When Time Warner's new corporate management structure was announced, it immediately caused a whirlwind of convulsions on Wall Street and Hollywood. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Warner Dad, who was originally extremely strong in Hollywood, was extremely aggrieved in the new structural list. In addition to the core Warner Pictures, Warner TV, and the affiliated DC Comics and New Line Pictures, almost all of the peripheral subsidiaries have been purged by AOL!

AOL's strong performance has made Wall Street shout "It's the victory of capital and Silicon Valley", and it has also somewhat washed away some of the economic depression brought about by the bursting of the Nasdaq dot-com bubble.

And the Hollywood companies, which were still worried about Time Warner's "strong rise", were secretly relieved. Among them, the most cheerful is probably the Fire Lion Group.

Since last year's rebirth, the sharp rise of the Fire Lion Group has attracted the attention of the seven major Hollywood studios.

It's just that the biggest rival, Time Warner, is fighting endlessly, Disney is strong outside, Michael Eisner is facing the resurgent Disney family, and the declining Disney 2D animation department has a headache, and Universal Pictures is going through the turmoil of changing hands and has no intention of caring about anything else, and Sony Columbia is officially tied to the chariot of the Fire Lion.

The rest of Fox and Paramount, behind Lei Shidong and Murdoch, are scheming and facing the Fire Lion and Sony, which have become an alliance. None of them want to strike first, and they are the first to be the first to come. As for MGM, they have always been muddy and bodhisattvas have been crossing the river, and they can't protect themselves, so how can they care about other people's affairs.

Just when a few chess players in Hollywood, for various reasons, or lack of skills, or plan to move, Sid's next move has quietly fallen!

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"American Idol", which has been in preparation for a long time and has been auditioning all over the United States for a month, finally appeared on the Thursday prime time of Fire Lion TV!

A completely novel folk audition! An unprecedented live-action audition! As long as you can sing and you dare to sing, we will dare to put you on TV and compete in front of the people of the whole country!

Such a novel and invincible idea made all the contestants who participated in the audition excited, and also shocked the audience who saw the show for the first time on TV.

No one would have thought that such a trick would be played in a singing competition. No TV station thought that on the surface, it seemed that a competition that only allowed the audience to participate in voting would cause such a violent response!

American Idol - American Dream!

Before everyone knew it, under the essence of Sid's designation, the first season of "American Idol" was precisely positioned as the slogan that later swept the United States and resounded around the world.

Some people have tried all kinds of traditional ways to enter the music industry since they were 7 years old, some people have recorded a lot of demos and sent them to all the record companies without getting any reply, and some are so poor that they can't afford to record demos.

The model of the traditional music circle is actually a bit like the rather chaotic modeling world, where a large number of unknown singers from all over the world first have to pay for their own music demos, and some people have enough funds to record in professional recording studios. In the early days, people who didn't have the money to buy a recording studio fee couldn't just make their own demos.

When you make a demo, the real journey has just begun, and then after a large number of copies and copies, you have to send these demos to all kinds of large and small record companies, not only those large companies, even some inferior and even nameless pheasant record companies, will not be let go.

The next thing is to wait, most people actually don't get a response from the record company for the rest of their lives. Even if you get rid of it here, those informal small and medium-sized record companies, or even fraudulent bag companies that cheat money and sex under the guise of releasing records for singers.

Returning to the path of a regular record company, it is also very difficult for a singer to make a normal debut after being selected for a demo, because the record company also has to consider multiple factors such as the singer's own strength, style, and their interpretation of the market.

It is not uncommon for many pre-singers, after excitedly signing with a record company, to be suddenly canceled by the record company after one to two years of recording in the studio, and even after the initial promotion has begun. And after the expiration of the signing agreement for a year or two, singers who have not released a record, or who have released a record but have not achieved good results, will be abandoned by the record company.

This not only makes many people constantly hover between debut and fame, wasting their good years in vain, but on the other hand, the record company's business model of casting a wide net and catching more fish has also caused a bloated and costly burden.

Later, the sales and profitability of the record department were also the lowest among the major media groups in Hollywood, far less than the film and television departments of the locomotive, and even less than the fast-rising paid cable television stations.

Even though the cost of making demos dropped dramatically, the more people involved, the more difficult it was to get the listener to hear.

So the big record companies have more power, although in Sid's view, the bloated and inefficient record companies are weaker. But for singers, even those who have been debuting for a long time, they will face the grabbing and grabbing of big record companies.

In this regard, the music documentary "Artifact", which was written, directed and filmed by Viking Records' band 30Sceonds-to-Mars, profoundly exposed the "unspoken rules" of these record houses.

And "American Idol", which is now repackaged by Fire Lion TV, breaks down the original barrier in a new way.

In fact, whether it is the "historical" "American Idol" or the current new version, its model selling point is quite simple - to create a real Cinderella screen story!

Nobodies with extraordinary talent can change their lives by participating in American Idol and becoming superstars!

The previous record model can be called a record company style - only a record company can create a music superstar, and stars are more like a modeled assembly line product, and some people call them "assembly line artists".

In fact, whether it is the current Britney Spears or Beyoncé's "Destiny True Woman" group, it is typical of this. Going back further, a series of pop idols such as the king of boy groups "Backstreet Boys", British Spice Girls "Spice Girls Group" and so on are all like this.

Of course, listeners can only passively accept what the record companies offer, which is the culmination of the business model of the 20th century.