Superband (9th round)

Woot, finally a post after so many days. I did almost nothing last week and was very ashamed of myself too. Dang, just couldn't find anything to do and wasted a whole week doing nothing other than giving tuitions. At last, i got a reason to post in my blog, thats the Superband show. This week, its down to 7 bands and a further group will be eliminated tonight. The remaining teams are :

J3
使诺鼻
BRODS
馒头
SOUL
迷路兵
Lucify

Most of them are very talented and have a great chance of progressing with a good score, while some are mediorce, relying on their fans to create a miracle tonight. I shall not name them here tonight as it was made known in my past few threads. Anyway, lets get on to the show!

B1 J3 (34)
天天看到你
原唱者： 阿杜
作曲：许环良
作词：林秋离

A simple performance with mesmerizing vocals. Although there are some parts where their combined singing weren't ideal, overall, its still great. I love the way they sang this song by using different vocal ranges. One with high pitch, the other with low pitch while the lead singer is the moderator. Lead singer handled the song well, adding climax to the song which made it better. Would hope to hear them sing something explosive the next time round.

9.4/10

B2 使诺鼻 (28.5)
臭男人
原唱者：黄义达
作曲：黄义达
作曲：黄义达

Many of my friends should know that i am a big fan of some of the songs by 黄义达, which includes this song. Its a song featured in 恶魔在身边, a very funny yet touching taiwan drama. 使诺鼻 did... how do i put it? Horribly horrible? Terribly terrible? Or disastrous disaster? Music was horrible. Atmosphere was terrible. Singing was disastrous. Both the music and singings were constantly off-beat. I am very sure it isn't part of their intentions to make it that way, because it sounded awkward. Lau Tak Hwa, Lau Tak Hwa, Lau Tak Hwa. His singing was off-beat, off-tune and the forgetting of lyrics did not seem to help his cause. Luck wasn't with him this time as the atmosphere was embarrassing. I wondered how did some of their fans managed to scream like they did great. Thats what i call 'blind fans'. Fans that blindly follow their idols even to the point of committing a crime. Thankfully, no misdeed was executed. Not to forget the malay, he did as badly as Lau Tak Hwa. His pronounciation was pure ruination. This standard at this stage of competition?

3/10

B3 BRODS (34.5)
还没疯
原唱者：石康军
作曲：林毅心
作词：石康军

Powerful voices and total domination of stage can never go wrong at this stage of competition. I could not find any blemish in their singing and was deeply impressed by their movements on stage. They have abandoned their previous set of positioning and movements. In the past, they tend to split themselves to 2 sides, come back facing each other, beforing returning to the left and the right. This time, they did something different, and they definitely charmed everyone below the stage. Loud hailer was used and made the already wonderful performance larger than life. Who could have thought of that? Simply outstanding!

9.8/10

B4 馒头 (21)
我等到花儿也谢了
原唱者：张学友
作曲：李伟菘、陈少琪
作词：吴庆康

I did not have high hopes for them despite their rather good performance last week. Reasons were simple. From experience, good performances from them were always once in a blue moon and were always followed by an incredibly lousy one. They did not prove me wrong and it turned out as i expected. Lead singer chose to sing this song his own way by 'omitting' the last word of every verses ending with '候', singing to his own rhythem and inserting pauses. The attempt to sing 候 very softly was pure stupidity, rhythem was atrocious and the pauses were unnecessary. A calamitous editting imo.

5/10

B5 SOUL (30)
天天好心情
原唱者：梦飞船
作曲：林毅心
作词：Alan Poh

Dance was on par, singing was horrible. There wasn't a slight improvement in their singing. Instead, i sensed deprovement. They overdid their 'acting cute' instead of making the performance entertaining. It was as if a humour gone wrong, a joke turned cold.

6/10

B6 迷路兵 (32.5)
胆小鬼
原唱者： 梁咏琪
作曲：李偲菘
作词:郑淑妃

This week, there was a great lack of creativity in 迷路兵. Voices were still the better ones tonight. A plain and simple performance was still nice, but it was too plain to be considered a 迷路兵's performance. Great to hear Weiqi's voice though.

8/10

B7 Lucify (38)
爱情搏击
原唱者： 沈祥龙
作曲:沈祥龙、蔡征兴
作词：陈镇川

Greatest music of the night! Great coordination too. Lead singer, brimming with confidence, was on par and might very well be one of the better voice tonight. Undeniably the best performance in their genre tonight. Although i disliked Lucify for their poor singing, but tonight, i am totally impressed with them. Great work nonetheless.

9.8/10

Is the conspiracy emerging once again or is it just me? 馒头 was given the harsh treatment which was given to 夏日风 2 weeks ago. Both of them are similar in the way that their support from fans overrated them in terms of talents. I won't be surprised to see 馒头 be the last band on the stage, just like how they forced 夏日风 out of the competition. If there is a miracle, somewhere out there, 使诺鼻 is gonna be my backup choice. Its time to take out 2 teams no matter what before the revival round, i guess there is a very minimal chance for another talented team to join Juz-B.

Final Prediction : 馒头