Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

"All six of them went to rap..."

"Xia Fan, are you planning to take on four high notes by yourself?"

"Impossible! Even if he could sing, he wouldn't have enough time to breathe!"

On the stage, watching this scene, Goro Kimura and Shota Hirai's eyes were full of disbelief, and they stood up from their seats in surprise.

The original stage design of this section uses rap as the background music, and the four lead singers sing one by one, and through seamless chorus, the pitch of the whole song rises step by step, pushing the emotions to the climax...

However, at the moment when this high note ended, Xia Fan, who was supposed to finish singing and hand over the work to his teammates, took a deep breath...

"Dear, I pray!"

Then, he stood up suddenly and sang the next sentence that was originally supposed to be his teammate's responsibility in a higher tone!

Before the audience could even recover their numb scalps, they felt their skulls being lifted off without any warning!

"How is it possible? After singing the full 6 beats of E6, he immediately takes a short breath to connect to the beats of F?!"

"This kid is a blue whale. Doesn't he need to breathe?"

This scene made Oda Masaya lose his composure and roar in anger, and he stood up!

This kind of singing requires the support of vocal range and breath, and as a baritone, he naturally can't sing it...

Only a few top tenor singers he is familiar with can sing it!

On the stage, the trainees sang standing up and the four mentors listened sitting down, but now the trainees are singing kneeling down and the three mentors are listening standing up...

"No matter how hard I struggle, I can only anxiously hope that the night sea we once walked on has now turned into a blade with a cold sea breeze..."

The other six teammates, still in a half-kneeling posture, gathered around Xia Fan, concentrating on singing in unison.

Amid the complex expressions of shock, numbness and silence from the mentors, audience, staff, and even Manjiro Akimoto in the recording studio, Xia Fan completed another six-second long high note.

"Please call my name!!!"

Then, he took only 0.5 seconds to breathe quickly, and his pitch climbed one level to A6, and he continued singing the part that was supposed to be sung by the third person!

At this moment, whether it was the studio, the recording room or the backstage, everything was silent, with only Xia Fan's sincere and loud singing voice remaining...

Everyone couldn't help but have the illusion that after their scalps and skulls disappeared, the ceiling of the studio was about to be blown off!

At the end of this sentence, Xia Fan, who had sung three ten-beats in a row, was obviously a little short of breath...

Taking advantage of the interval between the melody changes, he bent down and exhaled forcefully, then pounded his chest and sang the last line with all his might: "I can't live without you, let me hold you in my arms once more, I won't leave you alone anymore!"

The scale of this sentence is several keys higher than the original version, approaching E7, and it gives the illusion that it is so sharp that it is almost inaudible...

The glass lampshade of the spotlight above the stage crackled and large cracks appeared!

Xia Fan sang four sections without pause, as if the scale could rise infinitely and his breath had no limit...

Wave after wave of touching tenor voices pushed the entire stage atmosphere to its peak!

The audience felt that their eardrums and skulls resonated with this incomparable high-pitched singing, and their brain nerves felt a strong tingling sensation...

At this moment, Xia Fan's ethereal, inhuman singing voice seemed to have turned into sharp bullets, continuously piercing through their souls, taking away their language, robbing them of their oxygen, and spiraling up to heaven in incomparable pleasure, transcending to rebirth.

Chapter 264 Be My Ear

2024-07-13

"Huh...huh..."

After singing the entire climax alone, Xia Fan's microphone slipped to the ground. He wanted to stand up and join the Ending Pose, but his body was shaky due to lack of oxygen in his brain...

Fortunately, Martin, who was standing next to him, secretly reached out and supported him, steadying him.

"Honey, I'm just praying."

Sid stepped forward at the right moment and sang the final ending line softly and melodiously in the magical tone unique to Bollywood.

The sound lingered in the air for three days, and the stage and the audience were completely silent...

"..."

The people inside and outside the venue were still immersed in the emotional, auditory and psychological shocks brought about by Xia Fan's four consecutive high-notes.

"Clap... clap clap..."

Crisp applause suddenly rang out in the quiet studio.

Yayoi Tsuki, with an expressionless face and rosy cheeks, stood up at some point and clapped her hands vigorously.

"Clap clap clap..."

"Good! Xia Fan sang so well!"

“This LIVE version is better than the original, it’s amazing!!!”

The audience, who seemed in a dream, finally realized what was happening and followed her in applauding and cheering.

The applause and cheers, like a sudden thunderstorm, flooded the entire studio.

The other three mentors came to their senses and found themselves still standing...

The audience was cheering loudly, and they were too embarrassed to sit down at this time...

I wanted to make a comment, but my words were drowned out by the overwhelming cheers from the surrounding area.

They could only put on awkward smiles and pretend to applaud.

"It seems... the response is good?"

"Is this what it feels like to be supported by others? It's pretty good."

Taking deep breaths to replenish his oxygen, Xia Fan looked at the one thousand cheering, clapping and applauding audience members, his heart filled with a strong sense of power.

"It's more than just okay, your high notes are absolutely amazing!!!"

Martin grabbed his neck and shouted heroically.

"Yes, I changed the participle at the last minute yesterday. We only rehearsed it a few times. I was so nervous!"

"That's right. I was praying to Ah La just now, if I had to mess it up, it wouldn't be in my hands..."

The teammates around him also rushed over and rubbed his head hard.

After yesterday's rehearsal "Waterloo", when Xia Fan proposed in the practice room that he should "take over" all the high notes that no one else could reproduce, his teammates thought he was crazy.

But after several rehearsals, they were surprised to find that with Xia Fan's abundant breath and terrifying pitch, this word segmentation plan was unexpectedly feasible...

But the performance was about to begin, and even though everyone rehearsed until late at night, they could only roughly work out the newly adjusted word segmentation plan.

On the stage today, many details depended entirely on personal performance, but I didn't expect that the effect of both the cooperation of several people and Xia Fan's solo was unexpectedly good.

The applause and cheers from the entire studio lasted for three minutes, and there was no sign of it dying down. Some people even shouted "encore"...

"Cough...cough..."

"Dear audience, please be quiet..."

Goro Kimura had to pick up the microphone in an attempt to regain the right to speak.

"The performance of this team just now was really wonderful, especially the high-pitched solo part, which was very impressive..."

"Teacher Oda, what do you think from a professional perspective?"

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the audience's voices had subsided, he quickly glanced at Oda Zheng, signaling him to seize the opportunity and cooperate in guiding the start of the "mentor evaluation" session before the live voting.

"How do I see it..."

Oda rolled his eyes at Goro Kimura in his heart and sat down.

How to watch it? Besides sitting, does he have to kneel down to watch it?

To be fair, in the 14 performances, Xia Fan's group's stage, dance and rap performances were all above average...

But Xia Fan's voice, combined with strong emotions and soaring high notes, was completely overwhelming.

Not to mention, it is unprecedented for someone like him to be responsible for the seamless climax solo performance of four people.

Not to mention the trainees who participated in the talent show, even if any member of the original boy band that sang "Prayer" came out, they would not be able to do it.

If I really want to find fault, Xia Fan's high notes at the end were indeed out of tune...

The performance was unstable, going up two tones.

In a song like "Prayer" that shows off the high notes, this should be considered a plus, right?

If Xia Fan was a trainee in his own company, Oda Zheng would have praised him highly by now.

He happened to be the top trainee of the Burning Department. In addition to Kishiyo, his rival team also had several trainees from the S Club...

"Cough cough..."

"As mentioned before, the song Pray is not easy to perform. This is the team with the most amazing high notes that I have seen on the international trainee stage today."

“Although the singing in the climax was a bit tedious and unreasonable, which made me nervous, fortunately I was able to complete it with my strong basic skills.”

“Overall, the flaws outweigh the merits, it’s very good.”

After some inner struggle, Oda Masaru gave his evaluation word by word, carefully and sparingly, under the expectant eyes of everyone present.

This evaluation was skillfully made through "internal comparison among international trainees". It neither seemed like insincere praise nor dragged down Amber Kiyoshi's team. It can be said that the result was a lot of thought put into it.

"I think that as a representative of the new generation of artists, Shouta must have a different understanding."

After saying this, Oda Masaru quickly passed the hot potato to Shota Hirai who was sitting next door.

"Oh, oh, I can't say I understand, and I'm not qualified to comment, I just know..."

"The flow is like waves, every rhythm is exploding, single, double and triple rhymes are fired at high speed like bullets, the quadruple high notes explode the whole place, the roof is overturned and on fire it makes people crazy..."

Shota Hirai remained standing, praising himself with a rap and his hands in the air in a worship gesture.

Anyway, Kishi Sho's team is basically made up of S-company trainees who are from the same clan as Oda Masaru...

Given the previous public opinion storm of "giving one star with tears", Shota Hirai, as an artist of A company, naturally would not get involved and "take sides".

"Ms. Yayoi, can you please give us your opinion as well?"

Goro Kimura looked at Yayoi Tsuki who was standing there without saying a word.

"I have nothing to say."

"I said before I joined the show that my hearing has not recovered and I cannot comment on the vocal part."

With a blush on her face, Yayoi Tsukki tucked her long hair behind her ear, revealing the hearing aid on her ear...

"But, that song just now had a thousand people in the audience listening to it."

"Now, please tell me how it feels..."

She turned her head towards the thousand spectators and pretended to listen attentively.

"..."

The usually aloof Yayoi Tsukishima rarely showed a playful girlish attitude, which made the audience quiet for a moment...

“It’s so cool!!!”

"sounds amazing!!"

“I listened to it while kneeling!”

“This is the best cover of ‘Prayer’ ever, hands down!”

Then, the entire venue turned into a boiling iron pot, and the audience responded to her question with thunderous cheers.

Chapter 265: The Shame of Local Trainees

2024-07-13

"Thank you for listening to the song for me. I understand."

Yayoi Tsuki bowed slightly to the audience and sat down calmly.

"Hey, what's the difference between 'no comment' and canvassing for votes in disguise?"

Oda was covering his microphone and muttering to himself.

"Well, now that the teachers have finished their comments, it's time for the intense grading..."