“1234，2234……”

In a blink of an eye, in late September, in a large dance studio in Chicago, Song Ya has begun to practice with the concert dance group, his first album of the same name so far, '21' second album plus dancing out of the soundtrack of my life, there are not many songs suitable for singing and dancing, and even fewer need to sing and dance, and the task is not too heavy.

Hip-hop songs such as Remember The Name, Where Is The Love, Whatever You Like, and I Gotta Feeling generally choose a DJ plus a musician plus an MC (in hip-hop culture, at the beginning, it was just a person who simply helped DJs shout some words and phrases, and later specifically referred to rappers who wrote lyrics and performed on stage in person) plus Feat, that is, the way in which co-singers and singers all go into battle. At that time, there will be no fewer people on stage, and with the sound and light special effects of the stage, there is no problem for a group of old blacks to make the atmosphere lively and lively.

Then he will sing slow songs such as Beautiful Girls, I Feel It Coming, Say Goodbye, etc., in front of the standing microphone, and the band and backing vocalist will be at the far end, and the dance group will dance with the side, without having to rehearse with the team.

So the ensemble was mainly focused on two songs from the apocalypse that came from the original singer of the black man who was in good shape: Trumpets and Want to Want Me, and the songs that are now playing in the dance studio are Trumpets.

"OK, HERE, APLUS YOU MUST SYNCHRONIZE WITH THE MOVEMENTS OF THE DANCE GROUP DURING THE SINGING INTERVAL TO CONTINUE! 1234……”

Under the loud command of the dance fingers clapping their palms, several male dancers walked forward from behind while doing dance moves, just parallel to Song Ya between the singing passages, Song Ya immediately pulled the microphone from the standing stand, stretched out his arms, kicked his legs, and synchronized his dance posture with them.

He practiced well for a while during the filming of Dance My Life, and the movements designed by his dance fingers were also mainly hip-hop, which was easy to pick up.

"Good, good! This is it! Dancing Fingers shouted.

Song Ya responded to the sound of the voice of the short body, with strong arms as support, and performed a complex floor movement, which was the most difficult dance part of his concert, and it was also one of the audience's emotional highs designed by the director.

It was a slight improvement on the last dance scene of my life, and he did it well, and when the set was over, everyone in the dance studio began to cheer for him.

"Wow, beautiful! APLUS！ ”

Daniel, president of Sony Columbia Records, executives of the concert organizer Anschutz Performing Arts Company, concert directors and producers, as well as Dile, Al, Yeremov, Linda, Hayden and others all sat on the floor by the wall of the dance studio, they applauded for a long time, and DeLay whistled loudly.

"Whew!"

The intensity of the rehearsal was still very high, and he was a little tired, Song Ya responded to them with a smile on the floor and gasped, and it took a while to get up.

"That's all for today, we've got an arrangement for the evening." Daniel looked at his watch, stood up, and said.

"OK, that's all for today." Dancing Finger nodded, "Tomorrow is still this time APLUS, the others!" Go on! ”

"Wait for me to rush first."

The cat-and-mouse game is going to be screened in Chicago tonight, because there are still two months left before the Thanksgiving schedule of the painting, and the screening so early is not for the general audience, just one, in a single-hall art theater in Chicago, mainly entertaining professionals such as members of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

Hollywood Pictures President Linton, with director Ridley Scott and other crew creators, also in Los Angeles to publicize local professional film reviews, New York side is Harvey Weinstein led the team, he invited Paul Allen, Spike Lee and other New York gang directors. Old Larry and Stan Brackhaven will also show up to help.

These publicity and public relations behaviors are all done to build momentum for the film and rush for awards, which is not too much.

"Yeremov, how much did you spend on Roger Albert? Is there 250,000? ”

Before participating in the screening, the group went to a high-end restaurant to eat, and Daniel asked during the banquet.

He's not a film insider, but he knows a lot about it, and the price is guessed to be eight or nine, and his own University of Chicago alumnus, the most well-known film critic in Chicago and even in the whole of America, has always dared to accept it, Yeremov sent him a large spending card at the Los Angeles Country Golf Club, as well as some luxury hotels and resorts.

"I beg my pardon for having no comment." Yeremov, of course, would not admit it, and he took a sip of wine with a hippie smile.

"APLUS, the cat-and-mouse game soundtrack is good, but dancing the sequel to my life is almost meaningless."

Daniel didn't get to the bottom of it, he said to Song Ya: "But the sales shouldn't be too high, there is too much pure music in the cat-and-mouse game soundtrack, and it's still in the style of the forties." ”

"Well, I'm prepared."

Cat and Mouse Game Soundtrack, A+ Records won the re-release rights of those old songs according to the songs of the original Apocalypse, and the pure music part he roughly made a simple melody and handed it over to professional orchestral composers and soundtracks in Hollywood, most of the old songs are rock music in the sixties where the story takes place, and the pure music imitates the witty style of the popular animated series Cat and Mouse in the forties, and that kind of pure music is now not much anyone will buy it and listen to it at home, A large portion of the proceeds of the sales proceeds went to the songwriters of the old rock songs and the music rights companies that owned the songs, and combined, he and Daniel lacked motivation to promote the soundtrack.

Dancing out of the script of the sequel to my life, Song Ya has no apocalypse, the investors are very miscellaneous, and it is a youth idol drama for white high school students, and he is very busy, and he also has no motivation to polish carefully. A+ Records stuffed the first two albums into the first two albums, he reflected the young dumb who graduated from high school, and then the weak singles in Phiggie and Brenda's new albums, and then invited some songs from friends such as Babyface, and the quality was average, and the already popular Donnie Bladstone returned a favor, which was also a weak single in her album.

"By the way, look at this APLUS." DeLay wiped his mouth, pulled an HP laptop out of his bag, and placed it on the dining table to open it.

“Come on！ Mr. President, do you have to do this in a French restaurant? ”

Al chewed a steak on the side and complained: "It's better to worry more about whether you can still sing with us on stage." ”

"Don't worry, I haven't left my old craft behind." Already a lot fatter, Dile, who was in a suit and leather shoes, exaggerated a few hip-hop gestures.

Song Ya and the rest of the audience were amused by him.

But he wasn't happy himself, and after the laptop started slowly, he opened a program on the Windows95 desktop, and then, Song Ya's singing voice came out.

"Tapes?" Daniel asked, most of the people in the room were music connoisseurs, and the sound quality was terrible as soon as they were heard, and it certainly wasn't a CD.

"No, a playback program, called Winplay, has just been out for a few days."

DeLay took out Sony's Walkman headphones and plugged them in, "If you listen carefully, the sound quality is not as good as CD and MD, but it is not worse than tape." ”

Daniel listened for half a minute, then handed the headphones to Song Ya and asked DeLay while he was listening, "......What is the medium?"

"Data files, just like those on CDs, but much smaller, can be easily distributed and downloaded over the Internet to your own personal computer." DeLay replied: "What is MP3 compression format called?" ”

"Does it have anything to do with the MPEG1 format of VCDs?" After listening to this, Song Ya asked, "It's really good, I lost a lot of details, but if I wasn't a professional musician, I guess I didn't feel much." ”

"Of course, MP3 is the third-generation compression encoding standard." DeLay replied.

Song Ya shrugged and looked at Daniel, the mood in both of them was a little bad, the pressure of tape transcription and CD piracy had made the record industry more and more difficult to do, and now this thing could be used through the freer and faster Internet......

"My people seem to have said this yesterday, but they haven't had time to see it in person, find some professionals to inquire about it, APLUS, I'll go back to New York tomorrow and have a meeting to see if I can unite several major record companies to deal with it through legal means."

Daniel said.