star king gene

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"Flags Flying" is a song written by Lin Zhimo for this World Cup. When he sent the numbered score of this song to Shakira, he temporarily put it aside. Now all he can do is waited.

On the other hand, after Shakira received the sheet music, she was immediately attracted by the passionate melody and catchy lyrics of this song after going through it in her mind. Doubt will become a football anthem destined to go down in history.

To be on the safe side, Shakira didn't tell Sony's senior management about this, but first recorded a song demo, and then brought the recorded song demo to Sony's senior management.

"Shakira, you mean you want to vote for this World Cup?"

Sony Music has many big names in music, including Celine Dion, Beyoncé, and Avril Lavigne, who has become famous in the past two years, and Shakira is definitely not famous among them. very high.However, due to his birth in Colombia, Shakira has an unparalleled natural influence in South America, so Sony also attaches great importance to Shakira's opinions.

"Yes, this song is very suitable for football, and I believe that through this song, the company's Asian market can be expanded very well, and it can also open a wider road for me." When Shakira said these words The tone was a little blunt - because Lin Zhimo taught her this.

There are two meanings revealed in this sentence, one is to expand Sony's influence in Asia.Although Sony Music is said to be a music company controlled by the Japanese.However, except in Japan, Sony's influence in other parts of Asia is awkwardly in an awkward position, which is very inconsistent with Sony's name as an international music giant.Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of Japan and South Korea to jointly host the World Cup, releasing a World Cup song can well expand the influence of their company.

Another layer of meaning is that Shakira expressed her desire to sing this song, which also prevented the company from depriving the right to sing.You must know that within these large music companies, it is very common to compete for song resources. Some songs created by some young singers sometimes even become the tracks of those star singers for free.

And now Shakira makes it clear that she hopes that this song will be sung by herself, not by others.

The person in charge of Sony's music department frowned and asked, "You mean this song was written by a Chinese singer? He still wants to sing this song with you?"

"Yeah. This song was created by Lin Zhimo." Shakira answered immediately when she heard the other party's question.At the same time, carefully observe the changes in the expression of the other party.

When the person in charge heard Shakira's words, his eyes shone brightly: "Lin Zhimo?!"

As the person in charge of Sony's music department, he is naturally familiar with the name of Lin Zhimo, a music genius in mainland China.

Seeing the other party's expression, Shakira thought secretly: "It really is."

A few days ago, when Lin Zhimo handed over this song to Shakira, Lin Zhimo explained these things now.Among them, if the manager in charge of this matter asks her name, Shakira should pay attention to the expression of the other party.If the other party is expressionless.Then Shakira can take a step back.In the subsequent negotiation process, as long as Lin Zhimo participated in the singing, it is enough.Don't insist that the company have to promote the song.

On the contrary, if the other party gets excited after hearing Lin Zhimo's name, then Shakira must insist that the company make great efforts to promote the song.But in the end Lin Zhimo also mentioned it.The latter possibility is very high.

Seeing the light in the person in charge's eyes now, Shakira knew that Lin Zhimo had guessed right. While admiring Lin Zhimo's ability to predict things like a god, Shakira had curiosity and inexplicable emotions towards Lin Zhimo in her mind. A little more.

After that, as Lin Zhimo expected, the company first expressed how tight the funds are now, etc., and the implication was that they wanted Xia Qi to come forward to persuade Lin Zhimo to fill up the funds by Lin Zhimo. After all, it is Lin Zhimo himself who gained the most fame and profit after this matter was completed.

However, now that Lin Zhimo has reminded her, Shakira naturally clenched her mouth on this matter, until the final negotiations became stiff, and Shakira said: "It's useless to tell me about these things, although Lin Zhimo and I are good friends, but I can't decide his attitude, I'll give you his phone number, and you talk to him personally."

The person in charge was silent for a while, and then waved Xia Qi out, and then he listened to the demo of the song again. After a long time, he called Lin Zhimo himself.

"Hello, this is Sony Music. I'm Mark Williams, the head of the music department. Are you Mr. Lin Zhimo?"

"Yes, I am. What's the matter?" After receiving the call from the other party, Lin Zhimo knew that the matter was settled, and the rest was to bargain.

"It's like this, our company's artist Shakira recently received a song from you, do you mean that you want to participate in the singing?" Mark deliberately used the word "receive a song" to express his meaning , Shakira can sing if you want, but as for you, Lin Zhimo, you'd better go on the sidelines.

Lin Zhimo naturally understood what the other party meant, and he pretended to be surprised and asked: "Receive the song? No, I just let Shakira appreciate one of my songs, and this song was originally a song between two people. For the repertoire, I am a singer myself, so of course I have to sing."

Lin Zhimo directly cut off what the other party didn't say.

"Pretend! Just pretend! If you just want Shakira to 'appreciate', why do you, a Chinese, need to write English lyrics?" Mark secretly despised Lin Zhimo's words, but he also felt Lin Zhimo It is different from those artists who only sing and leave all other affairs to their managers and lawyers.

Thinking of this, he stopped talking nonsense, and said directly: "Since Mr. Lin Zhimo understands, then I won't talk nonsense. Let me tell you frankly, if you participate in the concert, it is difficult to guarantee it with our company's financial and material resources. This song could be the theme song of the World Cup."

Lin Zhimo heard what the other party said, and said directly: "Mr. Williams, I don't think you have figured out one problem, that is, I am not only able to cooperate with your company. China also has some contacts, but I think of Shakira, a friend who made this suggestion.”

Mark Williams was annoyed when he heard this, but he was not very angry.

Although the two people's words just now did not mean to answer the question, but he knew that these words were just big words for their own interests. It is also a win-win thing for Lin Zhimo and Sony Music to officially recognize the songs.

Finally, after a new round of bargaining between the two parties, Mark said: "We want to obtain the agency distribution rights for Mr. Lin Zhimo's overseas music albums."

As the person in charge of Sony's music department, Mark Williams can naturally hear Lin Zhimo's desire to test the foreign market on the phone.Judging from the song "Flags Flying", the other party's English song production level is obviously comparable to his Mandarin song level.For such an extremely talented musician, it is naturally necessary to hold the distribution rights of his album.

Lin Zhimo naturally knew that he had to pay some benefits in exchange for cooperation, and the reason why he taught Shakira what he said before was precisely for this reason. As for the exchange conditions that the other party could come up with, Lin Zhimo also After thinking about it for a while, Lin Zhimo is naturally considering the agency distribution rights.

Therefore, Lin Zhimo hesitated for a while and readily agreed to the other party: "OK, deal."

"Haha, Mr. Lin Zhimo, happy cooperation!"

After reaching the conditions with Lin Zhimo, Mark Williams also smiled heartily. It can be said that it is a great credit to be able to win the foreign distribution rights of Lin Zhimo's song and future music albums.

With his many years of experience, Mark can imagine how much benefit the song "Flags Flying" will bring to the company when the World Cup starts, and even this song will be widely quoted every year during football matches . (To be continued..)