Entertaining Children

Putting on a black hooded sweater and mask, Xiao Yao put his phone against the wall on the table in front of him, and sat in the room to record a video in selfie mode.

"Hi everyone, I'm YS." After pressing the shooting button, Xiao Yao first sat quietly in this image for two seconds, and then introduced himself wearing a mask, "Maybe someone doesn't know me? It's okay, I will first Let me introduce myself, I am a musician and I have created some famous electronic music songs."

"Electronic music is cool, isn't it?" Xiao Yao smiled triumphantly, then shook his fingers and said, "No, no, these are not the coolest, the coolest thing is that I am also a parkour enthusiast By."

"Why does this video of mine appear here?" Xiao Yao straightened his face and said, "Because I, a parkourer, need the help of other parkourers, and the YRF team hopes that you can help me!"

"Well, here's the thing. As I said earlier, I'm a music creator, but I'm also a director. In a few days, I'm going to release a new electronic single, and in three days, I'm going to release The MV for this new single. Now, I need some actors for the MV. Because the characters in the MV will have parkour moves, so I need actors who can parkour. If you have free time after three days You can come and participate in my MV shooting, don't be shy, contact me according to the email address in the video description, and go shoot the MV with me!"

"Explain a few points," Xiao Yao slapped his hands up, and then put down his fingers one by one and said, "First, I need parkourers more than actors, so even if you are not a professional actor, you can play the role, that's okay Yes. Second, I don’t need professional actors because most of them don’t show their faces in the MV. Please refer to my current image and the image of the characters in the MVs of my two previous songs "Faded" and "SingMeToSleep", Most people will be like that too. So if you want to see your face in the MV? Sorry, I can't promise! I think you guys need to know this in advance."

"Third, the shooting location is in a mountain town near Los Angeles. I will not bear your travel expenses, so if it is too far away from Los Angeles, especially friends outside the United States, please think twice." Xiao Yao then put down Fingers said, "Fourth, the shoot may last a day without pay, but I will take care of the transportation and lunch. Fifth, I need about thirty people. Although there is no pay, everyone can get paid. The same hoodie and mask. You guys will wear these to shoot the video with me, and after the shoot, the coats and masks you wear will be yours.”

"OK, that's it! If you can, please email me at the email address below! Remember to attach your name, age and other basic information and contact information, as well as a short video of you playing parkour or a A full-body photo showing a general figure!" Xiao Yao clapped his hands and said, "If you are selected, I will contact you and tell you the specific time and place of the meeting. Of course, the meeting place will be in Los Angeles!"

"Also, for those parkour friends who aren't around Los Angeles or even in the US,

Although it is not convenient for you to participate in the filming, I also need your help for this MV. "Xiao Yao continued, "This MV is about not being alone. You can understand it as that there are many people who play parkour all over the world, so the MV not only includes the part of Los Angeles, but I also need all kinds of people from all over the world. Pictures of famous cities. I don't take pictures of these pictures, I leave them to you. You can send me the video you shot to the same email address below, and if it is suitable, I will edit it into the MV. "

"The requirements for these videos are," Xiao Yao pointed up two fingers again, "first, uniform attire. Please wear black hoodies like this, wear black masks, and don't show your face. Second, try to wear The most distinctive landmarks in your city are photographed, so that people can know where you are at a glance. The more famous the city and the more famous landmarks, the better. Other than that, I have no other requirements, please give full play Parkour man's imagination!"

"Let's complete this special MV together! Thank you!" Xiao Yao finally opened his arms, closed them, made an exaggerated thank you gesture, and pressed the button on the phone to stop shooting.

He opened the video and checked it again. After finding nothing wrong, Xiao Yao logged into his PV account, posted the video to YRF's channel, and attached his work email address below.

Regardless of whether it is the previous life or this world, it is not new for some star singers to ask their fans to come as extras for free when filming MVs. The cost of the production unit is less, and the fans get a chance to get in touch with the idol. As long as the organization is done well, the star treats the fans better, and they don't take advantage of the fans too much, it is a win-win situation. When Xiao Yao thought about the need for actors for the MV, he naturally thought of fans.

Although fans of Xiao Yao on the Internet have always complained about Xiao Yao being too lazy, not updating Weibo, and not allowing fans to pick up the plane, Xiao Yao is still very strong in terms of word-of-mouth for offline activities. With the flash mob event with fans before, Xiao Yao believed that if he was in China, he would be able to find a group of fans to guest star in the MV without any difficulty, but now this is the United States and Los Angeles. Xiao Yao should also have a certain number of fans here, but Xiao Yao is not sure whether the fans here believe in him as much as the fans in Huaxia.

In the United States, it's hard to say how the fans of "Xiao Yao" behave, but Xiao Yao has seen the attitude of the fans and supporters of the parkour team YRF. Since there are parkour movements in this MV, Xiao Yao targeted the fans of the "YRF" team.

It has been more than five years since the establishment of the YRF team and the emergence of the sport of parkour, which has gained a wide popularity around the world. As the veteran team that invented this sport, how much appeal does YRF have among parkour enthusiasts? Xiao Yao can also take this opportunity to experiment and experience the parkour movie before crowdfunding. So Xiao Yao not only released the video of recruiting actors through the YRF team's account on PV, but even handed over the shooting of scenes in other cities to the parkour fans themselves.

So is Xiao Yao's video useful?

With growing older and more jobs, Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, and Xu Fei seldom get together to play parkour or shoot videos in recent years, and the YRF account on the PV has not been updated for a long time. Despite this, the YRF account, which has a special status in the minds of parkour fans, still has more than five million subscriptions on the PV. Therefore, when Xiao Yao uploaded the video, many of the online netizens on this website who subscribed to the content published by the YRF account immediately received a system message prompt from the website and clicked on the video link in the system message.

"Why is it in a hotel room? Is it possible to play parkour in a hotel room?"

"Who is this guy? Why does he look like a robber? Is this someone from YRF?"

As soon as the video started playing, some netizens couldn't wait to complain in the comments.

Originally, YRF released a lot less videos in recent years. Now I finally saw them posting videos. When I clicked in, I saw a guy dressed like a robber in a hotel room. It was obviously not a parkour player. It's not difficult to understand the attitude of everyone who can't wait to complain and complain. But soon after the person in the video pulled down his mask and started talking, the comments went from complaints to surprise, speculation and discussion of the incident.

"Who is YS?"

"This image is very familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere!"

"Isn't this the image of the protagonist in the two MVs of "Faded" and "SingMeToSleep"?"

"Yes, he himself mentioned the MV of these two songs, he is the author and DJ of those two songs!"

"YS, isn't that Jan Sean? That genius music creator in China! He is a member of "Immortals" and once wrote a song for "Daydream"."

"Yang is recruiting actors for the new song MV? I want to go!"

"I'm a fan of Yang, and I like "Faded" and "Immortals" very much. Although I just like to watch parkour and don't know how to play it, I still want to apply to be an actor in the MV!"

Although all of Xiao Yao's electronic music works are signed with the two letters YS when they are released, his sense of mystery is far less strong than in his previous life, and soon someone thought of who he was from his simple English abbreviation. Soon, some people expressed that they would participate in the show just because of his name, but more people discussed his status as a Chinese star, and then questioned his status as a parkourer.

"Yan Sean? God, isn't that the Chinese star who was kidnapped at New York Fashion Week recently?"

"What's the relationship between him and YRF? Why does YRF want us to help this Chinese? Is it just because he is a star?"

"I guess because he also does parkour!"

"Huaxia stars, play parkour? Is it possible? Will they? There are not many American action stars who can play parkour?"

"Hey, don't look down on Huaxia's stars, especially action stars. Think about Pete Wang and Mike Zhou, Huaxia's kung fu is very good!"

"Kung fu and parkour are not the same thing!"

"Kung fu and parkour are indeed not the same thing, but YS, that is, Jan Sean, does know how to play parkour. You can watch the MVs of those two songs, and the protagonists in them have shown parkour movements. Only For reference, he himself is the director of those two MVs. In the MV of the previous song, there is only one protagonist whose name is himself. In the MV of the latter song, there are three protagonists, and his name is also in the starring role. Although in the MV The characters are also dressed in this way, and their faces cannot be seen, but I believe he did not use a stand-in, and he did all the parkour moves by himself."

"I am an overseas student in Huaxia. Yang is very popular in China, and of course he is also very popular in the United States now. But what I want to say is that he really knows how to play parkour. Some time ago, when the earthquake occurred in Wuyou County, Sichuan Province, Huaxia At the scene, there was a video of him climbing up to the second floor of a building that was about to collapse to investigate the scene. The shadow of parkour could be clearly seen in the movements. Later, at the disaster relief fundraising party of China Central Television, he also said personally I can parkour myself!"

"This guy is indeed the Chinese star who was kidnapped at the New York Fashion Week press conference some time ago. According to the police press conference, he escaped from the kidnapper's control and climbed to the top of the warehouse to hide. The warehouse It's thirty feet high, and there's no ladder outside, so ordinary people can't climb it, so I'm sure he can parkour."

"Speaking of the case, do you remember the plane robbery in New York last year that was uncovered some time ago? He subdued two robbers and saved a plane! In the kidnapping case a few days ago, he was also himself He escaped from the kidnapper's control, even punctured the kidnapper's car tire, and then hid on the top of the safe warehouse and waited for the police to rescue him! Just for this, I'm going to shoot the MV, and I want to see this magical Huaxia with my own eyes kid."

As the discussion heats up step by step and the content of the discussion expands step by step, the number of views and popularity of this video begins to rise exponentially. As a member of Nathan Donner's parkour team saw this video, and after seeing those debates about whether Xiao Yao could parkour, he couldn't help but expose Xiao Yao's identity. The comments exploded.

"I've seen him a long time ago! You are actually questioning whether Jan Sean can parkour here? Didn't you find that Y is Young in YRF's introduction? This person is Y in YRF! He is One of the old team who invented the sport of parkour, and you guys are still guessing if he can parkour? A bunch of blind and idiots!"

"Y in YRF is a Chinese, or a Chinese star singer? How is this possible?"

"No, the entire YRF team is Chinese! I met Yang, he told me himself! To prove it, he once logged into the YRF account on PV in front of me, and introduced YRF in front of us. He added a sentence that they are Chinese people. Although I don’t know why he deleted that sentence later, I have indeed seen it.”

"Oh my god, this is unbelievable! I'm going to shoot this MV, I need to check with him myself!"

"I also need to go!"

"Such a famous star can't find an actor for the MV? Beware of being cheated!"

When everyone was raging because of Xiao Yao's remarks about Y, and enthusiastically expressed their willingness to participate in it, a certain cautious netizen couldn't help but pour cold water on the comments. However, as soon as his comment came out, it was quickly counterattacked by many Xiao Yao fans who came to watch after hearing the news, and more deeds of Xiao Yao were brought out in the comments.

"A few years ago, in order to create a surprise for his girlfriend, Yang recruited fans online to play a flash mob with him, and then he actually took a group of fans to the street to dance and play a flash mob for his girlfriend, confiscating a penny from the fans, and A signed album was given to each of the fans who participated in the event, which was reported by the Huaxia media. You absolutely don’t need to worry about being cheated if Yang does this kind of thing!”

"Bring fans to play flash mob with girlfriend? So romantic! I like such stars, I want to go!"

"Speaking of romance, the song "Sugar" in "Daydream" was written by Young, Keith said at the People's Choice Awards ceremony, and the idea of ​​their band raiding the wedding scene and making it into a music video also came from Yang! This is a very thoughtful and playful star!"

"The MV for "sugar" was also Yang's idea? I love what Keith and the others did so much, I'm going to help Yang!"

"Speaking of being able to play, "American Airlines Broke My Guitar" is also his work. Do you still remember the David who forced American Airlines to bow his head and apologize, and defeated Goliath?"

"Support David who can play parkour, I'm going!"

"This kind of awesome person, even if you pay for it, let alone clothes. After watching the MVs of those two songs, I feel that the black hoodie and mask look so cool!"

"I'm going!"

"I'm going!"

"gogogo!"

After the netizens discussed it, the comment area was full of blockbuster "dogs and dogs". Of course, most of the netizens who expressed their intention to participate in the MV shooting are from around Los Angeles, although there are also some netizens from other countries clamoring to fly to the United States to see the real face of YRF God, but they are very few after all, more in the United States Others, even American netizens who are far away from Los Angeles, naturally focused on Xiao Yao's second request, and they were unwilling to be lonely and launched their own comments.

"I'm in Paris and I can't go to the United States in the near future, so I decided to make a video for him. There are no more iconic buildings in the city than the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. My video will definitely be selected!"

"Who says you're guaranteed to be selected? Jan? Do you know the Statue of Liberty in New York?"

"London's Big Ben protests!"

"Have you ever seen the Great Wall and the Forbidden City in China?"

"The Colosseum of Rome!"

"Who stipulated that it must be an ancient building? I'm in Japan, and I'm going to Ginza to shoot!"

"The Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, I plan to take aerial photos!"

“The BMW Building in Munich!”

Whether it is the number of netizens, the number of parkour enthusiasts, or the number of fans of Xiao Yao, Los Angeles and surrounding areas in the United States must not be compared with the whole world. Introduce yourself to the city's landmarks.