Chapter 375 The Troubles of Young Leon

I didn't have many friends in Luoquan, the United States. I lay in my room for several hours and didn't know where to go.

Leon was practicing singing in the recording studio, Seifert had been dealing with reporters and media in the company, and Fred had gone to Italy a few days ago.

Fortunately, the entertainment methods of modern young people are relatively simple. A mobile phone connected to the Internet can solve everything.

However, playing with mobile phones is still playing with mobile phones, but the itinerary cannot be leaked on social platforms.

This time she came to the United States to celebrate Leon's birthday, and also to be a mysterious guest at his debut anniversary.

If everyone knew that she had come to the United States, would there be any suspense about this mysterious guest?

Although there is no suspense in the first place, this sense of surprise still needs to be maintained. After all, the popularity of the sister-sister combination is not low in the United States, and the songs they sang together have also dominated the B charts for a long time.

The only pity is that the siblings have not performed on the same stage yet.

You know, pop choruses and hip-hop are the most common music combinations nowadays. Many pop singers have collaborated with hip-hop singers to release singles.

But in terms of music quality, the collaboration between Luo Quan and Leon is at the ceiling level. Both "Love the way you lie" and "Seorita" are quite catchy songs. In addition, there are songs like "Stan" that support the connotation. .

So much so that on the B list, Luo Quan and Lyon were once the pop groups with the highest popularity and sales.

However, popular trends around the world are changing all the time. Since last year, hip-hop culture has become popular, and black singers have set off a rap craze around the world.

Leon became popular so quickly because he is not only handsome and popular with girls, but he is also riding the coattails of hip-hop.

However, as a large number of musicians began to follow the trend and create hip-hop songs, the market was immediately hit by a mixture of good and bad works, and inspiration, rhyme, and rhythm were also drying up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The result of this is that plagiarism and borrowing are prevalent, and the audience is also a little tired of aesthetics.

So as 2017 comes to an end, the popularity of hip-hop has finally seen its inevitable decline, replaced by electronic music.

In fact, electronic music was extremely prosperous in the 1990s. One of its forms was once popular all over the world, and countless handsome men and beautiful women once danced with it.

Yes, it’s disco.

In China, this word is as full of age as "urban-rural fringe area, production team, and bell-bottom pants."

It is almost rare to see it now, but at that time it was really a common entertainment activity for people across the country.

However, with the popularity of mobile phones, the Internet, and computers, lively disco music has gradually been replaced by more soothing pop music. Anyone who still stops playing disco music now will definitely have the word "local" stamped on their forehead.

However, although disco has declined, electronic music has been developing and is still in good condition.

The disco has not disappeared, it just changed its name - bar, where you can still listen to dynamic music and dance.

Sometimes you have to learn some dance steps to dance in a disco, but there is nothing special about it in a bar. Even if you jump around like a madman, it doesn't matter, because everyone is like that.

Different from the "notorious" disco music, although electronic music is noisy, its reviews and popularity are quite high. In recent years, excellent works have been emerging, and it can be seen from time to time at the Grammy Awards.

However, in the past few years, it has always been more than the best, and it is more than one level behind hip-hop.

However, since last year, electronic music has begun to become a popular trend.

Taking Luo Quan's release of the song "Faded" as a node, electronic music has become the first song in the new century to have more than 100 million hits worldwide on YouTube.

And "Seve" even broke the YouTube click record, truly setting off a global craze.

Although this craze is a ghost dance, it does bring huge traffic and attention to electronics.

The most important thing is that some capital has taken a fancy to the electronics cake and feels that there is a very large and profitable market hidden in it.

Therefore, capital injection gives musicians the motivation to create, and then excellent works bring market attention and praise. Capital makes money and increases investment.

Unconsciously, the electronic music market has entered a virtuous cycle of rapid development.

In the past, among the top 100 singers on the B list, you could only see the names of five or six DJs at most. Most of them collaborated with other singers, and very few of them performed a single work by themselves.

But in the past six months, there have been three or four times more DJ names than before. Such changes cannot be described as a flash in the pan.

Electronic music has truly become popular and has taken over the world.

It is worth mentioning that "Faded" is an important node in the rise of electronic music. Although it failed to win a Grammy, it is an out-and-out milestone in the hearts of electronic music fans, and it is also a milestone in the hearts of Luoquan fans. The work that best embodies her ethereal and beautiful tone.

Just like the lyrics in this song, her singing voice seems to come from ancient Atlantis, dreamlike and out of reach.

But Luo Quan only used "Faded" as a tool to attract attention at the time, and actually did not pay special attention to it. After it became popular, he never paid attention to the field of electronic music again.

Looking back now, the original pie in this area has been divided.

The good news is that now that she is going back to electronic music, she is not just riding on the popularity.

This anniversary of Lyon's debut can also be regarded as an opportunity for her to test the waters and release an electronic music to see how the market reacts.

Of course, when Seifert asked her to write songs for Lyon, he also mentioned whether he could try electronic music.

As a world-class music giant, Universal is very sensitive to market trends, and has a hunch that next year will most likely be a year for electronic music.

The two parties hit it off immediately, so this time Luo Quan not only composed a pop song for Lyon to thank his fans, but also composed a very dynamic and brainwashing electronic music, and it was a male and female chorus.

Of course, she would have to do the DJ thing when the time came. Although Leon was a quick learner, it was a bit difficult to ask him to learn DJing out of the blue. Luo Quan could do it with just an idea.

Leon's birthday and debut anniversary remain high on Twitter trends, with tens of thousands of tweets per day.

The electronic screen in Times Square has also been flooded by Lyon. Lyon will appear on the big screen every afternoon, and there will be various words of celebration.

On the 17th, Madison Square Garden was even more crowded. Female Lyon fans who gathered from the United States and even around the world held up his support boards and shouted his name.

Luo Quan himself had never seen such a scene.

She thought that the fans she met when she returned to Japan to attend the Record Awards six months ago were enthusiastic enough.

But compared with the female fans like Lyon in front of me, they can only be considered as insignificant.

The crowds of people paralyzed traffic on 34th Street in Manhattan, and it took the New York police all morning to evacuate the fans.

It wasn't an evacuation, just getting them off the road, but the sidewalks were getting more crowded, even pushing them out of Madison Square.

Such congestion would arouse public criticism both at home and abroad. However, when they learned that the reason for the congestion was Lyon's birthday, more than half of the people chose to be tolerant.

No girl can refuse this handsome young man who looks like the reincarnation of Apollo, and many boys may be jealous of him, but they can’t stand that he has a sister, and Aiwujiwuxia will be more tolerant of him. After all, he is his brother-in-law. .

Therefore, although the online news about Lyon causing traffic paralysis is quite popular, there are still relatively few negative comments, and most of them lament the explosion of Lyon's popularity.

It can only be said that fortunately not many people knew about Luo Quan's visit to the United States. If her male fans knew that she was coming as a guest today, it is estimated that the number of people coming would not be much less than that of Lyon's female fans.

Taking advantage of the traffic returning to normal, Lyon and Luo Quan were picked up by Seifert in an inconspicuous black car and entered Madison Square Garden.

"Look, these are fans who love you deeply." Seifert said to Lyon while driving.

The material of the car screen is relatively special. You can see the outside, but you can't see the inside from the outside.

The screaming didn't stop all the way here. Although I don't know exactly what was shouted, the enthusiasm was definitely visible to the naked eye.

"This is what you call an international superstar. Most of my male fans are prostitutes. They would rather spend 5 yuan to buy pirated recording albums with junk sound quality than spend more money to listen to the genuine ones." Luo Quan saw this and said, That is the envy of the real-name system.

If her male fans were so enthusiastic, wow, she would be the richest man in the world under the age of twenty.

"It's not a good thing if fans are too fanatical. Have you forgotten that a female fan committed suicide before?" Leon was frightened when he mentioned this matter.

This misunderstanding caused by the fact that the American express company stretched his hips almost plunged his flourishing career into the abyss.

Fortunately, he wrote back to this female fan, otherwise the consequences would have been quite serious.

Of course, it turns out that it is beneficial to have more friendly interactions with fans. This way, there will be much less excuses. Later, my sister also helped write a song. The huge career crisis has become a point to improve the reputation.

However, turning the corner also gave him a deep understanding of fans' feelings towards their idols.

As an idol, he is like a thermometer, and fans are like a pot of hot water.

The more enthusiastic the fans, the higher his popularity.

But if the enthusiasm is too much, it will easily explode.

Fan enthusiasm is something he cannot control. Unless he does something outrageous and stupid, fans will only love him more and more.

To be honest, Leon sometimes couldn't sleep at night because of this matter.

There are many reasons for celebrities to be anxious, either because no one buys their new album, or because they cannot make money due to no endorsements.

It is actually relatively rare for someone like Lyon to be anxious because of his popularity.

"Sister, are you worried that your fans will be too enthusiastic and do some extreme behavior?" Leon looked at the fans outside the window blankly and asked Luo Quan curiously.

"Why are you worried?" Luo Quan didn't expect that his brother would be troubled by this matter, "As a star, what you are worried about is that your fans are not enthusiastic enough.

Think about it, how embarrassing it would be when you are dancing and singing on stage, your voice is almost hoarse, but your fans are dumbfounded.

Besides, the more enthusiastic the fans are, it means they love you. This is a good thing that many 18th-tier artists can't even hope for. "

"Is that what you think?" Leon frowned, "But I'm always worried that they will do something extreme because they like me too much."

Luo Quan heard Leon's worry, smiled, and explained: "I know what you are worried about.

In the past, some male fans also left me messages saying that if they don’t marry me, they will die if they don’t become my boyfriend.

But I never paid attention to them.

When fans first become fans of celebrities, they will go through a period of fanaticism, but as time goes by, this fanaticism will gradually become more rational.

Study and life will quickly divert their attention, and when they look back, such a fanatical state will never appear again.

Just like those male fans who said they would not marry anyone other than me, they also said the same thing to other female stars, saying that I was one of their thousands of wives.

Of course, there are also some extreme fans who are extremely possessive of celebrities and will even stalk and harass celebrities in private.

For this kind of fans, just call the police directly, because this is not normal star-chasing behavior at all.

Idols are indeed commodities for their fans, and they can do whatever they can to please them on stage in front of the camera.

But this doesn’t mean that in private, after you take off your idol attire, you have to satisfy these fans without any bottom line. "

"Why can you see so clearly?" Leon looked at his sister curiously.

Luo Quan shrugged: "Because I'm not an idol, I can see clearly.

Idols can't live without their fans, but I can keep them connected through my works. Their love for me starts with my talent, and then they are loyal to my appearance.

So I faced them and had the courage to say no. "

Leon's face darkened: "Don't you mean that I rely on my face to make a living?"

Seifert quickly corrected Leon's wrong idea: "Don't look down on pretty boys, I think I can't make a living relying on my face.

Even though I am now the head of the marketing department of Universal Records, I always hope that a super rich woman will see the fragility hidden under my workaholic appearance and give me a chance to make a living. "

"Go away!" Leon rolled his eyes at Seifert, "In the past, I might have gotten angry because of my face, but next year, when the movie My Wrong is released, everyone will see my strength.

I discovered that I am very talented in acting. I will definitely have a place among all the Oscar winners in the future. Don’t bully young people into being poor! "

Luo Quan nodded: "It's a good thing to have ambition, but you have to work hard to implement it.

Don’t bully young people into being poor now, then don’t bully middle-aged people into being poor, don’t bully old people into being poor, and in the end, you will become the dead one. "

After saying that, Luo Quan and Seifert laughed, while Leon had a dark look on his face.