Jimmy had been talking to Motorola for seven or eight months about the pendant. In other words, when "Love Through Time" first came out, Jimmy was already planning this matter.
During this period of time, he never spoke to Yu Dong and the others, which shows how strict he is.
In fact, it's not Jimmy's fault, because at first he didn't think it would turn out like this.
At first, Jimmy did not propose the model of bonus pendants. After all, Motorola had never done such a thing before.
What Jimmy initially wanted to achieve was to make Hu Jing the spokesperson of Motorola in Asia.
But it was quite difficult to talk about this matter. Motorola's attitude was very ambiguous. They didn't refuse directly, but they didn't agree either. They kept hanging on.
Later, "Love Through Time" became popular in China, and Motorola's attitude became more positive, but the conditions they gave were relatively general, and they were only willing to let Hu Jing be the spokesperson for China.
Seeing that the conditions were average, Jimmy began to sway Motorola, and the two sides struggled for more than half a year. Seeing that "Love Through Time" was about to become popular in Asia and even be broadcast in Europe and the United States, Motorola's attitude changed again.
Finally, Jimmy had a sudden idea and asked Motorola to invite a virtual character to serve as a spokesperson, and the virtual character he mentioned was naturally "Little Boy".
It will be beneficial to both Shenzhen Space and Motorola to let the "little kid" serve as the spokesperson.
Motorola can make money from gimmicks, while Deep Space can develop IP.
The two parties hit it off immediately, and then a "little toy" doll came out.
In the contract signed between the two parties, Deep Space must shoot a cartoon for "Little Wanderer", and the cost must not be less than 50 million US dollars, of which 10 million US dollars will be paid by Motorola.
In other words, for this cooperation, Deep Space had a "debt" of 50 million on its head from the beginning.
But Jimmy doesn't care about this at all, because he is confident that he will make money from this deal with the US$40 million.
This new flip phone that Motorola is about to release is not high in price and is very lightweight, so it will definitely be very popular among consumers.
With Motorola's current market share, it is certain that this phone will sell tens of millions of units.
And every time they sell this phone, they will pay Deep Space two US dollars. This means that from this part of the fee alone, Deep Space can earn back at least 20 million US dollars, and it can also get additional money from Motorola.
Ten million dollars.
Motorola's 10 million US dollars was completely free. The only condition was that the production cost could not be less than 50 million US dollars. Not only would they not participate in dividends, the 10 million US dollars would not even count as advertising fees.
If there is a plot involving Motorola in the script, they will pay additional advertising fees for the movie.
In this way, the production cost of 50 million can be easily raised.
Even if Deep Space does not earn 40 million US dollars from the "Little Wanderer" pendant, it can still sell out its investment share in the movie. With Deep Space's current reputation, it is just a matter of a few clicks for them to attract investment for the movie.
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"Motorola requested this little kid's animated movie, and you'll be the one to direct it."
After Jimmy spoke to Yu Dong for a long time, he suddenly said this sentence.
Yu Dong, who was on the other end of the phone, was stunned. "You've been doing this for a long time, are you working as a coolie?"
Jimmy chuckled: "Don't put it in such a bad way, I have thought about it carefully for you. Just now I asked you if you have been busy recently, and you said it was fine. Since you are relatively free recently, just find something to do."
"
Yu Dong gritted his teeth and said, "Fortunately, I have more time to draw an equal sign in your mouth? We can't make this animated movie now, right?"
"It doesn't matter, we can produce a script, leave the rest to Lucas or DreamWorks, and then Disney will distribute it."
Spending money to do things and borrowing chickens to lay eggs is Jimmy's usual trick, and he can always play this trick well.
Of course, compared with those who play with capital, Jimmy is not only borrowing a hen to lay eggs, he also has an old hen in his own hands.
Yu Dong himself also had the consciousness of being an old hen. He nodded and said: "In this case, I will try to write a script. I will take it slow this time and give you the outline of the script within two months."
"No problem." After hearing Yu Dong's promise, Jimmy laughed, "That's it, I'm quite busy here. I'll talk to you later."
Then the phone hung up directly.
Yu Dong had long been accustomed to Jimmy's "killing the donkey", so he curled his lips and hung up the phone.
Jimmy is in New York, so the call was made at night, but it was still early morning here in Jinling.
After Yu Dong had breakfast, he wandered to the office. As soon as his butt touched the bench, the phone on the table rang.
Who could it be so early in the morning?
Yu Dong frowned and picked up the phone. Yu Lili's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Ahem, boss, good morning."
Yu Dong was a little surprised when he heard Yu Lili's voice.
Yuliang is a very straightforward person. If he calls early in the morning, he must have something to do. When he has something to do, he usually tells it directly and will not beat around the bush with Yu Dong like now.
Moreover, Yu Dong clearly heard a hint of embarrassment in Yuliang's tone.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the company's business?"
"That's not true..." Yuliang said hesitantly: "It's Xiao Zhou, he is hospitalized."
"Hospitalized?" Yu Dong raised his eyebrows, "What's going on?"
"It's because I'm too tired, and I haven't eaten much recently, so my body can't bear it. The doctor said it's nothing serious, but I need more rest. It's best not to work for a month or two."
"Too tired? What's wrong with him?"
"Aren't we going to release an album for him? During this time, he has been in the recording studio every day working on his demos. I heard from people in the company that he hasn't been home for a long time."
After hearing Yu Lili's words, Yu Dong scratched his head.
Could it be that the task I gave him was too heavy?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, it should not be difficult for Jay Chou to produce a demo of more than a dozen songs in two months. Is it to this point?
Although Yu Dong doesn't know how much inventory Jay Chou has now, according to Jay Chou's current creative enthusiasm, it is impossible for him to be hospitalized due to the exhaustion of completing a dozen song demos in two months.
"How many demos has he done?"
"Already fifteen songs have been written, and five more lyrics and music have been written, but they have not been recorded yet."
Fifteen songs!
It's only been half a month, and I'm making one song demo every day on average. This speed is completely beyond Yu Dong's imagination.
Although Yu Dong knows nothing about music, he also knows the difficulty of producing fifteen original song demos in fifteen days.
But why is this kid so anxious?
I clearly said that I only need to make a dozen songs within two months, but this guy finished it in half a month. Even if I am in a hurry to release an album, I can't work like that.
"Boss...Actually, this is my fault."
"Uh, what do you say?"
"That's right. In order to put some pressure on Jay Chou, I changed the conditions to produce a demo of more than 20 songs in one and a half months."
Yu Dong said strangely, "Even so, he won't work so hard. After all, there is still a month left, and he has almost finished twenty songs."
"Boss, this is not over yet. I said this to Huang Zongliang. Unexpectedly, he also wanted to put some pressure on Xiao Zhou and changed the conditions to produce a demo of thirty-five songs within a month."
"..."
Yu Dong was speechless when he heard Yu Lili's words.
This Huang Zongliang is really messing around. He is also a serious producer. Doesn’t he understand the concept of producing thirty-five song demos in a month?
On average, there is more than one song a day. How can ordinary people endure this intensity?
Of course, in addition to worrying about Jay Chou's health, Yu Dong is now also very concerned about the quality of the twenty songs that have been written. He is very worried that because of Huang Zongliang's messing around, the quality of the songs will decline.
"Bring me a message to Xiao Zhou, asking him to take a good rest recently and stop worrying about the album for the time being. In addition, send me all the fifteen demos he has made and the five songs he has written lyrics and music for.
Come this way."
Yuliang nodded: "Okay, boss."
Yu Dong sighed again and said with a bit of blame: "Yanliang, Huang Zongliang did it wrong, you also have a problem. Didn't I talk about more than a dozen songs for two months, why did you increase the amount when I came to your place?"
More than twenty songs in one and a half months?”
Yuliang said a little aggrievedly: "Boss, didn't you tell me to be harsher and put more pressure on him? Young people can grow up if they put more pressure on them. I'm not thinking about making his tasks heavier, that is, putting more pressure on him."
Wow, I never thought that Huang Zongliang would continue to add more money in this situation."
"Okay, okay, blame me. Fortunately, Xiao Zhou is fine this time, otherwise something would really go wrong."
"Yeah, we can't afford this. His parents are very concerned about him. I also called them to express my apology and comfort them. They are also very good and express their understanding. I really just
I’m afraid they will say our company mistreats its employees.”
Abuse of employees... Yu Dong twitched his lips. He really didn't think about Jay Chou's parents. What he just thought about was that if Jay Chou's body collapsed, he didn't know if there would be another one like this in the future.
Some people say that times create heroes, while others say that heroes create times.
If this hero is gone, it is still unclear whether another hero can be created at this time.
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Less than two days later, Jay Chou's fifteen song demos and five songs with written lyrics were delivered to Yu Dong's home.
Yu Liang also knew that Yu Dong attached great importance to this matter, so he sent someone to deliver it quickly.
"I'll put it away."
Cheng Yanqiu took the tape to play it, while Yu Dong flipped through the five songs that had not been recorded yet.
As soon as he saw the first song, Yu Dong narrowed his eyes and saw a familiar song title - Indian Old Turtle Dove.
Then comes the second song, the clock in the opposite direction.
The third song is black humor.
They were all very familiar songs, but by the fourth and fifth songs he was not too familiar with them.
One is "Winter People", and the other is "My Head Hurts So Much".
Cheng Yanqiu put the tape into the recorder, pressed the start button, and then walked over, "How is it?"
Yu Dong smiled and said, "How can I understand it? The most I can do is read the lyrics."
"Let me take a look."
Cheng Yanqiu took the notebook and read it carefully.
The sound of the tape spinning in the tape recorder sounded for a while, and then was drowned out by a "woo" sound.
Hearing the sound "woo", Yu Dong immediately thought of "cute woman". In fact, he was not wrong. The song being played was "cute woman", but the lyrics were quite different from the original lyrics.
The lyrics of this version are very simple, just a few lines of "lovely woman" repeated over and over again. Although it sounds very good, it still lacks the taste.
After listening for a while, Yu Dong probably understood that the lyrics of "Lovely Woman" seemed to be written by Xu Ruoxuan, and at this time, Jay Chou didn't know Xu Ruoxuan, so naturally there was no complete lyrics of "Lovely Woman".
But from another point of view, Jay Chou's demo is quite complete. Both the arrangement and the vocals are almost done. Even the lyrics are different from Xu Ruoxuan's version, but the core lyrics have already appeared.
.
Yu Dong did not dwell on the lyrics of "Lovely Woman", but continued to listen carefully.
There are ten songs in total, seven of which are familiar to Yu Dong, namely "Lovely Woman", "Perfectionism", "Tornado", "Istanbul", "Bullfighting", "Xingqing", and "Lady".
Among these seven songs, the lyrics of "Lovely Woman", "Istanbul" and "Tornado" are different from those of later generations, while the others are the same.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In addition to these seven familiar songs, there are also three songs that Yu Dong is not familiar with, namely "The Wind in My Ears" and "Farewell Without Saying Goodbye"
, "Go or Not".
These five unfamiliar songs are actually quite nice, but they don't sound that familiar.
After listening to all the songs, Cheng Yanqiu gave him a three-word evaluation: Very special.
Then she pointed to Jay Chou's music score and said, "The tonality and movement of these songs of his have their own routine. It is a very special routine. This is already his style. Especially this song "Lady",
The beat is very strange, but it doesn't go against the grain at all. For pop music, if it sounds strange but doesn't go against the grain, I think it's successful. It's weird because it's special, but it doesn't go against the grain because it sounds good and can make people listen.
Good music that you remember will definitely be successful."
Yu Dong clicked on the five songs he had never heard before and asked: "Where are these songs? How do you feel?"
"It's very high-quality, but the style is the same as Xingqing and Istanbul. An album can't all have this style. If I had to choose, I would definitely choose Xingqing and Istanbul."
Well... it would be nice to change the lyrics."
Hearing his wife's comments, Yu Dong nodded. He was still hesitating whether to keep these songs, but now it seems that he won't keep them.
"Let me see." Cheng Yanqiu continued, "If we make an album, the five songs you just mentioned will be put aside first, and the other ten songs will be made into an album, and "Rooftop" will be the same as last time.
Hu's "End of the World" can also be put in, so the album will have twelve songs, which should be about the same."
Chapter completed!