Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 554 Why would a rock band appear in such an occasion?
The next morning at 7 o'clock, Bian Lang took a group of people to the hotel for breakfast. Everyone else was fine, but Lunzi seemed strange.

He looked like he didn't sleep well the previous night, but he seemed quite excited. I don't know where he got that excitement from. According to Dayong's description, "Is this the first time for this little brat to be on TV? Is he showing off?"

"He is from Qindao. This time he is showing his face in front of his fellow villagers. That is of course different!"

After Huang Kai said this, Hua Yan also added: "I guess, Mu Mian's ex-boyfriend..."

Old Wu: "Hey, it's hard to say... Should I send a message to Mumian to ask?"

Bian Lang: "Why not just pull him over and ask him..."

Lunzi and Mumian were people Bian Lang met on a variety show. They were the first group of friends in the circle that Bian Lang met on his own without relying on the original owners' foundation.

He is the one who knows the most about the two people's affairs, and he also hopes that the two of them can have a happy ending together in Rolling Stone.

So after he finished speaking, he walked over and asked Lunzi, "Is Mumian's ex-boyfriend, who proposed to her, here today?"

"She's not here!" Lun Zi spoke without hesitation. Afraid that Bian Lang wouldn't believe him, he added, "Mu Mian's parents might come, so I'm a little nervous..."

Hearing this, Bian Lang mercilessly exposed him: "Lunzi, come on, you are so nervous about being the parent of a girl like Mumian? I don't think you are nervous, you are just excited. If you can't show off in front of Mumian's ex-boyfriend, why are you so excited?"

After being directly exposed by Bian Lang, Lunzi's face fell and he said, "Brother Lang, can't you save some face for me?"

"It's not shameful to act cool in front of your current girlfriend's ex-boyfriend! Besides, they may not even know who you are!"

This statement is not very destructive, but it is extremely insulting! Extremely insulting!

But after listening to Lunzi, he was silent for a moment and then suddenly understood everything: "Yeah, how did he know who I am..."

It was not Mu Mian who told him this, but he heard it from his former teammates.

It is said that Mumian’s ex-boyfriend is the person in charge of the venue. When he heard that the Rolling Stones were going to perform at the opening ceremony, he asked them whether Mumian would come.

Although these former teammates are no longer together, they are definitely still on Mumian's side. Not only did they scold the man back, they also reported the news directly to Lunzi.

After listening to Lunzi's explanation of the whole process, Bian Lang said with a smile: "Then you better be careful. If you fall behind, it will be really embarrassing. By then, Mumian's former teammates will definitely tell that guy..."

……

Although the opening ceremony was in the afternoon, the Rolling Stones still arrived at the venue at 10 o'clock after breakfast and started to dress up.

After covering what needed to be covered and changing what needed to be changed, the 10-member Rolling Stones, who had expanded into "YWSY", appeared in the lounge area with the image of trendy young people in the 80s.

Looking at Bian Lang in his Zhongshan jacket and jeans, a stylist from the team exclaimed: "He looks different because he is good-looking. If someone else wore the same outfit, they would probably be mistaken for a homeless person!"

She didn't even avoid people when she said this, and Dayong and Tu Ling, who had dreadlocks, felt like cursing after hearing it.

It was not until 1 p.m. that Bian Lang received an official notice from the preparatory team: "The performance will proceed as planned, but the English version will not be sung."

Bian Lang had no objection to this. When he talked about this with the commander last night, the commander mentioned: "It's okay if the English version of this song is not sung. It would be better if it could be left to a foreign band to sing. That would be really cool."

Bian Lang thought that this idea was really sound. As for the candidates, the most ready-made ones were Bob and his team.

Since they could accompany all the fans with "Rock on the New Long March" at the first Rolling Stone Music Festival, they would not refuse this proposal.

The reason why the preparatory group made such a decision was actually because their idea was similar to that of Bian Lang.

It's just that they are more concerned about the on-site process issues. If the foreign guests attending the conference react too much, the situation will be difficult to control and it will not be beautiful.

After all, the theme of this conference is still industry. No matter how much they like this song, it is just an opening song and is too small in the context of the entire conference.

By 1:30, domestic and foreign guests had already taken their seats in the venue.

Looking at the hundreds of guests of different skin colors at the conference, Mu Man’s ex-boyfriend Li Zheng was still quite jealous.

He had already found out about Lun Zi's identity from Mu Mian's former teammates this morning. It would be more accurate to say that others took the initiative to tell him rather than that he found out about it.

He obviously already has a new love, but when he heard that Muqian was doing better and better, he started to actively inquire about the news.

He also told Mumian's former teammates that it was the elders in the family who disagreed before, but he personally supported Mumian.

How could Muqian’s former teammates believe this?
It’s just that Mumian didn’t achieve anything famous in the past, and he himself felt that playing rock music was a waste of time!

Now that he has played it out, he and his entire family will definitely support it with all their might.

Mu Man's former teammates don't tolerate this kind of people at all, so this time when Lun Zi has returned home in glory, they naturally want to annoy Li Zheng.

"It would be great if I could embarrass this guy!" Li Zheng thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare.

With his knowledge of the venue, making the gate trip is a piece of cake.

But he knew better that if he really did that, then there would be basically no hope in his life.

But when he thought about it, he felt that it was no big deal, since he was the only one who knew about it.

But just as he was making his final rounds to check for omissions, he saw two familiar figures sitting in the last row of the venue. They were Mu Mian's parents.

The two of them had reached the stage of discussing marriage, and he was quite familiar with Mu Mian's parents.

Mu Man's parents were both workers. At that time, they were quite satisfied with Li Zheng, a child from a civil servant family. However, Li Zheng's family was picky about Mu Man.

When Mu Mian and Chen Shuting talked about it later, Chen Shuting explained to her: "It's hard to say that the proposal was just a trick that the family came up with to force the breakup."

Mu Man's parents listen to their daughter. As long as she is happy, they think anything is fine.

After the two broke up, Li Zheng never met her again. He didn't expect to meet her here today.

"How could they be qualified to attend this World Industrial Conference? The Rolling Stones must have helped them through the back door."

Thinking of this, he picked up his phone and took a photo of the two of them using a 3x focal length, and waited for the live broadcast and news to be exposed online.

...At two o'clock, the opening ceremony officially began.

According to international practice, of course, speeches will be given by various international and domestic representatives.

He didn't have time to listen to the international discussions, but he listened carefully to the domestic discussions.

As someone who has never actively watched the news in his two lifetimes, he basically gets information about industrial development by hearing about the emergence of some national treasure, or that the madman has taken on a big project from some country, or that the country has been technologically blocked by some countries, and other highly talked-about events. Only then does he realize that his country has become quite awesome!

Listening to the person in charge on the stage talking to guests from all over the world, describing and demonstrating the industrial achievements made by modern China, the Rolling Stones, the musicians, were all excited in their hearts.

We are all people living on this land, enjoying the convenience of life brought about by these development achievements. Who would not be touched by this?

Strauss, the only foreigner in the team, was unprecedentedly shocked by what she heard during the simultaneous interpretation.

When she was in Europe, no matter what channel she got the information from, she always talked about the mystery and backwardness of China.

But when she actually started to enter this country and began to work and live there, she discovered that more than half of the news she had seen before was false.

China is mysterious, but not backward at all. Compared with her hometown Wales, she thinks Spring City is heaven.

Now, after listening to these introductions to industrial development, which she didn't quite understand, she felt that she might be living in a Europe of false prosperity.

After the last speaker came on stage, a staff member came to inform the Rolling Stones to get ready.

It was at this critical juncture that every member of the Rolling Stones, including Bian Lang, began to feel a little nervous.

Although they were all veterans of large events attended by tens of thousands of people, this was their first time facing such an official formal occasion, and some emotions that they had never experienced before began to grow in everyone's minds.

I used to be nervous when I went on stage, because I was afraid of letting the audience down. But if I messed up this time, letting the audience down was secondary, the main thing was bringing shame to the country!

And without those crazy fans cheering in the audience, they really didn't know how to find the excitement in the performance.

Rock music is a kind of music that requires absolute live performance. If the scene cannot be lively, it will be a disaster!
Bian Lang had some experience in this regard. During the special three years on the original Earth, their band even performed in front of an empty stadium with tens of thousands of people.

Before going there, Bian Lang felt that it would take a strong sense of belief to allow a rock band to find excitement in such an occasion.

As a result, someone in the company showed them a video of Lao Cui, which was taken within the past one or two years. In the Workers' Stadium with no audience, Lao Cui led the band to complete the performance smoothly with umbrellas open.

Compared to that, at least there are living people watching in the audience now!

Thinking of this, and seeing that everyone had somewhat unnatural expressions, Bian Lang gathered everyone together and said a few words: "Don't think too much, let's just do it the way we should! What do those people down there know about rock and roll? We'll just sing whatever we want!"

Although this statement was a bit disrespectful, there was nothing wrong with what Bian Lang said.

Those sitting in the audience are either corporate executives or officials from relevant departments. Do these people listen to rock music? Maybe!

But do they understand rock music? Of course, they don’t understand it very well!
But what the Rolling Stones never expected was that when the host finished reading the band's name, foreigners in the audience shouted, "The Rolling Stones! Rock and roll never die!"

Looking at the person's fur color and hair volume, Bian Lang initially judged that he was a member of the fighting nation!
If it was them, it wouldn't be too strange. After all, the Rolling Stones used Hatter's status as a guest to gain a lot of popularity in the Red Square.

I heard that nowadays the street performers and musicians on the Red Square can’t stop dancing to “Katyusha”!
With this opening, the atmosphere in the audience was no longer as serious as it had been during the previous procedure.

At first some people cheered and some started to applaud.

The host's reaction was also first-rate, and he immediately called the Rolling Stones to the stage.

With this little commotion before going on stage, the feeling of being a Rolling Stone came back.

Before Bian Lang even checked his sound before he came on stage, he picked up the microphone and responded to the friend from the fighting nation who had just called out, "You are right! Rock & Roll never die, just fade away!"

As soon as these words were spoken, many foreign guests who had not expressed anything before began to applaud.

The host said a few more words and waited for the Rolling Stones to finish their soundcheck before completely handing the stage over to the Rolling Stones!
The fighting man who made the speech just now was named Chekhov. He was one of the audience members at the performance on Red Square. It was just that he had work to do at the time and was unable to join the sea of ​​fans when "The Internationale" was sung.

But later he became a loyal fan of the Rolling Stones, and because of his position, he even began to try to translate Bian Lang's songs into Russian.

So he is considered a foreigner who knows a lot about the Rolling Stones!
But looking at the 10-member Rolling Stones lineup today, he had an illusion: "Is this the real Rolling Stones?"

As for why a rock band could perform in such a formal occasion, he was not surprised at all!

In Europe, rock music has dominated the pop music scene. In some ways, the situation of rock bands is naturally different from that in China.

Just like he thought it was natural for the Rolling Stones to come, but on CCTV's live broadcast, many people began to ask:

"Why would a rock band appear in such an occasion?"

"Why can a band that doesn't listen to music that's not serious and doesn't have any Chinese characteristics appear at this kind of event?"

"In this kind of occasion, we should represent the country. Isn't it a bit too careless for a rock band to do this?"

Some of these people don't understand the Rolling Stones and think rock music is inappropriate due to their inherent thinking. Some of them are just there to lead the trend!

Li Zheng, who had been posting comments on CCTV.com, knew as soon as he saw it that the time had come to take action.

Then he posted the photo and text on Weibo, and the link was directly thrown into the live broadcast comment area of ​​CCTV.com!

Just when netizens were engaged in verbal battles and never tired of proving their own points.

Finally, music started to play. After a burst of soft keyboard sounds, various percussion sounds began to join in.

It’s not as intense as traditional rock, but it feels familiar.

Just when everyone was wondering why they felt so familiar, Bian Lang's hoarse voice finally began to sing: "wcj, wgbx, nhsgwz,..."

The song was like a gust of sand, blinding the eyes of the listeners and blocking their mouths.

Fortunately, we still have ears to listen!

(End of this chapter)