24 Group Stage
The effect of this time's theme song recording was unexpectedly good.
Originally, they recorded the show several times in advance in order to find the most perfect backup in case something went wrong during the children's first performance on stage. However, these trainees really made Yuan Xiao proud, and almost everyone performed their best.
Gu Yuchen took out a cup of coffee from under his seat and took a sip of it while the lights went out and someone else was on stage. He whispered to Yuan Xiao, "This time the effect is pretty good."
Although the dance moves can almost be called simple, being able to perform simple moves to a 120-point level is also an outstanding performance.
Yuan Xiao also nodded. Although she had strict requirements, she would not suppress anything against her conscience. Well done is well done.
Moreover, the theme song stage is just a performance, and the first public group competition is closely related to the trainees' personal interests. None of the 25 people only care about their own performance stage and ignore the theme song practice. This is what Yuan Xiao is most satisfied with.
She wants to be a member of a group, not a solo idol.
The first performance did not have a complicated stage design. The trainees only had to complete the most basic singing and dancing. Without the complicated movements and stage equipment, they could also focus more time and energy on improving their own abilities.
It’s not that we don’t want to create complex stages, but at this stage, improving ourselves is more important than just creating a good stage.
The first group led by Pei Zijin rushed into the dressing room to change clothes as soon as they got off the stage. In just a few steps, they were first touched up by the makeup artists like an assembly line, and their microphones were checked one by one.
While waiting, the five people in the first group put their hands together to cheer themselves up. After shouting "Come on!", they raised their hands high. The trainees from other groups nearby also took time out of their busy schedules to echo them, and the shouts spread throughout the entire backstage.
Even Yuan Xiao and the others who were sitting in the front heard some noise and couldn't help but smile knowingly.
The lift rose again, and five people hurriedly found their spots on the dark stage. Pei Zijin took a deep breath and gestured slightly to the side of the stage.
A steady rhythmic sound came from the earphones, and several spotlights hit him, causing his tanned silver-black performance clothes to become slightly hot.
If, if I could live this kind of life forever, always on the stage, it seems like it would be pretty good.
The bass drum struck, and he stretched out his arms to the rhythm of the music. At the beginning note of the prelude, his fingertips steadily caught a beam of light.
He is always the most stable one. In the group, Pei Zijin always opens the first sentence of a song and sets the tone.
Pei Zijin was not used to the headset at first. He always wanted to hold the microphone in his hand or hold on to something. His mouth and body seemed to be two parallel lines that did not connect. He could not dance when singing, and he could not remember the lyrics if he remembered the movements.
Even though he had no intention of staying at first, he didn't want to hold back the people in his group, so he practiced alone in the practice room until dawn, but he just felt that he was getting dumber and dumber, so he stuck his head out of the window to get some fresh air to wake himself up.
"Hey, hey, hey! You! It's not that serious. You don't have to think too much if you don't practice well." The clothes on the back were grabbed by someone with great force. Pei Zijin withdrew with difficulty and blew the wind, "It's just too hot."
When I turned around, I found it was Yan Fan. He was wearing a loose T-shirt and sports pants, as if he had just gotten up and came to the practice room to stretch. Now I was speechless looking at him: "You can't blow like that. It's so cold outside in the morning. Do you want to catch a cold?"
They were not in the same group for this test, but there were only a few practice rooms, and with Teacher Yan's dancing level, he memorized all the dances of all the groups after just watching them twice.
"It's nothing, I just didn't practice singing and dancing well, so I'm a little anxious." Pei Zijin scratched his head embarrassedly, his eyes curved with a little apology. He was indeed a little emotional just now, Yan Fan was two years younger than him, and it was a strange feeling to have a little goose-like brother standing in front of him with his hands on his hips and scolding him fiercely.
Among these people, only he and Su Chenyanfan had a relatively established performance style before coming to the company, so it would be even more awkward for them to get used to a new one.
By the way, how did Yan Fan practice?
Pei Zijin hesitated for a second, but chose to ask directly: "Fanfan, when you sing and dance, do you remember the lyrics or the dance moves?"
He wasn't worried that Yan Fan would deliberately not tell him or anything, he just felt it was a bit embarrassing to directly admit that he was not good at singing and dancing.
Yan Fan started to have a headache when he heard him call her Fanfan. The trainees who were older than him and were now being coached by Pei Zijin all started to call him that. No matter how he protested, it was useless.
Yan Fan's tone was not very good, but he did not hide anything in what he said:
"What can we do about it? We just have to practice until we can dance instinctively even in our dreams. But we have a test tomorrow. If you're in a hurry, I have a stupid idea you can try."
"You should match the song and dance into sections one by one. After memorizing them, perform them as if you have loaded that section in your brain. After this section, you can perform the next section. Don't always think about forming muscle memory. Your dancing skills are not at that level yet."
Pei Zijin looked at him, a little dazed. It is said that a bystander sees more clearly. It was he who was anxious and got into a dead end.
Now he has long passed the painful period of transformation, and singing and dancing have gradually been integrated into his bones and blood, but Pei Zijin is still very grateful to Yan Fan for teaching him the methods and for correcting the dance moves for them without getting tired of it.
The second group was Yan Fan’s group. The trainees were all waiting under the elevator. They couldn’t see what was happening on the stage in front and behind them. Only the sound was transmitted to the depths of the stage through the vibrations.
Yan Fan hummed softly and tapped the beat with his toes.
Pei Zijin was the best student among them in the composition class. While they were still trying to understand the music theories, Pei Zijin was able to use what he had learned to comprehensively optimize the original songs he had written before.
This performance piece was also Pei Zijin's first attempt to simply adapt a song based on his own understanding. He had been thinking about this since the song selection, and even tormented Teacher Gu for a long time.
With Gu Yuchen's understanding of the stage, most of Pei Zijin's current adaptation ideas are still very naive. However, he is like a sponge that absorbs water. Gu Yuchen carefully explains to him why each point cannot be changed in a certain way, which is also a kind of knowledge. He learns very quickly.
The middle section of the song was the only adaptation that Gu Yuchen approved after countless rejections. In the end, it was retained and was personally mixed into the final version of the engineering file by Pei Zijin and followed him onto the stage.
Yan Fan liked this passage very much, but never told Pei Zijin.
The original song is a pure English rock song called "Holiday" in Yuanxin's copyright library. It is a very classic song. Only a copyright library as large as Yuanxin has its East Asian agency rights. It was also adapted into a dance music by Gu Yuchen.
The overly rock-like screaming part of the original song was removed, and the BPM was slowed down by three quarters. In Gu Yuchen's hands, the music was like dough that he could knead and shape into whatever shape he wanted. Pei Zijin was extremely envious of this ability.
Although it is called "Holiday", it is actually a very hard song. The drum beats are very strong and the bass is very fast. The movement framework choreographed by the choreographer is also very large. Dancing to it once is like bombing a circle in the practice room.
The melody that Pei Zijin inserted replaced the transition section of the original song and was also the only group dance in the entire song that did not require singing. He moved to the side and lowered his body and shook the rhythm together with his teammates in the low and gentle chords. Every muscle in his arms was precisely controlled, and sweat mixed with glitter sparkled on the boy's collarbone.
People who meet Pei Zijin for the first time will easily be attracted by his beautiful, gentle, and smiling eyes, but when he frowns, you can see that he is actually tall and slender with a smooth figure.
Although the movements are not the most standard, they have the best visual effects in the group.
Yuan Xiao lowered his eyes imperceptibly and wrote down his comment on the tablet:
"Some old school street dances are OK, but I still need to practice the basic skills and steps of the new school."
This is something I will mention privately to the teachers later and will not tell the trainees.
After the group stage ended, several trainees stood in a row and introduced themselves to the audience. The panting sounds were barely audible after they were simply calmed down. It was obvious that Yuan Xiao's physical training class was effective.
This is far from their limit.
Zheng Xiyan glanced at the equally sparkling eyes of her friends around her and knew that she was going to add a new wall.
As usual, the mentors on the judges' panel made a few simple comments one by one. Taking the recording of the program into consideration, although they talked about problems, their tone was gentle.
Only Yuan Xiao didn't smile at all. He calmly and pointedly pointed out the problems in the first group's performance. The performance was not relaxed enough, the formation was not neat enough, and the emotions in the key chorus of the song were not progressive. These were all points that needed attention.
The audience couldn't believe it. Their first reaction was that she was nitpicking. If a stage like this wasn't good, how could it be called good? But if they thought about it carefully, they realized that the problems Yuan Xiao mentioned were indeed objective, but they were overshadowed by the advantages.
I can only say that I have been eating too badly recently and have been poisoned by domestic entertainment for too long, so my aesthetic taste has declined.
The trainees were all accustomed to Yuan Xiaoxun, and what she said was indeed the key points, so they nodded and bowed humbly before leaving the stage to let the next group perform.
When passing by the second group, the boys in both teams raised their clenched fists and bumped them together to cheer each other up.
Yuan Xiao was very happy to see that the trainees had begun to consciously apply the various skills they had learned to their performances. The characteristics of each group's subsequent performances were very obvious. Compared with the highly skilled and delicate display of dance moves by Yan Fan's group, Su Chen and his friends were obviously better at singing than dancing.
There is almost no group that is obviously weak, which makes it difficult for voters.
Yuan Xiao lowered his head and wrote down a few things, not only the shortcomings but also the advantages.
After Yan Fan left his specialized field and began to practice other types of dance extensively, he gradually began to master them. His body control was almost specific to every muscle, and his dance steps seemed to melt into the music.
Su Chen is the only trainee whose voice alone can convey a sense of lightness and leaping, like a deer frolicking in the woods. Judging from the expressiveness of his voice alone, his talent and learning ability are terrifying.
And Jin Zeyu, since the deep talk that day, he no longer simply regarded this as a free interest class. Instead, he started to work hard for his dream like everyone else.
Although he started a little late, this man has such a good sense of relaxation on stage. He is a person who can make you feel comfortable and at ease no matter what he does on stage. The audience will not feel tired at all when watching his performance. This is his unique stage charm.
【Author’s words】
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