Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 338: The last shine before returning home
As the plane from Las Vegas landed at London Heathrow International Airport, #ALEX LONDON# quickly topped the trend lists of many countries, including the World Trend and the UK Trend.

As one of the few pop superstars in the current streaming media era who has considerable fame and influence worldwide (some singers have achieved good results in the United States, but their popularity overseas is average), Shen Juan came to London again after a year, which naturally attracted considerable attention and heated discussion from the outside world.

The Times: [The Chinese pop king arrives, paralyzing Heathrow Airport! ]

The Independent: [The Royal Albert Hall has already been blocked by countless Alovers, who all want to see their idols here.]

The Guardian: [Just like John Lennon in the last century, Alex's arrival has caused girls all over the UK to go crazy! ]

The Sun: [Many Page Three girls petitioned on social media to play for the country and have dinner with Alex, which is bound to spread the excellent genes of this new-age pop star in the UK. ]

The Daily Telegraph: [Billboard's latest weekly chart in the UK is out, and the Chinese continue to dominate the chart. ]

The top ten of the Billboard UK weekly chart are:

"Blinding Lights" by Shen Juan, "Levitating" by Shen Juan, "Old Town Road" by Shen Juan and Li Nacha, "VOSSI BOP" by Stormzy, "ME!" by Taylor Shen Juan, and "Adore You" by Shen Juan.

"Senorita" by Shen Juan and A-mei, "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi, "Watermelon Sugar" by Shen Juan, and "Piece Of Your Heart" by MEDUZA and Goodboys.

Seven of the top ten.

Moreover, several of the singles were released more than three weeks ago (Blind Light was released in February and Miss was released in March), which means that even if they are no longer hot after the initial sales of the albums, they can still gain the support of passers-by fans and stay on the charts with the excellent quality of the songs.

This is definitely good news for Shen Juan!

Breaking the record for the first time only means that the singer has an extremely large group of fans with a strong desire to spend money.

The strong staying power shows that the quality of the song has broken the shackles of "self-development in a circle" and moved towards a broader mainstream.

Therefore, it goes without saying that these hot singles will definitely achieve a fairly satisfactory annual ranking, helping him to remove the prefix of "super-generation" in the next few years and officially be crowned "the world's number one male".

After dinner, Shen Juan came to the Emirates Stadium in North London to start filming Arsenal's latest promotional video.

"We won the first leg of the Europa League semi-final here last night, beating Valencia 3-1."

"I just watched the highlights of the game on the way here. Unfortunately, I was on a plane when the team was playing, so I missed the live broadcast. But I believe that our Arsenal is invincible! We will also win the second leg away from home with a big score and advance to this year's final!"

"Haha, we all think so. Arsenal has the ability to defeat all opponents. The difference lies in whether they want to or not."

"Hahahaha!" Shen Juan laughed happily. He didn't expect that his casual words could resonate with others.

Considering that they don't want to make Arsenal fans too sad, this team is very strange. Not only do several core players who are regarded as the cornerstone of the team want to run away, even the publicity ambassador wants to run away. At the same time, they don't want to provoke the entire Arsenal fan group. It seems that this fake Arsenal fan will have to be one for the rest of his life.

"So Alex, will you hold a concert in London in the second half of the year? My daughter is your loyal fan! Her room is full of your posters, and she insisted that I ask you this question." Venkatesham, an Indian man who is currently the chief commercial officer of Arsenal, was quite enthusiastic in front of Shen Juan.

"Of course! My love for London is real. I will of course choose this city as one of the locations for my global tour. Not only does it have the best fans in the world, it also has the best fans in the world! Every time I come to London it feels like going home." Shen Juan talked to the camera.

"Then I think I'd love to bring our whole family over to see your concert."

"Believe me, I won't let you down."

In fact, the reason why Shen Juan’s current cooperative relationship with Arsenal is so stable.

In addition, he needs to use Arsenal's influence among the fan base to expand his visibility and popularity.

Adidas' involvement is also one of the reasons.

At the end of last year, Adidas replaced Puma and signed a five-year jersey sponsorship agreement with Arsenal. Shen Juan happens to be Adidas' latest global spokesperson, so he can naturally make this triangular cooperation alliance more unbreakable and maximize the benefits.

Don't say anything else.

Anyway, there are already quite a few joint products of Shen Juan×Arsenal or Leviathan×Adidas on the shelves.

When the world tour is launched, Adidas will certainly pay a considerable sponsorship fee in order to take advantage of the popularity, allowing Shen Juan to make a fortune.

At 5 pm London time on May 5th, Shen Juan's surprise performance at the Royal Albert Hall took place as scheduled.

The five thousand lucky audience members who had the chance to grab tickets and come to the scene provided Shen Juan with a very good performance atmosphere.

It's quiet when it needs to be quiet, and lively when it needs to be lively. When singing the chorus, the whole audience can sing together.

Although this surprise performance arranged by Universal Studios cannot be strictly considered a concert, as the performance lasted just over an hour, Shen Juan only sang a total of 14 songs (5 songs from Leviathan + Late Summer + songs from Underrated), and there was not even any arrangement for interaction with the audience during the performance.

However, Shen Juan's top-notch stage presence and on-stage stability still made the 5,000 audience members who came to the scene experience an extraordinary feeling, so they expressed their feelings after watching the performance on the Internet.

It is also in line with Republic's marketing promotion to warm up for the DVD and Blu-ray BD scheduled to be released next month.

【As a student studying in London, I was lucky enough to watch Juan Ge’s performance at the Royal Albert Hall with my British classmates who were also Alovers. I was so happy now! I was screaming the whole time! When I heard Juan Ge singing "In My Blood", I was really moved to tears. Although this song is not Juan Ge's best and most popular song, it is really meaningful to me. Every time I hear this song, I can think of the dark time when I was confused and couldn't see where the future was. Those were the difficult years that Juan Ge and I went through together. It was he who supported me to get to where I am now. 】

[Alex said this was his first time to perform indoors for such a long time. We made history with him and he thanked us very much for coming. Finally, he said that he hoped we could meet again in London in the second half of this year (does this count as revealing the tour schedule in advance? Hahaha)]

[I originally thought that I hadn’t heard many of Alex’s songs, and it might be a bit awkward to go to the concert with my girlfriend, but after watching the performance, I was completely attracted to this man! I immediately searched for Alex’s performance online after returning home, and then bought the physical CD of his new patented Vitan. ]

【I say, Alovers, can you stop being so modest? It is 2019, not 2012. With the great changes in the European and American music scene, Alex can break those ancient records. If this result is not the world's No. male, then who can be? Mars is a lazy guy, Bonsai has a peculiar style, Huang Laoban has also disappeared recently, and Drake is just a rapper no matter how awesome his streaming media is. His audience outside the United States is naturally limited. Do we still expect Justin Bieber to be rejuvenated in the future? 】

[I personally think Alex is a hexagonal all-rounder. Rolling Stone said he represents the future development direction of the global music industry and it is not nonsense. Streaming media, popularity, die-hard fans, popularity, and production capacity are all top-notch. Once the world tour starts, his last shortcoming will be made up! ]

[In the past two years, Brother Fan Juan has been fighting and throwing away his grades. He has never lost at all. Haha! Who knows, it’s really cool! ]

(Concert Hall Scene)

On May 5th, we returned to New York after finishing our trip to London.

Attend the last public event before returning home - the Met Gala, known as the "Oscars of the fashion world".

Every year, the Met Gala has a distinctive theme.

This year's theme is "Camp: Notes on Fashion", which is extracted from scholar Susan Sontag's 1964 paper "Notes on Camp". Camp means "a love of unnatural things" and emphasizes deliberate exaggeration, appreciating the vulgar things in the eyes of the world from a subversive perspective.

Simply put, it is a non-mainstream and weird style.

Like cream cake, golden birdman, Cleopatra, pizza dress, human chandelier, hamburger, ostrich.
All kinds of weird and strange looks can be seen on the red carpet.

In fact, Shen Juan’s styling team initially prepared several styling plans for him in order to cater to this year’s theme.

But they were all rejected.

Although Shen Juan's idol burden is not as heavy as outsiders imagine, there is a hundred Xiao Nais between him and Song Yan.

But this does not mean that he is willing to wear ugly clothes that are likely to leave a black history and be ridiculed by black fans.

Some people dress up as ugly because they want to attract traffic.

For example, the handsome tiger Chen Zhipeng. The only way for this guy to get exposure is to wear all kinds of strange clothes, and other than that, there is basically no news about him.

Some people dress up to look ugly in order to please VOGUE, the organizer of Met Gala, and get more fashion resources.

But Shen Juan lacks nothing.

He even became the first Asian male star to unlock the solo cover of the American version of "VOGUE" with the joint support of many luxury brands some time ago. This time, he was personally invited by Anna Wintour to attend the Met Gala, adding starlight and traffic attention to this fashion dinner!

So just wear a suit.

Anyway, for young male artists born in the 90s like him, such as Moe, Harry Styles, Bieber, and it is heard that Shen Juan will also attend this year, so the red carpet looks of Master Lay, who traveled across the ocean to tie up with the popularity, are basically the same, with the only difference being the style and color of the suit.

Artists who are on a roll naturally don’t need to take the weird route to gain extra attention, which comes and goes quickly.

A fashion icon should look like a fashion icon. Being a clown and entertaining people has never been his style.

(Master Lay's demeanor in foreign countries really sometimes gives people a sense of Asian stereotype.)

Walking on the red carpet, accepting interviews, and entering the backstage.

First, I had a brief chat with the hotly dressed sisters Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner and exchanged some feelings.

They invited Shen Juan to record an episode of their family variety show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" if he was free.

This show is very popular, but Shen Juan didn't want to be too closely associated with them, so he simply turned it down on the grounds that he didn't have time.

Then I had a brief chat with three other members of the "Chinese Army" who are going to the United States to compete in the Fashion Oscars this year.

Cousin Liu Wen was very enthusiastic.

In fact, there is no model like her and Xi Mengyao who have been working overseas for many years and are not enthusiastic.

Each of them is very good at socializing.

What if you act cool?

That means she dislikes you and hates you, or she has no interest in you at all and thinks you are not worth making friends with.

This is pretty much the way Da Mimi does it.

She displays alarmingly high emotional intelligence in front of male stars, but has no idea what emotional intelligence is in front of her fans.

It can only be said that fans can only briefly gain the qualification to become "people" when they pay money to boost magazine endorsement sales.

Shen Juan was in no hurry to give an answer.

Because he knows that he will most likely not make much money from e-sports, but there may be other benefits after entering the market.

So I'm still hesitating.

Then what about Chunchun, the “first generation popularly elected top star in the domestic entertainment industry”? Maybe it’s because she is really not familiar to the public, or maybe it’s because Shen Juan’s sudden appearance made it impossible for her to be the finale as stable as before, so she gave people a feeling of being a little stiff, a bit like the prince who forced himself to suppress his throat and speak with bubbling sounds.

So Shen Juan, knowing that he was not popular, did not chat much with this senior who seemed a bit arrogant and pretentious, and went directly to his "good boy" Master Lay.

"Hey, brother Juan! Long time no see!"

This guy seemed uneasy among a group of foreigners before, and his somewhat abusive body proportions made him look like a small figurine.

Seeing Shen Juan now, he finally laughed from the bottom of his heart.

"When did you come to the United States?"

"I just arrived this morning and will be leaving the day after tomorrow. What about you?"

"I'm taking a flight back home tomorrow morning."

"What kind of work will you do when you return?"

"Record a show with your master, and then there will be a new movie."

"Movie? Is there a role reserved for me?"

"Would you like to guest star? For free."

"Of course! There's no need to talk about money in our relationship."

It’s a pity that Shen Juan is a world-class star after all, so the two of them had just started chatting in their native language for a few words when they were interrupted by other banquet guests who wanted to get to know Shen Juan.

What the hell!

Could this be Lady Gaga? How come such an awesome celebrity would take the initiative to chat with Shen Juan?
Zhang Yixing, who was left aside and became a "little figure" with his eyes wide open again, realized that the difference between the world's top stars and the domestic entertainment top stars is not just on the surface. A deep sense of loss swept over him, and also swept over everyone who was living a life of idleness and waiting for death in China or who took advantage of the information gap to fool the Chinese people.

Isn’t it said that you can’t grow two kinds of melons on the same vine?

How could Shen Juan grow up to be Calabash Brothers?

This is fucking outrageous, bro!

However, Master Lay adjusted his mindset and was not disappointed.

Anyway, for him, the purpose of this trip has been achieved.

At that time, all he needs to do is ask the team to send the photo of the two of them happily chatting among a group of foreigners in strange costumes back to China, and then add the title "China's Power Shines at Met Gala" and a text about bringing glory to the country, which will bring him considerable attention and a boost in his status.

As for whether he would be accused of being a bully or ridiculed by others for having no dignity left, he actually didn't care at all.

After all, the most important thing for being a star is to have a thick skin!
I am not afraid of being scolded, I am afraid that no one will discuss it.

Isn't it enough that he has faced enough doubts and ridicule from fans of Paosan for not leaving the group and returning to China to pursue solo for so many years?
No, I still persevered!

Moreover, with such a dazzling human-shaped heat source right in front of you, only those who can resist touching it are gods.

Therefore, Master Lay's self-positioning has always been very clear, that is to honestly serve as Shen Juan's internal entertainment doorman, and then follow behind him to pick up the leftovers he doesn't want.

Those who achieve great things are not careful about the little things.

He is very confident in his judgment of people, so he believes that even if he picks up leftovers, he can still make a name for himself!

(End of this chapter)