Gamer Superstar - Chapter 62

[Bonus Chapter] 62 – This is going to be fun!
Noah was very smart about how he chose to interact with the audience.

First, he introduced himself as BlackVelvet to see if there was anyone in the audience who already knew him to show some credibility, but since there was no one, he decided to use a different approach.

He used the fallacy of authority, which basically consists of showing a case of his success, which was the song The Lazy Song, which had more than 1 million views on MeTube, something that only the most famous songs of C-list artists have, to show the audience that he had the talent and potential to surprise them, and then he started to play the song.

Since this song was upbeat and happy, it would be a great opening song for his show, which would make the audience more excited and enthusiastic to watch him.

The crowd liked rock, but not as much as in the Blackout Bar, which would have made them even more disinterested if Noah had started with Numb, a song with rather sad and melancholic lyrics.

But now that he’s started the show with The Lazy Song, he’s got the crowd in a good mood and after that he’s free to play Numb and In The End without any fear.

If I’m not mistaken, he’ll use Boyfriend as a joker, a song he can play at any time to get the crowd back in the mood and keep the show going.

It’s really hard to believe that he’s only a new artist doing his second show…

The show was only 50 minutes long, so including each song and the breaks he had to rest and interact with the audience, Noah had time to play 11 songs.

Of these 11 songs, 4 were his original songs and 7 were songs by other artists that we chose to cover.

Although the crowd’s expectations were higher at this bar than at the Blackcout Bar we went to yesterday, Noah managed to keep the crowd’s spirits up the whole time.

Surprisingly, In The End was the most popular song with the crowd.

Towards the middle of the show I felt he was getting more comfortable and his stage presence was even more evident.

It was impossible to tell that this was only his second show.

The level of naturalness with which he did it was very high, as if he was born for it!

As the show went on, it was as if he had become more comfortable jumping, dancing, singing, playing and joking with the audience.

His voice sounded better, the way he played the guitar sounded better, it was like watching a walking metamorphosis…

At the end of the show, Noah even received a few drinks as a gift from the fans, but he gave them to the waiters or left them for the next artist and left without drinking, afraid that there was something in the drink that might make him sick.

Not to mention that going to the next gig drunk was not something I would accept.

Maybe I could even let him have a drink or two to cheer up the fans, but compromising the quality of the next show was completely unacceptable.

It was disrespectful to me, to the promoter of the next show, and to the audience that would be paying to see him.

If it had been the last show of the night, I wouldn’t have minded letting him have a few drinks, as the fans usually get more excited about drinking when the artist is drinking, which is great for the promoter’s business, but only if it doesn’t get in the way of other work.

When the show was over, we still had an hour until the next show, so we decided to stay and watch a little of the next show and see how the Rank D artist would handle this crowd.

Looking around and seeing how excited people were, I was very pleased with what Noah had done, especially when I saw the bar manager’s big smile when she paid us the $360 for Noah’s show.

I think she was happy because she didn’t realize how popular Noah’s show was and how hard it would be for the next performer to keep up.

And just as I thought, he didn’t.

Gradually, people got tired and went back to the tables with their friends and moved away from the stage, leaving only a few people near the stage enjoying the show and the D-list artist a little desperate.

—- Noah’s POV —-

Seeing that long-awaited artist with the people walking away from the stage made me feel a little bad for him, it’s not like I wanted him to look bad, but I also didn’t want to have to put on a worse show than I could just to make him feel better.

If he couldn’t hold the audience, all he had to do was train.

Luckily, I had System to help me with that, so it was nothing to be proud of or feel superior about.

Am I training and dedicating almost 14 hours a day? Yes, it’s an effort that you can’t deny.

I doubt there’s another artist today who trains as much as I do, but that’s also because of the incentive I get from seeing my skills rise like in a game.

And those skills increased while I was doing the show!

[Guitar Lv 32 -> 33]

[Singing Lv 30 -> 31]

[Stage Presence Lv 1 -> 2].

Increasing Guitar and Sing by one level was the same as increasing my experience time by 3 months, while increasing Stage Presence by one level was the same as increasing my experience time by one month, but the difference in the ratio of the two made the difference seem bigger.

Since Singing and Guitar gave me 3 months of experience in skills I already had over 72 months of experience in, it was only an increase of less than 5% of the total, but Stage Presence gave me 1 month of experience in a skill I already had 1 month of experience in, which was a 100% increase in just one level!

I myself noticed that I was already more natural with the audience and they were more comfortable interacting with me on stage, but as I watched the D rank artist who came after me, I saw that my Stage Presence level was much lower than his.

Because he had years of experience, it was still a big difference for me, who had only been in the system for two months, but I was happy to see my progress.

He was very clever in how he handled the audience to try to keep as many people interested as possible, and I have to admit that most of the people who stayed were because his stage presence was better than mine and won them over, but the people he lost were because of the difference in the rest.

Both because of the difference between the quality of our original songs, our difference in appearance with charisma, and our singing and guitar levels, which were lower than mine.

After taking a few minutes to learn how he interacted with the audience with his stage presence, I felt like staying to watch the C-level artist who was performing today to see the difference between the two of us, but since we didn’t have time for that, I had to leave with Selena so we could go to the next bar.

After taking AJP’s 20% of the $360, I was left with $288, which was already a good increase, bringing the total amount of money I had at that moment to an incredible $388, which wasn’t that much, but considering that one of the debts my father had with one of my uncles was only $1,000, it brought me closer to paying it off than I thought I would be in just one day.

“This next bar we go to, am I going to be bartending for someone?” I asked curiously.

But Selena just shook her head in the negative. “No, the owner of the bar we’re going to now asked me what I thought of your level and which would be the best place for you, and I recommended one of the latter.”

She continued to explain as we got into the car. “Since this bar is smaller than the Viper Poison Bar, the artists who play there are mostly rank E, just like in the Blackout Bar, only the last two artists of the night are rank D, which is why the owner of the bar hired you to be the last rank E artist to play tonight.”

“That’s quite a responsibility…” I said laughing.

“Go on, show them that it would have been better to put you under the D ranks.” She said with a smile at the corner of her mouth, which she quickly hid.

But this time I’m sure I saw it!

She was laughing her ass off, she wants me to finish the D rank show…

This girl seems to be just a serious, straight girl, but apparently she wants to see chaos descend upon the world.

Hehe, that makes it all even funnier.