Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

After Mario and Reggie won the gold medal, Coach West also bought them two Porsche sports cars as a reward.

After getting the sports cars, the two often went out to race, and even secretly went to participate in the underground racing in Everglades City. They were caught by the West Palm Beach County Police Department by mistake, and were fined more than 3,000 US dollars, which caused a big scandal.

After leaving Louisville, Link did not return to New York immediately, but took a tour bus to Nashville, Tennessee, which was more than three hours away.

The annual country music festival CMA is being held in this city, which lasts for five days in April and May every year.

Taylor is one of the most popular female singers in the current country music industry. She was also invited to participate in the performance and came to receive the award issued by the Country Music Association.

Country music is different from pop music, rock, hip-hop, and folk music. It is a kind of pop music with American national characteristics. It originated in the southern United States and is a representative of American white national music.

It mainly reflects the living conditions, love, heartbreak, home, etc. of the blue-collar working class. It is the music of the lower class, also known as "blue-collar music".

Representative figures include Johnny Denver, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Shania Twain, Taylor, etc. The latter three are all beautiful beauties with sweet voices, and are also queen-level figures in the American music scene.

Taylor's first four albums are all country music styles. In her later works, she added a lot of popular elements such as R\u0026B, dance music, and rock music, which also made the content of country music more urbanized and colorful, becoming a kind of mainstream music in the world.

What is national is also global, and it is most perfectly reflected in country music.

This country music festival was held in Cumberland Park in Nashville. According to media reports, this year's music festival attracted more than 800,000 visitors.

On the way here, Link met a lot of people who came to join in the fun. Most of them were in their twenties and thirties. They came from all directions by train, bus, truck, and motorcycle, giving people the feeling that the American people don't need to work to make money.

Seeing these people, Link felt that there was a reason for the decline of America.

When he arrived at the music festival, Taylor was singing on the stage in the middle. She had a golden ponytail, wore an ordinary plaid shirt, blue jeans, held a guitar, and sat in front of the microphone to sing the song "White Horse" from her second album.

This is the style of country music, a simple stage, simple and plain clothes, simple music accompaniment, and the singer sang to everyone like telling a story.

There were no seats under the stage. Everyone stood on the grass, looked up at the singer on the stage, and listened to her singing quietly.

At a glance, there were people within a two-kilometer radius around, boundless. Fortunately, the on-site sound equipment was very good. Even if you didn't buy a ticket, you could hear it clearly outside the park.

After Taylor sang a song, there was a burst of warm applause and cheers from the audience. Judging from the movement, the number of people was no less than 40,000.

The audience shouted "Taylor, one more song", and Taylor stood up, took a sip of the drink, and continued to sing.

The speakers continued to play her sweet and warm voice, which can give people a pleasant and gentle enjoyment. It is very contagious and can be called a "straight man killer" singer.

This is not Link's first time to see Taylor's concert. He has seen it seven or eight times in his past and present lives.

Now as an audience, standing in the dense crowd, looking at the tall and energetic girl on the stage, she is now his girlfriend, feeling very strange, a little proud, and a little worried.

"Wife! Wife! One more song!"

Suddenly, several male fans shouted next to him.

Link's face turned black. That's my wife, not yours. You dare to call Taylor's wife in front of me. It's too shameless.

"Link, where are you?"

While watching the performance, he received a call from Mrs. Andrea. Link told the other party the location, and then Taylor's assistant Emily came from the crowd to greet him to the singer's rest area.

Link followed Emily to the simple awning next to the stage. There were many bands and members, singers and staff here, and hundreds of people came and went.

Because he was wearing a baseball cap, no one recognized him.

"Link, are you going to present flowers?"

Mrs. Andrea looked at the bouquet in his hand, which was a large bunch of pink, red and purple irises, which looked particularly gorgeous, attracting the attention of people around. Mrs. Andrea sighed, "The romance of a straight man."

"Taylor is singing, I'll give it to her after I get off the stage."

There are many irises in Tennessee in spring and summer. On the way here, I saw many flower shops with them. One dollar can buy ten irises. He directly asked for a hundred irises. It didn't feel heavy to hold it in his hands, but it was a bit ostentatious to be stared at.

Taylor sang three songs on the stage, waved his hand and left the stage amid the shouts of fans. When he came to the awning, he saw Link holding a bouquet. Taylor was stunned and looked at him in surprise.

"Why are you here?"

Taylor walked over and looked at him and smiled.

"I watched the game in Louisville yesterday, and since I was not far from you, I came to see your concert."

"Oh, I see, I just came by."

Taylor raised his eyebrows, not satisfied with his answer.

"Of course not, it's mainly because I missed you too much and wanted to see you earlier."

Link smiled while holding her hips.

"Hmph, you're right."

Taylor kissed him.

Other singers recognized him after he took off his hat and came to greet him. Taylor also introduced a group of country music singers to Link.

Tim McGraw, a famous country music star in the 1990s, and his wife Faith Hill, whose representative work is the theme song of "Pearl Harbor", "There You'll Be";

Alison Krauss, the leader of "bluegrass music", won 25 Grammy Awards from 1990 to 2009. She is also the female singer who has won the most Grammy Awards;

Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman's second husband, is also a very famous country music singer, with global record sales of tens of millions and two Grammy Awards.

There is also Carrie Underwood, who won the Best Female Country Music Singer Award at the Grammy last year; South Carolina singer Josh Turner, the band Antebellum, "White Teeth" Luke Bryan, etc.

There are many talents in the country music circle, and Link is not a big name among them.

Everyone sat on the grass, drinking beer and talking about music. Whoever was going to perform on stage would take their instrument and sing, while the others would be the audience.

"Link, do you want to go up and sing?"

Taylor drank a little beer, her cheeks flushed, and asked on his shoulder.

From her intimate gesture, Link could also feel that Taylor was very happy about his arrival, and he thought that he could have more such surprises in the future.

"Can I go up without rehearsal?"

"Country music does not need rehearsal, and it doesn't matter if you sing wrong. The first half is for the invited guests to sing on stage in turn, and the next hour or so is for the newcomers to perform. This is also the most watched part of the music festival over the years. As long as you are brave enough, everyone can go up and sing their own story."

Taylor explained.

Link thought for a while and shook his head.

He rarely listened to this kind of slow-tempo music before. Except for classic old songs such as "500 Miles", "Take Me Home on Country Roads", "Mountain Eagle Song", and "Lemon Tree", he had never heard other country songs, and there was nothing to sing when he went up.