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182  [Bonus Chapter] 182 - Too Sweet

One hour... it only took me one hour to convince the people in the back of the venue to pay attention to me.

Even though there were still a lot of people talking to each other during the show, they still paid attention to me during the conversation, which was a great sign.

During the last hour, I alternated my set list between my more rock-oriented songs, rock songs by other artists bigger than me that I knew the crowd would like, while also throwing in some of my less rock-oriented songs to show them what kind of artist I was.

Selena's advice to show people what kind of artist I was, even if they didn't like it, was very valuable.

The crowd wasn't as excited as it should have been when I was just singing rock songs, but I realized that even when I was singing non-rock songs, there were people who really enjoyed it, which was great.

That kind of audience was what I wanted to attract.

An audience that would not only like my songs in the style that I put on the Internet, but also an audience that would be willing to go to concerts and spend money on tickets.

Considering that this would be the next step and focus of my career, this kind of audience was the most valuable.

Having 200 people willing to pay $35 for a ticket is just as valuable in monetary terms as having 1,750,000 people listen to a song on Spokify or 8,200,000 people listen to a song on MeTube. In the end, these three groups would earn me $7,000 each.

When I thought about how many people would have to listen to a song on MeTube and Spokify for it to make as much as a group of 200 people paying for a ticket, I wondered how many people would have to listen to a song on MeTube for it to make as much as this concert of 3,000 people...

Considering that one thousand people on MeTube makes $0.85, it would take 282,000,000 views to make as much as those three thousand people at the concert!

I shook my head to ignore this daunting number that I was so far away from, and just went back to focusing on the audience and singing my song.

The time for my opening show was two hours, so after singing a few more songs as the show drew to a close, I sang Boyfriend first.

Which has become a classic for my shows, as it is the song that the women respond to the most and the one I enjoy singing the most.

The reaction of the audience today wasn't much different, with the women getting very excited and the men looking at me a little suspiciously, but still enjoying the song because it was good.

But the song I would sing next would be my new one.

"Well guys, my opening show is coming to an end and Black Pistol is already getting ready in the dressing room to come on stage and sing for you!" I said, trying to get a reaction out of them.

Hearing this, a few people surprisingly went "Awww..." and complained that I was about to leave the stage, while the rest of the people just applauded the show, happy for my performance.

I bowed slightly and thanked them: "Thank you so much, you've been a wonderful audience, being my first time singing in front of such a big crowd and being so well received, I couldn't ask for anything better." Hearing me say that, the applause got louder for a few seconds until I raised my hand and it stopped.

"Now for my last song, as a way of saying thank you, I've decided to show you the last song I've written, which I plan to release next week!" As soon as I said that, they got excited and started celebrating.

Even though many of them had never heard my songs before and felt that all the songs were new and original, knowing that a truly new and original song would be performed for them first hand made them excited and curious.

"With you, Too Sweet!" I said as I started to play the beat of the song.

[You can find the link to Too Sweet at discord.gg/NunuXD to listen to during the chapter, or search for "Too Sweet - Hozier" on YouTube as well].

The singing style of this song was very similar to Boyfriend, where I sang in a more whispery voice, with the style being more sensual than normal songs, but also maintaining a more mature and cool attitude while singing.

Honestly, I never thought that my [Acting Mastery Lv 30] skill would be so useful for a song.

🎼🎶🎤

You can't say I'm an early bird

It's ten o'clock before I say a word

Baby, I can never say

How do you sleep so well?

🎼🎶🎤

"What's that song about?" A girl asked her friend curiously while paying attention to me.

"It sounds like a romantic song, like Boyfriend..." The friend said.

🎼🎶🎤

You keep telling me to live right...

To go to bed before dawn...

But then you wake up for the sunrise...

You know you don't have to pretend, baby, now and then...

🎼🎶🎤

"Wait, this song sounds different than Boyfriend..." The girl realized.

"Yeah... instead of winning a girl over, it sounds like he's criticizing her?" Her friend was confused.

"Maybe this song is about a girl winning over the bad boy and making him change for a better life?" The girl thought she had figured out the point of the lyrics!

"I think that's it!" Her friend also realized that this could be it.

With the image of bad boys or rock stars partying late into the night and not caring about anything else, it was clear from the lyrics that the protagonist of the song was that kind of guy.

🎼🎶🎤

Don't you just want to wake up, dark as a lake?

Smelling like a campfire, lost in a haze?

If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it's great

But while in this world...

🎼🎶🎤

Seeing that this was the preparation for the chorus of the song, the girls kept their eyes and ears open as they looked at me, waiting for what I was going to sing next.

🎼🎶🎤

I think I'll take my whiskey neat...

My coffee black and my bed at three...

You're too sweet for me...

You're too sweet for me...

🎼🎶🎤

When they finally heard what I'd sung, the girls' eyes went wide!

"Instead of being about the girl converting the bad boy, the song is actually about the bad boy rejecting the good girl!!!" The girl was shocked by the lyrics.

"Gee... I didn't expect that!" Her friend also said in surprise.

As for the men I was listening to, when they heard the chorus of the song explained, they were surprised by the lyrics.

Good guys were shocked that I would break up with a good girl who was obviously so cute and liked me, while party guys were shocked that they identified so much with this song.

"Bro, this is exactly why I broke up with my ex-girlfriend!" One of the men at the show said in shock.

The audience's reaction to the song was mixed, with outraged girls, interested girls, men who identified with the song's protagonist, and outraged men.

But they all had one thing in common: they enjoyed the song and the show!

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