Under normal circumstances, after receiving such sharp comments, Ji Zehui would definitely try to smooth things over with the host immediately, and then find another topic to get the guest commentator to say a few pleasant words, so as to temporarily smooth over the situation. He would then think of a way to put pressure on the program team in post-production editing, so that they would not broadcast the unpleasant words and only broadcast the pleasant ones.
But Ji Zehui couldn't keep calm at this moment. He had just heard several guest commentators praising the adaptation of "Raging Waves", which made him particularly intolerant of Long Shuyou's criticism of him at this time.
And what if Long Shuyou was really invited by Xie Yang...
Ji Zehui began to make excuses, saying, "I'm always reflecting on myself. I didn't perform well this time, and I feel very sorry for the guest singer Jie Yang who came to help me. He was busy adapting "Raging Waves" until yesterday afternoon. We hurriedly ran through it in the afternoon, and rehearsed in the evening. After working non-stop, both he and I were a little tired."
Long Shuyou was getting more and more disappointed, and said, "No, in the performance just now, neither you nor Jie Yang's voices seemed tired, you just had problems with coordination. Jie Yang's performance was remarkable, and he rendered the emotions of the song perfectly before you opened your mouth, but as soon as you opened your mouth, all the emotions immediately shrank. Especially after you started to show off your skills in the later stage, I seemed to hear another song. And in the last chorus, Jie Yang tried again and again to pull you back on track, but you tried again and again to suppress his voice, causing the emotions of the whole song to collapse. I think Jie Yang also failed here. Jie Yang, you obviously have the energy to take control of the song in the last chorus, why didn't you do it?"
Everyone looked towards Jie Yang.
Xie Yang had to raise the microphone.
How should I answer this? Tell the truth?
That--
"Forget it, I'll help you say it, because you're afraid that Ji Zehui won't be able to compete with you and will end up breaking his voice."
Xie Yang immediately put down the phone.
There was an awkward silence both in the front and backstage.
Ji Zehui's face darkened.
Upon seeing this, the host stepped out to smooth things over, but after trying for a long time, Ji Zehui still didn't respond. There was a commotion in the audience and the director had to stop the recording.
Ji Zehui's agent hurried forward to apologize to the director, then called Ji Zehui over to talk to the director aside.
More than ten minutes later, Ji Zehui left, and the director frowned and called Jie Yang.
Xie Yang walked over.
The director gestured to Xiao Jin in the corner.
Xie Yang looked at Xiao Jin, who also happened to look over. Finally, Xiao Jin took the initiative to step towards Xie Yang, handed him a business card, and said, "Mr. Xie, I suggest that the director re-record your and Zehui's singing. The other guests have already been discussed. As long as you nod, the recording can start again immediately. What do you want?"
This is a deal.
Xie Yang smiled and asked, "You guys are not going to embarrass me anymore?"
"Zehui was impulsive in what happened before. I'm sorry."
"You are quite flexible." Xie Yang accepted the business card, but couldn't say much in front of the director. He simply said, "Wait for me in the parking lot after the show is over. I have a business deal to discuss with you."
After Xiao Jin left, the director said to Jie Yang awkwardly and embarrassedly: "Thank you for your understanding, Mr. Jie. This time I really... Alas."
Xie Yang smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm just singing it again."
After stopping recording for half an hour, the director came out and announced that Jie Yang and Ji Zehui's singing would be re-recorded.
There were low "ahs" of surprise from the audience. The people in the program team all looked at Jie Yang with sympathy.
Xie Yang's expression remained unchanged. He just gave Long Shuyou a soothing look, indicating that Long Shuyou's re-recording was with his consent. After receiving the hint, Long Shuyou frowned and sat back down, not causing any trouble for the director.
Everyone returned to their seats and Xie Yang turned back to the stage entrance.
Ji Zehui was standing there with a bottle of water to moisten his throat. When he saw Jie Yang coming over, he just glanced at him and said nothing.
Xie Yang walked up to Ji Zehui, looked at the brightly lit stage outside the entrance and the auditorium filled with spectators, and said, "Don't worry, I'm not going to mock you. Sing well this time and don't ruin my arrangement."
Ji Zehui accidentally crushed the water bottle.
Xie Yang still didn't look at Ji Zehui, and concentrated on adjusting the position of the ear monitor: "Be prepared, if you still don't perform well this time, I won't let you go again."
After the transition words were spoken, the two of them went on stage.
Xie Yang stood still on his own half of the stage, closed his eyes and breathed lightly.
Almost everyone immediately noticed that Xie Yang's aura was different after he came on stage this time. He held the microphone in one hand and let the other hand hang naturally with his eyes half closed. His dark blue suit shone with a faint silver glow under the light, like a few rays of moonlight scattered on the sea in the middle of the night, quiet and cold.
The audience fell silent unconsciously. Everyone was staring at Jie Yang, unconsciously ignoring Ji Zehui who was wearing a rock style outfit on the other side.
The music started and the lights dimmed.
Waves suddenly surged on the calm sea surface, and the traveler who had just been quietly bathing in the moonlight was instantly swept under the sea.
Xie Yang’s singing voice is inserted at the right time, describing the panic, struggle, searching for the direction of life in the surging waves, suffocation, pain... never giving up!
Stronger and more complex emotions than the last time she performed filled the entire venue as the song went on. All the audience members held their breath unconsciously, as if they were also being swept into the sea.
Section A ends, and after a tense and rapid interlude, the chorus of fierce resistance begins. Ji Zehui's low and rough voice penetrated the waves, but it seemed... not strong enough?
Just when the audience was almost thrown out of the emotional net created by the song, a harmony suddenly lifted up Ji Zehui's voice, like a traveler who was already powerless under the beating of the waves and suddenly remembered his relatives who were still waiting for him in his hometown. The desire to live suddenly broke out and he fought even more fiercely.
The audience calmly returned to the net and continued to nervously control their emotions to the song.
Ji Zehui glanced at Jie Yang, suppressed his temper and continued singing along with Jie Yang's rhythm.
The confrontation between man and waves became more and more urgent and fierce. Finally, when the chorus ended, the waves suddenly slowed down and the traveler thought life had come.
The second section A sounded at the right time, and this time the singing emotion was slightly different. Joy, sudden exhaustion, forced awakening, eagerly swimming towards the surface...
At the end of section a, the music suddenly becomes faster. When the traveler was about to approach the sea surface, a stronger wave suddenly appeared and pushed the traveler back into the deep sea again.
The second chorus is coming soon. The traveler sees hope but falls back into despair. This passage expresses the traveler's anger, loss of control, and outburst! It's the unwillingness of being completely annoyed by the waves!
Ji Zehui's voice cut in again, and this time Jie Yang supported his voice with harmony from the very beginning. The accumulated emotions suddenly burst out, and all the audience members unconsciously clenched their fists.
Fight! Fight! Keep fighting!
Xie Yang no longer put down the microphone, nor did he accommodate Ji Zehui anymore. He carried Ji Zehui's voice through the entire chorus, then sank his emotions into the more urgent interlude after the chorus. Then, when the last chorus came, he took the initiative, suppressing Ji Zehui's roaring voice, and exerted his full strength to render the emotions, completely unleashing the traveler's will to survive.
The game has reached its final moment!
Pulling, colliding, a life-or-death situation...Finally, the traveler stepped hard on the waves, broke through the sea surface, and climbed onto the overturned boat.
As the sun rises, the traveler slides his boat to the shore, wrung out the water from his clothes, and heads home. Behind him, the waves reluctantly subsided slowly, the sea surface returned to calm, and caught a piece of broken sunshine.
The music slowed down, then grew quieter.
Xie Yang opened his eyes and looked towards the audience. He placed the hand holding the microphone on his abdomen and bent over slightly.
After a few seconds of silence, there was thunderous applause, and some audience members couldn't help but excitedly shout out Li Yang's name.
Ji Zehui stood beside Jie Yang, breathing a little faster, sweat on his forehead, and feeling unwilling.
He couldn't defeat Jie Yang, absolutely not.
Long Shuyou looked at Jie Yang on the stage with shining eyes and clapped his hands vigorously. The other guest commentators did not expect that the adapted version of "Raging Waves" would be so shocking with its perfect performance, and they also followed suit and applauded loudly.
"I feel like this song would be even better without Ji Zehui's voice." One of the guest commentators couldn't help but comment.
Another guest quickly reached out and patted him on the shoulder, telling him to stop talking nonsense.
There was also amazement and praise in the waiting room for the two guests backstage. Zeng Min said: "I thought the performance of 'Raging Waves' during the last rehearsal was already excellent, but I didn't expect... this little newcomer is amazing."
Many guests who originally didn't care about the chorus were secretly regretting in their hearts - with this level of chorus, wouldn't they have given away the first place to Ji Zehui in vain?
Some of the new generation singers who were about the same age as Jie Yang among the guest singers felt threatened. With such an outstanding peer like Jie Yang standing on the stage, do they still have a chance to stand out?
On stage.
Xie Yang stood up amid the applause, picked up the microphone and looked towards the audience, saying, "Thank you everyone." Then he looked at Ji Zehui next to him and said, "Thank you, Teacher Ji, for giving me the opportunity to be on the stage of Who is the King of Singers? Thank you."
Ji Zehui's grip on the microphone was so tight that veins almost popped out. He didn't expect that when Jie Yang got really serious, he would explode with such terrible suppression power. He wanted to get angry, but in the end, reason prevailed. He picked up the microphone and said, "Xiao Jie, you're too polite. I should be the one thanking you for your arrangement and helping with the singing. Thank you for your hard work."
The host came on stage at the appropriate time, interacted with Ji Zehui and Jie Yang with a smile, and then handed the words to the commentator.
The guest reviewers praised the two actors without any pressure this time. They praised their performances from emotional expression to singing skills without any hesitation. Long Shuyou rarely found fault or made a long speech, and just said briefly: "Not bad."
…
The new episode of "Who is the King of Singers" was finally recorded successfully. In the end, the program team took into consideration that Ji Zehui sang it twice, and in order to take into account the emotions of other guests, they only asked the judges to give "Raging Waves" a score that was neither high nor low.
Xie Yang no longer cares about these things. After the recording of the show ended, he received several business cards from the commentating guests and singing guests. At this time, he was working hard to establish the first level of connections after officially entering the entertainment industry.
Among those who handed out business cards, the veteran singer Zeng Min was the most enthusiastic. Taking advantage of the fact that there were few people around, she deliberately approached Jie Yang and reminded him, "Ji Zehui is narrow-minded and can't stand being bullied. You have the ability and you won't be worse off than him in the future. Don't go head-to-head with him now, ah."
Xie Yang sincerely said: "Thank you for the reminder, senior."
…
After the recording session was over, Jie Yang came to the parking lot and saw Ji Zehui and Xiao Jin waiting there obediently. He was very satisfied and said, "Let's go and talk about business."
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