Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

Chapter 129 Recording.apartment.Sukiyaki.

Although Zhou Xiao is not a professional sound engineer, years of training at Smart Office have given Zhou Xiao a great grasp of post-production.After all, everyone knows that an idol cannot be an idol for a lifetime, the key is to master a skill.In case one day I am no longer suitable to be an idol, then I can switch to post-production in the office.

Because Zhou Xiao likes music, he was interested in recording and mixing early on. Zhou Xiao had been exposed to these things as early as the trainee days. Coupled with the continuous learning over the years, Zhou Xiao's level is definitely above that of ordinary sound engineers. superior.Coupled with the fact that he is a pop singer and idol himself, he knows better what style and singing style are suitable for attracting young people nowadays.And he has some understanding of Li Wei's music style, so the cooperation between the two quickly opened up. A brainless song like "In the Mood for Love" was quickly recorded during the two people's joking and joking. .

Li Wei came out of the recording room, then picked up his own glass, and poured himself a glass of warm water.

"I said Xiao, what will I call you in the album production staff? I'm not afraid to write the name Zhou Xiao. But what will your firm say about you? Especially now that Sister Fan Zhi can't protect herself, Aunt Teng is probably going to hunt you down. in the case of."

"This is really a headache!" Zhou Xiao couldn't help but sigh in the monitoring booth, "Why don't you sign it?"

"How is that possible? This is your labor certificate. If you want to switch to post-production in the future, this is also your resume." Li Wei refused, "And as a sound engineer, you also have to get paid. You don't sign, the accounting office If you come to check the account, it will be troublesome!"

The Huaxia Kingdom is very strict with tax inspections. Some people joked that the deterrent power of the Internal Revenue Service is at least one level higher than that of the National Security Bureau.If you pay taxes according to the rules, then the IRS is a bodhisattva enshrined on the wall; but once you evade taxes, then the IRS will definitely be the angry King Kong who hunts you down to the ends of the earth.

Especially celebrities like Li Wei, who are the key targets of inspection by the National Taxation Bureau.Therefore, the private accountants and company accountants hired by Li Wei are both very professional accountants, and they are two different accounting offices.PwC is in charge of the company's business, while KPMG is in charge of Li Wei's personal business.

"Well, let's sign it as Nicolas Z." Zhou Xiao also knew that the accountant would be troublesome, so he simply used a fake name. "You also know that when I gave myself such an English name, I didn't expect it to be useless when I made my debut."

"Hahaha, I remember, you have been thinking about it for several days. By the way, what was my name at the time? Oh, by the way, Viktor. I also said that I deliberately found a Slavic English name. It’s the same style.” Li Wei couldn’t help laughing when he thought of the funny things before his debut, “I’ll ask the legal department to make a contract, and you’ll just sign it. The agency agreement should also be signed by the firm? Besides, the firm is not so perverted|perverted."

"No. It's just that the contract stipulates that non-related work should not interfere with related work." Zhou Xiao said.

Li Wei nodded, then looked at his watch, and proposed to start recording the next song.The next song is called "Roar", which is a song about young people breaking through their inner timidity and discovering their own courage.Moreover, this song is also a metaphor for Li Wei's dissatisfaction with campus bullying, hoping that those who are bullied can stand up bravely to face all this.After listening to the accompaniment for a while, Zhou Xiao signaled to Li Wei to start recording.

After Li Wei sang it once, Zhou Xiao frowned and said, "Although the style of the whole song is a typical pop style, you are also sung too popularly? And why is your singing so greasy? Clean it up No? Finally, don’t you understand the lyrics you wrote yourself? This is a song full of power and hope. You should suppress it a little in section A, and use depression to reflect the anger in your voice; while section B is You have discovered the power in your heart, you are inspired by the power, so you are no longer afraid, so your voice should bring out confidence; the last chorus part is an explosion, you have to use the power of your abdominal cavity to express your anger! Your strength! And your resistance! Just like the lyrics describe, you have to roar at the tiger!"

Originally, Li Wei asked Zhou Xiao to come over to help with the recording, in fact, he just didn't want to disturb others, and at the same time, he didn't want Zhou Xiao to be bored at home with nothing to do.But now Li Wei finds that Zhou Xiaolai's help in recording is very helpful, that is, as a singer, he has his own understanding of songs and lyrics, and then he can feed back his understanding to himself, which in turn helps him complete the recording better .

Although the lyrics and arrangement are all done by Li Wei, Li Wei can't guarantee that he is the only one who understands it.And Ah Chong also has a problem that when facing Li Wei, his immediate boss, he often chooses to compromise, but Zhou Xiao dares to criticize directly.So Li Wei decided to ask Zhou Xiao to come and record this album together, and then give him the title of assistant producer.

With Zhou Xiao's reminder, Li Wei reached the expected ideal level in the second recording.But after recording two songs, it was already noon.There are many restaurants in the Donghai Center Building, even three Michelin three-star restaurants, but if Li Wei and Zhou Xiao are famous, if they go to eat, it is estimated that the entertainment boards will explode tomorrow.So Li Wei had no choice but to choose takeaway, and had to hide Zhou Xiao in his small apartment before ordering takeaway.

Because the floor where Li Wei is located is the administrative office floor of the entire Kirin Entertainment Group, the security level is very high, and no one will appear on this floor easily.Especially in the area where Li Wei, Su Li, Wu Peng and other executives' offices are located, no one will bother them.

When Li Wei led Zhou Xiao to Li Wei's apartment through the secret door, Zhou Xiao couldn't help but said, "Tsk tsk, you executives are really too corrupt! There is a bedroom hidden in the office, is it for the convenience of the secretary?" Take me here to relax, miss? I'll look around and see if there's any criminal evidence!"

"Don't be sour. Apart from me, only Sister Su has the key to this room. I usually do the cleaning by myself. Occasionally, I ask Sister Su to help buy some clothes and daily necessities here." Li Wei took Zhou Xiao to look at his room.

This room is a typical small single apartment, with a shoe cabinet and a hanger for coats and raincoats in the entrance hall.On the left hand side of the corridor leading to the living room and bedroom is the sink. In addition to the cleaning sink, there are only microwave ovens, induction cookers, and kettles; on the right hand side is a small door, and inside the door are sinks, toilets, bathtubs, and shower rooms , belonging to dry and wet separation.The wall near the bathroom in the living room is a built-in large wardrobe. The living room is a simple double sofa with a carpet in front and a coffee table on the carpet.You can sit on the sofa or sit on the floor. Opposite the sofa is a set of audio equipment and a refrigerator that play both vinyl records and CDs.

The living room and the bedroom are separated by a translucent veil. In the bedroom is a KINGSIZE bed, in front of which is a wool carpet and a TV cabinet. A plasma TV is hung on the wall above the TV cabinet.There are many game consoles on the TV cabinet, as well as some CDs collected by Li Wei.On the other side of the bed are thick curtains, and when opened, there is another layer of translucent white gauze curtains.There is an electronic lock-controlled door next to the floor-to-ceiling windows, and there is a washing machine in the small corridor outside, and the corridor can have hanging clothes.Outside the corridor is the glass window structure of the East China Sea Center Building, but there are sunshade curtains that can be lowered.

Because the floor where Li Wei is located is very high, the windows cannot be opened, and the entire room relies on exhaust equipment for air circulation.However, Li Wei also put a purifier with air purification, negative oxygen ion release and humidification functions in his room, so that the air in the room would not be so aggrieved.

Li Wei first found some fruit and juice from the refrigerator for Zhou Xiao, and then made an appointment for takeaway by phone.Although the Michelin restaurant does not provide takeaway service, there are still many restaurants with good taste in Donghai Center Building that provide takeaway service.Li Wei booked a whole set of Japanese food, after all, it is safest to eat Japanese food in this kind of room.The smell is not strong, and it is not easy to generate too much garbage.This store can be regarded as Li Wei's regular shop, so I specially jumped in the line to help Li Wei prepare takeaways.

The two waited for less than half an hour before it was delivered, and Li Wei went to the front desk to sign for the batch of food.Sushi, sashimi, tempura, and some fried and boiled food, in addition to a sukiyaki pot.Fortunately, the tea table in Li Wei's room was big enough, but it was filled to the brim, and many of them were placed on the counter.The two sat on the ground and began to feast on it.

"I have listened to most of the demos of your album, and I found that you have great ambitions for this album." Zhou Xiao said suddenly, "Although it is a pop album, you are under the pop genre. Hidden rock, punk, dance music and other genres. And from relaxed, allegro, to adagio, sad, your album contains too many elements. If there are no big singers who suddenly become old and new, Your album is basically invincible this year."

"Your ambition is so big?" Li Wei said dissatisfiedly, "I want to make an album that no one dares to surpass in the next ten years, and make a milestone album that can enter the history of pop music. It is not that there have been no laureate albums in the past 20 years. Has the record sold yet? I want to break this record! At present, Mai Mai's "Cool" has the highest number of number one singles in an album. I don't mean to break his record of five championships in one major, at least it will be equal, right? This is my ambition, and I am fully prepared for it.

After the release of this 10-song album, I will release seven to eight songs and make digital singles for chart promotion. tour concert.I have already contacted the concert production company, and the concert equipment and props are also being purchased.This time we are going where the concert is going and where the equipment is going.Although it's not like you can do a dome tour, but it's no problem to do a stadium tour.It may not be certain that several big cities can be upgraded to the dome.Finally, my closing concert will be held at Yanjing National Stadium with [-] people! "

Zhou Xiao held a piece of salmon sashimi between his hands, and looked at Li Wei for a while.Then dipped in soy sauce and wasabi and swallowed it, "It seems that your schedule is still super full. Basically, you will start a concert tour after recording "The Amazing Race", and your body can handle it? According to your progress, You basically have at least two to three concerts a week, can your voice take it?"

"How do you know if you don't try it? How can you be worthy of yourself if you don't go crazy while you are still young? When you get old, you can't even do what you want." At the end, let's recreate AKids! What do you think of my idea? After so many years, we will sing together on stage again!"

To be continued...