Chapter 617
Baina's two albums were sent to the jury, one of which was Lin Wanqing's "Dearest You". Baina's team is led by Zhang Deqiang, and Ye Zheng, as an important member of the creative team, has also met many people with Zhang Deqiang. At the same time, I also met Zhou Ke in the wheat field, as well as people from Shenlong Records, including Peacock Music and Blue Dream Records, which I have never met.
Some people learned that Ye Zheng came with Baina's team, and they came to find Ye Zheng on purpose. In three days, Ye Zheng has been staying with various music creators and producers, getting to know many people, and learning a lot of knowledge that cannot be learned in online books. At the same time, his creative ability also amazed everyone. When Ye Zheng chatted with them about songs, he could often say a piece of music casually, as if he was really a creative machine, and these things could be produced at will.
Genius, real genius, this is a consensus reached by all musicians! One day, he will surely become the top creator and producer in China! As a result, some music companies and top studios wanted to invite Ye Zheng to join, but all of them were rejected by Ye Zheng without exception. At the same time, Ye Zheng also conveyed a message. He wanted to start a music company. Hearing the news, everyone reacted differently, some people were amazed by Ye Zheng's courage and confidence, and some people felt that Ye Zheng had too much self-esteem. There are almost no people who are optimistic about him.
"I didn't expect you to do that, I guessed you might sell to multiple music companies, but I didn't expect you to start your own music company. Zhang Deqiang said: "Like many people, I just don't understand how you plan to do it. You must know that starting a music company is by no means a simple matter, including the creation and production of music, which requires professional people to do it. I don't know what the source of your confidence is?" Ye Zheng smiled: "Music production and promotion, I really don't know." This needs professional people to do, so I am also looking for my partner. If you'd like to join, I'd love to hear from you!
Zhang Deqiang was stunned for a moment, looked at Ye Zheng's confident expression, and sighed after a while: "We already have a high opinion of you, but we can't imagine that we still underestimate you! Can you tell me how strong your creative ability is?" "If you are willing to start a music company with me, I can tell you." Ye Zheng smiled. "Forget it, I'm the director and producer of Baina, and I can't go to another one with you. ”
"Then I can only tell you that my creative ability is very strong!" Ye Zheng smiled confidently and flatly: "As for how strong it is, I believe you will understand it in the future." "We'll see. Zhang Deqiang smiled: "But we will be competitors in the future." Ye Zheng smiled and nodded: "Yes, but you can still buy songs from me in the future." ”
"Oh, don't you use your work for your own company?" "I guess you haven't understood what I'm saying, but I'm very creative, really. Ye Zheng said seriously. "He's a genius, but he's not a self-aware genius! Think he's going to start a music company after making a few albums? Okay, I'm not going to say much about it, but I'm waiting to see his jokes!" The person who said this was Qiu Feng, the founder of China's top music studio, Dafeng Music Studio.
He went to invite Ye Zheng to join the Gale Music Studio, and was rejected, but he didn't accept it as calmly as others. Qiu Feng himself is one of the few platinum producers of Chinese music. With many honors, his Gale Music Studio has also created and produced a lot of excellent albums after its establishment, and now in addition to him as a platinum producer, there are several gold medal producers in the studio, which can be described as a strong force, comparable to ordinary music companies! In the music industry, there is such a rule. There are two levels of producers, gold and platinum, and if you produce a platinum record that has sold 1 million dollars, you can be called a gold producer. If you produce a five-platinum record that sells five million, you can be called a platinum producer. Unlike the rating of the record, there is no title of diamond producer. Qiu Feng is a platinum producer, and the annual sales of a record he once produced reached 6.2 million! I thought that it would be no problem for him to personally invite Ye Zheng in such an identity, and he did offer a good price. However, Ye Zheng had no intention of joining any company or studio at all, so he naturally rejected him.
Qiu Feng was already a little cautious, and when he heard the rumors that Ye Zheng was going to start a music company, he expressed such an opinion. As soon as his words came out, many people were not optimistic about Ye Zheng. After all, Qiu Feng is a well-known producer in the national and even global music industry, and many people will not directly oppose his opinions, even if they don't agree with him. In contrast, although Ye Zheng has created several good albums and can definitely become a gold medal producer, it is still much worse than Qiu Feng's identity.
The difference between white gold and gold is huge. Some creators and producers can make dozens of platinum records in their lifetime, but it is difficult to make a five-platinum record. Different identities carry different weights in words. In addition, many people are not optimistic about Ye Zheng's establishment of a music company, and for a while, everyone didn't care about Ye Zheng's idea, and even scoffed at it. Young people, it's better to suffer a little, and after Ye Zheng fails to start a business and understands the truth, wouldn't it be better to recruit him? Some music companies even think so. Ye Zheng knew all these things, but he didn't care.
In the past few days, he has seen a lot of people, said a lot of things, and understood a lot of things, and finally had time to go out for a walk on the third night, just when Xiao Qi called him and asked him if he had time to go to a place called Shengyuan Square to watch some rock PK organized by rock bands, Ye Zheng agreed. Shengyuan Square is not far from the hotel where Ye Zheng stayed, and Ye Zheng walked all the way to really feel the warm atmosphere of the music festival. Walking down the street, you can see street performers playing and singing on the side of the road, young people dancing in the street, and bands singing and selling their albums...... The people on the street stopped to watch, and there were some places with a good atmosphere of joy, and if there was any outstanding performance, it was a burst of lively applause and cheers.
Ye Zheng came to Shengyuan Square and found that there was more than one simple stage built large and small, and there were artists performing on each stage. There was a stage where a lot of people were around, and there were loud drum kits and bass sounds, as well as passionate shouts. Ye Zheng walked over and saw all the members of the Black Butterfly Band who were watching and cheering on the side of the stage.
"Hey!" Ye Zheng walked over and patted Zhao Tong's shoulder, Zhao Tong turned his head and said in surprise: "Hey, Brother Ye, you're here!" Recently, except for Xiao Qi, the other four people's name for you Ye Zheng has become Ye Zheng, Ye Zheng's age is similar to them, or even slightly younger, if you call Mr. Ye or something, it really doesn't fit their character. It's just called Brother Ye. "How's that?" Ye Zheng asked.
"It's the semi-finals now, we're in the final. Just now we sang "I Have No Far Away" and won the semi-finals! Brother Ye, you didn't see it, the scene just now was very popular, a new rock song, and after you carefully choreographed by Brother Ye, it was sung by Xiao Qi, and it instantly killed a blockbuster!" Zhao Tong said happily: "We are going to sing "Do As You Like in the semi-finals", and we will definitely win the first place!" "Hmm......" Ye Zheng nodded, but focused on the stage. It's a group of five men, all between the ages of 25 and 30, singing a rock song in the style of heavy metal.
Xiao Qi stood beside Ye Zheng at some point, and unceremoniously grabbed Ye Zheng's arm, Ye Zheng tried to get rid of it but was hugged by Xiao Qi, she saw that Ye Zheng did not continue to try to break free, so she said with a smile: "This band is a heavy metal style band, which is not the same as our pop rock form." Now, the market for heavy metal rock is not as good as pop rock, it's like a state of death, few people like to listen to this kind of stuff that is too noisy, and even some people who do pop rock reject heavy metal. But people who really like heavy metal rock are still sticking to it, and only those who know heavy metal rock can understand the enthusiasm and emotion contained in the noise that others don't understand!"
"Their singing skills are good. Ye Zheng nodded and asked, "What's the name of this band?" "It seems to be called...... Tang Dynasty Band!" Xiao Qi hesitated and asked, "Zhao Tong, is it called Tang Dynasty Band?" "Ah, yes, Tang Dynasty Band! A heavy metal rock band has taken a literary name, and I don't think it sounds as good as our Black Butterfly." Zhao Tong said. "Oh...... Tang Dynasty band. Ye Zheng nodded slightly, but his heart was quite shocked. A heavy metal rock band called the Tang Dynasty band? What a coincidence...... Ye Zheng stopped talking, and watched the performance of the Tang Dynasty band seriously, he felt very good, these people must have been doing heavy metal rock for some years, listening to their screams on stage, you can also feel their affection for heavy metal rock, "Well, I'll talk to them later." Ye Zheng said. At this time, the Tang Dynasty band's singing had also ended, and then a sexy little girl stepped down to collect votes from the audience, and then announced that another band won by a big score after counting the votes.
Several members of the Tang Dynasty Band seemed to have expected this, and congratulated the other band with smiles on their faces, and then walked off the stage and walked to the side. "Here's our battle for the championship tonight! Our local rock band Hutong Band in Zhujiang will play against the Black Butterfly Band from Hengyang City! The Black Butterfly Band who paid special attention to it just sang an original song "I Don't Have Far Away", which is a great rock music, right? Next, they will sing a new original song! It's called "Do What You Want"! What kind of song is this that the Black Butterfly Band dares to use as a song to compete for the championship? Let's listen to it!"
Amidst the applause and cheers, Xiao Qi walked to the stage and waved to everyone with a smile. Just now, she was still holding Ye Zheng's arm intimately like an ordinary girl, but now as soon as she stood on the stage, a kind of singer's temperament suddenly came out! The accompaniment sounded, and Xiao Qi began to sing. The appeal of "Do What You Want" is really undoubted, and Xiao Qi's stage charm is also very strong, she is the only female lead singer of these rock bands. There are few rock bands, and even fewer rock bands with female lead singers! The beautiful and temperamental Xiao Qi sang and shook on stage, which immediately ignited the crowd.
Subsequently, not only in front of this stage, but also in other places, the audience was also attracted a lot, swaying their bodies together, feeling the unique charm of rock and roll! Xiao Qi indulged in singing, waving his two hands, interacting with the audience under the stage, the crowd resounded with cheers, mixed with some whistles, and the big movement here even made a nearby stage have to stop singing, and even the singer who was singing came over to listen to the song. This is the charm of rock and roll, maybe you don't feel bored listening to rock when you're alone, but in this case, many people will be infected by this emotion and can't help but join in.
Ye Zheng especially noticed that several people in the Tang Dynasty band were also listening carefully, and there was a look of envy on their faces. That's right, envy, very clear emotions. "It's really a good pop-rock piece, even compared to the classics of the '90s. I don't know who wrote the song, whether it was written by their band themselves, or if they hired someone else to write it or bought it. The lead singer of the Tang Dynasty band, Cui Nian, sighed: "It would be great if we could also make such high-quality heavy metal rock music!" "No way, who made us not creative?" keyboardist Sun Zhe also sighed and shook his head.
"Do you need heavy metal rock originals?" a voice rang out from behind them. The five of them looked back in unison and saw a young man with a delicate face looking at them and smiling. "What do you mean?" Cui Nian frowned and asked. "I think I can provide you guys with original songs. Ye Zheng smiled: "Of course, I have to see your singing level again." "You are ......" Cui Nian couldn't figure out the identity of the young man, and he didn't know the meaning of what he said just now. "My name is Ye Zheng. Ye Zheng smiled and stretched out his right hand: "The author of "Do What You Want"!"
"You wrote this song?" Cui Nian said in surprise, stretching out his hand and shaking it with Ye Zheng. "I think the name Ye Zheng is a little familiar!" Sun Zhe scratched his head with some doubts, frowned and thought for a while, and said, "It seems to be ...... It seems that the songwriter of the "Blooming Life" album is Ye Zheng, and we talked about it a few days ago. ”
"How is it possible!" Cui Nian smiled: "That's a great creator!" "How is it impossible?" Ye Zheng raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "That's me." "Really?" Cui Nian's eyes widened. "It's like a fake. Ye Zheng found that he really seemed to have some fame in the rock circle, and just one "Blooming Life" made many rock musicians pay attention to him. The Tang Dynasty band is also a local band in Zhujiang, so Cui Nian invited Ye Zheng to their usual rehearsal place. Ye Zheng asked Xiao Qi, and Xiao Qi said that they would have to play here for a while, so they wouldn't follow to join in the fun.
"You must take them down!" Xiao Qi clenched his fists and cheered for Ye Zheng. Ye Zheng smiled, said goodbye to Xiao Qi and them, and then took a taxi to the rehearsal room of the Tang Dynasty band. After listening to a few songs sung by the Tang Dynasty band, Ye Zheng is still very satisfied with their singing ability, this is a band that has been concentrating on metal rock music for five years, and the singing ability is okay, but the five people have no creative cells, they can only sing other people's songs, and they can only be resident singers in local bars or song halls in Zhujiang.
Satisfied with them, Ye Zheng simply stated his plans and invited them to join his music company. This was definitely an unexpected surprise for the Tang Dynasty band, although it was still just an unestablished music company, but Ye Zheng's mature self-confidence that did not match his age made them trust Ye Zheng.
During the winter vacation, that is, after Ye Zheng came up with the idea of starting a music company, he considered the problem of funds. Just by selling songs, he can't earn that much. Writing is largely a hobby. Selling songs requires a degree.
So, he had to think about other sources of income. Inspired by his sister, he thought of the script. It's like a music company needs good songwriting, and every film and television company needs a good script. In fact, Huaxia produces a lot of scripts every year. Take Wuxing Film and Television, the largest film and television company in China, for example, it receives thousands of scripts every year, but only about ten are really selected for filming.
But Ye Zheng is not afraid, the script of "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" has been tested by the market. The box office of Taiwan, the mainland is more than 70 million, and Hong Kong is more than 60 million, totaling more than 200 million. This box office, if it is placed in this China, in this better entertainment environment and higher living standards, the box office will definitely be much higher. Moreover, in today's Huaxia, the supply of excellent domestic youth romance movies is in short supply. In recent years, Korean dramas have taken a look at this market vacancy in Huaxia, and used some excellent movies and TV series to open up a market in Huaxia, and the box office swept away from Huaxia will exceed 500 million every year. Although several Chinese film and television companies are not happy, they suffer from the lack of good scripts and ideas, and they are unable to compete.
Therefore, this also makes the price of youth love scripts higher. Even some vulgar small scripts can be bought for more than 100,000. And Ye Zheng wrote the opinion under this script, and the price was five million.
Although there is a bit of a lion's mouth, Ye Zheng knows that this script is definitely worth the price, not only because of the story of the script itself, but also because Ye Zheng also did a lot of work for the director when writing the script for his sister. Shots, editing, and even soundtracks! In other words, whoever gets the script can save a lot of work and even go straight to the shooting!
Now, almost two months have passed, and Ye Zheng estimates that they will reply to the letter. It's not going to be a waste of the script in both companies, right? Wait, if it doesn't work, I'll think of another way. The next day, Ye Zheng returned to school. The news of his attendance at the festival was deliberately kept secret, otherwise the enthusiasm of his classmates would have been too high. It's a pity that Ye Zheng still underestimated the speed of the spread of entertainment news in this world and the influence of video websites. Before he even reached the classroom, he was recognized on campus.
"Ye Zheng! This is the Ye Zheng who won two awards at the Asian Music Festival and played the piano! A few days ago, I went to the seventh class of high school with my classmates to see him! At that time, I only knew that he wrote those two albums, but I didn't know that he actually wrote an album for Lin Wanqing and won an award at the Asian Music Festival!" Walking down the street, even if someone watches the Asian Music Festival, it is difficult to think of this middle school student with a school bag on his back. But in school, many people have been to see him before, they are familiar with his appearance, and they recognize him when they watch Asian music festivals! Hearing this person's voice, some people look at him in surprise or surprise.
Seeing this, Ye Zheng hurriedly went around in a circle and entered the classroom through the back door of the building. Fortunately, the students in the class are still very enthusiastic, but it seems that since Ye Zheng has brought a few shocks, the classmates in their class have gradually become accustomed to the shock brought by Ye Zheng. Everyone knows that Ye Zheng's future will definitely not be simple, but his classmates are also used to it, so there is no need to talk about praise and worship all day long. And everyone is also used to Ye Zheng's appearance of smiling and treating people kindly, and they don't like to be estranged because of different identities. After going to class for a day in fear, and accepting the onlookers of some classmates in other classes, the next day suddenly no one came to see Ye Zheng. The reason is that Ye Zheng told Xiao Qi about this situation during the rehearsal in the evening, and Xiao Qi confidently promised her to help Ye Zheng get it.
So the next day, it was purified. Sitting in the classroom, Ye Zheng was still a little puzzled, and suddenly saw Su Momo walking into the classroom with a schoolbag on her back, her face was full of depression, and her eyes seemed to be a little red. "What's wrong?" Ye Zheng asked. "I want you to take care of it!" Su Momo threw down her schoolbag angrily, lay on the table, and buried her head in the crook of her arm.
"Is something wrong?" Ye Zheng asked. "Ahem......" Li Chen pulled Ye Zheng's arm and whispered: "I heard a news today, that Xiao Qi spread the news, saying that she was going to chase you, and in this school, you are her person." If anyone pesters Ye Zheng again, they will bear the consequences...... Even men can't do it...... "Bear the consequences?" What other good consequences can there be? Xiao Qi is a gangster type who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it in school, and there are few friends around him who study seriously, and there is no shortage of a few fights and bullies......
"How can this be reasonable!" Ye Zheng said angrily when he heard this: "How can this be!" Su Momo, who was in front of her, heard Ye Zheng's words, and her heart was a little lighter. It turned out that these words were just Xiao Qi's own assertions. It was because she heard these words that she was sad to become like this, thinking that Xiao Qi said this with Ye Zheng's acquiescence. Wouldn't that mean that Ye Zheng acquiesced in Xiao Qi chasing him, in other words, Ye Zheng was also a little interesting to Xiao Qi?
However, hearing that Ye Zheng was now angrily opposed, Su Momo understood that the situation was not as she had guessed, and she seemed to have misunderstood Ye Zheng. "How can this be! She wants to be an artist in the future, how can she talk casually!" Ye Zheng said angrily: "I will definitely tell her this matter at night, I have to remind her well! Don't let her do this!"
Woo! Su Momo suddenly really cried, why, although Ye Zheng's words were angry, it made people feel that he was full of concern for Xiao Qi? Moreover, "she is not allowed to do this", this kind of unquestionable words have been said, doesn't it mean that Xiao Qi listens to him very much. In other words, isn't their relationship already very close? Sure enough, from the day Ye Zheng left with Xiao Qi for the first time, I should have thought of this day. Su Momo's tears couldn't stop flowing out, Su Momo, Su Momo, you are really stupid. Originally, this opportunity belonged to you, but you lost it in ambiguous self-delusions...... Ye Zheng and Xiao Qi, how far have they developed?
Me, is there any hope? Su Momo burst into tears, thinking, what should I do? She was already a sensitive and fragile girl, and at this time, tears flowed out, and she forgot the courage she gave herself the night before. Like, is the mood that changes repeatedly. Crush is a person's happiness and suffering.
As Ye Zheng expected, within a few days, Ronghua Film and Television and Wuxing Film and Television called Ye Zheng on the same day and offered to buy the script. And without hesitation, he agreed to the script price of five million proposed by Ye Zheng. So in this kind of situation where both companies want to buy, Ye Zheng raised the price, and finally sold it to Wuxing Film and Television at a price of 6.5 million.