Becoming a Global Superstar Starting as an Idol Trainee

Chen Minhao explained sincerely: "The school leadership requested me to act in this drama, and it will be good for me to win performance awards in the future. Besides, in order to cater to my time, the entire drama club gave up weekend rehearsals and changed to Mondays. Rehearsal on Friday. I'm too embarrassed to push back now."

Wu Hongrong knew that the drama would definitely take up part of Chen Minhao's time, but he heard that acting in this drama would help Chen Minhao win some acting awards in the future, so he didn't intend to say anything more.

Wu Hongrong really understands the desire for "trophies". Is he spending time and energy helping Chen Minhao make an album purely for money?

No, if Wu Hongrong wants to make money, there are too many ways. He helped Chen Minhao produce the album just because he wanted to win the best album producer award!

Wu Hongrong is well-known in the industry and has produced several platinum albums. But because of various chances and coincidences, he didn't have the chance to win the trophy for best album producer.

For Wu Hongrong, he no longer needs the best album producer trophy to prove himself, but what makes him unhappy is that every time the awards season comes, he will be taken out by the media for a walk.

If Wu Hongrong is nominated for an album, then he will be named by the media as a popular person to win the award. If Wu Hongrong is nominated for no album, then he will be included in the list of failed producers by the media, and compared with this year's award-winning producers, he will be pulled out and flogged.

Wu Hongrong thought for a while and said: "For your album, I invited a few of my old buddies to come over and make a lot of contacts, so you must pay attention to the album.

In addition, your music style is changeable, and there are some directions that I may not be particularly familiar with. I also invited an old acquaintance of yours, Li Hao, your music tutor in "Artist Trainee", to be an album consultant. "

If it wasn't for Chen Minhao knowing that Wu Hongrong's words are always too brainy, or else he would want to diss Wu Hongrong's way of expression... Chen Minhao thought for a while and said sincerely: "Even if it's not for you, I will do my best for myself. went."

After Wu Hongrong saw Chen Minhao's statement, he nodded in satisfaction and said, "My group of old guys will be here in a while. Let's have a meal together first, and then in the afternoon, let's talk about business."

Wu Hongrong's execution ability is indeed very strong. In a week, Chen Minhao sorted out a direction for the songs about parting in his mind, and started to practice the first song. Wu Hongrong has already found a team that can produce the album.

Wu Hongrong recruited a total of nine people, who are masters in the fields of recording, sound editing, arrangement, publicity, marketing, and design. They all have achieved outstanding results in the industry.

The nine people were also excited when they saw Chen Minhao. After all, Chen Minhao won the Best Golden Melody of the Year and Best Newcomer of the Year at the Golden Melody Awards at a young age, and his future is bright.

After a few people chatted with each other in Wu Hongrong's office for a while, they drove to Longgu Villa, a farmhouse on the outskirts of Kyoto.

Longgu Mountain Villa is built by the lake. The restaurant has a unique flavor, and the lake fish is delicious, which makes people linger after eating. In addition to eating, it integrates leisure, exclusivity and entertainment.

When Chinese people talk about friendship and business, they often do not start with the confrontation of suits and leather shoes on the negotiating table, but are born on the wine table, amidst the exchange of wine and chips.

The ten or so people at the dinner table were basically one round or even two rounds older than Chen Minhao, but age did not become an obstacle for them to call Chen Minhao brothers.

Except for the cold dishes, all the dishes in Longgu Villa are cooked fresh, and the chicken and fish are all freshly killed.

Before the cold dishes were served, Chen Minhao first offered a toast to Wu Hongrong, thanking him for bringing everyone together to help him make the album.

Then Chen Minhao got up and poured himself another glass of wine, and raised the glass: "Everyone is a big name in the music industry, it is my honor to be able to get together to make an album for me. It is fate to meet each other. Let me toast to everyone first."

"Come on, let's toast to the new album."

"cheers!"

The literati look down on each other, and the artists even consider themselves noble. Some of these nine people were unknown to each other, and two of them were originally at odds with each other.

But Chen Minhao did a good job of warming up the feelings of several people. After a table of meals, Wu Hongrong nodded to Chen Minhao with satisfaction. Chen Minhao had overfulfilled the task.

Wu Hongrong's head was also a little dizzy after drinking a few glasses of wine. He really wanted to chop off Chen Minhao's head to see how his head grew.

Before meeting Chen Minhao, Wu Hongrong felt that talented young people are always a little arrogant. It is rare for a talented young man like Chen Minhao who can put himself very low.

More than a dozen people had a drink at noon, and a few of them were so drunk that they couldn't discuss it after sleeping all afternoon. In the evening, we had another drink, and we talked about the past and the present at the wine table, but we didn't talk about the album.

On Sunday morning, Wu Hongrong reserved the meeting room of Longgu Villa and planned to start a formal discussion.

This is the first meeting, so everyone is here together. It is impossible for them to put all their energy on Chen Minhao's album. They also have their own things to do, and the discussion will only be held in a small area in the future.

Wu Hongrong asked the waiter to make a few pots of strong tea and then let her out, and told her not to come in unless she called.

Wu Hongrong lit a cigarette and said, "To save time, let's get straight to the point."

Hu Li, who was in charge of album promotion, said: "The theme of parting is a good starting point, but if I remember correctly, Chen Minhao, you should be in your early 20s this year. How did you think of the theme of parting?"

Wu Hongrong interrupted him directly, and said: "It is meaningless for us to discuss this today. What I hope to hear is that you use your industry experience to give Chen Minhao some advice, which is more beneficial to his own creation."

Hu Li looked a little embarrassed, and said: "Old Wu, your temper is still so violent after many years, okay, well, as far as parting is concerned, from the perspective of common sense, the scope of parting is very wide. There are many partings between lovers, friends, and relatives. , we'd better be able to include it all.

Wu Hongrong complained again: "This is a correct but useless nonsense."

Someone started it, and the discussion suddenly became lively.

"My suggestion is that if the theme of an album's songs is parting, the songs don't convey all the sad emotions."

"My suggestion is not to stick to Chinese songs. It is better to find someone to write an English song for you. This will help you open up the European and American markets."

"In terms of the theme, we framed the words of parting, and we can make some diversified attempts in creation. For example, electronic music, ancient style, etc."

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At the end of the discussion, Chen Minhao recorded a piece of paper densely. Many of their suggestions did give Chen Minhao a lot of inspiration for "permutation and combination".

Chen Minhao is full of expectations for his new album.