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Chapter 164 Envy
"All I Want For Christmas Is You."

Huang Ze paused when writing down the English name of the song. It seems to be translated as "All I Want for Christmas"?

Good guy!
I actually didn't notice it the whole time and thought it was really called "Christmas is going to kill you".

Sin, sin!

After quickly writing the lyrics and music, Huang Ze started drawing the storyboards. There was a plump woman in a Santa Claus costume, Sister Niu, no, it was still Mary Claire now.

Huang Ze changed a piece of paper and drew the woman in Santa Claus costume a little thinner.

It was an MV, less than four minutes long. Huang Ze was used to drawing movie storyboards, so he finished it in half a day.

The MV used was not the one from the 1990s, but the new version made by Mariah Carey in her previous life.

It turned out that the version was in the forest, with only Maria and a Santa Claus, which was a bit deserted.

Songs like this one, which is similar to the American version of "Gong Xi Fa Cai", are better off being lively.

Even if we can't produce the same effect as the new version of the MV due to budget and special effects, as long as there are enough people, and we can find a few kids, it will be as lively as possible!
However, the MV required so many white people, and also snow, which is a rare thing in Hong Kong Island, so we had to go to the United States to shoot this MV.

After the filming, I went to talk to Warner.

While Huang Ze contacted Mariah Carey to come to Hong Kong Island, he also asked someone to contact the MV shooting company in the United States and ask them to make preparations in advance.

……

Xinghai Records.

From the moment Mariah Carey arrived at the company, the employees couldn't help but stare at her for a long time.

They didn't understand why Mr. Huang would spend 200,000 after tax, which is more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars before tax, to sign a backup singer.

Is there no more singers in Hong Kong?

If it were in Hong Kong Island, such a person who is almost unknown would probably cost less than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars, right?

Even Chen Xing was skeptical about Mariah Carey, but after all, Huang Ze had personally gone to New York to sign the singer, so he couldn't say anything.

"Boss, I feel like they don't welcome me!" Maria said with a smile as she walked into the office.

“So, is there some pressure?”

"Hahaha!" Mariah Carey laughed and started talking nonsense, "Who cares?"

"I haven't even heard of them."

“Why should I care what they think?”

"Ahaha." Huang Zexian smiled in respect and handed "Christmas Wants to Kill You" to the other party, "This is the song I wrote for you. I think we need to start quickly."

"no problem!"

Mariah Carey hummed it first, "Oh, this song is good!"

"Just good?"

"great?"

"You take a day off first, and then you can start recording in the studio tomorrow."

"Ok!"

The next day, Chen Xing also came to the recording studio.

"I don't want a lot for Christmas."

As soon as Mariah Carey opened her mouth, Chen Xing was shocked.

This processing, this transposition, this talent is visible to the naked eye! At this age, he can have such skills.

Even if he is not signed by Huang Ze, I am afraid that sooner or later someone else will sign him, and he may even shine.

Chen Xing couldn't help but look at Huang Ze, what a talent scout!

Having a boss like this makes me less worried.

After listening to the whole song, he couldn't help but applaud, and even walked up to Huang Ze to flatter him, "Mr. Huang, the singer you chose is incredibly talented! Of course, this song is also well written. I feel like a song like this, as long as the promotion keeps up, can become popular once, and Americans will probably listen to this song again and again every Christmas in the future."

"Hey, don't say that now!"

It’s not okay to open champagne at halftime!

"The most important thing now is to make this song well, the rest is irrelevant!"

"Yes! I understand."

Huang Ze continued to direct Mariah Carey to sing "Christmas Wants to Kill You".

I felt in my heart that it was great to work with such talented people, but at the same time I was envious of their singing skills.

There is really no comparison between people!
If I take off the cloak of a singer-songwriter and just talk about singing skills, this is probably a level I will never be able to reach in my lifetime.

As expected, he can span a five-octave range and can sing seven sets of high notes (C7-B7).

The title of Sister Niu is not given for nothing!

It took Huang Ze three days to take Sister Niu to the United States.

In order to ensure enough hype, Huang Ze, who had never filmed an MV, also took the lead in directing the MV, and finished editing it on the first day of December.

Then he took the recorded songs and MVs to the Warner Music headquarters. Since he was already a well-known figure here, Huang Ze walked in unimpeded and went straight to the office of Miller, the vice president with whom he worked most frequently.

"Oh! Jerry!"

Miller was processing documents when he heard someone knocking on the door and subconsciously raised his head.

Seeing that the person who came was Huang Ze, his greatest achievement and was rated by the media as the most correct choice of Warner Records in the past decade, and thinking about the overwhelming sales, Miller immediately stood up, walked out of his desk, greeted him and gave him a big bear hug, "Aren't you usually in Hong Kong Island? Are you going to release another song?"

"I welcome it, but as a friend, I think you'd better wait a while and let the fans keep that hunger."

"I do want to release a song, but it's not sung by me!" Huang Ze took out a copy of "Christmas Wants to Kill You", "This is a song I produced at a record company in Hong Kong Island. I want to borrow Warner's distribution and publicity channels."

"Do you think we need to cooperate?"

"Huang, as a friend, I have to remind you." Miller did not respond, but said very seriously, "It is very difficult to promote another Chinese singer, unless he can make every album a masterpiece like you and has a good enough image."

"So, you went to all that trouble to write those songs, why don't you sing them yourself?"

"Look first, then you can say anything!"

"Oh, okay." Miller couldn't refuse Huang Ze's suggestion, so he took the copy to the special audio-visual room and played it.

Along with a young woman's voice came a blonde wearing high heels and a Santa Claus-like tights.

Judging from his face, he is a white man, and he seems to have some Hebrew ancestry.

"Which country is she from?"

"Here." Huang Ze pointed to the ground, "New York."

"Oh!" Miller looked at Huang Ze in surprise. He originally thought that Huang Ze was going to promote a person from Hong Kong Island, but he didn't expect that his company in Hong Kong Island actually came to the United States to find a singer.

Based on the identity of this female singer, the few lines he just heard, and the fact that this song was written and composed by Huang Ze, Miller was already inclined to think that this was a record that could at least sell well.

(End of this chapter)