Chapter 249 Grammy Nomination

From Thanksgiving Day on November 25 to before Christmas, major supermarkets across the United States will hold promotional activities. Some products will be 50% off, and some supermarkets will give coupons to the first 300 people.

This period is also the shopping season for Americans. According to the New York Times, the total shopping volume of Americans in this month accounts for 1/4 of the annual total.

It is the same in New York. On Christmas Eve, you can see long queues in front of major supermarkets and department stores before dawn every day, including Walmart, Best Buy, Macy's, Ron Taylor Department Store, etc.

There are even many people wearing black masks to enter supermarkets and malls for "zero-dollar shopping".

Link and Taylor decided to spend the holiday in New York, so they naturally had to prepare some holiday items, food, drinks, and new high-tech appliances.

It's just that they came back too late. During the three-day Christmas holiday, many shopping malls and stores closed early, and it was not easy to buy everything they needed.

After Selena knew that they were going to buy holiday supplies, she came to help and said that Mandy was too busy this year, so she was the one who bought all the supplies for their family. It was right to listen to her.

Link didn't believe it, so he sent a message to Mandy. Mandy said that if Selena bought things, the whole family would starve to death, and asked him to make his own decisions when buying things, and not to trust Selena's advice too much.

After knowing the truth, Link didn't expose it, so he drove Taylor Selena around the center of Manhattan.

After a circle, he found that Selena was a road idiot. She stared with her big round eyes and looked for Best Buy everywhere. As a result, the more than ten-meter-high sign of Best Buy was in her face, but she didn't see it. Her little round face became redder and redder, and her forehead was sweating.

After entering the supermarket, the first thing to do was of course to buy turkey. When he went to the shopping area selling turkeys, he found that they were all refrigerated turkeys.

This kind of turkey is very cheap, only $16 after discount, but the taste is very bad. He needs a clean, fresh, marinated one. The minimum requirement is clean and fresh.

He looked around but couldn't find it.

Selena said she had a good idea, and took him and Taylor to the live animal area, pointing to several lively turkeys in the basket, and asked him to buy one and kill it.

Link was a little hesitant. The turkey was too big, and it was troublesome to handle it at home. If someone killed it here and posted it online, he would be warned by the Animal Protection Association.

Link asked her if she dared to kill the chicken?

Selena raised her chin and said of course she dared. She claimed to be a descendant of Mexicans. Mexicans are born warriors. In the past, everyone had a pet, which was an anaconda more than ten meters long, which was wrapped around their necks as a scarf every day.

She also said that she had raised an anaconda when she was a child. It was milky white and seven or eight meters long.

Link picked up a rope and quietly put it on her shoulder. Selena screamed, jumped a few times on the spot, threw herself into Taylor's arms, and then complained to him with Taylor.

"Link is so bad!"

"Yes, he is so bad."

Christmas is here, and the weather forecast of the US Meteorological Bureau is relatively accurate. At noon that day, snowflakes were floating in the sky of New York, adding a lot of festive atmosphere.

Link and Taylor also put a Christmas tree in the living room of the apartment that day, decorated with many spherical colored lights, Swarovski crystals, and small snowman dolls, which were cute and festive.

Link also put on an apron and made a Christmas dinner for the first time, a large roast turkey, waffles, macarons, Boston steamed prawns, Mexican barbecue, a large fruit platter, and a plate of Christmas cake made by Taylor.

It was very rich and delicious.

At six or seven in the evening, Link and Taylor drove to Midtown and met up with Selena and little Annie.

Little Annie is Link's half-sister. She is over three years old, has a bob haircut, a straight nose, and is pink and tender. She is cuter than Selena.

The group first went to Times Square to watch the light show, watched the acrobatic performance at Radio City Music Hall, and skated at the Rockefeller Center Ice Rink.

While skating, Taylor and Selena wanted to see him swaying forward and backward on the ice, so they pushed him onto the ice together.

Unfortunately, they were going to be disappointed.

Link is in good physical condition and has a good sense of balance. After skating for a while while holding the railing, he can let go of his hands and slowly skate on the ice.

After practicing for more than ten minutes and adapting to the speed of the skates, he can speed up the skates, and occasionally skate backwards, skate on one leg, and do some fancy moves, which is more stable than Taylor and Selena.

After Link learned it, he took Annie to skate again.

Little Annie is very timid. Although she wears a helmet on her head and knee and elbow pads on her body, she will be scared to squat on the ground and act like a carrot head when her hands are released.

Link held her hand and skated around the field for more than ten laps. She got used to the speed of skating before she dared to skate forward slowly by herself, shouting in a baby voice, "Please make way, Annie is going to bump into you."

"Annie is so cute."

Taylor skated over from behind and put his arm around his shoulder.

"Of course, don't you see whose sister she is?"

"What does Annie's cuteness have to do with you? You are so shameless."

Taylor rolled his eyes at him, skated backwards a few meters on his skates, and the skates left two obvious marks on the ice. He said, "How about we compete in speed? Let's see who skates faster."

"No, I just learned it, and I'm not your opponent for now."

"I'm glad you understand."

Taylor accelerated to Annie's side, took her hand and skated forward.

Taylor wore a white down jacket, blue jeans, and a ponytail, looking like a high school girl. Anne, who was beside him, wore a pink down jacket and a pink helmet and knee pads, looking like a small bread.

The two held hands like sisters and mother and daughter.

"Link, get out of the way, I'm going to hit you."

Selena rushed over from behind, yelling.

Before Link could get out of the way, she bumped into his back.

It was already past ten o'clock when they came out of the Rockefeller Center ice rink. Selena and Taylor had a lot of fun and didn't want to go back to bed early. Anne was also excited and her eyes were shining. Link suggested going to the Metropolitan MAX Cinema to watch "Avatar".

Selena and Taylor watched a 3D movie for the first time. When they saw the male and female protagonists flying in the sky on Icaran, they couldn't help but exclaim.

Anne didn't understand it very well. She only lasted for more than ten minutes before she climbed into his arms and fell asleep.

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After Christmas, Link and Taylor were busy again.

Taylor continued to record songs in the studio. Link had a lot of things to do at the beginning of the year. First of all, the award season is coming, and there are many award ceremonies that he needs to attend.

For example, the nomination list for the 67th Golden Globe Awards for American Film and Television has been announced on Christmas Eve.

"The Fighter" received seven nominations at this year's Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress twice, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Song.

Link was nominated for Best Film Song with the theme song "The Fighter".

The 52nd Grammy Awards were also announced before the New Year.

Link received eight nominations with two best-selling albums and multiple singles.

Including Best Production of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Male Singer, Best Rock Song, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Collaboration.

Taylor also received eight nominations at this year's Grammys, and the first three overlap with him.

However, the two are not the ones who received the most nominations. The most is Beyonce, who received ten nominations at this year's Grammys.

In addition, "Ring Magazine", "The Ring Magazine" and the four major boxing organizations will also hold an award ceremony at the beginning of the year to select the best boxer and the best boxing promoter in 2009. In addition, the North American Boxing Association is also preparing to give him an award for the best spokesperson.

In addition to these, he also needs to prepare for the Super Bowl halftime show.

There are two guest singers invited to the Super Bowl this year, Link and the famous British rock band The Who.

Link has seven minutes to perform, which is almost the time for two songs.

The organizers hope that he will sing the champion song "Unstoppable" from his first album and the American national anthem.

After listening, Link was a little confused. The American national anthem? How to sing it? He doesn't know how to sing it at all, and it may not be too late to learn it now.

If he sings the lyrics wrong, he will be ridiculed by the crowd like the little queen Christina Aguilera in 2011, and his career will fall into a trough.

Even if he doesn't sing it wrong, it is very difficult to sing the national anthem that everyone can sing on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

If the performance is too poor, people will think that his singing skills are too poor.

Link thought about it carefully and proposed a compromise, writing a song that was in line with the spirit of rugby games and paying tribute to predecessors.

After all, singing the national anthem is not a must-have program for the halftime show, and a song that is in line with the spirit of the rugby league is also conducive to the league's promotion of the sport.

After discussion, the organizer agreed, but needed to listen to the demo of the song first, and Link agreed.

Because of this, Link had to go into the recording studio just after Christmas to discuss the song soundtrack with Graeme, David Kahn and others, and to discuss the Super Bowl rehearsal with director Kenny Ortega.

"Hi, Link, Happy New Year!"

In the morning, Graeme Goodall walked into the Link Music Recording Studio, took off his hat, and said hello.

"Haha, Happy New Year Graeme, I'm sorry to take up your New Year's holiday time."

Link reached out and hugged him.

"Haha, it doesn't matter. I will retire in ten years. I will have a day off every day. It's scary to think about it."

Graeme waved his hand, sat down on the sofa opposite, and said seriously, "You said on the phone that you wrote a song for the rugby league. Is this true? You have to know that rugby is a noble sport for all Americans. To write a song for this sport is as difficult as the World Cup. Are you sure you can do it?"

"Here is the score. How about you take a look?"

Link took out a stack of manuscript paper from his backpack and put it on the desk.

In fact, when he copied this song, he was not sure whether it was feasible.

This song is vigorous and impassioned. The main theme of the lyrics is that the highest level of skills will never end, and the names of those who work hard will be engraved in history, which is more in line with rugby, a sport with strong confrontation.

If this song doesn't work, he can think of something else. Anyway, he won't sing the national anthem.

Graeme looked through the sheet music, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter, his expression becoming more and more solemn. If it weren't for his red face, trembling fingers, and rapid breathing, others would think the song was too bad.

Graeme looked through it once, looked up at him, then looked down again, his breathing becoming more and more rapid.

"Graeme, how is it?"

Link asked, blowing the tea leaves floating on the teacup.

"Who knows, let's go to the recording studio, I want to hear the effect."

"No problem!"

Link put down his teacup and went to the studio to sing the new song.

Graham listened to it and said it was not good enough, and it needed music. Without music, the song would not taste half as good.

He called David Kahn, Bruno Mars and other producers in the music studio to come to the studio to participate in the production of this song.