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Permanent Reminder Head Quarters
The office is a large room with real wooden flooring, the walls are a cream colour but their are bookcases all down one side and desk space all down the other. A large desk sits towards the window, with a large comfortable seat for Matt and then a further two cushioned seats on the the the other side. There is a dark red sofa in the corner with a mahogany coffee table next to it. |
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Matt is sat at his desk, he is fiddling with a pencil. He is wearing a blue shirt with a white collar, the top button is undone and his tie is hanging out the drawer in the desk. He rolls his sleeves up and runs his hands down his trouser legs before continuing to fiddle with the pencil. |
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Lotus made her way to Matt Young's office . She had quickly drove up to the Permanent Reminder headquarters after getting a call that Matt wanted to see her . Usually she would say no to anyone who ever felt the need to call her on the weekend about business , but she figured this was important . She just insulted her record label owner on YouTube . That was a big thing . She made her way to the door of his office and knocked on it . |
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Matt hears the knock and stands up. He makes his way over to the door and opens it. He can see Lotus standing there and gestures for her to come in.
"Thank you for coming on such short notice. Please take a seat. Would you like a coffee or a tea?" He goes over to the coffee machine and puts in the pod and places his mug beneath it, pressing the buttons and allowing it do what it needs to. |
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Lotus walked inside the office quietly and looked around a little before sitting . " Do you have any green tea ? That would be nice . " She had on a neon green and gray butterfly shirt with jeggings and neon green Nike's . Her hair was pulled up in a messy bun . As she settled into her seat , she took off her shades and turned off phone . Lotus sat there and waited for him to finish at the coffee machine .
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He brought her the green tea and sat down himself on the other side of the desk with his coffee.
"So, i don't want to beat around the bush. Obviously we're disappointed to see you've been arrested this week, and maybe I didn't deal with this the way you would have hoped, but you certainly didn't respond in a way which i expected. I was very disappointed to see that youtube video Lotus..." |
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He takes a sip on his coffee. "Look, we heard about what happened, and we wanted to make things clear that we are here to support you. We're not just here for music, we're here for you. I appreciate where you're coming from with the paparazzi and the cameras, and I know what it's like to be arrested... but i went inside... I'm here to help you." |
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Lotus nodded her head in thanks as Matt handed her the green tea . " Okay , before we even start , can you not talk about being disappointed or anything like that ? Sorry but you sound like my father . " She took a deep breath and a sip of green tea right before answering . " I know I was wrong for the video . It was posted out of spite and I wouldn't mind taking it down . I just really didn't appreciate this panned out . I know it doesn't seem like such a big deal , but in my point of view it did . I didn't understand -- still dont -- why this would even need to be discussed and why you couldn't just discuss it with me in the first place , privately . At the same time , I felt highly disrespected by that cameraman and that statement came off to me in a way that made me feel disrespected by you as well . To be honest , this is the last thing I want to deal with right now . My weekend has been the worst . "
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Matt nodded in apology, "Okay, I don't mean to sound like a father figure, i mean shit - we're like the same age. But yeah, i'm coming from experience though Lotus."
He listens intently to what she has to say, "I didn't want to offend you, i seriously didn't, but when you go ahead and get yourself arrested, it reflects back to us. Everybody knows you're signed with us here, and so they were expecting a statement. I had phone calls in the middle of the night before i even knew what was going on about this."
He takes another large sip of his coffee, it's nearly finished already, "I didn't mean to disrespect you, and for that i am truly sorry. I don't want our working relationship to be ruined by today's events, but i also needed to make sure that the public know that I - no, that WE - are here for our artists. It clearly hasn't come across that way at all, i mean we're trending worldwide on twitter! #PermanentRemindSucks or something like that."
He picks the pen up again and starts fiddling with it. "Where do we go from here Lotus? What can we do - as a team - you and me, to sort this shit out. I don't want you to keep getting arrested, it's horrible, I want you to be happy and comfortable in your life and with your label."
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Lotus cracked a little smile when he cussed . " Does this mean I don't have to try and scrape up some big words from the back of my head now ? " She said with a smirk . She sat back in her chair with her tea . " I understand . You've been in the business way longer than I have . But as you can see , I'm horrible at taking other people's criticism , especially when I'm apparently in the wrong . So like , for future reference just lay it down on me easily , okay ? Maybe slip some green tea in there like you did this time . " She laughed a little . " And y'all aren't the only ones suffering from these hashtags . #LotusTheNewKanye ? What is life ? " Lotus chuckles . " But I don't think it did any real damage to either of our images . Twitter is filled with irrelevant sidebarers and ignorant celebrities . Can't rely on it for what the "actual" public thinks . "
" Trust me , I don't like getting arrested as much as you like hearing about it . I'll try my best next to time to control my temper ." She drunk from the cup again before continuing . " Where do we go from here ? I really don't know . But I do want to apologize for that video . I just got heated in the moment and I was dead wrong . I can be a bitch sometimes . I'd just really like if this didn't effect our working relationship too . It's all squashed for me . " |
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TJ was getting set for his meeting and figure that it would be a good of time to do it now then anything. He wanted to get everything set so when he did finish his CD there wouldn't be anymore debates and fuss about where he was going to go and what he was going to do. Really he never wanted to be with a label for too long he wanted to be with his own label, and get his own artist and talent, but doing that on his own would have took too much from him to really do anything about it. The one person in the label outside of himself who has good experience in music would be either carmen grant or the group Pretty Little Freaks, and seeing as he didn't believe group could last long term to save them from adding more problems he next choice would be carmen. So TJ was in the label office to talk to her to see how would she feel about doing more to promote their label. |
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Carmen walks into the label office and looks around, her lips pursed in a confused, child-like way. She had no idea why TJ had called her down to the label office, but she loved mysteries and - even more so - loved solving them. "Hellooooooo!" she says happily when she spots him, waving. "Carmen is here!"
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TJ laughed "Yo, Carmen How you been? I bet you want to know why I just called you up here," he said leading her to somewhere that they can sit down. " Well it because I wanted to talk business, then do a old school wrestling promo tape," He said to try to bring some humor to it before getting to business of handling the label. "First, I have to ask you three questions, 1) Do you like it here? like would you rather sign somewhere else if you had a chance too? 2) Would you ever want to get your own label? cause that was something I thought about too. Thirdly and most important, have you seen or heard anything from matt?" |
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"Business and then a wrestling promo tape? That sounds like a normal Saturday night for Carmen," she says back, just as jokingly as she sits down across from him and listens to him. She was childish in nature, but she knew when to be serious, especially when it came to her career. "Carmen supposes that she likes it here, even though they don't give us a lot of promo... Carmen thinks that's because Matt has disappeared - to answer TJ's third question before the answers the second one. But for Carmen to have her own label? Carmen doesn't know... That sounds... tough." She scrunches her eyes together. "Carmen would do it, but she would need help. Obviously."
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"I need to come over Saturday that sounds great," he said thinking about old wrestling promo "What I wanted to say is that I don't know what happen to Matt, but I wanted to help out with the promotions around here and for that I would need your help, What I was going to do, was I was going to get some promos from here and get some talents and I know that you have a lot more experience with music than me so I would want you to help me out." |
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Carmen raises her eyebrows at TJ's offer as she sits down in one of the chairs and hears him out. She sighs and looks around the office. It was Matt's office, and she couldn't comfortably take something like that away from him. "Carmen doesn't think Matt is coming back," she says back honestly, shaking her head. "But even still, Carmen doesn't feel right helping in a standard take-over of his label. But... Carmen will co-own a new label with you, if you would want to start a new one."
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"I was going to make a label but I wouldn't like it to just leave things as they are and jump ship, I know some people would just leave but I'm not sure if they would follow us are I just came out 'Hey I'm creating my own label now,' So this was what I was going to suggest. How would you feel about company inside a company? If I created a company inside this company, so it would our own and if we wanted to we could break out on our own, how would you feel about that?" |
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Carmen crosses her legs and thinks about what TJ is offering. "Carmen would feel more comfortable with starting an independent company rather than tampering with Matt's company without his consent." She thinks for a moment. "There are several people Carmen thinks we could convince to leave if we started our own. Sabrina Franc, Ashley Grimmie, possibly Lotus. That's already three big names, plus ours. That's a decent start." She leans forward. "What do you think? We could wait a few more months, make sure the label has actually folded and Matt Young isn't really coming back, and then strike."
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"Well, I learned about matt young isn't coming back, I came here to learn the ropes about company so that I can make my own company...." TJ thought about it long and hard. "You really think that they are just going to get up and leave to come with us?" He said wondering if it was going to be good to go and create his own label, "You would co-own with me? Then lets do it" |
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Carmen raises her eyebrow. "You know for sure that Matt Young isn't coming back?" she asks. That was a whole new ballgame, if one of them knew for sure that their label owner wasn't coming back. "Carmen thinks that we could convince them to come with us, if they knew that Matt wasn't coming back as well. And yes, yes, of course, of course! Carmen'll co-own with you." She smiles brightly.
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