Chapter Fifty-Nine: Since Ancient Times, Capital Has Been the Most Ruthless

Ota's agent was sent back, and the brokerage companies of those second- and third-tier actresses also stopped a little, and they didn't dare to touch their heads again.

Both Japanese and Koreans do not have a long holiday. Only on October 2nd, Sony, S-'s recommended candidate artists and business negotiators arrived in Qiantang, and the actress who was urgently dispatched after Ota returned to China to discuss it followed.

Under the current preliminary planning of Hatsune Entertainment, there is only one "patrol voice", and there is only one "weak voice", inviting 3 giants to recommend, in fact, the acceptance rate is similar to the "at least three out of one" in the civil service interview, if all parties can't get dry goods, they really can't grab this opportunity.

Hatsune Entertainment stepped up the review for two days, and on October 4, the results of the preliminary review at the technical level came out and sent them to Gu Mojie.

The so-called "preliminary review results at the technical level" refers to the analysis of those newly recruited economic people in the entertainment industry in Hatsune Entertainment, and the selected girls are absolutely passable in terms of timbre, sound quality and image temperament, and can be qualified for the sound patrol and weak voice image. It was only to show respect for Gu Mojie that he handed over the right to choose one of the last three to Gu Mojie.

The things were sent directly to Gu Mojie's house by Fei Liluo, and Gu Mojie felt that this kind of thing was too twisted and turned, and he still didn't feel at ease when he handed it over to Ye Minru.

Whenever the company encounters a new type of business, although there will be more professional lawyers responsible for the specific risk assessment of the terms and conditions, they must be subject to Feliro's observation.

After all, in legal affairs, only Feliro is the most worthy of Gu Mojie's trust, and this is not nepotism. For this matter, Fei Liluo has also made up a lot of trading knowledge in your circle in the past few days.

Gu Mojie flipped through the materials sent.

"South Korea's S-Company Recommended List: Korean 'weak voice' candidates, Kim Taeyeon, Lim Yoona. Candidate for the Japanese 'Tour', Boa Kwon (BOA). ”

"The recommended list of Japanese Ota tsuò: Atsuko Maeda, Yuko Oshima. Sony Recommended List: ............"

Gu Mojie thought about it for a moment. Almost all of them are recognized.

Except for Atsuko Maeda and Yuko Oshima, who had a slight glimpse of an ear, and knew that it was the Japanese who made it at the beginning of this year called %≡dǐng%≡diǎn%≡小%≡ said, .↑.o●s_(); I did the AB48 group, but he didn't see it either, and at most he walked in the company and listened to other people's AB music.

"Who are these Kim Taeyeon and Lim Yoona? And the hearts of Koreans are big enough, and they even want to buy the quota of Japanese singers, and they recommend this treasure. Could it be that it is a Korean star who has developed in Japan? ”

Fei Liluo obviously knew Gu Mojie too well and knew that he would ask this question, so she did her homework in advance, and without thinking about it, she replied confidently:

"South Korea's S-Company originally planned to launch a new female artist group early next year, called 'Girls' Generation'. Kim Taeyeon and Lim Yoona are both the main members of the current group, they were both selected as trainees by S-Company when they were fourteen or fifteen years old, and they have been training intensively for three years, and their image, dance skills and voice are very good.

Kwon Bo Er is a bilingual female singer recommended by S-Company to go to Japan for development in 00. He made his debut at the age of 13, and it is already his 6th year. It is said that she is a singer-songwriter, not only proficient in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Chinese, but also can write lyrics and music, and many of her works are composed or written by herself. ”

Fei Liluo said all the good things, but Gu Mojie didn't hear anything particularly powerful. After all, the people in your circle, the key is to look at popularity, no matter how high you say the technical indicators. People are not popular, and laymen will definitely question it first.

Gu Mojie thought for a moment. asked rhetorically: "But as far as I know, isn't the most popular in the Korean music scene at the moment still Lee Hyo-ri, Lee Jung-hyun, and Jang Nara's voters." Why don't brokerage companies recommend these people? ”

Gu Mojie has always subconsciously felt that for the role of a female singer, it is sometimes not the best choice to directly find a cute girl under the age of 20 to cooperate with Hatsune Entertainment, because then it will be completely impossible to use the original reputation of the actress to pull each other and win with Hatsune. On the contrary, it is equivalent to Hatsune unilaterally supporting each other with resources.

An actress wants to be the hottest on the first line, in fact, around 25 years old is a relatively normal age. For example, when the Hatsune singer was not popular before, Gu Mojie borrowed the joining of Jolin Tsai and successfully promoted a win-win situation. Zhou Jielun was born in 79, and Jolin Tsai is 80. The age when they first cooperated also happened to be in line with Gu Mojie's judgment.

This is also why his first reaction was to think of the above three Korean stars: Lee Hyo-ri is 79 years old, Lee Jung-hyun is 80, and Jang Nara is 81. In the first five years of this century, the popularity of these Korean stars in China was a clear rise, and if you cooperate with them, it will obviously be more beneficial to Hatsune's profits.

Feliro smiled: "These people are not all S-Company!" Or can only say that some used to be, but now they are not, how can you expect them to recommend it. And even if the singer is still there, the other party won't recommend those. In the past few days, I have found that the thinking of Koreans in the operation of entertainment capital has surpassed ours. ”

The situation seemed to have become interesting, and Gu Mojie, who didn't plan to go deep into your circle, was also caught up in a bit of appetite: "Oh? Let's talk about it specifically. ”

Feliro's eyes flashed with a hint of fox-like cunning: "Haven't you always disdained to understand the operating rules of your circle?" ”

"Master Yi's long skills to control it." Gu Mojie asked shamelessly.

Fei Liluo: "Actually, it's very simple to put it bluntly, the times are different, whether it is the group of Li Xiaoli and Li Zhenxian you just mentioned, or Jolin Tsai in the same period in China, they are all people who became popular on the eve of the era of deep online media." When they debuted, there were almost no P3 electronic music download channels on the Internet, the record industry was still at the end of its boom, and artists relied on traditional channel resources to a high degree.

So in that era, the capital side was very strong, and he was not afraid of artists jumping ship and flying solo, and the people he cultivated were all his own assets, so he hoped that his subordinates would be popular as much as possible - I wanted to go back for more than ten years, Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers Wireless, no matter how popular you are. I still want to hide whoever I want to hide, and I don't have the power to resist.

However, after 03 and 04, the broadband network became more popular, and P3 can be downloaded everywhere on the Internet. Even if a singer doesn't know a record company in his life, he just needs to put the song on the Internet and spend money to find diǎn online media to hype him. There are still channels to make their songs known to the public, and even become Internet celebrities. ”

When Fei Liluo said this, she took a sip of water, and wanted to take the opportunity to continue, but was interrupted by Gu Mojie: "I understand this truth - this is like before the advent of digital video cameras, making movies was a very high thing, and the threshold was very high. But with the advent of digital video cameras and even mobile phones that can shoot videos, grassroots video self-media came in. The threshold of the industry has been broken. ”

Fei Liluo diǎndiǎn head, signaling that what Gu Mojie said was not bad, and her understanding was very high: "That's right, that's the truth." Therefore, the capital side began to find that the means they can use to hold artists hostage are slowly decreasing, and if they use too much force to promote artists to the level of superstars like in the old era, in case the artist flies solo after the contract expires, they can't stop it.

Not much else. Let's get to the bottom of it, Zhou Jielun, who has been in contact with Brother Xian since his debut, has been seven years now. He was going to go it alone and start a studio company called 'Jewell Music Company' at the beginning of next year, and asked us if we would like to help him raise funds to start up. ”

Gu Mojie waved his hand: "Where is this going, Zhou Jielun will talk about borrowing money in the future." First of all, why did the capital side start to support young people? So far, what you've just said makes a lot of sense. But there is no causal relationship between it and today's core problem. ”

Fei Liluo spread her hands: "It's not easy?" The crux of the problem is not that 'the capital side changes to invest in young artists', but that the capital side has shifted from the model of 'spending resources to make a pop star popular' to 'spending resources to make a popular combination', such as the 'ab48' newly established by the Japanese this year, and the 'Girls' Generation' that the Koreans will set up next year.

Because the capital party found out that a single artist became famous, it was unstoppable to fly solo when the contract expired. Case. It's better to praise the group, because the group is registered under the company, and no matter how popular the artists are, they are just a member of the group, and they can't take away the company's main intangible assets when they jump ship. The combination of iron, the members of the flowing water, this is the reflexive action of capital to protect its own interests.

Therefore, I didn't insist on that diǎn during the negotiations. Because our current role is also the capital side, why should we spend our minds on how to make artists live better? We want our own interests. Whether it's 'patrol' or 'weak sound', from the standpoint of Hatsune Entertainment, I naturally hope that these two virtual characters will be as popular as possible, but the real singer behind them is just a chess piece that we use. As long as they play a role in leading the sound patrol and weak voice into the Japanese and Korean markets, what does it matter to them in the future? ”

It seems to be cold-blooded, but Gu Mojie likes it.

"You are really my virtuous helper, what a ruthless sister." Gu Mojie's insidious beast blood began to boil, and he couldn't help but want to reward Fei Liluo.

Feliro slumped into the handmade lion-skin sofa of San Martino, her eyes blurred. Just when she was waiting for Gu Mojie to invade, she heard Gu Mojie's hand slow down, and she changed the topic back in a hurry.

"That's not right! I always felt that there was still a problem. Since you just said that South Korea's entertainment capital has learned to be obedient, and only pushes the combination and not the people, why is that powerhouse mixed in? Isn't she popular as an individual? ”

Fei Liluo looked at Gu Mojie with disgust, and said angrily: "Didn't you explain it just now!" That Kwon Baoer is a singer-songwriter. I know Chinese, Japanese and Korean all about it, and I can write songs and fill in the lyrics, so I am naturally different from those pure parts singers who sell their voices and skills. Such talents, if they want to shape them into a combined part, it is a waste of resources. ”

Gu Mojie listened with deep emotion: "It's true, it seems that being a man still has to have original core competitiveness." Otherwise, you will only sing routine songs, compose routine songs, and write routine scripts, and you will only have to be a dog for the capital side for the rest of your life. Even if you become a great god, you are just a part of someone else. ”

"Okay, don't think about it! You na! While touching me, what was in my mind was the matter of Kwon Bao'er! If you do this again, I won't give you sweetness in the future! Feliro waved her pink fist, as if this could capture Gu Mojie's thoughts. (To be continued.) )