Chapter 96: I can't envy it
Gu Cheng gently accompanied her sister to her 18th adult birthday, leaving a sweet memory that Quan Baoya will never forget. www.biquge.info Of course, the two of them always respected each other throughout the whole process, and did not do anything shameless about being polite.
The two drank six bottles of small soju together, talked about life planning in the middle of the night, and encouraged her not to worry about money, and not to take whether it is popular or not as a measure of the meaning of life, although to let go of her own thoughts and do what she wants to do and feels meaningful. In the end, Gu Cheng drank too much and went to sleep on the bed in the guest room by himself.
The next day, November 6th.
Early in the morning, Gu Cheng had something to do, so he went out to talk about business.
Kwon Bo-ah slept a little, washed up and dressed up, rushed to Ai Hui to the company, and asked to meet with the general manager Katsuto Matsuura, officially expressing her refusal to refuse the company's new record project.
"Mr. Matsuura, I'm sorry, I have my own decision, and I am willing to bear all legal responsibilities. I don't think the company was right for me in terms of packaging and planning the cooperation model, and I would like to revise the contract if I can. ”
Katsuto Matsuura is a forty-year-old musician, and the businessman has a bad temper, so he is still good at talking: "Have you really decided?" The company arranges this way also taking into account your transformation as an adult, and it is completely for your own good - you are different from those singers who only debuted as adults, they don't have to face the transformation of adulthood, and you can't avoid it. ”
"Thank you very much for your kindness, but I've already decided."
Kwon Bo-ah stubbornly insisted, and Katsuto Matsuura didn't insist, leaving the matter to the legal department and the brokerage department to deal with.
However, it is clear that it is not that simple.
After the general manager Katsuto Matsuura approved it, the president Chiba Ryuhei, who was at odds with Katsuto Matsuura, also happened to be in the company that day. He heard about Quan Baoya's intention to repair the contract, and he did not hesitate to condescend to call Quan Baoya to his office in person, analyze the interests and disadvantages with her, and persuade Quan Baoya to change his mind.
Chiba Ryuhei has also been in a high position for a long time, so naturally he won't talk nonsense with her, and he said straight to the point: "Miss Quan, if you are just dissatisfied with this project, let Matsuura-kun arrange another planning team to change it for you, why bother to revise the contract?" I know that Matsuura-kun has been a bit of a problem with his business ability recently, and he also has selfish ......"
Kwon Bo-ah refused without humility or arrogance: "President, thank you very much for your kindness, but I don't have any doubts about Matsuura SENSEI's business capabilities, I just hope that if possible, I will change the 'cooperation' model with the company, and I hope you understand." ”
2004 was an eventful year for Ai Hui Records. Just over three months ago, in July, Katsuto Matsuura, the general manager, whom all the singers regarded as his mentor, had a conflict with the investor, similar in nature to the conflict between Gu Cheng and Sun Zhengyi, who believed that the general manager was using the company's resources to seek fame, fortune, and connections for himself - and the exodus crisis erupted.
President Ryuhei Chiba once accepted the votes of the major shareholders and prepared to remove the general manager, Katsuto Matsuura.
As a result, Matsuura Katsuto's proud protégé Ayumi Hamasaki publicly said that if the company dismissed Matsuura's general manager, she would leave with Matsuura Katsuto, and several Ai Hui singers also expressed their attitudes, forcing investors to be very unable to get off the stage. After more than a month of trouble, at the end of August, it was over, and Katsuto Matsuura was allowed to stay in office.
Historically, Ayumi Hamasaki has since announced that he will never participate in any domestic record music awards in Fuso, on the one hand, in order to show his high status, and on the other hand, because he knows that after offending the capital side, he will definitely be hacked if he participates in major awards.
This incident later led to the gradual obsolescence of Ayumi Hamasaki, and more publicity resources were not invested in Ai Hui. The company changed the already slightly outdated Namie Amuro and rejuvenated the second spring to reward Namie Amuro for her obedience in the Matsuura incident.
However, the seats of the major artists in this time and space are very different. Because of Gu Cheng's butterfly effect BUFF, Kwon Bo-ya's sales and popularity have already surpassed Ayumi Hamasaki in second and Namie Amuro in third.
Her new album "メリクリ" was released after Ayumi Hamasaki offended the capital side. The company urgently withdrew the propaganda resources that were originally intended for Ayumi Hamasaki, and almost all of them were stuffed into Kwon Bo-ah's "メリクリ", so now she is really blown red and purple by the propaganda bombing.
According to the planning of the planning department of Ai Hui, even if it is a rush to 8 million copies of the annual sales against the sky, it is not impossible, as for the various Fuso domestic annual music awards, which one do you want to win - who doesn't know that for decades, the first singer of Fuso has only been born from Ai Home?
Therefore, as the representative of the capital side, Chiba Ryuhei, but since the Hamasaki Ayumi troubles for two months, he has been holding Kwon Bao Ya as the singer that the company will concentrate on building in the future, and now Quan Bao Ya has signs of instability, how can he not persuade to redeem it.
Unfortunately, it didn't work out in the end.
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It didn't take long for the news of Quan Baoya's rejection of the company's plan and request for a contract revision to spread on Ai Hui's records, and many singers felt incredible and gossiped there.
"Did you hear that BoA clearly rejected the company's change to her styling and styling design early this morning, and decided to change the contract at a loss. In the future, the company can no longer restrain her in terms of creative style and image design. ”
"Really? She has such good conditions and good resources, why should she offend the management? Ayumi Hamasaki offended the president for the sake of Matsuura SENSEI.,Originally, all the resources would be tilted towards BoA and Amuro seniors.,It's a waste of the opportunity to become more popular.。 ”
"Alas, it's really a little girl who doesn't know how difficult it is to be famous, so she doesn't cherish it......"
Koda Laiwei, Otsuka Ai, Matsuura Yami, several quasi-first-line and second-line singers, after a lot of exchanges, they all sighed and felt incredible.
"Alas, Udada went to Hollywood, Ayumi Hamasaki offended President Chiba, what a great opportunity, if you give it to me, let alone cut your hair short, dance vigorously and sing a few songs in the style of men, women and men, that's it...... Alas......"
Koda Laiwei, who said this, can be regarded as a popular singer who ranks around the fourth or fifth place in Ai Hui's internal rankings, and has just sold more than one million single records this year, with a total sales of nearly two million.
She spent a lot of money for the sake of popularity. In this year's new album "LOVE &HONEY", several MVs of Koda Laiwei are bold to take off, wearing a bra with an oblique half-cup that can cover the point, and the breast-baring device seeks to become popular. This kind of bold styling scale, the singer who ranked in front of her didn't dare to use it.
If Kwon Baoya's opportunity was placed in front of her, Koda would definitely not hesitate to let the company arrange it.
"It's still a trivial matter to be reduced by the company in the future, I heard that in order to repair the contract, the amount of compensation involved is nearly 10 million US dollars, and BoA paid it without hesitation, what a trench." Otsuka Ai is also very emotional, and she can't figure it out one by one.
Only Yamatsuura Ami, who is Kwon Baoya's best friend, knows the truth relatively best, and can't help but say in a slightly envious tone: "I heard that it is Mr. Gu of Eslite Audio, and he doesn't want BoA sauce to transform and pay this money on his behalf." ”
Koda was shocked when he heard this: "What? Is that the Gu Cheng who was so popular at the beginning, but finally went into business? ”
Ai Otsuka doesn't know much about the industry, but he casually pointed to the huge advertisement on the façade of the office building opposite the window: "Is it Gu Cheng, the investor behind Toho's new film "Sunset in Sanchome", which has just begun to be announced? ”
Located in Roppongi, Tokyo's most developed entertainment industry, Ai Hui often paints huge advertising posters on the facades of office buildings on the street. Now there are about 40 days before the release of "Sunset in Sanchome", with Gu Cheng's financial resources and investment, the publicity of this film can naturally be seen everywhere.
Gu Cheng looked for director Cai Mingliang and Eslite Film and Television Investment, but he only played the role of the producer. For this film to be released in Fuso, it naturally needs to find a local distributor and ask the indigenous people to help contact the theater chain.
Historically, the film "Sunset of the Three Chomes" was produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. in one go, and Gu Cheng didn't have much to do, and still gave the distribution to Toho, and considering that the production cost of this film was relatively low, Gu Cheng opened a relatively high distribution share ratio, so that Toho could be more concerned.
As soon as I heard that it was Gu Cheng's instructions, all the voices that were worthless for Quan Baoya, or that she was playing a big name, disappeared. All that is left in the eyes of all singers is envy and envy.
"BoA-chan, Mika Nakajima, Maki Horikita, they should be the luckiest female artists in the country, alas, if you have the opportunity to cooperate with Gu Sang, at least double the popularity......"
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The general manager doesn't care, the president secretly slanders Quan Baoya in his heart, and he doesn't know if he wants to seize the opportunity, and the other singers and sisters sigh that Quan Baoya has a good life, and he is not afraid of falling out of favor if he can toss like this.
Only Kwon Bo-ah herself is very calm, after rejecting the project of "Girls-on-top", she feels that the whole person is much more relaxed, and there is a sweet breath in her heart, and the gains and losses of the past have disappeared.
She devoted herself to the recording of the audio source material of the Yamaha Vocaloid software that Gu Cheng bought out to her, and paid to entrust the top production team of Ai Hui to help her record the material singing.
Because the tracks synthesized with her voice on the Internet in the future are not included in the scope of Ai Hui's company and her brokerage agreement, and Ai Hui's company has no right to act as an agent, so she will of course have to pay out of her own pocket to use Ai Hui's production resources.
As for the price that needs to be paid to clear the separation of this part of the cooperation model that did not exist from the brokerage contract, Quan Baoya has paid Ai Hui very straightforwardly.
"After this thing is completed, it will be much easier for fans to want me to sing songs that I don't like in the future - let them take the score and lyrics and type them in, and the software will naturally generate songs that are sung in my voice. That way, I can focus on making the music I want, and I don't have to worry about the market anymore. ”
Happy days are always very fast, she concentrated on the Vocaloid, and in the blink of an eye, she retreated for more than a month.
Although Gu Cheng was in Fusang for a while, he didn't bother her too much, and only cared about his "Nicole Nicole Video Network" layout.
On this day, the preparatory work of Nicole Nicole's technical team was finally completed, counting the days, Christmas is coming, and "Sunset in Sanchome" is about to be released in Fuso.