Chapter 510: Amazing (2)
The theme that goes with Blank Space is 'Night Elves'.
As the name suggests, the color palette is mainly black.
The theme color palette also complements the rebellious and flamboyant princess in the background music.
After the third theme, the fourth track, "Human", which was again turned to a soothing style, immediately fell in love with Lisa Collins sitting in the audience. The original singer of "Human" is Christina Perri, and the background of this song is actually the story of a robot who falls in love with a human and is willing to give it all.
Simon prefers the meaning of the song itself to the memory of the song being used as a BGM for the video clip of a sports star.
In keeping with the content of the song, the fourth theme is called 'Steampunk'.
The perfect combination of the soft Victoria's Secret angel and the hardcore mechanical elements, against the background music, once again gave the audience a wonderful visual feast.
The final theme, 'Pink Love', is a rap-style song and the only male song in the five background tracks, called "Sexy Back", with the original song by Justin Timberlake.
In the original timeline, "Sexy Back" was the opening of Victoria's Secret's 2006 show, and Simon took out this song as the closing music this time, and the theme style was also modified. 'Pink Love' naturally means a variety of colours.
When the five themes of 'Psychedelic Angels', 'Paradise Love', 'Night Elves', 'Steampunk' and 'Pink Love' are all over, an hour has passed in the hall of Chandler's Theatre.
The Victoria's Secret Angels began to appear for curtain call, and the audience in the hall took the initiative to stand up and applaud, which made Michael Bay in the backstage control room breathe a sigh of relief.
For an hour, Michael Bay was tense at the heartstrings, afraid that something would happen.
Fortunately, everything went well.
There is no need to come up with an initial scheduled backup plan.
Of course, there is more important things to be busy with next, the post-editing of the big show.
Counting it, he only had five days.
This is comparable to the production rhythm of traditional TV dramas, but the requirements of the Victoria's Secret show are definitely much higher than those of TV series.
The curtain call in the hall lasted more than five minutes.
When some audience members couldn't help but step forward and ask for autographs from the Victoria's Secret Angels on stage, and other audience members followed suit, Michael Bay, who was worried that the situation was out of control, hurriedly instructed the staff to coordinate the angels to return to the backstage.
In the past, professional fashion shows did not get the same treatment as concert singers at this time.
The Victoria's Secret angels were very enthusiastic and patient when they saw someone coming forward to ask for an autograph, and they were reminded by the staff, and some of the girls were even reluctant. It wasn't until the people around them repeatedly urged that the women turned around and returned to the backstage.
In the hall, the audience began to reluctantly leave the venue after the angel legion disappeared.
Some of those with VIP invitations are heading to the Hilton in Beverly Hills for the upcoming after-show party.
Backstage in the theater, the staff began to clean up and wrap up, and the Angel Legion had a final group photo session.
Seeing Simon with Janet and two other girls in the background, Cindy Crawford, who was standing and preparing to take a group photo, hesitated, suddenly walked over, nodded at Janet, and said to the young man in front of him, "Simon, do you want to take a picture with us?"
Many people around have noticed this.
Hearing Cindy's invitation, everyone else felt a wave of envy in their hearts. However, if there was anyone on the scene who was qualified to take pictures with the full forty big goblins, it was probably only Simon Westeros.
However, Simon shook his head: "You guys shoot, I won't go." ”
Cindy didn't give up, and simply stepped forward and carefully grabbed Simon's arm: "Come along, well, I guess Jenny must not mind, right?"
Finally, he looked at Janet.
Janet smiled and shook her head, pushing the man next to her as well.
Simon still refused, saying, "Actually, I have obsessive-compulsive disorder. ”
Cindy was a little stunned, what does this have to do with OCD?
Simon gestured to the Victoria's Secret Legion, which had almost finished its position, and explained: "If I stand in it, it will look very incongruous, as if some strange guy has mixed in. ”
Cindy finally got it this time.
Reluctantly, he let go of the man and said, "It's a pity." ”
Simon refused, and claimed that he was obsessive-compulsive, and even if the others had this kind of thought, they did not go to the Victoria's Secret Army without interest.
After taking a group photo, everyone also began to rush to the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel one after another.
The next day, the mainstream fashion media was almost everywhere with the news of the just-concluded Victoria's Secret show.
The information section of the Eagle portal also spent a lot of space on special reports, and a large number of beautiful photos of the show of forty Victoria's Secret angels were also released.
At the end of the show, the appearance rate of the forty Victoria's Secret angels in the media not only did not decline, but rose again.
Information about the show's theme songs was also frequently submitted, with Rolling Stone magazine not hesitating to praise five theme songs as setting a new trend.
Victoria's Secret officials have also begun to further promote the upcoming big show broadcast on ABC TV on November 12.
In the close attention and anticipation caused by the media hype, five days have passed in a blink of an eye.
November 12th.
The ABC television network gave the show the most golden eight o'clock slot.
In the past, the most-watched program at this time slot was the NBC television network's "Law & Order."
However, this time, in the real-time monitoring of Nielsen and other ratings statistics agencies, close to 8 o'clock in the evening, the ratings data of several major TV networks clearly began to tilt towards ABC.
By the time the Victoria's Secret show opened, the ABC network's real-time viewership had soared to around 23.6 million, which is higher than the peak of about 21 million viewers in the new season of "Legal & Counseling."
Not only that, but the 23.6 million viewers are just the beginning.
The show begins with aerial footage accompanied by Cindy Crawford's background narration, directly facing the Dorothy Chandler Theater at the Los Angeles Music Center.
The camera keeps zooming in, and then Victoria's Secret shows off the busy backstage.
The background sound has also been replaced by a nervous headset command voice, and at the same time, a close-up shot of a Victoria's Secret angel who is ready to go.
"Cindy Crawford, in place. ”
"This is Linda Ivan Gorinsta. ”
"Claudia, where is Claudia?"
"Oh, my shoes. ”
"And, Nadya. ”
“......”
"Ready, ready, the last 30 seconds. ”
"Music. ”
On the TV screen, everything freezes for a moment as the click of an electric switch being pulled down, and the camera cuts to the theater lobby.
Immediately, the prelude to "Angels" sounded with twinkling lights.
The camera starts to switch quickly.
The prelude of about 50 seconds was about to end, and a voice came from the headset again: "Go!"
Cindy Crawford makes an appearance.
Amazing.
And, applause.
Michael Bay's 'three-board axe' was vividly played in this opening of just a few minutes.
From the real-time ratings data feedback, we can see the traces of the audience's emotions being mobilized.
When Cindy Crawford finally appeared, the number of viewers had risen from 23.6 million to 26.1 million.
Even if the ratings data are frozen at this point, the TV broadcast of this big show will definitely become a classic.
However, in the nineties, the Internet was just emerging, cable television was not at its peak, and Americans' entertainment lives were far less abundant than they were later.
Therefore, this hot and fragrant fashion show attracted a large number of viewers for a while.
Not only that, but many viewers also reminded their relatives and friends to change channels through phone calls and other means.
In Simon's memory, the live broadcast of the Victoria's Secret show in the Super Bowl in 1998 directly caused the network to be paralyzed, and this time, because it was broadcast on ABC wireless network, although there would be no paralysis of ratings, there were obvious signs of empty alleys.
When the first theme was finished, news came from New York that the number of viewers had exceeded the 30 million mark.
In this era, because several major public television networks are still in the monopoly stage, TV programs with 20 million viewers abound, but 30 million viewers is a threshold that is difficult to cross, and it is a process of quantitative change to qualitative change. Usually only major award ceremonies or sporting events can achieve such ratings.
The number of viewers of the first Victoria's Secret show exceeded 30 million, which is enough to be recorded in TV history.
Daenerys Entertainment plans to make the Victoria's Secret show the 'Super Bowl of the fashion industry', because the 30 million viewers also seem to live up to its name.
However, 30 million is still not the end.
Speaking of which, because of the time difference between the east and west coasts, the real-time viewing data compiled by Nielsen and other institutions is actually not the real real-time data of the east and west coasts, because the west coast has not yet been broadcast.
This real-time data is more accurate and is an indirect prediction based on years of experience. The development of the American television industry has been nearly half a century, and although it is a prediction, it is not much different from the reality with the support of a large number of past data.
Eventually, at nine o'clock, the hour-long television broadcast ended, and it was still six o'clock in the afternoon on the West Coast.
Simon was still at Daenerys Studios in Malibu, and received real-time data from ABC for the first time.
When the first Victoria's Secret show was broadcast, the highest number of viewers had rushed to 41.7 million, and the average viewership data had reached about 35.2 million.
Just this average viewership of more than 35 million has already ensured that ABC's original $5 million purchase of broadcast rights is a lucrative business. Usually for TV shows with ratings data, $5 million is not even a thought of at all.
Therefore, when the ratings data came out, ABC has begun to test the cooperation of next year's Victoria's Secret show.
Although it has only been signed for one term, and, according to industry management, the TV program won by a TV station, unless it is actively abandoned, other TV networks cannot interfere, however, the broadcast rights of next year's Victoria's Secret show will definitely not be easily won for 5 million US dollars.
On the third day, accurate ratings data were released.
The first Victoria's Secret fashion show, the ABC television network broadcast the most suitable viewership to reach 42.1 million, the average viewership of 35.5 million, and the rating of the core audience of 18 to 49 years old reached 23.7, that is, 23.7% of all the 18 to 49-year-old viewers in the United States watched the fashion show.
The core audience of this era in the United States is roughly about 120 million.
The core audience ratings are not the audience groups that watch TV programs in real time, but the 120 million viewers who use them as the base, regardless of whether these people watch TV or not.
Therefore, the ratings of 23.7 are even more amazing, which is equivalent to about 28 million core viewers watching the Victoria's Secret show, accounting for 80% of the total viewership, compared to other public network TV programs, the proportion of core viewers often only reaches 50% to 70%.
This also makes the 'net content' of the Victoria's Secret show further improved.
The live show on November 7 attracted only professional fashion media. With the broadcast of the program on the ABC television network on November 12, this time, it sparked a big discussion about the all-media genre.
The mainstream "New York Times", "Los Angeles Times", "San Francisco Chronicle" and so on on both sides of the strait have reported on the TV broadcast of the Victoria's Secret show.
A group of media outlets that dominated public opinion in the United States reported on it, and more print media naturally began to take notice.
For a time, a large number of paper media in North America were full of words related to 'Victoria's Secret'. The trend quickly spread overseas.
Through this big show, the Victoria's Secret brand has completed a further leap in popularity.
The 40 Victoria's Secret angels who participated in this show are undoubtedly the most direct beneficiaries.
In the past, they could only improve their media exposure through various forms of climbing, even if they succeeded, they were often just vases around a certain singer and a certain star, but this time, the forty Victoria's Secret Angels have become the absolute protagonists, and in media reports, the status of Victoria's Secret Angels is no longer dependent on other people's existence.
In the face of the flood of invitations for cooperation with Victoria's Secret Angels, the major modeling agencies were overjoyed, and the first thing they thought of was to ensure their status as much as possible.
It is conceivable that the competition for the next Victoria's Secret Angel place will be extremely fierce.
The supermodel, who was expected to become the spokesperson of Victoria's Secret Angel but failed to negotiate because of salary and other aspects, also began to regret it at this time.
However, the five spokespersons of Victoria's Secret angels have undoubtedly become the most stable existence.
As for the rest, one can only hope that a young man who has absolute control over this big show will not have a big change in the Victoria's Secret Army next year.
In addition, the five pieces of background music have also attracted great attention from music fans, who have asked about the release of these song albums through telephone letters and other means.
Daenerys Entertainment also soon announced that it will launch a video of the Victoria's Secret show during the week of Thanksgiving.
As for the related single record, it will be at least until Easter next year.
Daenerys Entertainment's purpose in doing this is of course obvious, which is to further increase the popularity of the Victoria's Secret brand through the sale of video tapes.
In the midst of the enthusiastic coverage, there is certainly no shortage of critical remarks.
Many conservative media people have accused the show of being too glamorous and exposed, and it is easy to have a bad impact on young people.
ABC was quick to respond and will label the show as TV-14 next year, reminding that it is not suitable for audiences under 14.
Of course, when the time comes, the children will insist on watching, which is not something that ABC can control.
All this noise, and the final gain, is still Victoria's Secret lingerie brand.
After the previous Victoria's Secret live show was held, Victoria's Secret sales have been significantly released, and with the TV broadcast of the Victoria's Secret show, the relevant sales data have increased significantly.