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Chapter 492 Are you here to receive the prize or TM to buy the goods......

Los Angeles, Staples Center
The 49th Grammy Awards Ceremony was officially opened, and the venue accommodated tens of thousands of people. In recent years, the Grammy Awards has been considered a relatively large one.

The annual Grammy, in addition to the regular awards, is actually a top-level music feast, with a large number of performers and award winners performing on stage, which can be called a top-level concert.

In many cases, the ratings of the Oscars are lower than those of the Grammys, because ordinary audiences prefer a large number of song and dance performances to pure awards presentations.

Unless the classic big fun of the Oscar winner slapping the host can happen...

The opening guest was the British rock band The Police, which is also an old band and has won multiple Grammys.

The band disbanded in 1984. After many years, they announced their reorganization this year, and then held a concert tour.

There is no such thing as a grand finale for a Grammy concert. On the contrary, the last moment of the more than three-hour concert + awards ceremony is obviously not the best prime time.

If you have to pick out a few better performance periods, the opening and the interval between the weight awards in the middle and late stages are the best time periods.

Cao Xuan has two performances at this year's Grammys. The originally planned time slots are one for the opening and one for the middle and late stages.

Later, because this old band came back out of the arena, Grammy wanted to make it happen, so they discussed it with Cao Xuan.

Cao Xuan has always respected the old and loved the young, and with his current momentum, he doesn't care about before and after appearances, so he sold the face of the Grammys and the Police Band and moved the two performances to the back.

Sting, the lead singer of the police band, is also a well-known celebrity and has won double-digit Grammys.

But he is old after all. He is 56 years old this year. Although the singer industry does not particularly pay attention to age, it is not uncommon for singers to sing until they are 70 years old, but there is no doubt that as they get older, their physical functions will definitely decline.

Many singers may have better skills and emotions when they get older, but their voice and other hardware conditions are definitely not as good as before.

Of course, this is not absolute. There are also many talented singers or singers who don’t care about their style. They may become more demonic as they get older.

But for rock singers, the influence of age is relatively greater.

But it doesn't matter, many times these old singers are willing to sing, and their fans are very happy.

Sometimes when people listen to songs, they not only listen to the quality of the songs themselves, but also nostalgia for their past feelings.

Although Cao Xuan personally believed in rapid retreat and left at his peak, leaving behind an eternal legend to fans, it did not prevent him from admiring this kind of singer who is willing to sing forever.

No matter what it is for, if he persists on stage at this age, he deserves Cao Xuan's respect.

Of course, the exception is Jagger, who has a feud. He sings in his 90s, and Cao Xuan is still black.

Unswervingly determined to belong to yes!

After the Police went down, the first presenter/host was a black dude - Jamie Foxx.

It is the one who played Electro in "The Amazing Spider-Man", who also played "Soul Singer" and won the Oscar winner in 2005.

I don't know how Garfield Andrew, who played the second-generation Spider-Man, felt when he saw him.

But there is one thing to say, it is said that Garfield Andrew accompanied him, but in fact he has only been nominated for Oscar winner twice until 2022.

It took more than 20 years for Xiao Lizi to run with him four times before he finally got what he wanted. The worst thing was Peter O'Toole. The old man was nominated for eight Oscar winners, but in the end he only won a lifetime honorary award.

This old man is not only an excellent actor, but also a good singer, especially when he released his second album last year, which achieved good results. This year, he was nominated for 4 Grammys.

The Grammy Awards Ceremony varies from year to year. Sometimes a regular host is found to go through the process, and some award presenters are directly invited to join the show and serve as the host.

There is no host talking in the middle, at most one DJ narration guide, guest host/award presentation + performance, a few more will be awarded to those who can speak well, and one award will be withdrawn if they don’t like to talk.

Cao Xuan personally likes the style, which is not verbose and has a fast pace. The disadvantage is that the degree of freedom is high, the ability of the guest hosts is uneven, and there is no professional host to control the field, which is prone to problems.

For example, although this electric man has the extroversion of an old black, it does not mean that he understands hosting and talk shows.

The two jokes about the police band were so embarrassing that people picked their toes, and not many people below were willing to join in, which made him smile awkwardly and hurriedly presented the award.

Electro-Optical Man presented two awards, the first one is not to be ignored, and the second one was nominated by Cao Xuan for 【Best Pop Vocal Album】.

And this award is basically recognized as Cao Xuan.

Most of Cao Xuan's 10 Grammy nominations this year are popular, but there are so many masters in the four general categories, Cao Xuan has a big advantage, and others should not be underestimated.

Rock music because "Legend" only has one hard rock song, and although the other songs can be considered rock style, they are not too obvious and have limited advantages.

【Best MV】Belongs to the most average, anyone has hope for the award.

Only in the popular category, Cao Xuan has an almost overwhelming advantage. The many nominees nominated this year basically do not pose much threat to him.

There may be twists and turns in the instrumental music awards, but [Best Pop Vocal Album] and [Best Pop Male Singer], immediately after the announcement of the Grammy nominations, were recognized by many people as Cao Xuan's bag.

"...the winner is..."

Sure enough, the Electron saw the name on the envelope, showed an unsurprised expression, and flipped the envelope.

"Chris Cho, Legend!"

With thunderous applause, Cao Xuan stood up calmly, embraced and celebrated with Edgar Jr. and other Warner team members, and then nodded slightly to the excited Taylor who was sitting behind him, and walked to the stage of the awards ceremony.

When he won the Grammy for the first time, Cao Xuan was still inexplicably excited and talked about it.

Now this is his 7th Grammy, although he is equally happy, but his mentality is really not too excited.

On the contrary, if he didn't win the prize, he might break his defense!
"...thanks to the organizing committee, to my family and team..."

It was a very normal acceptance speech. Compared with the winner who shed tears on the stage just now, Cao Xuan's performance was very ordinary, even boring, but in the eyes of most people in the audience, he was a big boss.

Tsundere Taylor even looked at his teacher without blinking, remembering all Cao Xuan's actions in his heart.

I thought in my heart, if I also won several Grammys in the future, it must be so calm, so that blue is better than blue.

After Cao Xuan received the award, he had nothing to do with him for nearly 20 minutes, but Justin and Beyoncé, two first-line singers, sang separately.

The former has come out of the shadow of the 2004 Super Bowl. Last year's new album did well. Unfortunately, it ran into Cao Xuan. After half a year, the two champion singles were all wiped out.

The latter is in the limelight, and has already rushed to the throne of the new queen. Her new song "Irreplaceable" is also the first song to break the monopoly of Cao Xuan's album "Legend" on the billboard, and won the top spot on the billboard singles chart.

However, compared to "Irreplaceable" which dominated the Billboard singles chart for 10 weeks in a row, now that "Legend" was born, although it won the championship, it was soon surrounded by many songs by Cao Xuan. In the end, he barely won the championship for two weeks.

But even so, Beyoncé was also the first singer who toughened up Cao Xuan's "Legend" and made an extraordinary performance, which gave her a lot of points.

It is worth mentioning that Beyoncé was the first to break Cao Xuan's monopoly, and the singers who completely ended Cao Xuan's monopoly in August were Rihanna and old friend Shakira.

Rihanna's winning song is the first champion single in her career, and Shakira's winning song is her only billboard champion single in the United States for so many years.

Cao Xuan was served by the three queens of the music scene, and they were all milestone songs. Cao Tianwang dared not say that he died, but he died well...

Today, the three queens or future queens also came to the scene. Cao Xuan chatted with Shakira and Beyoncé just now, but Rihanna didn't see anyone.

Not to mention, it is quite complicated to see the person who "covered the coffin board" for himself.

Boss Cao is a magnanimous person, so he thought that if there is a suitable song for the three of them, he would like to get rid of it...

To be honest, Cao Xuan also came to the stage to present the [Best Newcomer] award, and the winner was Carrie Underwood.

This girl was born as an audition singer, and was the champion of "American Idol" in 2005. Her album performance was quite good, and she finally won the Grammy [Best Newcomer] in one fell swoop.

As I said before, the Grammy's "Best Newcomer" is quite special. Although it is a newcomer award, it contains a lot of gold.

Carrie Underwood winning the award also means that this group of newcomer singers will never be able to win this award, including Taylor, whose fox eyes are rounded in the audience.

The teacher Cao Xuan personally presented the award, the only time in her career, the most valuable "Best Newcomer", symbolizing the succession of the mantle and the continuation of the legend. When she becomes popular in the future, she will surely become a great story in the world music scene.

In Taylor's view, this is simply an impeccable stage, but unfortunately, the protagonist is not her...

Taylor: T^T
What made her even more sad was that the only country award she nominated for was successfully lost.

Although before this, Taylor knew in his heart that his chances of winning the award were very low, but it was inevitable that he was lucky until the reality came.

Taylor is not yet the first day in the United States after the storm in the future. She is just an underage girl with a tsundere appearance, but she is actually quite sensitive in her heart.

From the cold reception before, she was very moved after being comforted by Cao Xuan, and it can be seen that this girl is actually a little fragile psychologically.

So after receiving a series of blows, Taylor eomed again...

And just as she was lowering her head in sadness and depression, a golden gramophone-shaped trophy suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, which was a Grammy Award.

Looking up, it was Cao Xuan who handed over his trophy between two people: "There is a saying in China that victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs. Isn't it just a trophy? The teacher has it and plays with it."

"teacher……"

Taylor was really moved, and the fox's eyes were filled with water: "I... won the trophy, what do you do?"

"It's okay, I have more...Look, here it comes."

Not long after the words were finished, Xia Qi on the stage announced cheerfully, "[Best Pop Male Singer], Chris Cao!"

Cao Xuan came down after accepting the award as usual, and handed the trophy to Taylor, and said: "Help the teacher take some, I guess there will be more in a while, I can't take it by myself."

Taylor: "..."

Although she understood that Cao Xuan was comforting herself, she should be happy for the teacher, but after listening to Cao Xuan's words, she couldn't help grinding her teeth and wanting to hit someone...

Cao Xuan didn't talk too much nonsense with Taylor. He has won this award three times, and it is the most "not rare" award, so he is indifferent.

That is to say, Cao Xuan won the 45th, 46th, and 49th Grammys [Best Pop Male Singer], and the number of awards has already tied for the second place in the history of Grammys.

Tied for first place are four-time winners Sting and Stevie Wanda, the former is the lead singer of the opening police band.

With Cao Xuan's current momentum, there is hope to equalize or even break through this record and become the Grammy King of Pop.

Interestingly, Cao Xuan won the award three times, except for the 2004th Grammy in 46, when Justin was robbed. In the 2003th Grammy in 45 and this year, Cao Xuan won the same award - John Mayer.

Moreover, Yuan Shikong won the [Best Pop Male Singer] again in 2009. In addition, Cao Xuan snatched two awards and 2005, and won four awards in total, successfully tying the first place in history.

But now, it's not Cao Xuan's wild words, but whether the other party can win the award, we really have to see whether Cao Xuan will release a new English album by then.

John Mayer happened to be one of Taylor's ex-boyfriends, and Cao Xuan didn't know if he had avenged his apprentice in advance.

Of course, it's hard to say which of the two is the victim, but Cao Xuan doesn't know him well, so let's help him.

Although he was flattered in his heart, Cao Xuan was still very calm on the surface. He had to persevere in pretending to be aggressive, and there was no reason to give up halfway.

Cao Xuan took it lightly, and just took the time to answer a few text messages with his mobile phone.

Penguin Blog broadcast the entire awards ceremony with pictures and texts. As soon as he won the award, someone sent a text message to congratulate him.

He was calm here, and little Edgar was grinning from ear to ear, but seeing the scene just now, he restrained himself a bit.He deliberately looked at Taylor a few more times.

There is one thing to say, even if Taylor, who will enter the peak period of appearance in the future, can only be said to be a unique beauty, it is hard to say that everyone loves it.

She is not yet 20 years old, she hasn't fully grown her hair, and she is dressed in a relatively ordinary way. She has a curly perm, and her biggest advantage is her youthful beauty.

Little Edgar looked at her several times, and then quietly winked at Cao Xuan and said in a low voice, "Last time when there were supermodels at my party, you didn't come. It turned out to be a good idea. No wonder you and Avril have a good relationship."

Cao Xuan was speechless, his reputation as an official Cao was not so bad abroad.

"Don't talk nonsense, Avril is my god-sister. This little girl is half of my student. She has a good talent. She should be cultivated well. She might become the most popular singer in America in the future."

"is it?"

Little Edgar was skeptical, but he believed in Cao Xuan's vision.

When Avril Lavigne first debuted, Cao Xuan praised her and said that she would definitely be popular. Later, it really became popular all over the world, which was well-known in the media.

However, more people regard it as two people who have known each other for a long time and know each other's talents, which has not been extended to Bole.

But little Edgar was Cao Xuan's boss, and the two of them had a good personal relationship, so he usually paid too much attention to Cao Xuan.

In addition, Warner has a branch in China, and all kinds of information are complete, so little Edgar knows that Cao Xuan has a good eye, and he is well-known in the Chinese entertainment industry.

So even though he was dubious, he still kept Taylor in his heart.

Cao Xuan is not afraid of little Edgar poaching, this is what he did on purpose.

Mars Records is too small, and there is still room for Taylor to make his debut, but if he wants to continue to climb up and become really popular, he has to use the momentum.

Although Cao Xuan can also borrow and operate part of Warner's resources, they are limited and prone to disputes, so if they really want Warner to devote a lot of resources to Taylor wholeheartedly, they have to formally reach a cooperation.

Although part of the income must be given to Warner, Taylor became popular and the plate was bigger, and Mars Records made more money.

Eating food alone will not go far, mutual benefit, win-win is the kingly way...

Taylor didn't know at all that just now Cao Xuan taught her a wave of future ex-boyfriends, and even paved the way for her.

She couldn't put it down to play with the two Grammys in her hand, and then witnessed her teacher win two more trophies with ease.

【Best MV】——"What are words"

Although this MV version has been criticized in China and is known as the English version of "Fairy Tale", it has to be said that this kind of tragedy is the most touching and impressive.

This is also the second time Cao Xuan won the Grammy [Best MV], the last time was "Sugar".

One is a wedding blessing, and the other is a dead wife at the end, one red and one white, a match made in heaven.

The guest who presented this award was Quentin Tarantino. This guy has good friends with many Chinese filmmakers, but Cao Xuan is not familiar with him. The first time we met was at the red carpet venue just now.

What impressed Cao Xuan the most was not "Kill Bill" or "Pulp Fiction", but the Chinese phrase [Niubi] that became popular all over the Internet.

But as far as he knew, these two words were not actually taught by Jiang Wen. Jiang Wen taught the two actors of "Star Wars" [really good], and Quentin learned this sentence from the team in China at that time.

Because of Lao Jiang's "excellent reputation" and the friendship between the two, they were linked together.

Cao Xuan originally wanted to hook Quentin to listen to the live version, but after thinking about it, he decided to give up.

What he was prepared for at the time was that when the award ceremony happened, Quentin was crazy. If the award ceremony happened on a whim, he would say [Cao, awesome].

I don't know if these foreigners can understand Cao Xuan, but if these three words are put together, even if Cao Xuan didn't explode on the spot, he might be ashamed to return home.

Well, the United States may not be able to wait even more. When this word is translated literally, the name of Cao Tianwang I will be gone...

When receiving the award, Cao Xuan looked at the excited Quentin, and more than once rejoiced that he was cautious, and at the same time had extremely high vigilance.

I'm afraid this guy will remember his little Chinese and show off.

At that time, Cao Xuan was even ready to punch this guy immediately if he dared to open his mouth.

He would rather be on the headlines of the world than die!
Fortunately in the misfortune, everything was safe, and Cao Xuan successfully received another award.

【Best Rock Singer】

To be honest, Cao Xuan himself was very surprised to get this award. Although he also has a few rock masterpieces, he is more good at pop. The previous rock nominations have never won.

This time, I don’t know whether it was the rock songs of "Legend" that really moved the judges, or whether the judges recognized his previous rock songs, or inspired him to "create" more rock songs in the future.

But in any case, this is Cao Xuan's first rock award, and it is still very memorable. Cao Xuan holds it in his hand and plays it fresh.

So far, 7 nominations for Cao Xuan have been announced, and he won 4 trophies, which has equaled the number of awards won by Cao Xuan last time.

Now there are only two of the four general categories that have not been awarded, and Cao Xuan thinks that he still has the hope of winning one of them.

But before that, Cao Xuan came on stage and sang two songs "Monsters" and "Skin".

Although it is not the first time for everyone to listen to it, the atmosphere and feeling of the live version of Cao Tianwang is still very good.

When Cao Xuan finished singing, there was thunderous applause from the audience. Taylor hugged the trophy and almost got his hands red, looking like a little girl.

After that, there were several awards, and finally it was the turn of the four major categories [Best Album of the Year].

"Legend" has achieved great results, with three good results in charts, word-of-mouth, and sales. It is Cao Xuan's most promising award in the four major categories this year.

The award presenter is Scarlett Johansson. Although the Marvel universe has not yet started, the widow is still far from the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, but she is still a well-known American actress. She is ranked in the front of Hollywood's post-80s florets of.

"The winner album is - "Legend" Congratulations, Cao!"

Today, there are not many singers who have appeared on stage many times. After all, they have won more than 100 Grammy awards. Before that, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mary Blige and Cao Xuan had the most appearances, all four times.

However, the award of "Best Album of the Year" made Cao Xuan stand out today, winning five yuan alone.

It's a pity that no songs will be played during the Grammy Awards, otherwise Cao Xuan could reproduce the glory of the Taiwan Provincial Golden Melody Awards at the Grammys.

As soon as "Legend" sounded, I went to the stage to accept the award!

After receiving the trophy, the widow came over with a smile and hugged her. She was wearing a low-cut dress. Cao Xuan felt that the cost was quite sufficient.

However, Cao Xuan has seen too much of her short red hair, and she is not used to seeing her with big golden waves.

Cao Xuan didn't feel much about the widow sister's bath water, so it's better to leave it to Durant, and step down after winning the award with a few words.

The last time the Golden Melody Awards suffered a loss, Cao Xuan made special preparations so that he would not run out of words when he delivered his speech.

But if there are words, there are words, but no one can hold on to talking dryly, even if there are words, they will get tired of it.

However, what Cao Xuan didn't expect was that not long after he left the stage, before he could sit still, the new award presenter looked at him in shock.

"[Best Single of the Year] Winner - Cao "Skin"."

Cao Xuan was stunned!
He thought that the Grammys would make him a big winner, but at most he thought that 5 would be enough to support the sky, but he didn't expect to be awarded 6 awards.

His first reaction was to look at little Edgar, this guy was kidnapped by the son of the chairman of the organizing committee?Or do you have some incredible evidence as a handle?
However, when Cao Xuan saw that little Edgar had successfully become a second fool weighing more than 100 catties, he felt that he might have thought too much.

Maybe it's just pure money hitting the spot!

Cao Xuan took the stage for the sixth time and received the trophy, but the thought in his heart was how Michael Jackson won 8 trophies in one night, how did he get there.

Thinking so in his heart, Cao Xuan still delivered his speech in a very steady manner, but the guests and audience in the audience always heard his words familiar.

It’s not surprising, if someone can remember Cao Xuan’s first five acceptance speeches, then he will find that the sixth acceptance speech is completely made up of some words from the first five times, and the repeat checking rate is not 100% , at least 85% or more.

Having won 6 trophies, Cao Xuan undoubtedly became the most beautiful boy in the field. When the awards ceremony ended, he was immediately surrounded by countless media.

A reporter asked Cao Xuan to take a photo with the trophy. At that time, it happened to be in the open area of ​​the billboard, and there was no place to put it around, so he could only hold it with his hands.

But Cao Xuan struggled for a long time, but he couldn't hold six trophies in one go, and it was not easy to ask others to help him take pictures.

Simply don't care about the front and back of the trophies, put them together, like building blocks to form a pile, hug them up, let the reporters take pictures, anyway, just take pictures of the people and the 6 trophies.

The reporters looked dumbfounded, but they were honest and pressed the shutter quickly. They believed that this photo would definitely become a classic.

After taking the photo, Cao Xuan joked to the Grammy staff: "You guys should prepare a bag or a wheelbarrow, otherwise these trophies will be hard to get."

Although it was a joke, many people at the scene couldn't help grinding their teeth like Taylor.

I still need a bag or a wheelbarrow, you come to receive the prize or come to TM to buy...

(End of this chapter)