People in Zongman are masters of copying romance novels

Then, after deciding on the music to submit and determining the division of labor, the band's training intensity became higher than it had been for some time.

Although Aoki Jie said that there was no need to strive for first place in this project, the girls who left the band all tacitly worked harder - everyone's level was constantly improving, and no one wanted to drag the band down.

Therefore, in just a few days, the level of the band members has improved a lot.

Ichiri Goto can keep up with the rhythm of the band, perfectly match the main melody guitar of Susuke Aoki and be responsible for the harmony of "Loser".

Kita Ikuyo is surprisingly good as the lead vocalist, and there aren't any major issues with the guitar part she's responsible for.

Yamada Ryo's level has always been online, and there is no problem in playing this song "Loser".

And Hongxia...Hongxia has been a little strange these days.

Her level is the same as usual, and compared to before, Hong Xia's drumming skills can definitely be said to have improved rapidly. In recent days, even the arrogant store manager Xingge has praised her great improvement in skills from time to time.

But when spending time with [STARRY] on weekdays, Aokisuke felt that her condition seemed a little strange sometimes.

The problem wasn't that serious, but compared to usual, Aokisuke always felt that Hongxia would avoid his occasional glances when they were together...

Although he was somewhat confused, Aokisuke did not ask what happened.

Just like what was said before, the problem was not very serious. Hongxia didn't mention it, and Aokijie himself didn't do anything wrong, so he didn't choose to investigate further.

All in all, we spent more than a week simply in this somewhat strange atmosphere where the band members are making rapid progress.

then.

July 27th, there were only five days left until the project deadline.

After countless repetitions and countless attempts in the STARRY studio, the band finally recorded the most perfect audio performance of "Loser" to date.

Then, on the morning of July 28th.

After copying the audio, Aoki Jie submitted the song "Loser" performed by the Ending Band to the current submission email address of PVC Records.

There were only four days left until the project deadline, and on the afternoon of the 28th, after submitting his manuscript and staying alone in his apartment, Aoki began to think about canvassing for votes.

Chapter 54: Negative reviews of the "loser" segment

The [Rock Band Original Project] competition format held by PVC Records is different from most ordinary music competitions.

Submissions will be accepted in June and July for two months. During this period, any band, regardless of fame or not, can submit their entries.

It will last until August 1st, when submissions will close.

Then, some time after the submission deadline, PVC Records will open a voting function on its official website and put the reviewed music on the official website for netizens to vote.

The ratio of netizens' votes to record company judges' votes is 3:7. The voting lasts for two days. After the voting ends, because online submissions involve issues such as sound editing and tuning, the top ten voted by the judges and netizens will be required to go to a specific location for the final review and competition. The on-site judges will determine the scores and then determine the final ranking.

The final review competition is open to the public and anyone can watch it as long as they buy a ticket.

PVC Records' plan is very strange. The more fans a band has, the more advantages it has in this competition.

Due to the special reasons of the competition system, canvassing for votes is essential.

Although the judges' votes carry more weight, it's obviously impossible for Aoki to ignore the '3' in the weight.

I didn't go to [STARRY] in the afternoon and stayed alone in the apartment. Aokisuke considered ways to canvass votes for a while, and finally decided to post a video on his account "suki-san".

He briefly introduced his band, which was participating in a project of PVC Records, edited a part of the ensemble song "Loser" and put it in the video. Finally, he asked fans to go to the official website to vote in a few days.

Because he didn't have a computer, it was particularly troublesome to make videos with a mobile phone. It took Aoki Jie four hours to record and edit the video. At around eight o'clock, he posted the third video of his account on YouTube.

Recently, because of being busy with ensemble training and video recording, Aokisuke has to work until very late every day. Although he gets more sleep than when he was working part-time, he is mentally exhausted much more than before.

Now that the final campaign video has been completed, Aoki Jie finally has the chance to relax for a while. He simply skipped dinner, took a quick shower, and then made up his bedding and went to bed.

......

The next day, Monday.

I woke up very early in the morning because I didn’t eat last night, so I was very hungry in the morning.

However, it is not a good idea to eat before a morning run, so Aokisuke endured his hunger and ran around the park twice before going to a breakfast shop to have breakfast.

On the way back, I bought a morning newspaper out of leisure. After returning to the apartment, I read the morning newspaper until 7:30.

After packing his schoolbag simply, he put it on his back and took the tram to Xiuhua Private High School.

Classes were held as usual in the morning.

During lunch break at noon, Aoki Jie did not go to the first grade to teach Kita Ikuyo to play the guitar as usual.

After finishing the recording of "Loser", they agreed to take a short break for a while, so Aokisuke was free during the entire lunch break.

I stayed in the classroom for the first time in a long time and did math problems until the afternoon class started and then until the afternoon school bell rang.

Instead of going to the club, Aoki Jie followed the steps of most of the "Homecoming Club" students and walked out of the school gate.

He boarded the train to Shimokitazawa and headed towards [STARRY].

Then, while riding the train, Aokisuke opened YouTube and briefly checked the comments on his campaign video.

However, the comments under the canvassing video are different from the mostly positive reviews of the first two videos.

The train was a little crowded. In the corner of the train, Aokisuke swiped the screen of his mobile phone, scrolling down, checking the comments under the video.

[Sigh—I've listened to the preview music... How should I put it? The music is nice, but... I feel like the vocals aren't as good as Suki-sensei's. Well, I'll vote for her, though (keep it up!)]

[Regardless of the song, if it gets into the top ten, I can go see Suki play guitar live, so I'll vote for it!]

[Ah... this band... hahaha, I feel like except for Suki-sensei, who's really good, the rest of the band's skills are just... not so good.]

Many comments were saying that the band's and lead singer's skills were not particularly outstanding. Aokijie read a few of them and his expression became a little gloomy.

Until he adjusted the comments to sort by popularity and saw the first hot comment,

NEW World Band: Suki-sensei, all of us in the band have loved your music from the very beginning, whether it's "Lemon" or "So I Gave Up Music." We've been looking for an opportunity to sincerely invite you to join the band, but we never found the time. Now, seeing your new video, we know you've joined the band...

Although it's a bit sad, everyone in our band also wishes you and your band all the best. And... no matter what the result is, NEW·world will always keep a place for you, Suki-sensei! 】

NEW·world is a band that has been quite popular in recent years.

Under the hot comments, many netizens advised Aoki Suke to try to develop in other bands.

After a moment of silence and a sigh, he put away his phone again.

In fact, the level of the current girls in the End band is really not bad.

However, because the two consecutive videos on the account of 'Suki-san' by Aokisuke were both high-quality singles, compared with the music quality in the previous videos, netizens felt that the level was average.

It is precisely for this reason that the song "Loser" sung by Kita Ikuyo has been criticized by many netizens.

If these comments were seen by the girls in the band, they would probably feel unnecessary pressure.

He felt a little worried and considered a solution for a while. In the end, Aokisuke could only hope that the girls who had ended the band had not seen these comments yet.

After another bumpy ride on the train, I got off at Shimokitazawa Station and walked for a while before arriving at the livehouse.

After standing at the door and taking a deep breath, Aokisuke pushed open the door of the shop.

[STARRY] Inside the store, several girls arrived earlier than Aokisuke.

At this time, the four of them were sitting together, but they were not training or chatting as usual. Instead, they were a little silent.

The air was silent, and the atmosphere seemed inexplicably heavy.

Aoki Jie reacted instantly - the comments under the video he posted were probably seen by the people who had left the band.

The air pressure in [STARRY] is a bit low right now. After Aoki Jie entered the room and saw the current situation, he was also a little unsure what to say.

Kita Ikuyo, the lead singer of "Loser", was a little confused at this time.

Kita Ikuyo did see the comments under the video posted by Aoki Suke.

She was also very clear that her level was indeed much lower than that of Senior Aoki.

At the same time, Kita Ikuyo could probably understand why Senior Aoki wanted her to be the lead singer.

Aoki-senpai is a very gentle person.

"Being the rhythm guitarist myself is too insignificant. Aoki-senpai probably sees everyone in the band as a whole, so he doesn't want me to be alone and have no impact on the band."

But because of this, Kita Ikuyo didn't know how to refuse Aoki-senpai's kindness, and how to tell Aoki Suke: for this song "Loser", she would rather have Aoki-senpai be the lead singer...

......

After standing at the door of [STARRY] for a moment, the atmosphere was still silent, so Aokisuke coughed lightly.

He decisively didn't mention the video of his canvassing for votes. He looked at the girls who had finished the band and said,

"I feel like I should have no problem getting into the top ten with this song 'Loser', so... should I start preparing for the live performances later? Like maybe practice a little more..."

Chapter 55 Incandescent Lights in Convenience Stores (4k5)

There is actually no big problem with the comment by NEW·world band and the responses from many netizens under that comment.

The level of the End Band is not low, but compared to those professional bands who can play music freely in front of thousands of people, their overall strength is indeed a little worse.

However, Aoki Suke's guitar skills and singing abilities are comparable to those of these bands.

Therefore, when netizens gave suggestions to Aokisuke and said things like "changing bands might lead to better development", they were actually considering Aokisuke.

These things are not only known to the netizens who commented, but in fact, the girls who ended the band are also aware of them.

Therefore, after seeing the comments under Aokisuke's campaign video, the girls in the band felt overly troubled...

And because of this, ever since the release of that canvassing video, the atmosphere around the band has been a bit low...

......

......

The melody of the song "Loser" is of excellent quality, and the lyrics and the connotation of the music are all perfect.

Coupled with the vote-gathering by 'suki-san' who is currently very popular on YouTube, the song "Loser" sung by Kita Ikuyo has indeed passed the first round of the election as Aoki Suke said.

It ranked second in the audience voting, with the first place being the recently popular band Ges.

The Ges band has a large number of fans, and its level is very good compared to the previous bands, but this band is not quite the same as the others - this band does not rely on music to attract fans, but relies on overwhelming publicity from capital and on creating momentum for the band's image to have the current number of fans.

But in short, this band firmly surpassed the ending band in the rankings.

By the way, although the audience voting rankings received a high number of votes, in fact, the scores of the professional judges were slightly lower.

On August 6th, the weather was sunny.

Saturday, the third day after the grading is completed.

According to the original competition rules, after the audience and judges' scores, the top ten bands were required to go to a specific location for the second round of final evaluation.

The final venue is not in Tokyo. The address given by PVC Records is Kyoto City, Kyoto City Gymnasium next to the PVC Records headquarters.

It is a little far from Tokyo, and it takes about four hours to get from Shibuya to Kyoto by car.

We set off by train at around ten in the morning and arrived in Kyoto at two thirty in the afternoon.

After arriving in Kyoto, they first went to the headquarters of PVC Records.

[Be original/Rock Band Project] The final competition is divided into three days. In addition to the first day for arranging check-in and drawing lots to determine the order in which each band will perform, the final competition will begin on the second day and will be divided into two days, with five games each day.

The first place in the preliminaries, Ges band, happened to be assigned to be the last act on the first day. This is a very good position. Being the last act on the first day can not only maintain the freshness, but also bring a certain sense of anticipation to the audience.

The End Band was assigned to perform first on the second day due to a draw, and just one day later, they were on the same stage as the Ges Band.

But anyway, with the temperature gradually rising, the final round of PVC Records' "Be Original/Rock Band Project" finally officially began after two months.

On August 6th, after being arranged with accommodation, the girls from the band went to their hotel rooms early to rest because they had been on the train for a long time and were a little nervous as it was their first time participating in such a large-scale competition.

Aokisuke also didn't spend much time outside.

The atmosphere in the band has been a little bit not so good in recent days. Although it doesn't seem to be much different from usual, except that the girls talk less than usual, Aoki Jie always has a feeling that a storm is about to come.

After walking around outside alone for a while, he returned to the hotel.

I simply washed up and lay in bed doing nothing. I just daydreamed for a while, and finally fell asleep in a daze, not waking up again until the next morning.

The final begins.

As mentioned before, the competition system of this project is actually very strange - although the final decision is made by the judges, tickets are still sold online, allowing fans who have purchased tickets on site to enter.

Therefore, there is actually not much difference between the current final competition and directly holding a short live performance. If the atmosphere on the scene is not well controlled, it may even directly affect the band's reputation among fans.

In other words, this final not only looks at the band's technical level, but also requires the band to have a good ability to control the on-site atmosphere.