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113. What is your love?

Roppongi, Raleigh Club.

Iwahashi Shinichi leaned on his elbows and was meditating there. He was not pretending to be deep, but he was really bored. It was quiet in the lounge, he was the only one, and the temperature in the room was a bit high, which made him drowsy.

Rabili Club is a membership-only high-end club. Most people can't even find the door, but everyone who comes in and out here has some background. Iwahashi Shinichi doesn't have any background, so he came in with others.

To be precise, he worked as a driver for Mori Shinichi and snuck in.

In the job of a personal agent, sometimes it is inevitable to play the role of driver, nanny, and so on. Just a few days after following Mori Shinichi, Iwahashi Shinichi had already met his new wife Mori Masako.

He is indeed a great enka singer. His first divorce was to the famous actress Ohara Reiko, and his second marriage was to the famous idol Mori Masako.

Mori Masako is a member of the third group of flowers at the same time as Yamaguchi Momoe, a super popular idol, and not only that, the two are also good friends. Yamaguchi Momoe retired at the peak, and after staying with Miura Yu and Shuangju, marry a good man and go home

, has become the goal that many female idols strive for, or it is the life trajectory of female idols expected by the outside world.

Be beautiful when you are young, go home and hide yourself after you get married, and don't break the public's dreams.

Watanabe Manyumi once had something to say to Shinichi Iwahashi, saying that the prevalence of idol culture in Japan is closely related to the underground status of women in Japan. Flashdance thought about it carefully and found that this was not unreasonable.

Mori Masako's real surname is Morita, and her marriage to Mori Shinichi is called "morimori" by the outside world, which means "double forest". The public is looking forward to their marriage, hoping that it will create the second Momoe Yuka, and Mori Masako is also satisfied.

In anticipation of the public, I imitated my friend Yamaguchi Momoe, held a grand retirement concert, and returned home to become a housewife.

A few days after being transferred to Mori Shinichi's personal manager, Iwahashi Shinichi went to Mori Shinichi's private house in Aoyama to pick him up. Mori Shinichi was still cleaning up, so he called him in to wait. Mori Masako personally made tea for him.

Momoura showed off her bare face, wearing an apron, and made tea for her husband's agent. During this period, Mori Shinichi asked for something from time to time, and Mori Masako quickly replied "Hai" while delivering newspapers or sugar bowls.

In the husband's hands.

When Iwahashi Shinichi picked up the teacup, he thought to himself, what would Masako Mori's fans think if they saw their idol like this?

Tonight, Shinichi Mori, another enka singer Maekawa Kiyoshi, and a cadre of the Tokyo Music Industry Association gathered in Labili.

Like Shinichi Mori, Kiyoshi Maekawa is a veteran singer who debuted in the 1960s. However, he is slightly younger than Shinichi Mori. What is a bit special is that when he debuted, he partnered with Hiroshi Uchiyamada as a member of a group.

Debut.

But this does not prevent Maekawa Kiyoshi from becoming a big star who is not inferior to Mori Shinichi, and even better than Mori Shinichi. He appeared on the Kohaku Utakai in the first year of his debut. Maekawa Kiyoshin also just remarried in Flash Dance, and the two got together

Together, we don’t have to worry about having nothing to say.

By the way, Maekawa Kiyoshi's ex-wife is a female singer famous for singing "songs of resentment". Her singles and albums have topped the charts for thirty-seven consecutive weeks, named Keiko Fuji.

It's not Ayako.

The two got married and divorced. A few years ago, Keiko Fuji remarried to a music producer named Utada Terumi and gave birth to a daughter named Utada Hikaru. Now the family lives in the United States and enjoys playing music and other things.

As for the ex-husband’s remarriage? How about love?

The host was this cadre from the Tokyo Music Industry Co., Ltd. This publishing house is keen on publishing some weird records and tapes all year round, and it recruits some young singers whose names have not even heard of them to record the latest popular songs.

The collection of covers is mainly performed songs, but there are also some popular songs. What is particularly embarrassing is the line "Songs not sung by me" at the bottom of the back cover.

If you have the ability, put it directly in the subtitle.

This technique is similar to the kind of tapes that were very popular in Tu Kingdom in the past, such as Su Bing singing Su Rui and Wang Fei singing solo Deng Lijun. From this we can see that everything in the world is roughly the same.

The difference is that Japan's copyright system is clear. Even if there is such a weird record, even the songwriter and himself may not be aware of it, the copyright fee that should be paid will still be paid through the music production rights.

The association paid it.

There will almost always be a logo on the turntables of Japanese records. This is the logo of the Music Production Rights Association, which collects protection fees. If you join this association, from now on, the singer himself must first sing his own songs.

Pay money to this association, but the money you paid will come back after a round of transfers.

If you take a closer look, you will find that this organization that seems to protect the rights and interests of musicians is comparable to the Japanese Agricultural Cooperative, which exploits Japanese farmers.

This strict copyright system is also one of the reasons for the creation of this strange collection of records.

Different singers belong to different record companies. For example, Shinichi Mori's record is in Vitor, but Kiyoshi Maekawa is in Polykain. It's no problem for Polykain's enka department to make a collection of their enka singers, but...

If you want to include songs by vitor singers...

vitor: Who are you sorry for?

There are estimated to be thousands of music publishing companies in Japan, including some strange small companies organized by local groups. Everyone has to work together to come up with something that can save capital, so this kind of strange cover album has become

The best choice.

Because there is no need to coordinate with the record company to record a cover album, you only need to pay some cover money to the Music Production Rights Association.

The age group of fans of enka singers is gradually rising. These people may want to save trouble, and especially like this kind of thing that can catch up with their favorite songs. Therefore, enka singers have always been the focus of this kind of cover singing, in addition to their own

Formal albums, this kind of hodgepodge that only contains one or two of his hit songs, can probably be released dozens of times a year, and this is still without his knowledge.

Although you can theoretically pretend that you don't know someone by playing their songs, the Tokyo Music Industry Co., Ltd. is different from the goblins outside. They not only cover their songs, but also have contacts with enka singers.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not singing for them, but helping them introduce or organize performances.

The job of an enka singer is very interesting. They are all singers and they also tour, but the performances of enka singers are usually not large-scale. Performances on the scale of the Sanxiaxiang Auditorium are common.

This has nothing to do with popularity or fame, and there is no price reduction. It is purely their unique ecology. In addition to small-scale concerts, there are also a large number of dinner shows held on sightseeing cruises or high-end hotels. The entertainment giant Saburo Kitajima also holds them on the plane.

Had a performance.

The smaller the scale, the greater the opportunity for close contact, the higher the price, and the higher the box office share. Enka singers perform countless such performances throughout the year, which together with record royalties form the bulk of their income.

Housewives with huge financial resources in their hands are not lenient in chasing stars. Handsome enka singers like Mori Shinichi are their favorites. They come here frequently and spend a lot of money. Not only do they chase performances, but they also give gifts.

Shocked! The husband goes out early and comes home late to work hard, but the wife uses his hard-earned money to support another man.


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