Chapter 134: Break the Rumors in Front of 250,000 Viewers
Global Gathering is known as "one of the most important festivals in the world". It was first held in the UK, and in recent years has begun to tour around the world. This year it happened to be held in New York, USA.
Although Daishi Dance has worked with GD twice, this is the first time he has met Ye-eun. However, the first time he saw her, he knew why GD would find him to work with her specifically.
"A very cute girl." He smiled at GD, but unexpectedly the girl raised her hand and thanked him, "Thank you for the compliment, you are also very handsome!"
The Japanese pronunciation is occasionally not very standard, but it is still understandable. Daishi Dance widened her eyes slightly, "You can speak Japanese?"
Quan Zhilong smiled as he watched Ye Eun start to talk to Daishi in her halting Japanese as if she had caught someone practicing speaking. After she had confused the other party, he patted her head and said, "Let's talk business with Daishi first."
Yien slapped her forehead and said, "Oh my god, I almost forgot."
Daishi, who had heard about GD's recent scandal from Kwon Ji-yong before, suddenly spoke seriously after hearing GD's idea: "Instead of performing in front of Flo Rida, why not just invite him to join us?"
Quan Zhilong stared at him. Two seconds later, he curled his lips. The boy who had been slandered by countless people was full of confidence. "That's right. Nothing would shock those people more than the so-called plagiarist performing with the original."
The young man with dyed blonde hair wore a black baseball cap. Since they had met at a previous party, Flo Rida listened to him carefully and asked if they could listen to his song "Heartbreaker" first.
When the music finished, the language in the song was different, and the rhythm was completely different from his songs. Flo Rida raised his lips and invited this Korean artist whom he admired very much: "Come on, rock this music festival."
When Ye-eun heard Daishi's invitation, she pointed at herself in shock and said, "Me? I came here with him..."
Daishi smiled, "But isn't 'I' your song? It's an electronic music festival, just have fun."
After the rehearsal that day, Ye-eun was still confused. "Zhi-long, how many audience members did Daishi and Florida say there will be tomorrow?"
"There are about 250,000 spectators on this day every year." Quan Zhilong leaned against the window of the rental car with one hand on his chin. Because it was not a trip arranged by the company, there was only one Tiger sitting in the passenger seat.
Seeing Ye-eun's panic, Quan Zhilong rested his head lazily and casually. Even though the domestic public opinion has not improved, he has already made an appointment to cooperate with Flo Rida tomorrow. He is now relaxed. "What's wrong? Are you so nervous? Isn't our Ye-eun always arrogant?"
“…” Use derogatory words to describe her again! Too lazy to speak your Chinese! Ye-eun couldn't help but side-glance at him and sighed inwardly, "That's 250,000 viewers."
The biggest stage she's ever performed on probably had less than 20,000 spectators.
Quan Zhilong couldn't help but laugh, raised his hand to adjust the hat on her head, "Don't worry, you behaved very well just now."
Electronic music festivals are different from ordinary music festivals. Amid the DJ’s intense rhythm, performers are more needed to have stage presence than singing ability.
Seeing that Yi Eun was still clenching her teeth nervously, he reached out and quietly hooked Yi Eun's little finger. The laziness just now disappeared without a trace, as if she would turn into a soft little animal as long as he touched her. "Don't treat it as a performance, just enjoy it."
Quan Zhilong curved his eyes, glanced at Tiger Brother who was sitting in the front row, lowered his head and whispered in her ear in Chinese: "After the performance, we will sneak into the audience to play, without Tiger!"
Yien's eyes widened, and she turned to look at Tiger who hadn't noticed anything. She felt a little worried and a little excited. The feeling when he took her to play tricks secretly when she was a child reappeared in her mind, "Will it be..."
She was interrupted by Quan Zhilong before she finished her words. His eyes were full of smiles: "This is not South Korea, who would want to do anything to me?"
Ye-eun was instantly convinced and immediately forgot about the nervousness of performing in front of 250,000 audiences. Instead, she was filled with the excitement of being able to blend in with the audience.
The next day, Ye-eun wore an off-white Prada sweatshirt suit. Only the logo on the chest and the waist above the belly button on the upper body of the hoodie were black.
Backstage at the Global Gathering, Ye-eun lowered her head to adjust the crotch of her waist. The high-top canvas shoes on her feet made her instantly look over 1.7 meters tall, which made her not short even among the generally taller Westerners.
Kwon Ji-yong casually hung the jacket on his arm. This sunflower denim jacket was a sponsored outfit designed for him by LV's exclusive designer Takashi Murakami, which appeared once in the Breathe MV.
Before going on stage, Ye Eun smiled at him, stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the side of his face, "I'll go first!"
Almost at the same time, DJ Daishi in the front was playing a record and raised the microphone and shouted, "YG, 2NE1 Lee Ye-eun!"
Ye-eun put the hood of her hoodie on her head and trotted onto the stage. The bright lights shone on the stage, and she looked around and could only see the densely packed crowd below.
Even though almost no one knew her, the audience still raised their hands and cheered when they saw her appear. Regardless of nationality, skin color, or gender, at this grandest electronic music festival, the cheers of 250,000 people are enough to resound through the sky.
Ye-eun held the microphone and listened to Daishi playing the remix version of "I", and excitedly rushed from the right side of the stage to the left side.
The stage is so big that besides the DJ's turntable there are several huge speakers, and on the left and right sides of the stage are two luxurious LED screens.
The gentle and lyrical original song has become wilder and sexier after being remixed. Ye-eun's eyes curved as she shouted into the microphone: "What's up, New York!"
When she sang in Korean, which only a few people in the venue could understand, her loud female voice broke through the cheers of more than 200,000 people and the sound of DJs from a dozen speakers, and reached the ears of Quan Zhilong in the backstage.
He couldn't help but curl his eyes, shook his shoulders after putting on his coat, and raised the corners of his mouth, thinking in his heart: On this stage where everyone comes only for the music, start to truly enjoy the stage, Yeen.
Most of the audience members did not understand Korean, but were stimulated by the loud female voice that almost pierced through the electronic microphone. They all raised their hands and started dancing. No matter what style or move they were performing, everyone was dancing wildly.
On the stage, Ye-eun glanced at Daishi who had an encouraging look on his face. Ye-eun raised the microphone with a squinted eye and sang more confidently and loudly, with her movements becoming more unrestrained.
When she sang the high notes, her upper body leaned back slightly, and through the electronic microphone, the sound of her voice became something she had never heard before. However, the already loud female voice was even more brilliant with the addition of the electronic music.
Brilliant lights came from all directions, people on and off the stage were dancing wildly, even the DJ couldn't help but shake his shoulders and start moving to the music.
Even Ye-eun couldn't help but start dancing on the stage with everyone else. She sang and danced at the same time, but her voice was incredibly steady. Because this song has no choreography, she just freestyled with the flow. Halfway through the song, the adrenaline she was secreting started to take effect and she started to have fun.
Once she noticed the dance of the audience in the front row, she would choreograph it into her dance on the spot the next moment, with smooth transitions between the movements, even perfectly matching the beat of the song.
The director of the broadcast listened to the huge cheers and finally discovered that the supporting actors who were added on stage yesterday at the request of the guests were actually choreographing on the spot using the audience's dance moves.
"Capture this scene!" He couldn't help but cut out one of the large screens, with half of the screen facing the audience in the front row and the other half aimed at the guest performers on the stage.
On the huge LED screen, the white hat on Ye-eun's head made her face look even more childish. Asians already look younger in the eyes of Europeans and Americans, and this made them think that the supporting actor was an underage Asian singer.
The cheers almost broke through the sky.
As soon as the DJ introduced the guest performer, the Chinese and Korean audiences heard the familiar name and quickly took out their mobile phones and pointed them at the big screen. It was really her!
Asian artists have appeared at the Global Gathering! !
Yeen had no idea what was going on, but she danced even harder as she listened to everyone's increasingly excited screams.
She had almost never tried the form of choreographing with random dance moves, but in this lively music festival, she freely displayed her dancing talent that she could only occasionally display in Korea.
After singing a 4-minute remix version of the song, Ye Eun, who was enjoying the audience's cheers almost the entire time, opened her hands at the end, closed her eyes, and curved her eyes, enjoying the final cheers from the audience.
The ending pose that she thought was cool was incredibly cute in the eyes of the audience.
Where did this Asian kid come from!
Even after she stepped off the stage, Ye-eun had not recovered from her excitement. It was an open-air venue with 250,000 spectators. Even in the eyes of the audience at the back, she might have been just the size of an ant, but she had indeed performed in front of 250,000 people!
She couldn't help but lower her head and laugh secretly, "Great, Yeen, you are so awesome!"
Ye Eun couldn't help but think, hehe, I have to show off to the other members when I go back! Well, then work hard to stand on more and more stages together!
Kwon Ji-yong looked at Ye-eun, who forgot about him as soon as she went on stage, and raised his hand to his forehead. Well, she did enjoy the stage, but she enjoyed it so much that she forgot about him.
He shook his head helplessly, and after meeting Flo Rida's teasing eyes, he couldn't help but cover his face shyly.
Even though she knew that Asians would be more reserved than them, when she saw these two singers who looked less mature than middle school and high school students in their countries, Flo Rida couldn't help but curl her lips and put her hand on Quan Zhilong's shoulder, "They really look like the naive looks of my middle school love."
Quan Zhilong touched his nose and thought, it wouldn’t be as serious as that of a middle school student.
However, when he got on the stage, Flo Rida knew how could this be a middle school student. He was obviously a mature singer who could rock the stage.
Kwon Ji-yong was wearing a sunflower jacket, but his movements were very domineering. He squatted casually in front of the stage with one hand hanging between his legs, singing the lyrics that he had revised in two hours.
Even in the United States, he and Ye-eun did not change the song into English to cater to the European and American markets. His part was still in Korean, and only the part for Flo Rida was changed to English.
However, when the fast Korean rap came out of his mouth, the effect on the scene was still explosive.
He tapped the beat with his neck to the beat he wrote. Listening to the audience's cheers, he raised his eyes and looked at the audience below the stage sharply and domineeringly.
"Flo Flo Flo rida and GGGG—Dragon." He sang the last line of the first part before standing up again. His movements were crisp and powerful, not dancing but better than dancing.
"Flo Rida talk to me!" It was not until he casually raised the microphone and pointed it at Flo Rida that the audience realized that there was an American hip-hop singer here!
“I know there is no perfect person. I have done something wrong to go through this.” Flo Rida began to sing the lyrics written by this Asian boy. It was the first time for him to feat an Asian singer, but he enjoyed these lyrics that touched the hearts of almost all the artists.
"Can't we just be two circus clowns? Why did I lift the curtain?" He looked at a camera, curled his lips in disdain, and began to speak faster when the audience screamed again.
When he said Flo Rida talk to me, what he was actually saying was to himself. During Flo Rida's part, he turned and walked towards the DJ player, put on DJ headphones and started to spin the disc wantonly.
The intense yet beat-matching rhythm instantly ignited the whole audience. He is a singer and can be a DJ at the same time.
Quan Zhilong ignored everyone's screams and played the disc casually. Under the colorful lights, his eyes were cold. He quickly noticed the camera pointed at him and quickly looked away.
His hands moved smoothly like a professional DJ. When Flo Rida's speech speed became faster and faster, he also began to adjust the BPM.
Shaking his body to the rhythm, Quan Zhilong curled his lips and his eyes were fierce. When the other party finished his last line, he waved his hand to fix the DJ player at this BPM and began to rap quickly again.
Following the famous American hip-hop singer, his rap was no less impressive, breaking the stereotype of European and American audiences that there are no rappers in Asia. Screams rang out one after another, and the proud Koreans were naturally the loudest in the audience.
Quan Zhilong raised the corner of his mouth, his eyes were wild, he raised one hand and beat the rhythm up and down towards the audience, and instantly the audience began to dance along with his movements.
The rhythm that spread from front to back was like a human wave. At the end, Kwon Ji-yong couldn't help but roar and shouted loudly into the microphone: "This is G-Dragon! Follow me!"
Screams resounded through the sky again, and the two Asian faces left a very impressive image at a music festival where 80% of the audience were European and American.
The Korean media, which had been waiting to report on this music festival, hurriedly changed their previously prepared articles and quickly sent them out with photos of the two appearing on the big screen.
[GD and Flo Rida appeared at Global Gathering to collaborate on "Heartbreaker" to dispel plagiarism rumors! ]
[Two Asian superstars! 250,000 people cheered at the scene! ]
[Superb dancing skills + superb rap skills, YG artists will appear at the Global Gathering! ]
[Korean Dream is harmful to young people? Korean Dream takes to the American stage! ]
[In the United States, the queen of Prada and the only artist sponsored by LV in Asia took the stage at the same time! ]
When the news reached back to South Korea, public opinion online immediately reversed again. Even the Ministry of Culture and Entertainment reposted several related reports and even uploaded the performance video of the two directly on social media.
The rumors of plagiarism disappeared instantly because of this performance, and almost all the VIPs were in tears.
[Oh no, oh no, I'm going crazy! ]
[Ahhhhhhhhhh useful idols and useless me! ]
[Instantly burst into tears!] ! ! The most powerful rumor refutation from ancient times to now! ! ! ]
[GD and Ye-eun are the pride of Korea! ]
[No one listened to the rumor in Korea, but when it came on the American stage, public opinion turned around, kkkk This is worthy of our country. ]
[After all, this is a country that flies the American flag on National Day. ]
[Go directly to America to cooperate with the real me, our Oppa ahhhh! ]
[Those who swore that our Oppa plagiarized and cursed him for being a bastard, can they come out and apologize? ]
[I want to cry. GD must have seen a lot of comments online. ]
[How sad our Zhilong Oppa must be, he is actually only 22 years old... In our country, most boys haven’t even graduated from college at this age, right? Are you still at home acting like a spoiled brat with your mom and dad? ]
[Che Bai, I really want to cry, look, our Oppa did not plagiarize! ! ! ]
[Finally...finally I made it through! Those who have said that our Oppa plagiarized in the past two months should come out and apologize. ]
[Our country’s media kkk, yesterday: GD’s “Korean Dream” harms the growth of teenagers, today: GD and Ye Eun are the best embodiment of Korean Dream! ]
[Even one of them is not Korean. ]
[… As expected of Ye-eun, Lee Ye-eun who will never betray the client, hahahahahaha. Even at this time, she did not forget to wear clothes with the Prada logo and Fila shoes! ]
[I have witnessed the power of the media. ]
[I was so speechless by the official media that I almost wanted to laugh. They can give people whatever name they want, right? ]
[Thinking about it this way, is there anything wrong with Tablo’s academic qualifications? ]
[The controversy surrounding Tablo’s academic credentials started when a netizen said online that it was impossible for him to graduate from Stanford University in just three and a half years…]
[The same goes for Ye-eun and Ji-ryong... they were both accused of falsifying academic qualifications just because they made the revelation anonymously.] ]
[Didn’t the media start scrambling to report on the controversy over plagiarism after one netizen pointed it out? Suddenly I felt scared. ]
[Have we been played...? ? ]
Almost instantly, netizens changed their tone again and vented their anger on the official media.
The two people far away in the United States were unaware of this. Quan Zhilong held Yi Eun's hand and pursed his lips. He glanced nervously at Tiger Brother who was following him closely, and whispered in Chinese: "Are you ready? We are going to run away!"
"... Let's speak Korean." Ye-eun couldn't help but say, "Would you like to leave your Chinese for your Chinese fans if you have a chance?"
Quan Zhilong didn't care what she said. He held her hand tightly, curved his eyes, and rushed forward in the shocked gazes of Flo Rida and Daishi.
"!" Brother Tiger was startled and immediately followed the two people and ran out from the side of the backstage. At first, he could still follow them closely, but after all, these two people were smaller than him, and in an instant they disappeared without a trace in the crowd like a drop of water falling into the sea.
Brother Tiger took out his cell phone with a fierce face and called Quan Zhilong, but the call was hung up immediately.
The other party even sent a message to mock him: "Hiong can't even keep up and still be a bodyguard kkk, I'll give you a few hours off and enjoy the music!"
After reading the message, he shook his head helplessly and enjoyed the music! ? How can he enjoy himself if his employer has disappeared!
However, squeezed in the crowd, with spectators swaying wildly around him, Tiger, who was standing upright, noticed a group of Western faces looking at him. He stiffly and awkwardly stretched out his hands, twisted his waist awkwardly, and then twisted his buttocks.
However, under the satisfied gaze of the people around him, he raised his hands expressionlessly and twisted them.
It’s not an enjoyment, it’s just that I can’t help myself! Brother Tiger thought with a grim face.
The two people who "got rid of" the bodyguards were squeezed in the middle of the crowded audience. After looking at each other, they hugged each other like an ordinary couple in front of 250,000 spectators.
The atmosphere was hot and enthusiastic. The music and cheers that resounded through the heavens and the earth came towards them from all directions, and the sound pushed them closer and closer.
In this almost utopian world of music, everyone is partying, their bodies and souls are in a frenzy in this atmosphere, and fireworks that are set off in sync with the music explode over the heads of 250,000 people at every precise moment, with brilliant colors but fleeting.
At this moment, all the couples stopped screaming and hugged and kissed each other.
Yi Eun was stunned for a moment, turned her head to look at the couples who suddenly started kissing, then turned her head to look at Kwon Ji-yong who was staring at her, and suddenly raised her hand to grab his collar and pull him towards her.
Knowing that she wanted to take the initiative again, Kwon Ji-yong curved his eyes, lowered his head, held Yi-eun's face, and kissed her deeply.
In this world, tens of thousands of couples were hugging and kissing each other at the same time, and they were the same.
Their breaths blended together, and everything around them seemed to slow down. Even the intense lights and music were paused at this moment.
Time seemed to stand still, the light kiss gradually deepened, the blonde hair and black hair intertwined and entangled, Kwon Ji-yong's hands once again tightly clasped Yi-eun's neck, and domineeringly pulled her towards him as she wanted to take a breath and rest.
The atmosphere was warm and their breaths were intertwined, leaving only the two people's wet heartbeats and lingering souls melted in their eyes that were red with love.
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