Chapter 34 Control Everything

Song Ya was not dazzled by Daniel's praise this time, he calmly considered Daniel's bottom line, and finally decided to board Daniel's boat again.

The entertainment industry of this era still retains many ancient rules. Just like singers have managers, record companies also have a mechanism for connecting with signed singers. Of course, different companies have slightly different ways of playing, but they are generally the same. Daniel made the bottom line very clear. Mira's mother must transfer Mira to his banner. As a partner of SBK, although Old Joe Music and the others are not bound by this rule, since it was Daniel who facilitated this If they cooperate this time, they should also tacitly support Daniel.

Old Joe is easy to deal with, and it’s not a big problem for Lowry and Pablo to be connected by Tony. When there is no conflict of interest, it is still very effective to talk about "family" and "brotherhood" among black people.

All that remains is to win over Mira's mother. If she cannot be lured into betraying her, the song FXXXYOU will have nothing to do with Mira...

After all, the most important red line hanging over Song Ya's head is the timing given by Michelle, and the first priority is to hurry up and release the single.

He and Hayden stayed in New York to settle the copyright first (the content of copyright will not be repeated in the future), and using the limited legal and accounting assistance provided by BMI to members, he signed a contract with SBK on single production. As an employee of SBK, he officially became the producer of FXXXYOU's single, and at the same time enjoyed about 3% of the income from this part, plus 6% from the lyrics and music, a total of 15%.

It took about a week to finish these things, Song Ya changed her outfit and officially started work.

Hayden was already waiting in SBK's recording studio, and the meeting was just a flattery, "You dressed very smartly today, have you finally bid farewell to second-hand goods?"

"Really? Thanks, this is New York, I don't want to be laughed at."

Song Ya touched the brown denim leather jacket on his body. There were flamboyant tassels on the front of the jacket and from the elbows to the cuffs. He matched it with a black T-shirt inside, and the Japanese Chinese character '気気' was painted on the chest of the T-shirt. (No continental fonts are sold), the lower half is ordinary blue jeans and classic Converse canvas shoes, the whole set is actually only more than one hundred dollars. He stole this collocation from the original MV in the second-hand store in his mind. Since the apocalypse comes from the future, and the future must be fashionable, it must be right to wear it this way.

Hayden let him into the recording studio. This recording studio was not much bigger than the old Joe's music room, and the layout was exactly the same, but the equipment was much more advanced. It was definitely enough for the current main singer's audition work.

"Come on, let me introduce, this is Lisa."

Standing in the control room was a young Caucasian woman with upper-middle appearance, wearing a standard white-collar women's suit, holding a thick document in her hand, she could only nod and smile, "Hi, APLUS, I'm Lisa, in Will be in charge of all paperwork and coordination while the single is in production."

"This is Isco..."

Sitting in front of the mixing console was a young Caucasian man with a rock style. He flicked his long hair, looked back at Song Ya, then propped his feet on the ground, let the roller office chair slide for a certain distance, and came to Song Ya. He stretched out his hand expressively.

"Hello." Song Ya smiled and shook hands with him.

Isco slid back to the radio.

"The one inside is Delay, the keyboard player..."

In the recording studio, the white man who was wearing headphones and playing the accompaniment of FXXXYOU smiled kindly at Song Ya.

Song Ya beckoned, "So what is today's work schedule?" He asked Lisa.

"Today is the first round of audition, here is the list." Lisa took out a document from her arms and handed it to Song Ya.

"So many people?" The list was very long, covering three pages.

Song Ya took it and counted it, and there were more than seventy names, and Milla Jovovich was not found in it...

"What's going on?" Whether you want to get Mira or lure Mira's mother to betray her, you need to put pressure on the other party first, and put Mira in the first round of the fiercely competitive sound audition. It was Song Yazao. The strategy agreed with Hayden.

Hayden tilted his head and signaled to go out to talk. Song Ya followed him outside to a place where there was no one else, "Mila's mother found a relationship and moved her to the second round." Hayden gave a name, which was competing with Daniel The executive in the manager position.

"Daniel is only the vice president. The internal relationship of SBK is more complicated than we imagined. The list has changed a lot since I got it, not only Mira..." Hayden went back to Lisa and asked for another document, "You Look at this second round of audition list."

In addition to Daniel's favorite female singer and the list of three people who had already made accompaniment, five handwritten names with different handwritings were added below, and Milla Jovovich was one of them.

"FXXX!" Song Ya's good mood was completely ruined when she came, "Damn office politics."

"No way, this kind of big company cannot do without office politics." Hayden said: "Fortunately, it doesn't affect the overall situation."

"I hate being caught in the boring vortex of office politics again." Song Ya rubbed the center of her brows in distress.

"Again?" Hayden heard something wrong in this sentence.

Huh? Why should I say goodbye? Song Ya shook her head, "It's just a slip of the tongue, there are too many people on the list for the first round, is SBK's appeal so strong?"

"This is New York. Ever since Madonna earned a huge amount of money for Warner, countless record companies want to have their own trendy DIVA (diva). SBK signed Mira the year before last, and they probably have similar ideas. Mira is beautiful and a child star. Has a certain status in the fashion industry and can sing, if not for her bad temper and greedy parents, she is indeed a good seed. There is a serious oversupply of white girls in the market, and any song suitable for them will be snatched head."

Hayden nodded with his fingers at the last few names added to the second-round list, "This song of yours is not difficult to sing and has something to do with peace, and the female swearing songs have a good topicality... Or the same sentence, here It’s New York, and when the news gets out, there will always be people with good backgrounds who will see the opportunity one step ahead.”

"Oversupply..." Song Ya shook his head and laughed, "You make it look like human trafficking."

"You don't know, when the manager has a bunch of unknown people, it really feels like human trafficking, and it's still the kind that can't be sold." Hayden smiled wryly, he has a say in this matter.

The two didn't think of any good solution, so they had to go back to the control room.

"In the fourth quarter, can you handle it more simply?" Isco was making suggestions into the microphone.

"OK, I'll try again." Delay in the recording studio started playing again.

Song Ya's face darkened, Isco just ignored him, and dared to point fingers at his own song.

He goes out again, wandering slowly inside SBK, trying to calm down.

"Give up, your girl is black, she won't pass the first round." Walking to a secluded place, a man's words caught his attention.

"You idiot, don't you know? The songwriter and producer of this song is APLUS from Chicago. He is a black man! According to the principle of one drop of blood." Another woman retorted, " Your girls will be useless, there are so many white girls here today."

"What! APLUS is a black man!?" The man's tone was obviously panicked.

"It's time for you to update your news sources." The woman said triumphantly, "Black people will definitely favor their own people."

Taking advantage of the two agents not noticing him, Song Ya turned and left.

"Enough is enough, I hate the feeling that I can't control everything!" He rushed to the recording studio and pulled Hayden out, and said in a deep voice, "Help me make an appointment with Daniel again."

"Hey...you are still young, and you will get used to the complexity of society after experiencing it a few times. Everything is a process of compromise." Hayden laughed instead. He misunderstood Song Ya's meaning and flicked the The first round of the list, "For the more than seventy girls on this list, you are already a big shot, whoever you like, as long as you say a word, no, a hint, most of them will strip naked Go to your bed. I went to the waiting room to see, among those who came in the morning, there are people who are not inferior to Mira in appearance and body, so why are you so ignorant?"

"BULLSHXT!"

Song Ya swears, "The real big shot wants to X who X who, if X can't reach another goal, will it be a big shot? Call you!"

He rushed Hayden to call, and dialed the old Joe's number himself, "Boss, are you already running a publicity campaign? That... Is Eric free? I want to borrow him for a while...Okay , thank you boss."

The next day, standing at the door and looking at the back of Isco who was leaving with a cardboard box, Song Ya said to Eric beside him, "I'll leave this place to you, Eric."

"Thank you APLUS, thank you for giving me this opportunity." Eric was very excited, walked into the control room and started playing with the mixer.

"The equipment here is very new, do you know how to use it?"

"No problem, it's just that there are some new functions. I get familiar with it very quickly."

"By the way, don't touch any girls here without my permission. This is New York, not Southside Chicago."

"I see."

"very good."

After the conversation ended, Song Ya looked at the list in his hand with satisfaction. Mira's name reappeared in the first round of the audition. The corners of his mouth curled up and he sneered slightly.

"By the way, you can watch MTV later." Eric reminded.

There is a small TV in the control room. Song Ya turned it on on time and switched to the MTV channel. The familiar music sounded, which was her song "Second-Hand Shop".