Chapter 183: Blockbuster

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The duration of the first episode was nearly two and a half hours, longer than most movies.

The beginning of the video was pitch black. Amidst a warm BGM, a ray of light tore through the darkness, illuminating the entire screen.

A string of fan-style fonts appeared in the center:

"Where dreams begin"

Three seconds later, the scene changed to four buses driving on a tree-lined road, from which faint, cheerful singing could be heard.

The camera zoomed in, and the trainees on the bus appeared in the audience's field of vision. They were still wearing their usual casual clothes, but they had already dressed up a bit.

Barrage:

"These girls are all so pretty!"

"The girl in the back row is so cute, still shaking her head and singing. I'm a fan!"

"Did you see Lin Yuxiao?"

"The screen is full of long legs; it's making my eyes dizzy."

"The quality of this show is so high; the trainees' looks are on a completely different level from those previous shows!"

"Just don't know how their strength is."

The shots on the bus lasted for more than a minute, just giving all the trainees a simple appearance, without focusing on any one person.

But this kind of short shot was also the time for the girls to show off their beauty advantage.

Girls who are extremely beautiful can always make the audience remember their appearance and name in an instant, and then become their fans.

Without a doubt, Lin Yuxiao, Liu Sheng Chunzi, and Jiang Yuner were the first batch of trainees on the bus to gain passerby fans.

Soon, the trainees arrived at the Xiaoshan International Film and Television Center. Under the guidance of the staff, they changed their clothes and began to prepare for the final preparations before going on stage.

Then the camera turned to the stage.

A two-hundred-square-meter big stage, seven-story stairs, surround sound and flashlights covering the entire venue—everything spoke of the fact that the investors had spent a fortune on this show.

Barrage:

"This stage is ridiculously big. It should be the largest indoor stage for a domestic online variety show, right?"

"As expected of Penguin, it highlights being rich and generous!"

"The stage even has LED lights; these special effects are maxed out!"

"I see five seats under the stairs; they should be for the mentors, right?"

"I'm so excited, I can't wait to see the scene where the mentors and trainees are on the same stage!"

Just a few simple camera transitions, combined with a passionate BGM, set the atmosphere and firmly kept the audience watching.

The transition here was something everyone waited for about three hours during the recording. The trainees came after lunch and didn't start recording until nearly four o'clock.

However, under the editor's operation, these four hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Amidst the exciting music, a few large characters appeared at the top of the screen: "Trainees shine on stage!"

This was probably the only place the editor didn't delete too much. Every group of trainees was given enough screen time. Of course, the trainees with strong strength and outstanding looks definitely had more screen time reserved.

The trainees walked out one by one. In the screen, the trainees were applauding for those coming out later, and the audience in the screen was also welcoming them with barrage—welcoming them with their exclamations and praises.

And when popular trainees appeared, these exclamations and praises would be even more.

For example, the Yuehua trainees and Senna River trainees who appeared one after another. This time period was the densest part of the barrage in the first twenty minutes.

Because they already had a certain fan base before coming to participate in the competition, their fans were also relatively neat when sending barrage, and even had their own slogans.

The best at this was the Senna River fans. After all, they were fans of Japanese-style idols, and the cheering part was done very well.

Although the Korean-style cheering wasn't bad, these Yuehua fans obviously hadn't studied it much; they were unorganized and undisciplined, just burying their heads and brushing the screen.

In most cases, this kind of screen-brushing behavior would cause disgust among passersby, but trainees who were strong and good-looking were usually easier to gain tolerance, and the large number of barrage could even make passersby interested in this trainee.

And whenever their favorite appeared, a silly smile would appear on the audience's face.

The audience had now brought themselves into the identity of a 'mom' or 'dad,' and the trainees were their daughters. When the daughter appeared and made others exclaim, as parents, they naturally felt honored.

This is the essence of talent shows. Regardless of Japan or Korea, fans liking talent show idols are actually aiming for a 'cultivation' process. Idols attract fans through their looks and persona, and then through slow growth, let fans gain a sense of participation.

And when the idol finally debuts, this sense of participation will turn into an incomparably inflated satisfaction.

From here on, the gap between trainees had already appeared. A large number of audiences had already had their favorite trainees through first impressions, and the subsequent assessments would only make the gap in the number of fans bigger and bigger.

However, it wasn't just these trainees whose strength and looks were outstanding that appeared frequently in the barrage. When a few trainees appeared, they were still accompanied by a large amount of barrage.

In terms of looks, these trainees might not be comparable to Xu Yuelin, Yue Wei, and others, but they had all appeared in some TV dramas before participating in the show, and the number of fans on Weibo was also very large. They could be called female celebrities with a certain degree of popularity.

But when these trainees appeared, except for their mediocre resumes, there was nothing eye-catching.

Yet when they appeared, the screen was full of barrage, and the content was all similar. This phenomenon was very intriguing.

Barrage:

"Who is this Xin Yu? There are so many barrage, does everyone know her?"

"I've never heard of her, how is she so popular?"

"When that Fan Yi came out just now, I wanted to ask, who is she exactly?"

"A few singers who have debuted don't have as much barrage as these two..."

The barrage obviously also found something wrong and raised questions. Interestingly, despite so many questioning voices, no one came out to defend these two trainees.

People who came later saw this situation and probably already had an idea in their hearts.

Bringing capital into the group is a very common thing. This is a phenomenon that the entire Chinese and even the world entertainment industry cannot escape.

Even those producers who are not short of money will be forced by various reasons to stuff a few people that the audience doesn't want to see. Some are not because of money, but for human feelings, even a big factory like Penguin cannot be an exception.

But now the show has just begun, and these trainees who brought capital into the group haven't brought any bad influence to anyone, so no one is particularly disgusted with them.

Besides, maybe they are very strong. By then, if they come up with a stunning performance, those who question them will have to be slapped in the face.

The appearance session quickly came to an end. The appearance of Chunzi and Jiang Yuner drew a perfect period for this show. The two of them appeared on stage together as individual trainees. The camera gave close-ups in all directions, matched with fancy special effects, setting the two of them off as beautiful beyond compare.

Barrage:

"These two are too beautiful!"

"The trainees of this show are all fairy-like looks. Where did they find so many pretty sisters?"

"Forgive my superficial self, now I just want to be a brainless fan who looks at faces."

"The only fly in the ointment is that they don't seem to be Chinese."

"Chunzi's Chinese is very good, Yuner's is worse, but it's not unacceptable."

"This is already much better than many foreign stars who come to China to make money. I see their sincerity!"

"Lin Yuxiao has a rival now. These two sisters' looks are not worse than hers."

"It's a pity that 'Creating Girls' Generation' doesn't value looks. In terms of strength, we still have to look at our Yuehua sisters!"

"Yue Wei is the best in the world!"

"Lin Yuxiao is heaven!"

"Move aside, stinky sister."

"Stop arguing, the assessment is next. Who is more powerful will soon be clear."

It's a fan circle after all. It was calm for so long before, and now the fighting barrage finally appeared.

Yuehua and Senna River were originally the ceiling of domestic girl groups and also each other's biggest competitors. Fans on both sides often quarreled, and once it started, it would evolve into extreme intensity.

But the fiercer the quarrel, the more onlookers, which means more traffic.

And this is exactly what the production team hoped to see. In order to make the fans of the two families quarrel, they arranged for the Yuehua and Senna River trainees to appear one after another.

And when Lin Yuxiao climbed the stairs and looked at Yue Wei on the throne, she was also given several close-ups, and even specifically annotated with red subtitles: Who is the strongest?

This was completely aimed at creating rhythm, and the fans of the two families didn't disappoint the production team at all. They were already quarreling, and this quarrel would probably continue until the debut night, and even if they became members of the same group in the end, it might not end.

Anyway, the situation of the two families quarreling had been formed, and the production team added a fierce oil to this fire, directly arranging trending topics and announcing it to the whole network.

Now, even if some fans wanted to follow the show in a Buddhist way, they probably couldn't. Being in the fan circle, one cannot help oneself...

The rhythm on the internet had started, but it couldn't affect the audience watching the video for the time being.

All trainees were seated, and next it was the mentors' turn.

Although the protagonists of this show were the trainees, most of the audience were actually aiming for these mentors.

It's called a talent show, but it's a bit different from the Super Girl and Happy Boy of previous years. In essence, it's actually a variety show, but there will definitely be no plot when voting.

The first to appear was the singing and dancing rap combination of Jin Zihao and Zhao Yining. As soon as they stepped on stage, the barrage couldn't hold back:

"I can still see them on the same stage in my lifetime, tears in my eyes."

"Planet fans are crying, really can't bear to part with them."

"Really regretful, how good would it be if they were still together?"

"Still so handsome!"

"When will Penguin arrange for the four of them to be on stage together? I'll open a first-charge for all your games!"

As powerful idols, their dancing and rap had no problems, but because the movements were large, the songs they sang definitely couldn't compare to the recording studio. The later stage also spent a lot of effort on tuning.

However, overall it was still very good. The warm-up effect was full marks, and the confession barrage kept brushing.

The two male mentors finished their performance, and the first female mentor followed.

As the planner of this show and also the future captain of this group, Seeing Wen Xia was the most important one among both mentors and trainees.

And the song she performed was also the most important one of the entire show. It was the title song of the debut night album, which Miss Luo Quan called a masterpiece of top girl group dance music.

The audience had already seen the related publicity about this song and Seeing Wen Xia's dance on Weibo yesterday, and everyone was curious about how this song was.

And in these few minutes of performance, the barrage was pitifully small, because everyone couldn't bear to stop playing the video to send barrage. Until the performance ended, the audience had time to express their surprise and love:

"Beautiful person and sweet song. If this is the title song of the Girls' Generation debut album, I'm definitely buying it!"

"Miss Luo Quan is worthy of being a genius. There is no style she can't write. It is said that she has two more songs like this?"

"This crab walk is too cute, directly hitting my cute point."

"My head is full of geegeegee now, I can't stop at all."

"The melody is really good. You can't find a song in domestic girl group dance music that can compare to it."

"The song, choreography, and performer are all at the domestic top level. I would like to call this segment the strongest domestic girl group stage!"

With Seeing Wen Xia's pearl in front, Aila, who came out later, seemed a bit plain. Plus, she was already old and couldn't dance much, and even her singing skills, which she was famous for, were suppressed by Seeing Wen Xia because of the song selection, which simply became an execution scene.

"Feel sorry for Aila, actually appearing one after another with Seeing Wen Xia. This contrast is too sharp."

"The production team is too bad. Isn't this arranging to pit Teacher Aila?"

"Fists fear the young and strong, and so do idols."

"I don't know what Seeing Wen Xia will think when she reaches Aila's age and sees the latecomers."

"Time spares no one, especially women."

"Actually, I have never spared time."

Finally, the appearance session of trainees and mentors reached its end, and at the same time, it could be said to be the climax. The entire stage entered pitch darkness.

A dreamlike low moan flowed into the audience's heart. A dreamlike girl stood in the center of the stage. Her appearance made all previous arguments about looks lose controversy.

Among the women present, there wasn't one who had reached the beauty that Miss Luo Quan had, which could make everyone amazed as soon as she appeared.

I don't know how many hearts skipped a beat at this moment, and I don't know how many people forgot to breathe for a second at this moment.

Her beauty was just like the song she sang, like bubbles under the sun, illusory and unreal, as if fleeting, but so beautiful that it made people want to cry.

How can this beauty be kept forever?

Many audiences who knew about Miss Luo Quan returning to China as an exchange student finally truly understood why the Japanese public couldn't bear to part with her.

Such a beautiful Miss Luo Quan deserves to be treated like this! ===== CHAPTER 184 =====