Once the songs have been selected, recording of the album begins.
He plans to record eleven songs in the UK, and then go to the United States to collaborate with Mariah Carey on "We Belong Together".
After watching this song, Mariah Carey expressed that she was very satisfied and looked forward to Xiang Nan going to the United States as soon as possible to cooperate.
While Xiang Nan was recording the album, he received an unexpected phone call.
It turned out to be a call from Rosamund Pike, who he had collaborated with on a music video before, asking if he was interested in auditioning for the movie "Hustlers".
This film is a historical film co-produced by the United Kingdom and Australia. It tells the story of the infamous and absurd life of the Oxford prodigy Earl of Rochester, who lived in the corrupt Bourbon dynasty of England in the 17th century.
The film's lead role has been set to be played by Johnny Depp, with Rosamund playing the second supporting actress.
After she passed the audition, she learned that there was still a lack of a male actor to play the friend of the Earl of Rochester.
She thought Xiang Nan's acting skills were very good and he was famous enough, so she recommended Xiang Nan to the director.
Xiang Nan was very surprised to receive this call.
Because he and Rosamond only collaborated once, which was to shoot the MV for "Cry Me a River". During the filming of the MV, he was always polite and did not flirt or flirt, so there was no spark of romance.
Moreover, after the filming, he did not contact Rosamond again, so he never expected that she would call him, which made him feel flattered for a moment.
"Okay, thank you, Rosa, I will go." Xiang Nan smiled.
Although he is very busy recording an album now, in order to live up to Rosamond's kindness, Xiang Nan still decided to audition for "The Libertine".
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Xiang Nan then went to the set of "The Libertine" and auditioned for his role.
That is a supporting role such as the third male or fourth male, and there are not many scenes.
After the test, Xiang Nan went back directly and did not pay attention to this matter again.
To him, this was just an episode.
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In early October, Xiang Nan finally finished recording eleven songs.
During this period, the crew of "The Libertine" notified Xiang Nan that he had passed the audition for "The Libertine".
The crew hopes that he will spare two months from March to May next year to participate in the film.
Regarding this, Xiang Nan couldn't help but be a little surprised. He didn't expect that he was so lucky that he actually got selected.
He finally agreed to the crew's invitation and then went to the United States to record "we belong together" with Mariah Carey.
"Miss Kelly, it's really an honor to be able to cooperate with you." Xiang Nan said with a smile.
"Me too, I know you are talented, but you still amaze me." Mariah Carey also smiled.
She has listened to Xiang Nan's four songs, and they are all very well polished in terms of rhythm, melody, lyrics, singing, and even dance. It's no wonder that he has already become a famous star in just half a year since his debut. It is indeed not easy.
Moreover, the most important thing is that the songwriters of these songs are Xiang Nan himself, which is even more rare.
Because there have always been many "pseudo-singer-songwriters" in the music scene.
Since people favor talented people, if a singer can write lyrics and compose music, people will take a high look.
So many singers will ask for signature rights. After they buy the song from the songwriter, they will write a harmony to it.
In this way, they are eligible to be included as songwriters, as if they are also talented and participated in the creation. But in fact, the difficulty of their creation is extremely low, and it is not even a creation at all.
Because the stars who dare to do this are basically already popular, and even the record companies have to support them, so even the songwriters dare not have any objections and can only acquiesce in this situation.
It is also very simple to identify this kind of "fake singer-songwriter". As long as there are more than four songwriters, it is basically certain that the singer is a fake singer.
In comparison, Xiang Nan always has only one songwriter for each of his songs, so it can be determined that these songs were completed by him independently and are not nominal works.
A person who has written so many good songs independently must be very talented. Therefore, Mariah Carey admired him very much and agreed to cooperate with him.
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On the other hand, it was because Mariah Carey also wanted to use Xiang Nan to make a comeback.
After her divorce from Sony Records president Tommy Mottola in 1997, her career was greatly affected.
In fact, divorce is not new in the entertainment industry. The key is that the divorce between the two was so embarrassing.
At the beginning of her divorce lawsuit, Mariah Carey broke the news that Motorola had been monitoring her phone calls and even sent private investigators to monitor her.
In order to collect evidence that Motorola was spying on her, Mariah Carey actually hired a private detective to monitor Motorola.
After these news broke, Mariah Carey's image was greatly affected.
After her divorce, Mariah Carey changed her boyfriend every few days, and all kinds of gossip news spread all over the place, which also had a great impact on her.
And after breaking up with Tommy Mottola, the president of Sony Records, Mariah Carey's career suffered a comprehensive blow from the other party.
For example, her new album "glitter" is going to be sampled from the song "Firecracker" by Yellow Magic Orchestra. Motola gave a sample of the song to Jennifer Lopez and asked her to release the single in advance.
As a result, Mariah Carey will no longer use the song as new, which will naturally greatly affect sales and force her to re-produce the single.
For example, Mariah Carey asked Irv Gotti to be her producer, and Motorola took the first step and asked Irv Gotti to mix other songs...
Under such interference, Mariah Carey's new album could only be completed with difficulty, and its sales were naturally very poor, with only two million copies.
But her record sales in the 1990s were more than 10 million. Therefore, it can be said to be a big decline in career.
Plus, after she left Sony Records, she went to Virgin Records.
In 2002, there were changes in the top management of Virgin Records, and the newly appointed president Alan Levy actually decided to terminate the contract with Mariah Carey.
In addition, Mariah Carey tried to star in a movie in 2001, hoping to achieve both fame and fortune like Whitney Houston did when she starred in "The Bodyguard".
As a result, the movie "Trail of Tears" in which she starred not only received low reviews, but also only grossed over 4 million US dollars at the final box office, causing the film company to lose a lot of money.
Therefore, although Mariah Carey is still known as the American diva today, her career has actually declined severely, and she is only one step away from becoming obsolete.
In comparison, Xiang Nan is a rising star, and he has risen very quickly. He can be said to have become famous overnight.
When cooperating with such a promising new star, it’s really hard to tell who will take advantage of whom.
Therefore, Mariah Carey is naturally somewhat flattering to Xiang Nan.
She also hopes to cooperate well, so that she can save her career.
Otherwise, it would be really troublesome.
(End of chapter)
