Five hundred and twentieth IX Sleeping Beauty
One morning in early September, a studio was vacated in the NBC studio building.
This studio has a whole glass wall facing the outside, and you can see the Empire State Building in New York.
The judges in front of the glass wall were raised, a streamlined, modern table with the sign "Save Music" on it.
Lawrence, one of the three judges of this show, knocked on the table and said to Ye Luo: "This is the props for the TV show. They look bright and beautiful, but they are actually the cheapest plastic."
"Mr. Lawrence, be careful of your words." The director reminded through his headphones, "The meeting will begin soon, and the first singer has entered the elevator."
Just like the pilot episode, the main content of the official "Music Saving" in the first episode is the meeting between the judges and the down-and-out singers.
The first shot of the meeting will be given to the singer.
After it is their turn to meet the judges, each singer will enter an elevator, and there is a mirror in the elevator to confirm the final self-image of these singers.
At this time, their heartbeat and breathing will be monitored and amplified with sound effects.
The elevator went up to the scheduled floor, and the green light lit up, and the door was divided into the left and right. As soon as the singer walked out of the elevator, he directly met the three judges in the studio.
During the entire meeting, more than 100 singers will be interviewed, and Ye Luo finally screened↓, ww★w. Sixteen people were selected. After several rounds of competition, four of them were decided. These four people will be truly saved by Ye Luo's music.
The original plan for Leshi was eight people, because Yang Yuanshan knew Ye Luo's ability, eight people were no problem.
However, NBC has reserved Ye Luo's ability, and considering that there are too many places, this opportunity to be saved will not be precious enough. In the end, NBC proposed four people, but Leshi did not object.
This morning, the first singer Ye Luo met was a black man in his thirties with a big beard.
"What's your name?" Lawrence asked directly.
"Ham." replied the black singer, "Ham Byron."
"Ham, OK, please prove your identity as a professional singer," Lawrence continued.
"This is a record I released three years ago." The singer took out a record from his shirt pocket. "I signed the company at that time as Greenlight Records."
"Then what is your career dilemma?"
"The contract expired three months ago, and the company no longer renewed the contract with me. I was unemployed. I have two children, one is five years old and the other is three years old. My wife was diagnosed with uremia last month. I was at the end of my life."
"Okay, please show your professional level."
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This is the general process for every singer to come in.
Ye Luo will go through this process for three days and interview about forty singers every day.
The first morning went down. About a dozen singers came in, and the stories they had were more miserable than the other.
But even Qin Shiyue was not moved to lose her composure. With Ye Luo's understanding of this woman, she could see that her sympathy or comfort was more due to etiquette.
Why? Because these singers are not very professional.
If you are not good enough, you can't afford to eat this bowl of rice. You can't blame others. No matter how bad you are now, it only means that this singer has gone through the wrong career and shouldn't be a professional singer.
Of course, Qin Shiyue would not let Ye Luo use music to save them, because he really couldn't save them. Qin Shiyue didn't want to harm Ye Luo.
However, after one morning, more than ten singers were in this situation, and Ye Luo couldn't help but feel confused.
What if more than a hundred alternative singers are like this?
The three singers who were on the trial before were not doing badly. They were all signed in-service singers and are releasing movies.
These three singers were temporarily found by the director team, and they spent some money to save the venue. They said they were doing poorly because they were pretending to be the show effect, because they were originally a pilot episode and would not be released on public screening, so they were just performing it.
The more than ten people who came in are really miserable, but they are quite miserable and they are not strong enough.
The American music market is relatively mature. The most prominent sign of a mature market is that it has clear grades and a clear judgment on the high and low levels.
If a singer sings well, most of the time he does well. If he doesn't sing well, he will definitely be in a bad state.
Ye Luo smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking that if it really doesn't work, he can only draw the general in the slut.
Just as the morning interview was approaching, Ye Luo was planning to lower his standards, and as soon as the elevator opened in front, a girl came in.
As soon as the girl came in, the three judges, including Ye Luo, were stunned for a moment.
This is a white girl, about 20 years old, with natural silver hair and blue eyes.
Generally, white girls are prone to freckles or a lot of moles due to the pigment characteristics of their skin.
The skin exposed all over this girl is like white porcelain, with excellent leather, delicate face, great figure, and extremely beautiful.
This is a white beauty who can be compared with Merina.
Ye Luo thought to himself that this girl is so beautiful and a professional singer can’t continue to be a sing. How bad does she have to sing?
"What's your name?" Lawrence asked, his attitude was still so strong, and he was not soft-hearted at all when facing the beauty. This is his professional attitude.
"Sheriel." replied the white girl, "Sheriel Smith."
"Sherill, OK, please prove your identity as a professional singer." Lawrence continued.
"This is my record company contract." Sheriel presented a document.
"Well, I've noticed the date. This is a new contract, and the signing date is in June this year." Lawrence looked at the contract and then said, "Then I'm confused. What is your career dilemma?"
"This is my contract suspension proof." Sheriel took out two documents from the handbag she carried with him, "and this one is my medical diagnosis."
"Medical diagnosis?" Qin Shiyue's expression condensed and she asked, "Can we take a closer look?"
Sheriel took two steps forward and placed the diagnosis on the judges' seat.
"Oh my god?" Qin Shiyue exclaimed in surprise.
"Yes." Sheriel nodded calmly.
Ye Luo blinked, but he didn't understand.
Ye Luo's English is pretty good now, and daily communication is fine, but once it involves non-musical professional terms, especially abbreviations, he will stop.
Lawrence is worthy of being a veteran television person. Ordinary Americans may not know about the abbreviation of medical special nouns. He immediately explained: ", the full name is amyotrophiclateral sclero private s."
Now Ye Luo understood it, this is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
This is a terminal illness, characterized by the gradual atrophy and weakness of the muscles, and the body is as if it is gradually frozen, so it is commonly known as "Abnormal freezing person" and also known as "Abnormal freezing disease".
Ye Luo was shocked. A young girl like Sheriel should be the lowest chance of suffering from this disease, but sometimes God likes to joke.
"So, I'm a sleeping beauty." Sheriel smiled slightly and said calmly, "My professional dream is to become the world's top singer.
But my illness prevented me from realizing this dream. The record company I signed before was a Chinese label, and they couldn't help me realize this dream quickly before I fell asleep. So after I learned that I was sick, I took the initiative to propose a contract.
This is my current career dilemma.”
"Please show your professional abilities," Lawrence said.
The so-called demonstration of professional ability is actually singing a song a cappella. Of course, when a singer is a singer, he will carry an instrument with him when he knows the instrument during an interview. At least he will have accompaniment and the effect will be better.
Sheriel obviously didn't, so she simply sang a cappella.
The song she chose was actually "listen" written by Ye Luo for Qin Shiyue.
After the main song was finished, the chorus had not started, Ye Luo had basically confirmed it in his heart.
This is the first singer to be shortlisted.
As a result, the chorus was together, and Ye Luo confirmed again that there was no big suspense among the semi-finals.
When Qin Shiyue recorded this song, he made this beauty very tired because of the high notes, Qin Shiyue didn't sing much.
The opposite Sheriel sang, with a not-dropping tone and a relaxed expression. The quality of each technical link is comparable to that of Qin Shiyue.
Her natural tone is like the sound of nature. This tone reminds Ye Luo of Long Miaoqin.
Sheriel finished singing this song, and before Qin Shiyue could speak, Lawrence spoke first:
"From a record company to operate a singer, Sherry, there is nothing you can do about this situation.
To be honest, because your future life may only be three to five years, and the time you can sing may be shorter.
In such a short time, the record company spends publicity and production costs on you, and it is very likely that it will not be able to recover the costs.
So ordinary record companies will not invest in you or take this risk for you.
Our program serves both NBC TV and Beauty Records, so our judges are responsible for the record company.
In this regard, I do not rationally agree with Mr. Ye Luo to save your career, or to save your career dream.
But you sang so well just now.”
Speaking of this, Lawrence cursed and sweared: "Go to his mother's role positioning, Mr. Ye Luo, I suggest you save her."
"Ye Luo, I suggest you save her." Qin Shiyue waited for a long time and finally had the chance to interfere. She couldn't wait to say, "I think you should give her a chance when you are a terminally ill and can still stick to your dreams."
"Miss Smith." Ye Luo said seriously, "I can't cure your illness. But I can think of a way to think of your musical dream.
Congratulations, you were shortlisted.”
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Chapter completed!