Chapter 374: It's All Wanted
After weighing it repeatedly, Xiao Yao, who couldn't make up his mind, called Chen Yang and asked Chen Yang's opinion. After all, Chen Yang came out of the East China Sea Sharks at the beginning, and he is still inextricably linked with the original club, and now he is the vice chairman of the Basketball Association.
It's okay not to sign after the trial, but only if you have a better club to choose from. For example, if you go to another club after you pass this trial, and you sign with a club that has more prospects for you or a better contract, that's fine. But if you don't sign a contract with any club after the trial, and go back to continue to develop in the entertainment industry, that is, the trial of your former old club is child's play, and Chen Yang is of course unacceptable.
After receiving Xiao Yao's call and listening to his thoughts, Chen Yang scolded Xiao Yao with a smile and persuaded him to dispel this idea. Let him either try out and sign a contract to play professionally for a few years, or simply refuse the Big Shark Club, mix his own showbiz, and don't waste the resources of other clubs to treat the trial as fun.
Without Chen Yang's support, Xiao Yao was embarrassed to interfere with the normal work of other clubs, and replied to refuse the trial invitation of the East China Sea Sharks.
Subsequently, the East China Sea Sharks also released on the official website that Xiao Yao decided to continue to develop in the entertainment industry, had no intention of changing careers to become a professional player, and refused the trial.
Seeing the news officially released by the Big Sharks, many "pills" were greatly relieved.
After this news came out, Xiao Yao's fans were really worried that Xiao Yao, a guy who often acted unexpectedly, would be hot-headed and really quit the entertainment industry to become a professional player. Especially when Fang still said in an interview with reporters that Xiao Yao was thinking about it, many fans' hearts were full of worry. Although Xiao Yao's performance in the charity competition was really outstanding and amazed many people. But compared to watching Xiao Yao play professional games, more people still want to hear Xiao Yao's songs and watch Xiao Yao act, hoping that he will continue to stay in the entertainment industry and develop.
Judging from Xiao Yao's consistent style, and the news of the invitation to try out was announced by the East China Sea Sharks, there are not many people on the Internet who say that Xiao Yao and the East China Sea Sharks take the opportunity to hype. If you want to talk about hype, it is also to say that Xiao Yao, who has attracted huge attention by the Big Sharks in the charity game, has hyped it more. And when Xiao Yao rejected the trial invitation of the Big Sharks as most people expected, there were more remarks accusing the Big Sharks of deliberately hype.
"Xiao Yao has developed well in the entertainment industry, and now he is still studying in Shenju, how could he give up his studies and career in the entertainment industry to play professional competitions? Knowing that people will not come, the East China Sea Sharks deliberately sent such a message inviting a trial to attract attention. It has become the unanimous evaluation of many netizens on the Internet.
Because the trial invitation sent by the East China Sea Shark Club listed the trial plan and inspection content in great detail, and he looked full of sincerity and sincerity, not just using him for hype, so Xiao Yao had no objection to the East China Sea Sharks team's announcement of the news on the official website.
Just when the Internet criticized the hype of the East China Sea Shark, Xiao Yao also announced the detailed trial plan from the East China Sea Shark on the Internet, indicating that they were indeed very sincere in inviting him to the trial, and at the same time stated that he was indeed tempted, but he couldn't let go of his current studies and career in the entertainment industry, so he had no choice but to refuse. It can be regarded as relieving some of the pressure of public opinion for the big shark in the East China Sea.
After dealing with the trial, Xiao Yao focused on the theme song of the basketball league. Xiao Yao promised Chen Yang to hand over two songs in English and two in Chinese before October 20, a total of four songs for him to choose, and now there is not much left before the day of the exchange.
Xiao Yao dared to promise to give Chen Yang four new songs at once, and he was naturally prepared in his heart. However, the songs for the Basketball Association are not written and scored, but the official finished product must be handed over. At the beginning, Xiao Yao emphasized to Chen Yang that they couldn't find other singers to sing the songs after taking them, because Xiao Yao didn't plan to sing these four songs by himself. It takes time to arrange, score, and find other singers to practice and record.
The four songs that Xiao Yao intends to give Chen Yang are "Believe in Yourself" by the band Zero in the previous life, "Run" by Yu Quan, "HallOfFame" by TheScript, and "Fighter" by Christina Auilera.
Two of the Chinese songs, Xiao Yao, plan to sing them himself. There is rap in that song "HallOfFame", . AM Cooperation. Xiao Yao plans to cooperate with Chen Chen again in this song, he is responsible for the singing part, and Chen Chen is responsible for the rap part of the song. As for the song "Fighter" by rubbing his mother in his previous life, Xiao Yao planned to find Liang Xueying to sing it.
There's nothing to say about Chen Chen's collaboration on that English song. The singer in his own studio is also a very good friend, and he is basically the only male rap singer Xiao Yao knows, except for him, Xiao Yao has no other candidates. Another English song was sung by Liang Xueying, for a different reason.
At CCTV's disaster relief party, Xiao Yao and Liang Xueying once collaborated on a song "Because of You". At that time, the chorus of the two was the premiere of that song, but after the disaster relief party ended, Xiao Yao did not record the official studio version of the song with Liang Xueying, but left the song to Fan Linxuan. At the CCTV disaster relief party, Fan Linxuan's level was not enough to sing with him, Xiao Yao reluctantly compromised, but who to sing with the official version of the song, that is up to Xiao Yao himself.
Xiao Yao told Liang Xueying about the official version of the song "Because of You" for Fan Linxuan to sing together. Although Liang Xueying generously expressed no opinion, Xiao Yao was still a little embarrassed in his heart.
Liang Xueying has published a lot of English songs, and her style and singing voice are the most European and American female singers Xiao Yao currently knows, and she also has a good distribution channel in North America. The song "Fighter" is very suitable for Liang Xueying's European and American singing, and it is very suitable to sing this English song to Liang Xueying, both in terms of music style and distribution, and it can also make up for a little guilt towards Liang Xueying on the song "Because of You", so Liang Xueying has also become the best choice for Xiao Yao's song.
When she debuted from the talent show, Liang Xueying gave the impression that she sang very well in English. Later, after becoming famous, she has always been determined to develop in the direction of internationalization. Although he has also released some English songs in recent years, opened up some markets in Europe and the United States, and even participated in a very famous talk show in the United States, his overall results are still relatively average, and his popularity in Europe and the United States is limited. A big reason for this is that she is currently the most famous English songs, or the works of several European and American divas that she covered on the talent show that year. Her own English song works are very popular in Europe and the United States, and none of her songs have entered the top 50 of the US Billboard singles chart.
Xiao Yao is different. Xiao Yao's three songs for the band Immortals all entered the top 30 of the Billboard singles chart, the top 10 of the rock chart, the "sugar" written for the daydream band won the Billboard singles championship, and the two electronic songs "Faded" and "SingMeToSleep" with Gong Chen were in the top 50 of the Billboard singles chart and the top 20 of the electronic music chart. His own song "ThnkingOutLoud" has rushed to the top 10 of the Billboard singles chart, and there is another song that did not hit the chart but caused United Airlines to lose nearly $200 million, "American Airlines Broke My Guitar" is almost a household name in the United States.
Even though Xiao Yao himself rarely appears in public in the United States, his name has long been familiar in the American music scene. In terms of fame, Xiao Yao, who has only appeared on the Oscar stage once as a member of the band, may not be less famous in the United States than Liang Xueying, who has held concerts in the United States. If there is an English song tailored by Xiao Yao for herself, Liang Xueying believes that with the publicity ability of Universal Music, she can at least send this song to the top 50 of the American Billboard.
Therefore, when she heard that Xiao Yao wrote a new song for herself, which was still an English song, Liang Xueying was overjoyed. Without saying a word, he put down everything at hand, and immediately flew to Shencheng to cooperate with Xiao Yao to record this English single.
Liang Xueying, a quasi-diva-level singer, has nothing to say about Xiao Yao's call, Chen Chen is an artist in Xiao Yao's own studio, he is not only Xiao Yao's buddy, but also created by Xiao Yao, and he is even more responsive to Xiao Yao's needs. After receiving Xiao Yao's news, Chen Chen, who was originally relatively free, also flew to Shencheng immediately.
The lyrics and music scores have been written a long time ago, and Xiao Yao has already drafted the arrangements and soundtracks, and with all the personnel, the recording of Xiao Yao's songs has also been carried out very smoothly. Considering Xiao Yao's student status, Liang Xueying and Chen Chen even cooperated very well to accommodate Xiao Yao's time to go into the studio to record at night. Without asking for leave, Xiao Yao had already recorded all the official studio versions of these four songs around October 15.
After the recording of the song was completed, Xiao Yao also discussed the copyright of the song with Liang Xueying.
Chen Chen is his own singer, and his own studio is responsible for the release of the song, so Xiao Yao can dispose of the song that the two collaborated on. Liang Xueying has her own company and her own distribution channels, and she doesn't need Xiao Yao or Qi Jia Studio to be responsible for distribution. Generally speaking, Xiao Yao sold the commercial copyright of the song to Liang Xueying, and she arranged the release by herself.
But these four songs are all songs prepared by Xiao Yao for the theme song of the Chinese Basketball Professional League, and if they are selected by the Basketball Association, there are also some copyright issues involved. Xiao Yao hopes that after selling the commercial copyright of the song to Liang Xueying, he can act as an agent for part of the copyright in this regard. Xiao Yao helped the Basketball Association write these songs because of his friendship with Chen Yang, not for the money of the Basketball Association, and he didn't want the Basketball Association to choose this song, but in the end there was an unpleasant situation because the price could not be negotiated. In case the price given by the Basketball Association fails to meet Liang Xueying's expectations, then he can also quietly subsidize part of it.
Liang Xueying is not short of money at all now. She sings Xiao Yao's songs, and she values fame, not profit. If the Basketball Association really chose this song as the theme song of the league, it would also be a very good publicity for the song itself. After understanding what Xiao Yao meant, Liang Xueying immediately said that she would leave this matter to Xiao Yao to decide, and Xiao Yao could treat this song as if it were the other three songs he sang, even if it was a free professional league theme song for the Basketball Association.
The discussion was set, and the recording had been completed, so Liang Xueying flew back to Yanjing with a copy of the official version of the audio source file. Liang Xueying was full of confidence in the song Xiao Yao wrote to her, and she also returned to the company with great interest and made a plan to promote and distribute it. Due to the election of the theme song of the Chinese Basketball Professional League, Liang Xueying also suppressed her excitement and set the release plan of this song in November, and at the same time planned to prepare two different publicity plans to be selected as the theme song of the Basketball Professional League and not selected by the Basketball Association.
On October 19th, one day earlier than the date that Xiao Yao promised Chen Yang, Xiao Yao passed the official versions of the four songs to Chen Yang.
Just one day later, Xiao Yao received Chen Yang's reply.
"Do you want all four songs?" Xiao Yao said into the phone with some surprise, "Isn't it the theme song? What does the four capitals mean? Are you going to change the theme song every year and book the next three years?"
"If we really change the theme song every year, can you promise to write one for us every year after three years?" Chen Yang asked with a smile.
"Of course~ impossible!" Xiao Yao said loudly, "I just see that you just moved into the Basketball Association this year, and I will support you in action, and it will be good to promise you once, you don't want to rely on me! Besides, the leadership of the Basketball Association is changed once every four years, and who knows if you will still be in the Basketball Association after four years." ”
"Hey, you kid, can't you expect me to be better?" Chen Yang said angrily.
"No kidding, which one to use?" Xiao Yao continued, "These four songs are all going to be released, we have to plan the publicity according to your choice, you tell me which one you selected, and we can arrange the follow-up publicity work." ”
"No kidding, it's really all about it!" Chen Yang changed his serious tone and said, "After listening to these four songs, we think they are all quite good." The song "Believe in Yourself" was chosen by the most people, followed by "HallOfFame", but the other two songs were also very good, and we didn't want to give up, so we came up with a special promotional plan to use all four of your songs. ”
"What special propaganda plan?" Xiao Yao said curiously.
"Believe in Yourself" is the theme song of the league, and "Run" is the promotional song of the league. "HallOfFame" is our international theme song, and "Fighter" is an international promotional song. Make four different promotional videos for both domestic and overseas markets, so that all four of your songs can be used. So these four songs of yours, we all want them. Chen Yang explained.
"Damn, you can think of this way?" Xiao Yao said speechlessly.
"Isn't it common for movies and TV series to release several versions of trailers? Chen Yang said with a smile, "What's wrong with using four different songs as background music and four different promotional videos? ”
"Okay, four songs are just four songs. Xiao Yao said, "Originally, I thought that if you used my song as the theme song, the copyright could give you a discount or even free of charge, but you asked for all four songs at once, and I was not so generous." I'll send someone to negotiate the copyright price with you later!"
"Okay," Chen Yang said with a smile, "The professional league has a good ball market in the past few years, and we are not short of money, so how to talk about it." As long as you don't pit us with a lion's big mouth. ”