On Saturday night, Jiang Kan went to the tavern and performed "Chengdu" and "People Like Me" for Boss Liu and the guests. The guests and guests had a great time without talking.
On Monday, as soon as Jiang Kan stepped into the composition department's office, he felt a low pressure hovering here.
Colleagues who usually chattered from morning to night said nothing at this time, and each quietly hid in his or her work station and pretended to be dead.
Even Yu Xiaoyao, who usually greeted him warmly when he saw him, just secretly raised his hand and said "hi" to him silently.
"what's the situation?"
Jiang Kan also moved gently, carefully placed his backpack on the table, then turned his head and asked her.
"Who made Director Yang unhappy? Or is there some bad news about our composition department?"
"Hey, that's not it..."
Yu Xiaoyao lowered her voice and was about to speak when she heard a shout of obviously suppressed anger coming from the supervisor's private office:
"Everyone, put your work aside and come to my place for a meeting!"
"Yeah, that's probably what I'm talking about."
Yu Xiaoyao stuck out her tongue and did not continue speaking. Instead, she turned off the monitor, got up and walked towards the supervisor's office.
"..."
Jiang Kan didn't ask any more questions and followed him.
Eight colleagues from the composition department, including Deng Gang, who had been silent in the corner, all entered the spacious office of Director Yang.
Everyone was sitting or standing, waiting for Manager Yang, who seemed to be in a bad mood, to announce or inform them of some news.
"Everyone, I think you all still remember the anime theme song for "City in the Clouds" that Fuso Kingdom's Beiying Animation invited us to do two weeks ago, right?"
Director Yang did not sit, but stood with his back against the large desk, facing everyone.
"Remember, didn't each of us try to compose a song and send it to them, and then they finally chose Sister Chang's song?"
A middle-aged colleague with a mustache and curly hair asked in surprise.
"That's right, we sent it to them at that time, and they didn't raise any objections. I thought it was done."
"But this morning, my colleagues from the company's business department came to me and said that they had returned this piece of music, saying...'the arrangement of the melody is too oriental'?"
Manager Yang slammed the table, obviously very angry!
"It's been two weeks, and there has been no feedback for two weeks, and then they suddenly said no, and gave such a far-fetched reason... Aren't they from the East? Their sunrise is an hour earlier than ours! But they said that our music is too 'Oriental' Hua'! This is really unreasonable!"
"What? It's like this?"
"Is there any mistake? We said we wanted to see the film before we started writing, but they refused to let us see it because the plot was confidential!"
"That's right. I didn't have any reference, so I had to write according to their requirements at the time. After writing it out, I submitted it for so long before I said it was inappropriate!"
…
For a moment, everyone in the room was furious.
"Sigh... The company attaches great importance to this cooperation and wants to take advantage of this opportunity to open up the market of Fuso Country and leverage the market dominance of Xinghai..."
Lao Yang pinched his eyebrows and tried his best to calm his emotions.
"The composition department of our Chengdu branch received this order because the company values us. Don't force the headquarters to take away the order and give it to someone from the headquarters or the Yangcheng branch!"
Lao Yang's words made everyone feel angry and unable to vent their anger, but it had to be said that the other party's requirements were really too harsh.
Eight colleagues in the composition department worked hard from dawn to dusk for half a month, and each of them came up with a perfect piece of music.
Moreover, since I have never seen the finished film, everyone’s style is as different as possible, in order to give the other party more angles to choose from.
Unexpectedly, more than two weeks after handing it in, it was still returned.
Everyone's faces were dull.
"Xiaoyao, tell me, what kind of animation is this "City in the Clouds"? What is the situation there?"
Jiang Kan and Yu Xiaoyao stood close, so he quietly turned his head and asked in Yu Xiaoyao's ear.
"It's like this. An animation master from Fuso Country spent two years working with his team to produce an animated movie with this name."
"This master is famous for his huge imagination, twists and turns, and sincere and touching plots. He has many fans all over the world."
"As for this animation, they originally wanted to find a music master in their country to produce the soundtrack, but unfortunately the master had too many lists on hand and was really busy, and he was unwilling to put such a large-scale animation into production. The film’s soundtrack was perfunctory, so I had to reluctantly turn them down.”
"So, they found our company. It just so happened that our Rongcheng branch had many experiences in producing soundtracks for animations, so the superiors also assigned us."
"I just didn't expect them to be so picky and demanding. We have sent eight pieces of music to them, but they are still not satisfied..."
Yu Xiaoyao leaned against Jiang Kan's ear and whispered to him what happened.
Jiang Kan opened his mouth in surprise, but didn't know what to say.
There are already a group of top songwriters from Xia Kingdom gathered here, but they can't meet each other's requirements?
"Aren't we... don't we have any composers at the level of Qudad?"
He asked Yu Xiaoyao curiously.
After all, no matter how picky the customer is, they won’t leave the second-ranked music company in the country helpless, right?
Where are people? Where's Dad Qu? What have you been doing?
"Oh, originally there was. There were three Qu dads before, but weren't they all poached by Xinghai? It was also for this reason that Lao Yang was demoted from minister to supervisor. He has been waiting for his meritorious service to be reinstated... …”
Zheng Yupeng heard their discussion and intervened.
"Oh, I see……"
Jiang Kan understood and nodded thoughtfully.
The feeling is that the talents here have been robbed by the biggest competitors, causing the talents to wither.
No wonder people here gnashed their teeth when they mentioned Xinghai.
But as for whether I hate them for poaching my father Qu, which greatly reduced the competitiveness of the department, or I hate them for not poaching me when they poached people...
This is a matter of opinion.
"You guys, stop whispering there!"
Manager Yang saw the three people whispering and interrupted their communication.
"If you have any ideas, go back and think about it! Our branch must handle this matter, and we must not let it be robbed by those guys from the headquarters and Yangcheng. I, Lao Yang, cannot afford to lose this person!"
"There's still a week left. Let's think about it again. I'll send you some new plot introductions they sent later. These guys, Souchousou, won't send out more detailed explanations anymore, and they don't care. The difficulty for us songwriters...the meeting is dismissed!”
Manager Yang slammed the table again and announced that the meeting was adjourned.
Everyone left the office in twos and threes and returned to their seats.
