Alex nodded Rudy with his finger and replied, "As long as it's related to talent and the audience is interested, we can use this method to compete." For example, singing, dancing, magic, cooking, and so on. But to open things up, we can start by singing. ”

Everyone thought about it carefully, and sure enough, this competition process is suitable for many kinds of talent shows. It can even be used to set things that interest any audience, as long as people are interested, they can shoot this kind of competition show.

"Of course, the process can be adapted to different draft types, but it's mostly the same. For example, in a singing talent show, we can have the judges sit in a chair that rotates. In the beginning, the judges were facing away from the singers and facing the audience. After the judges recognize the singer's strength, they can press the button on the chair and turn around to watch the participating singers. ”

Alex went on to describe the characteristics of the talent show he knew, such as how many times the judges could "like" the participating singers, the audience could support their favorite singers by making phone calls, and the interview footage of the participating singers before going on stage.

After these points were pointed out one by one, the people in the conference room listened to them and then the hut opened up, and they came up with various things that fit the characteristics of this era. After they perfected and put forward various suggestions, the show gradually became basically finalized.

"It's so good, this show will definitely be a hit soon!"

"yes, I think that's funny too!"

"And I can also find some potential singers for the record company!"

Yes, indeed. The signature of this show is to find powerful singers in the folk, which can not only attract the attention of the audience, but also singers from civilian backgrounds will make the audience empathize. It would be best if the life stories of these civilian singers were miserable, so that the show could make it extremely sad and make the audience sitting in front of the TV burst into tears.

"Bang Bang!"

Alex clapped his hands, attracted people's attention, and said, "This matter has been decided, and you two sides will send some people out to cooperate and quickly get this matter started." This show is the most important thing, you have to keep an eye on it, and don't make any mistakes. ”

After everyone said yes. Alex nodded in satisfaction. He said: "I have a lot of things to deal with now, and I can't follow this show personally." ”

Rudy listened to it and said anxiously: "Alex, it's okay if you don't follow this show, but you can't ignore the affairs of the record company." ”

"What's wrong? The record company didn't suffer much. And haven't I already made up for the people who left the company? Alex looked at Rudy in a strange way. "What else?" he asked. ”

"That's right. RAC and CBS couldn't get our big-name singers in the past, so they targeted those little stars and cast a wide net to catch more fish. gave a large group of singers who are not very famous to the Internet. ”

Rudy's words made the people present feel unimpressed, if it was before, they might still be a little worried, but when this talent show comes out, it will definitely be able to bring many lower-level singers to the record company soon.

As long as Carpenter Records takes some time to cultivate, these newcomers will soon be able to grow up, even if they can't become big gods, but small gods should be fine.

"It's just that some little singers ran away, it's not that serious!" Someone said.

Diel, the boss of the agency company, hurriedly waved his hand and helped Rudy speak: "But don't think like this, we can occupy a large share of the music industry because we have many singers who are not very famous." They may not sell a lot of each record, but together they account for more than half of the company's sales. ”

Today's Carpenter Records is no longer the situation it was in the early days, and when the Carpenter brothers debuted, the record company really only relied on their hot combinations. Now that the record company is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people under it, they have long abandoned this model of relying only on a certain singer for life and death.

After all, the record market is volatile, and fans' interests are elusive. A company that relies on only one or two people to support may be successful for a while, but it will definitely not last long.

Dill and Rudy have long recognized this, so they spent a lot of effort to train reserve singers, and the last time Alex returned to New York, when he met Brigitte, he saw Rudy looking for potential folk singers.

When Alex talked about the American idol's talent show, they immediately thought of the singer contest they were doing at the record company. This talent show has a great fit with their competition activities, as long as the staffing is slightly adjusted, it can be used directly, and there is no need to make many modifications, that is, the judges need to find some big bulls to take on the role.

All in all, those singers who are not famous are the foundation of the record company, and now if the enemy comes to the bottom of the kettle, they may not see any effect at first, and there will be big problems after a long time.

Rudy also said quickly: "Not only that, but they also increased the number of records on the market, opened the way with money, and occupied most of the sales channels." ”

"Yes, after they poached our singers, they released records for them at any cost, maybe they won't make much money, but in comparison, our losses may be greater. Because the records launched by our singers cannot be spread out on the channel, the sales volume will be suppressed a lot, and after a long time, those big-name singers will also be affected and will have the idea of changing jobs. ”

The more Dell spoke, the more worried he became, he didn't think it was such a big problem, but after he said it himself, he felt that the problem was very serious.

There are a lot of popular singers on Carpenter Records, although Alex doesn't care much about this side of things. But he will still let people collect those famous singers in history.

In addition to Richard Jr., Elvis Presley, Chuck, Buddy, Jerry, Harry and others he personally found in the early days, he also asked the agent company to keep secret? Hendrix, Steve? Wanda, Barbara? Eden, Bob? Dylan and a large number of powerful singers are back.

Even the Beatles, who were still studying, were found, and the teenagers who had not yet formed the Beatles were John? Lennon, Paul? McCartney, George? Harrison, Ringo? Starr.

Alex had them abducted from England to the United States, and when the four sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys looked at them dumbfounded, unable to believe their ears, they were already confused enough to agree to any request.

The guy sent by the record company told them, "Carpenter Records thinks you have a lot of potential and wants to sign you to a contract......

Then the parents of these teenagers were stunned with money, and in the name of cultivating new singers, they were brought to New York, USA. After a period of professional guidance, these teenagers with musical talent have grown up quickly. The record was well received by many fans upon its release.

Especially a couple of songs Alex wrote for them. Most of them are motivational songs that strive to be uplifted, such as "let-it-be", "hey-jude" and so on. Some of these songs made Richard feel very good, and privately complained to Alex: "This song should be sung for us ......"

Hear something like that. Alex couldn't help but smile wryly. He just took out a few of the Beatles' later songs. So that the legendary combination can get off to a smoother start. I didn't expect Richard to be jealous of the Beatles, maybe this group performed so well that a proud person like Richard felt a little threatened.

"Don't worry. I still have a lot of good songs to come up with, so I'll record with you and my sister when I have the chance! At that time, Alex made such a promise, but he didn't expect that Ji Luhua couldn't keep up with the changes, and he didn't release a new record for a long time.

Because of this, when he heard Rudy and Diel's words, he thought of a solution in his heart: "Since the other party is trying to win by quantity, then we will win by quality." I think the Carpenter siblings should have a few more records and see whose songs the market likes! ”

"There is also an appropriate increase in the records of big-name singers under the record company, so that they can produce as many songs as possible, and it doesn't matter if the quality is poor, as long as they can resist this period."

Rudy and the others were overjoyed when they heard this, and they all nodded yes.

Alex's approach may put a lot of pressure on singers like Elvis Presley, and if the quality of the albums released becomes low, it may lead to a loss of popularity. But after all, their popularity is already very high, even if they lose some, it doesn't matter, the record company and the singer will still make much better money than the RAC company.

After the meeting, Alex wrote down some classic songs from his memory and gave them to his younger siblings to practice, prepare for the recording of the record, and so on.

It's just that the record was recorded, but it couldn't be done right away, and Alex is now burdened with a lot of specific work, which shouldn't have been done too much in the first place. He also has to rush to deal with other companies' affairs, and usually, he only needs to grasp the general direction, and leave the rest to the people below.

That's what the higher-ups need to do, but if Alex doesn't appear on the Carpenter siblings' record, it will make the record much less popular, and the effect won't be as good as imagined. In order to make the record more popular, Alex had to let Richard and them practice first, and then rush over to record it himself.

After dealing with these things, Alex dragged his tired body back to his accommodation in New York. This is where he lives alone, and since he came of age, he has purchased a home outside.

American families are all about independence, and Alex's children, when they reach adulthood, can have their own homes outside the home. The Carpenter did not have to live with their grown children, as Chinese parents do, and they were very concerned about their privacy.

In fact, after he bought this residence, he didn't use it many times, and it was usually empty. Occasionally, they come here for a few days, especially if they need to transform into "King Dragon". Alex will come here to change his makeup.

Before he could lie down on the sofa, a fragrant wind came from behind, and then he was hugged tightly from behind. Judging from the feeling of physical contact between the two, the person holding him was a woman with an excellent figure. Alex could even feel the other man's round breasts, pressing comfortably on his back.

"Are you thinking about me? Hee-hee! The sound of his voice with a nice French accent immediately made Alex think of a ghost, and he could even feel the other person's pouting expression when he spoke.

"Of course I miss you," Alex turned around and took the other into his arms, "I miss you all the time!" ”

Sure enough, he immediately saw Brigitte pouting. A little angry and said, "Liar." You haven't called me once in so many days! You big liar! ”

Hearing this, Alex secretly complained in his heart, he was already busy and dizzy. I forgot that there was a pretty woman waiting for me in New York. Although he has a good reason. However, the fact that the Carpenter family was being blocked did not make Brigitte understand.

After all, this kind of business warfare is carried out in secret. At most, the newspaper reports that so-and-so company and so-and-so company work together, or so-and-so company becomes a shareholder of so-and-so company, and so on. When ordinary people see these news, they will at most be swept away. Only insiders or industry insiders know what the information contained in this represents in Langdao.

Brigitte naturally didn't know what was going on, and Alex didn't mention it to the other party, at least he wouldn't tell her until the matter calmed down.

Once a woman is angry and unreasonable, it will be very troublesome!

It took Alex a long time to coax the little woman, he had never done anything like this before. After exhausting the last bit of energy to appease Brigitte, he didn't even have the strength to do what he loved to do, and lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

These days, he has been using the ability of the replica doll for days on end. This ability is extremely energy-consuming, and every time you use it, it's like jerking off once. Fortunately, he was able to persevere, otherwise, he would have died a long time ago.

In his sleep, he felt people walking around in a daze, but he was too tired to wake up to see what was happening.

The place where he lives is very secluded, and at the same time the security is very strong. Unless the other party sent an extraordinary force to attack him, there was no way for the idle to take a step closer.

If there was really such an enemy attack, Alex would naturally have noticed it and immediately woke up.

So when he was relaxed, he didn't think too much about it and slept very deeply. So much so that when he woke up the next day, he found himself lying alone, and he didn't see Brigitte by his side, and he didn't think it was strange.

"Brigitte! Brigitte? ”

Alex got up and walked around the house, but he didn't see anyone, thinking that the other party had gone shopping or going to the beauty salon. In short, he was not thinking about this matter, but about the situation of the company.

Although everything that needs to be done has been done, it still depends on the follow-up development, if the other party highlights the strange tricks and catches the Carpenter family off guard, it will be very enough.

The fastest result was the "American Idol" program jointly organized by ABC Radio and Carpenter Records, and this talent contest immediately attracted major media follow-up reports as soon as it was announced.

Since Rudy and the others had done similar competitions before, this time they just expanded the scale, relaxed the original competition to all Americans, and then put the selection area to all over the United States.

All of a sudden, the number of applications for the competition poured in, and they soon realized that their estimates were really insufficient, and they had already tried to think as high as possible, but they were still too conservative.

Under the influence of the vigorous development of electronic products, the music of this era has entered thousands of households, if twenty or thirty years ago, singing was still a skill for people in certain professions, now this skill has been possessed by many people.

In particular, the threshold for the American Idol show is very low, and it does not require the contestants to have a professional level, as long as the singer can sing one or two songs well and can move the audience.

In other words, the show is for entertainment, and out of thousands of people, one or two people with musical talent are considered good. As for the rest, they are used to please the audience in front of the TV.

Everyone has a desire to perform, and they have thought that they will stand in front of the public and show their talents in order to win praise and applause.

In particular, the generation born after the war was more radical and open than their conservative parents, and wanted to express their thoughts and emotions more.

This generation has loved rock music, which is considered noise or even the sound of the devil by the older generation. They participated in the civil rights movement, they participated in anti-war marches, they participated in hippie trends, they tried new things and accepted all kinds of foreign ideas.

Alex's "American Idol" very happened to hit the cool point of young people in this era, who were worried that there was no stage to express themselves, so they wandered the streets all day long, and gathered to demonstrate in the streets whenever something happened.

However, that kind of parade is just a collective act, and it does not show everyone's true thoughts and feelings.

It's good now, with such a show, I can express myself and show my personal talent in front of thousands of audiences. What's more, there is almost no threshold for this show, as long as you are an American, no matter whether you are tall, short, fat or thin, whether you are male or female, old or young, or beautiful, ugly and handsome, you can all sign up.

All of a sudden, the topic of American idols was all over the streets, and people were pouring in, encouraging those around them to participate, and at the same time, encouraging themselves to sign up.

Before the show was recorded, before it aired, it had already driven the ratings of ABC TV, because the audience wanted to see the show broadcast for the first time. They waited in front of the television, waiting for the news of the official broadcast to appear.

For such a situation, NBC and Disney are a little incredulous, they never thought that there would be such a way to easily attract people's attention.

"This TM show hasn't aired yet! Why did ABC's ratings go up? "Walt? Disney thought with some indignation, and he almost scolded: "Are all the stupid people we poached?" Why don't we do such a show? ”

But at this point, even if they want to imitate it, it's too late, besides, ABC TV and Carpenter Records were able to launch such a talent show smoothly because of their previous experience to be able to make it in such a short period of time. If you want to change to other TV stations, I am afraid that it will take a few months and half a year to get rid of it.

"Is it going to take half a year? No, no, no, this is absolutely not allowed! "Walt? Disney's face turned blue, and he thought quickly: "It's not just a matter of funding, even if it's three months, we can't delay." If someone up above gets annoyed, I'm afraid that in two or three months, we will not have any good fruit to eat! ”

But now he can't come up with a big move to deal with Alex, at least not yet, he has urged Disney and NBC to step up the progress, as long as the relevant matters are dealt with, he believes that he can give the Carpenter family a hard impact, and if you don't die, I will die. (To be continued......)