the way she sings now, she has become a bystander of this story and can face her past self and what happened with confidence.

If she had any feelings at this moment, they were about life and this world, not about her past or a specific person.

I wonder what the original author Maria Takeuchi would think if she heard Akina Nakamori singing at this moment.

After Maria Takeuchi gave "Station" to Akina Nakamori, she was quite dissatisfied with the way Akina Nakamori sang. She thought that Akina Nakamori's singing was too sad and it was not the same feeling she wanted.

Because of this, Maria Takeuchi later sang a version of the song herself, which was much more free and easy than the version sung by Akina Nakamori.

Different people have different tastes. Some people like the extreme sadness of Akina Nakamori, while others fall in love with the free and easy style of Maria Takeuchi.

Everyone has a different understanding of a song. Even with the same melody and lyrics, different people can interpret them to have different meanings.

Most of the people in the audience had never heard the song "Station". They didn't know how Akina Nakamori sang it before. When they heard this song at this time, they only thought that Akina Nakamori who was singing on the stage was very graceful and had no idea that this was actually a sad song.

Akina Nakamori also knows about her changes. It seemed that when she sang "Station" for the first time, she felt completely relaxed, unlike before when she felt as if there was a grudge in her chest every time she sang this song.

It could be because she had been drinking and her mind wasn't as clear as usual, or it could be because she didn't treat this stage as a formal performance.

There were no cameras, no bright lights, only a group of lively and cheerful college students.

Oh, and there is Zhou Yan who is accompanying her on the stage.

She suddenly remembered the gorgeous fireworks last night and the song "Fireworks" played by Zhou Yan.

Then she thought about what happened between her and Zhou Yan in the car, and her face suddenly felt hot.

It's just that her face had turned red due to drinking, and now there was no visible change in her expression.

Feeling that Akina Nakamori was looking at him, Zhou Yantai turned his head towards her.

When the two looked at each other, a smile suddenly appeared on Akina Nakamori's lips.

Zhou Yan was stunned. At this time, Akina Nakamori was more beautiful than ever before, and her charm also blossomed with this smile.

At this time, the song was just halfway through and it was time for the interlude.

Originally Zhou Yan had already decided what interlude to play, but as soon as the thought came to him, a melody that felt very unfamiliar to Akina Nakamori flowed out from his fingertips.

Hearing this melody, Akina Nakamori raised her eyebrows slightly. This interlude has no similarities with the melody of "Station", but it is placed in the middle and there is no sense of incongruity. There is a fit in the emotions.

The key is that this interlude is particularly nice to listen to. In fact, Akina Nakamori even feels that this interlude is more memorable than the chorus of "Station". It is the kind of melody that you will never forget after listening to it once. (End of this chapter)