33. Choose the mainstream, or stay away from the mainstream?
Kyoto.
In a certain alley strewn with garbage, excrement, and rat carcasses, dozens of rusty colored steel houses are arranged in a haphazard manner.
No one would have thought that such a place would exist in this luxurious and prosperous Kyoto!
Compared with the bustling neighborhoods in the inner ring, although it looks chaotic, it provides a place for dream chasers.
From time to time on the Internet, some successful and popular artists come out and sell out, saying that they lived in a basement in a certain neighborhood before they became famous, and they finally succeeded with ten years of hard work.
But what the audience in front of the screen didn't know was that the basement in the inner ring neighborhood was a paradise for Wang Hao during his trough period!
Small but complete.
Although the basements are narrow and dark, they have basic facilities such as bathrooms and kitchens.
In comparison, the urban village where Wang Hao lives is a truly poor place!
There are delivery guys who leave early and come back late, sanitation workers who brave the wind and cold, salesmen who are hungover every night, and dream chasers like Wang Hao who are unhappy and don’t know their future in life.
"Phew...it's still that familiar smell!"
Looking at the narrow alleys strewn with garbage and the rusty colored steel houses, Wang Hao felt filled with emotion.
When he was not participating in extreme challenges, he lived deep in this alley, surrounded by all kinds of stench every day.
In that melancholy year, there were only two things in his life.
Cigarettes, alcohol.
He spent all the savings he had saved after his debut and used alcohol to numb himself all day and night, in an attempt to forget the period of his life when he was at the bottom of the valley.
Although he has never reached the top, he has also enjoyed fine wine, fine food, beautiful buildings and beautiful houses, so the feeling of falling directly to the bottom almost made him collapse!
No! It should be said that it has collapsed.
It was precisely because of the collapse of the original owner that Wang Hao appeared today.
"Brother, I have a deep understanding of my previous life, so I promise you that we will never live such a hard life again in the future!"
"If I break my oath! I will be struck by lightning from heaven!"
The next moment, Wang Hao turned around and left without hesitation.
Now that he has gotten up, he will never lie back down again!
If you refuse to lie flat, it starts with me.
…
"System! Give me a lottery! This time I want to select the category "Song"!"
While returning, Wang Hao issued instructions to the system.
Now that Extreme Challenge has decided to sign a long-term contract, he needs to prepare for his next step.
It is recommended that each recording lasts for one day, and the recording and broadcasting time is on Monday of every week.
As a result, Wang Hao only had six days left to use.
These six days cannot be wasted, so he directly set his sights on the upcoming "Rising Stars of Tomorrow" talent-type variety show.
The talent show...is nothing more than singing, dancing, and rapping.
And if the three are ranked, "singing" will definitely be ranked first, so Wang Hao directly locked the lottery category this time as "song"!
At this moment, his mind was full of thoughts.
The popular songs and famous music from the previous life all came to my mind one after another!
"Broader Sea and Sky", "Glory Years", "Water of Forgetting Love", "Kiss Goodbye", "Actor", "Childhood", "Nocturne", "Qili Xiang", "Blue and White Porcelain"...
These are all music that Wang Hao is familiar with, but in this world, not even one of these popular music in the past life has appeared.
If you are lucky enough to get one of the songs in this lottery, it is meaningless, Wang Hao will definitely become a hit!
Think about it, while other trainees are still babbling and singing lame original songs, Wang Hao suddenly comes up with a representative Chinese song "Blue and White Porcelain". What kind of scene will that be like?
Still not allowed to kill indiscriminately?
"System boss, this time it all depends on you. I personally think you should also hope that I can become famous overnight and gain a huge amount of popularity, right?"
Wang Hao clasped his hands together and secretly prayed in his heart.
However……
The system has acted like a monster again!
"Ding·Consume two thousand popularity points and start the lottery!"
Under Wang Hao's eager gaze, the huge roulette wheel jumped out again and began to spin rapidly.
The bright light kept flashing in front of his eyes, and Wang Hao vaguely seemed to see his future self holding the "Golden Needle Award", the highest honor for famous singers, enjoying the cheers and shouts of hundreds of millions of fans in the audience.
However, the next moment, as the roulette wheel came to a standstill, the system's prompt tone caused a long period of sluggishness.
"Ding·Congratulations to the host for receiving the reward: "The King of Shout Mai""
"The King of Shouting: Do you want to be the first person to lead the trend? Do you want to gain the enthusiastic admiration of millions of fans? Do you want to have countless wealth?"
"Young man! Go and call Mai! Go and become a top internet celebrity!"
"Ding·Since the host currently does not have any talent for shouting, one hundred thousand popularity points will be deducted to modify the host's voice."
"Ding·After the transformation is successful, the host can gain the ability of "variable voices", which can imitate hundreds of voices when singing on stage and switch at will."
"Ding·Since the host's wealth and strength are too low, and he does not currently have the basic conditions to become a shout-out singer, the system will deduct 20,000 popularity points and redeem a "Shout-out Set" for you."
"Ding·Deduction of 10,000 popularity points, congratulations to the host for winning the singing song "One Person Drinks Drunk""
…
At the No. 52 bus stop, Wang Hao lay flat on the lounge chair waiting for the bus, letting himself be messy in the cold wind.
"Is the way I opened the system wrong? If I remember correctly, what I want is a song?!"
His throat was slightly itchy, and Wang Hao knew that it was because of his system.
Your voice is being transformed. After the transformation is completed, you will have a versatile voice that can be transformed at will.
Although this transformation cost Wang Hao 100,000 popularity points, he felt it was worth it. After all, if you want to become a professional singer, you will definitely not be able to do it without a good voice.
What really made Wang Hao feel crushed was the new skill "King of Shouting Mai".
For other people in this parallel world, shouting Mai may be a rather novel term. After all, there is no "Singing Mai singer" in this world.
But for Wang Hao, the word "Mai" is already familiar to him.
The main form of shouting to the microphone is to download some accompaniments from the Internet, apply some words that you think are awesome, and finally shout them directly into the microphone.
Compared with mainstream songs, "Shouting Mai" is just like children's play in the entertainment industry, and it can't even be called formal music!
Mainstream songs usually focus on lyrics, music and tune.
But Shoumai only focused on two points.
Burn! Explode!
No matter what the music style, artistic content, or beautiful tunes are, I’m just responsible for the awesomeness and that’s it!
In particular, the song "One Man Drinks Drunk", a song that screams Mai, became popular all over the Internet at that time, crushing many mainstream songs at one time!
But now, the system's intention is clearly to ask him to become popular on the Internet as a "singer who shouts out loud", so as to achieve overtaking in corners.
It almost doesn't take Wang Hao to think about it to know that once he starts calling Mai, although he will attract the attention of the entire Internet, he will also be ostracized by the mainstream music industry.
The lyrics are not good, the music is not good, the tune is not good... what kind of singer are you?
At this moment, Wang Hao suddenly fell into entanglement.
Should you choose to take a less traveled road and overtake others in corners while leading the trend of Internet celebrities? Or should you abandon the road of Internet celebrities and rely solely on the mainstream music market?
After pondering for a long time, Wang Hao suddenly said: "System! Give me another prize! This time I have to select the category as "Song"!"
"Ding·Consume one thousand popularity points and start the lottery!"
The huge colorful roulette wheel jumped out again and began to spin rapidly.
After a full minute, the system's voice echoed in Wang Hao's mind again: "Ding. Congratulations to the host for receiving the reward: "The King of Ballads""
"Ding·After deducting 10,000 popularity points, congratulations to the host for winning the folk song "The Ordinary Road""
Uh-huh!!!
The next moment, Wang Hao suddenly stood up.
…
In the distance, the No. 52 bus was slowly approaching, and two completely different people could be vaguely seen sitting on the bus.
One of them wore gold earrings, a cigarette in his mouth, tights, his hair dyed an exaggerated blue, and a pair of beanie shoes with "social characteristics" on his feet.
The other person was dressed in shabby clothes and had a melancholy temperament. He looked out the window with dull eyes, and his whole body revealed a sense of unwillingness to live today.
Although these two people have completely different lives, they happened to be riding the No. 52 bus at the same time, and their destinations were exactly the same. This chapter has been completed!