This star’s style is wrong

"This song was sent by... Pine Stone Records."

Hearing Xue Tao's question, the assistant quickly pulled out the records on his phone.

The music is still playing, when the dolphin sound of the interlude appears.

Xue Tao had goosebumps all over his body, and said quickly: "Quick! Contact Mr. Luo, call Songshi Records, and ask the producer of this song to come over to discuss cooperation. By the way, what is the name of this song?"

"Well, it's called..."Painting Heart"."

Since Xue Tao has done soundtrack work before, it can even be heard that the quality of this demo is higher than the industry average.

Zhuli hurried out to inform the producers of the film project, and then called Songshi Records.

These days, it’s because of the movie theme song.

Producer Luo Yuheng and director Xue Tao have quarreled countless times.

Luo Yuheng is a very hard-working person. When he was working as a producer, he sometimes lived in the office.

After hearing what the assistant conveyed, he rushed over immediately.

"I just heard from my assistant that we finally have a demo that you're satisfied with?"

Xue Tao didn't need to answer, because the demo of "Drawing Heart" was still playing in the conference room.

Luo Yuheng stood and listened for a while and said, "This song is really good, and the charm fits our movie story very well."

She commented, but did not make a decision immediately, but continued to listen quietly.

After all, I was choosing a theme song for a special effects blockbuster with an investment of over 100 million yuan, so I couldn't be careless at all.

This song is a bit long, over seven minutes.

After the song finished playing, Luo Yuheng looked at Xue Tao and asked, "You should be satisfied with this song, right?"

Although the two often quarrel due to their positions, they have been working together for almost a year.

Therefore, Luo Yuheng knew Xue Tao very well and knew that what he wanted was this kind of song.

"This song is good. I'll sign it with Songshi Records immediately. It doesn't matter if I spend a little more money. I'll find someone to record the song quickly." Xue Tao urged.

Since the project funds are managed by the producer, Luo Yuheng still has to agree to spend money.

"Okay, as long as you like this song, I will arrange for someone to talk to Songshi Records about the rest." Luo Yuheng was not as anxious as Xue Tao.

Anyway, the song is there, just talk about it according to the process.

Luo Yuheng thought for a moment, and since the director's requirements were relatively high, he asked again: "Do you have any ideas about the singer?"

"As long as you can sing the dolphin sound in the interlude of this song, it doesn't matter to me who you choose. Of course, you can't choose someone too bad. A young singer probably won't be able to win this song." Xue Tao replied.

"Okay, let's wait until the people from Songshi Records arrive and then discuss it with them." Luo Yuheng just asked Xue Tao's opinion first, not to decide on a candidate immediately.

For film and television songs like this, there is no necessary connection between the demo and the singer who finally sang the song.

To put it bluntly, the sample is just a trial package.

To give a singing demo is to record a trial version and show it to Party A who cannot read music scores, so that Party A can try out the melody of the song.

Therefore, record companies usually let unknown young singers in the company sing demos.

After all, how embarrassing would it be to have a famous singer sing a demo, and then switch to another singer to sing it when the official recording begins?

…

This afternoon.

Fang Xing is recording the Cantonese version of "Men Should Be Strong".

In fact, the Cantonese version of Lam Zixiang's "Men Should Be Strong" is more powerful and powerful.

In terms of singing, Lin Zixiang is simply terrifying. His real voice is C5, and he is inhumanly strong.

However, the Cantonese version still has certain limitations in terms of audience due to language.

It was also for this reason that Fang Xing chose to use the Mandarin version in the finals of "Tomorrow's Star".

Later, during the review stage, in order to attract votes, Liang Yusong promised that as long as Fang Xing won the championship, he would take out the Cantonese version of "Men Should Be Strong" as a thank-you gift and give it back to the audience for free.

Therefore, Fang Xing is still not making a penny while recording the Cantonese version of "Men Should Be Strong".

Fang Xing can be said to be the poorest top streamer at present, with only traffic and no money.

Of course, after singing so many songs, it’s not impossible to earn a penny.

For example, other singers have to pay to cover ten songs in "Tomorrow's Star".

"Tomorrow Star" broadcasts these ten songs, and Feifan Entertainment owns the live copyright of these ten songs.

In other words, Feifan Entertainment can freely use the live versions of these ten songs, but cannot perform adaptations and other operations.

The copyright of these ten songs belongs to Fang Xing.

If a singer wants to cover these ten songs, it is useless to find Feifan Entertainment. He must find Fang Xing.

Of course, Fang Xing will not take care of these matters personally, but will be handled by his manager Qiao Yinghong.

besides.

The sales figures for "Nocturne" and "Wild Birds" were very good, so they naturally made a lot of money.

However, the money was not bought by the audience, it would be in Fang Xing's hands immediately.

After songs are sold on major music platforms, there will be a repayment period, which can be as short as three months or as long as half a year.

After the money from song sales reaches the account of Songshi Records, Songshi Records will settle the accounts according to the share ratio.

Therefore, if Fang Xing wants to get the money for "Nocturnes" and "Wild Birds", it will take at least three months.

The Cantonese version of "Men Should Be Strong" was recorded around the same time.

Liang Yusong walked into the recording studio, stood outside the glass wall, and first asked the recording engineer: "How was the recording?"

The sound engineer gave a thumbs up and said, "Teacher Fang's vocal skills are incredible. It was no problem if I did it once, but it felt like I was being lazy, so I recorded it a few more times."

Liang Yusong raised his thumbs up and gestured toward the recording studio through the glass wall.

Fang Xing took off his headphones, came out of the shed, and asked, "Is something wrong?"

"There was a call from Jade Bird Media, saying they wanted us to come over at three o'clock in the afternoon to talk about the theme song." Liang Yusong said the matter directly.

"So fast? Didn't you just hand it over this morning?"

Fang Xing didn't expect the results to come out so soon. Usually, this kind of invitation to sing in a film or television drama would go back and forth for several months.

"Blue Bird Media didn't say whether they have decided on our song. However, since they asked us to go over and talk, it at least shows intention."

Jade Bird Media didn't give that detailed information on the phone, so Liang Yusong didn't know the progress.

"I've finished recording here, let's go over now." Fang Xing looked at the time. It was now two-twenty, which is a good time to go to Jade Bird Media.

…

After tidying up a little, Fang Xing and Liang Yusong took the company's business car to Jade Bird Media.

Jade Bird Media is a well-known company in the film and television industry and has produced many movies with box office exceeding 100 million.

Don’t look at the Spring Festival and National Day festivals every year, there are often movies with a box office of billions or billions.

But in fact, the film industry is not that easy to mess up.

Every year, less than one-tenth of the movies produced in China are released in theaters.

The emergence of online platforms has given many low-cost movies the opportunity to be screened online.

However, there are not as many film companies that can really make money as they appear on the surface.

Therefore, a company that can produce a movie with a box office of over 100 million yuan in one or two years is already very famous in the industry.

The film project prepared by Jade Bird Media for the National Day release this time has an investment of 150 million and is a large-scale production.

For this reason, the requirements for every detail are very high, and the theme song is naturally a top priority.

At two fifty in the afternoon.

Fang Xing, Liang Yusong, and Qiao Yinghong arrived at Jade Bird Media.

Luo Yuheng came out to greet them personally and enthusiastically brought the three of them to the conference room.

However, when he arrived at the conference room, Fang Xing found that there was another group of people in the conference room.

When Liang Yusong saw the group of people who had arrived first, he immediately smiled and stepped forward to shake hands and say hello: "Mr. Xu, long time no see. Come on, Fang Xing, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Xu Liren, the music director of Puxiang Records. Come on. Come and get acquainted.”

Fang Xing stepped forward and shook hands with Xu Liren: "Hello."

Xu Liren held onto Fang Xing's hand, looked up and down, and praised, "Young man, in the past few months, I can hear your name every day, it's like thunder in my ears."

"Mr. Xu, you're honored." Fang Xing responded with a smile and behaved appropriately.

"I'm very interested in some of the songs you sang on the show. If we have the opportunity, we can collaborate. The queen of our company likes your songs very much." Xu Liren said, stuffing two business cards into Fang Xing's breast pocket. .

Liang Yusong hurriedly pulled Fang Xing back to his side and said with a smile: "Fang Xing has taken on a lot of work now. When he finishes his work, he will definitely come to visit him."

After he finished greetings, he changed the subject and said, "By the way, is Puxiang here to talk about the movie theme song too?"

Luo Yuheng nodded and said, "Yes, we are here to talk about the movie theme song."

"That's it..."

Liang Yusong glanced at Xue Tao in the seat and said, "Then we came at an unfortunate time. Have you finished chatting? How about I go out and wait for a while?"

Luo Yuheng waved and said: "No, let's sit down and chat together. We are more interested in the demos sent by the two companies, so we plan to choose a theme song from them for the National Day movie.

"Time is tight, so we won't talk about each one individually. We will finalize the songs as soon as possible."

When Liang Yusong heard what the producer of Bluebird Media said, he pulled out his chair and sat down.

After everyone sat down, Xue Tao sat up straight, looked at Songshi Records, and asked: "Who is the producer of "Painting Heart"?"

Liang Yusong gestured to Fang Xing next to him: "Fang Xing is the producer. Of course, I will also check it. Don't worry about the quality of the songs."

The face of Songshi Records has always been Liang Yusong.

Many companies came to Songshi Records to cooperate because of Liang Yusong's name.

Therefore, if the producer of the songs provided by Songshi Records is a new person, Party A may not have enough confidence.

That's why Liang Yusong added that sentence: "I will also check."

But in fact, he knew very well that the songs produced by Fang Xing did not need his control at all.

However, he knows this, and Jade Bird Media does not.

Xue Tao began to look at Fang Xing again, his eyes full of curiosity: "A bit young."

He didn't know Fang Xing. Even though Fang Xing had become popular all over the Internet in the past three months, he couldn't help it. He was busy with the post-production of the movie and had no time to watch the show.

Liang Yusong has been in the entertainment industry for so many years, and he knew that Xue Tao didn't recognize Fang Xing. He smiled and said, "He is quite young. Maybe Director Xue has never seen a real person. However, have you heard of "The Lonely Warrior" and "Fireworks" recently? "Easy to Cold" these songs."

Xue Tao raised his brows, looked at the assistant beside him, and asked, "Does your phone 'blow' all day long? Fight!" Did he sing it? "

The assistant nodded quickly and whispered in Xue Tao's ear: "Yes, he is Fang Xing. He sang ten songs in "Tomorrow's Star" and became popular all over the Internet. "Nocturne" dominated the music chart for four weeks, and the first two The genius was defeated by SPK’s new song.”

Although Xue Tao rarely reads online platforms such as Weibo, he is not a primitive person.

He really doesn't watch talent shows like "Tomorrow's Star", but he still knows about music charts like Music Chart.

Dominating the Music Chart for four weeks, this achievement is very valuable.

Therefore, Xue Tao immediately looked at him differently after hearing this and said, "If that's the case, "Painting Heart" can be produced by you."

Hear this.

The expressions of the people at Puxiang Records nearby suddenly changed.

We haven’t even started talking yet, but the song has already been decided?

Luo Yuheng quickly interjected: "Director Xue, wait a minute, we have to consider Pu Xiang's "Starless Night"."

Puxiang Music Director Xu Liren chuckled and said, "Mr. Luo, there is no need to explain. It seems that Director Xue has taken a liking to Song Shi's songs."

He has been in the entertainment industry for so many years, so it's hard to tell.

Jade Bird Media called them over, obviously not interested in the songs, but treating them as tools to lower the price of loose stones.

However, Xue Tao's character is not that sophisticated. He just fell in love with "Painting Heart" and didn't want to talk about other songs.

Luo Yuheng was a little embarrassed and explained: "Mr. Xu, don't be anxious. This time I actually want Pu Xiang and Song Shi to cooperate. I hope that the queen Qi Xiuna will sing the theme song."

In the record industry, Puxiang Records is larger than Songshi Records.

One of the reasons is that Puxiang Records has a queen, Qi Xiuna.

Jade Bird Media chose a theme song for a major National Day production and naturally hoped to hire a diva to sing it.

In this way, during the publicity stage, you can also use the popularity of the queen to improve the publicity effect.

When Xu Liren heard this proposal, he became interested.

If Qi Xiuna, the popular queen, is allowed to sing, there will be more room for negotiation.

Puxiang may even consider co-financing with Bluebird Media to directly buy out "Painting Heart" and have it produced and distributed by Puxiang Records.

This situation is very common in the entertainment industry.

Because Jade Bird Media is Party A, under normal circumstances Party B will do whatever Party A says.

Fang Xing didn't want to do this, and said politely: "Sorry, I still want to decide the singer for this song."

Luo Yuheng was a little surprised, frowned and said, "Then Blue Bird just buy this song."

Fang Xing frowned and thought about it for a moment before saying, "Forget it, you guys think about other songs. I still want to make the decision myself on this song."

Luo Yuheng didn't expect this young man to have such a tough attitude.

Normally.

A new music producer like Fang Xing should be respectful when he has the opportunity to produce the theme song for a movie with an investment of over 100 million.

Seeing that Fang Xing's attitude was too tough, Liang Yusong was worried that the matter would collapse, so he quickly calmed down the atmosphere and said, "Don't worry, let's discuss a cooperation plan."

Luo Yuheng had dealt with Liang Yusong, so he naturally gave him a little more face. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "We hope that the theme song will be sung by Qi Xiuna, and we will record it as soon as possible and put it in the second trailer."

Liang Yusong turned to look at Xu Liren and said, "Otherwise, our Songshi Records will produce the song and Qi Xiuna will sing it. Is this plan okay?"

Xu Liren was actually not satisfied with this plan.

From his point of view, of course he hopes that the movie theme song will be released by his company.

Jade Bird Media didn't have that idea, as long as Qi Xiuna sang it and used it as the theme song of the movie.

Fang Xing interjected: "I originally wanted to choose the singer myself. If Jade Bird wants to choose a singer, that's fine. I will produce the song, and the singer will not participate in the share of the song's later profits."

Say it.

Luo Yuheng and Xu Liren widened their eyes at the same time.

Luo Yuheng found it a bit funny: "Mr. Liang, this new guy you signed is a bit awesome."

Of course, the "awesome" in her words didn't really mean a compliment.

Liang Yusong happily smoothed things over: "Newborn calves are a bit arrogant, Mr. Luo, don't worry, let's talk slowly."

Luo Yuheng shook his head and smiled, looked at Fang Xing and asked, "Young man, can you make the decision? Do you want to ask your boss first?"

Liang Yusong knew Fang Xing's temper very well, so he helplessly replied: "He can."

Luo Yuheng showed a surprised expression. He didn't expect Liang Yusong to indulge this young man so much.

She frowned, turned to Xu Liren from Puxiang Records, and asked, "Where's Mr. Xu? What's your opinion?"

Xu Liren leaned back in the swivel chair, pressed his fingers on his temples, thought for a moment, and said, "If the song is produced in Songshi, then we can only negotiate based on the market price. Qi Xiuna's minimum standard is 20% of the song."

This price is the price announced by Puxiang.

Of course, this does not mean that anyone who asks Qi Xiuna to sing the theme song will have to pay this price.

If it's a favor, or a friend asks her for help by swiping her face, there will be an additional friendship price.

But the price announced to the public is a 20% share.

Fang Xing thought about it for a while and said, "I'm sorry, I've actually already talked about a singer. If the singer I ordered is used, no additional money from Jade Bird Media will be required."

Luo Yuheng frowned and asked, "Which singer?"

"It's the one who sang the demo." Fang Xing replied.

When Xue Tao heard this, he directly agreed: "Okay, the sample is of a very high standard. I'll just dig into the details for the official version and that's it."

Luo Yuheng's expression dropped and he turned to look at Xue Tao.

The two have been arguing about the movie for almost a year.

Xue Tao said directly: "Anyway, this is my opinion. I agree with the singer who sang the demo. If Mr. Luo is not satisfied, you can do it yourself."

Luo Yuheng knew Xue Tao's temper very well. He sighed and asked, "Who is the singer who sang the demo?"

"Li Caiwei." Fang Xing replied.

Li Caiwei is a quasi-A-list singer, so of course Luo Yuheng has heard of it.

It's just that in recent years, Li Caiwei has rarely appeared on the show, so it makes people feel outdated.

However, as a quasi-first-line singer, Li Caiwei's singing skills are still acceptable.

Luo Yuheng looked at Xue Tao and asked, "Are you sure you want to use Li Caiwei?"

Xue Tao answered very simply: "I knew after listening to the demo that she can sing well. I also hope that Mr. Luo will not be an outsider and direct an expert. If Mr. Luo insists on interfering, then I will also express my attitude. I want this song." , it’s up to you how to buy it.”

This is not said politely at all.

Luo Yuheng had long been used to it, so he wasn't angry at all. He looked at Xu Liren and said, "I'm really sorry that Director Xue has decided on Li Caiwei. How about we talk again next time?"

"Then let's work together again next time."

Xu Liren stood up, shook hands with Luo Yuheng, then looked at Liang Yusong and congratulated: "Congratulations to Mr. Liang for winning this deal and signing such a great newcomer."