Chapter 587, Chinese Year!
"Hot girl spicy! hot girl spicy!"
"Hot girls are not afraid of spicy ...... since childhood"
In a lobby of the hotel, the LED screen is connected to the computer, and the people in the hall are watching the live broadcast of this year's Spring Festival Gala from the Internet.
At this time, the Spice Girls group was singing the song "Hot Girls" on stage.
Five people wearing cheongsams of different colors and styles, cross-legged to expose slender necks, girls with different skins, different countries, and different hair colors full of collagen, but singing Chinese songs, and the Chinese pronunciation does not have the slightest foreigner accent, and when you close your eyes, you can't hear that there is only one Chinese girl.
“Very-good!”
Ole exclaimed, "These girls are so cute!"
Lilith, who was also stunned on the side, suddenly turned her head and glared at Ole angrily: "You say it again?"
"Oh, no, no!"
Ole hurriedly explained, "I mean, it's incredible, I didn't expect China to be so perfectly connected to the international entertainment industry!"
"Humph!"
Lilith said, "Aren't you coming to China to work too?"
Ole hurriedly hugged Lilith, and the two of them murmured to each other.
……
The backstage time of the Spring Festival Gala is a full fifteen minutes different from the time when Li Zhifan watched the live webcast.
Before the hot girls finished singing a song here, Liu Yuan's call came, and it was a video call.
"Zhifan!"
Liu Yuan and five girls sat around a round table, "Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year, Mr. Li!" the five girls also waved and shouted together.
"Happy New Year!"
Li Zhifan also gave his blessings and congratulations, "I just watched your live broadcast here, and your performance is very exciting and excellent! In 2020, you will be very popular!"
"Thank you, Mr. Li!" the five girls said sweetly.
Liu Yuan bowed his hand at this time and said: "We still have to accept the host's interview, and we are going to prepare soon, and we can't rush over to have dinner with you tonight, see you at the airport at noon tomorrow!"
"Okay!"
Li Zhifan also waved his hand, and the video hung up.
Starting tomorrow, the crew will have a seven-day holiday until the eighth day of the new year officially resumes.
Therefore, Li Zhifan will go to the United States with Liu Yuan and them, but he will not be able to rest after landing, because Li Zhifan will also participate in the Spring Festival celebration of the "Hua Na-Chinese Culture Year" in Los Angeles.
This is a platter performance project done by Hua Na in Los Angeles, basically all Chinese artists from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe, America and Australia must participate, and it is carried out in several Chinatowns at the same time.
Under Li Zhifan's recommendation, the hot girl group will also take the stage, after all, Hua Na is one of the shareholders of Timeline, and the Hong Kong and Taiwan contracts of all artists in Time Line are represented by Hua Na, so the hot girl group also indirectly belongs to Hua Na's members and is also eligible to participate in this event.
The crew was full of food and drink, and the boring Spring Festival Gala was only watched for less than a few hours, and everyone went to the bar under the hotel to go to Happy.
In addition to the crew of "Wolf Warrior", the hotel also received six crews, although some crews were on vacation, not everyone evacuated, and many people who were far away from home chose to continue to stay, after all, the room rate on this rest day also continued to be calculated, and it was possible to save a lot of money by eating.
In the bar, rumbling electronic music collides violently.
These foreigners in the crew of "Wolf Warrior" were drunk and jumped vigorously.
Li Zhifan sat in the bar for a while, asked Wang Yue to help take care of them, chose to go back to his room to sleep, and got up early tomorrow to rush to the airport.
When I got back to my room, I didn't fall asleep right away.
After all, it was the Chinese New Year, and Li Zhifan had a video call with his family in Los Angeles until the clock rang at zero o'clock.
The sound of cannons outside the window shook the sky, and the sky was full of flowers.
The entire Chinese sky was dyed the color of dawn.
But compared to the bustling city, the lonely room seems very lonely.
But fortunately, he will be able to see his family when he arrives in the United States tomorrow, with this mentality, Li Zhifan took an earplug to the bed and began to fall asleep.
……
The next morning, at the airport.
Liu Zexin sent Li Zhifan and arranged for her to drive home.
Li Zhifan was tightly wrapped, and when he came to the ticket gate alone, Liu Yuan and a few people were waiting here.
"Zhifan!"
Liu Yuan was afraid of alarming the passers-by around him, so he whispered hello.
"Brother Yuan!" Li Zhifan stretched out his hand to signal, then looked at the hot girl group, and said with a smile, "Yesterday's performance was very good, and your name has made headlines today!"
"Half of the credit for this, Mr. Li, is you!" Liu Lele said mischievously, "The other half is our hard training." ”
Liu Yuan looked dazed: "Huh, what about me?"
"You!"
Liu Lele said with a smile, "Of course, the credit is the greatest, as for how to distribute it, you and Teacher Li will fight!"
"Little girl!" Liu Yuan couldn't help laughing, "Do you think that I and your Teacher Li are people who will compete for merit?
Except for Liu Lele, the other four all shook their heads and smiled: "Don't dare, don't dare!"
But Liu Lele said with a grin: "Dare, why don't you dare!"
"You girl......" Liu Yuan didn't have the temper to blame this daughter, although the training is usually harsh and strict, but it is always a piece of meat in the palm of his hand.
VIP lounges.
A new album by the Spice Girls is already in the works.
In fact, preparations began many years ago, but the song "Hot Girl" is a song to be unveiled on the Spring Festival Gala, so there is more time to prepare, but the other songs of the first EP are also about the same, there are Chinese songs and English, this time to participate in the "Hua Na - Chinese Culture Year" event, you have to sing three new songs.
Li Zhifan gave them songs, there are several particularly festive New Year songs, in addition to the earliest thrown "Hot Girl", there are also "Wishing you prosperity", "Congratulations and congratulations", all suitable for singing in this year's atmosphere, the time line has been fully prepared, and their first "New Year's Celebration" EP will be sold online on the third day of the new year.
There are a total of four songs in the EP, "Wishing you prosperity" needless to say, this is a classic Chinese New Year song by Andy Lau, the king of another world.
And "Congratulations and Congratulations" is a Chinese New Year song that is well known to Chinese people around the world and has been sung thousands of times.
From Yao Li in the 40s, to Teresa Teng in the 70s, to the post-80s, post-90s, post-00s and post-10s, each generation has a singer who re-covers.
The choice of the first show in Chinatown actually echoes the release of digital EPs in the mainland, and in order to allow the Chinese in Los Angeles to appreciate these five girls of different nationalities as soon as possible, bringing them the same New Year's flavor.
In addition to these three, there is also a song composed by Song Song and lyrics by Liu Yuan, which is also to congratulate the New Year, so I will not express it here.
After a 12-hour flight, Li Zhifan and his party finally landed.
It was bright and in the east of the other hemisphere, it was just eight o'clock in the evening.
The moment they breathed the air on the ground, everyone was relaxed.
But Liu Yuan immediately said: "Time is too tight, Zhifan! You hurry up and call Hua Na's people, we will rush over immediately, and after this performance, we can really rest on vacation." ”
“OK!”
While the group was leaving, Li Zhifan was on the phone.
Song Song drove a business car to greet everyone, and squeezed seven people a little, just enough to be full.
After Li Zhifan and Hua Na got in touch with the staff in charge of the show in the United States, they immediately instructed Song Song to go to the designated place.
Although not as famous as New York and San Francisco's Chinatowns, Los Angeles' Chinatown is one of the oldest Chinatowns, with lanterns and antique Chinese archways with shop signs written in Chinese characters.
During the Spring Festival of the Chinese, it is even more lively, full of New Year's flavor, even stronger than old Beijing.
The venue of the event is in a theater, which is open-air, next to the open-air square.
In other words, this show does not charge tickets, but it also earns advertising fees when it receives advertising.
When Li Zhifan and his entourage arrived, there were singers singing on the stage, and Li Zhifan recognized it at a glance, it was actually a Taiwanese singer who debuted in the 80s of the last century, and he was also included in the ranks of big brothers in the Chinese entertainment industry.
There are many audiences who like him, and many Chinese who are adrift overseas are fans who grew up listening to his songs.
"Maddie!"
Li Zhifan found the person in charge here, and the other party was not Chinese, but a performance public relations company in the United States, and they were fully responsible for the performance affairs of Hua Na this time.
"Oh, Mr. Lee!"
The other party seems to be familiar with him, and has never actually met in person, "Hello, hello, you're finally here!"
"Actually, we're still embarrassed!"
Li Zhifan said, "We almost took the wrong way on the road, and the plane was a little late!"
"It's okay!" said Maddie, "I'll put you in the back, close to noon." ”
"Okay, then we've got plenty of time to prepare!"
Li Zhifan smiled and said, "Do you need us to rehearse?"
"Look at what you mean!"
"But we have a practice room, where there are band teachers, they are replaced in turn, and they can solve your on-site problems." ”
The scene does not have to be accompanied by a band, but in the current performance market, the accompaniment is basically played, and the band must be played, and the two-way cooperation can not only ensure the live effect, but also drive the atmosphere of the scene.
So Li Zhifan needed it very much, and immediately said: "Okay! Then you have to take us to meet with the teachers of the band!"
"Okay! I'll take you there!"
Maddie handed over a few words to the intercom clipped by the collar, and then took Li Zhifan and his party to walk across the street.
This is a small building with strong Chinese characteristics, and when you enter, you find that there is a sign of "Chinese Culture and Education Base" hanging on it, which means that this is a training class, mainly to teach those Chinese-born in Chinatown, as well as foreigners who are interested in the knowledge of Chinese civilization, including Chinese, history, etc.
The classrooms above have been requisitioned as rehearsal rooms, and rehearsing pop music in this classroom, which looks like a private school, still gives people a strong impact.
"Teacher Li!"
"Brother Zhifan!"
Seeing Li Zhifan coming in, these musicians came up to say hello.
Most of them are Chinese, some are musicians sent by Hua Na, and some are local bands, Hua Na rehearsals are basically Chinese, and they speak a Taiwanese accent, but the local recruits are white, black, and yellow.
After communicating with these musicians, Maddie said to Li Zhifan: "Mr. Li, there are currently three bands that can match your time, which one do you choose?"
"Introduce me to one!"
Where did Li Zhifan know the depth of these musicians, so he naturally asked Maddie to introduce him.
However, with Liu Yuan and Song Song around him, Maddie will definitely not fool him.
"If I suggest it......" Maddie thought for a moment, pointing to one of them, which was all Chinese, "they are relatively familiar with your songs, and I think you should have no problem working together." ”
"Brother Yuan, Brother Song, give me a suggestion?"
Li Zhifan did not agree directly, and looked at Liu Yuan and Song Song again.
Liu Yuan didn't say anything, but Song Song said, "Let them have one!"
These musicians all knew Liu Yuan and Song Song, and immediately seized the opportunity to express themselves, plugged in the power and began to show off their skills.
"Stop!" However, after less than ten seconds of their progress, Liu Yuan said: "You should have heard Li Zhifan's song, right?
"Good!"
This musician didn't say a word, and immediately came to a song by Li Zhifan.
"How?"
"I'll see it!"
"And what about them?"
"Hmm!"
After a simple discussion, this musician was decided, mainly because the time was urgent, and there was no time to choose, anyway, there would be accompaniment on stage when the time came, and I was not afraid that they would not be able to improvise.
"Then I'll open a classroom for you!"
Maddie immediately led everyone out of the place, and headed to the other end of the hallway.
There are people rehearsing in these professors, Li Zhifan casually opened the door and looked at a room, but found a few people dressed in hip-hop style in the classroom-that's right, just a glance to conclude that these people are sucking big #hemp!
And there was a particularly pungent smell wafting out of the classroom, which was the second-hand smell produced after the burning of #hemp.
Song Song was more familiar, and immediately turned his head to look at the classroom, frowned, gave Li Zhifan a look, and signaled him not to care, because in the United States, in Los Angeles, it is legal to suck that thing.
From the beginning of rehearsals to the finalization, including the four songs of the Spice Girls, all of them were in this band, and it only took two hours, and most of the time was spent on the new song of the Spice Girls.
These musicians are spiritual, and basically they can "perform" with the accompaniment at a glance, the chords sweep, and the rhythm or something.
At half past eleven, Maddie came in and said, "Teacher Li, it's your turn soon!"
"Okay!"
Li Zhifan stood up, and those musicians also cheered up and followed him out.
Originally, the Spice Girls and Liu Yuan Song Song could rest in the room, but after thinking about it, they also stood up.
"Let's go, go see Zhifan's performance!" Liu Yuan said.
Song Song smiled and said to the five members of the spicy group: "This is a good opportunity to learn experience, when the time comes, go and watch and learn, understand?"
"Understood!"
The five girls nodded solemnly. 10