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

That's why they would risk the whole world's condemnation by wearing a headgear to do "lip-syncing identification", which would destroy other people's jobs and could easily lead to being banned by the industry and even be visited by the underworld.

The audience in the live broadcast room did not expect that before identifying Xia Fan, they identified his rival "Xiu Yin" first.

Such an unexpected "identification result" caused a mess in the barrage of comments.

Some viewers believed that since the program crew had edited the audio for the opponents in the later stage, it was impossible for them not to edit it for Xia Fan’s team. This was already a disguised "confirmation".

There were also viewers who happened to be fans of the trainees in Kishi Tsz-yao's team. They originally came to protest against the injustice of "self-promotion", but they didn't expect to end up eating the melons themselves...

They immediately flexibly adjusted the standards, claiming that this kind of audio editing was very common in recorded variety shows and that netizens were making a fuss out of nothing.

"This team has been trained to this point, so it has no reference value. Let's just compare Xia Fan's version with the original."

The "Deep Sea Fisherman" who had discarded the old shoe directly deleted the music track of Zi Yao's team and clicked on the stage of Xia Fan's team.

"Well, in the opening part, just from the match between the two teams just now, we can see the difference..."

"These old guys don't have good basic skills. It's ok that their pronunciation is not standard, but they trembled after singing just a few sentences."

"Well, Xia Fan's solo, his breath is a little more stable, and the accuracy of the pitch is also average, all supported by the abundant emotions in the singing."

"It seems that the netizens' previous comments that 'there is no technique, it's all emotion' are very fair."

During Xia Fan's team's performance, Ken and Sid's solos sounded like they were chewed by a dog, with the soundtrack fluctuating and intermittent...

Once it overlaps with the original singing team's track, it can only be said that it is wandering wildly on the edge of being out of tune and in tune.

"At least we can confirm that Xia Fan's team didn't edit the sound in the opening part. Let's continue to watch..."

Finding no clues, "Deeply Beloved Fisherman" continued playing the track with a little disappointment.

The two sets of stage sound tracks, like an electrocardiogram, fluctuate up and down in the same picture, also driving the heartbeats of the audience in the live broadcast room.

"Well, after the opening, from the verse to the chorus, I can be sure that neither the original singer nor Xia Fan's version has been retouched."

"Pay attention to the climax here. When Xia Fan takes over the lines sung by his teammate, the two people's tracks overlap. This kind of thing cannot be fixed."

But watching all the way through, from the main song to the chorus to the climax, Xia Fan's team's soundtrack is still as bumpy as an electrocardiogram, without any trace of audio editing.

"Replacing the audio track is unlikely. The sound recording equipment here has obviously mixed in the exclamations of the audience..."

After being processed by "Deep Sea Fisherman", the background sound mixed in the singing voice was amplified separately...

It was obviously a few girls shouting "Xia Fan, Xia Fan" in a shrill voice.

"Then let's go straight to the part that everyone is most concerned about, the 'Quadruple High Notes Without Taking a Breath'."

"Found it, here, here... Wow, this line is just like in "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"..."

"Deep Sea Fisherman" dragged the mouse quickly, and four wave-like lines appeared in the two sets of audio tracks simultaneously, one higher than the other...

"This kind of exaggerated progressive high notes is really rare in live performances. It is worthy of being the classic scene that made the song "Prayer" famous..."

He zoomed in on the scale ruler and measured it.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Xia Fan's version is two tones higher than the original!"

"In terms of the connection between the four high notes, Xia Fan's is not as 'seamless' as it sounds to the ears. There is obviously a little more subtle gap between the connection points compared to the original version..."

"After all, he is also a human being. If he rushed to F6 in one breath, he would have to breathe..."

The four "waves" in the climax were repeatedly enlarged and reduced, and the "deep-sea fisherman" observed them carefully as if he was holding a magnifying glass, muttering to himself...

"Well, with my many years of experience in identifying lip-syncing, I can guarantee that Xia Fan's segment has no audio editing, no backing tracks, and no track changes."

"Well, although his breath was unstable and there was a delay in the connection, the emotions in his singing were indeed quite sincere and touching. The key was two higher than the original one, which can be regarded as a rare live singing..."

After a while, he spoke to the live camera with his final words.

Chapter 274 Whitewash

2024-07-13

"Some people are asking why the production team fixed the sound for the previous team but not for this team?"

"Perhaps, they don't want the previous team to lose too badly in terms of stage appearance?"

The "Deep Sea Fisherman" repeated the climax part of Xia Fan's singing, praising him repeatedly and not forgetting to joke with the barrage.

The "Deep Sea Fisherman", who has always taken it as his mission to "expose lip-syncing", said this, and the live broadcast room was completely boiling.

The netizens who just want to watch the fun don’t care, they’re just watching for fun anyway.

Fans of the trainees from An Ziyao's team directly claimed that the "Deep Sea Fisherman" had taken the dirty money from the Burning System and broke down and quit the live broadcast room.

Fans of the original male group that sang "Prayer" could only admit that Xia Fan sang it live, and then put aside the fact that he sang the song for four people, and comforted themselves with shortcomings such as unstable breath and lack of pitch.

"Well, today's surprise live broadcast is almost over here..."

"Wait, the scale of this last place..."

The "deep sea fisherman" who was originally about to close the music software and download the music suddenly discovered something and put the shark headgear in front of the monitor to take a closer look.

"E8, it's really E8..."

"The end of his last sentence was E8!!!"

After being stunned for a moment, he shouted loudly in a trembling voice.

……

At noon, the attic of "Wynn Chinese Restaurant" was filled with the aroma of food wafting up from the gaps in the wooden floor.

[Faith value +1...Faith value +1...Faith value +1...Current accumulated faith value is 38452]

"It's so noisy, what's going on..."

Xia Fan, who had a rare chance to sleep in, was awakened by the intensive bombardment of oracles in his mind.

"Why has faith increased so much?"

Noticing that his faith value had skyrocketed by nearly 10,000 points, he looked confused.

Shouldn't I be deeply involved in the negative public opinion about "lip-syncing"? Is it true that being black and red is also red?

After washing up casually, he went down the narrow stairs to the first floor.

"Xiao Fan, are you up?"

"Your dad prepared a few dishes for you. They're warm in the steamer. Help yourself..."

Xia's mother, who was serving dishes and collecting money, walked past him quickly.

"Hmm, hmm... Hey, there's pig brain soup again..."

In the steamer, there are Maoxuewang, Gastrodia elata, safflower, walnut and pig brain soup, a portion of green vegetables and a bowl of rice.

Xia Fan took out the dishes from the steamer, found a corner to sit down, and absentmindedly opened the social platform.

"Everything except Xia Fan has been repaired", "Xia Fan's real singing", "Xia Fan E8", "Xia Fan's high pitch ceiling"...

Compared to this morning, the hot words on the "Idol Birthday Festival" topic list have changed, but they are all related to him.

"So... the netizens found this lip-syncing identification anchor named 'Deep Sea Fisherman' and helped me to clear my name?"

After watching the identification video of "Deep Sea Fisherman", he browsed through several topics in succession. He almost spit out the hot soup in his mouth.

After the "Deep Sea Fisherman" assured that Xia Fan did not perform any audio editing or track changing, other "Lip-syncing Identification" anchors on the same track also came out and attacked the "Idol Birth Festival".

After a thorough analysis, it was discovered that all the local trainees’ performances throughout the show had undergone considerable audio editing…

The performances of all the international trainee teams, including Xia Fan, were unedited versions.

However, this kind of discrimination did not cause much heated discussion among netizens...

Because all their attention was attracted by the ending sound of Xiafan's direct E8 that the "Deep Sea Fisherman" discovered at the end.

The E8 scale is known as the ceiling of human high notes, and is also the scale reached by the world tenor Jonis.

In recent years, only a very small number of record-breaking players and professional singers who focus on breaking high notes have ever refreshed the record of E8, and even after reaching the same scale, they began to compete in audio Hertz values.

However, these are just a few of the billions of people in the world, and most of them are world-class singers.

The most important thing is that there is no singer in District 11 who can tie this record!

Therefore, the E8 vocal range that appeared on a young and inexperienced trainee from District like Xia Fan naturally caused an uproar.

Suddenly, Xia Fan's title changed from "lip-syncing guy" to "high pitch devil"...

Many netizens even went to the account of "Actor Xia Fan" and asked him to challenge the Chicken World Record to avenge the shame of District 11.

"Ah, I accidentally sang too much when I was on stage..."

Xia Fan sighed in annoyance and stretched his chopsticks towards the maoxuewang...

"Eh? Where's my Maoxuewang?!"

But I found that the large portion of Maoxuewang was reduced to a clean empty bowl without anyone noticing.

"Fortunately, there was no Hertz test on site. Otherwise, if someone discovered that I could produce sounds that exceeded human frequencies, I would be caught and used as a guinea pig..."

"No, I'm a counselor registered in the ninth class after all, so I can just say it's some kind of psychic trick to fool people."

After the main dish was ruthlessly snatched away by the "Tian Yu Shen", Xia Fan could only sneak into the kitchen to take out a few pieces of tofu, and re-pot the brains in the soup to transform it into "Mapo Brains".

"In two days, the first round of elimination results will be announced, and I don't know who will stay."

While continuing to eat, Xia Fan refreshed the popularity ranking list.

Because of this inexplicable "whitewashing", his vote count, which had been stagnant, began to soar in retaliation.

However, the number of votes for local trainees has begun to slow down significantly due to negative public opinion about "collective audio editing".

……

Two days later, the "Idol Birth Festival" production committee.

"There are still three hours until the first elimination voting deadline..."

"There's been a lot of controversy surrounding our show lately, so it's a bit sensitive for the three representatives to come here at this time."

In the reception room, Manjiro Akimoto poured the freshly brewed tea into three cups on the table.

"We came here specifically because the voting is about to close."

Three men in suits sat in a row opposite him, but none of them wanted to drink tea.

"This list is the result of consultation among the three companies."

One of the men pressed a piece of paper on the table and pushed it in front of Akimoto Manjiro.

"Meaning... specifically, what does it mean..."

Akimoto Manjiro picked up the paper and found the names of more than 20 trainees on it.

"I don't mean anything else, I just want to make sure these people can stay until the end of the second performance."

"Also, your production team must ensure that the nine spots for the group's debut are chosen from the first fifteen names on the list."

Adjusting his glasses, the representative whispered.

"Wait until the second performance is over..."

"There are several people here who are already below the elimination line."

Taking out his mobile phone, Manjiro Akimoto opened an app, checked the data, and looked embarrassed.

Chapter 275 Fine-tuning

2024-07-13

The popularity rankings released by the official website of "Idol Birth Festival" are updated every hour.

As the chief director, Manjiro Akimoto can directly see the real-time data updated every second in the background.

According to the current trend, if there is no significant change in the growth of popularity votes, at least six or seven people on this list will be confirmed as the eliminated half of the trainees in three hours.

"We applied for a batch of additional 'internal tickets' from the company, but these tickets are not enough to fully guarantee these people's places."

"So, at the critical moment, we need the program team..."

"On the vote count, make some minor adjustments."

Tapping his fingers rapidly on the table, one of the representatives spoke in a dignified manner, enunciating each word.