American Entertainment: Taylor Swift wrote a song for the beginning

Chapter 92 The Wind Rises (Subscribe)
"WHAT?" Scott heard an incredible answer.

"You heard me right, this is what I want to do right now."

"Ryan, do you know how much this record company is valued at?" Scott reminded Ryan that it was a bit of a pipe dream to want to acquire it with just a few million in investment income.

"Of course I know that, with a 13-year contract and six albums, this contract is not small."

"But I didn't just take out this much money. I also invested in some CDS through the bank's channels." Ryan said slowly.

"Fuck!" Scott couldn't help but swear.

"Ryan, how much money do you make?"

Ryan didn't respond. Big Machine is not like other record companies. Taylor has a bigger say within the company, and her parents are behind her.

In other words, if she wants to complete the acquisition, she must get her parents' approval.

But that doesn't mean Ryan has to stand completely with her parents. Together with Big Machine's boss Scott, this is a typical three-party negotiation situation.

Taylor's parents teamed up with Scott back then, and they can do the same now.

"Uncle, I have no way of knowing the details of your negotiations with the other Scott, but I think you don't hold any shares in Big Machine, or only hold some shares." Ryan asked.

Scott fell into deep thought, and after a while, he decided to tell the truth.

"The majority of Big Machine's shares are held by Scott, who has absolute control, and Universal Music Group is just a distributor."

"Then we can talk about the conditions, the conditions for a successful acquisition." Ryan was ready to win over her parents.

"Are you really planning to acquire Big Machine?" Scott still couldn't believe it.

"Do I look like I'm kidding?" Ryan asked back.

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After nearly half an hour, Ryan put his phone down.

"What did Taylor's father say?" Terry asked immediately.

"Of course he agreed." Ryan said. Who would think that they make too little money? The song "Love Story" has proved that Taylor is on the rise, and the boss of Big Machine is about to make a fortune. Who wouldn't be jealous? Everyone wants to get a piece of the pie.

Taylor's father has already nodded, and will fully cooperate with Ryan to complete the acquisition. In exchange, Taylor's parents will participate in the acquisition and become one of the shareholders of Big Machine.

"What about Taylor? Will this affect your relationship?" Terry wondered.

"Of course it will have an impact, and it's in a good way." Ryan called Taylor again in front of her.

"Oh my gooooooooood, I'm really not dreaming..." She confirmed again and again. Her reaction was similar to Terry's. After hearing that Ryan made huge profits from the investment market, she was extremely surprised, and then she grinned foolishly.

Ryan revealed the idea of acquiring Big Machine.

"Do you really want to invest in Big Machine? Will it be profitable for you? What if you lose money?" Taylor was surprised and even a little scared. She felt that she might make Ryan lose money. After all, her contract was the only "important asset" of Big Machine.

"I'm doing this to give you my full support. Your team needs to be expanded. Your stylist is too bad. I think the one who was responsible for your styling in the love story music video is pretty good. I will also find you a better producer, such as Max Martin you mentioned before. I will let them produce music for you. In short, everything must be the best. I want to help you realize your dream and become the most famous female star in the world!" Ryan said. Women may not understand what benefits are when you talk to them, but it's different when you talk to them about how much they love each other. When talking to Taylor's father, it's about benefits, and when talking to Taylor, it's about feelings.

"Ryan..." The girl on the other end of the phone was so moved that she almost cried. No 19-year-old girl could resist the combination of money and emotions.

"Are you in Florida? I want to go there right now. I asked Erica to book a flight for today. I miss you."

"We just met this week. You finish recording the show first. I'll wait for you in Florida. You don't want my money to go to waste, do you?" Ryan knew that she was recording ABC's "Good Morning America", an extremely important morning show, which would be very helpful for exposure. "Well, I promise you, I will work hard." Taylor said solemnly on the other end of the phone.

"But having said that, you have to wait until the acquisition is completed before you start working hard. Don't overwork yourself." Ryan joked.

"Wait... Ryan, you reminded me. In this case, can we do something to lower the valuation?" Taylor had an idea. She was full of ideas and immediately came up with an idea. She planned to join forces with Ryan to trick Scott.

"Scott is not stupid. Can't he see through your little tricks? Don't act rashly. This is our backup plan." Ryan thought for a moment and felt that this move was indeed a bit insidious. Doing this right at the start would definitely anger Scott.

"Okay, then I'll listen to you, my little investment genius." Taylor said.

The two chatted for a while before Taylor reluctantly hung up the phone.

"Ryan, you have to look at this..." Daddario next to him turned over his laptop.

It is the website of Billboard. In the latest issue of Billboard, Ryan and Leona Lewis' "Unstoppable" reaped the benefits of the Olympics and squeezed TI's "Whatever You Like" to second place. Sad Eastern Queen Rihanna's "Disturbia" ranked third, Pink's career masterpiece "So What" rose to fourth, Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" was still in seventh place, and Taylor's "Love Story" was currently ranked tenth. Although it did not reach the top and only reached fifth place at most, it was at least still hovering at a high level. Compared with the previous album, it was a big step forward.

As for Katy Perry, whom Taylor looks down upon, her song "I Kissed A Girl" has now dropped to eleventh place. Ninth place is Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours", which is also a very popular divine song. Ne-Yo, who was brought up by Jay-Z, also performed well, with his single "Closer" ranking eighth.

Of course, the most important thing is that Ryan has his first No. 1 single! The only pity is that, perhaps because of the popularity of "Unstoppable", Wake Me Up has been hovering at No. 13 for three weeks.

Ryan also found another electronic music at the back of the list, at No. 79. The singer column of the song "Just Dance" is written as Lady Gaga Featuring Colby O'Donis.

The "Featuring" is also called "feat." It can be simply understood as a guest appearance.

Although Ryan’s electronic music-style singles were very popular before, they had not attracted others to follow suit, or in other words, the imitation works had not yet been released.

And this female singer with a weird name was the first one to "follow the trend". Judging from the release time, Ryan realized that before Harlem Rock became completely popular, Miss Gaga had already started to try electronic music. She had already released a personal album called "The Fame".

"Lady Gaga? Was this name inspired by the song of Queen?" Terry was also a little surprised.

In the future, will there be more and more electronic music styles like Lady Gaga?

The "electronic music era" that Ma Wen mentioned before is about to arrive.

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Ryan asked Daddario to search for Lady Gaga on the Internet, and then they found the "Just Dance" music video on YouTube.

"This design is really weird." Trey frowned slightly, and then commented: "Too avant-garde."

"If you can't compete in beauty and sexiness, then you can only compete in weirdness." Ryan tried to analyze, what's avant-garde or not, it's more for the sake of standing out.

Then Ryan actually saw something familiar in the MV - a red pair of Monster headphones.

Ryan listened to the other tracks in her album and was impressed by several of them. They were definitely not rubbish albums like those by Brother Jonathan.

"Daddario, find out who is behind her." Ryan became curious about this Lady Gaga.

"The producer is Hong Yi, who is not very famous in the industry. The songwriter is Cherry Cherry Boom Boom (pseudonym), a veteran creator and former international marketing director of Interscope Records. The record company she signed with was founded by Akon, and Akon had previously maintained cooperation with Interscope Records Group..."

Think of the headphones in her music video. Obviously, she belongs to Jimi and Interscope Records.

Ryan rubbed his temples and continued slowly: "Daddario, write a music sharing post on my social account to recommend this new song of Miss Gaga. Just say that I like her music very much and mention that I hope to work with her..."

　Thanks to Jin Tai-tsou for the 500 points of reward.

　　
　
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