Chapter 441: I Will Protect Everything of Hip Hop

At the moment Zhou Yi jumped, the atmosphere at the festival reached its normal climax instantly.

Countless hands came from all directions, and the screams that echoed over the entire California Plaza were deafening!

Zhou Yi, who held the microphone tightly, was like lying in an ocean full of corals and reefs. While being constantly pulled by fans, his body was also being pushed forward uncontrollably. It was inevitable that he would collide with fans along the way.

Even though Zhou Yi had strong core abilities, he rarely felt that his body had lost balance at this moment. The cheers lingering in his ears and the excited smiling faces made up for the poor physical sensation.

Until a black-haired girl was so excited that she just hugged his head with both hands, lifted the hem of her T-shirt and put it on.

The rough texture and soft touch of cheap clothes intertwined and came towards him, colliding with Zhou Yi!

"Ohohohoh!!!" The screams stimulated Zhou Yi's eardrums to buzz.

Those who cheered and wanted to try it too.

The cheers, one higher than the other, hit Zhou Yi's face, hands, arms and even thighs through his clothes, making him feel at home in a foreign country.

The people holding DVs and jumping up and down faithfully recorded all the joy at the music festival, until Zhou Yi returned to the stage in a dishevel, gasping for breath, but still had to keep his emotions and sing the chorus loudly -

"I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing"

"Roman Cavalry choirs are singing"

"Be my mirror my sword and shield"

"My missionaries in a foreign field (My missionary stands outside the border)~~~"

Perhaps because he spent too much energy struggling to come up, Zhou Yi, who was panting when he received this part, obviously couldn't control his voice, and the high-pitched part was directly stuck on the edge of breaking and not breaking. But it was precisely because of this scene that can only be seen at the music festival that made the audience on the scene even more excited!

Louis XVI, King of France, a world-famous headless knight.

The character story chosen by Zhou Yi for this song is undoubtedly very down-to-earth for European and American fans, including Spiderman, Batman, Superman and even Greek mythology in the previous song in the album sequence.

There is no obscure Chinese unique culture like "Dongfeng Po", "Zai Meibian" or even "Susan Said" and "Hua Tiancuo", but only full of sincerity.

Yes, as fans of Zhou Yi, a small number of them can't understand Chinese Although they don't know the Chinese language, they are still willing to spend money to buy Zhou Yi's Chinese version.

It can be said that Zhou Yi is a door for them to start understanding Chinese.

Therefore, for many Zhou Yi's fans, Zhou Yi, a foreigner from the other side of the ocean, is so familiar with the allusions belonging to their foreign country and is willing to write them all into songs. This is respect for them, the foreign fans who want to make money.

This is better than saying "hello" and "hi" ten thousand times.

They even look forward to Zhou Yi's real voice breaking.

As strong as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and even the five great divas who were famous for their singing skills at the end of the last century, they all broke their voices many times at music festivals because of interacting with fans, and there are a lot of famous scenes.

Unfortunately, Zhou Yi did not satisfy their wish until the end of the song.

"Huh, are friends in Los Angeles always so enthusiastic? "

Zhou Yi wiped his sweat and stood in front of the stage with one hand on his waist, panting while slightly baring his teeth, and he did not forget to tease the excited male and female fans in the audience: "Thank you for leaving me a set of clothes. "

Backstage, Avril and Kylie Minogue, who stayed behind because they were not convinced, stood together and chatted while watching. They gave a very consistent evaluation of this song -

It is absolutely at the level of Billboard's top single.

If they were to choose the song that is most likely to top the B chart from Zhou Yi's album, they would definitely choose this one, followed by the song "Counting Stars" that fans jokingly called "Counting Stars".

People are better than people.

As Avril watched, the unconvinced feeling in her heart turned into discouragement.

Perhaps, she is not talented enough.

If she can be like Zhou Yi, maybe she can force the Grammys to give in. Even if she is not a white Canadian, maybe she can... use foreign powers to show off?

For some reason, Avril, who is known as the punk witch, suddenly had such an idea that is not punk at all.

But the facts also proved that her prediction was not wrong -

The next day, after Zhou Yi performed at the Los Angeles Music Festival, the data of the six songs he sang on the spot on major Los Angeles radio stations were almost all doubling exponentially-

This is the power of road shows.

And Zhou Yi's performance at the music festival also spread rapidly throughout the United States through major newspapers and the Internet-

"Chinese King of Pop Shines in Los Angeles!"

"Still unrepentant! Spike dates female fans at the music festival!"

"Chinese singers teach live, what's wrong with our singers? ! "

"Flirtatious, hooking up, promiscuous. As far as I know, Spike had relationships with many young models when he first served as Arsenal's publicity ambassador in the UK, but those models received hush money and could not tell the public.

"Even the Premier League goddess Kelly Brook is just one of his many model lovers. Spike doesn't even know her hometown. He wrote a song for her just because he met her in Galway. This is simply ridiculous.

"In the United States, he not only hooked up with Mariah Carey, but also had contact with several models. Some people even saw him openly hugging female models. "I can't help but ask, what happened to us? What happened to our singers?" On March 8, as Zhou Yi's sales and song rankings were still charging upwards like a madman, Michelle Morgan, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, who had previously failed in her prediction, directly sprayed in an interview: "This is America, not China! " "Why can he do whatever he wants? God, this is simply a shame for the American music scene!" Because the original report of the Los Angeles Times was slapped in the face only three days later, Michelle Morgan seemed to be going all the way to the end. Not only did she not admit her mistakes, but she also put the blame on those singers who also made harsh remarks in the interviews, and on the American music scene---To sum it up in one word: It's not that I made a mistake in my prediction, but that the American music scene is in a mess. Ask again? The next question is that Spike has promiscuous relationships with both men and women and does not respect women. Such a person should be sent to the crematorium with Justin Timberlake!

He does not deserve my respect!

What is even more magical is that due to Michelle Morgan's shameless boycott spirit, she has received many invitations to programs and directly became their guest of honor. She has received a lot of remuneration. The two-month pre-scheduled notice fee is more than her salary in the past year...

It fully explains what it means to be red even if you are black and red, and what it means that the audience likes to go to the circus to see clowns.

Justin Timberlake, who was shot while lying down, was confused-

No, what do you mean I should be sent to the crematorium too?

Are you polite?

The Disney prince on the run, who is preparing for his first world tour, is obviously dissatisfied with this: "I don't understand what she is talking about. I think she should apologize to me because this is an infringement on my personal reputation."

"Then, Justin, do you have any plans to release an album or single to compete with Spike recently?"

"What? Nononono..."

Backed by a big company, Justin Timberlake, who is obviously very aware of the potential of Zhou Yi's album, smiled and shook his head: "The most important thing for me now is to prepare for my own tour so as not to disappoint my fans."

Seeing that this male idol, who is second only to Zhou Yi in controversy, avoided this pit so smoothly, the reporter was obviously unwilling: "Then what do you think of Michelle's comment that the American music scene is lame?"

"Is Spike the first? It seems that he is not the first now, right? How did Miss Michelle come to this outrageous conclusion?"

Justin chuckled and gave an answer that was not really an answer.

You are shouting so happily even before you reach the top. If you don't know, you two might think that there is some dirty deal behind the scenes, and you are just singing the same tune to hype up the popularity.

As for the band Disillusionment, which was pushed as the vanguard of sniping Zhou Yi because of the popularity of the song, it is also difficult to avoid being asked relevant questions by reporters -

Even because they are both branches of rock music, the questions to them are more tricky.

"The ranking of the Billboard singles chart? We don't care about it."

"What do you think of Spike? We haven't contacted him, but I think the music of his album may be a little different from our traditional rock music."

"..."

The band Disillusionment, which is running around to expand the influence of the single "Bring Me to Life", said that they don't care about the ranking, but they are running more diligently than half a month ago. Their agent even publicly said some very controversial words in an interview -

For example: Zhou Yi's pop rock is pseudo-rock, not rock at all.

In the European and American rock circles, there is a group of fans who like the original rock music. This group of people cannot help but feel uncomfortable with Zhou Yi's pseudo-rock music.

You say it is not rock music, but the core "attitude" of rock music is fully reflected;

But if we talk about rock music, it's basically just a pop song, and it's a pseudo-rock song by definition.

This group of people originally thought that the single "Bring Me to Life" by the band Disillusionment was not rock music, but now, after a comparison, it seems to be a little more rock music than Zhou Yi's.

It's very uncomfortable.

But soon, they don't have to feel uncomfortable anymore-

March 11th is the day when the new round of B chart rankings are announced.

The band Disillusionment, which was still outside the top ten of the B chart last week, suddenly dropped four places in the ranking, which is completely unreasonable for a band that is on the rise-

And Zhou Yi's "Viva La Vida", "Natural" and "Counting Stars" directly rushed into the top fifteen this week, ranking 8th, 10th and 12th respectively!

And below "Bring Me to Life" which dropped to the 15th place, there are Zhou Yi's "We Are Young" and "Apologize" lurking, and the data index is about the same, which can basically be understood as being able to overtake at any time...

Zhou Yi, who was still in the middle of the B chart last week, has made his songs soar in the data of major radio stations in the United States after a week of hard work, and has strongly killed the top of the Billboard with sales!

The Disillusionment Band, which was regarded as the vanguard of sniping Zhou Yi by many media last week, fell without any chance to fight back...

Fell...

Last week, it was still the supernova of the United States and the new hope of rock and roll, but this week it became cannon fodder in the mouths of the media. As a newcomer, the Disillusionment Band has also experienced the cruelty of public opinion in the music industry.

And Zhou Yi's soaring behavior across dozens of places this week has brought him not only positive feedback in sales, but also brought a shock to the North American music industry like "the wolf is coming"!

Warner also announced the sales of Zhou Yi's new album "Forever Young" in the seven days from March 4 to March 10 -

1.46 million copies!

Billboard Album 200 won two consecutive championships, and directly surpassed the second place by nearly 400,000 copies!

If Zhou Yi's sales in the three days from March 1 to March 3 are counted, Zhou Yi's sales in North America in ten days have exceeded 2.3 million copies!

If it was just a self-entertainment among many media before, this time it really triggered a bigger discussion -

Vanity Fair: "Spike, unstoppable? ! ”

Entertainment Weekly: "The shining eyes of the lion? ? ! 》

"God, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have found it hard to believe that a Chinese singer could have sold more than 2.3 million albums in North America in just ten days. The bonus brought to him by the Grammy effect is really terrifying."

"Unfortunately, the singer who benefited from the Grammy effect this year is not only Norah Jones, but also Spike. Too many people chose to buy the album just to hear what the new album of the first Chinese Grammy winner of the pop music trophy is."

"The Disillusionment Band, which was hailed as the strongest new group in the music industry this year, was easily surpassed by Spike. The difference in popularity between them is really too big..."

"The North American music industry is going to be finished..."

Since Zhou Yi's new album was released at the end of the Grammy Awards, all the reports on the Grammy Awards were basically converted to news about his new album.

Norah Jones has benefited from the Grammy effect of millions of album sales worldwide. Although Zhou Yi doesn't have as many awards as her, his status is enough to attract attention, so he also got a share of the pie...

After such a self-analysis, some media felt that Zhou Yi's strong performance this week was just the residual power of the Grammy Awards, and they focused their attention on Eminem, the leader of hip-hop sales, and his apprentice 50 Cent.

Hip-hop, rock, and pop.

The three best-selling album factions in the world in the past few years.

Now, the Disillusionment Band, one of the representatives of rock, has been defeated and obviously has no hope of overtaking. The pop faction obviously has nothing to fight for now, so they can only hope for hip-hop that is still fighting on the list - the hip-hop single sung by 50 Cent: "In da Club".

This week, "In da Club" is still ranked second on the singles list, but the gap with the first is negligible.

It can even be said that if the statistics are counted for one more day, "In da Club" may be able to top the Billboard singles list.

"I think there is absolutely no problem for Curtis to take the first place." As the leader of hip-hop, Eminem, who has no record plan this year, started to cheer for his apprentice: "The final winner will definitely be us."

To be honest, Zhou Yi's single soared so fast that it really exceeded his expectations.

But now both public opinion and the chart situation are obviously in their favor. As long as 50 Cent wins the singles chart championship before Zhou Yi, they are destined to be the winner, even if the victory is not glorious.

50 Cent himself was also full of confidence when he was interviewed.

He was just one step away from the final victory. If he could still be overtaken, he might as well have been shot dead in the first place. He was almost shot dead before his debut, and he was finally saved.

"Eminem is right. This is destined to be a victory for hip-hop music. I will protect everything about hip-hop."