As soon as one topic ends, the next one immediately follows.
Watanabe Wan Yumi sighed, "Is there any more?"
This posture made it seem as if some conspiracy was brewing secretly to delay her from returning to the office.
Iwahashi Shinichi joked: "I have prepared a basket."
"It's terrible." She said this, but she smiled at the words. She complained, but she didn't move in the end and continued to listen to Iwahashi Shinichi's words.
After hearing the good news from DREAMS COME TRUE beforehand, Watanabe Manyumi was not so anxious to go back.
Of course, Iwahashi Shinichi didn't really prepare a basket.
In the meeting just now, we also discussed BOLAN's debut. The official debut is scheduled for June 17th, and the debut press conference will be held on May 21st.
According to the record company's plan for this year, late May to June is ZARD's production window. Arranging for BOLAN to debut at this time can just free up some resources from ZARD and put them in their place.
Unlike ZARD, which has Star Agency behind it, BOLAN is signed by Watanabe Manyumi's agency.
Although he is a "direct descendant", after all, he joins a family with poor resources and does not have luxurious conditions. It all depends on hard work.
In addition, the first show of DREAMS COME TRUE’s circus tour will be held in Fukuoka on June 11th. BOLAN, who has already been scheduled to follow the band as a tour team, just happened to be able to catch up on the popularity of his seniors and make a debut.
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This method of becoming famous first and then becoming famous later is not special. In order to support their favorite new bands, many well-known bands will invite them to perform as a warm-up show.
With more people available, there are more choices when it comes to getting things done.
The heat is obviously the heat, and resources can be exchanged secretly.
I have used this trick before when I went to Osaka to promote ZARD. This time I must continue to use DREAMS COME TRUE as a condition for participating in the show to replace BOLAN’s promotional resources.
ZARD has just made a successful debut, and it is not yet to the point where it can be exchanged for resources...it just needs to consolidate its existing popularity first. Even so, ZARD is not completely invisible during BOLAN's debut, but is doing it in another way.
Make a contribution.
If BOLAN wants to debut, it must have its own dedicated production team. Shinichi Iwahashi continues to take charge of the overall situation and serves as the chief producer of BOLAN. Not only him, there are also several people in the team responsible for ZARD who have two roles and come to support BOLAN.
This is not only due to the lack of human resources in small companies, but also considering that this team has accumulated a certain amount of experience in ZARD and is now applying it to BOLAN.
However, although Iwahashi Shinichi continued to serve as the chief producer, this time he went to negotiate with Sakuma Masahide's personal agency and entrusted him with BOLAN's music production, and he was only responsible for being the general manager.
Masahide Sakuma is the producer of the defunct legendary band BOOWY and the censor of the band Heaven. He is quite good at producing pure Japanese rock. He is only responsible for music production and does not participate in songwriting. In the industry, he is the quality producer of rock bands.
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"BOLAN and ZARD are different."
Iwahashi Shinichi reiterated the old words he said at the meeting just now, "Compared to ZARD, BOLAN actually has more potential as a legitimate rock band. Therefore, we cannot copy ZARD's strategy when it comes to dealing with BOLAN."
The two bands belong to the same record company, and their production teams already overlap. If the music producers are the same, there is a risk of "taste contamination", and they are suspected of coming off the same chocolate candy assembly line.
One advantage of doing this is that if the audience is used to the chocolate candies produced on this assembly line, if they think ZARD sounds good, they will go back and buy BOLAN's songs.
But the disadvantages are also obvious. The style is too similar. If you don't like ZARD, you will never like BOLAN, and you won't be able to explore markets other than chocolate candies.
In addition, once the audience gets tired of chocolate candies, ZARD and BOLAN will be abandoned at the same time - music is more cruel than food.
There is still a new audience for those who are tired of chocolate candy, but the singer is inadvertently eliminated by the singer who is tired of listening to it, so he has to go back to the drawing board and reinvent himself.
As a small record company that has just started, let Shinichi Iwahashi decide whether to use this method of similar styles to quickly open up the market, or choose to have their own styles. He will obviously choose the latter.
It's not impossible to have similar styles. Maybe after ZARD becomes popular, they will launch bands with similar styles according to ZARD's model, but a band like BOLAN, which was built as a signature in its early stages, cannot be the same.
In particular, ZARD has not yet become popular. If BOLAN is allowed to follow ZARD's model, it will be like putting eggs in the same basket.
And since we decided to produce them separately, we had to build a new product line for BOLAN.
Although the R&D personnel overlap with those of the chocolate candies, the boss is still the boss of the Six Totoro Company. The packaging box may also have shadows of chocolate candies, but what is inside is the latest flavor of crab roe broad beans.
The purpose of opening a record company is to make the public think that the singers of this company are rich, diverse and of high quality, so they like them very much, rather than to make the public think that the singers of this company come off the same assembly line and just suit their tastes.
On the one hand, we need to consider the long-term development of the record company and the band. On the other hand, we also need to consider that Shinichi Iwahashi is currently wearing many hats and will soon be involved in the production of the planned album, as well as the circus of DREAMS COME TRUE.
The tour is waiting for no one.
If a person divides himself into five equal parts and it is not enough, he should consider letting go.
Iwahashi Shinichi felt that it would be better to try to cooperate with outsiders than to try to catch it on his own.
It is not easy to recruit a top-notch producer in the industry like Sakuma Masahide.
Thanks to the production band Tianguo, during the broadcast of the program, Shinichi Iwahashi was criticized enough for being the "off-screen Iwahashi-kun". At the same time, he also established a not-so-deep friendship with the three reviewers outside the program -
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Iwahashi Shinichi was only given a chance to negotiate, instead of just saying nothing and saying no problem.
This time, Iwahashi Shinichi went to ask Sakuma Masahide, and he specifically talked to him and told the big producer that the band BOLAN had participated in Band Heaven, and after being eliminated, they moved to his production company.
Not only that, they also went to negotiate with TV Asahi and asked for the video of BOLAN when they came to participate in the band Heaven, together with the band's current performance video, and sent both copies to Masahide Sakuma.
Put on a candid attitude.
This was to persuade Masahide Sakuma to produce this new band that had not yet debuted. Secondly, it was to take this opportunity to let the big producer evaluate BOLAN's potential.
Sakuma Masahide received the two video tapes he sent. After watching them, he called Shinichi Iwahashi and expressed his thoughts seriously, telling him, "BOLAN is a team that shines brighter the more it is polished."
band."
Compared to becoming famous in a TV show, they are obviously more suitable for this method of honing themselves starting from basic LIVEHOUSE performances.
"Leave the music production to Sakuma-san, let BOLAN make their official debut first, and then let them participate in this new project." Shinichi Iwahashi made it clear for the first time that BOLAN would also participate.
"Have you thought about how to arrange them?" Watanabe Wan Yumi was curious.
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't answer, but brought up the old story again, "Wanyumi-san once said that Moritomo-kun is a fragile and beautiful man."
Watanabe Manyumi reacted and remembered that she had indeed said that, but she couldn't guess why he suddenly mentioned it and remained silent.
"After you said that, I tried to observe it." Iwahashi Shinichi told her.
Although I secretly observed the male lead singer of the record company to see if he was a fragile and beautiful man, this kind of thing is a bit strange...
"Then what?"
Watanabe Wan Yumi thought of going together with him and started to feel funny.
This smile made Iwahashi Shinichi feel quite heartbroken when he saw it.
There is no other way, let’s talk about it, business is more important, “… Wanyumi-san has a very good eye for judging people.”
To be precise, she is able to capture people's temperament accurately. When Izumi Inamura's unreliable temperament was spotted before, she had already shown her excellence in this aspect. This time, Moritomo Arashi did not miss her either.
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"Yeah?"
Listening to what he said, Watanabe Mayumi seemed to be in a very high mood, and she felt like she was praising someone in the right place.
She asked one more question: "Do you want me to be more specific?"
It’s not because I was really complacent after being praised by Iwahashi Shinichi for doing the right thing, but because he knew very well that Iwahashi Shinichi would not say nonsense without any reason.
"Please." Iwahashi Shinichi was not polite to her.
There is such a tacit understanding between the two people.
Watanabe Manyumi told him, "Moritomo-kun feels to me very much like the two figures in traditional dramas. He is fragile and childish, but he has one advantage: he can exile himself for a woman and die for love."
"ah."
Iwahashi Shinichi looked at her with a subtle expression.
Watanabe Manyumi smiled, "Of course, in Shinichi-kun's view, exiling yourself and committing suicide for a woman cannot be called an advantage in any case. But the function played by the two-piece actor in the play is precisely the ability to
Die for the woman you love."
The so-called niimeme is the handsome male role responsible for romance in traditional dramas.
During the Edo period, folk dramas developed vigorously. On the one hand, it was due to the background of respecting samurai, and upright protagonists could not be randomly arranged to make their children fall in love. On the other hand, ordinary people yearned for such popular plots as love and romance. In this way
, there are two items specially designed to satisfy the appetite of ordinary people.
It is not advisable to single out a certain thing for praise or criticism without considering the context.
"It's not like this."
Iwahashi Shinichi denied it and smiled, "I have no objection to the role of a nime actor..." He just admired Watanabe Mayumi's precise vision of people again in his heart.
"Manyumi-san," Shinichi Iwahashi told her, "I want BOLAN to collaborate with enka singers, and I have found one or two suitable candidates."
Watanabe Manyumi looked surprised. After a brief moment of surprise, she began to feel curious.
Although Iwahashi Shinichi didn't really prepare a whole bunch of things to tell her, this one thing was enough to keep her.
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ZARD's new single will be released this Friday, and one or two days in advance, record stores will start to put it on the shelves. When the single is released, the number of visits to the record company will be more than before.
I have to have a meeting with the team members to hear about the arrangements for the promotion period, and there are still a bunch of singles that I have to wait for them to sign for promotions and give away as gifts.
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't have time to see ZARD, but he didn't forget to ask the staff to convey it to the band members, asking the band members to prepare a specially signed version of the single, and then sent it to Osaka to give to Mitsuo Terada's mother.
Last Saturday night, after the performance, I met Mitsuo Terada himself in a restaurant and learned about this matter. With such a little friendship, the band members took up this matter with extra care.
While Sachiko Kamaiike signed autographs, she still hadn't forgotten about inviting Shinichi Iwahashi to the show.
This week, there are performances in the evenings from Friday to Sunday.
The band members were signing autographs in the company's lounge. Akamatsu Haruko came out of the production department's office and stopped by to take a look.
Akamatsu Haruko finished her studies and officially joined a record company.
She is also the former female lead singer of the band. She quit the band, but she works for ZARD as a behind-the-scenes person. Many employees in the record company secretly call her the "fifth person of ZARD".
On the one hand, she was doing the work she had to do for the budding band. On the other hand, her classmates, who graduated at the same time as her and were now working in large companies and living a life of singing and dancing every night, had no idea about her.
It was unreasonable for a graduate of Waseda University, a prestigious school, to work as a clerk in a small record company.
Students from prestigious schools have a wonderful sense of self-esteem. If they feel that their classmates are engaged in a job that is inconsistent with their status as "students from prestigious schools," they will look at that person particularly differently.
However, Akamatsu Haruko made up her mind and no longer wavered. She devoted herself to being her behind-the-scenes person. She even signed a formal employment contract with GenZo and was converted from a temporary worker to a full-time employee.
When she was still working part-time, she was affiliated with ZARD's production team and worked hard with ZARD. Once she officially joined the company, her daily work was no longer just about being around the band like a personal manager.
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"Then, I'll excuse you now."
Akamatsu Haruko said goodbye to the ZARD members and came out of the lounge.
At the meeting on Monday, BOLAN's debut was decided. Akamatsu Haruko was not able to attend the meeting that day, but was informed later that she was seconded to BOLAN's production team as a foreign aid.
Before Akamatsu Haruko graduated, she had participated in band production on a part-time basis, and also served as a representative of the production company in Band Heaven. Although she was a regular employee who had just signed a contract, she had quite a lot of work experience.
Not only that, she was the one who brought BOLAN to Shinichi Iwahashi, just like she brought Sachiko Kamaiike to the recording studio...
Both bands have a strange connection with Akamatsu Haruko.
She accepted the arrangement, and this morning she packed her things and reported to BOLAN's team. Anyway, the staff overlap rate of the two teams was quite high, so there was no need to worry about having to adapt to a new environment.
