Gamer Superstar - Chapter 162

Chapter 162: 162 – Up Down
“To fit the guitar into the story, I had to change the script a little bit. Jack came by car and had left the guitar in the car, so after we start recording again, Jack will say he’s going to get the guitar from the car and we’ll cut to the scene of Jack singing the song to Steve. Angelina began to explain. “Since Noah is a singer who came as a guest artist, putting a scene of him singing in the episode could be good for keeping his audience for the show, as well as adding to Jack’s character in the show.”

With that explanation from Angelina, most people accepted it.

Singers’ audiences were much more fanatical about seeing new and different work than actors’ audiences, because actors’ audiences were used to seeing them perform all the time, so many didn’t bother to see everything that artist did.

But for me as a singer, my audience would be excited to see me on a different platform, so maybe tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of new people would be introduced to the show because of me, which was a great way to promote a new show that didn’t have a huge audience.

Of course, if I’d been a B-rank singer, the effects would have been many times more monstrous, but they were still taking advantage of my D-rank popularity.

So we did as Angelina suggested and made up an excuse that Jack had gone to get the guitar from the car and returned with it, under the curious and expectant eyes of the other characters.

Steve was excitedly waiting for me to play the song he had inspired.

Martha looked at me with curiosity and fear.

Ariel looked at me with suspicion and interest.

Harley came up to me and looked at me with stars in her eyes, excited to see what the song I was going to play would be like.

Eric looked at me with even more trepidation since I was dating his granddaughter.

When I finally sat down in the middle of the yard, in full view of everyone.

I started strumming a tune that was a mixture of rock and country and began to sing.

[You can search for “Morgan Wallen – Up Down” on Youtube, or go to Discord.gg/NunuXD and you’ll get the link to the song I used as inspiration for this scene!]

🎼🎶🎤

It was Friday after five, I got here just in time

Went ahead and wet a line ‘fore I went and lost my mind

And I ain’t been here long, but the bobbers in the pond

Going up and down, up and down, up and down

🎼🎶🎤

When Phil heard me sing the phrase he had improvised on the spot for a song that was really taking shape, he was really shocked, so much so that even Steve’s mouth dropped open, but he quickly thought of something and said something that suited Steve. “This is the part I inspired him with!”

The other characters were also shocked as they looked at Steve and me.

“And today is Friday…” Edward also thought of something quickly and got Eric to say something to add to the scene.

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Tonight we’re going to raise a lot more than cane

♪ ‘Cause there’s money in the bank and tomorrow’s Saturday ♪

♪ So if you pass that fifth of Jack this way ♪

I turn it up, down, up, down, up, down

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When she heard me say that I was going to take more than canes tonight, Martha frowned as she crossed her arms over her chest and looked at me even more suspiciously.

Surprisingly, she even came closer and looked at what was in my glass.

All of this was being recorded by the film crew while Agenlina’s eyes glazed over at how quickly the actors improvised a reaction based on what Jack was singing in the song.

Once this was done and the episode was edited, this scene could be made even more interesting for the audience, as it wouldn’t just be a music scene, but a scene of the various characters, showing their personality traits as they each reacted in their own way to the song Jack was singing.

This was a great way to deepen the characters and make them all come alive!

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We got what we got, we don’t need the rest

Can turn this parking lot into a party

With an ice chest, dancing, cold beer

Man, we live it up, down, up, down

We live it up down…

🎼🎶🎤

Instead of just singing the chorus, I preferred to sing the whole song, leaving it up to the program editors to decide what part to include.

When I finally finished singing it, the other characters started clapping for me, and Harley ran up to me and gave me a big hug with a twinkle in her eye, which made Martha and Eric even more uncomfortable, but neither of them said anything.

Steve seemed to have to hold himself back from running up and hugging me like Harley had done, but you could see how happy he was with the song by the way he looked at me.

“It was awesome!” He said excitedly. “We’ll definitely go fishing together!”

“And… cut!” Angelina shouted, bringing the scene to a halt.

But even though the cameras had stopped, everyone still had surprise and shock on their faces that I had actually made up a song using the line that Phil had improvised on the spot!

It was completely different from the character “inventing” a song on the spot when everyone already knew the song existed in the script, to me as an artist inventing the song from an improvisation Phil had in the moment.

After that, the recording went much smoother, especially when I realized that everyone treated me with even more respect after seeing what I had done.

My only regret was that I hadn’t called Jason to record today, as the reaction of all these artists would make a great vlog.

I’ll have to ask Angelina if I can bring him tomorrow…’ I thought excitedly.