super copy king

104 people in the entertainment industry

At this time, Guangzhou has been raining continuously for a week, but because it is located in the south, it has not yet reached the point of cold, at best it is a bit cool. 【】

As an international metropolis, many companies in the entertainment industry have set up their headquarters here.It also attracts young people with dreams.

Most of the music is here, because it is closer to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Today, Cantonese songs are more popular, and Cantonese seem to have a natural advantage in the mainland music industry.There are not a few people who come here to find their music dreams. Those who have not signed a contract are sticking to their dreams in bars and on the streets. Those who have signed a contract have only slightly stepped forward. In the future, they still have to work hard, luck, and relationships.

There was once the most straightforward introduction, what does it cost for a company to sign a singer?It took only one dollar of paper money.After signing the contract successfully, the singer has to work hard on his own, find opportunities, and help the company earn money, so that he can also earn money and become famous.

Opportunities are rare. If it is not so talented that all the professionals in the company are so talented, and the leaders are willing to give you a little space, then you can wait slowly, make your own music, and grind yourself more and more. Light until more people can come.

But this will only give you more opportunities. Even if everyone in the industry recognizes your talent and the company is willing to give you a chance to try it, in the end the audience has the final say. If they don’t like it, it’s useless.There may also be fewer and fewer opportunities in the future.

Even if they sign a contract, the treatment in the company is different. There are only a few celebrities. A good company will pay the contracted artists a basic salary every year. This guarantee makes them not starve to death even if they do nothing.Of course, this kind of statement is an exaggeration. For some big-name stars, the annual company may reach 300. The salary is not even enough to buy an outfit in a certain show that needs to be played at its own expense.

The biggest advantage of signing a company is that there are more opportunities, which can be regarded as a guarantee. At least being able to sign a company shows that you still have certain strengths, and then you have to work hard and luck.But life has to go on. Since it is a commercial company, it is impossible to spend too much money on artists who are only likely to become popular.So at the beginning, they were still asked to do other things first, such as acquiring their works, participating in the shooting of some MVs and film and television dramas, or running some smaller performances.

Xiaoyu belongs to the latter group. It has been a year since he came to this place. Although he said at first that he would study and train for a year, he also participated in some MVs and film and television dramas during this year, but they were all very different. An unremarkable role, an opportunity no one remembers.The beginning of an artist is often very bumpy, and Xiao Yu also felt that this is a process that should go through after entering the company.

But the only thing that confuses her is that the company never tells her about music.

She is a singer-songwriter, but the company didn't let her sing, and she rarely mentioned anything about creation, except for the song "Thank you for your company" when she signed the contract. Later, the company still signed five songs, but there was no Even though the first song was used, it wasn't Xiao Yu who sang it.Another second-tier singer put the song into her album, but the effect was far from as popular as the video Xiaoyu posted on the Internet. It didn't take long for her entire album to be forgotten.

The whole industry is in a downturn. More and more people like to listen to music, but their tastes are becoming more and more difficult to grasp. Some people may only need one song to become popular, but sometimes they may release two or three albums None of the songs can be memorized by the public.

Now Xiaoyu is also trembling, she really wants to release the album soon, but also worried that if it doesn't become a hit, it will be silent for a long time.In fact, participating in MVs and film and television dramas is still beneficial to her accumulation of fame, but the effect is not obvious so far.But so far she has written more than 60 songs. This number is not a lot for a creator, but it is enough to choose ten songs to make an album.She asked her supervisor when the album would be released, and the answer she got was that the time was not yet ripe.

In terms of appearance, Xiao Yu has no shortage of talent in music creation, but the time is not yet ripe.The company once promised that it intends to make her a star in film, television and music, and hopes that she will make an official debut after making greater progress in dancing and acting.

But this now looks like a rhetoric no matter what.Because it's impossible for her to do three things at the same time when she just debuted, she has to do one by one.Even if there is no album, you have to release an e

, the worst thing is to try the waters with the first single.But not at all.Even the price of the signed songs is very low, and I don't know who will use them.

Xiao Yu gradually began to understand what Wong Ka Kui said when he was planning to go to Japan, that there is no music circle in Hong Kong, only the entertainment circle.This sentence is also suitable for the whole country.

This is the entertainment industry, so whether the music is famous or not has nothing to do with the quality of the music itself, or even less important than the influence of popularity and luck on it.As long as you are famous, as long as you are a celebrity, if you release an album, as long as the songs are not too bad, and the style of the music is in line with the taste of the public, it is easy to become popular.Some people are not popular, there is not enough publicity, there are no celebrities involved, and even the best songs are easy to sink into the sea.

Therefore, it is even easier for popular actors to enter the music circle than ordinary professional singers, because the fame is already there, and there are so many fans to follow.Especially in this era when leading pigs can produce a piece of music in the recording studio, the requirements for the stars themselves are not as harsh as in the past.But on the other hand, if a singer wants to enter the showbiz, the difficulty will be doubled, because acting is something that the audience can really feel, and it's not something that can be made up in a day or two.No matter how beautiful a person enters the entertainment circle, if the acting skills are not good, they will still be despised by people as a "vase".

But music is different. After practicing a song for a month, the singing effect will definitely be much better. If it is really not good enough, there are sound effects from the recording studio to help you modify it. If the pitch is not right, the recording studio will directly adjust the sound Promote until you know you can produce a work.What's more, most people don't have such high requirements for music. As long as the lyrics are well written, the melody is good, and the sound quality is slightly better, who cares if such singing skills are professional enough?Can't tell the difference anyway.

Xiaoyu didn't know why the company would give up its strengths and focus on its weaknesses, and learn from scratch.What's more, I can't figure out that I am still a creative person, why my songs have not even been sung by anyone.

She just follows the track arranged by the company every day, doing trainings and performances that are farther and farther away from her hobbies, and she can even talk in a trance.After a year's time, the least improvement is music talent.This is the worst possibility that she originally thought. It is not as good as staying with a professional producer for a year, helping to record scores, adjusting sound effects and doing chores, because if you stay with the master for a year, your musical talent will definitely improve more than it is now. much.

In comparison, I still learned more when I was with Zhao Rui.But under the current situation, Zhao Rui seems to be closer to her dream.

She was originally a major student majoring in music production. After signing with a company, she entered the recording studio and started as a layman, but now she can also take on some emos independently, or the outside jobs assigned by the company are not very demanding. .

The advancement of technology has led to the fact that popular music now only needs a computer and enough technology to produce an effect that is no less than that of musical instrument recording, so even if an expert on the Internet uses his home computer and hundreds of dollars of headphones to make music It may also reach a professional level.And what Zhao Rui did was similar, except that she had the aura of a record company's quasi-producer, so she appeared more professional in name.

It stands to reason that she has achieved what she wants, and she can happily make the music she likes, but the work she is taking on now is extremely heavy.

She was required to make an accompaniment every day, about 25 songs a month, and each song cost 300 yuan, which is a good income.But this amount is beyond imagination, and there are almost no high-level works produced.

As a song released as an album, it may take three to three months for a song to be mastered, and its influencing factors have a lot to do with funding.And the things involved in this mastering, to put it simply, are the fusion of vocals and accompaniment.The accompaniment made by Zhao Rui not only needs to consider what instruments are used to produce what melody, but also the position of each tone, what effect, and degree of integration.

The accompaniment made in one day can only be at the emo level, and it is very tiring. Doing it every day may even make people feel disgusted. This is very different from the original feeling of making your own songs.

This is the huge gap between commercial music and dream music.And the market for her music is quite broad.There are more and more people playing music now. There are many people who like to listen to songs. Some people are willing to spend some money to make songs. Spend more than 1000 yuan to make an emo-level song. Yes, there are not a few people in the southeast who can afford this money.Also because the starting point requirements are getting lower and lower, more and more people can produce this level of accompaniment and music, which also makes the price cheaper and cheaper.I remember that five years ago, when the level of amateurs was generally low and could not be compared with record companies, the pure M music produced at that time was also priced at [-] yuan per minute.

Workload is one aspect, income is another aspect, but hobbies are the most important aspect.When I got some music in my hands, I found that the relationship between the sound layers and the style of the song was simply chaotic, with almost no aesthetic feeling, but others gave me money, so I still had to bite the bullet and make the accompaniment.

Composition and lyrics are the skeleton of music, and arrangement is the flesh and blood of music, but even the skeleton has not been laid well, so I really don't know how to produce beauty after being stained with flesh and blood.Although Zhao Rui tried her best, she couldn't satisfy herself in the end, but she couldn't be too serious, because the time for the next song was limited.So although she is making songs every day, it still seems to run counter to her original dream.

She is very sure of Xiaoyu's works, she said that she can feel the soul in the song, so every time she hears Xiaoyu humming, she always uses the inspiration in her head, what instruments should be used to construct the accompaniment, what kind of interludes, and endings What kind, how the paragraph format is all thought out.But Nai, with that heavy workload, she couldn't help Xiaoyu make it.

And Xiao Yu could do it by herself, but she couldn't keep up with Zhao Rui's level. In the end, she was also dissatisfied, so she couldn't let it go.