New York 2006

Chapter 34 Bulletin Board

On the interstate highways in the United States, there is no one to be seen for more than ten kilometers, and the surroundings are desolate deserts.The RV was on the road to San Antonio, Texas.

Luo Ji took the gossip magazine he just bought and read it. It had a special report on Britney's gossip over the years.

On January 2004, 1, she married her childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander in Las Vegas. After the intervention of her family, the marriage was annulled 3 hours later.That summer, she began dating dancer Kevin Federline, who was single and had a child with his actress girlfriend Shar Jackson. In September 55, she married 2004-year-old Federline.

In May 2005, home videos of her and Federline were made into a TV show titled "Chaos in Paradise."This dealt a devastating blow to her image. In September, she gave birth to her son, Sin Preston Federline.

In February 2006, photos of her driving a vehicle with her son, who was less than one year old, on her lap were exposed, triggering an investigation by U.S. child protection officials. In April, the son fell off a high stool, prompting another investigation. In May, I became pregnant with my second child. In June, nude photos of her while pregnant appeared on the cover of "Bazaar". In September, she gave birth to her second son, Jayden James Federline. After getting back into shape after giving birth in November, she appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman" without her wedding ring.Divorced husband Federline and went to court.Later, she dressed in scantily attire and hung out with the famous bad girls in the United States, resulting in the classic "Slut Summit" photo.

The last one is related to Luo Ji. A few days ago, Britney and singer Logic came to a cheap hotel near Hollywood. The two "wrote songs all night" in a room. The picture is of Luo Ji and Britney. Photos of passionate kisses.

Blake took the newly purchased PDA and came to Luo Ji: "Logic, you are famous on the 4chan forum."

"What do you mean?"

Luo Ji took it and took a look at the photo. It was a photo of Luo Ji holding Britney in his arms and smiling at the camera.This was a posed photo taken by the two for public relations.Luo Ji didn't manage his expression properly, and his smile was a bit fake. A 4chan netizen captioned the picture, "I wrote the song all night last night."

The photo of Luo Ji smiling a bit fake was paired with this text, and Luo Ji was a fan of Britney Spears. Suddenly, the photo had a strange feeling, as if it was showing off.

Countless netizens also followed suit, posting photos with beautiful women and captioning them, "I wrote a song all night last night." Fxxk, this has become an internet meme.

Braun came over to comfort him: "Although this photo spread quickly on the Internet, the media has long been chasing new hot spots."

Yes, after all, Luo Ji and Britney had no solid evidence. The media chased them for a while and found nothing, so they turned to other things.

Braun continued: "A few days ago, Britney filed a divorce lawsuit in the Los Angeles court. The media celebrated Britney's getting rid of this scumbag. In the eyes of Americans, Kevin is a soft-hearted man. As expected, As expected by the media, more than ten days after the divorce proceedings were filed, he suddenly said that he had a videotape of sex with Britney, and Federline threatened Britney to pay a divorce fee. Otherwise, the videotape would be released."

The person in charge of publicity also said: "Britney's property has been exposed, and she has nearly 5000 million U.S. dollars, but the two have a prenuptial agreement. Kevin probably won't get much money."

Braun disagreed: "It's hard to say, but Kevin hired K Feder's famous lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan, who is well-known in the legal world. His law firm is ranked among the best in the United States. "

As the details of Britney and Kevin's divorce were revealed, the popularity suddenly soared, and the whole country began to eat melon with relish.It's boring. Luo Ji really doesn't understand why Americans are so interested in divorce gossip. Can they care about something useful, such as the Iraq War?

"Stop talking, I'm going to take a nap first. I'm exhausted from running around these past few days."

Universal's head of publicity smiled and took credit: "Logic, don't sleep yet. I contacted the company's artist management department some time ago, and he accepted a job for you. You will perform at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on December 12. The price is 15 Wandao, then you and the performing arts department will split it 15-[-]."

Luo Ji went to accept commercial performances some time ago. When he met those who had direct cash transactions, he would give everyone a small amount of money, even the unrelated person in charge of global publicity.No, the reward will come soon.

"December 12th, where will our publicity be?"

"Chicago."

"Okay, I'll take a plane directly there when the time comes."

After saying this, Luo Ji fell asleep.Luo Ji felt like he was a precision instrument that was spinning 24 hours a day, running all over the country under the leadership of Braun and the publicity manager.The poetic road trip at the beginning is long gone. Long-distance travel is really tiring.Even though Luo Ji was so young, he couldn't handle it.

Just after coming out of a local radio station in San Antonio, Braun picked up the latest Rolling Stone magazine: "Look, there are reviews for the single."

The chapter begins with an introduction to Luo Ji’s identity. "Logic, whose real name is Felix Slott Law, is of Chinese and European descent. He is the most followed person on YouTube. His video "Mom, I'm on TV" has been played more than 1300 million times, and the MV for the song Viva la Vida The number of views exceeded 100 million on the first day it was launched. He is very similar to most singers nowadays. He became famous online and then was taken seriously by record companies."

"The song Viva La Vida has been heard by the author more than a month ago. I heard it from a street singing video on Logic YouTube. At that time, I was just playing guitar and singing. Although I thought it sounded good, it was just that, until the author recently After hearing about the scandal between Logic and Britney Spears, I listened to his song again. What I want to say is that the public’s focus is wrong. They should not dwell on the scandal, but should return to the song itself. I can confirm that, This song is one of the best songs of 2006."

"The song is the most perfect combination of classical music and modern pop in the past ten years. It is the most perfect interpretation of the Baroque pop style. To put it bluntly, this song will leave its name in history."

Luo Ji couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth when he saw this comment: "It seems that everything is developing in a good direction."

"haha, yes."

The person in charge of publicity also came over with several printed documents at this time: "The sales data and bulletin board results are out."

Luo Ji couldn't wait to ask, "How much?"

"The physical CD dropped to 8 this week, and the more expensive vinyl record dropped to 3000. We have been promoting it all the way, and the slightly more expensive signed CD has sold more than 2000 copies. How much is the online sales?"

The data on online sales is very real-time, unlike physical records where we only get news after four or five days.Luo Ji went backstage and took a look: "On the two major online sales platforms, iTunes sales are 12, and Amazon MP3 sales are 3. The others add up to less than 1."

Judging from the sales data, the gap between physical record sales data and digital sales is further widening, and the sales data no longer reaches 1:1.The decline of physical records seems inevitable.

"Where's the bulletin board?"

"Your single jumped from No. 93 last week to No. 43 this week. It is the song that has climbed the most on Billboard this week."

After working so hard for so long, the result finally came. Luo Ji took the document and read it.

Billboard's No. [-] hit is I Wanna Love You, a hip-hop rap by Akon and Snoop Dogg, and No. [-] is Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable."The third one is Smack That, sung by Akon and Eminem, which is also a hip-hop rap song.

Luo Ji had never appreciated rap: "Why do two of the top three rap songs on the Billboard list account for it? Is rap the future of music?"

Manager Braun said: "Rap has been occupying a place in the mainstream music market in the United States in recent years, because rap has broadened the innovation of music. It does not require a good melody, only samples and lyrics."

The publicity director added: "Another point is that black people have a very strong influence on the radio. Especially before 2004, they often only played their own songs, which was very xenophobic. In many cases, the best-selling songs on the market were None of the songs got a good ranking on the Billboard.”

Luo Ji was puzzled: "Why before 2004?"

"This is because Billboard revised the weight of songs in 2004 and added online digital single sales. People all over the world can purchase songs through iTunes and Amazon MP3. And the songs with good results are often those with good melodies. You You don’t need to understand the language of the song to feel the emotion from the melody. Just like this year’s single champion Daniel Bout’s Bad Day, it sells the most numbers because of its good melody.”

Braun added: "Yes, this is the limitation of rap songs, because rap lyrics are very important. Many non-English speaking countries cannot appreciate rap songs at all due to language barriers, and even fewer people buy them. Basically Not many people overseas know American rappers."

Luo Ji continued to read. Among the top ten were Justin Timberlake, The Clash, Gwen Stefani, and his acquaintance Ludacris. His song was ranked eighth on the singles chart. The tenth place is this year’s new singer Fergie.

Braun saw this and said: "Fergie can be said to be the most powerful female singer in the United States this year. She is a member of the Black Eyed Peas. She released her first album Duchess in July this year, and the album has been ranked among the best for a long time. The album chart is in the top ten, peaking at No. 100. Her single London Bridge once entered the Billboard Hot 1 at No. 10. There is also a second single, Fergalicious, which was released less than a month ago and has already reached No. [-]. [-]."

The publicity person in charge added: "She is a singer jointly launched by Universal's label and Sony's label."

Luo Ji then looked down and saw that the song next to his Viva la Vida had an interesting name. He said, "Why is this song Tim McGraw so similar to my song Marvin Gaye? They are both named after people."

(End of this chapter)