Chapter 121: Second Performance Evaluation (2)
"Thank you to the team, Leo. Judges, do you have any feedback for the boys?" MC Ryan stepped up after giving the panting boys a high five.
"So, I just have one question. Did any of you actually practice together? In the same room? Even once?" the cold question came from Selena, who was dressed in a black pant suit with gold rimmed glasses perched on her nose.
The dance trainers’ usually kind tone and expression were nowhere to be found as she looked at all of them in disappointment.
"I’m not your vocal trainers, so I won’t touch on that part of your performance, but everything from the dance, parts, timing, and concept is a mess. It’s clear that you all have never practiced this song as a group even once. If we were looking for solo artists, we wouldn’t be asking you to work together in a group, right? So why did you think this was okay?"
As the boys blankly stared at her, Selena continued speaking with her brows furrowed.
"I’m aware that this is a song from a girl group, and maybe you find the pink ballerina concept off-putting, but dancing half-heartedly, skipping moves you don’t want to perform, or dancing in a way that ruins the concept and feelings that the original singers wished to convey is completely unacceptable! Especially when you don’t even have a good replacement concept. I can tell you all haphazardly decided, ’let’s just dance in a manly, aggressive way that’s opposite of the pink girly concept, and avoid the moves we don’t like,’ and called it a day, right? You probably think that since you sang the words and rapped fine, it should be okay on stage, right?"
Not a single member of the team said anything because that was how the conversation went.
Selena glared once more, and seeing that almost everybody was avoiding her eyes with a hint of guilt, she got even angrier.
"Have you listened to the lyrics of the song you’re actually singing and dancing to? Have you thought about why the choreography is the way it is? What about rising up from the dirt and struggle to become a graceful, beautiful swan screams ’manly and aggressive’ huh? If you have no intentions of coming up with changes to the concept, then the least you can do is respect the original artist’s intention and do your best to replicate the original song without insult!"
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"Leader of the group, step forward," Selena said, staring at Leo with fire in her eyes.