"Matthew Norris just called me and seems to have something new."

The next day, Linda reported on the company's affairs, as is customary, "and he was testing whether it was possible to transfer the Music World Entertainment label to another record label." ”

"I thought it was beautiful, and I begged me to take it in like a dog......"

At present, A+ Records has two small subsidiary labels, basically following the traditional model of the record industry, A+ Records owns 50% of the shares of the two labels, providing assistance in production, distribution, publicity and other aspects, but does not interfere in specific operations.

One of them is Matthew Norris, a very bluffed music world entertainment record, which mainly operates the rhythm and blues girl group Destiny True Girl, one is Damon Dash and Jazzy's Roc-A-Fella records, and there is a small shareholder, Karim Pock, who has been in prison, and there is only one rapper under it, which is Jazzy.

Jazzy Needless to say, according to the apocalypse, he should be the first character in the original world line, and the C position of the Destiny True Girl, Matthew Norris's eldest daughter Beyoncé, is the singer of If I were a boy who just started the apocalypse yesterday!

Beyoncé's singing skills in If I were a boy are perfect, and her figure will evolve from the current lean to the mature style of the Apocalypse MV, which is comfortable to pick up, and it is ahead of the Apocalypse Teaching, so how can he be stupid to let go of the future gold mine now.

This is not the same as the twenty percent singers who let Shakira go, and the main reason for agreeing to Estéphine's request at that time was that she didn't want Shakira to be dragged down by her own troubles, and for Matthew Norris, she had no such moral baggage, and besides, her cousin Emily was already an official member of the Destiny True Girls team.

"Matthew Norris must have heard something, right?" He asked Linda.

"Do you still need to listen to the wind? After Daniel's voluntary resignation, rumors of Motula's return have become known. Linda replied, "Someone like Matthew Norris must be worried that we're going to be dragged down and stuck in the publishing." ”

"Think beautifully." Song Ya pouted.

"Foxy Brown has arrived." Taragi pushed the door open and came in to report.

“Yo。” Foxy Brown, who has a nonchalant face and a hip-hop girl, walks in with Taraghi and plays a complicated fist bumper with Song Ya.

"Starting next year, you will also join the group of Heavenly Destiny True Girls, and be in charge of the rap part." Song Ya explained the arrangements for the girl, "Then next year my A+ record will also help you release a solo album, the track is ready, right?" ”

Foxy Brown helps himself make trouble, make trouble, and create internal conflicts on Def Jam records, and he is very energetic at a young age, and Def Jam's major shareholder Polygram is annoyed by her, which is one of the factors why they are willing to give in and pay a large sum of money to buy themselves and Daniel go.

At the beginning, she promised Huang Yuan, who is also Chinese, to take care of her, of course she can't cross the river and tear down the bridge, and she wants to repay the girl, and Polygram is likely to be unfavorable to her after losing the constraints of her own minority shareholder of Def Jam, so from next year, her singer date will be transferred to A+ Records.

It was part of the deal that I made when I quit Def Jam, "I bought some extra songs from Def Jam that they prepared for you as a gift for your sixteenth birthday." He said to Foxy Brown, "You go back to Chicago to make the album first, and I'll let Jazzy here in New York take care of you while I play the song." ”

"Jazzy, cool."

This girl is not afraid of heaven and earth, and she can express her gratitude to the boss of the boss by raising her chin.

"Well, that's it, go ahead, do a good job."

Song Ya encouraged her a few words and asked Taragi to take her away, "Well, she plus Emily, so that the Destiny True Girl will return to the early configuration of the six, give Matthew Norris a little sweetness, after all, he wants to help me take care of the two restless girls." He rubbed his eyebrows and confessed to Linda.

Although Matthew Norris is cunning, he is very good at rebellious girls in his teens, and the overall atmosphere of the Destiny True Girl is a clear stream in the black girl group, which is why he is relieved to put Emily and Foxy Brown in his hands.

"Matthew Norris likes to stay in Los Angeles, and he thinks there are more opportunities there because his eldest daughter, Beyoncé, wants to try her hand at film." Linda said.

"Well, he's told me about it before......"

Song Ya thought about it, according to Beyoncé's age in the Apocalypse MV, it should be a long time later, maybe more than ten years later, so when will she become popular? Now you can't be too harsh on her and her father, try to maintain a long-term cooperation, you should be coaxed, you should spend it, you still have to spend it, "Allocate a sum of money to Music World Entertainment Records to promote the name, and cover the basic expenses of the Destiny True Girl in Los Angeles, if they want to record songs there...... Just ask Mr. David Geffen to help, his Geffen records are sold, but he still has a nice recording studio in Los Angeles, and the studio rent is included in the cost of the album, and we cover half of it, and the other half is paid for them in advance. As for the opportunities in the movies...... I'll think about it when I'm done with this time. ”

“OK。” Linda notes, "Mr. Taka changed the meeting point between you and John Cali to the golf club near Bedford Hills. ”

This is the right thing, Song Ya slowly paced and thought about it for a while, and asked, "What do you think of Linda?" ”

"Agree, I think this is an opportunity, John Cali replaces Motula as president of North Missoni Entertainment is 100 percent, and he will probably be in charge of Columbia Pictures at the same time, no matter how reserved you are, you will make enemies uselessly."

Linda persuaded: "After he takes office, he will definitely try his best to eliminate Motula's influence in Sony Entertainment in the past two years, just like Daniel before, you have a natural basis for cooperation." And ......"

"And what?" Song Ya saw that she wanted to speak and stopped, and asked.

"And our A+CN and Inner City Broadcaster's attack on Motura can't go on like this, and the audience is getting a little tired of it now, Gordon said that everyone wants to see something nice about Christmas, otherwise the ratings with Comcast's second milestone node will collapse completely, which is very detrimental to A+CN's follow-up channel resources." Linda said.

"It's already very bad, and it was a big mistake for Gordon to focus on Simpson from the beginning, and I just didn't pursue it." Song Ya is now a little uncomfortable with this Gordon, MJ refuses to help in that matter, forget it, and now that the Motura discrimination incident is halfway through, your attitude is changing? He turned over old accounts in his heart.

"At a time when basic investment areas such as the Internet and telecommunications lines are booming, Comcast has decided to focus its efforts in that direction, and the speed of expanding the number of TV network users has obviously stagnated......"

Linda said: "The promotion plan we prepare for A+CN next year will also rely on their co-investment with Northern Trust, and according to their 29% shareholding, they will have to bear an additional 2.9 million yuan of the 10 million promotion fee." ”

"It's just a small sum of money for them." The big head is still on his own side, Song Ya said.

"But now the situation is different, A+CN has not shown the potential that everyone thought it had, and they must not have gotten the money well." Linda smiled wryly.

"Incompetent Gordon, you give him a hint on my behalf, and I'll only give him another year."

Song Ya felt that the original BET boss Johnson's evaluation of Gordon was all right, after all, after many years of cooperation, Johnson knew much more about this subordinate than himself, "Okay, I'll go meet with John Cali." ”

"I called Elizabeth Taylor last night, and she told MJ about her attitude, and MJ didn't think Motura would go down and work with hard copy."

Working in Warner Bros. Pictures for many years, John Cali must have a good relationship with Elizabeth Taylor, he is a slightly chubby white man with round glasses, sixty-five years old this year, not very old, the outside world commented that his style is very old-fashioned and dogmatic, after a simple acquaintance with each other, he found a chance to be alone on the green and began to talk about business with a golf club, "So this time your mutual threats had better end here, it is already a bit beyond the bottom line, Motura's ex-wife is the daughter of the former president of ABC Records, She also called Mr. Stringer and I to express concerns. ”

"So Sony is ready to make peace with the mud again?" Song Yajie asked: "When my anti-discrimination speech comes out, what will MJ do?" ”

"I don't know, I don't know much about the record industry."

John Cali lifted his glasses and glanced at Gao Shu who was waiting in the distance, "I don't want to guess, anyway, it seems that MJ doesn't want to give up his manager, and the people basically don't care who the people behind the stars or the top executives of any record company are, unless you pull Motura out and stare at the attack like you are now." If you strip away the hard-copy article, Motura is surprisingly restrained in Sony's eyes, and it's not good for you, you and Mariah Carey are both stars, and now the follow-up fermentation of that article has begun. ”

"I feel like I'm in the edge right now."

Song Ya is not a person who is given in by a little words, "Judging from the timing and content of that article, I don't think anyone else but Motura would do this, I advise you and MJ to continue to investigate, although he may have done it very covertly this time......"

He boasted to himself, "I've researched some hardcopy backgrounds, their TV stations have been using Paramount's channel resources, and Motura and Paramount have a long-term partnership with Viacom's MTV station, and he used to try to get MTV's people to me." I'll take the opportunity to ask Viacom's boss, Mr. Lei Shidong, about this, and he admires me. ”

"We'll find out."

John Cali smiled, "I'll personally ask Paramount President Shirley Lansing, but you can rest assured that I, Mr. Stringer, and Sony have enough means to find out the truth." ”

"But you're not going to check it out for my sake, are you? You just want to go down to the public relations of the public opinion storm that I am about to launch. Song Ya said.

"Aside from you, there's pressure from MJ, and he's wondering if his manager is doing what he's doing behind his back, and the other African-American singers and actors under our umbrella. You have a lot of energy APLUS, and the extreme pressure is a headache for Sony, and they ...... Give me some authority to make peace with you. ”

John Cali replied, "Of course, you don't want protests, speeches, congressional proposals, you can't be too tough on that, or you're everybody's enemy, and the situation will be out of control." Of course, Motura himself...... He didn't want his two children to be involved in this matter, and under pressure from us and Sony, he had already said on some occasion this morning that he was willing to throw in the towel. "John Cali broke the news.

Cowardly? Hehe, sure enough, he was afraid of the two ends, and the corners of Song Ya's mouth curled slightly, "So ......"

"There is a good solution at this time."

"Motura will admit that he said that, and of course he will say that it was just a private, drunken mistake, and he will no longer try to break the full recording to hurt your wife, and apologize to all African-American people," John Cali said. At the same time, he will resign as president of Sony Entertainment and take responsibility for it with his resignation. ”

"What is this?"

Song Ya almost laughed angrily, "You originally planned to let him step down, how can you use a definite thing as a punishment?" ”

"But the public doesn't know that losing such a prestigious position doesn't show your great victory?" "He's publicly admitted to that recording, and don't want to be president of Sony Columbia Records anytime soon, we're going to do an internal investigation into him, and MJ's people and Epic Records are involved, and the conclusion won't be until the middle of next year at the earliest," John Cali said. ”

"You're going to play dead and avoid the limelight, and then let Motura quietly come back to take office after the middle of next year?" Song Ya grasped the point in the other party's words.

"Well, the book insisted on him, and Mr. Stringer was more inclined to choose him after evaluating him and Daniel, who had done very well in the record industry before. You can't be delusional about letting Motura die socially, right? As long as he lives, he will always exist in the record industry, and it is not difficult to find a home for his past achievements, and the battle between the two of you in the record industry will be going on for a long time, and as long as he can survive the internal investigation, we and MJ will be very serious about this matter. ”

John Cali said, "And by that time you've only had half a year left on your A+ album, what are you worried about? Even if you plan to renew the contract, I don't dare to take it.,The rift between our two sides is so big that it's almost impossible to repair.,The old men of the consultants at Sony headquarters think you're a thorn.,It's a trouble-making machine.,And then you can help Sony make money CEO Nobuyuki Idei would rather spend some money to buy a clean.。 ”

"The price? What price are they willing to pay to buy me away? ”

Song Ya saw an opportunity to solve her knot, "Then I want to get my personal song copyright back from the Sony/ATV copyright library, I am willing to spend money to buy it, and I want to cancel my new song plus selection album release contract next year." ”

"Okay, let me talk to Gao Shu privately, maybe it will take some more time." John Cali nodded.

"Hmm."

The second time he made Motura deflated, Song Ya hit the ball high and far with a shot, huh? It's a green! There was no way, so he had to chase after him alone.

"New songs and selected albums can be canceled, your song copyright is not sold, we are willing to sell, MJ is unwilling, I feel that if you insist on this matter, you will push MJ to the side of Motura, MJ is very, very paranoid about that copyright library, you know his character APLUS, he is much more emotional."

It was a long time before John Cali came to bargain, "Columbia Pictures will give you something in return in the film industry in the future, and I will be the manager for the rest of your year, and I will guarantee the interests of your A+ records and Mariah Carey, as well as the artists within the company who have a good relationship with you." ”

"Next year's awards season ......"

"Next year's awards season, yes." John Cali nodded without asking if it was Oscar or Grammy, "Motura is also willing to bow to you and admit defeat, of course, privately." ”

"Really?"

"Yes, you can understand how hard it is for a man, right?"

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