Chapter 331 It Seems Like a Concert Is Underway

Record surplus usually has performances, so there is a stage in their store, and there is even a piano. However, the sound of their piano is so bad that it seems that it has not been properly maintained.

It’s no wonder that they don’t pay attention to maintenance. This piano is indeed rarely used and there is no need for maintenance.

Generally, the people who come to the store to perform are mainly pop and jazz performers. They will bring their own instruments. It is better to use a keyboard than a piano.

The stage for the performance was on the east side, next to the lounge. When Zhou Yan followed Huo Yilun, he couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw the audience crowded under the stage.

When he came to the store just now, he saw a small stage here, but the space under the stage was very small at that time, and it was a little larger than the average aisle. If it was crowded, it would only hold fifty or sixty people. .

But now the place has changed. The original shop has been moved away, leaving a large space that looks to be the size of a middle school classroom.

And in such a small place, at least 300 people were crammed into it, so densely packed that there was no space at all.

The most outrageous thing is that there are still many people sitting near the stage.

They were not sitting on independent chairs, but on slender benches. Many people could sit on one bench, so even though they were sitting, they did not take up much space.

The people in the back rows were standing normally, and further back, there were many people standing on the benches.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Yan remembered that in junior high school, the school held a New Year's Day party. The stage was the basketball court. All the audience gathered around the basketball court. The audience also sat, stood and climbed up in the same way.

Zhou Yan couldn't help but turned sideways and reminded Huo Yilun, "Pay attention to your safety."

With so many people crowded into a small space and so many people standing on stools, it is indeed dangerous.

Hoylen smiled and said, "Don't worry, nothing will go wrong. Our store often puts on performances. This is not the first time this has happened."

Hearing what he said, Zhou Yan could only nod. Anyway, if there was a problem, Huo Yilun would be the one in trouble.

Arriving at the side of the stage, Ivan from Tomson's office sent the violin over.

Because there was a performance, Zhou Yan asked Yiwen to bring a violin. In addition to the violin, Zhou Yan also brought a bamboo flute.

As soon as he got the violin, a beam of light suddenly hit him, followed by warm applause from the audience.

Although there were not too many people, the applause sounded very loud because the space was small and the audience was right next to the stage.

Zhou Yan looked at the lights falling on him and couldn't help but marvel. He didn't expect that there were lights in a record store and it was quite professional.

Holding the violin, Zhou Yan walked onto the stage, and the lights followed him. Then he saw the source of the lights.

It turned out that there was a small mezzanine above the lounge, which was about one person tall. At this time, someone was holding a lamp and pointing it at him.

When he arrived on the stage, Zhou Yan first bent towards the audience, and then said into the microphone, "Thank you everyone for coming to my autograph session today. Because more people came than expected, I worked a little overtime. Everyone You haven’t eaten yet, right?”

It was time to eat now, but in order to wait for Zhou Yan's performance, these people didn't eat.

"We're not hungry."

Hardison shouted excitedly from his seat in the front row.

The reason why he and Jessica could sit in the first row was because of him and Qian Er.

At first, the cashier told them that if they bought a record, they would get a seat at the show.

But after a while, the staff told them that although they had seats, they were farther back. If they wanted to sit in the front, they would have to spend more.

In order to get the front row seats, Hardison and Jessica spent hundreds of dollars.

So did everyone else sitting in the front row, spending a lot of money.

But they didn't feel a loss at all, because it originally cost money to watch Zhou Yan's performance, and their money was not in vain, and they also bought a lot of records.

Especially when they sat down and found that members of the Backstreet Boys and Mariah Carey were also sitting in the front row, right next to them, they immediately felt that the money was well spent.

Many people saw the Backstreet Boys and Mariah Carey sitting in the first row and regretted not spending money to go to the first row. They originally thought that with such a small space, there would be no difference between the first row and the back row.

It has to be said that Hoylen is really good at business. Originally, they could only gather popularity by undertaking a book signing event, but they couldn't make much money.

Record surplus's business is very good, and the daily shipment volume is very large. The hundreds of records signed and sold are nothing to them, and they also have to give profits to Tomson, so the money they receive is not as good as usual. Not much.

But now that this is done, the store's turnover has increased sharply. Hoylen calculated just now that today's turnover is equivalent to more than a week.

It was also the first time for Zhou Yan to perform in such an environment. The audience in the front row was only one meter away from him. If he were any closer, the saliva from the audience would be sprayed on his face when they spoke.

This is a bit like an offline talk show, where the performer and the audience are completely face-to-face, making it easier for the performer to communicate with the audience.

Looking at the excited audience, Zhou Yan smiled and continued, "This signing event was decided at the last minute, so the preparations were not sufficient. However, I didn't expect so many friends to come. I also know that many people here did not get autographs. To express my apologies, I will bring you a few songs."

"In addition, I will come to the United States with the Piano Youth Orchestra again in a while. In addition to holding concerts, I will also hold another signing event. If you are interested, you can pay attention to it. Well, without further ado, I will bring you a relatively early song called "Kite". I hope you will like it."

"Kite" is a simple song and is suitable for violin solo. Zhou Yan chose it as the first song and also as a warm-up.

After speaking, Zhou Yan took a step back, got into position, and prepared to start playing "Kite".

After Zhou Yan got ready, the record store, which was originally a little noisy, became quiet, and the audience held their breath, waiting for Zhou Yan's performance.

As Zhou Yan said, the song "Kite" was written relatively early. It was the first time he wrote it independently for the movie "Heaven's Letter", and it was also a song in his first album "Piano Boy".

Compared with the soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility", this song is definitely less popular, but those who can come to the signing today are all Zhou Yan's fans, so they have basically heard this song.

When the slightly sad melody sounded, the audience suddenly felt that the environment they were in had changed, as if this was no longer a crowded record store, but a concert hall full of romance.

Music gives people the most intuitive and impactful feeling. When listening to "Kite", they don't have to think about anything, just feel the emotions expressed by these note combinations.

Jessica listened to "Kite" and the scene of "Heaven's Letter" emerged in her mind. She should be one of the few audiences who have seen "Heaven's Letter" on the scene.

This movie is hard to find in the United States. Except for Zhou Yan's fans, basically no one knows about it. Even Zhou Yan's fans generally don't go to see the movie specifically, and even if they want to see it, they can't find it.

Jessica was able to see this movie because of the owner of the previous audio-visual store. In that audio-visual store, there are many videotapes related to Zhou Yan, including Zhou Yan's concert videos and all the movies that Zhou Yan participated in the soundtrack.

During this period, Hardison and Jessica often went to that audio-visual store, and basically watched all the videotapes related to Zhou Yan. She even borrowed the videotape of "Heaven's Letter" and watched it for several days. By the end, she felt that she could speak a few words in Chinese.

A few minutes later, the song "Kite" ended, but Zhou Yan did not stop, and directly connected with "young and beautiful".

When the melody of "young and beautiful" sounded, a low cry broke out at the scene, and the audience also looked in the direction of Mariah Carey.

In the past six months, "young and beautiful" has been so popular that even now, the popularity of this song has not subsided, and it is still a popular song on the radio.

However, the popularity of the song also has a troublesome problem, that is, when Zhou Yan plays it, many audiences in the audience can't help but hum along.

Although they hummed softly, the sound became louder as the number of people increased.

Especially in this environment, he could even hear that there was a problem with the pitch of an audience member in front of him when he hummed.

Of course, since he chose to play this song, Zhou Yan didn't care about the current situation.

If the audience likes to hum along, let them hum. In this environment, everyone hums along and the atmosphere is pretty good. Zhou Yan is not a picky performer.

As soon as the song "young and beautiful" was finished, Zhou Yan saw Mariah Carey, who was sitting in the first row, stand up and wave at him, as if she wanted to say something to him.

Zhou Yan immediately turned his head to the other side, pretending not to see Maria, because he was afraid that this woman would do something weird again.

However, although he pretended not to see it, the audience at the scene saw it, and they all shouted Maria's name to remind Zhou Yan.

Reminded by so many people, Zhou Yan could no longer turn a blind eye. He could only pretend to have just seen Maria and smiled at the microphone, "What do you want to say? Maria?"

Maria did not speak, but waved to Zhou Yan, indicating that Zhou Yan should give her the microphone.

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes helplessly and could only take off the microphone and handed it to her.

After getting the microphone, Maria said nothing and started singing directly, "I've seen the world..."

While singing, she raised her hand to the audience, asking everyone to sing along with her.

When Zhou Yan was playing the violin just now, the audience wanted to sing along, but they were more restrained, still afraid of affecting Zhou Yan's performance, but now that Maria was leading the singing herself, they naturally had no scruples and sang along wantonly.

The emotions they had suppressed before were now released because of the chorus.

Indeed, it was too uncomfortable to hold back when you wanted to sing.

Zhou Yan stood on the stage, listening to the chorus from the audience, and couldn't help curling his lips. Maria was indeed a restless person.

But to be honest, with her leading the chorus, the atmosphere on the scene was indeed much better, and Zhou Yan was also much more relaxed.

Originally, Zhou Yan only wanted to play two or three songs and then finish, but when he saw so many audiences and the stage was well-made before going on stage, he was embarrassed to leave after playing only two or three songs, otherwise the audience would be very disappointed.

After all, it would take at least half an hour to stand in the audience.

Anyone who waited for so long and only listened to two songs would be disappointed.

So Zhou Yan just decided to play for a while longer, at least half an hour.

Now that Maria is leading the chorus, Zhou Yan can rest for a while.

…

"Isn't this the song?"

At this time, two girls passed by the door of Record surplus and stopped when they heard the singing coming from the store.

"Maria's "young and beautiful"." said another girl.

"Is there a performance inside?"

"It should be. It seems to be a record store, but the sound... sounds like Maria."

"Yes, it sounds like it. It's probably the original soundtrack."

"No, there's no accompaniment, and it doesn't sound like it's played."

"Let's go in and take a look..."

The two girls walked into the record store with curiosity, and were immediately shocked by the scene in front of them. In a corner of the record store, a large group of people gathered, and the people in the back row all stood on stools.

Maria's voice came from inside, and everyone at the scene was singing along.

"What's going on?"

The two girls jumped a few times, trying to see what was going on inside, but the people in the back row stood too high and were covered tightly.

One of the girls was brave enough to run to the back row and squeeze her head in between the waists of two audience members, and then she saw Zhou Yan standing on the stage.

As for Maria, she couldn't see because she was standing in the audience.

The audience in the back row felt a head squeezed in from the waist, and almost fell off the chair.

"What are you doing?"

"Who is singing?" the girl asked with a smile.

"Of course it's Maria, can't you tell?" The man curled his lips, ignored the girl, and continued to sing with the others.

Hearing that it was Maria herself singing, the girl hurried to report to her companions.

"It's really Maria."

"Why is she here?"

"I don't know, I really want to squeeze in and take a look."

Just when the two girls were thinking about how to get in and see Maria, a few more people walked in from outside the door.

"What's going on in here?"

The two girls immediately said, "It seems like Maria is having a concert."

"Wow, Maria."

...

Before the chorus ended, many people poured into the record store, filling the aisles between the shops more and more.

The staff saw this situation and hurried to report to Hoylen.

Knowing that more and more people were coming, Huo Yilan was surprised and happy. In order to let more people see the performance, he immediately led people to maintain order. First, he asked the people in the last row to get off their chairs, and then lined up for the newcomers.

Although it was still difficult for short people to watch the performance in the back row, it was much better than before.

Zhou Yan was on the stage. When Maria finished singing with the audience, he ran to take the microphone back from Maria.

But Maria held the microphone tightly and even stepped onto the stage and said to the microphone, "Are you enjoying the singing?"

"Enjoy it!"

"Do you want to listen more? Do you want to sing?"

"Yes!"

Getting the answer she wanted, Maria smiled and said, "I am also very happy to sing, but I can only sing this one song today."

"Oh~" The audience was a little disappointed.

"Don't be disappointed, the new song "People Like You" written by Y for me has been filled in with lyrics and will be released in a while. Then we will sing "People Like You", okay?"

Hearing that the new song was about to be released, the audience became excited again.

"Okay."

After promoting her new song, Maria also did not forget to promote Zhou Yan, "Y will have a concert in a while, everyone should go to support him, okay? Then we can go together."

"Okay!"

After saying this, Maria finally returned the microphone to Zhou Yan. (End of this chapter)