Chapter 482: The Barbarian at the Gate

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Back in Chicago, the vocal cords became even more swollen. He asked Linda to find the best local throat doctor and vocal teacher, and began to take it seriously.

"You have to change the way you speak, APLUS."

After the joint consultation, the vocal teacher suggested: "For singers, you can't go far. You used to sing purely on the talent of your voice. The ending of that sohigh was too thin and too high. Every time you sang like that, the vocal cords were all wrong. A kind of injury, sure enough, now the evil has exploded."

"Then what should we do?" Linda asked in his place.

"Calm down and practice again honestly." The other party prescribed the medicine.

"I'm nineteen years old." Song Ya said.

"You have to be persistent. The vocal cords are too fragile." The doctor said, "You can't pin your hopes on luck."

"Okay." Song Ya replied helplessly. He is a little embarrassed now. In order to catch up with the progress of the entire semester that he left behind for filming, he can register for four core courses this semester, and he doesn't have much free time...

It seems that the matter of the original soundtrack must be advanced, at least let Dion Wilson and the others evaluate which songs their own voices must be treated with caution. Fortunately, none of the new apocalypse songs have such a perverted ending as WanttoWantMe.

I gestured to Linda and asked her to show the vocal music teacher the dozens of lyrics and music scores with dense notes.

"You wrote all of these?" the vocal music teacher asked in surprise.

"Yes." Linda answered for him.

"Wow, you are such a genius..." The other party looked carefully for a long time, "Fortunately, the difficulty is not as difficult as WanttoWantMe, only the way of saying SayGoodbye may need to be improved, and you must avoid this kind of thin voice in the future."

"So we hired you," Linda said.

"Okay, I will make a detailed recovery plan, and I will go to Highland Park to teach APLUS regularly." The vocal teacher nodded.

In addition to school and vocal music lessons, Song Ya has to practice dancing and polish her acting skills. Every day is full of time, but it just so happens that Mariah Carey is running around the world for her new album, and the lonely days without women are easy to pass up.

Two days later, when MJ's case was still at the height of the heat, Daniel and DefJam President Lyle Cohen visited Highland Park together.

"APLUS, is your voice better?" Daniel asked with concern when he found out about his vocal cord problems.

Song Ya shrugged and made a gesture of no problem.

"Now is our best chance." Daniel cut directly to the topic. MJ's manager is Motura, and he doesn't care much about where the case will go.

"Yes, Russell Simmons has to go." Lyle Cohen added that he and Russell Simmons drove out Rick Rubin, the founder of DefJam, and now he is working with Daniel and himself to drive away his close friend Russell Simmons Yes, he is a cunning guy who does anything for his own benefit.

"cool."

Song Ya has now gradually and completely entered the inner world of the male protagonist. In fact, there is no such thing as a male protagonist. The background of the male protagonist is similar to his own after time travel. If it is not for the apocalypse plug-in, it is estimated that his life will not be much different from the male protagonist.

The two people on the opposite side looked at each other and smiled helplessly. Both of them needed to borrow Song Ya's money. At this time, the spirits of the people can definitely get full marks for their endurance.

"Tell me about the specific plan?"

Hamlin closed the door of the study room. This time, Song Ya only let Linda and him participate in the secret conversation. Basically, the division of labor between him and Goodman was that he favored New York business, while Goodman focused on Chicago.

"I've given Russell Simmons an ultimatum internally at Sony Columbia Records, if he doesn't leave DefJam, we're going to have all the DefJam artists on the neck of the press," Daniel said.

"I also did it inside DefJam, and the result of the meeting was that he had to leave,

For the sake of the record company, anyway, he is now concentrating on those side jobs. ’ added Lyle Cohen.

Hamlin sat down on the sofa, resting his hands on the back of the sofa casually, "He won't be caught without a fight, will he?"

"What else can he do, DefJam hasn't sold a platinum record in a long time." Lyle Cohen said indignantly.

"You are the president." Hamlin questioned.

"He has 20% of the shares and is the major shareholder. Although Sony Columbia Records holds 50% of the shares, they basically didn't care about the specific operations of their labels during the Motura period." Lyle Cohen replied. According to the rules of the recording industry, the upstream publishing company takes half of the shares for the purpose of binding the label's distribution contract. Generally, the contract when purchasing will sign a clause not to intervene in the specific operation, otherwise others will not allow it to acquire.

Hamlin immediately debunked this.

"It's not working now. Now we have suffered huge losses year after year, and it will be too late if we don't change." Lyle Cohen complained.

"Russell Simmons introduced Polygram to compete with us. He wanted Polygram to acquire 50% of Sony Columbia Records." Daniel said, "Behind Polygram is Philips, which is rich and powerful. They always want to Entering the American hip-hop music market, DefJam Records' background is very suitable for their requirements."

"So we..." Song Ya asked herself.

"We don't resist selling to PolyGram. In fact, this is just right. We won't sell until Russell Simmons is resolved." Lyle Cohen said, "The small and medium shareholders are also on my side."

"I put a lot of pressure on DefJam. APLUS, you first acquire the shares of small and medium shareholders who want to exit immediately. The total is 8% to 9%."

Daniel handed a document to Hamlin, "We've got it all ready for you."

"You come in and join us in forcing Russell Simmons to give up his position as a major shareholder, and you will take 10% of him." Lyle Cohen said, "I will also buy a little bit personally, so that my shares account for 100% More than ten percent."

"If he wants to sell the best, then you can eat 20% of his, but I don't think so." Daniel said.

"Money? Time?" Song Ya asked.

"Twenty-four hours." Alcorn looked at his watch, "According to 28%, you'd better prepare 10 million funds."

DefJam was a similar size company to SBK a few years ago. At that time, SBK, where Daniel worked, sold for 300 million knives, and the valuation of DefJam was similar, so Russell Simmons, who accounted for 20% of the shares, was worth at least 60 million at the time. Not counting his side jobs. But now, Song Ya can get 28% if he prepares 10 million. This is a good deal, even if DefJam is not working now.

"I'll reply as soon as possible." Song Ya stood up and reached out to them.

"Let's talk alone."

Daniel didn't intend to leave, and sent the others out, "APLUS, let me be honest, if you take 28%, you have to transfer 8% to me at a suitable time and at a suitable price , if you get 18 percent, then 5 percent. You won't lose money on this deal, don't hesitate, when I sell DefJam to Polygram, your stake will increase in value immediately , PolyGram will pay at least 50 million dollars for the 50% stake in Sony Columbia, I just didn't tell Lyle Cohen and them."

Song Ya understood that it was nothing more than these tricks for the senior manager to tilt the corner of the owner's house, and the part of the shares requested by the other party was considered to be held by him.

"No problem." He still replied with the attitude of the hero Taylor that he didn't care about anything.

"Then we agreed?"

"we have a deal."

Daniel was satisfied. He pointed to the book "The Barbarian at the Door" on the shelf in the study and said, "It's a good book, are you reading it too?"

Song Ya nodded.

"We're savages in this matter, breaking into Russell Simmons' house and killing it." He laughed.

Song Ya also grinned.

The two left, and they would rush back to New York overnight. According to Daniel, they would quickly get rid of Russell Simmons while everyone's attention was on MJ's side. That's why Lyle Cohen said there were only twenty-four hours.

Song Ya, who sent people back, walked to the living room and saw Linda playing with a black box like a video cassette recorder.

"What is this?" He saw the Chinese characters "Wanyan VCD" on the box and remembered it. The product he invested three million yuan finally came out, and he sent the prototype.

The random machine also comes with some Huaguo movie discs in VCD format.

Let Linda start playing, the effect is not bad, the sound quality and picture quality are average, but it is already a very new thing.

Fast-forward, double-speed playback, Song Ya fiddled with it enthusiastically, very satisfied, this is much more reliable than the Palm PDA, although it is difficult to solve the film source problem in developed countries, but there should be a market in areas where piracy is rampant .

"Wait, VCD? I seem to have seen this word somewhere." Hamlin also came over, "I'll look for it."

He found a financial magazine from his bag, opened the inside page, and read, "Sony, Philips, JVC, Panasonic and other companies jointly launched the VCD format standard. '

"WTF!?" Song Ya couldn't help exclaiming when she saw this line of words, and there was a tingling pain in her vocal cords, "It hurts! It hurts!"