A small fire flickered slightly in Hamasaki's heart.
I finally came to the Tokyo of my dreams, got the job I had always dreamed of as an actor, and was even talked to on the streets of Tokyo. A girl’s heart should have been filled with joy. However, now she was weighed down by a worry.
What she was thinking about the most was the Tokyo president who found her but left a business card belonging to someone else.
This accidental trip to Tokyo will soon come to an end.
When Ayumi Hamasaki walked the streets of Shibuya again and looked up at the countdown billboard hanging on the iconic building, she saw that the number had changed from "six" when she first walked by.
"three".
There are still three days until the show starts. The few days Hamasaki came to Tokyo happened to witness the final promotional session of the show. And the day she set off to return to Fukuoka happened to be the day of this massive performance.
The day before the show starts.
Although she became a witness in the final segment, the performance had nothing to do with her.
In other words, for Ayumi Hamasaki, who got an opportunity to go to Beijing by chance and had no other plans except work, everything in Tokyo had nothing to do with her.
Ayumi Hamasaki's delinquent friends in Fukuoka always talk about "ask and answer when you are eighteen" and sneak into the disco almost every night. However, their friends are already in their first year of high school.
of age.
Ayumi Hamasaki, who was not yet fourteen years old, could not sneak in and take a look at the scenery inside, no matter how hard he disguised himself.
I have never been to a disco to feel the atmosphere there. In the eyes of Ayumi Hamasaki, Tetsuya Komuro, the protagonist of this grand performance, and his group TRF, who is the producer, knew that they were popular, but they were not certain yet.
To the extent you want to see.
For Ayumi Hamasaki, when she looked at the billboard, what she was thinking was that the organizer of this show was GENZO. When she came to Tokyo, she felt that President-san was everywhere.
That president was an even more remarkable person than he had imagined. However, the more he knew that Shinichi Iwahashi was extraordinary, the more competitive fire burned in Hamasaki's heart.
The anxiety of not being able to fulfill her wish made her dream of becoming an actress seem to have been blown away by the wind at this moment.
…
The business card that the president Sang left for her was from a firm called U-MIZ. The president's surname was Watanabe. According to the president, he was a man with outstanding talents that even he was willing to be inferior to.
My mother thought it was Shinichi Iwahashi's humble words, but Hamasaki felt that it was Shinichi Iwahashi's sincere words.
A president-san who is even more remarkable than the president-san of Iwahashi Shinichi.
When leaving that business card, Iwahashi Shinichi once said that Watanabe-san runs an actor training school. If she wants to be an actor in the future, she can consider Watanabe-san. But the reality is that Hamasaki Ayumi was in elementary school.
After graduation, I joined my current agency and became an active model in local magazines.
It was her mother who decided to join her current agency. As she entered junior high school and grew older, Ayumi Hamasaki had more shooting opportunities for her. Akiko, a half-assed agent, became increasingly unable to deal with various matters.
In other words, when Ayumi Hamasaki's work is no longer limited to shooting shopping mall advertising catalogs, many job opportunities are no longer open to Zhang Zi, an amateur agent. If Hamasaki's opportunities increase, it means that Zhang Zi
Need to exit.
In addition, there is a growing girl and an aging mother to support. The burden of this woman's family will naturally fall on Zhang Zi's shoulders.
The job of a teenage model can help support the family, but it is actually limited. More often than not, little-known artists often have to pay for cosmetics and trinkets out of their own pockets. When they first worked part-time as models in shopping malls, it was to support the family. But now
Today, it is better to say that this is a road to the future that both mother and daughter want to take.
Ayumi Hamasaki has been accustomed to facing the camera since she was a child, yearning for a job in the entertainment industry, and her schoolwork is a mess. Zhang Zi became a single mother when she was young. In the past, she lacked planning for her own life, and now she is confused about her daughter's future.
Take it one step at a time. My daughter is good at facing the camera, so she should devote herself wholeheartedly to the dream of becoming a big star.
Zhang Zi has a frivolous and informal personality. Looking at her casual manner without worrying about anything, one often forgets that she is a single mother.
Iwahashi Shinichi showed up by chance and left the business card.
However, for Akiko, who is in Fukuoka, Tokyo is so far away and uncertain. Akiko is like being pushed forward by the water. When a local firm in Fukuoka offered an olive branch, she naturally chose the local firm.
.
Before coming to Tokyo this time, Hamasaki had found the business card left by Shinichi Iwahashi.
The thought of looking for Watanabe-san flashed through her mind, but she quickly gave it up. She wanted to take the business card with her, but she put it back.
In fact, Hamasaki had already memorized the information on the business card. But now that she put down the business card, she also gave up the idea of looking for Watanabe-san.
A simple thought flashed in her mind: If she went to find that Watanabe-san, she would not be able to sing for Iwahashi Shinichi or that president-san.
A competitive spirit that gets brighter and brighter, a flickering flame.
When the competitive spirit takes root and sprouts, a competition becomes a girl's dream that happens quietly.
…
The performance at Wangan Plaza has entered the final countdown. With a venue of nearly 60,000 people and a dance music scene, the organizers cannot help but be prepared.
Leave a clear passage and negotiate with the hospital. An ambulance will be on standby outside the venue at any time. Even if a large-scale outdoor performance goes smoothly, it is inevitable that there will be a few audience members who leave the venue due to dehydration.
A total of 3,000 temporary staff were hired for this show.
Five days before the performance started, the entire Wangan Plaza had been circled for related arrangements. Three days before the performance started, the on-site stage was completed.
Tomorrow, the audio equipment will also be in place.
Before the official performance, Shinichi Iwahashi went to Wangan Plaza to inspect the progress of the scene. He was the named chief producer of this grand performance. Although the specific execution was left to the executive committee, at this time, he still had to show up.
Tetsuya Komuro himself would not come over to confirm the stage equipment until the day before the performance, after everything was in place. During this time, he spent sleepless nights in the recording studio preparing for the performance.
Iwahashi Shinichi went to the recording studio during this period and saw that even after working all night, he took time to tidy up his instrument and put on a facial mask. He deeply believed in his heart that Tetsuya Komuro is definitely a person who loves life and himself.
In this performance, Tetsuya Komuro was the main star on stage, and many celebrities from the disco world were invited. The one who used to be very close to Tetsuya Komuro, and even had a few encounters with Shinichi Iwahashi, loves Bex and DD.
President Matsuura Katsuto, this time, also received an invitation from Tetsuya Komuro to participate in the production of the stage.
Matsuura Katsuto spent all his wealth to buy the distribution rights of the Eurobeat series in Japan from ALFA Records. Since then, he has been working steadily and has released several "Super Eurobeat" series albums so far.
Under the disco craze, Matsuura Katsuto naturally received attention. However, compared with the future he imagined when he was planning to establish EBEX DD, all of this today is far from satisfying Matsuura Katsuto.
When Katsuhito Matsuura and Tetsuya Komuro first met, although they were jealous and hateful of this peacock-like man, the relationship between them was like a plastic flower with a weird color. However, the two reached a consensus on electronic dance music.
, all believe that the future is dominated by electronic dance music, and this has really happened.
Komuro Tetsuya had a close relationship with BURNING's Junichi Baba at first, hoping to get close to Ikuo Shubo through Junichi Baba and get help from the overlord in the entertainment industry to realize his ambitions.
However, due to the band trend and the rise of GENZO, Ikuo Sue devoted himself wholeheartedly to the band, and eventually incorporated the production company of BEING President Daiyuki Nagato and established VERMILLION Records.
At that time, electronic dance music seemed to be something that was already out of date and could not be put on the stage... Facts have proved that Ikkio Sufang was wrong.
Tetsuya Komuro's plans came to nothing, and Katsuto Matsuura missed the opportunity to connect with big names in the industry. In the end, Katsuto Matsuura simply couldn't impress anyone based on the Eurobeat series publishing rights he obtained.
Since then, AVEX DD has been releasing records silently, while Tetsuya Komuro has always been glamorous in front of the stage and has never been affected. The two people originally came together because of the same goal. Since the goal was not achieved, it happened naturally.
Alienation.
Facing Tetsuya Komuro, Katsuto Matsuura is both inferior and arrogant. If he wants to get along with Tetsuya Komuro in peace, he must have a common goal, or he can beat him in some aspects, or let Tetsuya Komuro receive his favor.
When he had neither, Matsuura Katsuto wished he had never known him.
In the huge Tokyo, Matsuura Katsuto is unknown, and there are countless record companies like Bex and DD. But Tetsuya Komuro, a big star, is so eye-catching. If there is any movement, he will always know about it.
Cooperating with Katsuto Matsuura and seeking help from Ikuo Suho, this plan failed. Within two years, Tetsuya Komuro turned to Shinichi Iwahashi. Who could have predicted that Shinichi Iwahashi would push the band's craze to its peak?
After meeting Tetsuya Komuro, he decisively chose to cooperate with him, and the group TRF he launched became very popular.
Not only that, Iwahashi Shinichi also made great efforts to build momentum for Tetsuya Komuro. Katsuto Matsuura knew Tetsuya Komuro's narcissistic personality, and he thought harshly that Shinichi Iwahashi's actions played into Tetsuya Komuro's heart.
That Iwahashi-san has always been known for his good taste. The compliment he received from the industry seems to be genuine.
After missing the opportunity to contact Ikuo Shubo, Tetsuya Komuro finally joined Shinichi Iwahashi. However, Tetsuya Komuro missed the opportunity to contact Ikuo Shubo, and Katsuto Matsuura not only missed the opportunity to cooperate with Tetsuya Komuro, but also missed the chance to make himself
Opportunities to grow.
On the one hand, Tetsuya Komuro is proud of his success, but on the other hand, Katsuto Matsuura is working hard to maintain his own record company.
Thanks to the disco craze, the "Super Eurobeat" series was very popular in the disco scene. Several records were released, and the royalties received were considerable, enough to sustain the company's daily operations.
But this is far from the ambitious future that Matsuura Katsuto imagined.
Today, there is a record company called VERMILLION under the name of BURNING. Running a record company is completely different from running an office. What a record company needs is to concentrate resources and improve efficiency. Ikkio Su is used to subsidizing the agents of big offices.
Establishing a new agency - that kind of approach is simply not feasible for record companies.
Even if this dance music craze made Ikuo Suo pay attention to electronic dance music as the future trend, he would not be able to set up a record company to focus on electronic dance music.
It is obvious that VERMILLION Records may have a new production department responsible for electronic dance music.
Having lost the initial opportunity, Matsuura Katsuto now has to face the reality. That is: if he turns to Ikuo Shufang, the most he can do is make Avex DD become a label under VERMILLION Records.
According to Tetsuya Komuro, since Matsuura Katsuto, like him, believes that electronic dance music has great potential in the future, in order to seize the opportunity, choosing to cooperate with Shinichi Iwahashi's GENZO is the best choice at the moment.
Shinichi Iwahashi fully supports Tetsuya Komuro, and Tetsuya Komuro truly believes that GENZO is the best collaborator at the moment.
This time, there was a performance held at Wangan Plaza. Tetsuya Komuro invited Matsuura Katsuto to participate in the stage production and hinted to him about it.
As a producer, Matsuura Katsuto has advanced insights. Komuro Tetsuya has now become Iwahashi Shinichi's collaborator. After his identity has changed, when he looks at Matsuura Katsuto again, the idea is to let Matsuura Katsuto be used by GENZO.
However, for Matsuura Katsuto, Tetsuya Komuro's thoughts were no different from the reality that he had previously denied in his heart - turning to Ikkio Shubo would make AVEX DD go into history.
Katsuto Matsuura, who dreamed of setting up his own record company when he was a boy, found it difficult to be hired by others. Given the current situation of the company, even if he sought support from industry capital on his own, he would not be able to impress the other party.
However, although he rejected Tetsuya Komuro's proposal in his heart, this time, after receiving Tetsuya Komuro's invitation, Matsuura Katsuto still chose to agree, and during the preparation stage of this performance, he also named himself a producer.
Firstly, he doesn’t want to miss the opportunity to learn experience, and secondly, he also hopes that electronic dance music will become more and more popular, which will also be beneficial to his own record company.
During the period of participation in the preparations, Matsuura Katsuto mostly traveled to and from the recording studio and often interacted with Tetsuya Komuro. On the other hand, he and Shinichi Iwahashi only met from a distance once or twice at executive committee meetings and did not even talk to each other.
Since I don't plan to invest in GENZO, even if I talk to Shinichi Iwahashi, it will probably just be polite and there is no need to think too much.
But at this moment, Katsuto Matsuura is indeed working for GENZO.
