Taking Akina Nakamori's CD back to Yoyogi's recording studio, Masato Nakamura looked a little surprised when he saw the CD in his hand, and asked, "Shinichi-kun, do you like Akina-san's songs?"
"Fortunately, this one looks quite appetizing." Shinichi Iwahashi said casually.
Masato Nakamura nodded, "Akina-san's musical literacy is commendable. He has his own ideas in selecting songs and singing. He is the kind of singer with a strong personal touch that is difficult for others to copy."
"I really want you to tell Nakamori-san what you said." Iwahashi Shinichi teased him.
Masato Nakamura laughed, "That's what I said, but before Seiko-san got married, I was still a die-hard Seiko sect."
"You should not be judged by appearance." Shinichi Iwahashi heard about the battle between the Seiko sect and the Akina sect.
In the past, there was a rivalry between Yamaguchi Momoe and Sakurada Junko, and later there was a fight between Matsuda Seiko and Nakamori Akina. Fans even competed with each other, and there were cases of rolling up their sleeves and fighting.
Japan's idol support culture originated from bosozoku, that is, bad boys.
Therefore, before complaining about the support method, we cannot ignore that it is easy to develop into a bad boy because the idols he likes are different, and he arranges a place to have a friendly wrestling.
By the way, the idol who is famous among fans for being a bosozoku is Kudo Shizuka from Kitten Club.
When she was in the Kitten Club, she was a delinquent girl who had her own way of doing things and said whatever she wanted. There were even rumors that she herself had joined the Bosozoku clan.
This kind of willfulness poked at the tenderness of the bosozokus, causing them to raise their big light sticks and support Shizuka-chan. There was even a program that used a bunch of bosozokus among Kudo Shizuka's fans as memes.
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Hearing his emotion, Nakamura Masato couldn't help but protest, "Listening to the class doesn't sound like a good thing."
"No."
Shinichi Iwahashi said seriously, "I thought you loved foreign music wholeheartedly and had no interest in idol songs."
"Even if I like foreign music, I want to make music in Japan after all." Masato Nakamura said, "So, you can't break away from the environment of Japanese music, lest you lose the Japanese flavor."
"This is quite the truth." Shinichi Iwahashi also felt the same way.
During the production of "Unbreakable", he and Akina Nakamori met by chance in the recording studio. After that, Iwahashi Shinichi never met her once.
The single "Hard to Break" was an unexpected hit after its release and became a hot topic nowadays. Akina Nakamori's artistic sense in this song was also well received by the public.
If it happened, Iwahashi Shinichi would like to congratulate her, but since it doesn't happen, forget it.
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The end of September has just passed. As October enters, the climate becomes more refreshing and pleasant. Especially when you go out in the morning and look up at the sky, you feel particularly refreshing.
In the refreshing atmosphere of October, the recording of Chisato Moritaka's new single has been completed. Next, the recorded audio tracks will be sent to the mixing room for final production.
The single is scheduled to be released in late October. During this period, Shinichi Iwahashi's usual haunt has also changed from Shimbashi's recording studio to Warner Pioneer's headquarters, with Chisato Moritaka as the executive producer, and the team members responsible for her.
Have a meeting together.
The most suitable one was selected from the cover photos taken for her, and then the singing outfit was made. According to Shinichi Iwahashi's mini skirt plan, the costume designer tailor-made a so-called "youthful and girly" mini skirt for Chisato Moritaka.
Since they plan to do something big, Warner Pioneer allocated enough funds to Chisato Moritaka for this single, at least it is better than the previous single.
Being generous can either be a way to improve her salary after becoming famous, or it can be a last ditch effort, but no matter which one Sentaka Senri is, since the money is quite adequate, he designed several sets of clothes for her generously, and plans to appear on the TV station.
When singing, she shows off her youthful and beautiful beauty in many aspects.
After the decision is made, Warner Pioneer's printing factory, printing plate factory, and distribution network must start preparations in advance. Based on the feedback orders, they will determine the quantity of the first batch of shipments, as well as the proportion of CDs, tapes, and LPs.
That being said, a newcomer like this who is not popular will only print a few thousand copies at a time, not more than 10,000, and then replenish the stock according to the situation. The current record market is sluggish, except for big-name releases, very few
Few companies dare to print on a large scale.
In addition to the mini skirt plan, Iwahashi Shinichi also proposed to shoot a music video for Chisato Moritaka.
When the previous single was released, I also shot a music video, but it was just a symbolic studio shot of a singing scene with no scenery. Chisato Moritaka, who wanted to be a strong performer, was wearing work clothes, and there were cool musicians behind him, looking pretty and willful.
Chisato Moritaka didn't even put on makeup properly, she just put on some foundation.
In this way, it can be seen that she is a beautiful woman, which shows how reliable this soft power is.
This time, according to Iwahashi Shinichi, he asked a director with some experience to seriously shoot a MV that at least had footage, and then broadcast it on TV as a promotion.
The mv thing was born very early. As early as the Beatles, the four bugs filmed a refreshing and sunny mv for the chart-topping single "Rain", which was broadcast on TVs all over the world as an alternative to not being on TV.
broadcast.
Later, Michael Jackson carried this thing forward again.
Even so, these days, I still don’t pay much attention to MVs, because they are basically used for TV promotions. Now is the era of the most intensive Japanese music programs. You can’t watch them live, and the MVs are nothing new and nothing new.
market.
Besides, now it's not like later, when the CD+DVD configuration is the basic one when releasing records, especially after the advent of the Internet era, the promotional role of MVs is even more obvious, so MVs are usually just a simple shot. Proposals like his are spent.
A lot of effort is still used on a newcomer, which is still a bit special.
Speaking of which, something called CD-V (not VCD) was born this year. This is a CD record with a golden surface. The inner ring is used to store music, and the outer ring can hold about five minutes of video.
You can listen to it as an ordinary CD or watch videos.
However, this kind of thing needs to be played with a DVD player, and the amount of information is small. Therefore, even if it comes out, it will be difficult to promote it. In Iwahashi Shinichi's opinion, it is a useless thing no matter how you look at it.
As for the evidence, there is no such format for CD-V in later generations.
Iwahashi Shinichi believed that shooting a music video that could show the beauty and vitality of Sentaka Chisato could also be a part of publicity, so he insisted on spending more time on it.
He is a producer, so he still has a lot of say. Even though he is on Warner Pioneer's territory, the other party still listens to his opinions seriously. Besides, it doesn't cost much to find an unknown director to make a music video, so that's it.