Chapter 293 Lost Throne

It seems that there is no rush for the garment OEM business. Naturally, the more affordable styles are produced, the more the cost can be lowered. It is difficult to find a factory in Guanghua Country that can accept orders, and you have to communicate with the designer. Style, pattern making, sending samples back and forth, formal production, and finally rolling out sales in the US market, I don’t know when it will be delayed.

"Anyway, you can't go to law school directly in college. You can just study fashion design as an undergraduate. Does the University of Chicago have this major?" Song Ya muttered to herself.

"Fergie's first album production budget is preliminarily set at 1.8 million, and Al's 500,000. Both will be released in the first half of 1993."

In mid-June, he gave up high-intensity publicity, and the joint publicity between the east and west coasts and the south was also withdrawn, and he began to shift his attention to company management and MV shooting preparations. "mon said that his album will not be listed until 1994. Get into the plan."

There are more and more singers under the banner, and the relevant management skills must keep up. For example, in the current "Deep Sea" recording studio, A+ records are also used for external rental when they are not in use. One hundred dollars, without any financial pressure, his own singer will definitely tend to occupy this high-level recording studio for personal use whenever he has the opportunity.

When he got the news that Fergie was going to release his first album, Al suddenly came to Song Ya and said that he also wanted to release an album. Now he often hangs out with Big A. In addition to being radio guests, the two also go in and out of the black music circle in Chicago from time to time. At the party, the circle of friends became wider and wider. As a rapper with two big-selling singles, everyone still recognized his status, and more and more people fawned on him, so he also collected a lot of songs in private.

According to his design, the first album is of course rap, and the main feature is his old profession: hip-hop beat-box. Now this style is not popular. Dion Wilson, Delay, Yeremov and others all Not optimistic. Song Ya didn't have a song for him. After all, Song Ya can sing the apocalyptic songs, and Song Ya can sing it himself, but after all, he is an old brother, and he is also a signed singer under his banner. Since he proposed to release his first album, Song Ya still wants to If you help, the 500,000 production fee will be an account.

Dion Wilson will be the main producer of Fergie's album. He will help Fergie record five rap singles. The score will be collected, plus some old songs that bought the sampling rights, and he will mix and arrange them .

Song Ya has tentatively appointed the producers of two songs, ihateuiloveu girls solo version, and the unreleased London Bridge.

Two or three pieces by Delay, he is responsible for the pop direction, and also uses collected pieces or pieces composed by himself.

The C+C Music Factory jointly opened by Roberto Clivell and David Cole provides a friendly production, which is also a pop genre.

In terms of lyrics, Fergie will write some lyrics herself, and then Dion Wilson, Song Ya and others will help revise and polish them. White girls sing hip-hop. Many things such as street life, gangs, violence, etc. cannot be involved, and Fergie’s life experience is not enough. , the lyrics are generally 'I'm the most eye-catching girl at the ball', 'I'll make a phone call and Pudala will send clothes to your door' and other consumerist boasting content about parties, carnivals and the extravagant life of stars.

In fact, rappers basically sing this, which is much "healthier" than the guns, drugs, and women in the songs of those male singers.

Since Song Ya promised to make a special birthday gift in March next year, Fergie is about to get busy now.

Fei Ji, who took the reassurance, was naturally "thank you a thousand", but Song Ya encountered some trouble here.

"It's just the right to sample. Why are they so open-mouthed?"

Song Ya secretly went to the copyright unit to retrieve the melody of London Bridge, and released this song to sample Down to The Nightlub by Tower of Power in the early 1970s (I will not repeat the description of the sampling rights of the Apocalypse song later,

done by default). The current APLUS is different from the past. I heard that the group who sold the sampling rights to A+ records before, and Song Ya produced the annual Grammy single EmpireStateOfMind is so regretful. Now the outside copyright owner heard that Song Ya wanted to buy it. For the sampling rights, all of them have the idea of ​​​​slapping a big sum, for fear of being picked up again.

"Didn't you say it was for Fergie?" he asked Delay.

"Speaking of which, the quotation Dion Wilson received for buying samples is very fair, but almost all copyright owners have added a rule that once it is used in your single or adapted by you, the quotation must be greatly increased, and you must also participate in subsequent sales. into."

Delay was also a little helpless, "The track management of this song is Warner Music, and we can't take advantage of it."

"Then you tell them I don't need that song anymore, anyway, I'm not in a hurry."

Fergie's album won't be released until March next year, and it's too late to get the sampling rights before the end of this year.

"Do you think a company as big as Warner Music will be in a hurry?" DeLay smiled wryly.

Song Ya thought for a while, "Leave them alone, and I'll figure out a way." After giving Fergie two strong singles, he would not give the other party any sales cut.

"Okay." Delay went out, and Cassity came in with a cup of coffee.

"You don't have to do these things."

Song Ya looked at Kasiti, who was dressed as an office girl and was working on a summer job at A+ Records, and said with a smile: "Want to appear in Beautiful Girls? If you want to, you have to start dancing with Anne Fletcher."

"No, I can't dance."

Kasiti naturally sat in his arms, put her arms around his neck, "It's enough for me to know that you wrote that song for me."

"Good." Song Ya was very satisfied. Although the good girl was a little cautious, she was still very good and caring.

"Shall we go to the movies again in a few days?" Cassetti suggested affectionately, "I think you were a little absent-minded when you watched Black and White Dragon last time, right?"

"Well, I hate that male lead."

"Why?"

"It's a bit of a holiday with him." Song Ya didn't like the violent man Wesley Streep who beat a woman.

"That's it." Cassetti took out two tickets from her pocket, "Batman Returns Premiere on the 19th, how about we go to see it? Secretly, no reservations?"

"Number nineteen?"

Song Ya knows that American teenagers and even some adults like to watch comic hero movies with a long history, "Probably not." He flipped through the schedule, "I will probably hold a pre-MV preparatory meeting in Los Angeles on the 19th..."

"oh."

Kasiti took back the ticket, showed a slight disappointment, and then smiled, "Forget it, you have your career."

"That's good, why don't you go to Los Angeles with me? Let's watch in Los Angeles." Song Ya's heart softened.

"But I still have work for the fan organization here..." Kasiti hesitated.

"I am the boss."

When the two were getting bored, Kasiti knocked on the door and came in. She glanced at Kassiti who passed by and reported: "APLUS, the Billboard list forecast for the seventh week."

"Aren't you going to fall off the top spot?"

Song Ya knew it by looking at her face. She took the magazine and flipped through it. Sure enough, WhereIsTheLove is expected to fall to third place. Mariah Carey's Empire? State? Of? Mind? JumpJump remains stubbornly in second place.

"Mr. Motura..." Song Ya immediately called Motura to inquire about the situation.

"Six-week championship, it is estimated that it will continue to hover at a high level in the future, and the annual championship is probably also ours!"

His singers took the top three, and Motura was in a great mood, "Your album sold four million copies in six weeks!" He laughed: "Big star, you can spend as much money as you want! Go enjoy what you deserve !"

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