Verse 330: Rip-off

Making "Tomorrow Will Be Better" is not a difficult thing from a technical point of view, but like many things in this world, the things themselves are not complicated, and the conflicts of interest that arise around these things are the most complicated.

Now Shen Huan is in such a complicated situation.

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It was three o'clock in the afternoon on June 12, and Shen Huan did not go to the set, but sat in his hotel room.

When an emergency like last night happened, he came up with a new idea, and the next schedule was naturally going to change, so the filming was temporarily suspended, and he waited until he was busy as soon as possible before restarting work.

At this moment, in front of him is a computer, and it can be seen from the screen that he is having a video conference, and then carefully counting the screen grids, you can find that this is a video conference with a total of eight people, including Shen Huan. It's just that many people on the screen are very unfamiliar with Shen Huanlai, and they didn't have much communication before today, and some of them haven't even met in person, and behind these people are the names of big companies: Jiaxi China, Huanyu Music, DME, Rogbena Entertainment......

The combination of the names of these companies represents the absolute dominance of the Chinese music scene, and the vast majority of influential singers in the Chinese music scene are owned by these companies. And the reason why everyone gathered together and held such a video conference at this time was because of this public welfare song action initiated by Shen Huan and Luo Xianyang.

“…… We at DME are bound to do such a meaningful thing, but I think further consultations are needed on the specific implementation,"

The representative of DME was speaking, a middle-aged man with oily hair and a fortune, who was talking eloquently: "I think the entry threshold for such a meaningful action should be high, after all, it represents the face of the music world." Mr. Shen, you and Luo Xianyang, as the initiators of this action and the top figures in the music world, naturally there is no doubt about participating in the singing, in addition, I think You Kezhen and Zeng Keyi are also very suitable candidates......"

Luo Xianyang's liaison operation was very smooth.

The singers in the circle he contacted were very interested in such a meaningful action, and no one mentioned the cost of singing and recording - in this kind of thing, even if Luo Xianyang wanted to give them money, they didn't dare to accept it. Otherwise, if it breaks out at that time, other people will confiscate the money for recording this public welfare song, and they will accept it, and their career prospects will be basically ruined.

The wishes of the singers are still very unified, but many things are not decided by the singers themselves, after all, these singers have their own record companies. Participation in the recording of records for commercial distribution must be reported to the company and permission must be obtained.

In this regard, these companies are also very talkative.

They also agreed to their singers to participate in this public welfare action, but they were too enthusiastic, so enthusiastic that they bought one get one free: in addition to the singers who were contacted by Luo Xianyang, many companies also hope to add some singers to come in, of course, they don't need money, it's good to participate.

For example, the two singers mentioned by the DME representative are You Kezhen and Zeng Keyi. Among them, You Kezhen was invited by Luo Xianyang, which was what they wanted, and Zeng Keyi, who was an additional bonus singer that DME hoped to be able to join in this action, was what they didn't want.

This is why Shen Huan is sitting here with them for this video conference.

"Youke is really fine,"

As soon as the DME representative finished speaking, the representative of Jiaxi China spoke, "The winner of the Golden Melody Award, there is no doubt about her qualifications, but Zeng Keyi...... Manager Liu, this seems to be a bit different from the 'high threshold' you said before?"

The representative of Jiaxi China said what Shen Huan was thinking.

Zeng Keyi's name, he didn't have much impression before, but after talking to this DME manager Liu in the morning, he went to find out what kind of person it was.

This is a rookie female singer, and it seems that DME is a new star this year.

This time, the DME wants to stuff this Zeng Keyi in, it should be optimistic about their public welfare song, and want to use this resource to praise her, after all, the initiators of this public welfare action are Shen Huan and Luo Xianyang.

These two, one is a veteran king of the Chinese music scene, and the other is the hottest singer in the Chinese music scene in the past two years, and they are all looking at the quality and popularity of their works. These two are actually united, then this public welfare song is really incredible, especially in this special period now, the repercussions that can be caused are also predictable, if you can stuff people in, it is definitely an extremely excellent resource, it is likely to take advantage of this east wind to hit the ground, saving them how much effort and time?

After the representative of DME, Manager Liu, was choked, he was not in a hurry or annoyed, and said: "Although Zeng Keyi's qualifications are not as deep as many singers, her strength is definitely there. Especially her voice, the biggest feature is warmth, I think it is more suitable for such a public welfare song. ”

When the representative of Jiaxi China, who was choking just now, heard this, he said: "Speaking of warm voice, that is Wu Guanqun's signature. According to Manager Liu's logic, Wu Guanqun must have come in. ”

This Wu Guanqun is the singer of Jiaxi China, buy one get one free.

It can be said that every company has singers who want to be stuffed in, and Shen Huan and they don't want to invite, most of them have more than one or two.

This gave Shen Huan a headache.

He was worried that he wouldn't find anyone, there weren't enough people, but now there are too many people.

There are so many lyrics, really stuff them all in according to what they want, the lyrics alone are not enough, and what kind of singers do they want to stuff in?

This is not to say that Shen Huan looks down on those singers, he also agrees that there is no threshold for wanting to give love, he just starts from the artistic perspective of the whole song: just imagine, a group of bigwigs are singing skills, and a few levels are one or two grades lower in the middle, so won't the feeling of the whole song be torn apart all of a sudden?

He can't refuse it all at once, after all, the singers he wants are distributed in these companies, what if he rejects all the people, and these companies find a reasonable reason and don't let them go?

There were too few people, and this song didn't have the kind of unifying emotion he wanted, so he brought everyone together to discuss a plan that everyone could accept, including him.

And Shen Huan also understood at this time why Luo Xyou from another world ran away halfway when he was doing "Tomorrow Will Be Better".

The more people and interest groups involved, the more things to do. It's just that in another world, those people directly intervened in Luo Xyou's creation, and here, they only intervened in the selection of singers.

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Shen Huan originally wanted to start arranging music with Luo Xianyang today, and even start doing accompaniment, but because of these annoying trivial matters, he spent most of his time on this today. Fortunately, after a long meeting, these disputes were properly resolved after weighing and negotiating the respective interests of the parties.

The people Shen Huan wanted, they all let them go, and the singers they wanted to add in, under the balance and compromise of all aspects, cut off some of them and put some of them in, and finally calculated, a total of 56 singers joined in, and at the same time, this number also represents 56 nationalities, symbolizing the unity of 56 nationalities. And in terms of the distribution of lyrics, there are so many singers, and it is obviously impossible for everyone to get the lyrics - one person is not enough, unless it is repeated and repeated, and the whole song is repeated and repeated, and it is as long as an old woman's footwrap.

In this regard, Shen Huan made a suggestion.

"Some of them can be made into a chorus format, so that everyone's voice can be included as much as possible, and although it is not possible to guarantee that everyone has a participle, but everyone's name will appear on the list of singers. At the same time, we can also shoot the song MV at the same time to ensure that everyone enters the country. ”

After some arguing, everyone also agreed to Shen Huan's suggestion.

This video conference gave them a clear idea of how many competitors there were, and with such a number of people, their unilateral idea at the beginning was indeed a bit beautiful. The suggestion put forward by Shen Huan is already to ensure the rights and interests of all parties to the greatest extent.

In addition, everyone also negotiated and competed in terms of word segmentation, and it can be regarded as an acceptable result in all aspects. What Shen Huan didn't expect the most was that several companies had also intervened in the release of this public welfare song.

The issue is mainly focused on online distribution.

From the basis of raising as much money as possible, several companies require the entire network to be distributed, and cannot be distributed on a single music platform.

The reason behind this is not difficult to imagine: Jiaxi China is behind Xinghui Entertainment, DME seems to be involved, and other companies, some online music platforms that have partnerships with them should have contributed behind it.

This is indeed a good opportunity for online music platforms.

The release of other music works depends on whether the audience likes it or not, whether they buy it or not, and it is a bit risky to rashly try to charge online music when the market is not completely clear, but the release of this public welfare song is different. Even if the audience doesn't like the song, there will be a lot of people who pay for it because of its public welfare donation nature - to some extent, this is equivalent to a disguised donation channel.

Not only are they willing to buy it, but people basically don't have a rejection mentality when they charge for such a work.

Such an online charging work is really an excellent pioneer of the online music platform to carry out the charging model, and it is no wonder that they will contribute to the release of the whole platform in the back.

However, Shen Huan didn't want to make a big fuss about his Guanghui Cloud Music with this work, and the whole network tried to charge for online music, which is also conducive to cultivating the market, and Guanghui Cloud Music is also profitable in the end, so he didn't obstruct it much, and agreed to it.

In this way, Shen Huan wasted a day on these trivial matters, and it was not until the next day that he could finally officially start the production of this public welfare song.