Chapter 47

Saying goodbye to Cooper, Song Ya went to buy his new album CD to listen to. The whole album is full of women, drugs, money, street gangs and violence, typical gangsta rap. It seems that in the face of accusations from the black community that he is "not enough for the street", he chose a more street way to deal with it, and none of the records or movies were left behind.

With the hot sale of singles in the second-hand store, it is inevitable that Lao Qiao and Little Lowry will mention themselves in interviews. Now people outside know that APLUS, the songwriter of the second-hand store, is a good boy with good character and learning. This is a compliment , but to some extent it will also create a gap with some black groups, such as Cooper is now facing.

Not to mention that the black music circle in New York has already had a "misunderstanding" with themselves.

"Don't learn from him."

During the flight, Hayden took off his earphones, "These things that Cooper sang will attract the attention of law enforcement agencies. I heard that in some places, white drug enforcement officers will secretly stuff 'gifts' into black cars that they don't like. If you are not careful, your life will be over."

"I will not."

Song Ya has been very careful since crossing. She doesn't drive without a driver's license. She even tries to avoid small conflicts on campus. She participates in high-level affirmative action activities, which is completely opposite to Cooper.

But Cooper's theory does make sense, gathering the power of black DJs to influence the rankings of the billboards, and then "bring goods" to sell records...

Song Ya simulated it carefully in her mind, and felt that this set of things could not be played by herself. It was very simple. The black DJs in small and medium-sized radio stations had low income and poor overall quality. If you only rely on money to maintain the relationship with them, The voracious appetites of these people will soon be overwhelmed. Unless, like Old Joe, he has a gang background and behind the carrot of money there is an invisible big stick of deterrence, the combination of the two can make those DJs obedient. And even Old Joe can only have two servings of thin noodles in Chicago, and he has a full head as if he went to New York.

"Have a gang background, have a certain reputation in the local black community, especially in the music circle, and have a lot of capital." Song Ya simply outlined a character who can do things, "Even this kind of person can only be a regional Sexual, after all, gangs are very regional, the east coast, west coast, the central area where Chicago is located, and the south... At least four to five powerful people must work together..."

"What am I doing, organizing a mafia?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, shaking the thought out of his head.

Returning to New York this time, Song Ya went directly to SBK's best recording studio, 'Oak Barrel'.

'Oak Barrel' is named after the oak-colored strip sound-absorbing design in the recording studio. It is the most advanced recording studio in SBK. .

Mira in the shed was wearing headphones and shaking her body slightly with the music. She didn't notice Song Ya's arrival outside at all. It could be seen that she was in good condition. SBK even moved a small tall bar with beautiful cups on it. For the cocktail, she bit the straw from time to time and took a sip.

In front of the wide mixing console, there are two top-level tuners inside SBK, and the white man, Eric and Al, are helping each other next to them.

"APLUS? Those two new synth sounds you came up with are good. At first I thought Delay had messed up the synthesizer settings." Maybe it was Daniel's warning that the two mixers only talked about work-related things, and treated Both Eric and Al were polite enough to keep their distance and couldn't fault it at all.

"Thank you." Song Ya shook hands with them, "How is the recording?"

"The rehearsal effect is good. In fact, we already have a few satisfactory versions, just waiting for you." A tuner took out a few CDs from the CD rack in front of him.

"Then let's listen." Song Ya said.

"Okay." He put the CD into the record player.

Song Ya picked the version closest to the original song,

Then I made a few comments, all of which were very subtle.

"That's a good idea. Let's fix it according to what you want." Another tuner agreed. He turned on the microphone and said to the inside: "Take a break for a while, and then we will modify the following places..."

It was only at this time that Mira discovered Song Ya's arrival, and she smiled happily. First, she blew a kiss through the glass, then rushed out and threw herself into Song Ya's arms, "Honey, I miss you so much."

"Me too." Song Ya kissed her forehead.

Everyone else in the recording studio is busy with their own business, without looking sideways.

But a call came in immediately, "Daniel wants to see you." Eric reminded Song Ya after answering the phone: "He changed offices, but they are still on the original floor."

By the way, Daniel's title has changed from SBK Marketing Vice President to SBK Vice President and General Manager.

Song Ya was delighted to hear it.

"APLUS! Come in, watch the ground."

Daniel's new office is very large, with the invincible skyline outside the window. Many workers are moving in cardboard boxes one by one. The female assistant silently takes out items from the cardboard boxes and puts them on the cabinet by the wall, while he is playing golf leisurely. , There is even an indoor miniature fairway on the floor. With the slight swing of his club, the white golf ball slowly rolls down the fairway into the hole.

"Congratulations, Daniel." Song Ya complimented.

"Haha, thanks, how's the record?" He took out the golf ball from the hole and put it back to its original position.

"I am very satisfied, and I feel that it will be fine with a slight modification."

"Perfect!" The ball went into the hole again, "After the recording of this song is finished, we will immediately start the promotional schedule. By then... APLUS, you have to adapt to the change of role."

"I understand, I have to go back to school." Song Ya knew that when this single was recorded, his first producer career would come to an end, and the follow-up promotion was SBK's business. He could give advice, but No real power to intervene.

"Haha, I almost forgot, you are still a high school student." Daniel laughed.

The two chatted casually, and Song Ya found a magazine opened on the desk behind Daniel, which happened to reveal a color photo of Mariah Carey.

"You know him?" Daniel noticed something strange after looking a little longer.

"I met her by chance in Detroit yesterday." Song Ya replied, he didn't want to mention to Daniel that he had met Motura.

"The Palace of Auburn Hills?" Daniel turned the golf club upside down and tapped the handle on Mariah Carey's photo. The big music media, it seems that Motura is touting her as the next DIVA. Huh! He also made up a story about Cinderella, saying that he met at a banquet, a joke! For Mariah Carey, he and Warner Records spent 350,000 dollars in the bidding alone! Then it took two years of intensive training, what happened this year? It’s all because of this woman and I want to divorce my wife.”

After breaking the gossip, he sneered and said, "Warner has Madonna and Cher, BMG has Whitney Houston, Polygram has Janet Jackson and Paula, but Columbia's Barbra Streisand is getting old, they can't sit still anymore! "

"Motura looks down on you, you look down on Motura, that sentence is true, colleagues are enemies!" Song Ya complained silently, and wanted to ask him who is in SBK, but held back, I heard that SBK's owner EMI and Columbia Records have a lot of grievances, so be careful not to irritate him.

"Not surprisingly, Mariah Carey's single will top the Billboard, but our second-hand store's momentum is not good. It is estimated that it will drop a dozen places in the sixth week."

Daniel got back to the topic, "It's time for Little Lowry to make some news and get attention... When we fall out of the top 50 in the future, we will release the studio version of the second-hand store, and next time we will make a dance music remix version... In short Be sure to stay in the top 50 on the bulletin board long enough."

"Is this the so-called grinding list?" Song Ya asked.

"grind!"

Daniel was categorical, "Grind until there is nothing to grind, and then we will throw out Little Lowry's garbage album to make the last profit."

"Isn't this what Motura said about overdrafting the singer's future?... It seems that Motura's words are not right. Although Daniel's strategy can sell well in a short time, the audience after Little Lowry I'm afraid it will be difficult..." Song Ya thought to herself.