Chapter 567: Visiting the Record Store
"The APLUS phone couldn't get through, it was supposed to be on the plane to Tokyo, and Linda also went to Italy."
On an upscale shopping street not far from Bedford Hills, Brenda's agent and former singer Louis McCall helped Brenda push open the door of the record store, "Don't worry, Sony Columbia Records just postponed the chart action for commercial reasons, you only need to survive two weeks before you can become popular again." ”
"You've been red and angry, you can understand my mood now, right? Louis. ”
The bell rang at the door, and Brenda walked into the store as she spoke.
"Uh...... I can understand that, but you don't like that. ”
Louis followed her with a wry smile, Brenda's emotional intelligence has always been a headache for him and his wife Linda, "When you hit the list, you must be careful to speak." ”
"Don't worry."
"Didn't you accompany Miss Kelly? How did a person run out. ”
"Hmph, that woman has been calling her and APLUS's love nest to add this and that, and I have nothing to do next to me, so I'm bored." Brenda stood prominently in front of the cash register for a moment after entering, and observed that most of the customers of the stylishly decorated video store were boys and girls in their teens and twenties, and that the crowd, including the clerk, did not react to their arrival.
"No one will recognize us anymore." She sighed with some sadness.
"If I still have a beard, I should have a better chance of being recognized."
Louis touched his smooth chin, in order to establish the image of the business elite, he shaved his beard in the mid-eighties after he switched careers to start an artist management company, and has not been recognized on the street since, of course, even if he still has a beard before that, the probability of being recognized is very low, "I've been angry for fifteen years......," he said.
Brenda pestled for a while, "The customers here are all young people...... and he was not reconciled, and went around half a circle in front of an older clerk.
"Will this lady please let me go?" The other party held a cardboard box in his hand and danced out of the soundtrack of my life and complained.
Brenda pursed her lips, holding back her on-the-spot emotion, and pulled out a box of CDs from the cardboard box, "The song is sung by me and APLUS, but the cover is him and Amy." Whispering to Luis, Songya and Amy on the cover are hugging and looking at each other affectionately.
"Or else? This is the movie soundtrack, and the Lion King soundtrack cover doesn't have Elton John. ”
Louis pointed to the clerk, "Sony Columbia Records has already started to be stocked, you just have to wait." ”
"Did you go and dance out of my life?"
Brenda moved to the vinyl section in the back row, eavesdropping on the boys and girls.
"Look, the song is very good, I like the song Say Goodbye, APLUS sings so well." One girl said, "What about you? ”
"U Must Be, Donnie Bladstone performed very well, and the picture of dancing with the male and female protagonists on the pier is particularly beautiful." Her best friend replied.
"yes, I want to dance a little bit, so I asked my mom to call APLUS's agent......"
"What? Your mom knows his agent!? ”
"It's nothing, is it? Don't your family also live near APLUS and Mariah Carey's estate? ”
"Well, they haven't moved in yet, so maybe I can let my dad take them to visit them later, and you're going to come with them then?"
"Okay, good, good......"
"By the way, you haven't said what you want to do with his agent?"
"I wanted to ask what the name of the prototype of that art school in Chicago was, and the script was written by APLUS, and his agent must have known."
"Didn't my classmates all guess that it was Columbia University Chicago? You're going to attend Columbia University, right? ”
"No, I asked, that Columbia College in Chicago has nothing to do with Columbia University here."
"You don't want to go to Chicago to learn to dance, do you? That kind of hip-hop ...... Your mom is going to beat you to death. ”
"Anyway, let's ask first."
"You're crazy......"
"Let's not talk about this, where do we go next?"
"Let's go to the car first and then decide, the driver should be in a hurry."
"Well, before I knew it, the day passed again...... I also want to say that I went to Paris to watch a show this summer. ”
The conversation between the two grew apart, "These kids of rich white families. Louis smiled wryly, "They were born with a golden spoon in their mouths. ”
"The people who live around here are either rich or expensive." Brenda rummaged for a long time, feeling more and more irritable, "Clerk! She called the clerk in, "Don't you have any records from Brenda in your house?" It's the female singer who danced the soundtrack of my life. ”
"Uh, please wait."
The clerk went to the computer at the cash register for a long time and said, "Yes, ma'am, but in the warehouse, do you want it?" Only vinyl. ”
"Why else I ask it for?"
"Okay, I'll help you find it." The clerk trotted over to the storeroom.
"Find them all!"
"Okay."
The two took the opportunity to observe in the store for a long time, and there are not many people who buy and dance the soundtrack of My Life, and most of the young people here still like rock music, such as the long-term album Nevermind by Nirvana, which is still selling very well. ”
"The territory of rich white people doesn't mean anything." Louis dismissed her.
"I've kept you waiting." The clerk walked out with a couple of vinyl records and handed them to Brenda, "Everything you want is here." ”
"Well, still not recognized." Brenda was hit again.
Louis glanced at the young face on the record cover, and then at the black aunt in front of him, "You try to speak with the kind of voice you sing?" ”
Brenda shook her head, "Forget it, take me to Brooklyn, I'd like to visit a few more shops." ”
"Okay."
She didn't go to the cashier to pay, she left the record on the shelf of Dance My Life, blocked Amy with the avatar on her album cover, ignored the clerk who was looking sideways, and swaggered out with Louis.
Louis drove the two back to her 'home base', "Brenda!? As soon as he entered the door, he was recognized by the old black man behind the cash register, "Yo! How long has it been since we've seen each other? ”
"It's only been three years......," Brenda rolled her eyes and scolded him, the layout here is much simpler and crude, only records are sold, there is a double-row record rack in the middle of the small storefront, with popular hit albums, and other discs are all stuffed in cardboard boxes, just simply classified according to the genre, and they go to turn through what they want one by one, so the vast majority of customers are thinking about the words with their heads down, very attentive, for fear of missing it.
"Do you know him?" Brenda pointed at Louis.
"Excuse me?" The old man stared at him for a long time and shook his head blankly.
"So what?" Louis covered his chin and covered his upper lip with one finger.
"Louis? Louis McCall? The old man really recognized him, "You kid, I remember that you got into a fight with your teammates more than ten years ago, and you even hit and injured someone while driving drunk?" And then it evaporates from the world...... What now? What are you doing? ”
"Uh......"
The old bottom was exposed, and Louis was embarrassed, "Still in the record industry, doing Brenda's agent." I've changed my ways! ”
"Wow, you should take advantage of this opportunity, and tell you quietly that the children here love the song Brenda that APLUS wrote for you, but don't break yourself up again." The old man poked his head out and whispered.
"Hey! Can you say something nice? ”
Brenda walked into the store, and "A+, A+, A+......" saw a black guy flipping through the vinyl records of APLUS's first album, "A+ is there, it's all there." Louis patted him on the arm.
"Hey! Be careful! ”
The other party seemed to be frightened, turned around and pulled up the T-shirt, revealing the handle of the gun pinned to the same glowing belt of the little fat dun, "Didn't anyone tell you the rules here?" Nger in a suit? ”
"Uh, sorry, I just wanted to remind you." Louis hurriedly raised his hands and pointed to the discount area.
“M-Fxxk。” The other party didn't entangle anymore, went over there and successfully found the A+ album, and took the soundtrack of dancing out of my life, "You accept food stamps here, right?" ”
"Be fucking quiet! Want me to go to jail? The old man scolded him, and the two tacitly completed the deal in a lightning and stone fire.
"How long have you been out of this environment?" Brenda asked Luis.
"After Linda went to help MC Hammer, it's a pity that kid is much more generous than APLUS." Louis replied.