Chapter 1203 Opening Ceremony

"Warner?"

The news of Warner's official admission reached Song Ya a little later. On June 10, 1998, he received a call from Donovan on the opening day of the World Cup, "Indeed, they are the only ones left with capital and global competition." gone."

Except for Sony Columbia Records, the industry leader who has already laid down and reached a duet alliance with Universal, the other three major companies have expressed certain intentions, but there is no way. to go.

For example, EMI and BMG, both of European capital background, mainly take the way of lobbying the local government, hyping up issues such as why local major record companies should not be allowed to fall into the hands of Mi capital, trying to lock Polygram in Europe first, and exclude Other buyers, and then slowly lower the price.

There are also some multinational consortiums and private equity capital who have a similar mentality of picking up leaks, and they are all mixed up. The sincere buyer has always been only Universal.

Warner Communications, the parent company of Warner Records and Warner Bros. Pictures, was acquired by Time Inc., which owns TIME magazine, in 1990, and it was just merged with Turner Television Network in 1996. It is a super media group full of bureaucracy and office chaos. In recent years, it has begun to follow the Internet boom. It has invested heavily in the acquisition of websites and is busy networking the top media such as CUU, competing with Microsoft and NBC.

"It may be too late," Donovan commented: "They're like a slow-moving black bear."

"No matter how slow the bear is, it still has a deterrent effect, as long as it can cause trouble for Universal... Okay, let's not talk, I'm about to debut."

The staff came to urge, Song Ya hung up the phone in a hurry.

"T-shirts, pants, earphones, receivers, microphones..."

After going out from the bathroom, he and Shakira's lounge was full of people, they were all busy, Gloria was also there, her costume was more conservative than Shakira's, and Shakira was wearing very cool The samba style dance skirt reveals a beautiful waistline.

The assistants of the three did their final checks, and Song Ya didn't care much about them, because the organizer and the chief director of the opening ceremony finally decided to compress the two nearly eight-minute songs to more than five minutes, singing together, with the cup of life first, After Weareone, I have to go first.

So he, Shakira and Gloria could only communicate nervously with A+ Records, the musicians and the music director here in just a few days, and re-arrange the work. Linda also rushed over, just like a nanny Also busy in the lounge.

This is not bad, the French changed their minds temporarily, even the fashion show was moved to the final day, and hundreds of models disappeared.

The little hot mom Shakira was a little nervous, and kept trying belly dance moves to see if the equipment on her body would fall off. The two looked at each other from a distance. She let out a long breath to relieve, and smiled at this side.

"Just follow the rehearsal."

Song Ya only had time to comfort her before she was hurriedly taken away, "Linda, take care of me." He asked Linda before going out.

As soon as I walked into the aisle, there was a huge noise from the stands and an even more deafening live sound.

Eighty thousand fans from various countries crowded the stands of the Stade de France. The entire stadium was covered with a layer of green cloth, some super-large colorful flowers bloomed in the stadium, and the 'bees' dressed up by professional stuntmen were hung from the top of the stadium. There were also actors on stilts entering the arena, and the national flags of thirty-two countries fluttered in the wind. The entire Stade de France was colorful and very spectacular.

The place where Shakira and the others performed was a shallow white stage in front of one side of the goal. It was made of very light composite boards, and it was less than two palms high from the ground. There was no gorgeous lighting designed at the beginning. The microphone stand is already arranged and lays flat on the stage.

Song Ya and the musicians of the Cup of Life joined together and hid behind the exit of the passageway. They were blocked by the staff who were constantly communicating with the choreographer and director team, waiting to play.

The Latin musicians had already started to get nervous. Some people repeatedly gestured the cross on their chests and muttered prayers.

There are small microphones stuck on the trombone and other instruments in their hands, but the sound of the performance will basically be overwhelmed by the accompaniment tape played in the venue. This is the most important sports event in the world, and the romantic French do not want to make any mistakes.

"Just don't fall down halfway."

He was already used to seeing big scenes, shaking his legs, and continued to comfort him: "Actually, this kind of scene is nothing to you, right? Don't Latin American concerts often attract 80,000 or even 100,000 people? My concert in Mexico City There were 80,000 spectators in attendance."

They are all top musicians, and they all laughed at what he said, "This is the opening ceremony of the World Cup." Someone replied.

"five minutes."

The staff reminded that the green curtain covering the stadium began to be withdrawn. Song Ya saw that the two singers who sang the French theme song "Do you mind if I play football" had already run to the kick-off point, where they will perform.

"You haven't played yet?"

Shakira and Gloria also came out from the aisle, and Shakira who was holding a microphone asked in surprise.

"five minutes."

Song Ya carefully hugged and kissed the two of them, not wanting to mess up anything on them, especially the earphones and receivers.

The French singing in the stadium sounded, and the three of them looked at the big screen very professionally. At least the live broadcast camera did not take too much care of the singer.

The two French singers sang alone in the middle circle, and the live sound effect was not very good. The French did not use a professional stage and bulky large-scale equipment. After all, the opening match between Brazil and Scotland would follow immediately.

Since the more than one hundred models from Men's Paradise have withdrawn, the treatment they are waiting for may be similar. This is not very consistent with the expectations before coming here, Song Ya frowned a little displeased.

But the time does not allow him to think about things, and the duration of "Do you mind if I play football" has also been compressed, and the live version should be less than three minutes.

"Musicians."

The staff let the musicians go, "APLUS, wait a moment..."

"Um."

Song Ya watched the musicians run to stand around the white stage, and stood still at each corner. He immediately cleared his throat and moved his legs in place a few times.

"Good luck." Gloria patted him on the back.

"Yeah." He turned his head and smiled, wrapped his arms around Shakira's waist, and only had time to do this.

"APLUS. Shakira, prepare... for three minutes." The staff quickly signaled that he could play.

Taking a deep breath, he showed the demeanor of a superstar, smiled and waved towards the stands, and trotted towards the stage. His feet stepped on the soft green grass from the hard ground, and he dodged a performer on stilts in the middle. wooden stage.

"Leather pants are just bad..." In the middle, he still had the leisure to complain to himself, the tight leather pants are too restrictive for running.

It was very tight, and the French song over there just stopped abruptly when he took his seat. The musicians saw the two singers in the middle circle exit through the crowd and props of the cultural performance, and immediately started playing.

It started with tambourines and whistles, 'Doo-doo! beep! Beep beep beep! ’ Then the passionate trombone sounded.

"APLUS!"

With his legs spread apart, he stood upright in the middle of the stage, lowered his head expressionlessly to pretend to be cool, until he heard the urging in his ears, he immediately stretched out his feet and said, 'Pa! ’ The vertical microphone stand that was practiced the most during the rehearsal was erected, and he firmly caught it in mid-air with his hand.

handsome!

",..."

He opened his voice energetically, then twisted up.

The photographer slowly approached with the camera on his shoulders, he smiled confidently and pointed his finger at the camera, blinking to tease the audience on the TV.

"Audience friends, maybe you have just opened the elevator, and the current singer is APLUS, who has half of the blood of Huaguo, and is also a music superstar with global influence like Bruce Lee. He just came to visit not long ago. Hometown, donate money and goods..."

Along with the commentary, the close-up shot happened to be shown on TV, but then it was suddenly cut into an advertisement.

"oh!"

The football watching crowd in a bar in a certain place in Huaguo made dissatisfied noises, but there was no way, CCTV bought foreign broadcast signals.

"Lucharporell, lucharporell!"

Song Ya didn't know about this episode, the cup of life reached the climax after singing a few words, "Tuyyo! Alealeale! Tuyyo! Alealeale!"

He held the microphone in one hand, stepped on the Latin dance step with one arm raised high, and waved towards the stands. The electric eyes also looked directly at the camera in that direction.

The audience also raised their hands and sang along with him. It was very neat in the broadcast screen, and the atmosphere was driven extremely enthusiastically.

"Who is this woman!?"

It's a pity that the broadcast screen was cut soon. This time in the United States, Amy, who was curled up in Harley's arms, saw that the camera was showing a close-up of a blonde beauty wearing a Brazilian flag in the stands, and asked immediately.

"I don't know, I don't watch football... It must be a scumbag who was caught by the local media again. The French are implicating him. It seems that Shakira and him can't get along with each other, poor Latin girl."

Harry guessed.

In fact, the girl is Suzanne, the girlfriend of soccer superstar Ronaldo.

"Hey! Where the hell are you from!?" Amy hit her.

"Gogogo! Alealeale!"

When Song Ya sang this, Shakira and Gloria also quietly stood beside him, one on each side, and dancers wearing the national team uniforms of the 32 participating countries, and performers holding national flags behind them .

"Attention attention! Cut to Weareone!"

Did three minutes pass? So quickly, Song Ya followed the beat in his ears, "..." cut to the next English song accurately, and began to interact with Shakira and Gloria beside him.

When encountering obstacles

difficulties ahead

One love, one life, one world, one competition

The whole world, focused on one night, only in one place, is France

The original song is from Brazil, which has been changed a long time ago. He pointed to Shakira and introduced loudly: "Shakira!"

"Onenight, watch the worldunite, Twosides, onefight,..."

Shakira catches it right and hotly twists her water snake motor as the French SP cameraman zooms in closer.

Song Ya also gave way to the C position, and jumped up close to her.

"This Shakira... is a singer under Sony Columbia Records, right?"

Bronfman Jr. was already in London at this time, because PolyGram was listed on the London Stock Exchange, so we still had to talk about it. Even if Warner intervened, his temper couldn't bear to be forced to leave midway.

Even if he lives in a hotel, he can feel the enthusiasm and social response here from time to time. The media here is full of the World Cup. The two youth idol stars Beckham and Irving are the most frequently mentioned, from the stadium to the lace gossip... …

The music, of course, is the Cup of Life and this Weareone. When passing by a street bar, this is what comes out of it.

"Yes, both she and Gloria."

Universal Music President Doug Morris answered.

"This guy who eats inside and out!" The more Bronfman watched Song Ya on the TV, the more he disliked him, no, the more he hated him, and pointed his index finger at Song Ya who was chattering, "You should let him stay in Sony Columbia Frozen."

Who can hide him now? It's more popular than MJ in many places around the world, right?

Besides, it was David Geffen's idea to accept him at that time, didn't you also nod?

Doug Morris secretly complained, "I didn't expect him to be so difficult to deal with..." But he had no choice but to accept the blame, "Fortunately, the French don't have a lot of cold for him... You see."

The picture was cut away again, and it was given to live cultural performances, as well as French and other dignitaries in the stands.

But this happened to be the only section Gloria was in charge of. After she sang, amidst the stereo and the sound of Oleole in the audience, Song Ya, the three of them and the performers completed their tasks and exited in an orderly manner.

"Hahaha!"

The three of them ran back to the corridor, "Huh! I didn't even break a sweat." Song Ya wiped her forehead with her hand and then turned to Shakira.

"It's too short, I really have more to say."

Shakira and the others only made their debut for two minutes, which was indeed too short.

"Stop complaining, we're going to travel a lot this month, and there are plenty of opportunities."

FIFA is also very demanding when it comes to people. The price for the three of them to appear at the opening ceremony is that they have to perform inter-field or promotional performances almost throughout the World Cup.

But the influence is no match for the opening ceremony, that's for sure.

"Ah!" The main goal was accomplished, he suddenly picked up Shakira and carried it on his shoulder in a relaxed mood, and the girl screamed.

"It's not enough, is it?"

‘Why only give these few shots? What is the operation of zooming out to the panoramic view of the stadium? Who wants to watch those square performances? '

‘And politicians, I don’t know who is who. '

'Cut and cut! Mess! '

A large number of newcomers poured into the repost of the opening ceremony of the American music website. Originally, American fans were complaining about it, but suddenly there were many foreign people who followed the post, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and garbled text... Available in all languages.

Rashida Jones also got angry watching it, especially the part where APLUS and Shakira interacted later, "Huh?" He noticed that there was a message for English, "What is the world's number one sport, this rotten performance is better than our super The Bowl (Rigby Football's biggest final game of the year) halftime show is nowhere near that! '

She suddenly had an inspiration, and simply quit the post that was gradually getting out of control. Anyway, after watching APLUS, everyone was not interested.

She posted another, 'Sisters! Let us jointly support APLUS on the Super Bowl Halftime Show! ’ Unpretentiously taking the ideas of forum netizens as their own.

Chicago 1990