Chapter Twenty-Three: Wen Dong's Plan
Dwarf and Tight said that Jay Chou's slow songs determine the breadth of his spread, and fast songs are responsible for the depth.
This sentence conveys a message that the general direction of an album should be unified, but there are many styles.
In fact, in order to attract more listeners, many singers will choose different genres when writing songs and include them in one album.
Some people like soothing rhythms, some people like rock, some people like folk songs, some people like electronic, a band can't do decathlon, but Ji Yun, who has a complete music library, certainly won't make his album modular.
After working for most of the day, Ji Yun recorded twelve songs.
The Brightest Star in the Night Sky
"As sad as last year"
"Young and Promising"
"The Return"
"Lend Me"
"This Age"
"The Boy"
"Waiting for You to Get Out of Class"
"Anhe Bridge"
"The Ugly Eight"
Red Rose
"Ordinary Road"
Some songs are so powerful that you don't dare to copy the score, just like Dong Chou's "In the Name of the Father", there are very few people in the country who can sing this song in its entirety, let alone rap it well.
Originally, Ji Yun wanted to copy some JJ's songs, but considering Brother Bo's voice conditions, he shouldn't be able to sing all of them.
So he can only choose some excellent works that are more catchy and less difficult.
"Okay, Yunzi, I didn't expect you to be a great creator."
"It's all old stock."
Huang Bo's eyes are getting brighter and brighter, and the first song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" is enough for them to be very popular, but he didn't expect that the remaining eleven songs are not worse than this one.
"How did you grow this head?" He really wanted to take a hammer and pry open Ji Yun's skull to see if there was an alien living inside.
The album has twelve songs, including pop, rock, and folk.
This is a genius, it's a complete ghost!
"Ugly?" Huang Bo's eyes narrowed, "This is my exclusive song." ”
"Don't be afraid, I'll write you a "model" later."
"That's a good feeling!" Huang Bo Yile.
"Then don't be idle, let's practice quickly!" Liu Che couldn't wait, so he immediately picked up the guitar and started to warm up.
Ji Yun's songs are also carefully selected, and he tries to choose those songs that were released later to avoid lawsuits.
"It's not a thing to be so capable, we also have to discuss the release and recording, sharpen the knife and not cut the wood, and contact while practicing." Huang Bo proposed.
"Okay, I'll make a call."
Ji Yun nodded, took out PHS and called Wen Dong, he has many artists, and he has experience in releasing albums to promote.
"Hey, Brother Dong?"
"I found time to form a band, do you have a way to help us spread the word?"
"I didn't mess with you, our songs have been written, and it's almost publicity."
"Twelve songs, enough to release an album."
"That's fine! We'll wait for you tomorrow to discuss. ”
Ji Yun hung up the phone, "It's done, my agent will come to interview us tomorrow." ”
"Great!" Liu Che was radiant, as if he was one step closer to his dream.
......
Interest is the best teacher, and that's true.
With Liu Che's lazy temperament, he couldn't hold on to anything, but last night he practiced all night, Ji Yun and Huang Bo were so sleepy that they were fighting, and he kept practicing as if he was fighting chicken blood.
It wasn't until Wen Dong knocked on the door the next day that he put down his guitar and rubbed his sour and stinging fingers, and went out with the two to greet him.
"Yo! This small courtyard is good. Wen Dong sat down and praised him.
As soon as his butt touched the chair, he pointed straight to the topic, "How about your song, let me see it first." ”
"Whoa!" Ji Yun should get down, take the score of "Boy" and hand it to Wen Dong's hand.
Wen Dong looked at the score, the smile on his face gradually solidified, and his brows gradually tightened.
Liu Che's heart was a little abrupt when he was watching from the side, and he quietly pulled the corner of Huang Bo's clothes beside him, and said in a low voice: "Isn't this okay?" ”
Huang Bo reassured slightly: "Don't worry, the songs written by Yunzi are fine." ”
Although he said this, he didn't have any bottom in his heart, and his palms were already sweating nervously, although he saw that each of these songs was of the highest quality, but he couldn't keep it up to people, art is a thing, your arsenic, my medicine, it's normal to understand differently.
Wen Dong's brows were already locked enough to trap a fly, and an A4 piece of paper was forced to let him look back and forth for ten minutes.
He put down the score and took a deep breath, "Anything else?" ”
"Yes, yes!" Liu Che hurriedly took out all the remaining tunes and stuffed them into his hands.
For a while, a stack of scores made him scramble.
Wen Dong carefully unfolded each score, and with each page, his eyebrows rose a point, his fingers unconsciously tapped the tabletop, and his head shook slightly.
After another half hour, he finally put down the score under the burning gaze of the three of them.
Putting down the score, his fingers were still tapping the beat, as if reminiscing about the track.
He took another deep breath, "Very good! ”
Saying these three words, Liu Che was so happy that he almost jumped up.
Even Huang Bo, who has always been steady, had some tears in his eyes, sitting in front of them was one of the top agents in the country, and to put it mildly, his vision represented the eyes of the people of the whole country.
His approval is like the market's affirmation of them.
How can this keep him from getting excited.
He drifted north alone, suffered too many white eyes, and saw that a bright future was in front of him, and all the memories came to his heart for a while.
Now, I think I can have some reputation.
"Every song is great!" Wen Dong couldn't help but sigh, "You wrote all of these?" ”
His eyes were scrutinizing, staring at Ji Yun deadly.
"You don't think you'll see anyone else in the market who can write these songs."
Ji Yun didn't respond positively, but these words fell in Wen Dong's heart, but they implemented the idea that Ji Yun was a genius.
"Then you may have to adjust your route in the future, it's too condescending to be an actor alone."
He swept his gaze to the two of them. When he saw Huang Bo, his eyes instinctively paused, and then he said casually: "I can reflect with the above and help you do publicity." ”
"Thank you, Brother Dong!"
"No thanks, let's fulfill each other, I can earn more when you get up." Wen Dong waved his hand to show that he didn't care.
"What about the company..."Ji Yun asked very vaguely.
Wen Dong smiled: "Guarantee this number." ”
He held out three fingers.
Huang Bo gasped, "Three million?!" ”
"It may still be a little conservative, I will work hard with the company to ensure that the entire entertainment industry in the first half of the year is your album promotion."
Ji Yun was also a little trembling, and his heart's evaluation of Huayi's energy was a notch higher.
In this year and age, there are not many companies that can spend millions on an album.
However, from the level of Wen Dong, these three million are still not enough.
It's no wonder that the Internet is not developed in these years, and the paper media is piled up, unlike later generations that can be promoted on music platforms, and the audience's copyright awareness has not been cultivated, but relying on paper media and TV, these three million are also a drop in the bucket.
But to say that it is a loss is nonsense.
It's just a few million, and two concerts will earn it back.