Chapter 250: New Song Rehearsal

"Link, sing with more intensity. Don't suppress your emotions, and don't be afraid to strain your voice. A strained voice is more impactful."

Outside the recording studio, Graeme stood at the mixing console, holding a microphone and shouting to Link inside.

Link nodded and sang again, following Graeme's instructions.

The original singer of this song was a woman, with a different tone and style.

In order to perform this song well, he and Graeme and other staff had been working tirelessly in the recording studio for the past few days, constantly adjusting the sound and rehearsing.

His voice would become hoarse every day, and he would continue singing after recovering the next day.

After days of hard work, the song became better and better, more powerful than the original, with a tougher style, majestic momentum, and a bloody battlefield feel, similar to Linkin Park's lead singer Chester Bennington's hard rock, full of passion.

He felt that his version was more infectious than the original.

They become a part of you

Write the story into a song

Every time you bleed for reaching greatness

Struggle against adversity to achieve greatness

Relentless you survive

"Yes! Sing it like that! Link, you're a genius bastard, this song will definitely become your masterpiece."

Graeme shouted, raising his fists.

David Kahn and several other producers laughed, agreeing with him.

"Link is amazing, he's good at pop, rock, and rap, he's a musical all-rounder."

Bruno Mars exclaimed, sporting an afro.

"Haha, Bruno, you're also great, and Lana, Wiz, with the four of you, I bet our Link Music will become the most dazzling music label in the industry."

David Kahn laughed.

"Yes, that's right!"

Others echoed.

"What are you guys talking about, the atmosphere is great."

When Ivanka arrived at the recording studio, she saw everyone chatting happily, the atmosphere was very warm.

"Hi, Miss Ivanka, Happy New Year!"

Everyone greeted Ivanka.

"Happy New Year!"

Ivanka smiled slightly, greeting everyone, saying hello, and asking her two assistants to distribute New Year gifts.

In the United States, the day after Christmas is Boxing Day, not a day for boxing, but a day for gift-giving.

It used to be the day when slave owners gave gifts to their slaves, but later it evolved into a day for everyone to exchange gifts.

Graeme, Mars and others happily accepted the gifts, and found that Ivanka had prepared luxury gifts for everyone, including red wine, cigars, gold pens, platinum jewelry, etc.

Everyone's gifts were different, but everyone cherished them after receiving them.

Graeme held the gift and secretly admired that Ivanka was obviously more suitable to be a manager than Link, this careless guy.

"Graeme, how is Link's new song?"

Ivanka walked to the soundproof glass window, picked up the headphones, and looked at Link who was singing.

"Great! Very great! If 'Give me reason' and 'See you again' are nine points, I give this song ten points."

Graeme said excitedly.

"Oh?"

Ivanka was a little surprised.

'See you again' topped the Billboard singles chart for 12 weeks, the 12th song in the history of the Billboard singles chart to top the chart for more than 12 weeks, and also Link's most popular work.

Now Graeme thinks this song is better than 'See you again', this evaluation far exceeded her expectations.

Ivanka put on the headphones with doubt and surprise, and listened for a while.

When she heard the chorus, she couldn't help but stand up straight, her full chest puffed out, her whole body seemed to be lifted by something, and some strength appeared out of thin air in her body.

Ivanka covered the headphones and looked through the soundproof glass at the roaring figure inside.

Seeing him clenching his fists, the muscles on his arms bulging tightly, raising his voice to a very high and amazing pitch, his roar with strong infectious power passed through the microphone, through the console to the headphones, and then into her ears.

Ivanka blinked her eyelashes, her heart beating faster.

Recalling the first time they met, he was just an ordinary beach boy, a little more handsome and courageous than the passers-by on the street, but nothing much to notice.

But after the Olympics, his name was like the sun in the sky, almost seen every day, first using a strong means, in 100 seconds to defeat one opponent after another, to become the WBA champion, causing a sensation in the boxing world and even the whole of the United States.

Then he wrote the hit song 'Despacito', released a best-selling album, and became a super popular singer.

Ivanka had known him for more than a year, and knew him better than anyone, even more than Taylor.

Every time she saw his new achievements, she couldn't help but admire, this guy is too powerful.

She thought she was used to this situation, but when she heard this song, she was still amazed.

According to Mandy's news, from the organizer contacting him to perform to him creating this song, there was only three days in between, only three days to come up with such a song.

"This guy is too powerful."

Ivanka pursed her lips and said softly.

"Hi, Eva, when did you come?"

Link came out of the recording studio and saw the great beauty standing outside.

She was wearing a camel-colored lapel wool coat, a black turtleneck sweater, and high-waisted straight pants, revealing a slender waist, making her waist thin, legs long, and hips plump, with a full bust.

Her long blonde hair was draped over her shoulders, only slightly tied with a crystal hairpin on the outer layer.

Simple, elegant, and dignified, the aura of a billionaire came to her face.

Link considered himself to be no less wealthy than her, but in terms of dressing and temperament, he always couldn't compare to Ivanka.

"Just arrived! The new song is good!"

Ivanka put down the headphones and said.

"Thank you! You have good taste, if you say it's good, it must be great."

Link laughed.

"Let's go to the office and chat."

"OK!"

Link nodded and went to the office next door.

As soon as he sat down, Ivanka threw a stack of documents at him.

2010 was approaching, and Link Music had a lot of work to do in the next year.

The first thing was the release of his third album.

This album was recorded earlier than the second album, and needed to be further optimized before release, adjusting the style of two or three songs to make them more suitable for the current market.

The first promotional single 'All of me' was scheduled to be released the day before Valentine's Day.

It would be released worldwide at the end of March.

This album was a pop ballad style, different from the previous two, whether it could continue to maintain the hot sales of the previous two albums was still unknown.

The second thing was that he was about to participate in the Super Bowl, and related publicity work needed to keep up.

If done properly, with the popularity of the Super Bowl, his albums and singles could sell tens of thousands more copies.

The third thing was next year's tour arrangements, two movies and two roles, two confirmed boxing matches, six commercials, and new song MVs also needed to be arranged.

"Too much work, shouldn't have taken 'The Expendables'."

Link said, looking through the work schedule.

In December, he met with Sylvester Stallone, who said he would design a fighting master role specifically for him, knocking down one person with one punch, the role was either the third or fourth male lead, and the salary was no less than three million.

For the sake of money and character design, Link agreed.

Now it seemed that he was too greedy and was asking for trouble.

"It's okay, many things seem like a lot, but when you do them, you'll find there are very few."

Ivanka poured two cups of hot chocolate and put one down.

"Many things seem like very few, but when you do them, there will be more."

"That's because you don't know how to arrange."

Ivanka sat in the office chair with her long legs crossed and patted another thicker folder, "These are my work arrangements, do you want to take a look?"

"No need to look!"

Ivanka was the president of Link Music, not only responsible for his record promotion and release, but also responsible for Lana, Mars, and Wiz Khalifa.

Lana's album had been released for eight weeks and was still in the top 50 of the Billboard album chart, indicating that the album had great potential and needed more promotion.

Bruno Mars' debut album was in its third week of release, with first-week sales of 287,000 copies, reaching number two on the Billboard chart, only slightly behind Lady Gaga's 'The Fame Monster'.

Cumulative sales of 573,000 copies in three weeks, the data was better than Lana's debut album, if they continued to work on it, there was a good chance of breaking 1 million copies in North America.

Wiz Khalifa's debut album 'Deal or No Deal' was also scheduled for release early in the year.

He didn't need to look to know that her work wouldn't be any less.

Link spread his hands and said, "We're billionaires now, why are we still so busy, why not stop and go on vacation?"

"A while ago, you told reporters that it was your passion that made you energetic and greatly improved your work efficiency, now why are you thinking about vacation again?"

Ivanka glanced at him and teased.

"Even a camel in the desert, you can't let him work 365 days a year."

Link laughed.

Ivanka raised her lips and took out a box from her bag.

(End of chapter)