Chicago 1990

"Hahahaha!"

On the 7th, Song Ya’s New York show was a little smaller than the Chicago show. Tickets were all sold out. The tickets for the tour for the first time singers were generally very affordable. They would rather make less money to keep their attendance.

In the afternoon, Song Ya lay comfortably on the sofa in the lounge watching financial programs.

Today is Pearl Harbor Memorial Day. Microsoft held its Internet strategy seminar on this day. With the market value of Netscape falling short of tens of billions, seven Internet companies successfully listed in succession, the Internet trend should be unequivocal. Here comes, the software giant seems to have a plan to make up for it. The boss of Microsoft and the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, turned to talk enthusiastically about the Internet.He said: "I think the development of the Internet in the next few years will determine the direction of the entire industry for a long time.Now I have assigned the highest level of importance to the Internet.I want to make it clear that our attention to the Internet comes first.'

But now the whole industry thinks that his response is obviously a little slow. The new operating system of the software giant is selling well and the stocks have been rising, but so what? You seem to miss the future completely.

He also said that'Netscape browser is not a great software.'This sentence further exposed the arrogance and ignorance of the established software giants about emerging companies and technologies.

Some well-informed financial guests began to learn from Netscape President Bachder and new technology hero Mark Anderson, joking with Microsoft in humorous terms, saying that their slow pace is now completely unable to keep up with the new behavior of Internet companies. Mode, from Windows 3.1 to 95 used for three years, and Netscape browser will release major updates every three months.

Even the blue giant IBM, which has always been criticized as the most bureaucratic and slowest response in technology companies, officially launched by acquiring Lotus Software and modifying Lotus Software’s Notes program into a www server program. Oracle also announced its browser plan early. .

What about Microsoft?I bought an old-fashioned, Mark Anderson university work, Mosaic browser was slightly modified and released as IE1.0, which is extremely difficult to use.

The software industry has always only ranked first. Microsoft should have a deep understanding of it.late!

The cynicism of the financial and economic guests has been going on for some time, and all of them are very nice.

After deciding to divorce, the feeling of depression that was always lingering before seems to disappear. Netscape has a market value of 10 billion. What is 3% of 10 billion?Song Ya grinned silly at the TV.

The service staff who served him were busy in this super large lounge with superstar treatment. They held their breath professionally and did their work lightly.

"Yo, APLUS."

NAS brought the administrator Newman to come. As a landlord and besties in New York, he will help as an opening guest at this concert.

"Hey, where's Daniel?"

After Song Ya and him looked behind Newman, the president of Sony Columbia Records did not show up unexpectedly. The stadium is very close to the headquarters, and he should have arrived long ago.

"The head office has a very important meeting on the issue of music piracy on the Internet." Newman replied.

"sit down."

Song Ya turned off the TV and chatted with them. The music industry is the hardest hit by piracy. The top singers like himself are now the most hurt by NAS and lower-ranked small and medium-sized singers, known as street poets. NAS has become more and more prestigious in the East Coast rap circle. It is almost one of the favorite rappers of professional music critics, but the sales of records still can't match his reputation.

For example, Common under A+ Records has a super high album music rating, but it just can’t sell records, because rap music has a tradition of selling records through “underground records”, and that channel has become more and more convenient in the past two years. The pirated CDs that burned and spread took over, bad money drove out good money, and a dime of the records distributed through underground channels could not be returned to the singers and record companies.

NAS is getting more and more angry. In New York, he was borrowed by the "bad boys" headed by Biggie and Bragging Dad [biquge.xyz] to marginalize the East-West Coast War. Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, etc. There are countless up-and-coming stars who want to get to the top through DISS, getting stuck in the middle and being splinted.

"The Jazzy under your banner is very capable of doing things," he said.

"Jazzy didn't mess with you? I said hello to Damon Dash." Song Ya also heard Linda mention that Jazzy has become more and more famous in Brooklyn recently.

That should be a natural star, as can be seen from the lyrics of the Apocalypse of Heart of Empires. Give him a little sunshine, and he can take advantage of the situation to make a big boast, such as being valued and signed by APLUS, one of the six largest Sony Columbia Records. Will release his songs, and have his own record company Roc-A-, etc., plus a prison experience, packaged himself into a street gangster, and soon pulled up a follower in Brooklyn. And power.

He also picked two or three New York rappers to start beef, stepping on each other's position all the way, and getting a relationship with Biggie. Biggie was introduced as a little brother in Brooklyn several times. I heard that Biggie was even willing to collaborate with him. song……

In short, this guy is getting more and more famous in New York. You can see him wherever he feels a little trouble, taking advantage of the heat and top-notch ability, quite a bit of a dragon.

"No."

NAS is not here to get eye drops, Jazzy's status is far from him, and he didn't dare to rub him even after being warned by himself, but he should be a little wary of Jazzy's rise, besides, he looked down on that guy before. "You know APLUS, now I am sick of the little singer who can't get rid of like chewing gum."

"Hey! Alicia, and Ms. Sloan!"

After a few words, Song Ya saw two workplace beauties appear at the entrance of the lounge, and somewhat unexpectedly laughed loudly: "Come in! We are talking about the music scene in New York."

"Really?" Alicia came in in a good mood, took off her trench coat and handed it to Linda, "Hello Linda, are you back as an assistant again? Where is Taraji?"

"No, I just came to stare at the boss's concert. Taraji was in charge of communicating with the director outside." Linda smiled and helped her hang up. "Congratulations, Mrs. Flock, oh, now I'm calling Mrs. Governor Sloan. Madam, give it to me too." She helped Sloan take off her coat again, "New York is warmer than Chicago, right?"

"Yes." Alicia graciously stretched out her hand to Newman and NAS with a formal smile on the voters, "Hello."

"Hello Governor Flock." Newman stood up and shook her hands.

NAS had no choice but to shook hands with a face full of confusion. Maybe he thought Mrs. Governor's nickname was, Newman led him away with a wink.

"You don't need to come to Alicia at this time. My work can be done after Peter's inauguration next month." Song Ya lay down and stretched out her fist.

She froze for a moment, then smiled playfully, and learned to touch a punch, "He is him and I am me. I like to do my own job, not the so-called governor's wife, women are independent, right? Sloan."

"Huh huh." Ms. Sloan stared sharply. "Are you looking for me? APLUS."

"Yes, Linda, close the door. You guys should go out first, all out." Song Ya sent the staff away, changed a more serious attitude and lowered his voice and said, "Federal Congressman Rangel is looking for me. Yes, your next task is to help him and the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation keep the operating rights of the Apollo Theater in accordance with our previous gentleman agreement with Wrangell."

"Is it so fast? I thought Giuliani would not do anything until at least his second term." Ms. Sloan asked.

"It's not Giuliani. It seems that a jazz singer was arrested for selling in the theater. The Elephant Party members of the New York City Council took the opportunity to attack. This is not the first time that they have proposed to revoke the right to operate. You know." Song Ya said: "Wangel's foundation has also been caught in other financial transactions."

After New York was replaced by the Elephant Party in power, the city government has always wanted to take back the management rights of the Apollo Theater from the Manhattan gang instead of being used to cheap leases by the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation.

Song Ya spent more than 30 million in capital in the Inner City Broadcasting Company, and was just elected as the chairman. Of course, he must desperately to maintain this most stable profit point, not to mention that he and Wrangel also involved in this matter. A series of complex interest exchanges with the party whip Underwood.

"So now the'battlefield' is mainly concentrated in the New York City Council, right?"

Ms. Sloan learned something, "It seems that the problem is not serious, we can hold it."

"Yes, uh, at least that's what Rangel said to me." Song Ya actually didn't know the specifics of the new situation during his busy schedule. "You are my political adviser, this is your job, and Let him contact."

"OK."

Sloan found out his address book and started calling work on the spot.

"What about me? What task do I have?"

Alicia glanced at Sloan with no distractions, fluffed her hair and sat across from Song Ya, "I heard Dila said that the listing of DTS was not a success? Sorry, I didn't pay too much attention to this because I was helping Peter with the election."

"It fell below the issue price on the first day, but... it doesn't matter, just raise money."

Song Ya waved her hand and joked, "I dare not ask you to help now, Mrs. Governor."

"It doesn't matter, you are a major client of my law firm and I, everything is up to order." She cocked her foot and changed to a comfortable sitting position.

Haha, this woman, "Well, it's the Inner City Broadcasting Company..."

After becoming chairman, the spin-off and spin-off of non-performing assets by the Inner City Broadcasting Company was completed by Linda, Dr. Chen, Morningstar and Alicia’s law firm. They were all boring business affairs. Xiang Chang talks.

At the same time, the Sony Building, "Uh, before the meeting continues, I want to announce a piece of news about the company and myself." Sony Electronics Beimi President Shuerhoff said solemnly to the executives on both sides of the conference table. "Due to physical reasons, I will retire on the 31st of this month and will no longer hold any management positions in the company..."

The bomb immediately detonated the conference room, all of which had gone through wind and waves. Everyone used to adjust their sitting posture to digest the news, trying their best not to show up.

Daniel put his finger on his lips and looked at Motura across the conference table. The other party was calm, calmer than himself, and completely calm.

It is no secret within the company that Shuerhoff is protected by Norio Oga, the father of CD, and the current Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei doesn't like him. It is no secret within the company. It seems that Norio Oga finally compromised with Nobuyuki Idei, or simply congratulated himself Lost?Still need to observe.

And Motula has a close relationship with Shuerkhov, and now Shuerkhov is gone, then...

Daniel carefully considered the advantages and disadvantages. In fact, Shuerhoff's departure was not good for him. After all, he finally decided to make himself the president of Sony Columbia Records, and it was he who transferred Motura to Sony Entertainment.He is faint, conceited, lacking energy, and doesn't like any changes. He is a layman in the recording industry and can almost be regarded as the'perfect boss'.

However, Sony should have changed him a long time ago, and the book has been dragged to the present, so I have to wait and see who the next successor will be!Life has to go on, Daniel comforts himself.

"As for Sony Columbia Records' response to online piracy, Daniel Glass will introduce to us..." The lengthy meeting continued, and Shuerhoff raised the agenda of the recording industry towards the end.

"Okay, the six major record companies have agreed to form a response alliance, led by Mr. Bronfman, the boss of Universal Music, and the first meeting will be..." Daniel cleared his throat and began to state.

"Hahaha! Alicia, wait you can enjoy Dile's performance. The A+ audio president is a crappy third-rate Rapper."

More and more concert-related personnel began to be in place. Song Ya’s business affairs were repeatedly interrupted by directors and others who came to report the situation and communicate details. They could only choose to talk about some political gossip, such as whether the two parties could talk about it last month. The federal government was forced to close the federal budget for five days. On the 5th of this month, it continued to thank guests behind closed doors. Negotiations between the commander and the book, and Pearl Harbor Memorial Day activities were all suspended, and I don’t know when it will be headed...

When sending Alicia and Sloan out, Song Ya made a cheerful face, "Linda, send them to the VIP box. Be careful not to let the reporter see."

"I understand." Linda led the way.

"See you APLUS." Alicia quietly made a helpless expression to Sloan's back.

Dislike light bulbs?Are you still looking for opportunities here?Wow, are you in that hurry?Song Ya couldn't help happier, "There is food in the box, please feel free to Alicia..."

Another meeting was held at Microsoft headquarters, and the atmosphere was very depressing. Bill Gates chaired him. He was reading to a document: "First, while browsing the Internet, I can hardly find a file format that Microsoft can support. I have used it for more than ten hours, but I have not seen a single Word document, AVI file, EXE or file format that we can support. I have seen a large number of Quicktime files, and all movie studios use them to provide movie trailers , That belongs to Apple. Second, the other popular file format is PDF, and even the US Internal Revenue Service also provides tax forms in PDF format. At present, HTML has some limitations, so PDF is a standardized alternative For the solution, Adobe is investing heavily in this technology. Quicktime and PDF are very popular on the Internet because they are cross-platform and readers can get it for free."

Now he is not the image of the next-door technical house when he introduced his product. He put down the file with a gloomy face, "This is the content of the internal mail "Internet tide" I sent in May. It is now the end of the year. We are online. The situation still hasn't changed! My article at the time also wrote:'A competitor on the Internet is Netscape, and their browser is dominant and has a 70% share.' And now! Their share is 100%. Eighty-five, or even higher! We are being laughed at by everyone."

The other people in the conference room were silent. At this time, only Ballmer dared to pick up. "Now we see that every online service can add additional value to the Internet. We need to make its overall value more prominent to attract users to overcome Cost considerations, really join in, let the Internet reach the critical value of explosive growth. Before, we were a little conservative in judging the point of time when this critical value was reached, but now it is not too late. We have caught up and surpassed more than once in commercial competition. Overcoming opponents, this time is not a problem."

"Internet services are very cheap, or even free." Someone answered: "The regular version of Netscape browser is distributed as shareware, and it can be used normally even if users don't pay. The profit prospects of this industry are still unclear..."

"The sales situation of their server software in the enterprise intranet is very good. A set of authorization is about more than one thousand meters. It is used with SUN servers and operating systems. They are negotiating deployment contracts with many large companies such as AOL and GE. We will never It's really too late to do something." Ballmer shook his head.

"APLUS! APLUS! APLUS!"

As night came, the stage lights were shining, and the audience was all seated. They were basically young people. They took the time to entertain themselves, queue crowds, and chant slogans. Some fans of the fan club also prepared Song The light stick of the sub-endorsement waved, "You Want to Want Me!" The female fans cried excitedly.

'Boom!'Fireworks suddenly exploded over the stage, and the screams of the audience reached a high point.

"3, 2, 1! Gogogo!" The director began to urge in his ears. Song Ya took a deep breath and fisted one by one with the staff guarding the side of the stage like basketball players before they went on the court, and then rushed out.

"Ah! Ah! I'm here for APLUS!" The girls in the "Standing Ticket" area right in front of the stage began to be crazy.

"Hello, New York." He tugged into the microphone with his bass.

NAS wore sunglasses and followed Al and the others on stage. He played fluently, "Yo, ladies and gentlemen, today is my brother APLUS’s first large-scale concert in New York. You want to hear the first song." What is he singing!?" He pointed the microphone down the stage.

The audience shouted in a mess.

"Huh!? Loud!" NAS shouted: "A little bit bigger!"

"Empire State Of Mind!" The audience finally agreed and shouted in unison. It seems that New Yorkers still like this song the most.

"Okay, here is Remember The Name! Thank you!" NAS gestured to the band, and the accompaniment sounded.

The brothers began to sing lively on the stage, and the stage was overwhelming.

"My vision is! Platform-based business, that is, to ensure that the Windows system is the best choice for Internet users. This is our moat. The application and content departments must figure out how to make money from your services."

The Microsoft conference is still going on, Gates said: "We still have considerable advantages in the future. This is based on the huge user groups of Windows and Office. Internet-style adjustments are also opportunities. I plan to introduce IE2.0 next year. Integrate with the operating system and provide it to users for free..."

"Uh, in this case, will there be legal risks involved in bundling sales?" Someone hesitated to raise a hand to comment, "At present, the voice of antitrust in various industries is very high."

"We will prepare a total of $2 billion in capital expenditures for the alliance that defeats our competitors."

Gates ignored the person. "After Netscape rejected our kindness in June, we should start to act decisively. The lost half a year is my responsibility, but from now on, I want everyone to use their full power, and I don’t allow it. Failure! The user experience of IE2.0 must be greatly improved to grab as much market share as possible from the Netscape browser!"

"Next year's Window NT4.0 must provide the same user experience as SUN!"

"Our alliance with Inter will encourage DEC, HP and others to continue to challenge SUN's minicomputer and workstation market."

"Our IIS (Internet Server Component) will target Netscape's enterprise server software."

"We use VBScript language to benchmark their JavaScript!"

The dull meeting has been going on all the time. On the other side of the concert, Song Ya looked up and glanced at the stunt actress who had been suspended above the stage, knowing that it would be his turn to perform the song Earned It, almost exactly the whole time. Halfway through the concert.

A little tired, his face started to sweat, he expertly took advantage of the chaos of the last song and dance group leaving the stage and the seven female dancers holding stools on stage, while waving to the intoxicated audience, he walked to On the side of the stage, he stretched out his hand to make a signal.

Taraji took the water and handed it over. He bit the straw and took a few mouthfuls. No matter how thirsty he was, he couldn't drink too much, otherwise it would affect the dancing state behind him.

When someone hit his back, he frowned and looked at the young white man in the dance group.

The rookie perpetrator may be too nervous to notice at all, and ran over after the dancers who came off the stage without looking back.

"Yeah." He returned the cup to Taraji, then put on a towel and wiped off his sweat.

When the music sounded, the female dancers' amazing body made the male audience cry out, whistles and whistles. Hey, they are much more conservative today than in the MV. Wait until Earned It’s MV is included with the new music video. When it’s released, don’t you hurry to buy it home and collect it?

Song Yamei thought, raising the microphone and singing, "You make it look like it's magic......" Huh? Why does the ear-back seem to be a problem and I can't hear it.

The stage is very big, the sound is loud, the singer is not easy to hear the rhythm on stage, or the rhythm is slower than the actual one, this is not good, he touched his back waist, as if the ear back and the wireless transmitter connector were The bump fell off just now, so don't worry, don't worry now, he sings while trying to sort it out.

"Fxxk!" Singing and doing it, and it was not good after almost a minute. Song Ya observed that the front row audience seemed not enthusiastic enough, and the facial expressions were a little subtle. Did you sing it wrong?Or is the tempo slower?I can’t hear the director’s reminder without any sound!

The sweat on his forehead became more joyous, and he took a chance to look back at the band. The fiddler was trying desperately to wink at himself, really slowing down...

Earned It has a lot of its own harmony accompaniment. Once something goes wrong, it is easy to challenge yourself with your own voice, and the live effect will be very ugly.

He finally got the plug of the ear back, and went to explore the connector on the wireless transmitter.

This time even the female dancer who was dancing was winking.

Damn it!He quickly turned his head, the stunt actress was slowly hanging from the top of his head. At this time, there should have been some ambiguous movements of shaking and caressing, but both hands could not be free. He simply walked behind the actress and planned to borrow her. Cover your body and concentrate on getting your ears back.

Okay, forget the words...

With a bag full, he hummed and fooled with the live accompaniment wisely, and finally plugged his ears back in.

The director was shouting angrily on the other side, "This is the scene of a car accident!'

"We have to compete with our opponents in each, no matter what product direction we are good at or not, even if our user experience cannot be exceeded for a while, we can force them to make mistakes!"

Gates said: "We have backgrounds that they are totally unattainable. Our management team is the best in the world today! I heard that Jim Clark is now spending most of his energy on building new yachts? Bacchus and Mark Anderson are very close to each other. I went to accept media interviews and spent a lot of time laughing at us!? They are a group of lucky rookies, absolutely! They have no experience in managing companies with a market value of 10 billion!"

"I know I know." Song Ya walked off the stage with a sullen face, to stop Taraji and the director from chattering, "There is no time to review now. Please check the equipment again. What about the new dancer? Fired him at the end of the New York game!"

"That guy is gone." The dance group ran over and shouted, "What should we do if we lose one person in the next dance?"

"Huh?" Song Ya sharpened his eyes and smelled a bad breath.

"Get on the bench." The director pushed him to the stage in a desperate mood. "There is no time to worry about this for now."

Fortunately, the following performances went smoothly. It was just a car accident. Both the passers-by, the audience and the fans would understand. They are not those critical music critics, "Encore! Encore!" They shouted reluctantly, "Empire State Of" Mind!"

New Yorkers are really obsessed with this song, but Mariah Carey can't sing it alone without coming, and even after a divorce...

"No, no," Song Ya smiled and picked up the microphone. "It's still the old rules, Say Goodbye!"

"Uh……"

The Microsoft meeting finally ended. Ballmer scratched his head and left one of his subordinates in the meeting room. "How do you say, Bill's personality is always a bit idealistic, I think we need to use more cruel methods of competition. You , Go to greet AOL and other Internet service providers privately and ask them if they can change the user access page from Netscape browser to IE next year."

"This is a bit dangerous, isn't it? Unfair competition..." The subordinates hesitated, "They will definitely take the opportunity to speak loudly."

"Tell them that Microsoft is willing to pay any price for beating Netscape!" Ballmer said firmly.

"Daniel."

The Sony meeting ended early. The executives gathered together to discuss a farewell dinner for Shuerhof. Motula came over and told him, "Mr. Idei wants to see you."

"Is he there?" Daniel was a little surprised. He didn't see the Sony CEO in one day's meeting.

"Yeah." Motura led the way silently.

"Mr. Glass."

Nobuyuki Idei maintained the usual politeness of his book, and bowed politely after meeting, "I'm sorry to inform you that we intend to re-appoint Tommy as president of Columbia Records."

Daniel was stunned. "You... are you doing this too... too childish?"

"Maybe, but we have decided that we will give you a decent way to leave. If you plan to concentrate on managing your own record company, we will support it, just like everyone else." Nobuyuki Idei said.

"Tommy...Motura!" Daniel looked at Motura fiercely, gritted his teeth and said his name word by word, "You villain, you think it's good for you to return to Sony Columbia Records now. Opportunity? Just so confident? You will be out of luck!"

"Don't get me wrong."

Motura shrugged and pretended to be innocent, "I am a bad luck like you, and I lost my position as the president of Sony Entertainment because of that damn money train."

"Many singers under Sony Columbia Records don't like him." Daniel looked at Nobuyuki Idei again.

"We know, but... anyway, we have already decided. I'm really sorry!" Nobuyuki Idei bowed again, and then stretched out his hand, "Don't be frustrated Daniel, we won't be more accountable for some of your behavior during your tenure, that's it, okay ?"

"Damn it, that newcomer seems to have really run away!?"

The backstage was messy, and the dance group and the staff ran around looking for people under the urging of the director.Song Ya ignored the matter and walked into the lounge without saying a word. He took off his sweat-soaked performance costume and threw it on the ground. There were already many subordinates waiting inside, "I asked him to find his residence. "Linda reports.

"Yeah, but even if you find him, don't use any coercive means to be careful to fall into the trap and harm my defendant."

Song Ya felt that this was a trap, and he didn't know who wanted to make him blatantly embarrassed. It was naive!Just a car accident, can it ruin me or something?Ok?Isn't it the wife who did it?

"APLUS, you have been summoned by Congress..."

Ms. Sloan walked in with an envelope, "It's the Federal House of Representatives hearing on the Telecommunications Bill. As the chairman of the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, you were summoned to attend in January next year, that is, next month. Then you will be better. ."

"What the hell? Can I not go?"

What a coincidence?Song Ya took the envelope, and now he doesn't want to participate in any broken hearing, a field that is completely unfamiliar.

"Yes, but don’t. If the hearing committee has the power to issue subpoenas, you will still have to go there and be obliged to provide the necessary documents. But don’t worry, it’s a very ordinary hearing procedure. The telecommunications bill hearing involves There are many people from all walks of life. Contact your friends in the House of Representatives and ask them to take care of you. Maybe they are the ones who came up with the idea to help endorse the telecommunications bill on behalf of the African-American small and medium-sized media." Sloan laughed. : "It's a good thing."