Chapter 440 This Means We Are the First Division

"I believe you don't mean that. Maybe your English listening is not good enough..."

"No, no, no, that's what I mean. My English is very good."

"..."

I'm tired. Let's destroy it. Whatever happens.

After trying his best to help smooth things over, the host, who felt that money was hard to earn and shit was hard to eat for the first time, looked as uncomfortable as if he saw Hawking and Victoria's Secret models throwing a silver party.

Warner's money is hot.

The conscientious host was still melancholy about his big red envelope. Under the stage, the cheers that came one after another were enough to show Zhou Yi's popularity-

"Spike! I love you!"

"You are so crazy. I like you so much!"

"You are really fucking my taste!"

"..."

The ceiling of the recording site was almost overturned by the waves of excitement.

It has been a long time since there has been a star like Zhou Yi in the American music scene or the American entertainment circle who is consistent in words and deeds.

Even Eminem, who is generally recognized as a bad boy, only speaks according to the situation.

Those old and new players on the East and West coasts who are full of truth can only speak in their own dirty words, repeating the same vulgar words as "I slept with your girlfriend", "Your brother ran away with me", "Your mother is awesome", "You can't find your father", "You are not as rich as me", "I am proficient in pornography, gambling and drugs".

The style is completely different from Zhou Yi's pretentious words that don't sound like a single dirty word but are extremely exciting.

"I heard Spike is a top student? It seems that the university he attended in China is of Harvard or Cambridge level."

"Scholars are so cool when they show off!"

"Oh no, he looks like he deserves a beating when he said that, but why does he look more and more handsome the more I see him? Am I adapting?"

"To be honest, Spike is really too arrogant. He is indeed very talented and strong, but don't forget that this is the United States, the center of the world music scene. There are a lot of candidates for the first, second and third positions in the world, and he is still far away..."

"Indeed, let alone 50 Cent, Spike's songs are not even higher than Evanescence's singles on the Billboard singles chart..."

Because it was a live show on HBO, when Zhou Yi finished his self-evaluation, the polarization of comments not only did not decrease, but became more and more serious as time went by.

And this new band, Disillusionment, which is recognized by the majority of music fans, is one of the reasons that prove that the American music scene is the world's top region. On January 13, 2003, the new rock band Disillusionment under the American independent record company Wind-up ended the EP trial and offline running, and officially released the lead single of the band's first studio album "Fallen" - "Bring Me to Life". At the same time, this song also received a wave of exposure as an interlude in the movie "Daredevil" released by 20th Century Fox in mid-February. Although the "Daredevil" starring Ben Affleck failed in both word-of-mouth and box office, the song "Bring Me to Life" directly entered the top 50 of the B list with its extremely high quality and climbed all the way up. As of March 4, the song "Bring Me to Life" has climbed to the eleventh place, firmly occupying the position of the top ten gatekeeper of the B list. As a new band and an independent record company that is not a major five record company, the emergence of Disillusionment is undoubtedly a manifestation of the reserve power and vitality of the American music scene. Naturally, after the show was broadcast, this new band with outstanding performance became the argument used by many people in the American public opinion circle to refute Zhou Yi's arrogant remarks - they are all rock songs, you can't even beat a new band, so what's the point of bragging?

As a hip-hop singer brought up by Eminem, Curtis James Jackson III, whose stage name is 50 Cent, was asked this question during an interview on a show, and he immediately bent over with laughter in his chair -

"Sorry, I don't mean to refute anything by saying this, but I think Spike had better face the reality. This is not China, this is the United States. He may be a little... I mean maybe, you know."

The black man, who is currently ranked second on the B-list singles and will officially top the top in two weeks at the latest, and whose total album sales have exceeded 3 million, raised his finger and pointed to his temple, with an especially bright smile.

As a newcomer who just released his first album this year, 50 Cent is much more powerful than his master Eminem when he first debuted. Whether it is the album market or the single market, he has dominated from February to March, and his growth is unmatched.

Next to him, Eminem, who was on the show with 50 Cent to promote, sat on a swivel chair and smiled exaggeratedly.

His rap Bible "Lose Yourself" released at the end of October last year has been on the B chart for twelve consecutive weeks. Although it has now fallen to more than 30 as the popularity has faded, it is still overshadowed by Zhou Yi's new song.

The members of the band Disillusionment, who had become the representatives of the American music scene without realizing it because of their achievements, were all very nervous.

No, don't take me with you when you brag!

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"The competition is very stressful, Ayi, you have to run more, you've already boasted."

On March 7, Qian Jiang, who had taken Zhou Yi to run around for a day yesterday, accompanied him to Los Angeles. Before arriving at the music festival, he pushed the man who was lying on the car seat with his eyes closed: "Hard work during this period, anyway, the company has notified that your domestic concert has been temporarily cancelled due to force majeure, so we don't have to rush back."

In March, SARS officially began its high-speed transmission and outbreak period in China. Even many people in the capital were infected, and a large number of jobs were suspended. Sun Yanzi, another live donkey under Warner, also got the opportunity to lie down and rest at home.

Naturally, Zhou Yi's concert tour that was originally scheduled to be held in China was also interrupted.

Under the discussion of Warner executives, Zhou Yi's time abroad was extended, which could better help him complete tasks such as charting and album sales.

"Well, I understand."

Zhou Yi wiped his face, opened his eyes, took a deep breath and bared his teeth: "Damn, it's so fucking tiring to chart in the United States."

Although it was not the first time, it was obvious that Zhou Yi, who had been in the comfort zone of China for a long time, still had complaints about it.

But complaining is complaining, his body is still very honest.

Because he has a goal in his heart that he has never told anyone - five champion singles on the B chart.

To be fair, the quality of the songs in his album is completely capable of achieving the miracle of five champion singles on the B chart in one album.

The last man to achieve five champion singles in one album was Michael Jackson at his peak in 1987.

Later, even Michael Jackson himself could not replicate this miracle.

He was looking forward to what angles these media could find to refute him after he released five hit singles in one album -

North America is the world's top music region, right? You'll ruin my job!

Don't ask, I'm the best in the world!

If you have the guts, let the two Beatles die!

I'm a cheater!

After adjusting his state, Zhou Yi got out of the car and walked into the backstage of the music festival with the borrowed musicians.

Because he is a solo singer, the rock music he performs live must be accompanied by musicians. Warner found musicians who were specially used to exchange music for the Lincoln band in the company and combined them into a temporary performance band for Zhou Yi's live performance.

No way, the music festival doesn't provide musicians - even if the organizers of the music festival provide them, Zhou Yi doesn't dare to use them.

This thing really pays for itself.

Good musicians are scarce in the market, which means that Warner is big and can afford to support them internally. They can find a few free people to help out. Of course, the remuneration still needs to be paid. This thing has to be paid by Zhou Yi's team, after all, it is his use.

As the biggest star of this music festival, Zhou Yi, who was promoted as a card by the organizer, was not the main performer of the whole show, but the main singer of the second stage. Among the singers who appeared before him, the most famous one was the Canadian little witch Avril, who did not win any awards at this year's Grammy Awards.

And the main performer of the whole show was the pea princess Kylie Minogue, who has dual citizenship of Australia and Britain.

After renewing her contract with EMI Records with a sky-high signing fee of 35 million pounds in July 2001, this dual-nationality female singer became the highest-paid female singer in the entire UK, and also the second-highest-paid British singer, second only to Robbie Williams.

"Honestly, I'm not nervous at all."

Backstage, a circle naturally formed around Zhou Yi who was waiting to go on stage - the only two big names who could stand next to him and chat with him were Kylie Minogue and Avril Lavigne.

The rest of the singers and bands were in groups of two or three, and after exchanging contact information, they kept to themselves.

"Not nervous? Really?"

Kylie Minogue wore a relatively revealing dance outfit, showing off her sexy body without hesitation. Thanks to the high heels, her long legs looked extremely hot: "Public opinion is almost treating you as an enemy challenging the American music scene."

"Who cares?"

Zhou Yi shrugged, then turned his head to look at Avril: "Do you care?"

"You won three Grammy trophies, and I didn't have one."

Feeling that she was the one being excluded, Avril didn't want to pay attention to this man who got the advantage and acted cute. She gestured with three fingers and pretended to be indignant and said: "Now you're asking me?"

Zhou Yi laughed when he heard it: "You haven't come out yet?"

Avril: "..."

Listen, listen! Is this human language? !

What do you mean I haven't come out yet!

Kylie Minogue on the side had her eyes narrowed with laughter: "Come on, Spike, I'm looking forward to your performance."

As a singer with British nationality, Kylie Minogue has been criticized by the American media when she came to the United States before, but she endured it for the sake of sales and image. This time, she finally came up with a very jumping Zhou Yi, and she still wanted to see what the American music scene would react to.

We are all adults now, and we know whether the things about surpassing the Beatles and standing shoulder to shoulder with the Beatles are true or false.

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"Hey! Catherine! Over here! Over here!"

Los Angeles, California Plaza in the city center.

Katherine Elizabeth Hudson, wearing a white T-shirt as the base, a black leather jacket as the outer layer, blue jeans and white shoes, appeared at the music festival with the gift ticket from the limited edition deluxe album in her hand.

The truly magnificent size of her chest attracted the attention of many people who also came to attend this music festival. Katherine, who was a little hesitant, turned around and heard her bestie calling her.

After a closer look, she found that the latter had found the channel for checking the gift tickets.

"God, Spike actually gave out so many tickets. The entrance ticket here is only a little lower than the Coachella Music Festival, but it also costs $45 per ticket, and the VIP ticket starts at $90.

"And what Spike gave us is VIP. "

Katherine was also surprised by her bestie's surprise and chatter.

Even if Warner and the organizer have a cooperation, the cost of this position should be paid by Warner - it may even be that Zhou Yi paid out of his own pocket to subsidize the organizer.

Just a city music festival in California Plaza in Los Angeles has spent so much money, and it has given away no less than 300 tickets. What about music festivals in other places?

Since the album was released, as time goes by, those accounts that boasted on the Internet that they bought limited edition tickets have appeared in Los Angeles, Houston, Orlando, Miami and other cities. Music festivals and music house tickets.

And because of the anonymous operation As long as the ticket inspection is true, anyone with a ticket can enter the venue. This undoubtedly gives die-hard fans who bought the limited deluxe version but don’t want to go to the music festival to squeeze in a chance to sell it to make money -

He really is, I’m crying.

The two tickets for Catherine and her bestie were taken from the limited deluxe version bought by the company.

At first, Catherine didn’t want to come. She was almost too poor to pay the rent, so why would she attend a music festival - it turned out that the tickets for the music festival helped her a lot.

The company bought four sets of limited deluxe versions, and the boss knew her difficulties and turned a blind eye to the fact that she and her bestie took four tickets, and then she sold two...

One for Miami and one for Orlando.

Although it is a bit shameful to do so, it must be said that the money earned did solve Catherine's urgent needs.

Feeling guilty and based on the principle of coming to see the idol in person, Catherine followed her bestie to ride a bike to California Plaza today to participate in this music feast.

Then, she regretted it a little bit -

It's not that she regretted coming in, but that she regretted coming in too early.

As we all know, not every European and American singer or band is a live freak. Especially for bands, there are many who break the voice and go out of tune.

If the atmosphere on the scene is not driven, it will be a disaster.

Unfortunately, Catherine has experienced several singers and bands breaking the voice and going out of tune intermittently, and she can't follow along. Hi. Fortunately, the singers who came on stage later were very talented and heated up the whole place.

The appearance of the little witch Avril pushed the atmosphere of this music festival to the first climax, and the song "Complicated" was exciting!

As the main star of the first stage, Avril sang five songs in a row and performed extremely perfectly, but she did not leave immediately after the performance, but became an audience member.

The young girl was really not convinced.

She wanted to see if this Spike was really good.

At 5:30 pm, when Zhou Yi stepped on the stage on time according to the host's announcement, the audience who had been looking forward to his appearance on stage suddenly burst into thunderous cheers!

"Spike!"

"Spike!"

"Spike!"

"Spike, I love you! ”

Among them, the group in the VIP area holding Zhou Yi’s free tickets were the loudest. Many of them didn’t even bother to keep their balance while holding the DV. They kept jumping and waving their hands to Zhou Yi who was not far from the stage.

“Ok, I heard you, I heard you, and I love you too.”

Zhou Yi, who was also wearing a denim jacket, wanted to speak several times but was interrupted by his own voice. He couldn’t help but smile and said, “But there is only one of me, and I’m afraid you don’t have enough.”

As he was talking, the band’s drummer had already struck the rhythmic drum beat - "Enemy".

As we all know, if you want to mobilize the scene, rock is definitely the best choice.

Although they are not Zhou Yi's main singles, it does not prevent Zhou Yi from opening the show with the two songs "Enemy" and "Natural".

Especially "Natural".

The phrase "Natural!" was almost sung by the whole audience at the end!

When singing the second chorus, Zhou Yi threw off his denim jacket, revealing his muscular body under his T-shirt, and directly pointed the microphone at the audience who were singing in unison - "Come on! Everyone!"

"And you're standing on the edge face up 'cause you're a

"Natural! ”

Top-notch live quality, top-notch vocal characteristics, Zhou Yi, who was sweating from excessive movements on the stage, finally subconsciously picked up the mineral water that had been prepared on the sidelines and poured it on his smoking head!

The outline of his strong chest and abdominal muscles was faintly visible under his pure white T-shirt against the backdrop of wet hair, and all the men and women at the scene screamed!

Especially the female fans.

“Spike! Spike ahh ... ”

As the most popular song in Zhou Yi’s current album, “Viva La Vida” is undoubtedly the most popular song, and it is also the highest on the Billboard singles chart.

The prelude chanting at the beginning of this song is enough to make the whole audience interact——

“ohohohoh~~”

“ohohohoh~~”

The extremely simple syllables are full of a sense of holiness in the uniform chanting of the whole audience.

“I used to rule the world (The world was once dominated by me)

“Seas would rise when I gave the word (The huge waves also surged because of my life)

“Now in the morning I sleep alone (Now I sleep alone at dawn)

“Sweep the streets I used to own (Wandering lonely on the avenues that once belonged to me)…”

Zhou Yi, who sang and walked, bent down and interacted with the group of fans below, and directly triggered the carnival in the front row!

"Jump!"

"Jump!"

"Jump!"

The fans' highest etiquette at the music festival, screaming and cheering, constantly called on Zhou Yi to fall from the sky-

Zhou Yi, who had never tried this kind of play, raised his mouth corners, and actually did a diving preparation in full view of the crowd, and then opened his arms, jumped straight forward, and jumped into the crazy crowd!

"Ahhh!!!"

Crazy Catherine screamed and puffed out her chest to catch it!