Chapter 567 Visiting the Record Store
"APLUS can't get through. It should be on the plane to Tokyo. Linda also went to Italy."
On a high-end commercial street not far from Bedford Hills, Brenda’s manager, former singer Louis McCall, helped Brenda open the door of the record store, “Don’t worry, Sony Columbia Records is only postponed for commercial considerations. In order to hit the charts, you only need to survive two weeks before you can become popular again."
"You have been popular and you have been angry. You can understand my mood now, right? Louis."
The door bell rang, and Brenda walked into the store as she spoke.
"Uh... I can understand, but what you said is a bit unpleasant."
Louis followed behind her with a wry smile. Brenda's emotional intelligence has always been a headache for him and his wife Linda. "Be sure to pay attention to your words when you are making the list."
"rest assured."
"Didn't you accompany Miss Kelly? Why did you run out alone?"
"Hmph, that woman has been calling her and APLUS's love nest to buy this and that, and I have nothing to do next to me, it's boring." After entering the door, Brenda stood in a conspicuous place in front of the cash register for a while, observing Most of the customers in this well-decorated video store were boys and girls in their teens and twenties. People coming and going, including the shop assistants, did not respond to their arrival.
"No one will recognize us anymore," she sighed sadly.
"If I still have a beard, I should have a higher chance of being recognized."
Louis rubbed his bare chin. In order to establish the image of a business elite, he shaved off his beard after he switched careers and opened an artist management company in the mid-1980s. Since then, he has not been recognized on the street. Of course, even before that He still has a beard, and the probability of being recognized is very low, "I have been out of date for fifteen years..." he said.
Brenda was stunned for a while, "The customers here are all young people..." Not reconciled, she walked half a circle in front of an older clerk.
"Madam, please let me go?" The other party complained, holding a cardboard box and dancing out of the soundtrack of my life.
Brenda pursed her lips, resisting the emotion of anger on the spot, and pulled out a CD from the cardboard box, "APLUS and I sang the song, but he and Amy on the cover." Complained softly to Louis, Song on the cover Ya and Amy are embracing and looking at each other affectionately.
"Otherwise? This is the soundtrack of the movie, and there is no Elton John on the cover of the Lion King soundtrack."
Louis pointed to the clerk, "Sony Columbia Records has started shipping, you just have to wait."
"Did you go to dance out of my life?"
Brenda turned to the vinyl section in the back row and eavesdropped on the conversations of the boys and girls.
"Look, the song is very nice. I like the song Say Goodbye. APLUS sings so well." A girl said, "How about you?"
"UMustBe, Donnie Braston performed very well, and the scene of dancing with the hero and heroine on the pier is very beautiful." Her best friend replied.
"Yeah, it made me want to learn to dance a little bit. I asked my mother to call APLUS' manager..."
"What? Your mother knows his manager!?"
"It's nothing, right? Doesn't your family live near APLUS and Mariah Carey's estate?"
"Uh, they haven't moved in yet, maybe later, maybe I can let my dad take them to visit them, do you want to come together then?"
"Yeah……"
"By the way, you haven't said what you want to do with his agent?"
"I want to ask what is the name of the prototype of the Art School in Chicago. The script was written by APLUS, and his agent must know."
"Didn't the students all guess that it was the Chicago campus of Columbia University? You are going to study at Columbia University, right?"
"Wrong, I asked, that Columbia College in Chicago has nothing to do with Columbia University here."
"You don't want to go to Chicago and learn to dance, do you? That kind of street dance... your mother will beat you to death.
"
"Anyway, ask first."
"You're crazy..."
"Let's not talk about this, where are we going next?"
"Let's make a decision in the car first, the driver should wait in a hurry."
"Okay, before I knew it, another day passed by... I also wanted to say that I went to Paris to watch a show this summer."
The conversation between the two gradually faded away, "These children from rich white families." Louis smiled wryly, "They were born with golden spoons in their mouths."
"People living around here are either rich or expensive." Brenda rummaged for a long time, feeling more and more irritable, "Staff!" She called the shop assistant, "Don't you have Brenda's previous records at home? It's the one who danced to the female singer on the soundtrack of my life."
"Uh, please wait a moment."
The clerk went to check the computer at the cashier for a long time, "Yes, ma'am, but it's in the warehouse, do you want it? Only vinyl records."
"Otherwise what would I ask it for?"
"Okay, I'll find it for you." The clerk trotted towards the warehouse.
"Find them all!"
"OK."
The two took the opportunity to observe the store for a long time. Actually, not many people bought the soundtrack of my life. Most young people here still like rock music. For example, Nirvana's long-released album Nevermind is still very popular. "
"The territory of rich white people can't explain anything." Louis explained her.
"I kept you waiting." The clerk came out with a few vinyl records and handed them to Brenda, "Everything you want is here."
"Well, it's still not recognized." Brenda was hit again.
Louis glanced at the young face on the album cover, and then at the black aunt in front of him, "Try to speak with a singing voice?"
Brenda shook her head, "Forget it, take me to Brooklyn, I want to visit a few more stores."
"All right."
She didn't go to the cashier to pay, she put the record on the shelf of Dancing Out of My Life casually, blocked Amy with her face on the album cover, ignored the store clerk who was staring sideways, and swaggered away with Louis.
Louis drove, and the two returned to her 'base camp', "Brenda!?" As soon as they entered the door, they were recognized by the old black man behind the cashier, "Yo! How long have we not seen each other?"
"It's only been three years..." Brenda rolled her eyes and scolded him. The layout here is much simpler and rude. Only records are sold. There is a double row of record racks in the middle of the small storefront. The films are all stuffed in the cardboard box, and they are simply classified according to the style of the music. If you want to go through one by one, the vast majority of customers are looking down at the words, very attentive, for fear of missing them.
"Do you know him?" Brenda pointed to Louis.
"Sorry?" The old man stared at him for a long time and shook his head blankly.
"So?" Louis shaded his chin, covering his upper lip with a finger.
"Louis? Louis McCall?" The old man really recognized him, "You boy, I remember that you fought with your teammates more than ten years ago, and you injured someone while driving while drunk? And then disappeared... Now What? What are you doing?"
"Well……"
Louis was embarrassed when his old background was exposed, "I'm still in the record business, and I'm working as Brenda's manager. I've rehabilitated myself!"
"Wow, you should seize this opportunity and tell you quietly, the children here love the song Brenda written by APLUS for you, but don't let yourself go bankrupt again." The old man poked his head out whispered.
"Hey! Can you say something nice?"
Brenda walked into the store, "A+, A+, A+..." and saw a black guy muttering words flipping through the vinyl record of APLUS's first album, "A+ is there, all of them." Louis patted him on the arm.
"Hey! Be careful!"
The other party seemed to be frightened, and turned back to pull up the T-shirt, revealing the handle of the gun pinned to the luminous belt of the same style as Xiaopangdun. "Did no one tell you the rules here? Nger in a suit?"
"Uh, sorry, I just want to remind you." Louis quickly raised his hands and pointed to the discount area.
"M-Fxxk." The other party didn't bother anymore, went over there and successfully found the A+ album, and took Zhang Wu out of my life's original soundtrack, "You collect food stamps here, right?"
"Keep your fucking voice down! Do you want me to go to jail?" The old man scolded him, and the two concluded the deal tacitly in a flash.
"How long have you been away from this environment?" Brenda asked Louis.
"After Linda went to help, it's a pity, that kid is much more generous than APLUS." Louis replied.