Sid locked the door and looked back to see Lindsay and Britney still staring at each other. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Come, sit down. Heathdra sat down beside the two women, "I'll tell you a story." ”

"Once upon a time, there was a little girl who, because of her family's poverty, started performing in commercials and on TV when she was only a few years old to earn the family's living expenses. But while she worked with her thin body, her father never worked. As for her housewife's mother, she often became a violent punching bag for her father's alcoholism, and was seriously injured. ”

"That's enough!" "Say no more!" Lindsay and Britney invariably stopped.

Sid took pity on the two girls and pulled them into his arms, and the two girls silently shed tears.

Then they saw each other's tears, and they were stunned, and they all said, "What are you crying for! I don't need your pity!"

"You...... What did you just say, ...... you too?" Lindsay and Britney looked at each other in confusion.

"I remember when Britney was 11 years old, she used her performance at the Mickey Mouse Club to support her family. Sid lifted Britney's chin and said, "After your father's small company went bankrupt, he was a vagrant and drank heavily. ”

Britney put her head on Sid's shoulder, silently weeping.

Lindsay began training and shooting commercials in modeling agencies when she was 3 years old, began training in singing and dancing at the age of 4, and performed on TV at the age of 7 to make money. Sid gently stroked Lindsay's red hair, "The photo of your mother being injured by your father, throw it away, don't let these sad things bother you." ”

Lindsay hugged Sid and buried her head in his chest, and in a few moments her tears wet his clothes.

When Max Martin saw Sid's miraculous pull of Lindsay and Britney out together, he couldn't help but shout: "Brother Sid, you sister is at full level! No, please take me as an apprentice. I'm going to open a harem too~~~!"

Sid raised/up/middle/fingered and sent him a word: "Get out!"

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"Britney's biggest problem now is the wrong way to breathe and the lack of lung capacity. Sid knocked on the table and said, "How did you train before, how did you still have such a basic problem after a few years?" Sid looked at Britney.

Britney wiped her red eyes, smiled and said, "The main thing is that I have vocal and dance lessons every day, as well as 1 hour of physical fitness every day, and I can do at least 100 squats a day." ”

"What about breath training and lung capacity?"

"No, Larry [Rudolph] used to say that I just need to sing pop well, and I don't need to be like a singer. Britney said, sticking out her tongue.

"Sure enough, it's scum. Sid whispered, "Do you really keep Britney as a vase?"

"That's it. Sid turned his head to look at Frisia and the other agents, who hurriedly took out pens and notebooks, "Arrange swimming lessons for Britney four times a week, and hire a dedicated swimming instructor who is experienced in training lung capacity." ”

"No problem, Mr. Leon. Friscia and the others nodded immediately.

"Add to that a weekly rowing session. Sid said.

"Rowing?" Britney asked curiously, "is it rowing?

"Well, rowing can be said to be the sport that stimulates the most lung capacity, I remember there are statistics that say that rowers have the largest lung capacity of all athletes, so as long as you can complete the coach's training course, then you don't have to worry about dancing and not being able to sing. Sid said with a shrug.

This is what Sid called the training program of Operation Lip-synchro.

Ever since the last time he heard Britney perform live, Sid knew that if he wanted Britney to really handle live performances in the future. Special, targeted training is absolutely essential. Of course, such training is also certainly effective.

Just like when Taylor Swift first debuted, live performances often dropped and broken, which made many professional media question her. But after precise and rigorous training, Taylor's performances on the scene were all perfect.

"In addition, for real vocal lessons such as breathing and breathing, I also went to a few experienced teachers. Sid said: "Also, tailor the training method to Britney's talent. Don't simply copy the existing way. ”

Sid had to go through these details. On the one hand, the agents of these progressive elites are not professional music agents after all, and on the other hand, the small company of Jive Records is not so professional after all, if it is an old record company like RCA Records, where Christina works, then Sid does not need to worry about these technical problems at all.

RCA has its own professionals to handle it, but from top to bottom, Jive Records, which has the idea of "I'm an idol, I'm not professional, what's the matter", Sid has to do it himself.

"Uh, Max, you don't have anything to say about that?" Sid turned his head to look at Max Martin, who had been slapping soy sauce next to him.

"Eun, I'm just a part-time worker who made an album and came to work. What can I say? This big guy didn't care about himself, and said highly.

"You guy. Sid scolded with a smile and didn't ask any more questions. After all, it's normal for people to have odd tempers, and you can't expect them to be convinced as soon as they open their mouths.

Sid turned to Frisia and the others and said, "You remember, Britney is different from those traditional Diva-type singers, those singers have a high voice, a wide vocal range, and good lung capacity, so they can all soar high notes, and they are very powerful and layered high notes. ”

"And these Britney can't do it, but Britney is a rare alto school, so this direction should be the source of training. ”

"Oh~~~, I didn't see it, Sid, you know so much about music production, do you want to come and make music with me?" Max Martin laughed in surprise.

"Excuse me. Sid rolled his eyes.

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"The result?" asked Howard Stringer.

The president of Sony's record division flipped through the information and said: "According to our investigation, Sid Leon does have a girlfriend on Jeve Records, her name is Britney Spears. is a rookie singer who is preparing for Jive's single at the end of this year, and her original manager Larry Rudolph has also been vacated by Sid. ”

He directly asked Ali Emmanuel's Endeavour elite agency to take on all of Britney's brokerage work. And Larry Rudolph still thinks that Ali Emmanuel is fixing him, what a fool. The president of Sony Records chuckled.

"So does he really want Jive Records just for that little girlfriend, and he's willing to trade The Da Vinci Code for it?" Howard Stringer seemed to ask his subordinates, as if talking to himself.

The president of Sony Records wisely kept his mouth shut, on the one hand, if this kind of exchange went wrong, people like him would be the easiest scapegoat, and on the other hand, he did not like this kind of exchange agreement. After all, it is the music department that has to cut the meat, and it is the film department that gets the benefits. The well-known mountains and departments of the Sony Group are by no means groundless.

At this time, due to the strong appointment of Howard Stringer's new officials, and the previous CEO Peter Cooper made the film and music departments desperate to death, now their performance has shrunk significantly, and they do not have the confidence to compete with the new chairman.

"Let's summarize the situation to Tokyo first, and I'll talk to Mr. Idei on the phone later. After thinking about it for a while, Howard Stringer decided to take the pot, cough, or submit the matter to headquarters for deliberation and decision.

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Sid looked the professional woman in front of him up and down, until the other party looked back at him with some strange eyes, and Sid realized that he had been silent for too long.

So he held out his hand and smiled, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Sandberg." ”

"Hello, Mr. Leon, please call me Shirley. Shirley Sandberg said with a slight smile.

"Then please call me Sid, too. Sid nodded as well.

Sid looked at the smiling brown-haired woman in front of him as he recalled her information in his mind. Shirley Sandberg, even in the entire history of Silicon Valley, is one of the few highly respected female professional managers with both ability and integrity.

Although Shirley Sandberg is not as famous as Marissa Mayer, the so-called No. 1 beauty in Silicon Valley, Sid values her far more in terms of actual performance.

During her tenure at Google, Shirley led a department that earned more than half of the company's profits, and she also led the crucial negotiations with AOL (AOL) in the early days of Google, which was in full swing at the time, and eventually outsourced the entire Internet advertising business to Google.

The success of this negotiation laid a crucial foundation for Google's strong rise later, but after AOL (AOL) acquired Time Warner, it quickly collapsed in the financial turmoil of the Nasdaq bubble. In a sense, it can be said that it has made a wedding dress for Google.

And in her career after leaving Google, Shirley also has to beat Marisa Mayer of the same company. Shirley, who later went to FaceBook as COO, not only made Facebook truly profitable for the first time in a very short period of time. And under her leadership, FaceBook has grown from 130 to 2,500 employees and 70 million users!