The more electronic an object was, the faster it evolved and its appearance changed. Thus, people were more willing to collect more ancient objects.
Natiwuzi had worked with many people to promote this guitar trend, and it had been a great success. Just look at the guitars that young students carried on their backs or carried on their shoulders.
Natiwuzi had also gotten the media to focus on some of the more eye-catching incidents, such as a certain male student from a certain school running to the female dormitory to play a guitar and confessing his love for her. Similar scenes had been seen in the movie "A Guitar Romance," and the students were imitating the movie.
The so-called fashion trend was determined by people. Natiwuzi had made ample preparations for this day.
With the promotion, not only had Natiwuzi's "NaZ" brand become popular, but Ji Polun, the male lead of "A Guitar Romance," had also become a minor hit.
Zu Wen and the others had mentioned that when Ji Polun followed the team for publicity, he would often go to university or high school campuses for publicity. He would carry a guitar every time, and his posture would be different. Students would fight to imitate him, and he had the momentum of becoming a popular young artist.
At the same time, the number of people watching Fang Zhao's live broadcast increased. Every day, Fang Zhao would spend an hour teaching and the other hour answering questions from viewers online. From time to time, he would play a few modified guitar scores. They were all relatively simple and suitable for beginners to practice.
There were many recordings from the Old Era, but most of them were no longer suitable for the New Era. A few modifications would be more acceptable. For the same song, the electric guitar and the acoustic guitar would play different versions, and the technique would be different. Fang Zhao would also explain to them the difference. For example, in the example he had given the day before, the acoustic guitar used more slide techniques, while the electric guitar used more push techniques.
Today, as usual, Fang Zhao answered a few questions from viewers online and ended the broadcast with a new series of guitars provided by Natiwuzi.
Because the market was too good, Natiwuzi's company had released a new series of guitars called "Rising Sun," which was targeted at students.
Today, Fang Zhao was holding a wooden guitar from the Rising Sun series. He plucked at the strings lightly. His seemingly casual movements produced a gentle and steady sound that resonated with the high-quality wood. The sound was transmitted from the live broadcast room along with the video.
Today, he was playing a song from the Old Era that a member of the online audience had requested. Recently, retro styles were popular, and many people had dug out songs from the Old Era.
Yesterday, he played an adapted birthday song for an audience member who was celebrating his birthday. That audience member was so excited that he directly tipped 10,000 yuan.
At the end of each day, Fang Zhao would choose a song from the list of songs selected by the online audience to be his closing theme.
"Ah — I wasn't chosen again! Could it be that there are too many people online and too many people requesting songs, so they can't see my message?! "
"It's over again today?"
"After watching today's live broadcast, I realized that my posture yesterday was wrong."
"I can't learn the guitar. It's so hard. I haven't made any progress in the past three days. Yesterday, I practiced the whole afternoon and my fingers hurt. But now that I think about it, the sound of this Old Era instrument is pretty nice. "
"Let's hire a private tutor, one on one."
"Fang Zhao is too awesome. He plays better than the private tutors my mom hired!"
"I heard that the tutor my dad hired for me is also watching Fang Zhao's live stream. He's Fang Zhao's junior."
"Actually, after watching Fang Zhao for a while, I find him rather handsome, especially when he plays the guitar. His entire temperament is different. Who knows when Fang Zhao's next lesson at Qiyin will be? I'm going to ask him for an autograph! "
"Count me in if you want to form a group to go to Qiyin!"
"I feel like Fang Zhao is a very gentle person."
…
The SilverLight team that had just finished a battle and had gone offline: "Hehe." Gentle my ass!
Indeed, Fang Zhao usually seemed rather gentle and didn't have the hot-tempered temperament of his peers. Even Silver Wing's internal staff said that Fang Zhao's temperament was much better than when he had first joined the company. He wasn't as unapproachable as he had been in the past.
Every time they heard such comments, the SilverLight team felt aggrieved. They were probably the only ones who knew of Fang Zhao's other side.
"It's almost the deadline, right?" Dorrian asked Jinro. "Still no news?"
"Three more days." Jinro opened the rankings on Fiery Bird's official website and looked at the top 10 teams from each continent. The teams below the top 10 were still competing fiercely.
"Right now, we are in seventh place. If we make another push, we can definitely make it to sixth. If Boss is willing to sweep again, we might even be in the top five, "Milo said.
However, they also knew that Fang Zhao didn't spend much time online now. Even when he did, he might not move with them. He was really slowly dropping out of the team. This was not hard to notice. Every day, the entertainment media was speculating on what kind of intense internal struggle was going on within the SilverLight team. They could not wait to fill in a three-million-word article on internal strife. There were also many people waiting for AliveAfter500Years to fall from the throne of first place, but he was still sitting there! He was sitting pretty steadily!
"Didn't Wayne say that he would release the promotional video the moment he received Fiery Bird's invitation?" Schwarzer was really looking forward to this. Although he hadn't seen the final product, he had seen some footage shot by Wang Tie. He had a feeling that the final product would definitely be especially cool!
"The deadline is on the 5th. We should receive the invitation on the 6th. The earliest we can see it is the 6th," Jinro said.
Actually, Jinro himself had not expected that he would actually make it to Fiery Bird's annual conference when he had signed with Silver Wing. He didn't know if people from other continents still remembered him after he had left the entertainment circle for a few years.
The team's promotional video had already been produced. Wayne had used Fang Zhao's piece for the soundtrack. Wayne had not expected that Fang Zhao would really be able to produce a piece that suited his tastes.
Wang Tie also didn't go online to follow them. He went back to his old profession, but he rejected all the requests for him to investigate AliveAfter500Years. What a joke. He had just jumped out of the fire pit, and Fang Zhao had promised not to find trouble with him. If he still tried to stir up trouble now, wouldn't that be courting death?
And after Wang Tie's rejection of requests was exposed, even more people were curious about AliveAfter500Years. What kind of person could make the dignified Yanzhou paparazzi king reject requests? A relative of the governor? Or one of Yanzhou's "great aristocrats"?
The closer it got to the January 5th deadline, the more the media's focus was on gaming. Even if Yanzhou's three big entertainment companies were to release year-end blockbusters, it would be very difficult to steal the limelight from Fiery Bird's annual conference.
Fiery Bird's annual conference was something that gaming fans all over the world were watching. The teams invited from Yanzhou represented Yanzhou, so they naturally had to pay attention, especially since they still had the number one player on the global leaderboards. Until now, their identity was still unknown. Not just Yanzhou, but people from other continents were also watching.
Finally, on January 5th, the deadline for Fiery Bird's rankings arrived.
The SilverLight team qualified for the annual conference as Yanzhou's sixth place team.
What made the SilverLight team unhappy was that the Zebra e-Sports Club team that they had previously pushed down had also squeezed into the top 10. They were in 10th place, and they had even squeezed in a day before the deadline, pushing down the original 10th place White Rhino e-Sports Club.
Rumors had it that Zebra e-Sports Club had used underhanded methods to climb the leaderboards. For the past two days, fans of White Rhino e-Sports Club and Zebra e-Sports Club had been at loggerheads online.
White Rhino fans cursed the Zebra team: Despicable, treacherous, and shameless!
Zebra fans retorted: If you can do it, then do it. If you can't do it, then shut up. Even if you want to resort to tricks, that's still your ability. If you have the ability, then try it too!
Both e-Sports Clubs had named themselves after extinct animals. This was a popular naming method in the New Era. For example, the globally renowned Fiery Bird was a good example. Extinct animals, extinct plants, and so on would all become a reference for naming companies, streets, and shops.
According to historical records, a rhinoceros was stronger than a zebra, but this time, many people joked that the zebra had kicked the rhinoceros down. News agencies that were watching the commotion even published a comic of a rhinoceros and a zebra fighting.
On the 5th, Fang Zhao was teaching at the Qi 'an Academy of Music. Because of the recent trend of retro music, the number of students attending his classes had increased. Furthermore, Fang Zhao's live broadcast program had increased his popularity. If not for the Qi' an Academy of Music tightening its security and restricting access, there might have been even more people crowding around Fang Zhao.
Nowadays, Qi 'an Academy of Music's current students and graduates were in high demand. Many Qi 'an Academy of Music's current students would take on part-time jobs. Those who studied musical instruments would work in restaurants that required live performances, or they would post their information on online tutoring platforms to seek employment as a private tutor. In the past, no one would hire them even after a week of posting. After all, there were too few people studying musical instruments, and secondary school students simply did not have the patience. Now it was different. As long as they were from the Qi 'an Academy of Music, they would be contacted within an hour.
Nowadays, distance was no longer a problem in online distance education. Therefore, it wasn't just within Qi 'an City. People from all over Yanzhou were paying close attention. Qi' an Academy of Music's students' hourly pay tripled in a month. Now that retro music was on the rise, their hourly pay was going to rise again. Many people who did not specialize in musical instruments were green with envy and wished they could change majors.
Those who were willing to pay a high price to hire a private tutor wanted to hire Fang Zhao, but they could not afford it. Fang Zhao did not have the time to be a part-time tutor. Furthermore, even if they were able to hire Fang Zhao, there was only one person. There were too many people who wanted to hire him, and there was simply not enough. Therefore, the opportunity was given to those current students or graduates who were willing to take on private tutors.
And part-time tutors might not have the ability to teach, so they had to make up for it. Usually, they not only watched Fang Zhao's live broadcasts, but when Fang Zhao came to school to give a lecture, they would also fight to seek his guidance.
Fang Zhao did not hide anything and would share some of his techniques and experiences with them. When Old Master Xue Jing found out, he was very gratified. He had originally wanted to bring Fang Zhao on another global lecture tour in the new year, but unfortunately, Fang Zhao had to serve in the military.
After the end of the day's lessons, Fang Zhao received a call from Fiery Bird headquarters' sound effects team head, Hua Li.
"Have you seen the rankings? That newly formed team of yours isn't bad. They just formed and they already climbed to sixth place in Yanzhou. " Hua Li laughed. "The invitations for the annual gala have already been sent out from headquarters. Tomorrow, someone from the branch company will deliver them to you. Will you be attending the gala too? "
"Of course."
"When the time comes, let's have a good chat. You little rascal, you are really … too surprising."
Hua Li had long known who the person behind the ID "AliveAfter500Years" was. Quite a few people in Fiery Bird's core management knew about it, but they had always kept it a secret, so the outside world had no way of getting any insider information from them.
"The gala is on the 8th, and there are still activities on the 9th and 10th. Usually, we arrive a day in advance. You have to make preparations. When we arrive, let's have a drink together. I will introduce you to a few friends from the composing circles. They have long told me that they want to get to know this rising star. I just don't know what kind of expression they will have when they find out about your other identity, haha! "
Wayne had already informed Fang Zhao about the schedule. The gala was on the 8th, and on the 7th, they would set off for a hotel in Huangzhou that had been booked. The schedule was very tight.
For the next few days, Fang Zhao would not be able to conduct live broadcasts or attend classes.
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