Taipei, Alpha Records. In Zhou Jielun's studio, several core figures gathered together and replied to Hatsune's email, their faces full of incomprehension.

Zhou Jielun really couldn't understand how things happened, and asked with a little annoyance: "Vincent, you haven't leaked the words of "Embattled", have you?" Haven't it been spread through the guò network? Email counts as well. ”

The English name of Fangwen Mountain is "VincentFang" (Vincent. square) to take its homonym. Zhou Jielun has partnered with him for many years and is familiar with personal friends, so he usually calls him by his English name.

was questioned so blindly by Zhou Jielun, Fang Wenshan hurriedly explained: "How can I leak? If it were any other song, I would have written the lyrics. You wrote the lyrics for this "Embattled" by yourself! At most, I'll give you a little touch-up. Don't just take your own emails and leak them. ”

The song "Embattled" is full of a sense of ridicule of "governing all kinds of disobedience", and only a person like Zhou Jielun, who is under heavy pressure from his peers, can appreciate such a mood. In the album "Chopin in November", other songs were written by Fang Wenshan for him, but this one, from the lyrics to the music, he did it alone.

Seeing that the two of them couldn't figure it out, Yang Junrong, the maker of Zuò, had no choice but to play in the middle: "JAY, I guess you accidentally leaked it out here." The other party's letter clearly stated that their company has some dark web data search system, which is the resources searched from the Internet. Whether it's a hacker hacking your mailbox or something else, there's really no way we can appeal to the public — after all, the song hasn't been released to the public yet. ”

The three of them are all knowledgeable, and they have repeatedly watched and listened to the MMD video, except that the lyrics are the same as Zhou Jielun's "Embattled", and the singing tone is almost imitated, the other arrangements are still different. So the biggest possibility is that the lyrics and singing part of the sheet music were leaked separately, but the arrangement score was not leaked.

Zhou Jielun was a little frustrated: "Could it be that this matter is admitted?" ”

Yang Junrong pointed to the email and said with a little joy: "No, I think Hatsune is still very sincere, they clarified that they didn't know that this lyric was used in your song." However, I am still willing to pay the copyright fee for the online broadcast of our song MV, as well as a certain amount of compensation.

In terms of this explanation and impact, the other side means, let's cooperate. explained the gun version of this song that leaked out before as sneaking away in advance, and interpreted the creative intention of this song as a commissioned creation of Hatsune Corporation. In total, the amount of money involved in this album is in the millions. ”

05~07 is Zhou Jielun's most popular time, with a net income of about 200 million a year. And it has been cut out of the cost of issuance. According to the rate of one album a year, the market value of the album itself is tens of millions (RMB, not Taiwan dollars), and if it is only to buy out the copyright of online broadcasting, the transaction amount of several million is still acceptable.

Hatsune Network's offer is indeed sincere, not to sell it when it is cheap.

Zhou Jielun thought about it and decided to agree.

"Then let's do this, Brother Rong, you have to worry about the negotiation."

Jay Chow's agency is Alpha Records. He himself is not qualified to negotiate the terms of cooperation with the outside world. At most, it is just a matter of providing some advice on who to work with and who not to work with.

Yang Junrong patted Zhou Jielun on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, since you have no opinion, leave the rest to me." But there is still something for you to decide, after all, it is a new technology, a new business, whether you can do it, it depends on your own judgment. ”

Jerry Chow is a person who likes novelty, and what he likes most is to combine new technologies in his music career. Or maybe he'll be in charge of his own house years later. will not get Teresa Teng's 3D projection character to sing with him at the Little Dome concert, and burn hundreds of millions of Taiwan dollars in one hand.

In this regard, he is a pure enthusiast, and the new technology is expensive or not. It cannot be measured purely by whether it is a profit or a loss in terms of economy.

Therefore, as soon as he heard Yang Junrong's question, he immediately became interested: "Oh? What exactly is the new technology? ”

Yang Junrong clicked on another email, pointed and said, "At present, a new game has opened on the mainland, called Hatsune Singer, you should have heard of it." That thing is doing very well at the moment. It's about to open Taiwanese and Japanese servers. Only the hanbok did not enter for the time being because the other party had signed a mutually exclusive agreement with the company that did the Korean dance troupe.

That game,There's a custom arrangement of the MOD function.,But so far, you can only make up songs.,Can't make realistic songs.。 All of the lyrics are done purely electronically synthesized – now, Hatsune Network is looking for someone to work with, take a library of audio samples, find some of the most famous singers, and add them to their library of soundtracks......"

Zhou Jielun understood in seconds: "Do they want me to cooperate with them to record?" And then let them use my voice for gamers to edit? ”

"It's not just you. It was also through this incident that the other party's boss happened to mention the possibility of this cooperation. If the company decides to cooperate, the female voice is on the other side, and the other party is currently inclined to find Jolin. ”

Zhou Jielun thought about it, and there was no reason to oppose it for the time being. He was really excited to try it, but there was no precedent for this new way of working together, and he didn't know how much money it could make.

He asked timidly: "Brother Rong, can you get to the bottom of it, if you decide to cooperate in this matter, how much will the approximate remuneration be?" ”

Yang Junrong thought about it, but he didn't dare to pack the ticket, and said weakly: "After all, it is to record an audio material library, and it is estimated that the endorsement fee will be several million at most." ”

Zhou Jielun thought about it, and estimated that it would take more effort to record the entire material library than to produce an album, and the remuneration of millions is not high in itself. However, considering that this thing seems to be very novel, and it will help the singer himself to become famous and further rise, it is worth considering.

Of course, if this kind of cooperation is reached, the game of Hatsune Singer will also benefit greatly, and it will definitely benefit more than Alpha Records and Zhou Jielun.

Because then there will be more gimmick selling points that can attract more players. In the Internet industry in later generations, even a navigation map had to be mixed with a recording library of "goddess voices" as a gimmick, not to mention a serious music game.

Even in another time and space, the original version of "Hatsune Miku", which was first developed by the Japanese, used a lot of sound source synthesis technology, but its initial material still had to be recorded by real people. Historically, YAMAHA used Sakuko Fujita as the voice actor. The sound source synthesis technology is nothing more than some algorithmic routines for processing the original voice material of the voice actor, adding tunes and tones.

Zhou Jielun thought about it again and again, but still decided to accept this offer intention.

There is no other reason, after all, in today's world, there is more than one singer with a good voice, although Zhou Jielun is now the godfather of the Chinese music scene and his reputation is in full swing, but the other party still has other spare tires to choose from after all.

And Hatsune Singer's audio synthesis technology is currently unique. Just like 07 in another time and space, Yamaha has the same exclusive technology in its hands, and you can still find voice actors at a lower price.

In contrast, although Zhou Jielun is a strong seller, the market is a buyer's market after all. What's more, at the last moment, the blood in his bones that he would rather make less money and try new music technology boiled, prompting him to make this right choice.

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Three days later, on the first day of the National Day holiday. On the homepage of the Hatsune Video website, a clarification notice was issued:

"The MV of "Embattled", which was removed from the shelves a few days ago, was composed by a famous Chinese singer commissioned by Hatsune Entertainment at a high price. After the creation was completed, the company's senior management temporarily neglected to audition and directed the video outflow, for which Hatsune Entertainment apologized. At the same time, Hatsune Entertainment urges all parties on the Internet to remove all remake gun resources from the shelves in a timely manner to avoid unnecessary legal liability......"

Unfortunately, the explanation had no effect, but instead lit a raging fire of gossip.

As the hottest single film since the opening of the first audio video, the MMD music video that got millions of views on the first day of uploading to the top has long been remade by countless people with mobile phones or digital cameras on the computer screen.

Moreover, although Hatsune Entertainment did not announce the "commissioned singer", from the inarticulate rap style of "Embattled", entertainment reporters can guess that it is Zhou Jielun with their knees thinking - Zhou Jielun has already been announced, and a new album will be released next month.

"Commissioned creation" is very obscure to say, in fact, people who know how to do it know that the commissioned creation of a work of art sometimes does not lead to the transfer of copyright, who created it, and whose economic rights and interests still belong to it. It's just that commissioned creations are usually accompanied by a "dedicated to so-and-so" speech to show who requested the creation of the content.

It's like Beethoven wrote the "Heroic Symphony", and originally planned to write "dedicated to Napoleon" in his speech (in the end, Napoleon became emperor, so Beethoven did not dedicate it); When Michelangelo made the statue of the Lavary, he would state that "dedicated to Lorenzo. Medici".

And in the current situation, the Yuji pees seem to have caught a scene: Zhou Jielun said that he would dedicate "Embattled" to Boss Hatsune.

Behind this, there must have been a deep personal relationship very early. Because I haven't seen how many songs Zhou Jielun has written for anyone before, except when he first debuted and was not famous, he wrote a "Lovely Woman" dedicated to a certain three-episode film actress.

The number of players who have played the game Hatsune Singer is now only 20 million; But those who listen to Zhou Jielun's songs, at this moment in 05, are only afraid that there will be two or three billion. The number of users who have watched the online short film on the first audio video is only 30 or 40 million, which is also far less than the number of fans.

Prior to this, the MMD channel on Hatsune Video was only watched by original lovers of Hatsune games and electronic music. Overnight, this onlooker rose to the fan range of physical singers. Although only a few fans of today's hottest singers.

The eleventh long holiday has not yet ended, and another set of news that is enough for the technology version and the entertainment version has been brushed out.

Hatsune Entertainment spent NT$20 million to buy the original sound material library of singers such as Zhou Jielun and Cai Yilin from Alpha Records to enrich the materials of the original editing module of the "Hatsune Singer" game.

At the same time, it spent NT$5 million to invite Lin Zhiling of Kaiwo Brokerage Company to re-record all the voice prompts of games such as "Hatsune Singer". (To be continued.) )