Chapter 262: A Great Era (Part II)
In a more turbulent era, there are still more turbulent people's hearts, fortunately, without the appearance of this magical "Hotel California", otherwise in that historical background, I am afraid that someone will really give birth to some kind of doctrine because of such a song, so that the whole country will be completely plunged into war, and even fall apart.
However, after all, it is the United States, and Li Youyang will not care whether the US imperialists will fall apart, it is simply impossible on the earth, and there is at most one more soil for such a crisis in this world.
Li Youyang is concerned that it seems that in this world, the influence of music seems to be even greater, and people are more likely to be influenced or agitated by various kinds of music, so as to reflect on some things or generate some new ideas. In this world, no matter which country, musicians are more pure, and at the same time, they are more respected by others.
It is said that it is entertainment for the whole people, and only when the whole people respect you and value you, it is possible to be entertained.
In particular, the United States, in memory of the world of the United States in 1969, almost fell into the fog of civil war again, but then it was very miraculous that the two sides stopped the war and returned to peace.
And that strike was not because of how much work the two sides did at the negotiating table, but because it originated from a very huge music festival!
That is, the most representative music festival in the world - the World Pop Music Festival in the depths of Li Youyang's memory!
The predecessor of the World Pop Music Festival was an international music festival that took place in this world in 1969, and the Americans of the world habitually called this music festival the Peace Music Festival, just like the Woodstock Music Festival on Earth. The theme of this peace festival is also "peace, anti-war, fraternity, equality", but for the United States, its role is much greater than that of Woodstock. It has even affected the political situation of the country and the people living and working in peace and contentment!
The Peace Music Festival - she is like the holy water of the Virgin Mary, in that feverish age, poured on the head, extinguished the madness and the devil in the hearts of the people, and restored peace to the country
This was the inaugural speech of an American who was re-elected president after the festival, and it was also the most important passage about the festival that Lee remembered in his mind.
In the midst of a great war that is on the verge of breaking out. Thousands of students from the most representative and world-famous universities in the United States at that time made this great event in their own way that was enough to change the fate of the entire country!
They didn't march, they didn't go to demonstrations. Instead, they did their best to put on a huge pop music festival, and they set the theme of the festival at the time to be "One World, One People," because the students at this school were not just Americans. There are also a large number of international students from all over the world. Even in China, important international students participated in and jointly worked out the details of the festival.
Because the organizers came from all over the world, it was named "One World", but because of the festival's singing, its endless excellent songs, as well as the anti-war meditations that ran through it from beginning to end, really resonated with too many people, and even affected the leaders of the two factions that were opposing each other at the time, and the leaders of these two factions were also considered people of insight. They also experienced World War I and World War II similar to Earth, and they knew that once the Second Civil War really started. For this country, there will not only be internal worries, but also endless external troubles, and it will affect the fundamental interests of some large conglomerates!
Therefore, under the anti-war sentiment of the whole people driven by this music festival, and under the consideration of various angles, the leaders of the two sides, as well as the big business groups represented by the representatives behind them, finally sat down at the negotiating table calmly, agreed on an armistice, and at the same time agreed on a series of solutions, the most famous is the return to the presidential popular election system, the leaders of the two sides, with the support of their respective supporters, moved their positions from the battlefield that was about to go completely off, after a foaming debate and canvassing for votes, Another president and government have finally been elected, and peace has returned to the country!
Therefore, this music festival is completely called the "Peace Music Festival", and because students from too many countries participated in it, over time, it has become the quadrennial world pop music festival!
Nowadays, the World Pop Music Festival, although it has truly become a complete feast for musicians all over the world, its political role is no longer so obvious, but just like the Olympics of the sports festival, everyone knows that this is essentially a sports event, but no country will underestimate the political, economic and other important roles implied by the Olympics!
Similarly, in this era of this world, no country will underestimate whether the hosting rights of the World Pop Music Festival can be spent in their own country, and they all hope that their singers can finally win the last supreme honor of this music festival - the crown of stars and moons!
Li Youyang is of course no exception, so he did hesitate to choose whether to sing "Hotel California" at the beginning, it doesn't matter if Bill Hughes loses to him, because he has been famous for a long time, just like Napoleon is still Napoleon after suffering Waterloo, even if he accidentally loses to Li Youyang, he is still Bill Hughes.
Li Youyang is different, as long as the tunes he comes up with are not comparable to Bill Hughes, then most of his aura will disappear in an instant, even if his reputation in China remains the same, but at most it is like the national director Lao Mouzi on the earth, facing the Oscars, the media will always use the words "impact the Oscars", because the national director is not a world-class director after all, and he can't shout a heroic slogan like Cameron "I am the king of the world"!
Similarly, if in the fighting song a few days ago, once the song taken out by Li Youyang falls behind, then he knows that he may not be able to shout the slogan "I am the king of the world" in this life, and in the eyes of the Chinese people, he will become a tragic hero who constantly challenges a musician like Bill Hughes and attacks the crown of stars and moon!
In this world, in this country, in this era, in this field, there are too many such tragic heroes, including the entire domestic music scene is experiencing such sadness, for decades, there has not been a world pop music festival, and there has not been a world-class musician or singer!
And since he has stood at this height, no matter how magical it is, Li Youyang wants to end this sorrow, so he doesn't want to lose, so when he was choosing a song, he was indeed very hesitant.
After all, in his opinion at the time, the song "Hotel California" has a strong sense of the times after all, but it is precisely because the sense of the times is too strong that it can represent the United States in the 70s, but it does not mean that it will conform to the aesthetics of people in the current new era, which is indeed what Li Youyang once worried. (To be continued.) )