Chapter 10: The song
Looking at the TV in front of him, Connor still couldn't believe that Meg left him just like this.
Two days had passed since that day; he never left the house, watching TV, in which Meg accepted an interview. She said, "After becoming popular two weeks ago, he looked like a completely different person to me. I can't believe that's him. His ego inflated, and he became arrogant. You know, James Cameron invited both him and me to star in his new play, which has a budget of about $40 million as the hero and heroine. But do you know what he said? He said he didn't think the movie would succeed and then refused to take the role of the male lead in a movie with only a $15 million budget. If that were the only issue, but the problem is he even ordered me not to play in the movie because he is not optimistic about it. He is becoming paranoid."
Looking at Meg on the TV, who kept accusing him and appeared as if he wronged her, Connor was really sad. He knew Meg was a little greedy, but he didn't think much about it, as everyone likes money. But he didn't expect that she would go to the point of doing this just because of money. At the same time, he understands a little when she said that she would play the heroine in James Cameron's movie. He thought it was his scheming, and he even thinks it's him who is hyping their news to gain attention for his movie.
After thinking about it, he called Penny Marshall and asked her a favor: if she could do him a favor and ask Twentieth Century Fox to help him release a song. She accepted and said she would call the Fox executive and ask them about it.
After waiting for a while, Penny called him and said Fox agreed. So, he set their encounter directly at the studio. Then he left the house. Just after leaving the house, he was surrounded by journalists and paparazzi who kept asking him embarrassing questions, but he kept his face straight and never responded until he entered the taxi, as he didn't have a car.
Arriving at Fox Studios, he encountered the executive, and they signed the contract, in which he would be paid 20% of the total income from the single, as he was the one who wrote, produced, and created the song, and of course, he owned the total copyright. Fox Century did this to show their sincerity and didn't really think that the song would be worth that much.
After entering the studio, he ordered an orchestra, as he had the complete song in his mind. After all that song debuted at the top of UK singles chart and debuted as number 16 on the US billboard hot, making it original singer the first artist to board the billboard Among artist born after the 21 st century and won the award for the golden globes for the best original song and the academy award for best original song , the song was not easy for the singer, it difficulty for for the singer is because it really is not easy to control the vocal, especially like the original seventeen years old singer did.
But after two days, he finally did it, he really have to thanks his original day in the bar because it really helped him. During this time, the outside world was in turmoil because Connor didn't respond to Meg's accusations. The media kept portraying him as an arrogant guy who didn't bother to respond, and some kept reporting him as guilty because he didn't respond due to being sorry for Meg.
But that night, Fox TV broke the news that Connor was planning to release a song, then the public became calm immediately, waiting for the song to be released. No one mocked him because he didn't have a song, because everyone knew that he was originally someone who could make a living by singing in a bar.
Then, thanks to the publicity from Fox, the song was released the next day throughout the entire United States.
Ellie was originally happy because Connor broke up with Meg, but seeing how Meg kept accusing him but he didn't respond, she was so sad and angry that even in her class, no one dared to mock her these days. When yesterday she heard that Fox would release his first single today, she immediately started preparing to buy it the moment it was released. After buying it in the store, she immediately returned home to play the song. Then she heard:
i should've known
I'd leave alone
Just goes to show
That the blood you bleed
Is just the blood you owe
We were a pair
But I saw you there
Too much to bear
You were my life
But life is far away from fair
Was I stupid to love you?
Was I reckless to help?
Was it obvious to everybody else
That I'd fallen for a lie?
You were never on my side
Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
Now you'll never see me cry
There's just no time to die
I let it burn
You're no longer my concern
Faces from my past return
Another lesson yet to learn
That I'd fallen for a lie
You were never on my side
Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
Now you'll never see me cry
There's just no time to die
No time to die
No time to die
Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
Now you'll never see me cry
There's just no time to die
That's right, he sang Billie Elish song No Time To Die that was used as the theme song of the bond movie 007.
Tears slipped from the eyes of Ellie as she couldn't help but imagining how difficult it is for Connor during this time as he feels betrayed by the one he loved.