Chapter 6 MV
Song Ya seems to be worrying for nothing, and in the evening, Lori Jr.'s phone calls directly to the house, telling Tony that his first MV is about to start shooting.
Ten days later, on Sunday, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the four siblings came out of the cave en masse.
Tony hugged a hot woman, the two of them were sticky all the way, they couldn't walk straight, and explicit love words and eating and laughing from time to time got into the ears of those behind them.
"Bichi."
Connie pouted disdainfully at the exaggerated hip curve of the black girl in front of her, and whispered to Song Ya: "Look at this disgusting ass, it was definitely not that big when I was with Tony before, I don't know how many men's beds she climbed into during the time the two broke up!" ”
Song Ya, who was holding Emily's little hand, smiled and did not respond.
The relationship between men and women here is very chaotic, and the separation and integration are as common as eating and drinking, Tony went to make a phone call, and as soon as his ex-girlfriend heard that there was an opportunity to show her face in the MV, she immediately 'changed her mind'.
It's no wonder Connie is upset.
However, Song Ya, who has been going through almost a month, already has a very thorough understanding of Tony's thick and thin character, and who plays with whose feelings is not necessarily it.
The group walked across the street and came to a sign that read 'XX Dance Studio', and a 'silencer' wearing a suit and sunglasses was guarding the door with AK left and right.
"Hey~ Look, see who this is? I'm almost afraid to admit it! ”
Tony stepped forward and teased the word 'silencer', and the other party responded with a shy smile.
"Okay, hurry up and get down to business, we only rent the venue until five o'clock, and it's very unsafe around here at night."
AK said hello, took out a stack of papers, and neatly distributed them to everyone.
Song Ya took a cursory look at the piece of paper stuffed into his hand, which should be a document about the authorization of the use of personal images in the MV, "We are not under the age of eighteen, don't we need the consent of our guardians to sign this?" He was a little confused.
"You're going to die if you don't speak, aren't you?"
With a wave of Tony, he threw the pen into Song Ya's hand, pointed to his head, and said to AK, "Ignore him, he has been having some problems here lately." ”
AK patted Song Ya on the shoulder and explained with a smile, "Usually no one cares about these small details. ”
Taking advantage of Song Ya's signing, he said to Tony again: "After entering, help Al maintain order, and listen to the director after the official start of filming." ”
"Don't worry, I'll leave it all to me."
Tony walked through the door and kissed his ex-girlfriend the cheek, "Did you hear that?" From today on, my brother will start the entertainment industry. ”
Connie rolled her eyes in the back.
Since the deterioration of law and order, Chicago has tightened the approval of entertainment venues, especially nightclubs that allow alcohol to be sold.
Judging from the obvious hippie-style graffiti of the 70s and 80s, the mottled and dilapidated facilities and decorations, the faint smell of urine in the corners, and the old-fashioned central dance floor, this 'dance studio' was supposed to be a discotheque, but it has since been transformed into a dance teaching venue.
In addition to the director and a few staff members who were tinkering with the equipment, twenty or thirty young men and women on the dance floor had already begun to wriggle to the music, and the atmosphere was good.
The music was played on Lori's rap album, and Song Ya felt it first...... It's really not good, it's also a chanting, and little Lori's songs are obviously much more mediocre than those that are often played on the radio, especially the words, which you forget when you hear them.
"Hey! Tony! ”
Al waved at Tony from the DJ booth, "Come here!" ”
Tony ran over, he hung the monitor headphones around Tony's neck, "Don't move any settings, just remember this volume knob, I'll ...... when I give you the signal" He taught Tony some simple operations.
"Understood!"
Tony put on his monitor headphones in a frenzy, and immediately twisted exaggeratedly to the music, his hands still on the controller, pretending to be like that.
"Hey! Isn't this Tony? ”
As soon as Al walked away, a young girl wearing heavy makeup immediately approached, "Remember me?" I'm a level 11 ......"
"Bichi!"
The ex-girlfriend scolded and hurriedly rushed over to swear sovereignty.
Song Ya looked at everything in his eyes, and thought of the 'silencer' of five people and six people at the door, who would have thought that just ten days ago, the two of them were still defeated dogs who had just been expelled by the rugby team, and then look at it now!
"So, Tony's 'career' plan has been a complete success!" He sighed in his heart.
"We're fast!"
Connie's attention was entirely on the dance floor, and when she noticed that Al was already arranging her position, she hurriedly pulled Songya and Emily over.
"HEY, APLUS!" El winked at Song Ya, well, ten days have passed, and his nickname has spread to everyone.
Connie got her wish and stood in a prominent position with Song Ya, Tony's ex-girlfriend next to her, and Emily and several of her peers were placed in the front row.
"Everyone! Everyone! ”
The director, who was the only white man in the room today, stood behind the camera and shouted with his arms outstretched.
Al snapped his fingers at Tony, and Tony turned the music off.
"Wait until filming starts, everyone's eyes will be focused on me......" The director began to talk at length about various precautions.
In fact, this is the most cost-effective kind of MV, the singer sings in the front, and the people in the back follow the music and it's over.
"OK, ready to go." After the director finished explaining, he went back to stare at the viewfinder.
Several high-power fill lights are turned on at the same time.
Tony replayed the music at Al's motion, "Action! The director shouted.
To say that racial talent is really uncovered, everyone twists up like that, and everyone can improvise, and the atmosphere on the dance floor is getting more and more hilarious.
"Cards!" The director suddenly shouted to stop, the music stopped, and he pointed at Song Ya, "You! It's about you don't look left or right! Find the beat! Beat! ”
"Oh! Okay, okay, sorry. Song Ya felt that she was going to suffer.
Sure enough, after a while, the director shouted to stop again, it was still Song Ya.
"You stand in the back row!"
"Cards!"
"You! Or you! Stand back! ”
Song Ya was a little annoyed, he couldn't dance, and then the smell of perfume in the crowd was so strong that he was a little out of breath, "Forget it, I won't dance." "Just, just leave the stage and retreat to Tony's side.
"You have a problem! You have a big problem! Tony glared at him, angry, "Do you think there are a lot of opportunities like this!?" ”
Song Ya shrugged, "I'm not used to this kind of occasion. ”
The director was so happy that little Lowry appeared on the sidelines and immediately diverted everyone's attention.
"Welcome, Lolo Lori!" Al made a loud noise.
All the young women started screaming......
Little Lowry has already put on makeup, and he is dressed very energetically, he is not like other rappers, he has no tattoos, he does not wear any gang logos, there is no killing, poisoning, in the lyrics, not even a few foul words that are too excessive.
Except for a little self-centeredness, Song Ya has a good impression of him.
Little Lowry stood in the C position, and the director announced the official start of filming.
I don't feel like jumping on the field, but when I become a bystander, I feel that time flies very slowly, "I go out to breathe." He said to Tony.
Tony twisted his headphones with his headphones, his eyes were all on Al in the middle of the field, and he kept remembering that Al told him to pay attention to the signal, and he was extremely focused.
But Al is busy now, Al is in charge of the ventriloquist part of the rap, which is to simulate the sound of various instruments such as drum kits, and it seems that this kind of performance is becoming popular now, he is standing next to little Lowry, and he is moving in front of the camera. Of course, it's all lip-synching.
So Song Ya avoided the camera and walked out alone, but he didn't expect to remember the wrong direction, and followed the passage and walked into an office inside the building.
"DJs in major cities have received our unofficial albums in the mail, and you want to know how they responded."
A super thick black bass comes out of the office.
"Say it." Another responded.
"Philadelphia's Philadelphia said that if a person sings like a, looks like a, and writes like a, then he's a. Miami's Ruth said he wouldn't admit it was rap music. Atlanta's BOI told us to stay north for an X, New Yorkers said the music in the Brooklyn dumpster was better than ours, and Los Angeles sent us back some records saying they wanted us to hear what real music was! ”
"Whose responsibility! You don't listen to me as an agent, I obviously plan to make a name for myself in Chicago first, and then ...... nationally."
"No reputation! Chicago's DJs are all about my face and my money! ”
"We can also give money to Philadelphia and money to New York......"
“FXXX! That's a bottomless pit! And it's too late to give money now, so it can only make them not be the first villains to jump out, those shameless bastards who step on the bottom of the ladder, as soon as they smell blood, they will jump out and laugh at Lori without a lower limit, laugh at you, laugh at me, laugh at everything! ”
"That'...... Then leave them alone, when the MV comes out, we can focus on the young female market, and Lowry's image is very popular with girls. ”
"That's the only way to go, but my record company is running on a small budget, so I can't take big risks, the first batch of cassettes is pressed to 5,000, and it is only distributed in Chicago, and vinyl records and digital CDs are suspended, and I will make plans after the music video is promoted on TV stations."
“FXXX! Five thousand? That is equivalent to admitting defeat before the war starts, and it is equivalent to admitting that we are finished! ”
"We're done!"
"No, at least 10,000, now a dog can sell for 10,000 when he releases a record."
"Six thousand."
"Eight Thousand ......"
"Seven thousand, FXXX! Why are we bargaining for this!? ”