118: Sharp Commentary

Fine, since you're so determined to come forward and get beaten, giving you two slaps wouldn't even satisfy your itch.

"Since you put it that way, I'll give a few brief comments."

"From a professional perspective, of the five votes in my hand, you'd get at most one today."

The audience below couldn't help but gasp upon hearing this.

The judges looked at Lu Qingyu with confusion in their eyes. Why give Wang Tong only one vote? Could it be because Wang Tong made things difficult for him, so he was angry and wanted to retaliate?

Wang Tong was talented, and the judges appreciated him. Although Wang Tong's behavior was a bit embarrassing, it was understandable; after all, talented people often have a bit of arrogance.

Lu Qingyu was so young and sitting in a judge's seat. In the previous segments, the Host had interacted with Lu Qingyu very frequently, wanting to hear Lu Qingyu's views on the singers, making it seem as if Lu Qingyu were some kind of professional.

If they were being critiqued by an eighteen-year-old kid, they might not be convinced either.

Wang Tong laughed inwardly. Lu Qingyu's words were too childish, appearing as if he were lashing out in shame because of his questioning. It indeed lacked any professionalism. However, Lu Qingyu's next words left them all dumbfounded.

Lu Qingqingyu said:

"The sense of positioning and space in this song was handled well. One can feel that the distance between instruments is very appropriate. For this, you should thank the accompaniment teacher."

"Your vocal range is quite wide, and your breath control is decent. Your singing technique is good, but in my view, whether a song is sung well or not, technique is just the basic requirement. The venting and expression of emotion are what's most important; technique is merely a means to help everyone resonate."

"It's like an essay. If you want to get a high score, it must make the reader feel sincere and powerful emotions, rather than just piling up personification, parallelism, and exclamatory sentences."

By this point, Wang Tong's face had already turned dark. The technique he was most proud of had actually become nothing in Lu Qingyu's mouth.

But it wasn't over yet. Lu Qingyu didn't give Wang Tong any face at all and continued:

"In the first measure of the third section, there was an imbalance in the three-frequency volume, leading to timbre distortion. The rhythm in this section is gentle, with only a simple piano accompaniment. Although I haven't heard the original, I believe the original singer must be someone with very strong self-control. Using just a few piano notes for accompaniment is meant to showcase the diversity of one's voice, but clearly, you haven't reached that level. Everyone might not have noticed; please watch the replay."

"Also, your deliberate high-note showboating ruined the musical layers. The song you chose is harder than others, but your performance level can only be described as barely passing. So, I suggest that next time you choose a song, you might as well pick one with lower difficulty."

"That's all for now, because I zoned out a bit while listening in the middle."

[Hahahaha, 'that's all for now' my foot.]

[Little brother is mighty! It's not like we're looking for trouble on purpose. When he said you sang well earlier, you weren't satisfied and insisted on hearing details. So, we're giving you details.]

[His pride is being rubbed into the ground like a shoe sole, okay!]

[Help! Wang Tong is the one with the highest votes so far, so the others...]

The others stood backstage trembling. Previously, they thought Lu Qingyu saying 'pretty good' was too perfunctory; now, they only hoped Lu Qingyu would be perfunctory with them.

Wang Tong's face looked as if it had been smeared with soot. He really wanted to argue back, but the key was that the problems Lu Qingyu pointed out were spot on.

However, Wang Tong was still unconvinced. Just because Lu Qingyu spoke well didn't mean he could sing well.

Wang Tong: "Teacher Lu, you've said so much. I wonder if you can do it yourself?"

It was still provocative language. Anyone could feel Wang Tong's resentment and dissatisfaction.

Anyone else would have been angry being targeted like this, but everyone looked at Lu Qingyu. The little brother's face still bore a calm and composed expression.

Then, under everyone's gaze, Lu Qingyu sighed softly and then brought up a topic everyone was very interested in.

"Your overall strength is good, and your live performances are quite decent. But do you know why you aren't popular?"

Wang Tong had pondered this question countless times.

When he was in school, there were twenty-four people in his music class. Now, only a third are active in the entertainment industry. But among those eight people, he considered himself to have the best overall strength, yet he wasn't the most popular.

He had a classmate he looked down on the most, who was now an online singer specializing in DJ music.

But even that person was more popular than him. Wang Tong thought that being popular or not was a matter of luck.

"Because I have bad luck."

Lu Qingyu shook his head upon hearing this answer.

"Wrong."

At this moment, the judges looked at Lu Qingyu with admiration. Based on the words Lu Qingyu had just spoken, they knew his musical level was definitely not bad.

Faced with the question of why Wang Tong wasn't popular, they also wanted to see what Lu Qingyu's thoughts were.

The audience also looked at Lu Qingyu curiously. From Lu Qingyu's critique just now, everyone knew this little brother was extraordinary. The audience's curiosity was no less than Wang Tong's own; they also wanted to see what sharp perspective Lu Qingyu would use to analyze why Wang Tong wasn't popular.

In the end, they saw Lu Qingyu pull out a small badge from his pocket and pin it to his chest.

Then, pointing to the badge on his chest, he said to Wang Tong:

"You're in trouble; you've offended your financial backer."

The small badge on Lu Qingyu's chest read 'Representative of Qingcheng Entertainment'. The Program Production Team had previously given such a badge to every investor. The other investors had worn them before the show started. After Lu Qingyu received his, he had casually put it in his pocket, and now he was revealing it.

In an instant, Wang Tong's entire body stiffened.

The video signal backstage started after the first contestant went on stage. They didn't know that when the Host introduced Lu Qingyu, the title given to him was 'Representative of the Investors'.

By the time the video signal reached them, they saw Lu Qingyu sitting in the first row with the other four judges.

They mistakenly thought the Program Production Team had given Lu Qingyu the status of the fifth judge.

But if Lu Qingyu wasn't a judge but an investor representative, then Wang Tong's behavior today was a huge disaster.

[Hahahaha, no fault found, no fault at all.]

[Pfft! Does Wang Tong really not know? Lu Qingyu is representing the investors today.]

[It's really hard to imagine what would happen if I spoke to my financial backer like that one day.]

[Wang Tong, you kid are truly arrogant.]

[There are five other big shots in the second row too. Wang Tong, why don't you ask them for their evaluation of you while you're at it?]}],