Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 1516 1517. Two Sides

This summer is unusually hot. Even in Tokyo, the evening is still and you will sweat if you stay outside for a while. In such weather, even dogs take going out for a walk as a routine, and they can't wait to go back home after just a few steps out of the house.

However, for people in Tokyo, the worse the weather is, the less they want to stay at home.

Due to the climate, along with the humidity and heat, there is also a kind of sticky melancholy and depression that wraps around the body, which makes people want to find an outlet to vent their emotions even in the hot summer.

In addition, the depressed society has injected a certain decadent and laissez-faire atmosphere into the world. Lively activities are the most convenient way to hide oneself in the crowd and gain a sense of security.

Disco was all the rage this summer, packed every night, even TV variety shows were noisy. The streets were filled with the melody of Tetsuya Komuro's dance music. This hot summer, as Shinichi Iwahashi had expected, pushed Tetsuya Komuro's music to a higher level, from being a trend to becoming an unquestionable cultural phenomenon.

This summer, Tetsuya Komuro went to Los Angeles, partly for work and partly to broaden his horizons. The singers and composers he was responsible for producing were also transferred to Los Angeles.

When the Japanese only regarded him as an idol, Tetsuya Komuro enjoyed being the center of attention in Japan. Now that he has occupied an important position in the history of pop music, he doesn't really care how the Japanese praise him.

Shinichi Iwahashi has always let Tetsuya Komuro's whereabouts go his own way.

This summer, the team led by Akamatsu Haruko is committed to launching singers with fresh and lively styles to inject a different fresh breath into this hot summer. It is inevitable that people will get aesthetic fatigue after listening to too much dance music, and there are still many scenes that require music other than dance music. Akamatsu Haruko is targeting this part of the market.

Akamatsu Haruko's strategy was a great success, and Iwahashi Shinichi was actually relieved. Not putting all the eggs in one basket not only means that GENZO cannot rely solely on the trump card of Komuro Tetsuya, but also means that they cannot only focus on their strengths in the band.

To be versatile, you need diverse singers. But to cultivate diverse singers, the prerequisite is to have diverse producers.

In addition to the bands that have enabled GENZO to gain a foothold in the industry and the dance music brought by Tetsuya Komuro, a new product line has now been developed within the company.

Haruko Akamatsu is no longer an ordinary agent and is capable of taking on important responsibilities in GENZO.

Akamatsu Haruko is a subordinate whom Shinichi Iwahashi can trust without a doubt, and a disciple without a title taught by him. On the contrary, Matsuura Katsuto willingly joins Shinichi Iwahashi in order to realize his ambitions. As for Komuro Tetsuya, who has cooperated with him for so long, the word "subordinate" has never been associated with him.

For Katsuto Matsuura, introducing Ayumi Hamasaki to Shinichi Iwahashi at the disco at that time was certainly an embarrassing incident for him, but it also brought him a great opportunity, allowing his Avex DD to get the support of Shinichi Iwahashi.

After joining Shinichi Iwahashi's team, the first project that Katsuto Matsuura submitted was to form a band.

It was another band, and Shinichi Iwahashi didn't have high expectations at first, but when he opened Katsuto Matsuura's plan, he was soon enlightened.

Matsuura Katsuto wanted to create a fashionable band. At first glance, it seems similar to ZARD, where Sachiko Kamachi is the lead singer, but Matsuura Katsuto envisioned a softer, more urban music. This is a perfect difference from ZARD's style.

In any case, Sachiko Kamachi is a lyricist who was able to write "Don't Give Up" in such a recession.

But the band that Katsuto Matsuura envisioned would never show such a side.

Having run a disco and thrived in Tokyo's nightlife, he is used to seeing the weakness of the Japanese. What Matsuura wants to create is music that faces this weakness, completely abandons the old style, and accepts the arrival of a new era and new relationships.

And this is also a band that Shinichi Iwahashi will not produce. No matter what kind of product Matsuura Katsuto finally delivers, failure or success, this idea alone makes Shinichi Iwahashi interested.

Shinichi Iwahashi is not intolerant of failed decision makers, the premise is that the producer understands the era he is living in.

After reading Matsuura Katsuto's plan, Iwahashi Shinichi was convinced that he would be able to achieve something. However, when reading Matsuura Katsuto's plan, there were some parts that were too closely following the times, and there was a subtle sense that success or failure depended on this.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

There are successes and failures. As long as he can feel the "success" at this moment, Iwahashi Shinichi will spare no effort to support him.

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During the holiday, Shinichi Iwahashi took the two girls from his family to the recording studio for the first time. To be more precise, it was the first time that the two girls followed Shinichi Iwahashi to the recording studio together. Before, the two of them had a tacit understanding that they just refused to act together.

Before the summer vacation started, Shinichi Iwahashi thought Ayumi Hamasaki would go back to Fukuoka after the vacation, but surprisingly, the girl did not mention anything about going back to Fukuoka to visit her relatives.

She didn't know what friends she had in Tokyo, and during the first few days of the holiday, she was often seen busy, but she didn't say a word. However, after a few days, she stayed at home again, helping with housework every day, and even her previous rebellion disappeared, making it hard to guess what she was thinking.

It is a blessing for adolescents to be well-behaved, but if something drastic happens suddenly, it is inevitable that people will be concerned. The psychology of guardians is sometimes the opposite of that of rebellious teenagers.

Girls of this age have a lot of secrets in their hearts, and Iwahashi Shinichi has no intention of prying into them. What surprised him was that Ayumi Hamasaki and Hikaru Utada had become intimately connected without him noticing.

When leaving the house in the morning, Shinichi Iwahashi asked Ayumi Hamasaki if she wanted to go to the recording studio - this was to fulfill the girl's complaint a while ago that he "no longer let her sing".

Since she has already expressed her attitude, Shinichi Iwahashi decided to start by taking her to the recording studio to work.

Before Ayumi Hamasaki agreed, Utada Hikaru also joined in and wanted to go along.

In fact, Ayumi Hamasaki had not yet answered "yes", but once Utada Hikaru got involved, the situation became that both girls went to the recording studio.

Shinichi Iwahashi was surprised that Utada Hikaru would take the initiative to get involved, and he was even more surprised that Ayumi Hamasaki chose to acquiesce.

Previously, the two girls lived under the same roof and their relationship couldn't be said to be bad, but now it was obvious that there had been a slight change in the atmosphere between them.

Although they are not inseparable, it is obvious that there is a tacit understanding between them.

Sometimes, Ayumi Hamasaki has no choice but to accommodate Utada Hikaru.

If there was anything that caused this change, the biggest event in the Iwahashi family recently was Akina Nakamori's pregnancy.