The New Era Art Center was established in 2001. It is located between Haidian Park and Beijing University, covering an area of nearly 700 acres. It is one of the key art and culture construction projects in Beijing.
After more than ten years of development, the New Era Art Park has gathered a large number of well-known domestic film and television, music, literature, and art production units, as well as thousands of large and small companies and studios, making it a gathering place for humanity.
The famous Flying Stone Records is located in the New Era Art Park.
In the conference room, Lin Zhijie rubbed his brows tiredly, with a hint of irritability in his eyes.
Sitting around the conference table with him were the vice president of Feishi Records, the manager of the agency department, the manager of the public relations department, several agents and several composers and arrangers from the production department. It could be said that they were all in one place.
The theme of this morning's meeting was the planning of the first album of the girl group MSN, which was just formed by Flying Stone Records.
The msn girl group has a total of three members. m.s.n represents the initials of the three people's names. They are all around 20 years old, and they are both outstanding in appearance and singing skills.
Lin Zhijie was the initiator of the meeting, but he obviously could not fully control the situation.
There was a lot of opposition to the album planning plan made by the music director, very big!
The occurrence of such a situation was somewhat beyond Lin Zhijie's expectations, but he has always been a perseverant character and never flinched when encountering difficulties.
"I would like to emphasize again that inviting Lu Chen to help produce this album was the right choice. His talent in creation is obvious to all and he is trustworthy."
msn is a girl group recently launched by Flying Stone Records to cater to the young people market.
For this established record company, the establishment of this girl group was not easy. The two girl groups they launched a few years ago ended in failure, causing considerable losses to the company.
As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, you will be scared for ten years. If groups were not so popular now, popular boy groups and girl groups are making a lot of money. I am afraid that Flying Stone Records would not have decided to form a new girl group again.
The three members of msn were all personally selected by Lin Zhijie. In order to make this group an instant hit, he teamed up with the planning department to develop a complete publicity plan.
The most important thing is msn's first album!
As a result, Lin Zhijie did not expect that his plan would encounter such great resistance within the company.
"Director Lin"
Yi Xiangjun, vice president of Feishi Records, smiled and said: "Lu Chen is indeed an excellent singer and songwriter. But his works are mainly folk songs, which is not suitable for MSN's style positioning, and"
The middle-aged woman in her 40s tapped the table with her fingers and emphasized: "The price for one of his songs is 350,000. Who can we not pay such a price? And I believe there are several authors in the company.
Be able to produce a sufficiently outstanding work.”
She looked at the three composers and arrangers who were signed to Feishi Records. There was encouragement in her eyes.
The latter all straightened their backs, and one of them, a gentle man wearing black-rimmed glasses, nodded and said: "As long as the company needs it, our colleagues will do our best to produce good works."
After a pause, he said in an unquestionable tone: "At least it won't be worse than others!"
This man's name is Fan Jun. He is the chief contracted writer of Feishi Records. He is a well-known composer and arranger in the industry. He has written many outstanding works, but in recent years, few excellent works have been released.
Fan Jun has been cooperating with Feishi Records for nearly 20 years. He has a high status in this old record company, and with Yi Xiangjun's support, he really is not afraid of going against Lin Zhijie.
Moreover, Fan Jun was very dissatisfied with Lin Zhijie's album planning project.
Lin Zhijie's idea was to invite outsiders to supervise the production of msn's first album and compose the title song, and let several of their senior writers serve as assistants.
If someone from the industry was invited, Fan Jun wouldn't have any idea.
What the hell is Lu Chen?
A newcomer who just debuted and was lucky enough to have an album that sold well dared to offer an astonishing price of 350,000 for an album. He really didn't know how high the sky was.
Fan Jun was not convinced no matter what. He had been working in this industry for so many years and his achievements were well known. How could he be willing to succumb to a junior?
If Lin Zhijie really insists, he will have the guts to turn over the table and make a living wherever he goes!
"Yeah yeah"
Fan Jun was very assertive, and others agreed one after another. They put forward various reasons for their opposition.
Their reasons are nothing more than that Lu Chen's asking price is too high, his qualifications are too low, his creative style is wrong, etc.
He almost pointed at Lin Zhijie’s nose and said he was playing the piano randomly.
Lin Zhijie's face was as dark as water.
As one of the largest record companies in China, Feishi Records has experienced prosperity and recession, almost went bankrupt and was reborn from the ashes. It is really not easy to survive until now.
In recent years, Feishi Records has been pursuing innovation and change, and has adapted to the development of the times. It has worked hard to compete for market share with emerging entertainment media companies, and has achieved considerable results.
But the competition in this industry is too fierce. In the eyes of outsiders, Feishi Records is a large and powerful company, but Lin Zhijie is very aware of the company's current problems.
The first is the phenomenon of singers and artists being idle.
There are quite a few singers signed to Feishi Records, and there are several on the front line, but all of them are old people who came from the 1980s and 1990s. They are too conservative but not enterprising enough, and lack enough appeal among young people.
Of course, the company also attaches great importance to the training of new people, but so far, no one can take the lead!
It was under such circumstances that Lin Zhijie single-handedly promoted the establishment of msn.
Yet he underestimated the resistance from within the company.
Lin Zhijie knew that as a music director, he had touched the interests of some people and was therefore considered to have gone too far.
Encountering opposition is inevitable!
Buzz~
At this moment, the mobile phone placed on the table suddenly vibrated.
Lin Zhijie picked up the phone and took a look, his expression changed a little.
"Sorry, I'll take a call first."
He immediately got up and left the conference room to answer the phone.
The atmosphere in the conference room relaxed, Yi Xiangjun chatted with several department managers, and Fan Jun chatted and laughed with the singers' managers, looking like he was confident of winning.
With everyone so fiercely opposed, Lin Zhijie's plan was bound to fail.
Everything will return to its original track.
After a while, Lin Zhijie came back.
He did not sit down again, but shook his phone at everyone and said, "Put this matter aside for now!"
Yi Xiangjun frowned and said, "Director Lin, isn't this bad? Everyone is very busy. I think it's better to finalize the new plan first to avoid wasting time. The company will be on National Day holiday tomorrow!"
She thought Lin Zhijie was playing a trick of delaying time in order to win the support of the company's senior management.
Lin Zhijie smiled and said: "I also want to settle it. But Miss Chen Filia is coming over soon. I believe everyone knows that her new album will be produced in our company."
The cooperation between Filia Chen and Flying Stone Records has been going on for a long time. Any album of the former is extremely important to Flying Stone Records, and there is no room for neglect.
Yi Xiangjun was able to weigh the weight of this.
But she still had doubts: "Director Lin, is Ms. Filia Chen here for her new album?"
I haven’t seen any notice from the company!
Lin Zhijie nodded and said, "Yes, she came here with Lu Chen, because Miss Chen Filia has selected two songs written by Lu Chen for her as the first and second hits of the new album!"
What?!
Everyone present was shocked.
Filia Chen actually used Lu Chen's work as the title song of her new album, and there are two songs at that!
She is a diva-level celebrity!
How virtuous and capable is Lu Chen?
Fan Jun suddenly felt that his face was burning and he was a little embarrassed.
Fan Jun has known about Filia Chen's new album for a long time.
Fan Jun even had the ambitious idea of composing the title song for this album. Once it can be realized, his career and reputation will undoubtedly reach a new level.
But Fan Jun also knows very well that he doesn't have enough celebrity status. Composing songs and arranging songs for Filia Chen's new album may be a first-come-first-served opportunity, but it is basically a delusion to create the main song.
He never expected that Filia Chen's title song would actually choose a work by Lu Chen, whom he disdained.
In addition, Lu Chen can compose the title song for Filia Chen, so it is no problem to produce the MSN album.
All their previous objections turned into a joke!
Both Fan Jun and Yi Xiangjun felt like they were slapped in the face.
Seeing the ugly looks on these people's faces, Lin Zhijie felt really happy.
Filia Chen's assistant informed him yesterday that Filia Chen would come to Feishi Records this morning.
Lin Zhijie also just found out the reason why Filia Chen came to the company.
To be honest, he was also very surprised. He couldn't figure out why Filia Chen chose Lu Chen.
With Filia Chen's status in the industry, top authors can invite her casually, and few creators can refuse her.
You must know that with this album, Filia Chen has the idea of transformation. Its production must be very difficult, and once it is successful, its influence will be huge!
What song did Lu Chen write that impressed this sweet song queen?
Lin Zhijie is really curious!
But on the surface, he remained calm and said: "We will postpone the discussion on the MSN album plan. I will go to greet Miss Chen Filia first. Do you want to come with me, Mr. Yi?"
This time no one raised any objections, and the composers and arrangers all looked at each other.
Yi Xiangjun felt like he had swallowed a fly and couldn't even spit it out.
She could only force out a smile: "Then let's go together."——
The first girl group is about to debut, and the protagonist will embark on the road of no return in the harem (Happy April Fools' Day)
ps: Never complain about the name msn (*^__^*)
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