Zhou Yan waited in the hotel until half past one, but did not wait for the Backstreet Boys.
They made an appointment to meet at 11:30, but at 11 o'clock, the Backstreet Boys called to say that their car broke down on the way and was being repaired.
No one was there at 1:30, so naturally Zhou Yan couldn’t wait any longer, because the autograph session started on time at 2:30.
Zhou Yan’s autograph session was arranged at Recordsurplus, a record store located on Santa Monica Boulevard.
This is a large area with many affordable and collectible records, so music lovers often come here to hunt for treasures.
Even when there are no events, there are still a lot of people coming to buy records.
When Zhou Yan arrived at the door of the record store, he did not see anyone gathering, but there were two girls standing next to the poster at the door taking pictures.
What is written on this poster is exactly the content of today's autograph session, and since these two girls came with cameras, they must have come specifically for the autograph session.
The record store has only one floor, with whitewashed walls and a red door number. It looks like a factory from the outside, but its entrance looks like a farmer's market.
As soon as their car stopped, they attracted the attention of the two girls with license plates.
Seeing Zhou Yan get out of the car, the two girls covered their mouths in surprise. They obviously recognized Zhou Yan.
Looking at the two girls with surprised faces, Zhou Yan took the initiative to wave hello to them, and they quickly waved back.
After saying hello, Zhou Yan walked into the record store.
At this time, one of the girls reacted and quickly pulled the other girl's clothes, "Selena, hurry up and take pictures."
"Oh, yes." Another girl quickly raised her camera to take a picture of Zhou Yan.
But at this time Zhou Yan had already walked into the store.
As soon as Zhou Yan walked into the store, a man in his thirties came up to him with a surprised look on his face.
"Y, hello, I am Huo Yilun, the person in charge of recordsurplus."
Zhou Yan nodded in response, "Hello."
Huo Yilun looked at it Watch, he asked doubtfully, "Didn't Zhang say that you won't arrive until two fifteen?"
It's only early two o'clock now.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "I'm used to arriving a little early, is there any problem?"
"No, no." Huo Yilun shook his head, "I'll take you to the store first. Take a stroll."
While saying this, Hoylen winked at the young man next to him, and the young man turned around and ran away.
Zhou Yan saw his little movements and was a little confused, not knowing what was going on.
But soon, he roughly understood.
More than a minute later, seven or eight people who looked like reporters walked towards this direction in a hurry.
Before they arrived, the camera in their hands had already started working, snapping pictures.
Seeing the reporter, Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows. He thought that no media reporters would be present at the autograph signing today.
Before, Zhang Youan said that the publicity for today's autograph session was not very strong and not many people would come. Zhou Yan was thinking that the publicity was too poor. Not a single reporter was present.
Now it seems that the reporters have arrived early, but they are not guarding the door.
In fact, the reporters had arrived a long time ago and were originally waiting for Zhou Yan to appear at the door. However, Huo Yilun, the person in charge of the record store, saw that the weather was relatively hot, so he invited them to the lounge inside for a drink. Got coffee.
Although the temperature today is not very high, the sun is very strong and it is really uncomfortable to stay outside.
Moreover, Hoylen also told reporters that he would get the news as soon as possible before Zhou Yan arrived. The reporters believed him and went to the lounge to drink coffee.
But who would have thought that Zhou Yan arrived early without giving any information in advance.
Several reporters took pictures of Zhou Yan while rolling their eyes at Hoylen.
After the reporters came over, the attention of the customers who were originally shopping in the store was also attracted.
Many of these customers came for today’s autograph session. They just took advantage of the fact that the autograph session hadn’t started and visited the record store first. When they saw Zhou Yan had arrived, they all started They gathered around.
Huo Yilun saw that everyone was gathered around the door, which was very disruptive to the passage, so he turned sideways and said to Zhou Yan, "Mr. Y, let's go inside."
Zhou Yan nodded, "First Find a place and chat with the reporters. If there are many people coming to the autograph signing, let them queue up first. If not, you can wait until the official start."
Hoylen said with a smile, "There is no need to line up in advance. Everyone who bought the album has already got the number. When it starts, just let them line up according to the number."
Since it is a signing event, naturally. If you want to buy the album on site, it is indeed a good idea to check out and get the number in advance.
Then Huo Yilun took reporters Zhou Yange to the lounge and started a simple press conference
There were not many reporters. Zhou Yan probably counted them, and there were less than Ten people. Of course, this kind of signing event itself will not attract many media reporters. Even if it is vigorously promoted, not many reporters will come to the scene. It is good to have so many reporters.
After sitting down, Zhou Yan did not let Huo Yilun and the others take charge. Zhou Yan directly made a brief opening to welcome the reporters, and then announced the start of the interview session.
The first person to be called was a blond young man in his twenties. After being called, he was very happy. He stood up and introduced himself, "Hello Y, I am Dave, a reporter from "Billboard"."< br>
Hearing that he was a reporter from "Billboard", Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Why didn't Linda come this time?"
This question suddenly narrowed the distance between them, Dave laughed. He explained, "Linda is in New York these two days and can't come over."
"Say hello to her for me, do you have any questions?"
"Thank you." Dave cleared it up Voice, raised his own question, "I noticed the song "We Are Young" that you played live on "Music World", a very light and inspirational song. What I want to ask is, will this song be used in When will it be released? You said on the show that there is no release plan yet. Is there any change now? ”
Zhou Yan nodded. As expected of a reporter from "Billboard", he did his homework well.
The program "Music World" is quite popular, but after all, it is just an ordinary music station, and it is also a morning program. In a short period of time, the popularity of "We Are Young" will definitely not be too high, Dai If my husband knows this program and this piece of music, he must have learned about it in advance.
Just look at the expressions of some reporters. Their faces are full of surprise. They probably don’t know about this at all.
“This is a good question, because there are indeed plans for a release. There is already a brand that has taken a liking to this song and wants to use it as a commercial song. And I have already filled in the content for this song. The lyrics will be uploaded and the singer will sing them later. I believe you will be able to hear this song soon.”
Dave said in surprise, “That’s great, I believe the music fans will hear this news. I will definitely be very happy. Can you tell me which singer will sing this song? ”
Zhou Yan shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I can't reveal this for the time being."
Because it has not been determined yet, it is still uncertain whether he will sing for the Backstreet Boys.
Dave asked two questions and was embarrassed to ask again, and then Zhou Yan clicked on the second reporter. The second reporter came up and asked, "Can you tell me whether the singer who sang "We Are Young" is male or female?"
"No." Zhou Yan shook his head again, "Next One, the one in red next to me.”
The interview then moved into a quick Q&A session.
Reporter: “Are there any plans to release a new album this year?”
Zhou Yan: “There are no plans for a new album yet.”
Reporter: “This year’s concert schedule When will the order be announced?”
Zhou Yan: “It should be out within this month, everyone should pay attention.”
Reporter: "Has the soundtrack work for "Titanic" already begun?"
Zhou Yan: "Not yet, but I have already met with Director Cameron, and everything will have to wait until the movie is started. "
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The previous questions are relatively normal, so normal that Zhou Yan is a little confused, when did these reporters become so easy to deal with.
But what was supposed to come had to come, and soon a reporter asked about the scandal between Zhou Yan and Maria.
Reporter: "Someone photographed Maria entering your hotel the afternoon before yesterday. Do you have any response?"
When the reporter raised this question, other reporters also became energetic. Sure enough, this Gossip news is most popular among reporters.
Zhou Yan smiled and said: "Maria did go to see me yesterday, and we talked about some things related to the new song."
Reporter: "Can you tell me what the new song is?"
Zhou Yan: "Actually, it's not a new song, it's a soundtrack from "Sense and Emotion". I filled in the lyrics and gave it to her."
Hearing the soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility", Dave was the first to react: "Is it "Someone Like You"?"
Zhou Yan nodded: "Yes, it is this song, we The two parties have reached an intention to cooperate.”
Reporter: “When will this song be released?”
Zhou Yan: “I don’t know the specific release time. You have to ask Ma about this. Leah. In fact, when I saw her scandal, I was quite surprised. I didn’t expect it to be spread like this in just a simple interview.”
Because Zhou Yan revealed the news about the new song, the reporters were also surprised. I no longer care about scandals.
In fact, they also know that this scandal is most likely false. In the photos taken of Zhou Yan and Maria, the two people did not behave very intimately, and neither of them made any disguise. This does not look like an "affair". Some are pretentious.
Moreover, reporters also know that Zhou Yan rarely comes to the United States and has relatively few interactions with Maria. The possibility of problems between them is very small.
It’s just that many readers are paying attention, so they definitely want to ask. Now that there is news about the new song, they naturally have no intention of asking about the scandal, and instead asked about the new song.
After a while, Zhou Yan looked at the time and said with a smile, "Everyone, the autograph signing is about to begin."
When Zhou Yan said this, the reporters stopped pestering him.
Zhou Yan smiled and waved to them, then walked out of the lounge.
This is not the first time a record store has held a signing event, and it is quite experienced. They have set up a signing area in the open space inside, and a long table is surrounded by posters related to Zhou Yan. , it’s quite impressive.
Although Hoylen said there was no need to line up in advance, when Zhou Yan went out, there were already more than a dozen people standing in front of the table.
Zhou Yan's appearance caused a commotion, and music fans greeted him one after another.
Facing the enthusiastic fans, Zhou Yan smiled and waved in response, and then without saying anything, he sat down behind the table and prepared to sign autographs for them.
As soon as he sat down, another group of music fans ran over with purchased albums, and the queue immediately became much longer.
The first person in line is a young girl in her twenties. She bought two albums, a CD of "Yulin Ling" and a vinyl of "Mysterious Country" .
Seeing her holding the vinyl of "Mysterious Kingdom", Zhou Yan also became interested. He took the two albums and asked with a smile, "Have you heard of this "Mysterious Kingdom"?"
"Of course!" the girl replied immediately, "I have the CD of "Mysterious Country", so I bought the vinyl. I didn't feel much about this album before, but the more I listen to it recently, the more I like it. Because I’ve been listening to this album a lot lately, I want to go to Yanjing to see it.”
Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, “What’s your name?”
"My name is Eveli, E-V-E-L-Y-N-N."
"A very nice name."
Zhou Yan signed his name on the outer cover of the vinyl record, and then put Eve Lin's name was written, "Welcome to visit China, and thank you for your support."
After receiving the TO sign, Evelin was flattered and thanked her repeatedly, "Thank you, thank you."
After signing the first one, Zhou Yan looked at the team behind him. There were only about twenty or thirty people, not a lot, so he also deliberately slowed down.
If there are few people, it would be very embarrassing if there is a gap after signing too quickly.
If you control the rhythm in this way and keep people queuing up, the scene will be much more beautiful.
And with the slower pace, he is not only relaxed, but also able to communicate more with music fans.
The few music fans in the front also shouted lucky. I didn’t expect Zhou Yan to be so friendly to the people. He would not only chat with them, but also often sign autographs for them.
But while Zhou Yan was chatting, Huo Yilun suddenly ran over and whispered in Zhou Yan's ear, "Mr. Y, you have to speed up, there are many people behind you."
"A lot of people?"
Zhou Yan raised his head and glanced behind him again, only to realize that at some point, the queue had grown much larger than before. At least there were more than a hundred people in line now. .
Because there are so many people, it is no longer possible to line up straight, and they have already formed a z-shape.
Seeing such a situation, Zhou Yan could only speed up and stopped talking to the fans. He just immersed himself in signing autographs.
He thought that if he speeded up a little, he would be able to slow down the queue, but ten minutes later, Hoylen ran over again, "Mr. Y, can you speed up a little bit?"
"Want to speed up?"
Zhou Yan raised his head again, only to see that the team had not become shorter, but had become longer. The speed of his signature could not keep up with the speed of the team's expansion. (End of this chapter)