In line with the theme of "Blank Space", it is called 'Night Elf'.
As the name suggests, the color palette is mainly black.
The theme tone also complements the rebellious and flamboyant Flower Princess in the background music.
After the third theme, the fourth song changed to the soothing style "Human" again. Lisa Collins, who was sitting in the audience, immediately fell in love with this song. The original singer of "Human" is Christina Perri. The background of this song is actually about a story about a robot falling in love with a human and being willing to give everything.
Compared to his memory of this song being used as BGM for video clips of sports stars, Simon prefers the meaning of the song itself.
In line with the content of the song, the fourth theme is called 'Steampunk'.
The perfect combination of the soft Victoria's Secret Angel and the hard-core mechanical elements, set against the backdrop of background music, once again gave the audience a wonderful visual feast.
The last theme, 'Pink Love', has a rap-style song in the background, and it is also the only male song among the five background music, called "Sexy Back". The original singer of the song is Justin Timberlake.
In the original timeline, "Sexy Back" was the opening of the 2006 Victoria's Secret show. Simon used the song as the closing music this time, and the theme style was also modified. 'Pink Love' naturally means all kinds of colorful colors.
When the five major themes of 'Psychedelic Angel', 'Heavenly Love', 'Night Elf', 'Steampunk' and 'Pink Love' all ended, an hour had passed unknowingly in the Chandler Theater lobby.
The Victoria's Secret Angels began to appear for the curtain call, and the audience in the hall took the initiative to stand up and applaud. This spontaneous affirmation of the show made Michael Bay in the backstage control room breathe a big sigh of relief.
For this hour, Michael Bay had been tensing his heartstrings, fearing that something would happen.
Fortunately, everything went well.
The originally planned backup plan does not need to be brought out.
Of course, there are more important things to be busy with next, the post-editing of the show.
All in all, he only had five days.
This is similar to the production pace of traditional TV series, but the requirements for the Victoria's Secret show are definitely much higher than those of TV series.
The curtain call in the hall lasted for more than five minutes.
When some audience members couldn't help but come forward and ask for autographs from the Victoria's Secret Angels on stage, causing other audience members to follow suit, Michael Baycai, who was worried that the situation was out of control, quickly directed the staff to coordinate the angels to return backstage.
In the past, professional fashion shows were not treated like concert stars at this time.
The Victoria's Secret Angels were very enthusiastic and patient when they saw someone coming up to ask for autographs. After being reminded by the staff, some girls were even a little reluctant. It wasn't until people around them urged them repeatedly that the girls turned around and returned to the backstage.
In the hall, the audience began to leave reluctantly after the angel army disappeared.
Some of them with VIP invitations rushed to the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills to attend the upcoming post-show party.
Backstage at the theater, the staff began to clean up and finish the show, while the Angel Legion had their final group photo session.
Seeing Simon, Janet, and two other girls appear backstage, Cindy Crawford, who was standing for a photo, hesitated, suddenly walked over, nodded to Janet, and said to the young man in front of her: "Simon, do you want to take a photo with us?"
Many people around noticed this.
Hearing Cindy's invitation, everyone else felt envious. However, if there was anyone at the scene who was qualified to take photos with a total of forty goblins, it was probably Simon Westeros.
However, Simon shook his head: "You guys take pictures, I won't pass."
Cindy did not give up, and simply stepped forward and carefully held Simon's arm: "Let's come together, well, I think Jenny won't mind, right?"
Finally, he looked at Janet.
Janet smiled and shook her head, and also pushed the man next to her.
Simon still refused and said: "Actually, I have obsessive-compulsive disorder."
Cindy was in a daze. What does this have to do with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Simon gestured to the Victoria's Secret Army who had basically completed their positions and explained: "If I stand in, it will look very uncoordinated, as if some strange guy has sneaked in."
Cindy finally understood this time.
Reluctantly, he let go of the man and said, "This is such a pity."
Simon refused and claimed that he had obsessive-compulsive disorder. Even if others had this intention, they would not be ignorant to join the Victoria's Secret Army.
After taking the group photo, everyone began to rush to the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.
The next day, mainstream fashion media was almost full of news about the just-concluded Victoria’s Secret show.
The information section of the Yigret portal also spent a lot of space on special reports, and a large number of photos of the forty Victoria's Secret Angels' shows were also released.
After the show, the appearance rate of the forty Victoria's Secret Angels in the media not only did not decrease, but actually increased again.
Information about several theme songs for the show was also frequently submitted, and "Rolling Stone" magazine did not hesitate to praise the five theme songs that will lead a new popular trend.
Victoria's Secret officials have also begun to further promote the upcoming show that will be broadcast on the ABC TV network on November 12.
Five days passed in the blink of an eye amidst the close attention and anticipation caused by the media hype.
November 12th.
The ABC TV network gave this show the golden eight o'clock slot.
At this time in the past, the most watched program was NBC's "Law and Order."
However, this time, according to real-time monitoring by ratings statistics agencies such as Nielsen, as approaching 8 o'clock in the evening, the ratings data of several major TV networks clearly began to tilt towards ABC.
By the time the opening credits of the Victoria's Secret show appeared, the real-time viewership of the ABC TV network had reached around 23.6 million, which was higher than the peak viewership of around 21 million for the new season of "Legal & Advice".
Not only that, the 23.6 million viewers are just the beginning.
The show begins with an aerial shot accompanied by Cindy Crawford's background commentary, looking directly at the Dorothy Chandler Theater at the Los Angeles Music Center.
The camera kept zooming in on the busy backstage of the Victoria's Secret show.
The background sound was also replaced by a nervous headset command, and at the same time there were close-ups of Victoria's Secret Angels getting ready to go.
"Cindy Crawford, take your place."
"This is Linda Evangolinstad."
"Claudia, where is Claudia?"
"Oh, my shoes."
"And Nadja."
“…”
"Prepare, prepare, last 30 seconds."
"music."
On the TV screen, there was a clicking sound like a switch being pulled down. Everything stopped for an instant, and the camera immediately switched to the theater lobby.
Immediately, the intro to "Angels" sounded accompanied by flashing lights.
The camera starts to switch quickly.
The prelude of about 50 seconds was about to end, and a voice came from the headset again: "Go!"
Cindy Crawford appears.
Stunning.
And, applause.
Michael Bay's "Three Axes" is fully displayed in the opening of just a few minutes.
From the real-time viewing data feedback, we can see traces of the audience's emotions being mobilized.
When Cindy Crawford finally appeared, the number of viewers quickly increased from 23.6 million at the beginning to 26.1 million.
Even if the ratings data is fixed at this point, the TV broadcast of this big show will definitely become a classic.
However, in the 1990s, the Internet had just emerged and cable TV had not reached its peak. Americans’ entertainment life was far less rich than it would be later.
Therefore, this exciting and fragrant fashion show attracted a large number of viewers.
Not only that, many viewers also reminded their relatives and friends to change channels through phone calls and other methods.
In Simon's memory, the live broadcast of the 1998 Super Bowl Victoria's Secret show directly caused network paralysis. This time, because it was broadcast by ABC wireless network, although there would not be a viewing paralysis, there were obvious signs that the crowds were empty.
When the first theme broadcast was completed, news came from New York that the number of viewers had exceeded the 30 million mark.
In this era, because several major public television networks are still in the monopoly stage, there are many TV programs with 20 million viewers. However, 30 million viewers is a threshold that is difficult to cross. It is a process of quantitative change to qualitative change. Usually only major award shows or sporting events can achieve such ratings.
The number of viewers of the first Victoria's Secret Show exceeded 30 million, which is enough to be recorded in the history of television.
Daenerys Entertainment's plan to make the Victoria's Secret Show the 'Super Bowl of Fashion' is worthy of its name because of the 30 million viewers.
However, 30 million is still not the end.
Speaking of which, due to the time difference between the east and west coasts, the real-time viewership data compiled by Nielsen and other organizations are not actually real-time data from the east and west coasts, because the west coast has not been broadcast yet.
This real-time data is more accurate and is an indirect prediction based on years of experience. The development of the American television industry has been nearly half a century. Although it is a prediction, with the support of a large amount of past data, this prediction is not too different from the reality.
Finally, at nine o'clock, the hour-long television broadcast ended, and it was still six o'clock in the afternoon on the West Coast.
Simon was still at Daenerys Studios in Malibu and received the real-time data from ABC immediately.
When the first Victoria's Secret Show was broadcast, the highest number of viewers had reached 41.7 million, and the average viewership reached about 35.2 million.
Just the average viewership of more than 35 million has ensured that the broadcast rights purchased by ABC for US$5 million were a profitable business. Usually for TV shows with similar ratings figures, $5 million is unthinkable.
Therefore, when the ratings data is released, ABC has already begun to explore cooperation for next year's Victoria's Secret Show.
Although it is only signed for one term, and according to industry management, other TV networks cannot intervene in the TV programs won by one TV station unless they voluntarily give up. However, the broadcast rights for next year's Victoria's Secret Show are definitely not 5 million. The U.S. dollar can be easily won.
On the third day, the accurate viewership data was released.
For the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, the maximum number of viewers broadcast by the ABC TV network finally reached 42.1 million, the average number of viewers was 35.5 million, and the rating for the core audience of 18 to 49 years old reached 23.7. In other words, all viewers in the United States The fashion show was watched by 23.7% of viewers aged 18 to 49, the most attractive audience group for advertisers.
The core audience in the United States in this era is roughly around 120 million.
The core audience rating is not the audience group watching the TV program in real time, but the base number of these 120 million viewers, regardless of whether these people watched the TV.
Therefore, the ratings of 23.7 are even more amazing. This is equivalent to about 28 million core viewers watching the Victoria's Secret Show, accounting for 80% of the total viewers. Compared with other public network TV programs, the core ratings are usually The audience ratio often only reaches 50% to 70%.
This also further increases the 'net content' of the Victoria's Secret show.
The live show on November 7 attracted only professional fashion media. As the program was broadcast on the ABC TV network on November 12, this time it triggered a big discussion in the all-media type.
The mainstream newspapers on both sides of the aisle, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, etc., have reported on the TV broadcast of the Victoria’s Secret show.
A group of media outlets that dominate American public opinion reported on it, and more print media naturally began to take notice.
For a time, words related to "Victoria's Secret" were everywhere in a large number of print media in North America. This trend also quickly spread overseas.
The Victoria's Secret brand has achieved a further leap in popularity through this show.
The 40 Victoria's Secret Angels who participated in this show are undoubtedly the most direct beneficiaries.
In the past, you could only increase your media exposure through various forms of climbing. Even if you succeeded, you would often just be a vase next to a certain singer or a certain star. This time, the forty Victoria's Secret Angels have become the absolute protagonists. , in media reports, the status of Victoria’s Secret Angels is no longer dependent on other people.
Facing the influx of cooperation invitations for Victoria's Secret Angels, major model agencies are overjoyed. At the same time, the first thing they think of is to ensure the status of their own Victoria's Secret Angels as much as possible.
It is conceivable that the competition for the next Victoria's Secret Angel spot will be extremely fierce.
The supermodel who was originally expected to become a Victoria's Secret Angel spokesperson but failed to negotiate due to salary and other aspects began to regret it.
However, the five Victoria's Secret Angel spokespersons have undoubtedly become the most stable ones.
As for the rest, everyone can only hope that a young man who has absolute control over this show will not make a major overhaul of the Victoria's Secret Army next year.
In addition, the five pieces of background music have also attracted great attention from music fans, who have inquired about the release of these song albums through phone calls and letters.
Daenerys Entertainment also soon announced that it will release a video of the Victoria's Secret show during the week of Thanksgiving.
As for the related single record, it will have to wait until at least next Easter.
Daenerys Entertainment’s purpose of doing this is of course obvious, which is to further increase the visibility of the Victoria’s Secret brand through video sales.
Among the enthusiastic reports, there is certainly no shortage of critical remarks.
Many conservative media figures have accused the show of being too gaudy and revealing, which could easily have a negative impact on young people.
ABC also responded quickly to this and will label the program TV-14 next year to remind that the program is not suitable for viewers under the age of 14.
Of course, when the time comes, it will be out of ABC’s control if children around them will continue to watch it.
All this noise, but the ultimate gain is the Victoria's Secret underwear brand.
After the previous Victoria's Secret live show, Victoria's Secret sales showed a significant increase. With the TV broadcast of the Victoria's Secret Show, related sales data increased significantly.