Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 164 164. Personal Style
Cream cannon, hair dryer, paste the face with confetti foam particles.This idea is very punctual, let's make such a happy decision!

... It's strange.

To say that the unscrupulousness of Japanese variety shows sometimes reaches the level of refreshing people's imagination, and now this 80s is even more exaggerated. Shinichi Iwahashi deeply feels that to debut as a comedian in Japan requires extraordinary Courageous.

But even so, no matter how unscrupulous the industry is, there are still rules that need to be followed.

Variety shows that are all entertainers can sacrifice integrity in exchange for effects, no matter how you do it, it doesn't matter, even risking your life in a literal sense to play casually.

But as it is now, programs that focus on ordinary people and have amateurs as the protagonists cannot do this.

This is above all a very basic morality.

No matter whether an artist is popular or not, whether they are newcomers or big names, they must have a sense of awareness.

To become an artist and decide to enter the industry, one must accept the meaning of self-sacrifice in the identity of an artist. An artist is a profession that uses itself as nourishment to entertain the public.

From this point of view, in the entertainment industry, as an artist, the status is very low.

However, the amateurs who come to participate in the draft are not real insiders, so the gameplay in the circle does not apply to them.Even for a little added entertainment, consider a gentle, innocuous touch.

Besides, this is a music talent show after all.Appropriate jokes can be seasoned with peppercorns, but peppercorns cannot be turned into the main ingredient in the pot.

That would be the real putting the cart before the horse.

In addition, some of the participating bands will debut in the industry, and may even make a lot of achievements - such an assumption must be made.

It would be disrespectful to treat the bands that came to join us as if they were monkeys.Not only will the bands of real quality oppose this show, but the excessive entertainment will also make the audience instinctively despise the bands performing in this show.

If you want to sell something in this show, then it should definitely not be a "laugh".

To find a balance among these, it will take some effort.

The big frame of the show is set up, and the script is also being written. It is precisely because the basic things have been finalized that Yanqiao Shinichi thinks slowly, adding some small details like decorating a house.

Some of the staff sent by AMUSE have dealt with Shinichi Iwahashi before, and they know a little bit about what he does. On the contrary, other people in the production team feel sorry for this guy who has so little seniority but always asks for advice every time he comes. Very unbelievable.

Fortunately, he is not aimless. Although there will be disputes and doubts, everyone is working in the same direction.

To make this program, there are already more than 20 people in the production team who can sit in the conference room, not including the on-site personnel, lighting, photography, field affairs, etc., it is not something that can be completed by a few people alone .

A house is built with bricks, but the bricks piled up there are not houses.

……

The name of the program was finally decided as "Yuji Miyake's Super Band Paradise", which was used to build momentum under the banner of Yuji Miyake's titled program.

The term "Band Paradise" comes from the Paradise Paradise in front of the Jingu Square. Now, because of the large gathering of amateur bands, the former Promenade Paradise has become the popular Band Paradise.

Before and after planning this program, Shinichi Iwahashi and Mayumi Watanabe often hang out in this area on weekends. His recording studio is in Yoyogi, and it is not far away. The two of them almost every weekend. They all went to investigate, and after discussion, even the name of the show was decided to be "Band Paradise".

For amateur bands and band lovers in Tokyo, there are probably very few people who do not know about "Band Paradise".

It's just a joke, so let's just say that.

The newcomers sent by AMUSE are all teenagers, and the youngest is only 14 years old. When he stood in front of Yanqiao Shinichi and greeted him crisply, Yanqiao Shinichi, who has been a man for two generations, deeply felt that he was already a tree. Old food.

Although they came here to make audition tapes, none of these people were selected into the office as singers.

Osato Yokichi's acting style, in this era, is quite different from that of traditional Japanese entertainment firms.He collectively refers to the artists under his umbrella as Artiste, instead of subdividing them with labels such as singers and actors like other firms.Therefore, even newcomers who do not aspire to sing must be confirmed for their singing ability.

However, since they are not professional singers and have almost no relevant learning experience other than school music classes, most of these newcomers are at the level of karaoke, and occasionally one or two are at the level of "The Support of Love".

Shinichi Iwahashi, who has an absolute sense of pitch, has made rapid progress in the recording studio. However, for him who has an absolute sense of pitch, listening to an audition tape that is out of tune is really a very painful thing.

That sense of hearing is no less than fingernails scratching a blackboard, and the teeth are so sore that the soul is trembling.

Masato Nakamura's eldest brother gloated, Shinichi Iwahashi was holding back his teeth here, and he was holding back his laughter there. The weak friendship that was originally meant to be prey was even more precarious with the arrival of this group of young boys and girls.

Only Meihejiang, who was held in the hands of the two of them together, still looked carefree, and started humming when she was happy, and then recorded the melody she thought of on the tape.

Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura are responsible for reviewing her recordings. On the one hand, they are reviewing whether these melodies have already been born.

On the other hand, it is to check whether these melodies need to be reprocessed. If they think they are worthless, then they will be directly passed as waste songs.

Three people rooted in the recording studio, making music for others as well as for themselves.

However, although most of them are of poor quality, there are also a few with good voice recognition.For example, the 14-year-old girl who greeted her crisply.

"The voice is unexpectedly quite textured, Eri-chan." Makoto Iwahashi said to her.

The 14-year-old girl's name is Fukatsu Eri, with short hair and thick eyebrows, with a little boyish vigor and vigor. In the state of plain makeup, there are a few harmless freckles on her face, which add a bit of playfulness, and her big eyes are calm but calm. Without losing his agility, just 14 years old, he already looks like an adult.

When she first came to the recording studio, Miwa-chan saw her and secretly told Shinichi Iwahashi, "Although that child is young, she looks like an adult."

"It's you, on the contrary, although you are already a real adult, you still act like a child sometimes." Yanqiao Shinichi teased her.

Hearing what he said, Yoshida Meihe suffered from the crooked neck again, and leaned closer to him, "Only children would say that about others."

Yanqiao Shinichi hid back, and said with a smile, "Like attracts like."

This is an example of someone going crazy and beating himself.

After being praised by him, Fukatsu Eri curled the corner of her mouth and smiled, "Thank you, Iwahashi-san."

A smile hung on his face, and that kind of youthful air faded again. Looking at it this way, he looked like a beautiful girl.

Fukatsu Eri was born in a scholarly family, and her mother, Fukatsu Yumiko, is a well-known calligrapher. Last year, by mistake, she participated in a small-scale talent competition and won the grand prize.In the end, he was chosen by Hirokichi Osato and signed to the firm.

From this point of view, Yanqiao Shinichi couldn't help but admire Osato Yokichi's picky vision in his heart.

The entire batch of audition tapes have been produced. Fukatsu Eri is not the best singer among them, but Iwahashi Shinichi recommended her first when he attached his thoughts.

After receiving these audition tapes and impressions, AMUSE may not have the idea of ​​making Fukatsu Eri's debut as a singer.However, if newcomers with acceptable performances are cultivated, there will be an additional path other than actors.

Carrying out activities as a singer is also a way to increase exposure.

……

I didn't feel it when I was making the cover albums of Tokyo Music Industry Co., Ltd., but when I was making this demo tape, Iwahashi Shinichi felt a sense of shortage of manpower.

He and Masato Nakamura are in charge of almost all the production now. Although ABNORMAL is also signed, but it is not a producer contract. Besides, the standard of the band is quite high. Not surprisingly, Shinichi Iwahashi will definitely find a way Let them debut, or just sign up for this Band Paradise show.

When making the audition tape, Shinichi Iwahashi made a hypothesis in his heart, if the audition tape was sent back to AMUSE, Osato Yokichi proposed to let his production company produce the singer, how far he could do it.

Then, he found that a problem was exposed before his eyes: Although the production company is not responsible for the lyrics and music in theory, but if the production company wants to become a big production company, it must have its own full-time songwriter and arranger.

If AMUSE does not provide the lyrics and music, but entrusts them with carte blanche, the production company has to find suitable songs from the stock songs of Yoshida Miwa and Nakamura Masato-but, Yoshida Miwa's songs can only be sung by herself. Compared with the style, it is better It is said that her singing is not easy, and if she is short of breath and inattentive, she may suffocate to death.

There is still ABNORMAL where you can buy music, but you can't tear down the east wall to repair the west wall.

Being able to provide songwriting production is a very big advantage.You can't wait for the opportunity to come, but you must be ready to meet the opportunity.

It's just that it's hard to find songwriters of a certain standard who are willing to join.

……

It was Saturday, and at eight o'clock in the evening, Akamatsu Haruko came to Yoyogi's recording studio.

She came from the company's office in Kawasaki. After the company was established, she occasionally worked part-time as an employee. As the unscrupulous boss Shen Yanqiao told Okada Yukiko, the salary was not high.

However, she didn't care.In other words, the musicians gathered around Shinichi Iwahashi at this stage are all people whose ideals outweigh everything else.

When Haruko Akamatsu arrived, there was no one else in the recording studio except Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura. The absolute protagonist, Miwa Yoshida, was not there tonight, saying that she was going to attend some fellowship in Hokkaido.

I don’t know if I should praise Hokkaido people for being humane, but Shinichi Iwahashi hasn’t heard of any Shizuoka Association in the underground music circle—maybe he can take the lead in organizing one someday, even though he is a fake Shizuoka native.

Recently, Masato Nakamura began to try to compose lyrics for Miwa Yoshida.

On this point, Iwahashi Shinichi and Nakamura Masato agree. Although Yoshida Miwa has a genius, but her songs are unconstrained and unconstrained, and sometimes lack the necessary selling points. In order to push her to a higher place, appropriate adjustments should be made. It's not about asking her to change her style, but to make songs with selling points while adapting to her style.

Miwa Yoshida was thinking about how to sing, but Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura were thinking about how to let more people hear her songs.

Because she doesn't know notation, Yoshida Miwa still doesn't write lyrics for other people's songs, but even so, after thinking about it, Iwahashi Shinichi thinks that the songs can be sung by others, but the lyrics must be written by herself.

This stems from what he discovered and summed up when he has been dealing with Miwa Yoshida's works for a long time, and when he listened to the songs of singer-songwriters such as Nakajima Miyuki, Matsutoya Yumi, and Inoue Yosui.

That is, the creator's own worldview is hidden in the creator's lyrics.

The creator may write a hundred lyrics, and the things expressed in the lyrics are various, but after reading it carefully, no matter the choice of words or the way of looking at things, they all have their own style.

Iwahashi Shinichi does not want to destroy this unique Yoshida Miwa-style style, and believes that this distinct and stable style is the magic weapon for winning the audience after attracting them.

Shinichi Iwahashi thought deeply, and the reason why Yoshida Miwa didn't want to sing the lyrics of Masato Nakamura was very simple.

"Masato-san doesn't have the talent to write lyrics at all." Yoshida Miwa said so.

In order to show fairness and justice, let us excerpt a piece of lyrics by Masato Nakamura: "one two three four rhyme coincides, kiss kiss kiss, kiss three times".

Sure enough, it is not very good.

So far, Masato Nakamura has completely failed, and he has learned how to fill in the score for Miwa Yoshida's lyrics.

It is embarrassing for Miwa Yoshida to write lyrics for other people's songs, and it is even more embarrassing for Masato Nakamura to compose the song after getting the lyrics.Pity him, a studio musician who has been behind the scenes for many years, and has written a lot of songs. Now he is working hard, and he may not be pleasing.

Masato Nakamura produced several new songs at one time, and after writing the tunes, he also called Shinichi Kamiyanhashi, and wanted to hear his opinions.At first, there were only the two of them, and they didn't care about it. The two smoked and discussed, making the recording studio smoky.

As soon as Akamatsu Haruko came in, she was choked up.

The two quickly put out their cigarettes and apologized to her: "I'm sorry, Chisong-sang."

"It's okay." Akamatsu Haruko replied, "Are you two busy?"

"Let's discuss about the new song." Iwahashi Shinichi went to turn on the exhaust fan, "Is Akamatsu-san okay?"

(End of this chapter)