Round 2. Was I ready? Heck yeah. "1, 2, 3, 4, let's go thrash those stupid whores-" Jake and I had created a before-show chant, "Hey, no need to slut shame!" Finn says. Jake and I laugh, "You ready Finny?" "Totally. Let's do this!" He shouts. We walk onto the stage and a few cheers rise from the crowd. The judges had chosen All Rights Reserved by The Chemical Brothers to 'challenge' the contestants. Ha, challenge? This was going to be cake. We were introducing the song again. "The Half Notes VS Dried Up Prunes!" "Dried Up Prunes? What?" I ask Jake. He laughs and shrugs. Tonight, Finn and I were singing together. I grab the mic and close my eyes. "Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh," I begin the bass line and Jake soon comes in with the drum beat as I still carry on with my melodies, "Heaven's down and Hell is up, all rights reversed, driven by the planets and their movements," "Well, down on earth, the primal chaos is pushing backwards, but even in the danger," I prepare myself for the chorus and open my eyes, "It never stops and no one's stopping," Finn joins in with the chorus, "It never stops and no one's stopping, it never stops and no one's stopping, it never stops and no one's stopping." The 'Dried Up Prunes' begin to perform, "It never stops and no one's talking, all rights reversed, undertaking copyleft for flying sideways," There female singer was way too full of herself. You know those people you meet where they always sing and they think they're great when tey actually sound like a dying cat? Well, this girl was one of those people. "Well, down on earth, the primal chaos is running forwards, and narrow down to quits but," "It never stops and no one's stopping, it never stops and no one's stopping," the pitch of her voice increased so much that I had to out a finger in my ear. Yep. Dying cat. "It never stops and no one's stopping, it never stops and no one's stopping," My turn. I momentarily grab the mic before strumming my bass again, "It never stops, it never stops," I whisper the verse before Jake smashes his drums and Finn rips into his guitar, singing along with me "Never stops, and no one's stopping, never stops, and no one's stopping, never stops, and no one's stopping, never stops, and no one's stopping!" Finn's guitar fades away slowly, then Jake's drum beat, then my bass line.
The crowd erupts into a wave of cheers as we finish the song. "I think we all know who the winners of tonight's round are," the judge says, grinning. I laugh as he shouts "The Half Notes!"