548.When the Madness Goes On (Part I)
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But this is not the headquarters, as a world-class record company, its headquarters is naturally set up in Citigroup, the world's most prosperous pop music, and here in Heguo, it is only a branch.
But after all, Heguo is Sony's base camp, so for many Heguo people, this branch is the root of Sony Records.
The weather was sunny that day, which should have put people at work in a good mood, but for many Sony Records employees, such a good mood could not eliminate their inner worries.
When many people pass by an office, they know that the people inside can't hear their footsteps at all, but they still unconsciously relax and speed up their pace, feeling a little like they are fleeing, as if there is something terrible inside.
But when it comes to being scary, there is indeed a terrible person hidden inside.
Takashi Kitagawa, one of the directors of the company, and also the head of a department of the company, can be regarded as a noble and powerful leader, and has a certain right to speak in the record company.
This is also the reason, judging from Alain's current situation, Kitagawa Takashi's decision is obviously a failure.
There are even a lot of rumors in the circle in private, saying that Sony has suffered a big loss this time, and it is also said that Mika Nakajima is strong and middle-class, as a dignified quasi-diva-level singer, she can't even suppress a rookie who debuts.
Although these rumors are hindered by Sony's strength in the local area, they are only spread in private, and no one dares to say them in public, let alone media reports, but they make Takashi Kitagawa, who has a strong sense of self-esteem, feel deeply insulted.
He is a person with strong self-esteem, and in the face of this kind of victory that could have been won easily, but in the end he failed, and the depression in his heart can be imagined.
Crucially, he was also criticized by the company's board of directors.
If Mika Nakajima can successfully suppress Alain, then there is naturally no problem with his decision-making, the key is that things are not as smooth as imagined, then in the eyes of the board of directors, this is a mistake by Takashi Kitagawa.
After all, because of this incident, the rumors of Mika Nakajima driving high and going low have reappeared, making it more and more difficult for this quasi-diva to remove the word 'quasi', and if it goes on like this, let alone the diva, it is not certain whether the three words 'quasi-diva' can be kept.
Let the company's a very important singer lose his value, just for the sake of the battle of will, the company's senior management will naturally not let go of Kitagawa Takashi, even if he is one of the directors of the company, this is also the reason why Sony is strong, all privileges cannot be above the interests of the company.
After being criticized by the company, Kitagawa Takashi returned to the office and his first order was to call the employee who had instigated him to stop Alain.
Then use two slaps plus a termination contract to get him out of the way.
That guy is really gone, but Kitagawa Takashi is not angry in his heart, and he always feels that after the company's report, all the employees look at him like a joke.
This is also the reason why he is in a bad mood in recent days, many employees have been reprimanded and punished by him for inexplicable reasons, and even his secretary has not been spared, kneeling in the office and admitting that he was wrong for an hour, although the secretary felt aggrieved that he had not done anything wrong, and this matter also caused a lot of sensation in the company.
After a few days, everyone knew that Director Beichuan was in a very bad mood and was very irritable, so everyone could hide.
However, Seo can't hide even if he wants to hide today, and a staff member below has brought an update that he must report to Kitagawa Takashi as soon as possible.
Coming to the door of the office, Seo knocked on the door.
"Come in. A rather cold voice rang out from inside, and Seo sighed and pushed the door open.
"Director Kitagawa, here's an update on Alain. After entering the office, Seo walked to Takashi Kitagawa's desk, bowed his head slightly, and handed over the report in his hand, and his colleague said succinctly.
"Alain!?" Hearing this name, Takashi Kitagawa, who was originally working on the documents, instantly raised his head.
"That's right, it's Alain. Seo confirmed, watching Kitagawa take the report in his hand, and then waited anxiously for Kitagawa Takashi to react.
He didn't read the content of the report, but when he listened to the report of the staff below, he knew that the content seemed to be related to Alain's new album, which was a big deal, and Seo was very worried, in case there was any good news about Alain, I was afraid that he might be beaten today.
waited anxiously for five minutes, but the slap didn't wait, but waited for a burst of laughter from Kitagawa Takashi.
Seo could hear that Kitagawa Takashi was smiling very happily, and there was a feeling that he was finally comfortable after being suppressed for a long time, and suddenly his heart was relieved, at least he didn't have to be beaten.
"Hmph, this Nie Wei and Alain are really inflated, and Ai Becks is becoming more and more naΓ―ve, he would agree to such an outrageous plan, Matsuura Katsuto will definitely become a joke in the Japanese music circle this time, and that Nie Wei and Alain, all will be jokes. After laughing, Kitagawa naturally muttered excitedly.
Seo was curious about what kind of plan made Kitagawa laugh so happily and ridicule so unscrupulously.
It seems that he has been suppressed for too long, and Kitagawa Takashi also wants to find someone to share the 'surprise' in front of him, so after seeing Seo's curious gaze, he was rarely patient and told him the content of the report, of course, adding a lot of his own subjective judgment and ridicule of Nie Wei's plan in the process.
"This kind of plan is only possible with a world-class music library like Sony, but we won't do it, it's too wasteful, especially for this kind of little singer, it's not worth it at all, as for Ibex, they can't do it, and they can't do it. β
"It can only be said that they are too naΓ―ve, and it is enough to promote the eyeball effect in this way, but the result will only be a joke. β
"And do it with the fans? Just kidding, if you play like this, as long as one of the ten songs is not up to par, the listener's attention will drop instantly, and even the whole album will collapse. β
"Do you think they're crazy, Alain is done this time, it's time to go back to Huaxia. β
"And that Nie Wei, it's really too inflated, it seems that the success all the time has overwhelmed his brain, I hope this failure can make him calm down. β
Listening to Kitagawa Takashi's subjective analysis, mixed with a lot of ridicule, Seo echoed it while flattering, but he also had a question in his heart.
In Kitagawa Takashi's subjective thoughts, this matter was simply a failure, but he knew that it would inevitably fail, but why did he finally launch this plan?
Nie Wei didn't understand, but he also knew that he was a super-rich man, and such a young super-rich man would really swell because of the smooth wind as Kitagawa said?
There is also Katsuto Matsuura, which can be said to be Sony's old rival, in Seo's cognition, this general manager of Aibecks is a very calm person, but this time he also agreed to this plan, could it be that he and Nie were carried away together?
In Seo's opinion, this chance is even smaller than a comet hitting the Earth.
But if neither of them was carried away, then it undoubtedly showed that these two were very confident in this plan, which means that this plan has the possibility of success, but where did this confidence come from, after all, after hearing about this plan, he felt that Kitagawa Takashi's analysis was quite reasonable.
Seo's mind was still very confused when he walked out of the office, and finally he gave up thinking about this question, because he couldn't get an answer at all, and only hoped that this matter was really as Director Kitagawa expected, and that he should not be as he feared, in case the other party was going to succeed, then his life would be even more difficult.
Like Takashi Kitagawa who ridiculed this plan in Japan, there are many people in Japan, especially in the music industry, many record companies think that Aibecks and Nie Wei are really crazy after learning about this plan, and they dare to play like this.
Everyone was waiting to see the joke, after all, it seemed impossible to them.
Many people think that this is a crazy move by Katsuto Matsuura, after all, no matter how you look at it, you need the strong support of iBakers to complete this album, but can Ibeks do it?
According to everyone's understanding of Ibex, it may be no problem for Abbex to come up with one or two high-quality songs for Alain, but it is simply impossible to come up with nine songs, and even Sony can't do it so extravagantly.
Perhaps there is also a possibility, that is, the initiator of the project, Nie Wei, created it himself.
As a well-known music producer in Asia, Nie Wei's creative strength is indeed obvious to all, and the previous "Prisoner-of-Love" sung by Alan was composed by Nie Wei's only hand, and the quality of the song also shines under the pressure of Mika Nakajima.
But Nie Wei wanted to come up with nine more songs of the same quality as "Prisoner-of-Love", which was simply an impossible task in the eyes of everyone.
Especially under everyone's inquiry, this gentleman's activities in the first half of the year were basically running trips and making movies, and there was no time to create, so how could he have time to create?
And the singer Alain, can she really control so many genres?
And her recording status, one song a week, seven days is very rich for a singer in good shape, but who can guarantee that the state will continue to be good? Especially this kind of song a week, if the quality of the song makes the fans dissatisfied, it will inevitably be criticized, so can Alain really maintain his state under this kind of criticism?
Even some diva-level singers will have times when they are not in good shape, and it is not uncommon for the recording card to be in a month, and now Alan promises to write a song a week, in case the state is not good, is it perfunctory to the fans with sub-quality works? It's just a gamble with his own singing career.
There are too many people who are not optimistic about this plan, and even the employees of Nie Wei's own company do not report too much hope for it, Nie Wei knows everyone's state, but he doesn't care too much, and sometimes, it is more convincing to speak with results.
And his most important job now is to help Alan record the second song, and also determine what Alain's third song is based on the votes of online fans.
If Noda Kumaichi knew that Nie Wei hadn't even written a third song until now, I was afraid that he would jump off the building directly, and in this world, I am afraid that only Nie Wei would dare to play like this, after all, he is full of confidence, but others don't know, so now many people are looking at Nie Wei with a kind of neurotic gaze.
And the whole company soon gave Nie Wei a nickname, called the big madman, and if there is a big madman, there will naturally be a little madman, and that little madman is naturally Alain.
The singer who dares to cooperate with Nie Wei's crazy plan is naturally also a madman.
The whole company thought that Nie Wei was joking about Alain's future, but the person concerned still looked like 'Nie Wei is all for my good', and listened to Nie Wei's words, as if you said that I would never go west to the east.
This also made many people in the company who were worried about Alan speechless, because these two people were completely willing to fight and suffer, and their own group was worried, but it seemed that they were dragging the two of them back.
If the only thing that can be comforting is that since the revelation of this plan, Alain's fan club has ushered in another wave of fan growth, exceeding 50,000 on the same day, and quickly moving towards 60,000, at this rate, there is no problem at all with more than 60,000 in a week.
People inside the company were worried, and people outside were waiting to see the jokes, but they were all isolated from the studio.
In it, all Nie Wei and Alan need is work and record the songs.
Three days passed unconsciously, and most of the song recording was completed, but Alan was a singer with a big heart, and under high pressure, he burst out with unimaginable energy, and the recording of the song went surprisingly smoothly.
This is still under the premise of Nie Wei's strict requirements, which is very rare, and even Nie Wei, who rarely praises people at work, has praised Alan twice in a row in the past few days.
In the recording studio, Nie Wei and Alan were discussing the singing of the two lyrics in the song.
"I think the end of this paragraph should be elongated in order to highlight the feelings. β
"It's not good to be too long, I think it needs to be neat, what this song needs here is to be strong, it's better not to drag it too long. β
"Let's try both, and we'll compare them then, and choose whichever feels better. β
Wearing a pair of slippers, Alain walked into the recording studio, about to record both, when the door to the recording studio was suddenly pushed open.
Walking in was a company employee in uniform, Nie Wei looked at the student, but a musician on the side recognized the person.
"Ida-kun, what's the matter?"
"I came to Director Nie Wei, and the results of the online voting came out. This staff member named Jing Tian reported directly to Nie Wei.