Thinker in the entertainment industry

In the workplace, if the relationship is relatively close, or the other party is a very, very ordinary employee, then you can call the name and show respect. It is best to add the title after the surname.Although Zheng Zhiyong is young, he is indeed qualified as a teacher. Coupled with the legendary strong background, colleagues in the company who don't have much contact with him usually call him "Mr. Zheng".

But hearing Lu Xiantai's words, Zheng Zhiyong still inexplicably felt a little weird, obviously Lu Xiantai's words were not very strange.

When he followed Lu Xiantai to his office, Lu Xiantai's performance confirmed that Zheng Zhiyong's hunch was correct.

"Teacher Zheng", Lu Xiantai first asked Zheng Zhiyong to sit down on the sofa, and sat next to Zheng Zhiyong himself, "First of all, I want to say congratulations, the two songs you gave to exid this month have very good results."

"It's overrated", Zheng Zhiyong said with a smile, "It's also because of the good opportunity, the effect of "The King of Masked Singer" and the popularity of exid played a very important role."

"Don't be overly modest. There are still rules to follow in how popularity, topic and song quality combine to produce a chemical reaction. I can expect that there will be a few hit songs after "showmethemoney"."

coming.

Zheng Zhiyong tensed his nerves.

Lu Xiantai is one of the few old people in the top management of Cube.He has led 4minute and beast, and after Hong Shengcheng retired from illness, he was promoted to the position of vice president. In terms of power, it is limited.More management is external communication, and the participation in formal decision-making is not high.

When Hong Shengcheng established Cube, he didn't expect his body to collapse at all, so he didn't prepare a few management talents who could take care of the overall situation. Recruiting management personnel, followed by intrigues between new and old people for power, and the relationship between cube and acube is getting weaker and weaker. It seems that they are still a family in name, but in fact they have already done their own things.

Cube is going downhill, this is an indisputable fact.Although the artists under the banner are more or less well-known, the proportion of valuable trips they get has been decreasing over the years. Beast, the leading group, is almost resident in Japan and holds concerts all day long to make money. In 2014 It was because the performance of the comeback in the previous year was too poor, so I used the excuse of the fifth anniversary to make two comebacks, not to mention other teams and solo singers.Even in 2013, Hong Shengcheng signed the former king-level superstar Rain, who did not do well in Cube for two years, and even Hong Shengcheng was embarrassed to ask him to renew his contract.

Zheng Zhiyong thought, maybe Cube was tempted by the fact that he said earlier that he would sign up for "showmethemoney". Although Cube has always been making mainstream music and has almost zero communication with the underground, but if you inquire carefully, it is not difficult to know what level Zheng Zhiyong's rap is on. There is nothing to say about the popularity of the third season of "Show Methemoney", and the program team of the fourth season has been tirelessly stirring up topics. As long as there is no big death, the popularity will only increase.It is impossible for a composer to be completely bound to a brokerage company for a long time. It is enough to form a good relationship. Cube's previous indulgence in Zheng Zhiyong's creation is also because of this.But a rapper who has both rap and creative ability, who may have high popularity, may have a good income from music sources, and is more likely to bring many opportunities for artists to collaborate on songs is another matter.

"Speaking of "showmethemoney", Zheng Zhiyong just pretended that he didn't know what Lu Xiantai came to him for, "After the second round of the schedule, I can't let me teach while competing. I will submit my resignation in a few days Believe".

The people who participated in the first round of audition covered all walks of life, and there might be some amateur rap enthusiasts among those who passed, but after the two rounds of selection, almost all the rest were professional rappers. Increasing the intensity of the task, Zheng Zhiyong was unable to balance between teaching and program recording.He was unwilling to give up his teaching position before. On the one hand, he lacked decisiveness. More importantly, he felt that he could handle different things. When time and ability did not allow him to do so, giving up became necessary.

Lu Xiantai's eyebrows twitched: "Are you a little too anxious? Can't you wait for the results of the second round?"

"If I resign at that time, I am afraid that the company will not have time to find a successor." Zheng Zhiyong said.

"It's a bit troublesome. What we're looking for is not just a foreign language teacher."

Foreign language teachers are not an important occupation in a brokerage company. If there are fewer trainees and you want to improve your training, you can find one to work part-time. Cube has a little more trainees, so Zheng Zhiyong can take it as a living occupation, but what he has to do in the company is not only to take classes, he will also temporarily fill in any urgent translation work.This is not a difficult task for Zheng Zhiyong, and the cube is not bad. The price of excellent translation is still very expensive, but Zheng Zhiyong only needs to add a little more to the monthly salary.

Once Zheng Zhiyong left, Cube had to do more than just find a teacher. Of course, finding someone to fill the gap was not the most important thing.

"If you're busy, don't resign for the time being. I'll also pay attention to new candidates."

Lu Xiantai's words were well-founded, and Zheng Zhiyong couldn't find anything to say no to, so he had to agree.

"You seem to have a lot of confidence in "showmethemoney."

"Fortunately," Zheng Zhiyong said, "Although there may be various accidents, if my ability can't pass the first few rounds when I'm not bad, it doesn't make sense to participate in "showmethemoney"."

"Are you really going to go to the stage?"

"With this plan, there are some things that I can't do behind the scenes."

"If you go to the stage, what do you think about the brokerage company? I must know more about this than you."

"Thank you", Noh Hyun-tae's words mean "for your own good". Although he knows what the voice-over is, Zheng Zhiyong can't say it directly, "I'm in contact with cj".

Lu Xiantai's expression immediately lost control: "cj?"

"Yes, I'm entrusting roykim to help with the contact."

"Do you know?"

"I know him. When he was in elementary school, he was my junior. There is also a connection between my parents."

Zheng Zhiyong has a background that everyone in Cube knows, but Roykim’s family background is well known to people all over the country. He signed a contract with cj after "superstark", and went to study after a year of activities. Arranging activities for him, the relationship with the company is self-evident.Zheng Zhiyong will contact cj through roykim, this matter is so reasonable that no problem can be found.

Lu Xiantai didn’t have the slightest mental preparation for this either—he only thought of Zheng Zhiyong’s possible going to an underground label in advance, and in the mainstream, some people considered starships with experience in operating rappers, cj...it’s a bit difficult to handle.

"Have they ever run a rapper?" He decided to give it a try.

"They have already acquired hilite, so they should have some experience." Hilite is an underground label, and Paloalto has already decided to become the producer of the fourth season of "showmethemoney" and announced to the public, "Even without experience, roykim and Zheng Junying's treatment is also worth trying to fight for."

Lu Xiantai was silent.

Zheng Zhiyong then told Long Junheng about Lu Xiantai's coming to him, and only told him.It is obviously not suitable to talk about this kind of thing everywhere, but Zheng Zhiyong thinks that at least Long Junheng should know about it.

"CJ's words... are not bad", Long Junheng said, "Although I really want to keep a talent like you in the company, but I can't lie about it-you are right, Zhiyong, we old people in the current company Sometimes you are not satisfied, if you stay here as an artist, sooner or later you will consume the accumulated goodwill."

"So it is distance that produces beauty?"

"Yes."

Ordinary employees and contracted artists have different perspectives.When Zheng Zhiyong was just a part-time translator for a foreign language teacher, it was enough to have colleagues who didn’t make things difficult for him. The company’s development had little to do with him.Artists who are mutually beneficial and continue to play games with brokerage companies are different. Their jobs are closely related to the brokerage company, and they are not like ordinary employees who can change jobs at will. When they are almost bound, the requirements are not so simple.

Being unintelligent is not a sin, but in a cooperative relationship, it is natural that Party B, whose interests have been damaged, will be dissatisfied with Party A who cannot make good decisions and cannot get rid of him.

Zheng Zhiyong sighed.

It's really helpless to think of such a thing that I have been in a company that I have been happy with for more than a year.

But what Long Junheng said is not wrong, Zheng Zhiyong also knows in his heart that the company's ability in operation and planning is really not good, but he was nice to himself before, if he is really tied too tightly to the cube, it will definitely be a bad debt in the future. No matter how emotional Zheng Zhiyong is, he will not allow himself to be cheated because of this.It would be better to simply cooperate with Cube as a composer.

It's just that I don't know if the cube can understand... There's nothing I can do if I don't understand.

Zheng Zhiyong turned his head and looked at the promotional posters of his artists hanging on the blue "cube", feeling a faint sense of melancholy in his chest.

Zhang Xiansheng's comeback stage is scheduled for May [-]th. Before that, he and Yong Junhyung can first make the title song of the summer beast comeback. After participating in "showmethemoney", it is uncertain whether he will be free.Yong Junhyung said that what he wanted to do was a song with a strong rhythm and sad emotion like "Twenty Generations' First Love", and Zheng Zhiyong thought he could give it a try.

Thinking of this, Zheng Zhiyong finally felt a little more comfortable.He raised his hand to stop a passing taxi: "Uncle, stop."

"thinker."

After the crowd dispersed, Xikou picked up the hat and fanned it, then put it back on again.

"How long have you been talking here?"

"It's about an hour. Unsung is here today, and I'm sweating a little." Xikou said with a smile, obviously in a good mood.

Zheng Zhiyong has been planning to change careers in the past few months, but West Exit, together with a few freestyle rappers, is engaging in street rap battles across the country.There is no stage set up, and those who want to participate in the battle can stand in the middle of the crowd and improvise with a microphone.Freestyle at West Exit is very strong. After this round, it is almost "invincible all over the country". Today, it is against unsung who participated in the third season of "showmethemoney". It is not so easy to win, but it is a bit interesting.

"This is...thinker?" Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, unsung saw who was talking to at the west exit at first, took a closer look, and this person looked familiar, "You took off your hat? Why are you still wearing earrings?"

"If I wanted to do that, I did it," Zheng Zhiyong said, "I plan to change my image."

"The image of an idol?"

"Define it however you want, I just use my face the way I like it."

Unsung, who was pushed back calmly by Zheng Zhiyong, turned to the west exit: "Did Thinker just watch outside? You should have brought him along."

"Thinker came to see me for something, not for rap." Said Xikou.

"Even if I think about it now, I'm not good at freestyle. Compared with you, am I stupid?" Zheng Zhiyong smiled lightly.

"Yes, with thinker, it should be compared to the song written for the girl group, isn't it?"

Zheng Zhiyong was very low-key when he first started composing, but since he appeared in the background in "Hit Maker", "thinker" as a composer began to enter the public eye. Yedang also mentioned him in the press release after An Xiyan starred in the mv. People who know Zheng Zhiyong underground almost all know that he has written a few songs for idols and achieved good results.

What they say about it -- it's a little nuanced.