Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 438
Cover collections are not popular, and singers who record such cover albums cannot be on the stage.

In the end, it turned out to be such an unremarkable job, and the working girl who was in charge of debugging the equipment turned out to be a former popular idol.

What kind of experience is this?Utoku Keiko is indescribable.

Okada Yukiko was recognized, she didn't take it seriously, and with a smile on her face, she told Utoku Keiko that the equipment had been adjusted.Until entering the recording room, Yu Dejingzi still had a thought in his heart: what kind of company is this?
What kind of company can let idols in the entertainment industry who retired during the popular period in order to focus on their studies adjust their equipment here?

It's just a singer who came to record a cover album, it's impossible for Utoku Keiko to ask this question.But in my heart, I became more and more curious about this company and that Yanqiao-san.

……

Utoku Keiko entered the recording room, and Kuribayashi Seiichiro was in charge of the studio.After Yukiko Okada adjusted the equipment, she didn't take a break, and immediately found new things to do.

During the summer vacation, she came to the recording studio in Yoyogi five times a week to work, and after school started, it was reduced to three times a week.With the experience of being an idol, she is very familiar with the equipment in the recording studio and can do it with ease.

This part-time job is similar to doing odd jobs, and it covers everything.Even so, Okada Yukiko is full of energy even if it is a trivial and boring job.

The reason for this is that on the one hand, I really like Yoyogi's recording studio, and on the other hand, I also want to do something for Shinichi Iwahashi.

Yukiko Okada also knew about the establishment of a record company.Got it, I am really happy for Iwahashi Shinichi and hope he can succeed.

The production company is inferior to the newly established record company in all aspects, but Okada Yukiko can understand the feelings of Iwahashi Shin for this production company founded by himself.

Okada Yukiko, who received an employee card from the production company as a gift when she retired from the entertainment industry, has a special feeling for the production company.

Although I can't help Iwahashi Shinichi a lot, but if you can use your strength, it's good to use it for the production company.

……

After the recording of the day ended, Utoku Keiko called his manager after he left.

"How was work today?" the agent asked her.

Inoue, the agent in charge of Utoku Keiko, is a 35-year-old woman with a stable and old-fashioned personality.Unlike Nakano, who was in charge of the batch of Sachiko Kawachi, he never joked with his models.

The young models under Inoue's charge didn't have a good impression of this agent in private.

To put it bluntly, for these models, a slick Nakano is easier to get along with than an old-school Inoue.

However, for Keiko Utoku, who is not good at dealing with oily people, she quite likes the old school Inoue.

"That's it, it's an idol song." Ude Keiko replied.

The entire collection contains [-] songs, including big-name idols such as Seiko Matsuda, Akina Nakamori, and Kyoko Koizumi.

When Keiko Utoku saw the list of songs, she thought of the news that Seiko Pie and Akina Pie had fought for the idols they supported, and secretly thought to herself, at the same time, the collection of cover songs by Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori was included. Know who will buy it.

This is the characteristic of a cover collection. As long as you have paid money to the Music Association, not to mention just a commercial rival, even a deadly enemy of ten thousand years can be included in an album.

"Inoue-san."

Utoku Keiko called, not to report work, "What kind of company is GENZO?"

"GenZo?" Inoue was a little strange, "Isn't it the record company established by Watanabe Productions, Takeda Printing Company, and Iwahashi-san?"

The names of the two companies differ only in upper and lower case, but they have the same pronunciation. There are two divergences in the words. Keiko Utoku explained, "It's not the record company, it's the GENZO production company of Iwahashi-san."

"That's not clear. The firm doesn't deal with the record company much, let alone the production company." Inoue replied, "Why, did something happen today?"

"No, I'm just a little curious." Yude Jingzi perfunctory.

……

As soon as the record company was established, the three people from ABNORMAL reorganized into ZARD, and the contract was transferred to the record company.

Before the official debut, there are still many things to be arranged.

The company established a production team led by Shinichi Iwahashi to plan for ZARD's debut.Making a mainstream debut doesn’t just have to be a record that can be placed on the shelves of record stores across the country, it involves all aspects.

When will the debut press conference be held, how will the publicity be done, the TV production bureau, broadcast production bureau, and music industry bosses that should be met will lead them to visit their doors, and should they find sponsors, and which one should they look for? ...and so on and so forth are the questions.

The finalization of external matters is not counted, there is also how to choose the band's debut single and album, clothing, MV, how to shoot the cover... Just to list them, there is another long list to be completed.

As a member of DREAMS COME TRUE, Shinichi Iwahashi, who has experienced mainstream debut, experienced it personally, and summed up a lot of experience from it, and now he can just use it.

This giraffe man is not in vain.

They are busy here, and the arrangements for the band are also full.

Tatsuya Hirakawa and the three of them have to come up with enough songs, arrange the songs, and practice co-performance with Sachiko Kawachi, and spend every day in the recording studio.

However, compared with Sachiko Kawachi, this state is not too nervous.

In order for her to make her debut, the company arranged intensive training for her. The vocal teacher taught her singing from the most basic part, with four lessons a week.

In addition to the vocal music class, Mori Haomi taught her how to write lyrics.

Mori Haomei's main job is not to teach people how to write lyrics. After all, she is a serious debut lyricist. She relied on the relationship of the fat young man to invite her to help as a foreign aid. Therefore, the arrangement of the lyric writing class depends on his side. schedule.

However, since he took over the task, Mori Haomei was also serious and responsible, and did not treat this matter sloppily.

To put it bluntly, Iwahashi Shinichi needs him to help teach a student, and Mori Homi also needs to have a good relationship with Iwahashi Shinichi to broaden his lyric writing career.

The lyricist who has just shown his talents is still far from singing high-profile.

To learn how to write lyrics, you not only learn the structure of lyrics writing, but also how to fill in lyrics for the song.To this end, additional music theory lessons are added.

Iwahashi Shinichi assigned Kamachi Sachiko homework and asked her to hand in at least ten lyrics every week.

According to his plan, after the band's debut, all the lyrics will be written by Sachiko Kabochi.Not only to unify the worldview in the lyrics, but also to balance the income of the group.

Sachiko Puchi doesn't know how to compose, at least she must learn to write lyrics to ensure that as the core lead singer, her income will not be at the bottom.

In addition to these courses, she has to participate in the co-performance practice with the band, and she is undoubtedly the busiest person in the whole band.But in addition to these, she also has to take care of the modeling work and end all the work contracts that have not been completed.

With such an intensive itinerary, Sachiko Kawachi has never been so busy, moving from one place to another every day.Busy is busy, but she is in a very good condition. In other words, this kind of busyness makes her more motivated.

It seems that this kind of busyness is also regarded as a trial on the road of chasing dreams.

She can endure hardships so much that the staff around her are impressed by the lead singer. Even Nakano, the manager of Sachiko Kamachi at the Star Office, knew for the first time that this girl who was always teased by him for being too serious and who behaved like an office worker has a healthy body. There is such a powerful energy in it.

Having seen Sachiko Kamaike like this, Nakano was shocked and stopped making fun of her.

As the band's producer, Shinichi Iwahashi had to hold meetings with the team, and on the other hand, he had to keep an eye on the band. He went to the recording studio to have a look from time to time, and occasionally listened to Mori Hiromi's lyric writing lessons for Kawachi Sachiko.

I often meet Sachiko Puchi, so I know how hard she is.

Before debut is the busiest period, it is the same for anyone.In particular, Sachiko Puchi is in a special situation. Now she has two jobs, and it is necessary to run at both ends.

Unavoidable busyness, there is no other way but to accept it.

Busy to busy, Yanqiao Shinichi was also worried that her state of running at both ends would affect her physical condition.Next time after a meeting in the company, when I was talking to Mayumi Watanabe alone, I mentioned this matter.

After finishing speaking, she added another sentence, "Pu Chisang herself knows that this is not good for her health. When I asked about it, she also told me that she was exercising, paying attention to her diet, and even quit coffee. "

Mayumi Watanabe shook her head, "It's good to have such an awareness, but it's too casual for me to arrange it this way."

"I'm an absolute layman in this area." Yanqiao Shinichi smiled, "I can't do anything except say 'pay attention to your body'."

Maybe you can say "drink more hot water", but the Japanese can't appreciate the importance of hot water at all.

"There are still things you don't understand." Watanabe Mayumi teased him.

Yanqiao Shinichi said with ease, "There are so many things I don't understand."

"It's fine if you don't understand." Wanyumi Watanabe said, "If a layman wants to solve a problem, the best way is to ask an expert."

"What do you mean?" Yanqiao Shinichi looked at her.

Watanabe Wanyumi said: "Leave it to me.... The body is very important."

Mayumi Watanabe, who brought this matter over, turned around and assigned Sachiko Kamachi a nutritionist to manage her body.The reason is also very legitimate, the physical condition is a part of the debut plan, if something goes wrong, it will affect the overall situation.

In addition to Sachiko Puchi, Wanyumi Watanabe also considered the other three members of the band.It's just that Tatsuya Hirakawa and the three of them are quite repulsed by this special care, so let it go in the end.

When Shinichi Iwahashi found out about this, he admired Mayumi Watanabe in his heart.Not only that, but he also secretly thought that if there are other newcomers debuting in the future, he might as well follow the same procedure.

In one go, become the only record company in the industry that equips debut singers with nutritionists?

……

In the midst of such a busy schedule, Shinichi Iwahashi thought of Keiko Utoku who he asked to record a cover album.I asked her to come, and I planned to know more about her, but I got busy, but I never saw her once.

On this day, when he had time, he called Yoyogi's recording studio and wanted to ask Utoku Keiko's recording progress and her recording time.

The phone was picked up, and a voice that was still full of energy despite its business-like tone sounded, it was Yukiko Okada.

"Has Xizi?"

Iwahashi Shinichi was a little surprised, "Are you at the recording studio today?"

Okada Yukiko didn't expect that it was him who called. The next second, the businesslike tone disappeared, and she happily replied, "Yes, I'm here to work this afternoon."

"Are you okay? Iwahashi-san." Okada Yukiko asked.

Yanqiao Shinichi asked her, "I want to ask how that Ude-san is doing."

"Utoku-san?" Okada Yukiko told him, "The progress of this album is already two-thirds.... This Utoku-san's singing skills are very good, and Kuribayashi-san also praised her."

"Really?" Iwahashi Shin nodded.

On the other end of the phone, Okada Yukiko said again: "By the way, Ude-san is in the recording room right now."

……

Putting down the phone, Iwahashi Shin checked the time, left the record company, and drove to Yoyogi's recording studio.

The record company was established, and the three people from ABNORMAL left the production company. The production company lacked Tatsuya Hirakawa, a capable man, and the manpower was a bit tight.

Came here today, and the sound engineer who was guarding the recording studio was Seiichiro Kuribayashi.

However, Yanqiao Shinichi asked Mineshima to help find a few more people from the underground music circle to increase the manpower.Anyway, now that I have more money, I can afford to support a few more musicians.

When he entered the studio, the recording was still going on.

The person who opened the door for him was Yukiko Okada.Seeing Iwahashi Shinichi coming over, Okada Yukiko was very happy, but remembering that there was an unfinished recording, she whispered to Iwahashi Shinichi first: "Kuribayashi-san is in the prison."

Yanqiao Shen nodded, "Thanks for your hard work, Yukiko."

Okada Yukiko wrinkled her nose at him, showing an energetic smile, "I'll make you coffee, Iwahashi-san." Saying that, she walked lightly to the small living room.

From the beginning to the end, she was not surprised by Yanqiao Shinichi's sudden arrival here.

Or, as early as when I received the call, I guessed that he might come over later.Okada Yukiko is ice smart.

Yanqiao Shinichi chose a seat where he could not see the recording studio and would not be seen by the people in the recording booth, so as not to interrupt their work.

After waiting for a while, Yukiko Okada came over and put the coffee in front of him.

Yanqiao Shinichi thanked her.

Okada Yukiko sat down opposite him, it was inconvenient to chat, she just smiled at him.

She likes to smile very much, the sign of the idol era is this kind of childish smile.As soon as Yanqiao Shen saw her smile, his mood became lighter.

"Are you here for something?"

However, the childish Yukiko Okada couldn't help it, and asked in a low voice.

Yanqiao Shinichi also lowered his voice, "Yes."

Whispering here, the recording over there has also come to an end.

(End of this chapter)