Chapter 730, the first stop of the world tour! (Happy Chinese New Year)
After reading this fast blog, domestic netizens enthusiastically left messages:
"Poof, little singer?"
"Big guys love to joke?"
"If you are a little singer, then other Chinese singers are even more boundless!"
Although the previous dozens of concerts were all abroad, I still firmly support it! I hope that Li Zhifan's route to the international market will get better and better. ”
"Oh my God! I didn't expect the UK to be able to hold two shows? I checked the information, and it was all 20,000 people. ”
"Wow! there are three more in Australia!"
"Great! There's one in Germany! It's time for me to go back to school, so I have to go see it!"
"This concert is too intensive, don't be tired of boasting!"
"Yes, 30 abroad, 33 domestic, a total of 63, and it will be held in 9 months, is the pressure too much for Li Zhifan, who is holding a concert for the first time?"
"I heard that Li Zhifan is going to the Spring Festival Gala this year, I saw that there was no concert scheduled five days before the Spring Festival, but the third year of junior high school is going to start singing in New York, this is too rushed, can you rest?"
“……”
Facing the concern of countless netizens, Li Zhifan was deeply moved.
So he posted another quick blog to interact with netizens:
"Thank you for your concern and kindness, it gave me more courage to take on this tour, and I will never forget that I have a group of lovely fans behind me and strong Chinese netizens to support me. ”
Other people's concerts start pre-selling concert tickets three or four months in advance, but the pre-sale time of Li Zhifan's first concert is actually a week before the start of the concert.
But that's it, a total of 26,000 tickets were sold out in one day.
Of course, there are scalpers in the United States, but there is no rampant website in China, and tickets are directly issued to scalpers internally, and scalpers in the United States also want to grab tickets online.
It's just that the ticket agencies in the United States basically patch the system every day to maintain network security, so as soon as many ticket-grabbing software are written, the ticket sales arrangement mode of the ticket sales agency has been changed again.
Of course, scalpers grabbing tickets also depends on the situation, and not everyone grabs concert tickets.
Thinking about Li Zhifan's concert tickets, there are very few scalper teams that sell, and most of the tickets are still bought by fans who want to come to the concert at a reasonable price.
In the United States, the best selling of tickets for Asian artists' concerts is the Japanese and Korean group groups, especially the top idol groups, which sell very well, and the attendance rate is full, which shows that in pop music culture, idols are always a bright banner and eye-catching.
Li Zhifan is not an idol or not, he himself can't say much, only through this tour can he prove it.
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December 7th.
The first performance of Li Zhifan's world tour was held at 8 p.m. US time at the Inglewood Forum Arena.
Forum Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located on West Manchester Avenue in Inglewood, just north of Hollywood Park Racetrack and Casino, adjacent to Los Angeles and only 3 miles from Los Angeles International Airport.
Founded in 1967, the stadium has been around for more than 60 years, is one of the most famous indoor venues in the United States, and was once the home of the Los Angeles Lakers.
The infield is divided into three areas, and a passage derives from the main stage, which is divided into two lanes at 15 meters, each of which is 10 meters long, like a "human" shape.
The main stage is not big, the width is only 5 meters, the length is about 12 meters, and the musicians are "hidden" around the stage, plus the width and length of the musicians are increased by two meters, the whole venue is a four-sided stage in the audience, and there are four large screens hanging in the sky, so that the audience in every direction can see every move on the stage.
When Li Zhifan entered, the audience had not yet entered, and the musicians who performed with him, in addition to the Chaoyang Park Band and the musicians who used to produce music together, many musicians only rehearsed together for a week, but there is no need to worry about their strength, they are all first-line musicians in the European and American music scene, and their technical level can be ranked on the list of the top 100 musicians in the world.
Eight.
The concert started on time.
Li Zhifan made the final preparations at the stage entrance.
The whole stadium suddenly went dark, and an electronic mezzo-soprano said, "The concert is about to start, ten!nine!eight!seven......"
Counting down from 10 to 1 is like a countdown before the take-off of a spaceship in a science fiction movie.
Every time a number is shouted, the audience's excited hearts pop.
In addition to being excited, Li Zhifan was also very nervous, he didn't have time to take a look at the situation at the scene, so he hurriedly started, and often people find that the preparation is not so adequate when things are piled up in front of them.
He will worry about the condition of the musicians, he will also worry about the lighting of the live stage, and even more worried about the situation of the audience, what if no one comes, or if there is a large empty film?
Although there were no problems after a week of rehearsals, when the concert began, a little problem was smashed.
As for his singing, he doesn't worry too much, and there are more than a dozen teleprompters on the scene, so he doesn't have to worry about forgetting words in his head.
As the countdown ended, more than a dozen infrared rays suddenly radiated from the stage, breaking the darkness.
As if under command, the audience suddenly opened the light sticks in their hands, and at a glance, there was a sea of purple under the stage.
The opening song is "poker-face", and more than 20 dancers have already stood on the stage, and these dancers suddenly emit white fluorescent lights on their bodies at the moment when the music sounds, dancing to the rhythm in the dark.
For this opening, the new "Poker-Face" intro was extended by two minutes, and the two-minute music could actually be used as a piece on its own, and it sounded like "Poker-Face" at first, but it didn't go straight to the singing part, but it was restless.
In the middle of the music, a beam of light suddenly lit up, and it hit Li Zhifan's body.
The audience suddenly shouted like a tsunami.
Li Zhifan on the stage is also dancing, and his skills are not much worse than that of professional dancers.
What's more, he dances very strangely, because the style he dances is something that no one has ever seen!
I saw that the soles of his feet did not leave the ground, but they slid very freely on the ground, and even looked like he was stepping forward, but the whole person was retreating.
As the light moves, it becomes more visible.
And his neck and shoulders are also moving from side to side, much like the movements in mechanical dance, but with some adaptations.
Three-quarters of the way through the music, four more lights lit up, forming a straight line on the ground, like a waterfall falling from the Milky Way, lighting up the front of the stage to all the audience, whether from the infield or the four sides of the stage, this scene can be clearly seen.
Of course, the most obvious thing to see is the VIP audience sitting in the first row of the infield.
Suddenly, Li Zhifan's movements stopped with the music and froze on the stage.
In an instant, the lights on the stage were bright, and all the dancers on the stage appeared to the audience.
But it's a pity that the audience sitting behind the stage can only see the appearance of Li Zhifan and the dancers through the images on the big screen.
There are men and women, each with long legs, and they all wear uniform uniforms.
The boys' dancers are brown trousers, brown uniform tops, and green berets, while the girls' dancers are brown ultra-shorts, waistless uniforms, and broken gowns.
At this time, Li Zhifan also saw the audience clearly at this freeze frame.
Although he wears sunglasses, the lighting is very strong, and he looks at all faces, and he can't observe it carefully, and he can only see it clearly by watching the live recorded video later, but it seems that most of them are Chinese.
After a short freeze frame, the music of "Poker-Face" sounded again, and this time Li Zhifan finally opened his mouth to sing.
And as soon as it comes up, it's a chorus:
“can't-read-my!can't-read-my!no-he-can't-read-my-poker-face!”
In the recording version, the phrase "she's-got-me-like-nobody" is sung by Li Zhifan himself, but at today's concert, it is sung by a female singer who sings harmony.
A small change, but it allows the audience to hear something new.
While singing, Li Zhifan danced the space step, which is a dance step that is not available in this world, and he taught the dancers to dance together, and the appearance of a group of people sliding on the stage is really shocking and handsome.
"Poker-Face" is followed by a song "Rolling-in-the-Deep".
These two are particularly difficult songs to sing, and they are also covers of female singers' songs, whether it is Lady-Gaga or Adele, they are both female singers known for their singing skills, and their songs are covered by boys to show their strength, and they can't be overly downgraded, plus because of the scene, the difficulty of singing is even more difficult.
After the two English songs ended, Li Zhifan took off his sunglasses, took off his coat and hat, revealing the white shirt he was wearing inside.
The screams and shouts of the audience below continued, and everyone was holding up their mobile phones to film him.
"Hello everyone! Introduce yourself! I'm Li Zhifan!"
As he spoke, he waved to the audience below the stage.
At this time, I basically saw the people in the audience, and there were many non-Chinese people sitting in the field, and they were not a few.
"Oh, whoa, hello!hello!"
Li Zhifan couldn't help but exclaim, "I thought that when a Chinese singer held a concert abroad, most of them must be Chinese, but I didn't expect that there would be so many international friends, hello! Come here, today I am the foreigner in your mouth! Thank you local friends for your support, thank you!"
This passage is said in English, and the Chinese in the audience can understand it, otherwise why would they come to the United States.
Of course, there are also die-hard fans who came from China to watch his concert, these people are too cute in Li Zhifan's heart, but it is not the way he agrees, because it will always go to their hometown, and it is better not to affect career and studies after chasing stars.
"Sang two English songs, and a few Chinese songs below!"
Li Zhifan said, "It's all my previous songs, but it's still a fast song, friends who don't understand Chinese, you can watch the big screen, there is an English translation of the lyrics!"
Many people think that if they go to a concert abroad to sing Chinese songs, foreign audiences will definitely not understand it, so the box office will not be good.
But this is exactly wrong, just like a foreign singer coming to China for a concert, as long as the scene is hot enough, whether it is singing fast-paced hi songs or slow-paced soulful songs, they can feel the music, because the notes are borderless, otherwise those piano music, vocal electronic music, why are they so attractive?
The third song sung is "It's All About You".
This song is said to be a Chinese song, which also has a lot of English, from the perspective of English lyricists, many lyrics are actually not smooth, but as lyrics for rhyme, it is still very good.
When Li Zhifan sang this song, many foreigners were happy.
"Oh!yes! I've heard this song for a long time, but I didn't expect it to be sung by Li Zhifan!"
"Wow! Great, good singing!"
"This is not a pure Chinese song! There is English, I want to learn, and listening to the Chinese part is quite simple!"
"In fact, Chinese songs can also be released in large quantities in the United States, and there are many Chinese around me, and I can sometimes understand what they mean!"
“……”
Li Zhifan's so-called fast songs are all rap songs released by him, including songs such as "Compendium of Materia Medica", which may be so fast that even Chinese cannot understand the lyrics.
After just a few songs, the atmosphere rose to a very high heat, and Li Zhifan could clearly feel that some fans were shouting too hard, and their voices were about to burst.
Standing here for a concert, with so many listeners supporting him, is something that makes him worthy of being touched for a lifetime.
There are also new fans who have been brought in, or whoever is at the concert, who likes to buy tickets to listen to it, just to follow the crowd of onlookers.
However, these people have now become Li Zhifan's iron fans, and they have been captured in the heart with a song, and they feel that they are more iron than those who have been fans of Li Zhifan for several years at the moment, as for the future, let's talk about it later, the classics will stand the test.
The Chinese song was almost finished, and then it was time for the guests to appear.
This is partly because Hua Na is worried that Li Zhifan will not attract the audience enough when he first arrives, and Li Zhifan himself is afraid of this situation, so he added it, but after watching today's scene, I found that it doesn't have to be like this at all, everyone can still accept him.
This time Li Zhifan invited three guests, including a female guest, and Li Zhifan sang "closer" together, this song was originally a male and female duet, but it was changed to a male solo by Li Zhifan, and now it is changed back to a male and female chorus, and the effect has returned to the original state, but it is a great surprise to the audience.
In addition to singing "closer" with the female singer, Li Zhifan also sang a song of her with her, but the original version of this song is male and female, and Li Zhifan tried his best to seek a breakthrough in the adaptation, so as not to be said to be an imitation of the original version of singing.