Chen Minhao explained sincerely: "Performing in this play was requested by the school leaders, and it will be good for me to win acting awards in the future. In addition, in order to cater to my time, the entire drama club gave up weekend rehearsals and changed to Mondays." Rehearsal on Friday. I’m too embarrassed to put it off now.”
Wu Hongrong knew that the play would definitely take up part of Chen Minhao's time, but when he heard that starring in this play would help Chen Minhao win some acting awards in the future, he didn't plan to say anything more.
Wu Hongrong really understands the desire for "trophies". Is he spending time and energy to help Chen Minhao produce an album just for money
No, if Wu Hongrong wants to make money, there are too many ways. He helped Chen Minhao produce the album just because he wanted to win the best album producer award!
Wu Hongrong is well-known in the industry and has produced several platinum albums. But due to various coincidences, he did not have the chance to win the trophy for best album producer.
For Wu Hongrong, he no longer needs the Best Album Producer trophy to prove himself, but what makes him unhappy is that every time during the awards season, he will be taken out by the media for a while.
If Wu Hongrong's album is nominated, then he will be named by the media as a favorite to win the award. If Wu Hongrong had not been nominated for his album, then he would have been listed by the media on the list of producers who had been defeated, and compared with this year's award-winning producers, he would have been pulled out and beaten to death.
Wu Hongrong thought for a while and said: "For your album, I invited a few of my old friends to come over and build up a lot of contacts, so you must pay attention to the album.
In addition, your music style is varied, and there are some directions that I may not be particularly familiar with. I also invited an old acquaintance of yours, Li Hao, your music mentor in "Artist Producer" to be the album consultant. "
If Chen Minhao hadn't known that Wu Hongrong always spoke out of his mind, or else he would have wanted to diss Wu Hongrong's way of expression... Chen Minhao thought for a moment and said sincerely: "Even if it's not for you, I will go all out just for myself. of."
After Wu Hongrong saw Chen Minhao's statement, he nodded with satisfaction and said, "My old friends will be here soon. Let's have a meal together first, and then in the afternoon, let's get down to business."
Wu Hongrong's execution ability is indeed very strong. Within a week, Chen Minhao sorted out a direction for the parting songs in his mind and began to practice the first song. Wu Hongrong had already found a team that could produce an album.
Wu Hongrong recruited a total of nine people, who are experts in the fields of recording and editing, arrangement, publicity, marketing, and design. They all have outstanding achievements in the industry.
The nine people were also excited when they saw Chen Minhao. After all, Chen Minhao won the Golden Melody Award for Best Song of the Year and Best Newcomer of the Year at a young age, and his future is bright.
After a few people chatted with each other about business in Wu Hongrong's office for a while, they drove to Longgu Villa, a farmhouse on the outskirts of Kyoto.
Longgu Villa is built on the lake. The restaurant has a unique flavor and the lake fish is delicious, which makes people linger over the food. In addition to eating, it integrates leisure, exclusivity and fun.
When Chinese people talk about friendship and business, they often don’t start with the exchange of suits and leather shoes at the negotiation table, but are born at the wine table, while drinking and drinking.
The dozen or so people at the dinner table were basically one, or even two, older than Chen Minhao, but age did not hinder them from becoming brothers with Chen Minhao.
Except for the cold dishes, all the dishes at Longgu Villa are freshly made, and the chicken and fish are all freshly killed.
Before the cold dishes were served, Chen Minhao first toasted to Wu Hongrong and thanked him for bringing together a group of talented people to help him produce an album.
Then Chen Minhao stood up, poured himself another glass of wine, and raised his glass: "We are all big names in the music industry. It is an honor for me to come together to make an album for me. Meeting is fate, so I would like to propose a toast to you all."
"Come, let's drink to the new album."
"cheers!"
The literati looked down upon each other, and the artists considered themselves superior. Several of the nine people were unknown to each other, and two of them did not deal with each other.
But Chen Minhao did a good job of making several people warm up. After the meal, Wu Hongrong nodded to Chen Minhao with satisfaction. Chen Minhao had overfulfilled his task.
Wu Hongrong felt a little dizzy after drinking several glasses of wine. He wanted to chop off Chen Minhao's head to see how his head grew.
Before meeting Chen Minhao, Wu Hongrong felt that talented young people are always a bit arrogant. It is rare for young people to be as talented as Chen Minhao but to put themselves very low.
More than a dozen people had a drink at noon, and a few of them got drunk. Naturally, they couldn't discuss it after sleeping all afternoon. We had another drink in the evening, and we talked about the past and present at the wine table, but we didn’t talk about the album.
On Sunday morning, Wu Hongrong reserved a meeting room at Longgu Villa and planned to start formal discussions.
This was the first meeting, so everyone came together. They couldn't put all their efforts into Chen Minhao's album. They also had their own things to do, and future discussions would only be conducted on a small scale.
Wu Hongrong asked the waiter to make a few pots of strong tea, then let her go out, and told her not to come in until she called.
Wu Hongrong lit a cigarette and said: "Save time, let's get straight to the point."
Hu Li, who was in charge of album promotion, said: "The theme of separation is a good starting point, but if I remember correctly, Chen Minhao, you should be in your early 20s this year. How did you come up with the theme of separation?"
Wu Hongrong interrupted him directly and said: "It is meaningless for us to discuss this today. What I hope to hear is that you can use your industry experience to give Chen Minhao some suggestions, which will be more conducive to his own creation."
Hu Li looked a little embarrassed and said: "Old Wu, your temper is still so aggressive after many years. Well, well, well, as far as separation is concerned, from a common sense point of view, the scope of separation is very wide. There are many separations between lovers, friends, and relatives. , we'd better include them all.
Wu Hongrong complained again: "This is correct but useless nonsense."
Someone started, and the discussion suddenly became lively.
"My suggestion is that if the songs on an album are all about separation, the songs shouldn't convey all sad emotions."
"My suggestion is not to stick to Chinese songs when writing. It's best to find someone to write an English song for you. This will help you open up the European and American markets."
"In terms of theme, we frame it around words of farewell, and we can make some diversified attempts in our creations. For example, electronic music, ancient style, etc."
. . . . . .
At the end of the discussion, Chen Minhao carefully recorded a piece of paper. Many of their suggestions indeed gave Chen Minhao a lot of inspiration for "permutations and combinations".
Chen Minhao was suddenly full of expectations for his new album.
(End of chapter)