Chapter 397: Recording a New Album
On this morning, Du Xinghe and Xiao Tianlang finalized the sharing licensing agreement for "Lemon-tree", and the sharing price was 1 yuan in the total royalty of the two songs in Chinese and English.
In the future, if Guoyu uses "Lemon-tree" to release the English version of the album in Europe and the United States, the royalty is to be determined. Xiao Tianlang originally hoped to buy out the English version of the song at one time. After all, the albums released by Guoyu in the English-speaking region do not sell well, and when you convert them into dollars, the royalties are even less. Rather than be determined, it is better to buy it out all at once.
Du Xinghe followed his principle of only selling a share and not talking about a buyout, and refused to sell out the English version of the song at one time. He is not sure that "Lemon-tree" will become popular in Europe and the United States, although in the early nineties of the last plane, this song was all the rage in Europe and the United States, but in fact, it has not reached the level of popularity. In this plane, Guoyu's publicity and distribution ability in the English area is not very strong, even if the English version is sent to them, it may not be very popular.
The reason why Du Xinghe did not sell the distribution rights of the English version of this song to Guoyu is mainly a matter of principle, and he cannot set a precedent for selling and buying. Otherwise, this time the English version of the song was sold out, and Xiao Tianlang would probably talk to him about the buyout rights of Chinese songs in the future, and then he would only talk about the share and not the buyout, then Xiao Tianlang would have said it. He can't break his own rules.
To say that Du Xinghe's price of selling "Lemon-tree" to Guoyu is cheap enough, if Xiao Tianlang hadn't called Chen Huilun to play the emotional card of the Huayi Department to Du Xinghe, Du Xinghe would definitely bite to death at a price of 1 yuan 5 and would not relax.
To know. Last time he sold "You at the Same Table", a song was sold for 1 royalty. Although the influence of "Lemon-tree" cannot be compared with "You at the Same Table", Chen Huilun is in a hurry this time and needs this song to save the scene, for Chen Huilun's album, this "Lemon-tree" is more important than "You at the Same Table" to Su Shenghua's album. Moreover, Chen Huilun's new and old songs are a selection of new and old songs, and the main songs with weight should always get a higher royalty share. Now the total royalty of his two songs is only 1 yuan, which can be regarded as enough face for Chen Huilun and Xiao Tianlang.
But it's this price, Chen Huilun was still a little surprised when she knew it, and the two songs were divided into 1 yuan. That's the price point for the top songwriters in the industry. She didn't expect Xiao Tianlang to agree to Du Xinghe's such an "outrageous" price. After all, Du Xinghe is still a newcomer! Although he is talented, he can't open his mouth like this!
Xiao Tianlang has long been surprised, Du Xinghe can open this price. It is already lower than Xiao Tianlang's psychological expectations. He thought that Du Xinghe was going to offer a high price again. Then he asked for an early share, but this time Du Xinghe didn't ask for anything, and only opened the price of 1 yuan for two songs. It's already within his acceptable range.
"Hui Lun, Xiao Du can always use this royalty to sell the song to us, it's already very face-saving for you, don't pick it." After Du Xinghe left, Xiao Tianlang saw that Chen Huilun couldn't accept the price, so he persuaded Chen Huilun.
"This is to give me face, this is simply killing!" Chen Huilun replied with a wry smile, the songwriter took more of the share, which means that the share between the singer and the production company will be reduced, although Du Xinghe sent charcoal in the snow and rain in the drought helped her with this, she should be grateful to Du Xinghe, but Du Xinghe can't sit on the ground and take advantage of the fire to rob!
Xiao Tianlang said with a smile: "He's really not a killer, you don't know the market." If you don't believe it, just wait and see, you see that a year later, the royalty of two songs for 1 yuan can still buy Xiao Du's works, and I estimate that I can't buy a song for two dollars! ”
Chen Huilun was shocked to hear it, two pieces of a song? Xiao Tianlang also looks up to Du Xinghe too much! As far as she knows, there is no big songwriter in the Chinese music scene who can open a price of two yuan for a song, and Du Xinghe's works can be sold so high? Isn't that a joke!
However, although I don't dare to agree with Xiao Tianlang's pass, Chen Huilun is absolutely convinced of Xiao Tianlang's vision, Xiao Tianlang can value Du Xinghe so much, which shows that Du Xinghe's works are indeed outstanding, and now she has nothing to complain about if she can get Du Xinghe's help. Listening to Xiao Tianlang's meaning, Du Xinghe sold Su Shenghua's "You at the Same Table", which must be much more expensive than selling her "Lemon-tree", so I just didn't ask much, and worked hard to record songs and hurry up to the new album.
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At noon that day, Du Xinghe went to find Xu Nuo after leaving Guoyu, and Xu Nuo received a call from Yu Nannan, a classmate of Fuwan Conservatory of Music, and asked for dinner.
This is also known to Nan Nan Du Xinghe, of course, to be precise, the wolf of Huaguang also knows. The wolf of Huaguang was in his first year of high school, Yu Nannan and Xu Nuo were in their third year of high school, and they were in the same school together for a year.
To say that in school, Yu Nannan is more popular than Xu Nuo, because she always has short hair, a very low voice, and a small Adam's apple, so she is always rumored to have sex reassignment surgery from a boy to a girl, and her bass singing is very famous in Huayi,
Du Xinghe had heard Nan Nan sing from the fragmented memories of the wolf of Huaguang before, and he was quite impressed by this girl who looked a little like Wu Junru.
This time, Xu Nuo's family went to the United States to see a doctor, and it was the hospital that Yu Nannan's father helped contact.
Du Xinghe has the idea of establishing a strong Huayi Gang in the entertainment industry, and with Nan Nan's strength, he will definitely have a place in the cloud world. However, her voice is too low, an octave lower than Cai Qindu, which is close to the bass, and it is really not suitable for taking the popular route, Yu Nannan herself also learned bel canto singing, Du Xinghe has the idea of releasing a classical bel canto album for this girl, but I don't know if Yu Nannan has this idea herself.
Du Xinghe once tried to ask Xu Nuo what Nan Nan meant, whether he was interested in coming to the cloud world to develop, but Yu Nannan's reply to Xu Nuo was: I want to sing opera, act in opera movies, and have no interest in recording albums.
Du Xinghe doesn't know what this girl thinks in her head, there are some extreme rock people who disdain to take the commercial route, and even feel that it is disgusting to link their music with business. It seems that Yu Nannan also has this mentality, she just wants to do things according to her own interests and hobbies. I don't want to tie my lifelong love to the commercial market.
Du Xinghe expected that Yu Nannan was still in college, staying in the ivory tower every day, with a more utopian mind, waiting for her to go to society in the future and really enter the opera career, she estimated that she should compromise like a market. After all, singing opera also has to be tested by the market, and opera can't just cultivate her own sentiments, if the audience doesn't accept it. Then she will be eliminated too.
It's time for business. There is nothing to escape from the market and save on her own, unless her family is rich enough to burn money for her to sing and play. But it seems that her father is only the director of a traditional Chinese medicine hospital, and her mother is also the director of the hospital. Her family is not a very wealthy kind of family.
The hospital in this plane is not the same as the previous one. in the previous plane. Medical devices, medicines, surgical red envelopes and other hospital profits, such as the bulk of the profits, no longer exist in this plane.
Hospitals in this dimension are usually run by welfare organizations, and their accounts are very open. The hospital leaders have nothing to fish, and the doctors have no red envelopes to take. But if any doctor dares to accept a patient's red envelope, then his doctor's license will be wanted for the rest of his life, and even if he is strict, he will have to go to prison!
In addition to the greater responsibilities of the director and the leaders of the hospital, they are only paid more than ordinary doctors, and few of them can get extra money. Of course, when talking about the construction projects of some hospitals, the directors of some hospitals have a certain right to speak, and they may be able to exchange some benefits from these projects, but these are all a few behaviors, and this kind of profit is much less than the millions of "income" of those leaders in the previous plane, and at most it may be to let the profit group help solve some practical difficulties, such as helping children solve work problems, and rarely directly collect money and goods. If people with rights in this plane SLR dare to collect money and things, it is basically not far from squatting in prison.
Only in the entertainment industry, which seems to be glamorous, but in fact dark and rotten, seems to be willing to do so, but is actually intrigued, all kinds of bribes and bribes are still stored like dog skin plasters.
If a well-regulated public welfare organization runs the entertainment industry, just like other public welfare undertakings, the entertainment industry will definitely become a pool of clear water.
But the so-called superstructure of the entertainment industry, which has been a bitch since ancient times, is ruthless and unrighteous as the spiritual core, and has done a lot of superficial work, it is impossible to become a basic welfare institution like a hospital. Even in the cloud world, it can't be.
At noon on this day, Du Xinghe and Xu Nuo went to Yu Nannan for dinner together, and the three of them talked a lot of mountains, which revolved around the dark side of the entertainment industry.
Yu Nannan understood what happened to Xu Nuo in the era, and knew that Xu Nuo was asked to provide sex services to the high-level, and he didn't obey, so he was refrigerated, and Yu Nannan hated the so-called big companies and the entertainment industry because of this incident. She would never allow herself to be mixed with such a circle. The circle disgusted her.
After Du Xinghe knew Yu Nannan's thoughts, it was not easy to persuade him. Although Xu Nuo tried her best to help Cloud World help Du Xinghe say good things, Yu Nannan still couldn't believe that Cloud World could be alone in such a circle, and she also started from her own perspective and views to build a good idea for Du Xinghe, if Cloud World really wants to make good music and really want to create a well-known golden signboard, it is necessary to put an end to this vice in the entertainment industry.
Not only do you want to put an end to it, but also your subordinates, and the best way to put an end to it is to set up a strong regulatory department to supervise the company's operations.
Just like his father's traditional Chinese medicine hospital, which is supervised by a welfare agency, Cloud World must also set up an independent supervision agency, not to be influenced by the company's internal personnel, and enforce the law iron-faced.
The reason why the water in the entertainment industry is so muddy is because there is no strong regulatory body, and the mainstream entertainment media should play a role in supervising the industry, but most of these entertainment media are colluding with entertainment companies, not to mention supervision, in order to get the headlines, they may even exchange benefits with entertainment companies. Such oversight has no effect at all.
If there is a supervisory body independent of the entertainment industry to supervise various behaviors in the entertainment industry, the entertainment industry will not be as dark as it is now.
Du Xinghe listened to Nan Nan, a girl with a voice as low as a boy, and benefited a lot. His original intention is also to make the cloud world a golden sign in the cultural field, so he naturally has to start from himself and abandon the unspoken rules in the entertainment industry, and he can't let this kind of thing ruin the reputation and reputation of the cloud world. But just because he did it himself doesn't mean those under him can do it too. The scale of the company is getting bigger and bigger, he can only see what the core people around him do, and he doesn't have so much energy to take care of other subordinates, especially the departments and teams with more oil and water such as advertising endorsements, it is difficult to ensure that they don't get some oil and water.
It is said that if you give these people some oil and water, they will be more motivated to work and create more value for the company, but if this bad atmosphere continues, those people will have more and more appetite. Whether this is good or bad for the company. He really had to think about it.
The establishment of an independent regulatory body proposed by Yu Nannan is a good way to monitor the code of conduct of the company's employees. After the company moved to the new location, he had to discuss it with Lin Jianguo to see if it was necessary.
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Time passed day by day.
The next two weeks. Du Xinghe is standardizing his own schedule. After not being able to sleep sweetly with Xu Nuo. He devoted more of his evening energy to copying the Kin's Sonnet.
At the same time, every morning, he hangs his throat and runs as planned. Gradually adapt to the brute force in the body.
In the past two weeks, with the use of brute force, Du Xinghe has actually trained his physique to be much stronger.
It was a Friday, and Du Xinghe took Xu Nuo to Fang Yajun's private recording studio, where he recognized himself as a recording and supervising studio to record a new song for Xu Nuo.
In order to ensure quality, Xu Nuo's new album "Crazy for Love" was completely moved to Fang Yajun's recording studio for recording, and the recording progress was not bad, and three songs had been recorded in two weeks. Fang Yajun would point out Xu Nuo when he was fine, Du Xinghe was still a devilish recording method, and his requirements for Xu Nuo were very strict, but Xu Nuo had long been used to the pressure Du Xinghe gave her. Under heavy pressure, she is playing better and better.
This afternoon, Xu Nuo recorded the self-playing and singing version of "The South China Sea Girl" in the recording studio, and Du Xinghe arranged the version of this song, but Xu Nuo's exposure was not very satisfactory to him, he still felt that Xu Nuo played and sang "The South China Sea Girl" more feeling. The arranged version sings to Fang Yajun's voice is almost the same.
So Du Xinghe asked Xu Nuo to record another self-playing and singing version, and finally see which version was better, and keep which version.
Fang Yajun was fine this afternoon, and Du Xinghe had been nesting in the recording studio to listen to Xu Nuo singing.
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The coconut wind stirs up the silver waves~
The sunset dodges the clouds and peeks~
See the golden sand on the beach~
Sits alone with a beautiful girl~
The eyes are starry~
The eyebrows are like a crescent moon bent ~
Wearing a red sarong~
It's as red as the betel nut on her mouth~
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Xu Nuo recorded Live in the recording studio for the first time, and he was quite nervous, because the walls in the recording studio were completely sound-absorbing, and the reflection effect was completely different from that in the ordinary room.
Fortunately, the guitar that Xu Nuo played at this time was the black gold series of Yuqinfang that Du Xinghe got from the Zhang brothers and sisters, and the timbre was very rich, which was most suitable for live performances.
Accompanied by this guitar that he can't put down, Xu Nuo recorded it twice and was scolded by Du Xinghe twice, and he felt that he was slow.
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She's sighing~
Sigh that ruthless lang~
Thinking of tears~
Wet red sarongs and white clothes~
Ah~South Sea Girl~
Why be too sad~
He was only sixteen and a half years old~
The old dream is lost and there is a new couple as a companion~
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With headphones, closed eyes, listening to Xu Nuo's romantic interpretation, Fang Yajun showed a very enjoyable expression, this kind of melody retro song is Fang Yajun's favorite style, listening to such a song, can make her recall a lot of good things. Especially when the singer's voice has a full sense of picture, Fang Yajun enjoys it even more.
Listening to Xu Nuo's interpretation, Fang Yajun spread out a beautiful picture scroll in front of her eyes: the coconut wind stirred up the silver waves, the sunset dodged the clouds and peeked, on the golden beach, sitting alone a beautiful girl, that person was none other than herself, her eyes were star-like, her eyebrows were like a crescent moon, and she was wearing a red sarong, red as the betel nut on her mouth...... She was sighing lightly, but not sighing at the ruthless man, but sighing at her own dream, a beautiful dream, can it be realized? Melting into the warm sea breeze, she wanted to get drunk.
After Xu Nuo ended the song, Fang Yajun compared a thumbs up to Du Xinghe, turned off the microphone, and said to Du Xinghe: "Don't scold anymore, Xu Nuo sang perfectly enough this time." It's just that I went in and played and sang by myself, which is this level. ”
"Is that what you want of yourself?" Du Xinghe glanced at Fang Yajun, who was beautiful, and said harshly: "She didn't sing several notes accurately, and when the guitar was in the second section, two bars were out of touch, and they couldn't be used, so they had to be sung again." ”
Turning on the microphone, Du Xinghe said to Xu Nuo in the recording studio: "Yes, there is progress, but there is still a little gap from what I want, you have to pay attention to the pitch, the end of 'Tears Bend', don't sing so much, you are not a singer of the transposition school, don't make trouble for yourself, just sing according to the usual way of singing directly expressing feelings." Also, can you play the guitar more steadily? You don't have dementia, do you? Why are you shaking your hands all the time? The second paragraph is out of touch! ”
Xu Nuo smiled wryly at Du Xinghe's words and explained: "I'm still a little nervous. As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at Fang Yajun and asked Fang Yajun for help. (To be continued......)