Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 173 Dilian A-list Stars

The contradiction between the growing material and cultural needs of the land and the backward social production.

It has long been transformed into the contradiction between the growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development.

Before the material and cultural needs brought about by productivity gradually turned into material comparison needs, the federal government urgently put the brakes on society.

Therefore, the Dilian did not evolve into a situation where no matter how the productivity developed, the distribution would always be uneven, causing some people to starve to death from exhaustion and have no place to live.

But after solving the problem of excessive material and cultural needs of society, new social problems also arise.

When people shift their main focus from material and cultural consumption to spiritual and cultural consumption, the threshold for spiritual and cultural consumption has also been infinitely raised.

There are no poor people materially, but there are many poor people spiritually.

The prices of cultural products, knowledge products, virtual items, etc. have skyrocketed.

Among them, the concert tickets of A-list celebrities are the hardest hit area.

After people no longer have to worry about material things and their materials are restricted by the government, people have nowhere to spend their money, so they naturally pour into various entertainment industries.

In front of the dressing table, Dilian A-list star Wang Mengting sat in front of the mirror, letting the makeup artist in the mirror do the final finishing touches to her clothes and hair accessories.

Agent Huang Jing was dressed in a professional manager's uniform and looked through the small window at the headless audience holding glow sticks and luminous signs with "Wang Mengting and a heart" written on them.

This is a huge ring-shaped building with seats all around. Singers and staff will appear in the center of the stage only by elevators.

It can accommodate up to 30 people at a time.

This may seem like a lot, but when compared to the 500 billion permanent population on Earth, it’s actually not much.

With Wang Mengting's super popular status among singers, her ticket has actually exceeded 1000 million yuan a long time ago.

Although people in the interstellar era are very wealthy, it is still a sum of money that most people cannot afford.

After the sky-high ticket prices appeared that year, Wang Mengting directly canceled the performance fee.

Singers no longer have to pay for their performances, and the organizers naturally have no way to sell tickets aggressively. Tickets are first come, first served.

Among all the first-line stars, Wang Mengting is the only one to do this, and she is also the first to do so after entering the interstellar era.

Because of this, her already high popularity in the Dilian League skyrocketed to the sky after that, and she was later rated as the most popular singer in the entire Dilian League.

People originally thought that she would start raising prices again because of this, but they did not expect that her "charity" concert would come to an end.

To this day, she has completely secured her position as the No. 1 singer in folk influence and remains free of charge.

"Xiaoting, actually I really don't think you should take anything away from me."

Huang Jing withdrew her gaze from the cheering crowd outside and looked at Wang Mengting who had completed the final appearance work.

Wang Mengting smiled and said, "My dream is to let more people hear my singing, and I can do that now."

Seeing that Huang Jing wanted to say something more, Wang Mengting dragged her light blue dress and walked over, putting both hands on the other's shoulders.

"And think about it from another angle, if it wasn't for this, maybe my fame wouldn't be as big as it is now?"

Huang Jing hesitated for a moment. As the threshold for traditional concerts became higher and higher and ticket prices became more expensive, it has gradually changed from mass entertainment to niche entertainment.

And Wang Mengting’s completely free approach allows her concert videos to be played for free on the Internet.

In today's era when almost every video watched on the Internet is charged at the price of a video, the spread is not insignificant, and the influence is not insignificant.

Of course, the price is that Wang Mengting already has to work part-time in other jobs to support her singing career.

Either it’s completely free, or it charges a high fee, otherwise you will be deemed to be disrupting the market order.

If the increase in productivity in the Republic of Quillak has infinitely pushed up the price of material products, then the situation in the Dilian is that the increase in productivity has infinitely pushed up the price of spiritual and cultural products. "That's true."

Huang Jing thought about it and stopped worrying.

For now, Wang Mengting has decided to continue working as a singer even if she loses money.

Everyone has their own aspirations, some people want to use it to make money, and some people just want more people to hear their singing and get happiness from it.

When Wang Mengting saw Huang Jing looking away, she ran towards the elevator with a little bounce like a little girl.

Seeing this, Huang Jing hurriedly said: "Walk well, don't fall..."

Sure enough, the next second, Wang Mengting, who was wearing a long skirt, stepped on the skirt, turned around and was about to fall gorgeously.

But as if she knew in advance that she would fall, she used this force to help her up the elevator instead of lying directly on the ground.

Huang Jing was stunned for a moment.

When Wang Mengting gets carried away, she easily steps on her long skirt in excitement and completes the achievement of falling flat on the ground.

And this is the first time that Huang Jing has been in charge of her affairs for so many years.

"Do not worry."

Wang Mengting waved goodbye with an innocent smile.

However, just as Huang Jing breathed a sigh of relief and went up the elevator, the makeup artist next to her shouted in horror: "The crown is crooked!"

Huang Jing also suddenly realized something. She was about to stop the elevator, but found that it could no longer be stopped.

Thinking that Wang Mengting would appear on stage in that "sloppy" look again, Huang Jing couldn't help but cover her forehead with her hands.

The crown on Wang Mengting's head tilted to the side with a large movement that she wanted to throw but didn't, and her clothes also had some unnatural wrinkles on the top and bottom.

Despite this, the moment she got up on the lift, the scene still erupted in loud cheers.

Above Wang Mengting's head, six huge screens took half-length photos of Wang Mengting at close range.

At this moment, her slightly "awkward" appearance was naturally clearly visible in everyone's sight.

Friendly laughter came from the crowd, and Wang Mengting seemed to suddenly realize that there was something wrong with her appearance, and quickly straightened the crown on her head.

The scene burst into warm applause.

Wang Mengting never debuted in a condescending way. The image she has always created is to be close to the people. Since the concert was completely free, she has been moving towards the direction of a civilian goddess.

This kind of mistake might be a demerit for other celebrities, but it is a complete plus for Wang Mengting, who is like the girl next door.

Wang Mengting showed a slight apology, and then entered the state naturally.

Taking a deep breath, he looked at the crowd of fans waving light sticks in front of him.

As she closed her eyes and opened them again, the world suddenly became brighter.

In perception, bright spots of stars appear in the crowd, just like the stars in the sky appear in front of our eyes. This is the world of spiritual senses.

Her throat moved slightly. It was obvious that Wang Mengting was used to this kind of world. The moment the song sounded, the atmosphere at the scene reached its climax in an instant.

"Hand in hand to reach the end of the world"

This is Wang Mengting's famous song, and it is also a song that will soon leave her name on the entire galaxy, and even three thousand galaxies.

(End of this chapter)