19 - Result

The difference between the live audience's reaction and the audience's reaction on a video was huge.

In one I saw someone's comment while I was performing, I saw if they were having fun while I was singing, and that gave me even more motivation to sing, to sing better, to sing more, to improve while I sang!

In the other case, although it was still very rewarding, I saw the comments there as a calmer form of gratitude.

"Woah dude, what was that?!" Quacktus asked excitedly as he looked at the screen with excitement.

"BV my boy, you didn't say you had a bomb like that to show us today. If I had known that I would have left you to introduce yourself last!" Guapo said while having a few laughs.

"Tell me BV, did you really compose this song and the instrumental for it?!" Phill asked excitedly.

Laughing and a little breathless, I replied. "Yes, they are both my own. You know when you have a lazy day and don't want to do anything? I made this song on one of those days. Normally the style of music I make is heavier, but when I made this lyrics, I knew that this style wouldn't suit the song, so I tried to explore a more relaxing and upbeat style. I still don't think the instrumental is perfect, so I want to perfect it before releasing this song."

"You said release the song… are you a real musician by any chance?" Quacktus asked shocked with an exaggerated expression.

"Real music might be too strong an expression, but I started my music career recently. Currently I have a total of one song released haha." I responded while taking the opportunity to promote my channel.

When Olivia showed me the Stream, there were 3 thousand people watching, as now it was getting close to the time to vote for the best candidates, and maybe my music could have helped a little, there were currently 5 thousand people on the stream.

"Woah, so we have a potential rising musician on the stream! What's the name of your channel, BV? Is it Black Velvet by any chance?" Guapo asked as he tried to guess.

"Yes Guapo, the name of the channel is Black Velvet! If you liked the song, don't forget to search the channel on MeTube and Spokify, maybe you will like my other song." I spoke with a voice as if I were a salesman selling a product on TV.

"You heard, right guys? I'll put the link to his channel in the chat, anyone interested can click to give support!" Quacktus said as he pasted the channel link into the chat.

-------- Quacktus Commentary --------

Sitting on the sofa in front of the camera, Quacktus was looking at the interviewer with a very excited expression.

"Bro, the stream broke the record for the highest number of viewers in my entire career!" He said as he plopped down on the couch. "If I had known this was going to happen I would have done this talent show a long time ago."

"The biggest surprise of the program? It was definitely BV with the song he made. I saw in the comments that practically everyone liked it, and it's rare that many people like the same thing, so listen to what I'm saying, That boy has a future!"

Taking out his cell phone and confirming something, Quacktus smiled. "When you want to get into this industry you have to be smart, you have to know the people you have to approach and the people you have to stay away from."

"Black Velvet is in the first category. With the talent and creativity he has, I know that at least this song 'The Lazy Song' will be a hit, so why not give him a hand in the beginning, when he needs it most, and when he grows up will he return this favor?"

-------- Commentary End --------

I was surprised that right after my presentation I received a friend request from Quacktus on Discord.

Looking again at the number of viewers who were online on the stream, his friend request was understandable.

Even though I imagined that he was possibly doing this to take advantage of some songs I made to get views, wasn't that exactly the same reason I was on his stream in the first place?

I only accepted to participate in this talent show because of the number of viewers watching and the prize that will be very useful for me.

If one of these two criteria wasn't met I probably wouldn't even open this stream.

It would be naive to imagine that the path I will take to fame will only be filled with true friends, girls who are truly in love and people who only want the best for me.

The moment I decided to follow this path I already accepted that mutual interests would arise, and the best thing I can do is make a profit from it, if this friendship lasts and we manage to help each other for a long time, what's the harm?

While I was watching the last contestant in the contest, the door to my room was opened.

Walking through the door was Olivia, Ethan, my mom, and my dad.

"That was amazing Noah!!!!!" Ethan shouted excitedly as he ran up to me and looked at the guitar with bright eyes.

"That song was really cool Noah!" Olivia said with a smile pointing to her cell phone screen which also had the stream open.

"Noah, that song of yours managed to perfectly describe my perfect Sunday…" My father laughed as he sat on my bed next to me with a relaxed attitude.

"The song was really good Noah, but that part about doing the S word… is that true? Have you ever done that to anyone?" My mother asked.

As soon as she asked that question, the atmosphere in the room froze.

Olivia was completely red in the face and trying to hide behind her cell phone screen.

My dad looked at me for a split second and gave me a thumbs up while whispering "My boy!" proud.

Ethan was completely lost, as he didn't even know what the word S*x meant.

At that moment only I could respond to my mother.

While my mind worked at lightning speed, my salvation came from the computer's speakers.

[Now let's start voting for the best presentation, the one that will receive a Telemikten 79S microphone worth $2000!!]

[Although this microphone has been used for a few months, it has never had any problems and is working in perfect condition!]

Quacktus explained on the Stream, making everyone in the room's focus shift to the stream, purposefully ignoring my mother's last question, as she continued to stare at me with a bit of suspicion for a few seconds and finally look at the computer screen. .

[BV, BV, BV, BV, BV!]

[Bro, I don't want BV to win... I'm crying my eyes out because of the Numb song he posted on his channel, damn, why post something like that?!]

[I also heard the song, but now I want him to win even more!]

[I'm voting for macmacmac, the jokes he told made me much happier.]

[Is this song really good?]

[I didn't like it very much, I prefer Riley's songs.]

[Bro, do you want to compare a singer who just released his first song with Riley?!]

[To answer the question, yes, the song is very good! Even though I can't relate much to the lyrics, the rhythm of the song is very good, now I have the song in my head and it won't go away!]

[It seems that BV really has a talent for creating instrumentals of songs that are remarkable, both the song Numb that he posted on MeTube and the song Lazy Song that he sang now get stuck in your head very easily.]

[I think the girl who could imitate a dolphin was very talented.]

[Did someone save Lazy Song?!]

We were very pleased to see that the majority of comments were positive about my music.

So when the voting opened, we all took out our cell phones and voted for me, to increase my chances of getting that microphone even more.

I could save money and buy that, but wouldn't getting it for free be much better?

Olivia even went to vote on the computer in her room once again while I took advantage and voted on the computer in my room as well.

Now the only thing left was to wait for the results.

After stalling a bit, they finally showed the vote graph.

[With an astronomical 82% of the votes, BlackVelvet was the winner of our first talent show!]

As soon as this was announced, we all started celebrating together.

Ethan was jumping from one side to the other with happiness.

Olivia ran over and hugged me happily as she congratulated me.

After she released me, my parents also came to congratulate me.

At that moment everyone had a big smile on their faces.

-------- Lauren and Jonathan Commentary --------

Sitting on the interview couch, Lauren and Jonathan were hugging each other with small smiles on their faces.

"That song Noah sang…" Lauren started saying. "I think it's been many years since I've seen him as relaxed as he was while singing that song."

"Yes my dear." Jonathan said. "It was like he was really singing it with a feeling of peace that I hadn't seen in a long time."

Nodding, Lauren continued. "It seems like ever since he started exercising and trying to change, it seems like he was always in a race, trying to speed up as much as possible to finish quickly."

Jonathan just nodded, but he didn't know much about it since he hadn't had that much contact with Noah. "How about we schedule something as a family so he can rest and relax a little?"

"Do you think everything's okay, honey?" She asked worriedly as she looked at him.

"I think so, this will be for the sake of our children. I think this will be good even for Olivia." He explained while hugging her from the side.

"Accepting the hug, Lauren snuggled into Jonathan's embrace and they stayed like that for a few minutes.

-------- Commentary End --------

With the results already declared, Quacktus called me to say a few words on stream before ending the stream and asking me for my address so he could send me the microphone.

Even though this microphone was his old microphone, it was still many times better than the microphone on my cell phone, which was what I was using to record the songs.

Even if I wanted to continue to maintain the impression of an indie musician who was starting out on his own, I could do that with a good microphone that would make my audio quality better, I just had to be careful not to leave the music at a level of studio music so fast.

I still want to maintain this idea that I'm an Indie musician for a while, which I really am.

But what I had no idea at the time was that a Viewer made a cut of the stream where I was singing and posted it on other social networks and this clip was going viral!