Chapter 82 Back to School

Mariah Carey gave up on the idea of ​​doing tanning, and Song Ya soon got a thank-you from Motura. David Letterman from NBC sent an invitation to the late-night show, an absolute first-line TV show, four A one-minute performance and a ten-minute interview, the guests in the past are basically celebrities in film and television songs and even political circles.

But not now, it will probably wait until February or March after the Grammy Awards ceremony. David Letterman has very high requirements for the quality of the program, and the ten-minute interview must be full of burdens. Song Ya notified Hayden and asked William Morris to communicate with the late-night show crew to come up with an excellent script. He is not a joke player who can play on the spot, and the energy of NBC is not comparable to that of small and medium-sized radio DJs. The ratings of the top program dropped by two points. It is estimated that no front-line interview will dare to invite him for a long time. Moreover, NBC still has the NBA broadcasting rights, offending them will be detrimental to the promotion of Remember The Name in the future.

The four-minute performance is even more difficult to fool, real singing, and at the same time impromptu interaction with the comedians of the program group, this is going to kill Song Ya, he has to spend his free time practicing hard.

As soon as the four-week promotion period was over, his single disc immediately disappeared from the eye-catching position in major audio-visual stores. Customers had to go around the shelves inside to find it, and the background music list in the store disappeared. Feel it coming, the delivery of rice knives to small and medium-sized black DJs also stopped, and most of them didn't bother to swallow back the praise they had said. After all, the heat was over, and scolding was also to increase exposure for Song Ya.

The Billboard rankings are bound to suffer a cliff-like drop, and the feedback on sales will be later. Judging from Columbia Records’ estimates, it will definitely pass the platinum line by the end of the fifth week, and then it will encounter the Grammy effect head-on (winning songs capture listeners Attention, sales surge), Song Ya and I feel it coming are sad, and they can only wait for the last wave of rebound after David Letterman's late-night show, and then completely cool down.

Don't blame Columbia Records, Song Ya doesn't want to make any news or gossip to cooperate with the hype. He is going back to Chicago and school starts.

In mid-January, Chicago was much colder than New York. The three of them were too cold to talk when they left the airport. When they returned to the recording studio, Delay took off his coat and exclaimed, "Chicago is so cold."

"yes."

Song Ya took out a bunch of miscellaneous things brought back from New York from her bag and placed them in the honor corner of the office. There were second-hand stores and replicas of De Klerk's platinum record certification, as well as a bunch of trophies for small awards before the Grammys. , Best Newcomer Singer, Best Lyricist and Composer. If Song Ya was willing, he could recite more. He ignored the small awards that he would only get if he had to go to the scene to receive the awards in person, and the pheasant awards that paid a sum of money in advance to give out trophies.

"Wow, it's a lot more grand here now."

Al went around in the office, taking advantage of the opportunity of publicity, Song Ya asked Song Asheng to hire an interior designer to decorate the whole place, new furniture, new boss desk, new sofa, and the There are everything from elk antlers.

"yes."

Song Ya took out the photo frame from the bag and put it next to the same photo frame on the boss's desk. It was a group photo taken during dinner with Mariah Carey and Walt. Four men and one woman gathered around the table to watch Smiling happily to the camera, the atmosphere is very warm. In addition to the group photo with the family, the other photo frames also include the "grandfather and grandchildren" photo with Mandela, the photo with Federal Congressman Underwood and his wife at the dinner, and Michelle and the Baptist pastor. Group photo of people under a banner of an affirmative action rally.

There is also a group photo of Zhang with Rakim, Professor Da, NAS and other New York rappers in the nightclub. Looking at the gang gestures in the hands of the followers behind them, Song Ya shook his head and threw the photo frame into the drawer.

In fact, in the South Pacific, he also took a lot of photos with Mira on the beach,

However, they haven't been developed yet, and he doesn't want to hand over those 'cool' negatives to some street photoshop, so he can only hide the film at home, and see if he has a chance to set up a darkroom to do it himself later.

"Delay, you only have one task to come up with the synthesized sound that Remember The Name will use." He ordered.

"clear."

Delay brought in a lot of agent business cards and resumes of various singers that were stuffed through the crack of the door, and threw them on the boss's desk, "You should hire a front desk, preferably someone like old Joe Carl. Yes, at least it can deter Big A and the others."

He has always been dissatisfied with Big A's harassment of female singers who came to A+ Records looking for opportunities.

Not to mention the harassment, but the big A still lied. He and his younger brothers, taking advantage of the inexperienced girls who can't tell the difference between 401 and 401A, relying on the old-fashioned way of bragging and helping to post videos, have succeeded many times. .

"The front desk, the assistant, one needs to impress the big A, and the other needs to be able to hang out in nightclubs all over Mimi. It's not easy to find."

Song Ya scratched his head in distress. There is no shortage of such people in Nancheng, but there is no one he can trust yet, "Big A is very useful to me, and the relationship cannot be frozen now."

After four weeks of publicity for small and medium-sized black DJs, Song Ya practiced Cooper's theory of bringing goods well, and spent a total of about two hundred thousand dollars, which was exactly the same as his cash income, and brought the single to the Eighth highest billboard, platinum sales. Big A works very hard, he is well-fed in Chicago and Detroit, and he will be used for the release of the next Remember The Name. From another perspective, if it weren’t for Big A’s ability to get those girls from Song Ya and other benefits, he would definitely not be like this Work hard.

"Also, the cost of producing a synthetic sound for A+ audio is very high, and there are almost no outside customers except for A+ records. What's the matter?"

He asked Delay, the other party was still receiving the salary of the general manager of A+ audio.

De Lay is also very distressed about this. The company cannot make a profit. The equity reward that Song Ya promised to him is like a mirror in the water. It can be seen that he can't get it. "Our synthetic sound reserves are not enough. The big record companies usually buy packaged licenses. , they won’t settle with us one by one.”

"Then? Is there any solution?"

"Unless we acquire a relatively large synthetic sound copyright library, at least the market share should be higher than three percent."

"Well……"

Song Ya knew that it would not be a small amount of money, "Let's not consider this for the time being, unless there is a good opportunity."

Delay is also aware of the reality. He and Al started to get busy. In addition to tossing about synthesized sounds, the two had to practice rap. Al was the best of the three. After all, he was Little Lowry's partner. Song Yaci In short, Delay used to play rock and roll, and has lost his singing skills for many years after switching to a keyboard player, and it is a bit difficult to recover. Fortunately, the threshold for rap is not high, so it shouldn't be a big problem to practice more.

Back at school, Song Ya went straight into the classroom.

He doesn't participate in the opening ceremony, Christmas ball, and some social activities among students. This is an agreement with the school, and the other side will also give convenience when he often asks for leave.

But this time back to school, the attitude of the students towards him is completely different.

Songwriters are naturally a bit of a cultural person. The students in private schools are all from good families, so they can be treated with a normal heart, but now Song Ya has become a singer, and she is also a platinum singer with her first single. You must know that N.W.A's Veteran star Cooper only got a gold record for his last album, which is still a long way from platinum sales.

"Hi! APLUS!" As soon as they entered the school, regardless of whether it was black or white, the female students took the initiative to greet and wink.

Even the male classmates, such as Brad, who had been bullied before, came over with a piece of paper in his hand, "Can you help me sign it? I want it for my sister."

Song Ya could only smile generously, and took out a pen to sign for him.

"Mine, I want it too!"

"Sign one for my mom too, APLUS!"

One person succeeds, and there are countless followers. The students are chattering, and in an instant, they form an iron bucket around Song Ya.