The consumer electronics industry is very busy, and after a while of the meeting, an executive who was watching was called away by his secretary, and people kept bringing documents for Schulhoff to sign, and the venue also fell into a stalemate, or meaningless stage.

"You know, I have a cheap clothing company, and if you choose to keep Motura, maybe I'll put the Sony logo on the back of a five-piece T-shirt, and then put a cross or something on it like that anti-war logo, and then mark it with small letters like racist criminals......"

Most of the time it was Song Ya who was talking and he was doing his best to press.

"Hehehe."

Shulhoff looked away from the papers in his hand, pulled down his reading glasses, and looked down at Song Ya, "You're going to be sued by us, kid." ”

"Don't talk angry, APLUS." The vice president of legal affairs also said.

"It's not rhetoric, it's not business, it's a clear matter of principle, and you're clearly trying to protect those who discriminate." "Zero tolerance for discrimination is an obligation for people of African descent to do so. ”

"Mr. Takaki." A female clerk came in, walked up to the tall tree, and whispered in her ear.

TAK SHU GOT UP AND WALKED OUT THE DOOR AFTER HER, "APLUS, BE SURE TO THINK CALMLY, I HAVE TO LEAVE BEFOREHAND." When he passed by Song Ya's side, he apologized slightly, dropped a sentence and left.

"So you're taking me seriously?" Song Ya opened her arms and complained.

"Go on, we're listening." The Vice President of Legal responded.

"Where did I go? Oh yes, T-shirt, uh...... Let's not talk about T-shirts, I'll just say that I, just me, and Motura should also consider one of the two options. He continued to boast: "I will soon have a youth song and dance film to be released next year, which will definitely be a big hit, and the original soundtrack of the whole movie will be written and written by me alone, about 16 songs, which will be released by Sony Columbia Records." ”

"There are a lot of my solo tracks in it, and they will also be put into my second album, in addition, I have prepared a lot of good songs, the first masterpiece, and when the time comes, I will have no problem making a second album that sells more than the 'A+' premiere, and I can even make a high-priced two-disc version, Sony Columbia Records will make a lot of money with me, believe me."

"Don't laugh, don't doubt my ability, the music critics who predicted that I would run out of energy after my debut album were slapped in the face with a London Bridge song that won the weekly top of the B chart, and also praised the first white female hip-hop singer Fergie."

Goodman reminded in his ear, "OKAY, APLUS, THEY'RE NOT LISTENING. Schofhall was studying the documents he didn't know, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the table......

Only the vice president of legal affairs was listening intently, so Song Ya changed the interlocutor to him, there was no way out, he couldn't admit defeat, and he couldn't even be seen as lacking confidence, he kept talking, trying to impress these people in front of him with a certain sentence. He wiped the fine sweat on his forehead, "You can't drag it out, do you know what Motura has been doing these days?" He's creating negative news about me and taking my records off the shelves in disguise, and he's even trying to deal with other artists on my label, like Fergie......"

"He's putting his personal grievances above the company's interests, and he's always doing it, and if he hadn't been in the way of it, my first album would have gone public earlier and sold better, all of which cost the record company a loss of revenue, and ...... in the intuitive sense."

"He is also entangled with Italian gangs, I only thought it was a rumor, but this time he wiretapped his singer, DIVA, and ex-girlfriend Mariah Carey used Italian connections, and two of the three arrested were Italians."

"He introduced a small agent to take the crime, also Italian, which shows that he is starting to panic, wiretapping is a federal felony, you continue to protect him, and when the truth comes out, you will also get into trouble. And, have you ever wondered if he's a veteran? Maybe he is not the only one who eavesdropping, or maybe he will also use eavesdropping to gain benefits at the personnel level of the parent company......"

In the meantime, two more executives have left, and there are fewer and fewer people in the conference room.

"What time is it?" Song Ya asked Linda.

"It's half past eleven, not quite rightAPLUS." Linda showed Song Ya her phone under the table, and Mariah Carey's phone number was lit up. "I'll go out and pick it up." She said.

Song Ya nodded in agreement, "Can you give me an answer before lunch?" He asked the VP of Legal.

"Probably not, we're evaluating." The other party replied.

"I don't see you in action, you just sit here and listen to me alone." Song Ya continued to complain.

"Trust me, we're evaluating."

"I don't have a lot of patience."

"You have to give you a day, right?" The other party laughed.

Linda came back and called the code at the door, but Song Ya couldn't help it, so she nodded, "Just one day, based on your off-duty time." Sorry, I'll go out for a bit. ”

He went outside, found a corner in the middle of nowhere and asked Linda, "What's wrong?" ”

Miss Kelly said......" Linda circled around vigilantly, and around the corner, a female clerk was fiddling with the coffee machine.

The two of them switched to the bathroom, and a male executive walked out of the conference room, standing at the washstand and washing his hands slowly, "Hey, can you give me a little personal space?" ”

The other party glanced in this direction, ignored it, continued to wash his hands, and walked into the men's bathroom before Song Ya wanted to go crazy.

"Fxxk, can you say? Let's just say it. Song Ya felt that there was no personal space here, and the other party would obviously not give a chance easily.

"Motura went to Procott's Theatre again, and he tried again to get Miss Kelly back, but Miss Kelly still refused, but she seemed to be a little soft-hearted, and she said that Motura was in tears in front of her, looking pitiful and helpless......," Linda whispered, "Exactly what she said." ”

"This bastard, hard can't be soft." After all, Maria Kelly was held by Motura, and Song Ya knew that she was still thinking about some of the other party's goodness, "I believe Mimi, she won't have problems at this time, I have already explained the stakes to her repeatedly." ”

Newman called...... and Hamlin followed.

"Ahem." Song Ya coughed twice and pointed to the inside of the men's bathroom.

"Newman called......" Hamlin lowered his voice and said in his ear, "The head of human resources at Sony Columbia Records is interviewing all the executives one by one, and asking you exactly what to choose between Motura and you." Motula's cronies have also begun to contact the bosses and presidents of all its labels, presumably also seeking support, according to Epic Records. ”

"The people inside are right, they're really assessing." Song Ya nodded, "Of course, they are biased towards Motura and are deliberately helping Motura delay time, which is not what I expected. ”

"Do you have to wait until the afternoon? Maybe we can leave at noon, and they can do a lot in one afternoon. Hamlin sighed.

"If I don't dare to wait all afternoon, they will prefer Motula."

Song Ya gritted her teeth, "Let's go back and continue." ”

When the three of them walked back, there was the sound of flushing water inside, and the executive came out with a smile on his face and wiped his hands, and followed Song Ya back to the office.

"What's new?" Schuff Hall asked.

"No, my position will not change." Song Ya sat back in his seat.

"Would you like something to eat at noon? I'm old, and I don't usually eat at noon. Schuffhall continued to look back at the document in front of him.

"Sandwiches do, are they?" Song Ya noticed that there were fewer people in the conference room, and the vice president of legal was closing his eyes to recuperate.

Schuffhall made a gesture, and his secretary got up and went out, and soon returned with a plate on which the sandwiches were cut into pretty little triangles, bite by bite.

No one wanted to start, Song Ya took a piece directly, threw it into his mouth to replenish energy, and said that his mouth was a little dry in the morning, he picked up the small mineral water bottle on the table, unscrewed the lid and drank it.

"You're tough, boy." Schuffer's gaze was cast over the reading lenses.

"I'm fighting for the dignity of the Afro-descendant community." Song Yayi replied sternly.

It was not easy to answer, and Schuff Hall looked at the document again.

Song Ya pushed the plate towards Linda and the others, but Linda politely refused, and Hamlin shook his head, and only Goodman ate with him.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Suffhall's secretary came in to take away the plates, did some cleaning again, and whispered to him again.

"I'm sorry, you guys continue in the afternoon, I'm in a bit of a hurry." Schuff Hall is also gone.

"Mr. Vice President, have you had any results for your so-called assessment?" Song Ya endured his temperament and took the initiative to open the second half.

"It should be soon." The other party replied.

"If you let him go, I'm even willing to release one more album at Sony Columbia Records, change the five-year contract to two plus one, and the last one is new songs plus selection, and the most creative period of my life will be dedicated to this company."

"Believe me, I can create a lot more value for Sony Columbia Records than a senior manager, who has a lot of managerial talent, and a singer who can create a big album is hard to come by......"

From the afternoon, he tried to make certain concessions and write some empty checks.

"A senior manager like Motula?" The other party smiled when he heard this, "It's hard to meet such a person in the United States, and you want us to fire him." ”

It's good to be willing to communicate, Song Ya said: "I think you already know my plans through some channel, and Mr. Daniel Glass, the former president of SBK, will not be much worse than Motura. ”

"So you still want to meddle with Motula's successor?" The other party asked rhetorically.

"That's part of the conditions I made when I came here, and what would it mean to me and Mariah Kelly if you were to change that position to one of Motula's cronies?"

The other man shook his head, "Bring me a newspaper." He asked his subordinates to bring the newspaper, and he held it up and read it in front of him, completely cutting off communication.

Song Ya was unwilling, swept around the conference room, made eye contact with a book executive, immediately smiled at him, and continued to talk, "Although I am young, I am not joking, and when things get bigger, it will definitely be a major blow to your company's reputation, just like the Rodney King case, the African American community will definitely not tolerate people like Motura......"

"Soviet-Israeli Marseille ......" the other man smiled and bowed in his seat, and pointed to his ear as if to apologize, indicating that he could not understand English at all.

Song Ya took a deep breath, "Paper and pen." Let Linda tear up a piece of paper and push over some Chinese characters for her meaning.

The other party picked up the paper and looked at it, and immediately raised his thumbs and praised it repeatedly, but immediately got up, bowed and apologized all the way and left the room.

"Phigi's call."

Song Ya didn't have any tricks, and finally closed his mouth, and at two o'clock, he received a call from Fergie.

"Hmph......" the girl on the other end of the phone opened with a cold snort, "have you found a new girlfriend?" Would she also like to play multiplayer games with you? ”

"Uh, ahem, Fergie, what's the matter? I'm busy right now. Song Yagang walked out of the door of the conference room and quickly stopped her from chatting on this topic.

"Just now the people from Sony Columbia Records came to me and said a lot of inexplicable things."

"Inexplicable?"

"Well, I'll let Jimmy talk to you."

"Mr. APLUS, the folks at Def Jam Records, came to Fergie and they made a good offer for Fergie to change managers, leave Newman, and move to Def Jam Records." Jimmy reported.

"So what? What conditions did the other party offer, and what do you think about it? Song Ya asked.

"We refused." Jimmy replied, "The folks at Def Jam have been boasting about their hip-hop heritage, and they're saying that Fergie is going to multiply her influence in the hip-hop scene when she goes there, and so on. ”

"Hehe, Def Jam has been losing money for several years in a row, and Russell Simmons still wants to take the opportunity to help Motura pry my people?" Song Ya saw that another person came out, so she simply stopped lowering her voice and said in a normal tone: "I'm afraid he can't even afford Fei Ji's termination money." ”

"We didn't give them a chance to talk about the termination fee." Jimmy said.

"Well, tell Fergi that her support now is important to me." Song Ya hung up the phone, returned to the conference room with a sneer, and looked at her watch in front of the vice president of legal, "You only have the last few hours left." ”

The Vice President of Legal shook off the newspaper and made a rattling sound.

Song Ya continued to sit expressionlessly, her heart fell to the bottom, and she felt that the other party should not be ready to give in.

Then there is only one way left, to fight a media war.

"Hayden." The phone had just been handed back to Linda, and it was handed back again.

"I'm sorry." He went out to answer the phone again, "Is it bad news again?" ”

"No, that's good news, I guess......" Hayden replied.

The call was made for more than ten minutes, and Song Ya staggered back to the conference room after answering, "What a fuck." He cursed directly.

"What's wrong?" Goodman and Hamlin looked over.

"It's nothing, two thieves have been caught at home in Highland Park." He replied.

"Thief?"

"Yes, Hayden relayed to the Department of Justice that those two men were well-equipped, and they actually came by boat from Lake Michigan and came ashore from my dock in broad daylight......"

"Why would someone from the Department of Justice help you catch a thief?" The Vice President of Legal finally put down the newspaper.

"Coincidentally, they were investigating the case of Mr. Jovovich, and they followed my agent to pick up the gifts that Mira currently gave me, and the FBI agents were with them, and the two thieves were caught ......"

Song Ya said it easily, but she was also secretly afraid in her heart, if the thief found the collection of forest artworks under the wall under the bed in the master bedroom, then his handle would really be mastered by the other party. He thought he was well prepared, but he didn't think that anyone would do anything to his home in Chicago, including the seasoned old Mike, "They must have been sent by Motura to get my hands on me...... Wait, is this also a type of evaluation procedure? ”

"Don't insinuate." The Vice President of Legal held up the newspaper again.

"Anyway, there are people from the Ministry of Justice to help hand it over, and the local police will take this case seriously, it's Chicago, hehe......" Song Ya sneered.

"Come on." That's when Schuffhall appeared at the door and called the vice president of legal affairs out.

"Did they do it?" Hamlin asked quietly.

"Unlikely, more like a Motura would use, but that's fine." Song Ya replied.

Not long after, Schuff Hall and others reappeared in the conference room, "Is there a result of the assessment?" Song Ya asked him deliberately.

"There it is." Unexpectedly, I finally got a positive answer, "We can't give up Motula, sorry, APLUS." Schuffhall replied.

"I see."

Song Ya and his subordinates stood up at the same time, "Your MD is really bad......" He said the complaint in his heart, anyway, he had no scruples about starting a war after leaving.

"Wait, boy." Schuffhall stopped him, "There's a compromise draft here, you can read it before you decide." ”

Song Ya took the document he handed over, sat down and looked at it carefully.

"So the result of my fuss turned out to be Motula's promotion?"

In this draft, Motura will become the president of the new North Missoni Entertainment and retain the position of chairman and president of Sony Columbia Records, but he will give up his position as manager, as well as half of Mariah Carey's management power, Sony will leave Daniel with a vacant position as executive president, he will become his new manager, and another Motura cronie will become Mariah Carey's new co-manager.

"He has nothing to do with you anymore, and you don't have to worry about being suppressed by him anymore." Schuff Hall said.

"It's a promise with no guarantees at all, and I don't accept it." Song Ya gave the document to Goodman and circulated it.

"It seems that you can still bargain?" Hamlin pointed at Schulhoff and whispered.

"A lose-lose situation should always be the last option, APLUS." said the vice president of legal.

"Let Motura be the president of Sony Entertainment, I have no opinion." According to the document, Motula will be in charge of the co-management of the integration of the film and music divisions, and Columbia Pictures' Gubert and Peters are not good at fighting, but the power within Sony Columbia Records can no longer be touched by him, he has been operating there for several years, has a good track record, and has many cronies, and Daniel is an outsider who simply cannot compete with him.

"But he can't stay on the record label anymore." Song Ya said: "And this matter must be resolved before the end of work. ”

"You wait." Schuff Hall immediately went out again.

"Motura too?" Goodman immediately understood.

The vice president of legal affairs was noncommittal, "You don't know what kind of achievements you have achieved, and it is more beneficial for you to accept what you know." ”

"I want to protect myself and my girlfriend, and this bottom line is not too much." Song Ya replied.

"Well, Motura is no longer president, he and Daniel will manage their artists in parallel, and there will be no intersection with each other." Suffhall came back and said.

"Specifics?" Hamlin asked.

"Let's talk." Schuff Hall walked impatiently.

But at the door, he was stopped by Takaki who had been driven back, "So you've turned our best-run record company into an infighting Vanity Fair?" "This book executive is in a hurry, and he is no longer as polite as before.

"As long as I'm in this position for a day, I'm here to call the shots, right?" Schulhoff pushed him back.

"I'll report to Mr. Akio Morita, don't think I don't know your true purpose!"

"I'll make it clear to him ......"

The quarrel between the two grew apart.

Song Ya and his subordinates glanced at each other, and nodded slightly in the face of their inquiring eyes.

When it was time to get off work, a plan was finally negotiated that satisfied Song Ya, Motura was promoted to become the head of the new Sony Entertainment and retained the position of chairman of Sony Columbia Records, retained the management of other singers including MJ, Daniel became the president of the record company and also became the manager of Song Ya, Newman became the co-manager of Mariah Carey, they have the right to remove all the record company employees on these two lines, and Daniel will not be a lame president.

The other co-manager is Motura, but he can only retain the interest and is not allowed to participate in any specific matters. Song Ya specially asked Mariah Kelly about this, and she was not surprised that she was still soft-hearted about Motula's pleading in the morning, after all, it was Motura who single-handedly made her popular.

Inevitably, regarding the audio tape, Song Ya has to sign a confidentiality agreement.

"Overtime? Turn these into black and white? Song Ya asked.

The VP of Legal shook his head, "We still have to negotiate contracts with Daniel, Newman, and the others. ”

"At least the part of Motura that will be implemented first." Song Ya urged.

"Okay." This time, the other party gave an affirmative reply.

While handling the paperwork, Song Ya walked into the bathroom alone, "YES! He clenched his fists and roared in a suppressed rage.

"You actually did it, and although the results were not as expected, you did APLUS." Linda's voice came from outside the partition.

"This is the men's restroom Linda......" Song Ya was afraid that the other party would pounce on him like Taragi, the new assistant was a black bucket aunt.

"You are indeed much stronger than MC Hammer."

"You're comparing me to your ex-employer again......"

"I never again."

It's past twelve o'clock when everything is done, I haven't eaten dinner, everyone who has been nervous for a day feels hungry, and is chatting about which restaurant to go to when walking to the elevator door, "APLUS, let's talk?" Motula suddenly appeared behind him, and he was.

"Okay."

The man in front of him looked sluggish, his beard was messy, he seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, his eyelids drooped downward, and he was a little unsteady on his feet.

As the winner, Song Ya nodded generously, "What do you want to talk about?" ”

"Will you be nice to Mimi?" He asked.

"Absolutely."

"That's good...... That's good......" It seems that he came to see him just to ask this sentence, and it seems that he is really moved by Mariah Carey, and after asking, he muttered to himself and turned around, took a step and turned back and asked, "Can you tell me why you fell in love with her?" We assume that you really love her. ”

"It's hard to explain, Tommy."

Song Ya asked rhetorically: "Do you believe that people have past lives?" ”

"Why do you ask this?"

"Do you remember the Palace of Auburn Hills? The first time I saw her in '90, she was singing at the Pistons' home court, when she was just making her debut......"

"You've been beating her up since then? You were sixteen at the time? ”

"No, do you remember? You were there the first time you saw me, and as soon as I saw her, I suddenly burst out laughing completely uncontrollably at the door of her dressing room. ”

"Very rude......

"Yes, but I don't know why, maybe she brought me a lot of happiness in my previous life or future life." Song Ya put the crossing in a different way, "After that, I am very happy every time I am with her, I have never felt like this around other women, you can think that this is a supernatural phenomenon, a kind of arrangement in the heavens." ”

"I see......"

"Things have come to this point, will you bless us? Tommy. ”

"Blessings? I will......" He lowered his head and slowly moved a few more steps, "Bullshit! Suddenly scolded and turned around and pounced on Song Ya's neck, "I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you APLUS!" ”

“Fxxk！ Let go! You let it go right away. The men hurriedly pulled him away.

"I'm going to kill you!" He struggled frantically and roared under the combined control of Goodman and Hamlin.

"And guess what? I didn't try much today and you fell, Tommy Motura. Song Ya sneered and touched his neck that was strangled so much, and began to hit him mercilessly.