Timsey Leslie habitually opened the page of Studio Eleven and began to look for the latest news from Lan Li. This has almost become a habitual action that he has insisted on every day for the past six months, and his brain does not need to think at all, and a series of actions are completed smoothly.

As a veteran professional fan, since attending the "Pioneer Village Night" in New York last September, he has added a "Blue Rite-Hall" to his list of favorite singers.

That night, he not only enjoyed Lan Li's music, but also the Q&A session, the live piano performance, and the guitar adaptation, all of which showed Lan Li's understanding of music, life, dreams, and freedom. This fascinated Timsey deeply.

He knew that Lan Li was an actor. However, Lan Li can get a glimpse of an artist's integrity and style, which is really so rare that he is even willing to go into the cinema to watch Lan Li's works, and enjoy it and praise it. It's incredible, but it's happening. At the moment in 2012, such an artist can still be found.

So, every day, Timsi is looking forward to the latest news from Lanli. Even if there is no movement, he is willing to do it – because artists are always like this, silently immersed in their own world, they can see the space, time and dimensions that ordinary people cannot understand, touch, and communicate, and then complete the creation in artistic techniques and forms.

But deep down, Timsey is still looking forward to it, always keeping it up.

"One person's concert", Timothy saw the announcement, all the movements stopped in place, and thousands of butterflies in his chest flapped their wings at the same time, so excited that the whole person was about to explode, and he tried his best to not jump up directly and shout wildly.

I forced myself to calm down, and read the announcement a dozen times over and over again, and over and over again, and then the corners of my mouth went up.

He remembered the song from "Don Quixote", "Old Friend".

The lyrics sing, "On my shoulders, carrying the depression of winter, I see you standing there, always standing behind me, secretly reminding me that there are still people who care about me." But, my old friend, where are you? Oh, my old friend, where are you?"

Involuntarily, Timothy still hummed the fresh and moving melody, and inexplicably, his nose was slightly sore. Between the lines, he could read a faint sadness.

"I kept my promise, and now it's your turn. ”

This is a letter addressed to a specific person, not typed by computer, but handwritten, scanned and uploaded. In Lan Li's chic and light font, poetic nostalgia, smart sadness, and affectionate calls always make people involuntarily begin to chew carefully.

God, just reading this invitation, Timsey was already trembling and uncontrollable. His first reaction was: to tell everyone, to everyone who likes Lanli's music, to everyone who feels the soul of Don Quixote.

Madison Square Garden in New York, which is the most concerted place in the United States. 20,000 seats, if you are not careful, the attendance rate can be a tragedy, and it will become a big laughing stock - imagine 20,000 seats, and only 200 spectators, which is estimated to be the biggest joke in the history of American music.

Timsey needs to tell his friends that the more the merrier.

However, the fingers placed on the keyboard hesitated.

This letter was posted on the website of Studio Eleven, without any news promotion, no relevant reports, and even no news, what does this mean? This means that this is a concert that really belongs to one person, a concert that belongs to "every bosom friend". This invitation is sent to every listener who really understands the music of Lanli.

This is not a commercial show, nor is it a promotional show. If Timsey is hyped up now, it may go viral, and 20,000 seats may reach 50 percent or more, but that's not the style of the Blue Rites, nor is it the purpose of a "one-man concert".

What's more, deep down. Timsey didn't want to share this secret with others, it was like a secret that he and Lan Li shared together, and through the album "Don Quixote", he glimpsed a trace of loneliness in the dreamer's heart, and also heard a trace of comfort in the artist's heart, like Don Quixote, singing alone and brilliantly, not caring whether there was an audience or not.

If, in the whole of Madison Square Garden, there are only two spectators. One is him, and the other is the partner invited by Lan Li. In the huge world, only they wander in the world of music, how wonderful and happy it will be. It's like the whale in the depths of the ocean.

The whale named Alice.

Normal whales, their chirp frequency is only fifteen to twenty-five hertz, but Alice has a frequency of fifty-two hertz. So, in the eyes of the other companions, Alice was like a mute, for so many years she had been alone and alone, she had no relatives or friends, no one heard her singing, and when she was sad, no one paid attention to her, and she searched for it in the vast ocean.

"Don Quixote" at the frequency of fifty-two hertz, Timsi heard. He selfishly hoped that he was the only one who heard, but paradoxically hoped that Lan Li was not alone in this world.

After much hesitation, Timothy resisted the urge and closed all pages. Look at the calendar on the wall and start the countdown: the sixteenth is still four days away.

Timsey is not alone.

Although Studio Eleven is a small independent workshop, they still have a lot of loyal supporters. This announcement came out in silence, but it was also quietly spreading.

The strange thing is that no one spreads it on the Internet, and everyone seems to know it, silently hiding this invitation in the bottom of their hearts, and then quietly waiting: which familiar faces will appear in the garden on time, and what strange new faces will appear?

Even the Yahoo community was silent, as if the invitation had never appeared and had never been discovered. This is really too rare and special in the Internet era. The influence of the "Don Quixote" album may not be broad enough, but it is far-reaching enough.

After the invitation was officially issued, there were no waves, no movement, and no repercussions, so it was completely impossible to predict what would happen next, and on the day of the concert, how many spectators could gather in the 20,000 seats in the garden? 200 or 2,000? No one knows.

Further, Studio Eleven didn't even announce how tickets would be sold for the concert. So far, there has been no movement on the major online platforms, and no ticketing website or ticketing company has released any ticket sales information about the concert, as if those ticketing companies did not know that the garden had arranged this concert.

It's incredible.

As one of the nation's top concert venues, the Garden is packed with a full schedule every day, not just concerts, but also a variety of sports competitions, public events, charity gatherings, etc., almost all year round, even if it is the official venue holiday, the major ticket companies are well aware of it.

What's more, in the Internet era, for any performance, competition or event, online ticket sales are the most important sales method, even accounting for 90% of tickets sold, or even higher.

Now, on February 16, the garden has scheduled a concert, but the ticket company has no response, which is simply a fantasy.

In the silence, it seems that everyone has reached a tacit consensus: this unique concert will be queuing up to buy tickets on the spot, returning to the most original, simplest and most direct way to buy tickets.

On the evening of the 11th, Studio 11 issued an announcement, on the 12th, there was no movement, on the 13th, there was no movement, and on the 14th, the official website of "Entertainment Weekly" released heavy news.

"Is this a self-hype show or a sympathetic ploy?

- Lan Li Hall, 'One Man's Concert' is about to take place, pointing to the Grammys. ”

Without warning, "Entertainment Weekly", a scoop written by Cornell McGregor, directly dropped a bombshell and shook the entire entertainment industry.

The article explained the ins and outs of the matter, Lan Li, who refused to admit that he was a singer, Lan Li, who had never cared about the Grammys, announced the launch of a solo concert in the Grammy voting sprint stage, just like Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it, and the hype intention is really obvious.

The article also mentioned that after winning the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor in Berlin, Lan Li made a careful plan and returned to the awards season for college public relations. Such a trajectory has a strange similarity with the "absent Oscar" incident a year ago, obviously, whether it is to retreat into advance, or to take the initiative, the intention of malicious hype is fully revealed.

This news report not only exclusively reported on the "one-man concert", which surprised everyone to fall through their glasses, but also further pushed this year's lively awards season to a new high/tide, and the blue ceremony, which had been questioned one after another, once again stood on the cusp:

Is he really maliciously hyping up? concert, what the hell is going on?

The people who did not know the truth began to express their opinions and opinions one after another, but there is no doubt that the exclusivity of "Entertainment Weekly" has a strong role in guiding public opinion, and it has preemptively laid the foundation for the whole incident.

As Cornell said: If it weren't for grandstanding, if it wasn't for malicious hype, if it wasn't for deliberate planning, why would we choose to hold a concert at this critical moment? And it was at Madison Square Garden, the most high-profile in the United States? If it wasn't booked in advance, if it wasn't planned early, and if it wasn't planned in advance, it would be impossible to find a gap in the garden and hold a concert.

So, hype, convict?