March 6th.

Time Records Building.

In a conference room, there are more than a dozen people sitting densely, including five members of the Baojia Street Band, as well as deputy general manager Liang Leshu, music director Zou Kang, distribution and publicity department manager Zhao Kangning, artist department manager Song Zhongqing, and two music producers modeled after their positions.

"Dawei, when did you write this song?" Li Yange, who was sitting on the main seat, saw the score called "Don't Come to Entangle Me" in his hand, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, if he remembered correctly, this song seemed to be a song from the Black Panthers' first album that year.

Dou Dawei replied: "I wrote it when I performed in Guangzhou, and I feel that something is missing, what do you think?" ”

"It's okay, you can use it with a little change."

Li Yange immediately handed the score to the music director Zou Kang sitting on the right-hand side, this person is a talent that Liang Leshu dug from Guangzhou, he has been working in the China Record Division in Guangzhou, and is one of the first people in China to contact pop music, and at the same time, because he likes rock and roll, he is also very good at rock music.

So after poaching people, Li Yange resigned from his job as music director and gave up his position to Zou Kang. Speaking of which, Li Yange served as the music director purely because there was no one in the company at that time, otherwise he would not have been able to hold this tiring and bitter position.

After all, a qualified music director, in addition to being responsible for the supervision of his record business, must also master the quality of the records, the selection of artists, and even the trend of the company's overall music style, so as to conform to the trend of the times.

Zou Kang quickly glanced at the song, silently conceived it in his mind, and couldn't help frowning: "Won't this song be too heavy metal?" There is a clear difference from the previous songs of the Baojia Street Band, and I am afraid that the fans will not be able to accept it. ”

Most of Dou Dawei's early works were dominated by heavy metal, such as "No Place to Be Embarrassed" and "Don't Come to Entangle Me", which are almost all metal-heavy styles.

Of course, it's not just heavy metal, the song "Don't Break My Heart" is a rock song, and the style is not as wild as "No Place to Shame".

However, this is the style of Dou Dawei in the previous life, and they had not released an album at that time, so the public acceptance was very high. But now because of Li Yange's relationship, several rock songs of the Baojiajie Band are mainly light rock, especially the song "Once You", the rock style is not very strong, and many people think it is a pop song.

"I think what fans expect is something different."

Dou Dawei did not agree with Zou Kang's words, he said: "When I was in Guangzhou, I listened to the two albums "Goodbye Ideal" and "Forever Waiting" from the Hong Kong Beyond band, and several of them were metal-heavy. Because the song is in Cantonese and is very popular in Guangzhou, I asked some of my fans, and they said that they don't care what the music style is, as long as the song is good! ”

"But you have to be clear that the albums of the Baojia Street Band are not only released in Guangzhou, we are facing fans all over the country, especially in the north, most of our company's distribution channels are in the northern region, and the acceptance of songs here is not as open as the coastal areas, and changing the style of your work is not conducive to the release of new albums."

Zou Kang has been in Guangzhou for many years, and naturally knows that Beyond, a new band that has been very popular in Hong Kong recently, has also heard each other's songs, and I have to say that it is very good, but because it is Cantonese, the market in the mainland is not high.

"There are a lot of people in Beijing who like this style of heavy metal!"

"Beijing does not represent all the northern regions!"

Because of the style of the song, the two argued constantly.

Everyone looked at them, and finally Li Yange said: "Okay, don't quarrel, don't worry about the album style, whether heavy metal can be acceptable to fans, then try it, I think this song is okay, just add it to the second album of the Baojia Street Band, as for the rest of the songs, you can make your own private decisions." ”

Zou Kang saw that the general manager said so, but he didn't say anything more, only one song, it didn't matter, the company hired him as the music director, to control the overall situation of the company's album production, he naturally had to think about the interests of the company. took the liberty of letting the Baojia Street Band change its style, which is not in line with Zou Kang's current identity.

Dou Dawei also wordlessly recognized Li Yange's decision, originally he wrote this song, just to try to try different styles, to be honest, he was about to sing the song "Once You", in this small half a year in Guangzhou, he sang not hundreds of times, but hundreds of times.

"Okay, there are two songs I wrote for the Baojia Street Band, because I was in a hurry, I didn't modify much, Director Zou will take them down later, if there is anything that needs to be modified." Li Yange took out two pieces of paper and handed them to Zou Kang, and the other party took it and looked at it, a song "Blue Lotus" and a song "Blooming Life".

When he saw the first song, Zou Kang nodded with satisfaction, the general manager deserved to be the general manager, and directly continued the style of the previous Baojia Street Band. As for the second song, although it is a little different, the lyrics and songs are all very good, which is very suitable for Dou Dawei's singing style.

"For the next period of time, I may have to stay abroad, and you can report anything directly to Manager Liang. The company now has a total of two albums to make, and the time is relatively tight, so I hope you can work harder. ”

"Especially regarding the arrangement of the 12 women's orchestras, we must follow what I said before, first produce the album, and wait until they go to the performance to perform, and then promote and release it in China."

As soon as Li Yange's voice fell, he heard Liang Leshu say: "General manager, what about your album?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Xue Ke and the others were very curious, they hadn't heard Li Yange talk about it before.

"I don't have to worry about the album company, Polygram will send someone to record it myself." After finishing speaking, Li Yange waved his hand and looked at everyone: "There is nothing yet, or what do you want?" Before I went to the United States, I brought it up. ”

"I have something to do, Manager Li!"

Song Zhongqing, manager of the artist department, said: "Manager Liang asked me to contact Cui Jian before, and the other party was obviously a little moved, but he had a request, that is, he had to listen to him in the process of album production!" ”

As soon as he heard that the request was just album production, Li Yange said without hesitation: "Promise him!" You told Cui Jian that the album production company doesn't ask anything, but the songs you want to produce must be reviewed by the company. ”

Li Yange knew that Cui Jian had several songs, but because of the times, he had to restrict the release, if Cui Jian played too big and recorded such a few songs, and when they were released, they would be banned, and they would cry without a beating.

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