After offending capital, my songs became more and more popular.

Chapter 20: Youthful Campus Team Battle - Singer Guest Performance Ensures Success!
"What topic should we change to?" Director Niu asked.

The people present also started discussing it...

Da Congming had clearly thought about this issue long ago. He smiled and said, "I think we can come up with a theme of 'youth and campus'."

"Youth...campus?" Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other, momentarily stunned.

After a moment, they looked enlightened...

Youth and campus life, frankly speaking, are all about a fresh and youthful spirit. They might have some connection to the patriotism and national pride evoked by revolutionary songs, but not much...

There has been almost no mainstream content related to youth and school life in the history of Chinese entertainment. On the contrary, there are countless TV series, movies, love songs and so on in the youth and school genre.

To put it bluntly, this subject matter is too narrow and has too many limitations, making it difficult to use for creating revolutionary songs.

Writing songs with youth and campus themes would serve two purposes: to curb Shen Ming'en's influence and to give other singers an explanation.

You know, when the theme was "Darkness" in the last episode, the other singers had quite a few complaints, all feeling that Shen Ming'en had made them all work harder and they were getting ripped off...

Anyone can write about youth and campus life; it's much easier for them to create.

"Yes, that's feasible." Director Niu nodded in approval.

The others nodded in agreement, and it was at this moment...

"Director Niu, I have another idea." Zhou Yang, who was very clever, felt that he had performed well, so he decided to add more: "We can open up a [singer guest performance] segment."

"A singer performing with you?"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked on with a face full of question marks once again...

The term "singer guest performance" is not unfamiliar in the music variety show circle. A certain professional singer program next door often uses this tactic, inviting well-known big-name singers to help out before the singing competition, as a gimmick to attract attention and traffic.

They could understand Da Congming's idea: singers inviting friends from the industry to help them increase their popularity and exposure, making it easier to garner votes during performances...

The other singers are fine, but Shen Ming'en has a terrible reputation in the industry now, and nobody wants to associate with him. He definitely can't invite any guest singers, so he has no advantage whatsoever...

However, inviting more well-known and big-name singers requires a budget, and their program is themed around "originality," focusing on the works rather than the competition. Inviting additional singers at this stage seems very strange.

"It's not a guest performer in the traditional sense." Zhou Yang clearly noticed everyone's confusion and explained, "It means that our current resident singers can freely form teams and choose whether or not to sing a few lines for others, like a bridge, outside of their own performances..."

He said that...

"Oh~"

Those present immediately understood.

So, what he meant was that he wanted to engage in "team battles" and stick together!

Generally speaking, a singer has a unique vocal quality. If other singers are called in to help sing during certain climaxes, the scene and effect are simply amazing to imagine.

If a group of famous singers sing the same song together, each with their own unique timbre, each creating a different effect that complements and enhances the performance, it will be even more exciting.

As I just said, Shen Mingen is now disliked in the industry and within the production team. Basically, apart from Yao Shuli and Feng Yucan, no one has a good impression of him.

The other singers wouldn't give up the advantage of "banding together," but for Shen Ming'en, even if he wanted to band together, no one would pay attention to him... because even those who are close to him and have no ill intentions towards him, like Yao Shuli and Feng Yucan, wouldn't dare to help him because of their management companies.

So the situation becomes...

The other singers banded together, forming teams of two or three, helping each other out, while Shen Ming'en competed against them all by himself.

The production team had already curbed Shen Ming'en's idea of ​​singing revolutionary songs in the "assigned theme creation" section. Other singers were also good at the "youth campus" theme. Now, with this "team battle" added, it was almost foolproof!
To put it bluntly, even if Shen Ming'en could create a revolutionary song based on the theme of "youth and campus", his revolutionary song might not necessarily gain an advantage in the "team battle"!

"Isn't this... a bit too much?" one of the staff members in charge of online discussions couldn't help but grin.

Because of Hajime, the production team was already at a disadvantage in terms of online public opinion. Now they are openly engaging in these "unfair" practices. Are netizens sure they won't be condemned to death?

"What's wrong?" Da Congming waved his hand and said bluntly, "It's not that we don't want other singers to help him. He can ask others to sing with him. He just doesn't have many friends and no one helps him. It's not our fault..."

Upon hearing this, the staff member in charge of online public opinion was immediately rendered speechless.

Sparrow food, "team battle" is not only beneficial to others, Shen Ming'en can also benefit, but the premise is that he has good interpersonal relationships and people are willing to help him.

If someone is not popular, it can't be the production team's fault, right?
"Hmm..." Director Niu nodded at this moment, adding fuel to the fire, and said frankly: "It's good to announce the rules of the group battle in advance, but not to announce who will sing with whom. We can explain when they have no one to sing with them."

If they don't announce it in advance, the production team won't be criticized too harshly. When Shen Mingen is eliminated, they can say that several senior artists sang on the same stage, so why should he, a mere Hajien, win?

Eliminating him is a logical and reasonable course of action.

that's it……

The production team of "Chinese Music Awards" has finalized the "themed creation" for the next episode featuring Shen Ming'en!
Shortly after the official Weibo account released the message that evening, several trending terms topped the trending search lists on various platforms...

"#The latest theme for the 'Chinese Music Awards' is: [Youth, Campus]!"

"#The Mandarin Music Promotion Center has announced the opening of a singer mutual support program, so we can see singers helping each other with their performances!#"

"#The Chinese Music Awards officially announced that they will be holding an offline event at Qingdao University tomorrow. Girls, let's go!#"

……

Although the production team didn't explicitly say so, netizens and fans who saw the trending topic understood almost instantly!
Isn't this still targeting them?!

[Every word and sentence avoids mentioning Shen Ming'en, yet every single word and sentence is directed at him!]

Everyone knows that nobody dares to help our Hagion right now...

[Tsk tsk...this production team really hasn't given up on ruining my pigeon!]

……

While it's all entertaining, everyone has to admit that the production team was really pushed to the limit this time, and Shen Ming'en is in trouble again...

……

(End of this chapter)