Hollywood Hunter

, Hunt Hollywood! Because the 1997 fiscal year ended in September, the beginning of October was the busiest period for Daenerys Entertainment, not only the annual financial report to be released at the end of the middle of the month, but also various business departments under the group. Various financial year summaries are accompanied by various summary or outlook meetings with a tight schedule.

Today's recording department meeting is chaired by Simon himself, and Amy Pascal is also present, as well as Richard Palmes, CEO of Daenerys Records Group, and Barry Weiss, president of Infinity Records, which focuses on cultivating teen-pop singers Wait for executives.

As Daenerys Entertainment is gradually approaching a bottleneck in the film and television business, Simon has attached great importance to the group's music, game and other businesses in recent years.

However, even though Daenerys Records has top names in various genres such as Guns and Roses, Backstreet Boys, and Cher, the film and television soundtrack business is also thriving because of Daenerys Entertainment's strength in related aspects. The phenomenon-level American Idol has quickly sent fresh blood to the record department. However, under the impact of the Internet, the decline of the traditional record industry is unstoppable for everyone.

Compared with industry diehards such as Sony Records, even Daenerys Records is the most enthusiastically embracing the Internet, growth has slowed significantly in recent years.

Fortunately, compared to Sony, EMI and many other established record giants that have experienced negative growth and started to lose money, Daenerys Records, which is still able to maintain positive growth, has performed brilliantly in the industry.

The relatively outstanding performance of Daenerys Records after actively embracing the Internet has also caused many old record giants who hate the Internet to gradually begin to compromise. Even Sony Records, while promoting its own digital music players, has to gradually submit to Tinko. The broadcast music mall under Bayer delivers copyrighted content.

Because not doing so will only allow pirated resources of corresponding content to completely occupy the market.

Speaking of it, Simon did not allow any internal doubts to force Daenerys Records to embrace the Internet, which is also the reason.

Make a template for everyone to follow.

The content of today's meeting has nothing to do with the Internet. The main topic of discussion is not only the revenue and profit of the recording department in the past year, but also the change of the overall strategy of the recording department.

In one word: fast food.

With the advent of the Internet age and the explosion of information, it will become less and less easy for people to pay attention to certain people and certain things for a long time.

The music industry officially does.

Therefore, what Daenerys Records Group has to do is to speed up the creation and iteration of its singers.

In fact, Daenerys Records has had this trend in recent years. The typical one is the singers created by American Idol. This year's third session has just started, and many singers who ranked first in the first session have been forgotten.

Just like the Internet, since trends are inevitable, take the initiative to adapt.

In addition, the traditional music industry has undergone drastic changes due to the impact of the Internet, which has also begun to affect the public's consumption habits. Even if the audience in the Western music industry is the same as movies, it can be called all age groups, but in the future, like movies, the core consumer groups will also become more and more More focus on young people.

These all need to be adjusted.

Then there is the last topic of this meeting, expansion.

This does not mean geographical expansion. Daenerys Records has successfully extended its tentacles to Europe, Asia and even Latin America and other major music markets in the world over the years. Therefore, this expansion is mainly due to acquisitions and mergers.

The goal is the singer, and more for the content.

Under the excellent copyright protection system, the million-level music content accumulated by major record giants and even hundreds of years is still precious even after many years.

Daenerys Records can be described as the biggest shortcoming in this regard. Compared with Sony, EMI and other established giants with million-level music content, even if they annexed Universal Music, they have developed rapidly in recent years, but the foundation is ultimately shallow. Because the original Universal Music, carefully speaking, can only be ranked at the bottom of the large record giants.

Universal, which was originally ranked alongside Sony, Warner and other established record giants in time and space, is actually the result of the massive expansion and mergers and acquisitions in the Seagram era.

This time, it is no longer Seagram who once controlled Paramount, because of the changes in the Hollywood landscape, it is still a bit difficult to digest the current Paramount, and it is difficult to conquer the record industry like it used to be. Danielle Si Entertainment just made up for this.

The preferred target is also the same as Seagram once was: Polygram.

The London-based veteran record giant Polygram Group is also a large record giant after a long period of mergers and integrations. Speaking of which, if it weren’t for Simon, the big butterfly, Polygram successfully excavated and produced four weddings in the 1990s. Together with a tentative film production team for blockbuster films such as Funeral and Notting Hill, they are also flourishing in the film and television industry.

Unfortunately, everything has changed now.

Simon has won the core of the tentatively named film industry in advance, coupled with the early arrival of the Internet age and the rapid impact on the record industry, PolyGram's life has become increasingly difficult in recent years.

Next, the Asian financial turmoil will spread to the world, and the global economy will experience a short-term trough. The record industry, which is already in rapid decline, will inevitably make the situation worse. This is the best time for Daenerys Entertainment to make a move.

The meeting lasted all morning.

At the end of the meeting, everyone left the meeting room together, because the office of the recording department is in the Universal Studios in Burbank on weekdays, it is not easy to meet, so we had a simple dinner together

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In a management restaurant in the administrative area.

A buffet-style lunch is convenient for everyone to communicate on their own. Simon and Richard Palmes, CEO of Daenerys Records Group, talked about some details about the planned acquisition of PolyGram, and found Barry Weiss.

The godfather of teenage pop who created top teen-pop celebrities such as Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys in the 1990s has also achieved outstanding results after being dug into Daenerys Records by Simon. Just once again digging out the Backstreet Boys under Simon's lead, and some other good teen pop stars in recent years.

The next focus of Barry Weiss' work is to promote a group of boys and girls, including Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, which Simon acquired from Disney's disbanded Mickey Mouse Club a few years ago. .

It wasn't about Britney and the others.

At the beginning, it was more due to the memory of the previous life that these little guys were recruited.

With the changes in wealth, status, identity, mentality, etc., many celebrities in memory are becoming more and more indifferent to Simon.

Therefore, the topic discussed by Simon and Barry Weiss was about fast food: "Barry, we couldn't discuss too much detail in the meeting just now. It is a very critical issue. What do you think is the most difficult thing about fast food?"

Barry Weiss thought for a while, and said, "To attract attention, I mean, to attract the most public attention in the shortest time."

"That's right," Simon nodded with a smile, "Then what do you think should be done?"

Barry Weiss said honestly: "Simon, as far as the cost allows, frankly, I don't have an answer yet. However, with the media resources owned by Daenerys Entertainment, I have to say that we are now the easiest way to do good research on singers." A company that packages and promotes."

"But the problem has not been fundamentally resolved."

"Yes," Barry Weiss nodded, and smiled again: "Simon, you must have the answer, right?"

"I did a singing group in Ukraine, you should know?"

"Well, the Holy Maidens, they performed some performances in Atlantic City in the first half of the year. We helped with some planning, and the response was not bad. However, because they don't have English songs for the time being, their influence is limited. Oh, Simon, If you want, I can help them make an English album."

Simon smiled and said: "No need, their style is too formal, I mean, think about the saints, do you have any inspiration?"

Barry Weiss thought for a while, a little uncertain, but also a little clear: "Simon, you mean, group mode?"

"To be precise, it is a uniform group model," Simon said, and continued to add: "Imagine a row of girls with beautiful faces, slender waists, and slender thighs standing together on the stage, what can happen? What kind of effect?"

Barry Weiss suddenly thought about it for a while, but couldn't help but said: "Simon, in this case, it will be even more difficult for a single singer to be remembered. Isn't this too fast food?"

"Let's try it first," Simon said, "I just had an idea some time ago, called the Spice Girls Group, looking for five girls with similar image and temperament, the most important thing is the same height, so that it looks more uniform, but It can’t be the same, every girl has her own style code, for example, fashion hot girl, sports hot girl, crazy hot girl, etc., you choose first, and then I will give you a single, which is a test of water.”

Seriously, the "some time ago" in Simon's words was already several months ago.

I went to the UK in the first half of the year and found that the Spice Girls were dropped by butterflies just like the Harry Potter series, so I kept it in my heart for a while, and then forgot it.

Mainly because I didn't feel it.

Read the book to receive red envelopes and pay attention to the public.. Public account book friend base camp, read the book to draw up to 888 cash red envelopes!

Although the Spice Girls became popular all over the world in the 1990s and triggered a wave of follow-up girl groups around the world, with the aesthetics of Simon's later generations, looking at those girls is simply hard to describe.

In comparison, Simon feels that the model of Korean girl groups is more mature.

The reason why they are mature is that apart from South Korea's systematic trainee system, there is also, yes, uniformity. Even if it is pushed wave after wave, it is indeed easy to attract more public attention in the shortest time under all kinds of pleasing to the eye. Later, the female group models in Europe, America, Japan, and Taiwan gradually declined. Only South Korea has been thriving and exported to the outside world. Although there are many reasons, the uniformity that can attract the audience's attention in the shortest time is definitely one of the keys. .

In addition, since he has no feeling for the colorful style of the former Spice Girls, Simon simply revised it to a girl group model that is more in line with his own aesthetics.

As for whether it can be successful?

Simon’s ideas for the following team in many aspects have been proven. Compared with the original, the success rate is definitely much higher. Even if it is not successful, it doesn’t matter. wrong space.

Barry Weiss felt that this matter was basically appropriate after hearing that his boss said that he would come up with a single himself.

Over the years, the singles that my boss has put out are not too many, and absolutely not too many, and each song is the kind that is enough to support the title of an album.

After making up his mind, Barry Weiss said: "Simon, if I choose a combination, it will take me about three months, plus training, and making an MV. All in all, I can test the waters next Easter. It's a very good one." time."

Simon

He didn't want Barry Weiss to rush to work, so he nodded and said, "No problem."

When the matter was settled, Barry Weiss immediately changed his smiling face again: "Simon, can you take out the single you mentioned first, heh, the two singles you recently gave to Bree and Tina are very good, my boss." I look forward to every piece of your music, Boss.”

Simon also laughed and said, "I'll pass it to you when I find time."

Barry Weiss nodded again, and then said, "By the way, boss, Britney and Christina, do you have anything special to say?"

Today is October 9th, Thursday.

Simon returned from Mexico on Monday, and then took out two famous songs by Britney and Christina for Barry Weiss to play. He also pays more attention to the two girls.

Simon shrugged: "No, just let them follow the rules."

Barry Weiss didn't say much.

However, of course, it is impossible to really follow the rules. It is one thing what the boss says, and if some words are really followed, it is a lack of emotional intelligence.

So chatting, after lunch, the music department returned to Burbank together.

After sorting out the contents of the meeting in the morning, he quickly arranged the affairs of the Spice Girls. He was so busy until he was about to leave work. Barry Weiss took time to rush to a practice room in the music department.

In recent years, the boys and girls of the Mickey Mouse Club have been trained here. The official debut is about to happen, and the boys and girls have been working harder in training recently.

Barry Weiss stood at the door of the practice room and looked at Christina and Britney who were practicing dancing for a while. Christina was fine, but Britney seemed a little sick. Good dance teacher, asking, "Lisa, what's up with Bree?"

The dance teacher named Lisa just shook her head: "I don't know too well. Britney has been like this for the past two days. She seems to be sick and listless. I asked, and she said she was fine, and she asked the doctor to check. I don't have a cold or a fever, probably, I didn't rest at night."