"Ah, Miss Teresa! So you are here! It's really a headache and makes it easy for us to find you!"
"That's right, foreigners are really rude! Even a big singer can't run away without saying anything! Isn't this too irresponsible?"
Everyone at Ning Weimin's table was startled by these two unwelcome interruptions, and subconsciously turned their heads to look.
I saw two staff members who looked like the program crew walking over with expressions of resentment.
Then, as if Teresa Teng owed them a lot of money, she loudly rebuked Teresa Teng and her agent in public for leaving without saying goodbye, which affected the rehearsal work of the program team.
This sudden noise immediately attracted the attention of other people in the cafe.
At this time, it was only one hour before normal white-collar workers got off work. It was the time of day when Tokyo Broadcasting Station received the most visitors. There were many people sitting here to receive customers and waiting to meet.
Under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of eyes, not to mention Teresa Teng and Minato Funaki felt humiliated, even Ning Weimin and Akira Okamoto felt as embarrassed as needles on their backs.
The only good thing is that most of the people who witnessed this scene are from TBS headquarters, so there will be no adverse effects from the leak.
Even if there were reporters, they would not expose this embarrassing scene.
But then again, no matter what, the attitudes of the people from these two program groups are really too much.
You know, Japanese people actually care most about keeping quiet in public places, and avoiding disturbing others is the most basic morality and quality.
Even if you are angry, you can't make such a loud noise that it will make people unable to get off the stage in front of you.
Moreover, the Japanese also pay attention to the concept of hierarchy, and it is rare for the inferior to be superior to the superior.
From the sound of it, these two people are obviously just ordinary crew members of the show, but they are so unscrupulous that they ignore their rank and reprimand a popular A-list star, without even mentioning any ethics or quality. This is too abnormal.
It is obvious that these two people are emboldened and deliberately show off their power and humiliate Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki in public. One cannot help but suspect that there is some special reason behind this.
What's more, Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki are still aggrieved in this matter.
Even if they explained over and over again that they had already informed the executive director who was responsible for assisting the chief director in rehearsing that they were coming to meet the guests, and clearly informed them that the meeting place was in the cafe on the first floor of the building so that the crew could notify them, it was useless.
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Not only did the other party show no understanding or consideration at all, but they made sarcastic and sarcastic remarks.
Teresa Teng won the Limited Broadcast Award, but did not take the Record Award seriously. She was too perfunctory and insincere in her work.
For this reason, they also insisted that they must end the meeting immediately, explain to the director immediately, and apologize to the other actors.
He looks like a mean, self-righteous villain that makes anyone frown when he sees him.
As one of the parties involved, Ning Weimin, who was negotiating cooperation with Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki, got angry at the sight of it and wanted to beat them up.
In addition, he also felt that this meeting had harmed Teresa Teng, and he had to bear some responsibility, so he couldn't stay out of it.
However, just when he was about to speak up, Akira Okamoto pulled his cuffs and stopped him in a low voice.
"President Ning, please don't interfere. Otherwise, President Funaki and Teresa will be troubled, and even suffer in vain. The situation here is very complicated, so let's wait for a while..."
Facing the serious and unpredictable look in Okamoto's eyes, Ning Weimin, although full of doubts, knew it was not good to act rashly.
In this case, he had to restrain his violent temper, watch Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki being made difficult for them, and apologized repeatedly, only to get through with the "high hands" of the two stage managers.
Needless to say, being disrupted by these two uninvited guests, the cooperation negotiations between the two parties could not be completed.
We can only call it a day and then make an appointment by phone to sign the contract.
In this way, until the two sides said goodbye to each other hastily, Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki were "escorted" by two stage managers and rushed upstairs to the studio again.
Afterwards, Ning Weimin left the TBS headquarters building with Okamoto Akira.
However, the two of them did not return to the office, and instead found an izakaya to have a drink.
Until then, while they were drinking cold beer, tamagoyaki, and grilled bird skewers, the incident that just happened was brought up by Akira Okamoto and used as a topic of discussion while they were drinking.
It was precisely because Ning Weimin heard some gossip circulating privately in the entertainment industry from Akira Okamoto that he was surprised to discover that Teresa Teng's situation in Japan was actually far less prosperous and prosperous than he imagined.
unlimited.
According to Akira Okamoto, in the Japanese entertainment industry, Teresa Teng belongs to the "Gaitare" category, which is the category of foreign artists.
So as early as the 1970s, when she signed a contract with Polydor and first came to Japan to develop, she was ostracized.
Her Chinese identity, as well as her personal insistence not to take a Japanese stage name or wear a kimono, are disliked by Japanese audiences and industry insiders.
Not only are many songwriters unwilling to write songs for her, but she often encounters harassment and humiliation from rude audiences during performances.
For a long time, she did not have an independent dressing room and could only share the dressing room with ordinary actors.
But even so, Teresa Teng's voice is so sweet, her ethereal tone and gentle temperament are completely unique.
After spending a year in obscurity, when she found her market position, her voice was like a shining pearl, blooming with dazzling luster in the Japanese music scene.
The single "Airport" released by it, even if it does not have a strong Japanese flavor, is completely a universal enka style lyrical song, and it really has no characteristics.
But it captured the hearts of many audiences and music fans, broke many record sales records, and set the best-selling record for Polydor's singers since its establishment.
With this, he won many awards including the "Japan Music Festival Silver Award", "Japan Record Awards New Artist Award", "Shinjuku Music Festival Bronze Award", "Ginza Music Festival Hot Performance Award", etc., and suddenly became a household name in Japan.
Diva.
But unfortunately, because of her Chinese identity, her dazzling achievements not only failed to improve Teresa Teng's situation, but instead brought her more hostility and more enemies.
In addition to causing many Japanese singers to be jealous and jealous of her, they are also very afraid of her ability.
Even among the selection committee of the Japan Record Awards, which awarded her the Best Newcomer Award, some people felt humiliated because they had to give this award to a foreigner.
You must know that before this, no foreign artist had achieved such achievements as Teresa Teng in the Japanese music scene.
After that, Teresa Teng could be said to have been ostracized by the Japanese music scene and became a common potential enemy of Japanese musicians.
Although no one expresses this hostility openly, it is everywhere, with many singers refusing to cooperate with him, and some deliberately framed him.
For example, in the "fake passport" incident, someone saw the right opportunity to report it to the Japanese government. Teresa Teng, who fell into the trap, not only went to jail for it, but also caused a lot of legal trouble.
After that, I had to give up my career that was just starting to take off in Japan and was forced to leave Japan for several years.
However, just when many people thought Teresa Teng's career in Japan was over.
No one expected that she could actually make a comeback, and once she came back, she would win Japan's Limited Broadcasting Awards for three consecutive years, refreshing everyone's understanding, creating even more brilliant results than before, and becoming someone who truly cannot be ignored.
Asian diva.
But the problem is that while Teresa Teng's singing ability is fully recognized by all Japanese people, the existing problems have not been solved, but have become more serious.
With "double crown and three consecutive championships", she is almost considering the Limited Broadcasting Awards as her exclusive award. How can other defeated singers and record companies not regard her as a major concern?
Things are changing. You took all the pot away by yourself. What a big deal!
What's more, Teresa Teng is not a prolific singer. She can win major awards every year with just one hit song from an album. Others can beat her in record sales by releasing three or four albums at most.
This is like deliberately showing off one's strength and slapping the Japanese music industry in the face.
However, due to the special rules of Japan's Limited Broadcast Awards, the selection is entirely based on Japanese viewers calling in one by one, and then recording the song request data of these viewers.
This award is the fairest, and it all depends on popularity. No matter how envious other people are, there is nothing they can do about her.
Unless the limited release bonus can change the rules of the game.
As a result, the more popular Teresa Teng becomes in Japan, the more isolated she will become. No Japanese singer will really be willing to be friends with her.
At the same time, the Japan Record Awards, Japan's only music award comparable to the Limited Broadcast Awards, has become the only award for Japanese music singers to save their face.
After all, in addition to the record sales performance, the final list of the Record Awards is determined by just a few judges. To put it bluntly, it is a black box operation.
It’s not hard to imagine how the jaw-dropping stage set at the end of every year on the record album came about.
Whoever has a smart record agent, whose record company is strong, and whoever has more "sponsorships", whoever masters these items will be the winner of the "Grand Prize".
To put it bluntly, it is a private area for everyone to share the pork.
So there is no doubt that for Teresa Teng, this door is completely closed.
In this life, she will never win another award at the Japan Record Awards.
In addition to her Chinese identity being the biggest obstacle, the record company that signed her is too weak and has no financial resources to help her get through and run this award.
Since she has no chance of being shortlisted or nominated, how can she win the award?
But the problem is that Teresa Teng's singing voice is so popular that it is enough to beat her Japanese counterparts for two consecutive years. This year's "Toki no Ryuu no Kashin" is another masterpiece.
The audience loved it, became addicted to it, and had countless fans. As an enka-style singer, he relied on word-of-mouth praise to actually sell two million records, surpassing most pop singers who are best at marketing and selling records.
Moreover, her main fan audience is middle-aged people in their forties. This group is also the backbone of today's Japanese society. Even office workers are in management positions, and their right to speak cannot be ignored.
So in fact, it is only theoretical that the Record Awards can keep Teresa Teng away.
On the contrary, the Record Awards judging panel needs to withstand huge pressure from public opinion in order to insist on "Japan's correctness" and not allow foreign artists to be shortlisted.
Although in 1984 and 1985, Teresa Teng was not nominated for the Japan Record Awards and turned a blind eye to her, this attitude was backfired this year, which suddenly aroused huge emotions among Japanese fans and audiences.
rebound.
The Japanese people began to strongly express their dissatisfaction and began to question the fairness and rationality of the Record Awards. Many people expressed through major media that if a song as good as "Toki no Flow" can not be selected,
There is really no need for the Record Awards to exist.
To be honest, if Teresa Teng is not nominated now, the judges of the Record Awards will not even be able to find a reason. I am afraid that they will be ridiculed a lot afterwards, and may even seriously affect the reputation of the Record Awards over the years -
The sharing of pork was too much, and even "Toki no Ryū れに body をまかせ" couldn't win the prize. This is to stick your head in the sand and act like an ostrich!
If this happened, it would be like ripping off the last fig leaf of the Academy Awards.
In Japanese society, when the credibility of an award is seriously questioned, especially by people in the cultural field, how many people can it still support in the future?
Will this be the beginning of the decline of awards?
In this case, the judges of the Record Awards are in a difficult position.
Teresa Teng can truly rely on her personal abilities to make an organization that can influence the career prospects of countless artists in the Japanese music industry have to face her existence.
This is very unscientific, but she did it.
So this year Teresa Teng knocked on the door of the Record Awards due to widespread public support, and was successfully nominated for the Record Awards. If nothing else, she would definitely not leave empty-handed.
Due to the pressure from the outside world, in order to remedy the negative impact, Rourou had to be given the record award, so she was able to get a pig tail no matter what.
And when the time comes, her record sales and fame will also see a bonus period of one or two months of growth after the awards are over.
But the problem is that these rewards and gains are not so easy to get. This is a double-edged sword.
Because the Record Awards’ show of kindness this time was completely kidnapped by public opinion and was not done willingly. How could the jury not be resentful?
Therefore, the welcome was expressed openly, but some disgraceful methods were performed secretly, and the jury's idea was also very simple.
I just want to catch your faults and try my best to torture you. Whether you have faults in your words, deeds, or attitude, or you decide to withdraw from the Daesang Awards, we cannot blame our judges and the Daesang Awards.
So Teresa Teng accepted the nomination for the Record Awards and was invited to the TV station to participate in the rehearsal of the program.
In fact, she has stepped into a trap of fame and fortune that is unavoidable and impossible to avoid. She has no other choice but to bear the humiliation and persevere until the day when the grand prize is awarded, in order to escape.
Otherwise, not only will she gain nothing, but her reputation may also be damaged.
Those at the Record Awards won't hesitate to beat her up and criticize her.
And this is probably why the ordinary staff of the program team dared to ignore their grades and yell at her. ()
