area51novel Episode 312: New rules after the 3rd performance
Episode 312: New rules after the 3rd performance
The third performance, 15:30
Lin Pin'er's band was the third to perform. The performance stage was designed to look like the large living room in Lin Pin'er's new yard, with sofas and carpets, and two high chairs next to it.
The female team members wore black slim-fitting dresses with black suit jackets. Beibei also wore a black suit dress. They sat in groups of three or four on the pure white cloud-shaped sofa. The contrast between black and white created a great visual impact. The girls were all beautiful, and even Beibei had a new hairstyle, looking very handsome.
The whole band seemed like stars who had just walked down from an awards ceremony, or like aristocratic children attending a family party. Each of them seemed to be sitting in a lazy yet dignified manner. When the music started, a jazz feast was waiting for the audience to appreciate.
The band members were in a very relaxed state, just like they were sitting in the living room playing music with friends. This was the scene Lin Pin'er had set for them. Her previous experience of playing music with Feng Ziying and others in the new courtyard of Guanyuan, including every music exchange meeting held in the New York apartment, and the musical enlightenment given to her by Madam Li, all of these had brought her inspiration.
Lin Pin'er is a person who has her own ideas about music. She has a strong personality. She can motivate the people around her and make them work hard, make progress, compete and be moved...
She also knew what she wanted. Every time she performed for the guests in the bar where she worked in New York, she injected the sense of relaxation and joy into the new songs. She put all the jazz skills she learned in New York into the new songs without reservation, showing them that we can sing advanced jazz in Chinese.
After the chorus, Mo Yunshu's slow rap solo is a big plus. The lyrics were written by her and fit in well with the main lyrics:
"My fingers plucked the strings of my guitar,
The notes crashing into the wine glass stimulate the heart;
Afraid of my decadent and pale face during the day,
When it comes to ideals, I am unscrupulous..."
The whole performance was relaxed and comfortable, with a sense of relaxation at its best and a sense of sophistication quietly surging, and the audiences in the audience were all impressed.
Lin Pin'er has another advantage that the audience doesn't know. She is very good at discovering the potential of people around her. Through several rehearsals and team-building dinners, she found that children who play music are all multi-talented.
Of course, art itself is interconnected. These girls can not only sing, but also play many musical instruments. Lin Pin'er is already planning her fourth public stage, ready to bring out the potential of the band members to the fullest.
After the performance, Lin Pin'er Band recruited two more members: Nina, who used to be the lead singer of the band, has an ethereal voice and is good at playing the flute; and Bobo, the bassist of the band, who used to be a pipa expert.
As expected, Beibei replaced Feng Ziying's band. Before the fourth performance, Lin Pin'er finally gathered the team she wanted. Except for Yingzi, she included all the girls who stayed in the band into her own team.
Jia Baoyu stood on the stage in a light mint green suit, and waited for everyone to choose their team members before he maintained discipline.
"Please be quiet and sit down in groups. I'm going to announce the rules for the fourth performance."
The contestants then followed their captains, calmed down and sat down.
"The performance rules for the fourth performance are: based on the current band members, perform a fission. In the next performance, each band needs to perform two original songs. It can be 40:40, 30:50, or 20:60. Currently, each band has eight people, but there cannot be a performance with less than two people."
As soon as Jia Baoyu announced the rules, the whole audience exploded with all kinds of discussions, exclamations and remarks.
"Ah? Then why do we have to assemble into a band? Then assemble and then disassemble? What kind of rule is this?"
"What can two people perform? A folk song? Hahahaha."
"I think this show is about the players playing and the captains competing. This is a competition between the captains, do we still have to cooperate?"
“I don’t perform folk songs…”
"What?"
"The first time I sang in a bar, I sang folk songs for half a year. Now I feel like vomiting when I mention folk songs."
"Don't any of you care about having two original songs? How can you make two songs in such a short time, with a week to write and rehearse?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the venue quickly dropped to freezing point, and many people began to remain silent.
Some people were able to persist until the fourth performance because they had the support of various bands with creative talents.
Some people have tried to write songs, but the results were not good and they were not adopted every time.
Seeing the atmosphere in the venue, which was boiling just now, suddenly become deserted, the fat man could no longer sit still.
"Hey, guys. Didn't you notice that no one was eliminated this time? Shouldn't you be happy?"
The fat man raised his voice to stir up the atmosphere. He didn't like the feeling of everyone being depressed. This feeling seemed to be more uncomfortable than being eliminated.
Jia Baoyu stepped out at the right time to liven up the atmosphere: "Yes, from our fourth performance to the next final performance, there will be no more elimination spots, and the band will not face reorganization. So your current members will eventually become your teammates in the finals, so the fourth performance can be regarded as a team run-in before the finals. I hope you can make good use of this stage and the rehearsal time to find out which role in the band suits you best, give full play to your potential, and prepare for the final stage."
As soon as Jia Baoyu finished speaking, the whole audience burst into cheers.
"Great, are we in the finals?"
"No more eliminations? That's great. I don't have to worry about being eliminated anymore."
Some girls even couldn't help crying. After the previous reunions, they were always worried that no band would accept them, they were always afraid of making mistakes, and they were afraid that a new rule would emerge and they would be eliminated.
The fat man stood up again: "We should applaud ourselves. We have experienced several performances. We have performed our own music, adapted other people's music, and created impromptu works. These are all training for us. Now it's good. We don't have to be eliminated anymore. Isn't this worth cheering for again?"
"Three, two, one, yeah~"
The whole audience burst into cheers again.
Lin Pin'er was also moved and cheered with everyone else. The girls in the team were crying just now, which made her eyes a little moist. She wanted to laugh again after hearing what the fat teacher said. It wasn't even the finals yet, but she was as happy as if she had won a prize in the competition.
The good thing is that I no longer have to rack my brains to figure out how to reorganize and find the right people. I can finally focus on the team members' running-in and the presentation of the work.