Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 161: Terrace Night Talk
At 11 o'clock in the evening, the stage performances of the five groups of trainees were completed and the recording of the mentor acceptance session was completed.

The trainees took the buses back to the dormitories one by one to recuperate for the third official performance which will be open to the audience tomorrow, while the mentors were kept back by the program crew for a meeting.

In fact, there are only five people: producer representative Zhang Yixing and mentors Li Ronghao, Shen Juan, Ouyang Jing and Zhou Jieqiong.

Cheng Xiao and Wang Jiaer are busy with the group's comeback schedule and will only be able to come to the scene to participate in the performance recording tomorrow.

The content of the meeting was mainly to discuss the specific procedures and rules framework for the next few recordings, as well as the possibility of setting up a mentor collaboration stage on the night of the finals.

The former is relatively easy and simple. Anyway, the main task of mentors like Shen Juan is to listen quietly.

Whenever there is a need for communication, it is usually Zhang Yixing who negotiates with the program crew. After all, he gets paid the most.

The latter, this mentor cooperation stage
To put it simply, after the debut list is announced, several mentors will put on a "We Are 伐木磊" reunion stage at the end of the live broadcast.

Moreover, the song is required to have singing, dancing and rap parts at the same time, so that each mentor has room to perform.

Shen Juan thought for a moment and decided to take the initiative to take this job. He wanted Kiwi to owe him a favor.

"But aren't you preparing for an album? And you have a variety show and a movie to shoot during this period, right? In this case, do you have extra time to make songs?"

Zhang Yixing paid close attention to Shen Juan's recent developments. Even after the recording of "Longing" started, he wanted to rely on his relationship with Huang Lei to ask Shen Juan to collaborate on a song.

"I made some major changes to the composition of my album some time ago, so now I have a few half-finished songs that can be used. I will send them to you to listen to. If you think they are suitable, use them. If you think they are not suitable for singing English songs, then find someone else."

After Shen Juan finished speaking, he did not forget to add:
"By the way, I have to state in advance that this is a track from my album, so it's in English."

After all, he is a singer with an international career, and the discussions caused by singing English songs have already triggered waves of discussions. This has also long become an indispensable controversy surrounding him and a reason for rival fans to attack him.

But others are different.

Their income basically comes entirely from domestic entertainment.

Therefore, some controversial issues that are insignificant and harmless to Shen Juan may have a negative impact on their career development if they happen to them.

"Of course it would be best if it's English. There will definitely be no problem on my end." Ouyang Jing, an ABC, definitely prefers singing in English rather than his not-so-fluent Chinese.

"It's no problem on my end."

Of course Zhang Yixing would not refuse, because he already had plans to release English songs to gain experience in the United States this year.

Li Ronghao said that his English was not very good, and if possible, he should be assigned as few lyrics as possible, as he did not want to make a fool of himself on such a big stage.

As for dance instructor Zhou Jieqiong.
Her opinion doesn't matter.

Anyway, she is responsible for dancing, so when it comes to singing, she should just follow the big guys.

At 1 p.m. the next day, the audience checked their tickets and entered the venue.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, the live recording of the third performance stage of "Idol Producer" officially began.

Except for the national producer representative Zhang Yixing who needs to appear on the stage to host the program, the other mentors can stay backstage and wait for the performance to begin.

The first group is "Firewalking".

Maybe it’s because he had two years of experience as a trainee and had seen too many classic performances by debuted boy bands, Shen Juan always felt that every performance of Idol Producer was as “interesting” as a group of kids playing house.

Isn’t Chen Linong, the C position of this group, a living, low-profile version of Park Ji-hoon?
(Shen Juan’s opponent in PD202 last year)
But definitely say nice things in front of the camera.

"So handsome, so handsome!" Rap instructor Ouyang Jing didn't know what to say because this group didn't sing Rap at all.

"I think Lin Chaoze is good at singing and dancing." Li Ronghao gave a fairly fair evaluation.

"He is OK."

Shen Juan nodded, without denying the ability of this trainee whom he had previously suspected of choreography plagiarism.

But strength is just the icing on the cake in a talent show, it cannot be a lifesaver.

She is not good-looking and her personality is not attractive enough to attract fans.

Even if you are Jaylen, you will probably be eliminated.

"Balance is not bad." Zhang Yixing continued to use the hot words he created to deepen the impression.

Next is the "DREAM" group, which is the group that Le Hua and Guo Ran joined forces to kick Kun Kun out.

The result inexplicably gave me a sense of a nursery rhyme, and it didn't seem out of place to have those guys from TFB perform.

"Great, great, great!" Ouyang Jing continued to take the lead in applauding and praising without any emotional nourishment.

"Except Huba, I didn't see anyone in this group." The Huba that Zhang Yixing was talking about is Zhu Xingjie.

"It's pretty impressive." Shen Juan gave a perfunctory comment.

His principle is that it is okay to blow it casually before the performance, but blowing it casually after the performance is disrespectful to the profession.

But it doesn’t really matter.

Anyway, Le Hua has been communicating with Kiwi about the contestants' debut as a group.

The debut position of paying players is set, so they will naturally receive extra preference and care from the show’s camera.

The third group to take the stage was "I'll Always Remember".

The famous "born in 1996, dreaming of becoming a rap leader", but Wang Ziyi, who had his face ruined in order to fill the vacancy left by Kris's sewing machine, is also in this group.

The overall performance is pretty satisfactory.

Anyway, it’s much better than the previous group of children’s song performances.

The fourth group is “BOOM BOOM BOOM”.

It is also a cute style, or a nursery rhyme style.

There's nothing much to say.

None of the contestants in this group were able to debut successfully.

The last group to perform on stage was the one with "big C" Cai Xukun, who sang "Listen to What I Say".

There is no doubt that even if Cai Xukun sings out of tune on stage (of course this is impossible as this show does not use microphones), the audience will probably vote for him obediently.

At this point, the third performance stage officially ended.

Some trainees achieved results that satisfied them and felt they needed to work harder in the future.

Another group of trainees had mixed feelings.

At the same time, they are also very clear that when the third ranking is announced in a few days, it may be the time for them to leave the show, so there will certainly be some regrets, but now more of it is actually relief. It's all over.

After the recording was over, Zhang Yixing still organized the dinner.

This time we booked a hot pot restaurant.

After the feast, some drank, some chatted, and some called their partners.
Cheng Xiao lowered his head to play King of Glory while eavesdropping on the conversation between Shen Juan, Zhang Yixing and others around him.

They first chatted about family matters.

For example, Shen Juan has always wanted to have a dog, but because he is very busy at work, he feels that he has no time to take care of it. It would be better not to have one than to just spend money to let someone else take care of it, so he can only give up with regret.

Zhang Yixing said that he wanted to have a cat and he had one before he became a trainee, but the reason was similar to Shen Juan's: he was too busy with work to have time and he didn't want to be an irresponsible owner.

For example, Shen Juan also asked Zhang Yixing about the personal preferences of his "master" Huang Lei. He is about to record "Longing for Life". Although Shen Juan does not need to please Huang Lei at his current status, it is still beneficial for him to have a good relationship with this senior who has been in the industry for decades.

Then they talked about Lay, who was planning to go to the United States in the second half of the year, and was very interested in what Shen Juan saw and heard during his trip to the United States, as well as the recent popular trends in the European and American music scene.

Shen Juan also answered all his questions one by one.

In fact, Shen Juan has always wanted to establish an organization like 88rising that brings together a large number of Asian artists and singers to help each other and facilitate their integration into the international arena.

The best way to expand your visibility and influence is always to set up a club and bring together the strength of the group.

As for why not join the existing 88rising?
Because it is a hidden reading.

It doesn't matter if an artist like Wang Jiaer, who has little traffic and popularity in the domestic entertainment industry, is in jail. Anyway, he has low attention on his family, so this kind of negative news will not be detonated.

But Shen Juan is different.

There are too many rival investors who want to bring down his house and extract gold coins and traffic from him.

So there is absolutely no need to get yourself into trouble just to join a secondary music group like 88rising.

When Shen Juan talked about signing a record contract with Universal, Zhang Yixing was surprised.

"Wow, you can even work with Universal?"

Shen Juan nodded, his face was calm and expressionless: "Actually, Wu Jiaheng is also in talks, but he is signed with Interscope Geffen A&M and Island Records under Universal, and I am signed with Republic Records. Strictly speaking, we are not colleagues in the same company."

Zhang Yixing was stunned.

"Isn't that the company that A妹 Drake potted?"

"Indeed, but joining such a big company is not necessarily all good, because with more top artists, there will be less resources for others."

Zhang Yixing feels that this is a happy trouble.

"No matter what, the resources allocated by big companies are much better than those of other small companies, and your company is willing to give up some of its profits to Universal, which is indeed a visionary idea, because many companies in the industry are actually reluctant to let their artists sign contracts with other companies, fearing that they will want to fly solo when they are strong enough."

"It's mainly because the company has confidence in me and thinks I can continue to develop, so there's no need to use exhausting means to get the last bit of money."

"Yes, it depends on the artist himself."

The two chatted for a while, and then Zhang Yixing was dragged away by Li Ronghao to drink. Shen Juan declined the invitation and walked to the balcony of the private room alone to enjoy the cold wind.

Just think of it as a way to sober myself up.

On the other side, Cheng Xiao saw that there was no one else beside Shen Juan, so he quickly put his phone back into his pocket, walked quietly to his side, turned his head to look at him, and said softly with a sigh: "I didn't expect that after not seeing you for a while, you have signed a contract with Universal."

"Huh? What do you mean by unexpected? Do you have so little confidence in me?" Shen Juan had the idea of teasing her.

"No, no, um, what I mean is that I have always had confidence in you. I said this simply because I admire your ability and rapid development." Cheng Xiao explained quickly.

Shen Juan smiled and looked at the girl who was not good at talking.

Cheng Xiao held his head high and pretended to be calm: "Because when you were still a trainee, you were already very famous in the company! At that time, everyone said that Sister Hua found a very handsome ace trainee in China, and then you went to participate in Produce 202 and achieved such good results."

"At that time, I was thinking that this colleague named Shen Juan would probably become a very powerful and popular idol in the future, and I guess we would meet and interact with each other often in the future."

After saying this, Cheng Xiao felt that his choice of words was inappropriate. He was afraid that Shen Juan would misunderstand that he had other intentions towards him, so he added: "Meeting and contact at work."

Shen Juan lowered his head and smiled silently, "Then when I decided to withdraw from the competition and return home, would you be disappointed?"

"No, after all, so many seniors who debuted in South Korea have chosen to return to China, which means that returning to China will definitely be good for them, so I think it's good for you to return." Cheng Xiao forced a happy and relaxed expression, and said in a particularly brisk tone: "And didn't we still meet? Through this show now."

Although he believed that even if he debuted in South Korea, he would still be able to make a name for himself and achieve good results.

But the scale of Kpop is completely incomparable to that of domestic entertainment, so how can South Korea be compared with China?

No matter how you look at it, he made the most correct and most beneficial choice for himself at the moment.

So Shen Juan never felt any regret.

Suddenly, a gust of night wind blew across his tipsy cheeks, and he felt a chill. He turned around and looked at the pretty girl in front of him, whose eyes sparkled under the neon lights not far away: "What about you? You are about to leave the group and return to China to develop. Do you regret it? Or do you feel sorry?"

"Hmm?" Cheng Xiao raised his eyes and looked at him, with question marks flashing in his eyes.

"Sister Hua told me on WeChat that the three Chinese members of Cosmic Girls will not return to South Korea after they finish the group's comeback promotion schedule."

Cheng Xiao sighed helplessly, "Of course I have regrets and remorse, but what can I do? After all, life is like this. I don't know which will come first, tomorrow or an accident. As a little idol with no real say, I'd better listen to the company's arrangements."

Shen Juan raised his eyebrows slightly but did not respond.

So Cheng Xiao continued to ask softly: "Do you think the decision the company made for me is correct?"

"I think the choice is not important. What is important is to work hard to make the choice right." Shen Juan gave a concise and powerful answer.

Cheng Xiao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then suddenly smiled.

She felt that her train of thought was really strange.

Because of the question just now
In fact, she already had her own answer in her heart and didn't need anyone else's help to answer it.

The reason she asked was simply because she wanted to find a topic to chat with Shen Juan and say a few more words to him.

But the answer he gave happened to be exactly what he was thinking?

So Cheng Xiao felt a little happy.

Just like the piece of dark chocolate that was handed to me a long time ago.

No matter how bad her mood is at the moment, there is always someone in this world who can pay attention to her feelings.

Shen Juan can always understand himself.

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(End of this chapter)