Chapter 114: The Year of Being Beaten (Two in One)
Within ten minutes, singers from three generations, old, middle-aged and young, arrived at the room arranged by the program team one after another.
As a representative of “old”, Su Xin just celebrated his 50th birthday this year. When he entered the room, the singers came forward to greet him and he was very respected by the singers.
He has a very big status in the music industry, especially in rock music. At his peak, he made his band famous with his explosive high notes. He is considered the most popular rock musician among the post-90s generation.
Later he went solo and there was little news about him. His invitation to the music variety show "I Am the King of Singers" came as a surprise to netizens.
Fans are very much looking forward to his singing, especially the song "Love Harder Even After Being Hurt", which is his famous work and is regarded as the "symbol of high notes" by many singing lovers.
In the early days of KTV, this song was a must-order song for those born in the 1990s. It was a lot of fun to challenge this song, but almost no one could succeed. Often the singer was very happy and the listeners were grinning.
Lin Zhixing and Song Ge greeted this senior in the music industry. Su Xin, who had a shaved head, spoke and behaved without any airs. From a close distance, he seemed to be well maintained and did not look like he was over 50 years old at all. He made a good first impression.
The most eye-catching thing about the male singer sitting next to him is the sexy beard on his face. The beard is trimmed in a unique way. He is about 35 years old and looks like a handsome uncle in a suit.
Lin Zhixing read the singer's introduction a few days ago. His name is Sun Haoan, and he is a very famous lyrical singer. Now there is one of his songs on the hot song list of Penguin Music platform.
He is not an out-of-date singer. He is currently very popular and is one of the artists that Haisen Records is promoting.
He has a huge number of fans, especially young women who like the style of older men. Listening to his hurtful love songs, female fans are simply driven crazy.
After Sun Haoan entered the room, his gaze lingered on Lin Zhixing and Song Ge for a few seconds, taking a closer look at this duo who had driven down the value of their own company's artists.
When he came to participate in the program this time, the boss of Haisen Records also talked to him specially. The content of the talk was simple. If there is a chance, he must severely strike this "Feng Qi Wu Tong" and regain the lost face of the company.
Although national team player Wang Jiawei does not have many representative works, she once stood at the top of the mountain and won the third place on the most professional stage in the country that countless singers are eager to step onto. Her singing skills are unquestionable, and she can even be said to be the strongest person on this stage.
As soon as she showed up, many singers came forward to greet her.
Lin Zhixing and Song Ge were also there. They took a closer look at her. They found that she was a little plump and had a ponytail. Even with makeup, she could not hide the freckles on her face.
She is a talented female singer who has both singing skills and good looks.
Lin Zhixing has also read her information. She is just 30 years old this year. Her voice, singing skills, and understanding of music can be said to be at their peak.
For her, this program truly represents her prime.
After a brief chat, I could clearly feel that she was not good at talking, even not as good as Song Ge. After all, she had been trained in communication while working.
This person obviously feels that he just wants to sing good songs here peacefully, and everything else has nothing to do with him. He doesn't want to socialize or waste his energy.
"Sister Weiwei, are you confident that you can beat her?"
After returning to his seat, Lin Zhixing jokingly asked Zhao Weiwei beside him.
"You mean the Great Demon King?"
Zhao Weiwei glanced at Wang Jiawei who was sitting on the other side, shaking her head like a rattle, "I can't beat her. She's a professional contestant. I heard she has a solo song in this year's Spring Festival Gala!"
Big Devil? His last name is Wang, so he is really good at giving nicknames! He was able to make Zhao Weiwei give in and admit defeat, so it seems that this guy is really scary...
Lin Zhixing nodded and looked at the contestants in the room. He felt that this year's competition would be interesting.
Song Ge was not interested in the topics other singers were talking about at this moment. She was interested in the snacks and candy balls that the program team prepared for the singers.
Chocolate filling? Song Ge took a look at it in his hand, then quietly put it in his jacket pocket.
"This Zhixing loves to eat!"
Orange-flavored hard candy? "I love this!"
Song Ge peeled off the candy wrapper, put it in her mouth, squinted her eyes in satisfaction, and lifted her little feet twice.
This scene happened to be seen by Lin Zhixing.
He pursed his lips and smiled. It was originally prepared by the program team for the singers, so he just took it openly.
Then he reached out and picked up the small plate of candy, put the candy into his pocket, asked Zhao Weiwei for her plate, opened Song Ge's shirt pocket and poured the candy into it.
“Knowing and doing, this is too much.”
Song Ge covered her bulging shirt pocket and said in a low voice with a blushing face.
"It's okay, give it to Xiaodong and Xiaoji."
Zhao Weiwei looked at the two people sharing the candy, covered her cheek and smiled, "I envy you two so much. After I turned 25, I get a toothache just looking at these candies."
While they were chatting and laughing, the door of the room was pushed open.
The last competing singer walked in. Lin Zhixing glanced at the watch on his wrist and realized that he was nearly fifteen minutes late.
The last singer to come in was Guo Jiahe, wearing a black vest and oversized seven-quarter jeans, still looking as arrogant as ever.
After he came in, he first came to Wang Jiawei and took the initiative to say hello.
"Hello, Sister Jiawei!"
"Hello."
Wang Jiawei was a little surprised that he greeted her first and shook her hand. The seat where she was sitting was not next to the door. Next to the door was Su Xin, who had the most experience in the music industry.
Lin Zhixing saw this scene clearly, and it really proved the saying that a fallen phoenix is ​​no better than a chicken.
He is really something, he doesn't even pretend.
Guo Jiahe smiled and said, "I watched every one of your competitions last year. You were amazing. I also applied for this year's competition, but I don't know if I can be selected."
It turns out that he wanted to learn some experience from others. Well, who doesn’t love the biggest stage?
"Why are you pretending? You think being famous is great, right?"
Zhao Weiwei looked at Guo Jiahe who was greeting other singers with her eyes wide open, feeling very dissatisfied.
At the recording site of "The Birth of a Group", she was targeted by Guo Jiahe for two consecutive episodes. That was a live broadcast that could not tolerate any mistakes, and the hatred had already been formed.
Seeing him now, he doesn't bother anyone else at all.
She even thought before participating in this program that there was no hope for her to beat the national team players, and it would be a success if she could eliminate Guo Jiahe!
The two people were former mentors of the show, but when they saw each other, they acted as if they didn't know each other at all and no one said hello.
Lin Zhixing looked at the angry Zhao Weiwei beside him, and actually understood her very well.
I originally planned to go up and say hello, after all, he was a mentor I had been on the show with before, but when I saw that he was so late, I gave up the idea.
In terms of popularity, he is indeed the most popular among all the participating singers, because most of the singers who come to this show are a little out of date and want to become popular again by participating in this show.
Even though your career is booming, you shouldn't be so pretentious as to be late, especially when you're staying in this hotel and you're wearing hotel slippers.
Even though my senior singers were right next to me, I chose to ignore them. It was a bit too proud.
It was obvious that the other singers were somewhat dissatisfied with him, but they were all just trying to save face and had a brief chat with him.
About 5 minutes later, director Hong Bo arrived.
Let me first remind you that during live broadcast, we are very afraid of making mistakes, and I hope everyone can take it seriously.
He also briefly talked about the competition process.
Each competition is divided into two rounds. In the first round, all contestants will sing once and be ranked. The singer at the bottom will be in danger but will not be eliminated for the time being.
After the second round of competition, the singer at the bottom will be eliminated directly.
There was a three-day gap between the two rounds of live broadcasts, which were shown on TV stations and Penguin Videos. It was a complete version of the two rounds combined.
In each episode, there will be an indefinite number of surprise singers. They will choose singers to challenge. If the challenge is successful, the surprise singer will become a competing singer.
The losing singer will be eliminated directly if he/she ranks last in the second half. If he/she loses to the surprise singer consecutively, he/she will be eliminated regardless of his/her ranking.
The competition is very fierce.
Lin Zhixing was very happy after hearing the rules. This meant that he could at least sing two songs, and it would be nice to promote his songs on this popular program.
now.
He looked at Guo Jiahe, who was eating melon seeds and was indifferent to what the director said, and suddenly remembered the third season of "I Am a Singer" in his previous life.
Mao Buyi, who was once a student of "The Next Generation of Stars", was criticized and looked down upon by Hua Hua in the media. After becoming famous, he participated in "I Am a Singer", in which one of the seven competing singers was his former mentor Hua Hua.
My current situation is exactly the same as Mao Buyi's. He was also criticized by Guo Jiahe for his performance in "The Birth of a Group", and then became famous because of his talent.
In this variety show similar to "I Am a Singer", I also encountered mentors who targeted me.
In his previous life, Mao Buyi was very regretful as he was eliminated in the first round and failed to fulfill the plot of Long Aotian where he was slapped in the face layer by layer.
What about myself in this world?
Will he be eliminated in the first round like Mao Buyi? Or will he change his fate by defying fate?
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After listening to the director's speech, all the singers went back to rest.
After Lin Zhixing and Song Ge returned to the room, they practiced the song "Hello, World" that they were going to sing tonight without any slackness.
I don't have the ability to sing "Love is You and Me" at the moment, and I just got "Happy Worship" and have no time to practice, so I have no choice but to sing this song.
Although "Hello World" does not have the sentimental blessing of film and television dramas, it is still a magnificent and good song.
Because this type of song is very infectious. For example, "Huo Yuanjia" was only seen by people born in the 1970s. Those who have not seen the drama will still fall in love with "The Great Wall Will Never Fall".
Lin Zhixing is not worried that the song will be difficult for the audience to accept because it lacks sentimentality. What he is worried about is whether he can sing the song well.
Giving up is not a reason to sing casually. In order to sing this song well, he has been practicing very seriously recently. His current Cantonese level is much better than when he sang "Years of Friendship" on stage.
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It was 7:30 in the evening, half an hour before the game started.
The recording site of "I Am the King of Singers".
Inside the dressing room of the program crew.
Lin Zhixing and Song Ge's stage outfits today are quite stunning and will definitely surprise all the audience.
The song "Hello World" was covered by Phoenix Legend in a variety show. Zeng Yi and Ling Hua cosplayed as Guo Jing and Huang Rong. Zeng Yi held a bow and Ling Hua held a sword, and the stage effect was maximized.
The singing was also very nice. Zeng Yi's Cantonese is quite good. In the early days, he imitated Leslie Cheung to sing "When We Were Young". At first glance, he sounded like the original singer. Although Ling Hua's Cantonese was not very standard, she sang out the vast grassland feeling of shepherding in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. The coordination was quite perfect.
When he first got this song, Lin Zhixing was very happy and immediately decided to imitate Phoenix Legend and cosplay the costumes. Unexpectedly, the program crew was so powerful and they actually had similar costumes.
It’s a pity that there is a sword among the props, but no bow and arrow.
“Clang, clang!”
Lin Zhixing drew out his sword and performed a few dance moves. In his previous life, he had learned sword dancing in college in order to perform on stage, so each move was a bit fancy.
Song Ge, who had been looking at herself in the mirror while holding the hem of her clothes, was stunned. "Zhi Xing, you can also wield a sword!"
"You're the one being mean! Tai!"
Lin Zhixing was joking. He lifted Song Ge's chin with the tip of the sword and said with a smile: "The sword was only 0.01 centimeters away from your throat at that time, but after a quarter of an incense stick, you will..."
"What will happen?"
Song Ge asked with a smile on her face.
Lin Zhixing put away the sword in his hand, smiled and shook his head, "I'll tell you after I finish singing the song!"
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Twenty minutes before kick-off.
All participating singers are present and ready, waiting for the show to begin.
The director also took great pains to plan the order of performance and prepared a cart for the dumplings. Each singer chose a plate of dumplings with the order of performance written underneath the plate.
This scene of drawing the order will be edited into the essence version.
Lin Zhixing drew the number 2. He was the second one to perform and it was pretty good. The pressure of the opening performance was too great.
In the players' lounge, Lin Zhixing and Song Ge's special outfits were really eye-catching.
"It's so beautiful, I want to wear it too!"
Zhao Weiwei touched the material of Song Ge's clothes and liked it very much.
"Same as in the previous show, grandstanding for the sake of attention!"
Guo Jiahe glanced at them, snorted coldly, and looked down on them in his heart.
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At 7:55, the picture appeared in the live broadcast room of "I Am the King of Singers".
Although the live broadcast starts at 8 o'clock, online viewers can watch it in the live broadcast room at 7:55.
These five minutes are the program's pilot session, which includes videos recorded in advance by the contestants.
“What is the prime of life?”
The first person to answer was singer Sun Haoan. He smiled and shrugged his shoulders, "I don't understand, what is the right thing to do? Who should I hit?"
When the female fans saw their idol, barrages of comments started flying.
The second person to answer was Su Xin. He touched his bald chin, pounded his back and joked, "I may be past my prime, but I still want to compete with the young guys!"
The scene changed, and Lin Zhixing, holding a martial arts novel, appeared in front of the camera, and the camera gave a close-up of the book.
It is the most popular martial arts novel at the moment. Audiences were very surprised after seeing this novel, and some viewers who also read the novel resonated with it.
He put down the book in his hand, smiled, and expressed his opinion.
"The prime of my life? That should be the age when I can fight the best! I'm definitely not at that level right now. This show is..."
“Maybe it’s the year of getting beaten?”
Netizens were laughing like crazy, with comments filling the screen.
"Being beaten? That makes me laugh to death!"
"It's true. Oh yeah, brother really got beaten when he went up there. Hahaha!"
(End of this chapter)
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