Chapter 40
Chinese Style or Korean Wave?

After all the songs were chosen, the trainees began their practice.

Every practice room was being used by two or more groups.

Only Cao Gong and his team were using a practice room alone.

Considering that they needed a quiet environment for creation, they were assigned a separate practice room.

“Come on, let's talk about your roles,” Cao Gong said.

“I'm doing rap,” Fan Cheng Cheng said immediately, declaring himself the RAP part.

“Really, you can’t live without rap, can you?” Cao Gong was truly baffled.

“Not really, the key is that our song is a new song,” Fan Cheng Cheng explained.

“What if we take on our strengths and mess up the stage?” Fan Cheng Cheng asked.

Cao Gong understood and said, “Okay, you do the rap, what about Huang Ming Hao?”

Huang Ming Hao was also someone who wasn’t good at singing, but could dance and loved rap.

Now, weren’t their roles overlapping?

“We have six people, Chen Li Nong and Bi Wen Jun both have good voices, and Bi Wen Jun is from a music academy.”

“So, it’s definitely okay for them to be the lead singers of the group.”

“Based on my observations, Lin Yan Jun’s voice is actually quite good, it’s very distinctive.”

“Although he doesn't have the singing skills and rich emotions like Yu Zhang Jing, his voice is distinctive. But Lin Yan Jun wanted to be the rap 担当 (rapper) at first.”

Cao Gong’s point made Lin Yan Jun fall silent.

This was the first time he had heard someone say his voice was good.

Compared to singing, he was more confident in his dancing, and then rap.

“Chen Li Nong has a special voice, it has a youthful feel, but it's not suitable for sad songs, it's more suitable for romantic and sweet songs; but it's easy to overdo it, the emotional expression ability is not enough, which may be related to his age and personality.” Cao Gong's analysis was carefully listened to by Chen Li Nong.

After talking about the others, Cao Gong said to Fan Cheng Cheng, “You're a magical being.”

“How do you say it? To put it nicely, you're a magical being, to put it rudely, you're just being作(difficult),浪 (playful), and贱 (cheap) .”

“You still have a good voice, it’s got that bubbly sound.”

“But the singing is a little hollow, yet it has an ethereal feel.”

“The thing is, you have such a good voice, but you stubbornly stick to rap, which doesn't suit you. Are you not作 (difficult),贱 (cheap)? ”

“Haha~” Fan Cheng Cheng was embarrassed by the teasing.

“Also, why can't you open your mouth when you sing? Did you eat 520?”

Fan Cheng Cheng lay on the floor, laughing awkwardly.

“You can’t open your mouth when you sing, you can't let your voice out, you’ll never be able to sing well.”

“You have a good voice but you don't develop it, so your singing is not clear.”

“You’re a typical case of someone with talent who doesn’t want to develop it, you have to go and mess around with things that don’t suit you.”

“Unlike you, Lin Yan Jun’s voice isn’t as good as yours, but his singing is clear.”

Thinking about this, Cao Gong felt a headache.

He felt like a king leading a group of bronze players, the key is that these bronze players are unaware.

“So, do you have any ideas for the song?” Lin Yan Jun asked.

“I do, I want to try a traditional Chinese style, what do you think?”

Cao Gong actually had ideas for this song, and he shared them.

“Traditional Chinese style is not good, right? We’re a boy group, we have to dance.” Fan Cheng Cheng was worried, but Bi Wen Jun disagreed, “It doesn't mean traditional Chinese style can’t be danced to.”

“Right, it doesn't mean that traditional Chinese songs can’t be rapped to.”

“Cao Zei’s song “Ben Cao Gang Mu” is in a traditional Chinese style, it can be danced and rapped.”

Huang Ming Hao’s reminder made Fan Cheng Cheng remember.

“Do you have any other ideas besides traditional Chinese style?” Bi Wen Jun asked.

“Traditional Chinese style is okay, K-pop is also possible.”

“But the problem is, you know what K-pop songs are like.”

“Most of them come from Yue Hua, and the dances for K-pop songs are very powerful.”

“Let's not talk about Nong Nong, apart from me and Lin Yan Jun, the other three of you from Yue Hua, are you confident that you can dance K-pop well?”

This question immediately stumped Fan Cheng Cheng, Huang Ming Hao, and Bi Wen Jun.

Yes, they were all from Yue Hua, of course they knew how difficult K-pop dances were.

“Right, traditional Chinese style can also have dancing, and it’s relatively easier.”

“This is more friendly to Nong Nong, who doesn’t know how to dance, so he won’t struggle so much learning, and he might be able to keep up with our rhythm.”

“Otherwise, if we go with K-pop, the three of you will be under pressure, let alone Nong Nong.”

Everyone nodded in agreement with Cao Gong's analysis and ideas.

“Alright, let’s go with Cao Zei’s idea, let's decide on the song first.”

“After deciding on the song, we need to choreograph it immediately.” Lin Yan Jun said quickly.

“Give me two days.” Cao Gong didn’t say much, he said, “In two days, I will have the song and the dance ready, and then we will start training.”

“But during these two days, all of you work together to teach Nong Nong some dance basics, don’t waste these two days.”

“I will give you the lyrics in the afternoon, so these two days, besides practicing dance basics with Nong Nong, you will also be memorizing the lyrics.” Cao Gong quickly made arrangements.

“Okay.” Bi Wen Jun thought this was fine, and agreed to do so.

In the practice room, Chen Li Nong didn’t dare to slack off, he learned dance with the help of his four teammates.

He would learn as much as he could, which was also a kind of progress for him.

Cao Zei, on the other hand, wrote the song himself.

He finished the lyrics quickly, then he discussed the lyrics allocation.

Since it was a group song, the lyrics needed to be allocated well.

If the lyrics were not well allocated, the performance would be much less effective.

After he gave them the lyrics, Cao Gong went to compose the music.

He already had ideas for the music, and quickly composed it.

The audience watching the show was attracted by Cao Gong’s serious composing.

Moreover, the audience was very excited, wondering what kind of song Cao Gong was writing, was it still in the traditional Chinese style?

This song was definitely worth looking forward to.