Cream cannon, hair dryer, and confetti foam particles to paste on the face. This idea is very on point, let us make such a happy decision!
...that's weird.
To say that Japanese variety shows are unscrupulous, sometimes to the point of refreshing people's imagination, it is even more exaggerated in today's 1980s. Iwahashi Shinichi deeply feels that it is best to debut as a comedian in Japan.
It takes extraordinary courage.
But even so, no matter how unethical the industry is, there are still rules that need to be followed.
A variety show in which all artists participate can sacrifice moral integrity in exchange for effects. It doesn't matter how you do it, and you can even risk your life in a literal sense.
But programs like now, which focus on ordinary people and have amateurs as the protagonists, cannot do this.
This is first of all a very basic morality.
Regardless of whether an artist is popular or not, whether he is a newcomer or a big hit, he must have a sense of awareness.
When you become an artist and decide to enter the industry, you must accept the self-sacrifice that comes with being an artist. Artists are a profession that uses themselves as nourishment to entertain the public.
From this point of view, within the entertainment industry, simply being an artist has a very low status.
However, the amateurs who come to participate in the draft are not real insiders, so the insider gameplay is not applicable to them. Even if you want to add a little entertainment, you must consider a gentle and harmless method.
Furthermore, this is a music talent show after all. Appropriate jokes can be used as seasonings with Sichuan peppercorns, but Sichuan peppercorns cannot be allowed to become the main ingredient in the pot.
That would be truly putting the cart before the horse.
In addition, some of the bands that come to participate will have made their debut in the industry, and may even make some achievements. You must make this assumption.
It is undoubtedly disrespectful to treat the participating bands as monkeys. Not only will the truly high-level bands oppose this program, but excessive entertainment will also make the audience instinctively despise the bands performing in this program.
If you want to sell something in this show, then what you sell should definitely not be "laughing points."
To find a balance among these, we need to spend more effort.
The overall framework of the program was set up, and the script was being written. Precisely because the basic things had been decided, Shinichi Iwahashi began to think slowly, adding some small details like renovating a house.
Some of the staff members sent by AE had dealt with Shinichi Iwahashi before and had some understanding of his work. On the contrary, other people in the production team felt uncomfortable with this guy who was so junior but had to give advice every time he came.
Very incredible.
Fortunately, he is not aimless. Although there will be disputes and doubts, everyone is always working in the same direction.
To make this show, there are already more than 20 people in the production team who can sit in the conference room, not including the subsequent on-site personnel, lighting, photography, scene management, etc. It is simply not something that can be completed by just a few people.
thing.
The house is built with bricks, but the bricks piled there are not the house.
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The name of the program was finally decided as "Yuji Miyake's Super Band Heaven", to build momentum under the banner of Yuji Miyake's title program.
The term "Band Paradise" comes from the Pedestrian Paradise in front of Jingu Plaza. Nowadays, due to the large number of amateur bands gathering, the former Pedestrian Paradise has become the Band Paradise among the people.
Before and after planning this show, Iwahashi Shinichi and Watanabe Manyumi often wandered around this area on weekends. His recording studio is in Yoyogi, which is not far away. The two of them almost every weekend
We all went there to investigate, and after discussing it, we even decided to name the program "Band Heaven."
Among amateur bands and band lovers in Tokyo, there are probably very few people who don’t know about “Band Paradise”.
Let's just say it's just a matter of popularity.
The newlyweds sent by AE were all in their early teens. The youngest one was only fourteen years old. When he stood in front of Shinichi Iwahashi and said hello, Shinichi Iwahashi, who has lived in two generations, deeply felt that he was already a
A Laobang vegetable.
Although they came here to make an audition tape, none of these people were selected to join the agency as singers.
In this era, Yokichi Ohori's style of doing things is quite different from that of traditional Japanese entertainment agencies. He collectively calls his artists artists, unlike other agencies, which use singers and actors.
Such labels are used to subdivide them. Therefore, even if newcomers do not have singing ambitions, their singing ability must be confirmed.
However, since they are not professional singers and have almost no relevant learning experience outside of school music classes, most of these newcomers are at the karaoke level, and occasionally one or two are at the "Love Offering" level.
Shinichi Iwahashi, who has an absolute sense of pitch, has made rapid progress in the recording studio. However, for him who has an absolute sense of pitch, it is really painful to listen to a demo tape that is not in tune.
The feeling of hearing it is no less than scratching a blackboard with fingernails, it is so painful that it makes your soul tremble.
Nakamura Masato's big brother was gloating over the misfortune, Iwahashi Shinichi was holding back his teeth here, and he was holding back his laughter there. The weak friendship that originally had the meaning of competing for food was in danger with the arrival of these young boys and girls.
Only Miwa-chan, who was held in their hands by the two of them, still looked carefree. She started humming songs when she was happy, and then recorded the melody that came to her mind on a tape.
Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura are responsible for reviewing her recordings. On the one hand, they are reviewing whether these melodies have already been born. It would be terrible if they accidentally listened to the melodies on a certain day of a certain year and a certain day and are now reminded of them.
On the other hand, it is necessary to review whether these melodies need to be reprocessed. If they are deemed to have no value, then they will be passed directly as waste songs.
The three of them took root in the recording studio, making music for others as well as for themselves.
However, although most of them were not of good quality, there were a few with good voice recognition. For example, the fourteen-year-old girl who said hello abruptly.
"The voice is surprisingly quality, Eri-chan." Shinichi Iwahashi said to her.
The fourteen-year-old girl's name is Fukatsu Eri. She has short hair and thick eyebrows. She is a bit energetic like a teenager. In her bare face, there are a few harmless freckles on her face, but she has some playful freckles. Her eyes are big and steady.
But he is still nimble. At just fourteen years old, he has already become a bit adult.
When she first arrived at the recording studio, Miwa-chan met her and secretly said to Shinichi Iwahashi, "Although that child is young, she looks like an adult."
"On the contrary, you, although you are a real adult, sometimes you still act like a child." Iwahashi Shinichi teased her.
Hearing what he said, Yoshida Miwa got sick of her crooked neck again and moved closer to him, "Only children would say that to others."
Shinichi Iwahashi ducked back and said with a smile, "Birds of a feather flock together."
This is an example of someone who goes crazy and even beats himself up.
After being complimented by him, Fukatsu Eri curled up her lips and smiled, "Thank you, Iwahashi-san."
A smile spreads across her face, and her boyishness fades away again. Looking at her this way, she looks like a beautiful girl.
Eri Fukatsu comes from a scholarly family. Her mother, Yumiko Fukatsu, is a well-known calligrapher. Last year, she accidentally participated in a small-scale talent show and won the grand prize. As a result, she was chosen by Yokichi Osato, who signed the contract.
Place.
From this point of view, Shinichi Iwahashi couldn't help but admire Oori Yokichi's provocative vision.
The entire batch of audition tapes had been produced, and Eri Fukatsu was not the best singer among them, but Shinichi Iwahashi recommended her first when he attached his thoughts.
After receiving these audition tapes and reflections, AE may not have the idea of letting Fukatsu Eri debut as a singer. However, if newcomers who perform well can be cultivated, they will have another path besides being an actor.
Activities as a singer are also a way to increase exposure.
…
When he was making the Tokyo Music Industry Club's cover albums, he didn't feel it, but when he was making this demo tape, Iwahashi Shinichi felt like he was short of manpower.
Now he and Masato Nakamura are almost all responsible for the production. Although abnoral was also signed, the signing was not a producer contract. Furthermore, the band's standard is quite high. As expected, Iwahashi Shinichi will definitely find a way.
Let them debut, or just sign up for this band heaven show.
When making the audition tape, Shinichi Iwahashi made a mental assumption about how far he could go if the audition tape was sent back to AE and Ohri Yokichi proposed to let his production company produce the singer.
Then, he discovered that a problem was exposed in front of him: although the production company is not responsible for lyrics and music in theory, a production company that wants to become big must have its own full-time songwriters and arrangers.
If ae does not provide lyrics and music, but entrusts them with full authority, the production company will have to find suitable songs from the stock songs of Yoshida Miwa and Nakamura Masato. However, Yoshida Miwa's songs can only be sung by herself. It is more about style than style.
Her singing is very difficult, and if you are short of breath you may choke to death if you are not careful.
There is abnoral where you can buy music, but you can't tear down the east wall to repair the west wall.
Being able to provide lyrics and music production is a very big advantage. You cannot wait for the opportunity to come and then rush to it, but you must be prepared to meet the opportunity.
It's just that it's hard to find songwriters who are of some caliber and are willing to join.
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That day was Saturday, and at eight o'clock in the evening, Akamatsu Haruko came to Yoyogi's recording studio.
She came from the company's office in Kawasaki. After the company was established, she occasionally worked part-time as an employee. Just as the black-hearted boss Shinichi Iwahashi said to Okada Yukiko, the salary was not high.
However, she didn't take it too seriously. In other words, the musicians gathered around Shinichi Iwahashi at this stage were all people who had ideals above all else.
When Akamatsu Haruko arrived, there was no one else in the recording studio except for Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura. The main protagonist, Miwa Yoshida, was not here tonight because she was going to attend some Hokkaido hometown gathering.
I don't know whether I should praise Hokkaido people for being so humane. Anyway, Shinichi Iwahashi has never heard of any Shizuoka hometown association in the underground music circle. Maybe he can take the lead in organizing one someday, even though he is a fake Shizuoka native.
Recently, Masato Nakamura has begun to try composing music for Miwa Yoshida's lyrics.
On this point, Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura agree. Although Miwa Yoshida has talent, her music is unconstrained and unconstrained, and sometimes lacks necessary selling points. In order to push her to a higher place, appropriate adjustments should be made.
It’s not that she needs to change her style, but that she should adapt to her style and produce songs with selling points.
Miwa Yoshida was thinking about how to sing, but Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura were thinking about how to let more people hear the songs she sang.
Because she couldn't read music, Yoshida Miwa couldn't write lyrics for other people's songs. But even so, after thinking about it, Iwahashi Shinichi thought that she could sing other people's songs, but the lyrics had to be written by herself.
This stems from his long-term experience with Miwa Yoshida's works, as well as something he discovered and concluded when listening to songs by singer-songwriters such as Miyuki Nakajima, Yumi Matsutoya, and Yosui Inoue.
That is, the creator’s lyrics contain the creator’s own world view.
The creator may write a hundred lyrics, and the lyrics express all kinds of strange things, but if you read it carefully, you will find that whether it is the choice of words or sentences, or the way you look at things, it has its own unique style.
Iwahashi Shinichi does not want to destroy this unique Yoshida Miwa style, and believes that this distinctive and stable style is the winning formula for attracting listeners and then keeping them.
Iwahashi Shinichi thought deeply. The reason why Yoshida Miwa was unwilling to sing Nakamura Masato's lyrics was very simple. It completely stemmed from his dislike of the lyrics written by Nakamura Masato.
"Masato-san has no talent for composing lyrics at all," Miwa Yoshida said.
In order to be fair and impartial, let us excerpt an excerpt from Masato Nakamura's lyric masterpiece: "oothreefour the rhymes match, kisskisskiss, kiss three times."
At this point, Masato Nakamura is completely defeated and is honestly learning how to fill in the music score for Miwa Yoshida's lyrics.
It's difficult for Miwa Yoshida to write lyrics for other people's songs. It's even more difficult for Masato Nakamura to compose the music after getting the lyrics. It's a pity that he is a studio musician who has been behind the scenes for many years. He has also written a lot of songs. Now that he has worked hard, he may not be able to do it.
Please.
Masato Nakamura produced several new songs at once. After writing the music, he called Shinichi Uiwahashi and wanted to hear his opinion. At first, there were only two of them, so they didn’t care much. The two of them smoked and discussed, which filled the recording studio.
Smoke billows.
As soon as Akamatsu Haruko came in, she choked.
The two of them quickly put out their cigarettes and apologized to her: "I'm sorry, Chisong-san."
"It's okay." Akamatsu Haruko replied, "Are you two busy?"
"Let's discuss the new song." Shinichi Iwahashi turned on the exhaust fan, "Is there anything wrong with Akamatsu-san?"