Chapter 111 - Getting Closer
Sky Forum isone of the largest BBS forums in China, with more than 1.5 billion registeredusers.
It is known asthe online home of Chinese people all over the world, opening up nine major sections,such as news and current events, people's livelihood, film and televisiongossip, gossip chat, literature reading, fas.h.i.+on hotspots, Emotional Home andso on, with up to 50+ sub-sections.
Among them,the international outlook, domestic vision, entertainment gossip, anecdotes andother sub-sections are extremely popular. Active users are often in thehundreds of thousands or even millions. The forum has been established for 20years, and a lot of network hot events and network celebrities have emerged.
Therefore,Sky Forum has also become one of the important battlefields for onlinepromoters.
The postthat w.a.n.g Jias.h.i.+ opened pointed out that "Super Singer" does not liveup to its name. It was posted in entertainment gossip section. The poster's ID iscalled Stray Cat. It has been a hot post with more than 1 million clicks.
The Stray CatID is very famous in the entertainment section of Sky Forum. Stray Cat'sident.i.ty is quite mysterious. No one knows what's his occupation is or if he isa man or a woman. His daily stories in the entertainment section explode allkinds of materials in the entertainment circle. (TN: For now, Stray cat is ahe, until his gender is known.)
For example,a certain star is cheating, a certain idol scolded fans, a certain big shot isgay…
Stray catposts have a common feature, that is, his words are meaningful, the materials areoften genuine and real, rarely make groundless accusations or fabricate facts. So,it is regarded as the guiding light of the entertainment section by the forumnetizens.
His postsare often followed very closely. Within just a few hours after posting, hispost has already reached the top of the list, with more than 10,000 comments.
On Mondaymorning, a 10,000+ responses were amazing.
In thispost, Stray Cat criticized the popular variety show "Super Singer" ofXiangnan Satellite TV, and the incident that caused the explosion was Lu Chen,who was eliminated in the audition! (TN: Explosion = buzz)
Lu Chen, male,22 years old, a Beijing drift singer, used to sing in a Houhai bar.
With justthese few pieces of information, only a few people will know who Lu Chen is.Within the population of more than 30 million in Beijing, at least 10 millionare Beijing drifters. Unknown singers are simply as many as the hairs on an ox.If each of them throws a brick at Houhai Sanlitun, they can turn it overseveral times.
But Stray Catalso pointed out Lu Chen's other ident.i.ty.
Lu Chen isthe songwriter of the three songs of the wandering band "In Spring","Reason To Be Strong" and "I Want to have a Home". He is atalented pop music songwriter!
What? Yousaid you haven't heard these three songs?
Then you'rereally Out. Check out the official website of the China Music Chart. "In Spring"firmly occupies the top position in the 3rd and 4th week of July! (TN: "Out"here was in the raw. Which mean "out of date".)
And "ReasonTo Be Strong" is currently ranked No. 7, and "I Want To Have aHome" is No. 12. The Wandering band's alb.u.m "In Spring" has climbedto No. 2 on the alb.u.m hit list last week.
As a smallalb.u.m with only five songs, having such a high ranking in the music chart isconsidered to be going against heaven's will. Because the Wandering band is anew group that just debuted.
But thosewho are not blind should know that their success is completely inseparable fromthe three songs written by Lu Chen!
And such anoutstanding songwriter was actually eliminated in "Super Singer"audition?
That'ssimply the biggest joke in the world!
Stray Catalso mentioned in the post that Lu Chen not only has outstanding creativetalent, but his playing and singing skills are so excellent that there is nopossibility of him failing the audition due to poor performance.
To prove hispoint, he attached two Yous.h.i.+ links. (TN: Think of it as YouTube links)
The firstlink is a clip of Lu Chen's singing in the "Singing China" qualifyinground, and the second is the live video of Lu Chen winning the first place inthe top 16 of 32.
