On the 19th, Su Yu and his entourage arrived in Marseille discreetly; the second French concert would be held in this city.
Thanks to Su Yu's continuous bombardment of the South Korea organizers, the French side's confidentiality work for Su Yu's itinerary was quite thorough.
Originally, they had no intention of gaining popularity and traffic by selling out Su Yu's information, so a slight increase in confidentiality was enough.
However, to avoid suspicion, the French organizers did not even attend the rehearsal of Su Yu's works, nor did they even ask if Su Yu would sing this performance himself or send a singer from his label.
Of course, the news of Su Yu's arrival in Marseille was still exposed a few hours later.
There was no way around it; unless Su Yu stayed in the hotel all the time, it would be impossible for him to avoid attention given his current immense popularity and fame.
Su Yu was not some unknown; even in Marseille, people could often be seen dancing to “Beat It” on the streets.
Coupled with the announcement of Su Yu's new album and world tour a few days ago, the entertainment departments of the other nine countries of the Blue Star Concert had already started promoting it.
Moreover, it was not just these nine countries; even surrounding countries actively launched promotions.
The purpose, naturally, was to hope that Su Yu could add more stops in Europe.
On the morning of the 20th, people from the cultural and tourism departments of countries like the Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, and Norway all came knocking; their purpose was very simple, which was to hope that Su Yu could treat everyone equally and also consider them.
The Western world also had them! Their countries also had a large number of Su Yu's fans and song names.
Su Yu also found this very troublesome; people came with sincerity and smiles to discuss, and the people who came were the top officials of the cultural and tourism or cultural departments, showing an extremely high level of importance.
However, what made Su Yu feel most helpless was that several mayoral assistants, secretaries, and representatives from France also secretly contacted him.
The purpose, naturally, was to offer benefits to make Su Yu directly choose their city, thereby bypassing the fierce competition among themselves.
Foreigners also cared about face and needed political achievements! Su Yu's world tour had excessive popularity and influence, so no one wanted to miss out!
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On the evening of the 20th, the 16th episode of the Blue Star Concert officially kicked off.
This episode saw another major reshuffle of lyricists and composers from various countries.
The United States, Germany, Italy, Britain, France, Russia, and Spain—all seven countries changed their participating lyricists and composers.
Once Su Yu took the stage on China's side, he was destined to go all the way to the end, and no one dared to take Su Yu's place.
Ida Shoichiro from Japan had been on a strong run in the past few episodes, and Japanese audiences were waiting for the “European Emperor” to continue gaining points and become second.
As for South Korea, there was even less to say; their reputation was completely ruined now, and any lyricist or composer with a bit of intelligence would not arrogantly come out to “take the blame” at this time.
Among the seven countries that changed personnel, all but the United States brought back their original starting lyricists and composers.
It was clear that after this period of rest, they could continue to fight.
Moreover, the organizers of these countries clearly intended to promote them heavily.
Chris, Su Yu's old acquaintance, was the one participating from the United States.
Su Yu did not know why they did not let Kailina continue to perform; were they afraid that their favored daughter would be crushed?
But no matter what, this Blue Star Concert really brought out many lyricists, composers, and singers.
Especially in the early stages when Su Yu did not participate.
Without the MC Band's lyricist and composer team, the overall atmosphere looked much more harmonious.
And after seeing Su Yu, Chris even took the initiative to give Su Yu a big hug to express his friendliness.
“Su, my hometown is Texas, and I really hope you can come to Houston for a tour,” Chris said quickly during the hug.
Good gracious, Chris, you, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, have also learned to pull strings?
However, Su Yu did not really care where he held the tour; since an acquaintance had spoken up, Su Yu would not refuse.
“I will have someone conduct an on-site inspection,” Su Yu said with a smile, nodding.
And for Chris, this answer was already enough.
At least Su Yu did not refuse him directly, did he?
After Chris hugged Su Yu, the other lyricists and composers also followed suit.
The truth was that when they were on stage, their opponents were either Lin Feng or Dong An.
This was their first time seeing Su Yu in the arena.
Originally, they were all arrogant; Lin Feng's various failures made them feel that Su Yu, who was highly praised in the previous season, should not be much stronger.
However, Kailina's high standard and Dong An's strong performance later directly made them lose their temper.
One of these two was Su Yu's defeated opponent, and the other was his subordinate, so what about Su Yu himself?
Indeed, when Su Yu staged what was called a king's return in episode 12, they understood.
So today, all the lyricists and composers had relaxed smiles on their faces, coming forward to shake hands or hug Su Yu.
Of course, close contact and kissing were out of the question.
Su Yu was worried that Han would not let him get into bed at night.
And the 16th episode of the Blue Star Concert looked incredibly harmonious.
Even the tension had dissipated a lot.
The live broadcast began, and ten people went up to draw the performance order.
Although everyone was a respectable person and had just “paid their respects.”
But no one really wanted to perform before or after Su Yu!
So, when Su Yu drew lots, a visible tension appeared on everyone's faces.
Number one!
When Su Yu revealed the number ball in his hand, many people breathed a sigh of relief.
Number one was good; this meant there was only one death slot left now.
Ida Shoichiro smiled and drew second; as a result, his luck seemed to have run out, as he drew number two!
At this moment, the Japanese audience and netizens felt as if their world had collapsed.
Although they had great confidence in Ida Shoichiro, behind Su Yu?
No matter how much confidence they had, they had none now.
Looking at the number two ball in his hand, Ida Shoichiro really wanted to shout loudly: “There's a conspiracy!”
But this was not South Korea, and Ida Shoichiro also knew how to adapt to the situation.
So, he did not dare to say anything.
However, Ida Shoichiro's tragedy brought smiles to the faces of the other lyricists and composers.
Chris was even screaming in his heart: “You old schemer, you're getting yours today!”
After the performance order was drawn, everyone left the stage.
But when everyone saw Su Yu standing alone on the stage, the live audience immediately erupted in thunderous applause and cheers!
Su Yu was going to perform this song himself?!
And the lyricists and composers felt even more fortunate; performing Su Yu's works was already extremely stressful, let alone Su Yu performing on stage himself?
This was simply a disaster-level event!
But now, this disaster belonged to Ida Shoichiro.