Chapter 385(1/2)
"Brother-in-law, I really don't flatter you. I have never seen a musician who is more talented than you! I think even God is jealous of your talent, which makes your life so chaotic when you were young. It would be terrible to have a smooth life!"
After reading "Fighter" written by Lin Zaishan, Guan Yaling was very impressed! In her opinion, Lin Zaishan's talent is really outstanding! Not only is he written Chinese songs well, but he wrote English songs even better!
Guan Yaling already knows that the two most important songs in the British album released by Li Xiaoni, "roar" and "bleeding-love", were both written by Lin Zaishan.
Although these two songs did not cause much wave in the British music scene, and even the top 30 of the uk music weekly chart did not make it into the quality of these two songs. It was just because the singer was a yellow-skinned Asian queen, so he did not gain the recognition of the arrogant British.
If these two songs are given to European and American queens, they will definitely be popular!
Asian singers have been discriminated against in the European and American markets, which is an objective reality that cannot be changed in a short period of time.
However, in Guan Yaling's opinion, Lin Zaishan's English works are so high, coupled with his own strong singing skills, if there is really an Asian person who can sweep the European and American music scene in the future, this person must be Lin Zaishan!
"Brother-in-law, your song "Fighter" is so ignited. It has both tension and explosive power. It is so suitable for you to sing in the finals! This song will definitely ignite the enthusiasm of the audience!"
"If it's a solo work, I wouldn't choose this song. It's better to sing Chinese songs solo and have a wider audience. I want to see if you can sing this song well, we can sing this song at the beginning and raise the level of the finals as soon as we start."
"I think it's difficult for me to sing this song. The sound range of this song is a bit large. I can't get up to the high notes." Guan Yaling was very self-aware. When she saw the song, she knew that she couldn't control the song.
If she sings it, she will definitely be able to sing it, but it requires too many skills and falsettoes. If you want to sing it in falsettoes, the momentum of the song will disappear and will become very weak.
This song is absolutely suitable for Li Xiaoni. This song is most suitable for Li Xiaoni's wide and high range diva singing method.
"You don't need to sing them all. You can sing wherever you can. We can reasonably assign the sequels of this song. If you can't push it, I will do it. As long as you cooperate well, this song is full of murderous aura!"
“That’s true.”
In the first round of the finals, although it is a chorus between the instructor and the students, what is more important is to highlight the students' singing skills. It is more important to make the students leave a deep impression on the audience than to make the tutor leave a deep impression on the audience. After all, this is a competition for the students. The instructor is just helping.
After some discussion, Lin Zaishan and Guan Yaling started practicing.
This practice lasted for an hour and a half.
Guan Yaling was taken by Lin Zaishan, and she sang this song quite a bit.
Singing passionate duets with a super high voice like Lin Zaishan is like competing with top athletes. Guan Yaling's fighting spirit is particularly high, and she is not sleepy at half past twelve, and she even feels more excited as she sings.
Lin Zaishan has been busy for a day. He is really tired. Especially his voice, he obviously starts to get tired after twelve:30.
He recorded the album "Singer and Writer" in Caidie all morning during the day. In the afternoon, he went to Li Xiaoni to rehearse the concert, but his voice didn't rest.
After struggling for so many hours at night, his voice was getting tired.
Before the final, he had to protect his throat and not let his throat get too tired. So after twelve:30, Lin Zaishan took the initiative to stop the practice of the night.
"Let's practice this far today. My voice is a little tired, and it's time to sing again."
"Well, brother-in-law, let's practice tomorrow!" Guan Yaling was still unsatisfied.
Lin Zaishan was still a little unsatisfied, and he felt it. He sang the duet between Guan Yaling in this song very well and should be able to move to the finals of "Singer and Writer". However, I was so tired tonight that he had to take a break first.
Guan Yaling didn't go home that night and lived at Li Xiaoni's house.
At night, she heard the "ghost howls" coming from the upper floor again, which made her feel quite itchy.
Men cannot ignore this matter between men and women. When they don’t have it, they always think about it, but once they have it, they will stop immediately after they have it, and they will not beg for nothing;
Women are just the opposite. They can usually not have it or not want to, but once they have it, they don’t want to stop. Li Xiaoni is such a typical example. In the past ten years, she has not been able to do it, but now she has it, she doesn’t want to stop for a moment.
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The next day, Lin Zaishan and Guan Yaling went straight to Caidie Records, continued to practice singing, and recorded the album "Singer and Writer".
His album "Singer and Writer" has been decided, and he will be a double-disc album with 20 songs, including all controversial works such as "High-level Animals" and "Garbage Garbage".
Everyone has their own preferences, and he wants to try his best to meet the needs of fans of all kinds of flavors.
In addition, this double-disc collection will also include all his audio works published on the beyondd forum, such as "Ordinary Road", "Friends", "Blue Lotus", "Once Upon Your Time", "Don't Hesitate", "Don't Forget the Original Intention", "Butterfly", etc.
At the same time, he will also include works such as "For You" that have earned him a lot of wedding money, which can be said to be a super classic collection.
As for the album's tracking, Lin Zaishan doesn't have to worry about this. He left it to Wu Yifan's production team to do it. He just needs to record all the songs.
If nothing unexpected happens, this album will be officially released on Sunday, March 9th, the day the second day of the lunar calendar!
This album, defined by Wu Yifan as the strongest album in 2008, doubled the song, but the price maintained the single-disc standard of 50 yuan, full of sincerity.
Originally, Caidie's team had collected so many good songs on this album, with 20 songs, so they wanted to set the price to a high point. The original double-disc album of this plane usually starts at 60 yuan, and the hot spot singer can sell it for 100 yuan per piece.
But Lin Zaishan didn't want to increase the price. After all, this is the first official album released after his comeback. He wants to use his greatest sincerity to conquer the hearts of the audience and make the most classic and affordable album for everyone.
Moreover, according to the sluggish market of record records in this plane, even if you raise the price, you will not increase much revenue. Instead, it may cause the sales of record sales to decline due to the high price, which is even more unprofitable inside and outside.
He simply gave it a large amount of money and used this sincere album "Singer and Writer" to reach the annual sales list, strive to enter the top five, and accumulate some capital for his path to the king of singers.
At present, he is still far from the "5-10-15-20-25" strong standard.
The rice must be eaten one bite at a time. The road must be taken step by step. He must take every step firmly, and strive to turn all the albums he releases in the future into classics.
That morning, Caidie was busy all morning. In the afternoon, Lin Zaishan went to the National Entertainment Headquarters, which was separated from Caidie's first floor, and held a meeting with Li Xiaoni's team to discuss future cooperation plans.
Starting from the Li Xiaoni Donghai concert on February 24 the day after tomorrow, Lin Zaishan and Li Xiaoni have been officially tied together.
Their next big plan is the "Extreme World" collaboration project at the end of March.
The final signing agreement has been finalized on the Starfish Platform, and Lin Zaishan and Li Xiaoni have signed it on it.
This word has to be signed. In mid-March before the program started, Starfish Station would first pay 5 million yuan in advance for Li Xiaoni and Lin Zaishan. Even if there was a sudden problem with the program and the recording could not be recorded, the money would not be refunded. This is a special care that no other artists joining the program did not have.
Other artists will also receive prepayment for some videos in advance, but the amount is much smaller than this amount, and the most one is only 1 million. Of course, their value for joining this program is much lower than Lin Zaishan and Li Xiaoni.
The value of an artist who participates in such variety shows is kept confidential. The artist's agency team will have a promotional price to the outside world, but the actual price code and the promotional price are often inconsistent.
As for what the team of the National Entertainment team learned, the real appearance fee for the second season of "Extreme Breakthrough in the World", the second-ranked tennis star Zhuang Depeng and his wife and boxing champion Ge Yunlong and his wife only received a appearance fee of 5 million yuan, and a video bonus of 1 million yuan per stop, which is nearly twice the price of Lin Zaishan and Li Xiaoni!
The economic team of Guoyu is very powerful. At the end of the negotiation, he raised the price for Li Xiaoni and Lin Zaishan. The appearance fee of the two has been raised to 9 million! This is 50% higher than the 6 million price of the original Starfish!
The bonus for each video recording site for the two also increased to 3 million.
The reason why the Guoyu team finally raised the price was because Lin Zaishan had to score 45% and not let go, which was greatly beyond the revenue expectations of Xiaoni's team.
Li Xiu's previous maximum limit was to only give Lin Zaishan 40% income, but he didn't expect that Lin Zaishan was much tougher than he thought. He dared to make a 45% mark from the queen, and even 50% of the money! This is really too ungrateful!
Since Li Xiaoni and the senior management of Guoyu both had to vigorously promote this cooperation, Li Xiu had to compromise with Lin Zaishan in the end and talked with Lin Zaishan about the 5.5 to 4.5 share ratio.
The meat lost by Lin Zaishan unexpectedly, the wolf of Guoyu could only bite it back from the starfish platform, and finally raised the price of the two of them one level!
In total, if Lin Zaishan and Li Xiaoni can match the 9-stop competition, they will receive 36 million yuan in pre-tax remuneration!
If you can win the championship, the reward will be even higher!
Lin Zaishan is 450%, with pre-tax income of 16.2 million, and after-tax income of about 11 million.
Li Xiaoni's score was half of 55% or 275%, with a pre-tax income of 9.9 million and less than 7 million after tax.
It seems that Li Xiaoni makes much less money than Lin in the mountain. This is what people in the team like Li Xiu and Xiaoni are most unwilling to see!
You know, the total recording time of this program is nearly two months!
If Li Xiaoni does other jobs, no matter what she does - she is an announcement from the queen, or receives commercial performances, or holds concerts, as long as she does it for two months, her income will be much higher than that of more than 7 million!
According to the original plan of Xiaoni's team, Li Xiaoni brought a new idol from China Entertainment to participate in "Extreme World". Li Xiaoni's net income can easily exceed 15 million - this is her real value as a queen, but now it has shrunk by more than half. The National Entertainment team has a certain opinion.
But Li Xiaoni insisted on doing it, and no matter how she persuaded her, they had no choice but to do it. They could only do it at a loss.
Li Xiu and the others now hope that Lin Zaishan will have problems before recording, such as a car accident, and the injury will not move, so that they can change their lives and record them.
Or, Lin Zaishan was injured in the game, and temporary substitutions were the best - they could not only take advantage of Lin Zaishan's recent hot momentum to bring topicality. They also don't have to give Lin Zaishan so much reward, but also promote newcomers to China Entertainment, which can be said to have multiple goals in one fell swoop.
Li Xiu’s biggest wish now is to see Lin Zaishan, a dry and thin old man, get injured and quit the video in this fiercely competitive program.
However, even if Lin Zaishan was really injured in the competition, Li Xiu could not see it with his own eyes because the show had rigid regulations - the artist's agent could not be filmed along with him.
The program teams that do outdoor variety shows are very experienced. If the artist takes his agent out to record the video, the program will not be recorded. The agent will keep asking the program team for trouble, and it is not allowed to film, and it is not allowed to film. Excessive protection of the artist will be seriously delayed to the recording process.
In order to avoid this kind of trouble, the production team of large outdoor programs like "Extreme Breakthrough" will sign in the contract with the artists with terms that are not allowed to accompany the agent, so as to prevent the agent from causing trouble in advance.
Li Xiu originally negotiated with the program team of "Extreme World". He hoped that the other party would consider Li Xiaoni's identity as a queen and the particularity of participating in this variety show for the first time, so he made an exception and asked Li Xiaoni to take her own team to film.
But the "Extreme World" program team has a very tough attitude on this matter - if you want money, you can give it to you more, but Guoyu has to lead its own team, which is absolutely not possible!
On this point, regardless of whether the other party is a queen or not, the program team will treat everyone equally. Otherwise, they will make an exception and open this opportunity. Other artists will also take their team to film abroad, so they will not shoot this program.
The cost of shooting overseas is very high and the itinerary is very tight. They must not affect the shooting plan because of these things.
In the first season, super kings like Liu Tiancheng cannot take their agents to film overseas, and Li Xiaoni can certainly not make an exception.
Although you cannot take your agent to travel, the program team allows each artist to bring a living assistant to take care of the artist's daily life.
However, this life assistant cannot participate in the shooting schedule. When the artist is filming the program, the life assistant can only wait for the artist in the hotel. They can take care of the artist at night and help the artist carry bags when traveling. However, during the recording period, the life assistant is strictly prohibited from approaching the artist, and cannot provide any help to the artist, let alone trouble the program team, so as not to affect the recording process.
All travel expenses for this living assistant are paid by the program team and are included in the artist's itinerary.
That afternoon, the meeting was held at the National Entertainment Group, and Xiaoni's team asked Lin Zaishan to quickly make a living assistant. Next week, they will submit the information of the living assistant to the Starfish Program Team, which will help artists and life assistants decide on the final overseas itinerary.
Li Xiaoni's life assistant has already been decided, just Sun Li, the female assistant who has been following her all the time. With Sun Li being by her side, Li Xiaoni's life will be much more convenient.
Lin Zaishan suddenly heard that he wanted to take a living assistant out to record the video, but he really didn't think about who to take.
If the show was recorded in the summer, he would take Bai Ge to visit overseas, just think it was a global trip.
Unfortunately, the time of recording and Bai Ge's school time overlaps, so he cannot take college students like Bai Ge out.
As for Liu Mengmeng, she has to prepare for the second season of "Singer and Writer" which will be pre-selected in July, and she cannot go overseas to record videos with him.
To be continued...