"Keep your head up, chest out, and release your confidence! Punks can't lack confidence!"

"You have to believe in yourself, you are definitely no worse than Britney!"

Michael Levine's good friend and CAA's senior agent Delevingne.

At this moment, he was looking solemn, looking at Avril Lavigne in front of him, and encouraging her.

"All this is actually normal. Very normal. You should know by now how big the competition is among singers."

"Let me give you an example, Mariah Carey, you haven't heard of it, right? She is very popular and has been famous for ten years, right? Then you know how she became famous? She fell in love with her boss

, she married her boss! Without Tommy Mottola, do you think she could be so popular? Maybe, but it would be a hundred times more difficult, or even not popular at all!"

"Lavigne, if he hadn't heard your song and picked you and recommended you to David Geffen. If not for this, you don't know how long you would have to wait if you wanted to get ahead!!"

"How many young girls inside and outside the company are jealous of you, and you know it very well, so please please him, hug him tightly when you have the chance, and don't let go! Do you understand?"

Avril's expression was twitchy and particularly troubled, "But...I...I have never chased a boy!"

"What are you afraid of if you've never been chased? You've always been chased, right? Let me tell you, it's not a secret, Jessica, isn't Anne famous now?"

"They were all chasing after him. Of course at that time, he didn't have the power or influence he has now. He wasn't the richest man in the world yet!"

Agent Delevingne opened his eyes and told lies, but young Avril Lavigne had no way of distinguishing the truth from the lies.

"Fortunately, it's not too late for you. It's not too late at all to start now. Remember, keep your chest up and your head up! Remember when he went to visit the class during the day and he was full of praise for your performance?"

"He said you have a rare temperament, which means that he actually admires you very much! Do you understand? Bring out this temperament in you and let him see it again and again!!!"

Avril finally nodded.

The agent looked not far away, at the drop-off area of ​​the Hilton Hotel. Cars kept stopping, and people came down with invitations and entered.

Delevingne took out his cell phone and wanted to make a call.

At this time, Avril suddenly stopped him, "How about... forget it, I really..."

I'm really scared and unwilling.

The manager looked at her, "Don't you want to be popular? Don't want to be like Britney, where people scream for you wherever you go?"

Avril retracted her hand, "I think...but...I think I myself..."

She feels that she can become popular just by relying on her musical talent.

It's just a matter of time.

"On your own? How long will it take you to do it on your own?"

Draven, who already had experience, continued to flog the girl's self-confidence.

"Kanye West, you know, right? The company's new black hip-hop singer, you know how talented he is, right?"

Avril nodded.

Even if I dislike so-called black hip-hop and rap, I still hate black people.

But Avril Lavigne also feels that the young Akan is extremely talented in music, especially in black hip-hop.

Whether it is singing skills or writing lyrics and music, they are all very good.

In this regard, even Avril Lavigne, who considers herself a musical genius, feels that she cannot compare to Kanye West.

Fortunately, both parties are good at different fields, so Avril is not afraid of being compared.

"Kanye's talent is no worse than yours, and he is even better than you in the fields he is good at. But look at him now? If his boss hadn't discovered his talent, he doesn't know how long he would have been someone else's music producer."

Draven continues to brainwash:

"Fortunately, BOSS gave him a chance and released a record for him."

"You know how good that record is. But what? Because it was released at the wrong time, there was no way to promote it. Its current sales are miserable, less than 50,000 copies sold in a month!"

"You see, musical geniuses who are talented and lucky are all like this because there is no one behind them to support them."

Delevingne stared at Avril Lavigne seriously, "Do you think your musical talent is comparable to that black boy?"

Avril couldn't help but whispered: "Our fields are different and cannot be compared."

Having said that, in fact, she already felt in her heart that she was indeed no match for the black man in terms of talent alone.

"Then the example I just gave of Mariah Carey and Tommy Mottola, do you understand?"

Avril nodded, her confident face silent for a moment, "I understand."

"That's fine."

Agent Delevingne quickly got through the phone with a smile on his face, "Hey, Michael, it's me. We've arrived, look... Hey, OK OK, no problem, okay, got it! Then we're going in! OK

!”

After hanging up the phone, Delevingne turned to Avril and called Avril, "Let's go in!"

Avril crossed her hands behind her back and scratched her fingers, some of which turned white with force. It was obvious that she was very nervous.

She followed the agent and walked forward quickly.

It starts to get cooler in New York in October.

Especially now that night has fallen, we are walking on the road leading to a Hilton Hotel in the business center of Brooklyn's Benson District.

Avril Lavigne felt that the evening breeze blowing over was a bit cool.

As they walked, Delevingne reminded her again, "The person I called just now is named Michael Levine. Two years ago, he and I were just agents of CAA, and we had equal status. Two years later, I

He is still the agent of CAA, but he is already the president of Smith Media, a big shot that both Hollywood and the Grammys respect."

"Do you know why?"

Avril Lavigne nodded, thought for a moment, and shook her head.

"It's not that his ability is better than mine, I think our abilities are about the same!"

Draven was sighing with emotion, and seemed to be persuading the confident girl.

"There are only two reasons for the difference in status between Michael and I."

"The first one is that this guy has a relationship with Anne Hathaway. They can be regarded as relatives! And the relationship between Anne Hathaway and Jessica Alba and BOSS is quite special. Because of this relationship, Michael was reused

!”

Thinking about the past six months, this agent has been very good to me.

Avril Lavigne chimed in at the right moment: "What about the other difference?"

"Another difference is..." Delevingne sighed, "At that time, Michael and I met BOSS at the same time. At that time, the boss was just an ordinary Wall Street tycoon. We had a misunderstanding at that time, and I was scared away.

But Michael got in touch with him because of Anne Hathaway, and then started working for him."

"These are the only two differences between Michael and me."

Draven looked at the little girl, "But these two differences make our current status completely different."

Avril thought that was true.

Michael Levine is a hot topic in the American entertainment industry right now.

In the entertainment power ranking list listed by some entertainment media, Michael Levin is currently ranked in the top ten.

As for Draven.

As a senior partner and senior broker of CAA, his status is indeed not low.

But that depends on who you are comparing with.

Compared with myself and those little stars and singers, my status is indeed extremely high.

But compared to the people on the power rankings in the entertainment industry, Delevingne really can't compare at all.

No wonder he was so emotional.

Avril Lavigne thought.

When the two walked to the entrance of the Hilton Hotel, they happened to see Michael Jackson and his sister Janet Jackson get out of the car together, waved the invitation in their hands and walked in.

Draven sighed again.

"You must have heard about the dispute between Sony and MJ, right?"

Avril Lavigne nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

As a superstar in the pop music industry, the talented MJ has always been the idol of all kinds of singers or people who dream of being a singer, no matter what the genre of music is.

MJ's fame and influence are there, but there are conflicts, disputes, and even lawsuits between him and Sony.

Of course, it has attracted the attention of industry circles, after all, it is also related to their future interests.

Avril Lavigne is the same, she still fantasizes about being as famous as MJ in the future.

"Sony has already set its sights on MJ, and it is impossible for MJ to get rid of it. Even if he files a lawsuit, it will be useless even if he hates Sony. Sony will not let him go."

"Luckily, MJ's friend Ted Lerner, his daughter is BOSS's girlfriend. MJ asked Ted Lerner for help, and the boss helped."

Delevingne spread his hands: "Do you think Sony is still causing trouble for MJ now?"
To be continued...