Chapter 95 The Great Dancer(1/2)
"Lei Jin, Lei Jin, have dinner!"
"Mom, I'm changing clothes in the house and I'll come out soon!" Lei Jin heard his mother's shout and quickly smeared it on his bruised body with red potion, then put on his coat, opened the door and walked out.
"Hi, what are you eating today?" he said as if he was happy.
"I smelled a red potion!" The sister closest to him was scooping up a spoonful of mashed potatoes, and suddenly turned to him, sniffed, and said.
"Lei Jin! Are you going to fight again?" Mom put down the dish serving the dishes and said with a deep face.
"They called me a bastard!" Lei Jin said with gritted teeth in his eyes, gritting his teeth with his neck.
In this era, attaching importance to family is still a common value worldwide.
Even in the United States, the proportion of white single-parent families is only a few hundred percent, and black single-parent families are twice that of whites, and only about twelve percent. The reason for single-parent families is that divorce is only one aspect, but more often it is abandoned by the other party (usually the man). Therefore, children from single-parent families are often ridiculed by outsiders.
This is how the Lei Jin family is.
As soon as Lei Jin said this, his mother's eyes turned red and she could no longer say anything to scold her. She just wiped the circles with the back of her hands and tried to look calm: "Okay, kids, let's have a meal."
"I'm sorry, mom, I promised you not to fight anymore." Seeing that my mother was so sad, Lei Jin felt very uncomfortable and apologized with a depressed apology.
"It's nothing, it's all my mother's fault." Mom wiped her tears quickly, waved to him, let him go, then turned on his clothes, saw bruises and scars on Lei Jin's body, and tears flowed down.
This is her child, and the wound on the child is in the mother's heart.
"Mom, don't cry, I will protect you!" Lei Jin, who was still half a boy, helped his mother wipe away her tears and sweared.
"Lei Jin, before protecting your mother, learn to protect yourself first. Don't fight again in the future, okay?" Mom took out the family medical box, dipped it in red potion, and carefully applied her son to the wound bit by bit, and said softly.
"Okay!" Lei Jin nodded without wanting to make his mother sad.
But he didn't think so in his heart. If anyone dared to bully him again, he would definitely use his fists to defend his dignity.
"Let's watch TV, it's your favorite music and TV time soon." When I helped my son get the medicine again, my mother turned on the TV at home and turned to the cable TV station.
Cable television is a form of media that spreads from the United States.
Early TV signal transmission and reception were poor, and a tall antenna receiving device was required to install a high antenna receiving device on the roof of the building. Naturally, it is impossible for everyone to own such a device. Usually, the building owner will install it uniformly, and then split it into various households, and charge a small amount of fees to make up for the cost of installing the antenna.
Over time, this has become an industry.
Some buildings prohibit residents from installing antennas privately, turning internal wired charges into a fixed income. After this model continues to expand, it becomes a wired network in multiple buildings and a street area.
To this day, although the signal reception ability of TVs is getting stronger and stronger and can receive signals clearly without external antennas, the cable TV station programs produced by cable TV networks are more colorful and entertaining, and have become a more popular source of TV programs than ordinary wireless TV stations.
The only mother in Lei Jin family works alone and has a low income, so she only applied for one cable channel, and the others are public wireless TV programs.
Compared with comprehensive wireless TV, cable TV is more concentrated and more accepted by viewers who like a certain type of TV.
For example, the channel that Lei Jin's family applied for is mainly entertainment, including talk shows, music, cartoons and other entertainment programs. It is the channel that the two children in the family like to watch the most. Every evening, the family watches music videos on TV and has a happy dinner, which is the happiest moment for the whole family.
"Hey, it's the Michael Band!"
A music video ends, and the second musical TV is broadcast on the screen. According to the text, the performer is Michael's band, lead singer Jackson.
After the continuous black movement, the status of black people has improved greatly compared to before. However, the stage where black people play the leading role is still mainly music and sports, and is still at a disadvantage in other projects. The average performance of black people is indeed not as good as that of white people, so tens of millions of black people regard these two industries as the main employment direction in the future.
At the same time, the lightness and strong rhythm of black music have also conquered the vast majority of white music fans, making black music unable to enter the house and recognized by orthodox musicians, but it is highly sought after among ordinary Americans and has a tendency to gradually become mainstream.
"Beatit"! What does this mean?" When Lei Jin was still called the Michael Five Brothers, he started listening to their songs. It is no exaggeration to say that he grew up listening to the Michael Five Brothers' songs and loved this band very much, but he had never heard of this song.
It should be their new song.
Music TV is completely different from traditional music. Because of its video expressiveness, it has been a tool for teenagers to express their depression from the beginning. There are few orthodox music videos, basically all rock music, and their themes are rebellion and catharsis.
Teenagers who are also in the rebellious period have a great love for this form of expression, and it has quickly spread and become popular.
Lei Jin and his sister were curious about this new song called Bertit, and stopped the spoon in their hands and focused on looking.
There was no music at the beginning of the picture, and a basketball square appeared, which was exactly the same as the basketball squares in various cities in the United States.
On the court, there were two teams of young people playing basketball, including blacks and whites. They were all wearing T-shirts and tattoos on their arms. Some of them wore baseball caps and chewing gum in their mouths, looking cynical.
This is the gangsters that can be seen everywhere in every city.
Although it is indecent, it is very friendly. Every ordinary person can see his own shadow from them.
The two teams had just played for a while, and there was a conflict over a dispute over a ball. Both sides began to push and scold each other. There was no sound on the TV, but the fierce situation between the two sides was revealed at a glance.
At this moment, the picture suddenly darkened.
"Hey, what's wrong? Is something wrong?" Lei Jin, who was just seeing the gods, was inexplicably confused by the sudden change and shouted unconsciously.
He was about to get up to watch the TV because it was a malfunction when suddenly a thriller of percussion sound came from the TV speaker.
Then, the lens opened.
Through the cameras that were getting farther and farther away, the audience saw that blocking the camera was a square recorder. There was also a handle above the recorder. At this moment, the playback button of the recorder had been pressed, and a heavy metal sound effect with a strong rhythm was heard from the speakers on both sides of the recorder.
When the camera was pulled further, Rekin saw Jackson, the lead singer of the band Michael who was standing next to him and practicing basic footwork.
The horn-like thrust of the opening scene was full of the rhythm of black music. Although it was the first time I listened to it, Lei Jin could do the movements one after another. His innate musical sense naturally became integrated into it.
With a beat, the rhythm of the music suddenly accelerates, but it is fast and not messy.
It is very beautiful and smooth, full of jumping, making the whole person's body and mind beat continuously.
Michael's singing was full of passion from the beginning, while the lyrics were extremely passionate. It made Lei Jin dance, but his mother frowned.
But then, he used repeated tunes to persuade young people not to be impulsive. Impulsiveness cannot solve the problem, but may hurt themselves. When a conflict occurs, you can avoid it temporarily, and there are always other ways to resolve the conflict.
Lei Jin's mother's frowning gradually spread out, and a smile appeared on her face.
Unlike his mother, Lei Jin was stunned. He didn't care what the lyrics were singing, but was immersed in Michael's series of difficult dance moves, and his mind was blank.
At the beginning, although Michael danced hard and had a lot of difficulty, he was still considered an ordinary street dance.
But soon, all kinds of superb steps and street dance choreography made him stunned.
Street dance is not a rare thing in an era.
It was born in the late 1960s. After nearly ten years of interpretation and development, it has become a form of performance that is loved by young people of all skin colors. It is an entertainment for the poor, and it is also a hip-hop culture in which literary youths such as yuppies show their unique personalities.
This kind of dance can also be danced by white people, but it is absolutely not as good as black people who are born with a strong sense of music.
Michael's performance at this moment has shocked all the black audiences such as Lei Jin who saw this music TV.
In the past, there were many types of street dances, but they were very scattered.
But at this moment, under Michael's re-arrangement, various street dance genres were cleverly integrated by him, and through different dance movements, they showed their strengths, with relaxed movements without exaggeration, and strong rhythm without irritation, becoming a new form of performance that transcends the past street dance form.
Especially when he took a step like walking in space and was standing still like flowing water, Lei Jin opened his mouth wide and became dumbfounded. Even his mother, a young mother who was not particularly interested in street dance, covered her mouth and couldn't believe that people could still do such movements.
Elegant and chic.
This is the common voice of all those who have watched this music video when they see this.
So beautiful, so handsome, so cool!
Michael is not the lead singer of a band at this moment, but like a prince or a dance prince, dancing in his world!
In the picture, fewer and fewer people are fighting.
When Michael's other brothers joined, the others couldn't help but danced, and the dancers' team grew bigger and bigger.
Michael jumped out of the square and danced freely on the street.
In the alleys, gangsters holding wooden sticks, dyed blonde hair, and pierced ears and noses merged into it. Hundreds of people danced with Michael's guidance.
When the song enters the last few bars, the dance moves also reach its climax.
Michael's movements can no longer be described as smooth, but are superb and exciting. Every movement stimulates the human nerves, making people quickly secrete adrenaline and accelerate blood flow.
When the music finally ended, Michael stopped dancing, the picture turned around, and returned to the basketball square when the conflict occurred.
Michael came to the recorder, pressed the stop button, and then slowly left with the recorder.
The camera is still facing the square, and the dancing people are scattering.
The two teams who had just played together may have danced together to enhance their mutual affection. Everyone let go of the initial conflicts, clapped each other with a smile, and then formed a group to play basketball friendly.
The picture gradually dimmed.
The video ends.
Lei Jin looked at another video that appeared on the TV, but felt lost, as if the energy and spirit in his body were released in the passion just now.
What a wonderful dance move.
This is a kind of sublimation and a summary speech on the development of street dance in the past decade. It not only integrates various schools, but also creates a new performance method of space walk.
If he had only been a singer he liked Michael among many black singers before, but at this moment, in Lei Jin's heart, he had risen to the level of greatness!
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Cable TV station, music TV channel.
Usually during this period, when music TV is broadcast, there will always be audiences calling to express their thoughts on a certain music video they see, asking where to buy the video and when the single will be released, the phone keeps ringing.
This is also the happiest time for the record company.
For record companies and singers, cable TV networks are advertising windows, a barometer for testing audience reactions.
Michael waited anxiously at the audience interaction.
To be continued...