Gamer Superstar

181  181 - The Challenge of a Large Audience

When we finished testing the instruments, we stepped off the stage for a few minutes and just waited for the show to begin.

Soon the appointed time came and we went back on stage and saw that a few hundred more people had arrived in the audience, but there were still a few hundred to go to reach the maximum capacity of 3,000 people.

But for someone like me who was used to doing shows for a maximum of 200 people, I was excited to do this show.

"Good evening, everyone." I waved to the audience with a smile.

"Jack!!!" A girl shouted.

"BlackVelvet!!!" A man shouted.

"Hey Jack!" Another girl shouted.

"Ayoo BlackVelvet!" Another girl shouted.

Seeing that there were more people in the audience who knew me than I thought, I was excited, because concerts are much more fun for people who already know me and my songs.

Smiling at each of the people who called me Jack or BlackVelvet, I spoke again.

"Good evening, it's a great feeling to be able to sing in front of such a large audience who are similar to me in style..." I said, laughing and pointing to my black shirt.

Seeing this, the people in the audience who knew me laughed with me while those who didn't didn't understand.

"For those who don't know me, you might think it's strange that an obvious rock singer thinks it's different to sing for a rock audience, right? The truth is that I don't just sing rock, even though I love it. I said while playing the riff of The Lazy Song.

Hearing that, many people were surprised to recognize the song!

"Is that The Lazy Song?"

"I think it is!"

"Is he the singer of that lazy song? I never would have guessed!"

"I think I need to listen to that song again now."

I could hear some conversations from people near the stage, and I wasn't too surprised that they were saying this.

I also noticed that a lot of people weren't excited about this style of music, as it was a very happy song, for a very emo audience, who liked sad lyrics, as it was Dark Pistol's style.

Although this could change as the show went on.

As there was beer and other drinks for sale and the audience was drinking, they might like to listen to other styles of music after they got drunk.

But to try to please an audience that specifically liked one style of music and was still sober, you obviously had to play exactly the style of music they liked.

So I didn't play the lazy song anymore and took the microphone again.

"Don't worry, even though my songs are very different in style, I still have a lot of rock songs, so I hope you like Numb!" I said excitedly.

When I heard that I was going to play Numb, I noticed that some people in the audience got excited too.

[You can find this song on discord.gg/NunuXD or search for "Linkpark - Numb" on YouTube.]

Unlike the original song from my old world, where the song started with electronic notes played on the keyboard, because I didn't even have a keyboard in this world when I made this song, the classic touch that starts Numb was done on the guitar.

And as soon as I started to play it, I noticed that people who knew me were excited and people who didn't know me were surprised.

The notes of that song were really so catchy that anyone who heard it once would know what song it was when they heard it a second time.

Even people who didn't know who I was after hearing the Numb ringtone were surprised to recognize the song!

"Wait, isn't that the background music from the edit they made of Feather Fish's fight with Sandstorm?" A man with long hair and heavy black makeup was shocked when he asked his friend.

Hearing this, his friend's eyes widened as he looked at him, just as shocked as his friend. "Yes... I think it's that song!" His friend also recognized it and started to enjoy the song.

Seeing this, the first man smiled as he realized that he had accidentally come to the concert of the band he liked and found the original singer of the song from an AMV of anime battles he had recently enjoyed watching.

Hearing the man say this, some people around him also realized that what he said was true and were surprised, enjoying the song even more.

Considering that Numb was approaching 2 million views and that the vast majority of my audience was from the US, it was understandable that there were some people at the show who were part of those 2 million who knew the song originally, even if they didn't know who I was.

Even more so, with the views added to this AMV, it was even more likely that there were more people who had heard it before.

At that moment, while I was on stage, I had no idea that my song Numb had been used as the theme song for an AMV of a fight between two anime characters.

Which, even though I didn't like it very much in my old world, there was no way I wouldn't have seen the battle of a green-dressed boy fighting a red-haired boy who controlled sand to the sound of Numb, right?!

🎼🎶🎤

I got so numb, I can't feel you there...

Becoming so tired, so much more aware

I'm becoming this, all I want to do...

Is to be more like me and less like you...

🎼🎶🎤

In the first chorus of the song, only those who knew me or knew the song sang along, but the second time I sang the chorus, the number of people singing doubled, while I noticed the crowd getting visibly more excited.

By the third and final chorus, the number of people singing along with me had reached at least 500, with a few hundred more people paying attention to me on stage and hundreds more nodding their heads while just enjoying the song.

Having 500 people sing my song was already a great achievement, even though there were more than 2,000 people who didn't sing with me.

I could see that a lot of people still weren't in the mood for the show, people in the background were just chatting and didn't care who was singing on stage because it wasn't Dark Pistol yet, the band they came to see.

But I didn't worry or feel bad about it.

Putting on a show for such a large audience was really a much bigger challenge than just putting on a show for a small audience like I always did.

And winning over that audience in the background was my goal as the performer opening the show.

My job was to get people excited so that when Dark Pistol came on stage, the audience would be in the perfect mood and want to enjoy as much of their performance as possible.

But convincing those people to pay attention to me and enjoy my show was not only good for Dark Pistol when they went on stage, but it was also very good for me, because I was winning over an audience that could potentially become my audience.

So I started dedicating myself to winning those people over.

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