The band was still free to play in the second game, and their rehearsal track was "Fall". The band competition is different from the singer competition. There is no way to take the microphone to the stage and start. When the instrument is being prepared on the spot, Sui Qingchi gets up and leaves. Fu Cuo looks at his back as he walks out of the studio, and many audiences in the auditorium follow him. he.
The age and qualifications of the other two judges are above Sui Qingchi, and Sui Qingchi is still so young that he can already sit there. The so-called betrayal that I used to think was all relieved the moment I saw him shining like a superstar.
He was right to go, and he proved it with his actions.
Although it is also very cruel, it turns out that Sui Qingchi's staying in Xifeng is really a kind of reluctance, and Xifeng is really a drag for him...
Sui Qingchi came back before the stage was ready. He took off the red biker jacket and probably washed his face, because his eyebrows were wet, and the light shone on his forehead. He sat back in the judges' seat , wearing only a white T-shirt with an owl printed on it, and a Crowe heart pendant.
Fu Cuo told himself that once he stood on the stage, he had to devote himself wholeheartedly and could not be distracted. However, when he really stood there, knowing that Sui Qingchi was looking at him off the stage, he still couldn't ignore it. That was his first choice. Lead singer Ren, he used to look at this person's back on the stage and listen to his voice to complete every performance, but now he is watching him sitting in the judge's seat, silently examining himself. Although he is the captain of Xifeng in name, in fact he grew up watching the back of the first lead singer of Xifeng. When he was nervous and couldn't let go, he looked at Sui Qingchi in front of the stage. As soon as Qing Chi's voice came out and calmed down the audience, he would feel that there was nothing to worry about. Sui Qingchi, who was complained about by the outside world as "Second Two", gave the whole band "Nothing" by relying on that Second Second. feared, invincible" momentum.
During the interlude, his fingers seemed out of control. He accidentally played a wrong note, and was instantly disappointed with his performance. At that moment, he subconsciously looked in Sui Qingchi's direction. The light was on the stage, and the judges were in the dark. In the so-called dark place under the lamp, in fact, he couldn't see where Sui Qingchi was looking, but Sui Qingchi could clearly see his every move. When he looked up at Sui Qingchi instinctively, he had his hands on the stage. Sui Qingchi lowered his head slightly, put away his arms on the stage, leaned back, and leaned into the shadows.
At the end of the song, there was a long applause on the field, and Pharaoh and Sasha were also applauding.
The host asked the audience and the media to stop voting, and then it was time for the judges to comment and vote.
Sasha picked up the microphone and said, "It's the band I chose, so let me talk about it first." Seeing that the people on both sides had no objections, she continued, "This is an original song. Let me ask first, why did I choose it?" What about this one? "Fallen", it sounds a little ominous."
Fan Fan picked up the microphone, but didn't know what to say, so he hurried over and handed the microphone to Fu Cuo. Fu Cuo was forced into the microphone by him, and he was a little speechless.
"I don't seem to have thought about this question," Fu Cuo said, "It was chosen by the fans."
"So that's it," Sasha nodded, "That's understandable. Although the title of the song is inauspicious, I like it very much. When the verse came out, I thought this song was not so rock and roll. It’s too pop, the verse 2 started to hear the sound of the electric guitar, hey, I felt a little bit, and then entered the chorus, the electric guitar and bass came out together, it really hit me, it’s that kind of gentle explosion, the whole song except Vocal , my favorite part of the electric guitar, written very simply, but very classic... "
Fu Cuo listened carefully to Sasha's comments. Pharaoh kept nodding, and Sui Qingchi actually nodded too, but Pharaoh nodded facing the direction of the stage, while Sui Qingchi nodded with his head down. Fu Cuo looked at his two eyes. With his hands resting on the edge of the table, he nodded and fiddled with the mobile phone unconsciously.
After Sasha finished speaking, she looked at her colleagues on both sides, and seeing that Sui Qingchi didn't respond, she raised her hand to signal Pharaoh to express her opinion.
Pharaoh said: "I want to ask, is there a place in the middle that I played wrong?"
The leading guitarist in China really deserved his reputation, Fu Cuo nodded: "Yes."
Sui Qingchi paused while turning the phone, then looked up at Pharaoh.
"I don't think you should make the mistake of such an elementary school student at your level," Pharaoh said, "but it's understandable that you are the first to play, and there must be pressure. Except for that small flaw, I think the overall performance is still remarkable. Point. As I said before, I like you all very much, and the more I like it, the stricter my requirements will be. I hope you will give me a better performance next time."
Fu Cuo said: "Definitely."
Only the last judge did not express his opinion. The host asked, "What about Sui Qingchi, what do you think of Xifeng's performance?"
Fu Cuo swallowed, still feeling dry in his throat, obviously he was not the one singing, but at the moment his three companions should all be equally embarrassed. He still couldn't look at Sui Qingchi and listen to him, he lowered his head and looked away, anyway, Fan Fan would definitely be staring at Sui Qingchi with piercing eyes.
Then I heard Sui Qingchi's voice:
"I feel good."
Sui Qingchi didn't seem to intend to say more after speaking, the host asked: "Just... is it good?"
Sui Qingchi was about to put down the microphone, but picked it up again, glanced at the guitarist on the stage who was avoiding his eyes, thought for a while, and then said: "Songs and arrangements are both my favorite style." He said this sentence calmly and firmly, and finally raised his hand to compare with the stage, "The drummer and bass, including the guitar, performed impeccably."
He raised his hand in a big gesture, and he didn't look at the people on the stage seriously, but looked at the host.
The host didn't notice this, but was a little surprised by Sui Qingchi's comment: "Just now Pharaoh said..."
Sui Qingchi seemed to remember that the guitarist played a wrong note only now, and said: "He played a wrong note, but his strength is there after all."
Fu Cuo finally looked up at Sui Qingchi, and Sui Qingchi also looked at him while putting the wheat on the table.
Although he felt a kind of silence and indifference from Sui Qingchi's eyes, he didn't feel any hostility.
In that one, they took all three votes from the judges, 281 votes from the audience, and 79 votes from the media. They ranked first among the bands that participated that day. It lasted for three days, and after all the last 50 bands showed up, Xifeng and Damtan tied for third place, ahead of them was Nam Co, an original Tibetan band, and Namco, which all took 99 votes from the media seats. The Blowers.
Fan Fan may be the only one who is dissatisfied with this result, because Sui Qingchi only didn't mention the lead singer's performance. On the way back at the end of the game, Tan Si comforted him: "Oh, maybe he just forgot to mention it. I said you are also twenty-three years old. Why are you so glassy?"
AK leaned on the back of the chair, grinningly sprinkled salt on Fan Fan's wound: "I don't think so, maybe I think you sing too badly..."
Fan Fan really lost confidence, and asked Fu Cuo, "Am I really a bad singer?"
"Will the audience vote for us if we sing really badly?" Fu Cuo looked back at him and pressed his head, "You are the lead singer, give me confidence!"
Fan Fan tilted his head and muttered: "It's not that I'm not confident, I'm usually quite confident, but Brother Qingchi is a judge, and he's the former lead singer of Xifeng. Did it sound?"
Fu Cuo choked for a moment, not knowing how to answer.
Fan Fan is still complaining: "It's still the former lead singer, I don't know how many times we have been on the same stage together, you are so restless..."
AK couldn't listen anymore, sat up and kicked Fan Fan next to him: "What did you say, we didn't send him away at a farewell party when he left, and you have been fans of him for so many years, I don't know what happened to his fans Are you scolding us?"
Fan Fan glanced at him sideways: "Oh, you are not calm either."
Seeing that AK was going to be popular, Tan Si picked up the topic: "Fan Fan, why didn't you wait for Brother Qingchi to come out and take a photo with him?"
Fan Fan curled his lips: "If you don't go, it's so strange for me to go alone." He obviously didn't give up, and then said, "Look, I said that Brother Qingchi is different from his fans, and he won't be with his fans. We can't get through, I think how about we go to say hello to him next time?"
Fan Fan leaned on the front seat, his expression hard to hide his anticipation. The three of them felt a bit embarrassed when he said this, and AK coughed: "What are you thinking, people will say that you are playing the favor card!"
"Oh, it's also..." Fan Fan leaned back a little disappointed.
It was the company car that sent them back. AK and Fan Fan rented a house in the same community. The two got out of the car first, and the car door was closed. Fan Fan waved goodbye to them from the car window, and Tan Si waved to him. Sit back, and said to Fu Cuo: "How about it, is it right to listen to me and come to the competition? You are too unconfident, you have to compare yourself to know how awesome you are!"
Fu Cuo smiled, noncommittal.
Seeing that his expression was still thoughtful, Tan Si smiled and patted him: "Sui Qingchi will definitely not force himself to say good things, so I think he should probably let it go now. We now Just don’t think about anything, just concentrate on the game!”
Fu Cuo didn't suspect that Sui Qingchi was saying things against his will, but those words that were not against his will made him regret his indiscriminate words even more.
The next day was Saturday, Sui Qingchi reposted the official announcement of "Band Frenzy" during the day, and he was the latest among the three judges. The first episode of "Band Frenzy" was broadcast that night. The two-day primary election was edited into one episode, and the barrage was almost contracted by Sui Qingchi's fans. Because of Xifeng's participation in the competition, Sui Qingchi's band experience began to come into the world's field of vision. Sui Qingchi's encyclopedia resume has not included this band's experience, or it may have been written, but it was edited out by fans. Fans will The reason for doing this is plausibly explained that Sui Qingchi never talked about the experience of the band in all the shows and interviews, so he must hate this experience. Not long after "Band Frenzy" was broadcast, someone edited this experience into it. Although it was quickly deleted by fans, more and more passers-by have begun to know that Sui Qingchi is a singer who was originally the lead singer of the band. The words Sui Qingchi and Xifeng were often seen bound together on bullet screens and hot searches, and fans of both sides started fighting again.
— Sui Qingchi is so miserable, being scolded by fans of a certain band like this, and at this time, she still has to bear the heavy responsibility of the milk band.
—Why did Xifeng want to participate? It’s time to avoid suspicion.
— Don't bring the band name! No band names! Use "some band"
——It’s not just Sui Qingchi who is a judge.
——Is a certain band cheap or not? Isn't this obviously driving Sui Qingchi to death? He will be scolded for voting, and he will be scolded for not voting. How long will Sui Qingchi be scolded for a certain band? !
- You bastard! What should reflect is the mad dog who swears at the street at every turn, such a rare opportunity, so many bands in the circle have participated, should Xifeng give up this opportunity because of Sui Qingchi? You are so cheap!
—Shelley’s poem is so innocent. I liked it in high school, but now I feel disgusted when I see these two words.
—When your master was the lead singer, he still said "We are West Wind" every day. Why don't you hate your master
In fact, in these meaningless fights, it is impossible for Xifeng fans to be opponents of Sui Qingchi fans. Fu Cuo and Tan Si have also persuaded them several times, saying that you should stop arguing with them, it is meaningless, but rock bands The fans have nothing else, but they have a big temper and can't control it at all. Fu Cuo was worried that Fan Fan would be affected, but fortunately, during this period, everyone focused on the competition and didn't pay much attention to the rumors on the Internet. Even Fan Fan said after scanning the fight posts, "I'm used to it anyway." AK even raised his thumb and praised him: "This is how steel is made!"
In the second competition, the 20 bands with the fewest votes were eliminated in one go, and the bands will be required to perform cover songs in the next period. In the company's rehearsal room, four people are discussing the selection of songs, because they need to report to the program group as soon as possible.
However, when choosing songs, I got stuck on two songs. Fan Fan insisted on choosing Linkin Park, but AK wanted to choose Imagine Dragons. Final call.
"Hurry up," AK slapped the floor to urge Fu Cuo, "If the report is late, what if another band is chosen?"
Fu Cuo listened to the Nth brainwashing cycle of the two songs, pulled off the headphone cable, and said, "No other band will be chosen."
The three looked at him inexplicably.
"We made a remix of two songs." Fu Cuo said.
Peng Shuai reported the song selection, and the program team asked them to make a demo first for the band's reference. Fu Cuo finished the demo in only one day, took a day off in the middle, and made minor adjustments on the third day, and sent the demo to the program group. Before the program group notified them of the rehearsal, the four of them rehearsed in the company's rehearsal room with an accompaniment tape. Fan Fan sang the complete song for the first time, holding his head and exclaiming that it was enjoyable. Everyone, including Peng Shuai and Assistant, I heard goosebumps all over my body, whether it was the live effect or the audience's feedback, it was so good that it exceeded Fu Cuo's own expectations.
Peng Shuai didn't hesitate to praise: "This Remix is really a genius, if the effect can be reproduced on the spot, I think our ranking will definitely not be low," said Fu Cuo, and punched Fu Cuo on the shoulder, "Fu Cuo, you are too good! "
The assistant also nodded again and again, stroking his back: "Brother, I heard goosebumps all over my back! Immortal arrangement!"
Fu Cuo couldn't stand the boasting too much: "I'm not so amazing, it's just luck. It just happened that they were fighting, so I just thought of it."
The program team was notified to go to the studio for rehearsal five days later. Fu Cuo communicated with the music director and the band on the spot. He joined the harmony part of ten people and some electronic music on the spot. The music director is Wu Tian, a well-known producer in the circle. After seeing Fu Cuo, he said bluntly: "I talked to the chief, and I will buy you more time for rehearsal. We will try to make this scene the most explosive!"
There were still some problems when rehearsing the scene, because the accompaniment of this song was very dense, and the harmony was also very imposing, and Fan Fan's voice was obviously a bit overwhelming. He also noticed it himself. When Fu Cuo was discussing with Wu Tian, Fan Fan squatted aside and looked at his phone sullenly. AK got angry when he saw his unmotivated appearance, and walked behind him to try to trick him. Son, I saw Fan Fan watching the opening video of Sui Qingchi's singing. The show hadn't aired yet, and he took the video with his mobile phone facing the screen. The accompaniment of The Phoenix is also very explosive and strong. He was watching how Sui Qingchi did it, and he didn't realize that AK was coming.
AK quietly walked away from the side, ran to Fu Cuo and asked, "Can't you turn up the volume?"
Fu Cuo shook his head: "It's not a volume problem, his voice is still a little thinner, and the part that needs the most momentum in the chorus is suppressed by the band and harmony. We are already discussing to reduce the harmony."
From the band to the photography to the lighting in the rehearsal, everyone was very good. However, Fan Fan's problem was not solved in a few hours of rehearsal, but he could only practice more in the remaining few days.
Fan Fan asked Peng Shuai for the key to the rehearsal room, and stayed to practice alone after the band left every day. The day before the rehearsal was over, Fu Cuo went home and found that his phone had been left in the rehearsal room. When he returned to the company to pick up his phone, he found that there were still people in the rehearsal room. It was almost three o'clock in the morning.
Pushing the door open, Fan Fan lay on the floor and howled with his eyes closed. Fu Cuo walked over and turned off the accompaniment. Fan Fan was startled, and bounced off the floor with an expression of "I'm going to be haunted", and saw Fu Cuo standing in front of him and looking down at him.
Fu Cuo sighed in his heart. In fact, he was only three years younger than himself, but he was like a child who didn't grow up all day long.
"You can't sing like this. Don't practice your voice and make your voice hoarse." He sat down next to Fan Fan, looked at Fan Fan who was silent, and the two sat quietly for a while. Fu Cuo said, " I talked to the head of the band, and he said that this song is too demanding for the singer, and most singers can only complete it repeatedly in the recording studio, not the lead singer's problem."
Fan Fan was still very frustrated, he lowered his head and said, "But Sui Qingchi can do it."
"How many people does Sui Qingchi have? There's no need to compare with him."
Fan Fan looked up at him and said, "But he was the lead singer of Xifeng before."
Fu Cuo was also very helpless. The two lead singers of Xifeng seemed to have been living in Sui Qingchi's shadow all the time. He stood up on the floor and said, "He taught me to sing before. I don't have that talent. I'll transfer to another teacher." Give it to you. But I have to tell you in advance that the voice condition is innate, you remember to compare with yourself, not with him.”
A week passed, and it was the first day of the third competition day. The order of appearances this time will be based on the previous ranking. The band with the highest ranking will perform as the finale. The competition will be divided into two groups. The even-numbered ranking is on the second day. Since West Wind and Damm are tied for rankings, West Wind's appearance is ranked on the second day.
On the day of the competition, the four of them arrived at the TV building ahead of time, and they could watch the band’s competition the day before in the preparation room with the other three early bands. Dumtan is also very popular in the underground rock circle. Compared with Xifeng, who has only made some achievements in the rock circle in the past nine years, Dumtan is said to have only been in the army for five years, which is very young.
All the bands in the preparation room were very quiet when Dum played. They sang Linkin Park’s In the End, and Fan Fan couldn’t help but say “Wow, what a fate”, and all the rap parts of this song were done by the guitarist Yes, it was amazing. After the performance, Sasha was hooked, and Pharaoh asked, "Are you the original band?"
The five people on the stage nodded repeatedly, and the lead singer and captain said, "Yes, the bands in the big group are still factory settings."
The audience laughed, and Pharaoh was very emotional: "Then you are very lucky, I hope this luck will always be with you, and the five of you can go on forever."
Pharaoh's words may just be out of emotion, but everyone in the preparation room couldn't help paying attention to Sui Qingchi, even the director gave a shot of Sui Qingchi wearing a black Quiksilver hooded sweater When Pharaoh asked Damm if the bomb was the original configuration, he raised his eyebrows very slightly. It was not an expression projection, but more like a nerve reflex. After that, he pursed his lips and did not respond to Pharaoh's words. When it was his turn to speak, he said very little, only saying that the guitarist's rap was amazing. Every time it was Sui Qingchi's turn to speak, the host always had to cue many times, but he couldn't get him to talk more. This time, the host first followed Sui Qingchi's words and praised the guitarist's rap many times, and then When throwing the topic to Sui Qingchi, Sui Qingchi had an expression of "what else do you want me to say", put his hand on the button and was ready to press it down at any time, and said, "Just vote."
The audience on the field responded with laughter and applause for his non-wordy style.
After watching yesterday's competition, the stage came to inform the first band to prepare for their debut. The signal was transmitted to the TV screen. Fu Cuo saw that the judges had already taken their seats, and Sui Qingchi was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday.
The waiting was very boring. During the period, Fan Fan went outside to warm up and open his voice from time to time, and finally waited for their penultimate debut.
Fu Cuo really saw Fan Fan's hard work in that day's performance. Those passages that he sang a little floaty and thin at first, after these few days of training his breath day and night, they really improved a lot, although there are still two songs. The sound was broken, but the momentum was not lost. The feedback from the audience could even be said to be comparable to Sui Qingchi's The phoenix sung at the beginning. Everyone stood up and swayed to the rhythm and shouted. In order not to let his voice be drowned out, Fan Fan sang until the blue veins popped up and his whole body trembled. He didn't just howl with his throat, but tried his best to use the resonance and abdominal strength to make his voice full and thick, leading the field. The upper harmony and all the audience at the scene saw Fan Fan almost bend over and kneel down. At that moment, Fu Cuo was also deeply moved, as if he saw a dolphin rolling in a big wave.
At the end of the performance, there was endless applause and whistles. Fan Fan looked at the auditorium, his face was flushed, and his chest was heaving and panting. Fu Cuo couldn't help but look at Sui Qingchi who was sitting on the judges' bench. The three judges were all standing. Sui Qingchi was also standing there, he couldn't help asking him in his heart: What do you think of him? Give him some encouragement.
Pharaoh stood there applauding them, and the host took a moment to silence the audience before finally saying, "Oh my God, I thought the show was over, this is the last song of the season! "
"Let me talk first this time." Pharaoh picked up the microphone and pointed to the band on stage and said, "They are an underground band. It is really not easy to dare to make such a breakthrough, and they will definitely be scolded!" He said excitedly Chu also patted the table, "Totem wanted to do some fusion things before, and many people called us the scum of underground rock. As a result, we are now the predecessors of the rock circle. You say it or not, so I think Said, no matter the result is scolded or praised, I think this kind of attempt is always worthwhile, the scene can prove everything, great, you are the band of my pick!"
"Hey, you have said everything I want to say," Sasha pretended to be unhappy, Pharaoh smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you say what you want to say," Sasha said, "Then let me praise Fan Fan, Although there is a little broken sound at the back, but there is no loss of points at all. You can see that the lead singer of the cosmic rock group also broke the sound. I don’t think this is a problem. You should be proud of your performance today. Definitely! Whether it’s your singing to the extreme, or the typhoon that you showed today that you fought to the death, I feel very shocked! Then AK’s drum and Tan Si’s bass are the same as before, very solid. It’s just a band that doesn’t play tricks in rehearsals, and is honest and practicing!” At this point, he shifted his gaze, “Then I want to ask, Fu Cuo, how old are you, are you single now?”
Fu Cuo was caught off guard by the question, and the audience booed.
Sasha looked back at the audience and said, "Let me ask what's wrong, don't you think he's handsome?"
Fan Fan hurriedly handed over the microphone, and Fu Cuo took it and said, "It's 26." He didn't answer the latter question.
Sasha turned to Sui Qingchi: "Are you younger than him?"
Sui Qingchi looked at Fu Cuo and said, "Yes, he is two years older than me."
He didn't say this into the microphone, and he couldn't hear it at the scene, but Fu Cuo could tell from his mouth shape.
Sasha said with emotion to Pharaoh: "So it is really talented people from generation to generation. There is a 26-year-old guitarist with top-notch skills and creative ability standing over there, and a 24-year-old little heavenly king sitting here. We all think we are old."
Pharaoh asked, "Didn't you ask if he was single?"
Sasha waved her hand: "He doesn't want to answer, cut this part out. But I bet, there must be many female fans who like you."
Fu Cuo didn't know what to say, his ears were a little hot, so he smiled and said nothing, and handed the microphone back to Fan Fan.
Sasha suddenly laughed: "So handsome and yet so shy, let me tell you, girls just like innocent guitarists like you!"
Sitting there, Sui Qingchi snorted lightly, with a little subtlety, I don't know if it was nostalgia or joking.
The host asked Sui Qingchi, Sui Qingchi slowly picked up the microphone, thought for a while, and said: "They have almost said it, let me sum it up." The other hand really pulled the fingers to sum up, "In short, the arrangement is good, the musicians are good, the lead singer is good, and the guitarist is handsome." Speaking of this, he pointed at his ring finger, twitched the corner of his mouth, put down his hand and said, "Anyway, just vote."
The host saw Sui Qingchi put down the microphone and sat back, with a wry smile on his face.
Pharaoh said: "These young people are like this, they are not foolish, then the three of us come together."
The three voted at the same time, and when the votes from the audience and the media were added up, Xifeng temporarily won the first place in the game, and the number of votes exceeded that of Dum Dan in the previous game. However, starting from this episode, an off-site voting session will be added, so the real number of votes and rankings will not be known until after the show is broadcast.
That day, there was still no intersection with Sui Qingchi outside the venue, except that when the company sent a car to pick them up, Sui Qingchi's car happened to be coming out too, and the two cars got stuck on the road, so Peng Shuai asked the driver to back up and let them go. The other party left first, the driver said in embarrassment, "It's not easy for me to fall here", and then saw Sui Qingchi's car reversed with flashing lights, and it turned out to be to let them go first. Peng Shuai lowered the window and said "thank you" to the other driver flattered.
The car slid out, and Fu Cuo looked back at the blue business car. There was no intersection. Even more like strangers, it will take some time for them to adapt to such changes. By the end of "Band Frenzy", they should be able to go from having nothing to say to having something to talk about.