The Next Season Two 2017

天籟之戰 II 2017

"The Next" (天籁之战) is a Chinese music variety show where contestants get to challenge judges who are famous musicians in a sing-off. The winner of the sing-off is determined by votes from the 400-member live audience. The challenged judge has to perform a song picked by the contestant and only has 24 hours to learn and rearrange the given song, while the contestant can sing a song of their own choice. Hua was a judge on the show and had a very high winning rate, to the point that in one episode, no contestant wanted to challenge Hua, fearing that they would certainly lose. During the show, contestants kept coming up with new strategies to beat Hua. For example, one contestant challenged him to sing a viral meme song “My Skateboard Shoes” which is regarded as a so-bad-it’s-good kind of song. The original song has no rhyme or rhythm and Hua was able to rewrite the entire song into something coherent in 24 hours. In a later episode, another contestant picked a piece of theme music with no lyrics for Hua, and Hua was able to write an entirely new song (The Monkey King 齐天大圣) using snippets from the original music in 24 hours.

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