Poverty alleviation variety show goes to the countryside, my talent can no longer be hidden

Chapter 18 Sister, something is wrong with you!

At dawn, the sporadic barking of dogs broke the tranquility of Siyuan Village.

Lin Xina came out of the tent, rubbing her messy hair, her pretty face full of lazy sleepiness that had not yet dissipated.

It was a rare opportunity without the camera pointing at her, so she could finally relax a little.

Seeing her roommate Xu Lingyue sitting by the window and browsing her phone, she stretched and yawned, "Sister, so early?"

Xu Lingyue turned her head and glanced at her, "Good morning."

"Hey, sister, why do you have dark circles under your eyes?" Lin Xina woke up halfway from her sleepiness. "You didn't sleep all night, did you?"

Xu Lingyue nodded, "About the same."

Lin Xina secretly glanced at the content on the phone screen and asked in surprise: "You have been reading these fragments all night?"

"And those songs." Xu Lingyue also stood up and stretched. Her sportswear was immediately stretched out into the enchanting curves of the undulating mountains.

Lin Xina subconsciously looked down at her little hill... and felt angry.

"Why do you think he hasn't shown up?" Xu Lingyue frowned, her beautiful peach blossom eyes full of confusion, "So many people are looking for him, but he seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth."

"I can't figure it out either. What a great opportunity to become famous." Lin Xina poured a small cup of mouthwash into her mouth, "Gululu... Bah, if it were someone else, they would probably wish they could stay on the hot search list right now."

"Yeah, this guy is really weird." Xu Lingyue said with a dazed look in her eyes, "With his talent, he could have made better choices, but he chose to come here to teach."

"It's fine to be a volunteer teacher, but now he is not moved at all by the fame and fortune that are within his reach. I have never seen such a person..."

Halfway through his words, he suddenly realized that Lin Xina's little face was right in front of him.

"What are you doing?" Xu Lingyue was startled.

"Sister, something's wrong with you." Lin Xina laughed and said, "When a person becomes curious about a member of the opposite sex, it's not long before they fall for him or her!"

"Stop reading those rubbish romance novels." Xu Lingyue covered Lin Xina's face with one hand and pushed it aside. "I'm just curious. Why don't you keep talking about him?"

"That's different." Lin Xina said as she prepared the bottles and jars for her early morning skin care products, "I admired an idol I had never met, but it's not necessarily the case for you, hehe."

"How can a teenager act like a gossipy old aunt?"

"It's no use being stubborn." Lin Xina said with a smile: "Otherwise, why would you try so hard to get your agent to find out his whereabouts?"

"I want him to help me write a song, is that not okay?"

"Ah?" Lin Xina's smile disappeared instantly. "Sister, are you serious? You don't want to be a character anymore?!"

Since her debut, Xu Lingyue has produced and sold all of her albums and songs herself. "Creative talent" has always been her main personal label, and it is also her biggest advantage compared to other singers of the same age.

Without this label, her competitiveness will plummet!
"For singers, the most important thing is to be able to sing good songs. Can a persona be used as a singing skill?"

Xu Lingyue sighed in frustration, "If you can't write songs, you have to accept your fate. Instead of trying to come up with a bunch of crap to disgust other people's ears, you might as well just sing songs written by others."

Lin Xina opened her mouth, but finally swallowed her words.

What she really wanted to say was: Sister, times have changed.

Today's singers no longer rely on their professional abilities, but on hype to gain exposure and traffic, which is the way of playing in the new era.

Look at those popular singers nowadays, which one of them doesn’t stay on the trending searches on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and appear on variety shows on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday?

Creative ability?

Just have a team to help you write songs, if that doesn’t work, just copy.

Just copy a little bit from here and a little bit from there and then stitch them together and that's it. No matter how bad it sounds, there will be fans who will buy it.

Singing skills? Business ability?
If everyone can sing so well, then wouldn’t the sound engineer be out of work?
If it weren’t for the rare label of “creative talent”, you would have been drowned by the tide of traffic long ago!
Turning her head and seeing Xu Lingyue wiping her face with wet wipes, Lin Xina couldn't hold it in any longer, "Sister, you are too... too casual, aren't you?"

"Just say you're lazy and that's it." Xu Lingyue said nonchalantly, "I'm a singer, not an actor, why should I bother with my face every day?"

Taking a look at Xu Lingyue's delicate facial features and smooth, fair skin, Lin Xina curled her lips in frustration.

People with extraordinary talents always speak with a firm voice. They are a perfect match for Mr. Zhou, who is "not good at writing poetry". They are equally irritating.

"Sister, do you think our show can help this village?"

"There will definitely be improvements in the short term. After all, there are so many companies riding on the popularity of the brand coming in to make some money." Xu Lingyue casually applied some sunscreen cream on her face. "But it's hard to say in the long term."

"If we can't create a stable income-generating channel for the village, then when this wave of enthusiasm passes, it will sooner or later return to its previous state."

Lin Xina nodded and took out a pack of snacks for meal replacements. "Sister, do you want to eat?"

"It's too rough and not tasty." Xu Lingyue shook her head. "You should also eat less of this kind of stuff. It's not good for your health."

"I don't like to eat either, but I have to manage my weight." Lin Xina tore open the energy bar and took a bite. "In fact, I think this village really has tourism potential."

"It's a pity, as you said, that we lack a unique business card, otherwise there will definitely be capital coming in to develop it."

Xu Lingyue was silent for a while. "I think the one who can really save this village is Mr. Zhou. His personal influence may be able to drive the first batch of tourism."

"After earning the first profit, we will improve the infrastructure as soon as possible, and then find ways to get support from relevant departments to establish a formal and complete tourism system. This way, a virtuous circle will soon be formed."

Lin Xina nodded, smiling: "Sister, you really can't stop talking about Teacher Zhou now?"

"roll."

…………

Penguin Video, an office in the Variety Department.

Jiang Yan, who had only slept for four hours, was holding a cup of black coffee to fight fatigue.

dong dong dong.

The assistant knocked on the door and came in. "Boss, the latest statistics."

"Pick out the main points and read them out."

"Okay." The assistant opened the report.

"As of 12 a.m., the fifth episode had a total of 713.6 million views in hours. Currently, the average number of views per episode has exceeded million, and the audience share has ranked among the top five variety shows in the same period."

"So far, all the data from the official Weibo account have broken the record of variety shows on the platform this year. The number of topics related to the show has reached nearly 3, and the real-time popularity of the super topic community has begun to approach the top three online variety shows."

"In addition, since the third episode, the show has attracted about 82 new members to the platform, and the fission coefficient of new members is much higher than the average level of online variety shows..."

After hearing this series of data, Jiang Yan felt that most of her fatigue had disappeared.

These days of hard work are worth it!
Ever since the online variety show craze began, all major streaming media platforms have almost rushed into the market, and Penguin, as one of the Big Three, is naturally not willing to lag behind.

However, due to the path dependence brought about by "corporate culture", in the past two years, it has almost been following the trend and imitating popular foreign variety shows, but it has never made any waves due to its inability to adapt to the local environment.

While other business segments of the platform are overcoming difficulties with their financial strength, the variety show segment has become a drag and is unsurprisingly at the bottom of the Big Three.

Only after much reflection did the company decide to reform and produce independent content. However, this unconventional poverty alleviation variety show was not well received within the company and was considered a "shot or miss" move.

If not for this, the program would not have only these four guests.

But now, this unpopular variety show has begun to gain momentum and may very well become a dark horse in this year's online variety show market!
And Jiang Yan knew very well who brought about this wave of popularity!

"Keep pushing the stream and maintain Mr. Zhou's exposure!"

"Also, let the official Weibo account quote more of Mr. Zhou's works, such as poems, fragments of sentences, songs, etc., and use them in rotation."

The assistant was stunned for a moment, "Boss, this will cause copyright disputes..."

Jiang Yan picked up the coffee cup and smiled slyly.

"Isn't that nice?"

(End of this chapter)