My canary flew away

Chapter 38 Dilemma

The assistant's eyes were bloodshot.

Shang Yu didn't sleep well, and the others naturally didn't sleep well either.

There was no light in the room, but it was early in the morning, and a little morning light penetrated.

The sky outside showed a strange gray-blue color, just like Shang Yu's mood at the moment.

The assistant saw Shang Yu's face was gloomy, took his mobile phone, and clicked on the trending search.The assistants are already familiar with the most popular articles, some screenshots of discussions, and roughly cut comparison audio.

The assistant explained: "I got up to go to the bathroom and saw this push. Then I realized that it seems that the public opinion has..."

exploded.

Shang Yu thought of the words after the hot search item.

He didn't say anything, but turned on the audio and listened to it himself.

The first half of the audio is the climax of his title song this time, and the second half is another song.Shang Yu listened to it several times, and his expression got worse and worse.The assistant watched this scene, swallowed, and reminded in a low voice, "Brother Shang, do I have to wake up the others? In this case, should we have another meeting?"

Discuss how to do crisis public relations?

After he asked, Shang Yu didn't answer for a long time.Seeing this, the assistant followed his heartbeat, knowing that the studio's private messages, mailboxes... various channels have probably been filled with fans.

In the middle of the night last night, Shang Yu's "Please support the original" Weibo, also became a reminder at this moment.

Shang Yu finally withdrew from the audio.He followed the hot search and looked down at the discussions of netizens.

It's early six o'clock now, which is basically the time when the first batch of office workers get up and swipe their mobile phones casually.

The assistant looked at the fluorescent light from the phone screen falling on Shang Yu's face, feeling very conflicted in his heart.

From a personal point of view, he does not believe that the word "plagiarism" will be associated with Shang Yu, if not, he would not be willing to follow Shang Yu out of Shirong.

Even Brother Liu, who had been with Shang Yu the longest, hesitated for so long, and was finally persuaded by Shang Yu, "After all, you have to support your family, so don't force it", let alone other people?

Under such circumstances, those who are still willing to "run away" with Shang Yu are always those who have sincere expectations for Shang Yu.

But some things seem to be ignored by a word of "expectation".

In Shang Yu's mouth, the title song of the new album was written in July, and the demo was recorded in August, and then revised many times, and finally a satisfactory finished product was recorded in early November. It also cost a lot of money, please come abroad Director, and collaborated on the MV together.

In the end, this song is not only the painstaking effort of Shang Yu, but also the hard work of the entire studio, including many external staff.

The problem is that the assistant can follow Shang Yu, and he is not considered a complete "layman" - judging from his point of view, this title song is really too similar to another song in the audio.

Even though the score has not been clarified yet, the assistant still murmurs in his heart.

At this moment, facing his own boss, the assistant still embraced a little luck and said: "Netizens are all laymen, they only know how to listen to the melody, and they don't know what is considered 'plagiarism'."

When he finished speaking, his gaze also fell on Shang Yu's face.

Shang Yu leaned on the sofa, lowered his head, his eyes were a little out of focus.

He saw the discussion of netizens and the rebuttals of fans.

Netizen: "Damn it, I saw Shang Yu sell miserably in the middle of the night last night and said that he wanted to support the original. Did the co-author copy it? The one who leaked the sound source must be a warrior!!!"

Fan: "@商羽工作室, get out and do some work! People are pointing their noses and scolding, why don't you hurry up and clarify?!"

Netizen: "Is there any clarification?"

Fan: "What do laymen know about music plagiarism?"

The two sides quarreled over this issue.

Shang Yu looked at it, and blood flowed in his already numb heart.

He began to search for information on the arrangement of another song based on the comparison audio.

The results came out quickly, the original song was posted on YouTube, and it was uploaded by a freelance musician in mid-August.Shang Yu went to look for the other party's information again, and saw this person's account on social networking sites.

Click to see, there is not much real information, more just music sharing.And in the comment area of ​​the latest FB, someone has already mentioned that he was "plagiarized".

After looking around, Shang Yu put his assistant's phone aside, put his elbows on his knees, and covered his face for a moment.

The assistant watched him with bated breath.

Shang Yu was tired and cold-hearted at the moment, with all kinds of emotions intertwined.It seems that from the day before Guan Cheng's birthday until now, every step he took was wrong.

He seemed to be trapped in a huge black vortex, with the same scene in all directions, above and below, with no way out.

Want to struggle, want to hold on to a little hope.But now, hope seems to be dashed.

Many obstacles stand in front of him.

Shang Yu said, "I'll make a phone call."

The assistant nodded timidly.

He watched Shang Yu staring at his watch and said he was "calling", but he didn't pick up the phone, but muttered something.

The assistant listened closer, and then he could tell a little: "It's six o'clock now, and it should be eleven o'clock over there, almost."

The assistant vaguely guessed that Shang Yu was calculating the time difference.

Confused and dazed, he saw Shang Yu stand up and go to the balcony to make a phone call.

The tall figure leaned against the fence at first.Because of the recent busyness, Shang Yu hasn't cut his hair for some days, and now his hair is slightly long, and it will hang down to cover his eyes when he bows his head.He was very restrained at first, but when he got to the back, the voice on the balcony suddenly rose.It was in English, and the assistant struggled to distinguish that Shang Yu was asking the other party if he knew the owner of that YouTube account.

What the other party said, Shang Yu's tone was a little calmer, but he was still speaking sharply.He said: "Luke, you can't do this. I only shared the demo of this song with you, and I was really grateful to you at the time, but now..."

Assistant grabs key information.

He suddenly realized: the domestic production team has signed a non-disclosure agreement, and they have the consideration of staying in the industry for a long time, so the "sound source leak" is still traceable, but it is necessary to say "publish the half-written song in advance." to other people, causing other people to issue it" is almost impossible.But if the fault is on Shang Yu's side, it seems to make sense.

The assistant's fluctuating mood gradually stabilized.

He thought fortunately, fortunately, he had not misjudged the person, Brother Shang really would not have done that kind of thing.

But thinking about it again, thinking of the current scene, the assistant is still worried.

A few minutes later, Shang Yu hung up the phone with a gloomy face.During this period, the assistant woke up other people in the studio one after another.When Shang Yu walked back to the office from the balcony, he took a look and saw that everyone's faces were not pretty, they were tired and haggard.He took a deep breath, only to feel that the mountains and rains were about to come. The current situation is really the most difficult to explain.But he is not just alone, the group in front of him also depends on him for food.

He cannot fall.

The sky has not completely brightened yet, and the major entertainment portals are still not officially working hours.

Shang Yu said: "Everyone wash up first, Xiao Wang, and help everyone to order breakfast. Let's," glanced at the watch, "have a meeting at [-]:[-] and analyze it together. I can tell you for sure that I Absolutely no such thing as 'plagiarism'. However, the current situation will indeed be more difficult to deal with."

The people in the studio had different expressions when they heard these words.

Shang Yu said: "Okay, let's move first."

He also has to take a shower.

The bathroom was full of people.Since the studio was just established, there were many overtime hours in the past month, so the staff used to keep a copy of daily necessities in the office.

Now it is used, but no one can say "Fortunately, we are ahead of time...", everyone has a serious face, and they still hold their mobile phones in their hands while washing their hands, paying attention to public opinion.

By the time Shang Yu previously stipulated, the meeting room was full of people.

The public relations department spoke first and said, "Brother Shang, we checked the original company of those marketing accounts, and called to ask about them. They don't admit that they accepted the order."

Shang Yu didn't speak.

The voices of other people discussing in the conference room.

Public relations department: "That is to say, the other party really paid a lot of money, and maybe their status is quite special, so it is basically impossible for us to cover it."

At four or five o'clock in the middle of the night, uniform information is sent, and the forwarding chain drives large-scale dissemination.In this situation, someone must have placed an urgent order.

Who is it?

Everyone present had some vague answers in their hearts.

After all, it must be someone who has a conflict of interest with Shang Yu.Just adding "the marketing company is not willing to disclose at all", the directivity becomes obvious.

Is it Shirong's side?

Reminiscent of the previous audio leaks, everything is confusing.

But they have no time to delve into it.

The suggestion from the public relations department is: "At eight o'clock at the latest, before the music platform goes to work, we have to confirm whether to open the official digital channel at twelve o'clock today."

If there is no "plagiarism" incident, this is naturally the best rescue method.But at the moment, Shang Yu is in a dilemma.

Pairs of eyes were fixed on Shang Yu.

Shang Yu is only 24 years old, he has never felt such pressure.

Someone couldn't help asking: "Brother Shang, those two songs—"

Shang Yu simply said: "In August, I went to England to participate in a fashion week, and then I collaborated with Luke, a local musician, on the stage of a music festival.

"After that, Luke introduced me to some of his friends. There were five or six of them. I listened to the DEMO to them, and they gave me some suggestions. I made some changes to the original arrangement, and I was able to Now the title song."

The people in the meeting room followed Shang Yu's words and thought about how everything happened.

Shang Yu said wearily: "At that time, I didn't think too much, and I didn't sign a non-disclosure agreement or anything like that."

He didn't even say a word about the problem before he was called away by Guan Cheng.

Shang Yu: "I called Luke just now to ask, but Luke said that he didn't know who the owner of that YouTube account was. He didn't quite believe that his friend would do such a thing, but he also promised to help me ask."

The problem is that there is not much time left for Shang Yu to react.

"So, brother Shang, where do you have the original arrangement material? We can use this to prove it!"

Someone quickly thought.

Shang Yu listened, but shook his head.

"The climax part was reworked by me after I came back from England. It was a version that everyone improvised at the time. I like it very much, and maybe others like it too."

So if you want to talk about the time when the document was created, it's hard to say whether he will push himself into the next pit.

"hiss……"

After understanding this verse, everyone fell into a downturn.

Shang Yu said: "Of course, Luke is right. The problem does not necessarily lie there, and it may also be leaked from other channels. In short, let's brainstorm and decide whether to take this move."

At the end, he paused for a moment, finally took a deep breath, and said, "Sorry, I'm going to the bathroom."

He couldn't hold on anymore.

The author has something to say: To put it simply, the role of Xiao Zhou in this matter is to buy a marketing account to spread the news of "Shang Yu's plagiarism", but the arrangements of the two songs are indeed "plagiarized" From Zhou Qiyu's point of view, he didn't slander Shang Yu, he just grabbed the braid and made it public.

See you tonight.