7 - Sheep And Cat

[People liked doing what they expected to succeed in]

Su An and Han Jiabi, who officially became Mars’ entertainment trainees, saw that their common agent was Bjork, the deputy director of the artist management department, but they didn’t even see Bjork for more than a month.

But after entering the training courses, they had no strength to try to find the mysterious agent.

Singing, dancing, performing, fitness, etiquette … There were even compulsory viewings of fashion catwalk videos and fashion analysis, more than one hundred principles and precautions for dealing with reporters and answering questions, and response manuals for communicating with fans, they even had to learn how to make up quickly in two minutes.

With more than 10 hours of the daily course arrangement, their bodies that had done push ups and splits could only get 6 or 7 hours of sleep. Su An and Han Jiabi were embarrassed to go out and say that these were the darkest days in their lives.

However, Su An, who had entered Mars for the last time, actually knew very well that when he entered Mars in his previous life, there was absolutely no training of this intensity. After communicating with trainees who had trained in some courses with him, they found that they only had three or four training courses per day, which was not as comprehensive and professional as he and Han Jiabi.

That only proved that the company, or Bjork, had high expectations for them, otherwise it would not allocate so much learning resources to them.

After telling this idea to an uneasy Han Jiabi, the two began to ache and happily promoted their professional quality as an artist.

He had debuted in his previous life, but in this training period, because he wanted to debut, he didn’t have much time to study in the beginning. Su An, who was reborn, didn’t let go of the chance to learn. Even after his performance, he would listen to the lessons conscientiously and lay a solid foundation. He started learning to sing from scratch. He often asked Han Jiabi for advice in his apartment and practiced repeatedly on the balcony.

Su An, who had studied the curriculum arrangement, found that the time allocated to them for singing was the longest, and each week the company’s most senior music teacher answered their questions individually.

Su An had a premonition that his debut with Han Jiabi should start from singing.

Although he certainly didn’t like this arrangement, but now he didn’t have the qualification to choose at all, Su An could only devote most of his energy to learning how to sing.

Perhaps the interest was really cultivated. Under the influence of Han Jiabi, Su An really liked to sing, at least his unique voice gave him the capital to succeed.

People liked to do what they expected to succeed in.

And with Han Jiabi, eating and living together for more than a month, plus they were debuting as a team, two young people… Well, the two young people tried to get to know each other.

In Su An’s eyes, Han Jiabi was a stupid and cute sheep. He didn’t know what to say. He still knew some things. At least he knew that the entertainment industry was filled with unspoken rules. ——

Su An: “What are the hidden rules of the entertainment industry?”

Han Jiabi replied, ” unspoken rules refers to a rule that is invisible, unspecified in the plain text, agreed upon, but widely recognized and practical, and people must ‘follow’.”

Su An: “Don’t give me the Baidu Encyclopedia meaning, thank you, you will specifically talk about any rules that are not clearly stipulated.”

Han Jiabi pointed to his finger: “For example, good songs can only be sung by well-known singers, and good movies are all protagonists …”

Su An “…”

Han Jiabi foolishly stared at him”…”

Su An: “Are you … Serious?”

“…”

Su An: … Forget it, I’m joking, I’ll recommend a website for you, and you’ll understand “.

Han Jiabi rejoiced: “Good, good!”

Su An looked at him with pity: “There is a website called Tianya, and Tianya has a section called Entertainment Gossip, you go there for two hours.”

After two hours.

The sheep looked shocked: “I don’t believe it, it’s all made up.”

The cat was expressionless: “Read for another two hours.”

Two hours later.

The sheep collapsed: “Can it be true?”

The cat turned over: “You go back for another two hours.”

After two hours.

The little sheep was in tears: “I don’t want to enter the entertainment circle, it’s terrible, it’s horrible”.

The feline calmly replied: “Really? Then you can pack up and you can go home tomorrow.”

The little sheep stepped forward: “Looking for friends, you don’t know anyone!”

…… ⊙a⊙！！！

When the cat’s body shook, it suddenly turned around and looked at the cute little sheep that was grabbing its coat corner, it naturally had the guilt of poisoning the flowers of the motherland. How could anyone let a good child go into the world casually!

This guilt directly turned the falsehood into reality and became the grunt in Su An’s stomach.

The feline bowed its head and scratched its stomach and whispered,” … I am hungry “.

The little sheep immediately lifted his hoof obediently and turned, “I’ll cut some fruit for you first, and then go to cook ~”

The feline nodded with satisfaction, his hair fluttered in the wind.

The above was the daily life of the cohabitation of the small sheep and cat.

It was already the end of June when Su An and Han Jiabi saw Bjork again.

Bjork sat on the sofa with his legs on the coffee table, squinting at the two teenagers.

It seemed that two months of rigorous training was really useful. Compared with the immaturity of their auditions two months ago, although their appearance remained unchanged, the calm temperament of the two had become more and more like an idol.

“Do you know” Voice of China “?” Bjork asked.

Was it …

Su An raised his head in amazement, facing Bjork’s gaze through all his thoughts.

Of course, he and Han Jiabi knew “Voice of China”. In fact, as long as Chinese people who could afford a TV at home, few of them did not know “Voice of China”.

The voice of China, originated from the Dutch program the “Voice of Holland”, it was a large-scale professional music reality show produced in China after Canxing production company under Star Media purchased the Chinese copyright from IPCN, a copyright agency registered in the UK, for three seasons.

Last summer, after the first season of “voice of China” was broadcast on CBS, the national average rating reached an amazing 4% and the average rating share reached 12%. These two figures seemed small, but under the huge population base of China , it was quite amazing. That was to say, with a population of 1.5 billion, even though there were only 1.2 billion TV viewers in China, at least 48 million people had seen the “Voice of China”. At the same time, as long as the TV was turned on, at least one in ten people were watching the voice of China. Plus the total click through rate of over 100 million on the online video website, the popularity of “Voice of China” could be seen.

China’s talent shows were endless, and “Voice of China” could reach this breathtaking height, which was also unique. The first was that the mentors invited by the program were big names, not the second-rate singers in other programs, but the big names in the music scene, which could attract most of the Chinese audience. There were also many highlights in the program itself and in the competition system. After the instructor turned to select the player, the player could in turn choose the instructor; after the competition of each instructor’s student group, there was also a competition among the instructor’s students. Finally, it was the protagonist of the draft program. Compared with other programs, Chinese and foreign appearances were more powerful. Every player of “Voice of China” had a singing ability that was unexpectedly excellent, and several winners in the first season were all new stars with great potential in the music scene.

Overall, the show was very successful, and the audience, contestants, producers, TV stations, and advertisers were all happy. And the second season of “Voice of China”, which was about to begin, was really anticipated.

It seemed that Bjork intended to let him and Han Jiabi participate in the second season of “Voice of China”?

The hint was too obvious, and even Han Jiabi, who was oblivious, guessed it. He asked with some surprise: “Are you going to let us participate in” Voice of China “?”

Bjork rolled his eyes: “ … otherwise? “

Su An accepted the words: “Mainly we are Mars’s contracted entertainers, and we’re going to debut on a talent show … I couldn’t respond for a while.”

Both the audience and the contestants defaulted to the selection of newcomers who had not been in the entertainment circle, especially after more or less seeing the company’s attention to him and Han Jiabi, so as to make their way from a low-end platform, Su An really couldn’t understand. What was more, this kind of talent show was just for the benefit of the audience. If one wanted to get to the top of “Voice of China”, they had to sign a contract with Fang Canxing, the producer. The hidden rules and human factors were inhuman.

Björk explained patiently, “This is also what came to my mind after the news of the preparation for the second season of “Voice of China” came out. It’s not because our record market in China is too immature. There are no systematic processes at all, and the platform for promotion and publicity is also a mess. Now the record market is not in the doldrums, and a lot of publicity costs have been smashed. You will not be able to sell too many records at that time, but it is not the same as participating in “Voice of China”. It was very successful in the first season, and there will be many viewers in the second season. You have the strength and qualities, and will become popular quickly. As long as I plan the follow-up route after the end of the program, I don’t know how popular you’ll be than the newcomers directly launched by other carefully packaged companies.”

When Han Jiabi suddenly realized that, he nodded suddenly, Bjork squinted at Su An. Because he did not explain why he decided to make him debut as a singer.

Although it had never been mentioned in front of Su An and Han Jiabi, they were the only two artists signed by Björk after resigning from being Zhang Liubai’s agent. He went to know the teacher who took the two-person class, and the talents and efforts of the two people were no problem. Su An even gave him a big surprise.This 19-year-old boy was rated by the company’s senior mentor, amazing performance strength and talent, his future was unlimited.

Even more valuable was that this young boy was quite calm, not arrogant and down-to-earth, just like this moment, even if he knew that the company intended to arrange his debut as a singer, this was not a fair arrangement for him, but he was still very calm.

Singers had a fast career and a short cycle. It could be seen if they have the strength to last. Compared with actors who had to invest months and more than a year, their performance price ratio was much higher. Although they didn’t make much money, they were able to accumulate a good popularity. Bjork thought Su An would easily figure this out.

And Han Jiabi’s focus was: “……… have strength and qualities? What are our qualities?”

Bjork rolled his eyes relentlessly: “You have two little white faces.”

“…”

It seems that the rare Deputy Director did not plan to stay longer with them, and after leaving a command, he left.

“For insurance, you’d better prepare 10 songs so as not to collide with others. Tomorrow, there will be a special teacher in charge of your singing training and adaptation. And I won’t help you out during the blind selection. If you’re rejected, you can get out of Mars directly. If you get to the point of choosing a tutor, choose Lu Yu. Then you should know the hidden rules of Canxing. Don’t expect to do anything. Just sing well and don’t do stupid things. I’ll do the marketing. Han Jiabi, if you have any uncertainty, ask Su An. If he can’t help, call me. “

In the end, he controlled himself and ignored two strong doubts about why Lu Yu would turn around for them. The deputy chief waved his sleeves and walked away.

After 5 minutes, the sheep teenager shook the cat teenager excitedly.

“Su An Su An, are we going to be on TV now? Are we? !!!”

The sheep teenager only got a ruthless eye roll—

“Yes, we are going to be on TV, but you don’t need to be so crazy. After all, we’re not going to whip a corpse.”

“You are so cruel, I’m frightened!”