This star just wants to make more money

Chapter 184 "Singing and crying"

After temporarily saying goodbye to Little Bird Sister, Xu Feng returned to the practice room.

As for whether his behavior would be recorded by the program crew and released as a behind-the-scenes footage or something, Xu Feng didn't really care.

The person is already in the passenger seat, so this one time won’t make a difference.

Entering the practice room, Xu Feng took a look at the students inside. Two students who were about to perform on stage were sitting together with Bai Yao, discussing something.

The other students sat in their seats, humming songs with their heads down.

During the hour that Xu Feng was away, nothing went wrong and everyone was in good order under Bai Yao's arrangement.

"Teacher Xu Feng!"

Some students heard the noise, raised their heads and nodded towards Xu Feng, then quickly lowered their heads and continued practicing singing.

They are obviously very focused on their own things.

Xu Feng was also happy to be free, so he sat down in his seat. After Bai Yao finished her work, he jokingly said, "Why do I suddenly feel a little redundant?"

"No, without Teacher Xu Feng's material, I can't explain it." Bai Yao smiled happily, "Everyone likes Teacher Xu Feng's song too much."

"Is it going well?" Xu Feng asked again, "Did you encounter any difficulties?"

"No way... Teacher Xu Feng, your song selection is amazing." Bai Yao shook her head vigorously. "You two have tried singing several times just now, and there is no problem at all. I think we can conservatively secure a top three ranking this time."

To be honest, after watching the performances of other groups, Bai Yao was completely filled with confidence.

The songs sung by other mentors were either of poor difficulty like Zhou Yanliu's, or of low difficulty but sounded like catchy songs.

In terms of song selection, Xu Feng's songs definitely beat those of other groups.

After two hours of careful teaching by Bai Yao, she also believed that the team members' performance would not be bad.

"Okay, I'll wait and see. If you have any questions about the song, feel free to discuss it with me."

To be honest, he took an order, but the boss played a very important role in it, which greatly reduced his workload. It is not impossible to make a little compensation in other areas.

Bai Yao's eyes lit up immediately: "Is it possible? Can you bring Sister Huan with you to discuss this?"

Xu Feng would not agree to such a thing for others: "I can only ask for you at most. It is Lin Shenghuan's own business whether to agree or not."

"That's enough!"

Bai Yao gained a lot when exchanging ideas with Lin Shenghuan last time.

I'll be satisfied as long as I can get one chance.

"Okay, I'll ask for you then."

"..."

Half an hour later, the group competition officially began.

As the team with the second choice, Xu Feng's teammates were very confident this time and directly chose to appear last.

He did not choose a more conservative starting position like he did the first time.

Are you kidding? If they get this kind of song selection and are taught by a teacher like Bai Yao, but still don't have the confidence to be the last one to perform, then they might as well not participate in this competition.

The question that Bai Yao asked the students before also largely led them to choose this position, which would either maximize the show effect or be very disappointing.

Should I remain unknown or give it a try?
The first team to appear was a team that had previously ranked in the middle and had similar results to Xu Feng's team.

Their performance was similar to the previous round.

The score of the whole song is on the level line.

However, since the two best members of the group were selected to perform on stage, the final score slightly surpassed the previous team performance.

However... each group will have the most outstanding students to sing, so their final results will not have a big breakthrough, but of course they will not drop too much either.

There should be no problem in maintaining one's own ranking.

After the performances of the first few groups, it was soon time for the group nicknamed the "traffic group" by netizens.

They are called this not only because their two mentors are popular singers, but also because this team is clearly at the bottom of all the teams, but all kinds of strange things always appear on the Internet.

You can always get traffic.

It feels like, although this is a music variety show, let's put the singing aside for now and just look at what this young man has done.

In short, they brought the fan circle's style over and gained popularity far beyond what they deserved given their ranking.

However, this behavior also caused considerable backlash.

At least the title of "traffic team" is very unpopular with many students, especially those who rank well in the group and are expected to get good results.

You haven't even become famous yet, but you already have some black spots on your body?

They are not like these two mentors who can have the support of traffic for a long time and can ignore the criticism by relying on their achievements.

After this variety show ends, the traffic of most people will be lost immediately, but the black spots may not be forgotten!

These black spots that cannot become long-term hot topics on the Internet are harmful and useless.

This time, the song selections of the two popular singers are as difficult to listen to as always.

Although Zhou Yanliu's song is difficult, she still sounds pretty good when she sings it.

This is also the case with many instructors when choosing songs – one of the two must be difficult or pleasant to listen to.

If you can have both like Xu Feng, it can be considered a hit.

It is quite rare to see singers like these two who have neither of these characteristics.

With such a mentor and such a selection of songs, the "traffic group" unsurprisingly received a low score.

The live performance was the kind of disaster that even the two top players in the group couldn't save - it was obvious that they also had a big problem with their mentality, and their resentment towards the instructor was almost written on their faces.

When giving comments at the mentor's table, Xu Feng's speech was just as targeted as last time. He still directly pointed out that it was the mentor's problem that led to the students' failure to perform.

"It seems that Teacher Zhuo Zixuan still hasn't been able to adjust the status of the team members." Xu Feng had a playful smile on his face, adding insult to injury and trying to sow discord. "I think the performance of these two students was good, but this song is too restrictive, so they were unable to use only 50% of their full ability."

"Objectively speaking, I'd give it an average score."

When Zhuo Zixuan, their own mentor, scolded the singer and gave a low score, Xu Feng, another group whose strength far exceeded their mentor's, stood up to speak for them and gave a more objective score.

Such a huge gap and contrast made the morale of the group quickly collapse.

What mentor are you?
What kind of mentor is Xu Feng?
What song do you sing and how good are your singing skills?
What song did Xu Feng sing? What level of singing skills does Xu Feng have?

To be honest, as for these two popular singers, they are not even qualified to sit at the same table with Xu Feng after appearing in this variety show.

Real singers in the industry will never look down on traffic singers at the bottom of the contempt chain. Why don't you wash your face and compare yourself with Xu Feng's group first?

If they were in Xu Feng's group, would they perform like this?
"Xu Feng..." Zhuo Zixuan almost gritted his teeth and spat out these two words, "Thank you for caring about our team so much."

Such humiliation should not occur between mentors, and this can be considered a tacit understanding.

After all, everyone has times when they don't perform well.

To save face for others is to save face for yourself.

But all this tacit understanding is invalid with Xu Feng.

He really had never made a mistake...at least he himself had never made a mistake, which gave Xu Feng the confidence to not give face to other mentors.

No...next time, I'll just cover someone else's song.

If they continue to be humiliated by Xu Feng like this, not only will these two popular singers become a joke, but the people under them will never be convinced by them again.

Xu Feng is not only an idol for casual fans and rational fans of songs, but also an idol for many singers who are trying to rise from the grassroots.

Among the students, there are many fans of Xu Feng.

What kind of image do these students have of a person who has been repeatedly humiliated by Xu Feng?
What kind of image does a singer who is repeatedly humiliated by talented singers but has never been able to fight back with his works have in the eyes of the audience?
"There is no discrimination in teaching. You're welcome." Xu Feng responded with a smile, and turned to look in Zhou Yanliu's direction. "The performance of Teacher Zhou Yanliu's group later should give everyone a good demonstration... I am also looking forward to the performance of the defending champion. It's time to learn from them."

Zhou Yanliu was so disgusted that she didn't want to say a word.

She didn't believe that Xu Feng couldn't see that her team was likely to repeat the failure of Xu Feng's team in the previous round!

But... it doesn't matter, as long as I can beat Xu Feng in the hard score, this game will not be considered a loss!

A little verbal provocation will pass if you just bear with it.

"..."

The two students on the stage suppressed their complicated emotions and bowed to the many teachers on the stage - when it came to Xu Feng, the extent of their bows was obviously much larger.

This is their gratitude to a singer of Xu Feng's status for being willing to stand up and help them seek justice.

It was extremely embarrassing for Zhuo Zixuan to see his own students, and the two best students at that, bowing to other instructors.

"Then, please invite the members of Zhou Yanliu's group to come on stage and sing. Please come on stage!"

The host's passionate voice was followed by a decent round of applause from the audience.

Of course, the audience didn’t expect the students to really sing Zhou Yanliu’s song well, but there were many dedicated staff in the audience who were just keeping the atmosphere lively.

The two singers who were called "defending champions" by Xu Feng took the stage.

Their performance was just as everyone had expected. Even though Lei Zhihui made an emergency lowering of the pitch, the audience still frowned from the very first sentence.

Once the blessing of her powerful singing skills was lost, the various shortcomings of Zhou Yanliu's song were immediately exposed.

The difficult key changes, which are difficult for most people to master in a short period of time, made the song full of mistakes and the entire stage fell into an extremely embarrassing situation.

The two singers on the stage even had tears streaming from their eyes halfway through their song, and their crying voices were clearly audible through the microphone.

In this kind of variety show, it is common to see the audience crying during the performance, but it is relatively rare to see the singers themselves break down during the performance...

At this point, singing has actually become a torture.

"…I didn't sing well this time. I'm sorry to all the national connoisseurs, sorry to all the mentors, I'm sorry."

After finally finishing the song, the two singers apologized to all the mentors and the audience, and left the stage without even waiting for the host.

Only Zhou Yanliu had a cold expression on her face, as if it had nothing to do with her.

When the other instructors saw this scene, they couldn't help but shook their heads.

I have heard it a long time ago, and now I can confirm it, that there are big problems with the atmosphere in Zhou Yanliu's team.

Look at Xu Feng’s team... After losing the first round, everyone from the mentors to the students immediately started looking for their own problems and quickly adjusted their state.

At least from the song Xu Feng sang this time, it can be seen that Xu Feng is definitely not what people say on the Internet, that he is irresponsible and unwilling to see rising stars.

It is so rare to see the pragmatic spirit of everyone from the instructor to the students.

Thinking about Xu Feng's very serious style of "getting things done for money", many people gradually began to think that perhaps it was this down-to-earth attitude that made his team in such good shape.

"It's a pity... but failure is common. I hope they can cheer up and keep trying! They should also believe in themselves. If they have won first place before, it means they have the ability to win first place. Don't get discouraged!"

"Then, the last to appear is the group of Teacher Xu Feng and Teacher Bai Yao. Welcome!"

"oh!!"

"coming!!!"

"Wow..."

Qin Daoqiu and his teammates walked onto the stage amid the cheers of the audience.

After experiencing the last failure, the two men were in a very stable state of mind and were not overwhelmed by such a scene.

After looking at the two mentors sitting in the mentor seats, they began their singing.

"Laughter and cheers heated up the atmosphere, but my heart was cold..."

"..."

“Like a lonely person pulling at himself… an extroverted lonely person who needs recognition… thank you everyone, thank you!”

The entire concert went smoothly.

Although they were not as good as Xu Feng in terms of emotions, and did not fully capture the true flavor of "Lonely Patient", but compared with other groups, this performance was already perfect!
Finally, under everyone's expectation, Xu Feng's team finally got a high score of 92 points and won the first place!
Of course, the scoring mechanism for students is different from that for tutors. A higher absolute score does not mean that the student sings better.

Not only was there a cheer at the scene, but the students in the practice room who were anxiously waiting for the final scores also jumped up.

"it is good!"

"Okay, okay, first place, no one will be eliminated this round, hahaha!"

"Fuck, don't celebrate too quickly. Look at Zhou Yanliu's team. They're at the bottom of this round, even lower than the 'Traffic Team'!"

"Ah, going straight from first place to last? Is it that bad?"

"It's okay. The traffic team at least finished singing completely. It seemed that their mentality was completely broken, and they just ran away from the stage. The fact that they got this score is because the mentors showed mercy."

"Although Mr. Xu Feng has a sharp tongue, he is quite lenient when it comes to grading, hahaha! He always gives high scores in every evaluation."

"Don't worry about it, pack your bags quickly and go see our new dormitory and our big house!"

(End of this chapter)