Chapter 82 Xiaolin Xi in the Mainland
At the beginning of October, Gubei Music Studio was officially established, and while signing a long-term cooperation agreement with Warner Records, the studio also reached a long-term cooperation strategy with Beiping Baihua Recording Studio.
The cost of building a professional recording studio is very high, Gu Bei had to settle for the next best thing, and cooperate with a ready-made recording studio, although the price of Baihua Recording Studio is expensive, it is definitely one of the best recording studios in Asia.
There are only 7 employees in the studio, all of whom are outstanding college students who have just graduated, and the rented office space is only more than 50 square meters, and there is not even a lounge, so that when Na Ying arrived at the studio and was about to record, she once suspected that she had been deceived.
In this regard, Na Ying didn't pay attention to it after learning the details, but the first time she saw Gu Bei, she began to ask the teacher: "You write songs for Sun Yanzi, they are all written one album at a time, and I only have two songs for my sister?" ”
Na Ying is familiar with herself, and Gu Bei naturally said: "Sister, the songs that are suitable for you, I can only write two songs at present, and you are not short of songs, it doesn't matter if I write or not, the key is that Mr. Chen told me that you only signed a contract with Warner Records in May, and I want to give you some meeting gifts, let me write songs, so I have these two songs." ”
"Okay, there will be good songs in the future, I can sing them, just remember to contact me, the songs you wrote are very popular, what do the media call you?"
Gu Bei smiled bitterly: "Xiao Lin Xi in the mainland." ”
"Yes, yes, Xiaolin Xi in the mainland, they all say that you write a song to be popular and a song, what is the grade of the two songs you gave me, "It's Not Easy to Have a Someone Who Loves You" and "Laugh Away"?"
"If you come to sing, it will definitely be red, sister, you can rest assured."
"I also heard that if Sun Yanzi is Jay Chou, you are 'Fang Wenshan', if Sun Yanzi is Lin Yilian, you are 'Li Zongsheng', what is the relationship between you and Sun Yanzi? Both albums have twenty songs, and a piano piece. ”
Glancing at Na Ying speechlessly, Gu Bei asked, "Sister, did you take any reporter's money?" ”
"I'm just curious, and I usually like to know about it." Na Ying thought for a moment and said directly, "That's it, sister, invite you to dinner, I heard that there is a hot pot restaurant in Peking that has been very popular recently, let's talk while eating, can we have a drink?" I'll call a few people over in a minute. ”
"It's not sister, let's talk about eating, let's work first, let's have a simple trial singing today."
Gu Bei regretted taking over Chen Zeshan's errand a little, there was nothing bad about Na Ying's personality, and it had nothing to do with Gu Bei, but it was too enthusiastic and too direct to communicate, which made Gu Bei a little unaccustomed.
Na Ying also knew the severity, went to the recording studio, Gu Bei listened to Na Ying try to sing the ten songs in the album, and recorded all the points he found in detail, Gu Bei finally couldn't escape the fate of being arranged, Na Ying called a few of her friends in Beiping, pulled Gu Bei and went straight to the hot pot restaurant.
When he arrived at the place, Gu Bei couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Sister, if you want to come here to eat in the future, make a call in advance, and the box will be reserved for you in advance, and you don't have to pay for it yourself." ”
"What do you mean by this, do you know the owner of the hot pot restaurant? If you really know him, call him over quickly, this private room is still a friend of mine who managed to make an appointment. ”
"No need to call it, I opened this hot pot restaurant." Gu Bei explained, "I didn't expect that there would be a diva in my small shop." ”
"Is it really yours?"
"Really, you'll know when the waiter comes over in a moment."
Na Ying looked Gu Bei up and down and said, "After you stopped filming, you opened such a store?" So are you not going to be an actor anymore? ”
"No, it's just that my previous contract hasn't expired yet, and I'll talk about it in two years, and I'll do it behind the scenes first."
"I guess your company should regret it now, right? If you don't get it, you can still train a few singers. ”
"It's okay." Gu Bei smiled indifferently, not wanting to say too much about this matter.
"If you want me to say, you are not short of money now, and you can terminate the contract with the company directly, what are you doing like this, how many people still know your face?"
"I do have the money to terminate the contract, but it's not the right time." Gu Bei waved his hand and explained, "I worked hard to transfer this money, I don't want to give it out like this, and in the past two years, I haven't left the performance behind, just take advantage of this time to settle down and accumulate slowly." ”
"Okay, whatever you want, anyway, you're getting more and more famous as a music producer now, and you can't starve to death anywhere." Na Ying waved her hand, directly brushed the topic over, held her wine glass and said, "Come, drink one for our mainland Xiaolin Xi." ”
Na Ying wanted to drink, but Gu Bei couldn't persuade her, anyway, her voice was naturally good, and she didn't break it after smoking and drinking for so many years, so Gu Bei didn't bother to persuade her, and had a drink with these people she didn't know.
The friends called by Na Ying have more or less connections with the music world, Gu Bei has just opened a music studio, it is inevitable that there will be a possibility of working together in the future, under Na Ying's introduction, Gu Bei met some people in the Beiping music circle.
It was very challenging to be Na Ying's album producer, and for a long time after that, Gu Bei and Na Ying quarreled dozens of times, arguing about recording songs, making MVs, and shooting poster promotional photos.
In his own field of responsibility, Gu Bei is very assertive and can't tolerate a little sand, so he replaced Fan Zhiwei with a masked man before, but Na Ying has been famous for a long time, and before 2001, she participated in the Spring Festival Gala seven times, an absolute senior, and she is also a very mature singer.
Na Ying is straightforward and experienced, Gu Bei is young and vigorous, and has novel ideas, as long as they disagree, the two will definitely stop working and have a good argument.
Na Ying's new album "I Am Not an Angel" only has two songs written by Gu Bei, but the recording process is much more tiring than Gu Bei's recording of an album for Sun Yanzi where all the songs are done by himself, and it took a month and a half to stumble before "I Am Not an Angel" was completely recorded.
The first album "I Am Not an Angel" produced by Gu Bei Music Studio was successfully released, and the rest of the publicity and distribution work was handed over to Warner Records, and the studio just waited to collect the money.
At the beginning of December 2001, Liu Weiqiang brought the news of the investment in "Infernal Affairs", and Media Asia confirmed the investment, and agreed to invite Liang Chaowei and Liu Dehua to star, and the investment was also increased to 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and other actors basically used the casting list provided by Gu Bei.
At the end of the year, after the official signing of the contract, the film project "Infernal Affairs" directed by Media Asia Investment, directed by Liu Weiqiang and written by Gu Bei was officially launched, and Gu Bei also served as an assistant director in it, responsible for the connection between actors and props, costumes, styling and other groups, and also helped Liu Weiqiang write the storyboard script.
Before the start of filming, participating in the drawing and writing of the director's storyboard script was Gu Bei's biggest gain, and what he learned in the academy was only theory after all, which was Gu Bei's first actual operation of the storyboard script.