"The children are still young, and there is still a lot to learn and improve in terms of stage performance. "The Billboard Awards show was performed by some of the world's top artists. This time, they were not guest performers, so we applied to the organizer to see the rehearsal of the performers, so that they could learn how to communicate with all parties during the rehearsal stage, how to prepare a perfect performance, and enhance their ability and experience in this area. ”

"Another one came to see the rehearsal. Nicky Thompson thought of Xiao Yao on the side, and said in his heart, "But their formation is much more formal than Xiao Yao, and it is much more formal and serious." No, they came on their own initiative, Jan was called by Amy, and he didn't plan to come, so naturally there was no agent to follow, and he didn't contact the organizer. "Choking and Strange Novels|w~w~w.

"Oh," Amy Hatton nodded, wondering, "and aren't you supposed to be in the auditorium right now?"

"In front of me is Mr. Scott doing a dress rehearsal. "The details of his stage performance have all been finalized and will not be changed, and now it is just repeating and familiarizing, and it should be over soon." We knew Miss Thompson was the next artist to rehearse, and it had already arrived, so we wanted to pay a visit. ”

"Miss Thompson, this is our new single from last month, please advise!" said one of the seven young men, pulling out a box and handing it to Nicky Thompson with both hands.

"This—" Nicky Thompson looked at the young man, looking hesitant.

"This is a tradition in the Korean entertainment industry, and it is also the habit of many Korean artists. Xiao Yao, who was sitting on the sofa, said.

Xiao Yao has participated in the recording of Korean music TV shows with the Korean idol girl group Gstar, and has seen and understood this set in the Korean entertainment industry, especially in the music idol circle.

"Who is this?" John Lee was attracted by Xiao Yao's voice, turned his head to look at him, and asked Amy Hatton with some surprise.

When he came in, he saw a young Asian man and a white young man sitting on the couch in the lounge. The two men were dressed more ordinarily and looked burly, and when they came in, they didn't do anything, and John Lee thought that they were Nicky Thompson's bodyguards or drivers or other staff members, and when he heard the Asian man interject, it was obvious that his guess was wrong.

"This is Jan Shaw, a superstar from China!" Amy Hatton said, pointing at Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis with her palm, "and this is Mr. Haggis, an American, who is a friend of Mr. Shaw's. ”

"He's his bodyguard, too!" added Tim Haggis, swinging his hand from the couch. He had no interest in these Korean stars, so he simply waved his hand and didn't get up from the couch at all.

"Jan Shaw?" John Lee had no interest in Tim Haggis, but looked at Shaw in surprise.

"Xiao Yaoxi?" The seven people in that group were also surprised.

"Hello, I'm Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao stood up from the sofa, walked to a few people and nodded slightly. He still speaks English, only changing his name to Chinese.

"Mr. Shaw, are you also a guest performer at the rehearsal?" asked John Lee, "and as far as I know, your name doesn't seem to be on the list of performers for this awards ceremony." ”

"Do you look at me like this, like a guest performer who came to rehearse?" Xiao Yao pointed to the clothes on his body and smiled.

"Then why are you here?" said John Lee wondered.

"Mr. Shaw is the stage director we have hired," says Amy Hatton, "and he's here to advise on Nicky's stage performance. ”

"Wow~" John Lee was surprised.

"Actually, I don't think I can help much," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Actually, like you, I want to see how the world's top artists rehearse, with the purpose of learning." It's just that I'm not even a guest at the ceremony, and I didn't even have the opportunity to apply to the organizer to watch the rehearsal. In order to fulfill my wish, Ms. Hatton asked me to be the so-called "stage director", "When Xiao Yao talked about stage direction, he raised his hands and bent two fingers to hook them, and made a "double quotation mark" gesture, "temporarily let me join their team and brought me in." ”

"This~hehe!"

John Lee didn't believe what Xiao Yao said, but if Xiao Yao wanted to be a guest of honor to attend, he was a little underestimated about the billboard awards ceremony, after all, Xiao Yao hadn't been active in the United States for the past two years. If you want to follow Xiao Yao's words, I don't think it's appropriate. He didn't know how to answer Xiao Yao's words, so he could only laugh dryly.

"Xiao Yaoxi, you are too modest. One of the young men in the group said, "The stage you designed when you were 18 years old was so good, and now it must be even better." ”

"Miss Thompson, you have made a wonderful choice. The young man turned to Nicky Thompson and said, "If Jan had been your stage director, I'm sure your performance would have been the best of the show!"

"The most exciting?" Xiao Yao smiled, "You think too highly of me!"

"Eighteen?" said Amy Hatton, looking at the group, "you knew Mr. Shaw before?"

"Yes," Xiao Yao smiled and nodded, "We once participated in a musical TV show co-produced by Chinese and Korean television stations, and I was eighteen years old at the time. ”

"I only participated in one episode," Xiao Yao turned to the Korean group and said, "I didn't expect you to remember!"

"No, to be precise, it should be two phases, no, it should be three phases!" said the group member who spoke before, "The first phase is to design your own stage performance, the first phase is to design your own stage performance, the first phase is not to perform, but you have designed two performance stages, and the other issue, we only found out afterwards that the masked DJ on the live stage is you." You've been involved in a total of three episodes and you've won three titles, and we're certainly very impressed. ”

"Really?" Xiao Yao smiled, "I thought you were impressed because of Mr. Sky Park Dacheng." ”

This BTBS combination has intersected with Xiao Yao before. During the winter vacation of Xiao Yao's junior year of high school, he participated in an electronic music program co-organized by China and South Korea, when China and South Korea each sent two veteran artists as captains, and selected young artists from their own countries as team members to compete. Xiao Yao and Chen Chen were members of the first phase of Shazhou together, and this BTBS group was a men's group under Park Dacheng at that time.

Before Xiao Yao participated in that show, young artists from South Korea won three championships in the first four episodes of the show, which was obviously superior, but after Xiao Yao went, not only won the current championship, but also helped the artists in Huaxia win two more single-issue championships behind the scenes, which suddenly made the number of single-issue champions in Huaxia account for half of the total.

In the previous episodes of that show, because the young artists in South Korea performed much better than the young artists in China, the groups of the two captains of South Korea were replaced. Generally, after winning the championship of a single period, the substitution is made, and other team combinations in Korea are invited to compete.

BTBS only went to the fourth episode of the program, and went to one episode earlier than Xiao Yao. Although the fourth phase did not win the championship, the results were quite good. originally thought that the champion would return to China, but after changing to other combinations, they would be able to win the first phase of the championship and return to China to rest, but they didn't expect that after Xiao Yao joined, Huaxia won three consecutive single-phase championships.

The Korean group in front won three championships in a row, and Huaxia won three championships in a row, so that the Korean groups participating in the next three episodes of the program were criticized by many media and fans in South Korea and ridiculed by their competitors.

After the show ended, after the group returned to South Korea, the follow-up development was also greatly affected. Almost a year later, the company adjusted their growth strategy, shifting their target market from China and South Korea to Europe and the United States. Although they seem to have developed well in Europe and the United States in the past four years, the number of fans seems to be quite large, and the results of the songs on various charts after their release are okay, but the real situation is not as good as it seems.

Although South Korea has a good relationship with European and American countries, there are still considerable cultural differences between Europe and the United States and Asia, especially East Asia, and it is not so easy for them to push the Hallyu culture to Europe and the United States. Their fans are mainly concentrated in the younger middle school age group, and most of the European and American audiences and their fellow artists in the European and American entertainment circles do not recognize and accept them very much. They are far from reaching, and it seems unlikely that they will be able to reach the popularity of Sky Park Dae-sung in the European and American entertainment circles back then.

And the reason why their company changed its strategy and arranged for them to enter the European and American markets is that the electronic music program of the year and the follow-up impact of the program are a big reason, and then tracing back to the source, Xiao Yao, who was killed in that program, can be said to be the most fundamental reason.

When they participated in that show, they were members of Park Dae-sung's team. In addition to their company and their own efforts, Sky Park Daesung, who has a good reputation in Europe and the United States, has also been very important for their support and help. And in that show, Xiao Yao had an argument with Park Dacheng, which made Park Dacheng apologize in public in a very shameful way.

For a combination of these reasons, their combination naturally has no good impression of Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao has a good memory, so he naturally remembers that their group participated in that show back then. Although he didn't know that this group was forced to turn to Europe and the United States, he remembered that this group was a member of Park Dae-sung at the time, and he had an unpleasant relationship with Park Dae-sung in the show.

At the beginning, Xiao Yao wasn't sure if the group remembered and minded the things in that show, so it was normal. But when they mentioned the words "eighteen years old" and "the most exciting", it sounded like a boast, but it actually meant to set himself up, Xiao Yao was naturally not polite.

Xiao Yao didn't have much intersection with the Korean group in that show, and there was no direct conflict. The only reason why they were unhappy with themselves could only be because they were Park Dacheng's team members at the time, and he had an unhappiness with Park Dacheng and lost Park Dacheng's face, so Xiao Yao directly named Park Dacheng's name.

Since there were also Amy Hatton and Nicky Thompson nearby, Xiao Yao spoke English when talking to the group, and Amy Hatton and Nicky Thompson could understand it.

"Sky?" asked Amy Hatton curiously, "Has Mr. Shaw ever been on the show with Mr. Park?"

"Jan, do you have a story with Sky?" asked Nicky Thompson, curious.

Nicky Thompson has been famous for more than five years, and Amy Hatton has been an agent for more than five years, both of them have experienced the period when Sky became popular in Europe and the United States, so they naturally know who Xiao Yao is talking about.

"I'm sorry," the young man in the group bowed slightly to Nicky Thompson and Amy Hatton, "we're going to visit the other artists, so let's take our leave!"

They didn't want to say that Park Dacheng was forced by Xiao Yao to apologize in public on the show, and they didn't want to hear Xiao Yao tell them about it, so they offered to leave.

"Okay," Nicky Thompson glanced at Xiao Yao and smiled and took the CD case from the young man's hand, "Thank you for the gift, I'll listen!"

"See you in the auditorium!" said John Lee and Amy Hatton and Nicky Thompson in farewell.

"See you in a moment!" the two also bent slightly.

"Jan, I can see they don't like you!" After the eight left, Nicky Thompson said to Xiao Yao, "Can you tell me the story of what happened between you?"

"Actually, there is no story between us!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "We just participated in a show together, but there is no story!"

"That's what it has to do with Sky!" said Nicky Thompson, "you just said you were eighteen years old at the time? Sky was more than twenty years older than you, and he must have been in his forties at that time. I'm curious to see what happens between you at the age of eighteen and Sky at the age of forty!"

"You—" Xiao Yao smiled and was about to speak, when he was interrupted by Nicky Thompson again.

"Forget it, don't talk about it!" Nicky Thompson said, waving his hand, "You're a liar, I can't believe what you're saying!"

"Hey, I said, I didn't lie to you, I just selectively concealed something. Xiao Yao said unhappily.

"Well, I'm afraid you're going to have some things to hide again and give me some misunderstandings!" said Nicky Thompson.

"Jenny, you check it for me!" said Nicky Thompson, turning to his assistant, "when Jan was eighteen, it was five or six years ago. Five or six years ago, the music TV show produced by Huaxia and South Korea, Young, BTBS, and Sky all participated in that show, so it should be easy to find. You help me look up all the relevant news, you should know what I want to know. ”

"Okay!" the female assistant nodded, took out her mobile phone and sat on the sofa next to her.