American Life

Chapter 4 Sources of Inspiration
On the busy Interstate 46, a woman stood on the side of the road, trying her best to wave to the oncoming vehicles, but was completely ignored by the passing vehicles.

"When did Tennesseans become so indifferent?" Faith Hill shook her head and turned to look at the young girl lying on the ground, looking under the car.

"I can't see anything." The girl's voice came from under the car.

"Then don't worry about it. Men should be allowed to do this kind of thing." Faith Hill pinched her waist and said.

"All I need is a flashlight to get the car moving. I learned how to build tractors on a farm when I was a kid, so it's not that difficult."

"But I don't want you to go to see Danielle all covered in oil. That woman is mysophobic and offends her, but no one will arrange the music for your song." Faith said earnestly.

Taylor Swift had to get out from under the car and started dusting off her knees.She was wearing a thick camel coat, and her hair was a little too fluffy and curly that it looked messy, like a hedgehog lying on her head.Her bangs are very thick and there are some freckles on both sides of her nose. It can be seen that she is not very good at dressing up and even looks a little rustic, a typical American country girl.

Three years ago, her parents moved her to Nashville, the capital of country music, where she studied while submitting demos to various record companies.After an unpleasant termination, he is currently the only singer under a new record company, Big Machine.

The company spent a lot of money to hire the once famous singer Faith Hill as her voice teacher.

Although she was unforgiving and often ignored this little girl, Faith Hill actually valued this student very much.Taking advantage of this birthday party, I asked an old friend to arrange music for Taylor's album.

"Tsk, look at your face, you look like a miner. There are wipes in the car, go wipe your face well."

As Faith was talking, she saw a Dodge RAM pickup truck in the distance making a U-turn on the road, parking a few meters away, the door opened, and Danielle's son stepped out of the car.

"Oh, my dear little Cha, you are even more handsome than the last time we met." Faith shook her head and sighed, she had watched Charlie grow up, she opened her arms and gave him a big hug, and gave him a kiss on the way.

This carefree woman, with her soothing and explosive voice, was once well-known at the end of the last century. Her most recent big move was to contribute the closing theme song "With You" to the war blockbuster "Pearl Harbor" a few years ago.

This song has been repeated many times by Charlie in his previous life.

As an extra mention, with this body shape when he was a child, Aunt Faith was at the peak of her beauty, and she was his first fantasy object.

"Taylor, come out and meet your Aunt Danielle's son."

"Here comes."

Taylor Swift got out of the car, hugged Charlie warmly and saluted.

When Charlie saw this face with the iconic apple muscles and came closer, a green aura rushed to his face.

Hey, isn’t this a bus bug?
"My name is Taylor Swift, from Pennsylvania." The young girl introduced herself.

If we were to talk about the most popular female singers in Europe and America in the 10s, some would say Katy Perry, some would say LADY GAGA, some would say Rihanna, and some would say Taylor Swift.He holds 11 Grammys, 32 American Music Awards, 23 Billboard Music Awards, 10 MTV Video Music Awards, 12 Country Music Association Awards, and more awards than he can keep at home.He is also the only singer to have 4 albums with first-week sales exceeding one million.

Perennially occupying the top spot among European and American singers on major domestic music platforms.

Why are you here?

Suppressing his doubts, Charlie said calmly: "I know, I listened to your first album, and I personally think it's great."

As far as I can remember, Taylor released her first solo album last year.

"Uh..." Taylor didn't know how to respond for a moment.

"Cha, Taylor's album is still in preparation." Faith clarified.

"Really? Then I may have recognized the wrong person." Charlie explained.

History has changed, and Charlie can only attribute it to a parallel world.Some details may be biased.

"Speaking of which, I was studying finance at the University of Pennsylvania. It's a beautiful place. I really want to go back there if I have the chance." Charlie changed his angle and tried to get closer to him.

Sure enough, Taylor's expression became quite yearning this time, and he quickly said:

"The Department of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania? I heard that there are geniuses there. They can figure out the change in one second when they go to the supermarket to check out."

Penn's finance department is second to none in the United States.

"Well, we really don't use calculators when shopping in the supermarket." Charlie was a little embarrassed.

As we all know, mathematics classes in primary and secondary schools in the United States are taught by physical education teachers. They often feel at a loss when it comes to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of more than one digit.

"You two can talk later. Now I just want to live in a room with a fire and drink a cup of hot chocolate." Faith Hill wrapped her clothes tightly and jumped from the cold.

"Teacher Faith, I told you that you were wearing too thin clothes. Look at me, you are not cold at all."

"Haha, it's better than being thought of as a brown bear."

While the master and apprentice were bickering, Charlie checked the condition of the car, and the result was not ideal.

"There is a hole in the chassis fuel tank and all the oil is leaking. We need a tow rope." Charlie rummaged around on the tow truck.

"The tractor repairman can help with the handle." Faith Hill couldn't wait to get into the car that Charlie drove and turned the hot air to the maximum.

After everything was ready, Taylor looked at the empty carriage and chose to follow the teacher and get into Charlie's car, so the carriage was extremely busy on the way back.

"Did you know that Charlie started a financial company from scratch, with thousands of employees under him, he is a big boss, much better than those idiots chasing you, this is a man worthy of entrustment." Faith Xi I looked at the students in the rearview mirror.

Taylor Swift was huddled in the back of a narrow pickup truck, and the 1.8-meter-tall girl couldn't stretch her legs at all.

"If I hadn't stopped you, you would have been deceived. Fortunately, I found out in time."

"Teacher Faith, please stop talking." Taylor was quite embarrassed and her face turned red.

One of Taylor's hobbies is collecting stamps. The ex-boyfriend column in the encyclopedia is full of them. People joke that she will write songs for each of her ex-boyfriends and release a new album once she has accumulated enough.

Considering that she has had 84 public relationships in the more than ten years since her debut, it is difficult not to be productive.

Taylor is still in a very young stage.He doesn't know how to dress up, and he even has a rustic temperament.Lack of self-confidence, very different from the later Aquaman.

Charlie began to ask for more information: "Is Taylor signed with an agency now?"

Before Taylor could speak, Faith took the initiative to complain:
"I just signed a contract with a new company last year. At present, more than half of the album preparations have been completed, and the rest is post-production. So I would like to ask your mother to help. It has been many years, and I have never been so low-key."

"Based on the relationship between the two of you, mother will definitely not refuse." Charlie comforted.

"That's not necessarily true. Her former employer was RCA, and she has a contract with RCA. Whether she can help is another question. If I hadn't had some friendship with Taylor's current boss, I wouldn't have bothered to take over as an album producer."

The album producer, similar to the director of a film, is the central figure.

Taylor sat obediently in the back row throughout the whole process without any intention of speaking. It was obvious that everything was subject to the teacher's arrangements.

The first album is being prepared. The teacher and album producer is his mother Tieci's best friend. He is pessimistic about Caotaipanzi Records and fully obeys the teacher's arrangements.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a gift package for yourself in the early stages of starting a business.

If God doesn't give it, you'll be blamed for it, so it's right to rush.

Having made up his mind, Charlie started testing.

"I'm thinking about investing in the record industry. Does Faith have any recommendations?"

(End of this chapter)