Chapter 715: A Different World
For the idol artists under the agency, the life in the early days of their debut is always very fulfilling, so full that it is like a mad dog running after him behind his ass every day, and as long as he runs down, he will not be bitten by a dog, and there is almost no time to think. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
But just like people get tired, mad dogs also have times when they are tired, so most idol groups will find that the mad dog behind them will run after others three years after their debut.
At the beginning, people will be glad that they can breathe a sigh of relief, but after a long time of relaxation, they will begin to reminisce about the time when you were chased by a mad dog, and there were many people who cheered you on, hoping that you would run faster and farther.
The most terrifying thing is that you will also find that although the mad dog did not bite itself, the mad dog did not really want to bite itself, but hoped that he would run out of more space, so that the mad dog would have more room to play when chasing the next target.
So the artist will find that the real purpose of the mad dog is actually to expand the space that can be used to run, and he is just a pawn for him to achieve his goal.
What's even more frustrating is that even if you want to run like you used to, it will take up the running space of the newcomer that the mad dog is chasing, and at this time, the mad dog will really talk to you.
This is true for any brokerage company, and it is no exception for Saman companies in South Korea.
Therefore, the fact is that all idol artists under the agency understand that their biggest enemy is actually the idol artist of the same company, but everyone understands the company's bottom line, and he also came from the rookie period, so he will not complain about the newcomers in the company in public no matter what.
On the contrary, the old man will always help the newcomer, whether it is due to the company's explicit instructions or not.
Because in the case of a fixed power structure and no change at all, the artist has no chance to change the unfavorable situation he is in - to put it simply, the agency is the real right holder, even if an artist has many fans, unless she is in a small agency, or the artist itself has a strong creative ability, otherwise the artist wants to overturn the table, can only get zero or even negative returns.
This seems very unfair, but in fact, before and after the artist's debut, in order to ensure the development of the artist, the agency will spend a lot of money and experience to help the artist expand the space to show himself, which fans simply cannot give to the artist, because before the artist's debut, there will be no platform on a large enough scale to show himself.
The world in which artists live is completely different from the world in which ordinary people live.
Of course, with the development of the Internet, many people have the space to show themselves without resorting to traditional media. But the even colder fact is that when the Internet platform develops to a certain scale, this kind of display platform will still be controlled by companies similar to the operation model of brokerage companies, and newcomers still have to follow the instructions of the rights holders, and some rights holders are even artists who use this display platform earlier.
In the same way, it is not surprising that an older artist in a brokerage company uses the opportunity to help newcomers to try to exert influence on newcomers, and then win over newcomers, and economic companies will turn a blind eye to this. Because they know that if the old artist willingly brings the newcomer, it will obviously be much better than the company forcing the old artist to bring the newcomer.
In addition, when you meet those simple newcomers, you can also establish in their hearts the concept of "this is the excellent tradition of our company", and use this concept to kidnap the idea of new artists.
However, if there are old artists who try to interfere in the selection of newcomers, then it is a big problem, as mentioned earlier, this involves the basic rights of the brokerage company.
Phoebe naturally understands this, so when she went to Beijing to participate in a series of Paralympic events, she asked Barbara to connect in the name of Universal Music. So when the preparatory members of the new group went to Beijing and lived with Girls' Generation, Saman didn't mind at all. Just as the company doesn't mind the seniors of Girls' Generation, and the members of Girls' Generation are closer, even the company encourages such things, for example, the company will hold internal patries on a regular basis, and will bring excellent trainees to participate.
There is a degree to everything, and Phoebe has not become an "ideal artist" in the company Although he reached a settlement with the company on the surface, Phoebe understood that the company's senior management would not relax their vigilance, because when she first signed a contract with Saman, Phoebe's contract seemed to be beneficial to the company, but that was because Li Xiuman was being squeezed out by the board of directors and urgently needed to increase the power to influence the newly formed Girls' Generation group.
Now, Phoebe knows that the company can't do anything about herself, but she doesn't want to tear up her face with the company, as it would cause Girls' Generation's reputation to be damaged and even split - even though she's been trying to influence the other members of Sunny all the time, it's clear that her loyalty to the company, including Taeyeon, is too high.
And for the new combination, Phoebe does have her reasons.
Because when an artist becomes a successful senior, that is, when he debuts for more than ten or even fifteen years, he is qualified to cross the line that the agency is staring at, Phoebe thinks that she is just letting Girls' Generation enjoy some rights in advance, and she is also ready to fulfill her obligations, that is, to help the new group provide resources that the company can't provide.
According to Phoebe's logic, she doesn't owe anything to the company, and it is the responsibility of the party that makes the rules, not the party that finds the loopholes.
Isn't it?
If someone finds a loophole in the rules set by Phoebe, Phoebe will not trouble the other party because of this. Of course, her evaluation and attention to the person who finds the loophole will change - just like when a fan of another artist spat on her before the platter concert began, Phoebe didn't ask for trouble, but warned him not to cause more trouble.
Phoebe felt that she was too particular about sprinkling the company.
In fact, this is a typical defense thinking mode of European and American lawyers, and if you carefully examine it, it is easy to find that this logic is simply an immoral and unrighteous demonic idea that does not pay attention to public order and good customs.
To use a simple analogy, if someone defrauds the bank out of money, it is obvious that there is a problem with the bank's lending inspection mechanism, but the law supports the bank to recover the money, and not only the civil law, but also the criminal law.
Some people may ask, then why in the context of the economic crisis that began in 2007, many bank executives were held accountable and sued, but the board of directors and the departing executives were fine, so did the executives inform the board of directors? Obviously, they would tell, but why were the board of directors or the departing executives exempt from liability and not prosecuted?
Quite simply, the current legal framework in the United States is inclined to "successor responsibility", which is not in line with the law and adheres to the moral bottom line when taken literally. But in fact, it is impossible for the current executive to fail to discover the problem after taking office, and if you don't report or sue the former executive, and you don't sanction who you sanction? That is, the successor has the obligation to supervise the fault of the predecessor, and this responsibility must be clear.
And this rule was first developed by Charles II, who wanted to use the Catholic power of the British Magna Carta aristocracy to get rid of the idea of the divine right of kings and Magna Carta, and then invited a new king back from the Netherlands. This was manifested in the fact that the previous king was held accountable and dismissed, but it did not seem to be in accordance with the Magna Carta at that time for us to be dismissed directly, but should be done by the next king, and by the way, some new articles should be added to the Magna Carta. But the previous king did not have an heir to everyone's wishes, but in any case he had to invite a king, otherwise he could not add something to the Magna Carta, otherwise none of them would be able to escape from the Magna Carta, which overthrew and replaced the previous king, because they were united to defend the rights that the Magna Carta gave them far beyond the European continent, and to assume greater responsibilities.
Therefore, although there are many people in the United States who protest that the US government is not fully accountable, but if you think about it, although this is not moral, unlimited accountability can only lead to a complete collapse of social morality, because it will make the society become a society where everyone stares at others, thinks about whistleblowing all day long, and eventually becomes a society where no one wants to take any responsibility.
As an Asian who chooses to climb up the American order system, Phoebe has long been labeled as an upper-class American, and this label is not the banana man or ABC concept that many people understand. If this were not the case, she would not have wanted to go as far as she does now under the American system, let alone mobilize a small group of forces in the diplomatic circle to make a strategic turn, and let Mira willingly go to China to raise a baby or even give birth.
In the United States, if you do not have the upper-class Roman-Knight-Knight-Magna Carta-Colonial aristocracy, no matter how successful it is, it can only stop at the middle class, the subtlety of which is difficult to describe in words, and the most famous example is the Simpson, who has already entered the upper class circle before winning the murder case with some racist views. In fact, one of the most important ideas of the upper class in the United States is that no matter what the middle and lower classes think, the United States is a colony and can play whatever it wants. That's why many people wonder why Americans always like to pit their own people and pit their own country. Of course, this problem can indeed be explained by the fact that the capitalists have no conscience.
So again, the subtlety of it is difficult to describe in words. (This is a private sentiment of a British friend after taking a course such as elementary heraldic identification, I don't know if it's true or not, but she is much more knowledgeable than me, and it shouldn't be considered the opinion of the "brick" family.) )
The example of Phoebe also illustrates a tradition that began in the mid-nineteenth century in the diplomatic bloc - the adoption of young orphans - is clearly a very meaningful decision, as it can significantly change the mindset of people of all nationalities and races - Well, Phoebe is actually an exception, her example is only superficial evidence, the diplomatic group does not know that Phoebe actually has no problem controlling various modes of thinking, just look at her performance in China, but I don't know why, no one can see that when she was in China, her way of acting was actually quite Chinese, although she had not lived in China for a single day in the past.
Similarly, when she was in South Korea, as long as Phoebe wanted to, she could also be very Korean, which is why when she integrated into Girls' Generation, although she also paid some hardships, it was much easier than Sunny until four months after her debut, that is, at the end of 2007, when she was attacked for nationality. The same is true of the reasons why other races in the United States have always found it difficult to move up to the upper class after they have risen to the middle class, although the United States is a nation of immigrants.
But!! The upper class in the United States does not need other thinking patterns brought by immigrants, they will learn and understand, but they will definitely not adopt or even affect the thinking patterns of the entire upper class, it can be said that Mira's willingness to go to China really requires a lot of courage, of course, Phoebe has done enough explanations and foreshadowing, and has planned the establishment of a new alliance in the diplomatic circle, which is the decisive factor for Mira to make up her mind.
As mentioned earlier, Mira went to China not because the diplomatic circle was influenced by Phoebe, but because a new alliance with a soothing attitude towards China was formed, and this new alliance was even a little uneasy, and Phoebe was the general author of this unkind plan.
One might feel that Phoebe is a bit of a forgetful figure, or that she should be morally condemned. But to look at this problem rationally, we should think that Phoebe can't remember people's faces, can't communicate with others normally and establish interpersonal relationships, she relies on her strengths, remembers knowledge that many people can't remember, and uses them to gain the capital to survive in the world. It's hard to say what Phoebe would have been without Sunny, but as long as it's in her favor, even if it triggers a world war or even a full-scale nuclear war, she will definitely come up with a realistic plan and execute it. As for the philosophical definition of morality, which arises from perceptual thinking, it has no meaning for Phoebe.
From a certain point of view, the private speculation of many people who know about the existence of the Atlantic Floaters is correct, and it does mean a refuge base, but Phoebe just implemented the retreat and backup plan, and never said it in the United States, but left ground for many people and forces. Otherwise, Congress would not have agreed that a squadron had been cruising near the Atlantic Floaters, and that the squadron would either warn to drive away ships that had approached a certain distance, or completely ignore the fact that they had been sunk by technology unknown to the Pentagon, and would not have carried out any kind of rescue of its crew.
In fact, this dream is divided into two parts, one is that after the United States opened the door to Japan for the first time by itself, the American upper class saw an excellent colony that even Britain ignored, and the American upper class, which still had some illusions at that time, very kindly accepted the Japanese upper class, so the Japanese upper class recognized the American upper class ideas, and the American upper class was actually quite Europeanized, to be precise, British, so the Japanese upper class also wanted to be Europeanized。 As far as the middle and lower classes in Japan are concerned, it is obviously very good to give them a way forward, so the middle and lower classes also have a way forward to break away from Asia and join Europe, so many things can be explained.
Therefore, Phoebe's plans in Japan are more crude and direct than those in Europe and the United States, not at all elaborate, and even the plans in South Korea are not as rough and direct as those in Japan, which is entirely because Phoebe understands what kind of attitude to use to deal with the upper classes in Japan. Of course, she also understands how to deal with Japan's lower middle class.
As for the reason why Phoebe's plan in China is only to let Girls' Generation enter and develop, and not to open the Titan branch to China, it is also the same, because she understands that once Titan is exposed to Chinese too much, and Titan rarely faces the products of the general public, the circle that has established a good cooperative relationship before will easily find that her thoughts are "not pure enough" and will completely lose all the advantages she has built, so Phoebe will certainly not let Titan enter China.
Don't forget, the United States and NATO have quite a lot of military bases around the world, as long as a base is deployed with ten lost systems, the intelligence coverage she can obtain can include almost all land, this kind of information advantage, is what any force dreams of, and Phoebe itself is extremely dependent on intelligence and information......
So, when Sunny asked Phoebe how she made her seniors and trainees ignore asking about the origin of the spider yo-yo, Phoebe nodded seriously and said, "Because, the world in which trainees live is completely different from the world that artists or ordinary people live in." ”
Sunny was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of it, this sentence was said to Phoebe a few years ago, and now when he heard Phoebe say it seriously, he suddenly felt that it was better for him not to ask again, because just like Phoebe said, everyone's world is indeed different......
(For the time being, let's take a look: if anyone thinks that the Glorious Revolution was a bourgeois revolution, don't leave me a message, there is no need and no point in quarrelling, only two points are suggested: 1. The Catholic attitude towards kings and emperors can be regarded as "divine authority of kings", which at that time was basically "Roman substitution" (605); 2. The English aristocracy carefully examined the consequences of the Crusades (1095-1204) and found that England, which listened to Rome, would become weaker and weaker, because talents were concentrated in France. Therefore, after the Magna Carta (1215), because of the idea of natural human rights, natural monarchy also makes sense, and of course this has to be recognized by the aristocracy. However, in terms of social identity, there were still some opponents of the divine right of kings, so the introduction of Protestantism to England after the Reformation (1528) made the English aristocracy ecstatic, and when the English aristocracy defeated Spain to gain maritime supremacy (1588), the English aristocracy made the people think that Spain had been defeated because they had listened to Rome, which showed that God had abandoned those who obeyed the papacy...... )