There are eight cards in total, with a theme written on the back of each one. There are four themes in all.
Of course, the cards are randomly selected, so any of the top eight players could become opponents, even if they belong to the same mentor.
Host Luo Long had the top eight students select their cards, then began to have them reveal their cards. However, for the sake of the show's effect, he first had Tang Xiao Tian reveal his card.
"Alright, now that everyone has chosen their cards, let's see who is matched with whom. Tang Xiao Tian, you go first."
Tang Xiaotian nodded and flipped over his card, revealing three words: Journey to the West.
It's obvious that Tang Xiaotian is going to create a song related to Journey to the West.
After Tang Xiao Tian finished, Luo Long couldn't help but exclaim: "Journey to the West is one of the four most famous classical novels in our country, but it's not easy to create a good song. Okay, let's see who will be Tang Xiao Tian's opponent now, please ask the contestant who also chose Journey to the West theme to indicate."
Tang Xiaotian finished speaking, and Luo Tong's trainee Lin Jia turned over her card, but she was obviously not very excited. Her songs are often related to life, and Journey to the West is too fantasy for her, it's not a subject she's good at.
But there's no way around it, after all, she chose this path herself.
Tang Xiaotian and Lin Jia became opponents, with the two temporarily standing together.
Then Luo Long said: "Okay, let's take a look at what kind of subject matter Jiang Lele has created."
Jiang Lele smiled and nodded, then flipped open her own card, which read: Love Song.
Luo Long smiled: "Love songs are great creative songs, and also a theme that every singer can't avoid. It seems that Jiang Lele is about to burst out. Well, I wonder whose theme is love too?"
Luo Long finished speaking, and Lin Feng's disciple Chen Yin stood out.
Chen Yin is a famous female singer, but her appearance is slightly inferior, and her voice is high-pitched. She's not very good at creating love songs either. After she opened the card, her expression wasn't great either.
Compared with popular students like Jiang Lele, if she wasn't exceptionally talented in creation, it wouldn't be easy to win.
The two stood together, Luo Long continued: "Now let's take a look at Sun Jing's card."
Sun Jing lifted up the card, on which was written: Folk Ballad.
After opening the card, Sun Jing smiled wryly. She was not good at creating folk songs personally and didn't have much understanding of folk music.
Lu Long also shook his head: "I heard that Sun Jing is not good at creating folk songs, so you have to work hard. I wonder who the other trainee who creates folk songs is?"
Everyone looked at the remaining three people and saw Zong Bai step out and flip over his own card.
"It's me!"
Everyone saw that it was Zong Bai, and they were even more pessimistic about Sun Jing. Zong Bai is a master of creating folk songs, and this time Sun Jing might only make it to the top four.
Now, six students have been divided into pairs, and the remaining two students automatically become opponents.
They were Wei Qing and Zhang Long.
The two flipped over the card, and the genre of song they were going to create was: Sweet.
There are many sweet things, such as family and love. When Wei Qing and Zhang Long saw this theme, they both smiled wryly. Two big men creating this, it's really a bit embarrassing. However, the two were only slightly embarrassed, in their opinion, this kind of theme is still good to create.
"After dividing like this, Luo Long said: 'According to the rules, everyone has a chance to change partners once, but if you want to change back, four people must agree. So I'd like to ask, is there anyone who agrees to change partners?'"
Tang Xiaotian didn't mind, but Lin Jia wanted to switch. She wasn't familiar with this topic, and Tang Xiaotian was too strong. However, she hesitated for a moment and didn't speak up. After all, it required the agreement of all four people, and she was afraid someone might disagree, which would be awkward.
Moreover, she doesn't know who to swap with, there is no target, how can she swap?
Sun Jing was not good at folk songs, she also wanted to change, she glanced at Tang Xiaotian, saw Tang Xiaotian nodded to her, hesitated for a moment, and also gave up the idea of changing opponents.
It seems like no one has the courage to suggest a change of opponent.
Just at this time, Zhang Long stood out: "I want to be an opponent with Tang Xiaotian, I don't know if Wei Qing, Tang Xiaotian and Lin Jia agree?"
Zhang Long wants to become rivals with Tang Xiaotian. After saying this, everyone was stunned for a moment, but soon, everyone more or less understood something.
Nowadays, the matter of Tang Xiaotian and Sun Mo is spreading wildly on the internet. Zhang Long is a student of Lin Feng, in order to regain his honor or strike back at Tang Xiaotian, Shenghua Entertainment Company will definitely go against Tang Xiaotian, right?
That's normal.
Lin Feng glanced at Zhang Long and tightly bit his lip, all of this was arranged by him.
He has his own abacus.
If Tang Xiaotian loses this Friday, he will be discredited and Zhang Long can smoothly advance to the top four. If Tang Xiaotian doesn't lose and wins against Zhao Yi, then Lin Feng can still use Zhang Long to defeat Tang Xiaotian in episode 11 of "The Strongest Singer-Songwriter" to save their company's reputation and also curry favor with their company's boss.
What's most beneficial for him, how could he possibly not do it?
Zhang Long gazed at Tang Xiao Tian and his group. Tang Xiao Tian caught a glimpse of Zhang Long's intention, he shrugged: "I don't care."
Tang Xiaotian didn't care, Lin Jiahui was secretly delighted, she was still very good at creating sweet songs, at least much better than the Journey to the West theme song, so she also hurriedly said: "I don't care either."
Both of them don't care, as if they are not afraid of becoming opponents with anyone.
So everyone cast their eyes on Wei Qing, and the way they looked at him was very strange, as if asking him if he wasn't afraid to change opponents.
This put Wei Qing in a difficult position.
Compared to him, Zhang Long and Lin Jia are a bit more formidable, but Zhang Long's strength may not be as good as Lin Jia's, especially in sweet topics. If he were to switch places with his opponent, the pressure would be much greater.
Ke Tang Xiaotian and Lin Jia's casual remark made him somewhat embarrassed.
Disagree, just like being afraid of Lin Jia, a big man himself, how can he be afraid to compare with a girl?
Agreed, one's own chances of winning would be smaller then.
Wei Qing was hesitant, but not for too long. Zhang Long wanted to become an opponent of Tang Xiao Tian, and it was clear that he had to do so. If he didn't agree, he would offend Lin Feng. He didn't want to offend Lin Feng just because of this, after all, he thought his chances of entering the top four were very slim.
It's better to be generous and leave a good impression on fans once and for all.
"I don't care either."