Chapter 108 The West Coast Trip

"Boss, boss? APLUS!"

Song Ya was awakened in a daze by the knock on the door.

"Huh... what time is it?"

Sitting up from the sofa, he wiped his face to wake himself up quickly. Yesterday’s MV filming went smoothly. He accidentally drank a little too much on the party for a moment of joy. Now his head is still a little groggy. let in.

"It's ten o'clock." Song Asheng handed him a cup of coffee, "Mawota asked me to bring it to you."

Good staff, Song Ya looked outside, the cleaning staff of the service company were cleaning, and Mawota lifted the heavy pool table by himself, and was about to put it back to its original position against the wall.

"What's the matter?" He sat behind the boss's desk.

"A+ Pedal Company, the new general manager Riise has already selected the factory site." Song Asheng took out the documents from his bag.

"Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale..."

Song Ya couldn't figure out the specific location of this small city, "What do you think of the location?"

"I don't know too well, let's go and see it together, after all, we have to go there." Song Asheng said.

"Hmm..." Song Ya took out the itinerary and looked at it. In two days, I happened to be going to Hollywood to meet Zack Schneider to discuss the MV editing. "Then let's go, let's take a tour on the West Coast."

He couldn't just walk away, so he called Delay and Al, prepared for a long time, and easily blew up the audience in the performance at the underground nightclub at night, and then went out with Song Asheng the next morning.

"Do you remember what I said? The big A next door, if you harass the girls who come to the record company, you must stop it in time, and don't let irrelevant people in while we are away." Song Ya asked Mawota before leaving.

"Understood, boss." Mawota asked, "Is Miss Fergie considered an irrelevant person?"

"Of course she doesn't count. She can use the recording studio when we're away, but apart from her sister, they are also not allowed to bring in irrelevant personnel." Song Ya threw a small roll of cash, "Your."

"You've already paid...boss." Mavota, a New Jersey blue-collar worker, is still not used to this method of 'communication'.

"Just take it as a bonus. You performed well last night. Work hard."

Song Ya left A+ Records, and went straight to the airport with the three of them. There was no performance arrangement this time, and there were no large and small musical instrument boxes for the trip, so she was relaxed.

Arriving in San Francisco, the four of them rented a car and went straight to Sunnyvale, "Isn't this a bit far from San Francisco?" Song Ya arrived at the address given by the general manager of A+ Pedal Company. The small building is a small building with a much smaller area than the original factory building in New Jersey. The first floor is the factory building, and the second floor is the manager's room, meeting room and R&D office, if there is any R&D in the future.

Reese is a tall, white man of Nordic origin. He used to work in sales. Roberto Klevel told him that his old company, Warren Brothers Synthesizer Company, had changed hands. There was a vacancy for general manager. He applied decisively and got Song Acknowledgment by Ya et al.

Now he is in a high-spirited time, and he is very concerned about the management of the A+ pedal company. "This is Silicon Valley, and we are also a high-tech company..." When he said high-tech, he smiled embarrassedly, "I will take There are some local tax incentives. There are Lockheed and AMD nearby, both of which are top companies in their respective industries. It is easy to recruit technical personnel. The traffic is not bad, and the Dumbarton Bridge is not far away, and the scenery and air are also very good. There are orchards everywhere."

It seems he likes it here.

Song Ya of Lockheed Company knows that he doesn't know much about AMD, which produces aircraft.

"A computer chip company, but the current prospects are unclear, and they are fighting a patent lawsuit with Intel." Riser introduced.

"Which side will win?" Song Ya asked.

"That's Intel..." Riise's inclination was self-evident.

"Okay." Song Ya stopped thinking about buying AMD stock.

"Actually, boss, you can try to buy the factory building and the land where it is located. I feel that the value of this place will definitely increase in the future." Reese suggested.

"Don't think about it for now, I borrowed a lot of money to buy this company." Song Ya didn't want to make her capital chain too tight, which was also Song Asheng's suggestion, "Okay, here, you can contact the owner, Negotiate a good price."

"Thank you, boss." Riser was very happy, "I will start the factory relocation after renting the factory."

"Can."

Leaving Song Asheng here to oversee the accounts, Song Ya brought Delay and Al to Los Angeles by plane again, and met Zack Schneider who had not been parted for a long time in a small editing room of Columbia Pictures.

"APLUS."

Zack Snyder greeted the three, "I just saw you on the news."

"It's like saying that I have to report when I come to Los Angeles. Am I so popular?" Song Ya smiled helplessly.

The atmosphere in Los Angeles was very strange. Not only were the three of them "sieged" by reporters at the airport, they were also questioned for a while by several local police officers. Of course, Song Ya would not say anything, only that he had to consult a lawyer before answering the question.

"Affirmative action activists like you will definitely receive special 'care' when you come to Los Angeles. Under the current situation." Zack Schneider briefly introduced the local situation. Four white police officers who beat people were arrested for investigation, but The black group is still very dissatisfied with the explanation given by the police. Rodney King, the black man who was beaten, the police said that he drove speeding, ran red lights, insulted female police officers and resisted arrest, but they could not produce definite evidence. Instead, the black community believed that it was mutual protection between whites.

"Okay, let's focus on the MV."

Several people briefly went through the first-cut version in the editing room. Due to the limited budget, there were not many materials available for editing, and Zack Snyder couldn't play any tricks.

"The overall rhythm and music fit well."

Song Ya expressed satisfaction, and the wide-format texture of the movie film is even better than the original version. Compared with the original version, the performances of Delay and Al seemed a bit overdone. Both of them tensed their facial muscles, as if they were screaming at the audience...

This is also understandable, the situation of the two of them determines that this opportunity is very important to them, after years of ups and downs in the music circle but no success, this time they have completely released their resentment.

Even this time, they can't get the same lead singer status as Song Ya. The lead singer on the cover of the single is still APLUS, with "Feat." It is only roughly equivalent to the position of sub-singer, and the income is much lower than that of Song Ya.

Song Ya noticed that the two people watching the first cut were extremely focused, with tears flickering in their eyes.

He sighed slightly in his heart. Although he suffered some poverty after time travel, he had a great advantage in entering the industry as a creator, which was much better than young singers like Ayer and others who were flattened and rounded by the record company. Not to mention them, like Fergie, at the age of 16, she has to travel all over the country to find opportunities, and after signing a small singer contract, she has to suffer. Not to mention the record company taking away the bulk of the proceeds, the remaining small amount has to be shared with the manager, and it is difficult to get the next singer's appointment. If the time flickers around, it may waste money like Al and Delay. age.

"Wait...stop, go back a little bit, that's right." At this time, Al noticed a young black man in the picture secretly showing GD's gang gesture to the camera.

"FXXK!" Song Ya was all on guard, but she still couldn't guard against these birdmen.

"Oh, this is a long shot, do you want to re-edit it?" Zack Snyder scratched his head in distress.

"It's okay for rap songs to have gang elements, right?" Delay said, "It's not the gesture we made, besides, the relationship between APLUS and GD is no secret in the rap circle, and there is this hint, which is very important for us in the future. It’s also good to run publicity all over the country, those local small roles are not easy to provoke GD.” He already has a good understanding of the culture of the black rap circle.

"Don't, don't, don't." Song Ya quickly waved his hand, "I don't want to touch gangs, violence, drugs, etc. A little swearing in the lyrics is the bottom line."

"Okay, then subtract this picture, and we will readjust..." Zack Schneider said to the editor.

After the film was cut, it had to be graded and waited for post-production, and finally it would be converted into a format that could be played on TV. After expressing his satisfaction with the re-edited version by Zack Snyder, it was getting late and he checked into the hotel.

I was about to go to bed when the pager rang, and it was Halle Berry's.

It's impossible for this shrewd woman in her impression to not understand her hints. Why did she keep pestering her several times? Song Ya dialed back the phone, ready to speak clearly.

"I saw you on the news, are you in Los Angeles?" Halle Berry cried from the other end of the phone.

This is not the first time she cried in front of her. Song Ya was afraid of her acting skills, "Harry, do you remember what you said to me when you filmed the MV last time? You said you were your own, rules You understand everything too, so you won't get entangled..."

"I know, but I'm about to lose everything. I was beaten by him, and the role he promised me is gone... Please." Halle Berry cried and begged.

"What's going on? Who is he?"

Song Ya accidentally found out about the hanging of the dentist Kaizi, and Harley had nothing to pretend to be in front of him. It turned out that she joined the "Jungle Fever" crew and soon hooked up with Wesley Snyder, an important black actor in it. Puth, the other party promised to take him into next year's big production "Rolling Titans" starring him to play an important role. For this reason, Harley happily turned down many announcements. Unexpectedly, this New York University graduate, who has steadily moved from theater to Broadway to Hollywood step by step, is known as "one of the best black actors". The famous actor is a guy with a tendency to violence. During a quarrel, he actually hit one side of Harley's ear. How dare Harley continue to be with him. After the breakup, the well-cooked character naturally flew away. It's gone too, and the enthusiasm brought to her by the beautiful heroine in Song Ya's MV has long passed.

As in New York, she's once again caught in the predicament of having no movies to act in Hollywood, and she's already spent tens of thousands of dollars on that poor Chicago dentist in order to maintain her so-called celebrity vanity...

"I don't dare to offend Wesley. It's not good for me to expose this kind of thing, so last time you said that you can arrange two roles for me..." Harry begged: "Is it still effective? Where do you live? Hotel, shall I come to see you?"

"No, I'm being watched by reporters and the local police." Song Ya was reminded by her, only to remember that she had invested in two films of Xiao Lizi in Hollywood, "I'll ask tomorrow, don't hold out too much hope. "

"Harry, are you overly smart? Are you being fooled by your cleverness?" He put down the phone, shook his head and laughed.