In the barber shop, Zhang Kexuan looked at himself in the mirror with disbelief on his face.
The hairstylist was also a little dumbfounded. Although this awesome hairstyle was made by himself, he still felt incredible.
Li Mu stood aside with his arms folded and asked Chen Wan: "Sister Wan, what do you think?"
"Li Mu, you are so amazing..." Chen Wan didn't know what to say, because Zhang Kexuan in the mirror seemed to be a different person. He was prettier, more energetic, and cleaner than before. In short, he was improving rapidly.
Li Mu nodded and sighed in his heart. Originally, he only wanted to give him a straight and shiny hairstyle like William Chan's, but he didn't expect that this guy would be really handsome after doing it like this.
This is the charm of the times. A hairstyle more than ten years later is enough to make so many people stunned today.
Ye Tianming, who was watching the excitement, suddenly sat down on the seat next to Zhang Kexuan, pointed at his head and said, "Excuse me, give me an exact cut."
"Don't." Li Mu said quickly: "Before a band succeeds, it must only highlight one core. If they are all outstanding, it means there is no outstanding point."
Performance groups are not like the popular song and dance groups in Korea later. When Chinese people look at bands, they always attach importance to the lead singer and ignore the others. Therefore, the lead singer of many bands is worth more than the other members combined, such as Ashin from Shin Band and Mayday's Ashin, Wu Qingfeng from Soda Green, Da Zhangwei from Huaer Band...
There are too many similar examples. This is determined by the nature of the audience, and Li Mu cannot affect it.
Zhang Kexuan is also extremely satisfied with his new look. Looking at himself in the mirror now, he is basically at the level of a first-rate handsome guy.
It felt so beautiful in my heart, but Zhang Kexuan still sighed: "Hey, I won't be able to get away with playing rock and roll in the future."
Li Mu said disdainfully: "Remember, the future style of Simple Plan is, to put it bluntly, pop music. Only in this way can you become popular. Of course, you can't throw away rock and roll. You must talk about rock and roll every day. Make pop music under the banner of rock and roll.”
"Isn't this selling dog meat on sheep's head?"
"If you want to be popular, just stop talking nonsense, okay?"
Zhang Kexuan chuckled and looked at the time: "It's only half past six. The name has been successfully changed and the sound has been adjusted. Now my long hair has been cut. Let's go get something to eat."
Li Mu nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said to Zhang Kexuan: "Do you know the photographer?"
"The one who took the photo?"
"Yes, but the equipment and level are relatively high."
Ye Tianming said hurriedly: "I know someone who runs a photo studio. He studied photography in Yanjing."
"OK." Li Mu said hurriedly: "Find him and ask him to take close-up photos of you after you go on stage in the evening."
Several people were stunned: "We are just participating in pizza, why should we hire a photographer ourselves?"
"As for that." Li Mu glanced at Zhang Kexuan. If he asked the photographer to use shutter and software to make this guy look more handsome, spend some money to go to several online media to make public relations news, and make a press release before the TV production broadcast. Many girls will pay attention to the small advertisement, right
Ye Tianming didn't know what Li Mu's mentality was, but he still took out his mobile phone and made a call.
The other party seemed to be very generous. When he heard that Ye Tianming was going to participate in the competition, he immediately said that he would personally bring the best equipment there.
Li Mu finally felt relieved. Now the video website has not started yet. He simply planned these four people. If he wanted to become famous in the early stage, he could only rely on TV media. However, Li Mu believed in "Li Bai" and Zhang Kexuan's image and singing skills. This time, he would definitely be a blockbuster.
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At eight o'clock in the evening, the South Jiangsu Provincial Preliminaries of the Ice Pioneer National Band Competition officially kicked off. Students from Jinling University were very interested in this competition. At 7:30, the gymnasium was already packed. At the end of the entire gymnasium There were still many people standing and watching, estimated at least two to three thousand people.
Li Mu and Chen Wan were quite lucky and grabbed a relatively front position. As for the four guys who had made a simple plan, they were already preparing nervously in the background.
A female host from the local station in Jinling served as the host of the provincial competition area. At eight o'clock, she announced the official start of the national band competition on time and introduced the five judges. Except for one person from a certain record company in Yanjing, the others All four are professors at Jinling Academy of Art.
Li Mu doesn't have much hope for this kind of competition. Whether it's domestic underground bands or college student bands, there is no shortage of lead singers with good voices. But in the band, there is a lot more lacking. There are no balanced musicians and no quality. Not enough equipment, no great original songs, etc.
After the competition started, as Li Mu expected, most of the bands were very bad. Each band had various shortcomings. Occasionally one or two were barely passable, but if they really wanted to become famous, their level was still far away.
The judges are also very unified in their scoring, using a ten-point system. The five judges remove the highest and the lowest, and the remaining score is the total score. In other words, the full score should be thirty points, but after singing with seven bands in a row, the highest score was only 19 It's terrible.
By the time we got to the eighth band, nearly two hours had passed. Most of the bands' performances were boring. Most of the college students in the audience didn't even have the enthusiasm to applaud. Li Mu heard a girl next to him complain to his companions: " If it weren't for watching our school's Peony Pavilion Band, I would have wanted to leave."
The other girl nodded: "Yeah, what are you singing? It's so ugly."
The eighth band also finished singing, and the applause was extremely pitiful. The lead singer even shed tears when he took his bow.
The host came on stage again: "Okay, let's ask our judges and teachers to rate the hypoxia band that just performed."
After a while, the judges put up their scoreboards one after another.
"Okay, after removing the highest score of 5 points and the lowest score of 2 points, the final score of the hypoxia band is: 11 points!"
The judges’ evaluations were also unanimous: “The original songs are not outstanding, and the vocal condition of the lead singer is not good enough.”
"Next, let's invite tonight's ninth participating band: Simple Plan Band. Their original song for the competition is "Li Bai."
"Coming, coming!" Chen Wan was as excited as a child, pulling on Li Mu's T-shirt with both hands.
At this time, the other three members of the band came on stage holding instruments.
Li Mu arranged a positioning method for them, dividing the stage into three parts horizontally. The drum set was in the center of the last part of the stage, the bassist and another guitarist were on both sides of the middle part of the stage, leaving one in the center of the front row of the stage. The position is reserved for Zhang Kexuan.
The three of them were already in place, and the guitarist and bassist had plugged in their instruments. At this time, Zhang Kexuan put his electric guitar behind his back and walked out from the backstage with a pretentious step.
This is called eye-catching point.
If four people come out together, the audience will look at all four people first, and then say, wow, look, that guy over there is so handsome.
But first let the three foils be in place and in a still state, and then let Zhang Kexuan come out. The audience will directly say: "Wow, this guy is so handsome.
really!
The girls around him were all shocked by Zhang Kexuan. Many girls screamed involuntarily, and the screams kept coming and going, and they didn't stop for a long time. This treatment immediately distanced them from other bands.
Zhang Kexuan stood in front of the microphone and said in a low tone: "Hello everyone, we are the Simple Plan Band."
Zhang Kexuan was quite nervous at first, but after listening to eight rubbish songs backstage, he was basically not nervous anymore, because he was very confident in the song "Li Bai", and now he has so many girls screaming for him as soon as he goes on stage , which made him full of confidence.
This simplest way of announcing the curtain was also Li Mu's idea. The host had already said many things for them. At this time, as soon as they came on stage, they should try to reduce the nonsense and get straight to the point.
Sure enough, Zhang Kexuan turned around and gave the other three members of the band a look. Then, Ye Tianming banged the drumstick four times to start a rhythm. Then, the song "Li Bai" was released to the public for the first time in front of the camera. .
Just the brisk and casual prelude of "Li Bai" was already eye-catching. When Zhang Kexuan sang the first line, not only the audience screamed and cheered, but even the sluggish judges cheered up.
Li Mu once asked Zhang Kexuan to grasp the emotions and feelings when singing. He needed Zhang Kexuan to express the light, casual and cynical attitude in his voice and emotions. I have to say that Zhang Kexuan performed very well today.
When Zhang Kexuan was singing, Li Mu looked back and found that almost everyone was keeping time with the rhythm, which proved that this song was very successful in the live atmosphere.
Seeing the admiring looks in the eyes of those nymphomaniac college students, Li Mu became even more confident about Simple Plan's future popularity.
(End of chapter)