Chapter 211: The Last Four Minutes

"Is this true?"

Until leaving the headquarters of Sony Columbia Records, Song Ya still couldn't believe it in the car, and repeatedly flipped through the copy of the contract in his hand, for fear that there was some big thunder buried in it.

"The contract is fine, it's exactly what we submitted last time." "In other words, Motura fully accepted your terms, your five-year two-album, five-year distribution rights for A+ records, and nothing else," Hamlin said. ”

"Shall we go back to champagne?" Goodman proposed.

"yes, it's like a dream, it's time for us to open a bottle of champagne...... This is the best result, APLUS. ”

Samuel was also a little incredulous, "I was thinking at the time, if Motura proposes two plus one, or a little more to fight for a little more interests, I am also going to suggest that you admit it, and it is in your best interest for the two of you to reconcile." ”

“Why! Why? ”

Song Ya got cheap, but he definitely couldn't sleep today if he didn't figure out the inside story, so he dialed Mariah Carey's phone, "Mimi, are you at home?" Slept? ”

"You ......," Mary Carey was flustered, "don't come here......"

"Uh, I didn't mean that, did you say something to Tommy later?" Song Ya was embarrassed, "He suddenly decided to match my offer, and we got back together!" ”

"Wow, that's right!"

Mariah Carey was delighted, "I left without saying anything to him, what do you think I'm going to say to him?" Say you're ...... in the office"

"Uh, okay, forget it, you go to sleep first, I'm still a little unresponsive, I'll be busy tonight."

"Okay, bye."

"Bye."

The two ended the call and returned to Tribeca, "What happened in these dozens of minutes!?" We're going to figure it out! Song Ya said loudly.

"What can happen except for the world premiere of MJ's single MV." After Hayden answered, he reacted first, he rushed to the TV, and kept changing channels to rummage for replays.

The scene moves from the block to the window of a house at a breakneck speed, and the popular child star Macaulay King jumps and dances in the second-floor room, imitating the guitar solo in the stereo, which is actually done by the guitarist Slash of the Gun Flower Band, which is very exciting.

The father character downstairs was overwhelmed by the noise, he went upstairs, taught Macaulay King a few words, then unplugged his stereo power cord, and when he closed the door, he was shocked by the MJ poster behind the door, falling to the ground, and shattering the glass.

McCalaykin continued the style of being a home-imp-on, pushing the giant speakers out, turning the volume up to the maximum, plucking the guitar, and shaking his dad and the sofa into the air, bombarding the roof in an exaggerated manner until it flew above the earth.

Then, the main theme of the song sounded, MJ appeared with the African tribe dancer, singing and dancing, he would dance with Southeast Asian dancers, and then he would become Indian, and then surrounded by Indian riders, and the Slavic Kapak dance in the background of the Hermitage, at the same time, MJ's dance steps would also be transformed into the corresponding style, and the choreography was very innovative.

"The idea of world unity." Hayden said.

"It's like MJ, every music video is a work of art." Taraghi looked adoringly at MJ on the TV.

After the middle rap, MJ stood on the torch of the Statue of Liberty, and after singing the sentence "But if you're thinkin' about my baby It don't matter If you're black or white", there were all kinds of people who kept 'changing their faces' under the processing of computer special effects, still expressing his idea of the world being the same regardless of race or color.

"Is this the legendary part where millions of knives were burned in one minute?" Song Ya asked, that's the case with the computer effects now, he remembered that the special effects in the original I Feel It Coming could completely crush the level in front of him.

"It should be." Hayden's mouth was closed with his mouth open, and he and everyone present were shocked.

"It's more than two minutes longer than the single version."

The scene returned to the busy production set, which in the current film language is about the same as announcing the end, Yeremov said, looking at his watch.

"It's not over yet!" Taragi exclaimed, and in front of the busy crowd, a vigorous black panther appeared.

"Black Panther?" Samuel frowned, which is very reminiscent of the Black Panther Party, a black society influenced by Chinese ideology and trying to wage violent struggles, active in the sixties and seventies.

"Wow, people don't like this these days." Hamlin muttered to himself.

"That's what you white people don't like." Taragi said.

This was followed by an unaccompanied MJ solo......

"Uh......" When the camera gives a close-up of MJ's dance steps touching his crotch, even Taraghi frowned, "Although this is MJ's signature move, this time it's too ......"

Indeed, this time it was overdone, in the past, MJ's hand was still on top of that part, but this time he directly pressed the horn on the key part, and the other hand was still stroking on the body, accompanied by shaking the ass and straightening the hips.

"Is this a global simultaneous broadcast? Wireless station included? ”

Song Ya observed that the white elite of a certain age was the standard to grasp the resources, and Samuel did not like this passage very much, and the radio station marked the fact that children in front of the television sets around the world could also see this scene.

"Yes." Hayden replied.

Everyone's expressions began to get a little subtle, and the disagreement arose as MJ began smashing a car covered in racist slogans and Ku Klux Klux Klan logos, as well as the windows of a street-side store......

The whole music video is eleven minutes long, and the first four minutes of Black Panther's appearance seem completely unnecessary, and as soon as MJ tears his shirt and turns into Black Panther and leaves, the MV ends, and the internal controversy of Song Ya's small group begins.

"Violence, smashing cars, smashing shops, Chiguo's propaganda of violence." Hamlin said.

"Hey, white man, that's a car with a racist slogan written on it, and as a black man, isn't MJ smashing it to show his attitude? As the reddest black man, he should have done it a long time ago. Taragi retorted.

The other whites stopped talking, and the topic was not easy to pick up.

"APLUS, RIGHT?" Taragi looked at Song Ya.

"It's my business." Song Yacai didn't bother to analyze these things, "The question we need to know now is whether Motura was angry because of this MV, causing him to suddenly switch to matching my contract." ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, but I can't give an answer.

Or Yeremov solved this problem.

"Gao Shusan." For the third time, Song Ya met Yeremov's old relationship.

"APLUS-san, I'm glad you signed a contract with Sony, and our advertising cooperation can continue."

After the pleasantries, Takaki said, "As far as I know, MJ submitted a modified version to Motura to pass the review of Sony Columbia Records, and that version did not have those slogans on the smashed car......"

"It's a small difference, isn't it?"

"This represents two things, one, MJ didn't take Motura seriously, in such an important event, MJ did it without telling Motura and many people in the record company, and there are some contents in the MV released simultaneously around the world that the company's president doesn't know, which makes Motura lose all its prestige and make us very shameless."

"Second, MJ can fight against racism and stand in solidarity with vulnerable racial groups, but he can't make himself feel as if he has been racist, and he is fighting against racism. I'm afraid it's only Motula, it's just us. ”

"......I see," Song Ya understood, and he immediately thought of David Geffen and Sandy Gren, who were close to MJ, who frequently showed favor and kept in constant communication with him in their fight with Motula, maybe they wanted to extend the fight between the two to this moment or even longer, so as to weaken Motula so that Motura could not concentrate on them in the first place......

"APLUS-san, you know, we went on a buying spree in the United States, and it was very irrational at first, and it could even be said that it was completely based on a temporary preference. Buying the Empire State Building is a blow to the hearts of the people of the United States, and buying impressionist paintings, because impressionism has been greatly influenced by our ukiyo-e, especially Van Gogh, no matter how much money he pays, he is willing to bring his paintings to the book, which has a very subtle national psychology. And MJ, we like him, we love him very much, we give him the super contract, the power, and the trust ...... that a white man in the United States will never give him."

Song Ya felt that Gao Shu, who was calmly talking in front of him, was actually very angry in his heart, very angry.

"No one blames him, and some of the black people accuse him of getting whiter, so he just says the reason why his skin is whiter, and he doesn't have to please that part of the black people in this way, in this way that puts us and Motura in a very embarrassing situation."