Volume 2 The Commodity Society Chapter 237 Live Performance
βyesοΌβ Adams excitedly made a cheering celebration, and said to Chen Feng beside him with a smile, "Long, although the gold content of this award is a little lower than the previous Best Newcomer, it is also a very important award, and you deserve to win this award." β
On the other side, Lao Walter also congratulated Chen Feng, and the audience's eyes were focused on Chen Feng at this time.
"Let's invite this year's Grammy Best R*B Male Singer Long to the stage to accept the award!"
The host and award presenters on the stage also applauded and congratulated and invited Long to the stage.
Chen Feng stood up and hugged Adams beside him, walked to the podium again, and then the award presenter received a "golden record player" in his hand again.
Although the host was a little worried, he still had to routinely hold the microphone and ask Chen Feng: "Long, you have won two awards now, how do you feel about this?" β
Chen Feng took the microphone and took a look. The host, who was obviously a little nervous, said with a smile: "I have won a total of four nominations for the Grammys this time, originally I came to the awards party today with 100% confidence, but I didn't expect that the newcomer award I value the most was missed by me, which makes me feel a little regretful, for the two awards I have won now, I can only say that I am very grateful to the judges who voted for me, of course, the most grateful is the majority of fans and friends who support me, with your support, in fact, it doesn't matter if I win the award or not." Thank you! β
Chen Feng's words are not as good as the previous sentence. The words were sharp, but they were still a little harsh to the ears of the organizer and the host.
Chen Feng finished his speech and was about to step down. waited, but the host stopped him, and asked with a smile: "Long, please stay on the stage for the time being, we should ask you a few questions at the request of the audience in front of the TV, and please give your fans and viewers a satisfactory answer." β
To be honest, the host is very reluctant to borrow this job, but the organizer's. The people in charge, the TV advertisers, and of course the hundreds of millions of viewers in front of the vast number of TV sets, all want to get a glimpse of what Long Zorro really looks like behind the mask. This can be said to be the common desire of everyone now, where there is demand, of course, there is a market, and there are ratings before countless advertisers come to invest money. In order to increase the ratings of the program, the organizers have long arranged a session to ask questions on the spot.
Of course, Chen Feng had been prepared to be questioned in advance, and Adams was also. Remind him in advance that if he is asked a sensitive or difficult question, he will refuse to answer. Chen Feng didn't come to participate in the Grammy's declaration next time, which undoubtedly slapped the Grammy organizer's mouth fiercely, maybe this time the question will deliberately make things difficult for Chen Feng.
Although Chen Feng knew that there was this possibility, he had nothing to worry about. It's a big deal not to answer.
Chen Feng should even receive. I stopped and continued to stay on the stage, waiting for the host's questions.
The host quickly took out the pre-prepared note from his bosom and asked the first question: "Long, we are all very curious about your true identity, can you tell us your real name?" Or do you just take off your mask and officially reveal your identity to the public? β
Chen Feng shrugged his shoulders and refused directly: "I'm sorry, I can't agree to these two requests." Since I came to the party wearing a mask this time, it was because I didn't want my true identity to be exposed. Please respect my privacy. I don't want too much interference in my private life. β
Chen Feng's answer, the host, including most of the people, expected it in advance, although they all felt a little disappointed, but they could understand it.
"Okay, then let's move on to the next question: Long, can you tell us about your age and ethnicity? I can see that you are not black, are you white? β
Chen Feng couldn't help laughing and said: "You guessed right, I'm not black, I'm not white, what I can sue you is that I'm a yellow race." β
"Oh God! Please forgive my presumptuousness, this is really surprising, then is your ancestral home Japanese or ** people? The host looked dumbfounded, and the audience at the scene and in front of the TV were also shocked. This is also completely understandable, in the eyes of people in European and American countries, those who can really understand music and play music, and more importantly, can win Grammy Awards, basically white and black, and there are very few yellow people in the United States who win awards.
Chen Feng was very upset that the host asked him if he was Japanese and **, and wanted to directly say that he was Chinese, but considering the influence and secrecy for himself, he temporarily changed his tone and replied angrily: "It is that I have absolutely no Japanese blood in my body." β
The host's eyes lit up. "Oh, so you have a ** bloodline?"
Of course, Chen Feng knew that this was a set set by the host, and even though he was silent and refused to answer, the host, including the hundreds of millions of viewers who were watching the live broadcast, thought that Long had acquiesced to his ** bloodline. This surprised the ** people in front of the TV, and many people danced the "stick dance" excitedly.
"Okay, so let's look at the third question, which we voted for from the Internet: Long, your debut self-titled album 'Long' has a total of nine songs, but there are several genres. Can you tell us where your inspiration comes from? β
Chen Feng thought to himself, of course, that his creative inspiration came from memories of his previous life. Of course, it was impossible for him to tell the world about this fact, and he replied casually: "Inspiration is called inspiration because it is something that is difficult to touch, and I can only say that my creative inspiration comes from God's gift to me, and maybe one day, he will take it away." At that time, I can also retire from the music scene. β
βnoοΌ noοΌ noοΌ The host hurriedly said, "I don't think we all like God to take away your creative inspiration, at least until you break the Grammy's personal award-winning record, or after you turn seventy." β
The audience burst into laughter, and Chen Feng said politely: "Then thank you for your auspicious words." β
"Okay, let's get down to business, let's move on to the next question. This question is also one of the questions voted on the Internet: Long, how old are you now? Do you have a girlfriend? I think this issue is a lot of concern to many people. I'm guessing you're certainly not over twenty-five. β
Chen Feng nodded and said, "You guessed right, my age is indeed not more than twenty-five years old, and I don't have a girlfriend." Chen Feng added to himself in his heart, "However, I have a fiancΓ©e." β
The scene suddenly resounded with cheers of surprise and surprise, and the host looked like he was about to fall down very praised, and then said to Chen Feng: "Long, how is this possible?" You don't even have a girlfriend yet? How can you possibly have a girlfriend if you are such a good person? Don't the women* in your life have vision? Or rather, you ......"
Of course, Chen Feng knew what he meant, and immediately declared: "I can only say that I have good facial features, sound limbs, and my * orientation is also normal. β
"Long, can you tell us why you don't have a girlfriend yet? Is it because you have too high an eye for choosing a girlfriend? β
Chen Feng smiled silently. It's also equivalent to default. Seeing this, the host didn't break the casserole to ask the end, and went directly to the next question: "Long, now I want to ask the last question: Long, among the previous Grammy winners, which artist do you admire and like the most?" β
Chen Feng said without thinking about it: "Of course it's Michael Jackson." He's my idol. I love his music, but what I appreciate most is his passion for charity, and many people misunderstand him, slander him and even frame him, what I'm trying to say here is, please also those who demonize Mike, stop your despicable behavior, and stop hurting a good person. β
Chen Feng's words are completely from the bottom of his heart, he did regard Michael Jackson as an idol in his previous life, and he was very sympathetic to all kinds of scandals and slander that he was involved in later, and it turned out that these things were completely false.
The host and the audience obviously didn't expect Long to say this, and after a few seconds of silence in the audience, they each woke up and gave Long a warm applause for his speech as soon as possible. In any case, Long's words are purely out of protection for a good person, and this act deserves everyone's encouragement.
"Long, thank you very much for answering these questions." The host was really afraid that Chen Feng would say something amazing, so he hurriedly politely signaled that Chen Feng could step down.
It took almost five minutes to ask Chen Feng on the stage just now, which is of course very preferential treatment for Chen Feng. After all, the Grammys have limited time for the awards ceremony, just like the Chinese New Year Gala, but every second is expensive. The Grammy organizers were able to ask the host questions about him and gave him such a long time, which made countless artists blush.
And Chen Feng and Adams were a little surprised, the questions asked by the host were not very sensitive, let alone sharp, which undoubtedly showed that the Grammys did not want or dared to give Long a riposte now. Think about it, this is a live broadcast in front of hundreds of millions of global viewers, and there are at least tens of millions of viewers in front of these TV sets who are fans of Long, if the organizers of the Grammys give Long a moth, this is an act that harms others and is not beneficial to themselves, and it is also a stupid act to smash their own signboards, of course they will not do it, and they dare not do it.
After stepping off the stage and returning to his seat, Adams whispered to Chen Feng: "The organizers of the Grammys still gave you face, so they didn't make it difficult for you." β
Chen Feng nodded in agreement.
"Long, it's only about twenty minutes before your performance, so let's go to the backcourt to prepare now." Adams reminded.
Chen Feng naturally agreed.
So, the two got up from their seats and walked backstage.
When he came to the backstage, Chen Feng took out the collector's edition of Martin acoustic guitar, and finally tried the strings, and after confirming that it was correct, he was relieved. After all, in the face of such a live TV broadcast with hundreds of millions of viewers, Chen Feng is of course cautious, otherwise he will not be able to mix in the United States in the future.
When there were still fifteen minutes before Chen Feng's performance time, the relevant staff members came.
The closer he got to the time of the performance, Adams became obviously a little restless, and began to pace back and forth in the lounge, shaking Chen Feng a little impatient.
"Adams, can you sit down?"
"Oh, okay. I sat down. Adams hurriedly sat down, but he still looked restless, and stopped talking to Chen Feng.
Chen Feng said angrily: "Adams, don't worry, I won't drop the chain at a critical moment, I don't know the live performance once, there will definitely be nothing wrong." β
"That's good! That's good! Adams said yes, but there was a worried look on his face. Long's current horror fame can be said to come very suddenly, and it is very easy to come, it can be said that he became famous completely overnight, because of this, Adams, who regards him as his company's cash cow and his lucky star, will never allow it, and what is wrong with Chen Feng in this Grammy, especially his upcoming singing performance, cannot be tolerated. He knows that now is a very critical moment for Long, I don't know how many people in the outside world are staring at him and making mistakes, as long as there is a little mistake, they will seize it and expand it infinitely, so as to hit Long's fame.
Finally, it was Chen Feng's turn to perform. Although Adams was a little apprehensive in his heart, he still pretended to be calm and relaxed and sent his encouragement to Chen Feng.
Standing at the mouth of the curtain, the host on the stage was performing his talk show, and after making the scene laugh, he said back to business: "The next show to be performed, I think everyone is looking forward to it very much - Areyoutheone?" Thetravellerintimewhohascome......" The host showed off a live show, the words were round, and the bass was used, which was actually very good, "I think everyone knows, that's right, it's Long's "areyoutheone", a classic song that made countless people cry on the spot, and it still fights with Long's other two songs on the billboard, as if it has risen to the top position this week. Let us invite this year's super popular male singer - Long, to bring us his original guitar playing and singing, "AreYouTheOne" with the warmest applause. β
When the host's words fell, the whole stage was suddenly plunged into darkness, only a light above the stage fell, and then, in the light, a tall man wearing Armani casual clothes and a mask on his face, with a guitar on his shoulder, strolled over.
On stage this time, Chen Feng took off Zorro's hat and cape, and only wore the mask on his face, which gave the audience a refreshing feeling and was more infectious.
After Chen Feng stood in front of the microphone in the center of the stage and stopped, the tsunami-like cheers and applause on the scene suddenly stopped. Then, the sad and lingering melody flowed out of the guitar under Chen Feng's playing.
"AreYoutheOne" is just as sentimental and tear-jerking. The reason why Chen Feng can show the essence of this song is, of course, substituted his own feelings, that is, his personal experience of being dumped in college in his previous life, and I still remember that although there are some vicissitudes of life, the wound still seems to be there.
This live version was obviously performed by Chen Feng more moving, and even had a feeling of breaking the intestines, many viewers at the scene unconsciously shed tears, and there were not a few viewers in front of the TV who were moved to tears, and many people who had a painful experience of falling out of love cried on the spot.
In short, when Chen Feng's "AreYoutheOne" finished playing, the audience was shrouded in a sad atmosphere, which made many people unable to extricate themselves, and it was even more strange that no one applauded Chen Feng for the first time. was originally in charge of the stage lighting engineer, obviously also infected by this song, originally scheduled to wait for Chen Feng to finish the performance, then turn on the other lights on the stage, but now that Chen Feng's performance is over, the stage is still dark, only the palm of the light above is lit alone.
"Thank you!" Chen Feng bowed slightly to the audience. This sentence, like the evening drum and morning bell, finally woke up a lot of people, the scene began to sound applause again and again, and the gaffer also began to come back to his senses, turned on the lights on the stage, the stage was immediately bright, but it was also empty, Chen Feng had already bowed and went down on his own.
When the audience saw the empty stage, they couldn't help but feel empty in their hearts. Whether you like Long or not, at this time, you have to admit in your heart that Long's singing voice seems to have some unknown magic, just like just now, which unconsciously made them fall into it and can't extricate themselves.
After the stage was empty for about ten seconds, the host hurriedly ran up to save the scene. The poor former comedy star and famous talk show host was a big disappointment at this year's Grammy Awards, and needless to say, he will definitely not have his share in the next edition.
"I used to be half a fan of Long, because my family is all his fans, so I had to be half of his fans, but today, just now after I heard his song "AreYoutheOne", I became his loyal fan, I plan to get an autographed CD of Long after the award ceremony, if I can, I want to ask for a few more, I think this is the best gift for my family. Long, you probably won't refuse my little wish as a loyal fan. β
The host's funny appearance of a standard fan finally made many people at the scene laugh, dispelling a little of the sad atmosphere brought by Chen Feng's song just now.