After recording the new album, Xu Lai was at leisure, but Universal Records became busy, especially Hill, who was Xu Lai's manager. Although Xu Lai was not in Los Angeles, he still had to do his best to deal with Xu Lai.

related matters.

Xu Lai's new album has inherited the high quality of the previous album as always. If other singers have three or four hit-level songs in a song, they can be said to be well-produced, and they can be used for promotion outside.

How much time and energy it took to produce something, maybe exaggerate it a bit, and see if it can compete for the album of the year award.

Of course, for Xu Lai, it must be very, very difficult to win an award in the United States.

It is true that the Grammys will award some awards to foreigners because they want to make the awards more diverse and international, but if you recall carefully, how many of the awards have been won by Asians? Not to mention that most of these awards are

Some drizzle awards just sound nice when you say "I won an award at the Grammys." But if you look into what award you won, you might just say, "Does the Grammy award have this award?"

This is quite embarrassing.

However, in general, Xu Lai still has a chance. In addition to quality, awards such as Grammy and Oscar statuettes are actually more about publicity. Xu Lai is backed by the giant company Universal Music and wants to compete.

In fact, there is still a chance, at least there will be no disadvantage in terms of publicity, but in other aspects, there may be some inherent disadvantages.

But Xu Lai doesn't pay attention to this. It's nice to win a prize, but it's okay not to win a prize. Anyway, he just needs to stand and make money. He doesn't need to win a prize, but he has to make money.

Having said that, I must say that Xu Lai's tour has already been planned. It will probably start after his second album is officially released. If the results are good, it will start faster and the number of shows will increase.

, if the results are not that good, then it may have to be postponed a little. After all, for such a large company, there is still order.

When it comes to concerts, the company actually thinks it's time to give up fans. After all, concerts are the most profitable activity for a singer, and other endorsements, advertisements, etc. are not acceptable, except of course for some singers' side jobs.

In addition to ticket revenue from concerts, other peripheral items also make up the bulk of the concert's income, and the singer's income share from the peripheral items is very low. Basically, the organizer gets more, because Xu Lai is the singer of most of the songs in his album.

The composer is basically all done independently, and rarely signed by other people, so his copyright income from the concert will be much higher than the income share of ordinary singers.

Therefore, many singers are resistant to holding concerts because the commission they receive from concerts is low. It is laborious and does not make any money. It is better to spend some time on side business.

Los Angeles is busy, Xu Lai is a little more leisurely in Seoul, but he still has something to do, and it doesn't really mean he puts down his work to rest.

The first thing he was busy with was Park Chanyeol's self-composed music. He took the time to write a beat for him, but it was not completely completed. It just provided a framework for the entire song. He left a name for the composer and arranger, and the rest

The company's music producer helped to complete it, and the second thing was to write a song for Red Velvet, who debuted at almost the same time as Xu Lai.

Their first official album has been planned and will be released in September. The company is also actively collecting songs. They happened to meet Xu Lai. Jin Yingmin just wanted to test Xu Lai. He didn't want to.

There is actually no problem if he writes it. Anyway, S.M company will not do anything to him, will not block his announcements, and will not target him in terms of public relations. They will not let Park Chanyeol take back the song written by Seo Rae.

If you sing for others, the company's reaction may be to slow down Park Chanyeol's solo project many times.

After all, Park Chanyeol is only one of the popular kings in Chadan, and there are other popular kings in Chadan! Who is not praised? Who is praised and is not making money? It is just the difference between making more and less, but S.M Company can accept it.

Such a small income difference.

Xu Lai also knew that he could be willful, but he did not use Park Chanyeol's development to test the company's bottom line at this time. Moreover, the song he wrote for Red Velvet ended up in his name, and it was impossible for him to give up the copyright.

I also don’t want to ruin my own brand, so the song for Red Velvet is not as casual as I thought before, just write a saliva song and be done with it.

Of course, the songs of girl groups should be catchy and memorable. Xu Lai is already familiar with the songs of idol groups. He heard them when he was studying with Kenzie. He looked at the songs of idol groups on the market.

, he probably understands that there is not much difference between writing his own songs, but relatively speaking, the songs of idol groups are more fast-food.

You can have meaningless lyrics, but you can't have them without memory points. Whether it's a certain lyric or a certain rhythm, as long as it can be remembered at once.

Therefore, the answer sheet he gave to the company was "Wind Flower"

…

In Red Velvet's practice room, the manager walked in excitedly. Seeing that the manager seemed to understand that something good was going to happen, the members stopped their daily practice and listened quietly to the manager's overflowing surprise.

"You know that the plan for the first official album has been put on the agenda, right? The company is collecting songs for you, but do you know who will write the songs for you?" The manager looked happy, and even said "Hurry up"

"Say I don't know and let me show it off" was written on his face.

"Aha? Who is it?" Sun Chengwan was curious and was the first to speak.

"Is it from our company or someone else's? Is it famous?" This is Jiang Seulgi.

"He's a well-known producer from our company." The manager seemed to have some desire to show off. He didn't say he was a singer. After all, he could guess it in just a few seconds.

"It can't be Seo Lai...senpai, right?" As the captain, Bae Zhuhyun suddenly said, unconsciously adding a senior after Seo Lai.

"Dafa! If so...didn't we take off?"

"Stop dreaming, sisters! I'm in America!"

"Senior Xu Lai seems to have come back a few days ago," Pei Zhuxuan said.

"How did you know, Ernie?"

"His fan club announced the schedule."

"uh-huh?"

"Okay, I admit I'm his fan."

"Oh, it's human nature to understand Sister Li."

"Okay, okay, don't talk about those who have some but don't get it. Irene guessed it right. Xu Laixi wrote it for you, so everyone should work hard this time! You should be the first woman to win a song from an international star.

group."

"That's great." Pei Zhuxuan's face was full of smiles, but she was a little dazed.

She was the one who sat in the same classroom with them before, learning expression management and artist etiquette. She was also the one who rested against the wall of the practice room together. She was also embarrassed by him, but Xu Lai didn't know that person.

It was her, but she clearly saw that it was Xu Lai. At that time, everyone was actually quite close to each other, but now they seem to be getting farther and farther apart. The contact information they exchanged was just a formal blessing and nothing else.

nor.

She suddenly felt a pity that she was still a little idol, while Xu Lai was already a "senior international star". They started from basically the same place, but now they were in the sky and on the earth. The sense of contrast was too strong.

"Sister Irene, what are you thinking about? You suddenly fell into a daze. Don't you feel happy that Seo Lai-senpai helped us write songs?" Son Seung-wan was having fun with everyone, but he found that Bae Joo-hyun was a little absent-minded.

"I was just thinking... we were actually very close to senior Xu Lai back then. If only we had established a good relationship with him at that time, maybe we would have avoided some detours." Pei Zhuxuan said, thoughtfully.

Very realistic.

"this……"

Sun Chengwan was a little embarrassed. She thought Pei Zhuhyun wanted to tell a little story about what happened, but she didn't expect it to be so realistic... But Pei Zhuhyun seemed to be right.
Chapter completed!