Chapter 98: An unexpected success, Rat reveals his true colors
After Han Zhou diverted the blame, Zimo said: "I think..."
"I feel like Shushu looks like... An Lan."
An Lan: Thank you, you say every female singer looks like me.
Lu Jin: "Did the production team give a hint that every female singer has to touch An Lan? Why do you say every female singer looks like An Lan?"
The audience burst into laughter.
Zimo: "No, it really looks like it!"
"This level of singing skills and high notes, there are many female singers who have been active in the industry in recent years, but there are really no female singers with this level of skills who are both slim and tall."
That's true.
Yang Cong: "In fact, this is very telling. Hope, Black Rose, and Shu Shu are at least veteran first-line female singers or have reached the level of quasi-queen singers, and then they are far away from the audience's sight."
"Or maybe it's the divas and young divas who are still active now, like An Lan, Su Rui, and Liu Yiling."
"I don't believe that the program team invited An Lan, Su Rui, and Liu Yiling. I can only say that I believe that one of them or other divas or quasi-divas will definitely come."
"The other two should be veteran singers who have faded out of the music scene for a long time."
In fact, Yang Cong’s inference was very correct.
Because these three people can sing so well, but no one can guess who they are.
Then there are only two possibilities.
Or her singing skills have already reached the queen level, but she just changed her singing style on purpose so that no one would notice. So after changing her singing style, her singing skills sound like those of a first-tier singer, and when it comes to performance, she even has the qualities of a quasi-queen.
Either this singer was once a veteran first-line female singer, who once reached or is a recognized quasi-queen of diva.
It’s just because I’ve been out of the entertainment industry for a long time, my singing skills and vocal conditions have changed to a certain extent.
As a result, several people on the guessing panel were unable to think of the corresponding candidate.
These two possibilities are here, but it is impossible for them to be both, so the program team should have invited many singers who have faded out of the music scene and exited the entertainment industry for a long time to join the show.
You know, this is only the second episode, what will happen next?
The situation with male singers is even more confusing.
Zhou Quanou, a veteran first-line male singer, right? He lost miserably in the first episode.
As soon as Tanzhao appeared on the stage, his singing skills were firmly at the level of a quasi-superstar, which means that he is either the current superstar or a retired or semi-retired quasi-superstar.
No matter how good an ordinary first-tier singer is, his singing skills can never be as strong as Tanzhao's.
However, Searchlight lost miserably to the Red Ducks.
Judging from today's situation, the Redskin Ducks are obviously going to win two consecutive championships, but the Redskin Ducks look like young people no matter how you look at them.
There's a ghost, okay!
Rat: "Rat comes from the sewer. You can't guess who Rat belongs to."
Han Zhou had a feeling that Shushu might not be a famous singer, or might not be a person in the entertainment industry.
Because in Han Zhou's comment section, the two words "Rat Rat" represent a kind of self-mockery.
Self-deprecating means being too poor and having no status, and being chased by everyone as a rat crossing the street.
When Shu Shu appears on stage with this name, she doesn't look like a female singer, let alone a diva.
But it is also possible that some playful old queen in her fifties was pretending to be young and did it on purpose.
Han Zhou realized that he was thinking about who the contestant would be. Wouldn’t the audience go crazy?
This is the charm of masked singing.
Coupled with the terrifying nature of the competition topic, the charm of the Dark Gold Voice is even more terrifying.
Yang Cong scratched his hair on the stage and said, "Oh, you can't guess a single one in a whole show?"
"If I continue to do this show for one season, my hair will fall out."
Lu Jin comforted him: "It's okay, Brother Cong. You don't have much hair anyway, so it's nothing to be sorry about."
Yang Cong: "...You are really good at comforting people."
As he spoke, Yang Cong looked towards the stage: "Shu Shu, won't you introduce yourself?"
Shushu: "I have worked with you, Mr. Yang, before."
Yang Cong was even more confused: "Huh?"
Lu Jin grabbed Yang Conghuang and said, "No way, no way, you can't even guess after working with us, so how can we guess?"
Yang Cong lowered his head: "Uh~ I was wrong, I regret it, I really can't match who this voice belongs to..."
"Rat, do you have any special skills or talents?"
Shushu thought for a moment and said, "I can do finger dance!"
Yang Cong: "Let's do a segment!"
The camera was aimed at Shu Shu on the stage and gave a close-up of his hands.
Han Zhou also turned around to look curiously.
Shushu performs a very wonderful finger dance.
This is even more confusing.
Many artists and singers do not have the opportunity to showcase their talents other than singing.
Some singers can also write calligraphy and paint Chinese paintings, but no one knows about it.
There are also some singers who seem to like singing quietly, but are actually street dance masters behind the scenes.
Who would have thought that they had such special skills?
A male singer who claimed that he had never been in a relationship said that his special skill was breastfeeding, and no one could figure it out!
After Shushu finished a finger dance performance that was almost at a professional level, the audience responded with warm applause and cheers.
However, the people on the guessing panel were even more stupid.
Who is this? Who is this? Who is this?
"Let's see who wins."
In fact, there was nothing to see. Everyone knew that the Red Ducks would definitely win.
As expected, the Red Ducks won with a high vote count.
Seven hundred and thirty votes!
The big devil Shushu hit a wall right at the start and only got 217 votes.
"There's something fishy going on. Who is the Big Devil?" Yang Cong said, "Red Duck has defeated Big Devil for two consecutive rounds. It's impossible that you can choose the Big Devil topic for Red Duck every time, right?"
Lu Jin: "This time the questions were very similar, and the contrast was too strong, so I lost so badly."
Yang Cong: "Now I am more curious about who the red-skinned duck is."
"Last time, I guessed that the red-skinned duck was Chen Yin, but it turned out not to be him."
"When I went back, I was thinking about which singers have such strong songwriting and arranging abilities, and are still young."
“It really made me think of five or six people.”
"But now I'm even more confused, none of these people can sing female voices!!"
Han Zhou was in a daze at this time. In fact, Yang Cong spoke at several points, and it should have been the Red Duck who took over, but Han Zhou did not.
After waiting for a few seconds, Han Zhou reacted.
Oops, I almost got exposed.
Han Zhou: "Is there nothing else to say? That's it?"
"Director team, I suggest you call the police. These people on the judging panel are obviously here to defraud the film pay."
Zimo complained: "Not to mention us, netizens can't guess it either."
“Are there any male singers who are good at singing female voices?”
There are actually quite a few male singers in the entertainment industry who can sing female voices, but many of them are from talent shows.
Due to his lack of singing skills, he can only participate in various talent shows.
This is also a small selling point, so each program team also likes this kind of contestant.
However, no one could guess who the female vocalist with professional singing skills was.
Lu Jin: "Forget it. Red Duck won, and there's no way to verify who he is. Why don't we guess who Shushu is first?"
Li Doudou: "But we can't guess who Shushu is."
Zimo laughed and said self-deprecatingly: "Let's change the name of this program. Don't call it "The Voice of Dark Gold". It would be more appropriate to call it "The Useless Guessing Group"."
Yang Cong: "Just say a random name and see the audience will vote. I guess Shushu is Li Xinqi."
Yang Cong casually mentioned the name of a female singer.
The live audience also activated the voting setting.
There are three voting options, 1 means agreeing with the judges' opinion.
2 means you are not willing to eliminate this singer.
3 means disagreeing with the judges’ guess about the singer’s identity.
If the number of votes for vote 1 reaches 400 and the person is guessed correctly, then Shushu will have to leave.
Everyone in the industry knows that it couldn't possibly be Li Xinqi.
But the audience just voted randomly.
It's impossible to guess who it is anyway.
Zimo: "Okay, 487 viewers think Shu Shu is Li Xinqi."
"So, is Shushu Li Xinqi?!"
"Is it possible that the big devil in the second round will be eliminated directly?"
"Let's... I don't expect it at all. It's impossible for me to win. If I win, I'll buy a lottery ticket."
At this time, no one paid attention to the unveiling process.
Everyone knows that Li Xinqi is a female singer who retired seven years ago.
Li Xinqi retired from the entertainment industry for two reasons.
One reason is that Li Xinqi was depressed for a period of time and then began to drink heavily, and the media often exposed her negative news.
Another reason was that Li Xinqi had problems with his throat after drinking too much. It was said that his throat was damaged by drinking too much.
Yang Cong casually mentioned Li Xinqi just because he felt that Shushu's voice was very similar to Li Xinqi's back then.
On the stage, the light gathered.
Shu Shu's hands were on the Shu Shu hood.
“Bang!”
Shushu took off his hood.
Everyone at the scene, including Yang Cong who proposed the nomination, was stunned.
A beautiful singer in her thirties just stood on the stage.
"Hello everyone, I'm Shu Shu, and I'm Li Xinqi."
“Ah?!” Yang Cong, sitting on the judging panel, was completely stunned.
I guessed for a long time but couldn’t come up with the answer, so I just said a random name to try, and I won the bid?
Li Xinqi smiled: "It's me, Brother Cong."
Yang Cong felt a little relieved: "If you had called me Brother Cong from the beginning, I would never have guessed that you were Li Xinqi."
"It was because you didn't call me Brother Cong but Teacher Yang at the beginning that I felt confident and bold enough to casually say the name Li Xinqi. I heard a little bit of similarity, but I didn't expect..."
Li Xinqi smiled and waved: "Long time no see."
Yang Cong stood up and walked towards the stage: "It's been a long time since we last met. About six or seven years, right?"
Li Xinqi: “Eight years.”
In fact, Li Xinqi retired from the entertainment industry eight years ago, but the media has been trying to take advantage of the popularity, so everyone thought that Li Xinqi was still active that year.
So everyone thought that Li Xinqi had retired from the entertainment industry for six years, but in fact, Li Xinqi had already retired from the entertainment industry eight years ago.
Yang Cong and Li Xinqi hugged each other before asking, "Why did you quit the entertainment industry in the first place?"
"It's just like what the media said." Li Xinqi: "It's because I was in a bad mood and couldn't sing."
Han Zhou, who was standing on the side stage, understood.
No wonder Li Xinqi would go to her own comment section and Weibo super topic to use a small account and call herself Shushu.
Wasn't Li Xinqi a rat crossing the street that everyone wanted to kill?
Li Xinqi was depressed at the beginning, and people outside thought that Li Xinqi became like a crazy woman because of alcoholism... Of course, it is possible that both reasons combined led to Li Xinqi's retirement.
After singing "Under the Sea", Li Xinqi has been active frequently.
This time, the title of this song, a healing song for depression, may be Li Xinqi's way of saying goodbye to herself many years ago.
It's not a reconciliation. Why should people reconcile with themselves?
It should be said that after so many years, Li Xinqi finally figured it out due to many factors.
Yang Cong: "So are you coming out this time to participate in a show, or are you planning to make a comeback?"
Li Xinqi smiled and said, "So, participating in the show itself is equivalent to a comeback, right?"
Yang Cong: "Then if you hold a concert, I will definitely go."
Zimo on the stage: "I want one too, can you give me some votes?"
Yang Cong laughed and scolded: "Go buy a ticket."
Yang Cong on the stage said cautiously: "Then...over the years, you..."
Li Xinqi: "In fact, I have not been as depressed as I was before a long time ago. I have recovered. I just think that I should just live a good life and not return to the music industry."
"But when I heard the song 'Under the Sea' some time ago, I really wanted to sing this song and share it with everyone."
“So, I came to the stage of “Dark Gold Voice”.”
“And today, I’m very happy that my “Under the Sea” lost to the Red Duck’s “Under the Sea”.”
“I really like Red Duck’s Under the Sea.”
Han Zhou on the side stage also understood.
No wonder the lyrics of Shu Shu’s version of “Under the Sea” are so weird.
I put myself into it.
In fact, she didn't get herself involved, but was a person who had experienced depression and survived, and wanted to use her own experience to accompany others.
She got better on her own, but she didn't know how she got better. However, she was very aware of how depressed people reject and react to the outside world, so she focused on providing companionship.
In fact, the Phoenix version of "Under the Sea" was adapted by a very famous lyricist, who is also the lyricist of "The Lone Warrior" and "The Light Chaser". She was diagnosed with stage three laryngeal cancer very early, so her desire for life is not comparable to that of ordinary lyricists.
And she successfully survived cancer, which has a mortality rate of over 60%.
It is precisely because of his own special experience that the Phoenix version of "Under the Sea" is so appropriate.
The desire to live emanates from the lyrics, allowing everyone to feel it personally.
It is this powerful flame of life that ignites a ray of light in the eyes of depressed listeners.
Just like Beethoven could only use bone conduction to listen to music after he became deaf, so the music he created was more powerful.
She walked out of the fading life with strength, and her lyrics are so full of life.
On the side of the stage, Han Zhou raised his hands and applauded .
Yang Cong on the stage shed tears, looked up, and his voice suddenly changed from laughing to sobbing: "I regret it."
"How could I be so stupid as to suddenly say this name?"
"In fact, I didn't even guess it was you. I could have waited for you to continue performing for everyone."
Li Xinqi patted Yang Cong on the back: "A competition is a competition."
“Actually, the director gave me the right to choose.”
"He told me that because of my situation, even if I lost and was guessed, I would have the right to leave without revealing my face."
"But when I took off my mask, I had already made up my mind that I would continue to sing for my fans in the future."
"After hearing the Red Duck version of 'Under the Sea', I have a lot more things I want to share with my fans."
"Actually, I'm really happy that you guessed me. I thought everyone had forgotten about me."
Han Zhou knew that Li Xinqi's words meant she had completely moved on.
This is a rare experience.
If her vocal conditions were good enough for her to become a first-line singer before, then now, her future may be that of a quasi-queen of pop. If someone supports her, it is hard to say whether she can even become a queen of pop.
This part will eventually come to an end.
The last step is to select the first place in this field.
If Li Xinqi had not appeared, Han Zhou might not have been able to win against Tanzhao or Hope.
But with the appearance of Li Xinqi, the result was inevitable.
Sometimes, the audience will be influenced by emotions.
It is for this reason that in so many competitions and variety shows, singers are crazy about singing high-pitched songs, because high notes are more contagious.
But the infectiousness of high notes can never compare to the infectiousness of vitality.
"Congratulations to the Red Duck for winning first place for two consecutive periods. Will you continue to challenge in the next period?"
Han Zhou: “Yes.”
In the background, the Rubik's Cube complained: "Give me a way to survive, please!"
Searchlight: "I hope to meet the red duck again!"
Backstage, Han Zhou had just walked out of the camera range when chief director Wang Jietao came over and said, "I have a personal request."
"Li Xinqi wants to talk to you."
Han Zhou: “Okay.”
Wang Jietao: "I owe you a favor. Li Xinqi is a very good friend of mine."
Han Zhou made a detour and arrived at the Devil's Lounge.
The cameras in the lounge were removed.
After entering the house, Li Xinqi looked at the red-skinned duck and smiled: "How did you come up with the lyrics for "Under the Sea"?"
Han Zhou took off his mask, then put on the hood under Li Xinqi's as-expected look: "I'll go ahead and call me."
Li Xinqi nodded.
Others are discussing Li Xinqi's comeback.
But Han Zhou is not only a singer, he is also the boss of an entertainment company, so Han Zhou thinks about bigger things.
That is, Li Xinqi has retired from the entertainment industry for eight years, so it is impossible for her to have a contract!
In other words, this is a first-line singer without a company, although when she retired from the circle, she was not considered a veteran first-line singer, but just an ordinary first-line singer.
But what Han Zhou lacks now is singers. Han Zhou has so many songs that he can’t count them all.
If New World can have a mature singer, the future development of Hanzhou Company will be much easier.
This opportunity must be seized.
Back to the singers' lounge.
Searchlight: "You win again!"
Hope: “Lose and lose again.”
Black Rose: "It's getting more and more interesting and challenging. I like this feeling. I hope you can get the single group PK for two consecutive rounds and not just slip away and wait for the finals."
Hope: "No way, I will continue to participate."
Searchlight: "Do you still want to play the Rubik's Cube?"
The Cube gnashed its teeth and said, "I haven't won yet. I must win the single-period championship once!"
Han Zhou stepped forward and said, "That is impossible. You are thinking too much."
The Cube clapped his hands and made a Southern Fist stance: "Oh, so arrogant!"
Han Zhou laughed: "You are no match for me in boxing. Look at your height and weight, we are not in the same weight class."
rubik's cube:"……"
Han Zhou looked at the others and asked, "Well, what's the topic of the next issue?"
Hope directly took out a piece of paper: "This question is difficult and suitable for you."
Han Zhou looked over and said, "Huh? You all want to give me this question?"
【Colorful black】
"Your singing should be calm, but it should express a strong sense of loneliness and loss, and a strong sense of hope in the disappointment. You can let the performance style of the final song be any of the three words, but the whole song must contain the three elements of 'calm, hope, and loss'."
Han Zhou took the note and said, "Simple."
Searchlight complained: "Simple???"
"Such a perverted question, easy?!"
"Netizens are so perverted, they actually came up with this kind of question. Is it possible to come up with this?"
"Rock and roll once?"
Han Zhou: "Let's talk about it later. Let me take a look at your questions."
Han Zhou looked around and couldn't help but sigh: "Netizens are really getting more and more perverted..."
…
Xi City, Jiangsu Province.
Tang City.
The exterior wall of the palace.
Han Zhou rode his electric scooter and ran wildly: "Still chasing! Still chasing at 70 yards!"
Behind him, Tang Zhou was riding a bicycle, his legs making the wheels circle: "You run, I let you run!"
Han Zhou laughed awkwardly: "Is it okay if I'm wrong?"
Tang Zhou sneered: "What do you think... cough cough cough..."
I shouted too loudly and choked on the cold air.