The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 942 Yi Bao is naughty, but Mom loves him.

He openly revealed his supposed emotional wounds, causing countless fans to become emotionally invested and protective of him, automatically projecting a "wounded and stressed" image onto his scumbag behavior in their minds.

Compared to blatant, baseless rumors, this kind of expression, which clearly indicates a shift in behavior, is obviously more readily accepted by the emotionally driven brain.

To put it bluntly, it's about playing the victim to gain excessive sympathy.

There's also an even more dramatic and advanced version of this trick, commonly found in various fields of literature, film, and animation: It's not me who's wrong, it's the world!

Although the formula is old, its appeal lies in its direct targeting of human nature.

As we all know, no matter how times change, this method of targeting human nature is always the most effective.

With a series of moves, the momentum of the entire B-side of "25" is currently no match for the group that loves to speak out. Under the topic of "sympathizing with Zhou Yi", it is not a problem for one person to produce eight hundred blog posts and news articles titled "Feeling sorry for Spike".

In addition, Warner Music's massive spending across all traditional media channels ensured a comprehensive and thorough coverage of everyone interested in Zhou Yi's new album.

I'm not worried about you not buying, I'm worried about you not paying attention!
If you're willing to pay attention, you're contributing to this popularity—and listening to the song again, its high quality is enough to offset the aversion some people feel due to excessive marketing.

People admire strength. If you have the ability, any marketing you do is understandable. An extremely high-quality album will solve all the problems of people who are dissatisfied with saturated marketing, and they will take out their money to support you.

If you still refuse to accept this at this point—then I'm sorry, you're not my target. I don't need to serve you, much less grovel to gain your approval. Let's all go our separate ways.

You can annoy me or criticize me, I don't care, whatever. Maybe your criticism is just a way for me to increase my popularity.

The most direct consequence of this approach is that it has sparked a frenzy of searching for Zhou Yi's ex-girlfriend within the Chinese community in the United States.

After all, judging from the album, even if Zhou Yi (the author of the Book of Changes) exaggerated or artistically embellished some aspects, the basis for the events should be real. Especially regarding Los Angeles, which is explicitly mentioned in the lyrics, the Chinese community in that city directly launched a "patrol" under public pressure.

These days, Chinese families who can normally mingle at high-end parties in Los Angeles are all from wealthy and influential backgrounds. Everyone wants to know which family they belong to, and it's such a pity they abandoned the pure love version of the I Ching. Female Chinese students from Jiangxi province received even more attention, experiencing what it's like to suddenly become a prominent figure in their social circle.

"From an age perspective, I think the range can be narrowed down further."

"Same age?"

"That's not necessarily true. There's a high probability of fluctuation. It might be up or down by two or three years. Look at the people in China who have been rumored to be dating Zhou Yi the longest; they're all a bit older than him."

"That makes sense..."

The group of international students, who were bored and had nothing better to do, began a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation, narrowing down their targets significantly.

Unfortunately, no Chinese woman has come forward to claim that she is the girl in question at this critical juncture. After all, those who meet the criteria are not short of money, so everyone has to fend for themselves.

There are quite a few American women who want to take advantage of the chaos and make a name for themselves.

"Yes, I am Spike's first love. We met through the internet; we fell in love online."

“I was Spike’s first love. In the early 1990s, I went to China with my family for half a year, and that’s when I met Spike.”

“I was his first love. The reason Spike cast the Olsen twins as the female leads in his music videos was because he had a deep memory of my signature hair color and skin…”

ABC, Fox, and even the BBC, which loves a good spectacle, and many other television and print media outlets in Europe and America, knowing full well that Zhou Yi's first love could not possibly be white, were still willing to pay her a fee to identify her.

Ratings and sales soared, and this wave of "admitting mistakes" swept across most of the European and American modeling industry—forget about the facts, just ask yourself if you like reading this story collection, it's all unofficial history!

"According to unofficial historical accounts, Spike's first romantic encounter in high school was with a white woman..."

New York, NBC Building, the recording studio for Saturday Night Live.

With his arms around the waists of two blonde, blue-eyed, wavy-haired women, Zhou Yi began to play his part on stage as soon as the curtain rose. Wearing sunglasses and striding confidently, the two blondes fed him grapes one by one.

In the room, which had been decorated as a living room, an old radio was playing the latest and most fashionable news from the United States.

"Oh, darling, can't you really say that I was your first love?"

The woman, with Zhou Yi's left arm around her waist, sat down on the sofa with him. Amidst the screams of the audience, she lifted her skirt to reveal her legs, clad in flesh-colored stockings, and draped them across Zhou Yi's thighs, rubbing against him from time to time while acting coquettishly.

"No, no, no, darling, your first love should be me. Please, I really need this appearance fee."

The woman Zhou Yi was holding on the right was wearing a lace camisole. As she spoke, she fed him another grape, hooked her arms around his neck, and looked at him seductively. Her fair legs were not wearing any stockings, but the way her red-soled high heels dangled from her toes was enough to excite a man.

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a long-running variety show on NBC.

It has been running since 1975 and consists of a series of comedic sketches using satire and parody techniques. Each week, different guest hosts and musical guests join the show to perform with the regular cast.

The famous funny scene of Jim Carrey, the three of them sitting in a car shaking their heads came from this comedy variety show.

Clearly, this is a parody of the recent spate of "ex-girlfriends" trying to ride the coattails of trending topics.

"Why can't it be you two together?"

After spitting out the grape skins, he opened his mouth and drank the imported wine that the woman had fed him through her mouth, as if she were a tyrant indulging in wine and women. Zhou Yi smiled brightly as he enjoyed the beauty's company: "Only children need to make choices, don't they?" After saying that, he tightened his hands that were caressing their waists, making them fall into his arms: "As an adult, I want them all."

The two women couldn't help but exclaim "Ah!" and then smiled shyly. Without saying a word, they rested their heads on the man's strong chest muscles, their eyes smiling as they drew circles on his chest and abdomen with their index fingers.

audience:? ? ? ?

host:……

staff member:……

Although they had already rehearsed the script, when Zhou Yi actually uttered those witty remarks and saw the audience's initial stunned reaction followed by a burst of cheers, they couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

It has to be Spike, he's got the flair.

Over the years, countless musicians have been guests on Saturday Night Live, but most musicians are not actually good at this way of promoting themselves, especially those superstars from the 1980s and 90s.

They may be incredibly flamboyant in private or wild and flamboyant during performances, but they often perform poorly in front of the camera on performance-based variety shows like "Saturday Night Live," resulting in the show failing to achieve its intended effect.

Zhou Yi is a truly rare musical genius who consistently demonstrates genuine emotion and authenticity in all his public and private moments.

The absurd scene, coupled with the news broadcast on the radio, created a striking contrast, subtly debunking rumors while generously incorporating historical anecdotes, even giving the media and the public further room to elaborate.

Which unofficial history says that one can only have one first love?

The constant applause and screams from the audience already demonstrated the show's effectiveness. After the episode aired, this episode of "Saturday Night Live" completely distorted the potentially illegal doxxing aspect of the "search for Spike's ex-girlfriend" segment.

It turned into a deconstruction and carnival of meme culture.

Anyone can be an ex-girlfriend. Even if you weigh 200 pounds, you can still claim to be an ex-girlfriend. After all, you can say whatever you want.

"I'm a guy, can I be your ex-girlfriend?"

"It's difficult, but not impossible. Let's go, let's try to change Spike's sexual orientation!"

A barrage of humorous comments emerged, and a potential public opinion crisis that could have escalated into social discontent was thus averted amidst the post-broadcast celebrations.

Zhou Yi's flamboyant line on the show, "Only children make choices, I'm an adult, I want them all," has become a famous saying. His smug eyebrow waving after embracing two women has even been turned into a GIF, enjoying the same widespread popularity as the Jim Carrey head-shaking GIF of a car seat.

A large number of women were so stimulated by this scene that they screamed and cheered, imagining themselves as the ones being caressed by their idol's hands, which further increased their affection for this bad boy.

When Lao Bao comes to criticize something as immoral and indecent, even the normal Zhouyi fans don't need to lift a finger. This group of girlfriend fans and mothers whose sympathy has turned sour take the initiative to attack and beat Lao Bao to a pulp.

In short, it boils down to one word: Yi Bao is naughty! Mom loves him!

Women love bad boys, and being in a relationship is exactly what makes a bad boy attractive, isn't it?

Besides, neither of the two idols Spike has paid homage to so far are respectable people. You old-timers used to be huge fans of David Bowie and Mick Jagger when you were young, didn't you?
Let's not even mention David Bowie's indiscriminate charm with both men and women. Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger's romantic entanglements are still not paid off. You can count how many mothers his sons and daughters have in public, and who knows how many more he has in private. Yet, he was still knighted at Buckingham Palace three years ago.

Now it's not working with Spike anymore?

Isn't this a double standard?!
Mick Jagger was both amused and exasperated that he had never expected to be dragged into a song about the I Ching.

At his age, he's long since let go of these external fame and fortune. When excited media came to interview him, he was quite happy to say a few words: "David once told me about Spike, saying that he was a great young man, but now I think he's still not as good as me."

Ok? !

The reporters perked up: "Mick, where do you think Spike is inferior to you?"

Do you think Spike has tarnished the spirit of rock and roll?

"Do you think Spike's rock music doesn't even deserve to be called rock?"

"Do you have a problem with Spike himself?"

"..."

All sorts of controversial topics were thrown at this legendary figure who has already made his mark on the history of world music, as if they were free.

It would be better to just go and do it; otherwise, they would be severely criticized and denounced!

"neither."

Rolling Stone legend Mick Jagger laughed: "I had my first daughter when I was 22. Spike? He'll be 26 in a few months and doesn't have a single child. Isn't that worse than me?"

reporter:"……"

Damn you!
Old bastard! You old fool!
You rock musicians are all bad!

(End of this chapter)