Chapter 271 Hero

New Orleans, the United States is a city with strange customs and characteristics even in the United States. It also feels like being in a foreign country when it comes to this city. This city, located at the mouth of the Mississippi River, second only to New York, is the second largest port city in the United States. It was a French colony and was also a big city firmly standing in the south during the Civil War. Citizens looked down on the "Yankish" represented by New York. But a hundred years later, black people in this city have accounted for half of the city's population. The city is filled with a slow and melancholy atmosphere of enjoyment and joy every night and decay. This city, nicknamed "Great Happy", has been influenced by the enjoyment, decadent and indulgent life of French colonists, Spanish culture, South American black Vodouism, and southern slave owners during the Civil War. The whole city presents an atmosphere of "wine and drunk today, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, the city is filled with an atmosphere of "wine and drunk today, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, because of the influence of the hedonistic decadent and indulgence of French colonists, Spanish culture, South American black Vodouism, and southern slave owners during the Civil War, the whole city presents an atmosphere of "wine today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,"

New Orleans is also recognized as the jazz capital in the United States. When this music from Africa, which has a sad rhythm and blues emerged here in the early 20s, it quickly spread around the world with New Orleans as the center. Mariah Carey is known as the queen of R&B music, and the B (Blues) in R&B comes from jazz. She chose this place as a place to avoid harassment from reporters after divorce. In addition, she also wanted to draw creative inspiration from the hometown of jazz and prepare for her new songs.

The African, Latino, and Asian people in New Orleans live in a mixed range, and ethnic integration is relatively successful. For example, New Orleans has the most open social atmosphere to treat homosexuality in the United States. Last year, the mayor of New Orleans also decided to extend the rights of traditional marriage to homosexual spouses, which is considered an alternative in the southern American cities that have always been conservative and famous. After Kelly got married, her ex-husband controlled the scope of her friendships, so she met many black homosexuals in the music circle. This time she came to New Orleans to temporarily live in the hometown of a local gay singer.

These days she hid in this old house without leaving home, in order to avoid the sight of tabloid reporters, and occasionally she was bored and sneaked out to a small nightclub on Bourbon Street where bars and nightclubs are gathered in the French-speaking area. Today she struggled to disguise herself, wearing big sunglasses in a wig, and then wrapped her face tightly with a headscarf. She surrounded her bodyguards and friends to come to this nightclub called "Lobsters and Oysters".

Although the nightclub has more names than bars, it is decorated in exquisitely and has a well-known jazz band in New Orleans all year round, attracting many regular customers to order a glass of gin here and experience the pure jazz sorrow and complain. It is a good place for locals to know. After Kelly and the others sat down, they found that today was a little different. Most of them were Asians. In her impression, Asians seemed to be not very interested in this traditional American music, so how could so many people visit this small shop? The jazz band also gave up the performance position, revealing the open space in the middle of the stage, as if preparing for someone to perform.

Kelly called the owner of the nightclub, and her acquaintance to ask if there was any other arrangement tonight? The old guy who was also a mixed-race man who spoke fluent Spanish and smiled at her mysteriously: "I only know that someone paid a lot of money tonight to book this place, maybe there will be surprises waiting for everyone!" Kelly and the others, who were attracted by the appetite, were excited to wait for the mysterious performance guests with other audiences.

The answer was soon revealed. As the band's bright music sounded, a group of Chinese girls wearing silver costumes and dazzling like silverfish at the tail walked into the center of the stage, and sang the English version of "Nobody" that was widely circulated in the United States with the accompaniment. It was in the United States that they were touring "Girls Star Age". They made a special trip to New Orleans today according to Yang Xing's instructions and asked them to make their debut in the "Lobster and Oyster" nightclub tonight. Although Yang Xing's instructions were vague, they still performed as promised after trusting him.

Although the "Lobster and Oyster" nightclub mainly plays jazz, it does not reject the occasional performance group with other styles to perform on stage to adjust the audience's appetite. Therefore, new and old customers in the nightclub have no doubts about this new performance and are interested in watching it. Many viewers also recognize that this is the performance group from China that just appeared on "Opra Talk Show". Out of curiosity and appreciation, they both gave warm applause to their performances. From a professional perspective, Kelly feels that although the singing skills of these young girls still need to be honed, as the audience, the enthusiastic performances of these girls can still mobilize the atmosphere on the scene. She couldn't help but applaud them with everyone.

"How do Miss Kelly think they are singing?" Suddenly, a strange man's voice sounded in her ears. Kelly and her bodyguards immediately raised their alertness and turned their eyes to the person who was speaking out. Observing carefully, they saw that the other party was a young Asian man, and a white middle-aged man was also following him. Under the dim light, the Asian smiled and showed her white teeth that had been maintained. The white man was tall but still bowed slightly to him.

Half a step back, you can see that the young Asian man is not low at first glance. "That person seems to be JIVE's boss Calde." Kelly's assistant leaned into her ear and pointed at the white man and whispered. Kelly's heart skipped. She is now having a very stiff relationship with Xinli Records and has long had the idea of ​​changing jobs. Now that a record company boss is here in person, does it mean that her career has turned around, but who is the Asian young man who is respected by Calde?

As a member of the music circle in New York City, Kelly is no stranger to JIVE Records. The scale of this record company is far less than that of the world's five record companies, but it has unique vision, especially the "Backstreet Boy" and "Little Sweet" Blaney signed by the company recently, both are popular youth idols, and their record sales are catching up with the top five record companies. The industry now says that JIVE is better than any record company at understanding and expressing and affecting the music taste of the masses. They even created a new branch of American pop music culture at the end of the century - the teenpop style. The biggest feature of this music style is that it faces teenagers under the age of 21, launches a large number of unique and exquisite boys and girls idols, sing relaxed and catchy love songs. Moreover, these idols have excellent dancing skills when performing on stage, with bright MV pictures and beautiful and charming singers.

Although mainstream American music satirizes this musical style without content and is pretentious, and the singer's singing skills are not important purely to cater to the needs of young people of lower age groups. But the reality is that this is a representative of the new Asian music model that has been popular in Europe and the United States in recent years. The prospects of JIVE's records as the initiator are undoubtedly optimistic. Although JIVE's style is incompatible with Mariah Carey's style, Kelly does not have many picky choices at this time. Everyone is acquaintances, and European and American negotiations are straightforward. JIVE's boss will never come to sightseeing at this time, so she invited JIVE's boss Calder to take the seat, but Calder was very attentive to let the young man sit in the first place.

After everyone sat down, the Asian man pointed to the "Girls Age" on the stage before he introduced himself. Now the members of "Girls Age" all have a musical instrument, and they sang while performing and interacting with everyone. The atmosphere was very warm. He asked in skillful English: "Ms. Kelly didn't say how they sang?" Kelly looked at him without answering directly, looking at Calder vigilantly, Calder hurriedly introduced: "This Mr. Yang is from Hong Kong. He has a record company that wants to sign a contract with you but you rejected it. But he is very sincere. He teamed up with me to come to you again. We want to sign a contract with you for five albums. I wonder what you think?"

Kelly couldn't help but be moved. Although she was the queen of the American music scene, her economic power has always been in the hands of her husband, the vice president of Xinli Records, and she did not receive much compensation after the divorce. Although she was not very concerned about money, the success of a singer in the entertainment industry is directly linked to her contract price. Because each album in the past has exceeded the platinum sales. If this is the standard, the price of her five albums in the future will definitely be sold to nearly $100 million!

Seeing that Kelly was still hesitant, Yang Xing took out a piece of facial paper and wrote a few words and handed it to Kelly. At this time, Zhang Hanyan, who was in the lead singer of "The Age of Girls" on the stage, had already begun to perform Mariah Carey's famous song "Heroes" with all his vocals. "This is my offer, and I still have a condition. They are the best singers in our company now. If Miss Carey is willing to join, can I teach them? Can I calculate the teaching fee for you?" Mariah Carey looked at the paper with cheap perfume flavor, which read "Five albums in five years, $120 million, investing in three music movies with a budget of no less than $30 million, starring you, holding a global concert every year, and the teaching fee is 3 million US dollars, etc.". Even though she was used to the big storm, she still felt that the sweat on her hands quickly soaked the paper.

When Zhang Hanyan's song finally attracted applause, Kelly made up her mind, shook her headscarf, took off her sunglasses and sighed. It seemed that the pressure she had suffered over the past few months was wiped out. She finally showed her true nature as a queen and strode straight to the stage. In the surprised eyes of everyone, including the members of "The Age of Girls", she took the microphone and said, "This little sister snatched my song. I want to sing another song with her. What do you think?" The audience who had long recognized her was immediately excitedly thunderous applause. She could see the long-famous queen in this nightclub. Everyone stood up while applauding and saluting her the most enthusiastic tribute.

Yang Xing also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this lively scene. It was the music magazine he read casually that he inspired him. He wanted to sign Mariah Carey into his own. Starlight Records was still alone in the overseas market. To enter the European and American music market, the best way was to directly join forces with European and American record companies and have a large number of potential foreign singers. The world's five record companies are rich and powerful. Yang Xing experienced the other party's stubborn and arrogant attitude when dealing with them when negotiating to download genuine music for MMP players. In comparison, JIVE has many good talents shortly after its establishment, so Yang Xing put the idea of ​​acquisition on them.
Chapter completed!