A studio at Alpha Records, Taipei. A young man of twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a grim face, looked at a set of videos shown to him by his assistant and friends.

"My life is like filming a play, there are so many directors and screenwriters, who only say one line, and they have 800 tones...... I know that many archers want to shoot me down and climb up, and when I get to the top of the mountain, no one can hurt me, these archers, you have worked hard to carry the pen......"

This man is not tall, but his face is quite handsome, and the edges and corners are also sharp. He is the godfather of today's Chinese music scene, Zhou Jielun.

The song played in the video is undoubtedly the song "Embattled" that he was just preparing to shoot the MV a few days ago!

However, he really hopes that someone can tell him why the MV of this song has become an anime version! The voice is not his! The arrangement is not the same either! Many of the choruses that were supposed to be accompanied by drums and organs have been replaced by outright electronic sounds.

The release of this song has put Zhou Jielun under a lot of pressure, because the content of the lyrics is completely firing at the paparazzi and the media industry, scolding them all as dogs. The agent once persuaded Zhou Jielun to take the song down, so as not to offend too many people; But Zhou has always insisted on his personality and position, and finally succeeded in putting the song into the upcoming new album "Chopin in November".

In order to catch up with this song that came out after being under great pressure, the album title was changed to "Chopin in November", because before that, everyone estimated that all the work would be completely done in October, so that it could catch up with the eleventh schedule in the mainland.

It's still the end of September, not November. In other words, the existence of this song was leaked in advance. And it was covered by others.

Zhou Jielun asked with a blushing face: "Can anyone tell me what's going on?" Is it a shameless domestic artist who digs into my corner? ”

His friend Fang Wenshan shrugged and pressed the video pause button. said: "At the moment, it should be an accident. This video originally appeared on the homepage of the largest video website in mainland China, Chuyin Video, and it seemed to be recommended by the website operator, so it became popular all of a sudden, and the number of views exceeded one million people in one day. However, the website immediately banned the video and removed it from the shelves, as if it realized that there was any misunderstanding or copyright risk in it. ”

Zhou Jielun didn't want to hear that. Just ask: "I just want to know who the singer is." ”

Fang Wenshan's face was speechless, as if he didn't know how to say it. In the end, it was Zhou Jielun's old boss Yang Junrong who spoke:

"It's not an insider who sings it, it's the owner of an Internet company, Gu Mojie of Hatsune Network, who sang this paragraph by chance. According to insider revelations, Gu Mojie attended his cousin Zhou Lixin's wedding that day. His cousin and sister-in-law are both middle-level leaders of the Ahri Group, so the witnesses are Ma Feng, the boss of the Ahri Group.

At that time, it should have been all parties playing HIGH, and even Ma Feng sang a song, and Gu Mojie couldn't refuse. Or maybe I drank too much and sang such a song. And according to the memories of the people at the scene, the audio equipment in the reception hall at that time did not store the soundtrack of this song, and Gu Mojie himself copied it to the hotel service staff. I don't know where he got the lyrics.

The day after the incident, I don't know if it was the Hatsune employees who were secretly filming and recording that day in order to please the boss, so they matched the boss's voice with anime and new arrangements, made a video and put it on the homepage of Hatsune.com. ”

Zhou Jielun went to Qiantang to hold two concerts. They are all clad suites on the eighth floor, so the place mentioned by Yang Junrong. He reacted immediately.

What shocked him was that there was actually an outsider, or an Internet rookie with billions of assets, to sing his song. With the identity of the other party, it is obvious that the possibility of singing for red can be ruled out.

"Later, I learned that Gu Mojie has always been very low-key. On the Internet, I don't even want to leave a photo. I think there must be a misunderstanding here, if Jay you don't mind, why don't we go to a lawyer's letter for consultation first, or informally. ”

"Let's communicate informally first, I guess they didn't mean it."

……

When Gu Mojie was reborn. The inventory in my mind can be described as a big wave of sand, removing the turnip and reserving the essence. So the business of copying songs to earn the first pot of gold was killed in the first place.

But it's not like he doesn't remember a song from later generations. Eason Chan's "Exaggeration" and Zhou Jielun's "Embattled" are the only things he remembers. Of course, it is obscure who sang the songs and who composed them.

This question, when he was alone and quiet, he also thought about it many times: Why these two songs? In the end, he came to the conclusion that it was none other than because these two songs represented universal values.

Songs about love do not contain truth. And "Exaggeration" and "Embattled" reveal the cruel nature of "one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither" in the era of Internet hustle and bustle. In the first half of the year, "Exaggeration" finally appeared in Eason Chan's new album, and when he heard that song, Gu Mojie felt a deep resonance, and many memory fragments in his mind were also re-refined and washed. He knew that "Embattled" was also coming out soon.

Since then, he has sung "Embattled" several times in private, and he doesn't have a music studio himself, but he has a plug-in called "Hatsune Niang", which can automatically generate arrangements based on the tunes he hums - with the performance of Hatsune video players today, it can already be able to intelligently search for songs based on the lyrics and tunes hummed by users. The ontology of "Hatsune Musume" is not difficult to automatically generate arrangements based on the electronic music material library on the Internet.

Whether it is Zhou Hongyi or Zhang Chaoyang, there will be competitors who have not yet appeared in the future, or who obviously want to deal with Gu Mojie, but they shrink back because they are pursuing listing or pursuing Tenpay. In Gu Mojie's eyes, the essence of those people is just a dog who "holds a long lens and wants to shoot me who climbs up".

Even, Gu Mojie doesn't need to know who else is the dog with the long shot, he just needs to show that he doesn't care, those dogs with the long shot will naturally sit down by themselves and be angry.

It's not for money, it's not for pretending. Just for the sake of taunting and making the enemy impetuous.

The open-mindedness and madness shown by "Embattled" were spread together with the industry gossip that Gu Mojie had just broken through the strategic ban of Sohu video piracy and sought subsidies for making animation.

The meaning behind this is naturally much deeper, so that countless people are willing to interpret it.

When Zhang Chaoyang and Zhou Hongyi watched the remake of the gun version, which is said to be a song that Gu Mojie improvised while eating and drinking with Ma Feng, they almost didn't have their noses crooked: How much money did you make here, and you were crazy like this? Even if you make a billion, you can't be so crazy, right?

However, although the song was sung by Gu Mojie, the anime video version after the MMD of "Hatsune Singer" was not instructed by him. In his original opinion, some news only needs to be disseminated in a small area by the upper class. made it too flamboyant, which did not conform to his always low-key nature in front of the public.

It's a pity that he really drank a little too much that day, in front of Ma Feng and others, he still had to wear a mask to support himself, but when he got home, he fell asleep, and the next two days were weekends and he didn't go to the company. As a result, it was discovered on Monday that there were two female executives of Hatsune in the banquet hall that day, who were his enthusiast fans, and as a result, they secretly recorded his song and went back to anime.

Gu Mojie was very angry.

"Who told you to put this thing on the Internet? I've said it again and again, when it comes to my personal privacy, don't just put it on the Internet! What's more, this kind of song will be infringed if you are not careful. I have repeatedly emphasized that Hatsune Video will never be pirated! ”

The female subordinate who made a mistake kept admitting her mistakes, and she almost cried bitterly. They thought that when they were making the video, they found someone to change it to the modeling of the animation, and they didn't expose Gu Mojie's true face, so they would definitely be fine, but who knew that the horse's fart was still slapped on the horse's leg.

However, despite Gu Mojie's other accusations, the female subordinates all bore it, and the female subordinate still stubbornly asked the question of "what if you accidentally infringe" that Gu Mojie accidentally mentioned at the end:

"Mr. Gu, didn't you improvise this song yourself? How can there be infringement? ”

"This song is obviously ......" Gu Mojie said a few words angrily, and suddenly said: It's only the end of September now, and "Chopin in November" hasn't come out yet.

However, if this kind of thing happens, disputes are inevitable. And he is sure that the original creator of this song, even if the song has not been announced yet, must have finished writing the lyrics.

Although he is not afraid of such trivial legal disputes, the troubles that can be saved should be dealt with as soon as possible.

Thinking about this, Gu Mojie changed his words and reprimanded: "Who said that there would be no infringement!" I inquired about that song from a friend, and the singer-songwriter himself hasn't released an album yet, so it's good! ”

Gu Mojie reprimanded, drove the female subordinate who was in trouble out of his office, and then dialed the internal number, called Fei Liluo and Ye Minru in, and ordered:

"Sister Fei, you prepare, there may be a record company that will privately send a lawyer's letter to us to ask about some things, and you can help me deal with it. Xiaoru, I won't fire those two who made mistakes just now, but I need to be transferred, and you can ask the human resources department to discuss. ”

Ye Minru immediately went out to run errands, and Fei Liluo saw that Gu Mojie looked a little anxious, so she stayed and asked him about the cause and effect, and comforted him.

Later that day, an email letter was sent to Hatsune from Hu Zongxian's Alpha Records.

"Sure enough, it's Zhou Jielun's song, it's okay, let's lose a little money and end the matter. However, it is estimated that they care more about how the song is leaked...... How do you explain this......"

Gu Mojie thought about it, and a thought popped into his mind. (To be continued.) )