At the entrance of a video store in New York, a white boy, Hans, struggled to squeeze out of the crowd holding two albums.
When the pressure around him suddenly decreased, he carefully looked at the album in his arms.
Fortunately, nothing was damaged.
Hans breathed a sigh of relief, then got on his bicycle and drove away like the wind in the distance.
Half an hour later, the doorbell of a villa in New York rang.
After a while, Liu Xiaoli opened the door from the inside, but found that there was no one outside.
When he lowered his head again, he saw a brand new box of albums on the ground with a blue letter on top.
Liu Xiaoli knew what was going on at a glance.
It must have been that white boy Hans who did it.
Regarding Hans, Liu Xiaoli was also a little bit dumbfounded.
Call him bold, he is indeed bold. He started doing this kind of thing when he was 14 years old. He gave gifts every now and then for more than a year. His willpower is really strong, and it would be useless to go back.
The root of the problem is the principle of accepting death.
But calling him timid is indeed timid. It has been more than a year. According to Sissi, this kid has never spoken to Sissi in school. I really don’t know what to say about him.
Of course, it's best to never talk. My Sissy won't waste her energy on such things, not to mention Sissy doesn't like you either.
Liu Xiaoli thought so and took the things home.
After closing the door, Hans, who was behind a big tree outside, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that he was one step closer to success, so today was another victory day.
Thinking this way, Hans also went home to listen to the music in a happy mood.
I have been "pursuing" Liu Qianqian for more than a year, and I haven't seen any specific progress yet, but Hans has become a fan of Jiang Yan. Hans feels that he is a natural match for Liu Qianqian...
Looking back to the villa, Liu Xiaoli briefly talked to Sissi in the living room about the matter after returning to her room, and then handed the things to her.
This made Liu Qianqian blush on the spot: "Mom, how can you say such a thing at this time?"
"Hahaha..." This made Jiang Yan, who was also sitting on the sofa, laugh out loud.
"Don't laugh~~" Liu Qianqian was immediately furious, and she hugged Jiang Yan's neck and pinched her hard. Although the force was enough to kill an ant, Jiang Yan cooperated and begged for mercy.
After a while of fussing, Liu Qianqian debugged the player.
The first half of "Joey2" has just been played, and now comes the second half.
There are two types of "Joey2" album this time, one is the hardcover version and the other is the single-line version.
There are only 5,000 copies of the hardcover version. In addition to the English album released this time, there is also Jiang Yan's "DNA3". The two CDs are sold together, plus Jiang Yan's exclusive poster and signature.
This will naturally bring Chinese songs to Europe and the United States.
It doesn't matter whether you can enter successfully or not, what matters is that you do it.
According to the news from Warner, it is said that the hardcover version was sold out on the first day of sale. Warner suggested that Jiang Yan prepare another 10,000 copies, but Jiang Yan said forget it, unless many people think that the Chinese version is based on the feedback.
The song is good, so it's not too late for him to work harder. Now, let's make the most of what is rare.
This is a hardcover signed edition with only 5,000 copies in the world. Each copy is numbered. According to Jiang Yan's current popularity, there is no chance that this signed edition will be sold at a high price in the future.
Of course, the most important thing is that it contains Jiang Yan’s exclusive limited edition poster.
The shirtless half-length photo, the handsome muscles and facial features, the blend of light and shadow, and the abyss-like eyes can directly make a lot of female fans scream to orgasm.
This is almost the case for Liu Qianqian. Two hours ago, Jiang Yan finished his last announcement in the United States and came here as a guest. After giving the hardcover version of the album to Liu Qianqian, Liu Qianqian opened the album and saw the poster and screamed out on the spot, and then started acting like a baby, wanting to
Look at the real version of abs.
This made Liu Xiaoli directly tap Sissi's forehead hundreds of times: Sissi, do you understand that you have to be reserved? Although you two are close, you can't be like this, blah blah blah.
But when he was talking, his eyes kept looking at Jiang Yan, which made Li Xiuxiu next to Jiang Yan laugh.
Having said that, after listening to "DNA3", Liu Qianqian also made a brief review. In one sentence: Brother, you have to work hard and write more. It's too short...
After saying that, with Jiang Yan's slightly distorted expression, he started playing "Joey 2".
She couldn't wait to listen to this divine album in its entirety.
That's right, it's a "magical speciality". This was not said by Liu Qianqian herself, but by the major music critics in the United States in the past three days.
Before "Joey2" was released on October 13, the song "Believer" occupied the top spot on the Billboard for six weeks.
"Believer" was previously released as a single. While its musical attributes were very successful, it now also has many other attributes.
As I said before, Americans are sometimes more superstitious or more entertaining than Chinese people.
Because Jiang Yan used this song to "push" the Lakers to win the championship, and because every time the US media mentions Jiang Yan and the failure of the Olympic men's basketball team in recent days, it is either to admit that he is personally very strong, or to deepen his metaphysical attributes, repeating
Mentioning Jiang Yan's words of congratulation was used to make excuses for the failure of Dream Team Four.
So many people felt that this song also pushed Jiang Yan himself to become the Olympic champion.
This led to the song's popularity in the United States reaching a very interesting level.
At least those who are involved in sports like to listen to inspirational metaphysics, who doesn’t want to listen to it?
There are quite a lot of people in the United States who engage in sports and love sports. In addition, there are also many pop music fans and rock fans.
Several factors combined, and this song once again topped the charts last week.
And now "Joey2" has included it in the MV version, so in this way, there is basically no need to worry about the sales of "Joey2".
However, after "Joey2" was released on October 13th, what excited music critics, various audiences, and Jiang Yan fans was that "believer" could only be regarded as a younger brother in this album!
Because this album is actually produced by Zhang Shenzhuan!
"Joey2", like "DNA3", contains a total of 9 songs.
The 9 songs were divided into two parts by Jiang Yan.
There are 5 songs in the first part, namely:
"bewhatyouwannabe" topped the European charts in 2004
Justin Bieber's hit single "Baby" in 2008
The 17-year-old American Billboard’s No. 1 single “Shape of You”
Akon's brainwashing song "rightnow (nanana)" in 2008
and Linkin Park's 2003 number one single "Numb".
The four songs in the second part are:
Dream Dragon's 17-year championship rock "natural" and "believer"
"iwantmytearsback" in 2011
And the German hit song in 2003, "Cryonmyshoulder" duet with Enya.
9 songs, equally diverse styles, Hip-hop, R&B, hip-hop rock, hayou blues, pop, etc.
But it is undeniable that the quality of each song is quite high.
Senior music critics from the United States said directly that every song here can play the title song, but Joey released it at the same time on the same album. This is simply a crushing level of strength.
The basketball commentator directly came up and added: Yes, it is the same as his personal ability in basketball. In one word, unless Jordan comes out, it will be crushing!
Many authorities have predicted that after the first week of the bulletin board results come out, the performance of "Joey2" will probably surprise everyone.
How big is it?
If all 9 songs entered the top 30 in the first week, how big of an impact would this have?
This is definitely a record in the history of European and American pop music!
As a result, Warner's stock has risen several points in the past few days.
So a lot of media shouted, "Maybe after Joey beats Dream Team 4, he will beat the West in music!"
If you don't want to be alarmist, then we don't call it the European and American media. They just feed on this, and the competition is fierce, so Warner doesn't have much control at all.
The fact is exactly what the public relations department thought. Currently, there are not many old and American media that wear political colors, or they are not that sensitive.
So every media outlet is shouting wolf, but then they are in full-blown mode.
And "Joey2" is indeed worthy of their praise.
After all, these 9 songs are all great songs. If you don’t brag about them, even the Americans can’t stand them. Isn’t this self-deception?
In addition, it may be embarrassing to be defeated by ordinary people, but who is Joey? The Dream Team was defeated by him, and he was a supernova in the pop music world before that, so Joey is not an ordinary person, so there is nothing embarrassing about losing to him.
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As a result, Jiang Yan and "Joey2" became more and more famous.
But Jiang Yan was very calm about this, or he had always been calm. After all, he was just a porter.
Of course, it is still a bit difficult to be a good porter.
For example, in the past three days, there have been many questions about the song itself, such as creative inspiration, creative background, who collaborated with it, the meaning of the music video, etc. Jiang Yan had to be careful and maintain style to give reasonable answers.
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However, even if he has prepared a lot of rhetoric long ago, which is enough to explain any problem, as a new "great god", the standard will still be "misinterpreted".
For example, someone asked a very popular question about this sacred book:
"Why should the album be divided into two parts? What are the special meanings of these two parts?"
It’s really hard to answer this question. In terms of song style, it’s not easy to distinguish. After all, the upper and lower parts have similar styles, both are rock and roll, and both are lyrical.
When it comes to the creative background, Jiang Yan’s answers don’t seem to be able to explain it very well. They are all inspirational and overlap with each other.
But according to what Warner said, because of the problem of MV capacity, 9 songs are placed on both sides of a disc, but why are they divided like this? Put "Cryonmyshoulder" in the first half, and put "numb (numb)"
Isn't it good to take it down? And it can be more reasonable, otherwise it will conflict with "iwantmytearsback". One of them has to cry, and the other has to shed tears. This is very abrupt.
In short, if this album really had to be divided into two parts, it would not be like this according to any logic.
Regarding this question, Jiang Yan was silent when asked by the talk show host. He hesitated to speak. Then he sighed, shook his head, and said, "Nothing, it's just what Warner said."
Who believes this!
So there must be a deeper reason!
So many old and American fans started to guess. Anyway, there are various interpretations. Coupled with Jiang Yan's rising fame around the world, such topics have also brought more topicality to this "Joey2".
Even Kobe called and asked: "Burou, I probably know your intention. You wrote it to me who failed last year, right? You want to inspire me, right? So this should have been released a long time ago."
Isn’t that right? No meat, my good brother, although it’s a little late, I received it, thank you, I won’t tell anyone, I will continue to work hard, see you in Athens in 2004..."
Similarly, Liu Qianqian also asked this question after listening to 9 songs: "Why are they divided like this, oh~~ I see, you are mocking the Dream Team 4, right? You said you have "natural (talent)"
", and "Believer", you also worked harder than anyone else. You sang it all in "iwantmytearsback", and then you won. This can also be said that although the fourth dream team also has talent and belief, they don't
They worked hard, so they lost, and then you calmly told the Dream Team 4, don't be sad, if you really want to cry, just "cryonmyshoulder", right? Wow, brother, you are really bad..."
Jiang Yan looked at Liu Qianqian, who seemed to have found the correct answer and looked excited and admired, and took a deep breath.
Hey~ I didn’t expect my brother’s popularity to be so high, that so many people would even care about this kind of thing.
As for the reason?
What Warner said is the correct answer. As for why it has to be divided into two parts?
We just pulled the QQ Speed song list, so we have the first part. As for the second part, it’s just a matter of making up the numbers. You guys are really overthinking it...