Chapter 116 (1/2)
After all, it's not a problem for Columbia Sony to sign their own company for the sake of Asia. Of course, if Donnie is signed, song Ya is not going to break his promise. She is really a good voice.
As for the other pure female version of Empire State of mind, song Ya hasn't figured out yet. If he doesn't win enough profits for himself, he won't take it out.
He was comfortable in his hotel bed and turned on the TV.
There seems to be another big news in Los Angeles. A few days ago, a teenage black girl was stealing from a new Romanian shop. After being found, she knocked down her 50 year old boss's wife. Unexpectedly, she took out a pistol and shot the black girl who was going out.
According to song Ya's humble understanding, black girls have developed from stealing to beating the shopkeeper, which has constituted robbery, and the shopkeeper has been obviously threatened. According to the local non yielding law, it should be beaten to death. The point of controversy is that the boss's wife shot the girl from the back when she went out, and directly aimed at the head. This should have been a purely legal issue, but it was turned into a racial issue again, between African Americans and Asians.
It would have been embarrassing to have the Rodney King incident reversed and beaten in the face. This time, it was a black man who caused trouble and was killed in the end
Song Ya is too lazy to call and ask Michelle, she is also worried.
”Fortunately, it's Singaporean, not Chinese...”
He is now tired of seeing such news and turns the television on.
Jingling
The room phone rings, ”hello.” Only song a Sheng knows that he lives in this room. In the evening, the hotel usually doesn't make phone calls to disturb guests, so he picks up the receiver and uses Chinese directly.
There was a silence on the other end of the phone, ”aplus?” Asked an old black man with a puzzled voice.
”Are you?” Sonya was a little surprised, and the voice was familiar. ”Mr. Steven?” He remembered that it was Steven, an executive at Atlantic Records.
”Yes! I thought I had the wrong number, ha ha... ” Steven laughed. ”Is it convenient for you now? We'd like to come up and have a chat with you. Of course, if you come down, we'll be in the hotel lobby. ”
”How do you know I live in Wait, you guys? Who else? ”
“BABYFACE。”
“……”
”Don't hide, boy. I'm tired from New York by him.” Steven laughs.
”Well, you come up.”
Song Ya feels a little creepy. Is his whereabouts so easy to check? Is it on the news again? No, even journalists don't know exactly which room they live in, do they? Even Hayden and they don't know
Is this babyface too powerful? Can you find it all?
He put down the phone and called song a Sheng to take courage.
”Hello, hello...”
Steven is the advanced gate. A handsome young black man is following him. It is indeed babyface. Song Ya knows that the other party is in his thirties, but he does not look old. He does not know whether the stage name baby face is derived from his looks.
”Is this your elder?” Steven asked, looking at song.
”I think so.” Song Ya let them sit down on the sofa in the suite.
”You are How... ” He has to figure out the problem first.
”Hey, boy, you've made him anxious. He spent a lot of money to find you as soon as possible.” Steven points to babyface and laughs.
”Aplus, you are young and don't know much about how the media and paparazzi work.” Babyface leaned on the sofa and didn't hide anything.
The media and paparazzi are cooperative. Paparazzi are like mercenaries. When they take pictures of the whereabouts or news of stars, they will submit them to the media in exchange for remuneration. But the editors of the media also have to choose. They can't buy all kinds of news. There is a process of elimination. For example, song Ya arrived in Sunnyvale and was photographed by paparazzi, but there was no topic. Naturally, it would not be selected by the media.
There is also an underground black market between paparazzi and paparazzi. The trading center is Hollywood. Some unscrupulous paparazzi will send these unsold ”useless” news to Hollywood middlemen, such as aplus to Sunnyvale and so on, for the purchase of babyface.
In fact, song Ya has also bought similar services. Last time, Hayden chamira's parents were informed through this kind of middleman. However, the transaction cost only 800 dollars, and Steven was able to say that it was a lot of money. It is estimated that babyface made a lot of money to find him this time.
”Then you don't know which room I live in?” Song Ya asked.
Babyface chuckled. ”I added money.”
It is estimated that he bought out some hotel internal staff. Song Yali engraved the hotel in his heart and put it into the blacklist, and he will not stay in any more.
”Well, is it for Donnie's sake?” The other party is so looking for the door, song Ya also can't pretend to be stupid.Fortunately, Sonya knows about babyface. He belongs to the musicians like Steven and Quincy Jones. They all have some old jazz style. They are well-dressed, and they focus on the upper class and try to play according to the rules made by the white people. They are not the same as rappers who mix the streets with rakim and big E.
”Of course.” Babyface was really in a hurry. She went to Songya and said, ”Donnie, I've been optimistic about her since several years ago. I have a whole set of plans to train her. Sony Columbia could not have competed with me.”
”To be honest, it has nothing to do with me.” Song Ya shrugged. ”I don't mean to hurt you. I just write my own songs.”
”I haven't heard your song, but it must be wonderful to make Donnie give up my two songs and switch to Colombia for one of your songs.”
This seems to make babyface a little frustrated. ”I know that I'm very bold to come to you, but I still want to work with you. In private, if you can get me to sign downy, you can make an offer.”