Chicago 1990

"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 ceremony of the World Cup, “Indeed, they are the only ones who have capital to compete with the world. Up."

Except for the industry leader Sony Columbia Records, which has long been flat and has reached a duet alliance with Universal, the other three have shown certain intentions, but there is no way, the industry is down, and they are basically trying to see if they can pick up Polaroids. To go.

For example, EMI and BMG, both of which have European capital backgrounds, mainly lobbied the local government, hyping up issues such as not letting local major record companies fall into the hands of Mizi. They tried to lock Polygold in Europe first and rule out Other buyers, then slowly lower prices.

Similarly, there are some multinational consortia and private equity capital who have a similar psychology of picking up. They are all mixed up. Sincere buyers have always been only Global.

Warner Communications, the parent company of Warner Records and Warner Bros. Pictures, was acquired by Time Inc., which owns TIME magazine, in 1990, and then merged with Turner Television Network in 1996. The internals are still in a running-in period and are very chaotic. It is a super media group full of bureaucracy and office chaos. In recent years, it has started to follow the Internet boom again. It has invested heavily in the acquisition of websites and is busy networking CUU and other top-brand media to benchmark Microsoft and NBC.

"It may be too late." Donovan commented: "They are like a slow black bear."

"No matter how slow the bear is, there is a deterrent, as long as it can cause trouble for Universal... Okay, let's not talk, I will be on the stage soon."

The staff came to urge, Song Ya hung up the phone hastily.

"T-shirt, pants, ear return, receiver, microphone..."

After going out from the bathroom, he and Shakira’s lounge was crowded with people. They were all busy. Gloria was also there. Her performance clothes were more conservative than Shakira. Shakira was wearing very cool clothes. The samba style dance skirt shows a beautiful waistline.

The three assistants did the final check. Song Yagu didn’t like them, because the organizer and the director of the opening ceremony finally decided to compress the two songs of nearly eight minutes to more than five minutes, singing together, and the cup of life was in front. After Weareone, he has to make an appearance first.

So he and Shakira and Gloria could only communicate with A+ records, musicians and the music director here in a few days nervously, and resume the arrangement work. Linda also rushed over, just like a nanny. Busy in the lounge as well.

This is not bad. The French temporarily changed their minds. Even the big costume show was moved to the final day, and hundreds of models disappeared.

Little spicy mother Shakira was a little nervous, and kept trying her belly dance moves to see if the equipment on her body would fall off. The two of them looked at each other far away. She breathed out a long sigh of relief and squeezed a smile.

"Just follow the rehearsal."

Song Ya only had time to comfort him, and was hurriedly taken away, "Linda, help me take care of it." He told Linda before going out.

As soon as I walked into the passage, there was loud noise from the stands and more deafening live sound. 80,000 fans from various countries filled the stands of the French Stadium. The whole stadium was covered with green cloth and some oversized colored flowers were present. Inside blooming, professional stuntmen dressed as "bees" were hung from the top of the arena, and actors on stilts entered the arena. The national flags of the thirty-two countries were fluttering in the wind. The entire French Stadium was colorful and spectacular.

The place where Shakira and the others performed was a shallow white stage in front of one goal, made of very light composite panels, less than two palms high from the ground, and without the gorgeous lighting designed at the beginning, standing alone. The microphone stand has been arranged and placed flat on the stage.

Song Ya and the musicians of the Cup of Life joined together and hid behind the exit of the passage. They were blocked by the staff who were constantly communicating with the choreographer and waited to enter the field.

The Latin musicians have already begun to get nervous. Some people repeatedly sign the cross on their chests, chanting prayers.

The trombone and other musical instruments in their hands are stuck with small microphones, but the sound of the performance will basically be overwhelmed by the accompaniment tape played in the venue. This is the world's most important sports event, and the romantic French don't want to make any mistakes.

"Just don't fall down halfway."

He was accustomed to the big scenes, shaking his legs and continued to console him: "Actually, this kind of scene is nothing to you? Isn't it true that there are 80,000 or even 100,000 people in Latin American concerts? I just did the concert in Mexico City. Eighty thousand spectators were present."

They are all top musicians, and when he said that, they laughed, "This is the opening ceremony of the World Cup." Someone answered.

"five minutes."

The staff reminded that the green curtain covering the stadium began to evacuate, and Song Ya saw that the two singers who sang the French theme song "Do you mind if I kick the ball" have started to run to the kickoff point, where they will perform.

"You haven't played yet?"

Shakira and Gloria also walked out of the passage, and Shakira with the microphone in hand asked in surprise.

"five minutes."

Song Ya cautiously hugged and kissed the two of them, not wanting to mess up anything on them, especially the ear back and receiver.

The French singing in the stadium sounded, and the three of them looked professionally at the big screen. At least the live broadcast did not take too much care of the singer. The basic concept of the French opening ceremony was to take care of the performance of the audience.

The two French singers sang alone in the middle circle, and the live sound effects were not very good. The French did not use professional stages and bulky large-scale equipment. After all, the opening match between Brazil and Scotland will soon be followed.

Since the more than one hundred models of Man's Heaven have withdrawn, the treatment he will be waiting for may be similar, which is not very consistent with the expectations before coming. Song Ya frowned a little unhappy.

But time doesn’t allow him to think about things anymore, 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 minute..."

"Ok."

Song Ya watched the musicians ran to stand around the white stage and stood at each corner. He immediately cleared his throat and moved his legs on the spot.

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

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

"APLUS. Shakira, you guys are going to... three minutes." The staff also signaled that he could play.

Taking a deep breath, he showed the demeanor of a superstar while smiling towards the stands and waving his hands while trotting over to the stage. His feet stepped on the soft greenery from the hard ground. He also dodges a performer on stilts in the middle, and finally is light. Wooden stage.

"Leather pants are not good at this point..." In the middle, he still murmured secretly, and the tight leather pants were too constraining to run.

It was very tight. When he took his seat, the French song stopped abruptly. The musicians saw the two singers in the middle circle exit through the crowd and props of theatrical performances and immediately started to play.

It started with tambourines and whistles, ‘beep! Toot! Toot toot! ’Then the heated trombone sounded.

"APLUS!"

He spread his legs apart, stood straight in the center of the stage, and bowed his head expressionlessly, pretending to be cool, until he heard the urging in his ears, he immediately stretched out his feet, ‘pop! The stand-up microphone stand, which he practiced most during rehearsal, was erected in response, and he was firmly caught in the air with his hands.

Handsome!

"..."

He opened his voice vigorously, then twisted.

The photographer slowly moved closer while carrying the camera. He smiled confidently, pointed his finger to the camera, and blinked at the audience on the TV.

"Audience friends, maybe you just opened the elevator. The current singer is APLUS, who has one-half of the Chinese descent, and is also a music superstar with Bruce Lee’s global influence. He just came to visit not long ago. Hometown, donate money..."

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

"Oh!"

The crowd watching the football in a bar in a certain place in China made an uproar of dissatisfaction, but there was no way. CCTV bought the foreign broadcast signal.

"Lucharporell, lucharporell!"

Song Ya didn't know this episode. After singing a few sentences, the Cup of Life came to the climax, ah, ah, ah, ah, "Tuyyo! Alealeale! Tuyyo! Alealeale!"

He took the microphone in one hand, stepped on the Latin dance step under his feet, raised one arm high, and waved to the stand, and the electric eyes were simultaneously looking directly at the camera in that direction.

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

"Who is this woman!?"

It's a pity that the broadcast picture was cut quickly. This time in the United States, Amy, who was curled up in Halle's arms, saw the camera close-up of a blonde woman wearing a Brazilian flag in the stands, and immediately asked.

"I don't know, I don't watch football... It must be the scumbag who was caught by the local media again. The French are connoting him. It seems that Shakira and him can't grow up, poor Latin girl."

Halle guessed.

In fact, the girl is Susanna, the girlfriend of football superstar Ronaldo.

"Hey! Where are you on earth!?" Amy hit her.

"Gogogo! Alealeale!"

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

"Attention! Cut to Weareone!"

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

When encountering danger

Difficulties abound

The same love, the same life, the same world, the same competition

The whole world, focusing on one night, only one place, is France

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

"Onenight, watchtheworldunite, Twosides, onefight,..."

Shakira accurately connected and twisted her water snake motor hotly, and the French SP photographer pushed the lens closer and closer.

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

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

Young Bronfman is already in London at this time, because PolyGram is listed on the London Stock Exchange, it is still necessary to talk about it, even if Warner intervenes, his temper is not acceptable to be forced out of the field.

Even if he lives in a hotel, he can feel the enthusiasm for watching football and social response from time to time. The media here is full of the World Cup. The two youth idols Beckham and Owen are most often mentioned. From the stadium to the lace gossip... …

Music is naturally the Cup of Life and the song Weareone. When passing by a street bar, this is what came out of it.

"Yes, she and Gloria are both."

Doug Morris, president of Universal Records, replied.

"This guy who eats inside and out!" The more Bronfman watched Song Ya on the TV, the more unpleasant he became. No, the more he hated Song Ya who was pulling rap with his index finger. "You should let him stay in Sony Columbia and be Snow hiding."

Who can hide him now? Is it more popular than MJ in many places around the world?

Besides, it was David Geffen's idea to accept him at the time, don't you nod your head?

Doug Morris secretly complained, "I didn't expect him to be so difficult..." But he had no choice but to take the pot, "Fortunately, the French don't catch him so much... Look."

The picture was cut away again, and was given to a live cultural performance, as well as French and other politicians in the stands.

But this happened to be the only section that Gloria was in charge of. After she sang, in the sound of Oleole and the audience, Song Ya and the performers completed the task and exited in an orderly manner.

"Hahaha!"

The three of them ran back to the passage, "Huh! I don't even sweat." Song Ya's hand wiped his forehead and then shining towards Shakira.

"It's too short, it's really not enough."

Shakira and the others only showed up for two minutes, which was really too short.

"Don't complain, we have to travel a lot this month, there are so many opportunities."

FIFA is also very demanding for people. The price of the three people's appearance at the opening ceremony is that they have to perform inter-field or publicity performances during the World Cup almost all the way.

But the influence is no better than the opening ceremony.

"Ah!" The main goal was completed. He suddenly relaxed and picked up Shakira on his shoulders, and the girl screamed.

"It's still not enough, right?"

"Why do you give these shots? What is the operation of zooming out to the stadium panorama? Who wants to watch those square cultural performances? ’

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

‘Cut and cut! Mess! ’

A large number of newcomers flooded into the reposts at the opening ceremony of the Amerika Music website. Originally, American fans complained well, but suddenly there were many foreigners following the posts, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and garbled text... Available in various languages.

Rashida Jones was also amazed at watching, especially the part where APLUS and Shakira interacted, "Huh?" He noticed that there was a message in English, "What is the world's No. 1 sport? This bad performance is better than ours. The halftime show of the Bowl (the most important final of the year in rice rugby) is far away! ’

She was inspired immediately, and she simply quit the post that was gradually out of control. Anyway, everyone behind after reading APLUS was not interested.

She posted another post, ‘sisters! Let us jointly support APLUS on the Super Bowl halftime show! 'Unpretentiously take the ideas of forum netizens as his own.

(End of this chapter)

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