A collection of covers is not popular, and the singers who record such cover albums cannot be on the stage.
As a result, it was such a job that didn't look very good at all. The girl who was responsible for debugging the equipment turned out to be a popular idol in the past.
What kind of experience is this? Keiko Utoku can't describe it.
Yukiko Okada was recognized, but she didn't take it seriously. With a smile on her face, she told Keiko Utoku that the equipment had been adjusted. Until she walked into the recording room, Keiko Utoku was still thinking about what kind of company this was.
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What kind of company can allow an idol who retired from the entertainment industry in order to focus on his studies to debug equipment here?
It was just a singer who came to record a cover album. It was impossible for Keiko Utoku to ask this question. But in her heart, she became more and more curious about this company and Iwahashi-san.
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Keiko Utoku entered the recording room, and Seiichiro Kuribayashi was in charge of supervising the studio. Yukiko Okada didn't take any time off after debugging the equipment, and immediately found something new to do.
During the summer vacation, she worked at the recording studio in Yoyogi five times a week, and after school started, the number was reduced to three times a week. With her experience as an idol, she was very familiar with the equipment in the recording studio and was very comfortable doing it.
This part-time job is almost like a chore, covering all kinds of things. Even so, even if it is a trivial and boring job, Okada Yukiko is very energetic.
The reason for this is that on the one hand, I really like Yoyogi's recording studio, and on the other hand, I also want to do something for Shinichi Iwahashi.
Yukiko Okada also knows about the establishment of a record company. Knowing that, I am really happy for Shinichi Iwahashi and hope he can succeed.
The production company was inferior to the newly established record company in all aspects, but Okada Yukiko could understand Shinichi Iwahashi's feelings for this production company that he founded by himself.
When she retired from the entertainment industry, Okada Yukiko received an employee card from a production company as a gift, and she also had an extraordinary affection for the production company.
Although I can't help Iwahashi Shinichi a lot, it would be nice if I could use my own strength in the production company.
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After the recording ended that day, Keiko Utoku left and called her agent.
"How was work today?" the agent asked her.
Inoue, the agent in charge of Keiko Utoku, is a woman in her mid-thirties with a stable and old-school personality. Unlike Nakano, who is in charge of Sachiko Kamaike's group, she never jokes with her models.
The young models who work under Inoue privately don't have a good impression of this agent.
To put it bluntly, for these models, a smooth Nakano is easier for them to get along with than an old-school Inoue.
However, Keiko Utoku, who is not good at dealing with slippery people, quite likes the old-school approach of Inoue.
"That's it, it's a cover of an idol's song." Keiko Utoku replied.
The entire collection contains twelve songs, including big-name idols such as Matsuda Seiko, Nakamori Akina, and Koizumi Kyoko.
When Utoku Keiko saw the song list, she remembered the news she had seen about the Seiko faction and the Akina faction fighting over the idols they supported, and secretly thought to herself that it also included a collection of covers of songs by Matsuda Seiko and Nakamori Akina.
I know who will buy it.
This is the characteristic of a large collection of cover songs. As long as you pay money to the Music Association, not to mention just being a formal commercial rival, even a million-year-old rival can be included in one album.
"Inoue-san."
Keiko Utoku called, not to report on work, "What kind of company is Genzo?"
"Genzo?" Inoue was a little surprised, "Isn't it the record company established by Watanabe Productions, Takeda Printing Company, and Iwahashi-san?"
The names of the two companies only differed in capitalization and pronunciation. The words got mixed up in two places. Keiko Utoku explained, "It's not a record company, it's Iwahashi-san's genzo production company."
"That's not clear. The firm doesn't have much dealings with record companies, and the production company doesn't have much dealings with it." Inoue replied, "What, did something happen today?"
"No, I'm just a little curious." Keiko Utoku responded perfunctorily.
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As soon as the record company was established, the three original members of Abnormal reorganized themselves into Zard, and their contracts were transferred to the record company.
There are still many things to arrange before the official debut.
The company established a production team led by Shinichi Iwahashi to plan Zard's debut. A mainstream debut is not just about having records on the shelves of record stores across the country, it involves all aspects.
When will the debut press conference be held? How will the promotion be done? The TV station production bureaus, broadcast production bureaus, and music industry bigwigs that need to be met must be led to visit them. Also, should we find sponsors, and which ones should we look for?
...and so on and so forth are all problems.
Not only finalizing external matters, but also how to choose the band’s debut single and album, how to shoot clothing, music videos, and cover photos... just to name it, there is a long list of things to be completed.
Shinichi Iwahashi, who has experienced mainstream debut as a member of DreamseTrue, has experienced it personally and has gained a lot of experience from it, which he can now use.
This giraffe man is not in vain.
They are busy here, and the band's arrangements are also full.
The three of them, Tatsuya Hirakawa, had to come up with enough songs, arrange the songs, practice co-performance with Sachiko Kamaiike, and spend every day in the recording studio.
However, this state is not too nervous compared with Kamai Sachiko.
In order for her to debut, the company arranged intensive training for her. The vocal teacher taught her the most basic parts of singing, and she had to take four lessons a week.
In addition to vocal lessons, Hiromi Mori taught her how to write lyrics.
Hiromi Mori's main job is not to teach people how to write lyrics. After all, he is a serious lyricist who has made his debut. He relied on his connections with the fat young man to hire him to help as a foreign aid. Therefore, the arrangement of lyrics classes depends on his side.
Schedule.
However, since taking over the task, Hiromi Mori was also serious and responsible and did not take the matter lightly.
To put it bluntly, Shinichi Iwahashi needs his help in teaching a student, and Hiromi Mori also needs to build a good relationship with Shinichi Iwahashi to broaden her career as a lyricist.
The lyricist who has just emerged is still far from singing a high note.
To learn how to write lyrics, you need to learn not only the structure of writing lyrics, but also how to fill in lyrics for the music. For this, additional music theory lessons are also required.
Shinichi Iwahashi gave Sachiko Kamaike a homework assignment, asking her to hand in at least ten lyrics every week.
According to his plan, after the band debuted, all lyrics were written by Sachiko Kamaichi. This was not only to unify the world view in the lyrics, but also to balance the income within the group.
Sachiko Kamaike doesn't know how to compose music, so she should at least learn how to write lyrics to ensure that as the core lead singer, her income will not be at the bottom.
In addition to these courses, she also has to participate in co-acting exercises with the band. She is undoubtedly the busiest person in the entire band. But in addition to these, she also has to take care of her modeling work and complete her unfinished work contracts.
It's all over.113
With such an intensive schedule, Kamai Sachiko has never been so busy. She is moving from one place to another every day. Despite her busy schedule, she is in good condition. In other words, this kind of busyness makes her more motivated.
It seems that this kind of busyness is also regarded as a trial on the road to pursuing dreams.
Being able to endure hardships, the surrounding staff all looked up to the lead singer with admiration. Even Nakano, Kamaike Sachiko's manager at Star Office, knew for the first time that this girl who he always teased for being too serious and acting like an office worker had a physical body.
There is such powerful energy in it.
Having seen Sachiko Kamaiike like this, Nakano was shocked and stopped making fun of her.
As the band's producer, Shinichi Iwahashi has to hold meetings with the team on one side, but also keep an eye on the band on the other. He goes to the recording studio from time to time, and occasionally listens in on Mori Hiromi's lyrics lessons for Kamaike Sachiko.
I often meet Sachiko Kamaike, so I know how hard she works.
The period before debut is the busiest, and it applies to everyone. Especially Kamaike Sachiko's situation is special. Now she has to wear two jobs, so it is necessary to run both ways.
Busyness is unavoidable and there is no other way but to accept it.
Despite being busy, Shinichi Iwahashi was also worried that her running back and forth would affect her physical condition. The next time he talked to Watanabe Manyumi alone after a meeting at the company, he mentioned this matter.
After finishing speaking, he added, "Puchisang herself knows that this is not good for her health. When I asked about this, she told me that she was exercising, paying attention to her diet, and even gave up coffee.
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Watanabe Wan Yumi shook her head after hearing this, "It's good to have such awareness, but it's too casual to arrange it like this."
"I'm an absolute layman in this area." Shinichi Iwahashi smiled, "I can't do anything except say empty words about 'paying attention to your body.'"
Maybe you can say "drink more hot water", but the Japanese simply cannot understand the importance of hot water.
"There are still things you don't understand." Watanabe Manyumi teased him.
Iwahashi Shinichi was at ease, "There are a lot of things I don't understand."
"Forget it if you don't understand." Watanabe Manyumi said, "If a layman wants to solve a problem, the best way is to ask an expert."
"What do you mean?" Shinichi Iwahashi looked at her.
Watanabe Wan Yumi said: "Leave it to me...the body is very important."
Watanabe Manyumi, who took over this matter, turned around and assigned a nutritionist to Kamaike Sachiko to manage her body. The reason is very legitimate. Physical condition is a part of the debut plan. If something goes wrong, it will affect the overall situation.
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In addition to Sachiko Kamaiike and Mayumi Watanabe, the other three members of the band were also considered. However, Tatsuya Hirakawa and the others were quite resistant to this special consideration, so in the end they gave it up.
When Iwahashi Shinichi found out about this, he admired Watanabe Manyumi. Not only that, but he also secretly thought that if other newcomers debuted in the future, he might as well do it the same way.
In one fell swoop, it became the only record company in the industry to provide nutritionists to debut singers?
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In the midst of such busyness, Shinichi Iwahashi thought of Keiko Utoku, who he wanted to record a cover album. He asked her to come, and planned to get to know her better, but in the end he was so busy that he never saw her once.
On this day, when he had some free time, he called Yoyogi's recording studio to ask about Keiko Utoku's recording progress and her recording time.
The phone was picked up, and a voice that sounded businesslike but still full of energy was Yukiko Okada.
"Yukiko?"
Iwahashi Shinichi was a little surprised, "Are you over there at the recording studio today?"
Okada Yukiko didn't expect the call to come from him. The next second, the business-like tone in her voice disappeared and she happily replied: "Yes, I'm here to work this afternoon."
"Are you okay? Iwahashi-san." Okada Yukiko asked.
Iwahashi Shinichi asked her, "I want to ask how the progress of that Utoku-san is."
"Utoku-san?" Okada Yukiko told him, "This album is already two-thirds of the way through... Utoku-san's singing skills are very good, and Kuribayashi-san also praised her."
"Really?" Iwahashi Shin nodded.
On the other end of the phone, Okada Yukiko said again: "By the way, Utoku-san is in the recording room right now."
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Putting down the phone, Shinichi Iwahashi looked at the time, left the record company, and drove to Yoyogi's recording studio.
The record company was established, and the three members of Abnormal left the production company. The production company lacked the capable person Tatsuya Hirakawa, and the manpower was a bit tight.
Come today, the sound engineer guarding the recording studio is Seiichiro Kuribayashi.
However, Iwahashi Shinichi asked Mineshima to help find a few more people in the underground music circle to increase the manpower. Anyway, now that he has more money, he can afford to support a few more musicians.
When he entered the recording studio, the recording was still in progress.
The person who opened the door for him was Okada Yukiko. Seeing Iwahashi Shinichi coming, Okada Yukiko was very happy. However, she still remembered that there was a recording inside that had not ended, so she whispered to Iwahashi Shinichi: "Ribayashi-san is in the prison cell."
Iwahashi Shin nodded, "Thank you for your hard work, Yukiko."
Okada Yukiko wrinkled her nose at him and showed an energetic smile, "I'll make you some coffee, Iwahashi-san." After saying that, she quietly walked to the small living room.
From beginning to end, she was not surprised by Iwahashi Shinichi's sudden arrival.
Or, as early as when she received the call, she guessed that he might come over later. Okada Yukiko is very smart.
Shinichi Iwahashi chose a seat where he could not see the recording room or be seen by anyone in the recording room, so as not to interrupt their work.
After waiting for a while, Okada Yukiko came over and put the coffee in front of him.
Iwahashi Shinichi thanked her.
Okada Yukiko sat down opposite him. It was not convenient to chat, so she just smiled at him.
She likes to laugh very much, and her trademark during the idol era was this kind of childish smile. When Iwahashi Shinichi saw her smiling, his mood became lighter.
"Is there anything wrong with you coming over?"
However, the childish Yukiko Okada couldn't help it and asked in a low voice.
Iwahashi Shinichi also lowered his voice, "Yes."
They were whispering here, and the recording there also came to an end.
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