Chapter 754: Worry
Li Xiuman has already decided, no one can change it, although Yu Yongzhen is full of worries, but he did not persuade again, not because he was worried about provoking Li Xiuman to get angry, but because he understood Li Xiuman's current situation very well.
Although Lee so-man is the founder of S.M. and is now the company's largest shareholder, once the board of directors is united, Lee so-man has nothing to do.
Especially after Lee so-man's embezzlement of the company's funds was exposed, his prestige in S.M plummeted, and the board of directors directly chose Kim Young-min as the company's president during his absconding to the United States.
Although Yu Yongzhen rarely participates in the company's decision-making and focuses on music creation, he can also feel that the company's undercurrent has been surging recently, and some people are making funny moves behind their backs.
And those who engage in small actions, the target is obviously Li Xiuman.
If it was just some small people, Li Xiuman didn't need to worry about it at all, what really worried him was that some members of the board of directors were also moved by those little people.
Once the other shareholders of the board of directors are won over by those oppositionists, I am afraid that Li Xiuman's ending will not be very good, his shares in the company, without his nod, no one can take it, but if those people want to force him to leave the company's management, they can still do it.
At this critical juncture, Li Xiuman must do something to let those people on the board know that he, Li Xiuman, can make money for them for one day in the company, and the interests are moving, and those people must see the real benefits.
This is also the reason why Li Xiuman is in a hurry to promote the debut of the company's new boy group.
Although Yu Yongzhen understands Li Xiuman's mood. However, his heart is still full of worries, this time Li Xiuman wants to launch a new boy group, but the company has been preparing for a long time and has been selected after layers of selection.
As the lead producer of S.M. Li Xiuman's die-hard supporter, Yu Yongzhen is naturally also involved in the whole process, he is very familiar with each of those children, from his professional point of view, those children already have the strength to debut, although there is no guarantee that they will be a blockbuster after their debut, but at least they will gain a foothold in the highly competitive music industry and win a place is no problem.
But the timing was wrong!
According to the original plan. The debut time of the new boy group is set at this time, but who knew that NRG suddenly had a new move, and Yu Yongzhen also admired the song "My Sky".
However, the debut time of the new boy group does not conflict with the promotion period of this song, but who knows, after NRG suddenly announced the end of the promotion of "My Sky". Killed again and directly released NRG's eighth regular album.
The songs from that album. Yu Yongzhen has heard it all, and at the beginning, he was also very curious that NRG actually chose an English song as the title song, but after listening to it once, he was shocked and had a deep understanding of Lee Junxi's creative ability. It can only be said that I admire it to the point of throwing myself to the ground.
Next is the promotion period of NRG's new album, at this time, S.M company chose to launch a new boy group, in Yu Yongzhen's view, it is completely like an egg hitting a stone. Sent to the door to find abuse.
Even Bigbang announced the termination of the promotion of "Hongxia" in advance, and although Yu Yongjin is very confident in the group of boys in the new boy group, he is not arrogant enough to think that those boys are better than Bigbang.
Now Bigbang doesn't dare to take its edge in front of NRG, and a bunch of rookies pounce on it, isn't that obviously going to be cannon fodder.
You must know that that group of young people were all carefully cultivated by S.M Company, and being able to stand out among hundreds of trainees and become members of the new men's group means that they have good strength.
And more importantly, Yu Yongzhen knows Li Xiuman's thoughts, and in Li Xiuman's plan, the new men's group was formed to replace TVXQ.
If this matter were known by TVXQ fans, it would definitely cause an uproar, but this is the truth, it's just that very few people know about it.
It's just like when Li Xiuman formed Mythology to replace HOT, and TVXQ formed to replace Mythology, this time it was the same routine.
The reason why Li Xiuman made this decision was the same as at the beginning, because he felt that TVXQ had also begun to become disobedient.
That's what Li Xiuman said when he told Yu Yongzhen about this decision before.
After listening to this, Yu Yongzhen's only expression was to smile bitterly, and then according to Li Xiuman's request, he selected the members of the new men's group among the company's many trainees.
Is it really TVXQ that is disobedient again?
As a friend of Li Xiuman and a die-hard supporter, Yu Yongzhen can't express his opinion in person, but he will definitely disagree with it in his heart.
Why TVXQ resists, that is, what Li Xiuman called "disobedient", the reason is not because the company oppresses too much.
Since TVXQ's debut in 2004, for the past four years, they have been carrying out activities in South Korea, Japan, China, etc. according to S.M's arrangement, and during the year, except for a week's vacation, the members only sleep 3 to 4 hours a day, which has seriously affected TVXQ's physical and mental health.
However, S.M. ignored these at all, but instead increased TVXQ's workload driven by profits, which naturally made the members decide to leave S.M because if they continued to stay in S.M, they would only become a prop for the company to make money, and they would not be able to realize their dreams.
The heavy burden of work is one aspect, and what makes TVXQ members even more dissatisfied is the fact that they signed an agreement with S.M, according to which TVXQ will work for S.M for 13 years, plus two years of military service, TVXQ will work for S.M for nearly 15 years, which is actually equivalent to a lifetime agreement for idol groups.
Moreover, according to the agreement, if TVXQ terminates the agreement with S.M Company early, it will compensate S.M Company for three times the amount of its total investment in TVXQ and twice the amount of all its revenues, with a total compensation of hundreds of billions of won.
Moreover, although TVXQ has become a first-line boy group in the Korean music industry, it has been treated unfairly by S.M, not only did not get a penny of signing money, but also very unfair in the distribution of record income.
TVXQ can only get 10 million won each when the next album is released when the previous album sells more than 500,000 copies, and if the previous album does not sell 500,000 copies, TVXQ members will not get a penny.
The agreement would not be revised until 2009, and TVXQ members had only earned 0.4% to 1% of the album's total revenue until then.
TVXQ members had tried to negotiate with S.M. on several occasions to resolve some of the unfair parts of the agreement, but S.M's refusal to negotiate with them had clearly exacerbated the members' dissatisfaction.
Yu Yongzhen can even foresee that in the near future, TVXQ will also leave S.M Company with hatred like the original HOT and mythology.
Yu Yongzhen didn't want to see that day, but he was powerless to change it, just like he couldn't stop Li Xiuman from pushing the new boy group he had cultivated with great difficulty into the NRG gun.
The only thing he could hope for was that those children would be able to persevere in this harsh ordeal and not be destroyed.
"Yongzhen! What are you thinking? ”
Hearing Li Xiuman's voice, Yu Yongzhen suddenly came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "No ~~~~~~, nothing!" ”
Li Xiuman smiled noncommittally and said: "Later, you go to see those children, I won't go, lest some people say that I have stepped on the line, tell those children for me that I am very optimistic about them and look forward to their success!" ”
Yu Yongzhen answered, and saw that Li Xiuman had nothing else to explain, so he got up and said goodbye, went downstairs with a lot of heart, and arrived at the door of the practice room, through the window, he saw that the children were sitting on the floor resting at the moment, so he pushed the door and walked in.
"Senior! Hello! ”
Seeing that it was Yu Yongzhen who came in, those seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys got up one after another, bowed and said hello.
Yu Yongzhen smiled faintly and waved his hand at them: "Don't be so nervous, sit down and relax." ”
After the boys sat down, Yu Yongzhen continued: "I have brought you two pieces of news, one good news and one bad news, I won't ask you which one you want to hear, I will tell you the good news first!" ”
When Yu Yongzhen said this, he paused deliberately, looking at the boys' reactions, and his eyes were full of expectation.
We're still kids!
Yu Yongzhen suddenly felt a little unbearable, although he had not been in contact with these boys for a long time, but everyone here was hand-selected by him, and after that, when recording the debut song, they were also together day and night, and they still had feelings for each other.
However, now Yu Yongzhen has to push these children out with his own hands and accept the most severe test for a newcomer.
Yu Yongzhen took a deep breath: "Congratulations! You ~~~~~~ ready to make your debut! (To be continued.) )