044 Shopping for Jive
Next, Li Feng took a good look at the famous Jive company, where three new century trump cards will be born in the future: Britney, Backstreet Boy, and Super Boy.
In the most glorious period of Jive, the company's owner, Clive Calder, was worth 4 or 5 billion dollars in 05, so you can imagine how profitable the record company was in the years before and after the new century.
In fact, Li Feng acquired Jive and Jay-z, just to bring people over, and as for their parent company name, Li Feng did not use it.
As a result, the now independent Jive Records is 65 percent owned by Li Feng's Century Media, with Zomba Entertainment (a company co-founded by Clive Calder and Ralph Simon) holding 30 percent and Jay-z's private company (Roc-A-Fella) holding a 5 percent stake.
Jay-z's former Roc-A-Fella record label is now really his own private company, and his own shares are put in his own record label.
In fact, the original Roc-A-Fella still had 2 partners, and now, naturally, he has withdrawn, and after being acquired by the media group, he took a sum of money and joined the company with Jay-z.
Similarly, I also saw these unlucky ghosts during this period, but these people were quite happy, maybe it was the heartless nature of the black people, but they didn't have any special other thoughts, and Li Feng didn't mind, anyway, their company Jay-z was the center.
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"BOSS, this is our brand new studio. Balieves took Li Feng to the first floor at this time, and then said to Li Feng.
It turns out that this is one of the core of Jive, the top recording studio in the United States and even in the world, with dialogue recording studios, music recording studios, sound recording studios, mixed recording studios, as well as natural reverberation recording studios with different characteristics, strong sound absorption (short reverberation) recording studios and active end and silent end (LEDE) recording studios, etc., with more than 10 recording studios on the whole floor.
The rest of the people didn't hear the noise at all, but Li Feng, who was deaf and clear-sighted, faintly heard a few singing voices, and Li Feng thought that the sound insulation effect was good.
"BOSS, there are a few newly signed artists in training. ”
Seeing Li Feng walking towards a recording studio, Barry Weston explained on the side, but in his heart he was still thinking, how did the boss know that there were people inside, after all, the sound insulation effect of his own recording studio was the top, and it couldn't be heard outside at all.
Li Feng vaguely heard the voice coming, and thought that someone was recording on the spot, but he was still very curious about the recording and wanted to take a look, but after listening to Barry's introduction, he realized that this was a newcomer in training.
"I'm curious to be able to go in and have a look, even though I usually listen to records, but I really don't know how the recording is done. ”
"Of course, please!" Barryves, then, hurriedly replied.
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When Li Feng opened the door and walked into the recording studio, there was a breath of Qin Chun first, and I saw a few girls singing and playing together, but with the entry of Li Feng and others, the scene suddenly became embarrassing.
When he saw the girls inside, Li Feng's eyes couldn't help but light up.
"BOSS, these are some of the people we will focus on in the future, this is the former MMC (Mickey Mouse Club) member - Miss Brienne Spears, these four are the real girl group of Destiny, and we plan to make albums for them in 2 years. ”
With Barives' introduction on the side, what imprinted into Li Feng's eyes were five young and beautiful girls, one white and four black. Among them, there are 2 faces that Li Feng is very familiar with, although Blaney and Beyoncé are still young today, but Li Feng still recognizes the two at a glance, and the blame is only that these two people are too famous in later generations.
At this time, Li Feng knew that the original Mandate of Heaven True Girl Group was a foursome, and Li Feng in his previous life only knew that Beyoncé debuted as a Mandate True Girl in the early days, as for which ones they were, to be honest, Li Feng didn't know any of them.
At this time, in addition to Beyoncé, the Destiny True Girl Group also has Latavia Robertson, Kelly Lan, and Ledua Luquette, all four of whom are beautiful girls in chocolate color, and they are all good among blacks, but in fact, they are not solid blacks.
Although Li Feng doesn't know a few other people in the Mandate of Heaven, he has heard that the Mandate of Heaven is one of the most successful girl groups, and the achievements are very good, and it is said that the total sales of records are 7 or 80 million copies.
Obviously, this is another money-making combination, even if it is disbanded in the future, there is still Beyoncé, the trump card, and he can still make money for himself, okay, at this time, Li Feng looks at the 5 women in front of him like green dollar bills and future cash cows.
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"Hello Blaney, Beyoncé, Latavia, Kelly, Ledua, I'm St. John Lee, it's nice to meet you.
You probably don't know it, but I handpicked these people, which made Michael laugh at the time.
I think you all have the potential to become stars in the pop music industry, but Michael doesn't quite believe that you have to work hard in the future, you are optimistic about you. Li Feng joked with a smile at several beautiful girls and Barryves.
"Hello BOSS. ”
"Oh my God, it's St. John Lee, this is Mr. Son of Fortune today. ”
"Wow, I've met St. John Lee, oh my God, it's incredible..."
"Hello, Mr. Li!"
With Li Feng's introduction, several girls were suddenly surprised and almost screamed, it was Li Feng's name that surprised several girls.
There is no doubt that Li Feng is definitely an idol of today's American teenagers and even the United States, and there are many people who fantasize about becoming a person like Li Feng.
chatted with a few girls for a while, encouraged them, and under the eyes of a few girls full of little stars, Li Feng led people out of the recording studio.
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"It seems that BOSS and Clive have the same vision, and we have already started to plan our future market positioning, in addition to our traditional hip-hop music, we will also target the teen-pop music market.
Both Blaney and Destiny are key items in our planning. Barryves listened to Li Feng's words, and then smiled and pandered.
"Oh, Clive, I've always heard that you're Jive's soul brain, and it's up to you to evolve Jive, and you know, I don't really have much time to pay attention to. Li Feng turned his head and smiled at the major shareholder behind him.
"You've won the prize, we started to lay out the market two years ago, we have begun to test the waters, we started to launch our pop boy group - BackStreetBoys 2 years ago, we released a gold record last year, and we will release a new album this year to test the waters, maybe the teen-pop era will come.
It's like the 60 years that made the pop trend of Soul music; The '80s made Rap all the rage; In the mid-90s, Rap and Metal were fused to the top of the market.
No one knows what the future will be, but we hope that we will be able to grasp the pulse of the times and the TEEN-POP trend will become popular in the future. ”
Listening to the words of this Jive's brain, Li Feng couldn't help but smile.
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Li Feng knew that the future pop music market would enter the teen-pop trend as Clive Calder predicted, and Jive, who had stars such as Blaney and Backstreet Boys around 2000, became the vane of the pop music market.
From today's Jive's planning, it can be seen that the banner of the pop music market in the new century has undoubtedly been held in Jive's hands.
In the future, Jive single-handedly planned the "revolution" of the teen-pop market trend, and promoted its idol groups to every corner of the world, making Jive the darling of the market.