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Harakami no longer wants to recall how much talk he spent trying to convince those European and American producers, but he especially remembers Barlow's ambiguous attitude towards his proposed cooperation at the time.
The depressed mood due to the previous copyright dispute was easily improved at this moment. His eyes were so sharp that he could almost burn holes in the computer screen. He read the letter of intent from the beginning to the end, and then from the end to the beginning, every word.
Consider, analyze every sentence.
This is a contract that has not yet been fully finalized. Many aspects have been marked with notes that need to be discussed and revised. The content includes the music team, creative team, arranger team and marketing team of Barlow Production Company and Hara Shang Studio.
Cooperation will continue in the next few years.
Development decades in advance and the situation after development are completely different. Market encouragement has opened up a gap that is difficult to ignore among different countries in the entertainment industry. Mature market mechanisms and rational talent training, Hara Ue thought.
If you want to run your own studio well until it develops a scale that can shake up the development of the industry, you must seek mature and capable partners.
Barlow Music Production Company is such a production company that has recruited outstanding teams from all major industries in the music circle. Even Hurricane Records often outsources some projects to them for cooperation. Such a company has rich experience in music creation and production.
It is currently beyond the reach of most domestic companies in the industry. Even Sihai Group dare not say that it can match their expertise.
The current situation in the country is that the film and television industry still has to make more money than music. A penny can stump a hero. Sihai is already very conscientious, but it is still impossible to put all the focus on such an almost bottomless hole as music. Hara Ue
I still remember how much opposition Qin Huo received from shareholders within the company when the album "Start" was released. It is true that "Start" did not lose money in the end and made money, but this number is compared to that of some theaters after its explosion.
A big movie with a nine-figure revenue is still not enough to watch after all.
But making a good piece of music requires no less energy than shooting a movie. Considering the market investment return ratio mechanism, making music is obviously not the best choice at the moment.
Original singers like Haragami only account for a small proportion of the market. Most of the singers who really support the entire music scene need a complete and mature behind-the-scenes music team. There are often dozens or even hundreds of them.
Writers, lyricists, arrangers, recording engineers, arrangers and producers, engineers, mixers, etc. Just supporting such a professional team is a huge investment. And because of the insufficiency of the music market
The economy is booming, not to mention individual singers in China, even many film and television companies do not have this condition.
In fact, it’s not necessarily that they can’t afford the money, but from an investor’s point of view, it’s not as cost-effective to maintain a group of behind-the-scenes staff as it is to sign a team of lighting artists or makeup artists. At least the latter can come in handy in every project.
Excellent arrangers and producers cannot find stable jobs. Most of them can only gather together to start their own business and accept some scattered orders. However, except for a few at the top of the pyramid who are already famous and worth a lot of money, the rest are basically still struggling to make ends meet but earning a meager income.
The embarrassing situation. If things go on like this, people change careers and leave, and talents become more and more withered, and good works are short-lived, forming a vicious circle.
Harakami is extremely anxious about this current situation, but he suffers from his meager strength. It is not easy to support an industry from its roots. With his current financial strength, he cannot even support new people who launch their own studios.
Qin Huo has done a good enough job in this regard. At least Sihai Group has opened a leading recording studio in the industry and retained a music department that has been extremely narrow in scope in other companies. It can be seen that he is interested in this market.
What can be done, but as a layman, what the other party can see and improve is limited. In addition, the level of professionals in the Sihai Music Department has not reached the top level. This letter from Barlow can be said to be the solution.
addresses his current urgent needs.
Work! Work! Work!
In addition to his own works, he also needs the works of more people. The Chinese music scene needs new blood and competition. This is why he was so empathetically happy after learning that Tang Min's new song became popular.
But Tang Min undoubtedly failed to live up to this expectation.
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"What the hell are you trying to do? Can you please be honest with me? Look at how many people have retweeted this Weibo post. Everyone in the company is working together. You are the only one who can stand out in your own way, right?"
The agent's fingers moved "doo doo doo" on the coffee table. When he spoke, his tone was aggressive and foaming at the mouth. He used all his body language and expressions to display the phrase "I hate iron but cannot become steel."
Jiang Xie's face was expressionless. Anyway, he had the expression of a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water: "I won't turn around anyway."
The manager rolled his eyes at him speechlessly, and simply reached out to grab the phone. Jiang Xie retracted his arm and turned away from him, with a firm expression on his face: "I advise you not to do this. If you want to transfer, use your own account to transfer, take it."
If mine is accidentally deleted by then, it will be even worse to the outside world, right?"
"you!!"
The manager's eyes were filled with anger: "Who am I doing this for? Isn't it for you?! Who the hell are you trying to make trouble with? How can a Weibo post make it so difficult for you?"
Jiang Xie glanced at him disdainfully, lowered his head slightly, and turned his attention to the screen of his mobile phone. A large group of artists from Mingcheng Film and Television who were following each other on the homepage of Weibo were all frantically retweeting Mingcheng's explanation of the suspected plagiarism of Tang Min's music. Then
On the scanned document stamped with the official seal of Mingcheng Company, there were a lot of hooligan-like denials carefully written in black and white. It hurt his eyes just to look at it. Those people usually wanted to flaunt themselves as "both moral and artistic" every moment.
The company's seniors were all praising the bad guys like they were blind. After they finished praising the bad guys, a lot of fans below showed their support indiscriminately, which was really disgusting.
Jiang Xie sneered: "I'm not deaf whether I copied it or not. I have to use strong words to make excuses. Isn't it the end of the matter if Tang Min just lays down and lets him pay the money and apologize?"
Chapter completed!