Boy group: In order to survive, I have to open business

Before the theme of the third round of performances was announced, the game sessions were designed to be a bit too rich, and they were basically all dance themes. The second round of games was a freestyle duet dance performance. Duet dance was such a good opportunity for interaction, it would be a pity not to sell it. Xia Xinglang immediately found Huashanyuan Yingzhi: "Brother Yingzhi, be in a group with me!"

Yingzhi: “Yeah.”

"Let's dance to Trouble Maker," Xia Xinglang couldn't think of a more classic duet song than this one. If he wanted to get 90 views, he had to work really hard. "Now my heart can no longer be controlled..."

"can."

They had some tacit understanding and did not spend time rehearsing. There was no discussion about the male and female positions before going on stage. Xia Xinglang assumed that he would dance the male position, and Yingzhi, who had the style of an otaku, should dance the female position. So when they officially went on stage, the whistle sounded, and the two of them moved almost in sync. Xia Xinglang saw that Yingzhi and himself were both snapping their fingers, and whispered, "Brother Yingzhi, I have never danced the female position!"

Yingzhi tilted her head slightly and said to him, "Me neither."

The double stage was destroyed!

Yingzhi has a good sense of dance and immediately starts to dance freely. Xia Xinglang recognizes that this is the dance steps choreographed by Wiggle and Taoyuanjing before. He squats down in front of Yingzhi. He is very familiar with the dance steps of Wiggle and Taoyuanjing. There is basically no physical interaction during the whole song. Xia Xinglang is very annoyed. Yingzhi says, "Xiaolangjun, I am taller than you, so I dance the male position."

Xia Xinglang: "...Yeah."

Yoon Donghao and Kim Seung-hyuk were in the same group. Before Yoon Donghao went on stage, he looked at Xia Xinglang with a look full of resentment. They were dancing a boy group dance. Although they stood very close, there was no physical contact. In Xia Xinglang's opinion, the value of a duet without physical contact is basically zero!

The next part was the stage play. Xia Xinglang was determined and still held Huashanyuan Yingzhi's hand. He said firmly, "Let's be in one group!"

Their script was about soul swapping, and after a little rehearsal they entered the formal performance. After reading the lines, Xia Xinglang added a line without authorization: "You are me, I am you, let's be together!"

Xia Xinglang touched Yingzhi's face and pretended to kiss her, but of course it was a trick. He used his thumb to block Yingzhi's lips. Just as he was about to kiss her, the other contestants were so scared that they immediately rushed over to separate them. A real kissing scene could not be broadcast.

Yin Donghao: "What are you doing?!"

Xia Xinglang: "Kissing in a borrowed position."

Kim Seung Hyuk was curious: "How do you borrow the position?"

So Xia Xinglang and Jin Chengxie demonstrated by putting their thumbs against their lips and then kissing their fingers. If the camera was slightly off to the side, it would look like a kiss. Jin Chengxie was confused by him. When his face got close, his eyes widened and he rubbed his lips: "Xiaolang, you really dare to kiss..."

"Don't stories often say that two people whose souls have been swapped can recover by kissing," Xia Xinglang wanted to do it again with Yingzhi, but was decisively stopped. "Don't you want us to continue? Brother Yingzhi, do you think it's okay? Don't you really want to do it again?"

Yingzhi wiped his lips silently: "Enough."

Xia Xinglang was hit hard. He hugged his knees and stared blankly after going off the court. He once again missed the opportunity to sell homosexuality. The only way to increase interaction is to form a team. If he were to be with Donghao and the other two, and take Yingzhi into consideration at the same time, then the team would be a super gorgeous lineup, Xia Xinglang (2nd place), Huashanyuan Yingzhi (3rd place), Yin Donghao (1st place), Kim Seunghyuk (4th place). The players with higher rankings would form a group and would be very popular. This team would be the most watched team in the whole audience, but in terms of team allocation, this is an unbalanced arrangement. The production team will not let this happen. The story will revolve around their group, so the story of other teams will become worse.

Moreover, Huashanyuan did not cooperate with him in selling homosexuality at all, and his response was extremely cold.

After the three rounds of games, Park Ha announced the theme of the third round of performances: "The theme of the third round of performances is concept challenge! Then draw lots to select songs and decide the performance concept of the songs!"

25 contestants, four pop songs, all of which are hits in recent years. The contestants draw lots according to their ranking. After the members are determined, they choose the concept and song by drawing lots. Drawing lots, it must be a shady operation by the program team. The contestants go on stage in order according to their ranking and turn the turntable. Yin Donghao draws a very good dance song. The turntable has four grids, three pop idol group dance songs, and a band lyrical song. Xia Xinglang prays that he will not draw a lyrical song, because his vocal attribute is the worst.

Xia Xinglang turned the turntable, and it gradually stopped turning, with the pointer stopping at the only lyrical song "She Her".

Then, by coincidence, or perhaps it was the goddess of luck, or the program team's deliberate arrangement, the people with the worst vocal skills were asked to sing ballads. Huashanyuan Yingzhi, Cha Jae-hun, Li Daxun and others all chose the song "She". Anyway, the six people who finally formed a team, four were dancers and two were rappers, and they couldn't find a lead singer. Because Xia Xinglang had the highest comprehensive score in the previous rounds of games, he had priority in drawing concepts.

The song "She" is a band pop song. The most important position in a band song is the lead singer. Vocal music plays an indispensable role in a band. A good lead singer can make a band rise from the second-tier to the super first-tier, and can even be said to be the face of the band. It is said that the bass is the soul of the band, but the lead singer is more important than the soul. There are usually four musicians in a band, drums and guitar, bass, and keyboardist. Xia Xinglang can barely play the piano, and if he practices hard, he can be a keyboardist, but will the performance give him such time?

Yingzhi patted his shoulder: "Go ahead and smoke."

Xia Xinglang: "Is it okay? Will singing make my throat uncomfortable?"

Yingzhi: "Xiaolang-kun, go ahead. Didn't you say before that you always wanted to be on the same team with me? Now that we're really on the same team, you're saying discouraging things."

Xia Xinglang walked to the screen, and the entries kept scrolling. What is the concept of the song? A song is a work of art. Since it is a work of art, it has something to express. It is what the singer shouts out through the resonance of his throat and chest when he stands on the stage. It can be love, friendship, dreams, or a sentence. It can be anything.

"stop!"

＜Resentment＞

Xia Xinglang took a deep breath, and the only thing in his mind was the image of the female ghost Kayako climbing the stairs in The Grudge. I was so resentful! He was already resentful enough for drawing the lyrical song, and he had to perform resentment. But if you think about it carefully, there are many kinds of resentment, resentment for being abandoned, resentment for not being seen, resentment for not being content with the status quo...

According to the game points ranking, the other teams also began to draw concepts, but the ones they got were easy to interpret such as "Fearlessness" and "Self-Love", and the most bland one was "Die for Love".

The song "She" is about love, expressing the love for a girl in the most ordinary way. It doesn't extend any other concepts. It is very suitable for adaptation, but there is no choreography for band songs. It needs to be choreographed from the beginning. If the six of them sing with microphones in the performance, the picture will be really ugly. The most fatal thing is that the lead singer is vacant, and the arrangement work is not clear at a glance.

In addition to Young-ji and Cha Jae-hun, the teammates in the second round of performances, Lee Dae-hoon has been on the same stage with him for three rounds, which is really a miracle. There are two new faces, Zhou Junwu is the rapper, ranked 20th, and Kosaka Shota is the dance leader, ranked 14th. After introducing themselves, everyone didn't say much and went straight to the point. I believe they all understood how severe the challenge ahead was. The six people listened to the songs and began to express their opinions.

“First, the choreography.”

"Let's assign the songs first. Practice is important. The vocals in this song are the highlight."

"We don't have a lead singer in our team, so we need to decide the direction of the arrangement first."

The sense of crisis made everyone dizzy, and everyone was eager to relieve this tension through practice.

Xia Xinglang said, "Everyone, check the topic! We should pay more attention to the theme of this round of performance. It is a conceptual challenge! We need to interpret the concept of resentment."

Zhou Junwu is a trainee of the big company J Club: "The resentful husband style has always been very popular. It is the kind of pain of losing a loved one, being unable to get what one wants, being trapped in emotional pain, and being betrayed by a loved one. Let's use this style to digest the song!"

Everyone fell into deep thought. It's easy to say, but how can you sing the painful feeling of watching a meteor with you? Unless the meteor is a super meteorite, the earth will explode immediately when it hits the earth.

Kosaka Shota: "Then let's try the resentful husband style first."

Xia Xinglang felt something was wrong no matter how he listened to it. Isn't this just praying to Buddha? Can we meet again? I have been praying to Buddha for hundreds of years...

“It seems that I am the only one who can sing the high notes,” Zhou Junwu said, “I actually wanted to choose vocal positioning.”

It is naturally good to have someone to be the lead singer. The difficulty of this song lies in its tight arrangement of lyrics. The high-pitched singing is done in falsetto. The lead singer and the sub-lead singer alternate with each other. The position of sub-lead singer is temporarily given to Kayamain Eiji, and the C position is next. Everyone agrees that this song is a lyrical song that highlights singing skills, so the C position is naturally given to Zhou Junwu.

"Let me sing the first chorus as well," Zhou Junwu said. "I want to sing it."

"Ok."

"The second chorus goes to Brother Yingzhi," Zhou Junwu began to assign song parts naturally, "The bridge goes to Xiaolang, is that okay?"

"Ah."

Xia Xinglang always felt something was wrong. Zhou Junwu had been stealing parts for himself since he proposed the "resenting husband" style. In the whole song, except for Hanayamain Eiji and Zhou Junwu, the others only sang fragmented parts. Everyone seemed to understand, but in the end, they kept silent. Is it really okay to give the C position to this person in such a crucial stage in the last round? Xia Xinglang actually wanted to give the C position to Eiji, whether for the audience vote or the overall consideration of the scene.

"Okay, everyone has decided on their parts for the song."

"Then the next step is to decide on the choreography," Zhou Junwu naturally took over the conversation, "Brother Yingzhi, what do you think?"

Brother Yingzhi, you sounded a little too affectionate.

Huashanyuan Eiji looked a little strange: "I don't have any ideas."

"I think since we want to highlight the vocals, we should tone down the choreography," Zhou Junwu said with a bright smile, "Let Yingzhi brother be the main dancer, what do you think?"

Xia Xinglang wanted to refute it very much, but if he raised his objection now, he would most likely be edited into a malicious editorial. It was really terrifying that this kid could say such self-deprecating words with such a calm smile. He was indeed a trainee from a big company.

Cha Jae-hoon was the first to object, "There are many dancers in the team, and I don't want to weaken the dance part."

Someone suggested that the remaining two dancers should also be positioned in the same way.

Zhou Junwu did not answer, but threw the question to Xia Xinglang: "Xiaolang, you are the captain, right? What do you think we should do? It is better for the captain to decide on this matter."

Xia Xinglang thought for a while and said, "After all, our team has many dancers. This is a feature of our team. If we don't play to the strengths of the dancers, we will be playing to our weaknesses and avoiding our strengths."

Zhou Junwu smiled awkwardly and apologized immediately: "I was just giving my opinion. I'm sorry. I'm not good at dancing and I'm afraid I can't keep up with everyone. I'm really sorry."

Xia Xinglang had a new impression of Zhou Junwu. Did he really want to apologize? No matter how you look at it, he is a person who likes to compete for resources and knows how to lead the topic. Thinking of this, Xia Xinglang still wanted to maintain a harmonious atmosphere as much as possible, so he smiled and patted his back: "It's okay, just work harder in rehearsal. We are all rappers, not dancers. You are the only lead singer in the team now. Everyone will help you, Junwu brother."

Zhou Junwu had a subtle expression on his face when he heard Brother Junwu: "Little Wolf, you are very skilled in being a captain, even though you are young."

"Well, because I like to help others," Xia Xinglang said without even looking up, "Let's discuss the direction of the arrangement with the teacher later."