Chapter Seventy-Seven: Going Away
There are too many benefits of landing at the top of the billboard charts, young people and music fans who chase pop will buy singles out of curiosity, radio DJs have to put a few words of review even if they don't have money, and cold music critics and print media have to start talking about and dissecting the style of lyrics and songs, whether good or bad, they have to give an attitude, which invisibly greatly increases exposure, and it is still free.
I feel it coming was to be expected to see a week-overhead in sales, which in turn helped hit the charts as one of the calculated weights on the Billboard singles chart, and with the regular promotion that Columbia Records has been investing in, the whole project went into a positive cycle.
DJs helped hit the charts, and the charts drove sales and media attention, which in turn inspired Columbia Records to increase publicity, and then several weights worked together, and the charts continued to rise, driving more sales and attention......
It was perfect.
And the fame is good, and the rest of the promotional itinerary can start to make money along the way, and many local nightclubs and bars have contacted Hayden.
"You pick a higher price, a safer one, and schedule the course."
Song Ya now needs some extra cash to smooth out the accounts of the bribes that continue to flow into black DJs everywhere.
"Okay, but if you don't really sing in those places, you'll be beaten, right?" He laughs.
"It's nothing to really sing, there are no cameras in those places, and I'm not afraid of being left behind evidence if I sing overturned, and at most many voices stink." Song Ya heard a lot of acupuncture knowledge from Tony.
"It's time for you to add some people, assistants or managers, at least one." Hayden advised, "It's better to eat in a nightclub or you're going to have to pay for it after the show." ”
"Hmm."
Song Ya knew that he didn't have enough manpower on his side, and Tony was the best, but he and the 'silencer' came to help for a week and went back to little Lowry, Al is too axial to do that kind of thing, let alone Hayden and Deelay, the two white people, and they have a lot of things to do.
"Forget about the manager, I can do it myself, the assistant can find one, but ......"
The manager is to share according to the income like the agent, Song Ya doesn't want to bleed, he knows in his heart that the assistant is a personal person, and it involves collecting cash from nightclubs and other places, he must be able to absolutely trust, except for Tony, he can't think of any good candidates. Unfortunately, Tony is loyal to Lowry Jr.
"How's Taryn?" Al chimed in.
"Don't ......"
Song Ya didn't want to involve relatives who were not related by blood, and besides, he was also a stuffy jar like a 'silencer', which was also not suitable.
"I used to complain to Tony about the follower culture, but I didn't expect that I just don't have enough followers now......"
He thought helplessly, "Forget it, I'll do it myself this time, anyway, there are only three weeks left for publicity, and then I have to go back to school in Chicago." Hayden, you check for me, and only choose regular nightclubs. ”
"Okay."
Hayden wrote down one by one, and he was threatened by Song Ya with not renewing his contract, and he was much more diligent during this time.
"Can you help me design some moves that I can perform in a nightclub? As far as I know, that kind of place has a high demand for interaction. ”
Song Ya looked at the person in charge of publicity.
"Indeed."
The other party laughed, "Your stage performance is a disaster, I have long wanted to say it directly." ”
“……”
"Just kidding, kidding, huh, have you ever seen MJ's performance?"
The person in charge of publicity made a one-handed motion of holding down his crotch and then moving forward.
"Who doesn't know MJ's signature moves."
"You can learn it, change it a little, and when you sing I feel it coming...... he swings his hands back and forth at his sides, his hips straightening up to the rhythm, "and that's it." You know, in a nightclub or the kind of place, this kind of suggestive action can easily heat up the atmosphere. ”
"That's it......" Song Ya is very good at drawing inferences, he remembered the action that was killed by Zack Schneider in the MV, "Then when I sing And the heat between your legs, can I use this action?" ”
He folded his hands in front of his chest and pushed them to the sides.
"Yes, you can! Hahaha! ”
The head of publicity, Hayden, Delay, and Al all laughed.
The first stop on the southern tour was New Orleans, the home of jazz, and it is said that the first form of music and performance came from black musicians in the red-light district, because the white people upstairs needed a kind of light, like caressing a woman's skin, lifting the curtain, and sliding under the bed, but without disturbing the passion.
New Orleans still retains some of the pattern of a hundred years ago, although there is no legal racial discrimination, but the black and white people here are still distinct, the rich area of the white can still see the old glory of the colonial era of the last century, while the black area is still poor and clanging, unlike Chicago Southside, it is closer to Mexico, and it is easier to obtain drugs extracted from plants, unlike the gangs in Chicago who have already set their sights on new gadgets made of chemicals.
The radio DJs here are very proud, and in addition to their proud jazz music, they also have their own southern rap, and they have always scoffed at the style of other regions.
"I've heard of your second-hand shop...... The song expresses the joy of picking up items in a second-hand store, and then satirizes the shopping psychology of those who blindly chase famous brands, do I understand correctly? ”
"Yes, that's right."
Columbia Records picked a radio DJ who doesn't like to be embarrassed very much, and when he was interviewed, he didn't expect this guy to ask a very strange question, "So you think it's a kind of self-dwarfing?" It's like, it's like being forced by white people to have a value that the black community deserves to be poor, to be deserving to be a brand, and then instead of trying to change it in the song, you're enjoying that value......"
“WTF……”
Song Yaxin said what the hell is this asking? He couldn't bring up the fact that the original singer in the apocalypse was white, so he had to avoid it, "Good question, but I didn't have that idea when I wrote this song, you know, the lyrics for the rap part were done by little Lowry, I think he should be able to give you the answer." ”
Since little Lori has taken his own lyrics, then this kind of crime should be borne by him.
After a battle of wits and courage, both sides ended the visit with dissatisfaction.
"The DJ at this house gave me a set of tricks and never gave interviews to him again." Song Ya walked out of the radio station and whispered instructions to Hayden.
In the studio, "the listening rate dropped by 3 points!" The wails of the staff were transmitted into the headphones.
“FXXX! This APLUS is both cunning and boring, don't invite him to my show again in the future. The DJ slumped in his chair in desperation.
In the evening, Song Ya appeared in a very large local nightclub.
"Tonight's guest! APLUS! ”
The nightclub host shouted, "Bring this week's Billboard 15th song, I feel it coming!" ”
"Wow!" The men and women in the nightclub twisted their bodies and set their eyes on the small stage.
The lights came on, Song Ya stood in front, and Al and Dillay behind him were exactly in a triangle, Dillay pressed the keyboard, Al plucked the electric guitar, and the prelude sounded.
Song Ya kept gesturing and interacting with the below, sometimes pointing at the white girl nearby, and sometimes waving to the people behind.
“Tell me what you really like……”
He opened his voice relaxedly, and the original sound, which was slightly different from MJ's voice, flowed out.
“I feel it coming ,I feel it coming babe……”
Singing this, he remembered the advice of the person in charge of publicity, with an ambiguous smile on his face, his hands hanging on his sides and swinging slightly, and his crotch sent forward.
"Oh! Oh! Immediately the ghost cried wolf, and the reaction was very high, and some men took this opportunity to put their bodies on the side of their female companions.
“I can feel that body shake,And the heat between your legs……”
Singing this, Song Ya's hands were spread in front of his chest.
The men and women immediately snickered knowingly.
“I know what you've……”
The broken place here is Song Ya's old difficulty, he immediately twisted his upper body back violently, acting as if he was singing and shaking his head, in fact, in order to avoid the audience's sight, the second half of the sentence was made up in time by the pad sound in the accompaniment tape.
Seamless.