In the rapid drumbeat of the British honor guard, the camera began to switch rapidly, and the busy backstage, gorgeous scene, and strong guest lineup were displayed in front of the audience.

After going through the commercials between the two shows, the cumulative 56 million viewers of the final episode of "Survivor" have lost a large part of it, and in the end only about 35 million remained.

Although the Victoria's Secret annual show has experienced continuous publicity for half a year, and it was personally handled by Eric Williams, who created a series of box office miracles, most ordinary viewers still subconsciously feel that the fashion show is too far away from their lives, and they have jumped to TV channels。

But within a minute of the show's start, the tension created by drumbeats, headsets, and flashy fast-cutting shots has locked most of the hesitant audience firmly on ABC, and when the first punk rock song sounds, the passionate music and hot supermodels directly excite the adrenaline of many viewers.

When the theme of the British invasion ended, in front of the television sets of thousands of households. Many viewers seemed to have just reacted and started talking with their family or friends.

In an apartment in Midtown Manhattan, the best friends named Charlotte and Alice, whom Eric once met by chance in a disco on the Upper East Side, are no longer the young girls who just started working. After a few years of professional experience, both women have grown into the elite of the Manhattan workplace, and they have also changed from the locomotive apartment on the corner to the current high-rise white-collar residence. However, because they were deeply impressed by that chance encounter, the two girls have kept a close eye on Eric for several years, so when they learned that "Victoria's Secret Show of the Year" will be broadcast tonight. The two girls sat down in front of the TV early.

The fiery punk rock came to an end, watching Cindy Crawford disappear into the backstage entrance in a gorgeous angel costume on the TV screen, and Charlotte, who had long hair and a hot and bold personality, hugged a cushion and slapped it a few times. I couldn't help but sigh: "It's so beautiful, the music is also great, it's worthy of my little Eric, this guy is really a genius." Alice. If only I could be on this stage. Especially the butterfly angel costume in the middle, what is the name of that Victoria's Secret angel, do you know?"

"Stephanie Seymour, haven't you read the gossip some time ago, she topped down the model named Heidi Klum, Heidi Krum was fired from the Victoria's Secret show for talking nonsense, I think she must regret it now," Alice is no longer the shy girl she was when she met Eric by chance. Because of her attention to fashion, she is more familiar with these fashion gossips than her girlfriends who have a bit of a big personality next to her. With her eyes still locked on the TV screen playing the tidbits, Alice continued with some excitement: "Charlotte, have you noticed the third set of Neiyi, the one with pink tassels, let's go to the Victoria's Secret flagship store on Fifth Avenue tomorrow, okay, I want that set of Neiyi." ”

Charlotte recalled, and said, "Well, if there is a sale, I will definitely buy a set, but even if these fashion shows are to be sold publicly, it will take a few months." ”

Alice was a little regretful, but remembered the subtitle prompt at the beginning of the show, and said: "Didn't the TV just say that you can participate in the interaction through the Yahoo website, maybe we can check online to see when these new products will be released." ”

With that, Alice couldn't wait to get up and walk to the computer desk in the corner of the living room, open the IBM desktop that the two of them bought, and soon landed on the Yahoo website.

At this time, the Yahoo portal has hung the Victoria's Secret show topic high on the homepage, in addition to the most popular Victoria's Secret Angel voting page, there are also direct links to the official website of Victoria's Secret and the Victoria's Secret discussion area of the Yahoo Forum. Alice hesitated, logged in to her Yahoo account, and was about to click on the Victoria's Secret topic discussion forum to see the speeches of netizens, but Charlotte, who came over behind her, couldn't wait to point to the link of the voting page: "Hey, Alice, enter this page, I want to vote for Stephanie Seymour." ”

Alice had no choice but to click on the voting page and found that Diane Kruger, the popular angel in first place, had more than 9,000 votes in just a few minutes, and Cindy Crawford, who ranked second, had nearly 8,000 votes.

"It's been less than ten minutes, how can so many people vote," Charlotte was a little surprised to see that her favorite Stephanie Seymour also had 1,355 votes, and the forty supermodels had a total of more than 130,000 votes within ten minutes of the voting opening.

Alice pointed to a line of notes on the page, and said: "Look at the voting rules, there are prizes, each Yahoo account can vote for their favorite Victoria's Secret Angel every day, and the website will randomly select 1000 winning users every day, and the prize is a box of Victoria's Secret hardcover videotapes or $29.9 Victoria's Secret store coupons." ”

"1000 people, so the odds of winning the lottery are still quite high," Charlotte said, directly using Alice's account to cast a vote for Stephanie Seymour, seeing that after the vote, Yahoo's email client sounded a prompt, Charlotte smiled, but did not click on Alice's mailbox, but changed his account to vote again, while doing so, he also said: "Hey, you said that if we register 100 accounts now, will the chances of winning be higher?"

Alice rolled her eyes and said, "Didn't you see the note under the voting rules, registered users after December 6 cannot participate in this vote." ”

"It's a shame," Charlotte said. After casting the vote, he ran to the sofa in a hurry, picked up the phone and dialed the number. Plans to mobilize their friends to vote and live in a metropolis like Manhattan, Charlotte's friends basically have access to the Internet, which has just emerged in recent years.

Alice and other girlfriends walked away, while paying attention to the second topic on the TV, she casually clicked on the Victoria's Secret topic discussion forum in the Yahoo community, and found that the entire discussion area was already boiling, and the number of replies to several posts at the top reached thousands. Alice made a random post, turned around and continued to watch the live broadcast of Victoria's Secret on TV for a while, just for a minute or two. When I turned around again and refreshed the page, I realized that my post had been pushed to the top of page five.

Compared to Alice and Charlotte, the Manhattan girlfriends who focused most of their attention on the Neyi show itself, a large part of the audience was also attracted by the music of the opening "My-Songs-Know-What-You-Did-In-The-Dark".

In Miami, Florida, which also belongs to the East Coast, a birthday party was supposed to be held in a beach bar near the sea. Today's birthday star is the lead singer of an underground band that has a good reputation in Miami. As a result, most of the party invites are edgy-garde rock and roll youths, which also causes the whole bar to look smoky in the frenzied rock music, some people hug each other in the middle of the noise, and it is impossible to tell whether the other party is male or female, some people are self-absorbed and screaming into the microphone, and there are even a few hookahs passing around in the crowd.

Jay, the tattooed owner of the bar in his early forties, seems to be so accustomed to this kind of scene that he doesn't even bother to show disdain for this group of young people who do depraved things in the name of rock and roll. Just stay behind the bar and watch the last episode of Survivor on the wall-mounted TV.

When "Survivor" ended, Jay was going to change the channel. It just so happens that today's birthday is also the so-called' Dominic, the lead singer of the Black Night Band, blindfolded, came to the bar and asked for a drink, Jay had to give up for the time being, turned around and walked to the wine cabinet, and mixed a glass of Dominic's spirits, Jay turned around, only to find that Dominic's eyes were staring straight at the wall-mounted TV, Jay followed Dominic's gaze, because the bar was too noisy, Jay could only faintly hear the music coming from the TV, looked at Dominic's dull eyes, a trace of mockery flashed in Jay's eyes, pushed the wine glass over, and said loudly: " These girls are so hot, aren't they?"

As if awakened by Jay's voice, Dominic suddenly turned around and yelled at the messy bar, but received little response.

Jay, who heard Dominic's voice, was a little surprised, raised his eyebrows and handed a bottle of wine on the bar to Dominic, and said, "Why don't you try this." ”

Dominic took the full bottle of champagne, swiped it in his hand, and slammed it to the ground, the full bottle of champagne burst open with a muffled thud, attracting everyone's attention.

"I said, it, be quiet for Lao Tzu!"

Amid the roar, the bar fell silent, and the sound of rock music on the wall-mounted TV seemed to suddenly break through all obstacles, quickly filling the entire bar.

*……

* Somewhere, the Garden of Eden is crumbling

* I have seen the punishment of the end times

* Even if you can annihilate all living beings and destroy all things, I am not afraid

* Tears on her eyelashes

* Blur the world

* Demonic me, the flower that bloomed from a gray childhood

* My singing voice

* It can penetrate all the true and false in the dark

* So, debunk it, set it on fire, destroy it

*……

The music on the TV fell, and I don't know who in the quiet bar suddenly sighed: "What the hell is punk,"

At the same time, Dominic, leaning on the bar, listened to the burst singer on the TV, feeling that his long-dormant love for music seemed to be ignited again, as if returning to the innocence when he got his first guitar at the age of thirteen.

Recalling the music just now, Dominic suddenly realized that he didn't know anything about the song except for some tunes and lyrics that he had inadvertently memorized, and turned his head to look at everyone: "Hey, who of you, does anyone know which band this is?"

No one answered, and a moment later a young man with freckles on his face stepped forward timidly, and Dominic recognized the little fellow named Simmons as having recently joined his circle. The little guy's family background seems to be very good, but he just broke in because he longed for this circle.

"Nick, I read Rolling Stone magazine last month. Jane Wenner, the founder of the magazine, mentioned the theme music for the Victoria's Secret show in an article, as if these bands were all upcoming newcomers to Firefly Records, and there were no released singles or albums yet, and Firefly Records did not give their information. However, Jane Wenner mentioned in the article that the band would perform a song that would be more powerful than the first, "Simmons spoke in a somewhat empty tone. In his opinion, since all these people around him are rock and roll youths, they should like "Rolling Stone" very much. It's just that he doesn't know that most of these people haven't touched books and magazines in years.

Hearing Simmons say another song, Dominic's eyes lit up and he asked, "Do you have any more information about this band here?"

Simmons thought for a moment and said, "No." But. I think now that the show has officially aired, the music discussion section of the Yahoo forum should reveal some relevant news, because Yahoo is also invested by Eric Williams. ”

Dominic subconsciously asked, "Yahoo, what's that?"

Simmons was stunned for a moment, but patiently explained, and after listening to it, Dominic looked at everyone again: "Which of you has a computer at home, can you let me use it." ”

"Nick. I have it at home," Simmons replied again, "and." My parents are not home today, you can go to my house. ”

Dominic nodded, a little impatient to straighten up, but quickly thought of Simmons' words just now, glanced at the TV screen that was still playing, and waved to everyone in the bar: "That's it for today, get out of here, Simon, let me finish watching the next song of that band, and wait until you go to your house." ”

While most people appreciate the glamorous Nie Secret fashion show, there are also many conservative people who shake their heads at the Victoria's Secret show on the TV screen. Thomas Peck, a well-known current affairs commentator at the New York Times, who had watched "Survivor" with his family, quickly drove a pair of children who were still in junior high school to the bedroom when the scantily clad Victoria's Secret Angel appeared on the TV screen, and then gritted his teeth at the TV screen and said: "It's ridiculous, this is ridiculous, how can ABC let this kind of thing appear on public television." ”

Thomas Peck's wife didn't react as much as her husband, saying, "I think it's not bad, no one said that public television can't have internal footage, right?"

"But this ...... It's different, this kind of thing, the sexual awareness is too strong, and, this music, no, this kind of thing is absolutely intolerable, I'm going to write to the FCC tomorrow to complain about it, no, I'll write it now. With that, Thomas Peck got up and walked into the study under his wife's helpless eyes.

Although tens of millions of viewers have different focuses on the Victoria's Secret show, there is no doubt that the Victoria's Secret show still firmly captures the attention of too many people.

Eric thought that after the start of the broadcast, the original 35 million ratings would decline, but even he had to admit that he had ignored the potential of the Victoria's Secret show, because the ratings of this show at half an o'clock not only did not fall, but there was a rating rise of up to 6 million, and the ratings easily rebounded to 41 million.

In the conference room of ABC headquarters, in the face of this ratings data that has risen against the market, everyone's faces are overjoyed. ABC President Robert Iger originally hoped to use the leading advantage of the final episode of "Survivor" to select a summer hit film from the Firefly to play, so as to ensure that tonight's prime-time ratings remain at an average level of 40 million, so as to obtain greater advertising revenue, so he has been a little slanderous about Eric's decision to insist on broadcasting the Victoria's Secret show.

On the other side of the desk, the five Victoria's Secret spokespersons gathered together all paid attention to the popular angel voting page, looking at the total number of voters who had accumulated more than 500,000 in more than half an hour, although the five girls were still very reserved on the surface, the joy on their faces was difficult to hide.

Although they are the top supermodels in the fashion industry, it is the first time that they have received such large-scale attention from the general public, and high popularity certainly means high commercial endorsement returns.

Cindy Crawford looked at Diane Kruger, who had nearly 50,000 votes on the voting page, although her votes were less than 3,000 away from Diane Kruger, but she was still jealous in her heart, she knew that the other three women around her must have thought the same way, if it weren't for the few women surrounding her, Cindy Crawford might have logged in to her Yahoo account to vote for herself, and even made up her mind to contact some people to help her vote.

Thinking so, Cindy Crawford raised her eyes to look at Eric opposite, and glanced at Tyra Banks' more than 32,000 votes, and couldn't help but have some different thoughts in her heart, although Tyra Banks is one of the five key publicity spokespersons, but Cindy Crawford feels in her heart that Tyra Banks is a black person after all, well, it is a relatively light-skinned and very attractive chocolate color, but because of the racial disadvantage and Tyra Banks's previous coffee position in the fashion industry, Cindy Crawford feels that Tyra Banks is impossible to get more than 30,000 votes, and there may be some ulterior insiders in this。

Perhaps it was a little longer in her trance, but Cindy Crawford noticed that Eric noticed that she was looking at him, and looked up faintly, as if she had directly seen through Cindy Crawford's thoughts. Cindy Crawford was inexplicably a little weak under Eric's eyes, and quickly lowered her head, but then muttered in her heart: "Really, I haven't done anything unseemly, why should I be afraid of him." ”

Cheering herself up, Cindy Crawford looked up and looked over again, but Eric had already turned his head to talk to Robert Iger beside him.

Just as she was about to withdraw her gaze in a bit of a daze, Cindy Crawford noticed that Emily Brighton on the other side suddenly raised her head and said to Eric: "Eric, why is the page of the Victoria's Secret discussion board suddenly stuck?" )