Chapter 53: Husky
How rare!
The quality of the work “Balloon” can only be considered above average, yet it managed to trigger a wave of imitation and challenges among listeners with its unique opening melody…
And it even made it to the trending searches?
If Zhao Jue can’t seize such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, then he might as well not be the chief agent of Starlight Entertainment.
Without further ado.
First, let’s elevate the trending search.
The “Balloon Challenge,” which is a trending search initiated by the public, usually fades quickly. However, if Starlight’s celebrities also participate in the Balloon Challenge, it will surely drive their fans to follow suit, leading to a wider range of imitation and the topic’s popularity will naturally rise…
As expected by Zhao Jue.
With the entry of celebrities, the topic’s popularity of the Balloon Challenge indeed began to rise, with more and more people joining in, pushing the topic to the fifth place!
In contrast.
On the February new song chart, “Balloon” successfully advanced one position, becoming the sixth on the new song chart.
The industry was instantly filled with wails!
February is a death group, and major companies have put in a lot of effort for the February chart, as no one wants to fall behind, so the quality of the songs released is extremely high.
But no one expected.
Starlight released a song called “Balloon.”
This song unexpectedly made it to the trending search because of its singing difficulty!
The strange thing about this song is that it seems like few people care whether the song sounds good or not; everyone is only concerned about whether they can sing the first verse in one breath like the singer…
In terms of quality, “Balloon” doesn’t have the advantage of crushing other songs on the chart.
The fact that this song could become popular in February is entirely due to the “Balloon Challenge” on the trending search!
Of course, this is also related to the upcoming New Year, so everyone is relatively free recently. If work were busy, who would have time to record this thing?
…
Jiang Kui received a call from her agent and learned about the situation of her new song. She jumped out of bed early in the morning, her hair disheveled, and howled a line from “Balloon.”
“Trending search, trending search, trending search!”
After calming down, she took out her phone, logged into the platform, and found the “Balloon Challenge” topic on the trending search list.
“Aha!”
The feeling of being on the trending search for the first time in her life was somewhat subtle for Jiang Kui. Although the main character of the trending search was “Balloon” and not herself, rounding it up, it was equivalent to Jiang Kui herself being on the trending search.
There were many video recommendations under the topic.
Jiang Kui chose one with relatively high ratings to watch.
It was a video shot by a female streamer, edited with great care. The opening scenes pieced together showed the female streamer practicing various sports to improve her lung capacity.
After finishing all these activities.
The female streamer showed off her nonexistent muscles to the camera, full of fighting spirit, and said to her partner, “Are you ready?”
The partner nodded seriously.
So the female streamer took a deep breath and suddenly started singing with her partner’s piano accompaniment: “Black, white, red, yellow, purple, green, blue, gray, yours, mine, his, hers, big, small, round, flat, good, bad, beautiful, ugly…”
Couldn’t continue.
Jiang Kui knew right away.
Sure enough, the female streamer in the video obviously couldn’t continue singing.
She couldn’t get the last few words out, as if she was about to run out of breath, and could only wave her hand repeatedly, saying:
“I can’t do it, I can’t do it, I’m not in the right state.”
The last scene of the video was edited to show the female streamer and her partner sitting lifelessly on chairs, with two big black words overlaid on the screen:
“Balloon Challenge Failed!”
This video’s comments had already exceeded ten thousand, with netizens lining up to leave messages:
“Streamer, you’re weak.”
“Another weak one, confirmed.”
So someone who didn’t understand asked, “Why say the streamer is weak?”
The answer below was serious: “Don’t you know? Experts have found that those who can’t sing the first verse of ‘Balloon’ completely are considered weak/dog.”
“What nonsense?”
Jiang Kui laughed until she was in tears.
Linking lung capacity to weakness, the silly netizens on the platform were indeed a source of joy.
After laughing, Jiang Kui suddenly felt a sense of admiration.
Once again, she witnessed the prowess of Teacher Xian Yu, not expecting that “Balloon” could thrive even in the death group.
…
The February new song chart tugged at the nerves of countless people.
Some online media in Qinzhou naturally wouldn’t miss the topic of the Balloon Challenge on the platform, such as “Entertainment Citizen.”
This is an entertainment program.
The host is a bald man who is very popular with the audience: “When I woke up this morning, I saw a very popular Balloon Challenge on the platform, and I was stunned. I thought it was about jumping off a hot air balloon, but when I clicked in, I found out it was a song. The first line of the lyrics is red, blue, green, black… My goodness, I can’t remember the words, but I specifically counted, and the first line of this song has fifty-six words!”
At this point.
The program played Jiang Kui’s original first verse.
After playing it, the bald man laughed and said, “I have a friend who is a music streamer and sings very well. He told me that during today’s live broadcast, all the comments were asking him to sing this ‘Balloon,’ but he couldn’t finish the first line no matter what. He struggled for half an hour, thinking he would lose followers, but instead, he gained ten thousand followers. It’s really like this song, with a hint of weirdness.”
The bald man was witty and humorous.
Soon, he talked about the entire February chart: “We all know that every February and December are death groups because these two seasons have many first-tier singers releasing songs. This year is no exception, with twelve first-tier singers competing, making the competition very fierce. Let me show you the chart…”
After the bald man finished speaking, the program displayed a special “chart.”
It was a comic-style wolf pack.
Each wolf had the corresponding song name written on its body, from left to right, representing their respective rankings in February.
But the sixth in the wolf pack.
Was surprisingly a husky mixed in with the wolves.
The husky had two words written on its forehead, “Balloon”!
At this moment, countless people watching the program burst into laughter.
This picture vividly and vividly displayed the February rankings.
Because besides Jiang Kui, the top ten on the February chart were all very powerful first-tier singers!
Being on the same chart as this group of first-tier singers, and in a relatively high position, Jiang Kui, as a newcomer in the industry, was just like the husky mixed into the wolf pack in the comic, wasn’t she?
At the end of the program.
The bald man said deeply: “‘Balloon’ brought joy to everyone, but when singing this song, I found that the oxygen in my lungs would gradually decrease until there was no air left, just like a balloon, from inflated to deflated. I think this might be the meaning Xian Yu wanted to express with this song.”
…
Qinzhou, Yuncheng.
Lin Yao was also watching “Entertainment Citizen.”
As Lin Yuan’s younger sister, she already knew that her brother was Xian Yu, so she naturally paid more attention to related news.
For example, she was very curious about the bald man’s conclusion: “Brother, is that really what you meant?”
Lin Yuan said, “That depends on whether this song becomes a test question.”