superstar director

Chapter 3 Song Selection
To be honest, Yang Rui really doesn't want to form any group or sing any pop songs, but the bar rock veteran who suggested to him is not an ordinary person, he is well-known in the entire underground rock circle There is no comparison to rock stars, but in various bars in the city, and among some rock old men, they are indeed very important figures.

Therefore, although the advice they gave was simple and straightforward, which made him a little embarrassed, it also made Yang Rui face up to his own problems for the first time. If you bite the bullet and sing rock and roll, you're courting death.

Regarding this "big music figure" whom he invited through several friends and spent a lot of money, even though Yang Rui was not happy about the other party's suggestion, he thought about it all night and finally decided to accept it.

Because compared to insisting on rock and roll, Yang Rui thinks it is more important to be a big star.

The three of them will participate in the competition as a combination, which is also the method given by the rock veteran in the bar. They told Yang Rui that if they compete as a rock band, they can only advance one or two rounds at most. If they are a combination, they will sing pop songs , with the good looks of the three of them, coupled with good songs and dances, it is not impossible to enter the final top [-] in the country.

It was the last top [-] in the country that made Yang Rui make up his mind to disband the band and form a group.Of course, no one knows whether that rock veteran said it casually or really felt that way.

Ning Cheng and Ding Xuan looked at Yang Rui, and finally Ding Xuan said, "Brother Rui, we have been practicing for a long time, and now we suddenly changed into a group, singing some popular songs, can it work? Besides, there is not enough time."

Yang Rui waved his hand and said, "I know, isn't this so that we can go further? I asked for some advice from professionals, and they told me that if we want to go far in the competition, bands can't do it, or a combination It's easier. But what Ding Xuan said is right. The day after tomorrow is the competition. It's too late for us to change temporarily. Anyway, relying on the band to survive the knockout round should be no problem. What I said today is that after we pass the knockout round, we will It’s changed to a combination. Anyway, the band and the combination are the three of us. It’s just a different form. It’s just what song our combination will use for the competition. Do you have any good opinions? I thought about it for a long time last night, and I don’t seem to remember any special famous ones in China. combination?"

"Brother Rui is right. There are really not many group singers in our country now. Except for bands, there seem to be not many, and even those who have released records, they are all half popular and not popular. They are even second-tier singers." There are no singers, and there are no particularly good songs." Ding Xuan was really worried, originally he and Ning Cheng were thinking about how to make Yang Rui stop singing rock, but now Yang Rui doesn't sing rock, this The combination method also pushed him and Ning Sheng to the same position as Yang Rui. As long as they sing well, it is easier to become famous than just playing guitar and drums.

But it's really not easy to choose songs for this combination. Although Huaxia has a lot of good songs in the music scene, there are really no good songs like a combination.As Ding Xuan said before, there are indeed some male and female groups in China, but the songs are half popular and not black, and they are not well-known at all. They are said to be pop songs, but they have never been popular at all. On the contrary, they are like shooting stars. But, no one noticed.

Yang Rui sighed, and said, "It's really not possible, let's choose one of some popular pop songs, and then take it apart as a competition song, what do you think?"

Yang Rui looked at Ding Xuan and said, as for Ning Sheng on the side, he habitually ignored it. Anyway, in Yang Rui's mind, this was just a make-up. If it wasn't for the fact that there were three people when they signed up, and the combination of the two was a bit weak. , he wanted to kick Ning Cheng out directly.

Ding Xuan smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Rui, the songs sung by one person are different from the songs sung by several members of the group, and the three of us will not go back and adapt them. If we make a difference, then we might as well sing the songs of those three-line groups. "

"Hey, why don't we sing foreign songs? There are many good songs from European, American, Japanese and Korean combinations." Yang Rui said abruptly, and then immediately denied, "No, I forgot that we can't speak any foreign languages. How about this? I'm going to ask someone to see if they can find us some suitable songs for the competition. Whether it's an adaptation of other songs or rewriting lyrics of a foreign language song, I have to get a few good songs. That's fine, you guys Practice, I'll go out and figure out a way."

"Xuan-Xuan-Brother, I ----" Ning Sheng thought of going to the stage to sing. It was not joy to come up in his heart, but nervousness and fear. He was not ready to sing on stage.

Ding Xuan patted Ning Sheng's head, and comforted him, "Don't worry, there will always be a solution, not to mention, singing is not talking, don't worry, the audition the day after tomorrow, we will still participate as a band, don't worry."

Although Ning Cheng planned in his heart that he might be on stage in the future, he never thought it would be so soon, especially when his stammer was still serious.However, things are already like this now, unless Ning Cheng withdraws himself, it seems inevitable that he will be on stage.

For this day's practice, Yang Rui was not there, and Ning Cheng and Ding Xuan were also absent-minded. After practicing for a while in the afternoon, they simply went home early.

The next day, Yang Rui didn't show up in the morning, and didn't come to practice with them until the afternoon, and then he left in a hurry, leaving only one sentence: "Come early tomorrow, don't be late! "

Ning Cheng returned home and had dinner, holding his little sister Tongtong in his arms and sitting in a small room watching the classic animation Gourd Baby. Tongtong in his arms watched with gusto, but Ning Cheng's eyes were blank, thinking about tomorrow all the time. things.

He has never told his family about his participation in the competition. Anyway, his parents have never supported him in playing music. He was able to learn guitar and work in a musical instrument store under the premise of ensuring his studies. The main reason is that they knew Ning Cheng has a stuttering problem, and he wanted him to communicate more with others, so he agreed.

In the eyes of Ning Cheng's parents, those stars are not for ordinary people, especially for a family like theirs, for a child like Ning Cheng, being a star is a joke, so Ning Cheng never told his family For his own plan, he has to wait until he has made his grades before talking to his parents.

But now, the plan can't keep up with the changes. Tomorrow will be his first time on stage to compete. Although tomorrow's performance will only be on stage as a guitarist, without him talking or chorusing, Ning Sheng is still nervous, just like when he was in class. , being called up by the teacher to answer questions, or to read the text, even though he clearly agreed and read fluently in private, when the only quiet in the class was his own voice, Ning Cheng would still be nervous and stutter, the more nervous he became. , the more he stammered, the more he stammered, the more nervous he became, entangled him like an endless loop.

"Brother, change the channel, Calabash Baby is done playing, quickly change to the black cat sheriff—brother—" Ning Cheng's thoughts were awakened by the noisy Tongtong in his arms, and only then did he realize that today's episode of Calabash Baby has already been broadcast on TV. It was over, so he put Tongtong aside with a smile, then got up and went to the most expensive electrical appliance in the house, the Yellow River TV, and switched channels with his hands on the button below.

After changing the table, Ning Cheng went back to the small bench. Tongtong immediately pouted her buttocks, climbed up Ning Cheng's legs, then turned around while supporting Ning Cheng's arms, and sat on her exclusive "throne". Cheerfully looked at Sheriff Panther.

Listening to Tongtong's lovely laughter and the voice of his parents talking, Ning Cheng swore secretly, "Mom and Dad, I will definitely earn a lot of money so that you can take care of yourself for the rest of your life, and Tongtong, brother will definitely make you the world The biggest, happiest superstar ever!"
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On October 1999th, [-], the audition for the National Youth Singing Contest officially started.

The location of the audition this time is at Supreme Furniture Plaza in the high-tech zone. When Ning Sheng and the others arrived in the pickup truck of Yang Rui’s house with their musical instruments, there were already a sea of ​​people, countless contestants participating in the audition, and people watching the fun Crowd the square all around.

The three of Ning Cheng finally came to the player area under the protection of Yang Rui's parents and Ding Xuan's father, and then they received their license plates and waited patiently.

Compared to Ning Sheng who has not told the family so far, Yang Rui and Ding Xuan's family strongly support their participation in the music competition.

Just like Yang Rui's contractor father said, since your studies are a mess, it is also a skill to make money in other ways.Especially, when they listened to Yang Rui and Ding Xuan's description, once they became famous, it would not be too easy to make money!

"Hey, little stutterer, how is your guitar practice? Don't drag my son down!" Yang Rui's father, Yang Guangliang, has a bright forehead, a thick round waist, and a huge golden ring on his finger. ring, looked at Ning Cheng who lowered his head and fiddled with a mask, opened his mouth and reprimanded him with yellow teeth.

"We're going to be on stage in a while, what are you still playing with a mask, hurry up and memorize the sheet music, don't forget it when you get nervous on stage!" Ning Cheng looked up at him, and said with a blank expression, "No—no—no forgot."

Yang Guangliang looked disdainfully at Ning Cheng who lowered his head again, frowned and said what to say, but Yang Rui stepped forward and said, "Ning Cheng, why are you here with a mask? You won't be wearing it for a while, right?"

Ding Xuan on the side said, "Brother Rui, it's not that you don't know, Xiao Sheng is timid, anyway, he's just a guitar player, wearing a mask on stage, wearing a hat, and lowering his head, no one will notice, mainly for Let the band perform smoothly. If you don’t wear a mask, this kid gets nervous when he comes on stage and makes a mistake, that’s a bad thing. Besides, the whole audience will definitely be staring at you, the lead singer, Brother Rui. Who will watch? Where's a guitarist with his head bowed. Don't you?"

Yang Rui thought for a while, looked at Ning Cheng and said, "Okay, then Ning Cheng, you can go on stage wearing a mask, but if you make a mistake on stage and affect the band's performance, then don't blame me for turning my face and denying people? "

Ning Cheng lowered his head and said nothing, but his hands tightly gripping the black and white half-face mask, Ding Xuan on the side smiled and said, "Brother Rui, don't worry, the performance will go smoothly, we still want to develop together with Brother Rui !"

With Ding Xuan helping Ning Cheng to speak, everyone gradually forgot about Ning Cheng and watched the contestants come to the stage one by one in the distance. Because they were behind the stage, they couldn't see the performance ahead, but the audience's reaction from the front , everyone will roughly know what the situation is.

After about an hour, a staff member finally came over and told Ning Sheng and the others to prepare.

The time for a song is not very long, but when the buddies who hadn't finished singing a song were eliminated by the judges, the three of Ning Cheng were immediately guided by the staff.

"Just remember to play by yourself for a while, don't look down and those judges." Ding Xuan's fast-paced advice came from his ear, Ning Cheng nodded, then put on the black and white mask that covered the upper half of his face, and then Putting an old black peaked cap on his head, he followed Ding Xuan to the stage.

boom---
As soon as he stood at the front desk, Ning Cheng lowered his head, stared at the electric guitar in his hand, and then heard Yang Rui's self-introduction, "Hello, judges, my name is Yang Rui, I am the lead singer and bassist of the band, and I am in charge of drums. My classmate Ding Xuan, and my friend Ning Sheng who is in charge of the guitar. Our entry song is "Shame on You" by the Black Panthers!"

"Okay, you can start to perform!" A man among the three judges said casually.

Yang Rui responded, turned his head and whispered to Ning Cheng who was on the side, "Let's get started!"

Then, the next moment, the familiar guitar sound sounded.

Ning Cheng was still a little nervous at first, but as the guitar music resounded across the stage, all the surrounding noises were squeezed out, and they immediately relaxed a lot. Even though Yang Rui had already started singing, Ning Sheng was still immersed in his guitar performance In it, he didn't care about anything at all, he didn't look at it, he just played his guitar seriously.

Later, when Ning Cheng left the stage, he was a little confused. When he left the audition site, Yang Rui and the others had already left. Ding Xuan laughed and hugged Ning Cheng, and whispered in his ear, "We passed the audition." We will definitely become big stars!" At this moment, Ning Cheng came back to his senses and said to himself, "We passed?"

Whether or not the audition is passed, the judges will give the result on the spot, but Ning Sheng didn't know what he was thinking at the time, or he was just obsessed with or excited about his smooth performance on the stage for the first time, but it doesn't matter, After passing the first round of audition, the next knockout round will be difficult.

After Ning Sheng and Ding Xuan separated, when they returned home, they had already thought about it. If Yang Rui hadn't prepared their trio's competition song tomorrow, he would take out the song he had written before.

As the saying goes, you need to be famous as soon as possible, and Ning Sheng wants to make money earlier, so that the parents will not suffer, and the younger sister can have a better living and learning environment.Especially since the younger sister is growing up day by day, he wants to gain a firm foothold in the entertainment industry and hold up a big umbrella of protection before the younger sister debuts!
"Brother is back!" As soon as Ning Cheng walked out of the alley, Ning Tong, who was sitting on the small stool in front of the door, immediately jumped up happily, shouting, and rushed towards Ning Cheng——
The next day, Ning Cheng came to the warehouse practice room early. Those guitars were returned after yesterday's audition, so when Ning Cheng came today, he didn't have to practice anymore. He simply cleaned up and then Sit and wait for the other two to arrive.

After a while, Ding Xuan arrived, the two of them said a few words, and Yang Rui also appeared, but Yang Rui's face seemed not very good.

"Brother Rui, what's the matter? Did you not rest last night?" Ding Xuan looked at Yang Rui who was sitting aside and asked softly.

Yang Rui suddenly opened his mouth and cursed "Fuck", and then said angrily, "Why sleep? We don't have the song for the knockout round in three days. I found all my friends and spent tens of thousands of dollars, but it turned out that he was the only one. Not a single good song can be entered in the competition, either some ugly bad songs, or changed into a four-faced single, choose and choose, it is not as good as the few mouth-watering songs sung by those bad groups, you say, what should we do? "

Ding Xuan frowned when he heard this, while Ning Cheng on the other side shook a few sheets of music in his pants, opened his mouth, wanted to say something, but no sound came out. When he was nervous, Ning Cheng stuttered. It's getting worse.

Ding Xuan and the others didn't see Ning Cheng's appearance, Yang Rui sighed and said, "Why don't we just choose one of the few good or bad saliva songs."

As Yang Rui said, he couldn't stop cursing inwardly. Because he couldn't find a suitable song for the competition yesterday, he went to the bar singer who had suggested him to ask if he could sing alone, and choose a song like this It's much easier when.

However, the rock veteran who had drunk too much smiled disdainfully and said, "Your voice, your singing skills, you still want to sing solo? Are you deaf as a fan? Which music company will sign you idiot This trash—"

Yang Rui endured and endured, and then escaped from the scene amidst the laughter of the group of rock and roll old men, and then yelled hard outside, in a place where no one was around, to vent his anger.

However, after returning home, Yang Rui calmed down and thought about it, and he realized that what the old bastard said was right. If he wanted to go further in the competition and become famous, he couldn't do it on his own.

But thinking of the remaining two people, Ning Sheng and Ding Xuan, Yang Rui can only hope that their trio can create miracles. A group that doesn't live is better than being an ordinary person today. At least, those people can be regarded as stars regardless of size.

Yang Rui thought about it all night, and came early the next morning with two dark circles under his eyes, that's why Ding Xuan and the others looked at him with a bad face.

After hearing Yang Rui's words, Ding Xuan said helplessly, "I can't find any good songs, so I can only compete with those rubbish songs, but those songs themselves are not very good. No matter how good we sing, I'm afraid the results will not be too good Bar?"

Yang Rui raised his head, shouted fiercely, and said, "Let's do this first, let's choose a song to practice first, and then I'll think of a way. There are many songs by foreign groups that are good to listen to, but those who translate Tamade The translation is messed up, I can’t sing at all, the sentences don’t match the tune, fuck Tamade, I’ll try to find someone to see if I can translate it better and match the tune.”

"I-I-I have it here!" Ning Cheng finally took out some sheet music after deliberating for a long time, and shouted out such a sentence.

(End of this chapter)