At 20:30 on January 29, the third phase of "Straight through Spring Festival Gala" was broadcast on CCTV-3 Variety Channel on time, and Wang Ether and Liu Meilin appeared together to sing the classic old song "Hometown Clouds", and the new presentation method injected a new feeling into this song.
Wang Ether and Liu Meilin appeared as the third group of players. In the bright move link, Wang Ether, known as "AKA Flashfire", improvised a Freestyle with the theme of the Spring Festival Gala, "the warmth that I look forward to all year round, I saw the Spring Festival Gala on the TV set at home, all friends concentrated on it, and they would give thumbs up to all the programs", just a few words easily outlined a happy scene of family reunion and celebration of the festival. The audience also felt familiar and warm in Wang Ether's improvisational rap. And Liu Meilin brought her own song "Wake Up" to show the dolphin sound, and the relaxed and penetrating high-pitched performance made the audience praise endlessly, and also made the teacher Li Yugang on the side eager to try.
In the formal singing session, Wang Ether and Liu Meilin jointly brought a new version of "Clouds of Hometown", as a classic song of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, this song has been given too many people's homesickness. After a new rap adaptation by Wang Ether, the song has been branded with a strong personal character. From the first sentence, "The clouds of the hometown float in the sky, it keeps calling to me", Liu Meilin's own reverberation voice aroused the feelings of countless audiences as soon as he opened his mouth, and the wanderer's beautiful thoughts about his hometown were vividly displayed in an instant. All the way to the new rap part of Wang Ether's writing of the wandering experience, the lyrics are delicate and full of substitution, "I am a swallow that leaves the nest, doing foreign rolls", "The sun on the west coast is not as good as the warm sun of home", so that this song adds a unique feeling that belongs to Wang Ether, and his affectionate singing also allows the audience to see a different side of himself. In "Run, Yellow River", Wang Ether mentioned that this song once made him feel comforted when he was overseas at that time, feeling that the motherland was always by our side, and the clouds of the hometown have been floating in the sky waiting for you to return. At the end of the singing, the final voting session, "Hometown Clouds" won the highest number of votes, and Wang Ether successfully advanced to "Straight Through Night" as a representative of the contestants.
Wang Ether and Liu Meilin are not the first time to cooperate, as early as 2019 singer-songwriter, Liu Meilin as a special guest to help Wang Ether sing "LA in the snow", the ethereal and gentle high note is impressive, and in the album "Meilin Production" launched by Liu Meilin at the end of 2020, the "Unspeakable" written and sung by the two was also included in Meilin's new album. The wonderful performance of this "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala" can't help but make people look forward to their subsequent cooperation.