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Xiao Nizi heard Christina's words, and said with regret and surprise: "Farewell, what's the matter?"
Christina glanced at Eric and said, "The Mickey Mouse Club is disbanded, and my mother plans to take me back to Pennsylvania to attend high school."
"Oh, what a pity," Xiao Nizi hugged Christina again, let go of the girl and held her little hand, and said, "You can come and play with me anytime when you come to Los Angeles, um, it's too late now, I Let Natasha take you home."
Christina was immediately stunned. She had been guarding Xiao Nizi's house for several days, and she finally saw the girl. She hadn't said a word she really wanted to say, so she actually issued an order to evict her. Seeing that one of the identical twins heard Drew's words and took the initiative to open the car door, Christina was even more at a loss, her eyes swept around in a panic, and she looked at Eric pitifully.
Since the merger with ABC, Firefly has been making adjustments to its TV business. However, for trivial matters such as the cancellation of some low-rated TV programs, unless Eric specifically requests, the relevant documents are often sent to his assistant office. It will be classified and archived. After all, dozens of new programs are eliminated every year in the TV business system under Firefly. If he didn't see Christina suddenly, Eric wouldn't care about these things.
Seeing the girl who was about to be driven away by Xiao Nizi looking pitifully, Eric shook his head helplessly. Although a girl would do this, it seemed a little unreasonable, but Eric also knew that she was In order to protect themselves. However, Eric didn't feel that some things needed to be overly cautious. He reached out and knocked on the girl's head lightly, and said with a smile: "Don't be kidding, let Christine stay and have dinner together."
"Wow, okay, okay," the girl rubbed her forehead and curled her lips in dissatisfaction, got into the car on her own, and told the twins to open the door and drive the car in.
Eric didn't get in the car again, and waved to Christina who was a little overwhelmed. Walked into the mansion with the girl.
After the Jackson child molestation case broke out two years ago, Christina felt that Drew's attitude towards them suddenly became cold. Before that, Drew would often invite them to his home to play. Occasionally, I took them to some interesting parties, but after that incident, all of this suddenly disappeared. Drew never contacted them again, and Christina occasionally brought Britney to the door. Drew's attitude towards them was no longer so warm. As for Eric, who Christina had always wanted to see, she never saw him again after that.
Christina had already no longer expected to maintain Drew's network, but the sudden disbandment of the Mickey Mouse Club forced her to take the initiative to seek some help from Drew, and Drew's whereabouts were a little erratic. Well, Christina has been guarding outside Drew's mansion in Trousdale Manor for more than a week. Fortunately, she finally waited, and... more fortunately, she even met Eric.
Following Eric, he glanced at the figure of the man beside him from the corner of his eye. Christina didn't know what to say, so she had to carefully look at the scenery of this mansion that she hadn't set foot in for a long time, and she couldn't help but imagine once again when she would be able to have such a house.
"Want to stay in Los Angeles?"
The sudden sound startled Christina, but she quickly calmed down, looked up at Eric with her small face, and nodded honestly: "Well, I... I don't want to go back to Pennsylvania to study in high school, I like to sing .”
Eric looked at the little face full of hope, and said: "But you are too young, you are not yet fifteen years old, right?"
There was a glimmer of sadness in Christina's eyes. She also knew that age was the biggest limitation she encountered now, but the girl still tried hard to argue: "Mr. Williams, I can sing Mariah Carey's "Vision" at the age of 10." -of-Love. Back then they said I could sing as well as her."
Although Eric has never heard of "Vision-of-Love", he also knows that Mariah Carey is famous for her difficult dolphin voice. Mariah Carey.
"Kristen, it's useless to sing well, you're underage now. No record company will sign you."
Christina's expression suddenly darkened, and she couldn't help thinking that it would be great if the Mickey Mouse Club could last for two years. When she turned sixteen, it would be easier to get contracts from some record companies. Turning her head to look at Eric, Christina didn't say what was in her heart, and she knew it was useless to say it.
The two walked to the front of the villa, and Eric pushed open the door to let the girl into the room. The twins were already busy in the kitchen, and Xiao Nizi's coat was hanging on the hanger. It seemed that they had gone to take a shower.
Eric took a box of juice from the refrigerator and handed it to Christina who was sitting on the sofa, and asked, "Justin, are Britney and the others still in Los Angeles?"
Christina shook her head: "I don't know,
Boys and girls in the Mickey Mouse Club have always been two distinct groups, and the relationship between the girls is actually not that good. After the recording of the show stopped, there was no connection between everyone.
Eric sat down on the sofa, hummed after hearing Yan, but thought about the current matter in his mind.
Although the European and American music circles have always shown a state of flourishing, each period has its own genre emphasis. From the mid-1990s to the beginning of the new century, the most eye-catching music genre in the European and American music circles was Teen-Pop ( Teen Pop), the main representatives of which are the famous Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, the Christina in front of her is also the Teen-Pop route at the beginning of her career development, the super boy group that Justin Timberlake joined at the beginning The same is Teen-Pop.
At present, Firefly Group has just completed the integration of its music resources and formed Firefly Records.
However, with the advent of the Internet age, the decline of the recording industry caused by online music transmission is imminent. Firefly Records is destined to be unable to reach the heights of Warner Records, Universal Records and Columbia Records. In this case, Firefly Records will no longer be like the traditional It is obviously not worth the loss for the recording industry giants to spend a lot of resources to get involved in every kind of music field. The best way out should be to use most of the resources to focus on the packaging and training of a certain type of singers.
In the last ten years of the recording industry, the most popular music genre will undoubtedly be Teen-Pop.
For as long as he can remember, Disney's record business has been tepid. Britney, Christina, Justin Timberlake, and even Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, etc. who debuted from the Disney Channel were all overwhelmed by other big names. This is undoubtedly a big loss for Disney, after all, the reason why these people can quickly become famous. Inseparable from the cultivation of the Disney Channel.
Christina saw Eric who was lost in thought, but she didn't dare to interrupt, and took a sip of the juice in her hand.
After a while, Eric raised his head and said to Christina: "Well, Christine. You will stay in Los Angeles recently, and someone will contact you then."
Christina looked at Eric in surprise: "Mr. Williams, you mean, I...can I continue singing?"
Eric smiled and nodded: "Of course, but you must have been unable to release records in recent years. I will ask people to arrange some opportunities for you to appear in movies or TV series to maintain your popularity."
"You" and "you" in English are the same word. Of course, Christina couldn't recognize that Eric used the plural, and thought it was all the preferential treatment Eric gave her alone. The girl sipped it happily. Pursing his lips, he raised his head and looked around carefully. Gathering up the courage to stand up and get close to Eric, he whispered with a reddish face: "Mr. Williams, I... I can stay tonight, just call my mother and say that I will spend the night at Drew's place." gone."
Eric raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "What are you going to do here?"
Christina's face became more rosy, but she mustered up the courage to look at Eric boldly, and said, "I will do whatever you ask me to do."
Eric smiled and stretched out his hand to pinch the girl's face, saying, "Stop thinking about it, I'm not interested in a little guy like you."
Christina shrank subconsciously. Said: "You lie, you obviously like it very much."
"oh?"
"You, when you were with Drew, she was younger than me."
Eric lifted his chin behind Christina. He smiled and said, "You are mistaken, I was forced to do so at that time."
Christina blinked suspiciously, realized something, and quickly turned her head, just in time to see the little girl in a bathrobe looking at her with a smile on her face.
After dinner, Eric ordered Natasha to drive Christina back.
Looking at the car driving out of the gate of the mansion. The little girl standing beside Eric took the few demo tapes of songs that Christina gave to Eric before leaving, weighed them, and said, "Eric, you should be more careful. Chandler The family extorted more than 20 million US dollars from Jackson, and now the family lives in a mansion in Manhattan, New York, and will not have to work for the rest of their lives. I think if someone blackmails you once, it is estimated that the next few generations will have enough food and clothing. .”
"My money is not so easy to blackmail. Besides, there are so many such things in the circle, and how many people have been exposed. The only one who has been troubled by these years is Jackson, who was wronged," said Ai Rui. Ke smiled, but there was sarcasm in his expression.
Christina originally wanted to ask Drew to help pass some of the demo songs she recorded to some record company executives. After getting a promise from Eric, the girl left a few tapes behind before leaving.
Back in the villa, Eric stuffed a tape into the player, and the explosive voice of Christina's cover of "FU" came out immediately. Compared with the original version in memory and the version of the Victoria's Secret show, The girl's singing is even more shocking.
Xiao Nizi put her arms around a pillow and moved closer to Eric, who was typing on the laptop, and said, "Christine is really good at singing, but I think it's hard for her to find her position. It is suitable for the development of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and other high-pitched female singers, but she is too short, hehe."
Xiao Nizi was obviously just talking casually, but it hit the nail on the head.
In my memory, Christina really never found a suitable music development route. She first took the Teen-Pop route. Although the sales volume of her first album exceeded 10 million copies, with the strong rise of Britney, Christina After playing several Teen-Pop in a row, I had no choice but to try to transform, but I never found a suitable position for this turn.
However, right now, Eric pointed to the singing of "FU" coming from the player, and said, "Isn't this the music line of Christine?"
Eric has decided to let Britney and Christina go on the original Teen-Pop route. However, compared to Britney's sweetheart-like girl-next-door image, Christina can go a little bit in order to distinguish herself from Britney. The image of a rebellious independent girl. Since there can be a lot of boy groups emerging from the corners of the streets in the original time and space, as long as the positioning is differentiated, there must be no problem in accommodating two Teen-Pop queens with different styles at the same time.
It took a few hours to sort out the materials and ideas about Teen-Pop in my memory and send them to the work mailbox in the assistant's office, and told Kelly to add the topic to tomorrow's regular meeting, before Eric turned off his laptop and hugged Get up the little girl who is already asleep next to her to go to rest.
At the high-level regular meeting on the second day, after discussing in detail the topic of gradually reducing the scale of Firefly film production in the next few years, Eric raised a question about the development direction of Firefly Records. Music from the original ABC and Disney After the integration of resources, Firefly Records is in a critical period of development. Eric took advantage of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to release several songs and achieved amazing success, which made it easy for the management to accept Eric's ability to make full use of Firefly itself. Advantage took the lead in packaging a group of Teen-Pop singers' proposals.
This meeting finally determined two plans that are crucial to the future of Firefly Records. One is to recall the little guys from the Mickey Mouse Club and evaluate their potential. JIVE Records launched a takeover offer. Strictly speaking, JIVE Records can only be regarded as a subsidiary of RCA, a subsidiary of Sony BMG Records. In the huge Sony record system, JIVE at this time is very inconspicuous, but Eric knows that in the next ten years, The most popular Teen-Pop singer group Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and other singers are all from JIVE. This is not to say that JIVE has any magical power, but because of the record company's The management team is very good at packaging idol singers, and even privately proposed the company's management slogan is 'carry out idols to the end'. (To be continued.)