Chapter 562: Winning First Place
At the moment when the online voting closed, Liu Lan was far ahead of the second place with an extremely high number of votes of over 80 million, shocking the staff who were counting the data in the background.
They underestimated the power of top internet celebrities in the Internet age. Liu Lan has enough traffic and popularity to match or even exceed that of ordinary stars.
Moreover, during Liu Lan's singing, not only did she become an internet celebrity, Xiao Ke'er has more than 15 million fans on Weibo, Tang Tu has more than 20 million fans, Li Xiaoru is the representative of the "young ladies", Jiang Chengfeng's fans affectionately call her "cross-dressing sister-in-law", and only Shen Mozhen's popularity is slightly inferior. However, after this performance, many netizens searched her name on Weibo and followed her.
What's more, Yu Zhan appeared in so many shots, which brought Liu Lan great popularity.
During the audience voting session, Yu Zhan of course cast his precious vote for Liu Lan. He didn't know who others voted for. He noticed that many people were hesitant and looked conflicted. It was obvious that Liu Lan had made them feel embarrassed.
Then came the comments from the professional judges. One of the judges said, "Liu Man sang two love songs. Her voice is very distinctive and her mood is very good. The love she sang seemed to come from a distant time and space, floating across the fields and mountains, and gently brushing the hearts of the audience. People living in cities nowadays are anxious and irritable everywhere, but her ethereal singing voice can touch people's hearts."
Another judge said, "Everyone has different tastes and preferences for songs, and different understandings of songs. There is really no absolute standard, but for me, what I value most is whether the song sung by the singer is infectious. Singing is to sing out your own feelings. Only when you move yourself first can you move others. Music without emotion is dead no matter how many techniques it has or how beautiful the song is. Liu Man's singing is alive. To be honest, I was very moved when I listened to it."
The third judge said, "I want to focus on Liu Man's accompaniment. All levels are superb. The girl who plays the piano has very orthodox skills, clear touch, clear timbre, and every note is used freely and just right. Her performance level is very high. I can appreciate this because I can play the piano myself. I also like this ensemble style that combines oriental and western instruments. Nowadays, there are too few opportunities for traditional Chinese instruments to appear on TV!"
The three judges gave Liu Man and her accompanists extremely high praise, which is very rare. Under normal circumstances, at least one of them would play the villain and find fault with the singer, but they really couldn't find any flaws in Liu Man. At first, they couldn't believe that a web celebrity could sing so well, and then they learned that she and her accompanists came from a music college, and they were speechless.
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Liu Lan thought she might be able to get second or third place because the majority of votes came from live audiences, and 60% of the audience were over 35 years old. They were very averse to internet celebrities, otherwise why did Xiao Ke'er get very low numbers in the first few shows?
However, the final result was beyond her expectations.
She was the first place, surpassing Lu Yuanning by a slight margin, but with an absolute advantage over Xia Chuan and Wang Meixin, and the other three were directly eliminated.
Upon hearing this result, Xiao Keer excitedly hugged Liu Lan on the spot, "Haha, I knew you could do it!"
Liu Man herself was still a little slow to react, and the host on the screen said, "Please invite the four singers who advanced to the next round to perform again."
It was not until she stepped onto the stage again that Liu Lan officially met her opponents. She saw Xia Chuan, who smiled at her and said, "Congratulations, dark horse." If she hadn't known what he had done to Xiao Ke'er, she would have thought he was a kind boy. Now looking at his expression, it looked like a fake smile.
Xia Chuan was in third place. He was full of confidence and thought he could get first place, even with the unexpected situation of Liu Lan. But why couldn't he beat Lu Yuanning?
He put all the blame on his partner in the second song. It was clear that the effect was not like this during the rehearsal, but the performance was a mess. He thought that the other party did it on purpose!
He must settle this account with him!
Wang Meixuan was fourth, standing at the very edge. After her eyes met Liu Lan's, she looked away awkwardly. She didn't dare to look directly at Liu Lan because she felt that this girl must know what she had done for Wu Yinghong and the agency, and a thief would always feel guilty.
Only Lu Yuanning greeted Liu Lan openly and said to her, "You sang very well!"
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