"Yan Liang?"
Chen Ziliang frowned, sneered, and said, "Who is he?"
Manager Yan Wei said, "Another member of Lu Yanhe's group."
"Heh." Chen Ziliang immediately chuckled, "Another unknown idol."
Yan Wei smiled and said, "This group was quite popular when they first debuted, but has been on the decline ever since. Aside from Li Zhibai and Cheng Hai, who are a bit more popular, the rest of them are unknown idols."
Chen Ziliang sarcastically said, "Hou Jun can't find anyone, and we can't just send any cats and dogs onto the stage."
He didn't feel any guilt at all for quitting at the last minute.
He didn't care for the show "Xiaoge Juzhonghui" per se. But on the Sunday night episode, when he should have been the most popular, the production team promoted a young idol named Lu Yanhe.
A simple and perfunctory song was not only bought to become a hot topic, but also many music critics were invited to review the song.
Chen Ziliang has long been dissatisfied with Hou Jun and his team of directors.
This new song is a light rock track, and he had originally wanted to promote it on the show, but Hou Jun kept telling him it wasn't suitable for the show. During rehearsals, Chen Ziliang couldn't sing it the way he'd done in the studio, which annoyed him. If the show was recorded this way, the song would be a complete disaster, so Chen Ziliang refused to record, even if it meant breaking the contract.
"But in this case, we did breach the contract. Hou Jun and the others will probably come to trouble us afterwards," Yan Wei said.
"What are you afraid of? Aren't we also invited to other shows of the Northern Lights? Let's talk to their top management. Does Hou Jun really dare to sue us?" Chen Ziliang didn't take the breach of contract seriously at all.
For a popular singer like Chen Ziliang, this level of breach of contract is commonplace.
Basically no one would come to him with a contract to settle accounts.
If you're harassing them for breaching their contract this time, will you still seek cooperation with them next time? It doesn't matter if you don't, you'll always have to look for them on your current platform. We all share common interests, so we won't go to extremes in many things.
"Did Lu Yanhe really write that song?" Chen Ziliang frowned slightly. "The songs we've collected recently are all pretty average. Don't we have any other songs?"
Yan Wei was very frustrated and said, "Nowadays many companies are collecting songs. It is difficult for us to compete with others, especially the more famous composers and lyricists. Their schedules are booked until next year or the year after, and we still can't get an appointment."
Now all major brokerage companies are promoting new artists and collecting a large number of songs. Although Chen Ziliang is a popular singer and has been constantly collecting songs, he has high requirements and there are few songs that can meet his requirements. Others will also be interested in such good songs and will grab them.
Chen Ziliang said to Yan Wei, "Since Lu Yanhe can write songs, let the company buy his songs."
Yan Wei looked at Chen Ziliang in surprise.
"Would you like to sing the song he wrote?"
"As long as it's a good song and can become popular, why wouldn't I want to?" said Chen Ziliang.
Only then did Yan Wei realize that he had underestimated Chen Ziliang in the past.
He thought that Chen Ziliang was a person who relied on his popularity and fame to be arrogant and looked down on others.
In fact, Chen Ziliang does have this problem.
However, he actually asked him to ask Lu Yanhe to buy songs.
It seems that Chen Ziliang is not a person who is so arrogant that he would blind his eyes and would rather give up benefits than bow his head.
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"Invitation song?"
On Tuesday at noon, Lu Yanhe did not go to the cafeteria for lunch. Instead, he stayed in the classroom and waited for Li Pengfei to bring him food.
He didn't want to experience the scene of being watched by people like yesterday again.
Then, Lu Yanhe received a friend request with the note "Music Director of Galaxy Entertainment".
Chen Si.
As soon as a friend adds you, they will introduce their background and purpose.
They came to invite Lu Yanhe to sing.
Chen Si said to Lu Yanhe on the voice call, "I watched the show 'Little Song Gathering' and learned that you wrote the song 'Memorial,' so I contacted you to ask if you'd be willing to write songs for our company's singers. I really like your musical style and would like to invite you to write a few songs. The price is definitely fair."
Lu Yanhe was surprised.
He hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm not a professional composer. The song 'Memorial' took me a long time to write. I haven't written any other works before."
Chen Si: "Is your first work of art of this quality? You have a lot of creative talent."
Lu Yanhe said thank you awkwardly.
"I am full of sincerity, Yan He. I know that you are a singer yourself. However, I heard that you will be preparing for the college entrance examination and will not arrange any performing work in the short term. If you create new works, I am very willing to buy them." Chen Si said.
Lu Yanhe thought about it carefully, but didn't refuse directly. He said, "Okay, I'll contact you when I create a new work."
Who knows if I’ll end up taking the path of songwriting in the future.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Si turned to Yan Wei, who was standing beside her, and said, "You heard it. He doesn't have any other works. To be honest, although the song "Memorial" is well written, it's too youthful and not quite suitable for Chen Ziliang. I gave you a few demos a while ago. Has Chen Ziliang heard them? Does he not like them? I carefully selected them. They suit him very well."
Yan Wei said: "He wants to break through and wants songs with different styles. The songs you sent him before are not much different from the previous ones. They are all in the same style. He doesn't want to repeat himself."
"How long has he been popular? He doesn't want to repeat himself. His popularity isn't even stable yet. Why are these young people always thinking about changing their style and having more styles?" Chen Si frowned, somewhat dissatisfied. "Honestly, veteran singers used to only think about changing their style after singing for ten or twenty years because their style remained the same and they lost fans. Now, he wants to change his style after releasing an album. Does he think he's a chameleon? Constantly changing styles means constantly changing fans. As his agent, you're just going to let him do this?"
Yan Wei smiled helplessly and said, "What can I do? You know his temper. If I say something harsh, he will directly tell the company to change his agent."
Chen Si: "He's too arrogant. You single-handedly raised him up. Without you, his half-baked stuff wouldn't have allowed him to survive for a few years."
"That's what I said." Yan Wei didn't continue. "Well, I still ask you to continue to help us collect some good songs. On the one hand, we need to record a new album, and on the other hand, he hasn't released a new single in a long time. It's either a cover of other people's songs or an adaptation of his old songs."
"Alas, his style isn't suitable for singing film and television OSTs, and OSTs are a hot market right now."