Two Hundred and Twentieth Four, Strive for the Initiative

Alice is not a professional manager, and she still lacks a full understanding of the status of the music industry. However, since she decided to temporarily "play" the role of manager, she naturally needs to do her homework.

Fortunately, Alice is a person in the film industry and has made many friends in school and in Los Angeles. It is no problem to find out the average level of the industry through her network.

"Mr. Ertecon, there are still many differences between the two albums. I think we all know this." Alice was not ecstatic because of Atlantic Records' "compromise" , the brain is still calm, and while flipping through the contract in his hand, he put forward an idea with a smile, his calm appearance seems to be able to use two things at once, even in front of Ahmet, he still remains calm.

And what about Ahmet?

The well-informed man still had a smile on his face, without showing any abnormality on the surface, and said calmly, "Then let's see, do you want the 'difference' like Queen, or do you want Britney?" - 'difference' like Britney-Spears?"

This is jargon.

It used to be the Queen band. In 1974 and 1975, they succeeded with their second album, third album, and fourth album. They created a world of their own step by step. With the fifth album, everyone thought they would continue their style and continue to climb the peak, but the band ushered in a 180-degree turn, opening an incredible new chapter in the history of rock music.

The album's fusion of classical music, opera, art rock, progressive rock and other bold and crazy genres generated countless controversies during the production stage, among the band members, between the band members and the producer, between the band members and the record company. Contradictions and disagreements broke out in an all-round way, and it was even almost completely destroyed at one point.

But what about the result?

The album achieved incredible explosive success and established Queen's historical status in one fell swoop. This album is still very popular fifty years later. This is the famous "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Same goes for Britney Spears.

Britney, who achieved great success in the early 1999 test, is known as the American sweetheart of the new century. Britney, who has won numerous praises for three consecutive albums, ushered in a bottleneck in 2003. Her fourth recording The room album decided to usher in a transformation, breaking the image of a pure girl, and showing her sex/sensuality for the first time.

Later, although the Pop/Forbidden/Zone album produced hits like "Toxic," the fifth-best-selling single worldwide in 2004, the album as a whole was a disappointment. , the breakthrough challenge failed to reap the expected response, but instead caused Britney to fall into a scandal-ridden stalemate——

Just in 2004, Britney got married and divorced in Las Vegas in a flash. The marriage lasted only fifty-five hours.

Whether it is Queen or Britney, they have enough voice in the recording studio to decide the style and type of the album by themselves, but the results are quite different.

In fact, what Alice is fighting for, and what Ahmet is defending, is control over the quality of the album.

Alice hopes to gain more initiative for the band, prevent the band from becoming a puppet in the hands of large companies, make albums according to the band's ideas, and weaken the shackles from the record company as much as possible; If the production initiative is handed over, record companies must control risks. In the final analysis, they still need to be market-oriented.

Listing two groups of singers, Ahmet's subtext is that not every singer can be an excellent producer, and the One Day Kings still need to trust the producers of Atlantic Records.

Alice could sense something in Ahmet's words, even though she didn't understand the difference between Queen and Britney,

But the whole context already feels oppressive.

So, Alice responded in a different way, "Neither of the two, what we are after is a kind of consistency, a king for a day is always a king for a day, just like Bruno Mars can be in 'Love Song True Story' Keep your colors the same."

Ahmet says "difference" and Alice says "consistency".

The seemingly wrong answer actually responded by besieging Wei and saving Zhao, and then expressed their position in the way of Alice.

Then, Alice's eyes shifted from the contract to Ahmet, "Mr. Ertekon, I think you decided to sign with us because you believed in Ronan and the strength of the band, then you And trust that we know what we're doing, like Bruno."

After a pause, the smile on the corner of Alice's mouth rose, "Or, is my idea wrong?"

Although Alice is not a professional manager, these words did show skill, not only showing toughness, but also throwing a trap at the end of the words—as a rookie manager of an independent band , sitting in the office of the CEO of Atlantic Records, she has done her best.

Right at the right moment, Ronan could be heard adding with a smile, "I guess, Eltecon signed us, maybe he didn't want us to become another group of Jonas Brothers?"

At the critical moment, Ronan showed the tacit understanding between the Cooper brothers and sisters and assisted in time.

"..." Ahmet's expression stagnated slightly for a rare moment. Although he still didn't reveal much surging expression, the short pause was still very obvious. Ronan's wit and humor made Ahmet The smile between the eyebrows overflowed like this, as if he was imagining how the king would become Jonas Brothers one day.

Somewhat funny.

Very funny.

Even Ahmet doesn't have perfect control over his emotions—proving that Ahmet isn't a robot.

The back-and-forth, hard-edged contract negotiations also reveal a little ease. Most importantly, Ronan's words are an important supplement to Alice's point of view, vividly explaining the concerns of the One Day Kings, Ahmet understood immediately.

His gaze was projected towards Ronan again, and Ahmet got off the track of the conversation for the first time, but the rhythm and content of the conversation were still unpredictable, "I thought you were just interested in those vinyl records."

"It should be said that I am interested in music." Ronan corrected the key words of Ahmet's words——

Music, it could be vinyl, it could be a contract being discussed, it could be the future of the band.

Ahmet slightly raised his chin, showing a little focus for the first time in his expression, as if he was looking at Ronan, thinking about what the situation is now, but even the moment when he was slightly off track was very short. In the blink of an eye, the focus and focal length were condensed on Ronan again.