It's hard to be an idol

Chapter 215 "Wind Flower"

After recording the new album, Xu Lai is free, but Universal Music is busy, especially Hill, who is Xu Lai's manager, even though Xu Lai is not in Los Angeles, he still has to do his best to deal with Xu Lai related matters.

Xu Lai's new album, as always, inherits the high quality of the previous album. If someone else's singer has three or four title-level songs in a song, it can be called well-produced. How much time and energy was spent to produce what came out, maybe exaggerated a little bit, and we can see if we can compete for the album of the year award.

Of course, for Xu Lai, it must be very, very difficult to win an award in the United States.

It is true that the Grammys will award some awards to foreigners because they want to make the awards more diversified and international, but if you recall carefully, how many Asians have won the awards?Not to mention that most of these awards are trivial awards, just saying "I won an award at the Grammy", but if you look deeper into what award you won, you may come up with a sentence "Does the Grammy have this award?" ?”

It's embarrassing.

However, generally speaking, Xu Lai still has a chance. In addition to the quality of the Grammy and Oscar statuettes, awards are actually more about the promotion. Xu Lai is backed by the giant company Universal Music and wants to compete. In fact, there is still a chance, at least there will be no disadvantages in publicity, but in other aspects, there may be some inherent disadvantages.

But Xu Lai didn't pay attention to these things. Of course it's good to win the prize, but it's okay if he doesn't get the prize. Anyway, he just needs to stand up and earn money. He doesn't need to win the prize, but he has to make money.

Speaking of which, I must say that Xu Lai’s tour has already been planned. It will probably start after his second album is officially released. If the results are good, it will start faster and the number of shows will increase. , if the results are not that good, then it may have to be postponed a little. After all, for such a large company, there is still order.

When it comes to concerts, the company actually thinks it’s time for fans to eat. After all, concerts are the most profitable activities for a singer. Other endorsements and commercials are not acceptable, except of course for some singers’ side jobs.

In addition to the ticket revenue, other peripherals also make up the bulk of concert income, and the singer's income from the peripherals is very low. Basically, the host gets more, because Xu Lai is the singer of most of the songs on his album. Authoring is basically done by him alone, and there are very few other people signing it, so his copyright income from concerts will be much higher than the income share of ordinary singers.

Therefore, many singers are very resistant to holding concerts because of the low share of the concerts. It is laborious and does not make money. It is better to spend some time on side jobs.

Los Angeles is busy, and Xu Lai is a little more leisurely in Seoul, but he still has something to do, and it doesn't really mean putting down work to rest.

The first thing to do was Park Chanyeol's self-composed music. He took some time to help him write a beat, but he didn't finish it completely. He just provided a framework for the whole song. He left a name for the composer and arranger, and the rest The company's music producer helped to complete it, and the second thing was to write a song for Hong Fumao, who debuted almost at the same time as Xu Lai.

Their first official album has already been planned, and it will be released in September. The company is also actively collecting songs. It happened to meet Xu Lai. Kim Youngmin just tried Xu Lai by the way. He didn't want to There’s nothing wrong with writing it, anyway, SM won’t do anything to him, won’t get stuck in his announcements, won’t target him in public relations, and they won’t let Park Chanyeol take back the song written by Xu Lai Singing to others, the company's reaction may be many times slower in Park Chanyeol's solo project.

After all, Park Chanyeol is only one of the popular kings in the tea egg, and there are other popular kings in the tea egg!Who is not holding up?Who is not making money?It's just the difference between earning more and less, but SM can accept such a small difference in income.

Xu Lai also knew that he could be willful, but he didn't use Park Chanyeol's development to test the bottom line of the company at this time, and the song he wrote for Red Fluffy ended up with his name, and he couldn't give up the copyright. I also don't want to smash my own brand, so I didn't just write a saliva song for Red Fluffy's song as I thought before and it's over.

Of course, the songs of the girl group should be catchy and have a strong memory. Xu Lai still has some understanding of the songs of idol groups. He heard about them when he was studying with Kenzie. He looked at the songs of idol groups on the market. , I probably understand that there is not much difference from his own song writing, but relatively speaking, the songs of idol groups are more fast-food.

There can be meaningless lyrics, but there must be memory points, whether it is a certain line of lyrics or a certain rhythm, as long as it can be remembered at once.

Therefore, the answer sheet he gave to the company was "Wind Flower"

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In Red Velvet's practice room, the manager walked in excitedly. Seeing that the manager seemed to understand that something good was going to happen, the members stopped their daily practice and listened quietly to the manager's overflowing surprise.

"You know that the planning of the first official album is already on the agenda? The company is collecting songs for you, but do you know who will write songs for you?" Say I don’t know and let me show off” written on his face.

"Aha? Who is it?" Sun Shengwan was curious and was the first to speak actively.

"Our company or someone else's? Is it famous?" This is Jiang Seulqi.

"He's from our company, a well-known producer." The manager still seemed a little eager to show off, and he didn't even mention that he was a singer. After all, he basically guessed it without a second.

"It can't be Xu Lai...Senior, right?" Pei Zhuxuan, the captain, suddenly said, and unconsciously added a senior behind Xu Lai.

"Dafa! If it is... aren't we taking off?"

"Stop dreaming, sisters! They are in America!"

"Senior Xu Lai seems to have come back a few days ago." Pei Zhuxuan said.

"How do you know Ernie?"

"His fan club announced the itinerary."

"uh-huh?"

"Okay I admit I'm his fan."

"Oh, it's human nature, I understand Sister Li."

"Okay, okay, don't talk about those who have nothing but Irene guessed right, it was Xu Laixi who wrote it for you, so everyone work hard this time! You should be the first female to get the song of an international superstar. group."

"That's great." Pei Zhuxuan had a smile on his face, but he was a little dazed.

Before, she was the one who sat in a classroom with them to learn expression management and artist etiquette, and was also the one who leaned against the wall of the practice room to rest together. She was also seen by him for a while, but Xu Lai didn't know that person It was her, but she could clearly see that it was Xu Lai. At that time, everyone was actually very close, but now it seems that they are getting farther and farther away. The contact information they exchanged was just sending formulaic blessings, nothing else nor.

She suddenly felt a pity. She was still a little idol, and Xu Lai was already a "senior international star." They started from basically the same place, but now they were in the sky and on the earth. The sense of contrast was too strong.

"Sister Irene, what are you thinking about? You suddenly fell into a daze. Don't you feel happy that Seo Lai-senpai helped us write songs?" Son Seungwan was having fun with everyone, but found that Bae Zhuhyun was a little absent-minded.

"I was just thinking... We were actually very close to Senior Xu Lai back then, if only we had a good relationship with him at that time, maybe we would have avoided some detours." Pei Zhuxuan said, thinking carefully very realistic.

"This……"

A little ashamed, she thought what Pei Zhuxuan wanted to tell was a little story, but she didn't expect it to be so realistic... But Pei Zhuxuan seemed to be right.

Xu Lai is indeed a noble person now, but they are too far apart now.

　Wind Flower - mamamoo
　　I'm back home, my health is a little bit better, don't worry if you don't know how to be an eunuch... just saying that it hasn't been updated for several days, and I don't feel much.

　　Just that kind of codeword feel.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)