novelPairMe Chapter 1048: Final Battle Song
Chapter 1048: Final Battle Song
At eight o'clock in the evening, the girl group variety show "Competition 100" reached the final after three months of competition.
Before the contestants competed, the five mentors collaborated on a song "Don't Let Love Wither", which drew applause from the audience.
But what really caused a sensation was on the Internet, because the Xinan TV network platform is very good at making things happen, and it broadcast the content of several mentors' rehearsal yesterday. This show triggered heated discussions and comments from netizens. Everyone felt it was fresh and interesting, and "mentor cooperation" became a hot topic.
Although the students' limelight was stolen by their mentors on the Internet, their singing tonight was actually of very high standard, showing that they have the ability to debut as idol singers.
The nine members of Class E were the first to go on stage to perform. The song they sang was "Oh My God" by the original I-DLE group.
This is a work of great artistic ambition and cultural tension. Through the triple deconstruction of music, vision and concept, it completes a subversive narrative of the traditional aesthetics of K-pop.
The arrangement incorporates samples of medieval Gregorian chants (such as the female voice singing in the opening), which contrast with the industrial noise created by the synthesizer to create a confrontation between divinity and humanity. The electronic sound effects in the drop part are not simply EDM routines, but simulate the distortion effects of church organs, which implicitly matches the image of "angels falling" in the lyrics.
The vocals of several singers were also characterized: for example, Minnie's hazy breathy voice symbolizes the whisper of temptation, Zhao Meiyan's holy high note represents the call for redemption, and Song Yuqi's smoky texture interprets the struggle of sinking. The different timbres form a complete picture of dramatic split personality.
Zhang Yingru, a female singer under Xia Haoyang, was in Class E, but she didn't get a single solo lyric in the entire song. Apart from singing in the chorus, she was basically just a dancer.
The four students highlighted by Xia Haoyang in this song gave amazing performances and were ranked in the top four in the fan vote. In a sense, the audience's vision is indeed sharp.
Class E competed against Class D. The song sung by the nine members of Class D was "Kitsch" by IVE group.
This song reconstructs the cultural expression paradigm of idol music in a pioneering manner, and deeply reflects the youth culture of Generation Z by deconstructing the concept of "kitsch".
The musical form of this song emphasizes binary fission, using the contrast of sweet and cool to increase auditory tension.
The verse is laid out with a light melody like an American youth film (electronic pop base with cuckoo sound effects), but the chorus suddenly changes into a cyberpunk declaration through dense rhythm and evil timbre, forming a dramatic hedge between innocence and rebellion. This split arrangement aptly interprets the contradiction of "Kitsch" itself - both cheap kitsch and sincere narcissism.
A mirror metaphor was used in the vocal processing: the alternation of Zhang Yuanying's signature bubbling sound and Liz's cold voice constructed a double sound field of a girl staring at herself in the mirror. When all members sang "You're so weird, Don't change", the rough edges deliberately retained in the harmony layer implied resistance to the industrialized idol voice.
For the audience at the scene and in front of the TV, their understanding of music may not be so professional, but the melody of this song is simple and catchy, and the repetitive and brainwashing melody is more likely to attract everyone.
Therefore, in the PK between Class E and Class D, the song "Kitsch" won with a large advantage and will continue to compete with Class C.
The song sung by Class C was "11:11" by Kim Taeyeon.
Kim Taeyeon's "11:11" uses minimalist musical language and poetic imagery to show the possibility of an idol singer transforming into an artist.
This song uses acoustic guitar as the main sound to build an auditory space, and the blank space embellished by the piano forms a geometric rhythm similar to the soundtrack of Wes Anderson's movies. The arrangement deliberately avoids the accumulation of electronic sound effects, and simulates the molecular vibration of a late autumn night through the breathing of wooden instruments.
In vocal processing, Taeyeon gave up her signature penetrating high notes and adopted the alternation of breathy voice and weak mixed voice, forming a dynamic balance between "narrative whisper" and "lyrical singing". The restrained use of nasal resonance made the timbre appear to be in a critical state between a young girl and a mature woman.
In simple terms: this song is a ballad.
If we are discussing the artistic elements of the song, or if you are a professional studying music, after listening to it several times, you will be able to feel the sophistication of the song. This is the aesthetic therapy of cultural resonance, and then you will fall in love with the song.
But if it is on a competitive stage where fans vote, the quiet atmosphere of a lyrical song will definitely not be able to compare with the fast-paced dance music that shows the performer's confidence and self-reliance.
So in the end, in the audience voting competition between Class D and Class C, "Kitsch" won again and won two games in a row.
This was also what Xia Haoyang intended to do, because Jin Na and Ji Hyo, who are under his company, as well as other trainees such as Park Si Eun who will definitely not be able to debut with the program team, are all in Class C.
Seeing Class C being defeated by Class D, the five instructors on the field looked at each other at the same time.
According to the schedule, Class B will be the next to perform. After they finish singing, the audience and mentors will vote for who between them and Class D will participate in the final championship battle.
The song sung by Class B was "ANTIFRAGILE" by the girl group LE SSERAFIM. This is also a song that reconstructs the anti-pressure aesthetics of K-pop with avant-garde music language, and shows the cultural ambitions of the new generation of girl groups through the balance between artistic expression and commercial ambitions.
The melody combines Spanish guitar, reggae rhythm and K-pop electronic base, achieving auditory unfamiliarity through the deconstruction of African-Latin music. The whistle sound of the drop section and the orchestra hit sound effect form a sense of tearing the sound field, which implicitly fits the core concept of "the more broken, the stronger".
The arrangement abandons the traditional EDM arrangement, with a single bass line leading the rhythm, and only retains the vocals and applause samples in the chorus, creating a rebellious texture similar to MIA. The European and American accent of member Jin Caiyuan and the flamenco breathy voice of Miyawaki Sakura form a collision of Eastern and Western voices.
In the eyes of the audience at the scene and in front of the TV, what is even more attractive about this song is the dance choreography.
Under the camera movement of the program team, this high-intensity dance is pleasing to the eye, and the performers' movements are surprisingly consistent, making the overall effect beautiful.
Therefore, in the end, "Kitsch" from Class D lost to "ANTIFRAGILE" from Class B by a small margin and ranked third.
The last group to perform was the nine-member group from Class A, and the song they performed was miss A's "HUSH".