Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 22 022
"This joke is boring enough." Iwahashi Shinichi said.

"Really? I think it's quite interesting." Yoshida Miwa turned her gaze from the inside of the magazine to him, "However, if the day the typhoon came, I would also be walking on the streets of Ginza, and I would be one of the other nine."

Compared with the joke that made fun of idols in the magazine, Iwahashi Shinichi felt that Yoshida Miwa's speech was more funny.

However, a billboard fell and hit ten people, and one of them was an idol's joke, which was also a reflection of reality.

These days, almost every day, an idol, when he debuted under the banner of "Sister Kikuchi Momoko", was blatantly grabbing the heat, and he quickly released a single to test the water.

Even so, the brokerage company seems to be driving a dream bubble machine, and the girls still jump in one after another as raw materials.

The word idol refers to an artist whose selling point is their own charm. In other words, an artist who has no professional skills and delights the audience with himself.

Although idols sing and act, they are neither singers nor actors. Compared with being "amphibious", with RB's artistic ecology, it is better to say that they are not accepted by any side and are in such an isolated state. Profession.

"Iwahashi-san," Yoshida Miwa suddenly asked him, "Do you think it will be the era of idols in the future?"

"I don't know." Iwahashi Shinichi answered honestly.After thinking about it, "Anyway, idols will never disappear, just like even in the era of idols, other music styles have not stagnant."

This is very valuable.When idols flourished, musicians of other styles and styles in other fields never stopped.And every step these people take down-to-earth is a seed that takes root one by one.

"Actually," Iwahashi Shinichi hesitated, "I always feel that now is the time when idols are at their most successful."

In other words, it has reached the peak of prosperity and decline.

When Iwahashi Shinichi first started to understand the current situation of RB pop music, he was caught by this idol prosperous world and felt that he had opened the HARD mode for Yoshida Miwa as the manager, but as he went deeper into understanding, I don't know if it was Excessive brain supplementation means that I see some temporarily ignored shadows in the radiance of the idol's prosperous world.

He, a traveler who doesn't know much about RB pop music, came to this conclusion after making up for the history of music - if the person opposite was Yoshida Miwa, he would never have mentioned this to anyone else.

"Can you tell me?" Yoshida Miwa was aroused.

She has never considered these things. In terms of music, she certainly has extraordinary talents, but these talents do not include her ability to judge the market. In other words, Yoshida Miwa is a pure artist character.

"That's far away, first of all, the retirement of Yamaguchi Baihui-san..."

Yoshida Miwa said with a smile: "Do you want to start from such a long time?"

"If I wasn't afraid that you might find it annoying, I would have planned to start with "STAR! Birth" and give you the afterthought of reading books for a while." Iwahashi Shinichi's tone was not a joke.

""STAR! Birth"." Yoshida Miwa said, "It also ended two years ago."

Two years ago, that is, in 1983, this show started broadcasting in 1971, and three original idols, Yamaguchi Baihui, Sakurada Junko, and Mori Masako, were born. The program that established the idol trend of the next ten years has officially fallen. curtain.

From its start in 1971 to its end in 1983, this show has attracted 60 girls to sign up. Among the girls who made their debut, there are "Three Groups of Flowers", Momoe Yamaguchi, who was first called "IDOL" by the media, Junko Sakurada, Masako Mori, there are also members of "Group 82 of Flowers", the last brilliant Akina Nakamori and Kyoko Koizumi in this show.

But more, or the "meteors" who decorated the art world for a short time and disappeared quickly.

To talk about the birth of this show, we must first mention a man named Shin Watanabe and his Watanabe PRO office.However, "STAR!"Birth" was not written by Watanabe PRO, but was born to fight against Watanabe PRO.

Watanabe Shin started out as the bass player of a band called SIX JOZE. When jazz was briefly emerging in RB, their band was quite famous at the time.

After the jazz craze subsided, Watanabe Shin and his wife Watanabe Misa founded Watanabe PRO Office, working as a manager for the band, and gradually became a well-known figure in the music industry.

The relationship between television and entertainment is also explained here.

RB started TV broadcasting in 1953. By 1960, there were 1515 million TVs in the country, and TV programs became a very popular entertainment.

In 1964, the Olympic Games were held in Tokyo. In order to watch the Olympic Games, the number of televisions ushered in another surge.The age of television has officially arrived.

Some entertainment rules in the past have been broken because of this, and what Watanabe PRO does is to set new rules.

The start-up period of Watanabe PRO coincided with the initial stage of the TV station. The producer of the TV station invited the famous Watanabe PRO singers to participate in the program. The largest office in the country.

The energy is so great that Watanabe PRO has the final say in most of the RB entertainment industry.

After taking the top spot, Watanabe PRO's attitude also became tough.After that, because Watanabe PRO produced programs for TV Asahi and Japan TV (RB TV) at the same time, so that the two programs were rated against each other, which offended the first partner, Japan TV, and the two became hostile.

Japan TV took a sigh of relief and felt that the TV station could do very beautiful programs without relying on Watanabe PRO's singers, so they began to brew a program against Watanabe PRO.

At this time, another yet-to-be-known firm, HORIPRO, took the opportunity to move closer to Japanese TV, so, in 1971, "STAR!Birth, the talent show was born.

In this program, the girls first passed the audition to get the opportunity to enter the studio, and then they were scored by the on-site public judges and tutors.After entering the finals, the representatives of the brokerage companies in the audience raised their placards to bid, and after mutual selection, the final attribution was determined - this competition system is quite familiar, isn't it?
In the last life, Shinichi Iwahashi sometimes wondered why Chinese and Korean talent shows were so hot, but RB, who was across the sea, had never heard of such shows.Now I know that it's not that they don't do it, it's that this set has been played decades ago.

In short, starting with this show, HORIPRO, who signed Momoe Yamaguchi, turned around in one fell swoop. Other offices also profited from it and signed many newcomers. The dominance of Watanabe PRO was broken.

Since then, the backwards have come up from all walks of life, and the former leader has finally been left behind, no longer.

(End of this chapter)