Chapter 123: Second Performance Evaluation (4)
As Jamie’s team stepped up to perform, Ari’s eyes followed the blonde boy as he stood front and center with the rest of his team behind him.
Apart from Jamie and Vishal, there was nobody on the team that he was particularly close to, and there was clearly some tension within the group, so he just paid enough attention to verify that things were going in the right direction and that he didn’t need to pour ice down Jamie’s shirt so he could be strict with his team.
Thankfully, it seemed that things were mainly (?) on track.
Although they got some criticism and feedback, it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
After Jamie’s performance, Ari more or less tuned out for the rest of the performances.
His mind kept turning over the judge’s feedback as he tried to think of a way out of doing a bubblegum pink ballerina concept so that his team wouldn’t spend their remaining time arguing once again or come up with a rubbish idea like making it manly.
Even as they wrapped up filming and he limped into his seat on the bus, Ari’s eyes absentmindedly stared out the window as he continued thinking.
Initially, he had the idea of somehow faithfully replicating the performance done by the original group, but hearing the feedback that Bing Yongsun had given Benjamin’s team about being directly compared to the original artist made him hesitate.
He had no faith that they would be able to do as well as the original performers, especially since it was boys covering a girl song, so they clearly had to change tactics.
What could they do?
The main ideas of the song were swans, ballerinas, an ungodly amount of pink, and rising and transforming into a beautiful swan after being dragged down by a bunch of problems.