American Entertainment: Taylor Swift wrote a song for the beginning

Chapter 255: Playing big and adding the finishing touch
In the evening, Ryan worked in the kitchen for half a day and prepared a big meal for Taylor.

"What's wrong with you today? Not only did you come back from get off work early, but you also prepared so many things for me?" Taylor seemed a little flattered.

"You've been running from city to city all day, and now you're finally back. I still have to count on you to make money for me." Ryan sat down next to Taylor and said with a smile.

Taylor picked up a piece of meat with his knife and put it in his mouth.

"That's true." Taylor smacked her lips and chewed. The sweet and sour taste particularly surprised her.

"If you want to eat anything in the future, tell me in advance and I will prepare the ingredients for you." Ryan said.

"Okay." Taylor nodded immediately.

Then he talked about the new song Long Live's ranking on the Billboard. After the recording was completed, Long Live was immediately released on the Internet. Although there was not much time for promotion, relying solely on online playback and word-of-mouth, Long Live has already entered the top ten on the Hot 100 singles chart. Now Taylor has the ability to consistently enter the top ten.

The current champion is still Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas, while Lady Gaga's Poker Face and Love Game are ranked fifth and sixth respectively. Another newcomer worth mentioning is Pitbull. The song I Know You Want Me by this bald Cuban has been on the chart for fifteen weeks and just moved up from third to second this week.

There are a lot of familiar faces in the 10-20th place, including Katy Perry's "Waking Up In Vegas", Malice's "The Climb", and Carrie Underwood's "I Do Not Hook Up". As for Taylor's previous hit single, Love Story has dropped to 40th place. Although there is a premise that new songs can absorb the popularity of old songs, even without new songs, the old songs may not be able to enter the top .

Although Taylor has high album sales, his performance on the charts was not as good as some of his competitors in the early days. Now he has made up for his shortcomings.

Ryan's last new song "firends" is still at the eighth place, following Beyonce's "halo". Ryan's song has never fallen out of the top ten since its release. Now the cumulative sales of various singles and EPs add up to 50 per day, not counting the physical sales. Even if he does nothing every day, he can at least make $ a day.

This does not include the upcoming Bad Room Carnival. Ryan just looked at the pre-sale data today. Compared with the previous Ultra Music Festival, the price of the two-day pass has doubled, and the total pre-sale box office has exceeded 100 million US dollars. After deducting the sales share of online tickets and various costs, it is certain that tens of millions will be earned, and this does not include the additional income from sponsors.

Considering that the performance has not officially started yet, the final box office is likely to be close to 200 million US dollars, and this is based on the premise that there is only one stage.

"We must build more stages for the Winter Carnival." Ryan has already begun to imagine the scale of the next one.

"This session hasn't even started yet, and I'm already thinking about the next one." Taylor also smiled.

"I've always been greedy." Ryan nodded.

That night, after Ryan finished his workout, he went straight to the bathroom. Taylor was already taking a bath in a bathtub that looked like a small swimming pool, with a layer of foam floating on the water.

That night, Taylor was sweating profusely, and his originally fair chest was also red.

"What's wrong with you today? So gentle?" Taylor raised his hand and stroked Ryan's cheek, and could see the bright red nail polish on his fingernails.

"Which one do you prefer?"

"I like both." Taylor kept kissing Ryan's cheek: "Nothing can separate us."

What if I knew there was a pregnant woman next door...

"I have to go to the operations company tomorrow afternoon. Since Ivanka left, no one has taken her place. I'm even considering bringing her back."

"Didn't his dad have a falling out with you over the bank guarantee?" Taylor couldn't help but ask.

"Her dad and I had a falling out, not her." Ryan raised his legs, ready to go back to jail.

"Are you interested in Ivanka?" Taylor's breathing stopped for a moment, and he couldn't help but smile.

"I heard she's pregnant."

"That's great, so you don't have to worry about him." Taylor smiled even more, obviously not realizing who the father of Ivanka's baby was.

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In the Shuangbai Park not far from the Memorial Park, a stage has been built. Its style is like a medieval fantasy castle, which is almost the same as the architectural style of the Orlando Bad Room. The stage design work was also completed by Virgil, and the construction work was carried out by the stage team led by Robert.

Taking into account the accident not long ago, Ryan has taken the security work to a whole new level this time. The diversion passages and railings at the entrance have also been laid. Ryan has hired two additional security companies this time, plus his own security personnel, which is three to four times the previous ultra. As for the revelers, they are not allowed to enter the park at all this time, under the pretext of "affecting the city appearance."

At this moment, several broadcast vehicles of CW TV station were already in place near the park. Since they had no previous broadcast experience, CW TV station specially borrowed an entire broadcast team from its major shareholder CBS. In addition to CW TV station, other reporters have also been stationed around the park, recording news materials from various angles.

Likewise, the rehearsal work will also start today.

The person on the stage at this moment was Lady Gaga. She was wearing casual clothes and went through the entire performance process with her dancers.

"I'm looking forward to what kind of performance costume you will wear on stage." Ryan ran into Lady Gaga backstage and couldn't help but greet her.

"It's definitely an eye-opener." Lady Gaga laughed.

Ryan really wanted to chat more with Lady Gaga, but there were so many artists backstage at the moment, and the place was not big, so the situation had become a little chaotic.

"Where's my guitar? I clearly put it here just now."

"Who will be the next one to appear? Where is the person?"

"Is there no place to rest?"

Ryan heard the shouts of three different people at the same time. According to the prior plan, the backstage directing work was to be handled by a director from the original ultra team. However, when so many people were gathered together, the problems that arose were far beyond imagination. The DJ's performance only required determining the repertoire and the props were just some DJ equipment, but the artist's performance involved much more performance arrangements.

Ryan had no choice but to take action himself.

Although there were numerous mistakes, the rehearsal was able to proceed.

"Ryan, based on the current situation...there won't be any accidents during the performance." Alex came to Ryan, reported his work, and said with a guilty conscience. Now he is in charge of the entire music festival team.

"We have to make sure the show goes off without a hitch," Ryan said to Alex.

"I understand." Alex took a deep breath. There were a lot of things waiting for him to deal with. The backstage was a mess, there were frequent problems on the stage, and even the venue outside had a lot of things to do. Not to mention eating and sleeping, there was no time even to go to the bathroom.

This is under the premise that all broadcasting work is handed over to CW TV station, otherwise it will only be more chaotic.

Alex was about to speak, but saw that Ryan had walked away and the Black Eyed Peas had arrived.

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"This is Ryan. I've spoken to him on the phone several times before." Will, the soul of the Black Eyed Peas, introduced him to the remaining three members.

As the hottest new star at the moment, the arrival of the Black Eyed Peas immediately attracted a lot of attention.

Ryan had never met the group members before, so he took the initiative to welcome them.

"Ryan, can you handle such a big scene? Do you want me to help you?" Fergie said with a smile.

"How can you help? Ryan doesn't need you. He is quite capable and has already started his own business." Will immediately shook his head, probably still remembering that Ryan had rejected him.

Then a staff member came over to the few people and checked the performance content for the last time.

"If we perform three songs, do you have time to rehearse? Besides, the equipment here doesn't meet the requirements. I think it's better to just perform one song." Will looked at the busy staff behind Ryan and chuckled twice.

They didn't think much of the music in the first place, and it was Jimmy's idea that they come to support it, and the price they offered was not high, which made Will even less interested.

"I understand your feelings, but we should stick to the original plan. The audience is looking forward to your performance." Ryan said with a fake smile, and of course he would not agree. "You are the boss." Will said helplessly, and then led the three members to leave.

"Why are you being rude to him? Are you still upset about him rejecting you?" Fergie looked back at Ryan.

"I didn't say that." Will shook his head.

"This is good too. Maybe after he joins, we won't be able to release those songs." Fergie said from a different perspective.

After the Black Eyed Peas left, Ryan met Eminem, Katy Perry and others. Eminem's daughter did not come with him today, probably someone else took care of her.

Luke and Kesha also came to join in the fun, and this time Kesha was Katy Perry's backup dancer.

Unlike their previous intimacy, it can be clearly seen that Luke and Kesa are much farther apart than before, as if they had a dispute yesterday. As the instigator, Ryan pretended not to see it and has been busy preparing for the music festival these days. He will free up his hands to deal with Kesa's affairs later.

It was already evening. Ryan looked around and found that there was a star who was not there at all, and he was a heavyweight star.

"I've sent someone to contact Beyonce. She said she's not feeling well. She wouldn't want to refuse the performance, right?" Alex replied when Ryan called him over again.

"I have to call her myself." Ryan thought about it and said.

He reached out to Beyoncé directly, ostensibly out of concern for her well-being.

"I just woke up this morning feeling a little uncomfortable. I also heard that the environment there is very bad, so there's no need to rehearse." Beyonce said on the other end of the phone.

She is currently on tour and probably wanted to take a break. As for the content of the performance, it is completely copied from the tour. Strictly speaking, even if there is no rehearsal, the performance effect is guaranteed.

But Ryan was worried and insisted on inviting her to come over today.

"Maybe I should go over and invite you?" Ryan said with a smile.

"Okay, then you wait for me, I'll be there soon." Beyonce responded.

When Ryan hung up the phone, she didn't expect that the "later" she mentioned would be four or five hours. In order to wait for her, all the staff were forced to stay here and could not leave work.

Although she was late, Beyoncé didn't seem apologetic at all. She just went through the motions of rehearsal and made a series of requests to Alex when she returned backstage.

"You are the person in charge, right? Don't make me wait too long. Also, prepare an extra lounge for me. The coffee here is too bad. After the performance, have my car pick me up here. I don't want to walk any more." Beyonce spoke rapidly.

Ryan had already left at this time, and Alex was alone facing the big star Beyonce. He had no choice but to nod and agree.

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Ryan had just come out of the operations company at this time. He neither went home nor went to the Mar-a-Lago Club. Instead, he returned to the bad room.

"The final version of "Levels" has been completed and has been sent to you via email." Avicii was waiting for him outside Ryan's office, and said immediately after following Ryan into the office.

Without saying a word, Ryan turned on his computer, put on headphones, and listened to the song several times. His expression did not look relaxed, but rather his brows were slightly frowned, and it was obvious that he was not satisfied with the final version of the song.

“I felt like there was something missing that made it not feel like a song.”

"Lyrics? Are you talking about the lyrics?" Avicii immediately agreed, he felt the same way.

"But the festival is only a few days away. Where can we record the vocals?"

“Why do you need to record it?”

Ryan's idea was to sample directly.

"Then as soon as possible, we have to look for it in the music library first." Avicii shrugged.

Ryan asked him to move a chair and sit next to him, and then he found a jazz song to play.

This listening lasted for several hours.

“I’m listening to music with Avicii, looking for something to sample.” Ryan pushes back his hair.

"Who knows if we can get it done tonight, maybe we'll never get it done," Ryan said.

"Got it. You go to sleep first." Ryan put down his phone.

"How about I go find it myself?" Avicii looked at the time. It was already early morning.

"No, I'm with you." Ryan shook his head, thought for a moment and then said, "But searching aimlessly like this is not a solution. You can start with the lyrics and get back to the theme of the song. What do you want to express?"

“That level of improvement, I don’t really have anything to say, it’s just pretty exciting, isn’t it?” Avicii shook his head.

Ryan thought of keywords and started searching for lyrics using those keywords.

After trying countless keywords, Ryan played the next piece of music casually.

"Ohh, Sometimes I get a good feeling, yeah~~~"

"I get a feeling that I never, never, never, never had before, no, no"

"Something's got a hold on me, yeah~~~~"

A loud black soul song came out from the speakers!
"That's it! It's done!" Avicii stood up immediately, his expression in ecstasy. He said with certainty that the feeling of the song was exactly what he wanted.

Ryan looked at the title of the song. It was a soul jazz song from the 1960s called "Something's Got A Hold On Me" from the most important female singer in the golden age of soul music, Etta James.

It was precisely because this song was once famous enough that Ryan retrieved it.

In front of Ryan, Avicii started producing, sampling only a few lyrics and, after adding some effects, cleverly integrating them into the original electronic music.

To Ryan, this song is completely different from the previous ones, and this singing voice gives the whole song soul.

It’s like the finishing touch!
A long-lost relaxed smile appeared on Avicii's face, and he felt liberated.

But when he turned around, he was shocked to find that Ryan seemed to be frozen.

After a while, Ryan smiled at Avicii.

"I have some new ideas now. The music festival is not long away, so we must hurry up and produce them!" Ryan immediately picked up the phone.

"Wait, Ellie Goulding, and come to my office now! I know it's three in the morning, but I think you don't want to miss your chance to become famous. If you don't want to get up, I'll find someone else."

"Okay, I'll wait for you in the office." Ryan nodded.

(End of this chapter)