Chapter 405: The crowd is surging

Changing into a black hooded sweatshirt and wearing a mask, Xiao Yao put his phone against the wall on the table in front of him, and sat in the room to record a video in selfie mode.

"Hello everyone, I'm YS. After pressing the shooting button, Xiao Yao first sat quietly in this image for two seconds, and then introduced himself wearing a mask, "Maybe someone doesn't know me? It's okay, let me introduce myself first, I am a musician who has written some well-known electronic music songs." ”

"Electronic music songs, cool, aren't they?" Xiao Yao smiled proudly, then shook his finger and said, "No, no, no, these are not the coolest, the coolest thing is that I am also a parkour enthusiast." ”

"Why is this video of mine here?" Xiao Yao said with a straight face, "Because I, a parkour person, needs the help of other parkour people, and the YRF team hopes that you can help me!"

"Well, here's the thing. As I said, I'm a music creator, but I'm also a director. In a few days, I'm going to release a new electronic single, and in three days, I'm going to shoot a music video for this new single. Now, I need some actors to shoot the MV. Because the characters in the MV have parkour moves, I need actors who can parkour them. If you have free time to participate in my MV shoot in 3 days, don't be shy, contact me at the email address in the video description and come with me to shoot the MV!"

"Explain a few points," Xiao Yao gave a slap in the face, then put down his fingers one by one and said, "First, I need more parkour runners than actors, so even if you are not a professional actor, you can act, it doesn't matter." Second, I don't need professional actors because most people don't show their faces in music videos. If you look at my current image and the characters in the music videos for my previous two songs, "Faded" and "SioSleep", most people will look like that. So if you want to see your face in the MV? I'm sorry, I can't promise that! I think you guys need to know this in advance. ”

"Thirdly, the location of the shoot is in a small mountain town near the city of Los Angeles, and I will not bear your travel expenses, so if it is too far from Los Angeles, especially for friends outside the United States, please think again. Xiao Yao then lowered his finger and said, "Fourth, the filming may last for a day, and there will be no pay, but I will be in charge of transportation and lunch." Fifth, I need about thirty people. I don't get paid, but everyone gets the same hoodie and face shield as I do now. You're going to wear these and shoot with me, and when you're done, your coat and mask will be yours. ”

"Okay, that's the way it is! If you can, just send me an email at the email address below! Remember to include your name, age and other basic information and contact information, as well as a short video of you playing parkour or a full-body photo showing your general figure!" Xiao Yao slapped his face and said, "If you are selected, I will contact you and tell you the specific meeting time and place." Of course, the meeting point will be in Los Angeles!"

"Also, those parkour friends who are not near Los Angeles or even in the United States, although it is inconvenient for you to participate in the filming, I still need your help for this MV. Xiao Yao continued, "This MV is about not being alone, you can understand it as that there are many people who play parkour all over the world, so the picture of the MV not only includes the part of Los Angeles, but also the pictures of famous cities around the world." I won't shoot these pictures, I'll leave them to you. You can send me the video you shot at the same email address below, and if it's appropriate, I'll edit it into the MV. ”

"The requirements for these videos are," Xiao Yao said with two more fingers, "First, dress uniformly." Please wear a black hoodie like this, wear a black mask, and don't show your face. Second, try to take pictures of the most distinctive landmarks in your city, so that people can know where you are at a glance, and the more famous the city and the more famous the landmarks, the better. I don't have anything else to ask for, just let your parkour imagination run wild!"

"Let's complete this special MV together! Thank you!" Xiao Yao finally opened his arms, folded them, made an exaggerated gesture of thanks, and pressed the button on his phone to stop shooting.

After opening the video and watching it back, and finding that there was no problem, Xiao Yao logged in to the account on the PV and posted the video to YRF's channel, and attached his work email address below.

Whether it is in a past life or in this world, it is nothing new for some star singers to invite their fans to come and make free guest extras when filming MVs. As long as the organization is done well, the star's attitude towards fans is better, and don't take advantage of fans too much, which is a win-win thing. When Xiao Yao considered that the MV needed actors, he naturally thought of the fans.

Although there have always been fans of Xiao Yao on the Internet, there have always been complaints about Xiao Yao being too lazy, not changing Weibo, and not letting fans pick up the airport, but in terms of the reputation of offline activities, Xiao Yao is still very strong. With the previous incident of taking fans to play flash mobs, Xiao Yao believes that if he was in China, he would definitely be able to find a group of fans to perform the MV without difficulty, but now this is the United States and Los Angeles. Xiao Yao should also have a certain number of fans here, but whether the fans here believe in him as much as the fans of Huaxia, Xiao Yao is not sure.

In the United States, it's hard to say what the attitude of the fans of "Xiao Yao" is, but Xiao Yao has seen the attitude of the fans and fans of the parkour team of YRF. Since there are parkour actions in this MV, Xiao Yao hit the idea to the fans of the "YRF" team.

It has now been more than five years since the formation of the YRF team and the emergence of parkour, which has gained widespread popularity around the world. As the veteran team that invented the sport, how much appeal does YRF have among parkour enthusiasts? Xiao Yao can also take this opportunity to test and feel before crowdfunding parkour movie funds. So Xiao Yao not only released a video of recruiting actors through the YRF team's account on the PV, but even handed over the footage shooting of other cities directly to the parkour enthusiasts to shoot by themselves.

So does Xiao Yao's video have any effect?

With the increase in age and work, Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, and Xu Fei have rarely gotten together to play parkour and shoot videos in recent years, and the YRF account on the PV has not been updated for a long time. Despite this, the YRF account, which has a special status in the hearts of parkour enthusiasts, still has more than five million subscriptions on PV. Therefore, when Xiao Yao uploaded the video, many online netizens of this website immediately received a system message from the website and clicked on the link to the video in the system message.

"Why in a hotel room? Can you also do parkour in a hotel room?"

"Who is this guy, why does he look like a robber, is this someone from the YRF?"

As soon as the video just started playing, some netizens couldn't wait to complain in the comments.

Originally, YRF has released a lot fewer videos in recent years, but now it's hard to see them posting videos, but when I click in, I see a guy dressed like a robber in a hotel room, which is obviously not playing parkour, and everyone's attitude of eagerness to complain and complain is actually not difficult to understand. But soon, after the person in the video pulled down his mask and started talking, everyone's comments changed from complaining to surprise, speculation and discussion about the matter.

"Who is YS?"

"This image is very familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere!"

"Isn't that the main character in the music videos for Faded and SioSleep?"

"Yes, he himself mentioned the MVs of these two songs, and he is the author and DJ of those two songs!"

"YS, isn't that Jan Shaun, that talented Chinese music creator! He's a member of the "immortals" and has written songs for "Daydream." ”

"Yang shoots a new song MV to recruit actors?

"I'm a fan of Young and love Faded and Immortals. Although I just like to watch parkour and don't know how to play much, I still have to apply to be an actor in the MV!"

Although all of Xiao Yao's electronic music works were signed by the letters YS when they were released, his sense of mystery was far less than that of Alanalker in his previous life, and it was not long before someone thought of who he was from his simple English abbreviation. Soon some people said they were going to participate just by his name, but more people discussed his identity as a Chinese star, and then questioned his identity as a parkour runner.

"Jan Sean, oh my God, isn't that the Chinese star who was kidnapped at New York Fashion Week recently?"

"What is his relationship with YRF? Why does YRF want us to help this Chinese man? Just because he is a star?"

"I guess because he's parkour too!"

"Chinese stars, play parkour? Is it possible? Will they do it? There are not many action stars in the United States who can play parkour?"

"Hey, don't look down on Huaxia stars, especially action stars. Think of Pete Wang and Mike Chow, Huaxia's kung fu is amazing!"

"Kung fu and parkour are not the same thing!"

"Kung fu and parkour are not the same thing, but YS, also known as Jan Sean, is good at parkour. You go and look at the music videos for those two songs, and the main characters in them have shown parkour moves. FYI, he himself is the director of those two MVs, there is only one protagonist in the MV of the previous song, and the name is himself, and there are three protagonists in the MV of the latter song, and his name is also in the starring role. Although the characters in the MV are also dressed like this, and they can't see their faces, I believe that he didn't use a stand-in, and those parkour moves were done by himself. ”

"I am an international student in China, Yang is very popular in China, and of course it is also very popular in the United States now. But what I want to say is that he does know how to play parkour. Some time ago, he was also at the scene of the earthquake in Wuyou County, Huaxia Sichuan Province, and there was a video of him climbing the second floor of a building that was about to collapse to investigate the scene, and the shadow of parkour could be clearly seen in the action.

"This guy is indeed the Chinese star who was kidnapped at the New York Fashion Week show some time ago. The police press conference said that he escaped the kidnappers' control and climbed onto the top of the warehouse and hid. The warehouse was thirty feet high, and there was no ladder outside, so I believe he would be a parkour runner. ”

"Speaking of the case, do you remember last year's plane robbery in New York that was turned over some time ago? He subdued two robbers and saved the man who was on a plane! In the kidnapping case a few days ago, he also escaped from the kidnappers' control by himself, and even punctured the tires of the kidnapper's car, and then hid on the top of a safe warehouse and waited for the police to rescue him! Just rush to this, I want to shoot the MV, I want to see this amazing Chinese boy with my own eyes. ”

As the heat of the discussion heated up step by step, and the content of the discussion unfolded step by step, the number of views and popularity of this video began to rise geometrically. As a member of Nathan Donal's parkour team saw this video, and after seeing the arguments questioning whether Xiao Yao would be parkour, he couldn't help but expose Xiao Yao's identity, and the comments under this video completely exploded.

"I've seen him a long time ago! You're here questioning whether Jan Shaun can parkour or not? Don't you notice that the YRF introduction says Y is Young? This guy is the Y from YRF! He's a member of the veteran team that invented parkour, and you're still speculating about whether he can parkour or not? A bunch of blind people and idiots!"

"Is the Y in YRF a Chinese person, or a Chinese star singer?

"No, the whole team of YRF is from Huaxia! I met Yang, he told me in person! To prove it, he once logged into the YRF account on the PV in front of me, and added a sentence that they are Huaxia people in the YRF profile in front of us. I don't know why he later deleted that sentence, but I did see it. ”

"Oh my God, this is unbelievable! I'm going to shoot this music video, I'm going to check with him personally!"

"I'm going too!"

"Such a famous star can't find an actor to shoot a music video? Beware of being deceived!"

When everyone behaved in a crowd because of Xiao Yao's remarks that Xiao Yao was Y, and enthusiastically expressed their intention to participate in it, a particularly cautious netizen couldn't help but pour cold water in the comments. However, as soon as his comment came out, it was quickly counterattacked by many Xiao Yao fans who rushed to watch after hearing the news, and also brought out more of Xiao Yao's deeds in the comment.

A few years ago, in order to surprise his girlfriend, Yang recruited fans to play flash mobs with him on the Internet, and then really took a group of fans to dance and play flash mobs for his girlfriend on the street, confiscated a penny from the fans, and gave each of the fans who participated in the event a signed album, which was reported by the Chinese media. Yang does this kind of thing, everyone definitely doesn't need to worry about being deceived!"

"Bring fans to play flash mobs for girlfriends? It's so romantic! I like celebrities like this, I'm going!"

"Speaking of romance, the song "Sugar" from "Daydream" was written by Young, and Keith said at the People's Choice Awards that the idea for their band to raid the wedding scene and make it into a music video came from Young!

"The music video for 'Sugar' was also Young's idea, I love what Keith did, I'm going to help Young!"

"Speaking of being able to play, "American Airlines Broke My Guitar" is also his work, do you remember this David who forced American Airlines to bow his head and apologize and defeated Goliath?"

"Support David, who can play parkour, I'm going!"

"This kind of cattle man, even if he pays money, he has to go, not to mention that there are clothes to give. After watching the MVs of those two songs, I feel that the black hoodie and mask are cool!"

"I'm going!"

"I'm going!"

“gogogo!”

After netizens discussed, the comment area was full of blockbuster "dogs". Of course, most of the netizens who said they were going to participate in the MV shooting were around Los Angeles in the United States, although there were also some netizens from other countries who clamored to fly to the United States to see the true face of the YRF god, but after all, it was a very small number, and more American netizens outside the United States and even far away from Los Angeles naturally focused on Xiao Yao's second request, and they were not willing to be lonely and launched their own comments.

"I'm in Paris and can't go to the U.S. anytime soon, so I decided to help him with the video. The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, there is no more iconic building in the city than this, and my video will definitely make the cut!"

"Who's to say you're guaranteed to be selected? Jan? Do you know the Statue of Liberty in New York?"

"London's Big Ben is not convinced!"

"Have you seen the Great Wall and the Forbidden City in China?"

"The Colosseum of Rome!"

"Who says it has to be an ancient building? I'm in Japan, I'm going to Ginza to shoot!"

"Burj Al Arab in Dubai, I'm going to take aerial photos!"

"The BMW Building in Munich!"

Whether it is the number of netizens, the number of parkour enthusiasts or the number of Xiao Yao's fans, Los Angeles and the surrounding areas in the United States are definitely not comparable to the world, so at the end, the discussion area under this video has become a place for netizens from all over the world to compete to introduce the landmark buildings of their cities.