72 "Misplaced Lighthouse"
This time Stary's luck was finally reliable. They were ranked later in the competition order. The five of them sat obediently in the waiting room and watched their seniors compete one by one. After a whole season of the show, they also learned a lot.
For example, SKY's superb expression management, Prism's song-making style experience, Blaze's emotional processing, etc., sometimes I have to watch the live broadcast replay again when I return to the hotel.
The five members of Stary have developed good study habits under Yuan Xiao's supervision. They learn everything quickly while they are young and are making rapid progress.
It's just that although they have a good mentality, not every member of every group can do so. Live competitions are prone to all kinds of problems. Almost every participating group will have a "car accident scene" on this stage, and there were particularly many car accidents at the final today. Before even five groups had passed, the sound broke three times.
Even the comments were appalling, with many comments that were not friendly. Even the fans could not suppress the comments even if they tried hard. This show already has a large number of passers-by, especially the finals. Even passers-by who have not been following the show will not be able to help but click in to take a look, otherwise they will be considered to be behind the trend.
Halfway through the race, Yuan Xiao stopped the recording and urgently inserted a few commercials to help the teams behind him calm down.
Now it is too late to consider issues of fairness or unfairness. Once we fall into the vicious cycle of "nervousness-mistakes-more nervousness-more mistakes", the entire first half of the final will collapse. In such a tense competitive atmosphere, people's emotions can easily infect each other.
She went straight through the staff passage to the backstage, first talked to the group that was originally scheduled to go on stage fifth, then called out Stary and asked them how they were feeling now, whether they were nervous, and whether they could go on stage.
The five of them were very honest and said they were only excited and not nervous.
Very good, these are the soldiers brought by Yuan Xiao. Our General Yuan nodded, waved his hand, and temporarily changed the order of Stary, letting them play next.
"Codename: Heart Dancing Stage" urgently needs a stage that can boost morale and give reassurance to both the participating groups and the audience.
According to one of Yuan Xiao's many plans, after the commercial ended, five colorful little cakes would appear on the stage.
They don't try hard to be cute, but their eyes are sincere, their voices are sweet, and their smiles when looking at the camera are pure and innocent. "Misplaced Lighthouse" is the king of atmosphere in the album, and it is very catchy from the prelude. The scenery on the stage is replaced by sunshine, clouds and windmills, and the distant light shines over and flows back and forth on them.
Young people are the wind, freedom and love, and all beautiful things.
"Your dusk has just been unsealed and has become my dawn. The tide has stolen away two or three quarters of an hour of love. The migratory birds have brought last year's unopened letters. The monsoon has to rewrite the sentences into suspense."
Yu Le and Su Chen emerged from the small lighthouse beside the stage and skipped to the other side of the stage. One pulled the dozing Yan Fan out from among the flowers, and the other found Pei Zijin with curved eyes on a stone. Finally, Jin Zeyu appeared from the center of the stage holding a microphone. His voice was soft and sweet. They had already learned in class how to change their voices to suit each song.
"Crouching at three in the morning counting raindrops on the hourglass, the residual warmth you left behind rusted on the back of the hour hand, they said, they said——"
Each of the five men is handsome in his own way, but there is no sense of disharmony. The facial expression management that they have learned from their predecessors is always on point. Every close-up shot is like shooting into the hearts of the audience and fans, firmly implementing the title of the show and making every audience member who sees them on stage have their hearts pounding.
This time Stary's makeup was super delicate, and she left many amazing pictures in the first half of the final. Everyone in Stary's real-time square was waiting for the high-definition feature film to be released soon, and those who wanted to produce it were as impatient as those who were waiting to be produced.
"The lighthouse flickers, turning and turning, just like the trembling shadow of your eyelashes that year. The hour hand waltzes past, swinging and swinging, and the moonlight falls on the old record, burning it until there are cracks."
The melody of the chorus is in line with Yuan Xiao's consistent aesthetic, light and inexplicably catchy. You can hum along after listening to it twice. While humming, you can watch the young people on the stage standing with their hands behind their backs, happily changing their formations, sometimes forming a V-shape and sometimes forming a straight line.
The singers of this song can be seen to be very happy singing it. They stepped onto this stage with the courage of a newborn calf who is not afraid of a tiger. They have made it to the finals with their current performance and have no regrets. Although this song is not very exciting or explosive, and there are no sky-high high-pitched skills, it is here at this moment like a glass of iced soda in summer, refreshing and full of happy bubbles.
The C section of "Misplaced Lighthouse" was designed for Jin Zeyu's melodic rap, which can be regarded as another killer weapon of Stary. His voice naturally carries a sense of story, and the flow is graceful and flexible. Even the opponents in the waiting room couldn't help but show expressions of admiration.
Melodic rap is almost invincible in terms of listening experience.
"We draw circles in the retrograde monsoon, and the lighthouse cuts eternity into thin moments. You turn the rainy season into a poem, and I quietly pickle the regrets into sweetness."
He directly took the microphone off the stand and casually placed his left hand on the stand. There was no choreography for Jin Zeyu in this section. He relied entirely on his instinctive movements as a rapper. He is tall, thin, with long arms and legs. He simply swayed to the melody, and the ribbon on his wrist fluttered with the melody, looking extremely harmonious and beautiful on the stage.
“When migratory birds bring back faded postcards, we discover that love is a flame that has been stranded and rekindled.”
This is also the only original clip in Stary's entire first album. Teacher Gu took care of the lyrics and music for the entire album for the novice boy band, leaving only a rap segment in one song for Jin Zeyu to express himself freely, fully respecting the custom of rappers to write their own lyrics.
Jin Zeyu did not disappoint Teacher Gu and Yuan Xiao's trust. The lyrics he wrote were full of life, and with the theme and lyrics set by Gu Yuchen as an introduction, the final product was like a romantic modern poem.
How did you say that? I’m most afraid of rappers singing love songs.
In the director's room, Yuan Xiao watched the five of them perform almost perfectly. She herself didn't even realize the pride in her eyes. Gu Yuchen stood with her, as if he was looking at his own perfect work, and said, "Top three? Do you think it's okay?"
Yuan Xiao stared at the five people on the stage without blinking: "Top three, or first place is also fine."
Although they all say that if they can't do well this year, they can try again next year and accumulate experience for another album, and they will definitely do better than this year, but it's come to this point, who wouldn't have some secret thoughts about the championship position?
Stary, the debut was the peak, which seems not bad?
The results of the first half of the competition will not be announced for the time being. They will be calculated together after the second half and the final ranking will be announced. Only Yuan Xiao and Gu Yuchen know the data. The rest of the participating teams are just as ignorant as the audience. Stary cannot have any privileges here.
The main reason is that Yuan Xiao doesn't want everyone to be too affected by the results. The established facts cannot be changed no matter what, so it is better to prepare well for the next game.
There is a lot of heated discussion on the Internet about the guessing of various rankings. In addition to the interest of fans and viewers, it has also supported many marketing accounts. There are opinions on which of the eight groups will take first place, and everyone has guessed it.
Yuan Xiao simply asked the program team to launch an official guessing contest on several major platforms, encouraging fans to send in their predictions for the finals along with the program topics, and finally draw a lottery among the fans who guessed correctly to receive autographed photos of the participating groups.
Her own social media account has almost become a wishing pool for Stary fans. For some reason, they feel that wishes made directly in Yuan Xiao's comment section are easier to come true. In response to this, Yuan Xiao said that she really only has the power of capital, and not some metaphysical power.
She no longer needs to go back to the Beijing company this last week. The last time she went back, she had arranged for the second batch of female trainees to come here. For the last two live stages, Yuan Xiao arranged seats for them so that they could observe as junior students and learn some stage performance experience.
These beautiful girls who appeared together also caused some slight discussions and commotions at the scene. The audience who came to the scene were generally familiar with the organizer of the program and one of the hottest participating groups, Yuanxin. The news that the second batch of trainees of Yuanxin would soon participate in the recording of the second season of "Idol·Unnamed" and form a new girl group was no longer a secret among fans.
There are even some trainees with strong personal traits who have become well-known online because of the name of Yuan Xin. Not only do they have their own fan clubs and super topic organizations, they are also frequent visitors to many discussion groups.
Some fans who only like girl groups have been rubbing their hands and can't wait. If we follow the time period of last year's program recording, the theme song and the first public recording of "I Have No Future" will be released in just over a month, and the program will be broadcast in the summer. Not to mention the well-informed fans, even scalpers have begun to get excited.
As the influence of Yuanxin's programs and groups continues to grow, the scalper problem is becoming more and more serious. The company has been trying its best to suppress all kinds of scalpers and fans who buy and sell peripherals and tickets, and is also trying its best to protect the members' personal information, but it still cannot prevent them from setting their sights on trainees who have not yet debuted.
For the sake of safety, Stary's company will now try their best to arrange for them to use the VIP channel at the airport when traveling. When buying air tickets, they will try to buy small planes and book business class tickets to prevent private fans from changing their tickets. In various official accounts and statements from the fan club, it has been repeatedly emphasized that private pursuit is against the law. Yuanxin also does not encourage any form of airport pick-up, car pick-up, and hotel pick-up. All support activities must be reported to the company. The five members of Stary have also repeatedly emphasized in materials that they prefer to meet fans in formal and official occasions.
This is not to say that we are not grateful for the fans' dedication to love, but Stary has a lot of schedules and materials, and they can fully display their superb skills and excellent aesthetics in more suitable places, instead of waiting in the airport, where they often have to hang out with private fans and paparazzi, which affects public order and makes them prone to injury.
But there are more than 30 trainees in the second phase, and they can only book economy class tickets. However, it was discovered that the trainees' seats were secretly changed right after they booked their tickets. Fortunately, it was discovered in time by the careful staff, otherwise they would have to endure a lot of trouble and harassment when checking in.
Yuan Xiao was also helpless. In the information age, there were always people like this who were omnipresent, and she had no way to change all her bad habits.
However, the next day, Gu Yuchen discovered that Yuan Xiao had checked the price of airplanes on his mobile phone when he was free. In fact, buying a passenger plane was not too expensive for Yuan Xiao now. What was expensive was the money to maintain an entire aircraft team, apply for routes, stop at airports, the salaries of pilots and stewardesses, and the subsequent maintenance and upkeep of the aircraft, all of which were not small amounts.
She calculated that in two quarters, the company's revenue would be enough to purchase a small or medium-sized private jet, which would be just right for use when the girl group debuted.
Although Yuan Xiao cannot change all his bad habits, he has money.
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