The legend of rebirth

Chapter 509 Attitude Determines Everything

Beacon Records' new Associate Music Director, Damon Sparke, is officially on board.

As his boss, the first task Ye Luo assigned to him was to make a record of his own.

Ye Luo could tell that Damon Spark was different from Molo Chavez. Chavez was an outsider-like figure who treated money like dung.Although Spark is elegant in appearance and has unique taste, he is actually a master who regards money as his life.

For Spark, although Ye Luo admired him for his talent and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, he would not fully trust him.

After being educated by Ye Luo with music, Spark has been very well-behaved these two days, and he is also eager to prove himself in front of Ye Luo, so besides making his own record, he also joined the team that is currently working on Beacon Records. A big plan to poach people.

Because Damon Spark, the head snake of New York music, joined, Song Yan and Mai Ruina's poaching in the past two days has been flourishing and fruitful.

They successively dug up three famous singers and a very good rock band.

The record of this rock band was even picked up by the parent record company last year, and it was promoted globally. Although the effect was not very good, but if it can qualify, then this band can be regarded as a world-class band.

Of course, the band's liquidated damages are also the most expensive, with the four of them adding up to a total of 4000 million US dollars.

This rock band named "Rose" is willing to join the lighthouse, or thanks to Damon Spark. These four people are good friends of Damon.

"Boss, for the other three singers, I'll just do it." Damon Spark said to Ye Luo in Ye Luo's office, "Rose Band, you must do it yourself."

"Why?" Ye Luo asked with a smile.

"I'm actually not very good at rock music. I didn't believe that I couldn't do it before, but after two or three years, I've worked hard. There is really no way. I can only reach the level of the national market, and I can't do it any higher." Spark said, "The Roses are my good friends. They have world-class live performance. It's a pity that I make their record.

You are stronger than me, it is better for you to make a move. "

"National market level, it's fine." Ye Luo said, "Our Beacon is just a small label now, and we can't even get out of New York City."

"But we can sell the copyright." Damon Spark said, "Although the big labels in the United States should be very wary of you now, who has a grudge against money? As long as the lighthouse has good records, there will always be big labels following you. Lighthouse cooperates."

"Oh, Damon." Ye Luo smiled, "You may not be clear, my record company does not sell copyrights."

"Huh?" Damon Spark was surprised.

"But don't worry, by next year, we will be a big label. Maybe after next year, we can go one step further than the big labels." Ye Luo said.

"Oh." Damon Spark nodded, "It seems that the boss really has great ambitions."

"Hehe." Ye Luo smiled, "Since you highly recommend it, I will make Rose's first album."

After Spark left, Song Yan leisurely said: "With Spark and other new singers and bands joining, the current dilemma of Beacon Records' shortage of major generals can be regarded as over, and the volume of records will be increased soon. .

Your album will be officially released tomorrow. It is sure to be a big hit in the New York market, and the number of downloads on Leshi is estimated to be astonishing, because there are music fans in China who will support you.

With the profits from this record, coupled with the recent addition of new singers and bands, Beacon Records has been promoted to a medium label, which will happen next month.

Ye Luo, what should we do after that? "

Ye Luo smiled and said, "With your wisdom, you should know."

"Then you just make records honestly. As long as Beauty and Beacon, in California and New York, the two major cities of American music, release a hundred records with sales of more than one million, once we integrate, we will be able to transform into A record company at the level of a major label." Song Yan said.

"Yeah." Ye Luo smiled slightly, "Right now, Lao Ding's side mainly focuses on traffic. His level is more than enough to make millions of records. On my side, I mainly produce high-quality goods. Sales rushed up, establishing word-of-mouth for future major labels.

So big labels are not a problem for us.The question is, how to become the record matrix.

In my opinion, Lao Yang still needs to work harder. "

"Yeah." Song Yan nodded, and then said, "But you can't blame Lao Yang, the current music section of Leshi still has too few albums, and the background is too weak. Compared with websites like Billboard, it's far behind. gone."

"Yeah, that's why we have to work hard to produce records." Ye Luo said, "Not only to run the traffic, but also to enrich the types of music, so as to attract Internet users with different music preferences."

"Then your next album will be rock?"

"That's right." Ye Luo smiled, "The Rose Band is a very good band."

……

From this afternoon, Ye Luo began to choose songs for the band Rose.

Rock music, there are a lot of other world classic songs, but most of the classic songs are old songs from the last century. In terms of arrangement and performance, they are actually not up to date with today's era.

In the American music scene, Ye Luo deeply understood this point.

Domestic popular music is only 30 years old, and classic Chinese songs from the early 21st century in another world can be thrown away casually, no problem.

But the United States can't do it. European and American pop music has a history of hundreds of years, and every step of development has its profound cultural background and brand of the times.

The music industry, as well as other fields, are like this. The predecessors are of course great as pioneers, but today's people standing on the shoulders of the predecessors are definitely better than the predecessors.

The development of pop music is changing with each passing day. Today, the top musicians in the world naturally stand at the pinnacle of pop music history. They are not only the strongest in the contemporary era, but also the strongest in history.

Their works are also the best in history so far, or to be precise, they are works that are more popular with modern people.
Therefore, if Ye Luo is in the United States, he can do anything with just an old English song from three or 40 years ago. This is unrealistic.

Ye Luo had to adapt, revive the old classics and add new popular elements.

This is even more prominent in rock music.

The contemporary nature of rock music is the strongest among all types of pop music.Moreover, there are many categories, great regional differences, and singers have strong personal characteristics.

How to integrate these classic, old, and different rock songs into an album that is still popular with music fans in the modern music world and can sell well is definitely a great challenge.

This challenge is more difficult than rewriting twelve new rock songs.

In fact, with Ye Luo's current musical skills and literacy, it's nothing to rewrite twelve new rock songs. At least he is sure that he will not be worse than Damon Spark.

But Ye Luo still chose to meet this challenge.

Because the songs from another world helped him step by step towards success in this world, Ye Luo felt that he couldn't just ask for it without getting anything in return.

He shoulders the responsibility of spreading classic songs from another world to this world.

The countless good songs in another world are not only a gift from God to him, but also a task entrusted to him by music, and he is duty bound.

When making this English rock album, Ye Luo couldn't help thinking of the four basic principles of rock that had been summed up by a historic rock band in another world:
1. Attitude is everything.

2. Rich rock roots.

3. Rhythm guitar is a necessary means of expression.

4. Intriguing lyrics.

The first rule is that attitude is everything.

This album finally made Ye Luo slow down.

For every classic old rock song, Ye Luo not only has to adapt it from the tune, reorganize the instrument matching, and even some contemporary lyrics, Ye Luo also has to change it to be more in line with the contemporary background, but he can't go away taste of rock and roll.

For the next two weeks, Ye Luo devoted herself to this rock album, and sometimes couldn't finish a song in a day.

This weekend, he didn't even have time to see Chu Mo'er, but made a few phone calls to comfort her.

Two weeks later, this is Ye Luo's most labor-intensive album so far, and all the arrangement demos are finally completed.

Tomorrow, the official recording can begin.

(End of this chapter)