Chapter 349: Innocence
Avril heard Chen Feng say this. also said very simply: "Okay, then you can get busy first, I'll go back to the hotel to sleep first, and I'll come back to you in the afternoon." β
"Well, see you in the afternoon. After Chen Feng beckoned to her, he turned around and went about his own business again.
Chen Feng's attitude was obviously a deliberate snub to Avril, and Avril had naturally felt it, and after watching Chen Feng for a while with a little frustration, he turned around and walked out of the recording studio.
To tell the truth, Chen Feng admires Avril very much, and after seeing her in person, he even unconsciously gave birth to a kind of love for her in his heart, of course, this kind of love is not the love between men and women, but purely the love between people, or the love, this situation has been encountered by many people, that is, someone looks at who is particularly pleasing to the eye, and that person is also very pleasing to him, the two feel that they are very happy together, this is not about gender. And Avril gave Chen Feng this feeling, maybe Avril herself is a very likable girl, just like the kind of aura that his god brother Yang Tianming said, it is obvious that Avril's aura is very good, there are many people who like her, and it seems that she and Chen Feng's aura are compatible, and both of them appreciate each other.
But Chen Feng now has to suppress his good impression of Avril, so as not to make her have unnecessary misunderstandings about himself, and he also tries to control his love for her, after all, his current influence is incomparable, and he doesn't want to have any unnecessary scandals with Avril.
And Chen Feng is now supporting Avril Lavigne for another small reason, which is a little funny to say, because last night he was in a hurry to ML with Karina, and he actually forgot to write the song he promised to write for Avril, only after sending her away, Chen Feng can have time to write this song and then give it to her, otherwise embarrassment is inevitable.
After Avril left, Chen Feng temporarily settled his mind and concentrated on starting the production of his album, and after a busy morning, he finally finished the remaining four songs, including piano songs, and then Chen Feng and several staff members who assisted in the post-production of the album listened to the album from beginning to end, and everyone felt very good. So. Chen Feng's third English album "Hopeness" has finally been recorded, of course, for safety reasons, Jupiter Records naturally has to hire a team of well-known musicians to audition Chen Feng's album, give their reasonable opinions and suggestions, and only after it is foolproof, it will be released to the world. And if there are no big flaws and bad reviews, Chen Feng does not plan to recreate this album, which is also his confidence in himself.
After the production was over, Chen Feng looked at the time, it was almost twelve o'clock at noon, and he originally wanted to invite the entire record production team to celebrate, but considering the brave reporters and fans outside, this plan was certainly not easy to implement. At this time, Richard, who didn't know when he had returned, was overjoyed when he saw Chen Feng finish recording the whole album, and when he contacted the security personnel by phone, the secretary brought a hand-held password safe, carefully packaged Chen Feng's recorded record master tape, and then locked it in the safe, and then said goodbye to Chen Feng under the protection of more than ten heavily armed security guards, turned around and walked out of the recording studio. Of course, Chen Feng didn't know about this situation before because he didn't participate in the post-production of the record, but now he has a small surprise after knowing it. However, Chen Feng immediately understood that Richard attached so much importance to his album, indirectly, his album can be said to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and Richard naturally attaches great importance to it, and realizes all-round protection of this master tape to avoid being stolen by Xiaoxiao or leaking the content of the album's songs in advance, because if this is the case, it will definitely bring huge economic losses to the company. Chen Feng's album is a real cash cow for their Jupiter Records.
At this time, Chen Feng also found that four cameras were installed on this recording studio, which was of course to prevent someone from doing anything here, and also for his personal safety. In this way, Chen Feng is very relieved about the security measures of this recording studio.
After saying goodbye to the staff, Chen Feng walked out of the recording studio to Wang Meixue's side, and after arriving, the time was just right, and Chen Jiahao just announced the end of the recording in the morning and continued in the afternoon.
Chen Feng greeted Chen Jiahao politely, and nodded to the rest of the staff before going to the private room of the company's canteen with Wang Meixue.
Along the way, Wang Meixue couldn't help complaining a few words about Chen Jiahao's harshness, but Chen Feng was too lazy to persuade again.
After having lunch with Wang Meixue, the two of them consciously parted ways and went back to their own recording studios, Chen Feng first took the time to write a song for Avril, called "innocence" (innocence), in the previous life, Chen Feng liked this one the most among all Avril Lavigne's songs, of course, this song has not yet come out, in the original history, this song will not appear in her third album "TheBestDamnThing" in 2007. In a sense, this song is specially tailored for Avril herself, and it is not difficult to see from the gist of the lyrics that this song is singing about herself. Chen Feng is doing this now, naturally he is just creating this song for her in advance, and the typical wool comes out of the sheep.
After spending a few minutes writing the song, Chen Feng began to work on the later stages of his Chinese album, and Chen Feng planned to complete this Chinese album by himself, without the help of other helpers. Because one of the reasons is that the music production team this time are all foreigners, few people can be very Chinese, let alone correctly understand the content of the songs in Chen Feng's Chinese album, and letting them help with the post-production zuΓ² is really equivalent to Yuanmu asking for fish, it is better to come all by himself, and Chen Feng does not want to destroy the "originality" of these ten songs, as long as they are "restored" to the appearance of what they have heard in their memory.
Because of the special audio-visual material support provided in the brain number jΓΉ library, the post-production of the Chinese album was of course very fast, and it took less than two hours to complete the production of this Chinese album, and now all that remains is to obtain the distribution rights of mainland audio-visual products.
After the production was completed, Chen Feng directly recorded these ten songs into a master tape, and then notified Richard as soon as possible. Soon after, a sweaty Richard appeared, with a happy and helpless look on his face.
Chen Feng couldn't help but quip: "Richard, are you going to run a marathon?" β
Richard smiled bitterly, "Long." I just returned from the airport after my charter flight to the United States, and I haven't eaten lunch yet. β
Chen Feng couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this, and asked, "My album master has been sent to the United States?"
"Yes, President Adams has told you that as long as your album is recorded, we will charter a flight to the United States as soon as possible, and for the flight safety of your album, we have insured an additional $10 million to the insurance company. As he spoke, he took a paper cup to the water dispenser to fetch water, and then drank a full cup in one go. Relatively speaking, the market value of Chen Feng's Chinese album is certainly not comparable to the previous English album, so Richard seems to be much more relaxed.
When Chen Feng heard this, he actually insured his album for 20 million US dollars. secretly called Adams a loser, but he also understood that he and Adams, these Americans, have different insurance consciousness and different concepts, in foreign countries, especially in the United States, many companies and celebrities have a lot of strange insurance, such as the star insurance for her hips, compared to this, this album transportation insurance is really nothing, but the insurance amount is relatively large.
Chen Feng diverted the topic and asked: "Now that my Chinese album has been recorded, has your Hong Kong Jupiter Record Company obtained the independent album distribution rights in the mainland?"
Richard shook his head a little helplessly and said: "Our company did this work as early as last year, and there is no problem for other singers' audio-visual products to be distributed in the mainland, but if it is your audio-visual products, the relevant departments in the mainland will be very solemn and ask us to first obtain the overseas distribution license of the US government, because your audio-visual products are still among the embargoed goods of the US government for your country." It's just that this time, we in Hong Kong Jupiter as an independent record production and distribution company in Hong Kong to operate your two albums, you can play a side ball and spare the US embargo, but we still haven't done the work of the relevant departments in the mainland, they are all prevaricating, and there are many distribution companies in Guangzhou have heard the rumors, hoping to be able to act as an agent for you to distribute the rights of these two Chinese and English albums in the mainland, and these distribution companies have a certain background and geographical public relations means in the mainland, which is incomparable to our company at present. At present, the top management of the head office is making a decision on this matter. Whether to continue to insist on the independent distribution of our Hong Kong Jupiter Records, or to cooperate with mainland distribution companies for cooperative distribution. β
"If you cooperate in issuance, won't those mainland issuing companies take advantage of it in vain?" Chen Feng asked rhetorically.
Richard shook his head with a wry smile and said: "This is also a matter of no choice, the work efficiency of the relevant government in your mainland is too slow, and it will take at least a year and a half to obtain the right to issue according to the normal procedures, and it may not necessarily be approved through the guΓ², we really don't have too much time to waste." Moreover, we Jupiter Records do not have our own independent distribution channels in the mainland, which cannot be established overnight. β
Chen Feng couldn't help but nod after hearing this, the distribution right is still secondary, the main thing is still the sales channel, and Jupiter Records did not set up a branch in the mainland. It is not easy to set up, and it seems that it can only find a strong mainland distribution company to cooperate.
"In that case, I hope Adams and the others will make an early decision to find a reputable and powerful publishing company in the mainland to cooperate. β
Although Chen Feng is only a contracted singer of Jupiter Records in name, he is a singer who is too big, even if he does not rely on the identity of the Jupiter Record boss hidden behind Chen Feng, with his singer identity, he can influence the decision-making of Jupiter Records on a certain stage.
Of course, Richard understood this, so he nodded hurriedly without any disdain: "I will do my best to give your opinion back to President Adams." β
"Okay, now I'll hand over the recorded album master tape to you, and I'll leave it to you for the future production. Chen Feng said politely.
"It's our business. Richard carefully took the album master tape handed by Chen Feng, and then beckoned the secretary from the door, wrapped the master tape in cotton cloth again, and then put a waterproof vacuum plastic bag on the bread outside, and then carefully put it into the open hand safe, and then said goodbye to Chen Feng again, and left the recording studio under the escort of a group of armed security guards.
Chen Feng looked at the time, at half past one in the afternoon, and saw that Avril had not yet come, and he couldn't help but worry about whether his attitude towards her in the morning was too indifferent and unkind. In fact, Avril and him are about the same age, both of them are of the same generation, and one is the world's pop king, the other is the world's queen of the world, when the two debuted, they both went to the United States alone. And last year in 2002, her seventeen (year-old) girl from Canada swept the pop music scene in North America like a storm, and then immediately became a global hit in the following months, becoming the most incredible phenomenon in the world pop music industry this year. Avril Lavigne is the Canadian girl who became a phenomenal icon of the year. After only releasing his first album, he quickly became popular and became an idol singer of heartthrobs. And she is not yet 18 years old. Probably even she didn't expect that she would be so successful. The album, titled LetGo, sold 9.6 million copies worldwide and quickly garnered a huge fan following, with RollingStone magazine selecting Avril Lavril as the 2002 Person of the Year and Newsweek predicting Avril Lavigne as the 2003 Artist of the Year.
In the "LetGo" album, her ostentatious singing voice is full of energy, her voice is as clear as crystal, and the lyrics are purely feminine. "AnythingButOrdinary" is an ode to the uniqueness of the individual, Guitar Gallop's debut single "Complicated" is a succinct song that hits the nail on the head of a love liar, the string-tinged "I'mWithYou" reflects the softer side of Av Day: "LosingG-Dayp" and "Unwanted" brave the heaviness and sorrow required by themes of rejection and betrayal, and the next"MyWorld" and the metaphorical "Mobile" are the perfect stretch of Av's life experience.
At the end of the 90s of the last century, there was a wave of youth idol music in the world pop music scene dominated by boys or girls singing groups (such as: Backstreet Boys, Boys, Boyzone, Spicegirl, etc.), and after entering the 21st century, there were girl idol stars represented by "Britney" Britney, who were based on the singing style of pop dance music like the previous boy groups. But around 2002, perhaps under the influence of the singer-songwriter boy idol emperor superstar, a group of girl and boy idol rock singers with certain creative skills, at the same time with considerable singing and performance skills, and more distinctive personalities sprung up, and they quickly stole the market that originally belonged to those dance music girl idol stars, Avril Lavril and MichelleBranch are outstanding representatives of these new pop music families. They didn't have flashy dance steps, didn't compete to undress, and didn't maintain their star status by showing off their flirtatious and creating lace news, so they got more affirmation from all walks of life.
Avril's music is slightly punk, and the influence of Grunge's music on her can be clearly felt in the melody. Avril's music is dominated by an alternative pop-rock style, and there are some similarities to the musical route of another famous Canadian rock star, Alanis Mo. Her melodies and arrangements are more accessible to teenage fans due to her strong ability to produce them, while rock-based music is significantly more appealing to older fans than the proliferation of teen pop. Avril's music has also earned her huge success around the world, becoming a new icon of pop music, a new diva, a little diva of rock and roll.
And Avril Lavigne, who is now a rock 'n' roll witch, was born on September 30, 1984 in Napani, a small town of 5,000 people in Ontario, Canada. At the age of 2, this is an age when many ordinary children have just learned to speak freely, but Avril's singing genius has begun to be realized, and her rock and roll potential has begun to appear. Soon after, the church choir in her hometown became Avril's first stage. However, Avril did not immediately start rock 'n' roll, she sang more country music, and as she grew older, she began to sing on different occasions, and many local festivals and different performances became the place where she showed her talent in the following years. Avril's singing talent did not fade with the onset of adolescence, on the contrary, she began to write her own songs at the age of 12, and also learned to play the guitar herself.
By the time Avril reached 11th grade, music had already extended to her beyond culture classes, so she stopped school and decided to concentrate on her music career, by which time her singing and writing skills had improved dramatically. Soon, Avril got the first opportunity of her music career, Antonio "L.A." Reid heard her music and immediately took Avril Lavigne into his company and took her to New York. When Avril Lavigne was offered a contract to record her first album, Avril was only 16 years old. When Avril started recording her debut album in the studio alone, she was not interested in the many veteran producers and songwriters that the record company invited for her, and the stubborn Avril always insisted on recording music in a personal way, only writing music with her own ideas and singing in her own way. But after a period of recording, the record company did not support her own recordings, and in the end it was not adopted. Soon after, the record label brought Avril to Los Angeles, where she began working with the famous record producer Clif Magness. Producer and songwriter Clif Magness has participated in the production of many artist albums, including the famous Canadian singer Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Hanson Band and many others, and the experienced Clif Magness quickly highlighted Avril Lavigne's music after taking over her.
On June 4, 2002, Avril Lavigne, who was only 17 years old, officially released her debut solo album "LetGo", although it only sold 62,000 copies in the United States in the first week of release, and only ranked eighth on the Billboard 200 chart, but Avril immediately became the target of fans, and her album sales continued to climb. With the promotion of Avril's large-scale concert tour and the increased media attention, two singles from her album, "Complicated" and "Sk8erBoi", entered the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and "Complicated" was the runner-up, and Avril immediately set off a whirlwind in the pop music industry. As sales grew, LetGo quickly soared to No. 2 on the charts, becoming the number one on the Canadian charts and the hottest album immediately after its release in the rest of the world. Avril Lavigne was a long-lasting storm, months after which she continued to show no signs of cooling, and from 2002 to 2003, Avril and her "LetGo" were the focus of fan and media attention, and her raunchy and casual personality quickly won the hearts of fans. The rest of Avril's album's chart-topping tracks also went on to perform very well in the following year, with another chart-breaking track, "ImWithYou," reaching No. 4 on the Hot 100 Singles Chart. Avril's LetGo album became one of the best-selling albums of 2002 and 2003, and as of 2004, Chen Feng can remember that the album had sold more than 6.1 million copies in the United States and a staggering 14 million copies worldwide.
After the huge commercial success of LetGo, Avril Lavigne frequently won various awards around the world, but the Grammy Awards became a sad place for her. In 2003, Avril was nominated for five awards for "LetGo" and her single, including the Best New Artist award, but this year's Grammy Awards went to another newcomer, Norah Jones, who was nominated for five awards. After that, with the album "LetGo", it continued to gain momentum, and continued to hit the singles chart with Avril Lavigne's singles. In Chen Feng's memory, in 2004, the Grammy Awards nominated Avril Lavril for three awards again, but at the 46th Grammy Awards held in February of this year, Avril still did not win any golden gramophone, and there was no report that she won the Grammy Award in Chen Feng's memory number before her rebirth.
Avril's second album was supposed to be released in 2004, but now that she started the release of this second album this year, and joined Jupiter Records, it can be said that history has changed because of his "butterfly".
And this time, Chen Feng directly participated in the production of her second album, tailoring this song "innocence" (innocence) for her, maybe Chen can make up for her regret of not winning the Grammy Award.
Because Avril Lavril hasn't come yet, Chen Feng went to Wang Meixue's recording studio to take a look, her progress is still slow compared to Chen Feng, and she has only successfully recorded one song so far, and the progress is much slower than yesterday. Chen Feng explained to her according to his understanding of the song, but the effect this time was not very big, and the effect of her singing still could not satisfy the strict Chen Jiahao, which made Wang Meixue look very depressed. Chen Feng secretly smiled a little gloating in his heart, thinking that this is the price you want to pay for being a star. After experiencing this record recording job that made her feel depressed, she must not want to try it in the future.
After spending more than half an hour in Wang Meixue's recording studio, Richard came over, called him out of the recording studio alone, and said, "Long, I have already reported what you did with me before, and I believe they will come to a conclusion in the next two days." In addition, the head office also hopes that you can participate in the Grammy Awards next year, because the organizers of the Grammys and people from all walks of life in the American music industry have put a lot of pressure on us Jupiter Records, if you can make a statement and promise to participate in the Grammys next year, you will definitely return with a full load, which is good for you to the Grammys, the company and the fans who support you. β
This year's Grammy Awards has long passed, because although the last Grammy Long won seven awards, Long himself refused to accept the award, resulting in this year's Grammy Awards Long was not nominated, so that this year's Grammy Awards were criticized by the media and many Long fans were dissatisfied, and many Long fan groups asked for a boycott of the Grammys, so that many American singers who were originally nominated said that they would not go to the awards ceremony, and the result is that this year's Grammy Awards can be said to be the most dismal in recent decades, with dismal ratings and dismal advertising revenue, and many singers in order to support Long, won the support of many long fans, all refused to attend, and there were some big-name singers, which also made the star bleak, and this year's awards ceremony was rated by many media as a shame in the history of the Grammys, the most unsuccessful, its selection results and credibility were generally questioned around the world. In this way, the Grammy organizers naturally hope that the next year, that is, next year's Grammy Awards, can be attended to save their Grammy's reputation and influence.
In fact, if you really want to talk about it, it is understandable that the Grammys did not present the award to him, the "Best Newcomer Award", a yellow person, but Chen Feng was young and vigorous at the time, and he really couldn't stand this insult. At that time, the Grammy organizers came to apologize very sincerely, and did not let Chen Feng's anger calm down.
However, then again, after all, more than two years have passed since this incident, and no matter how angry Chen Feng is, this anger has already dissipated. Moreover, Chen Feng also knows the influence of the Grammy Awards in the world, because of himself, to bring down this American music festival held every year does not have much benefit to Chen Feng himself, but allows himself and Jupiter Records to make enemies in the United States, such a hurtful thing is really not necessary to do. Moreover, now that Chen Feng's anger is out, and his revenge can be regarded as revenge, there is no need to die with the Grammy organizers.
After figuring this out, Chen Feng nodded and said: "Well, you're right, there's no need to have trouble with the Grammys now, you can call back to the head office, and say that I accept next year's Grammys, and if there are no accidents, I will try my best to participate." β
"Okay! great!" Richard happily hugged Chen Feng, and then let go, "If you can think like that, you can solve the ** annoyance for us Jupiter." You don't know, because of your business, our company's development in the United States this year has encountered a lot of resistance, and now this resistance is obviously about to become a driving force. β
"It's good to be able to fix things. Chen Feng nodded and smiled.
Richard laughed happily, too, but he immediately patted his forehead: "Oh God, I was so happy that I almost forgot to tell you that Avril was here and waiting for you in the studio." β
"Okay, let's go find her right away. Chen Feng did not delay, after helping her finish the recording of this song earlier, he could call it all the work as soon as possible.
When I arrived at my previous recording studio, I saw Avril Lavigne who had changed her dress, and saw that she was wearing an eye-catching peach blossom T-shirt with many letters printed on it, plus a pair of printed jeans, and a pair of Converse sneakers on her feet, full of punk style, very trendy.
Seeing Chen Feng again, although Avril was still a little excited, she had obviously become much more restrained, and said to him with a smile: "Long, can you show me the song you wrote immediately, I can't wait." β
"Okay, of course. Chen Feng said as he took out the previously written song sheet from his pocket and handed it to her, and said, "You have seen it, if there is no problem, we can start immediately." β
"Okay, I'll take a look first. Avril took the sheet music, looked at it carefully, and began to hum rhythmically and softly, giving people a very natural and lovely feeling.
After humming it all over, she was very excited and said, "Great! It's amazing, it's great, I think it's really written for me, long, thank you." β
Chen Feng smiled and said, "As long as you like it." You can now go to the studio and try out. β
"Okay, I'll go in right and give it a try. Avril happily agreed, and some eagerly walked into the recording studio to start the audition.
And Chen Feng simply took over the work of the recording engineer this time and operated it on the console. Although Avril Lavril was a little surprised that Chen Feng directly served as her recording engineer, she didn't think too much about it, and immediately took the song sheet and started the audition of "Innocence".
The effect of the first pass is not very good, and the effect of the second pass will come out immediately, this song is really tailor-made for her, no matter the requirements of the vocal range, or the content of the lyrics, it is very suitable for her. And after Avril herself sang it twice, she really liked the song.
After the two auditions, everyone thought it was very good, so the official recording part began, and at this time, Chen Feng's production team was also called back by Richard, these people are naturally the highest level professionals under Jupiter Records. Chen Feng is naturally self-aware, and immediately gave up his job as a temporary guest recording engineer just now, went into the recording room with other accompaniment staff, and personally served as the accompaniment pianist for this song, and the main accompaniment of this song is the piano. This made Avril a little flattered.
After everyone was in place, the recording of the song "innocence" officially began.
"WakingupI color ethateverythingisok
When I opened my eyes, I found that a qiΔ was playing as scheduled
Thefirsttimeinmylifeandnowitssogreat
My life has never been so beautiful
SlowingdownIlookaroundandIamsoamazed
Slowing down and looking around, I was amazed
Ithinkaboutthelittlethingsthatmakelifegreat
I began to see the details that made life better
Iwouldntchangeathingaboutit
I'm not going to let it change
Thisisthebestfeeling
It feels flawless
Thisinnocenceisb day lliant,
This innocence is so fascinating
Ihopethatitwillstay
I hope it stays
Thismomentisperfect,
Perfect moment
Plea color dontgoaway,
Please pause
Ineedyounow
Now is the time I need you
AndIllholdontoit,
I will keep that feeling deeply
dontyouletitpassyouby
Don't let it slip away from you
Ifoundaplacesosafe,notasingletear
The space is safe and I don't have tears in my eyes anymore
Thefirsttimeinmylifeandnowitssoclear
My life has never been so clearly presented
FeelcalmIbelong,Imsohappyhere
No longer manic, start to be nostalgic, this is my paradise
ItssostrongandnowIletmy color lfbesincere
There was a strong shock, and now I made myself religious
Iwouldntchangeathingaboutit
I'm not going to let it change
Thisisthebestfeeling
It feels flawless
Thisinnocenceisb day lliant,
This innocence is so fascinating
Ihopethatitwillstay
I hope it stays
Thismomentisperfect,
Perfect moment
Plea color dontgoaway,
Please pause
Ineedyounow
Now is the time I need you
AndIllholdontoit,
I will keep that feeling deeply
dontyouletitpassyouby
Don't let it slip away from you
Itsthestateofblissyouthinkyouredreaming
The favor of fate makes you think it's a dream
Itsthehappinessinsidethatyourefeeling
And you really feel the immersion of happiness
Itssobeautifulitmakesyouwannacry
It's so beautiful that you can't help but cry
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Thisinnocenceisb day lliant,
This innocence is so splendid
itmakesyouwanttocry
It brings tears to your eyes
Thisinnocenceisb day lliance,
This innocence is so precious
Plea color dontgoaway
Please do not fade
Cau color Ineedyounow
Because now is the time I need you
AndIllholdontoit,
I will keep that feeling deeply
dontyouletitpassyouby
Don't let it slip away from you
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