Chapter 221: God Needs Money Too
"It's Mr. Angus, right?"
"I am, who are you?"
"I'm Alan Walker, the ...... you contacted earlier"
The matter of contacting Alan Walker can be traced back to more than a month ago, when Liu Shixin first learned about Alan Walker from TV reports, and felt that his electronic music works were great, very infectious, and also popular on YouTube, so Liu Shixin had an idea: Can you ask Alan Walker to help Zheng Xiuyan write a single. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Zheng Xiuyan's situation in South Korea, Liu Shixin can roughly guess, and South Korea is a typical country with flowers outside the wall and fragrance inside the wall, as long as Zheng Xiuyan can have a certain reputation abroad, then those things in South Korea will be solved.
With Liu Shixin's net worth, he can find a large number of composers and lyricists in the United States, and then buy songs to release an album for Zheng Xiuyan, but it is difficult to predict whether the song will be popular. And "Fade" has a good following on the Internet, so if this pure music can be adapted into a single, then the basic audience will be large.
With this in mind, Liu Shixin contacted Alan Walker's company, NCS, and inexplicably contacted him many times without replying, so he could only send a private message to Alan Walker through Facebook, hoping to get in touch with him, which was also a failure. Liu Shixin was no longer hopeful about this line, but he didn't expect that now Alan Walker actually called him personally.
NCS is just a small company after all, and in addition to the fact that Alan Walker's works are more popular on the Internet, the sales in reality are not good, so he is idle by NCS. He has a lot of followers on Facebook, and there will be a lot of private messages every day, and it is impossible for him to check them all one by one. The message that Liu Shixin sent to him was also seen by chance.
His life is not too easy now, because of the problem of single sales, his income is not much. When he saw someone contacting him to seek a work, he was excited, so he called according to the contact information left by Liu Shixin. In this way, there is the opening scene.
"Alan Walker?" Hearing the other party's name, Liu Shixin sat up directly from the bed. "Is it the Alan Walker from Fade?"
"It's me. ”
"Hello, hello, did you see my message?"
"Yes, I'm interested in the cooperation you talked about. ”
"Where are you, Mr. Walker?"
"Norway, what's wrong?"
"How about our interview? There are some things that I can't tell you on the phone for a while. ”
"Yes, but where are you now?"
"I'm in France, I can leave for Norway right away, your code number won't change, right?"
"No change. ”
"Alright, I'll contact you when I get to Norway. ”
"Okay. ”
At home in Norway, Alan Walker looked at the phone that hung up, and some didn't react. The other party seems to be too anxious, but the other party's sincerity is good, and they can meet.
Liu Shixin hung up the phone, went out of the room, and found Baptiste directly.
"Mr. Baptiste, I have agreed to your terms. ”
"Really?" Baptiste was a little surprised, in less than an hour, Liu Shixin's attitude actually completed a 180-degree change.
"Can I sign a contract now? I have something urgent to leave. ”
"Don't you have to negotiate endorsement fees?"
"You tell me the truth about the competition, aren't you just waiting here?" Liu Shixin didn't believe that the other party really chose to tell him the truth just because of some unreliable intuition.
"I'm going to get the contract now......" Baptiste didn't expect Liu Shixin to see everything through.
The content of the contract is simple. Liu Shixin won the first place, he had to keep it absolutely confidential, and at the same time won a two-year endorsement contract, as the winner of the design competition, his endorsement is limited to Asia, 1 million US dollars a year, the endorsement fee is not high, but the corresponding requirements are many, because he must attend some product events in Asia.
Mr. Liu's profits will also be linked to wine sales in Asia, with $100,000 added for every more than 100,000 bottles sold, which is equivalent to $1 in dividends for every bottle of wine sold.
"I have one condition. Before signing, Liu Shixin said.
"On what terms?"
"Because I have other jobs, it's best to have no more than five events a year, and it's best to schedule them on weekends or holidays. ”
"Yes, 5 events is not much, but it is enough to deal with some high-volume countries. ”
"As for the commercial, can you wait a while before shooting? ”
"In such a hurry?"
"Well, it's urgent. ”
"In that case, we can wait for you to come back and shoot. Liu Shixin had already made concessions, and Baptiste agreed.
After signing the contract, Liu Shixin did not stop long, and asked Baptiste to ship his bottle of 1990 red wine back to Canada, and he took the bottle of 2005 red wine to Oslo, the capital of Norway, from Paris International Airport.
Liu Shixin, who did not rest at night, took a nap on the plane, and when he walked out of the airport, it was daytime in Norway, he dialed Alan Walker's phone, and according to the place designated by the other party, Liu Shixin met Alan Walker himself in a coffee shop.
"Nice to meet you. Liu Shixin stretched out his right hand.
"Hello, I ordered coffee, please be seated. "Alan Walker was very poised and not at all like a young man born in 1997.
"Thank you. ”
After sitting down, Liu Shixin and Alan Walker were both looking at each other.
"I'd like to ask you to help me write a song, the kind with a female voice, and it would be nice if I could write the song based on 'Fade'. Liu Shixin got straight to the point.
"Fade?" Alan Walker is still confident if it's an electronic song with pure music, but when it comes to pop music, he hasn't tried it, so he's not sure.
"Is there any problem?" Seeing the other party frowning, Liu Shixin asked.
"I hadn't tried to write pop songs before, but I could. "Geniuses have their own pride.
"Do you have any requirements?"
"Money. "Alan Walker's request is simple.
"Is there anything on my face?" Alan Walker asked, noticing that there was something wrong with the way Liu Shixin looked at him.
"I thought a genius like you wouldn't care about money. Liu Shixin really didn't expect that he had already prepared to be made difficult by all kinds of people before.
"Everyone needs money, God needs it, and I need it. This is also the reason why Alan Walker took the initiative to contact Liu Shixin, and Liu Shixin mentioned the remuneration in the private message.
The two men began negotiations on a partnership, and the $10,000 deposit would be returned if Alan Walker didn't write the song. If he really created a song, then he will definitely not sell the copyright, but will only sell the right to use the song, and then he will get a part of the dividends according to the sales......
Once things are discussed, the next step is to draw up a formal contract, which cannot be done in a café.
"If you don't dislike it, you can come to my house. Alan Walker said.
"I just wanted to see how music was made. For Alan Walker's proposal, Liu Shixin agreed.
The two men agreed, and they were about to leave the café. Out of the café, Alan Walker had a question.
"Well, can I take a look at your ID?"
"Absolutely. Liu Shixin smiled.