Just because GEN is what it is today, Chuck and Asuka are indispensable.
Similarly, once these two geniuses give up their cooperation with Kwang GEN, this group, one of the most popular since the idol era, will face a huge crisis.
Because what makes them different from ordinary idols, and the songs that have today's national popularity, are all written by these two geniuses. In other words, although the public likes light and exciting music, their ears are attracted by Chuck and Asuka
Trained.
Without Chuck and the Birds, the soul that is inspired by light will change its flavor.
If there is no familiar taste, the public will naturally turn away from the music of this group. Idols can just rely on their popularity to hold concerts or appear on TV, but to maintain national popularity, they must have songs that are widely sung, or
It's a classic character.
Compared with interpreting a classic character, it is easier to rely on a famous songwriter to write a good song. Anyway, idols don’t need singing skills. Those naughty kids in the group are all empty-headed guys. If Chuck is gone,
With Asuka, they are just waiting to slowly use up their popularity.
Iwahashi Shinichi and Kitagawa Suo collaborated with Tokyo Boys, but they still kept in mind that Hikari Genki would lose that support.
When he came into contact with Kitagawa, Shinichi Iwahashi not only had the idea of helping to produce music, he also had greater ambitions for this firm.
The female idol market has always been free and open, and every agency has the opportunity to launch a phenomenal female idol and dominate the scene. However, the male idol market is monopolized by Johnny's, and even BURNING poached Hiromi Go.
Prevent Johnny from further expansion and dominate the male idol market...
Nowadays, the era of idols has certainly come to an end, but idols will not disappear. In addition to idol stars with a "heroic" meaning in Iwahashi Shinichi's expectation, there are also more traditional idols who rely on selling their own charm.
, will not disappear with the end of this idol era.
Just like fashion and popular elements have a cycle of change, so does the popularity of the entertainment industry. Singers, idols, and bands take turns to appear. Female idols can make their own productions, while male idols have to deal with Johnny.
Then, while dealing with others, you should find ways to let your power and influence penetrate into Johnny's.
In addition, it is true that this firm is a family business. However, in the hurried debut of the Heike faction, the follow-up of SMAP, and the transfer of Fujishima Keiko to NTV, it is not difficult to see Kitagawa.
There are signs of an attack on Kitagawa Marie and her daughter. The more factions there are in a firm, the more opportunities there are to find a suitable angle to get involved.
Iwahashi Shinichi, sincerely wants to become "Jennisan's new friend" one day.
After chatting about the production progress of Tokyo Boys, Iwahashi Shinichi also gave his own plan. Next, we are waiting to see how Kitagawa Enou will act.
It was not a thoroughly enjoyable meal, but both parties had said what they wanted to say and were not dissatisfied with what they heard. The mission of this trip could be considered completed.
The two started chatting without a word. Mijima Iijima had been playing a guest role as a waitress from the beginning. However, when talking about the progress of Tokyo Boys, she also opened her mouth at the right time and explained the situation that she knew the two people wanted to hear.
report.
With such agility, even Kitagawa Kuo subconsciously glanced at her one more time.
At this moment, the topic of Tokyo Boys was dropped, and she was just cooking and preparing food during the dinner. Of course, she also listened clearly to the conversation between Shinichi Iwahashi and Kaguya Kitagawa.
"...How about SMAP?"
Kitagawa Sui suddenly mentioned this name, and Mijima Iijima's heart moved, remembering the team of flashy teenage idols he had seen on TV Tokyo not long ago.
She lowered her eyebrows and listened. Kitagawa Kao was discussing with Shinichi Iwahashi to invite GENZO's composer to sing.
Shinichi Iwahashi had no reason to refuse taking over jobs for his singers. But in his heart, he didn't think that the SMAP group could succeed with a good song.
Of course, for Kitagawa, cooperating with GENZO, which is full of fresh blood, is trying a new possibility, and he does not place any hope on getting a song from GENZO's composer that will make SMAP better.
Shinichi Iwahashi has never heard SMAP sing, so he has no idea about the singing level of this group or the level of cooperation among the members. At this moment, he just agreed and did not talk about anything more specific.
Before leaving, Kitagawa suddenly brought it up and asked one more question, "What's Iwahashi-kun's impression of Tsuyoshi?"
Iwahashi Shinichi replied, "It reminds me of the 30% of Sanxian tea."
Kitagawa reacted for a moment, as if comparing the images of the two in his mind. After a while, he smiled. He continued to ask, "What is your impression of Koichi?"
Iwahashi Shinichi thought for a while, "The child lowered his head too low and couldn't see his face clearly."
With this look on his face, it was unclear whether he was serious or deliberately not being serious. However, Kitagawa Kaguo liked his answer quite a bit, "Wouldn't this leave Iwahashi-kun in suspense when we see you next time?"
Iwahashi Shinichi also laughed and replied in cooperation, "Please let me see that child again next time."
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Shinichi Iwahashi proposed a variety show for Tokyo Boys. Kitagawa Hiro did not consider it for too long. Within two days, a phone call came to discuss the specific details with Shinichi Iwahashi.
Johnny's influence on several private TV stations is extraordinary, and it is easy to open a schedule.
Here, after discussing the details with Shinichi Iwahashi, they can meet and socialize with people from the TV station production bureau. The gold and dollar offensive, coupled with Johnny's power and a few favors accumulated over the years, can be finalized. Then.
, that is, dealing with the experienced music program producers from the production bureau who have ace programs, and are responsible for the production of the programs.
Generally speaking, Kitagawa Kaguo’s style of doing things is not that he likes to boldly recruit new people.
However, because Shinichi Iwahashi took over the music production of Tokyo Boys, if this variety show is really launched, Kitagawa Suo still hopes that he can be named as the consultant of the show.
Regarding this, Shinichi Iwahashi readily agreed. Of course, he named himself as a consultant, and GENZO musicians may guest star as Tokyo Boys' music teachers, or be guests on the show.
Parallel to the finalization of Tokyo Boys' new program plan, Shinichi Iwahashi received the SMAP demo tape from Johnny's.
It is not produced by a sound engineer with an annual salary of tens of millions, but is an original demo tape in the recording studio.
Um……
Iwahashi Shinichi has not personally selected new members for a while, so he has never heard an audition tape of the level of Love Provided. Thanks to this group, he can recall this feeling again.
There is really no singing ability to speak of, and some even went from Tokyo to Yokosuka. There are one or two who can barely sing, but there is no need to have too high expectations. As expected, idols do not need singing skills.
The level of these six people collaborating on the same song is almost the same as singing back-to-back in karaoke, only a little more lively.
Karaoke level.
Coming to this conclusion, Iwahashi Shinichi began to think in his mind that he should prepare a song for this group suitable for singing in karaoke. After deciding on the direction, he called and asked for a few song demos from the music library.
In addition, Shinichi Iwahashi thought that since he was a karaoke singer, it would not be impossible for SMAP to try singing covers.
However, when it comes to covers, there is no point in covering famous songs. Those famous songs that have been sung over and over again by ordinary people in karaoke do not need to be sung by several karaoke singers, and ordinary people complain "This is not the case."
Can I release a single?" The risk.
If you want to cover songs, you have to sing less popular songs from the works of singers who are popular among young people, or catchy songs from the works of singers who are not famous or popular.
Give this group the task of "finding karaoke hits for the general public".
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Before the end of June, "Lovely Season" will reach its finale.
Starting from the eighth episode, the ratings of the TV series have continued to rise. The ratings of the episode before the finale exceeded 30. The ratings champion of this quarter has been firmly secured, and it even had a hit in the ratings of "Tokyo Love Story" at the beginning of the year.
rate record possible.
With such strong attention and the opportunity to overpower its competitors, TBS TV station also worked hard to use various promotional methods for the finale and began to hit the ratings record.
At the beginning of the year, when Fuji TV's "Tokyo Love Story" was on the air, promotional posters took over the streets before the finale. This situation was repeated three months later with TBS TV's "Lovely Season."
In winter and spring, two consecutive prime-time TV series are gaining momentum. On the one hand, we are waiting to see how much power "Lovely Season" can finally display. On the other hand, both seasons have high ratings and phenomenal TV works.
The mass media began to pay attention to the meaning behind this and the signal it conveyed.
These two urban TV series have just captured the content that the audience likes. The former is about current urban love, and the latter is about brand-new female friendship. Compared with the previous TV series during the period when the ratings were generally poor, they are indeed much fresher.
But it may also convey another message: more people are watching TV.
However, for the general public, even if they occasionally see similar analysis in newspapers or magazines, they just regard it as a distraction while reading. They will not think about it, do not want to think about it, are too lazy to think about it, and there is no point in thinking about it.
During lunch break, Miho flipped through a magazine. In a women's magazine, there was a small article talking about the success factors of "Tokyo Love Story" and "Lovely Season", two TV series.
It shows the new love and friendship of modern women, which is no longer as outdated as the previous TV series and lacks understanding of today's women...
Words like this made Miho stunned for a while.
Miho doesn't know much about modern women's new love. In fact, she has never been in a decent relationship until now. She knows almost nothing about "love" and only relies on romance comics and idol dramas to enrich her imagination.
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Akana Rika-chan in "Tokyo Love Story" is very charming and desirable. However, Miho also knows that the love of modern women shown in it is no different from what she saw when reading comics.
Ordinarily, I would not have been as worried about the friendship between Kanon and Naoko in "The Lovely Season" as I am now. I am worried about it every week, sometimes happy and sometimes sad.
The reason for this is that outside of the TV series, she also gained a friendship.
It has been three weeks since Akiko lost contact. During this period, she did not contact Miho, and Miho tried to call Akiko, but there was no response.
In the company, there was a topic about "Akiko Suzuki disappeared because of a loan shark". After a heated moment, this page has already been turned. Colleagues in the same department already feel as if Akiko has never appeared.
A cold and polite workplace is what it is. Once your colleagues leave, they become people in another world.
The only change was that on Friday night, those female colleagues who had been led by Miho and Akiko to go home and watch TV series returned to their old life of partying all night long.
But in private, Miho heard these female colleagues whispering about the TV plot during lunch break.
Only she, as always, left the show early on Friday night. However, no one stood up to respond to her. The people who left with her, her colleagues only regarded her as a TV fan and a loyal fan of Akina Nakamori.
Miho is the only one who still remembers Akiko and keeps her in her heart. The reason for this is because Akiko is her friend, not a colleague who can turn the page at any time.
Not being able to confirm Akiko's whereabouts, or even whether she was safe, made Miho feel uneasy. Especially, Akiko disappeared because of debt collection, which made Miho feel even more worried.
Newspapers, magazines, and TV programs kept saying that in this era, money was being spent a lot of money, but why did her friend have no choice but to spend just three million yen?
What does this era of spending a lot of money have to do with them?
They couldn't be more ordinary. Even the bright-looking Zhang Zi was just pushed around in this era, skinned and cramped by everything visible and invisible, and his blood sucked dry.
From learning about Akiko's situation to now being alone and missing Akiko, Miho thought about many questions that she had never thought about before. The answers to the questions seemed to be right in front of her, but they were vague.
This made her pick up a pen and write everything about mackerel and tuna.
Zhang Zi has lost his trace, but the TV series is still being broadcast.
After Akiko left, Kanon and Naoko reunited. When they met, they smiled and let go of their grudges. They became each other's support again, praying and blessing each other, and sacrificing for each other.
Kanon regroups and looks for new stage performance opportunities. Naoko is full of expectations for her. At the same time, Kanon is also really looking forward to the little life pregnant in Naoko's belly. For Naoko, Kanon never leaves her hand in the first episode.
, and also gave up cigarettes.
However, while the two of them were looking forward to it together, a dark cloud hung over Naoko's head. Her physical condition meant that her life might be in danger if she gave birth to this child.
In her heart, Miho seemed to have imagined what the ending would be. However, she couldn't help but feel a little hopeful.
