debut [entertainment]

He pressed the stop button and wanted to say something.

But Jin Youxi couldn't bear the excitement in his heart, and rushed forward with shining eyes, hugging him tightly excitedly.

"Senior Zhilong, you are amazing!"

Quan Zhilong froze here, feeling the girl's soft body pressed against him, and the faint smell of what brand of perfume came into his nostrils.

Her hair slid across her chin, a little itchy.

His hands were outstretched, not knowing where to put them.

This distance is really too close, they have never been so close before.

He could even feel his heartbeat soaring to an unprecedented range in an instant, echoing deafeningly in his mind, and even his throat became dry.

Fearing that his rapidly beating heart would betray him, Quan Zhilong gathered his stiff hands together, grabbed her shoulders, and pushed her away with strong self-control.

"...Don't yell at seniors like this." His voice was a little stiff, but he felt it was too heavy after speaking, so he added in a slow tone, "This is not good."

Jin Youxi was in the right mood, and didn't pay much attention, so she replied casually, "I know."

Just when Kim Jong Kook came in from the outside, Quan Zhilong stood up with some guilt for some reason: "Senior Jong Kook, it's getting late, I should go back to the hotel."

The address of "Brother Zhong Guo" seemed to be stopped in the teeth before blurting out.

Jin Zhongguo glanced at him, a little surprised: "Are you going back now?"

"Yeah." Quan Zhilong lowered his eyes, "Just now the agent contacted, there is still something to deal with."

Ok?

Jin Youxi looked at Quan Zhilong, it was clear that Senior Zhilong didn't call just now?

"Oh, okay, it's important." Jin Zhongguo smiled, touched the car key on his trouser pocket, "Let's go, I'll see you off."

Quan Zhilong shook his head quickly: "No need, senior, I'll just go back by myself."

"It's not easy to take a taxi in Los Angeles, so let me see you off." Kim Jong-kook said as he walked out the door, "After all, I brought you here tonight."

Speaking of this, Quan Zhilong also knew that he couldn't hold back this Kim Jong Kook: "Then I will trouble seniors."

Jin Youxi watched the scene of the two going back and forth here, and always felt a little strange, but he couldn't tell what was so strange, so he shrugged and stopped paying attention.

Instead of following, she stayed in the studio and began to rewrite the English lyrics of the song "Cool Girl".

An hour later, Kim Yoo Hee sent the lyrics of the freshly released version of "Cool Girl" to Senior Quan Zhilong, a little curious about his evaluation.

As soon as it was posted, Jin Youxi felt that it was not enough to only post the lyrics, so she turned on the microphone on the side, put on the earphones, and recorded a demo of the new version of "Cool Girl" with the most basic recording equipment at home, and then sent it past.

[Senior, you can just listen to the following demo, I have modified some lyrics and melody kkk]

After a few minutes, Quan Zhilong sent a thumbs up emoji.

Jin Youxi looked at the thumb, originally thinking that senior Zhilong would add another paragraph, but he didn't expect to wait for a long time without waiting for the next article.

Strange...is senior Zhilong busy?

After thinking about it for a while, Kim You-hee didn't come to a conclusion. He simply stopped thinking about it. Since senior Zhilong sent a thumbs-up, it means that he still likes this new version of her very much, doesn't it?

Jin Youxi happily put this demo into her mobile phone and USB flash drive, and planned to go to the recording studio of Republic Records to officially record this song tomorrow.

A good night's sleep.

The next day, Kim Yoo-hee, who woke up early in the morning, rode a bicycle to the recording studio of Republic Records in Los Angeles after eating breakfast.

She really came a little early, and the lights in several recording studios were still on, and there were many producers or artists who were here all night last night lying inside and outside.

The singers who are usually glamorous under the flashing lights of the media are all naked at this time, and they collapse on the sofa with a tired face, very unkempt.

Jin Youxi, who was speechless secretly, looked away, and pushed open the door of the recording studio he had made an appointment with last night.

There was no one there, it seemed that she had come too early, and the staff in charge of recording for her hadn't arrived yet.

It doesn't matter, Jin Youxi simply opened his voice, then sat down in front of the computer with a water bottle, and put on the earphones after some fiddling.

She closed her eyes and leaned on the back of the chair, listening to the guide (singing) she recorded at home last night, and kept finding different tones to sing. With a simple concept and framework.

After a while, a staff member named Mike also came, the two greeted each other, and then Jin Youxi took his water bottle and walked into the small cubicle with a glass window on the side.

When contacting Republic Records last night, Kim Yoo-hee borrowed the recording studio because he wanted to record a cover song. Mike, who came to help, naturally thought that Kim Yoo-hee's cover would be a hit single.

But when he turned on the song accompaniment, the strange and pleasant rhythm and melody came from it, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure out which accompaniment to the hit list it was.

But soon he forgot about this doubt, immersed in this Funky rhythm.

Quan Zhilong is indeed right. FUNK music does have a better and wider foundation in Europe and the United States. As a transitional music connecting Soul and Disco, it was popular in the 70s, and its influence can even extend to rock music and even rap. field.Note 1

And it is so popular, it has an inseparable relationship with its unique rhythm.

The bass and drum remake of "Cool Girl" is unlike any other genre.

Generally speaking, the remake of a song falls on the second or fourth beat of each bar, while the remake of FUNK music falls on the first or third beat. The remake of the song "Cool Girl" The shooting is the first shot, which has a very retro feeling.

This style of music and remake is very suitable for dancing, even for people who like music, they can't restrain their unconscious dancing body.

Whether it's shaking your head or dancing your hands and feet, in short, you can't sit there quietly and listen to the music. You must move a certain part of your body vigorously to vent your irresistible interest.

While helping Kim Yoo-hee to record the song, Mike stacked the dicks under the table, and couldn't stop shaking his feet to follow the rhythm.

He kept bobbing his head forward, left, and right, his jaw moved forward in a frown, and there was an expression on his face that said he wanted to get up and dance hard.

It's terrible!

After finally recording the song, Kim Yoo-hee came out after singing the chorus and the opening line, and saw Mike's extremely curious expression.

"CROW, what song are you covering? It's so touching!"

Kim Yoo-hee was very happy just after recording the song, and replied with a smile: "It's an unknown Korean song."

"Not famous?" Mike was puzzled, "How can such a nice song not be famous?"

Kim Yoo-hee shrugged: "Maybe Koreans don't like funk music enough."

That's when Mike figured it out.

After recording the song, all that is left is to release it.

This part of the work was done by Republic Records. After they communicated with iTunes and other music sources, it didn't take long for the English version of "Cool Girl" to be approved and officially launched.

Kim Yoo-hee immediately took out his mobile phone, and simultaneously used MASKCROW's Youtube, INS, Twitter and other social media accounts to promote the launch of his new "cover" song to his fans who now have more than 300 million.

Although Republic Records acquiesced in her song release behavior, but did not plan to invest in promoting her song, then she would promote it herself.

She may not have other resources, but she at least has such a voice, she can sing in the live broadcast, she can sing on the side of the road, when can she not sing?

Jin Youxi has already experienced countless road shows, so why can't he let go?

So, she first went home, and in the simple recording studio at home, she clicked on the live broadcast.

In fact, because the first song that MASKCROW sang was ArianaGrande's "ONELASTTIME", the number of MASKCROW's European and American fans actually accounts for more of her fans.

What's more, after Ariana found out about this cover song, she liked it and reposted it herself, which naturally brought a large proportion of European and American fans to MASKCROW.

Coupled with the recent focus on the road show in Los Angeles, so that Jin Youxi started the live broadcast at one point, and the comments posted quickly basically all left short sentences and expressions in English.

Some people have noticed that MASKCROW has just synchronized the new song reposted on social media, but most people haven't started listening to it yet, just brushing the keywords of "COOLGIRL" in the comments.

Kim Yoo Hee first greeted the fans as usual, then pulled in the microphone and turned on the accompaniment of "Cool Girl".

"Hey - yay!"

Caught off guard, Kim Yoo-hee, wearing a hood, started a live broadcast.

This shout immediately cheered up the fans who were watching the live broadcast.

And the audience who just clicked in by accident didn't know what was going on, but they heard the prelude of anger ringing in their ears, and unconsciously stopped clicking their fingers to leave the live broadcast.

"What's so sad, a piece of FUNKY music can make you forget all this!"

Accompanied by MASKCROW's playful and cheerful singing, in this slightly sleepy afternoon, the audience watching this LIVE live broadcast woke up body parts one by one.They stood up from the sofa, from the bed, and from the desk chairs, and began to sway under the strange eyes of others.

"I'm the kind of girl who is very cool, sweating wantonly, come and dance to the music with me!"

It was as if the retro interest hidden deep in the mind was awakened. At this time, both Kim Yoo-hee, who was singing excitedly, and the fans off-screen, began to dance freely to the music.

This kind of interest can't be stopped and restrained, it's like the body is being manipulated, the brain is easily emptied, and the music and singing can take me to the ultimate happiness!

Just FUCKING is very high!

A song ended in just over three minutes, but everyone's interest has not diminished at all. They frantically scrolled through the comments, expressing their inner excitement and excitement with row after row of exclamation marks. Kim Yoo-hee I couldn't enjoy myself, so I just sang this song over and over again.

At the beginning of the live broadcast, there were only tens of thousands of people in the live broadcast room, but now because of such a performance, the number has risen rapidly, and it has even jumped all the way to the number of over [-]!

This song "Cool Girl" is so powerful that everyone clicked in and didn't want to go out again. They even wanted to let the MASKCROW on the screen announce the next performance immediately, and they bought tickets to fly over to watch it!

Just hi, just cool, just can't stop!

"Hey, friends, this is my song "Cool Girl". It has been launched on iTunes simultaneously, everyone hurry up and download it!"

After Jin Youxi finished speaking, he waved to all the fans in front of the screen, and then turned off the live broadcast.

[What, the live broadcast is over? 】

[Ah, ah, I haven't heard enough! 】

[I'm going to listen to music! MASKCROW has forwarded the itunes link before the live broadcast! 】

[Add me, I'll go too, I'll go too! 】

With this stream of traffic rushing to iTunes, the download volume of "Cool Girl" has gone from being mediocre at the beginning to the current sudden increase, which immediately attracted a lot of attention.

The iconic FUNK music was indeed popular in the last century, but with the change of music era, it is gradually being forgotten.

And at the end of last year, when Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's collaboration song "Uptown Funk" was released, almost the entire European and American music circles, and even the global music circle, set off a retro trend.

Although the song "Uptown Funk" is not a complete Funk song, it does not prevent people from looking for the old songs that were popular in the last century and feeling the Funky charm that people felt at that time.

The song "Cool Girl" was released at this time, and it can be said that it was a ride on this trend, and it jumped up and down.

People clicked it on the radio, played it at the mall, listened to it on music sources, downloaded it, looped it!

The number of playbacks and downloads quickly accumulated into real achievements. In the next week, "Cool Girl" quietly climbed to the Billboard singles chart even though Republic Records did not invest in any promotion. Hot50!

This immediately caught the attention of Republic Records.

Originally, when they knew that Kim Yoo Hee was going to translate a failed single of hers into English and relaunch it, they had already listened to the original Korean version of this song in advance.

To be honest, it’s really not bad, but in today’s music market, due to the popularity of the collaboration song “Uptown Funk” by BrunoMars and Mark Ronson, there are too many funk music following the trend, and the music market of this retro style is almost close to saturation. state.

And these follow-up music failed to achieve very good results. On the contrary, those old songs from the last century were better.

Kim Yoo-hee's "Cool Girl" is a strong combination of FUNK and DISCO. It really sounds very touching, but they are not very optimistic about the release of this song.

When the song MASKCROW was simultaneously promoted on major social platforms, the mediocre downloads of "Cool Girl" also confirmed their thoughts.

But it's just such a live broadcast.

Just such a live broadcast broke all their previous cognitions, broke through the saturation of the FUNK genre in this music market, and went in an incredible direction all the way!

Republic Records couldn't sit still.

Kim Yoo Hee has proven the potential of her original songs, if they don't realize that potential now, they are the stupidest idiots of all record companies!

The first thing that started to show was that the famous singer ArianaGrande, who is now in the same company as Kim Yoo Hee, posted an INS video the next day. In the video, she sang "Cool Girl" to the car music, and couldn't help twisting while singing. stand up.

The singer once reposted MASKCROW's cover of "OneLastDance", and even brought MASKCROW into the sight of Republic Records. Now she helps MASKCROW to promote the new song. Her fans have long been used to it, and they clicked on the video to see their home. Is the singer high again?

Originally, I came here for my own singer, but I never wanted to be attracted by the "Cool Girl" in the video. The more I listened to it, the more exciting it became. I couldn't help but searched on iTunes, found this song and downloaded it.

The next thing was that Jin Youxi received a notice from Republic Records, arranging for her to go on an entertainment talk show that can be said to be a must-watch late night entertainment show for the working party-"The Jimmy Fat Lun Show".

Although it was only a few minutes of the live performance in the middle, the exposure rate of this talk show, which is very popular in the United States, is also amazing.

If ArianaGrande's fan base is teenagers and young adults aged 1525 to 25, then the main target audience of "The Jimmy Fat Lun Show" is the age group over [-] years old.

The combination of the two age groups, coupled with the fact that Republic Records has negotiated the broadcast frequency of "Cool Girl" with major radio stations in the United States at this moment, makes the song "Cool Girl" like a rocket speed. Fifty quickly entered the top 11, and then came to the [-]th place from the top [-]!

At this time, it is only one step away from entering the top ten of the Billboard singles chart!

Seeing this situation, Republic Records waved a big hand, and immediately approved a large sum of money for Kim Youxi to shoot the "Cool Girl" MV!

Prior to this, the MV of "Cool Girl" was just replaced by the video when Kim Yoo-hee started the live broadcast.

And after "Cool Girl" entered the top 50 of the Billboard chart, Republic Records immediately made her a simple lyric version of the MV emergency.Now that "Cool Girl" is about to break into the top ten of the list, it would be unreasonable not to make an official MV.

After all, if the official version of the MV is done well, the song will also have an MV effect, and the ranking will go up and down.

"Cool Girl" MV shooting scene, the MV director is holding a sub-camera to communicate with Kim Yoo-hee about the scene to be shot later.

Apart from the MV for "That XX" that was filmed for Senior Zhilong, this is the first time for Kim Yoo Hee to shoot his own MV, which is quite novel.

All her clothing concepts will be prepared by the stylist in advance, and the makeup will be decided based on multi-party communication. From the adequacy of the preparation, the number of on-site cameras, and the layout of the venue, it can be seen that Republic Records is definitely an investment this time. A lot on this one.

Although they were not optimistic about this song at the beginning, when they discovered the potential of this song for the first time, they also made considerable adjustments, which can be regarded as making up for it.

In the Korean version of "Cool Girl", the lyrics are more focused on the theme of "girls should be more chic after breaking up".

But in the English version, the lyrics of "Cool Girl" focus more on "Don't think so much, just let yourself go and dance to the music".

So the shooting content of the MV mainly revolves around this.

A large number of dance clips are designed so that everyone can be quickly infected by the camera and sway along with them.

A lot of hip-hop dancers were invited to the scene, and they designed the movements themselves. They thought it would be difficult for Kim Yoo-hee to learn, but it turned out that she could follow them and dance out a rough outline after only one dance.

"Wow, you are learning how to dance so fast!" the head of the dance troupe exclaimed.

"Thank you, practice makes perfect." Jin Youxi spread his hands, not modest.

In the following time, she practiced with these dancers several times, and after confirming that she had understood and memorized all the movements, she shouted to the director: "I'm ready, let's start shooting!"

Her first outfit was the famous smoking outfit from YSL, with thin high-heeled shoes under her feet, she looked full of aura no matter how you looked at it.

"ACTION!"

Jin Youxi walked in from the right side of the camera, with a cigarette that was almost burnt between his index finger and middle finger, and sat by the bar.

The shouting sounded suddenly, and she turned her head to look in the direction of the sound, where a group of dancers were fighting in the center of the dance floor, surrounded by crowds of people booing.

She stood up and walked over there as if interested.

"CUT! Take the next one!"

The MV director is very particular about efficiency, and he doesn't care much about acting skills, and he will never shoot a second time if he can do it once.

Because of this, Jin Youxi immediately walked to the center of the crowd, and stood in the position agreed at the beginning.

The next thing to be filmed is the scene where she joins the dance of these dancers who defiantly try to lift her mask, and she deftly evades the movement with a defiant taunt.

"ACTION!"

The author has something to say: since the last chapter seems to have some opinions on the heroine's acting, let's explain it here.

Youxi will definitely focus on singing and becoming a singer, which is the main line of the whole novel.Acting and other things are branch lines, which will be interspersed in the future.

The outline has been determined, and I don’t want to change the outline because of some comments, so that the last batch of readers will not be retained.So I wrote it down according to the outline. If you are interested, then continue to read the story of Wuli Youxi~