Chapter 841 2 Chasing Motura

"Matthew Norris just called me, seems to have a new idea."

The next day, Linda reported on company affairs as usual, "He is exploring whether it is possible to transfer the Music World Entertainment label to another record company."

"It's a good idea, you begged me to take you in like a dog..."

At present, a+ Records owns two small subsidiary labels, which basically follow the traditional model of the record industry. A+ Records owns 50% of the shares of the two labels and provides assistance in production, distribution, publicity and other aspects, but does not interfere with specific records. operate.

One of them is Matthew Norris' famous Music World Entertainment Records, which mainly manages the rhythm and blues girl group Destiny's Child, one is Damon Dash and Jazzy's roc-a-records, and there is a minority shareholder card Rimpock has been in prison, and there is only one rapper under his banner, which is jazzy.

Needless to say, jazzy, according to Apocalypse, should be a top character in the original world line, and Destiny's Child's c position, Matthew Norris' eldest daughter, Beyoncé, is the if i were a boy singer of Apocalypse just yesterday!

Beyoncé's singing skills in if i were a boy were perfect, and her figure will evolve from the current thin body to the mature style of protruding and backward in the apocalypse mv. So how could he foolishly let go of the future gold mine now.

This is also different from the 20% singer who let go of Shakira. At that time, she agreed to Estefan's request mainly because she didn't want Shakira to be dragged down by her own troubles. Without such moral baggage, besides, cousin Emily is already an official member of the Destiny's Child team.

"Matthew Norris must have heard something?" he asked Linda.

"Is there any need to listen to the rumors? Everyone knows that Motura will come back after Daniel resigned voluntarily." Linda replied, "Smart people like Matthew Norris must be worried that we will be dragged down and get stuck in the publishing process." neck."

"Good idea." Song Ya curled her lips.

"Foxy Brown is here." Taraji opened the door and came in to report.

"yo." With an indifferent face, Foxy Brown followed Taraji in, and played a complicated fist bump with Song Ya.

"From next year,

You also join the Destiny's Child group, responsible for the rap part. "Song Ya confessed the arrangement for the girl, "Then next year my a+ record will also help you release a solo album, the track is ready, right? "

foxy brown helped herself make trouble, make trouble, and create internal conflicts in the def jam record. She was very energetic at a young age. Polygram, the major shareholder of def jam, was annoyed by her and had a headache. They were willing to give in and pay a large sum of money One of the factors that bought himself and Daniel to go.

At the beginning, I promised Huang Yuan, who is also of Chinese descent, to take care of her. Of course, I can’t cross the river and tear down the bridge. I want to give back to the girl. Polygram is likely to be unfavorable to her without the constraints of myself, a small shareholder of def jam, so from next year, her The singer's date was transferred to A+ Records.

This is part of the deal he quit def jam, "I bought some additional lyrics and music they prepared for you from def jam, as a gift for you when you turned sixteen." He said to foxy brown: "you first Go back to Chicago to make an album, and I'll let Jazzy here in New York take care of you when it's time to play songs."

"jazzy, cool."

This girl is not afraid of anything, she just raised her chin to express her gratitude to her boss's boss.

"Well, that's it, go ahead and do it well."

Song Ya encouraged a few words and asked Taraji to take her away, "Well, she added Emily, so Destiny's Child will return to the early configuration of the six, give Matthew Norris a little sweetness, after all He wants to help me take care of two restless girls." He rubbed his eyebrows and confessed to Linda.

Although Matthew Norris is cunning, he is very good at dealing with rebellious teenage girls. The overall atmosphere of Destiny's Child is a clear stream among black girl groups. This is why I feel relieved to hand over Emily and Foxy Brown to The reason in his hand.

"Matthew Norris likes to stay in Los Angeles. He thinks there are more opportunities there, because his eldest daughter Beyoncé wants to try to develop in the film industry." Linda said.

"Well, he told me about this before..."

Song Ya thought about it. According to Beyoncé's age in Tianqi MV, it should be a long time later, maybe more than ten years later, so when will she be popular? Now we can’t be too harsh on her and her father, try to maintain a long-term cooperation, coax what you need, spend what you need, "Allow a sum of money to promote the title of Music World Entertainment Records, and pay for the basic expenses of Destiny's Child in Los Angeles Sell ​​it, if they want to record songs there... Just ask Mr. David Geffen to help. Although his Geffen record is sold, he still owns a good recording studio in Los Angeles. The studio rent is included in the album We will pay half of the production costs, and help them advance the other half. As for film opportunities... I will think about it after I finish my work."

"Okay." Linda wrote it down, "Mr. Gao Shu changed the meeting place between you and John Carley to a golf club near Bedford Hills."

This is the business, Song Ya paced slowly and thought about it for a while, and asked, "What do you think, Linda?"

"Promise, I think this is an opportunity. It is 100% for John Carley to replace Motura as the president of North Missoni Entertainment. He is likely to be in charge of Columbia Pictures at the same time. No matter how reserved you are, you will make enemies unnecessarily."

Linda persuaded: "After he takes office, he will definitely try his best to eliminate Motura's influence in Sony Entertainment in the past two years. Just like Daniel before, you have a natural basis for cooperation. And..."

"And what?" Seeing that she hesitated to speak, Song Ya asked.

"And our a+cn and inner city broadcasters' attack on Motura can't go on like this. The audience is getting a little bored now. Gordon said that everyone wants to watch something entertaining during Christmas, otherwise it will be the same as Comcast’s ratings task at the second milestone node will completely collapse, which is very detrimental to a+cn’s follow-up channel resources.” Linda said.

"It's already very unfavorable. It was a big mistake for Gordon to focus on the Simpson case from the beginning. I just didn't pursue it." Song Ya is already a bit displeased with this Gordon now, MJ refused to do that It’s fine as a helper, but now that the Motura discrimination incident is halfway through, your attitude is changing again? He turned over old accounts in his heart.

"Right now, basic investment fields such as the Internet and telecom lines are booming. Comcast has decided to put the group's energy in that direction, and the speed of expanding TV network users has obviously stagnated..."

Linda said: "The promotion plan we prepare for a+cn next year will rely on their and Northern Trust's follow-up investment. Assuming they hold 29% of the shares, the promotion fee of 10 million is 2.9 million. They have to pay the extra."

"It's just a small amount of money for them." Song Ya said that the big head was still paid by himself.

"But the situation is different now. a+cn has not shown the potential that everyone thought it would, and their money must not go well." Linda smiled wryly.

"Incompetent Gordon, you give him a hint for me, I will only give him another year."

Song Ya felt that the bet boss Johnson's evaluation of Gordon was all right. After all the years of cooperation, Johnson knew this subordinate much better than himself. "Okay, I'll go and meet John Carley."

"I called Elizabeth Taylor last night, and she conveyed MJ's attitude on her behalf. MJ doesn't think Motura will go so low as to cooperate with hard copy."

Having worked in Warner Bros. Pictures for many years, John Carley must have a good relationship with Elizabeth Taylor. He is a fat white man wearing round glasses. After a brief acquaintance, I found a chance to be alone on the green and started talking about business while leaning on a golf club, "So this time, it is best for you to stop threatening each other, it is already a bit beyond the bottom line, Motura's ex-wife is a The ex-president's daughter, she also called Mr Stringer and me to express her concerns."

"So Sony is going to get married again?" Song Ya asked: "When my anti-discrimination speech comes out, what will MJ do?"

"I don't know, I don't know much about the record industry."

John Carley adjusted his glasses, and glanced at Gao Shu who was waiting in the distance, "I don't want to guess, anyway, it seems that MJ doesn't want to give up his manager, and the public basically doesn't care about the behind-the-scenes personnel of the star or the top management of the record company. Who, unless you pull out Motura and stare at the attack like you are doing now. If you remove the hard copy of the article, Motura is maintaining amazing restraint in the eyes of Sony, which is not good for you aplus, you and Mariah Carey is a star, and now the post-fermentation of that article has begun."

"I feel like I have an edge right now."

Song Ya is not a person who will give in when he is a little bit tricky, "Judging from the timing and content of that article, I don't think anyone other than Motura would do this. I advise you and mj to continue to investigate, although he This time it may be done very secretly..."

He boasted, "I have done some research on the background of the hard copy. Their TV station has been using Paramount's channel resources, and Motura and Paramount have a long-term cooperation with Viacom's MTV channel. He once tried to let People from mtv are plotting against me. I will find an opportunity to ask Mr. Redstone, the owner of Viacom, about this, he appreciates me very much."

"We'll look into it."

John Carley smiled, "Personally, I will also ask Paramount President Shirley Lansing, in short, you can rest assured that I, Mr. Stringer and Sony have enough ways to find out the truth. "

"But you won't check it carefully for me? You just want to publicize the public opinion storm I'm about to launch." Song Ya said.

"In addition to you, there is also the pressure of MJ. He also wants to know whether his manager is doing something behind his back, as well as other African-American singers and actors under our banner. Your energy is very aplus, and the extreme pressure makes Sony It's a headache, they... gave me some power to make peace with you."

John Carley replied: "Of course, people don't want protests, speeches, and congressional proposals. You can't be too strong on this point, otherwise you will be everyone's enemy and things will get out of hand. Of course, Motura himself …I don’t want my two children to be involved in this matter, and because of the pressure from us and Sony, he already stated on a certain occasion this morning that he is willing to admit defeat.” John Carley broke the news.

Cowardly? Hehe, sure enough, he was scared at both ends, the corner of Song Ya's mouth curled up slightly, "Then..."

"There is a good solution at this time."

John Carley said: "Motura will admit that he said that sentence, and of course he will also say that it was just a mistake made in private and drunk. He will not try to release the full recording to hurt your wife again, and express his opinion. All African-Americans apologize. At the same time, he will resign as the president of Sony Entertainment and take responsibility for this by stepping down."

"what is this?"

Song Ya almost laughed angrily, "You were planning to let him step down, how can you use a certain thing as punishment?"

"But the public doesn't know, can't you show your victory by losing such a prominent position?" John Carley said: "He publicly admitted that recording, so he can't even think about being the president of Sony Columbia Records in such a short time. We will launch an internal investigation on him, MJ's people and Epic Records will also participate, and the conclusion will not come until the middle of next year at the earliest."

"Are you going to pretend to be dead to avoid the limelight, and then let Motura quietly come back to take office after the middle of next year?" Song Ya grasped the main point of the other party's words.

"Well, the book insists on him. After evaluating him and Daniel, Mr. Stringer is more inclined to choose him. He has done a very good job in the record industry before. You can't let Motura die socially, right? ?As long as he is alive, he will always exist in the record industry. His past performance is not difficult to find a new home. The struggle between the two of you in the record industry will last for a long time. As long as he can survive the internal investigation, we and mj will both be concerned about this It's taken very seriously."

John Carley said: "Besides, there are only half a year left before the release of your A+ album. What are you worried about? Even if you plan to renew your contract, you dare not accept the book. The rift between us is so big that it is almost irreparable. Well, the old consultants at Sony’s headquarters think you’re a thorn in the side, a trouble maker, and no matter how much you can help Sony make money, Mr. Nobuyuki Idei, the CEO, would rather spend some money to buy something clean.”

"The price? What price are they willing to pay to buy me out?"

Song Ya saw the opportunity to solve her knot, "Then I want to get my personal song copyright back from the Sony/ATV copyright library, and I am willing to spend money to buy it. Also, I want to cancel my next year's new song plus selection album distribution contract."

"Okay, let me chat with Gao Shu in private, it may take a little longer." John Carley nodded.

"Um."

The second time Motura was deflated, Song Ya hit the ball high and far with one stroke, huh? This is the fucking green! He had no choice but to chase after him alone.

"The new song plus best selection album can be cancelled. Your song copyright is not for sale. We are willing to sell it, but MJ is not willing. I feel that if you insist on this matter, you will push MJ to Motura's side. MJ is against that copyright library. Very, very paranoid, you know aplus of his character, he's a lot more emotional."

It was a long time before John Carley came to bargain, "Columbia Pictures will give you some rewards in the film industry in the future, and I will be your manager for the rest of the year. I will guarantee your A+ records and Mariah Carey, as well as the company's internal The interests of those artists who have a good relationship with you."

"Next year's awards season..."

"Next year's awards season, yes." John Carley nodded without asking whether it was the Oscars or the Grammys. "Motura is also willing to bow to you in person, of course in private."

"Yeah?"

"Yes, you can understand how difficult it is for a man?"

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