Chapter 833 Latin Storm

The industry generally knows the relationship between Motura and Mariah Carey at the time. After he was betrayed at the peak of his power and kicked out of Sony Columbia Records, he immediately faced a very unbearable rumor for men. The reason why women betrayed him was because of It's because he's not 'strong' enough.

This kind of speculation is very malicious and very 'normal', but it may cause more psychological trauma to men than career failure.

So Motura, who didn't think so much at the time, quickly found a new love, and regained his dignity through the new love's big mouth to "reveal". Later, he may have realized that this lace is not good for his personal image, and basically eliminated it through strong public relations. trace.

But these days, it is easy to leave evidence for what you say or do. Song Ya has kept the bottom line early, and it is just right when it comes out two years later.

He also intentionally allowed the tabloids to use the mouth of the third-rate actress to report Motura's evaluation of Mariah Carey. Of course, he did not report through his own Louise. California tabloids often "help each other". A trustworthy network of relationships has also been established.

"It's disgusting!"

Mariah Carey, who quickly fell from narcissism to the bottom of reality, was rummaging through the morning newspaper's comments on Xingmeng's tear stains. Unexpectedly, she ate this fly. She threw the newspaper on the ground angrily, "I must come at this time." Disgusting people!"

"Don't get too excited, it's not good for the fetus."

God Song Ya is putting down his coffee, hehe, Motura has made him dare not even try leveraged investment in the past two years, being forced to be so cautious, how could it be possible not to count every loophole? including her...

Knowing her by himself, this kind of news broke out, and now it is absolutely impossible for her to fall to Motura again.

"Get busy with your tour!"

She pushed Song Yaqiao's feet away from the coffee table, "I'm angry when I see you so leisurely!" She ordered the female assistant, "I'm going to participate in the ranking promotion with Boyz II man in the afternoon, and I'll run an extra show in the evening , Boyz II man also agreed to go!"

"Pay attention to the combination of work and rest..." Song Ya shouted to her busy back.

Motura's patience during this period made him see his weakness. According to the collective analysis of his subordinates, he is now facing an embarrassing situation. On the one hand, the accusations of discrimination are very serious. Neither Sony Entertainment, which relies on selling records and movie tickets, nor Sony Electronics, which sells mass electronic products, can be truly ignored. Executives in traditional industries such as chemicals are fine.

Sony should regret it a bit now,

They are hesitating.

On the other hand, Motura cannot fully rely on the strength of former CBS president Howard Stringer. Stringer has not yet officially joined the North Missoni president. Saying that Sony promised to "clean up" the house before he joined the job, it is like after kicking out Guber from Columbia Pictures, Sony immediately wrote off 2.7 billion bad debts, otherwise it would be difficult to have a reliable new manager willing Be like this home again.

At this juncture, I made a fuss, is the house clean now? No, why should Stringer care?

And in front of MJ, he is MJ's manager, isn't he afraid that MJ will replace him due to the pressure of public opinion? Although this is unlikely, because MJ already knew about the existence of that recording, but you have to spend energy to appease MJ, right?

Last night, Barry Siegel, the manager of the Elvis Presley Trust Company, still heard the words, but after he fired the first shot, there seemed to be no counterattack in the media.

He fell into a long exam.

"According to the plan?" Linda didn't ask until noon when she came to help pack her things, "I'm going to rehearsal in the afternoon, why not take it easy and focus on tomorrow's concert?"

"I still decided to follow the plan. The recording has been delayed for two years and the efficiency has been greatly reduced. Now the other party obviously wants to delay again, so I will not delay." Song Ya made a decision. He wanted to learn from Underwood's methods against himself. , in a triple threat pose.

New York, an old friend of Dingkins, the police commissioner of the city government took out a document in the office and ordered: "Isn't the recording that has been making a lot of noise recently in the case of Mariah Carey's wiretapping? I remember that the city government sent a special Prosecutor, why did you inexplicably close the case later?"

"It should be that no new evidence has been found." The subordinate replied.

"Take out the dossier, and I'll look at it again."

"This...isn't it good? The special prosecutor at the time was the mayor's..."

"Go tune it."

"OK."

At the same time, Scott, the president of A+ Clothing, personally supervised and shipped a batch of T-shirts into the warehouse closest to Manhattan. After Scout left, a white man appeared surreptitiously, and exchanged the money for a white T-shirt in Kuguan's hand. When he opened it, there was a striking red cross on the four letters SONY on the front chest. .

Local black activists also began to be organized by political forces under the Manhattan Help, and rumors of a major movement began to spread.

Former New York Mayor Dinkins implicitly criticized BET's performance in this discrimination incident in an interview program on the Washington branch of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation.

Then BET couldn't bear the pressure from its own people. Johnson ordered the special report that had been prepared to be discussed at the evening news preparation meeting. At the same time, he also greeted those who had asked to suppress the news in advance.

"The black equal rights leader Jesse Jackson took the opportunity to blackmail us through a middleman, what should we do?"

In the Sony Building, the news was gathered one by one. After listening to the report, Hirai immediately called and reported to CEO Idei who had already returned to the headquarters. After receiving the answer, he rushed to the home of Howard Stringer who was temporarily unemployed.

"APLUS, our action has finally paid off. Mr. Stringer took the initiative to ask me to meet in the past!"

Stringer was finally willing to meet Daniel before taking office, and he excitedly called Song Ya, "We'll talk about everything after I finish talking with him!"

"Okay, Daniel, don't forget what I did for you." Song Ya hung up the phone with a smile.

However, Stringer not only invited Daniel, but also Motura at the same time, so that the two did not directly meet each other.

"Daniel, please sit down."

The former CBS president is a senior media person who was born as a reporter. He has won nine Emmy Awards alone. He adjusted his glasses and said while observing Daniel: "You know, I haven't entered the role yet. This time we just Just chatting, I don't know much about the record business, I can't do much."

"You are too humble, Mr. Stringer." Daniel complimented: "You are an idol in the media industry, but also mine."

"What do you think of the record industry in the future? Let me first talk about my superficial understanding. Now the distribution company is very difficult, right? On the one hand, record sales data continues to decline, and on the other hand, artist signing fees and marketing costs are getting higher and higher... "

"Is such that."

Daniel can naturally feel that the other party is trying to compare, knowing that this is his last chance, he replied after gathering his composure: "The salary allocation of artists needs to be continuously and reasonably adjusted. We and the other five major record companies are planning to jointly lower the salary. Especially the signing bonus, it will no longer make it easy for them to take advantage of the competition between us to blackmail, and the news of the huge signing bonus of top singers hitting new highs year after year will no longer appear. Of course, I will not be so rude, just like Hollywood in recent years It’s the same as saying that we started to hype the 20 million club, we will fix the signing bonus range of the top singers, but publicize it as a good thing, a kind of honor.”

"As for the sales income, there is actually one root cause, the increasingly rampant piracy, including the emerging piracy model on the Internet. I also led an alliance, led by Mr. Bronfman Jr. of Universal Music, and forced the government to formulate strict regulations. The Copyright Act has only just started, and I believe that if you give me some more time, this matter will be fundamentally reversed."

"Very good, very good." Stringer was very interested and nodded his approval frequently.

"Tommy, what do you think of the future of the recording industry?"

After Daniel left the house excitedly, he asked Motura the same question.

"To grasp the trend of music, we are always ahead of the people. As long as our profitability ranks among the top six, then all the troubles of declining income and rising artist salaries will belong to others. This is like counter-cyclical investment in the industry. The burden has nothing to do with how much money I can earn. For example, I earned one yuan last year and ten yuan this year. As a manager, I doubled the company's profit tenfold, but my competitor earned one hundred yuan this year. I will continue to lag behind. And if I lose ten yuan this year and others lose one hundred, then I will win too! Maybe I can take the opportunity to initiate an acquisition." Motula replied.

"Very good, very good, how do you grasp the music trend? Can you grasp it?" Stringer asked.

"Of course I can," Motura replied.

"New R&B? Or rock revival? I'm an old school guy, I like rock, not hip-hop," Stringer laughs.

"neither."

Motura was categorical, "It's a Latin storm!"