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Ding-ling-ling!

"What's up?"

Under the sunshade by the pool, Link put down the Hemingway collection in his hand and answered the phone on the table.

The call was from Evaka, who told him that the response to "Sorry" was good after its release, and asked him if he wanted to create a "breakup album" with the themes of "cheating", "apology", "broken love", and "single man" for his next album?

Link knew that she was teasing him, so he told her that he couldn't make up enough songs for an album after only breaking up once, and he would wait until he broke up a few more times.

"OK, let's not talk about the album first. How are you and Taylor?"

"You care about this?"

"Of course, I'm the president of Link Music. I need to know your current emotional state, and then formulate the next promotion strategy based on your situation. If I don't know the situation, I will make wrong decisions and waste the company's funds."

"Well, I don't know how to answer this question. I apologized to Taylor yesterday and got her forgiveness. I persuaded her to come back, and she said she needed a day to think about it. So the relationship between Taylor and me is like a cat in a box. Whether to break up or get together, we have to wait for Taylor to speak."

"So you worked overtime last night to produce "Sorry" to move Taylor and give Taylor a reason to come back? I didn't expect you to be a very affectionate scumbag."

"Thank you for your compliment."

Link smiled helplessly.

Evaka continued to say that if Taylor agreed to get back together, remember to tell her. If she didn't agree, she should also tell her that this is her job content.

Link said he knew.

After hanging up the phone, he looked at his phone.

Taylor still has not responded, but the new song "Sorry" released this morning has been listened to more than 1.04 million times on iTunes, and the paid download volume has reached 47,000 copies, easily topping the iTunes daily download chart.

In the comment section, fans have positive comments on this song.

Some people say that although he is a bit of a scumbag, his creative ability is second to none in the music industry, and they advise him to cheat more and write more good songs.

Some people thanked him, saying that he was just caught cheating by his girlfriend and didn't know how to apologize, and it would be much easier with this song.

Some people also said that this song can be compared to the famous apology song "Apologize" by the band "Same Body Republic".

His Twitter account is also very lively.

Fans have posted comments saying that the new song is very nice, saying that he is very powerful and the best singer in the pop music industry.

There are also tens of thousands of fans who went to Taylor's Twitter to apologize on his behalf, saying that he just made a mistake that a normal man would make, and hoped that Taylor would not care too much.

This incident was also reprinted and reported by online media, saying that the idol cheated and broke up, and tens of thousands of fans apologized for him, which is also unique in the entertainment industry.

Ding Dong!

The phone received a message from Taylor.

"I'm sorry, I thought about it all night, but I still can't accept your cheating."

Seeing this message, Link almost crushed the phone. He said so much and did so much yesterday, but what he waited for was just a "sorry"?

Link: "I promise I will never cheat again."

Taylor: "The book says that men cheat only once and countless times. At the Grammy Awards, you messed around with other women backstage after just 20 minutes of not seeing each other. In the future, when you go out to hold concerts, we will be apart for a week, a month or even longer. It's hard to imagine how many times you will cheat."

Link: "The first two times were accidents."

Taylor: "Link, stop quibbling. Even if you don't cheat, every time you leave, I can't help but think about it. I feel very painful when I think of you messing around outside. Can you understand that feeling?"

Link is helpless. Taylor is too opinionated. Once such a person makes up his mind, ten cows can't pull him back.

Taylor sent another message: "Link, I'm sorry, you are a good man, strong and brave, humble and kind, and the best boy in the world. I know that I will regret leaving you in the future, but for the sake of my dream, I have to leave you. You are too good, it is easy for me to indulge in it. Your protection and care for me will also make me lose my desire for freedom. I love you, but I love music more."

Link: "Okay, let's break up!"

Link was a little disappointed. He thought that what he said yesterday could impress Taylor and turn the game around, but Taylor was stronger than he thought and more decisive.

Taylor: "Link, you are very talented in music. I hope you can continue to sing and compose, and write more good songs. Don't give up music easily because of me. That's a pity."

"Let's talk about it later."

Link threw down his phone, put on goggles, jumped into the blue pool, swam back and forth for more than ten laps, and his body was much cooler.

After getting up, he saw Ms. Anna standing on the shore with a work bag in her hand.

"Anna, is there anything?"

Link asked, drying his hair with a towel.

Ms. Anna nodded, "It's about Usher's new album. They said in the previous promotion that this album was carefully crafted and took more than two years to produce. They also hired 15 gold medal producers to co-produce it.

Originally, they expected the first week sales of this album to exceed 1 million copies, but the result was only 410,000 copies, far below expectations.

Rolling Stone magazine and other professional media have commented on this album as substandard. The album structure is sparse, and there is no connection between the songs. It seems that many songs are pieced together. The overall quality is much worse than your love album.

But in the CBS night talk show yesterday, Usher, Kanye West, producer Jermaine Dupri, The Runners and others pointed the finger at you.

They said that every time you release a new album, you will create news, hype it up, disrupt the distribution market, and drive out good money with bad money, so that many excellent albums cannot achieve good results, and many excellent musicians cannot survive in the music industry.

Kanye West also said that you are a big poisonous weed in the music industry and hope that fans will no longer support you.

Coincidentally, you tweeted sorry in the morning, and Kanye, Usher and others retweeted your tweet one after another, saying that you realized your mistakes and apologized to them. Even though many fans pointed out that you were apologizing to Taylor, they insisted on their original statement. "

Link was very upset when he heard this. These guys were clearly trying to get attention. They didn't care about their face in order to sell albums.

"Usher and Kanye are both signed artists under SB Entertainment. What does Scooter say? "

"Usher and Kanye signed a personal brand marketing contract with SB Entertainment, which is a type of commercial agency contract. Their record contracts are all with Jay-Z's Roc Nation Records, and SB Entertainment cannot interfere in this regard.

However, I have contacted Mr. Braun, and he thinks that this form of hype is also good for us, just like last year when you and Jay-Z competed for the charts, attracted a lot of media coverage, and finally your albums both sold well."

Ms. Anna said.

"Okay, then don't worry about it, let them hype it up."

Link nodded and continued to read on the bench.