"That's it. I'm not good at it anyway. Since I can't do it well, I just don't do it." Iwahashi Shinichi said.
Yamauchi Kenichi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "This sounds a bit hasty."
"On the contrary, it is very demanding to maintain the status quo of 'don't do it' and make people think it is 'beautiful'. It is said that we maintain the status quo just to be lazy, but in fact, it increases the number of
It’s the right level of difficulty.”
Shinichi Iwahashi whetted Kenichi Yamauchi's appetite, and then wound up the music box, allowing the emotionless little girl to continue dancing to the music.
His curiosity was first aroused, and then he turned to other topics under his guidance. After making a big circle and returning to the beginning, Yamauchi Kenichi suddenly realized that he was not being led by Iwahashi Shinichi.
Walking on your nose?
This person must have done it on purpose...
However, after going around this circle, my attention has been attracted and my appetite has been whetted. Now, since I lost the opportunity to control the rhythm from the beginning, I have no choice but to continue to listen to what he has to say.
"When you look at a music box, the mirror is a stage." Shinichi Iwahashi said.
The scene of two grown men sitting in a cafe and staring at the music box in front of them is quite interesting.
"The girl in the music box dances for everyone who sees the music box and buys it. But in fact, she is not dancing for anyone, and she doesn't care who she is dancing for."
"In other words, this is a dance that is not performed for anyone." Shinichi Iwahashi pointed out the important point.
Kenichi Yamauchi smiled bitterly and said, "The girl in the music box has no feelings to begin with, and she won't dance for anyone."
"So, what about idols who don't dance for whom?" Shinichi Iwahashi didn't care about Kenichi Yamauchi's reaction.
"Who are you not dancing for?"
"I don't dance for anyone, but I dance for everyone. What I want to create is such a group." Shinichi Iwahashi guided Kenichi Yamauchi, "A group that is not flattering, like a dream,
A combination that seems to have nothing to do with the real world.”
"..." This idea is too incredible.
In an era when stars have fallen from the clouds and celebrities have become common people, it has become extremely difficult to create a feeling that has nothing to do with the real world.
We can no longer make up those weird settings. Now, if we continue to follow some idols and claim that "their farts are rose-colored", we will only make the audience laugh, and they will be suspected of coming from
A paranoid man who escaped from some lunatic asylum.
Therefore, if you want to make the audience feel that "dream-like", you need to use other methods.
Sometimes, there is no need to claim that one is a young publican from the South, and there is no need to talk about how one can fart in an interview. You don’t need to say anything to make the audience feel unreal.
Let them stand on the stage and dance like the girls in the music box. No matter if they smile or wink, they will not do anything to serve the audience. There is no need to promote themselves. We are girls who came out of the music box. As long as we
On the stage, if you dance with the feeling of not being for anyone but for everyone, then that feeling will appear naturally.
"Suzuki-san and Aida-san lack some distinctive characteristics. Although they are cute, they lack memory points. Therefore, it is not too much to describe them as 'ordinary'. It is also because of this ordinaryness that they cannot be played as singles.
Activity."
"However, if you think about it, this kind of ordinaryness can be like the models in the clothing catalog, making the audience pay more attention to the effect of the clothes on the body than paying attention to the model's face. In this case, they pay more attention to their performance.
.”
The colorless Suzuki Sachiko and Aida Shoko are suitable for painting them with such dreamy colors. If they are girls with strong personal colors, they will not be able to dance in the music box.
Iwahashi Shinichi's words made Yamauchi Kenichi stunned for a moment.
Suzuki Sachiko and Aida Shoko lack characteristics. This is a problem that is also recognized within the agency and the record company. Therefore, when they first formed the team before their debut, they tried to find ways to explore their characteristics, including the interests and hobbies of the two girls.
I have considered them all, and even want to develop one or two specialties in them, just hoping to find something special that makes them unique.
The scariest thing about the entertainment industry is not the lack of ability, but the lack of characteristics.
Celebrities who are flawless in everything, unless they are so good that they are invincible, will be easily forgotten, let alone these two girls who are quite satisfactory in every aspect and so balanced that people are left speechless.
As a result, when Iwahashi Shinichi arrived, the solution he came up with was not to discover their characteristics, but to directly obliterate the two girls' personalities on stage?
It's too unreasonable. However, although it sounds like a ridiculous and unrealistic proposal, there is still a slight possibility that you can give it a try.
Two girls with no characteristics, then, if you think about it the other way around, isn’t the lack of characteristics also the characteristics?
No expression, stiff dancing, these are completely opposite requirements for traditional idols. If they did this, wouldn't they be unique in the industry today?
Yamauchi Kenichi was considering the feasibility when he heard Iwahashi Shinichi speak again.
"However, there is still an important link left to complete this dreamlike experience." Shinichi Iwahashi said his thoughts without reservation, "That is the cooperation between your firm and the record company."
"oh?"
"On the packaging, prepare gorgeous clothes for them. They should be extremely gorgeous, like girls dancing in palace-style dresses in European music boxes. They are so gorgeous that they have nothing to do with common people, reality, or ordinary people."
Everything from stage style to costumes makes them look different from the traditional impression of idols. There is no need to deliberately say "we are girls who came out of the music box", let the audience spontaneously produce this
impression.
"Hmm." Kenichi Yamauchi puffed his mouth and said nothing.
Originally, Wink was formed because I wanted to eat fast food. If I follow Shinichi Iwahashi's suggestion, first of all, the production cost of Wink will have to be increased a lot. In this way, it will not be done casually.
It's decided.
Iwahashi Shinichi also knew what was going on, and did not expect Yamauchi Kenichi to make any immediate statement to him.
When formulating a singer's route, he must refer to the agency and the record company, and consider the opinions of many parties. It cannot be decided by just one responsible manager. Although he has been entrusted privately, it is only at the stage of coming up with ideas.
As for whether to adopt it or not, that is something that Yamauchi Kenichi will take back for discussion later. Only when he is accepted and formally invited to join the production lineup can he be truly involved.
If the agency and the record company feel that it is unreasonable, this plan will not come to fruition, and that will be the end of it.
Now, he is like a young author who has just submitted his manuscript. He has to wait for the first and second review by the editorial department. If everything goes well, he will be sent to the editor for final review before he can confirm whether his page and name will be included in the next issue of the magazine.
.
Until then, all that can be done is to wait.
The good thing is that an author who has not finished writing a manuscript and submits it, and who doesn’t know if it can be published yet does nothing and waits for a month or two for the result. Submitting a manuscript will not prevent him from preparing a new one.
Submit your manuscript to others, as long as you don't submit more than one manuscript.
Therefore, he fed back his ideas to Kenichi Yamauchi. After the two broke up, it was up to him how to digest and convey these ideas to the office and record company.
As for Iwahashi Shinichi himself, he continued to go about his own business and did not think about whether the submitted manuscript would allow him to meet the production fee in the end.
On Wednesday, Dreamsetrue's debut single "So Happy! So Happy! I Like It So Much!", after several days of distribution, the band's single appeared in record stores in Kanto, Kansai and Tokai.
There is the fame bonus of the band Heavenly Champions, which attracts more attention than ordinary newcomers, and there is also CBS and Sony's generous promotion, and they have reached an agreement with close record stores to hang the band's promotional posters in the stores.
In addition, when Band Paradise is broadcast on Saturday, the host Yuji Miyake will also report to the audience on the band's debut progress. For a program with a ratings of more than 20%, such a sentence
It's a big exposure.
In addition, because the happy tone of this song is particularly suitable for broadcasting in shopping malls and other places, people from CBS and Sony specifically contacted the Cable Broadcasting Association to promote their song to the association.
The correct way for stores in shopping streets to play songs as BGM in the store is to sign a contract with the Cable Broadcasting Association and become their contract store. The statistical scope of the cable broadcast list is between these contract stores. Otherwise
, who would know what songs to play in a small store in a remote area that is not on the Cable Broadcasting Association’s cooperation list?
To promote your own music with the Cable Broadcasting Association, and then sell your own music to contracted stores through the Cable Broadcasting Association, no matter whether it is necessary or not, this is a sales method that belongs to this era.
Now is not an era where people can immediately know about a singer as soon as he or she makes a splash. The only way to expand influence and popularity is through one or another method.
Considering the band's sales and sales trends is a matter for the record company and the agency. Of course, as one of the producers, Shinichi Iwahashi also has to pay attention at all times.
However, as for the band itself, what they are mainly doing right now is rehearsing for the upcoming tour. When the debut album is released, they will start traveling all over the country to promote it.
Even if they perform in a place the size of a school auditorium, now that they have officially debuted, it is different from the underground period. Even their newly debuted band, CBS Sony, has provided supporting musicians for the performance. During the rehearsal stage,
It is also a period of getting along with the supporting musicians.
…
Akina Nakamori had participated in a program recording at a TV station in Osaka the day before yesterday. She had been on location in Osaka for two days in a row. She didn't get on the return Shinkansen until 2:40 in the afternoon.
When I arrived at Tokyo Station and got into the car of the office waiting there, the day was getting longer in June and it was sunset.
"This time the work is over." Da Ben confirmed the itinerary in his hand, "However, we have to go on location tomorrow and I will pick you up at four o'clock in the morning. In short, please have a good rest."
Akina Nakamori said "Hmm" absentmindedly. She kicked off her shoes, hugged her knees with both hands, and stepped on the edge of the seat with her feet, like a kitten curled up in a ball.
Being on location for two days in a row, the workload was quite heavy, so this was not surprising to the boss.
"Should I take you home next, or go get something to eat first?" Daben asked her.
As a result, Nakamori Akina said: "Can I go back to the office first?"
"Go back to the office?" Ben was startled when he received such an answer, and then returned to normal, showing an expression as if he had guessed what she was going to do. However, he said nothing.
The car started moving and headed towards the headquarters of Yanyin Office.
In May, after sending the letter to Shinichi Iwahashi, Akina Nakamori still did not receive a reply.
Not long ago, she co-starred with Chisato Moritaka in "TheBestten" and performed on the same stage as a newcomer produced by Shinichi Iwahashi. Akina Nakamori couldn't help but think about Nobu and imagined whether Shinichi Iwahashi would look at herself as a producer.
Produced by the singer's performance.
This association gave her a strange illusion when she was performing. It seemed that while she was facing the camera and performing for the public in front of the TV, she was also performing for Shinichi Iwahashi.
What do you think? She unknowingly injected such questions into the performance.
After returning to the office, the staff responsible for receiving mail put the collected fan letters during this period into a cardboard box. In addition, they also delivered them to the address used by other industry insiders and related parties.
letter.
In fact, letters marked as work letters have to go through the hands of the office, so most of the letters that are actually sent to her are so-called personal letters.
However, Akina Nakamori is not the kind of person who has a wide network of friends. She will not send letters to the office if she contacts friends frequently. Therefore, in the end, she will be asked to consider the letters that may be sent before receiving them.
It's just Shinichi Iwahashi's.
"Thank you~"
Akina Nakamori thanked the staff. She took the personal letters and saw at a glance that it was sent by Shinichi Iwahashi. When she saw the words on the envelope, she felt a faint kindness in her heart, and felt relieved that she had received a response.
Her big manager delivered the box of fan letters to her car.
"Aren't you going to have something to eat?" Daben asked her.
Nakamori Akina shook her head, "I want to go back and cook a little by myself. If the kitchen at home is not used anymore, it will grow hairy."
"It's terrible." Daben complained and said no more.
But this is indeed true. During the humid season, in households with tatami mats, mushrooms may even grow under the tatami mats.
Daben carried the fan letter upstairs for her and placed it in the entrance hall, "Then, please have a good rest."