"It's alright." Xu Yanyu felt that compared to her thousands of songs in her previous life, her small music library was really not enough.
The recording studio owner smacked his lips, his eyes filled with admiration as he looked at Xu Yanyu.
Looking at the way Xu Yanyu categorizes her folder, all the songs in it are classics.
Xu Yanyu scrolled through the mouse for a long time before finally finding it.
Director Zeng's head was almost touching the computer screen when he saw the song Xu Yanyu had opened.
He couldn't help but read aloud, "The song is called 'Walking the Road of Life'! It's a great title."
Xu Yanyu answered affirmatively, "Yes. I think this song is even better than the one you just played. I'll play the instrumental version first, and you can see if you can use it."
The Cantonese song that Director Zeng just played is also a song about striving and being positive, but to be honest, she felt it was just so-so and didn't have that sense of nostalgia.
The recording studio owner nodded repeatedly and urged, "Play it quickly, play it quickly."
Xu Yanyu clicked on the mouse, and exciting and dynamic music flowed out.
"This background music seems a bit more dynamic, so it would be perfect for the end credits."
The recording studio owner tapped his feet to the beat, swaying his body along with the rhythm.
After listening for a short while, he said, "It's quite interesting."
"It looks good so far, and the lyrics are uplifting. It's much better than Yamamoto Matsuki's songs."
Director Zeng nodded in agreement, resting his chin on his hand.
Soon after the accompaniment finished playing, Director Zeng's face immediately broke into a bright smile.
The recording studio owner immediately decided, "This song has a really 70s or 80s feel to it, you should choose it right away."
Director Zeng nodded repeatedly, wondering why he hadn't met Yan Yu sooner.
He even gave Yamamoto Matsuki so much money.
Now that there are better songs to compare it to, Director Zeng feels a little heartbroken about the money he had previously spent.
It's just that there's only instrumental music and no singer, so it's a bit lacking.
Director Zeng looked up from the computer screen. "Yan Yu, could you sing it for us? Give us a demonstration?"
The recording studio owner chimed in, "Yes, why don't you give it a try?"
Xu Yanyu smiled and agreed; she was extremely happy to do so.
The fact that she was able to produce this song means she must have already planned to sell it to Director Zeng.
Director Zeng is a very generous person; he has already given her a lot of money for the song "The Ordinary Road".
If she sells another song, "The Road of Life," she'll have more budget to buy a car.
Xu Yanyu turned the accompaniment back on, took a deep breath, and was about to start singing.
Just then, a commotion arose at the door.
A young man called out in a loud voice, "Boss, the equipment has arrived! Where should we put it?"
"Wow, this equipment arrived pretty quickly. Of all times, it had to come now. It's only been less than half an hour."
The owner of the recording shop knew what was going on as soon as he heard the sound, and said unhappily.
He was really looking forward to Yan Yu singing.
The accompaniment and sheet music for "Walking the Road of Life" are quite good, and with Yan Yu's top-notch singing skills, it's bound to sound great.
"How about I tell them to wait a bit, Yan Yu, you sing first? I'll have them move the equipment later?"
The recording shop owner said, unwilling to give up.
"What are you thinking? My movie is important too." Director Zeng punched his brother.
Although Director Zeng is also quite eager to hear Xu Yanyu sing, once the equipment arrives, his movie theme song is still more important.
He turned to his good friend and said, "Let's go check out your equipment first. I want to see just how good the equipment you've been hyping up is."
"Alright! Yan Yu, you wait here. I won't let them in. Old Zeng, you come with me to work."
The recording shop owner gave Xu Yanyu some instructions, then pulled Director Zeng toward the door.
When the two left, he made sure to close the small door behind him.
Xu Yanyu watched them leave and then sat alone in a chair, waiting.
She took this opportunity to familiarize herself with the song "Walking the Road of Life".
She first recalled the Teresa Teng version of the song from her previous life, and then hummed it softly while looking at the sheet music.
She practiced diligently, and the owner of the recording shop outside also worked diligently.
He raised his hand to direct the workers, "Move to the empty house on the left first."
"Boss, you're really lucky. When I went to pick up the goods, that foreigner was about to sell the equipment to someone else."
"Luckily I arrived in time and gave that foreigner a piece of my mind. There's a first-come, first-served principle in business, right? We were still negotiating with him when he tried to give the goods to someone else."
“We didn’t say we absolutely had to cut the price down; we just said we’d go for whatever we could.”
“You have no idea, I’ve seen him loading equipment for other people before. I had to give them a good talking to before they agreed to let us have the equipment first.”
The young man started talking non-stop as soon as he saw his boss.
"We'll talk about it later. First, help me move my things to the empty house. Once you're done, you can leave. I'm giving you the day off today."
The owner of the recording shop wasn't in the mood to complain to his employees today.
All he can think about right now is hearing Xu Yanyu sing "The Road of Life".
The young man's eyes lit up when he heard about the holiday.
He didn't even need his boss to urge him; he would rush and jump to finish the task as quickly as possible.
The group quickly got the equipment set up.
Xu Yanyu also practiced the piece several times.
Just as she turned on the accompaniment again, the small door was pushed open.
"Yan Yu, let's go! Let's change rooms to record."
Director Zeng stood at the door and waved to Xu Yanyu.
"Okay!" Xu Yanyu grabbed her phone and bag and followed Director Zeng.
Director Zeng then said, "Yan Yu, I also want this song of yours. However, the price I'm offering can only be a little more than the original version by Yamamoto Matsuki."
"Sigh, I know the songs you have are all pretty good. But I also have a budget, so I can only give you 950,000 for this song," Director Zeng said somewhat embarrassedly.
He spent 500,000 on the theme song, but since the song wasn't premiering on his movie, he spent less money on it.
However, once he bought the song "The Road of Life," he had full copyright.
He only released a slightly larger version than Yamamoto Matsuki's version of such a good song; he was genuinely a little embarrassed.
But this was an unexpected expense; every movie has a budget.
Xu Yanyu was overjoyed to hear this.
She originally thought she'd be lucky to sell it for 700,000.
Unexpectedly, Director Zeng was generous and gave 950,000 yuan directly.
Seeing that Xu Yanyu didn't speak, Director Zeng said anxiously, "Yanyu, don't think I'm deliberately giving you less. My price is actually already very high."
“I agree, I know,” Xu Yanyu quickly replied.
Copyright is a very unpredictable thing; it depends on the composer's reputation and the quality of the work.
She remembered a composer in her past life who sold one of his songs to a singer for a mere five thousand dollars.
That song became a hit everywhere, and the singer made a hundred million from just over five thousand yuan.
Therefore, copyright is really difficult to define.
The price offered by Director Zeng was actually quite high.
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