Chapter 419: 419

"So that's the reason!" Henry faced Pedro's question with an expression of sudden realization, but then there was no further text, as if he had fallen into his own contemplation. After a while, he returned from He came out of his thoughts, and then raised his head to look at Pedro in front of him. As a result, Pedro stared in confusion and said depressedly, "Then what?"

Henry seemed to have reacted at this time, "Aha, Hugo, yes, Hugo!" If Hugo had not noticed the slight change in Henry's eyes just now, he would not have noticed Henry's little abacus at this time - now the whole conversation The rhythm is obviously controlled by Henry, and it seems that this down-and-out agent does have real material.

Hugo looked back at his teammates, and sure enough, neither Fokin nor Neil had any doubts, and still listened attentively, but Alfonso keenly noticed something abnormal and exchanged glances with Hugo. As an excellent car salesman, Alfonso's ability to read words is the most basic ability.

"I haven't been in Los Angeles for a long time, and of course, that's not the main reason." Henry didn't explain in detail, just casually said, but Hugo had other ideas in mind, "You know, music and movies are Two different departments, although Hugo's agent and I are in the same company, our workplaces are completely different, and there is no intersection at all. I really don't know much about movies. "

After Henry's reminder, Hugo remembered that all the places where Joseph worked were film managers. He had also asked Joseph curiously before what the floors below the seventeenth floor were used for. After all, it was an agency. Which need so many floors as an office.

Joseph said at the time that in addition to the film department, the International Innovation Management Company also has departments such as music and publishing. Before that, the company also considered dividing the TV department separately, and plans to increase the sports department. In addition, International Innovation Management is the only one of the three major brokerage companies that has the word "international" in its name, and this word is not just a facade. The company is very good at elite international business, with offices in London, Paris, Madrid ( With offices in Madrid and Roma, the company also has a dedicated international department.

Different departments are set up on different floors, performing their own duties, and at the same time, there is a convergence of work, which constitutes the huge operating machine of the International Innovation Management Company.

So it's understandable that the music department and the film department barely have any intersection. As if Joseph knew little about the music business, Joseph seemed a little flustered when a record company contacted Joseph before the Golden Globes about the development of the Hugo music section. In this way, Henry's explanation also makes sense.

However, Hugo is more concerned about the first reason Henry said: Henry has not been in Los Angeles for a long time, and several details can be seen from here.

The most important thing is that the international innovation management company is currently in a whirlpool of power and profit. This kind of competition covers all departments, but Henry can't see any signs of being involved in it, and he hasn't even gone back to Los Angeles for a long time, which shows that he is The role of ******** within the company.

Then combine this detail with the fact that Henry once served as Maria-Kelly's agent - let's take this as true for the time being, it is very likely that Henry made Maria popular before, but he encountered a white-eyed wolf and was Maria kicked away, which led to Henry's collapse, not only staying away from the power circle of the company, but also falling into a decadent situation, and went abroad to Memphis to find new people.

Hugo recalled their first impressions of Henry when they first saw him, a down-and-out insurance salesman, but he had some success. In this way, all the details can be linked together.

Of course, these things are just Hugo's own conjecture at the moment. It is possible that the facts are completely different. For example, Henry abandoned Maria - although this may seem unbelievable, Maria is now the cash cow of the music industry, and no one will voluntarily gave up; for another example, what Henry said was a lie, maybe he was a music manager, but exaggerated his truth, maybe he was just an assistant to Maria's manager, or maybe he just worked with Maria It's only been a month, maybe he didn't even take Maria with him...

There are countless possibilities, but Hugo always has an intuition, that his first guess is correct, Henry is a professional agent who has created brilliant. Hugo had a hard time finding a fact to support his intuition—otherwise it wouldn't be called an intuition, but the idea lingered.

Hugo spread his thoughts here, just because of Henry's answer, there were countless guesses, but Alfonso took the initiative to fight with Henry, "So, you have been finding our band, and in the end you liked our band. Which point?"

Henry curled his lips, "Because you can make money for me." This is straightforward enough, and it's fruitful enough to make people feel uncomfortable, but it's the truth, "I see the potential for profit in you, I think You can have great success. I wasn't sure when I was in Memphis, but after watching it for nearly a month, I'm willing to trust my judgment, so I'm here again."

Henry is indeed different from most of the brokers Hugo knows. His words are obviously very fruitless, which makes people sound awkward, and has a faint repulsion mentality, but it is very persuasive, at least it will not let him. People hate, but also can feel his sincerity. Especially Henry's lazy and casual speaking rhythm, like a demagogic wizard.

"Your judgment is wrong." Fu Jin said directly, with a very dissatisfied expression on his face, "Compared to interests, we are a band that insists on our own style, and we will not easily compromise."

"So you mean you don't have to eat anymore." Henry answered the words quickly, before Fu Jin's voice had finished, but his pace was very slow, giving people a feeling that he was very calm , and the words were obviously a sarcastic rebuttal, but he said it very lightly, but it was like a joke between friends.

Neil looked back at Fookkin and said, "No, what Fokkin just said was, we're a band that wants to stand up for ourselves, and of course we want the public to accept our music and style. It's a good thing, no one will deny Nirvana's music because of its commercial success. But we won't change the style easily because the music may not be accepted by the public, we want to be able to devote ourselves to the music and try not to be outside things."

Although Neil usually doesn't talk much, he has always been very clear in his thinking, and he has a comprehensive and thoughtful consideration, and his attention to detail is more than others have, so he became the leader of the band, "I didn't know we were performing just now. Did you notice that our music style has caused a lot of controversy and not everyone can accept it, but we have no plans to change."

Fukukin's words were still relatively blunt and strong, but after Neil explained it, the whole meaning became much clearer.

"I'm not surprised, aren't all rock bands like this?" Henry shrugged and said as a matter of course, "Although there are also bands that deliberately make pop music to please the public, they are still a minority. After all, you are not Maria. - Kelly sings pop singers like that, right?"

What Henry said can actually give a glimpse of a trend in the current music market. There are always people who make music to meet the trend. This is why the music market can prosper. There is no need to condemn it. The reason why the music market is prosperous is that musicians can find a balance between popular business and self-reliance, so that excellent music emerges one after another.

But in the second half of the 1990s, with the strong rise of a group of idol singers such as Backstreet. Boys and N'SYNC, they injected new vitality into the music market, allowing fans Being obsessed with music and falling into madness has also made the profession of singer a true idol. At this time, music has gradually become a commodity. Music and its own strength have become one of the elements of the commodity. In addition, there are factors such as appearance, packaging, and publicity. Gradually, the commercialization process of music has become Speed ​​up.

After the music market has gradually become rich and diverse, the proportion of excellent music is also declining year by year. After entering the 21st century, even the Grammys, known as the world's most authoritative music awards, had to compromise with the market. Under the influence of many other external factors, the entire music market fell into an irresistible malaise, and has since slumped.

Of course, this is not a condemnation, but a trend of music marketization, which is inevitable.

But for Glory to the Dead, they don't want to be part of the commercialization process of the music market. Those idol products are actually created like an assembly line. The same strategy and square can be applied to different people. In this case, music loses its own meaning.

In the early 1990s, some musicians gradually began to agree with the necessity of music marketization. In particular, the great success of Nirvana led to the recovery of the entire rock genre, and was considered to be a representative; Death is so "stubborn", trying to continue to insist on self, some people succeed, some people fail, and some people finally compromise after persisting for a while.

It can be said that the music market in the early 1990s was also a period of great change.

Henry observed Glory to Death for nearly a month, and his answer to Neil and Fookkin was not surprising at all, "I will not talk about your music for the time being, just because you are willing to go on a road tour across the United States, To hone myself with this, I can see it. If I can't see it, I think my business card is even less persuasive."

Henry's simple self-deprecating remarks, but once again he can see his complete preparation, which is impressive.