Chapter 7: Relieve sorrow
In the next two days, Lin Xi will take Lin Zhibai with her when she goes to work in the company.
When he arrived at the company, Lin Xi would let Lin Zhibai go and work on the recording of "Xiaochou".
And when the time came on the third day.
Lin Xi wanted to call her brother together before going to work.
Lin Zhibai shook his head, "The song has been officially recorded. I don't need to worry about the subsequent mixing and mastering work."
"oh."
Lin Xi nodded and said: "The production should be almost completed. Have you signed the contract?"
"Um."
Lin Zhibai complained: "The myth is very dark. I did all the lyrics, music, arrangement, and music, but I only got a 1.5 share."
A contract must be signed before the song is released.
Yesterday, the staff asked him to sign a contract. Lin Zhibai did not expect any special privileges and signed a contract according to the normal process. However, this did not prevent him from despising Shinhwa's contract.
Lin Xi laughed.
"First of all, you are a newcomer. Newcomers are not qualified to negotiate terms with the company. This involves a very real problem. Without a company, composers do not even have a platform to publish their own works, and there are no publicity resources to use. Even if your work is very good Excellent; secondly, the contract period is one year, and after one year the company will adjust your share based on your performance; thirdly, several of our top entertainment companies in Qinzhou all use this set of contracts for new composers. , there is no reason why you can break the unspoken rules of the industry when you get there.”
“I understand everything.”
Lin Zhibai looked at his sister: "Does this contract have to be changed after one year?"
Lin Xi thought for a while and said: "If the song enters the top ten of the season list, the company will pay bonuses based on the specific ranking, which is a disguised increase in the contract share, but it requires the ability to enter the top ten."
Said.
Lin Xi blinked at his younger brother.
Lin Zhibai asked: "What if I get into the top ten?"
Lin Xi flipped her hair: "If you get into the top ten, then I will wash your underwear for a year?"
Lin Zhibai: “…”
Lin Xi went out in a happy mood.
Halfway, Lin Xi received a message on her cell phone.
“Remember to look for me when you come to the company.”
The sender’s nickname is “Vice Minister Chen”.
"receive."
Lin Xi gave a brief reply.
Shinhwa Group has twenty music departments. Vice Minister Chen is one of the general managers of these twenty music departments and the second-in-command of the company’s major music department.
Arrived at the company.
Lin Xi went straight to Vice Minister Chen’s office.
Vice Minister Chen is a woman in her forties, sitting on the sofa in the office reading documents with a serious expression.
Saw Lin Xi entering the door.
Vice Minister Chen showed a smile: "Sit down, I have something to tell you."
"You say."
“The company held a meeting this morning. The senior management discussed it for a long time. They want to reorganize the music department.”
“Reorganization?”
Lin Xi’s face changed slightly.
Vice Minister Chen poured two cups of tea.
“The twenty music departments are numerous and complex, and it is a bit inconvenient to manage, so the superiors want to break up the ten music departments that are lagging behind in performance, and then allocate them to the top ten music departments.”
“Such a big move?”
Lin Xi frowned, "What about the arrangements for the bottom ten supervisors?"
Vice Minister Chen motioned to Lin Xi to drink tea, "This is what I want to tell you. The bottom ten supervisors will be assigned to the top ten supervisors as deputy. If this decision is implemented, your situation will be quite embarrassing, because The performance of your music department Thirteen has always been hovering in the middle."
Lin Xi took a sip of tea and thought about it in her mind.
If the company implements this decision, the tenth place will be the feng shui ridge of heaven and hell.
Performance rankings within the top ten are safe, but performance rankings after the tenth are dangerous.
“Today is already August 20th.”
Vice Minister Chen tapped the documents on the table with his fingertips, "I just looked at your department's average performance ranking before August."
“How many digits?”
“Thirteenth.”
Lin Xi squeezed the teacup slightly, "How much time do you have?"
Vice Minister Chen smiled and said: "Don't be too nervous. This decision should be implemented in December. You still have nearly five months to sprint for performance. As long as you have the annual performance within five months, you can reach the top ten." , your department can be retained, and a large number of personnel will be obtained from the ten abolished departments to supplement its strength."
"I see."
Lin Xi said softly: "This is a crisis, but also an opportunity."
Vice Minister Chen nodded, "Lin Xi, you followed me when you first entered the company and finally got this position. If the department is abolished, you will have to be the deputy to the top ten supervisors, even though you are only from the top to the top. Deputy, but you should know how big the power and resource gap between the two words is. I am restricted in everything because I am the deputy manager of the music department."
"I know."
Lin Xi smiled and said: "You are nominally the deputy manager of our music department, but I have always regarded you as my master in my heart."
Mythology is full of factions.
In the Music Department, Lin Xi is considered a member of Vice Minister Chen’s faction.
If Lin Xi’s department is abolished, Vice Minister Chen will also be affected.
On the other hand, if Lin Xi stabilizes this situation, Vice Minister Chen's status and voice in the company will also be improved, which will bring more convenience to her work.
The conversation is over.
Lin Xi returned to the Thirteenth Music Department, a little worried, and her mind was filled with performance performance performance performance performance...
I have received the news myself, and I believe that the other nineteen music departments should have received the news as well.
In the next few months, competition among the twenty music departments of Shinhwa Entertainment will be extremely fierce. Will I have to lock all the composers in the department into a small dark room and deny them food if they cannot write good songs? ?
The assistant followed up at this time.
Lin Xi seemed to have thought of something and asked: "Has the review of Lin Zhibai's songs been completed?"
Before the songs of Shinhwa Entertainment are released, there will be a fixed internal review process, which is mainly used to confirm whether there is any possibility of plagiarism in the songs. It is okay for some songs to have a little melody occasionally. With so many composers around the world, there will always be similar ideas, but if the melody If the similarity reaches a certain standard, it is suspected of plagiarism. This song should not be released in the name of Shinhwa. The old man is a person who cherishes feathers very much.
"Yes."
The assistant followed suit, "The review has been passed, and the song has been sent to your encrypted mailbox through the company intranet."
"Um."
Lin Xi entered the office and prepared to listen to music.
As the head of the department, Lin Xi will listen to every song released from Music Department 13 and make a brief estimate of the market.
This is part of her job.
Although the younger brother went through the back door and was arranged by his supervisor, and did not go through the screening channels within the department, the necessary procedures still had to be followed.
Furthermore, Lin Xi is also curious:
When I feel tense like this, it seems good to listen to the songs written by my brother.
Ask the assistant to close the door.
Lin Xi opened the company's internal mailbox and saw the title of his brother's work.
“Relieve sorrow?”
These two words inevitably give Lin Xi some associations.
Feeling inexplicably complicated, Lin Xi connected to the extremely expensive monitor speaker in the office and clicked play.
The prelude sounds.
is the sound of the accordion.
Sadness.
Silence.
It seems to make people’s hearts feel a little sour.
The melody is gentle, the guitar follows, and a slightly rich vocal sounds.
This melody…
These lyrics…
Lin Xi felt slightly in a trance while listening to the song.
And when the verse transitions to the chorus, every word of the lyrics is like a knife piercing the heart.
There is no need for the singer to express anything hoarsely, Lin Xi's heart is filled with waves, and it seems that he sees a drunk young man at the wine table in front of his eyes.
Muttering his melancholy.
telling his sorrow.
Lin Xi's eyes suddenly flashed back to all the things his brother had done in the past three years. He filled a pot of wine and got drunk before he drank it.
gradually.
Her eyes were red.
I don’t know when the singing will end.
Lin Xi remained silent and clicked play again.
She couldn't tell whether the lyrics of "Xiaochou" were her brother's thoughts over the past three years or a creation after artistic processing, but she didn't want to ask and didn't dare to ask, for fear of touching the newly healed scar again and tearing it open. A heart-wrenching pain arose in my flesh.
From the perspective of a supervisor.
Lin Xi can’t tell how this song will perform in the market.
This has nothing to do with business ability. She has handled countless songs, but most of them have difficulty predicting the market's response in advance.
If the market was so predictable, there wouldn’t be countless songs hitting the streets quietly every year.
Who is not full of ambition when he sings?
Especially for slow songs like "Xiaochou", which have very small melodic fluctuations and are almost purely lyrical, it is more difficult to predict the market.
The only thing Lin Xi can be sure of is that some people will definitely like this song. The difference is just how many people will like it.
Because the song "Relief of Sorrow" sounds excellent to Lin Xi.
It’s so good that Lin Xi can’t even believe that this is a new song by a newcomer!
Is your younger brother a genius?
Will this song become the performance that I have longed for?
After listening to the song five times in succession, Lin Xi finally took out her cell phone and called Lin Zhibai.
The call is connected.
Lin Xi said softly: "The song is well written."
Lin Zhibai smiled and asked, "When will it be released?"
Lin Xidao: "We can release it after the Propaganda Department finalizes the promotional copy."
Copywriting?
Lin Zhibai said without hesitation: "Cut the knife to cut off the water, and the water will flow again; raise a cup to relieve sorrow, and the sorrow will become even worse."
Lin Xi was startled.
When I carefully examine this sentence in my heart, the more I appreciate it, the more subtle it becomes.
Thinking again of the heart-wrenching lyrics of "Xiaochou", she felt a little complicated and said: "My brother has grown up."
Lin Zhibai said nothing.
Lin Xi thought for a while and suggested: "There are many people who know you, so you can release songs under your stage name to save yourself some trouble."
"also."
“That’s called Xiao Heizi?”
“This doesn’t work very well.”
“How about calling me Bai Di?”
Lin Zhibai was helpless. Lin Xi would occasionally call him this, but after all, it was just his stage name: "As long as you like it."
"Ok, deal."
Lin Xi hung up the phone, stood up suddenly, suppressed her smile, regained her dignity as a supervisor, and pressed the pager on the table hard with her fingertips.
"director."
The assistant outside the door comes in.
Lin Xi said word by word: "Let's contact various departments, Music Department 13 is ready to release songs!"
"receive!"
The assistant is about to turn around.
Lin Xi stopped his assistant and said, "Give me the song sheet for "Xiaochou". The composer informed me that the song will be released under a stage name."
"OK."
The assistant quickly brought the information sheet over.
Lin Xi took out a gel pen and filled in the information sheet for a while, then showed a satisfied smile and handed it to the assistant:
“It will be posted tonight!”
The assistant ran out with the information sheet and couldn't help but glance at the contents on the way.
Song title: Eliminate Sorrow
Lyricist: Bai Di
Composer: Bai Di
Arranger: Bai Di
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