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Although the hype has always occupied an important position in the newspapers and magazines, for Hugo, he has always stayed away from the gossip. Hugo has always been learning how to distinguish the comments of the media. Whether it is praise or criticism, he cannot accept it completely. He must distinguish the opinions that are really beneficial to him. Only in this way can he make progress. Therefore, how to read media comments is also a A very difficult course.

But there is no doubt that these gossips are all things without any nutrition, just smile after reading them, and you don't need to care at all. As Joseph and Karl said, media hype is that the more excited the parties are, the more lively the event will be. The hype must have the cooperation of all aspects to build a stage. Hugo ignored what the media said before, not just talking. He really didn't give any attention and focused all his energy on the band's practice, which also kept all the hype news out of Hugo's life.

Even listening to the occasional sporadic news from Alex and Charlize that Uma's status quo is not optimistic, Hugo doesn't have much curiosity and focuses on the band's practice.

The progress of the street performance of Glory to Death has been stumbling. The most important thing is that the five people are in a running-in period and need a lot of practice. Therefore, they still pay more attention to each other's cooperation during the performance than the feedback from the audience. This also makes the audience during the street performances always less, but the five of them don't care too much. They will walk on the street to perform once every three or five days on average, and they will stay in the warehouse for more time for persistent training. This also makes them enjoy every performance and enjoy the pleasure of the band growing up little by little.

The sunshine in June makes the footsteps of summer gradually noisy, the heat in the air gradually climbs up with the sound of the waves, and glory to death has been established for nearly a month.

In four weeks, Alfonso not only regained his original strength, but also made new breakthroughs in his understanding of keyboards and guitars. After all, the development of technology in three years is incredible, and Alfonso must keep up with the trend. Only then can. However, compared to Alfonso, the real improvement is not the expected Pedro, but Hugo.

In fact, Hugo's theoretical foundation has always been relatively weak. He is a model of creation relying on inspiration, but with his in-depth understanding of the basics of music, his understanding of creation is also expanding. Hugo already has the advanced consciousness for the next two decades. His understanding of the music trend is two decades ahead of the current one, and now Hugo can continuously verify and compare his advanced consciousness in the actual practice of music. , but it made Hugo grow up quickly.

Of course, what's more important is that the band members' understanding of music is merging and influencing each other, which also makes the whole band's style slowly form.

"Okay, that's it for today's practice." Neil held down the strings in his hand, looked at the tired teammates, and said.

"But..." Pedro still seemed a little unfinished, but Neil shook his head, "Hugo still has work tomorrow, so let's practice today. Besides, there is still a long time to come that we have to keep going. Practice, and don’t rush it for one or two hours.”

"Hugo, your new movie is released, won't you be busy during the promotion period?" Alfonso picked up the conversation curiously, and at the same time, he was not idle, and began to pack up his musical instruments.

Tomorrow is June 23rd, the day of the premiere of "Sleepless in Seattle". Two days later, the 25th film will be officially released in the United States. Tomorrow's premiere is a warm-up. There's going to be a lot of media arriving at the scene to make a judgment on the movie, and then it's time for the movie to be released and judged by the audience.

Hugo is no stranger to this situation. He has experienced it twice before, but the premiere of "Sleepless in Seattle" is the first time Hugo has officially appeared in front of the media after the ups and downs in the past six months. case, it still needs to be paid attention to.

"Joe has asked, there is not much publicity work this time, and Columbia Pictures doesn't want to spend too much publicity." Hugo put away his guitar. Because Columbia Pictures shares the same views as many media, they are not optimistic about the prospects of this film, so they do not want to spend more costs that cannot be recovered. During the promotion period, only some rational reporter interviews and radio interviews were arranged in the first week. It's just work, and there is no further expansion of publicity after that.

In fact, Hugo wants to cooperate with the publicity. After all, he has a dividend in the box office of "Sleepless in Seattle". The better the box office, the more money he can get. However, there is no arrangement from Columbia Pictures at present. Useless. Besides, the band will also have event arrangements in the future, and Hugo can also be regarded as a promotion for the movie, so he didn't try his best to fight for it.

"Even if there is no publicity event, at least the impact on the band's practice will be much less." Fu Jin's movements are very quick, and he quickly covered his drum kit with a cover. Now he is confirming that the surrounding plugs are not powered on. It's a warehouse after all, and there's wood everywhere, so it's easy to catch fire, so be careful.

"In the future, he will only be absent from band practice because of movies. If his band practice too much time, it means that the film career has failed, which is not a good sign." Pedro laughed and joked, let Rain Guo rolled his eyes speechlessly.

"Are you a blessing or a curse?" Hugo seemed very helpless to Pedro, "So I said at the beginning, I am not suitable to be the captain, Neil is doing well now, isn't it? This is me foresight.”

"You're lazy, you can say it clearly." Neil complained mercilessly.

"There is still confusion." Alfonso added weight.

"Lu Chi." Fu Jin made the final blow.

"Hey! Guys! This is not my critique, okay?" Hugo looked unstoppable in the face of such concentrated firepower, and raised his hands in embarrassment to surrender.

Every band needs a captain, and Death to Glory is no exception. In fact, the main responsibility of the captain is not to manage the band, but to be responsible for the internal communication of the band and to maintain the harmony of the band. Now that the band doesn't have an agent, it is the captain's responsibility to have any work or activity arrangements; if there is an agent in the future, then the captain should also shoulder the responsibility of communicating and communicating with the agent.

Therefore, although the captain sounds very powerful, it is actually a very trivial position.

Originally, when everyone chose the captain, all four except Hugo chose Hugo by coincidence, because firstly, Hugo was the lead singer, and the identity of the actor was obviously the focus; The style completely follows Hugo, and more than 90% of the repertoires practiced by the band are created by Hugo, so Hugo became the captain, and everyone was convinced and well-received.

But unexpectedly, Hugo refused. The biggest reason is that he will often leave the band, and his actor status does not want to be abandoned, so he can't devote himself to the trivial work of the band; other small reasons are similar to "I need time to devote myself to creation, no time management. "It was ignored by everyone, but Hugo's words made sense, he is indeed not the right person to be the captain.

In addition to Hugo, Fu Jin seems to be a suitable candidate for the captain. After all, he brought up the new day with one hand, but Fu Jin was unwilling. Although he did not give a reason, it is obvious that the bad memories of the new day are not good for him. still have an impact. Fukukin recommended Neil, and Hugo also expressed his second opinion.

On the one hand, Neil is the veteran of the band, and he, Hugo and Pedro are the first members of the band; on the other hand, Neil's seriousness, rigor and care are indispensable advantages of the captain's position; the most important thing is , compared to Hugo, in fact, Neil and the band members get along the most harmoniously, including Fukukin and Alfonso are also willing to communicate with Neil.

So, after consulting Neil himself, the responsibility of Captain Glory fell on Neil Anderson's shoulders.

Looking at Hugo's embarrassed avatar, Pedro smiled and relieved Hugo, "Hugo, what does the premiere feel like?"

"What does it feel like to be stared at by a pack of wild wolves?" Hugo curled his lips helplessly. Although he said that the premiere was actually the most important occasion for close contact with fans, Hugo couldn't forget the flash bombing of reporters, "Recently Although those news have almost disappeared, but now I just hit the gun, do you think those crows will shut up? Obviously not." Hugo is talking about the hype that has gradually settled down, but who Know if the reporter will bring it up again at the premiere.

"I think you've dealt with it well, there's no problem." Fu Jin said sarcastically with a folded look.

Hugo rolled his eyes and muttered something about "careless making friends", which made Alfonso and Neil laugh beside him, "By the way, this is the premiere of the movie I starred in, you guys. You can also attend, why don't you go together?" In addition to the female partner, the film company will actually give the actors some invitation letters, so that the actors can invite their friends - ordinary people don't have any problems, If Hugo had a large team, agents, managers, assistants, etc. could all get a bunch of invitations to invite their friends to the premiere. Provided, of course, that the premiere is huge enough.

The premiere of "Sleepless in Seattle" isn't a huge one, but if the Glory teammates, Alex, Charlize, and others want to attend, there's nothing wrong with that.

Looking at Hugo's enthusiastic expression, Pedro, who was originally the most active, was the first to hide, "I don't want to deal with crows." And several other people looked at Hugo's eager eyes and avoided them one after another. Looking at the sight, it is obvious that they are not willing to swim in the muddy water.

This made Hugo speechless, "Hey, this is the premiere, and it's not a criticism conference, why are you all acting like I owe money. Hey, Fook Jin, why did you just leave... Neil? Al Fang So...wait for me, Pepe don't forget to turn off the lights..."