"Shenyi-kun, let me show you something interesting!"
In the afternoon, Shinichi Iwahashi went to Sony's recording studio. As soon as they met, Miwa-chan couldn't wait to greet him.
When Iwahashi Shinichi saw her proud expression as if she had accomplished something big, he began to feel uneasy.
The preparations for the circus tour were in the middle, and Miwa-chan personally participated in the design and even sewed various performance costumes with worrying aesthetics, which was an eye-opener for the costume designers in the team.
It is not something that ordinary people can achieve such a calamity and yet create a style of aesthetics.
Miwa-chan was instantly moved, and Shinichi Iwahashi received a giraffe headband as a New Year's gift.
Now at this juncture when she was fully displaying her catastrophic aesthetics, when he saw this energetic face, he was really afraid that Miwa-chan would come up with something for him to use at the concert.
Having just been touched by Nakamori Akina's skirt belt, Iwahashi Shinichi and Miwa-chan were even more worried.
"Didn't I tell Shinichi-kun before that I was going to start reading fan mail?" Miwa-chan saw his defensive expression and deliberately pretended not to notice.
"Oh." Iwahashi Shin paused and remembered. He guessed what she was going to say and felt a little relieved.
"There are too many letters. I heard from the staff that I have received a large box every day recently." Miwa-chan told him, "I have been reading letters for fun recently, but there are still many that I have not read."
"How's it going? It feels like you're blushing," Shinichi Iwahashi teased her.
Miwa-chan nodded seriously, "It feels good to be red like this." She leaned close to his ear and whispered quietly, "It's much more comfortable than the disgusting attitude from the TV station."
"Of course it's different." Shinichi Iwahashi also told her, "The letters sent by fans are sincere." However, the TV station is just treating a best-selling product with caution.
Not only has the band's fan base soared, it has won the title for three consecutive weeks, and its new single sales have easily exceeded 500,000 copies, but the staff of TV stations and record companies have also become more and more friendly towards them.
Last week I went to TBS TV station to record "THE BEST TEN", and there were staff to help open the elevator. At the end of the rehearsal, the production team handed her water, and they were so thoughtful that they almost put it in her mouth.
On the way back afterwards, Miwa-chan told her two teammates, "It's too much."
The staff of TBS TV station can treat popular celebrities to this extent.
But if you really take the TV station's humility for granted when you are treated as their guest, you will incur fierce revenge and double humiliation from them when you lose your temper one day.
This is what TV stations do. They want to give artists some unimportant favors that they may not want when they are popular, but they also require them to be grateful for their acceptance, otherwise they will keep it in their mind's ledger and wait for the reckoning later.
A newcomer who has just entered the industry and knows nothing about it, and who has suddenly become famous, may not know the inside story. After being complimented like this, he may become arrogant and really think of himself as a big shot. Little does he know that he has already entered the TV station's "Sooner or later, I will watch you" list.
But Shinichi Iwahashi, who started as a low-level agent, is very clear about the ethics of various TV stations, and is always careful to avoid being exposed. Therefore, he also told Miwa-chan to be polite to the TV stations at all times.
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She is not the kind of person who looks down on people who mess around after becoming famous, but even so, after hearing all these twists and turns, she couldn't help but complain, "It's really troublesome to deal with the TV station."
She is probably not the only one who thinks this way.
There were also staff from the recording studio nearby. The two of them had to restrain themselves if they wanted to speak ill of the TV station. After biting her ears, Miwa-chan felt comfortable and thought of the "interesting things" she hadn't said yet.
"Wait a moment." She stood up and went to get her handbag.
After a while, a letter came over.
"I said there will be many people who like the graffiti on the inner pages of the single. When I read the letter, I saw a lot of them saying 'very cute' and 'love it'. If Shinichi-kun wants to see it, please ask the staff to
Send those letters to you."
"Forget it." Iwahashi Shinichi gave up, "You wouldn't lie to me by just saying it casually."
Miwa-chan was particularly happy when she heard what he said, and handed over the letter in her hand, "However, I still brought this letter, and I thought I would like to let Shinichi-kun take a look."
"Huh?" Shinichi Iwahashi took it.
He pulled it out and looked at it. It was a letter written almost in a pseudonym. Writing in a pseudonym meant that he didn't know much about Chinese characters. He glanced at the content of the letter and knew the handwriting belonged to a child.
“My favorite Dolicam!”
"Mom gave me a new single. The lyrics sheet is so cute~! I like Giraffe-san the best!"
The letter paper is full of simple short sentences, and you can tell it is written by a child. In addition, there are also cartoon giraffe heads drawn by children. There are smiling giraffe heads, and giraffe heads that look a little depressed...
The painting is rough, but full of childlike charm that only children can draw.
"It's much cuter than what you drew." Shinichi Iwahashi said sincerely.
Miwa-chan glanced at him, but thinking that this was the work of a child who likes giraffe men, she took back the eye knife that was thrown to him, "The painting is very cute. Let's just say it is a very interesting letter, right?"
"Indeed." Iwahashi Shin nodded.
There is a certain warmth in being liked by children.
When you see a letter like this, you can understand why Miwa-chan brought it to him specifically.
"There's more." Miwa-chan stretched out her finger and pointed at a line of words under the cartoon to remind him to finish reading.
The last sentence is, "Can Giraffe-san read this letter?"
"So you showed it to me?" Shinichi Iwahashi finished reading the letter and looked at her.
"Because it's a letter addressed to Shinichi-kun." Miwa-chan is very good at saying nice things, "If you really tell me, I'll be the one who peeked at the letter."
"I can forgive you if you see a letter like this."
"You really dare to say that." Miwa-chan had resisted the glare just now, but this time she finally flew towards him as she wished.
Iwahashi Shinichi smiled at her and said, "You are the one who dares to speak out." The person who said what he said made him peek at the letter, but in his heart he didn't think so at all.
The two of them were hiding here and talking about frying soybeans. People watching looked at them and probably thought that the performance was about to start.
In this free time, everyone who is coming today has gathered together and is ready to start work.
Before the circus tour, the band will release a new album. The production progress is now about two-thirds, and the album's production will probably be completed before the end of April.
The single comes with a voting ticket for the concert song selection. When it comes to the album, enclosed is a promotional paper with information such as the time and venue of the concert, as well as how to purchase tickets.
With almost a month left before the voting deadline, Watanabe Manyumi accepted Shinichi Iwahashi's suggestion and contacted the first round of publicity for the Circus Tour, focusing on voting to participate in song selection to promote single sales.
Iwahashi Shin packed up the letter Miwa-chan gave him and put it away. He glanced at the envelope and saw the sender's address written on it. He lived in the Tokyo area.
He folded the envelope in half and put it in his pocket.
The recording work continued until 9:30 in the evening. After returning home, while changing clothes, I took out the letter again. Iwahashi Shinichi walked to the desk, opened the drawer, and took out the letter paper.
Because he writes letters to Nakamori Akina from time to time, he has all the letter paper and envelopes here.
After writing the first sentence, Iwahashi Shinichi looked at it and felt dissatisfied, so he took a new piece of stationery. Thinking that he was writing a letter to a child, he tried to write simple and understandable words.
…
Shinichi Iwahashi's snowballing progress is going smoothly, especially after Fuyumi Sakamoto sent the Inomata official seal to persuade Teresa Teng, he feels even more confident and confident.
He is in high spirits and progress is going smoothly.
On the other side, after Akina Nakamori's new single went on sale, she started a tough battle with PRINCESS PRINCESS.
The first single released on the eighth anniversary is once again facing off against a strong rival. The publicity given by Yanyin and Warner is not small. In the record store, the shelves that hold Akina Nakamori’s new single are as good as the shelves that hold PRINCESS PRINCESS’s new single——
Supposedly, the latter is already in its second week, but the promotion fee provided by Sony is sufficient, so the promotion in the store has not been withdrawn.
Passionate fans and the public who follow the trend flock to record stores to support their favorite side.
A few days before the sale started, the two sides were indistinguishable. Just by looking at whose records the customers waiting in line to check out were holding, it was hard to guess which side the winner would be this week.
But by Friday, the tense situation began to change.
Before Akina Nakamori's single went on sale, her loyal supporters felt threatened by PRINCESS PRINCESS. In order to support their idol, they went to the record store as soon as the single was released.
But for PRINCESS PRINCESS, their loyal fans should have bought the single as early as last week. From the beginning this week, they relied on the support of the general public to sell records.
In other words, in the past few days, the two sides were neck and neck, it was Nakamori Akina who went all out and PRINCESS PRINCESS who was at ease.
After a few days passed, the effect of Nakamori Akina's initial group of loyal fans wore off, but PRINCESS PRINCESS continued to sell steadily.
The general public may not have much idea of the outcome of this week, but for offices and record companies that receive sales trends every day, they already know it before the week is over.
First, the new male idols were beaten to the ground, and then it was the turn of the female idols who had been at their peak for many years to be defeated?
The theme of this April is the changing of trends between bands and idols.
…
We have to face the reality that things will always go downhill after the peak. No one is always at the top.
The concert will be held on Sunday, and the last rehearsal will be held on Friday night. Akina Nakamori is focused on nothing else. Since the single went on sale, he has not paid any attention to it. He has only worked hard for the promotion period and prepared for the next concert.
Even so, deliberately avoiding relevant information may not mean that you have a "premonition" in your heart.
