Two Hundred and Twenty Seventh, a Moment of Respite

Duncan Turner still likes autumn in New Orleans. There is no sweltering heat and humidity in summer, nor the dryness and bleakness of winter. The streets are always filled with melodious jazz music and the aroma of ripe melons and fruits. It seems that life is slowly languishing. Lazy and comfortable, people can't help wandering in it.

But even the breezy fall weather hasn't been able to save Duncan from the dullness and exhaustion of late.

It's not a special trouble, it's just that the boring day after day makes life lose vitality, it's hard to find something worth looking forward to and exciting in the repetitive work and daily life, to break the rules of daily life, there is no special Sad, and not particularly happy.

It was like... just being alive.

There are no waves in a stable and comfortable life, as if slowly approaching death. This feeling of suffocation makes people crazy, and there are endless bills to pay every day, one after another, filling up my mailbox, like one by one. A rope tied his ankles and he sank slowly.

The seemingly peaceful life is actually busy every day. He can't give up or leave, and he doesn't even have the right to get sick, because once a link goes wrong, the world he worked so hard to maintain may fall apart. The bubbles also disappeared.

So, he worked like this calmly, like worker ants, repeating mechanical work back and forth, longing for change but fearing change, copying and pasting the life pattern so that there is no difference between yesterday, today and tomorrow. Don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Gradually, even going to the bar to relax every now and then became boring, and the alcohol seemed to lose the taste I remembered.

"ah……"

Standing at the door of the noon bar, Duncan sighed a long time. Originally, he wanted to come here to relax, but he couldn't sit still after just drinking a bottle of beer. He turned and left. The sky covered with a faint orange-yellow halo made it impossible to move forward.

If you just go home like this, the uncontrollable low pressure is likely to make the family feel pressured. He doesn't want his family to bear his negative emotions, especially when facing children, he still needs to show a smile. The burden of life should not be left to them Come face it, so before he goes home, he needs to find a way to reopen his shoulders and straighten his back.

He walked aimlessly, but he didn't go too far, so he sat down on a bench by the side of the road. He felt tired even though he hadn't exercised. Blank, bored, doing nothing, and then started to take out the phone, swiping the screen aimlessly, switching back and forth between different social networks to refresh.

"A show that made the world stop turning".

When I refreshed the Youtube page, I accidentally saw a very explosive exaggerated title. I glanced down and saw that the number of views had exceeded 30 million. The number is also very appalling. Although Duncan complained inwardly, he couldn't help but click on the video.

"Huh?"

It's that band!

At the beginning of the video, Duncan recognized the band without any effort. The name should be... One Day King, who once appeared on the stage of the Full Moon Party and the stage of the Noon Bar——

I come to the noon bar every three to five times, except that this is indeed a place I am used to coming to, and I may not have the intention to enjoy the wonderful performance again, but unfortunately, since that time, I have never enjoyed it again. A brilliant performance.

The video, which is less than five minutes long, can be watched quickly.

Duncan looked at the screen of the phone quietly, his thoughts were raging and mixed, and then he didn't make any special reaction, but just clicked the play button again.

An acoustic guitar, a voice, that's all.

It is such a simple performance, even without spotlights and audiences - the extremely simple performance on the street makes people stop involuntarily,

It seems that time also slows down. The singing of the lead singer of the band does have a healing power, silently nourishing the wounds of the soul, and the complicated emotions are calmed down, and the thoughts become clear again.

Things, it seems, are not so difficult.

This is the power of music, and the power of performance.

Duncan couldn't help sighing silently.

In fact, after the full moon party ended, Duncan did not forget about the band. He tried to find the band's records and information about the band, but unfortunately he couldn't. Slowly forgotten to the corner.

Until today.

"...you are far away in the sky and close to your eyes, the lights flicker and the melody dies, but you can't see..."

The simple and touching singing voice easily touched the atrium, and the irritability slowly settled down. Then Duncan rummaged through the briefcase to find the earphones, quickly put them in his ears, and then clicked play for the third time key, quietly following the ups and downs of the melody.

Obviously it was just a street performance, and the acoustics and performance were not the best, but Duncan just couldn't stop, and couldn't help but want to listen.

He likes the voice of the lead singer, which is different from the band performance at the Full Moon Party, which is loud and enthusiastic. The song "Dancing Alone" strips away all the noisy interference factors, and only the accompaniment of the acoustic guitar allows him to clearly feel the lead singer's voice. The interpretation of the lyrics, the interpretation of the melody, the expression of emotions, those details that cannot be expressed in words can be felt with heart.

Warm and touching.

he likes.

Scrolling down the page, the comment area is also extremely lively. At a glance, there are already more than 100,000 comments pouring in, which is really shocking——

Although netizens are keen to point out the country, but a video with 30 million views can often have 50,000 comments, which is already called a popular work, and it actually exceeds 100,000 in front of you. You can directly compare videos with 50 million views horizontally. , it can be seen that the discussion is absolutely extraordinary.

Some like it, some complain about it, and some attack it. Netizens express their opinions without reservation, and then argue like this.

Looking at it now, the controversy caused by the video should be very intense, but overall, the comments ranked according to the number of likes are still positive. It is a step in the early 2000s, and such a disparity in proportion is also amazing.

No wonder, the video was able to enter Duncan's sight through push.

Among them, the reply with the most likes was, "This is the lead singer of One Day Kings, and the following is their personal account on Youtube".

The name of the band, this is news that Duncan already knows; but what he doesn't know is that the band has its own channel on YouTube? He didn't find it when he searched before!