The ideal is lofty, but resigning from Odyssey is a logical ending, but there is no logical beginning ahead.
He is now like a child just learning to walk. Everything starts with falling over and carefully maintaining balance.
In the next few days, while working in a pizza shop to make ends meet, Shinichi Iwahashi began to frequently visit record stores to listen to music, and also went to rental stores to rent tapes. In addition, he also began to purchase several mainstream music books on the market.
Magazine.
Knowing yourself and your enemy means you can win every battle. He wanted to sell Yoshida Miwa's excellence, but before promoting her, he still had to at least have an overall understanding of the current market trends.
Now in 1985, the record market is still an era where CDs, LPs (vinyl records), and cassettes are sold in parallel. Moreover, CDs, which have almost dominated the world in later generations, are still rubbed on the ground by LPs and cassettes.
The reason for this situation is very simple. CD was born in 1982, and it is only in its third year.
In order to be fully promoted, at least every household must have a CD player. In order to achieve this, technology must continue to develop. In addition, the public's habit of using cassettes and LPs must also be changed.
As a time traveler, he always has the advantage of being a prophet, that is, he is more certain than anyone else that the future will definitely be the era of CDs. Although for now, knowing this does not seem to be of any use.
In order to fully understand the market trends, I listened to songs for several days and checked various information in music magazines. Then, Iwahashi Shinichi said sincerely:
Akina Nakamori is so awesome (broken voice).
Previously, there was another equally top idol in the music industry, Seiko Matsuda, who was competing with her.
These two people, Nakamori Akina takes a mature and handsome route, while Matsuda Seiko takes a pure and orthodox route. It is like replicating the battle between Yamaguchi Momoe and Sakurada Junko. Even the fans are divided into
Two factions.
What's interesting is that the dashing and handsome Akina Nakamori is a good girl, while the pure and sweet Seiko Matsuda lives a chic life. Their personal personalities are completely opposite to their characters on stage.
In the second year after Matsuda Seiko debuted, she fell in love with Hiromi Go, another top male idol at the time, and they almost came to the point of discussing marriage, but it fell through due to career differences.
Matsuda Seiko burst into tears at the breakup press conference and said: "I can't do it in this life. If I have the next life, I will stay with Gogumi forever." This scene was photographed and printed in the magazine as a permanent souvenir.
Three months later, in June of this year, she and actor Masaki Kanda held a wedding of the century that cost 200 million yen and released 300 pigeons. After the wedding, she temporarily retired from the entertainment industry.
This chic attitude towards life can be considered a first in the female idol world.
With her biggest rival withdrawing, the music world has become a situation where Akina Nakamori's strength dominates the entire scene. But this is not a domination caused by the withdrawal of her rival, but rather the re-expansion of her own strength.
In short, no matter who you are at this stage, as long as you debut as a female soloist and come in front of Nakamori Akina, you will only be beaten.
Or, there is no need for Akina Nakamori to beat you up personally. Female idols such as Kyoko Koizumi, Momoko Kikuchi, Yukiko Okada, etc. have already sent you into a large-scale group fight.
The kitten club, a large-scale amateur female idol group from Fuji TV's "Twilight Meow" program, went into battle wearing bikinis and performed the final blow with the song "セーラー衣を take off the sailor uniform" (Don't take off the sailor uniform)
.
... Having said that, even thirty years later, the Kitten Club will still be big enough.
Previously, Mari Amaya had told him about the program "Twilight Meow Meow". Now it seems that her words are indeed not wrong. Compared with the upright idols in front of them, Kitty Club gives people a feeling of "this is okay"
?” feeling.
Generally speaking, female idols are very popular now, and ballads dominate the world, leaving very limited space for female singer-songwriters. In particular, Yoshida Miwa's music style is far from popular ballads.
In this case, if you want to promote her, you need to be more determined than writing niche articles at the starting point.
Big words feel good for a while, but actions don't feel good at all.
On Friday evening, when I got home, there was a message on the phone. Shinichi Iwahashi picked up the call. It was from Mari Amaya and asked him to go to the rehearsal of Mimi Club tomorrow.
At 3:30 pm the next day, Shinichi Iwahashi met Mari Amaya at a coffee shop near Shinjuku Station.
Iwahashi Shinichi has never seen anyone from Mimi Club since the last time he danced with them. When they met today, Amaya Mari replaced her wavy hair like instant noodles with shoulder-length straight hair.
Fa, the image changed so quickly that Shinichi Iwahashi almost didn't dare to recognize him.
"Iwahashi-san." It was Mari Amaya who took the initiative to greet him.
Iwahashi Shinichi sat down opposite her, "Long time no see, Amaya-san... I have a new hairstyle."
"Yes." Mari Amaya subconsciously touched the ends of her hair, "Is it still suitable?"
"Quite good, very suitable for you." He told the truth, and silently added the second half of the sentence that he couldn't say: it is much better than the previous instant noodles.
"That's good. I was a little worried at first."
After the coffee he ordered was brought to him, Mari Amaya suddenly told him something: "I have some good news that I want to let Iwahashi-san hear."
"I'd be very interested if there's any good news."
Mari Amaya smiled lively, "The band has signed a contract with the record company and is preparing to make a mainstream debut."
"Really?" Shinichi Iwahashi was also happy for her, but also a little curious, "Which company did you sign with?"
"CBS Sony."
"It's amazing, such a big company." When it comes to record companies that are famous all over the world, this one will never fall behind.
"Mineshima-san has been helping to send the band's demo tapes and videos," said Mari Amaya. "Previously, some record companies agreed to sign the band, but they felt that our structure was too bloated. The condition for agreeing to sign the contract was to lay off Onoda-san and himself.
We were asked to be backup dancers, but we were all rejected by Ishii-san and Mineshima-san."
This is a reflection of Fengdao's understanding of the core charm of Mimi Club. Even if this charm cannot be accepted by the world at this stage, Fengdao insists on not losing it to cater to the mainstream, until this persistence pays off.
From this point of view, Mineshima is undoubtedly an excellent manager, and Mimi Club is lucky to have met him. And from the perspective of promoting music styles that are not yet accepted by the mainstream, Iwahashi Shinichi and Mineshima have the same characteristics.
Feeling.
Mineshima was also the one who taught him the concept of "selling excellence" and was the only one who could provide him with advice.
Iwahashi Shinichi only had a one-time relationship with Mineshima, so before he came to see Mari Amaya, he had already made a plan in his mind, hoping to contact Mineshima through Mari Amaya. And now the news that Mari Amaya told him,
This further strengthened his confidence in Fengdao.
Regardless of whether it works or not, give it a try first and then talk about it.
