Birth of a Goddess [Comprehensive English and American]

"What's going on?" Elisa hurried upstairs and dialed Alisa's phone.

On the other end of the phone, the exhaustion in Alisa's voice came through the phone, "After I participated in the "Voice of America" ​​competition, didn't I gain a wave of fans, and then my manager Vincent He quickly accepted several commercial contracts for me. This time when I was still shooting for a magazine, he told me by text message that America’s Next Top Model was about to start this time, and he signed me up .”

Eliza grasped the key point keenly, "So, he didn't discuss with you at all before signing you up?"

"Yeah." After saying this, Alyssa on the opposite side opened the chat box as if she had let go of a big stone in her heart, "After the game, there is only one standard for him to answer the notification, and that is to follow the price given by the other party. Judgment. Because of this reason, he pushed me to shoot for a print fashion magazine four times, and even this time I took the initiative to communicate with him, and the price offered by the other party was relatively high, so he reluctantly agreed."

She walked to the window and looked at the lights of Wanjia in Los Angeles, with a little confused look in her eyes, "I like to sing, but I also want to go on the road of modeling, but my agent's current behavior It's like seeing me as a..."

She paused for a moment, but on the other end, Eliza decisively continued the second half of the sentence, "A short-term cash cow."

After speaking, Eliza couldn't help frowning.After signing the contract with Carlos, Carlos will communicate with Elisa in advance for almost all announcements and contracts, and at the same time give his own suggestions instead of asking Elisa to accept those he thinks are beneficial to Eliza’s career development. notice.And Carlos's vision convinced Elisa. On the whole, at least for now, she and Carlos still have the same plan for their own path.

Therefore, although Alisa complained to her a few times before, Eliza did not expect the problem to be so serious.

After comforting her softly, Elisa always felt that after hearing about such a situation, her concerns were nothing more than painless to her.

"Alyssa, you..." Elisa paused for a while, but she hesitated when the words came to her lips, "...do you want to change to a manager?"

After hanging up the phone in Los Angeles, Alyssa breathed a sigh of relief after returning home from a magazine shoot.Even the delicate makeup couldn't conceal the increasingly tired look on her face because of the continuous rotation.

The thumb of her right hand, which was painted with red nail polish, flicked on the screen of the phone, and Alisa clicked on a long screenshot that had been lying in her phone album for a long time.

This is a long message from her agent after she finished the second round of the "Voice of America". Some photos of the two of them are posted on social networking sites. It is best to interact frequently on social platforms to show the good relationship between the two of them on the Internet.

Alyssa knew in her heart that the agent's original intention was to increase her popularity, so that she could go further in the "Voice of America" ​​program.But on the one hand, the relationship between her and Elisa was not that close at the time. On the other hand, knowing Elisa’s almost isolated attitude towards social media, Alisa was unwilling to cause trouble for her friend, so she politely refused. Broker's proposal.

But after that, her agent sent her messages every now and then, constantly asking her to get closer to Elisa in front of the camera.

Although Alyssa has been signed by the current agent for more than five years, but before he sent that paragraph, he just sent her a formulaic notification when there was an announcement, and it has never been so abnormal. Be in close contact with her.

And the night after Alyssa was eliminated from the show, she still remembers that scene clearly to this day.

After she rushed to the manager's office overnight, the manager who had always been moody and angry looked at her with condescending eyes.

"If you want to make a name for yourself in Los Angeles, just dream!"

The saliva sprayed on her head completely brought Alyssa back to reality.

Do you want to switch agents?

Alyssa thought of the words she heard just now, and slowly clenched the cold mobile phone in her hand tightly with her fingers, as if to add strength to herself, her drooping eyebrows covered the expression in her eyes.

===

Just after Christmas, most people are still immersed in the atmosphere of family joy, a public statement issued from a personal Twitter account detonated the Internet in a very short period of time.

Louise has always been a viewer of the "Voice of America" ​​show, and even after the show ended, she still tracked the follow-up development of her two favorite contestants.Today, she was still in the festive atmosphere, and when she refreshed her phone, she saw a message that caught her off guard.

"WOC!" Louise jumped up from the sofa in shock and looked at the statement carefully.

The content of the statement was simple, but to Louise it was like a thunderbolt.

Alyssa Theodore has publicly stated that she and her manager, Mr., have ended their partnership peacefully.

But immediately afterwards, Louise saw Alyssa's manager Vincent stand up and publicly stated that the contract period between him and Alyssa had not expired, and the two parties had reached an agreement to renew the contract.

Both sides hold their ground.

What really exploded the Internet was a tweet from Eliza Lin.She took the initiative to stand up to the public to show her position in this turmoil-without hesitation, she stood on Alyssa's side.

Immediately afterwards, Adam and Gwen, their mentors in "The Voice of America", also stood up and expressed their attitudes.Adam stood up first, not only supporting Alyssa, but also implicitly pointing out that her agent only knew how to blindly consume her current ability to absorb money, but did not formulate a sound development strategy for her.Although Gwen didn't say that, there is no doubt that she is inclined to Alisa.

When there was a lot of uproar on the Internet, Eliza took the initiative to contact her agent Carlos.

"Are you going to be a guest on the new season of America's Next Top Model?"

Hearing Carlos' voice, Elisa could almost imagine his expression on the other side.It's just that her thoughts will not be shaken by this matter, "Is it okay?"

Carlos quickly found the relevant files from the folder he created for Eliza. He pondered for a moment, "It's not impossible for you to be a guest. But Eliza, I need you to give me a suitable reason Before Elisa could say it, Carlos added, "I don't need you to lie to me, I just want to know what you really think."

"Alyssa's agent signed her up for the new season of America's Next Top Model without telling her."

When Elisa said the reason, Carlos raised his eyebrows a little, and immediately understood what she meant.

Are you loyal...

Carlos fell silent.His career plan for Elisa is very clear, and this is the line that Elisa has always insisted on, and it has always been a third-rate choice for Carlos to return to a reality show that has nothing to do with music.

The reason Elisa gave this time was very simple and straightforward. In Carlos' eyes, it was undoubtedly impulsive.

But Carlos was not angry, but was thinking about Eliza's psychological motives.

Elisa leaned forward slightly, with her elbows pressed against her thighs, and the palm of her hand holding the phone was sweating unknowingly while waiting.

"Yes." When this sentence came out through the phone, Elisa heard the second part before she could relax, "But I can only be a flight guest for one round, and it can't be the first round of auditions. .”

Elisa never thought that her agent would agree to be a resident guest, not to mention that America's Next Top Model is still closer to the fashion circle, and Elisa is always a bit nondescript being caught in it.Being able to be a flight guest for one episode has already met her psychological expectations.

Carlos put down the phone and raised his eyebrows slightly. Although Eliza's behavior was unwise in his eyes, it was not too much to ask, but the follow-up public relations work required vigilance.

Fortunately, it was only one episode.

Carlos quickly went through Eliza's itinerary for the past two months in his mind, and then dug out the invitation from the America's Next Top Model program group, and checked it carefully.Only then did he make the call, and the moment the voice on the other side rang, Carlos put on a formulaic smile on his face, but spoke in an extremely calm tone, "Good afternoon, Miss Binns."

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On the Internet, before the turmoil about the conflicting statements between Alyssa and her agent has not passed, the new season of America's Next Top Model has released a set of photos, which are the hard photos sent by the models who signed up during the audition.

And when someone saw Alyssa in the faces of these completely unfamiliar models, within a short while, the news spread wildly on the Internet, and was even pushed to the tenth place on the Twitter list.And at this time, Alyssa posted her own tweet the next day after her public statement.

The two pictures she posted were very simple and straightforward. One was the contract between her and her agent, which detailed the deadline for the end of the contract, which was exactly a week ago.

And the content shown in another picture completely detonated the emotions of Alyssa fans.

In that screenshot, all that was shown was the daily communication between Alyssa and her agent. Except for the cold notice, Alyssa carefully asked why her agent rejected some magazine invitations, and her agent People avoid talking about it.At the end of the screenshot, the agent's last notice to Alyssa.

'America's Next Top Model has signed up for you, and the specific entry time will be notified later. '

In the previous continuous screenshots, there is no information about the conversation between Alisa and her agent at all.

In this twitter, Alyssa also said that she was determined to end this partnership first because she was "enrolled" in America's Next Top Model, and before that, her agent, Mr. Chang Chang, did not consider her personally. If she is willing, she will be forced to arrange a job for her.

Her last tweet -

'Modeling is also a regulated job, and I need my minimum right to know. '

Under such turmoil, before the recording of the third episode of America's Next Top Model, Elisa quietly came to the model house of America's Next Top Model in a pullover and a pair of black sunglasses.