Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 166
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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 166
44. Grammy Awards
It began ordinarily.
Do you know the joy these children feel as they run and play?
A single short post uploaded to Johann’s SNS.
It created small waves in the hearts of hundreds of thousands.
* * *
Beautiful good deeds by high school students.
LA high school students’ street fundraising! Finding that scene!
Fairmont High School students deliver school fundraising amount to city hall!
Delivered with Johann Jefferson as representative. Please use it for children suffering from burns and various injuries.
Johann Jefferson’s SNS post. Strikes the public’s minds!
Johann who awakened public awareness with different messages every day!
A star’s true good deeds! It was more beautiful because it was done in a high school student way!
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti! Promoting establishment of play space in downtown where deeply wounded children can run and play freely!
“Whew.”
Inside the large van filled with cool air.
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler sticks out his tongue.
News of a star’s good deeds that has been mentioned in the media for months already.
“This really isn’t an easy thing to do…”
Johann and his friends who could just make large donations but deliberately continue working part-time jobs while trying to change the public’s perspective.
“Birds of a feather flock together…”
Society becoming increasingly cold.
A smile naturally forms on his lips.
That’s not all. Steven Tyler recalls an issue from two months ago.
Johann Jefferson and Rocky Management. Little Paralympics held.
Proving that wounded children can also run and play joyfully!
Brightly smiling children.
First place in running: Allen (8 years old) with burns all over his body.
First place in swimming: Sophia (10 years old) who lost all ten fingers in a fire.
What hurts us is our bodies. Not our hearts.
“I was really surprised then.”
The fact that there were so many children with skin disfigured by burns or missing body parts, and hideous scars everywhere from parental neglect and various other reasons, and that these children’s records were no different from any other students their age.
“That smiling could be so beautiful too.”
It was a day that made him think a lot since Warner also did a recorded broadcast.
“Right! This is what high school students are like!”
Steven Tyler nods at Joe Perry’s words.
High school students – the age when they see things through to the end once they’re hooked on something, while surprising adults with new and fresh methods.
‘I had times like this too…’
School days when he didn’t know the world was scary and just charged ahead recklessly.
An era that makes him smile just thinking about it.
‘That’s why…’
Steven Tyler looks at Sophia sitting in the van’s passenger seat, breathing heavily.
‘Our pianist must be having a hard time too.’
To overcome Emily, Johann’s kind-hearted girlfriend who sticks close to his side.
“I hope he keeps showing only this kind of image.”
“Haha. I agree.”
Since there are sometimes stars who go down the wrong path due to early success, he even feels grateful to Johann for showing only such beautiful behavior.
“We’ll arrive soon!”
Steven Tyler and the members’ eyes light up as they look ahead.
Soon they stop in front of the large building on Hollywood Boulevard, Rocky Management.
“Puhaha!”
“Our teacher seems eager too.”
“Nice style though?”
Johann is standing outside on the street as if waiting for someone.
Clatter!
Opening the door wide, they burst into laughter seeing Johann take a defensive stance.
“We came to go together, teacher!”
* * *
Vroom! Honk! Honk honk!
“Today especially… it’s really jammed.”
Inside the large van.
Johann looks beyond Aerosmith’s van ahead and frowns at the road that’s completely blocked with no sign of movement.
“Can’t help it. It’s the day the Grammys are held.”
The 57th Grammy Awards held at LA Staples Center.
It’s the day when singers active throughout the US who released songs this year gather, along with reporters and fans who come to see them.
Probably within a 3-kilometer radius centered on LA Staples Center, which serves as the home venue for three basketball teams including the LA Lakers and the hockey team LA Kings, it would be faster to walk due to the complete traffic jam.
Larry, who said this, looks at Johann.
“How do you feel?”
“…I don’t know.”
The call came when it was expected, but it still feels surreal.
“Haha. Everyone’s like that the first time.”
“Have you received awards like this too, Larry?”
Larry spoke as if recalling his own experience.
“…No.”
“What’s that about.”
Still, Johann’s tension eases slightly at Larry’s nonsense as he purses his lips.
“It would have been nice if Emily and Ada could come together too.”
“Bear with it.”
Many singers bring their girlfriends or boyfriends, wives or husbands, but this is Johann’s first awards ceremony. For now, they needed to focus only on Johann.
That’s why he’s traveling in a different car from Aerosmith too.
“Anyway, since you’ve started activities, you can go anytime you want.”
Larry’s eyes full of trust and faith.
“…How about the clothes? Are they okay?”
“Of course! Who made them for you!”
A British-style suit featuring rope shoulders and double vents as back slits, with a black tie embroidered with old Korean paintings and cufflinks made of mother-of-pearl crosses.
Since Johann measured and made it himself, it’s as comfortable as wearing nothing. Holding even a long umbrella, he feels like a British gentleman.
Larry looks at Johann.
Johann in a slim black suit based on Italian classic style with a red tie, embodying the uniform of the Order of St. Sylvester.
The mother-of-pearl cross cufflinks and tie pin, along with the obsidian rosary wrapped around his wrist, clearly indicate what capacity Johann is attending in today.
“You said this suit will be sold starting from the spring season?”
“Yeah.”
Originally planned to be sold last fall, but due to fabric thickness issues, they decided to target the spring and summer seasons instead.
“It’ll be sold under the name ‘Spy Suit’ starting in March.”
They’re targeting spring and summer seasons, saying spies shouldn’t look sluggish.
“Spy…”
Larry chuckles. He’s thinking of the spy movie Kingsman that’s premiering worldwide in a few days.
“If this was all calculated and intentional…”
It would mean Ben Wood’s business acumen is incredible.
“That’s probably right, isn’t it? The trailers have been coming out continuously, and Colin Firth and Samuel Jackson are the leads.”
Colin Firth, a middle-aged actor beloved in Britain, and Samuel Jackson, who gets a lot of hate for mainly playing villains but is undeniably a premium actor.
With such merits, they’re taking the gamble of worldwide simultaneous sales.
“Plus there’s my Grammy too.”
Currently, just the news of his Grammy attendance is generating lots of news.
‘If I appear wearing this suit that goes on sale next month in this situation?’
It would create tremendous promotional effects.
“Whew. It’s tempting.”
He’d want to entrust the management of Instory or Quick Food to him.
“Ah, we’re almost there.”
Looking at the massive stadium approaching, Johann places his hand on his chest.
His heart, which had calmed down, was beating again.
* * *
“Madonna-!”
“Ariana!”
“Kanye-!”
The Staples Center filled with screaming cheers from fans and reporters.
Reporters lined up on both sides of the red carpet mechanically press their shutters while watching artists showing off their beauty again this year.
“Madonna, Kanye. Whew.”
Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and other singers who immediately come to mind when thinking of Billboard are each showing off their own aura.
“Did you get Madonna’s outfit?”
“…Haha! That person is really still the same.”
A provocative outfit with a corset shaped like underwear and her entire buttocks exposed. Her sexiness, which makes her 57 years of age seem meaningless, showed why she was an icon of an era.
“Still… she’ll probably be picked for worst dressed?”
“A bit much. Too excessive.”
At America’s four major award ceremonies, including the Grammy Awards, there’s a playful evaluation called Best & Worst Dresser chosen by reporters and the public, and if you’re picked for worst dresser, you get mocked for an entire year.
But there was someone who had been using this provocatively for the past few years…
“She’s here.”
A white woman in a sparkling black evening dress getting out of a car and a white-haired white elderly man escorting her.
“Lady Gaga-!”
Post-Madonna, or rather the performer the 21st century welcomed, the great singer who created tremendous waves in the American music industry with Just Dance, Poker Face, and others. It was Lady Gaga.
“What? She’s modest this year?”
She who had been the subject of controversy with outrageous fashion like the raw meat dress. Reporters who were expecting provocative outfits are disappointed.
“Tony’s with her.”
Tony Bennett, the legend of American jazz.
Reporters click their tongues.
“He’s really someone with incredible passion.”
A veteran who’s 89 years old this year.
Still releasing albums, and moreover releasing an album with a junior who’s like his granddaughter – though it’s not easy at all, he challenged it and succeeded.
It couldn’t help but be an example for all singers.
“Oh, Black Eyed Peas came too.”
Black Eyed Peas, who swept the Billboard charts with a single track called a song for marginalized children.
“This year too… I don’t know who’ll win awards.”
Singers who released excellent songs to the point where a year doesn’t feel long. Moreover, this year British singers like Sia and Sam Smith also showed tremendous activity.
“I think speculation is meaningless… huh?”
The reporters who were chatting with each other while mechanically pressing shutters and throwing questions fall silent.
They straighten their posture, adjust their lens angles, and put their souls into the fingers pressing shutters.
Click!
Because of one young artist revealed as the van door opens.
‘Johann!’
Holy Knight, founder of Saint Rock.
The young genius who charted on Billboard at just 11 years old and created the rookie diva Robin Joel.
Avatar sent down by the god of rock.
The wolf boy who became a knight, the wolf knight.
Johann Jefferson.
‘Wh-what is this?’
Suddenly their shoulders feel pressed down.
Some pressure extending from Johann’s body and pressing down on the space leaves them speechless.
An aura felt just by standing there, the kind only felt from those who’ve reached the top of a field.
Feeling such an aura from a mere 17-year-old boy, the reporters press shutters with the single thought that they must capture photos of that being.
But that’s only for a moment.
“Johann-!”
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
Fans’ cries breaking the silence that demanded reverence.
“M-Mr. Jefferson-! Please look this way!”
“You’re nominated in many categories – is there an award you want to win!”
Reporters began pouring out the curiosity they’d been suppressing for months since the Grammy Award nominations were announced.
With faces flushed bright red.
* * *
‘Amazing.’
The chattering reporters’ flashes, the fans’ cheers make him feel like he’s something special.
They make the red carpet feel like a trampoline.
Walking but not feeling like walking, his knees and ankles moving on their own.
“I love you! Johann!”
“Take my underwear!”
Affection that even feels like madness, yet makes him extend his hand holding a pen.
He signs the things they hold out and takes photos.
‘Nasty.’
“Among the singers you’ve worked with so far, if you could work with them again, who would you most want to work with!”
A reporter throwing a question overflowing with malice.
Making his mind float away with the red carpet, then sprinkling poison generously coated with sweet honey with an innocent and naive face.
If he’d lost his mind, he would have kicked off his blanket tonight watching the countless news stories produced.
“Everyone. Each and every one of them gave me inspiration.”
“Oh! I see! Then among them, who’s your favorite singer? A singer you want to work with like crazy as you did in Korea?”
“Oh, can I say it by time period?”
“Haha! That would be difficult due to time constraints! Then lastly! Among singers you haven’t worked with yet, is there anyone you’d like to give a song to?”
“You?”
“Ahahaha! You got that shot, right?! Manager, I’m a Billboard star now too!”
“Make sure to keep in touch.”
As he winks and turns around, Larry and Andrew Pearson, who had been watching anxiously, give him thumbs up.
‘Those two are relaxed… ah, they have to be.’
They must have walked this red carpet several times with Bruno Mars, Robin Joel, and others.
“Hahaha! Teacher! Well done!”
Steven Tyler, who entered next, pats Johann’s back.
He had been extremely worried since this was his first awards ceremony.
But such worries proved pointless as Johann tore through the reporters’ malice with his calm expression and witty responses.
The news headlines for today practically write themselves.
Johann Jefferson Shows the Composure of a Young Master.
Is This Really His First Awards Ceremony?
“You really… did well.”
Steven Tyler’s voice is filled with genuine sincerity.
How many stars had shined briefly only to crumble and disappear after spouting nonsense at the Grammy Awards?
That’s why he insisted on entering right after Johann. So he could intervene and cut things off if necessary.
The reason he entered holding Sophia Salonen’s hand tightly was also this. To crush any reporter who might spout nonsense.
“Thank you for worrying about me.”
“How do you feel?”
About entering the jungle.
“Well, I’m not sure yet.”
The questions are so predictable that it actually makes him less tense.
“Hahaha!”
Right. This kind of attitude is perfect.
If he keeps his mind firmly grounded like this, he’ll be fine even when he reaches the end of this corridor.
“What’s over there?”
“Proven beasts.”
“Beasts?”
Instead of answering, Steven Tyler starts walking.
Johann follows with curiosity, then suddenly twists his lips.
‘Oh?’
The air grows heavier and heavier.
All sorts of scents pour out from the approaching end of the corridor.
Fragments of ‘Wolf Who Howls at the Moon’ and ‘Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger’ catch the scents.
‘I think I understand.’
Why Steven Tyler called them beasts.
The scent of a well-fed leopard.
The scent of a hungry bear too.
The scent of a damp snake too.
The scent of a delighted canary too.
All the various beast scents he encountered in the forest keep pushing against his body like a tide.
Unlike when he was on Aerosmith’s concert stage, these are the unrestrained desires of beasts.
Thanks to this, his dormant mischievous side tries to raise its head. The mischief of letting those who are still human catch the scent of a real predator.
But before it can fully emerge, his vision opens up completely.
“Ah…!”
Murmur murmur.
A massive stage draped in red velvet.
Singers filling the audience seats so completely they can’t be taken in at a glance.
No, beast-like humans.
Steven Tyler, returning to the Grammy Awards after several years, also removes his genteel mask and bares his sharp teeth.
“Welcome to the battleground of beasts verified by billions of Earth’s inhabitants, teacher!”
The beasts react to his outcry as he spreads both arms wide.
‘It’s Johann.’
‘That’s Johann Jefferson?’
The gazes of all the artists and officials who had been sitting in the audience seats, conversing and moving around looking for profitable connections, fix on Johann.
Under those pouring gazes of greed and curiosity, Johann’s lips tear from side to side.
‘Thrilling.’
Attention was always thrilling.
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