#lu dinghao

fix me (original song): fu sichao 【付思超】，li luoer 【李洛尔】， rong yao 【荣耀】, yu yang 【于洋】，lu dinghao 【陆定昊】

love how they let fu sichao and li luoer write a song aka what they’re most comfortable with for a public performance  lu dinghao’s high note left me shook  only for yu yang’s final part to leave me all alone to recover in a ditch the both of them nailed their parts  i really like rong yao’s part of the rap especially and of course his voice was stellar  the song managed to bring together all their strong suits while pushing their limits at the same time it was great 

i don’t care: bo yuan 【伯远】，gan wangxing 【甘望星】，shao mingming 【邵明明】，wu yuheng 【吴宇恒】，jing long 【井胧】

ok yall know.  i’m sure yall kNOW i’m a bo yuan stan he’s pratically my ult on this entire show but let’s talk about jing long for a moment because resident vocal king slayed and knew he was slaying while at it i loved how he played with the dynamics of his voice to add some spice to it instead of just going at it with full power all the way through if that makes sense  gan wangxing has this beautiful baritone voice that i’ve ben dying to hear since he sang unbreakable love! because of that i literally realised that baritones are my biggest weakness  i loved how he captured the slightly aggressive nonchalance of the song through his expressions while performing (might be thanks to his face naturally but he did it nonetheless) wu yuheng brought out a side to him that i never thought existed without this i never would have guessed he would even come near to killing a concept like this  also somehow made an ugly ass bowl cut look good  i (finally) realised that what attracted attracts me to bo yuan as a performer is how he goes on stage and you can just tell that he enjoys himself every. single. time. without fail it’s insane 

therefore i am: hiroto 【井汲大翔】，lelush 【利路修】，xie xingyang 【谢兴阳】，zhang teng 【张腾】zhang jiayuan 【张嘉元】

now this was an unexpected one for me  this stage probably was my favourite in terms of choreographic design - the white vs black? the white gradually being removed that ends with basically all black? the choreography itself for the story? top tier  i love xie xingyang as an actor and now i want to see him take on a psycho-ish role because of his facials here they were just that good  similar for hiroto like you have this adorable japanese boy who all the chinese trainees are in love with and then you have him on this stage being absolutely unhinged and going feral beyond belief we love to see it  zhang teng’s bit where they’re sitting on the floor? revolutionary didn’t get the zhang jiayuan hype but he really could catch my attention here - that final expression did it all for me really 

joker (original choreography): xu shaolan 【徐绍岚】，ren yinpeng 【任胤蓬】，wu hai 【吴海】，santa 【赞多】，rikimaru 【力丸】

santa and rikimaru doing well is a given  but the one who really did it for me here was wu hai  it was so nice to see him in his element more as a professional dancer than an idol  although i did get the feeling that he was holding back almost like he could have gone off even harder than he did  the three of them did an amazing job at creating a piece that brought out their respective strengths  that being said though it would be so nice to see both santa and rikimaru perform something that isn’t dance-focused / a dance genre that isn’t right up their alley the way all their previous performances on the show were  when the mentors were making comments i just had a thought that was like ‘i wanna see santa do something cutesy (撒娇 was the term i had lol)’ which basically sums up that whole sentiment 

crab dance: gui shangqi 【贵尚奇】，ichika 【上原一翔】，wang xiaochen 【王孝晨】，amu 【羽生田拳武】，he yifan 【何屹繁】

comedic performances (imo) are usually hit or miss but this one did enough for me  amu hard carried this with his facials i lost it everytime the camera was on him omg  it’s almost like mate was literally made to perform this song  cross-eyed he yifan is something i never thought i would see but i loved it  the choreo was hella funny as well and that really helped their intros before voting were so funny??? maybe that’s just me having no sense of humour but i died there 

you better not think about me: nine 【高卿尘】，mika 【米卡】，patrick 【尹浩宇】，zhang xingte 【张星特】，yu gengyin 【余更寅】