The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 453: Real Business War: Throwing Dirty Water

"Well, I don't know what happened yet, but I think you guys are making a big fuss."

Faced with the fact that she was also involved in this "struggle", Mariah Carey, who was in Los Angeles to promote her company's artists, obviously didn't care. She even completely ignored the reminders of those around her and publicly stood on the side of the big boy who was willing to help her in her time of crisis last year.

"Spike is the most wonderful man I have ever met, in character, talent, and sex appeal.

"Again, he's a kind person, a man you're comfortable with, a real man.

"In my opinion, he is worthy of praise for being able to achieve such results despite the pressure of some people's interference. He is a hero, a hero who truly broke through racial discrimination. He deserves all the honors in the world."

While clearly standing on Zhou Yi's side, Mariah Carey did not forget to make a sarcastic remark about her ex-husband, a senior executive at Sony: Tommy Mottola, the former president of Sony Music, nicknamed Old Goat.

The reporters present were quite shrewd. When they heard this, they immediately felt that there might be more big news. They were all excited and wanted to put the microphone in her mouth right then and there.

"Maria, Maria, what do you mean by that?"

"Maria, you mean to say that Spike was really suppressed, right?"

"Maria, you're saying this because you know who's secretly suppressing Spike, right?"

"Are you saying Tommy Mottola is behind this?!"

"..."

In mid-January 2003, Tommy Mottola, president of Sony Music Europe and America who had held the helm for 1 years, resigned amid accusations from both inside and outside the company due to losses caused by various failures.

As the president of Sony who made Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez and other world divas famous, and who made Sony Records the leader in the international record industry in the 1990s, this old goat has extremely terrifying connections and networks in the industry, but at the same time, there are always some very anthropomorphic rumors about his personality.

A classic example is racial discrimination.

In 2001, Michael Jackson, the world's number one pop star under Sony Records, released a new album "Invincible", but it suffered a setback in both sales and word of mouth. This also disappointed Michael Jackson, who was counting on the new album to win back public opinion.

This former world number one seems to be really no longer in the new century.

What's even more shocking is that Michael Jackson, who has always been known to be a good man, philanthropist, and forbearing, and who was unwilling to speak out and condemn MTV even when he was publicly teased at an awards ceremony broadcast live around the world, publicly criticized Sony President Tommy Mottola in front of the media for the first time after the failure of his album "Invincible" -

Not only did he call him a "despicable guy", he even named and accused him of being a "racist" for the first time, and blamed the failure of his new album on Tommy Mottola's obstruction.

The two sides have completely broken off relations.

It is also rumored that Mariah Carey's decline was related to her powerful ex-husband. It is said that Tommy Mottola had explicitly asked major radio stations across the United States not to broadcast Mariah Carey's songs on a large scale.

In this day and age when radio is still very important, this behavior can be said to have cost Mariah Carey half her life, causing her new album released in December 02 to plummet to the bottom and inevitably slide into the abyss of obsolescence.

"Maria!"

"Maria! Maria, could you please answer our questions clearly!"

"Maria!"

"..."

Even though Tommy Mottola was fired in mid-January this year and resigned as president of Sony America, his connections and influence are still there. Even if she is unhappy with her ex-husband, Mariah Carey dare not clearly accuse him of being the mastermind behind the suppression of Zhou Yi without any evidence, because that would lead to a lawsuit.

Being able to disgust her ex-husband to the best of her ability and to help Zhou Yi gain some sympathy is the limit of what Mariah Carey can do.

To be honest, when Zhou Yi contacted her personally before, she agreed immediately and also put forward her own request - she also wanted to throw dirty water on her ex-husband.

As a world-class diva, Mariah Carey is definitely not someone to be trifled with.

If possible, I hope Zhou Yi can cooperate.

You should know that the core of Zhou Yi's cards in the United States this year has always been closely related to "racial equality" and "racial discrimination", and Tommy Mottola was caught up in the storm of racial discrimination precisely because of Michael Jackson's accusations.

What’s even more coincidental is that Zhou Yi hooked up with Mariah Carey last year.

In this case, Tommy Mottola, who has always had a strong desire for control, was unhappy with Zhou Yi, felt that he had an affair with his ex-wife, discriminated against him because he was a yellow person, and discriminated against him because he was Chinese, and thus suppressed Zhou Yi on radio and other data charts.

As for why Zhou Yi was able to win the Grammy Award despite being suppressed and discriminated against - it was because Tommy was forced to step down in mid-January!
The Grammys are at the end of February!
Is this reasonable?

This makes sense.

Tommy Mottola was the president of Sony who was publicly accused of racial discrimination by Michael Jackson, the president of Sony who had a strong desire to control Mariah Carey and forced her to choose divorce, and the president of Sony who had fought to the death with Warner Records in the past.

And Zhouyi happens to be the trump card promoted by Warner Records.

Everything came to a close when Mariah Carey was dragged into this struggle.

This simple sentence from the world queen almost directly pointed out why Zhou Yi started saying that he had encountered racial discrimination when he first came to the United States in February this year - it was all because of the Sony president who was good at and liked racial discrimination.

He really suffered injustice, and it was not just a random attack.

If I were an ordinary person, I'm afraid I would just have to accept my fate.

Even top stars like Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey were tortured to death by Tommy Mottola, and each one became more and more outdated.

But Zhouyi doesn’t have that.

He has the courage to say no to all injustices and all unspoken rules;

He had the courage to fight, and finally reaped the rewards - Tommy Mottola stepped down, and he lost the biggest obstacle to his rise to the top. Only then did he take advantage of the power transition within Sony to win the Grammy and triple crown on the Billboard singles chart.

Warner also temporarily whitewashed itself in this story, and Meimei turned into the conscience of the American empire that supported Zhou Yi in fighting injustice to the end.

"We helped Spike not only because he was our trump card, but also because he had indeed suffered injustice, which violated the moral code that we have always adhered to at Warner."

As if it was pre-planned, Zhou Jianhui, who has been active in the eyes of Europe and the United States as the president of Warner Asia in recent times, also stood up as an Asian and a Chinese, talking about the company's image and washing the Grammy public relations activities led by him into a necessary means to fight against injustice.

"Music has no borders, and Spike deserves the respect he deserves. We at Warner have always been based on singers, using music as a medium to convey the freedom of equality for all..."

Everyone in Sony was stunned...

Not a buddy? !
(End of this chapter)