The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1231 Intermission
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Cheers and shouts extended all the way from the stage to the backstage. At this moment, the staff standing backstage also temporarily stopped their busy steps to witness the band receiving the trophy on August 31st, and then welcomed their triumphant return with the most grand and enthusiastic attitude.

The bustling crowd stood on both sides, spontaneously raised their hands, and lined the aisles to welcome the members of the August 31st band.

High five!

cheer!

jump!

The heat wave spread across the entire stadium. Even the audience in front of the Staples Center could feel the sensation. They couldn't help but turn their heads to look over there, craning their necks, curious about the scene there.

What happened backstage?
This scene is really novel.

At award ceremonies, people are already accustomed to the “rules”.

Grand and serious, rigid and dignified, it is an adult world, a formal occasion, everyone must behave properly, even the increasingly younger Grammys are no exception, everything has a routine, from dress to words to behavior, everyone must put on an invisible shackle, unconsciously get into the constraints of rules, and show their "mature" side.

Over time, those faces began to become monotonous, and everyone quietly concealed their true self. Then the edges, colors, joys, sorrows, and anger were all tightly wrapped up by the public relations image and could no longer be seen. The award ceremony slowly lost its vitality.

Rules are indeed necessary. Without rules, there will be no order. However, when rules become a kind of shackles, we may eventually forget how to breathe.

This year's Grammy Awards are especially true.

It all started with an accident, an accident that happened exactly one week ago.

On the stage of the Super Bowl, the grandest and most important professional football tournament of the year in North America, an accident that shocked the world occurred in front of more than 100 million viewers.

On the Super Bowl halftime show stage, top superstar Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson's sister, was the guest performer. This is the most important annual feast stage in the entire North America and is known as the "American Spring Festival Gala."

Jenny invited Justin Timberlake, who had just gone solo from NS Boy, to sing a song with her.

At the end of the performance, Justin suddenly reached out to Jenny's left chest and tore off half of the leather bra on that side without warning, resulting in an X-rated moment on the national live broadcast.

Because of the powerful influence of the Super Bowl, this incident caused a sensation.

Afterwards, it even triggered an official investigation by the FBI, which became the famous "Super Bowl Incident."

Although both Jenny and Justin responded immediately, the truth was not clarified but instead fell into a maze.

Some people said that this was Jenny's self-promotion, some people said that this was a performance that Jenny and Justin had rehearsed and conspired in advance, some people said that this was a pure accident, and some people said that this was Justin's little prank that turned into a vicious incident.

Etc., etc.

However, the result is obvious. Jenny suffered unofficial low-key treatment for many years and her career has never recovered; Justin, on the other hand, has been smooth sailing and his career is booming.

Taking this as an opportunity, all live broadcasts in the United States were required to be delayed by at least thirty seconds or even one minute to give TV stations time to respond to unexpected events.

The influence is always there.

Later, exactly fourteen years later, Justin performed again at the 2018 Super Bowl Halftime Show, but Jenny had already disappeared.

It is precisely because of this that after the Professional Football League announced the guest performers, Justin was once again besieged by the media, and the league was no exception.

Some media even questioned whether the NFL had banned Janet Jackson, and the league officials had to respond, "There is no ban." Justin also said in an interview that he had been trying to save Janet Jackson's career, but unfortunately there was no result, and his words revealed regret and remorse.

This also indirectly confirmed the speculation that this was a sudden action by Justin alone, a purely personal prank, but it triggered unimaginable chain reactions.

Later, in 2021, Justin publicly admitted for the first time that the Super Bowl incident was his fault and publicly apologized.

Over the past two decades, the "Super Bowl Incident" has had a profound impact.

And right now, this incident happened just one week before the Grammy Awards. You can imagine the sensation it caused throughout North America.

People often have the illusion that North America is open to these topics because of the "scale" of Hollywood movies. However, the reality is not the case. The conservatism and strictness passed down by the Puritans can still be deeply felt here. In terms of openness and scale, Europe is truly bold and frank.

Therefore, the impact of the "Super Bowl incident" on the Grammy Awards is very direct.

CBS announced that the live broadcast time was delayed by five minutes, which means that there was a five-minute gap between the picture seen by the audience in front of the TV and the live picture, which shows the seriousness of the situation.

At the same time, the Grammy Awards had originally scheduled a collaboration between Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross as the opening performance for the second half, but now Janet has been directly blocked. Janet will be absent from the awards ceremony, and the Grammys have to temporarily adjust the order of performances.

But, ridiculously, the culprit of all this, Justin Timberlake, still attended tonight's awards ceremony unscathed.

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It is against this backdrop that tonight's awards ceremony was filled with an indescribable tension and anxiety, and CBS was on full alert.

The constraints and oppression are more severe than ever before.

Until the band showed up on August 31st.

They were different from the moment they appeared on the red carpet, and then there was a mysterious aura that disappeared. The vigorous vitality of running wildly, laughing and crying loudly, penetrated the shackles, thrived and tenaciously broke out, showing off the vitality of youth, sweeping across the audience like a hurricane, firmly grasping everyone's attention and focus.

Break free from the constraints of frameworks and rules, find yourself, find purity, and enjoy happiness.

Involuntarily and uncontrollably, I began to look forward to it, and curiosity emerged from the cracks in the rocks and bloomed proudly.

It’s been a long time since I last felt this way. Really, really long since I last felt this way.

Amid the hustle and bustle, the first half of the Grammy Awards ceremony came to an end, and the entire Staples Center was bustling with activity.

However, what's interesting is that the focus of everyone's discussion was not Beyonce, who gave two wonderful performances in the first half, nor Justin, who appeared at the award ceremony with a smile on his face as if nothing had happened, but the band August 31st, who disappeared throughout the whole process and still no one knows what happened to them.

In addition,

After Jenny missed the opening performance in the second half of the year, who did the Grammys arrange as a replacement?
"...August 31st Band?" Someone in the crowd made a guess.

But they were quickly rejected with "How is that possible?", "They are not qualified enough?", "Is there a temporary adjustment tonight?", "Speculations are fun but please be more reliable?", "Are you sure they won't continue to get into trouble if they serve as substitutes?"

If not, “So what the hell are they doing?”

Blah blah blah, the Staples Center, both on and off the stage, was still extremely lively during the break, erupting with incredible energy.

(End of this chapter)