When Xiao Nizi heard Christina's words, she was surprised with regret: "Farewell, what's wrong?"

Christina looked at Eric and said, "Mickey's Mouse Club is disbanded, and Mom is going to take me back to Pennsylvania for high school." ”

"Oh, it's a pity," Xiao Nizi hugged Christina again, let go of the girl and took the other party's little hand and said, "You can come to play with me anytime you come to Los Angeles in the future, well, it's too late, I'll let Natasha send you home." ”

Christina was immediately stunned, she had been guarding in front of Xiao Nizi's house for many days, and finally saw the girl, and she hadn't said anything she really wanted to say, so she gave an eviction order. Seeing that one of the identical twins heard Drew's words and took the initiative to pull the car door open, Christina was even more overwhelmed, her eyes swept around in a panic, and she looked at Eric with some pity.

Since the acquisition of ABC, Firefly has been adjusting its TV business, but for small things like some low-rated TV programs being cut, unless Eric specifically asks for it, the relevant documents are often sent to his assistant's office and will be classified and archived, after all, Firefly's TV business system will have dozens of new programs eliminated every year. If it weren't for the sudden sight of Christina, Eric wouldn't have cared about these things.

Seeing the girl who was about to be unceremoniously driven away by Xiao Nizi looking at her pitifully, Eric shook his head helplessly, the girl would do this, although it seemed a little unkind, but Eric also knew that she was trying to protect herself. However, Eric didn't feel that some things needed to be overly cautious, and reached out and knocked lightly on the door of the girl's head. Laughing: "No kidding. Let Christine stay for dinner. ”

"Wow. Okay, okay," the girl rubbed her head, pouting dissatisfiedly, and got into the car on her own, telling the twins to open the gate and drive the car in.

Eric didn't get into the car again, waved his hand at Christina, who was a little overwhelmed, and walked into the mansion with the girl.

After the Jackson child molestation broke two years ago, Christina felt that Drew's attitude towards them had suddenly cooled, and before that. Drew would often invite them to his house to play, and occasionally take them to some very interesting parties, but after that incident, all this suddenly disappeared, Drew never contacted them again, Christina occasionally took Britney to the door with him, Drew was no longer so enthusiastic about them, and as for Eric, whom Christina had always wanted to see, he never saw them again after that.

Christina had no expectations for maintaining Drew's connection, but the sudden dissolution of the Mickey Mouse Club. She had to take the initiative to come to the door in the hope of getting some help from Drew, who was a little erratic. Christina had been on guard outside Drew's mansion at Strausdale Manor for more than a week, but she had finally arrived, and ...... Luckily, I even ran into Eric.

Following Eric, glancing at the figure of the man beside her, Christina didn't know what to say, so she had to carefully look at the scenery of this mansion that she hadn't set foot in for a long time, and she couldn't help but fantasize about when she would be able to have such a house again.

"Want to stay in Los Angeles?"

The sudden sound startled Christina, but she quickly calmed down, looked up at Eric, and nodded honestly, "Well, I ...... I don't want to go back to Pennsylvania for high school, I love singing. ”

Eric looked at the little face full of hope and said, "But you're too young, you're not even fifteen years old, are you?"

There was a hint of gloom in Christina's eyes, and she knew that age was the biggest constraint she was facing right now, but the girl tried hard to argue: "Mr. Williams, I was 10 years old and I could sing Mariah Carey's 'Vision-of-Love,' and they said I sang as well as she did. ”

Although Eric had never heard "Vision-of-Love", he knew that Maria Carey was known for her difficult dolphin voice, but he also knew that there were some young girls in front of him who were no less capable of singing than Maria Carey.

"Christine, it's useless to sing well, you're underage now, and no record company will sign you at all. ”

Christina's expression suddenly darkened, and she couldn't help but think that if only the Mickey Mouse Club could last for two years, when she was sixteen, it would be easier to get some record company contracts. Turning her head to look at Eric, Christina didn't say what was in her heart, and it was useless for her to make it clear.

The two walked to the door of the villa, Eric pushed open the door and let the girl into the house, the figure of the twins was already busy in the kitchen, and the coat of Xiao Nizi was hanging on the hanger, and it seemed that she had gone to take a shower.

Eric took a box of juice from the fridge and handed it to Christina, who was sitting on the couch, and asked, "Justin, Britney, are they still in Los Angeles?"

Christina shook her head: "I don't know,

The boys and girls in the Mickey Mouse Club have always been two distinct small groups, and the relationship between the girls is actually not so good, and after the show stopped recording, there was no contact between everyone.

Eric sat down on the couch and sighed, thinking about the matter at hand.

From the mid-nineties to the beginning of the new century, the most eye-catching music genre in the European and American music industry is Teen-Pop (teen pop), the main representative of which is the famous Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, Christina in front of her in the early stage of her career also took the Teen-Pop route, and Justin Timberlake first joined the superboy group was also Teen-Pop。

At present, the Firefly Group has just completed the integration of its music resources and formed the Firefly Record Company.

But with the advent of the Internet era, the decline of the record industry caused by the spread of online music is also close at hand. Firefly Records was destined to never go to the heights that Warner Records, Universal Records, and Columbia Records once were. In this case. Firefly Records is obviously not worth the loss of spending a lot of resources to get involved in every music field like the traditional record industry giants, and the best way out should be to focus most of its resources on the packaging and cultivation of a certain type of singer.

And in the last decade before the decline of the record industry, the most popular music genre will undoubtedly be Teen-Pop.

In my memory, Disney's record business has always been unpopular, and Britney, Christina, Justin Timberlake, who debuted from Disney Channel, and even Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and others have been recruited by the record companies of several other major groups, which is undoubtedly a big loss for Disney, after all. The reason why these people were able to quickly become famous is inseparable from the cultivation on the Disney Channel.

When Christina saw Eric who was in thought, she didn't dare to take the initiative to disturb and took a sip of the juice in her hand.

After a while, Eric looked up and said to Christina, "So, Christine, you've been staying in Los Angeles for the time being, and someone will contact you then." ”

Christina looked at Eric in surprise: "Mr. Williams, you mean, I ...... Can I continue singing?"

Eric smiled and nodded, "Of course." However, you have definitely not been able to release records in recent years, and I will ask people to arrange some opportunities for you to appear in movies or TV series to maintain your popularity. ”

'You' and 'you' in English are one word. Of course, Christina couldn't hear that Eric was using the plural, and thought that it was completely Eric's preferential treatment for her, the girl pursed her lips with joy, looked up cautiously, plucked up the courage to get up and leaned over to Eric's side, and whispered with a slightly red face: "Mr. Williams, I ...... I can stay tonight, just call my mom and say I'm spending the night at Drew. ”

Eric raised an eyebrow and smiled, "What are you going to do here?"

Christina's face was even more ruddy, but she mustered up the courage to look at Eric boldly and said, "I will do whatever you ask me to do." ”

Eric smiled and pinched the girl's cheek and said, "Don't be cranky, I'm not interested in a little guy like you." ”

Christina subconsciously shrank and said, "You liar, you obviously like it very much." ”

"Oh?"

"You, when you were with Drew, she was younger than me. ”

Eric lifted his chin behind Christina and smiled, "You're mistaken, I was forced to do it." ”

Christina blinked suspiciously, realized something, and quickly turned her head, just in time to see Xiao Nizi in a bathrobe looking at her with a smile.

After dinner, Eric instructed Natasha to drive Christina back.

Watching the car drive out of the mansion gate, Xiao Nizi, who was standing next to Eric, took over a few boxes of song sample tapes that Christina had given to Eric when she left, and said, "Eric, you have to be careful." The Chandler family extorted more than $20 million from Jackson and now lives in a mansion in Manhattan, New York, without having to work for the rest of their lives. I think if someone blackmails you once, it is estimated that the next generations of children and grandchildren will have no worries about food and clothing. ”

"My money is so easy to extort, besides, there are so many such things in the circle, and there are a few more that have been poked out, and Jackson is the only one who has been made a big fuss over the years, and he has been wronged," Eric smiled, but there was sarcasm in his expression.

Christina had wanted Drew to help pass some of her song demos to some of the record company executives, but after getting a promise from Eric, the girl left a few cassettes behind when she left.

Back in the villa, Eric casually stuffed a cassette tape into the player, and Christina's cover of "FU" was immediately out, compared to the original version in memory and the version of the Victoria's Secret show, the girl's singing voice was more shocking.

Xiao Nizi hugged a pillow and leaned next to Eric, who began to bang on the laptop, and said: "Christine is really good at singing, but I think it is difficult for her to find her own position, she is more suitable for the development path of high-pitched female singers like Whitney Houston and Mary Carey, but she is too short, hehe." ”

Xiao Nizi obviously just talked casually, but she just hit the nail on the head.

In my memory, although it has nothing to do with height, Christina has never found a suitable path for her music development, and at first took the Teen-Pop route, although the first album sold more than 10 million copies, but with the strong rise of Britney, Christina pounced on several Teen-Pop in a row, and had to try to transform, and this turn never found a suitable positioning.

However, for now, Eric pointed to the singing of "FU" coming from the player and said, "Isn't this Christine's music route?" ”

Eric has decided to let Britney and Christina go to the original Teen-Pop route, however, compared to Britney's sweetheart-like girl-next-door image, Christina can take a slightly more rebellious solo girl image in order to distinguish herself from Britney. Since there were a lot of boy groups popping out of the corners of the streets at the same time, as long as the positioning was separated, it would certainly be no problem to accommodate two teen-pop divas with different styles at the same time.

It took a few hours to sort out the information and thoughts about Teen-Pop in his memory and send them to the work mailbox in the assistant's office, and told Kelly to add the topic to tomorrow's regular meeting, before Eric turned off his laptop and picked up the sleeping little Nizi next to him to rest.

At the high-level regular meeting the next day, after discussing in detail the topic of gradually reducing the scale of Firefly film production in the next few years, Eric raised the question of the development direction of Firefly Records. After the integration of Disney's music resources, Firefly Records was in a critical period of development, and Eric took advantage of the Victoria's Secret show to launch several songs that were amazingly successful, which also made it easy for the management to accept Eric's suggestion to make full use of the advantages of Firefly itself to take the lead in packaging a group of Teen-Pop singers.

The meeting culminated in two options that would be crucial for the future of Firefly Records: recalling the Mickey Mouse Club to assess and nurture their potential, and an offer to acquire JIVE Records, an obscure subsidiary of Sony Records. Strictly speaking, JIVE Records can only be regarded as a subsidiary of RCA, a subsidiary of Sony BMG Records, in the huge Sony record system, JIVE at this time seems very inconspicuous, but Eric knows that in the next ten years, the hottest group of Teen-Pop singers Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and other singers are all from JIVE, not because JIVE has any magical power, but because the record label's management team is very good at packaging teen idol singers, and even its private company slogan is 'to carry out idols to the end'. (To be continued.) )