"I have to admit that the two songs in the EP are very good. "Above the Clear Sky" is completely opposite to last year's "Angel's Gaze", but the country flavor is accompanied by piano, and people have to sigh the strength of Miss Genius and her excellent singing. It's unbearable. But another dance song "Stop stop stop" has two styles compared to last year's "Flying Polka". Although both songs are very nice, the latter is playful and the former is rebellious, and the latter is catchy More suitable for singing.
But according to the lyrics of "Stop stop stop" maybe we should cheer, Miss Genius has finally entered a period of rebellion? Of course, it would be a big mistake to have this idea. Angela was rebellious from the beginning, but it was not reflected in the music, was it? To be honest, it would be really bad for her to be so lazy.
Is there a singer like her who has been in popularity for a few years but has only held six concerts? Well, she's not just a singer, but who has only released EPs like her for two years in a row? The fans' request is actually very simple, and at least there was a concert last year as a consolation, but what about this year? Could it be that Miss Genius intends to gradually move behind the scenes like her film career? Trust me that wouldn't be a good idea, and neither would the fans.
Well, anyway, these two songs are still top-notch, and we still have good songs to enjoy until then. "
—Bruce Caswell, October, Rolling Stone
Angela's latest EP was released at the end of September. Even if there is no publicity, fans who can browse the website every day to follow the news are very aware of the release time. Coupled with word of mouth, the sales of the EP are easily achieved in the first week of its release. Song reached 400,000! There are really not many singers who can be so attractive in the music industry.
However, complaints from fans are also widespread.
"Yes, the two songs are very good, I like it. But if this is an album I would like it even more, so everyone knows Angela is very busy, but I still hope she can make more good songs." One When the male fans in New York responded to the reporter's question, they answered with a little grumbling.
Such fans are still reasonable, and some people even complained: "We can queue up all night for her or run from the east coast to the west coast for her, we don't demand anything, but at least she doesn't perfunctory us like this! Just two songs song, and you can't be on the show without publicity, do we just make her hate it?"
Having said that, are these fans still obsessed with Miss Genius' music, or is that what makes Miss Genius alluring? Of course, the fans are not the most miserable, and there is nothing to discuss in private. If it is discussed on the forum, after a few follow-ups, a fan will pop out and say sourly, "At least you can still listen to her songs. , but we can only miss her image in previous films".
Fans usually retort, but eventually it turns into mutual comfort, following to Angela's dedicated website co-hosted by Pixar and Disney, or leaving a message on Angela's blog.
Perhaps feeling the double resentment of fans and movie fans, Angela's blog updated an article shortly after the October issue of "Rolling Stone" magazine went on sale:
"I'm sorry to make everyone worried and sad, believe me, that's not my original intention. It's just that the plan has not changed quickly. At the beginning of the year, I would never have thought that this year would be so tight. But anyway I will The important work in hand will be completed within this year, and everyone knows the reason. However, this will definitely not be the case next year.
I believe that everyone will be satisfied by then. Yes, including the movie, I have said before that I have participated in an excellent movie, but if you want to see it, I am afraid you will have to wait until 2001, because the shooting cycle It's too long. In addition, although there are still more than two months before the millennium, I wish you all happiness in advance. "
This relatively sincere article has won the understanding of the vast majority of people. After all, the disputes in the media since April have been obvious to all, so the fans temporarily died down and the fans began to discuss the Miss Genius in the film that was being filmed. Which one will be in. However, it is indisputable that many young people are also curious about Angela's "The Pianist", whether they are deliberate or mistaken.
Boom! With a muffled sound, the sharp arrow was firmly inserted into the bull's-eye. Angela, who was still moving, looked at all this in surprise, and after a while, she called out: "God! I hit the bull's-eye! This is true. !"
She cheered and threw away the bow and arrow in her hand, grabbed Natalie next to her and turned around several times: "Did you see it! Nat! I can hit the bullseye! Can I hit the bullseye? "
"Yes, I saw it, and it's very clear, can you not be so excited? It's only been hit by an arrow, and it's only 50 meters away." Natalie, who was picked up, said with a wry smile, pointing to the arrow on the other side. When the coach Van Eddy looked at it, the other party shrugged helplessly, obviously getting used to it.
"Okay, I did go a little too far," Angela, who had calmed down a little, finally put Natalie down, and said with some embarrassed reasoning, "You know, this is the first time since I learned archery. Hit the bullseye."
"Yes, I saw it, so are you going to show off like this or continue practicing with Mr. Eddie?" Natalie interrupted her rudely, without saving any face.
"Continue to practice, of course." Angela quickly raised her hand, stuck out her tongue in her heart, picked up the bow and arrow that had been dropped on the ground, and returned to where she was before and smiled at Van Eddy: "Sorry, Fan, let's continue."
"Okay, Miss Angela," the archery coach sighed, "I'm glad you hit the bull's-eye, although it's basically luck, but at least it shows you're still making progress. Then next..."
Archery practice began as early as Angela returned to Boston in early September. Although "The Lord of the Rings" will not start until the end of October, if you don't hurry up and practice, let alone master the bow and arrow, you may not be able to set the posture. If you go to New Zealand at that time and you really can't even put yourself in a good position, you can imagine what kind of expression Peter Jackson will look like.
While Angela is overseeing the editing of "The Pianist" while practicing bow and arrow — a makeshift studio in Boston is open again — while also juggling schoolwork, there's still time. She has now gone to the College of Arts and Sciences to major in literature with an elective in East Asian history, with fewer courses than when she was elective last year. For Angela, as long as she successfully gets her graduation certificate, nothing else is considered.
"Angie, it's time." After Angela's training came to an end temporarily, Alizee appeared in front of her and pointed to the outside and said in simple words.
"Have you arrived yet?" Angela nodded to her archery teacher: "Then let's be here today, Mr. Fan."
"No problem, Miss Angela, but I want to remind you that if you want to be basically correct at the end of October, you have to spend a lot of time practicing." Van Eddy said kindly.
"I see, I will try my best to do my own practice." Angela said seriously, then took Natalie's arm: "Okay, let's go to the studio now, you can see how I supervise the post-production soon. editing work."
The two have been living together for almost a month. Although they have classes in different classrooms and Natalie has a relatively large number of classes, most of them appear in public places as long as they have time. If not everyone knew that they were good friends long ago, there might have been people who guessed that they were a couple.
In fact, this statement is still circulating in a small area, after all, the two even live in the same dormitory. But more people believe that if they are really same-sex lovers, then isn't it possible that Angela's friends are also her same-sex lovers
Conan Doyle once told everyone through the mouth of Sherlock Holmes that once all possibilities are ruled out, no matter how incredible the remaining one is, it is the truth. However, this situation will only be based on enough information, so the truth is always far away from the public.
In any case, Angela and Natalie's cohabitation life is very pleasant, although the two always sleep in the same bed - either in Angela's bed or in Natalie's bed - but not much sex , more often they are chatting or reading their own books, or they are reading poems for each other. In short, the two became close as soon as they returned to the bedroom, and Natalie even learned guitar and violin with Angela in her spare time.
There is not much spare time like this. Angela has to go to the studio every day to supervise editing and practice archery, while Natalie has more courses than her. Obviously Natalie does not just want to do like she does. Zhang graduation certificate.
Because Angela is now living with Natalie, she naturally hopes to go back to school every day, but she will inevitably encounter a situation where she is full of inspiration. At this time, she has to stay in the villa outside for the night.
After a few times, Natalie couldn't help but become more and more interested in her later work, and she was also very concerned about the progress of "The Pianist", plus Angela's villa in Boston had never been to, so she found an opportunity to propose Wanting to visit her studio, Angela agreed without thinking, and then chose to bring Natalie to the villa today.
"I don't think I've made you wait too long?" Angela asked after getting into the car.
"Of course not, it's actually quite interesting to watch you practice archery." Natalie suddenly showed a narrow smile at this point: "To be honest, whenever I sketched the appearance of you playing Legolas archery in my head, I always Will want to laugh inexhaustibly."
"Because it's funny?" Angela twitched the corners of her mouth.
"No, it shouldn't, anyway... I can't tell the feeling." Natalie pursed her lips and smiled.
Angela snorted softly, glanced at Buckett, who was driving, and suppressed the urge to do something with Natalie. There were times when she really wanted to drive by herself, but after all the hard work she finally got her driver's license in her hands again—no longer provisional. And it just so happened that her godfather gave her a car key for her birthday this year, and now she's following behind with Alizee.
Maybe it was the aftermath of the drag racing in 1995. She drove fine at the training ground, but she was always a little scared once she hit the road. She always felt that something might happen at any time, so after trying a few times, she could only give up the idea. , maybe it will be better in a few years
"Miss, it seems that there are paparazzi following in the distance." Buckett said suddenly at this moment.
"Really?" Angela couldn't help frowning slightly, "Can you get rid of them?"
"If only we should be able to, but White and the others..."
"It's okay, let White send Lily in through the main entrance, let's go through the other entrances." Angela made a decision.
"Actually... there's no need for this." Natalie suddenly whispered. Angela couldn't help raising her eyebrows and turned her head. When she met Natalie's gaze, she was slightly taken aback and understood. If she was accidentally exposed because of covering up, it would cause more speculation.
However, Bucket had already spoken to White Pass in another car at this time, and Angela couldn't make any changes immediately, so she shrugged Natalie and gave her a reassuring look. Following her, he sighed again: "Well, I knew that after the release of the EP, Sparrow should arrange some shows, otherwise the paparazzi would not follow him everywhere."
"It's mainly because you're too lazy to release only one EP, so it's no wonder fans are dissatisfied." Natalie chuckled.
"It's easy to say, if a new album is released, do you want to sign it? Do you want to be on a show? Do you want to hold an event?" Angela glared at her angrily, "Then what I'm doing now, do you want to let go?"
"Since you can let go after the EP is released, of course you can also let it go after the album is released." Natalie spread her hands seriously.
"When did the smart Nat start to become an idiot?" Angela couldn't help but squinted her eyes, but finally shook her head: "You know, Nat, the reason why I want to finish "The Pianist" at the end of the year, There must be a reason, definitely not just to answer those doubts."
"Okay, I see." Natalie's mouth curved slightly, patted her arm and said nothing.
As soon as she arrived at the studio, Angela immediately changed her personality. The usual little willful childishness was thrown out of the sky and replaced by a serious, quasi-strong woman, but she seemed to be a little impatient today.
"What's going on now?! I want lens 44 followed by lens 51, why did it become lens 52!
"No, no, give up this 1 minute and 24 seconds of the shot, and add the one with a full length of 2 to 2 minutes!"
"Gentlemen, please be serious with me, our work is very tight and we don't have time for useless work!"
It's no wonder that she only had four months to complete the post-editing, which is indeed a bit tight for such a film. And maybe it's not even four months, and if The Lord of the Rings starts on time before Halloween, she'll have to go to New Zealand! Fortunately, Williams is in charge of the soundtrack now. Angela only needs to concentrate on editing. As long as the efficiency is high enough and she spends money on overtime, it should be possible to release it at the end of December, and there is almost no need for publicity.
"Do you usually look like this?" Natalie, who had been a bystander from the beginning, finally took the opportunity to ask in Angela's office during her break.
"What do you mean? Harsh, even a little unkind?" Angela laughed, her brows couldn't hide her exhaustion, but she was very excited.
"Don't worry, my dear, they are all people who have worked with me many times. They are basically my team. They all know what kind of person I am at work." The girl said in the room I walked back and forth and stretched a lot.
"Okay, I have to admit that you who acted, you sang, you who directed, and you who edited are all completely different you." Natalie, who was sitting in the chair, looked at Angela with her chin up, sighing. said.
"You mean, today I have a different charm than before?" Angela brought her head closer, stretched her thumb and index finger under her chin, with a narcissistic expression.
"Yeah, disgusting charm." Natalie slapped her head away.
At this moment, Alizee, who was holding a stack of documents, knocked on the door and walked in: "What you want, I have classified it."
"Thank you, Lily." Angela took over the document and browsed through it, and Alizee then handed another glass of water.
"Thank you, with your help, things are always in order." Angela said thank you again, but Alizee didn't have an interface, she just reminded: "The takeaway will arrive in a few minutes, remember to come over for dinner."
After she walked out without looking back, Angela could only shrug her shoulders, while Natalie said jokingly, "You hired Lily to be your assistant? This is child labor."
"I know, I have always obeyed the law." Angela rolled her eyes at her.
Speaking of which, he had promised Sparrow to find a personal assistant at the beginning, so he couldn't let him continue to play the role of the nanny all the time, right? But... Lily? Well, she did a really good job, not to mention helping organize documents or acting as a humanoid memo to remind herself what to do, she just said that she wanted to drink water and she immediately handed over the water glass!
Very sweet, isn't it? After all, she has been living with herself for almost a year, and more importantly, Lily knows her secrets like Annie, but her age is a problem...
Forget it, don't think too much about it now. Angela shook her head and pulled Natalie up: "Let's go, let's go eat pizza, I specially asked them to order a vegan pick you up, and then you'll know how popular I am!"
"Okay, narcissist." Natalie stood up angrily and funny, but Angela immediately hugged her and said in an ambiguous and seductive tone: "By the way, how about staying in the villa tonight? Like? We… can bathe together!"