Iwahashi Shinichi made a start, but just hearing a rough idea was not enough to satisfy her, let alone convince her. Everything always has a beginning, and the plan must have a direction, not just a "borrowing force"
idea.
"A plan that makes the collaboration between ORIGINAL LOVE and Nakamori-san a part of it, but it's just right." Watanabe Manyumi got right to the point.
"Are you planning to create a collaborative project between idols and bands?"
Akina Nakamori is a top idol. To facilitate her cooperation with ORIGINAL LOVE, and to put this cooperation into a project without being obtrusive, Watanabe Manyumi had to think about this.
In addition, Shinichi Iwahashi is both an idol producer and a band producer. Not only does he have rich related experience, he also has influence on both sides.
She guessed this, but was denied by Iwahashi Shinichi, "Not necessarily." She met Watanabe Wan Yumi's inquiring gaze, "As I said just now, it's just a shadow. What kind of project are we going to make and what kind of music are we going to make?"
, are still unknown.”
"It's not necessary to just focus on idols and bands." Shinichi Iwahashi reminded her, "It's true that Nakamori-san debuted as an idol, but for now, it's better to say that she has completed the transition from 'idol' to 'singer'
Transformation.”
Not only that, Nakamori Akina's changeable and multi-faceted attempts make it difficult to specifically define what kind of singer she is.
"A collaborative project that can accommodate the ever-changing Nakamori-san is destined to have countless possibilities." Shinichi Iwahashi said, "And infinite possibilities exist in any form of music."
"any type?"
Watanabe Mayumi caught some clues.
Shinichi Iwahashi did not answer, but brought up another matter, "Previously, I visited Tsutomi Kyohei-san for the cover of Moritaka's "17 Years Old". When Tsutsumi Kyohei-san learned that I was producing idols and bands at the same time, he said
In a word, 'Idols and bands sometimes merge perfectly.'"
"Yeah." Watanabe Wan Yumi looked at him, waiting for the next step.
"I think what Tsutumi Kyohei-san said is right." Shinichi Iwahashi said, "The production experience is common, and the public's various pursuits of music and musicians also have common parts."
"But I think this perfect fusion is not necessarily just between idols and bands."
The entertainment market has been squeezed out by idols. Nowadays, more and more bands are capable of ranking on the charts, but the number of idols who can become popular is decreasing. When this change reaches a certain level, idols will sooner or later be squeezed out.
go.
However, no matter how the mainstream of the market changes, idols will never disappear, and singing will always have an audience.
For Shinichi Iwahashi, who is committed to promoting the band and relying on the band to make a living, he is naturally happy to see the band become a mainstream overlord in the music scene.
But this does not mean that he regards enka and idols as enemies.
"If idols and enka, enka and bands, and bands and idols intersect, what kind of sparks will there be? Now that the band is so popular, maybe you can try it and use the band as a thread to string beads.
Started all this."
Music allows a hundred flowers to bloom, just like there are various techniques for arranging flowers. A skilled flower arranger can put all kinds of flowers harmoniously into a vase.
"ah."
Watanabe Wanyumi heard this and understood his purpose, and couldn't help being surprised.
When she heard Shinichi Iwahashi say that the collaboration between ORIGINAL LOVE and Akina Nakamori was just part of the plan, she guessed that the scale of his new idea would be quite large, but even though she was mentally prepared, she still couldn't help but feel incredible.
It is not easy to accomplish such a plan...
"A whimsical plan." Shinichi Iwahashi looked at her and smiled, "That's what Wanyumi-san has written on her face right now."
Watanabe Wan Yumi shook her head, "It's not just that."
"oh?"
Her expression was subtle, "There is also an 'ambitious plan'."
Originally it was to promote the cooperation between ORIGINAL LOVE and Nakamori-san, but now, compared with the difficulty of this large-scale project, cooperation with Nakamori Akina is nothing.
"The phrase 'ambitious' should be written on my face." Iwahashi Shinichi also knew that he had a big problem that gave her a headache, so he deliberately made fun of himself.
Watanabe Manyumi couldn't hold back and laughed. Although she didn't answer, she secretly admired his superb ability to diffuse the atmosphere.
"Although it's a bit whimsical and ambitious." Shinichi Iwahashi knew that he had come up with a huge project idea and understood the difficulty of it, but after he said it, he didn't feel like he had nowhere to start.
"I have an advantage, Wanyumi-san."
Watanabe Manyumi still refused to speak, and only showed an expression asking him to continue.
Shinichi Iwahashi had no choice but to continue to convince her, "I am not only an idol producer and a band producer, thanks to you, I have also been the manager of enka singers, and I have even been in contact with comedians."
Being Mori Shinichi's manager, although I didn't have the opportunity to come into contact with enka production, I did have the opportunity to come into contact with various enka singers, producers, and even songwriters.
"So, first of all, I have accumulated a certain amount of connections and production experience." When Iwahashi Shinichi said this, he hesitated for a moment.
Watanabe Wan Yumi finally couldn't hold it back, "Is there any 'second'?"
"Yes, yes." Iwahashi Shin nodded, "Secondly."
He deliberately emphasized the word "secondly" and paused after speaking.
"..." Watanabe Wan Yumi had no choice but to completely defeat her.
Iwahashi Shinichi achieved his goal, and then continued, "Idols have lost their freshness, and enka is losing ground. But on the other hand, the band is a fresh and powerful force."
"Those who are losing ground and are no longer new will try their best to seek change and innovation. And the band happens to be the most fresh at the moment. As long as it is run properly, it is not a whimsical thing to string together this string of beads."
"Don't Wan Yumi-san remember the band 'LA·MU-' that Kikuchi Momoko's agency formed for her?" Shinichi Iwahashi pointed out, "The idol world also knows that if a band can successfully join forces, it will have a second spring.
trend."
It's just that the prescription for transforming into the lead singer of a band didn't work when given to Momoko Kikuchi.
After hearing this "second", Watanabe Wan Yumi's expression changed slightly, she thought for a moment, and then asked: "Is there a 'third'?"
Looking at her expression, for a moment, Shinichi Iwahashi recalled how he went to report to Watanabe Manyumi every day when he was producing the Women's Rock Music Festival.
An idea came to my mind, knowing that Watanabe Wan Yumi had been aroused by him.
"third……"
"Um?"
"I'm not sure yet." Iwahashi Shinichi really didn't think about it this time.
Watanabe Wanyumi asked him to rinse it, but she was not angry and smiled: "Then let me ask a question."
"please."
"So, you are planning to use your strength to the end and include ZARD and BOLAN as part of this plan? ...as the targets to be promoted," she said.
The word "promotion" is a good one.
"This is not yet certain." Shinichi Iwahashi couldn't answer. "When I was thinking about it, I didn't exclude them. I even considered whether the idols and bands I had produced could possibly play a role in this.
Role."
"However, such a large-scale project is like making an album with a very strong integrity. If it is imposed, destroying the overall harmony, or making it appear mediocre, it will lose its meaning."
If you want the band he produced to fit in just right, you have to assume in advance that ZARD and BOLAN are part of the plan, and then make preparations for planning cooperation on this basis.
In this way, when you already have cards in your hand, you can draw new cards and consider how to combine them to play them.
After talking for a long time, he returned to the original point, "That's why I said it was just a shadowy plan."
To be more specific, after listening to Tajima Takao’s complaints, exchanging music with him, and understanding what kind of things they are currently producing, I probably had an idea in mind for the band to collaborate with a well-known singer.
Later, another girlfriend flirted with him and wanted him to help produce songs.
On one side is ORIGINAL LOVE, whose music style is trendy, and on the other side is Akina Nakamori, who is constantly chasing music trends. He thought about these two things together.
Shinichi Iwahashi felt that the project of collaboration between ORIGINAL LOVE and Akina Nakamori was very promising, so he had to come up with a way to make this idea come true.
However, if it is just to help promote ORIGINAL LOVE, or to fulfill his girlfriend's wish for him to help produce songs, it is not in his interest.
In his heart, he thought that the project to collaborate with ORIGINAL LOVE and Akina Nakamori was very promising, so he couldn't help but want to make things bigger and use this already decided part to create a large-scale work.
Let his record company also become part of the plan.
It's like a drop of ink accidentally fell on the rice paper, first it was changed into a plum blossom, and then the plum blossom was borrowed to draw a whole picture of plum blossoms.
"Just this shadow scared me," Watanabe Wan Yumi said of him.
Shinichi Iwahashi was able to do it with ease, "Because the shadow looks either much stronger than the actual object, or it is just a normal folding of fingers, but the reflection of the monster's shadow makes people jump."
"As expected of you." Watanabe Mayumi was speechless.
"That's what I said. Although I was shocked when I said it, Wanyumi-san actually wanted to give it a try, right?" Iwahashi Shinichi said firmly.
"Not sure yet."
Watanabe Manyumi responded to him with what Iwahashi Shinichi had said from time to time, "I need to understand clearly first how you plan to do this project. What is the theme, where is the direction, and how do you start..."
“After all these are clear, we have to decide whether we can do it, and if so, how to do it.”
Iwahashi Shin nodded, "That's the truth. However, you still need to give me some time, Wanyumi-san."
"I'm waiting." Watanabe Manyumi said.
After saying this, she suddenly smiled and thought, it was like when making a music festival plan. Iwahashi Shinichi kept coming up with whimsical ideas, and herself who said he was bold and adventurous, but supported him in taking the risk despite all the opinions.
.
"No," she corrected herself, "I should say, I'm looking forward to it."
Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't help but smile, "Okay."
After boasting about Haikou to Wanyumi Watanabe, Iwahashi Shinichi started thinking about this project that could only be seen in shadow.
Just as he said to Watanabe Manyumi, people always have some wonderful associations with shadows. After the plan is actually written down, the theme is determined, and the direction is decided...
Before completing this series of preparations, even he himself could not confirm what the "shadow" of this plan actually was.
…
Xiangjiang.
At the end of February, as the final big news in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, Hong Kong's singing and filming queen Amei was photographed having sex with Japan's top idol Kondo Masahiko.
In the magazine that was published as the headline, Ame and Kondo Masahiko both appeared in the parking lot and left in a car together. Before getting in the car, the two interacted quite intimately as if there was no one around.
In recent years, Mui has often gone on tour in Japan, but she has not gained much popularity. She was photographed walking with Masahiko Kondo in Tokyo, and she should have been featured in a Japanese weekly magazine.
But it just so happened that the person who took this group of photos was a student traveling to Tokyo in a group.
A few students knew very well that Kondo Masahiko was already a washed up fish in Japan, and Amei was not well-known, so there was no time to take the photos back to Hong Kong and sell them to magazines, where they could fetch a good price.
Therefore, the first photo of Ah Mui, who is the queen of both singing and filming, and Matchy in the same frame was not taken by paparazzi in Hong Kong or Japan, but by several people who had a sudden idea.
student, photographed with a disposable camera.
A few years ago, there were vague rumors about Ah Mui and Matchy, but no one was caught and the rumors were automatically put to rest. However, unexpectedly, a few years later, the rumors were confirmed to be true.
But if it was just that Ame's relationship with Masahiko Kondo was exposed, it would not be enough to make this news so popular.
What really added to the fire was that someone close to Ame took the opportunity to break the news, saying that she had paid for a house in Tokyo with Kondo Masahiko and that the two had plans to get married.
The paparazzi came to see if it was indeed true. Ah Mei was vague, but the more she became like this, she was almost admitting in disguise that it was true.
The Queen's ordinary love and the Queen's marriage are completely different things.
Xiangjiang's personality queen intends to marry Matchy and become a Japanese wife...
When it comes to the professional level of the paparazzi, the Hong Kong paparazzi who have learned the truth about the corrupt state will definitely occupy a place on the list of "Top 10 Paparazzi in the World".
In the matter of exposing Amei and Kondo Masahiko, the paparazzi in Xiangjiang failed to display their superb skills. However, after the photo of the couple was exposed and Amei herself admitted in disguise, it does not mean that they have nothing to do.
Not only will there be nothing to do, but there will also be plenty of room for improvement——
As March entered, Hong Kong paparazzi went on an expedition to Tokyo, targeting another protagonist of the scandal.
But at the same time, in Tokyo, the first big news in the entertainment industry in March was making a lot of noise.
