Chapter 143: Want to Play with Brother Empty Glove White Wolf?
Yasu Akimoto is a dead fat man in his fifties and a musician. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Gu Cheng saw the face full of horizontal meat, and he couldn't help but compare Qiu Yuanyasu with Gao Dasong.
However, Akimoto's talent was relatively limited, and his main job in his early years was as a script writer and lyrics for songs. It can be said that as a musician, he is not very qualified, because he has no talent for composing and arranging music at all, after all, his education experience back then also destined his life trajectory - he studied in the Faculty of Literature of Fuso Central University, but he dropped out before he graduated.
In the 25 years since he entered the entertainment industry, Yasu Akimoto has written scripts, made movies, organized a girl group of singers, and also wrote lyrics for these singers, all of which were not very successful. However, there are a lot of connections, and they are a little bit talkable in the major agencies that focus on singers in Fuso.
When he came to Asakusa Villa to meet Gu Cheng, Qiu Yuankang was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, and he was more restrained. When facing Gu Cheng, who was more than 25 years younger than him, he didn't dare to take a stand at all.
In the stereo in the living room of the villa, a new song that has just been baked for less than half a month is playing, and on the big screen of the home theater, the MMD animation dance with the song is also being screened.
This arrangement is obviously like Gu Cheng's demonstration against Qiu Yuankang.
The name of the song is "Girls", and it is a 14-year-old newcomer singer named Mai Mizuhashi who sings/dances, and it is also the first song to be officially pre-hired and quickly adapted into MMD animation among all the programs submitted to the Niconico website for the original selection.
Of course, a 14-year-old Lori who is still a few months away and is still a young girl legally has no talent to write such a song. This sister has formed a campus group with several junior high school girlfriends since about 03, singing and dancing, and she never thought that she would enter the entertainment industry, and now she has about two years of amateur skills.
So the songwriter of this new song is actually her co-partner, a glasses man named Abe Sander. Mai Mizuhashi is only responsible for singing and dancing.
There is no doubt that this song is the "Girls" that should have been taken out in another time and space a few years later, and then bloodied NICONICO and Station B for the first time, the "root of all evil".
Now, because Gu Cheng's "Girls' Generation" activity is in full swing to attract the attention of the entertainment circles of East Asian countries, it is not surprising that Abe Shangde took out this song that is so appropriate to the "Girls' Generation" event in advance.
In order to buy horse bones, the song "girls" of Shuiqiao Dance was immediately carefully produced by Gu Cheng at the behest of the NICONICO official, and it became popular all of a sudden.
On Yahoo Fusang, even if Sun Zhengyi has the intention to lower the order of all search results related to Gu Cheng's business, the little Lori of Shuiqiao Dance and the song "girls" are still on the hot search.
Gu Cheng's resources and muscles were fully displayed for a while.
Quan Baoya was originally an Asian diva, and making Quan Baoya a little more popular than before, that is not a lot of credit and ability.
But if a girl who has just debuted and has no foundation suddenly becomes popular, it will make the little girl who has the idea of becoming popular in Quan Fusang even more excited, thinking that she has seen a new path.
Fusang's entertainment industry is too developed, and it is not easy for a little girl to become popular. Otherwise, there would not be so many girls who go to the sea every year to be A and V women to worry, as a shortcut to "save fame by curves".
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"Gu Sang, contemptible people don't talk much nonsense. He was hired as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Kyoto University of Art and Art last month. You should know that Kyoto Art is one of the five well-known universities in Fuso's entertainment arts, especially specializing in image design, and it is definitely the forefront in China in terms of non-film and television women's training.
After I took office, I tried to start a girl idol group called AKB48 with my business connections in the circle. Unexpectedly, your side immediately launched the 'Girls' Generation' talent show throughout East Asia, and even the Dongyi people organized their own competition area.
I have no intention of fighting against you, if you want, we can cooperate - I will help you win the support of all forces, and even I can take a stake in the competition without your investment. All you need to do is use the resources of Niconico Video Network, cooperate with AKB48 to provide online broadcast, distribution and publicity of the competition, and use the mature voting payment system formed by Renren/YY to provide public opinion voting and paid voting support for the event. ”
After Qiu Yuankang finished politely talking to Gu Cheng and praised Gu Cheng's appeal and influence in the entertainment industry now, he explained his intentions and thoughts today.
Historically, the idea of preparing for AKB48 has been brewing in Akimoto Yasu's mind for many years, but before 03, he basically stayed in the fantasy stage and did not carefully plan how to implement it.
03 years later, Akimoto Yasushi began to treat this matter as a serious business plan, and gradually discovered that the biggest problem of "forming a national beautiful girl singer team" is that the interests of all entertainment brokerage companies are uneven.
After all, if such a team grows bigger, the major brokerage companies and record companies that train SOLO singers will definitely be impacted, so before he grows bigger, all parties will use all the media resources at hand to suppress and attack this nascent group, and nip him in the bud.
He tried it a little in 03 and 04, and after being hit, he shrank back, and didn't dare to offend more people rashly. On the one hand, we are diligent in accumulating network resources, and all parties are connected horizontally and vertically, waiting for the after-effects.
In April of this year, after he was hired by Kyoto Manufacturing, his network resources in the circle further expanded, and his idea of forming AKB48 group became popular again.
If it weren't for Gu Cheng's butterfly effect, he would have officially succeeded in 7 months, and through the mediation of the distribution of interests among all parties, in early December 2005, he officially announced the establishment of AKB48, a girl idol group.
And register a new agency called AKS, overview of AKB48's brokerage contract, and then hand over part of the company's equity to international giants such as Sony Records and Universal Music, as well as Fuso's local companies such as Ai Hui Records and King Records, so as to win the industry in exchange for benefits and not stifle him.
From Sony to Ai Hui, these companies, which were already the most resourceful in the singer circle, have all been given the quota to recommend newcomer singers to AKB48 every year in the future, and have reached a secret agreement for the exchange of interests in private.
In addition, there are many prolific creative companies responsible for songwriting, music arrangement/choreography/MV production, and they will also form PY deals with Yasushi Akimoto, such as Ota Productions, Ogi Productions, Watanabe Entertainment, and so on.
It's just that these companies are not eligible to get the equity dividends of future idol groups, but they just got a cooperation agreement that "promises to give XX production companies how many songs/arrangers/MVs production orders every year, and guarantees the copyright share of creators".
It can be said that it is a one-stop pull from production to distribution, and Akimoto Yasushi himself only seeks fame, and divides ninety percent of his economic interests to curry favor with the bigwigs.
However, now that Gu Cheng has appeared, NICONICO's online voting, the popularity of PK to determine celebrities, the practice of deciding to support resources, and the huge social penetration of the YY system, made Akimoto Kang suddenly find that this is a mountain that cannot be bypassed.
And all this only happened less than two months after he was hired by Kyoto Art.
He had just had a clue about all his mediation and profit distribution work, when he found a whale emerging from the fish pond where the feed was distributed.
Moreover, the former number one diva of Fusang's strongest singer brokerage company and the diva singer Quan Baoya, who is now the No. 1 domestic seller in Fusang, is now sitting next to Gu Cheng and behaving kindly and casually to accompany Gu Cheng to meet guests.
After saying his conditions, he saw that Gu Cheng was silent and refused to express his position. Qiu Yuanyasu was worried in his heart, as if he felt a little ashamed and embarrassed, and there were really no good conditions to impress Gu Cheng.
Gu Cheng whispered a few words to Quan Baoya as if no one was around, ignoring this and whispering in front of the guests was very rude. In the end, he took advantage of the psychological advantage, and then he said lightly:
"Let me provide you with the publicity on the network side, and you earn the financial benefits of the future singer team yourself-are you stupid to me?"
Qiu Yuankang hurriedly explained: "Gu Sang, you have misunderstood, how can you not be beneficial? Aren't you pursuing the promotion of Renren and YY, and even want to promote Alipay in Fusang?"
Although I don't have any promises of money and dividends right now - not that I don't want to give, but these shares and dividend rights, almost all of which I use to curry favor with record companies like Ai Hui and Sony, and I almost don't leave any of them myself - but I am sure that I will win over the interests of all parties in the circle and ensure that there will not be a second group or draft event similar to the AKB48 model in Fuso.
Therefore, as long as AKB48 chooses to cooperate with Renren, the development of Renren in Fuso will be of great benefit! For an Internet giant like you, do you still value the direct profits brought by a small girl idol group itself?
"I can't underestimate this guy, although I'm just a music producer, I didn't expect to know a little bit about the operation rules of the capital circle of Internet companies. When Gu Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but secretly condemn Qiu Yuanyasu's cunning in his heart.
Sure enough, people who can mediate and mediate with long sleeves and good at dancing to drag down major record companies can't have a low IQ. The empty gloves and white wolf are all done on Gu Cheng's head.
Gu Cheng thought for a moment and retorted foreshadowingly: "But, if I'm not wrong, do you want to start the AKB48 program as soon as possible, and it's best not to lag behind Huaxia and Dongyi's 'Girls' Generation' auditions this year for too long, right?"
After all, we have now entered the era of online video, and the network infrastructure construction in Fuso is good and fast. I have NICONICO, which opened the eyes of the people of Fuso to see the talent variety shows of the two neighboring countries. When the time comes, if you launch AKB48 a little later, maybe you won't be the first to take over......"
Regarding Gu Cheng's observation, Akimoto Yasusu naturally would not refute it.
Because he really hopes that Gu Cheng will help him speed up the landing of AKB48 as soon as possible.
"Of course...... Who doesn't want to take advantage of the novelty to attract popularity early. The AKB48 project is naturally implemented as soon as possible. Yasu Akimoto said.
Gu Cheng heard the other party's admit, raised his eyebrows, and said: "In this case, you haven't shown that you can mediate with Sony, Universal, and Ai Hui major records/brokerage companies." If I cooperate with you first, but don't take more benefits, won't you be a white wolf with empty gloves?
I'm afraid that after you get out of this room, you will turn around and say to Chiba Ryuhei who is returning to Ai's company: President Chiba, cooperate with me, I have already got Gu Cheng's support - I guessed right, right?"
Gu Cheng's words broke out, which made Qiu Yuankang suddenly break down in a cold sweat.
Indeed, at the moment in May 2005, Akimoto Yasu does not have a strong hole card.
He is like a liar who "first calls Bill Gates and says that I am the vice president of the World Bank and please marry your daughter to me, and then calls the president of the World Bank and says that he is Bill Gates's son-in-law".
This trick, how could he deceive Gu Cheng.