music - Damiano David

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"Wait...what are we doing?" Lauren asks destiny, Tusse scanning the crowd of people"

"He's picking someone's song, we're doing what they did in 2019, a song switch, you do a verse and chorus of whoever's song you pick and perform it do everyone, then everyone else will give a rating"

"Oh wow okay, what if you don't know the words...or what about the people playing instruments?" She asks, frowning ya the girl.

"They have lyrics Lauren, and...I don't know, dance? Pretend to play? They already have backing music so" Destiny shrugs, Stefanis song starting to play through the speaker.

"Damn! He sings it better than me!" Stefani says, cheering the boy on as the music comes to a close, "yes Tusse! You killed it, okay my turn, I'll be singing loco loco!"

A few turns come and go, TIX of course singing Azerbaijan in which Efendi kindly returned, singing "fallen angel". Roxen from Romania sang Lauren's song which she did not expect, but very much enjoyed, as her voice sounded very good with the lyrics.

"Okay! We're up next" A hurricane singer shouts, the sound of heels down the stairs echoing over the arena.

"Nope, Lauren's going" Mark says, Lauren frowning at the man, "Lauren let's go"

"What? Why can't we go?" Sanja says to the man, "Lauren can go after"

"Sit down ladies, Lauren get your arse up here"

"oh- okay" Lauren says, climbing out of her seat and walking up the stairs onto the stage over to Mark.

"Alright listen to me" he starts, making sure no one else could hear him, "Your singing Zitti e buoni"

"What? No! Why?"

"Let's be real Lauren, I've seen the video, and little miss Serbia over there is getting a little too close. So, either let the girl sing the song and be Mr eyeliners favoruite, OR, sing the damn song and you and him can live happily ever after, here's a mic and lyrics, off you pop" Mark says, pushing her towards the front of the stage.

"Uh okay I'm si-" before she could continue the intro to 'Zitti e buoni' starts to play, Lauren reading the lyrics of her phone. She quickly looks up, the 3 band members cheering her on, Damiano with a dead serious face, raising his eyebrows at the girl.

"I'll show the bitch" she says in her mind, holding the mic close to her mouth.

"Loro non sanno di che parlo, Voi siete sporchi, fra', di fango
Giallo di siga fra le dita, Io con la siga camminando"

"This isn't great bad at all" she thinks, whilst she sings the lyrics, letting go little by little.

"Scusami, ma ci credo tanto, Che posso fare questo salto,
E anche se la strada è in salita, Per questo ora mi sto allenando
E buonasera, signore e signori, fuori gli attori, Vi conviene toccarvi i coglioni
Vi conviene stare zitti e buoni"

Lauren looks up and away from the lyrics, mimicking some of Damianos moves she'd seen him doing on stage which earned a few cheers from Vic and Thomas. She looks up at the boy, a small smirk on his lips as he slowly runs his tongue over his teeth.

"Sono fuori di testa, ma diverso da loro, E tu sei fuori di testa, ma diversa da loro
Siamo fuori di testa, ma diversi da loro, Siamo fuori di testa, ma diversi da loro"

Lauren drops the mic from her mouth, the rest of the group clapping along, Mark taking the mic back from Lauren.

"What a performance, Måneskins got a new singer! Alright Serbia, go on then"