You're about to retire from the entertainment industry, yet your concerts are still so popular?

now.

He took a deep breath, bowed, and urged Yang Can and Ye Chen on:

"Professor Ye Chen, could you please comment on the remarks made by the directors?"

As the director, he was also helpless when he personally appeared and made controversial remarks that stirred up trouble.

As the director of a music variety show, Yang Can also loves music.

But because he has worked in music variety shows for a long time, he knows better than others how bad the music scene can be in order to gain popularity!

He doesn't want the music industry to just give up!

Therefore, we must take advantage of Ye Chen's talent to try out a new direction for the music scene!

Ye Chen picked up the microphone again, pondered slowly, and didn't rush to speak.

The room fell silent, save for the soft clatter of glass tabletops colliding.

Ye Chen raised his eyes, his gaze passing over Yang Can and landing on Han Hong's face:

"Mr. Han Hong, you said 'Love for Sale' is vulgar and doesn't deserve this stage. I want to ask, in your life, have you never bowed your head for money? Have you never engaged in a transaction that you both knew was legitimate?"

"I...you!" Han Hong's eyes widened instantly, her lips moving.

"If you don't have it, then your place of origin has been fake for most of your life. In that case, you were just insulting yourself."

Ye Chen's voice wasn't loud, but it sounded like a heavy hammer hitting thin ice, as if he wanted to tear something apart!

With a "buzz," the entire audience felt a chill run down their spines!

Han Hong's face turned bright red, and her mouth was open, but she couldn't utter a single word.

Once Ye Chen brought up her place of origin, she really couldn't refute it!

Dezhou in Shandong, Beijing, Tibet... In order to promote herself, Han Hong has mentioned every place in her hometown!

But she never imagined that one day this boomerang would hit her on the head!

Ye Chen noticed that she didn't speak.

Turning to Lin Zhiwei, he said in an even softer tone, "Teacher Lin, are you saying this is musical garbage?"

"But as you say that, do you know how many people love listening to this song?"

Lin Zhiwei gripped the armrest tightly, about to lash out, but Han Hong pressed her down.

Seeing this, Ye Chen leaned back in his chair and said calmly:

"You two have been sitting on your pedestals for too long, forgetting that music is nurtured by the common people. The everyday life you look down on is the true face of humanity."

"That's pure slander and nonsense!" Han Hong's face darkened.

After surveying the entire room, Ye Chen looked at Han Hong and said calmly:

"I heard everything from next door. You said before, 'He's just so-so.' I'm right here, you can say it again to my face."

Han Hong forced herself to remain calm, but her heart pounded with fear: "I... I was just commenting on the cover, not targeting you..."

boom!--

The whole place exploded!

Some people in the audience stood up and applauded wildly, and the live stream chat completely flooded the screen.

The live chat was flooded with comments like "This is so weird!"

Ye Chen directly used Han Hong's reply as his answer—brilliant!

The director is the same; his one skill has ruined three talented people!

Both of their ideas are brilliant!

On the director's seat, Han Hong and Lin Zhiwei looked ashen-faced and felt like they were sitting on pins and needles.

Seeing that a fight was about to break out, Yang Can quickly stepped between the two and forcefully brought the topic back on track:

"Uh, cough cough, Mr. Ye Chen, let's get back to the songs. What are your thoughts on the four songs that scored the highest this episode?"

Ye Chen unscrewed the bottle of You Rong coconut milk, took another sip, and then said:

"Those four songs are like four illusions of life. Isn't the theme of this episode about all aspects of life? Life should be real."

Celine frowned, somewhat puzzled.

Being born as a fish is a life of suffering, Chen Bide's is a life of hope, Teng Ge'er's is a life of absurdity, and Murong Shujin's is a life of the common people...

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but ask, "Ye Chen, it seems like these four songs... they're all about life, right?"

"Yes and no," Ye Chen shook his head slightly. "Like the song 'Cancer,' it portrays life as a morgue... Is that right?"

In addition, "A Journey Through Flowers" transforms life into a fairy tale;

Grandpa Teng turned making money into a way of life through singing;

Senior Sister Murong was somewhat down-to-earth, but he and you guys trampled her into the mud.

These four songs, four filters, none of them directly confront reality.

"Bang!"

When the room fell silent, Han Hong slammed his fist on the table and shouted:

"The song 'Cancer' by Huachengyu sings of the struggle of life! It's about the courage to face death! This kind of artistic pain is a height that your pop songs can never reach in eight lifetimes! You simply don't understand life!"

These words nearly made Ye Chen explode with anger!

"You call that life? Turning into a fish and singing 'Cancer' is about fear, about suffocation!"

Ye Chen smiled, but there was no warmth in his smile.

When he sang this song as a fish, he wished he could shove the microphone down the throats of the audience and force them to drown!

Is that what you call life? That's called intimidation!

For Ye Chen, life isn't all despair; you still have to hold onto hope!

Without desires and hopes, there would be utter numbness.

After a brief moment of thought, Ye Chen added:

"A truly terminally ill patient, lying in their hospital bed, might be thinking about who will water the flowers, their grandson's tuition fees, or their spouse who, even in pain, wouldn't want to wake them..."

"To mistake despair for depth, and wailing for art, is an insult to life."

Ye Chen didn't leave any polite words behind.

……

At this moment, the live stream chat was flooded with comments:

A few days ago, my 70-year-old grandfather was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer, but he remained calm. He even asked my aunt, "Now that I'm lying here, who will support this family?" His demeanor was completely different from the song "Turning into a Fish."

[I was listening to this with headphones on, and it almost killed me! Putting everything else aside, can't you at least put on some more music from the living world?!]

Ye Shen is right! Life isn't all bad!

[Han Hong loves "Cancer" so much, may you listen to it on repeat a hundred times every day]

True pain is always silent; writhing and screaming on stage does indeed sound like a ghostly wail.

……

In the singer's dressing room, the fish's face alternated between red and white!

He never expected that he would be brought up again for being beaten!

"It's fine if you don't like my songs, but I've already left the stage. Why are you still coming here to specifically name and criticize me?!"

……

On the stage of the program.

Han Hong was indignant: "The loneliness, despair, and pain of a person lying in a hospital bed—that's the kind of illness that the fish sings about! He makes you feel that his performance is sick, and I think that's what makes it successful!"

Han Hong glared angrily, his neck veins bulging!

Upon seeing this, Lin Zhiwei immediately joined the group and exclaimed in a shrill voice:

"This wordless song is experimental music, and it represents the future of Chinese music! After all, art is inherently incomprehensible to ordinary people!"

Lin Zhiwei's mouth moved faster than her brain; as soon as she finished speaking, she realized something was off.

Then, she quickly added, "I am deeply saddened by the low level of musical culture among the Chinese people!"

"They complain that music these days is garbage, but hardly anyone buys tickets for classical music shows! Otherwise, why would singers who sing traditional Chinese style songs all go and sing such corny and vulgar love songs?!" Lin Zhiwei continued to add insult to injury.

She could only salvage her previous statements by striking a blow when Han Hong attacked Ye Chen while he was down.

Otherwise, if Han Hong falls, she'll be next!