During this period, something struck Shinichi Iwahashi that he found quite interesting. Yasushi Akimoto asked him to go drinking. Every time he went to a different store, he never entered the same store twice in a row.
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't understand, so he asked him why when he became more familiar with it. As a result, Akimoto Yasu asked him, "Always focusing on the same store, what is the difference between this and a good old man?"
Despite his unattractive appearance, this fat young man has a good rapport with women. After all, he is a man with an interesting soul weighing 180 pounds and a bulging pocket from being a producer.
However, although Yasushi Akimoto has a great capacity for drinking and has never been drunk, as long as he drinks, he likes to turn into a life mentor and talk to Shinichi Iwahashi about getting along with women.
"You can have fun frivolously, but you can't date frivolously. To be precise, the best way to get along with women is not to go to the same woman all the time."
"Is it to keep things fresh?" Iwahashi Shinichi, who moved the bench to listen to Akimoto's class, asked seriously.
Akimoto Yasushi showed his trademark slick smile, "That's not true. Getting married is another matter. If you don't have that idea and still hang out with the same woman, you will cause all kinds of trouble. In the end, you will either be embarrassed or lose your life."
"How to say?"
"If you don't have that idea, you end up falling into it. Whether you're falling out of love or being trapped, you're the one who loses it. It would be even worse if a woman misunderstands you and falls into it."
"Maybe I will lose my life."
Qiu Yuanyasu's words made the waitresses at this table laugh.
Okay, as expected of Ginza Street, Roppongi is in charge, and Gao Xiaosong, a veteran of flowers, is the master.
Iwahashi Shinichi, a bachelor, listened to the excitement and laughed. He wanted to practice it after theory, but he had neither a 180-pound interesting soul nor a bulging wallet, only an ideal of selling excellence.
After I finished laughing, I was still thinking a little bit. This guy is guarding so many young and beautiful girls who have come and gone. I don’t know if this sage self-preservation theory will ever be useful.
When Iwahashi Shinichi decided to become a broker, he regarded selling excellence as his creed. Akimoto Yasu was much simpler and more rude. He didn't care whether it was good or bad, gold or rags, as long as he could sell everything, he would sell it.
To be honest, both of them are selling things that can be sold. The difference is that Iwahashi Shinichi has a higher bottom line and Akimoto Yasu has a lower bottom line.
Selling what can be sold is not someone's original idea. Even an agent in Fengdao's underground music circle can realize this, let alone the elites in the huge entertainment industry.
The people behind the scenes actually do the same thing. Although orthodox idols are high-quality products and Kitty Club is fast-moving consumer goods, the one thing that cannot be changed between the two is:
Premium goods and fast-moving consumer goods are both commodities.
In the long past, the president of an agency treated his artists just like a master treats his apprentices. Apprentices had to obey the master's authority when they first became apprentices, and masters accepted apprentices and did their best to care for and train them.
But this approach quickly became outdated. Because people in the entertainment industry began to discover that the artists they signed were not their apprentices and nephews, but commodities that could be sold and discarded at any time.
As a result, the human touch was gradually abandoned, and everything became decided by capital.
Therefore, selling what can be sold is not the reason why Akimoto Yasu looks at Shinichi Iwahashi in a different light.
The real reason why Yasushi Akimoto thought they could get along well, and was even willing to hand over a small agent as a moderately accomplished producer, was his approach of transforming orthodox idols into artists.
"Of all the things I have made, the best-selling one is Kitten Club." Yasushi Akimoto said, "However, I don't think I took advantage of the market. I think what I did was breaking the old rules."
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More than just breaking the old rules, he drove a thirty-ton truck and crushed the idol rules 3,600 times.
"But, Shinichi-kun, why are the rules established?" After drinking twice, Akimoto Yasu, who was eight years older than Iwahashi Shinichi, changed his name to "Shinichi-kun".
Akimoto Yasu asked himself and answered, "It's hard to say in other places, but in the entertainment industry, rules are not meant to be followed, but broken."
Iwahashi Shinichi was surprised by Akimoto Yasu's outspokenness.
As a result, Akimoto Yasushi did not continue, but changed the topic and asked him again: "Does Mr. Shinichi know? The ground in the Roman city now is five meters higher on average than in ancient Rome."
"Yeah?"
"The five meters higher are ancient buildings buried underground." Yasushi Akimoto said.
"Nero burned the old Roman city and built his own palace on the old site. Later Trajan buried Nero's palace underground and built his own baths on it. In the Middle Ages, churches not only built buildings in ancient Rome
In the ruins of late churches, stones from ancient Roman buildings were also removed for their own use, and the ancient Roman buildings that were pressed underground were used as underground tombs.”
"..."
"Old buildings are destroyed and new ones are built on top. The same is true for rules. If old rules are broken, new rules will naturally be born on the ruins of the old rules."
Yasushi Akimoto's tone sounded like he was proud of himself for breaking the long-standing rules of the idol world.
"As a person behind the scenes, you don't need to think about how to maintain and abide by the rules. If you only consider abiding by the rules, then the entertainment industry will still be the same as it was fifty years ago. Obviously that system no longer works."
Iwahashi Shinichi felt that there was something wrong with what he said, but it sounded very reasonable and seemed to coincide with his thoughts.
Before he could savor it, Akimoto Yasushi spoke again, this time pulling him in, "In my opinion, Shinichi-kun's behavior is not conservative, and he is also a person who can break old rules."
An agent who has the idea to break the old rules, can realize the idea, and finally has the courage to carry it forward. This is the reason why Akimoto Yasushi looks at him differently. Even if he is young, or maybe because of his young age
That's rare.
"I'm afraid it's not enough to say that I broke the old rules." Iwahashi Shinichi said modestly, "I'm not sure what the future trend will be." By the way, I gave him a top hat, "It's a good start now, but I still have to leave it to the program team and teachers.
blessing."
Akimoto Yasu smiled and accepted the hat he handed over, "No matter the result, Shen Yijun did something that others did not do, so it is enough to say that he broke the old rules."
When talking about this matter, Akimoto Yasushi did not hide his admiration for Iwahashi Shinichi. However, after listening to Akimoto Yasusu's words, Iwahashi Shinichi finally thought of what he just said about "making new rules based on old rules".
What's wrong?
Nero's palace could be driven underground by Trajan's baths, but it could not be driven underground by the barbarians' huts. It was okay to tear down stones from old buildings to build new ones, but it couldn't be demolished and sold as junk.
It’s okay to move up by following the old rules you broke, but after the old rules are broken, what should be born?
