Over the next several days, Nel found out why.
Tristan worked incredibly hard over their project, as if he had endless stamina, and pushed others to do the same. And when he didn't push, he inspired hard work by his mere presence.
It was productive, exhilarating, and exhausting, but together, they composed the covers they were going to make in record time. Although they weren't just covers anymore, they were rearrangements.
Nel's cover on Tristan's 'Dragonfly' was an even wilder rearrangement of an already metal song. When Nel showed Tristan a rough version of it, Tristan's first reaction was incredulity.
"You want to turn this into dubstep, Nel? Seriously? That's..." Tristan paused. "That's amazing, actually. Definitely not something I'd come up for a stage performance!"
Dubstep music was a genre of electronic music. It had powerful bass lines and beats with sounds that couldn't be performed without a DJ station.
And to add more contrast to this all, Nel planned to record his music video in nature, a place that was the most removed from electronic music.
Nel laughed.
"Your cover of my 'Jester Jester' is much better! I swear—whenever you play a guitar, it's like God himself descended to us to show how to do it right. And threaten people who do it wrong with eternal punishment..."
Tristan huffed.
"I don't do that."
"You don't even have to threaten, the idea is scary enough already."
For his version of Nel's song, Tristan slowed the melody, turning it from a fast and energetic one to a song that was almost lyrical. The mood of it changed completely.
Now the 'Jester' in the song became very Gothic, just like the costume Tristan planned to wear in the music video.
He put a lot of his time and effort into making the video as quickly as possible. If he was doing this alone, Tristan could have finished in a few weeks, but an entire crew of people from the agency handled shootings and such. And they worked with other stars from the agency at the same time, too.
Even though Tristan was given priority, there was a limit to how quick or slow things could be.
[!!!! Jane :((((]
[Gemello is making a promo with that shiny guy who took second place at the contest. It's 100% true!!!! Look]
Next was a screenshot of a conversation between Jane's friend and one of the assistants inside of the GTG agency's production team.
Although the assistant didn't speak about the project between Nelson Mayar and Tristan Gemello directly, he alluded to it so clearly that there could be no doubts.
Seeing this, Jane wanted to spit someone in the face!
Tristan rejected her again, and this was all because... because of...
'It's because of this buffoon, Nelson!' Jane thought. 'I don't know what lies and tricks he used to convince Tristan that he's a better choice for a project together, but I will expose him to the world!'
***
Tristan and Nel were at the final stages of the shooting for the music video, shooting a bit about their meeting in the music hall.
Since dramatically reenacting scenes without all the staff members and other actors was pointless, Tristan and Nel just walked around the empty hallways of the building and talked about things.
Nel wasn't a trained actor, but he was expressing his emotions very genuinely and it looked good on camera, anyway. As for Tristan, every shot with him exuded so much charisma that all women and some men in the production crew sighed wistfully every five minutes of work.
Despite the sighing, everybody worked hard, and Tristan hoped to finish the shooting itself on that day.
It was around noon when Nel took a break from standing under cameras, while Tristan continued shooting, and soon after, when he froze in shock. Read new adventures at m_v-l'e-NovelFire
Although he was looking at the camera at the moment, Tristan still noticed this with a corner of his eye. Gesturing for the camera operator to wait, Tristan stormed toward Nel to see what made him look so pale, it was visible through his makeup.
Nel was staring at a social media post, which linked an article on some yellow pages news outlet.
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