Chapter 682 I Am Forced

When the little girl heard Christina's words, she said with regretful surprise: "Goodbye, what's the matter?"

Christina glanced at Eric and said, "The Mickey Mouse Club has disbanded, and my mother is going to take me back to Pennsylvania for high school."

"Oh, it's such a pity," the little girl hugged Christina again, let go of the girl and pulled the other's little hand: "You can come and play with me anytime when you come to Los Angeles, um, it's too late now, I Let Natasha take you home."

Christina was immediately stunned. She had been standing guard in front of Xiao Nizi's house for several days. She finally saw the girl. She didn't say a word she really wanted to say, so she just ordered the expulsion. Seeing that one of the identical twins heard Drew's words and took the initiative to open the car door, Christina was even more at a loss, her eyes swept around in a panic, and she looked at Eric pitifully.

Since the merger, Firefly has been making adjustments to its TV business, but for trivial matters such as some low-rating TV programs being cut off, unless Eric specifically requests, the relevant documents are often sent to his assistant's office. It is classified and archived. After all, dozens of new programs are eliminated every year in the TV business system under Firefly. If it wasn't for seeing Christina suddenly, Eric wouldn't care about these things.

Seeing the girl who was about to be rudely driven away by Xiao Nizi looked pitifully over, Eric shook his head helplessly. The girl would do this. Although it seemed a little inhumane, Eric also knew that she was To protect yourself. However, Eric didn't think that some things needed to be overly cautious. He reached out and knocked on the door of Ya's head lightly, and said with a smile, "Stop joking, let Christine stay and have dinner together."

"Wow, okay okay," the girl rubbed her forehead and pouted in dissatisfaction, got into the car on her own, and told the twins to open the door and drive in the car.

Eric didn't get in the car again, and waved to Christina, who was a little overwhelmed. Walked into the mansion with the girl.

After the Jackson child molestation case broke out two years ago, Christina felt that Drew's attitude towards them suddenly turned cold. Before that, Drew would often invite them to his home to play. Occasionally took them to some interesting parties, but after that incident, all of this suddenly disappeared, Drew never contacted them again, and Christina occasionally took Britney to the door. Drew's attitude towards them was no longer so warm, and as for Eric, who Christina had always wanted to see, she never saw him again after that.

Christina had no longer expected to maintain Drew's network, but the sudden dissolution of the Mickey Mouse Club forced her to come to the door and hope to get some help from Drew. Drew's whereabouts are very erratic. , Christina has been guarding Drew's mansion in Trousdale Manor for more than a week in a row. Fortunately, she finally waited, and... luckily, she even met Eric.

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Following Eric's side, Yu Guang glanced at the figure of the man beside him. Christina didn't know what to say, so she carefully looked at the scenery of this mansion that she hadn't set foot in for a long time, and couldn't help but imagine once again that she would have such a house.

"Want to stay in Los Angeles?"

The figure that suddenly sounded startled Christina, but she quickly calmed down, looked up at Eric with a small face, and nodded honestly: "Well, I... I don't want to go back to Pennsylvania to study high school, I like Sing."

Eric looked at the hopeful little face and said, "But you are too young. You are not yet fifteen years old. Right?"

There was a hint of sadness in Christina's eyes, she also knew that age was the biggest limitation she encountered now, but the girl still struggled to differentiate: "Mr. Williams, I can sing Mariah Carey's "-of" -". At that time they said I sang as well as her."

Although Eric had never heard of "-of-", he knew that Mariah Carey was known for her difficult dolphin sound, but he knew better that there were still some talented little girls who could sing as well as Mary. A. Kelly.

"Christian, it's useless to sing well, you're underage now. There's no record company that will sign you."

Christina's expression suddenly darkened, and she couldn't help thinking that if the Mickey Mouse Club could last for two years, it would be easier to get some record company contracts when she turned sixteen. Turning her head to look at Eric, Christina didn't speak her mind, and she clearly said it was useless.

The two walked to the door of the villa. Eric pushed the door open and let the girl in. The twins were already busy in the kitchen. The little girl's coat was hanging on the hanger. It seemed that she had gone to the shower.

Eric took a box of juice from the refrigerator and handed it to Christina, who was sitting on the sand, and asked, "Justin, Britney, are they still in Los Angeles?"

Christina shook her head: "I don't know,

The boys and girls in the Mickey Mouse Club have always been two distinct groups, and the relationship between the girls is actually not that good. After the show stopped recording, there was no connection between everyone. `

Eric sat down on the sand and hummed when he heard the words, but he thought about the current matter in his heart.

Although the European and American music scene has always shown a state of blooming flowers, each period has its type focus. From the mid-1990s to the beginning of the new century, the most eye-catching type of music in the European and American music industry is teen- (teenagers). Popular), the main representatives of which are the famous Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, Christina in front of her is also taking the teen-line in the early stage of her career, and Justin Timberlake first joined the first-class boy group as well. teen-.

At present, Firefly Group has just completed the integration of its music resources to form Firefly Records.

However, with the advent of the Internet era, the decline of the record industry caused by the spread of online music is just around the corner, and Firefly Records is destined to never reach the heights that Warner Records, Universal Records and Columbia Records once had. It is obviously not worth the loss for the record industry giant to spend a lot of resources to get involved in each music field. The best way out should be to use most of the resources to focus on the packaging and training of a certain type of singer.

And in the last decade of the recording industry, the most popular genre of music will undoubtedly be teen-.

For as long as I can remember, Disney's record business has been stagnant. Britney, Christina, Justin Timberlake and even later Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and others who debuted from the Disney Channel have been rejected by several other majors. The group's record company solicitation is undoubtedly a big loss for Disney, after all, the reason why these people can quickly become famous. Inseparable from the cultivation on the Disney Channel.

Christina saw Eric who was in deep thought, so she didn't dare to interrupt and took a sip of the juice in her hand.

After a while, Eric raised his head and said to Christina, "That's it, Christine. You're staying in Los Angeles recently, and someone will contact you when that happens."

Christina looked at Eric in surprise: "Mr. Williams, you mean, can I... can continue to sing?"

Eric nodded with a smile: "Of course, but you must have been unable to make records in recent years. I will let people arrange some opportunities for you to appear in movies or TV dramas to maintain your popularity."

In English, 'you' and 'you' are the same word. Of course, Christina couldn't hear that Eric was using the plural. She thought it was all a favor given to her by Eric, and the girl sipped happily. He pursed his lips and looked up carefully. He mustered up his courage and stood up beside Eric, and whispered with a blushing face: "Mr. Williams, I... I can stay tonight, just call my mother and say I'm staying here with Drew for the night. All right."

Eric raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "What are you going to do here?"

Christina's face was even more rosy, but she plucked up the courage to look at Eric boldly and said, "I will do whatever you ask me to do."

Eric smiled and stretched out his hand and pinched the girl's face, and said, "Don't think about it, I'm not interested in a little guy like you."

Christina shrank subconsciously. Said: "You lied, you obviously like it very much."

"Oh?"

"You, when you were with Drew, she was younger than me."

Eric lifted his chin behind Christina. He smiled and said, "You are mistaken, I was forced to do it at that time."

Christina blinked suspiciously, realized something, and turned her head quickly, just to see the little girl in a bathrobe looking at her with a smile.

After dinner, Eric ordered Natasha to drive Christina back.

Watching the car open the door of the mansion. The little girl standing beside Eric took a few boxes of song demo tapes that Christina had stuffed Eric with before leaving, and said, "Eric, you have to be careful. Chandler The family extorted more than ten thousand dollars from Jackson, and now the family lives in a mansion in Manhattan, New York, and they don't have to work for the rest of their lives. I think if someone blackmails you once, it is estimated that the next generations will have nothing to worry about. "

"My money is so easy to extort. Besides, there are so many things like this in the circle, and there are a few people who have stabbed them. Jackson has been the only one who has been harassed in recent years, and he was wronged," Ai Rui said. Ke smiled, but there was irony in his expression.

Christina originally wanted Drew to help deliver some of the song samples she recorded to some record company executives. After getting a promise from Eric, the girl left a few cassettes behind before leaving.

Back in the villa, Eric shoved a cassette into the player, and Christina's "fu" cover with explosive voice came out immediately, compared to the original version in memory and the version of the Victoria's Secret show , the girl's singing is even more shocking.

The little girl put her arms around a pillow and moved beside Eric, who started beating on the laptop, and said, "Christine sings really well, but I think it's hard for her to find her own position. She compares Fits the line of a soprano diva like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, but she's too short, hehe."

The little girl was obviously just talking casually, but she just hit the spot.

In my memory, Christina really never found a suitable music exhibition route for her. She started with the teen-route. Although the sales of her first album exceeded 10 million copies, with the strong rise of Britney, Christina continued After throwing a few teen-s, I had to try to transform, and I never found a suitable position for this turn.

However, right now, Eric pointed to the song of "fu" coming out of the player, and said, "Isn't this Kristin's music route?"

Eric has decided to let Britney and Christina go to the original teen-route, but, compared to Britney's sweetheart-like girl next door image, Christina can go a little rebellious in order to distinguish herself from Britney. Some of the solo girl images. Since there can be a lot of boy groups emerging from the corners of the street at the same time in the original time and space, as long as the positioning is differentiated, it will certainly be no problem to accommodate two teen-day queens with different styles at the same time.

It took a few hours to sort out the information and thoughts about teen- in my memory and put it into the work mailbox of the assistant's office, and told Kelly to add the topic to tomorrow's regular meeting. Eric turned off the laptop and picked it up beside him. The little girl who was already asleep went to rest.

At the high-level meeting on the second day, after discussing in detail the topic of gradually reducing the scale of Firefly film production in the next few years, Eric raised a question about the direction of the Firefly Records Exhibition. Music resources from the original and Disney After the integration, Firefly Records is in the critical period of the exhibition. Eric took advantage of the Victoria's Secret show to release several songs and achieved amazing success, which made it easy for the management to accept that Eric took full advantage of Firefly's own advantages to take the lead. Pack a batch of teen-singers as suggested.

The meeting finally settled on two plans that were crucial to the future of Firefly Records. One was to recall the little guys from the Mickey Mouse Club to assess their potential, and the other was to send a proposal to an obscure subsidiary of Sony Records. The record company made a buyout offer. Strictly speaking, the record company can only be regarded as a subsidiary of the subsidiary of Sony BMG Records. In the huge Sony record system, it seems very inconspicuous at this time, but Eric knows that in the next ten years, the most popular A bunch of teen-singer groups The Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and more came out, not that there's any magic, but because the label's management team is so good at packaging idols The singer, even the company's slogan that he put forward in private is 'to carry the idol to the end'. (To be continued.)

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