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Chapter 246 Punk Queen
Hayley Williams' dejected words instantly plunged the scene into a silent and weird subtle atmosphere.

Han Yi pursed his lips tightly, and the remaining smile on his lips lost a bit of joy.

Everything tonight was originally on the track he had planned, developing so beautifully.

The artists of Han Music made a good collective appearance for the VMA awards ceremony, and then the celebration party held at One57 was a great success. All the stars in the music industry were present, except Jay-Z and Beyoncé.Some of the meetings that Han Yi wanted to complete through this MTV Music Video Awards also came true.Even Han Music has been included in the list and preliminary contacts have been established with artists, managers, entertainment agents and other industry insiders who want to further contact and cooperate.

Including Hayley Williams.

Especially Hayley Williams.

She is a celebrity that Han Yi has always wanted to recruit under his banner since the founding of Han Music. She is indeed a pop culture symbol that he has loved since his teenage years.The background story he just told in front of everyone was not an anecdote that he randomly compiled to please Hailey on his own initiative.That ignited enthusiasm and inspired inspiration was indeed the source of motivation besides Michael Jackson that inspired him to resolutely choose to join the music industry even if he lived another life.

Han Yi did not discuss confessions with the artists in advance because he believed that the band called Paramore led by Hayley Williams was by no means his exclusive memory, but a popular band in Europe and the United States in the [-]s. Steeped in culture, it is the common wealth of all young people.

As the New York Times puts it, pop punk, like disco, was maligned in its infancy but has now become the soulful, nostalgic anthem of a generation of Americans.

And Paramore is right at the center of this nostalgia craze.

why?

In the 2000s, the most popular music styles and artists came and went in just a few categories - Teen Pop, represented by Britney Spears, NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, became popular with the strong rise of Southern rap. Andre 3000, Nelly, Kanye West and Lil Wayne all over the world, as well as the popular pop rock that flourished after the second revival of garage rock and punk rock, especially the duo of pop punk and post-grunge rock A prosperous situation for hegemony.

Time flies by and never comes back. When people put on the faded and yellowed era filter and look back at the first ten years of the new millennium when Windows XP came out and disappeared together, what remains in their memories is generally not The first two. Although Teen Pop is the most iconic, it is also the most limited.With rudimentary arrangements, monotonous lyrics, and unchanged melodies, these mass-produced assembly line products are just freebies for Disney or other large entertainment groups to bring out the delicate-faced youth idols in their hands.

Just like "Beverly Over", "Gilmore Girls", "Pool", "Basketball Brothers" and "Gossip Girl", these teen idol dramas were popular in the United States at the same time. Thinking about them again, the specific plots and lines Must have been blurred, because they are not worth remembering in themselves, only because the faces of Kristen Bell and Blake Lively who made these series famous remain fresh.

Guilty Pleasure is a phrase closely associated with popular culture in the English world.It means that people secretly like certain entertainment activities, such as movies, TV shows, music and games, even though they know that they are looked down upon, even despised and ridiculed by mainstream society.This term was invented in the [-]th century, but it would not be widely used in the media until the end of the [-]th century.

Yes, in modern European and American society, Guilty Pleasure can basically be equated with the teen pop trend that emerged in the 90s.Therefore, it is conceivable that when a music genre has reached the point where people have to close the door tightly, put on noise-canceling headphones, and listen quietly alone to avoid being laughed at, it will undoubtedly lose its place as a memory of the times. Qualifications.

To put it more accurately - everyone will remember it, but they will not actively mention it.For things that are not mentioned, the commercial value of subsequent delays will be difficult to maintain.

Just look at the current situation of NSYNC. Except for Justin Timberlake who has made a breakthrough as a solo artist, the other members have been buried in the noisy dust of history.

As for rap music, the 2010s was not its beginning, nor its peak. It was just a development stage worth remembering on its way to dominating the pop music scene. Although the works of Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Outkast, MIA, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z and Nas are excellent, the works of Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Future and J.Cole in the [-]s are not inferior in comparison, not to mention, like Eminem, Flagship figures like Jay-Z and Kanye West continue to release work steadily to this day.

They cannot be simply and narrowly defined by a time scale.

From the perspective of innovation speed, rap music and electronic music keep pace with each other, and they are the two genres with the strongest ability to replace themselves.Music fans in these two subdivisions can usher in a new trend that is exciting and in no way inferior to its predecessors every once in a while.Indulging in freshness, they will not let their pace break away from the rhythm of development, and naturally they will not inexplicably linger in a certain era and stagnate.

Pop rock, and its characteristic fusion product of this era, pop punk, was completely different.On the one hand, although the degree of commercialization is not far behind that of teen pop, even just looking at the name, it is not difficult to find that pop punk at least retains some independent blood that has been inherited from the garage rock wave of the 60s.

Of course, people in the industry don’t think that punk rock is any more advanced than pop music or other mainstream rock types. On the contrary, punk music is the music style with the simplest arrangement structure in modern pop music. It can be said that there is no one. I- IV-V, three chords, does it all.But fortunately, consumers don't care whether it takes musicians fifteen days or fifteen minutes to create these songs. All they need is the Ramones' concise and powerful "Hey, ho, let's go" in "Blitzkrieg Bop" ".

This is the loudest roar of resistance made by young people in the post-hippie society, who have lost their immaturity but are still young, facing the oncoming information age.

At the turn of the millennium, the American economy, which had been burst by the Internet bubble, fell into recession and the land was in a mess. The anger and glory of pop punk also reached its peak. From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, with Blink-182 as the core and musicians such as Sum 41, Good Charlotte and Avril Lavigne, pop punk became the three most popular signing genres at the time.Next, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and Paramore, in the late 2000s, officially pushed the music genre to a height that would be unreachable by future generations.

Among them, Paramore is the most eye-catching group.

Because this band, together with Avril Lavigne, who had the most commercial success in the first half, has an advantage that other pop punk artists cannot have.

The two gold-lettered signs are built around an unforgettable rock and roll girl with a distinctive image and bold personality.

Grammy Award winner, Billboard chart topper, and enduring survivor of trending Twitter topics—Hayley Williams is unprecedented, the biggest star in pop punk history, and the biggest star on the Warped Tour stage. Beyoncé.In the 2000s, when curtain bangs and studded belts were all the rage, rollercoaster-like riffs and mammoth choruses were still the latest fads in the music industry, people looked to MySpace as their compass and Alternative Press as their gospel bible, Williams achieved overwhelming success. There are two achievements that most stars cannot conceptualize in their lifetime.

She invented a color, and a mood.

The color is her bright, fiery, even, almost neon orange hair with a warm fiery red base.

Emotion is three letters, emo.

Emo is not only a musicological concept related to rock.It not only represents complex guitar arrangements, weird song structures, artistic bottom noises and dynamic rhythm changes, nor is it limited to free-spirited poetic writing and energy-filled emotional catharsis. Emo is a subculture, a heterodox group that coexists with pop punk.

It is a collection of confused souls who are overly sensitive, emotional, and filled with anxiety every second.

It was the fashionable dress and social trend that European and American teenagers thought was the coolest at that time.

It’s a way for children to find outcasts like themselves and feel less alone.

And Hayley Williams is the magnet, spark and wings for these children.

If people could go back in time and walk around any high school in the United States in 2008, it would not be difficult for them to discover the huge impact that Hayley Williams had on teen pop culture.On both sides of the corridor, at least half of the girls were imitating Hailey's outfit, while the other half were mocking this outfit to gain a sense of superiority and security.

Unlike many pop-punk singers, such as Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Hayley Williams can really sing - she stomps, sways, and soars through syncopated notes, whispering endless words , pouring out his despair, dissatisfaction and slightly playful compromise with the world.

This sense of us fighting the world together permanently marked the [-]s as "rebellious."

The undertone of the [-]s was rebellion.

Hayley Williams is the angriest yet happiest, petite yet most conspicuous, weakest yet most powerful of all rebels. "If you really like music, don't enter this circle..."

Billie Eilish repeats Hayley Williams' drunken mantra.

"Why do you say that?" She huddled in Zhao Youzhen's arms and sat up slightly, the doubts in her eyes undisguised, "I have to admit, Hailey, I was very young. When you were at your most prosperous, , I am only...seven years old, less than eight years old. There is no way to fully understand your music and the magic contained in Paramore."

"But I can see something different in other people, you know, my brother..."

Billie Eilish pointed at Phineas who was caught off guard.

"For a year or two, his bedroom was covered with your posters - only your posters, even on the ceiling. It could be said that he had to look at you every day before he could close his eyes contentedly. "

"Not true, Billie." With a somewhat embarrassed and shy expression, Phineas rubbed his cheeks, "...at least it's not on the ceiling."

"Maybe it's not on the ceiling, but it's definitely on your computer screen." Amid the good-natured laughter of everyone, Billie continued to reveal her brother's innocuous background, "What's the name of the girl you like most, Stephen?" Ni? She just had a Hayley Williams-specific plastic surgery in Ed Hardy, and even her hair was dyed the same color."

"Occasionally when I go out with my brother, we can meet her. My brother is so obsessed with her, and I also think she is the coolest and most beautiful girl I have ever met."

"She is my goddess, and in the final analysis, she is just a poor imitator of yours. So, my question is..."

Billie Eilish spread her hands and hesitated two or three times before asking her question.

"How could this be a bad thing?"

"I never said 'this' - is a bad thing." Hayley Williams prolonged the key words to emphasize, "Every time I attend an album signing event, I meet in the alley outside the record store. To those who surrounded me...hahaha, the little Hailies, seeing their fiery red hair and light green eye shadow, I felt like I was living in a wonderful fantasy. At that moment, I could feel that I It's...ah, I don't want to sound arrogant, but I really feel like I'm a part of their lives. It's a way for them to express themselves at that stage."

"Not only can they find comfort and inspiration in my music and lyrics, but they can also find their own identity..."

Under the influence of alcohol, Hayley Williams' narration was somewhat confusing, but compared to professional interviews in front of the camera, it was a bit more explicit and flesh-and-blood reality.From the glittering light flashing in the corners of her eyes, it was not difficult for Han Yi to see that Haili had really brought him back to those record stores that were now hard to find.

Maybe it was Tower Records in Atlanta, maybe there was a little boy named Khalid in the crowd surrounding her.

"How could I not be grateful for all this?"

"I think very few people can experience the feeling that you have experienced."

Ellie Goulding took a deep breath, her tone filled with sincere and unabashed envy.

"Very few, indeed. But not including you." Hayley Williams pointed at Ellie, raised her eyebrows, and smiled, "Don't be modest, girl. Not only in the UK, but here, your popularity The level is no worse than mine."

"I've released some hit singles, yes. Have they been on the charts? Yes." Ellie Goulding's speech in a small circle no longer contained those pretentious modesties, "But what I mean is , I’ve never walked out on the street and noticed that everyone was imitating what I was wearing. Not during ‘Lights’, not during ‘Halcyon’, and now – look at me now, it’s even less likely.”

Ellie's fingertips slid from her chest to her waist, showing off her figure curves to the friends present.In recent years, Ellie Goulding has indeed had a tendency to gain weight. In addition, she has a large frame and a large face. Once she does not pay attention to controlling her body shape, she will not appear plump, but bloated.

"I'm just an ordinary blond white girl singing weird electronic music that a lot of people say is out of tune from beginning to end. I know very well that I will never be like you, effortlessly being myself and being able to rely on music Performances and stage images lead the aesthetics of an era. In history, you can count the number of people who can do this on two hands, right?"

"For example, Brigitte Bardot and her off-the-shoulder dresses." Such a legendary actress instantly popped into Lana Del Rey's mind. Lana herself was obsessed with the retro style of the golden age of Hollywood, and she was fascinated by that style. Naturally, there was a lot of research into the dressing styles of the period.

"Ugh! Riri wearing high socks on high heels!"

Needless to say, this must have come from Rihanna’s biggest fan, Madison Beer.

"I think it's Jennifer Aniston...Rachel." Anne-Marie made a gesture in front of her forehead, "Honestly, although she doesn't like it, I think that hairstyle is still out of date."

"And Brigitte Bardot's smoky eye." Lana Del Rey thought of another example.

"Jennifer Beals, a big sweatshirt with only one shoulder exposed." Zhao Youzhen talked about an 80s Hollywood movie star who was also popular in South Korea. "After her, people started to dress like this."

"Who is Jennifer Beals?" Billie Eilish looked confused.Unsurprisingly, her question elicited a burst of "awwwww" sighs from the salon area. Zhao Youzhen touched Bi Li's head affectionately and affectionately, saying that let alone the 80s, she had not even experienced the 90s for even a day. The little girl feels the generation gap deeply.

"Brigitte Bardot and ballet shoes!" Lana Del Rey was still immersed in the beautiful world of Brigitte Bardot and couldn't pull it out, "And her little shorts!"

"Okay, Lana, it's a bit obscene if you mention Brigitte again." Ellie Goulding teased, then turned her attention back to Hayley Williams, shrugged, and continued with a smile. Said, "Look, Hailey, there are only a few people who can have such a profound impact on the fashion industry as you, even if we turn the clock back 50 years."

"So, to this extent..."

Han Yi couldn't wait to jump into the topic. Whether he was a fan who appreciates Paramore's music or a person who wanted to sign a contract with Hayley Williams, he was eager to know the truth of the mystery.

"Why do you still think that entering this circle is a mistake?"

"Because of people, man."

Hayley Williams froze for a few seconds, drank the remaining wine in the glass, smashed it on the table gently, lowered her head, and let her iconic fiery red hair cover her face with an unclear expression.

"Because the most beautiful things in this world are people...the most cruel ones are also people."

(End of this chapter)