"Boss, boss? APLUS！ ”

Song Ya was woken up by a knock on the door in a daze.

"Whew...... What time is it? ”

sat up from the sofa, wiped his face to wake himself up quickly, yesterday's MV shooting went well, he was happy for a while and accidentally drank too much on his body, and now his head is still a little drowsy, open the door, and let Song Asheng in.

"It's ten o'clock." Song Asheng handed him a cup of coffee, "Mawota asked me to bring it to you." ”

Good employee, Song Ya looked outside, the cleaning staff of the service company was cleaning, and Mawota lifted the heavy pool table by himself and was about to put it back against the wall.

"What's the matter?" He sat down behind the boss's desk.

"On the side of A+ Pedals, the new general manager Riser has already chosen the factory site." Song Asheng took out the documents from his bag.

"Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley......"

Song Ya couldn't figure out the specific location of this kind of small city, "What do you think of the location?" ”

"I don't know, let's go to the field to see it together, we have to go there anyway." Song Asheng said.

"Well......" Song Ya took out the itinerary and looked at it, and in two days he was going to Hollywood to meet up with Zack Snyder to discuss the MV editing matters, "Then let's go, let's go around the West Coast." ”

He couldn't just leave, he called Delai and Al, prepared for a long time, easily exploded the audience in the performance of the underground nightclub at night, and then went out with Song Asheng the next morning.

"Do you remember my words? The big A next door, if you harass the girls who come to the record company, you have to stop it in time, and don't let unrelated people in during the time we leave. Song Ya instructed Mawota as he left.

"Understood, boss." Mawota asked, "Is Miss Fergie an unrelated person?" ”

"Of course she doesn't count, she can use the studio when we're not there, but they are also not allowed to bring unrelated people in except for her sister." Song Ya threw over a small roll of cash, "Yours." ”

"You've been paid...... Boss. "New Jersey blue-collar Marotta is not used to this kind of 'communication'.

"Let's take it as a bonus, I did well last night, do a good job."

Song Ya left A+ Records and went straight to the airport with the three of them, this time there was no performance arrangement, and the trip was less than a large bag of musical instrument boxes, and it was relaxed.

Arriving in San Francisco, the four of them rented a car and went straight to Sunnyvale, "It's a bit far from San Francisco here, right?" Song Ya arrived at the address given by the general manager of A+ Pedal Company, Reese, a very simple two-story building, much smaller than the original factory in New Jersey, the first floor is the factory, the second floor is the manager's room and conference room and R&D office, if there is research and development in the future.

Reese is a tall white man of Northern European descent who has been working in sales before, and Roberto Clevell tells him that his old employer, Warren Brothers synthesizer company, has changed hands and there is a vacancy in the position of general manager, and he decisively applies for the job, which is recognized by Song Ya and others.

Now he is in high spirits, and he is very concerned about the operation of A+ pedal company, "This is Silicon Valley, and we are also a high-tech company......" said high-tech He himself smiled embarrassedly, "I will get some local tax incentives, there are Lockheed and AMD companies nearby, which are top companies in their respective industries, and it is easy to recruit technicians." The traffic is not bad, not far from the Dumbarton Bridge, and the scenery and air are good, and there are orchards everywhere here. ”

Seems he likes it here.

Lockheed Song Ya knows that AMD does not know much about the production of aircraft.

"A computer chip company, but the current prospect is unknown, they are fighting a patent lawsuit with Intel." Reeser introduced.

"Which side will win?" Song Ya asked.

"That's Intel......" Reese's inclination speaks for itself.

"Okay." Song Ya put out the idea of buying AMD stock.

"Actually, boss, you can try to buy the factory and the land where it is located, I feel that the value of this place will definitely appreciate in the future." Reeser suggested.

"Don't think about it for the time being, I borrowed a lot of money to buy this company." Song Ya didn't want his capital chain to be too tight, which was also Song Asheng's suggestion, "Okay, here, you can contact the owner and negotiate a good price." ”

"Thank you, boss." Reeser was delighted, "I rented the factory and started the factory relocation work. ”

"Yes."

Leaving Song Asheng here to supervise the accounts, Song Ya took DeLay and Al to Los Angeles by plane, and met Zack Snyder, who had just been separated, in a small editing room at Columbia Pictures.

“APLUS。”

Zack Schneider greeted the three, "I just saw you on the news." ”

"It's equivalent to saying that I have to report the news when I come to Los Angeles, am I so popular?" Song Ya smiled helplessly.

The atmosphere in Los Angeles was very wrong, and the three of them were not only 'besieged' by reporters guarding there at the airport, but also interrogated by several local police personnel for a while. Of course, Song Ya would not say anything, only that she had to consult a lawyer before answering questions.

"Affirmative action activists like you, coming to Los Angeles will definitely be particularly 'taken care of', in the current situation." Zack Schneider gave a brief overview of the situation on the ground, and four white police officers who beat people were arrested and investigated, but the black community was still not satisfied with the explanations given by the police. Rodney King, a black man who was beaten, was accused by the police of speeding, running red lights, insulting female police officers, and resisting arrest, but they could not produce conclusive evidence, but were instead perceived by the black community as whites covering up each other.

"Okay, let's focus on the music video."

A few people briefly went through the first cut version in the editing room, but due to the limited budget, there was not much material available for editing, and Zack Schneider couldn't play much.

"The overall rhythm and music work well together."

Song Ya expressed her satisfaction that the wide texture of the film was even better than the original. Compared to the original, DeLay and Al were a little overstrained in their performances, both of them tensing their facial muscles, as if they were yelling at the audience......

This is also understandable, the circumstances of the two determine that this opportunity is very important to them, and they have been up and down in the music industry for many years without ambition, and this time they have completely released their grievances.

Even this time, they can't get the same lead singer status as Song Ya, the lead singer on the cover of the single is still APLUS, followed by 'Feat.', and then the names of DeLay and Al, which means that they are only roughly equivalent to the status of the second singer, and the income is much lower than Song Ya.

Song Ya noticed that the two people who were watching the first cut clip were extremely focused, and there were faint tears in their eyes.

He sighed slightly in his heart, although he suffered some poverty after crossing over, he had a great advantage in entering the industry as a creator, which was much better than a little singer like Al who was flattened and rounded with the record company. Don't mention them, such as Fergie, at the age of sixteen, she has to travel all over the country to find opportunities, and after signing a small singer contract, she still has to endure hardship, if three years later, she still has no name for a small role in an album that no one cares about, not to mention that the bulk of the income is taken away by the record company, and the remaining little bit has to be shared with the agent, and it is difficult to get the next singer contract.

"Wait...... Stop, go back a bit, yes, that's it. That's when Al noticed a young black man in the frame secretly comparing GD's gang gestures to the camera.

“FXXK！” Song Ya took precautions, but he still couldn't prevent these birdmen.

"Ahh Zack Schneider scratched his head in annoyance.

"It's okay if the rap song has a gang element, right?" DeLay said: "It's not the gesture we compared, besides, the relationship between APLUS and GD is no secret in the rap circle, and this hint is good for us to run propaganda all over the meter in the future, and those local small characters easily dare not mess with GD people." "He already knows a lot about black rap circle culture.

"Don't, don't." Song Ya hurriedly waved her hand, "I don't want to touch gangs, violence, drugs, or anything, and a little swear in the lyrics is the bottom line." ”

"Okay, let's cut this off and we'll readjust ......," Zack Schneider said to the editor.

After the film was cut, it had to be graded and other post-production, and finally it would be converted to a format that could be played on TV, and after expressing satisfaction with Zack Schneider's re-edited version, it was getting late and he checked into the hotel.

Just as he was getting ready to go to bed, the pager rang, it was Halle Berry's.

It is impossible for this woman who is very shrewd in her impression not to understand her hints, how can she still be entangled several times, Song Ya dialed back the phone, ready to make her words clear.

"I saw you on the news, in Los Angeles?" On the other end of the line, Halle Berry was crying.

This is not the first time she has cried in front of her, Song Ya is afraid of her acting skills, "Hallie, do you remember what you told me when you filmed the MV last time?" You say that you are your own person, and you know the rules, so you won't get entangled......"

"I know, but I'm running out of things, I was beaten by him, and the role he promised me is gone...... Please. Halle Berry cried and pleaded.

"What's going on? Who is he? ”

Song Ya accidentally found out about the hanging dentist Kaizi, and Harley had nothing to pretend in front of him, it turned out that she entered the "Jungle Fever" crew, and soon hooked up with Wesley Snipes, an important black actor in it, who promised to take him into the big production "Cruiser" starring him next year to play an important role. For this reason, Hallie happily pushed down a lot of announcements, but she didn't expect that this New York University graduate, step by step from the theater to Broadway and into Hollywood, known as 'one of the most good black people in acting' The famous actor is a guy with violent tendencies, and he actually deafed one of Hallie's ears in a quarrel, how dare Halle continue to be with him, after the breakup, the cooked role naturally flies, and the follow-up publicity of jungle fever is gone, and the heat brought to her by the beautiful heroine in Song Ya's MV has long passed.

As in New York, she is once again in a Hollywood dilemma of having no films to play, and in order to maintain the so-called star vanity, she has spent tens of thousands of dollars on the poor Chicago dentist......

"I don't dare offend Wesley, it's not good for me to expose this kind of thing, so last time you said you could arrange two roles for me......" Harley begged, "Does it still work?" Which hotel are you staying in and I came to you? ”

"No, I'm being watched by reporters and the local police." Song Ya was reminded by her, and then remembered that she had invested in two Xiao Li Zi movies in Hollywood, "I'll ask tomorrow, don't get your hopes up." ”

"Hallie, aren't you too smart? Outsmart oneself? He put down the phone and shook his head and smiled.