Chapter 315: Motura Comes to Beg Me Again

"I grew up in Chicago, now I walk around New York..."

Sony Columbia Records acted very quickly. For the live action part in Chicago, the director and filming team soon arrived in Chicago. The police closed a small section of the street in the black district of South City for half a day.

"APLUS, your acting skills are pretty good, basically it's just one pass."

The director complimented Song Ya. He is a white man in his fifties who is in charge of a documentary project on CBS. From this candidate, it can be seen that Motura is determined to make the official MV of Empire State Of Mind into a promotional film for New York City. attempt.

"you flatter me……"

Song Ya knew how much he weighed, but he just made hip-hop gestures to the camera in the decaying neighborhood, and then lip-synced to the accompaniment. Of course, it was not difficult to act, if it weren't for the security in Nancheng, he would always be a little bit Worry, progress can be faster.

"The last one."

The director announced that the crew quickly moved to the second floor of a private house. It was also a very simple shot. Song Ya stood on the simple balcony on the second floor, holding his hands on the railing and looking out. The content shot in Chicago is basically in the Reflecting his life in the slums before becoming famous.

"OK, all departments are ready." The director arranged the camera position at the side and rear, and announced the start of shooting when the sun angle was satisfactory.

Song Ya wore the cheapest trousers and an elastic vest, and walked out of the balcony door, feeling empty, holding the railing with both hands, and looking outside in confusion. This is a real scene, and the surrounding environment is similar to his previous residence in Nancheng, but the conditions are a little better, at least there is a balcony, not that the nearby residents like to dry their clothes in the yard, the background of the lens specially selected by the director is these random Ten thousand flags fluttering in the wind.

"OK! Passed!"

Another pass, the director looked at his watch, very satisfied, "APLUS, you did a great job! There is still time, let's do it again. APLUS?"

He found that Song Ya was still maintaining this posture, looking outside in a daze, "This place touched you, didn't it?" He smiled and stepped forward to pat Song Ya's shoulder, "You come out of this kind of place, get In order to succeed, I know it will not be easy.”

"um, yes."

Song Ya fooled him casually, "Do it again, right?" He walked towards the door.

In fact, I didn’t have any feelings at all just now, but the apocalypse came again, but only a few seconds of the movie screen, or the handsome white male protagonist in the wonderful dance performance of BoutIt, the background of the screen is similar to the environment I am in now He, too, was looking out at the block from the balcony.

"In the same movie?"

The apocalypse is coming more and more frequently, and it's a bit like a puzzle game. It's unknown whether Song Ya will make a complete movie when she feels it...

By the way, also, judging from the picture quality, photography, and dance style, it seems to be in this unknown movie.

"OK, this one is fine, let's call it a day!"

Just thinking about it and finished shooting one more, the director had a good impression of Song Ya, "APLUS, you are very good, you have a high degree of cooperation, you don't play big names on the set, and you don't have the various eccentricities of Hollywood stars of the same level. "

"What quirk?"

"There are too many, some have to arrange special rooms and people to take care of for their cats and dogs, some have to redecorate the dressing room according to her ideas, and even have to ask about the arrangement of flower arrangements, not to mention those who like to be late or in the office. The set was drunk and high."

The director seems to be full of resentment towards Hollywood and should have experienced failure there.

"You're going back to New York to play Miss Kelly, right?" Song Ya asked.

"Yes, and then wait for you to meet in New York, see you in New York."

"See you in New York, oh no, see you at A+ Records tonight, I have a party for the crew."

"Ha ha,

OK "The director was very happy, and the crew next to him burst into cheers when they heard it. There must be no shortage of good wine and beautiful women in the party of A cafe singers.

"You guys get out of here."

Song Ya went to chat with the head of the police force who was in charge of clearing the block for a while, and the other party urged: "It's not safe here, you know better than me that you went out here."

"I know, we will withdraw immediately." Song Ya smiled at the other party: "Thank Peter for me."

"Yes, let's go."

After getting in the car and returning to A+ Records, Hayden was already waiting in the office, and he hurriedly asked, "What about the concert by the stars at the end of the year?"

"MJ will definitely not come, he is not equal to Escouber, and gangster rappers run counter to his ideas, besides, he still has to bring his own royal rap..." Song Ya replied: "And I No Escube pigeons."

"Is this MJ's attitude?" Hayden asked.

"How could MJ show such an attitude, Sandy Glenn hinted at it on the phone."

"That's the best. If MJ doesn't come, our selection will be much easier, and we don't have to hire those old singers who are of equal status."

Yeremov roughly sorted out the list, "Mariah Carey sang one round of chorus, BABYFACE sang another round, and you were responsible for the opening rap and the ending lyrics, and Celine Dion was responsible for Fergie's line, Iscube and Dre shared Al's part, Kris and SirMix-A-Lot and others for Delay's part, and then sporadic lines and some vocals went to other young singers under Sony Columbia Records and Faye. Ji, Al, DeLay, Mon, and others, their status is probably equivalent to the background wall when shooting."

"Can."

Song Ya is very satisfied with this candidate. Except for some candidates who want to return favors, the others are basically arranged by Motura. Naturally, they are all singers under Sony Columbia Records.

In this way, the influence will be weakened, but all parties can be satisfied, "MJ won't have any objections?" Hayden asked.

"He always puts on airs and doesn't speak formally. What can I do." Song Ya shrugged, "And he is touring around the world, and he may not have time."

"I heard that HBO paid 12 million pounds for the rights to broadcast his concert in Bucharest on the 1st of next month," Yeremov said.

"Well, who called him MJ."

In terms of commercial value, Song Ya still can't see the taillights of the other party's car, so she can't be envious.

"You should drink less at the party tonight. Tomorrow is Gore's fundraising dinner in Chicago." Hayden reminded.

"I know, I can't mess up this kind of thing." Song Ya pointed to the brand new dress that had been prepared, and was doing the final inspection in Taraji's hands.

At this moment, the phone rang, "APLUS, is it convenient to talk?" The other party didn't exchange pleasantries, and just asked the first sentence, as if there was something urgent.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Motura." Song Ya pressed the microphone and signaled to Hayden and others, "It's Motura."

"Okay." Hayden and the others got up and left one after another, Taraji also pointed to himself, Song Ya nodded, she put down the dress carefully, and followed.

"Okay." Song Ya said.

"Uh... APLUS, I might ask you something else."

Normally, Motura would not speak to herself in this tone, unless it was because of Mariah Carey, "When are you coming to New York?"

"According to the schedule, it's time to shoot the MV with Miss Kelly, maybe in a few days, what's the matter?" Song Ya asked.

"Can you come to New York as soon as possible? It's like this..."

It turned out that Mariah Carey had been in frequent contact with black artists in New York recently in order to receive another R&B song. This guy Motura didn't know which muscle was wrong, and he wanted to ask himself to help keep her under control.

"You are a sincere friend of Mimi, who is rare in the circle, and I am very assured of you..."

Motura said: "But those African-Americans in New York, you know, people like Daddy Kane, they are all reckless scumbags, and they take pleasure in hooking up women, the more famous they are, the more Come on, I will brag about sleeping DIVA in the circle afterwards. Mimi is too innocent, I am afraid that she will be hard to guard against, especially she likes to drink a little, but I can't restrict her too much, she always treats me There are big opinions on that.”

"..."

Song Ya and Mariah Carey had already known her thoughts when talking on the phone. Her new album still lacked a song. She wanted rhythm and blues style, and it was lighter than BABYFACE's iconic style. A little more hip-hop. This forced her to come into contact with some black artists whose behavior was biased towards the streets.

"Then how do you want me to keep an eye on her? She will also have opinions on me." Song Yatai knows Mariah Carey, she is very assertive about her music, and she thinks there is still one song missing in the new album Song, then she must try her best to get it.

"It's just to accompany her to appointments or something, parties, nightclubs, especially nightclubs, you have to keep an eye on her, just treat her as a favor to me, and I will show it later."