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Chapter 106 Foreign Singer

Chapter 106: Chapter 106 Foreign Singer

The other guests thought Wu Mu was up to his usual antics again.

But doing voice-changing stunts had already been done twice, and doing it again would be tasteless.

This time, Wu Mu planned to perform in his natural voice.

During the backstage segment, he didn’t seek out the cameras specially, as everything that needed to be exposed had been pretty much revealed; he didn’t need to look for cameras, just perform normally, and the production team would definitely provide him with plenty of footage.

Moreover, any more gimmicks would come across as forcing it, and actually appear contrived.

Wu Mu seemed to revert to his initial singer-songwriter days, taking this purely as a vacation, very relaxed indeed.

In front of the stage, through the big screen showing the backstage scene, the guessing panelists were all abuzz with discussion.

"Is this Code 0 the Mechanical Warrior?"

"It seems so."

"Is he Wu Mu?"

"Ha-ha, who cares, let’s just add his name to the list later, let the audience vote. The last two times we didn’t add Wu Mu’s name, there were a lot of people online saying we were deliberately following a script!"

After some discussion, the panelists began to arrange the performance order.

Unlike last time when playing Werewolf, wanting to find the Mechanical Warrior early and placing him first, this time, since the identities were already somewhat apparent, everyone unanimously felt that the Mechanical Warrior should perform last to build up audience expectation.

Moreover, Mo Mo couldn’t face off against the Mechanical Warrior again, as it was certain that one of these two heavyweight guests would miss out on a round, and everyone was looking forward to them advancing to sing a second song.

The final performance order was set with Mo Mo going second and Wu Mu third.

Besides these two, there wasn’t a single familiar face this episode; all were new guests.

The first group to perform were a male singer dressed as an angel and another dressed as a camera.

Everyone didn’t have much expectation for this group, their thoughts were all on Mo Mo and Wu Mu who were to follow.

But who could have expected,

"In the dawn of a new hope."

"I found a reason to believe..."

The angel-costumed singer actually began with an English song.

English songs were nothing special, but the important thing was...

"Ethan Green!"

The audience murmured among themselves.

It was too obvious, the style was too distinctive; they didn’t even need the guessing panelists to perform, everyone could tell who it was at first glance.

He was a powerhouse singer from overseas.

While not exceptionally famous over there, and even less so in China, except among a specific group that particularly enjoyed English songs.

The reason people could immediately recognize him was purely because he participated in this year’s latest "I Am a Singer," which was just last month’s news and is still being aired.

Ethan Green, along with another foreign singer, had swept first and second place across three episodes, crushing domestic singers and leaving their faces in the dirt.

This incident had far more internet buzz than Wu Mu participating in the singer-songwriter and Star Agency events.

Almost everyone, even those who didn’t usually watch variety shows, were discussing it.

Weibo had even launched an event calling for domestic singers to challenge him, among whom Mo Mo was undoubtedly mentioned the most, while Wu Mu... well, no one mentioned him, as they felt his emotional singing style might not translate across different cultural contexts.

And in terms of pure skills alone, he was not considered better than other domestic singers, so it would be embarrassing to put him up there.

However, because Mo Mo was recording for the singer-songwriter at the time and had no availability, it didn’t lead to anything.

But unexpectedly, while Mo Mo hadn’t responded, this person had taken the initiative to appear on "Masked Singer."

This, this seemed to fulfill the desire back then for Mo Mo to come out and beat the foreign singer.

The audience’s desire for drama was suddenly pulled to new heights.

After Ethan Green had finished singing, the audience below, always eager for a good show, began to chant Mo Mo’s name.

Ethan Green was quite polite, holding the microphone and speaking.

The on-site translator conveyed, "I’ve heard the name of Mo Mo the singer quite early on, and I really like her song ’Sacrifice.’ I’ve always looked forward to competing with her on the same stage."

"Sacrifice" was one of Mo Mo’s signature songs, an English theme song for an Oscar-winning film, not widely popular in China, but it had helped her win several major international awards.

Wow, so you were really planning on a showdown, huh!

Though the audience was disappointed Mo Mo wasn’t grouped with the foreign singer to eliminate him directly, the idea of a remote crushing was also quite satisfying.

Everyone was looking forward to Mo Mo’s performance.

During the voting segment,

As expected, Ethan Green won by a large margin over the Camera male singer. Although everyone felt lukewarm toward him, it would have been quite unsporting to deliberately score him down, otherwise they would seem like poor losers.

When the identity was revealed after the guess and unmasking, it was indeed Ethan Green.

When it came to the second group, even before Mo Mo’s performance, another surprise awaited.

Performing in the same group as Mo Mo, a female singer dressed as a Gorgon with serpentine hair took the stage first, and she too sang an English song.

Unsurprisingly, everyone realized she was none other than Jina Petty, another foreign singer from the show.

This production team sure knew how to play.

Wu Mu, watching from backstage, muttered to himself.

It was clear these two were deliberately invited by the production team, aiming to piggyback off the heat from "I Am a Singer."

But this move was not so friendly toward the other singers of this episode.

If they did not stand out in their performances, even though "Masked Singer" wasn’t a competition-focused program, and despite the group separation, they might still face ridicule.

Among them, Teacher Mo Mo would face the greatest pressure; if her performance wasn’t significantly superior to these two, even as the legendary Heavenly Queen, she risked the backlash from the high expectations of the audience.

Mo Mo obviously knew this too.

Standing on the stage, she pondered for a moment and then addressed the foreign female singer, "Hello, may I change the song I’m going to sing?"

Changing the song on the spot was somewhat unfair, but the song Mo Mo originally intended to sing was too bland, not the kind that would showcase any outstanding talent; without a change, it definitely wouldn’t meet the audience’s expectations.

Jina Petty didn’t mind at all and graciously said, "Go ahead and change."

Mo Mo nodded, went down to discuss with the production team for a while, and then returned to the stage.

Switching songs on the fly meant the original backing track obviously couldn’t be used, but Mo Mo had a wide enough song repertoire that finding instrumental tracks wasn’t an issue.

Mo Mo took her position on stage once more, and the accompaniment started to play.

Someone immediately recognized the melody.

"It’s ’The Road Less Traveled’, the road less taken!"

Mo Mo had also switched to an English song, and it wasn’t the award-winning song, but another one slightly less well-known.

It was clear she was playing fair, implying a change of song was for a better face-off.

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