Chapter 732: Lu Qin's Means
In the second round, there is actually a certain amount of pressure on each low-ranked player to draw lots, because all they can draw is the singer duel with a higher ranking than them, and the singers with a lower ranking than them have already drawn before, and whoever draws it is their turn is the lowest-ranked player among the remaining players. So in this round, in fact, every player wants to be drawn, because only when they are drawn to face will they compete with low-ranked players with a high-ranking advantage. It can be seen from this that in this round of 48-in-24 competition, players need a certain amount of luck if they want to advance smoothly.
This round of lottery battles, according to the video plan, will be recorded in one day, and then broadcast in two episodes. In addition to the 4 episodes of the top 100 battles recorded before, "Sound of China" will record six episodes in advance.
These six episodes of the program have been broadcast on Chang'an Channel 3 since the end of August, and one episode will be broadcast every Saturday and Sunday, and there will be multiple rebroadcasts during the week.
Then, at the end of September, the top 24 players will participate in the live Super Knockout Tournament. At that time, in addition to the 1,500 spectators and 500 professionals on the scene, the on-site hotline voting of hundreds of millions of spectators outside the venue will be added to jointly decide the fate of the contestants. The variables are even greater.
Starting from the top 24 battles, this program only eliminated two players in each episode, which was divided into six phases, namely 24 into 20, 20 into 18, 18 into 16, 16 into 14, 14 into 12, and 12 into the final national top 10, which was also broadcast live every Saturday and Sunday, for a total of three weeks.
By the end of September, the top 10 in the country will be produced.
to the top 10 in the country. It's the rhythm of eliminating a singer in each issue, and there are more complex formats such as repechage battles. And from then on, in order to give the singer more time to prepare and a better adjustment period, the top 10 matches will only be played once a week.
It will not be until January next year that the overall champion will be decided, which is a fairly long span and a very dense competition, and the singers with high ambitions must make a very careful participation plan. They can't show all their strength right away. So that in the later stage, they don't have anything to look at, which is terrible, you know. This contest has the utmost decision. It is hundreds of millions of viewers across the country. And not super professionals with poisonous ears.
For professional musicians with poisonous ears, the strength of some singers is undoubtedly very strong, even if their performance is a little uneven. But the overall strength must still be strong, and they will definitely affirm such a singer. But for the general public, their tickets are given to singers who are playing better and better and will surprise them, not necessarily the strongest singers. If those strongest singers are always maintained at a relatively flat level, and people can't hear the excitement at the end, the audience may not necessarily buy it. You must know that at the end of this competition, the singer has to sing nearly 20 songs, even if he has a natural voice, singing so many songs, if there is no change, it will make people feel tired, especially in this kind of talent show where everyone seeks excitement and freshness, the acceptance of fans is limited.
Only those singers who surprise people more and more will be the final winners.
Du Xinghe's tactics for Liao Nan this time are to play smoothly first, and then reveal Liao Nan's unique skills later. In fact, Liao Nan, a musical all-rounder, has a certain advantage in this kind of talent show, because he can handle all kinds of music styles very brilliantly, and will not make people feel bored, unlike some singers, who will soar high notes, or show middle and low notes, Liao Nan's singing skills are top-level, he can play very characteristic in the three sound areas, and there are many means, many flowers, listening to him sing, there will always be freshness, this is Du Xinghe's biggest advantage in Liao Nan's participation in this competition.
However, Liao Nan's disadvantage is also very big, that is, his image problem, ordinary fans, including the 500 professionals on the scene, know that this draft competition organized by Chang'an Taiwan is the best cheering voice to represent the image of China, I believe that they will not be willing to let Liao Nan be a little dwarf to sing cheering songs for the Chinese men's football team on behalf of all the Chinese people. Although there is still a big gap between the height of the Chinese in this plane and the Europeans and Americans, in the higher, stronger and faster arena, our countrymen are still more willing to let a taller or more beautiful singer sing cheering songs for the national team on our behalf.
A funny singer like Liao Nan with a Fu head, unless he has extremely strong singing ability, all kinds of scorers will score him with colored glasses when they score him, and they will not score him purely by his singing voice.
Liao Nan himself is actually very aware of his shortcomings, although he is very thick-skinned, but at least he still has a cheek, after seeing that the top 100 players around him are either handsome guys or beauties, he also knows that it is almost impossible for him to win the final championship and sing cheering songs for the Chinese men's football team on behalf of all the people. Therefore, his positioning in his heart for this competition is the same as the positioning given to him by Du Xinghe, that is, to strive to break into the top 10. Although he kept saying that he wanted to win the championship, the goal he really set for himself was actually the top 10, as long as he could enter the top 10 in the country, he felt that he would win. In his opinion, this victory can almost be equated with the final championship, because he firmly believes that if he can grow 20 centimeters taller and more handsome, then with his voice and singing skills, he will definitely win the championship.
Although Du Xinghe made a plan for him to participate in the competition as he went on, the first song of the top 100 battle was also very important to Liao Nan.
The first two rounds of the competition, that is, the 100-in-48 and 48-in-24 competitions, did not have a live band accompaniment, and the singers did not have to go to the TV station to rehearse, because there were too many people, and it was too much time to rehearse with a live band. Therefore, in the first two rounds of the competition, the singers brought their own background music to participate in the competition. When it comes to the round of 24, when the national live broadcast is carried out, it is the real live band accompaniment, which maximizes the play and shows the strength of the players.
When Du Xinghe was in Fuwan, he had already prepared the background music for Liao Nan's participating songs. It is the background music that he tailor-made for Liao Nan to best show Liao Nan's strength. Liao Nan has also been practicing these two songs recently, and he believes that with these two Du Xinghe's proud works, which are also his favorite works, he should be able to advance to the top 24 smoothly.
After coming to Chang'an, without Du Xinghe's supervision, Liao Nan's mood was also a lot more relaxed, in addition to the daily fixed practice in the past few days, he also took the time to visit Chang'an City, especially went to several major shopping plazas with many people, hoping to appreciate the beauties of Chang'an. Unfortunately, it didn't work out as he wanted. It's because of the climate. People are all tough, both men and women, they all have a kind of fierceness, and women are all fierce wife-type. Just like China's position in the world in this plane - superwelding. The people here definitely represent the image of China. But it's not the feeling that Liao Nan likes. He had long heard that Chang'an was a fierce man. But when it really came here. Only then did he understand how Chang'an people welded.
In the past, on the road in Fuwan, he dared to be cheeky to talk to people and ask for a phone when he saw a beautiful sister, but here. Occasionally, he saw a few beautiful girls, he just mustered up the courage to go over and talk to others, but when he was stared at by others, he withered, and he didn't dare to talk to others at all. Of course, there are too few beauties on the street that are worth talking to, and according to his visual observation in the past few days, it is estimated that the beauties here are not more than one-tenth of Fuwan's. Five or six out of 10 girls walking on the street in Fuwan are eye-catching, but here, at most, one out of 10 women is more eye-catching, and the rest are "miserable" - at least in his aesthetics.
Although she doesn't look good, the figure of a Chang'an woman is really good, which Liao Nan has to admire. In fact, the figure of Fuwan girls is good enough, especially delicate, slender, slender, convex where it should be, and warped where it should be, Xu Nuo is a typical representative of Fuwan girls. Of course, her typical is also a bit atypical, that is, her breasts are too big, and the breasts of ordinary Fuwan girls can't reach her level of 33E, but most of them can also reach the level of 33C.
And Chang'an women, the bust is generally above the D cup, and they are very tall and have long legs, one by one in Liao Nan's eyes, they don't look at the face and skin, just like a model, or the kind of thin-eyed terracotta model that Westerners especially like. In terms of figure alone, the woman here is worth seeing. But because it is an inland city, and Chang'an is the most traditional and conservative city in China, so the women here are not as cool as Fuwan around the sea, even in the most prosperous shopping mall, there are few girls wearing short skirts or shorts, even if the temperature in Chang'an in August is more than 30 degrees, but there are very few girls who wear cool. This greatly discounted Liao Nan's desire to snoop.
A woman's call that night hooked Liao Nan to rekindle his confidence in women, and his love, which had been lost for several days, rose again.
The caller was Lu Qin, who was also preparing for the war in Chang'an.
As the representative of East China, Lv Qin wants to make a difference in the top 100 finals. She must let Du Xinghe see, she Lu Qin is not only a genius in the computer field, but also a singing genius! The reason why she has such a desire to win is also stimulated by the sudden rise of Du Xinghe in the recent past.
Originally, Lu Qin felt that her prestige in the computer field, as well as her net worth of more than 1 billion, could be envied on the table with Du Xinghe, or to put it more worldly, that is, she and Du Xinghe had the foundation of being a good match.
But now, Du Xinghe relied on his extraordinary all-round talent, accumulated and bloomed in a short period of time, and suddenly became a super genius star admired by all Chinese compatriots.
Lu Qin felt that if she didn't make a breakthrough elsewhere, she would be left behind by Du Xinghe, and she would have no chance at all.
Therefore, this time to participate in the top 100 finals of "Sound of China", Lu Qin has great expectations and makes great determination to prepare. Even if she can't win the final championship, she must rush to the final three! Let the people of the whole country know her, a computer genius who sings super well. She also wants to be like Du Xinghe and Zhang Jiajia, to be hailed as an all-round genius.
In order to achieve the goal, Lu Qin has always adopted a variety of means, just like in the computer world, in order to ensure a result, she will also take a variety of ways to combine key problems.
This time, I came to participate in the top 100 finals of "Sound of China". Lu Qin has asked a professional team to give her the most suitable packaging, and rearranged all the songs written by Du Xinghe for her, the same song, she wants to sing different feelings, so that Du Xinghe is impressed by her!
Like other players with a team behind her, Lu Qin has long understood the competition system of this competition, and has made a thorough plan to participate, and she has done two more things than other players: First, she invited the top market hype team in the north, as far as her computer super genius and Du Xinghe's official girlfriend identified. A detailed hype plan was developed. She wants to let the whole Chinese know that she is one of the developers of the floating cloud system that has swept the world after the start of the top 100 battle, and more importantly, she wants everyone to know. She is the girlfriend of Du Xinghe, a superstar! And one of the big selling points of her coming to this competition is that she also wants everyone to know. That's all the songs she sings. It will all be the works of Du Xinghe, a super musical genius!
Although Du Xinghe wrote only 10 songs for her before, it was far from supporting her to the end of the competition. But she firmly believes that Du Xinghe, who has verbally promised that she will continue to write songs for her, will definitely give her guidance and give her new creations during the competition. She knows that Du Xinghe loves music, Du Xinghe also knows that she also loves music, and Du Xinghe supports her dream of loving music and singing, as long as she can achieve excellent results in this competition, Du Xinghe will definitely help her escort and help her to the end. Lu Qin absolutely believed in Du Xinghe, even though Du Xinghe had pushed the matter of helping her tutor several times before, she knew that Du Xinghe at that time was lacking in skills and powerless.
Now that Du Xinghe has accompanied Liao Nan to Chang'an and has time to help Liao Nan counsel, then Lu Qin believes, or bets, that Du Xinghe will also tutor her. Even if Du Xinghe keeps a certain distance from her in private life for Xu Nuo, at the music level, Du Xinghe must let her go.
She wants the behind-the-scenes hype team to hype and let the public know that the song she sings is Du Xinghe's, which is actually consuming Du Xinghe's fame in a sense. Although she also has the idea of helping Du Xinghe hype and help Du Xinghe's works become famous, in fact, she is thinking more about using her "boyfriend's" recent fame to help her face be gold and win the love of the public.
Presumably the ordinary audience knows that she is singing her boyfriend's song to participate in the competition in order to fulfill her boyfriend's dream, she will definitely be favored, even if many people think that Du Xinghe and Zhang Jiajia may be more compatible, but her own conditions are not bad, plus she has a prominent genius background, if she can play an excellent level in singing again, then I believe many people will be relieved and will accept her identity as Du Xinghe's girlfriend. Because she is really a good match for Du Xinghe, at least she thinks so, and she also wants the hype team behind the scenes to hype it up, so that everyone thinks so.
In addition to this hype, Lu Qin also did another thing, that is, to pay a high amount of lobbying money, and invited the best local lobbying company in Chang'an to lobby the 500 professionals who would score until the final battle, trying to establish a good impression in their hearts, and to put it bluntly, persuade them to give her a high score.
In this plane, bribery is a very serious crime, and ordinary officials and powerful people will not touch this kind of behavior, and businessmen will not be stupid enough to give money to officials or anything, because no one can bear the punishment after being caught, and the cost of violating the law is high, and few people dare to defy the law.
However, the fact that you cannot give or accept bribes does not mean that you cannot engage in all kinds of lobbying activities. This kind of lobbying is somewhat similar to the United States on another dimension, that is, if you do anything to achieve your goal more smoothly, you have to ask a large lobby to help lobby people who are qualified to make a choice to vote for their employers. In the United States, on the other side, not only the political elections need lobbying, but the entertainment industry also needs lobbying, just like the most prestigious Oscars, which wants to win the award, it is indispensable to do lobbying work behind it. The award-winning films and filmmakers were almost all influenced by lobbying firms, not simply because of their own performances and the quality of their films.
In this dimension of China, lobbying also plays a crucial role and may even directly affect the final outcome.
This kind of lobbying does not mean that lobbying companies give monetary or other benefits in return to groups that have a choice, so that they can choose their employers. They simply use strong thinking logic and artistic language to tell those groups why they chose their employers, what kind of benefits they will have for society or the activity, and so on.
For example, the lobbying company that Lu Qin hired this time, the main job to do is to communicate with the 500 professionals, tell them about the charm of Lu Qin, and the selling points and highlights that keep Lu Qin to the end, and how to attract the attention of the public, etc. In short, it is to try to brainwash these professionals so that they must give Lu Qin a high score.
This kind of lobbying and bribery are two completely different concepts.
It's not just Lu Qin who is doing this work behind the scenes.
The big four companies have also done a lot of lobbying work before such a big competition to ensure that their singers can go further.
Since this competition is led by the Zhang family, the 500 professionals who can enter the final judging work actually have a relatively fair judging spirit, but even so, the "brainwashing" of them by the powerful lobbying team will also allow them to have a certain influence on the selection of contestants. At least at this stage, two-thirds of the 500 professionals have a good impression of Lu Qin. I believe that as long as Lu Qin plays normally in the real game, she will definitely advance very smoothly. That's the power of lobbying.
After doing the two most important tasks of hype and lobbying, Lu Qin still has to do something that is very difficult in her opinion, but must be faced and must be done, that is, she wants to personally close the distance between herself and Du Xinghe.
Through the line that Wang De is inserted in the cloud world, Lu Qin has already learned about Du Xinghe's itinerary in Chang'an this time, and she knows that Du Xinghe came to Chang'an this time, first to promote the new book "Looking for Qin", and then will stay in Chang'an to supervise the battle for Liao Nan. She also knew that Xu Nuo stayed in Fuwan to work and did not come with Du Xinghe. As a result, Lu Qin felt that this was a good opportunity for her to get closer to Du Xinghe.
On the night before Du Xinghe was about to return to the central area of Chang'an to supervise Liao Nan, Lu Qin called Liao Nan and prepared to make an appointment with Du Xinghe through the line of Guò Liao Nan.
She can actually make an appointment with Du Xinghe by herself, but considering that Du Xinghe always avoids her intentionally or unintentionally, if she asks Du Xinghe alone, the two may get along awkwardly. She might as well call Liao Nan and let Liao Nan be the catalyst to stir up their relationship in the middle, which will help her naturally get close to Du Xinghe. You must know that Liao Nan knows the relationship between the two of them, and Liao Nan is very optimistic about and supports their relationship.
I remember the last Cloud World Annual Meeting, Liao Nan has been kissing them or something, especially able to speak, and especially can stir up the atmosphere, with Liao Nan's "big bulb", she will better act as a couple in front of Du Xinghe, Du Xinghe is forced by Liao Nan's pressure, and he should also play a more hot couple scene with her.
Thinking of this, Lu Qin called Liao Nan without hesitation, and as for Liao Nan's new phone number, she got it from Wang De very easily. Liao Nan has always had a good impression of Wang De, and he gave Wang De any number.
Liao Nan is bored watching TV this night, he is going to go to bed early this night, and then get up early tomorrow to practice singing, waiting for Du Xinghe to come back in the afternoon to deal with Du Xinghe's test of him.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Lu Qin called.
Liao Nan was very surprised, seeing that it was a call from an unknown number, he would never have thought that it was his "sister-in-law" who called him! He had already known from Lin Jianguo that his "sister-in-law" had also advanced to the top 100 finals of "Sound of China" this time, but Du Xinghe had never mentioned this stubble before, he thought that Du Xinghe would concentrate on helping him prepare for the war, and deliberately didn't talk about it, so he didn't ask much.
But I didn't expect that Lu Qin would take the initiative to call him this night! (To be continued......)