Chapter 1674 1674 Brake with Static

"Los Angeles has ushered in an unprecedented crowd, with more than 180,000 citizens taking to the streets, the long queue at the entrance of the record store almost paralyzed the traffic, and the cars on the main streets such as Hollywood Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard are completely immobile. , City Hall had to send traffic police to dredge and control these main streets to ensure that Monday's work can go smoothly..."

"The New York subway's major stations such as Times Square, Broadway Avenue, Washington Square and other major stations were forced to shut down. The surging crowds paralyzed subway traffic. City Hall was forced to temporarily decide to close relevant stations to clear the crowd. The main streets of Manhattan Island gathered more than 100,000 people. 100,000 citizens, with Rockefeller Plaza as the center, the major record stores are facing the danger of being overwhelmed by the sea of ​​people..."

"Chicago residents choose to bike to work, 'I'm totally ready after that party a month ago,'" said Mr. Hayes, who works near the Sears Tower. Today, for the ultimate battle of the century The arrival of the duel, the traffic on the main streets of the city center is completely blocked, and the surging crowd makes the cars look like clumsy and stupid bricks. According to incomplete statistics, more than 100,000 citizens have joined this duel... "

This is a super party that has never been seen before. Ten major cities in the United States have mobilized a wave of more than one million people on the morning of the 28th. A million people! This is the real empty alley. In just three hours in the morning, more than one million people surrounded the major record shops, queuing up to take out their pockets to join the ultimate showdown. The dense and turbulent crowd became It is almost an impossible miracle to replicate the iconic scenes of every city, and the traffic in major cities is completely paralyzed.

Even though municipalities are fully prepared for traffic control, they are still ill-prepared for exaggerated scenarios that exceed expectations. In fact, no one can be prepared, because this is a showdown that refreshes history, changes history, and pushes history.

On September 23, the shocking long queue in front of the record store amazed the world; on October 28, the city car array was besieged by the crowd, destroying everyone's traditional concept.

Even the best sociologists, the most professional musicologists, and the top entertainment journalists could not have predicted today's pomp; even people who had seen the September 23rd sensation could not use accurate language To describe today's carnival - or it should be said, it is precisely because I have seen the madness of the first day of the first battle that today's better scene has a double impact effect. No gorgeous rhetoric can describe the shock and strength of the surging crowd, and no vivid language can describe the magnificence and power of the surging enthusiasm. Even if it is recorded by the camera lens, it is still hard to believe in your own eyes. .

The ultimate showdown has already ushered in a frenzy on the first day of its unveiling. Perhaps, the new single sales record set on September 23 will be overtaken by the album sales heat wave in just 35 days. It is the best era, it belongs to the era of shining stars, it belongs to the era of music lovers' carnival, and it belongs to the era when American music reappears. The disco of the 1980s and the blossoming of a hundred flowers in the 1990s are unique.

Empty alleys! Empty alleys! Empty alleys! It even makes one suspect that one-third of the American public has flocked to the main streets of major cities to become part of the ultimate showdown, a spectacle that reminds one of Independence Day in a trance.

In the opening battle, Mariah Carey and the Oasis Band tried their best, just hoping to get ahead - just like the competition for the first day a month ago, both Maria and the Oasis Band deeply knew the importance of grabbing Normandy, Knowing the importance of propaganda more deeply, if you want to win the final showdown, you must have an advantage in the first round of propaganda and grab the commanding heights of the battle of momentum. So, this is the unprecedented feast on October 28th!

From the current point of view, Maria is slightly better, but the Oasis Band's fan offensive is not inferior, and the next plot development is more and more exciting.

Both Maria and Oasis have shown their confidence in the inevitable final matchup, which makes people involuntarily have more expectations for the next matchup. The publicity war is already so hot, so the sales war and word-of-mouth war are bound to be different. It will be disappointing, but soon people realize that something is wrong: because one of the Iron Triangle's glory died without any movement.

At first, people thought that EMI was brewing a big event. It planned to "bath in the morning light" like the original. There was no movement until the day the album was released. But this time, until the 28th, there was still no movement from EMI Records. Maria and the Oasis Band set off a frenzy in the two most important cities in the United States as expected early. This contrast is calm. Glory to death seemed too unusual.

Even though Oasis made waves in the base camp of Glory to Death - Los Angeles, but Glory to Death did not give any response. On the contrary, surrounded by more than 400 fans, they left the Rose Bowl and headed for San Francisco, prepare for next week's concert tour: This move is tantamount to war between the two armies, one side loses without a fight, voluntarily throws the white flag, cedes the propaganda town of Los Angeles to the Oasis band, and the glory is to die. "Dash" to San Francisco.

Such a pattern really made the uncrowned kings bewildered and couldn't understand what was going on at all.

But soon, the pattern cleared the fog and glimpsed the true face hidden behind the thick fog.

After three consecutive nights of heatwaves at the Rose Bowl, the nation was rocked by the "Total Glory" storm, and ticket markets in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle were followed by a rush to buy -- as expected. And the opening day of the ticket market in these three places is exactly - October 28, Monday!

This is the strategy of EMI Records. They clearly know the itinerary of glory to death. To be precise, they arranged the release time of the album "Rainstorm", which is purposeful and specially arranged at the end of the Los Angeles tour. The next Monday after that, it is obvious that the plan is to use the craze of the concert to drive the topic effect, and then achieve the purpose of promoting the new album.

This time, EMI gave its trust to the ability to control the concert to the death - a concert of 100,000 people! This shows the boldness of EMI Records. They actually chose to believe that Glory to Death can kill 100,000 people in a concert, and they pinned the major stage of the ultimate showdown on the grand occasion of the Rose Bowl. The move is definitely a risky move!

The only accident is that the two originally scheduled performances in Los Angeles were added because the audience was too enthusiastic, so that the next day after the concert ended was the release time of the new album, which also made Glory To Death no time in Los Angeles at all. Hold a press conference for the new album. Originally, EMI planned to postpone the press conference, but after learning about the plan to join forces with Creative Records and Universal Music, EMI simply moved the press conference to San Francisco after internal discussions, and concentrated all news resources on In the promotion of the concert tour, the third album of Glory to Death was snubbed.

Now from the results, the greater the risk, the greater the reward!

From the 25th, the national media began to focus on the grand occasion of the Rose Bowl, and the opening game of the Glory to the Dead World Tour debuted in a shocking manner, whether it was the live performance of the band or the enthusiastic response of the audience, including The three new songs that the band sang in the concert became the focus of everyone's attention.

For the next three consecutive days, the "Rose Bowl Frenzy" has become the first hot spot of major media. In the age of lack of Internet, even if TV news is broadcast at the first time, the dissemination and precipitation of news will take a certain amount of time. The freshness period and popularity of the news will also be relatively long-lasting. The three-day brewing time just makes the heat wave of the Glory to the Dead concert indiscriminately paved the way for every corner of the North American land.

This makes the "Rose Bowl Wave" almost a phenomenon-level term, making people deeply feel the heat wave set off by the rock band's concert, and its powerful influence once again awakened people's nostalgia and call for rock in the 1970s—— It was an age of faith.

On the morning of the 28th, the publicity of Maria and the Oasis Band occupied almost all the important pages, but the ticket sales in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle attracted the attention of a large number of reporters early on. All the tickets were sold out within ten minutes, which brought the popularity of the Glory to the Dead tour to the top, and then promoted the live country to make the decision to open all tickets for sale at the same time in the first stage. The reports on "Torrential Rain" spread out without showing weakness, setting off a torrential rain that belongs to the glory of death.

Facing the powerful propaganda of its competitors, Glory stopped silently until its death, but ingeniously made a bloody path: relying on absolute strength to speak! The enthusiasm of the audience at the concert is the best proof of the band's strength. The 100% attendance rate of the Rose Bowl for 100,000 people for three consecutive nights is a rare sight in recent years. The three-part series, which worked flawlessly, detonated everyone's curiosity.

Surprisingly, in the overwhelming publicity of Maria and Oasis, almost everyone has a question mark in their minds: So what about glory to death? The ultimate showdown is a confrontation between the Iron Triangle. Two of the contestants have appeared, so what about the last and strongest contestant? This is called not appearing but better appearing. Glory is dead silent, and he has used the propaganda methods of the two competitors to successfully occupy the heads of every audience.

It was an accident, a beautiful accident, and the unexpected effect made everyone stunned, even EMI, even Sony Columbia and Universal Music, never expected it. There was nothing else to do but a wry smile.

In this hustle and bustle, noisy and vigorous, the ultimate showdown, you and me, will officially enter the stage of history!