Entertaining Children

As Samien beat the last drum heavily, the performance of the whole song ended, and the audience burst into cheers and screams.

Dean, flushed with excitement, stood at the front of the stage. At the end of the song, a look of confusion suddenly appeared on his face, as if he didn't know what to do.

Xiao Yao hurried forward a few steps, put his arms around Dean's shoulders, took him with him and greeted the audience with a smile: "Thank you everyone, please enjoy the wonderful performance of "Daydream" next."

Under Xiao Yao's reminder, the other three members of the band also came to the front of the stage, waved to the audience, and then the five left together from the side and rear of the stage.

Seeing the five members of the band turn and leave, someone in the excited audience immediately yelled "encore". Immediately, the voice turned from small to loud, and soon swept the audience, becoming the audience shouting in unison.

"It's great!" Keith praised with a smile on his face when everyone in the band returned to the backstage.

"Thank you." Everyone in the band replied with a smile.

"It's the first time I've met the opening band who was called "Encore" by the audience," Keith smiled and said to the band, "Would you like to satisfy the audience and go up and sing another song."

"No, you've seen our live rehearsal before, so we only prepared this song." Xiao Yao smiled wryly. It's not that he didn't think about preparing one or two more songs temporarily, instead of new songs, he can just sing "Daydream" directly, but considering that the band members have too little performance experience, and seeing the band members With the nervous look before, Xiao Yao could only give up this plan and go all out to prepare this song.

"Okay, your warm-up task has been completed very well, and it will be up to us next." Keith nodded, and continued, "I originally wanted to arrange a few positions for you in the front row, so that you Go to the auditorium to watch our performance, but in the current situation, I’m afraid you can only watch it backstage.”

"It's okay, none of us have the experience of watching a show backstage, so it's good to just experience it like this." Dean answered first this time.

The members of the "Daydream" band high-fived the young people of the "Immortals" band one by one, and then stepped onto the stage. And after they appeared on stage, the cheers and screams from the audience were only a lot more than when the "Immortals" performance was just now.

"It's still they are amazing, the audience has such a loud voice when they first came to the stage." George listened to the voices of the audience, and said enviously.

"I think we will have this day too." Dean patted George on the shoulder confidently.

"I doubt it." George replied very disrespectfully to Dean, but looked at Xiao Yao.

The meaning of this is obvious. He is not optimistic about the prospects of the band after Xiao Yao returns to China next summer.

"That's enough." Samion, who had never spoken much, suddenly said, "Young is not the only one in this band. Dean is already learning to write songs from Young, and...even if Young leaves next year, we This band still has to persevere. When we first formed this band, there was no Yang, so if he leaves, will this band be disbanded?"

"Of course not," George and Mike shook their heads quickly.

"So, after Young leaves next year, we still have to continue. Instead of worrying about Young leaving next year, we should work harder to make ourselves better now. Young has given us a good start. There are few in the world. Can this band have our current popularity at our age? Even compared with "Daydream", we are already much luckier." Samion said with rare excitement.

"Actually, Sammy is also learning to write songs recently. What I learned from Jan, she also learned everything from me." Dean couldn't help but said.

"Oh?" George, Mike, and Xiao Yao all looked at Samien in surprise at the same time.

"But why don't you just learn from Yang?" George looked at Samion and said,

Asked the question that all three of them had in mind.

"It's none of your business." Samion glared at George, but didn't answer.

"Okay," Dean said to ease the atmosphere, "Whether Yang is here or not, we are all Immortals. As for what happens after Yang leaves, we will wait until Yang really leaves. For now, let's watch "Daydream" first." Stage performance, learn how they perform on stage. This is also a rare learning opportunity for us."

After listening to Dean's words, everyone finally stopped discussing and entangled with the problems after Xiao Yao left, and concentrated on watching the live performance of the "Daydream" band in the backstage.

Compared with the immature performance of "Immortals", the "Daydream" band, which has been "veteran" for ten years, is naturally much stronger on stage. The audience watched "Immortals" basically as a novelty and interesting thing, and "Daydream" was the object for them to feel the charm of the rock band live. Xiao Yao and the others watched the nearly two-hour live performance of "Daydream" in the background. Not only did they see the gap between themselves and the current top rock bands, they also gained a lot from the stage performance.

There were many entertainment media and reporters present at the "Daydream" concert in Los Angeles. In addition to reporting the "Daydream" concert as usual, "Immortals", a recently very popular and mysterious student band The public debut of is also a focus of their attention. Evaluation of their live performance will also appear in the reports of these entertainment media reporters.

Of course, now no one will compare this band whose members' average age has not reached eighteen years old with the top bands in the circle like "Daydream". Although the performance of "Immortals" is not as good as "Daydream", the live performance of an adult band still gave the media reporters a big surprise. In particular, the warm atmosphere at the scene when they performed exceeded their expectations. Therefore, it is logical to praise them together in the report on the concert.

After the "Daydream" concert in Los Angeles, as the media reported and commented on the debut performance of the band "Immortals" who appeared as an opening guest, their song "IMMORTALS" was even more popular on the bulletin board. After the announcement of the list in the following week, its performance has reached the top ten, ranking eighth. This also makes Immortals the youngest band in history to enter the Billboard Top 10. For this alone, they have already created a piece of history, which can be regarded as a kind of "immortal".

To be able to do this, in addition to their own performance and the quality of this song is excellent enough, luck is also an inevitable reason. The unsurprising popularity of the movie "Teenages Vigilante" is the main reason for the popularity of this song. At the same time, due to their special identities, it is not for everyone to let the film producers grasp this point and promote the film by promoting their band, thereby increasing the film's box office.

Whether it was because of the friendship between Betty Bellett and Xiao Yao, or because of Xiao Yao's potential, Keith was of great help. Not only helped them record, but also helped them operate a series of matters such as releasing the sound source of the song on the music website and contacting the radio station to hit the chart. In the end, it was his appearance as a warm-up guest at the concert. Keith also acted as the host and introduced the band himself. It can be said that he spared no effort.

In the end, everyone was happy, and basically achieved a win-win situation. The band became popular, and the box office of the movie sold well. Not only did Keith's band have a very important band to open the show, but the box office and the atmosphere of the concert were also very hot.

The "Daydream" band's Los Angeles concert was before Christmas at the end of the year, so within a few days after the concert ended, it was the most important Christmas in the West.

The importance of Christmas in the West is almost equivalent to the Spring Festival in China. On this particularly important festival, Xiao Yao also brought a special Christmas gift to the band members.

"Merry Christmas!" On the morning of Christmas, Xiao Yao summoned all the band members and handed them a check.

"You're not kidding, are you?" Dean smiled and glanced at the check handed over by Xiao Yao, "Could it be that Huaxia always sends cash checks directly when they give Christmas gifts?"

"Twenty thousand dollars!" Mike, who had already received the check, glanced at the amount on it and exclaimed.

"What?" After receiving the check from Xiao Yao, the rest of the people looked at the amount written on it, and they also looked shocked.

"Yan, what are you doing?" Samien stared at Xiao Yao and asked.

"Guys, don't misunderstand." Xiao Yao raised his hands and smiled, "This money is not mine, but your legal income, and you deserve it."

"What's going on?" Dean also asked.

"The income from our band's "IMMORTALS" song." Xiao Yao explained, "It's free to be an opening guest for "Daydream", but the movie uses our song as the theme song, but you have to pay. There are downloads from music websites, pay-per-view on TV stations and radio stations. These are the incomes brought by this song. This song is sung by our band, and the income is naturally shared by the five members of our band. Not only you, but also myself .”

"Although we have always said that this song is the work of our band, you wrote this song after all, and the copyright income should belong to you alone." Samion said.

"You are wrong," Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "This is not income from copyright, but income from usage rights. The income I mentioned just now is the cost of using the version of the song we performed, and the song is not performed by me alone. Singing, of course, everyone has a share. And this song will continue to bring us income in the future, and this is only the income of the latest month."

"So, this is our money, you just gave it to us today, it has nothing to do with Christmas gifts or anything." Dean joked to Xiao Yao.

"Uh... also has something to do with it." Xiao Yao was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "Keith once wanted to buy the copyright of this song, but I didn't sell it, and I naturally wouldn't sell it for others. This song can Only this version sung by our band will be used for commercial purposes, so in the future this song will bring more income, this is my Christmas gift to you.”

In the United States, a country with relatively good copyright protection, it is not difficult for a musician to support himself for a lifetime with a very famous work. Although it is difficult to feed five people with one song, it is also a continuous income, and it is definitely a very heavy gift for several people in the band.

"Dude, I don't know what to say." Mike said excitedly first, "Come on, give me a hug first." Then he stepped forward and gave Xiao Yao a big hug.

The other two boys also stepped forward to express their gratitude to Xiao Yao with a hug. Only Samien was still aloof, but gratefully said "thank you" to Xiao Yao. (To be continued.)