Chapter 664: The Smile of the Ancient Aristocratic Style
When Duan Xiaochen was about to release a new English single, he went to the Stars and Stripes to do some necessary publicity.
Du Caige went with her.
Because the employee survey of the Stars and Stripes Business Department (not yet an official branch) of Chasing Dream Mutual Entertainment found that when the two of them bundled promotion, the effect was very good.
The Stars and Stripes greatly appreciate their romantic interactions and consider them a good match.
When they appear on the screen together, the audience buys it most.
At the Grammy party, the song "When a man loves a woman" that Du Caige sang to Duan Xiaochen was also widely sung, and was used by many young people to express their love.
This song is not only a popular song, but also represents a certain cultural significance.
In addition, Du Caige came to Stars and Stripes this time to participate in the annual banquet of Locus Magazine and receive the "Track Award".
The Locus Award was established earlier in Azure Star, in the 1960s.
This award is presented to the winner of Locus magazine's annual reader poll.
Usually the mainstream media believes that the attribution of this award can provide opinions and suggestions to Hugo Award voters.
For decades, the Locus Awards have routinely attracted more voters than the Hugos and Nebulas combined.
So this is actually an important award in the field of fantasy novels. In the eyes of fans of science fiction and fantasy, its authority is second only to "Shuangbi".
For example, if you win the Nebula Award or the Hugo Award, the effect is to make the reputation of the fantasy novelist "legendary +1".
If you get the Locus Award, at least you will have the effect of "Stars and Stripes Country Regional Legendary Degree +1".
Genres such as science fiction, fantasy and horror all compete for the Locus Award.
However, in the past two years, among the fantasy novels, none of them could compete with "A Song of Ice and Fire".
Let alone PK, they don't even have the qualifications to be compared.
The New York Times published a book review by fantasy literature master Nick Fury,
The book review stated clearly: "In my opinion, it is a very simple task to classify fantasy novels in this world. A simple dichotomy can be used to divide all fantasy novels into two categories: 'Ice and Fire' Songs', and general fantasy fiction."
There is also Manuel Max, the most famous fantasy literature leader of the previous generation, whose status in the world is similar to that of Tolkien on Earth.
Before "A Song of Ice and Fire", the novel "Dream of the Crimson Moon" by this Latin American literary giant was the fantasy novel with the most sales volume and the most translated texts on Azure Star.
He said on his Twitter: "Sometimes I wish Hemingway lived long enough to finish writing this great novel. Sometimes I wished Hemingway would die right away so don't worry about it He continued to slander, ruining this great novel and destroying my dreams."
Although this guy said that he wanted to die, Du Caige expressed his gratitude to this master of fantasy literature in an interview, and said modestly, "My literary attainments are not enough to be compared with Max. In addition, I feel very sorry that he is old. I'm old, and my writing speed is very slow. It's probably hard for him to live to see the completion of "A Song of Ice and Fire". We have an ancient tradition in Dahua, and we will burn the things the dead most desire to him, and I believe he will get these things in another-side. After Max's death, I will definitely burn the latest "A Song of Ice and Fire" to him."
In response to this, the funny old man Max responded by updating a tweet: "No need to be so troublesome. I have signed up for the 'human cryonics' program. If I feel that my body can't support it in a few years, I'm going to cryonics. When A Song of Ice and Fire is finished, remember to wake me up. If the rest of A Song of Ice and Fire is badly written, I'll be damned."
Du Caige also applied for Twitter before, although he never took care of it.
There are only two updates on his Twitter so far.
The first one is automatically sent by the system: Hi everyone, I am Hemingway, I have joined Twitter now, please follow me.
The second one was posted after the Grammy night: Mirror mirror tell me, who is the most beautiful singer in the world?
Although Snow White has not been published yet, people still don't understand the stalk of "mirror mirror on the wall, who's the...".
However, under this dynamic, there are still hundreds of thousands of comments.
Most of them are very simple one word: duan.
Now Du Caige released the third news.
"Sleepless in Seattle."
Everyone can't understand.
They asked him one after another: Why did you suffer from insomnia in Seattle?
Seattle is obviously a beautiful city.
Some people also said: Bah, you just came to Seattle during the day, and you are going to attend the Trajectory Awards dinner tonight, how can you have insomnia!
Du Caige did not answer these questions.
He's at the Museum of Science Fiction in Seattle, attending this year's Locus Awards dinner.
Writers and editors of fantasy literature gathered in small groups and discussed enthusiastically.
Of course, the most discussed by these writers is the plot of "A Song of Ice and Fire".
Don't think that writers stop chasing books.
Writers are just the kind of people who like to read books the most.
Writers, reporters, and guests discussed the meaning of those prophecies, and whether Daenerys, who has three little dragons, can restore the glory of her ancestors.
Discuss the war potential of Winterfell, whether it can prevail in the war against the southerners, and whether the Starks can succeed in revenge.
Discuss Arya's future fate.
They debated fervently about the persona of Jaime Lannister, and whether Stannis was really that stereotypical.
They skillfully quoted the clan language of each family:
"Winter is coming".
"Family, Duty, Honor".
"Victory is better than hard work"
"A Lannister must pay his debts! (Wrong you idiot! That's a proverb! The Lannister language is 'Hear me roar')"
"True dragons are not afraid of fire" (wrong again, that's a proverb, you're dumber than Bran. The Targaryen tongue is fire and blood!).
They predicted what would happen to the Ironborn attack on the North, guessed what Jon Snow would find north of the Wall...
The guesses of these professionals are not as reliable as ordinary netizens.
Of course everyone wanted to ask Du Caige to get the final answer.
But Du Caige just laughed and said nothing, resolutely not to spoil.
"Will Daenerys be able to return to her country? I don't even know. Mr. George Martin hadn't updated it when I crossed... I don't even know if Jon Snow is dead or not in the book! Although he is There is no death in the TV series, but the direction of the book and the show is different! It’s so uncomfortable! I really want to know if Jon Snow is dead or not! How can I be the only one suffering? I have to make you suffer as much as I do.” He Thinking with a smile on my face.
This smile was described by the reporter at the scene as "After winning this year's Locus Award, Hemingway showed a smug and proud smile. It is also a perfect smile with oriental humility and restraint, very old aristocratic style."
When Du Caige saw the report, he almost smiled crookedly.
What an ancient aristocratic demeanor.
Who would have guessed that his smile was full of malice.
...
It wasn't until Duan Xiaochen said with a smile on the variety show the next night that "Seattle sleeps at night because I fell in love and missed it all night" to promote her new song "When I fall in love" that everyone suddenly realized.
The two in-laws are working together here.
And once this new song was released, it immediately became popular all over the Stars and Stripes.
Although the music style of this song is a bit old, but Duan Tianhou's voice of nature is still appealing.
The lyrics can also withstand chewing, making people's lips and teeth mellow.
"When I fall in love, it will be forever. or I I never fall in love."
"In a restless world like this is, love is ended before it began."
"When I give my heart, it will be completely. or I never give my hear."
They are all very beautiful and can be called golden sentences.
If you only look at the lyrics of this song, it is like a poem and a picture.
And it is very in line with the Old aesthetics of the Stars and Stripes.
What's more, this song is a duet, and it's the first time that Hemingway dedicated his life in the Stars and Stripes... uh, he gave his voice.
It's kind of fresh.
However, although this song is very fresh and timeless, in this fast-paced society, it will lack stamina.
If only relying on this song, it would be difficult to stabilize Duan Xiaochen's position.
So this time Du Caige also prepared a song for her, the killer "Someone like you".
In the history of the earth, it once won the Grammys and won 3 heavyweight awards for Adele.