Chapter 3: Recording Past Lives
Cao Hanmin, as usual, came to the company with a briefcase on his face, and he would nod his head with a smile when he met colleagues who greeted him along the way, and now he is just in his early thirties when he is the youngest in a man's life, just a month ago he was promoted to the music production director of Hong Kong Polygram Records, a high position, and last night he just proposed to his girlfriend, his girlfriend happily agreed, the wedding date is set in two months, in a sentence to describe him is love and career two proud, Even walking has a feeling of floating. Entering the office, as soon as he sat down and opened the documents on the desk as usual, the secretary knocked on the door and walked in: "Director, this is sent by Deputy Director Zhao early this morning, saying that it is a few songs sent from Taiwan, and I want you to take a look." ”
A song from Taiwan? Cao Hanmin took the folder in the secretary's hand suspiciously, you must know that Taiwan's current local record company Rolling Stone Records has developed very strongly in recent years, and its influence in the Chinese-speaking circle has increased year by year.
He immediately opened the folder, only to see a few pieces of 4A paper sandwiched in it, he picked up the top piece of paper with the title of "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" and looked at it, after reading the first one, his brows condensed slightly, picked up the second chapter and continued to read, the more he looked at his face, the more solemn his face became, and when he finished reading all four sheets of paper, he couldn't help but get up and say a 'good' word.
He has been engaged in music for so many years, and it is the first time he has seen someone come up with so many classic songs at one time, each of which can be the title song of the album, especially at the end of the last one, it is written: "If your company is interested in cooperating, I have more classic Cantonese and Chinese songs in my hands." ”
He immediately asked his secretary to call Zhao Huilian, and then picked up four more songs and savored them. Not long after, there was a knock on the door, and a woman in her thirties pushed open the door and walked in, saw the paper in Cao Hanmin's hand, smiled slightly, and said, "I know that Director Lu Dao came to me for these four songs when you came to me." ”
Cao Hanmin didn't talk nonsense, and said straight to the point: "These four songs are rare masterpieces, if they are sung by one or two powerful singers, the record will definitely sell well." Tell me what these four songs are all about. ”
The relationship between Zhao Huilian and Cao Hanmin should be good, and she didn't be polite to Cao Hanmin, so she directly pulled out the chair in front of the desk and sat down, and then said: "These four songs were sent from Taiwan three days ago, the author's name is Gu Chen, I have already found someone to investigate, this Gu Chen is still studying at Taiwan University of the Arts, is a freshman, only 19 years old, and his father just died of cancer a few months ago." ”
Cao Hanmin said with a sigh, "I can write such a song in my freshman year, this Gu Chen is definitely a genius, and I wonder if he will be a Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui-like character in the future." After pondering for a moment, Cao Hanmin had already made a decision in his heart: "In this way, you will personally go to Taiwan tomorrow and try to sign him to our company, if not, you must also buy these four songs, we can make appropriate concessions in terms of agreement, and try to buy out if we can." In addition, an agreement was signed with him, and the songs he wrote in the future would be sold to Hong Kong Polygram on a priority basis under the same conditions. ”
The reason why Cao Hanmin attaches so much importance to a newcomer is of course because these four songs are worth the price, but more because he wants to win over Gu Chen, from the quality of these four songs and the sentence at the end, it can be seen that Gu Chen should have more high-quality songs in his hands.
Although Polygram now has powerful singers like Jacky Cheung and Li Keqin, and there are also king-level singers like Alan Tam and Xu Guanjie, it can be said that there are many talents. However, Hong Kong's record company is not PolyGram, the competition is very fierce, if Gu Chen is poached by other companies, it may pose a great threat to PolyGram in the future, as the company's music production director, he must take precautions.
"Okay, if it's okay, I'll go first." After Zhao Huilian finished speaking, she got up and left, she will go to Taiwan tomorrow, and she still has a lot of things to arrange today.
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Since completing the withdrawal procedures, Gu Chen has rarely gone out, locking himself in his room most of the time, trying to recall everything he experienced in his previous life, and writing down everything he can remember and think useful in his notebook, there are news and current affairs, and there are also gossip and interesting things, but the most are some memories of the entertainment industry, such as popular songs, popular TV shows, popular movies and so on in his previous life in the nineties and the 21st century.
In just one week, he filled three thick notebooks, but he still didn't give up, still meditating, after all, there is a limit to people's memory, and after a long time, the things that were once unforgettable will slowly become blurred. And the memory of his past life is the foundation of his present life, and while he has just been reborn now, he can record all the words he still remembers, so that he can't remember it when he needs it later.
Of course, the human brain is so mysterious, sometimes the harder you try to think, the more you can't get the results you want; Sometimes you don't even think about it, but your mind seems to suddenly open up, and some memories that you thought you had forgotten come to mind clearly. So a lot of memories can only be recorded when they are recalled later. But there is no doubt that if anyone is lucky enough to get one of these three books, even if it is just one of them, their life will change completely, and with a little effort, money and status will be at their fingertips.
At noon that day, just after recording an English song, Gu Chen glanced at the clock on the wall, it was almost 12 o'clock in a few minutes, and it was almost lunch, so he closed the notebook and put it back on the drawer lock, then got up and stretched, his nose couldn't help but suck hard, and a faint smell of sweat penetrated into his nostrils, and he remembered that he had only cared about recording things in the past few days, and he hadn't taken a shower for a week.
There was still a while before eating, just enough to take a shower, so he took off his clothes, only a thermal underwear was left on his upper body, took a change of clothes and pants and opened the door to prepare to take a bath in the bathroom, just Liu Huiyun happened to fry the dishes and brought them to the table, and when he saw him come out, he immediately frowned, and said: "Even if you want to take a bath, you should wait until you get to the bathroom before taking off, in case you catch a cold." Also, don't lock yourself in your room all day long, Mom knows that you are writing, but doing things is a combination of work and rest, and if you are bored in the room all day long, you will sooner or later get sick......"