Superband (8th round)

There are 8 teams left in the Superband competition. Most of them have proven their worth, but there's still some who have scarped through due to blind votings from their fans. Talent isn't something that important anymore in this competition. From the looks of it, a good team will be eliminated in place of the lousy ones. Lucify, the most controversial team to be revived imo, is struggling badly as their lead singer is really of poor quality. Nevertheless, their fans will be voting more vigorously than any others to ensure that they will be performing in the following week. 馒头 has shown everyone, despite having a low score from the judges, their 'fans' managed to save them for several elimination situations. According to some sources, it was Kelly's fans who were voting for them. Yup, the one from the Superstar. One of the member in 馒头 is supposedly Kelly's friend. Oh well. Then there was the 使诺鼻. Sure-enough, they got high scores from the judges almost every week, but do they really have the talents? To me, they are just playing the same o' piece of music again and again every week and because it's noisy, not many could detect it. It doesn't take much skill for a young lad to rap. Instead, rapping requires only practice, practice and more practice. Rapping involves only fast chanting of words in a loud and clear manner. If you have never tried it before, most probably you will stammer very badly like a forgetful old man. Try it a couple more times and you will start to get the hang of it. Despite these teams being the weakest of all the 8 teams now, they will survive. Why? Their incorrigible fans will be voting furiously for them and that's the reason why we are exposed to more and more lousy music. Its bona fide that everyone has different preference, thus the support for different bands. But, voting blindly is just simply wrong. Most of the time, they supported that particular team for only 1 or 2, overlooking any flaws they might have.

B1 馒头 (30.7)
我要你的爱
原唱者： 葛兰

Finally, they did well. I enjoyed the involvement of all the members in 馒头. I though the lead singer was a bit shaky at the start, but it turned out well beyond that. Still, i am not all that hyped up about his singing, just that his voice is one of the better ones among the solo singers left. Music was great, which is why i liked it overall.

8/10

B2 Juz-B (32.5)
夜来香
原唱者：邓丽君

LOL! absolutely marvellous! a very enetertaining performance by Juz-B. humour was simple yet catching. from the imitation of radio broadcast to the shocked expression when the lights are on them, everything was so enchanting that i was probably laughing my way till their performance ended. But still, singing is not to be neglected though. In this case, their pronounciation and pitching were quite horrible. Might very well be their worst attempt at Manderin of all time. There are pros and cons, but pros definitely outweigh the cons in this case. Creativity is within them. They got tons of it and i thought they could continue showing their imagination and of course, start bucking up on their Manderin too.

9/10

B3 迷路兵 (37)
甜蜜蜜
原唱者：邓丽君

To me, it was an OK performance compared to their previous ones. Still, it was one of the better ones of the night. They are so very talented and you just can't imagine what musical instruments will appear next in their future performances. Sam was very shy when singing the earlier part, which makes his singing so-so. His expressions indicated his lack of confidence. Nic was sick and no one could really put the blame on him for presenting an above-average singing. Still, despite being only up to par, its still one of the best singing in the competition tonight. Their effort in bringing us an entertaining yet non-distasteful performance is highly plaudible. Gotta love Nic for his sliding. lOl

9.2/10

B4 使诺鼻 (34.5)
等着你回来
原唱者：蔡琴

Is that song supposed to consist of only that few sentences? That aside, i thought they did badly. Music was noisy as usual and perhaps repetitive. Lau Tak Hwa did ok at 'singing', but there was absolutely no singing technique required for that particular line he sang. I don't really understand what the judges were talking about when they mentioned his singing was good. Rap was awful, its like a CD in an old CD player that is on the verge of death - it just kept repeating the distorted voice over and over again due to some technical problem. Thats what Lau Tak Hwa was going through. During his rap, every word of each sentence cannot be projected, timing and beat was ridiculously weird. Its either his fault for rapping so badly, or his fault for editting the song so badly. Anyway, the judges have been criticising other bands for having irrelevant outfits which were not fitted for their songs, but were 使诺鼻's relevant? The Maid was ok, the make up within was stupidly out of point and whats with the other's makeup?

5/10

B5 BRODS (34)
一样的月光
原唱者：苏芮

They did great! Great confidence, great coordination. Their moves were similar and very neat. Some of their moves were very catching, like the grasping of microphone stand, tilting it while singing, alot of their moves were made in an old-fashioned way, a retro style. Too bad the judges did not notice it, or just simply did not bother to comment on it. I thought the attempt was great. Especially at the end of the performance, they had some great poses.

8.9/10

B6 Lucify (29.5)
我只在乎你
原唱者： 邓丽君

Like i have said, dump the lead singer and everything will turn out fine. I enjoyed their talents with their individual musical instruments, but was at the same time greatly disgusted with the lead singer. Watching him made me miss Sylvester Sim. Fyi, i thought Sylvester Sim sang bad enough.

7/10

B7 SOUL (37)
大眼睛
原唱者： 庾澄庆

hahaha! We finally got the chance to see the humour coming from Soul! a well-rehearsed dance with teasing humour will light up anyone's day any time. Though their singings weren't ideal, their funny yet professional dance has completely overshadowed any flaw they might have. Great effort nonetheless and i bet everyone will be looking forward to their next performance after this!

9/10

B8 J3 (34.5)
热情的沙漠
原唱者： 欧阳菲菲

HOLY! Has to be the best performance of the night! Great set-up, great singings, great dance and great coordination! All time greatest if you ask me. Their singings were the best today (not surprising), set-up is only 2nd to Juz-B (迷路兵 was 3rd imo), solo dance was wonderful, coordination was FLAWLESS!!! You could see everyone in J3 moving to the beat, enjoying each and every part of the performance as much as we do! Keep up the good work!

10/10

As usual, some of my scores were quite different from the judges. 使诺鼻 did not deserved to score so high while J3 was highly underrated. Other than that, most were quite close. Other than the 3 teams i mentioned earlier, the other 5 teams have great talents and it would be a shame to see them not in top 6. Competition is cruel, one of them will disappear from the stage tonight. 馒头 and Lucify will definitely not be out despite being the weaker contestants in the competition now. They got a solid voting base which will see them further into the competition, which also means they are the present '夏日风'. I was hoping for 使诺鼻 to be eliminated this week, but i don't think they have a small fan base either. Judging from this, Juz-B got the lowest score tonight. Since there is no way of judging from the fan base anymore, i will be choosing the one with the lowest score tonight as my alternate choice. The Malays will be fighting it out tonight. I have a hunch 使诺鼻 will survive... because Juz-B got a underrated score despite giving one of the best performance tonight... Another conspiracy? I hope not.

Final prediction : 使诺鼻