Gamer Superstar

Chapter 103 [Bonus ] 103 - Planning

"So, do you have any plans?" Selena asked me curiously.

"Planned? Nothing, but I think I can think of something... the first priority is to make sure that as many people as possible like my music. Do you know anything about the normal audience in this bar and what kind of audience is here today?" I asked.

To win over the audience, I had to get to know the audience.

If it wasn't for this musical battle, I would probably just sing my normal songs and not worry so much, because if I had to make a customized repertoire for every bar I went to in the evening, I would be screwed.

But since there was the musical battle tonight, I could put a little more effort into it and secure Lila's $4,000.

After thinking for a moment, Selena asked me to wait while she got up and left the room, leaving me to think while Jason took the opportunity to film everything as best he could.

My mind was racing with different things I could sing.

Among my songs, Boyfriend was a must, but I had to leave it until the end, as it was better to win over the male audience first than the female.

The Lazy Song was also a good move to use in the battle because it was a song that almost everyone liked and it was my most famous song so far, which would possibly earn me some points if people recognized me as the singer of The Lazy Song and stopped being just a random singer.

I think The Lazy Song might even be the first song I sing that night.

All Of Me was definitely a song I didn't want to sing, even if I could get points for singing a beautiful song, I couldn't get many points for completely ruining the mood of the night with lyrics like that?

The ideal was to focus on upbeat, exciting songs that would get the audience as excited as possible.

Not to mention that I still had to think about Lila, who was going to sing last. If I gave her a sad and emotional audience instead of excited and hyped people, she'd hate me.

So All Of Me was out of the question for this evening.

A few minutes later Selena returned.

"So, from what I've seen, the audience is pretty split. Half the people are wearing their regular bar clothes and are rock fans who must be the regulars of the bar, while the other half are wearing country clothes and may have come to see Lila Brooks. Selena explained.

I nodded my head and started to plan a little more.

"I guess I can sing my rock songs to the normal audience and sing country songs to Lila's audience, right?" I asked her.

Surprised, Selena raised an eyebrow as she stared at me. "Since when can you sing country?"

"Have you ever asked me if I could sing country before?" I asked, smiling.

"No..." She snorted.

I just smiled back at her without saying anything else.

"If you sing country songs, you'll probably score points with the crowd that came to see Lila... but if the quality isn't very good, the regular bar crowd won't like it as much and you might lose points with them..." She explained, making me even more thoughtful.

"Right... I don't know that many country songs, so I can focus more on my rock repertoire, sing Boyfriend as my penultimate song and finish with a country song as a surprise, how about that?" I asked.

"That's a good idea... I'm not even going to ask you where you got the lyrics for an original country song, because I've given up trying to understand how you come up with so many new songs so fast..." Selena sighed and shook her head.

"Frenk... Frederick... Fedrick! Fedrick, my rival, do you know anything about him?" I asked curiously.

Selena picked up her cell phone and began to tell me what she already knew.

"Fedrick Davis, D Rank Artist, active for 5 years, 43,000 subscribers on Metube and 3.5k followers on Instabram. His focus is on romantic rock songs. He had a very promising start to his career, but got into a lot of fights in LA bars and was banned from almost all of them. In the end he had to move here to San Francisco where he is trying to get his career back on track, but because of his bad reputation in LA, both the public and the bar owners in San Francisco don't accept him very well. He's probably going to do his best in this fight to make sure that he gets to be the opening act for Lila Brooks, because that might open a lot of doors for him. Selena answered with a ton of important information that I was shocked to realize as I looked at her.

"How do you know so much about him?" I asked in surprise.

"I'm his agent, it's my job to know about the possible artists you're going to meet that night. I found the most specific details on the Internet." She answered seriously, as if she doubted that I would continue to question how professional she was.

I raised my hands in surrender and laughed as I accepted.

Then I'll have to make a lot of effort, too... I thought as I looked in Fedrick's direction and wondered what he was planning.

Since this would be my first musical battle, I have to admit that I was a little nervous, but when I thought about how good my songs were and how far I'd come, the nervousness faded.

After all, as long as I played as well as I usually did, wouldn't that be enough?

At this point, what would be most tested would be my stage presence, which might not be as good as his, so it would be a good time for me to learn as much as I could from him and use that as a catalyst to improve my skills even more.

After all, even if I lost, it's not like I'd lose anything, right? I'd still get paid for the night as usual, I'd gain a lot of experience in my first musical battle, and if all went well, I'd even get the music video for a new original country song that I'd be singing.

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