Shakira told Terry that she wanted to work with Lin Zhimo on a record, which was naturally true. In fact, he had thought about it when Lin Zhimo decided to attend the opening ceremony of the World Cup. His purpose was very simple, which was to use Shakira's current popularity to gain his fame.

The people at Sony Music Company are naturally clear about Lin Zhimo's plan. They didn't want to agree to Lin Zhimo's case, but Shakira was very persistent, and secondly, Lin Zhimo took out a few songs with very good quality. If they were introduced to the market, they would definitely make money, so they agreed in the end.

"Lin, is this your first time in the United States?" Shakira couldn't help but ask when she saw Lin Zhimo keep watching the surrounding scenery.

"Well, it's not the first time. I came to Hollywood once when I was filming a Mercedes-Benz car advertisement. It was just on the beach in Miami, and it was only more than a day. It was the first time I came to Hollywood." Lin Zhimo came to Hollywood this time to record the songs he collaborated with Shakira, and it was also the first time to come to Hollywood, a holy place in the minds of entertainment people around the world.

"First?" Shakira's eyes widened, "Not that time in Miami, have you never been to the United States?"

In Shakira's opinion, this is simply incredible. You should know that Lin Zhimo can be said to be a household name in China now. In Shakira's opinion, Lin Zhimo should have plenty of time.

"Didn't you think about coming to the United States to see it while you were on vacation?" Shakira asked again.

"Well... In fact, I haven't had a good vacation since my debut." Lin Zhimo answered Shakira's questions while constantly admiring the beautiful scenery of Hollywood.

"Oh, my god! I really can't imagine what life you live. What do you do after work for so many years?" Although Shakira is not an American, she has developed the American concept of combining work and rest. Whenever she has recorded a new record, she will choose a beautiful place to take a vacation.

Therefore, she felt incredible when she heard Lin Zhimo's words now.

"Don't work time?" Lin Zhimo thought for a while and replied, "I rarely have time to work. You know, I have to sing, act, screenwriter, and director now... I have spent a lot of time, and I don't think it takes a person to take a vacation. Isn't it enough to take an hour or two a day?"

Upon hearing this, Shakira slapped her forehead and ignored Lin Zhimo.

Although she understood Lin Zhimo's diligence very much, this did not mean that Shakira agreed. However, she began to feel in her heart that there was no reason why Lin Zhimo achieved such great achievements. At least she would not be able to do it if she had been allowed to last for several years without resting.

Thinking of this, Shakira looked at Lin Zhimo who was still taking pictures of beautiful scenery with his camera from time to time, and suddenly felt a little distressed.

"He must be very tired over the years..." Shakira thought silently.

...

This time, the two of them collaborated on the albums. However, they were all produced by Lin Zhimo and Shakira, who wrote music and lyrics by themselves. Especially Lin Zhimo, he even took out seven songs at once.

"To be honest, Lin, I want to delete all my three songs. The entire album only uses your songs." After recording the song "only girl" written by Lin Zhimo for her, Shakira really couldn't raise the interest of continuing to record her songs.

Lin Zhimo laughed and asked, "Even if you don't use your songs, you will still use other people's songs. At that time, no matter whether the songs are good or bad, we will not even have room for selection."

Sony gave the two the right to choose the tracks in this album, but if Shakira really didn't plan to use these three songs he created, then the album would probably add several other songs that didn't know the quality of the company according to the company's wishes.

"But look at the songs you wrote, and then look at my three songs..." Shakira was still a little disappointed.

A few days ago, when both of them took out their own songs, Shakira laughed at Lin Zhimo for saying that the quantity and quality would definitely decline. As a result, each of the three songs he wrote was not as good as the seven songs written by Lin Zhimo.

Especially these seven songs are not of the same style, some are rap songs, some are pop songs and three songs duet between the two.

As Sony Music executives said, each of these seven songs can be used as the title song of an album.

"You can't say that. The direction of our creation is different. When you write songs now, you are still deeply influenced by the Latin style. Your thinking is still a bit stiff. I am different. The American market is just blank for me. I write whatever I want."

Lin Zhimo didn't want to see Shakira's disappointed look, so he comforted him: "And you also know that sometimes the quality of the song does not mean that it will be popular in the market. Sometimes whether a song can be sold well depends on other factors."

Although she knew that Lin Zhimo was comforting herself, Shakira felt much better when she heard these words, so she nodded and said, "Yes, you are right... The songs I wrote this time are not as good as those you wrote, but I will definitely surpass you next time."

"Welcome to challenge!" Lin Zhimo responded with a smile when he saw Shakira recovering his spirit.

Three of the seven songs created by Lin Zhimo were sung by two people, and the other four were exactly one person and two songs.

The three songs sang are called "love the way sential lie", "crazylove" and "sun-ght meat nd". Among these three songs, Lin Zhimo is the rap part; the two songs sang by Lin Zhimo are "not afraid" and "teenage life"; and the two songs sang by Shakira are called "only girl" and "becau seduction".

All the parts that Lin Zhimo sang are rap, which does not mean that Lin Zhimo will plan to specialize in rap-type songs in the United States in the future. This is just one of his strategies.

Lin Zhimo has a clear understanding of himself.

Although he is now very popular in the entertainment industry in mainland China and has won the honor of being the best actor in the Berlin Film Festival, one of the three major international film festivals, these are not particularly attractive to the American entertainment industry.

Just like Americans think there is no basketball except NBA, they are also very blind and confident about their own entertainment. After all, movies and musicians in many countries are proud to be able to enter the US market, which makes the American people generally look down on artists from other countries, let alone yellow people like Chinese.

It might be better if it is a singer and actor from other European countries, but they don’t have much recognition for Asians.

Lin Zhimo considered these things when he wanted to enter the US market. With his current ability, if he had been a white man, he would definitely be a hit. But now he is not from European and American countries. He is a genuine Chinese.

So if you want to enter the US market as quickly as possible and steadily as possible, you must come up with a comprehensive method.

First of all, Lin Zhimo ruled out the director's method. After all, Lin Zhimo is unable to enter the American eye with just one "Don't Talking to Strangers". Haven't you seen director Wu Yusen fail to Hollywood?

Secondly, what Lin Zhimo ruled out is the acting method. Indeed, as an international actor, it is not difficult for Lin Zhimo to enter Hollywood movies. But the difficulty is his role positioning in the movie. Lin Zhimo definitely does not think that the directors in Hollywood will regard themselves as the starring actors, and they cannot even be the second male lead.

Therefore, it is okay to enter the American entertainment industry through acting, but the speed will be relatively slow.

The only way to do the rest is to sing.

Singing is also not something that will become popular by writing two good-quality songs. Lin Zhimo also needs to make some careful consideration, that is, what type of song he wants to sing.

In the American music scene, every music style has its own audience. Some people even know how to listen to the same music style throughout their lives. Those who like country music will never buy rock albums, and those who like rock music will never buy jazz.

Lin Zhimo thought about it for a long time, but finally decided to rap!

In the United States, compared with other genres of music, rap has not had a long history. It was only in the 1970s that it officially became a music genre, and it has only been thirty years since then.

However, in just thirty years, rap music has developed very widely, and judging by the current trend, it will become more and more extensive in the future.

One reason why Lin Zhimo chose rap is that there are too many branches of rap, such as West Coast rap, Southern rap, pop rap, old school rap, midwest rap (missing dwest rap), Latin rap (latin rap), hardcore rap, gangster rap (

gangsta rap, foreign rap, east coast rap, transition rap (crossover rap), comedy rap (edy rap), Christian rap (ch stian rap), alternative rap (alternative rap), etc., even the so-called hip-hop is a new vocabulary born from these genres that combine popular elements.

Among these diverse branches, Lin Zhimo can write some songs very freely without worrying about being subject to some limitations.

Another reason why Lin Zhimo chose rap music is because of the audience of rap music.

The short history of rap music destined that his audience would only be young people with stronger acceptance. Because rap music is music developed from black people, as a nation that is discriminated against, the audience of this kind of music will be more tolerant to the yellow people Lin Zhimo.

If Lin Zhimo chose not rap, but country music with American national characteristics, I am afraid that Lin Zhimo would be subject to various rules and regulations when creating songs and could not express his creativity completely. The most important thing is that he may end up with a thankless result because of his lack of understanding of American folk customs and the discrimination of Lin Zhimo by the music audience.

So, after considering it comprehensively, Lin Zhimo chose rap music - a very inclusive song type, as a stepping stone to enter the American music market.

I don’t know how others are about these songs. Anyway, judging from the reactions of Shakira and the staff who recorded the songs, these songs should still be popular with everyone.

...

"Zhimo, are you going to go back to China soon?" Shakira asked in a depressed mood.

A month after coming to the United States, Lin Zhimo recorded his own song part, and Lin Zhimo did not interfere in the rest of the song production. After all, this is in the United States, and Sony Music does not believe in Lin Zhimo's strength, so Lin Zhimo decided to leave after recording the song.

"Yes, you know that I still have a lot of things to deal with in China." Lin Zhimo was also reluctant to let Shakira go.

After the two of them explained the words last time, Lin Zhimo found that the relationship between them became more and more strange. This kind of relationship is neither a friend nor a lover. What he insisted on is more like a friend of the opposite sex who can talk about everything, but it is a bit more ambiguous.

But to be honest, Lin Zhimo enjoys this feeling very much now. Although there was no incident with Shakira, this spiritual intimacy made Lin Zhimo even more different to Shakira, and completely different from his feelings for Huo Xiwen and the other two.

For Lin Xinru, Lin Zhimo now feels both caring and guilty; for Zhang Ziyi, he feels both pity and admiration; for Huo Xiwen, he feels both respectful and respectful.

The three women did not love Lin Zhimo the deepest, or he would have to choose one of the three of them, who would be more inclined to think. But if we analyze it rationally, there is no doubt that the most suitable person to be with Lin Zhimo is Huo Xiwen. She has been silently giving since she first met Lin Zhimo, and even after knowing the relationship between Lin Zhimo and Lin Xinru, she still silently supports him behind Lin Zhimo.

This is also the reason why Lin Zhimo respects Huo Xiwen, and it is also the thing that he feels most sorry for Huo Xiwen.

As for Shakira, Lin Zhimo's feelings are different from those above.

At the beginning, Lin Zhimo was just a man's instinct, but as he got in touch with her, Lin Zhimo gradually discovered the cuteness of Shakira.

She is kind and simple, enthusiastic about people, and has some stubbornness in her temper. These good or bad personalities make it difficult for Lin Zhimo to maintain that kind of mentality of hunting for beauty anymore, and also makes him choose to showdown even though he can have an intimate relationship with her.

Afterwards, things became a little strange. Lin Zhimo originally thought that she would lose Shakira, this friend, but unexpectedly, Shakira still stated that she still likes Lin Zhimo and still stayed with him, even closer than before.
Chapter completed!