"What are you doing with me?" Xiao Yao noticed the eyes of Nicky Thompson and Cordy Scott, and said in his heart, "This is an award ceremony for music awards, and the nominees are all big-name singers and musicians in the United States, who can't take a show?" There are more than 20 groups of star musicians nominated this year, and there are less than 10 groups of performers, and I am not even a guest at the ceremony, so it is impossible for me to get my turn, right?"

Nicky Thompson and Cordy Scott also seemed to have this in mind, and at this time they just looked at Xiao Yao and did not say anything to David Green.

"Then contact one of the nominated celebrity guests!" David Green, "At this time, it should be too late for tonight's rehearsal, and I can arrange a separate rehearsal for the substitute show tomorrow afternoon." ”

Sure enough, David Green's first reaction was to find someone to save the scene from among the nominated celebrity guests. Being a guest performer also means that there will be one more time at the awards ceremony, a few minutes of footage, under normal circumstances, the star should be willing.

"This method doesn't work!" the young man with the work card shook his head and said, "The celebrities who have been nominated are all very big, have a lot of endorsements, and the schedule is very full." You know, LV is a famous shopping paradise, and there are many luxury stores here. Many celebrities who have not been assigned performance tasks will have other activities during the day tomorrow. Not to mention letting them prepare for the show, I'm afraid there is no time for rehearsals. ”

"Are America's big stars busy?" Xiao Yao glanced at Nicky Thompson not far away, and thought a little strangely, "That one seems to have been playing here for at least a week!"

"What then?" asked David Green.

"I have a suggestion," said the young man, "don't we have celebrity guests at this ceremony? I think we can find someone among them to be a guest performer and put on a show at the awards ceremony tomorrow night." ”

"Are some of the celebrity guests who are watching the ceremony also celebrities?" asked David Green.

"Yes," the young man nodded, "I heard that the Korean band BTBS came to see the rehearsal tonight, and now they are here, I think they should be able to!

At this point, the young man and the seven members of the BTBS and their agent happened to walk in.

"Miss Thompson!" John Lee, the agent, came over with seven people to greet Nicky Thompson, and bowed slightly to David Green, "Mr. Green, as I said before, the children will come to watch Miss Thompson's rehearsal, and please forgive me if I disturb your work." ”

"It's okay," David Green said, waving his hand, "Mr. Lee, I'm glad you're here." We have a problem right now, and we need your help..."

"Wait!" Nicky Thompson interrupted, "David, if you really need to add a temporary performance, I suggest you invite Jan to be a guest performer! ”

"I agree!" said Cordy Scott, "and I think Jan would be a better performer!"

Xiao Yao's refusal to perform with them at this award ceremony does not mean that Xiao Yao will not perform at the award ceremony. Xiao Yao's reason for rejecting them was that he was worried that the people in the band Immortals would think that he would dislike them and climb to a higher branch, so Xiao Yao should not have this problem performing alone as a guest performer. Because the band Immortals has also been a guest performer at the Billboard Awards before, it doesn't mean that Xiao Yao has to leave the band to have a chance to stand on that stage. Kiki started all over the network

"What? What are you talking about?" the young man in front of David Green was stunned, "Jan? Who is that?"

"Chris, you don't know Jan Shaw?" David Green smiled and pointed to Xiao Yao on the side.

It was rehearsal time, the lights weren't on very brightly in the area above the auditorium, and the young man named Chris came in and recognized Cordie Scott sitting in the audience next to David Green and Nicky Thompson not far from David Green, but ignored the people around Cordie Scott. Originally, he thought that the two people sitting next to Cordy Scott were members of his team.

"Hello, I'm Jan Xiao, from Huaxia!" Xiao Yao said as he saw Chris looking at him, smiling and standing up.

"Huaxia, are you that Jan Shaw?" said Chris.

"Jan, this is Chris Robertson, who is responsible for coordinating the liaison with the stars, and he didn't know you were here tonight!" David Green explained as he helped with the introduction.

"Chris, Young was hired by Nicky's team to be the stage director to help Nicky perfect his stage performance," David Green said to Chris Robertson, "He wasn't a star guest at the awards ceremony, he just came to see Nicky's rehearsal, so I didn't tell you!"

"I see," Chris Robertson nodded abruptly, and then said to David Green, "since Jan is not at the awards ceremony, we can't invite him to perform on stage as a guest performer, right?"

"No," said Nicky Thompson, "Young didn't plan to come to the ceremony because he felt that the guests and the process of the ceremony had already been decided, and he didn't want to bother the organizers to make adjustments for him." Now that Hopson is too sick to attend the awards ceremony, we have a seat vacated and we can invite Jan to be a guest of honor and a guest performer!"

"But Hopson is the nominee, and his location is different from that of the guests. Chris Robertson said.

"It's not a problem," said Nicky Thompson, "that the two are in different areas, but the two areas are connected, so just move some of the nominees' seats and move the empty seats from the nominee's area to the guests' area." We don't have any seat maps for tomorrow night, so you can rearrange your seats. I don't think it's going to be a problem, don't you think?"

"This—" Chris Robertson hesitated.

"I also agree," David Green said, "Chris, having one more star is always good for the ratings, not to mention that Young's popularity in the United States is not low." ”

"Hey, you guys are talking so lively, have you asked me? Did I agree?" Xiao Yao looked at a few people with some surprise, and complained in his heart.

But Xiao Yao thought so in his heart, and he couldn't say it directly. Just as Xiao Yao pondered his language and was about to speak, John Lee on the side spoke first.

"We also thought it would be a good idea to have Mr. Xiao as a guest of honor. John Lee looked at Xiao Yao and said, "However, Mr. Xiao is here for a vacation, I wonder if he is ready to perform on stage?" Also, the performers at the Billboard Awards Ceremony usually perform their own songs that have been on the Billboard charts in the past year, Mr. Xiao has not been active in the United States for more than a year, and it seems that no work has appeared on any of the Billboard charts in the past year, right?"

John Lee was happy when he came in, but his face darkened unconsciously as soon as Nicky Thompson and Cordie Scott spoke.

Korea and China are somewhat similar in some places. When it comes to movies, there are still a few people who can be called international, but when it comes to music, there are relatively few. Sky Park Dae-sung can be regarded as one of the hottest Korean music artists in Europe and the United States in this century. Although he once provided some assistance to the development of BTBS in the United States with his network resources, in recent years, he himself has basically disappeared.

John Lee, a Korean-American who has been working in the United States for a long time, originally had no special feelings for Xiao Yao, but after coming out of Nicky Thompson's lounge, BTBS told them about their holiday with Sky Park Dacheng and Xiao Yao, and he was very kind to Xiao Yao. Because BTBS also told John Lee that Park Dacheng apologized in public to a Chinese young artist on the show and was slapped in the face, which had a great impact on him.

John Lee was unhappy with Xiao Yao, but after listening to Nicky Thompson and David Green, he also knew that it was useless to speak out against Xiao Yao attending the award ceremony as a guest of honor, so he focused on the guest performers. This opportunity to be a guest performer is that the company has done a lot of things with him, and has spent a lot of effort to arrange it for BTBS, and he doesn't want others to snatch it, let alone Xiao Yao.

"There's no such rule at the Billboard Awards Ceremony, right?" Nicky Thompson looked at David Green, "Some of Young's works have performed very well on Billboard, and although it's been a little longer and they've been off the charts, they're still great as a performance repertoire!"

"yes!" Coardy Scott nodded, "for example, he only performed once at halftime in the Masters and never performed it publicly in the United States. The results at that Masters were fantastic, and I'm sure it will be very good on the Billboard stage!"

"However, the billboard is more time-sensitive," Chris Robertson interjected, "although there are no clear rules, but it is true that there are very few singers who perform old songs!"

"Who's to say I haven't had a Billboard work in the past year?" Xiao Yao looked at John Lee and smiled, "Don't you know that I also have a stage name called YS? I released two electronic singles in the first half of this year, "Monody" and "Unity", both of which did well on the Billboard electronic music charts. Isn't the electronic music chart a billboard list?"

At the beginning of this year, when Xiao Yao participated in Haiyan Video's electronic music program, he made two electronic music works, and later these two electronic music songs were officially released. Xiao Yao has released a lot of English songs, and has a regular American record label as a partner to represent the release of his songs in North America. Xiao Yao's two electronic music songs are both English songs, and naturally they are also released in the United States.

Although Xiao Yao himself did not come to the United States to promote any singles, the two electronic music works still achieved good results on the Billboard electronic music charts under the conventional publicity methods of the American record companies he cooperated with and the quality of the songs themselves were good enough and attractive enough.

"'Monody' and 'Unity'? I remember!" David Green asked Xiao Yao suddenly, "Do you want to perform one of those two electronic songs at the awards ceremony?"

Although Xiao Yao was not nominated for Best Electronic Song and Best Electronic Producer on Billboard this year for those two electronic music songs, David Green felt that any of them were absolutely qualified as performance tracks at the awards ceremony.

"No," Xiao Yao shook his head, "I'm just telling Mr. Li that I have a Billboard work in the past year, not that I want to perform one of them on the stage of the awards ceremony." ”

"You want to perform an old song?" surprised David Greene, "Perfect?"

"I agree with Nicky and Cordy that the Billboard Awards doesn't require guests to perform a work that has been on the Billboard list in the past year. Xiao Yao smiled, "I have a habit, or hobby, that is, to perform a brand new work in public. If I accept your invitation to be a guest performer on a temporary basis, I wonder if you will allow me to perform a new song that has not yet been released?"

Xiao Yao obviously felt that the agent of BTBS was not very friendly to him, and at the same time, he could see that they were very concerned about the opportunity of this guest performer. In this case, Xiao Yao, who was also a little unhappy with them, naturally wanted to come out and fight. However, even if he expressed his willingness to be a guest performer and wanted to fight for this performance opportunity, Xiao Yao was not a promise, and he still fully showed his personality according to the other party.

"Mr. Shaw, do you want to use the Billboard Awards as a stage for your new song release?" said John Lee.

"Can't you?" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "They need a performance, I'll give them a performance, as long as the live effect is good enough, what does it matter if it's a new song or not?"

"A new song, without any foundation, how to ensure the effect of the scene?" said John Lee.

"My name is a guarantee!" Xiao Yao said domineeringly, "I often perform new songs in public, and there is no time when the live effect is not good!"

"Hah!" John Lee laughed.

"I believe Young. Cordy Scott said to David Green, "Think about the Masters that year, when Young sang 'Perfect,' it wasn't released yet, it was a brand new song. How it worked at the time, you should know!"

"Cordy, you've mentioned 'Perfect' three times," Xiao Yao laughed, "how much do you like that song?"

"Very, very much!" laughed Cordy Scott, "you may not know it, but I was in the audience at the Masters and my wife was sitting next to me. It happened to be Valentine's Day, and she listened to that song of yours and was so intoxicated. ”

"I remember that the Masters that year happened to be Valentine's Day, and the song that Yang sang happened to be another love song! Chris Robertson said, "If Young insists on singing new songs, I think it's better to have BTBS perform." At least their works have been performed in public in the first half of the year, and the atmosphere on the scene is very good, which can guarantee the effect. ”

David Green looked down for a while, then raised his head and said, "In fact, what kind of performance will be what the effect, we professionals who have been in the industry for many years can predict it. Since Chris recommended BTBS, and Nicky and Coledy recommended Young, why don't you perform on stage separately, and after we see it, we think whoever has a better performance will ask whoever is to replace Hopson as a guest performer. "Fastest update Kiki //

"Live PK, I agree!" Xiao Yao said, "but I said that I was going to perform a brand new song that had not yet been released." In fact, that song only has a score and lyrics, has not been recorded, and there is no accompanying music. I need musicians and I need time to practice with musicians. ”

"Yes!" said David Green, "today is the rehearsal for the original performers, and now the rehearsal is not over, I will continue the rehearsal, you can find a place to rehearse with the musicians." In addition to this performance hall, this hotel has other suitable rehearsal areas. As for the musicians and instruments, I can't arrange them for you, but Cordy brought the musicians and instruments himself, and I'm sure he should be more than willing to help you!"

"Of course!" said Cordy Scott to Xiao Yao, "I'd love to see what your new song looks like, too." ”

"Thank you," Xiao Yao smiled, "but I can tell you in advance, it won't be like Perfect!"

"But," David Green said, "I can give you less than two hours to prepare, and you'll have to perform when all the rehearsals are over on our side, can you?"

"Two hours? isn't that too little?" said Cordy Scott, "that Young's song hasn't been recorded yet, so it hasn't been arranged." It's okay for me to lend someone to him, but these people are working with Yang for the first time, and they need to run in and develop a tacit understanding! Isn't it too nervous to arrange music and rehearse for two hours? I think it's better to compare tomorrow afternoon. If they practice well, there will be no need for rehearsals. ”

"It's okay!" Xiao Yao said, "I already have an idea for arranging." As long as the musicians are professional enough, two hours should be enough. I'm sure the musicians you hire must be very professional, so no problem. ”

"Alright, that's it!" said David Green, "and I'll have a staff member help you find a place to rehearse." When the rehearsal is over on my side, I'll send someone to inform you!"