73 Finals
In order to edit the pre-match video and record the program highlights for the last episode of "Heart Dancing Stage", before the second half of the finals began, the program crew brought cameras to visit each participating group's preparations.
Almost everyone was sweating profusely in the practice room. To get here, any group that had been giving up would have been eliminated several rounds ago. Even Blaze had picked up their old skills of singing and dancing since the previous episodes. In the words of their members, their waists were about to break from dancing, and they had never worked so hard even in a concert.
SKY expressed his reluctance to leave. Thinking that there is only one week left and they may not be able to stay in the practice room together every day like this, he hoped that this program would never end.
Prism is much calmer and composed. For them, although they are very grateful for the recognition and praise they have received from coming to the show, they will continue to do it regardless of whether there is the show "Codename: Heart Dancing Stage" or not.
So far, six groups have clearly stated on the show that new albums are in preparation, so now "Heart Dance Stage" has a new name among fans: the first "birth-inducing" program in the domestic entertainment industry.
On Stary's side, the program's camera and sound could hear the "dong dong dong dong" sound coming from the other end of the corridor before they even reached the door of the practice room.
Director: ...a little scared.
When the crew knocked on the door, it felt like the entire practice room was shaking, as if there was an earthquake. The director made a quick decision to let the camera enter the door first and aimed it at five people who looked like they had been fished out of the water.
This time, it was not just Yan Fan who wore his baseball cap regularly. Everyone wore one, and they urgently protected their idol's image in front of the program crew.
The camera panned over Yuan Xiao in the corner. She silently shrank to the side, put on a mask, and pretended to be an ordinary staff member.
She hadn't expected that she would be visited by the production crew after just a short while. Now, there were a lot of posts in the online discussion groups conspiring against her to falsify data and rankings for Stary. If she reported one, three more would appear. About half of these posts were from passers-by who were accustomed to conspiracy theories, and the other half were from fans of other eliminated groups. Looking at this program and Stary, they were full of dissatisfaction.
Yuan Xiao didn't want to pay attention to boring people, but he also didn't want his behavior to give them more topics of conversation.
"Hello hello."
Pei Zijin paused the music urgently, walked in front of the camera, and led his brothers to greet the camera: "Hello everyone, we are Stary."
He also confirmed with the director, "Isn't this live broadcast?"
I felt relieved only after getting the definite answer. If their program is not kept secret, there will be no surprises. And with Stary's fans' familiarity with "Dawn", they should be able to guess what song it is just by listening to one note.
The director was surprised to see them all and asked, "Are you... rehearsing a new song?"
Although every group seems to be working very hard, isn't it too exaggerated to train like a drowned rat?
The five people's rehearsal short-sleeved shirts were almost all wet, their muscles were so engorged that their beautiful contours were revealed, and beads of sweat could be seen dripping down their necks and cheeks. Pei Zijin wiped the sweat off his face a little embarrassedly and tactfully told the program crew that it was just a little bit of new choreography and not worth mentioning.
This surprise visit was edited into the promotional trailer before the finals. When Stary appeared on the real final stage, the audience said that they had not thought enough about it.
He wore a black and white layered tank top with motorcycle-style trousers, and chains jingled on his wrists. His muscles, which he had trained for a whole year, looked so muscular for the first time. For a moment, the fans in front of the live broadcast screen were a little speechless.
I'm so... so rich.
Why did you show it to us now?
After more than a year of unremitting physical and body shaping training, even the youngest brother Yu Le and Su Chen, who did not have very good physical fitness at the beginning, now have beautiful muscles. Originally, they were only faintly visible under the loose clothes, but now the lines are outlined by the simple I-shaped vest, which makes people can't help but shed tears from the corners of their mouths.
This time everyone is still wearing headsets, and now the audience can also see Stary's routine. If it is ordinary singing and dancing, they will hold the customized microphone, and if they are wearing headsets, it means they are going to dance hard.
With the help of the newly arranged music and choreography, the five-person performance of "Dawn" is as powerful as the original performance by twenty-five people, like five little leopards taking the stage.
The relatively simple melody of "Dawn" leaves room for Krump to perform. If the original version was designed to show their sympathy for the fact that they were still trainees at the time, then the current 2.0 version is a full-scale display of their growth over the past year.
Dancing Krump on the live stage was an extremely bold decision. In order to ensure that everyone's breathing was stable during the singing part, Pei Zijin and Gu Yuchen redistributed the lyrics for the newly-composed "Dawn". The sentences were broken up into small pieces, and people were replaced almost every time they sang, to ensure that the members whose turn it was to sing could finish it in one breath and their breathing would not be affected by overly intense dance movements.
In Yan Fan's words, it means singing a line and then quickly going back to take a break.
The bass drum, which was even more intense than the original song, sounded on the stage. The fans who had been excited since the announcement were confused in the audience and in front of the screen. Who is this? Is this our little "Dawn"?
After Stary sang the adaptation in two episodes, fans were not sure whether he would sing "Dawn" in the last episode. Since the end of the show last year, Stary has not sung in any online activities. When the show was announced, fans who had followed them since "Ou Wei" were very excited, but when they listened to it, they felt that it didn't seem to be the case.
This song has been listened to for the entire summer. It can be said to be the war song of the Shuo Kingdom. All fans can sing it. Pei Zijin's previous statement that he could guess what song it was by just hearing one note was definitely not an exaggeration. As for the 2.0 version, everyone at Stary is confident that it will definitely be better and more classic.
But if this version was used from the beginning, it might have sacrificed a lot of popularity.
"Sweat soaked through the glass of the practice room in the early morning, and the stubborn figure reflected in the mirror refused to stop."
It was still Su Chen who started the song. The curly-haired boy wearing half-finger gloves set the tone with a firm opening and stepped one foot in the center of the stage. Even though they have debuted as a group, they are still the same as they were when they were trainees. They sweat in the practice room and will not rest until they have practiced to perfection. Only now they are more confident and their goals are clearer.
"The calluses on my fingertips are the marks of my medal. Even if I fall ten thousand times, I will still run towards the light—"
Yan Fan quickly followed. The two of them were old partners in the middle range. Everyone in Stary had a distinctive voice and a different range. For example, Pei Zijin and Jin Zeyu had relatively low voices, while Su Chen and Yan Fan dominated the middle range. Yu Le's good voice could always passionately support the highest notes. As long as it was the same singing part, switching and harmonizing among the members with the same range would appear very smooth.
"In the dark night, I count the stars and silently recite my name. Can the world see clearly this time? The boy folds his dream into a paper airplane, breaking through the fog just to break through the sky——"
Pei Zijin and Jin Zeyu took over, looked at each other and kicked forward at the same time. The version they finally brought to the stage was not exactly the one that Gu Yuchen had demonstrated to them. Teacher Gu had no problem with the completion of the dance without singing and only dancing, but for better vocal effects, they still combined the choreography of the first half with Urban and made it a little more restrained.
The frame is still enlarged to the maximum, and the five people on the stage no longer pursue uniformity this time, but instead release their entire movements outward. Sweat flows freely on their beautiful thin muscles, sparkling under the light.
Now they already have names.
"Crush the thorns of doubt, and let the heartbeat and drum beat resonate to create a miracle——"
Yu Le leaped from behind, stepping on the legs of his two brothers to the front of the stage. He landed on the ground, half squatted, and burst out with a high-pitched note. The high-pitched tail note was extremely long, circling and flying over the entire venue.
The other four people rushed forward at the same time, stomping their feet heavily, almost chopping the stage into pieces. It didn't matter if there were doubts, as long as they had the strength, they were not afraid of any doubts.
"We born to be legends——"
Krump dance skills were fully displayed at this moment. The five people tore off the outer lining of their vests with force, pretended to take off their masks and threw them away fiercely. Under the leadership of Yan Fan, they were like a pack of wolves, fierce, determined and never admitting defeat. The kill out moves were more and more heavy, hormones were surging on the stage, and bking's temperament was incredibly handsome.
In the end, the five of them gathered in unison and raised their hands at the same time. They were able to get the angles exactly right on such an intense stage performance. This must have shown that they put in countless hours of hard work behind the scenes.
It was like holding a heavy sniper rifle and firing it. The handsome killing part that Teacher Gu had geniusly compiled was perfectly preserved and reproduced. Five people raised their heads and fired at the same time. The scene was almost pleasing to the eyes and shocking.
"We born to be legends——"
Never fail, born to be a legend.
Yuan Xiao, who was watching them from the audience, also quietly came to the auditorium at this moment. She did not miss her group's final stage. Surrounded by the thunderous atmosphere, Yuan Xiao could hardly stop thinking about what problems might be caused, what needed to be modified, what equipment and makeup were needed, and just quietly and simply enjoyed the stage.
Not bad, she thought.
If the girl group that is about to start recording can reach a similar level in a year, Yuan Xiao thought, then she would have given herself a satisfactory explanation after coming into this world.
As for Stary's final ranking, everyone on and off the field was under intense calculations. They could almost be said to have performed above their level, but the same was true for other groups.
SKY not only perfectly reproduced the theme song of the first season of the show, but also skewered several other theme songs of the show in the middle. Only then did fans remember that they have always been very good senior sisters. They have returned to many of the subsequent shows and selflessly passed on their experience to the younger generations.
Prism has been performing stably until the last episode, and their fan base has made a qualitative leap compared to before the show. Many new fans are overwhelmed by the mountains of materials and stages that have been accumulated over the past decade, spanning several decades from landline picture quality to 1080p. Their fans generally say that they are fans of this group because of the stability and steadiness they get.
Blaze performed the first song from their new album. They did not want to over-consume the deceased member, but they thought that this song, a song sung for him, deserved to be heard by more people. Perhaps there will never be a better stage to promote songs than "Heart Dance Stage", and there will never be another opportunity for a program with more viewers than the finals.
The song they brought to the finals was not a sad slow song. On the contrary, it was a song that they sang and danced like they did back then. It was a trend at the time and it still sounds great today. Blaze also performed very well on this final stage. They did not mention Brother in the short video introducing the song, nor did they say anything about missing him. But every lyric, every dance step, every word was full of longing. They sang the happiest song to make the audience cry.
After watching Stary's performance, Yuan Xiao returned to the backstage and stared at the data. The rankings of Blaze and Stary kept fluctuating, and the votes of Prism Group and SKY who followed closely behind were also very close. It was difficult to determine the first, second and third places until the very end.
Yuan Xiao had no plans to tamper with the data. She neither planned to raise Stary's ranking nor to push it down. It was what it was. She just had to get first-hand data and then choose different marketing strategies based on the final ranking.
The lights at Yuanxin headquarters were bright, and the publicity department was working overtime. Different battle reports and plans had already been prepared, and everyone was ready for the last large-scale publicity of the entire season.
This time, Yuan Xiao has made up his mind to let everyone aged 8 to 80 across the country know that there are many outstanding idol groups in the domestic entertainment industry.
At 11 o'clock, all the participating groups and all the stage performances of this season were completed, the off-site voting ended, and the audience voting began to be counted. Fifteen minutes later, in the golden ribbon rain at the venue, the final results were released:
"Code: Heart Dancing Stage" Season 1 finals, runner-up, first place in off-site voting, the most popular group - Stary!
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