After Raymond's MV was completed, everyone sat in Fez Music Company for the first time and watched it around the TV.

Badman, Raymond, Davis, Big Mai, Becky, Jimmy, and the rest of the staff were there.

Tang De was naturally there, he sat on the chair, crossed his feet on the table, and watched them comment on the MV.

In fact, as soon as the music video started, they were already amazed by the color tone.

"Wow! That's cool! This blue is beyond imagination! "Raymond was the first to blow, as an actor, he has never seen the screen, so I don't know how well the shooting will be.

So when I saw the picture, the quiet and deep blue behind the door, I suddenly felt that my itch was provoked and whistled.

Immediately after the MV officially began, Raymond, dressed in a gorgeous formal suit, sat on one side of the long table and confronted another black leather jacket. Beside the two of them are huge floor-to-ceiling windows, a deep blue outside, and it is impossible to see the surroundings clearly, and the only thing that catches the eye is the gorgeous chandelier overhead.

As Raymond confronts the man, the intro music begins to play. The camera then cuts to a close-up of Raymond, but the next second he is suddenly covered with a plastic bag over his head, and after a brief struggle, he loses his breath and falls to the ground.

After that, the rhythm of the music enters the main song, and the man who killed Raymond and wears a black leather jacket also takes off his hood and reveals his true face.

I didn't expect it to be Raymond himself.

"Cool!"

"Handsome!"

"It's so explosive!"

Big Barley and Xiaobei all whispered, although they couldn't understand the content of the picture, but the unique color and unexpected plot still captured their hearts.

Badman also nodded, he had never seen such an attractive MV, and he felt that the beginning was like the texture of a suspense movie, much better than those MVs that are also hip-hop albums, but just dancing around the dance floor.

He even had some doubts that those viewers could understand this MV, it was too advanced!

However, after that, the MV entered the normal rhythm, Raymond was walking in the corridor while singing with a cross that emitted a pink light, his face was all dark blue, and most of his body was obscured by shadows.

At the same time, he constantly destroys the shots of those luxurious decorations, chandeliers, wine racks, ornaments, all of which he smashes with crosses, full of religious obscure meanings.

After this indoor shot, there is a Porsche 911 parked in the garage, and the picture of Raymond sitting in the car and driving and singing.

The music also came to an end, until the taillights of the Porsche 911 disappeared from the road and the whole song came to an end.

"Wow!" Jimmy was the first to applaud and shouted, "I can't believe I made such an awesome music video!" ”

"Yay! It's so handsome, it's cool, okay! Davis also shouted, although he hated Donde, he preferred Raymond's album to be a big hit, so he has been sullen since Raymond's violent death of the single.

But now after seeing how cool this MV and song are, he has renewed his hope.

"Arcades simply doesn't understand what she's missing!" Davis has always been haunted by Arcade's departure.

However, no one cares what Davis thinks now, and everyone is talking about what kind of results this music video can sell.

"I love the blue in there."

"That cross is cool, pink! It's like an adult store......

"Blockbuster, full blockbuster!"

"But what exactly does the MV mean? Why didn't I get it? ”

"Silly bird, of course you can't understand if you haven't been to college."

"Say me, you've been there?"

"I don't have it either, but it's cool and it's over, who cares about the plot!"

Listening to everyone's lively discussion, Badman also looked at Don De and said, "It seems that I didn't see the wrong person. ”

Tang De smiled: "Of course." ”

"I will contact the people at SBK Records as soon as possible, believing that they will be able to change their minds after seeing the music video."

"I hope so."

Badman soon went to SBK's office in New York with the CD, but the day later Donde and Raymond didn't get good news.

"FXXK, greedy goblins! Shit SBK! Badman threw a wave at SBK in front of the two of them, and didn't sit down until he choked on his throat and coughed.

Then he took out a cigarette and lit it and took a few puffs.

Raymond couldn't bear it anymore and was the first to ask, "What happened?" Badman, didn't SBK watch my MV? ”

"......" Badman was silent for a moment, and said a little tiredly, "No, they watched. ”

"What's the problem then?" Tang De answered.

"They said that if the song was to be given to them for distribution, they would have to back down on royalties, because that damn beast star had made Raymond commercially worthless, and now if they wanted to rerelease Raymond's album, they would have to spend a lot of money on publicity!"

Badman's face was full of reluctance, and when he asked SBK to watch the music video, he could see the fleeting excitement in the hyenas' expressions.

But it is precisely because of this that SBK's serious price reduction annoys him even more.

"So how much?" Raymond asked.

Generally speaking, after deducting the taxes that need to be paid, the publisher's copyright fee is about 30%, which does not seem like much, but the average price of each single is about 5-6 US dollars, as long as the sales meet the standard and sell hundreds of thousands of copies, it is a million dollars of revenue for SBK Records.

However, now SBK's appetite is even greater.

"They want 40 percent royalties, and 50 percent less royalties for mechanical reproduction!" Badman slammed the table, seemingly hating SBK's greedy face.

"Mechanical reproduction royalties?" Tang De and Raymond were both a little puzzled and didn't know what it was.

After all, it is not an exaggeration to say that the tax industry in the United States is the most developed in the world, and there are various tax items, and reasonable tax payment is definitely a university question.

Not to mention that in order to collect taxes, the United States has also given birth to tax agencies such as the IRS (Internal Revenue Service).

"In this world, only death and paying taxes are eternal" is a famous saying from the United States.

But privately, people like to talk more about - mess with no one and don't mess with the IRS.

Because these guys will do anything to collect taxes, Don knows that the IRS has connections with all kinds of gangsters and gray industries in the United States, because in their opinion, no matter what you do, even if it is the proceeds of crime, you have to pay taxes to the IRS.

And the communication channel between the two completely evades the supervision of the FBI and the judicial department.

This is the magical status quo of the tax-oriented United States.

And when he heard Don De ask, Badman also explained to him.

"Mechanical reproduction royalties mean that the record company pays us a certain amount of royalties when the music is made into vinyl, tape, CD or MP3. It's not a lot of money, but it's only 9 cents each. But if you think about it, if this song can only sell for 500,000 now, what about ten years from now, twenty years from now? ”

There is no doubt that this is an astronomical amount, especially after the advent of the Internet era and the release of songs to major music platforms.

When the time comes, a classic old song will casually have tens of millions of downloads, or even hundreds of millions of downloads.

It's all about enjoying endless wealth! How can you give it up so easily!

Therefore, it is understandable that Badman has such a big temper.

But if he loses his temper again, he can't refuse now, but he already has other plans.

Badman put down his cigarette and said, "I'll go to other record companies to see how it goes, and hopefully it will work out." ”