Chapter 58: Invitation to Song

"Zhao Tao?"

Chen Ze was stunned, he didn't expect it to be his agent.

How famous Zhao Tao is, it has been more than ten years since his debut, and he became popular all over the country with the song "Who Touches Your Heart Tonight", and even invited him to the Spring Festival Gala that year.

And Zhao Tao's long peak period is terrifying, although it has been ten years since his debut, he has always stood in the ranks of first-line singers. The competition in the Chinese music scene is extremely fierce, and the competition among male singers is even more so.

And Zhao Tao has been popular for nearly ten years, and the people who debuted at the same time as him either disappeared after one or two songs, or retreated to the second line early, and people like him have been standing in the ranks of first-line singers for ten years.

In addition to those ancient gods and superstars, there is almost no one else in the Chinese music scene.

Although limited by the narrow style of music, he has not been able to enter the king level of singers. But he has always been a first-line singer, which is enough to make many people who dream of entering the Chinese music scene worship and admire.

And such a singer actually came to him to invite him to sing?

Chen Ze was a little excited, and Zhao Tao came to him to invite songs, which means that he already has a certain reputation in the Chinese music scene, at least the songs he wrote can be eye-catching.

"I've finally taken the first step." Chen Ze thought in his heart.

"Is it still there?" At this time, Zhao Tao's agent spoke on the phone.

"It's here." Chen Ze hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I was a little excited when I heard Zhao Tao's name just now, you are his agent." ”

"It's fine." Zhao Tao's agent said, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he said in his heart: "Sure enough, it's the same as I expected, Chen Ze was excited when he heard Zhao Tao's name, but can such a high school student really use what he writes?" ”

"I'm coming to you on behalf of Zhao Tao to invite songs, I hope you can write two songs for Zhao Tao, recently he is preparing a new album, if you write well, you may be accepted by the album." Broker said.

This agent still looks down on Chen Ze in his heart, so he left room for himself in his words, just saying that he might use Chen Ze's songs, not that he must use them.

When Chen Ze heard this, he groaned, not because he was worried that Zhao Tao wouldn't like his songs, but because he thought that Zhang Jingning had already told him that he would write songs for her, and she was also preparing a new album.

After all, Zhang Jingning has also helped herself a lot, and things always have to come first, how can I help Zhang Jingning write a good song first, don't you agree to Zhao Tao's side first?

Chen Ze was still thinking about this problem, but Zhao Tao's agent chattered about the conditions on the phone: "5,000 yuan for a song, all the copyrights and the rights of commercial performance songs belong to us, but we will retain your authorship as much as possible." You see when you have time, we sign the contract. ”

"What?" Hearing Zhao Tao's agent's words, Chen Ze was stunned, he didn't understand what this agent meant.

A song is only 5,000? And after that, all the copyrights belonged to Zhao Tao's side, that is, I didn't even have the right to perform this song commercially. And what does it mean to keep your own authorship as much as possible, which means that it is possible that you may not even have the right to authorship this song?

"Yes, that's right." Zhao Tao's agent said that the requirements he put forward were all contracts signed by novices who had just started writing songs, 5,000 is the price of newcomers, and the rights and authorship rights of commercial performances in the future are also the unspoken rules of some economic companies, or overlord clauses.

And Zhao Tao's agent offered this condition, obviously just treating Chen Ze as the kind of newcomer who has just entered the industry.

"There are a lot of people who want to write songs for Zhao Tao every year, and I can receive hundreds of lyrics a year, and they don't even ask for payment, as long as Zhao Tao sings his songs. You have to know what a great honor and advertisement it is to be sung by Zhao Tao to sing the songs you wrote. You're just a high school student, so you should be lucky that we could ask you to write a song. ”

The economic man seemed to sense Chen Ze's surprise and dissatisfaction, and spoke.

In his logic, Zhao Tao is a top singer in the industry, while Chen Ze is just a high school student, and he hasn't even entered the industry, so it stands to reason that he shouldn't be asked to invite songs at all.

Now that he is invited to sing, and he has given the newcomer a contract that can only be signed, this is already a big concession, and Chen Ze can still be dissatisfied.

"How about it, you pick a time, let's sign the contract."

Zhao Tao's agent was not worried that Chen Ze would refuse, he felt that such a newcomer had no reason to refuse, so after finishing speaking, he quietly waited for Chen Ze's affirmative answer.

"What a joke!"

This was Chen Ze's first reaction, he didn't really care much about what he could get paid for a song, after all, if he could really let Zhao Tao and Zhang Jingning sing his own songs together, then the reputation would be established in the industry.

But this is too little, Zhao Tao's agent actually meant that he wanted to buy out a song for 5,000 yuan, what kind of joke is this.

Not to mention "Yanjing Welcomes You" for 100,000 yuan per song, even if it is the songs that I sang in the live broadcast room, several music software just bought the right to play, but there are tens of thousands of songs.

Now Zhao Tao wants to buy a song for five thousand, if he sells it, won't he bring back the value that he has finally fried.

It is possible to reduce the price, but not this one.

"I'm sorry, if that's the condition, I'm afraid we won't be able to cooperate." Finally, Chen Zedao.

"What?"

Hearing Chen Ze's words, the agent was a little stunned, he didn't expect Chen Ze to refuse his side and refuse Zhao Tao's invitation.

"You're not mistaken, you mean to reject us?" Broker said.

"That's right, if that's the condition." Chen Zedao.

"Haha." Hearing Chen Ze's words, the agent let out a somewhat sarcastic laugh for the first time, "It turns out that you are for this money, I have already told you, Zhao Tao sings your song, it is your honor and advertisement." When Zhao Tao makes your singing popular, are you still afraid that no one will pay a lot of money to buy your songs? A child is a child, and he can't even figure out this account. Besides, if we want to spend a lot of money to buy songs, we will also go to a few masters to buy them. ”

Zhao Tao's agent's words were very clear, and he almost said Chen Ze, you are not qualified to let Zhao Tao pay a lot of money to buy songs.

"If you don't sell it, I won't sell it if I say it's not going to sell it, and now I won't sell it no matter how much money you pay."

Chen Zedao said that the agent's high-minded attitude had made him very dissatisfied. Now that he is talking like this, is he still afraid that his song will not be popular, so he has to stick to Zhao Tao?

Chen Ze felt a little funny, obviously Zhao Tao found it himself, but the attitude of this agent seemed to be begging him.

"I'm telling you, don't be ignorant, it's your honor to be able to buy your songs here, you really think that if you write two good songs, you are qualified to make requests with us. I'm telling you, you don't. ”

Since he became Zhao Tao's agent, he has not been dismissed in person like this. So now I'm very angry, and I'm almost scolding.

However, before he could say anything, Chen Ze hung up his phone directly.

"Neuropathy."

Chen Zedao, he didn't expect Zhao Tao to have such an agent. With this agent's attitude, Chen Ze decided never to write a song for Zhao Tao in the future.

Ding Ding Ding!

At this time, Chen Ze's mobile phone rang again.

"You're insane, if I say I don't sell it, I don't sell it." Chen Zedao.

"Hey, I don't think I messed with you." A female voice came from the other end of the phone.

Chen Ze took the phone to his eyes and saw that it was Zhang Jingning calling.

"It's okay, I'm getting the wrong person." Chen Zedao.

"Oh, is that alright?" Zhang Jingning asked.

"It's fine." Chen Ze spoke again.

"Okay, I called you to officially invite you to songs, our company asked you to invite two songs at a price of 80,000 yuan, do you think you can write them?" Zhang Jing condensed.

"No problem." Chen Ze nodded without hesitation.

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Yanjing, after Chen Ze hung up the phone of Zhao Tao's agent, this agent was also extremely annoyed, thinking about finding trouble with Chen Ze.

But at this time, Zhao Tao walked in: "How is it Lao Chen, did Chen Ze promise to help us write songs?" ”

"Not yet." The agent shook his head, his face a little ugly.

"Why haven't you yet?" Zhao Tao didn't notice the agent's face, and asked a little eagerly, "I've heard that Zhang Jingning is also looking for Chen Ze to invite songs, she is Chen Ze's friend, if she preempts it, Chen Ze will definitely not agree to us again." And the progress of Zhang Jingning's album is about the same, I'm afraid that it will be on the other hand, and we have to find Chen Ze to invite songs in front of her. ”

"I've thought about it, Chen Ze's kid is just a high school student, and the songs he writes are probably just lucky, I'm afraid he won't write any better songs, so we don't need to ask him to invite songs." Broker said.

"What?"

Zhao Tao wanted to say something, but suddenly he saw the ugly look on the face of the agent Lao Chen, and suddenly understood.

This has happened in the past, Lao Chen is extremely domineering when talking about cooperation outside under the pretext of Zhao Tao's fame, and most of the partners can only swallow their anger because of Zhao Tao's fame, but there are still a small number of them scattered in two.

But because Lao Chen has been with Zhao Tao for many years and has not made any big mistakes, Zhao Tao has not really punished him for this matter, but only said it casually a few times.

Obviously, this cooperation with Chen Ze has happened again.

"Don't worry, I still have a little friendship with Mr. Liu, and I will ask him to help write a few songs. It's good that Zhang Jingning doesn't use that Chen Ze's song this time, if she does, let's use the song written by Mr. Liu, so that she can also know how stupid it is to use Chen Ze's song. The agent said hatefully.

"Okay, then."

Zhao Tao nodded, but there was a wry smile on his face, and he had a hunch in his heart that if he wanted to continue to be popular, he could only rely on Chen Ze's songs.

But now that it's like this, I'm afraid Chen Ze won't be able to write songs for himself.