Chapter 273: Recording an Album
Generally speaking, singers' albums will not be released too intensively, from the release of the previous album to the preparation of the next album, there will be at least half a year apart, and some will even be separated by about a year.
Usually, singers will only release one or two albums a year, and this density is different from the strength of the coffee position and the company, as well as the degree of praise the singer by the company.
Of course, occasionally there will be some singers, in the first few years of their debut, or two years after they were popular, they will release albums crazy and quite frequently, so that singers can accumulate a large number of excellent works in a short period of time and quickly seize the market, but correspondingly, the exhaustion of singers will also be very high.
And there is also a bad thing about this crazy rhythm of releasing records, which is likely to cause excessive consumption of fans, or excessive consumption of excellent songs in opponents, if subsequent albums can continue to maintain excellent quality, it is fine, but if the quality declines, then the consequences are a little less beautiful.
According to Lu Manqing's plan for Ren Xiangyang and a few people, she plans to release an average of about two albums a year in the first two years of Ren Xiangyang's debut at the end of the season, which is enough, after all, she mainly takes the singer route, or she still has to speak with her works, and she has a lot of good songs in her hands, and it will not damage the future of her artists.
But this time, in order to participate in the opening song of the summer show of Vio and Muli brands, Lu Manqing had to advance the preparation of his artist's new album, which made the work rhythm of their team much more tense, not to mention, the artist's itinerary was even more headache.
However, the pay and the gain are always proportional, and winning the opening performance opportunity of two world-class brands is definitely immeasurable for the future of its own artists, and compared with such benefits, the current busyness and exhaustion are quite worthwhile.
The process of making an album is quite complicated, but it is often at this time that the benefits of being in a large entertainment company are shown, music producers, sea emperors, excellent songwriters, sea emperors, good arrangers, recording and production accompaniment bands, sea emperors, sea emperors have.
Even good tuners, good recording equipment, etc., there is no shortage of Sea Emperor, there is no need to run around, in his own company, he can complete all the processes of an album in one stop, which is something that ordinary small companies can't do.
You must know that these people and things need huge economic strength to support, especially the more outstanding talents, the more they need to spend a lot of money to retain, which is one of the reasons why artists want to enter large companies.
Compared with the order in which ordinary singers release albums, here in Lu Manqing, a lot of steps can be omitted, after determining the album style and release direction of the two, as well as the criteria for selecting songs, the album of ten songs per two, Lu Manqing himself came up with five quite classic songs for each of them.
In addition to the big show singing, Lu Manqing also gave the two of them two English songs and two Chinese songs, both of which Lu Manqing thought were classic and suitable works for the two, and with these five songs alone, the sales of these two albums should not be too bad.
After all, no matter which singer it is, he can't make an album, and every one is a classic among the classics, having said that, when Lu Manqing selected new songs for the two of them in the copyright library, and made an appointment with the company's big-name songwriters, he still spent a lot of thought.
Lu Manqing has appointments with Chinese songs in the company, and there are indeed many big-name songwriters and strong strengths, but they also have a relatively common problem, that is, they are not good at English songs, and they are not even as good as some cutting-edge creators.
Therefore, Lu Manqing simply gave up the choice in the company and focused on the songs that have not yet been selected by the copyright library, which is also a very common way to select songs that are not known to laymen.
Generally speaking, cutting-edge songwriters will put the songs they write into the copyright library after they have been certified for copyright, and the artists who plan to release albums, their album producers or planners, will come here to select some new songs of the corresponding style.
If there is a suitable one, they will buy the corresponding copyright directly through the copyright library, and then include it in their own artists' albums, and the creators will get money and corresponding signatures, of course, if they are very good, they may also get some olive branches or something.
Lu Manqing is very patient to find one by one, it's not that she can't come up with more good songs, but she must find more channels for the source of her artists' songs, otherwise when more people start to pay attention to their own artists, some people will start to pay attention to where their artists' songs come from.
She can "create" this kind of thing, Lu Manqing has no intention of exposing it, except for Gu Yan, even her artists don't know at all, all along, Lu Manqing has come up with songs, and he has a few very good personal friends with him, so that he can get these songs first.
In terms of signature, Lu Manqing also tried her best to continue what she remembered, the creator who wrote these songs in her previous life, if she really didn't remember, she would also use "anonymous" instead, and never signed her own name.
This is not to say how high Lu Manqing is, but she doesn't want to cause too much trouble, she can be an excellent agent, it doesn't matter if she is so good that she is dazzling, she can also occasionally make a cameo appearance as an artist, it doesn't matter if it satisfies her little selfishness,
Even, she is now a completely different existence in the agent circle, an agent who is more popular than artists, which is beyond people's reach, but she can't still be a songwriter.
A person can have an aura, but he can't have too much aura, a person who is too omnipotent will make people have a lot of thoughts and jealousy that should not be generated, and even cause trouble that should not be provoked, Lu Manqing is not afraid, but she is unwilling to deal with these troubles, so she tried to avoid this problem from the beginning.
This time, because the album is going to be released overseas, Lu Manqing is more concerned about the songwriter and copyright issues this time, there is no creator who does not want his songs to be heard and liked by more people, and there is no creator who does not want his works to shine overseas.
Therefore, it is very likely that the songs selected this time will bring out a new generation of excellent creators in several circles in the future, and Lu Manqing must of course be more cautious.
Fortunately, many young creators in China have indeed made a very good breakthrough in English songs, although Lu Manqing spent a lot of time, but finally chose a favorite song.
Next, it is the crazy practice of squeezing out Ren Xiangyang and the end of the season, Lu Manqing has to keep an eye on the assistants of the two every day, prepare the fat sea and various throat-moisturizing drinks for the two, and even make corresponding adjustments in the diet, focusing on a light and moisturizing diet that replenishes qi.
It can be said that for this album, Ren Xiangyang and the end of the season simply squeezed out their last trace of physical strength, spending a lot of time in the practice room and recording studio every day, practicing over and over again, recording over and over again, just like an assembly line operation, after the recording is completed, the next will immediately start tuning, sound repair and a series of work.
The high-intensity work made Ren Xiangyang and the end of the season tired, and even Ling Jingtian, who occasionally came back from the set, sighed incomparably that he was smart and chose the main actor to take the path of an actor, just this intensity, it could kill him.
The effort and the gain are directly proportional, Ren Xiangyang and the album at the end of the season hurried and hurried, and the production was finally completed at the end of March, when the album cover and the corresponding promotion photos were taken, the dark circles under the eyes of the two needed several layers of concealment to barely cover them, so Lu Manqing received a lot of complaints from the field.
And Lu Manqing is the top of the list of agents who can suppress artists the most in the entire Sea Emperor, from the most popular and most wanted to join the agent under his command, by the way, he has become a big devil-like figure, and the trainees who flatter her are much less for a while, which makes Lu Manqing a little crying and laughing.
However, the benefits of everything being ready at the most appropriate time were immediately reflected, and when the album was produced, the publicity work immediately began to be prepared, and Lu Manqing also ushered in the second season of "Super Boy", the first recording of the national finals.
This issue is very different, the difference is that Lu Manqing is going to participate in the recording of the show and become one of the judges of this show as an agent.
What's more different is that in this first episode of the program, Ren Xiangyang will return as the champion to do the opening performance, and the song used in the performance is naturally a Chinese title song of the new album.
Of course, it doesn't matter if the performance is not performing, the reason why Ren Xiangyang appeared on the stage of Lime Satellite TV is indeed a publicity effect on the show "Super Boy", and it is also a strong incentive for the contestants to participate in the competition, but more importantly, to promote his new album and the new album at the end of the season.
What every singer who releases a new album inevitably has is an endless road of publicity, and Lime TV, which has high ratings, and "Super Boy", which is definitely a very good place for promotion.
In this way, on April 1, this extremely special festival, Lu Manqing arrived in Shangsha City with Ren Xiangyang and his little assistants to participate in the first recording of the national finals of "Super Boy".
And this time, to Lu Manqing's surprise, they didn't inform Ren Xiangyang's fans privately, but the moment he walked out of the airport, Lu Manqing saw countless fans waiting there holding light signs......