Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 467 467. Idol Production
Among the people who are going to meet next is a drunkard, Iwahashi Shinichi has a premonition that he will drink a lot of alcohol, so he leaves the car in the parking lot next to the recording studio, and takes a taxi to the appointment.

What kind of Ginza Roppongi guide is walking, in front of Ginza Dori, Roppongi handlebars, Gao Xiaosong who overturned and missed, the rank is still far behind.

Knowing the drinking capacity of the fat young man, Yanqiao Shenyi was on guard in advance.

...that's all.

You must drink wine, and you must not get too drunk.

Today I want to meet someone other than the fat young man.To be precise, it is to borrow the light of the fat young man, and let him be a bridge among them, so that the topic can be started more conveniently.

This time, I wanted to find a suitable promotional method for ZARD's debut. Since I was planning to negotiate with TV dramas, for Iwahashi Shinichi, the first thing that came to mind was Chihiro Kameyama who transferred from variety show production to the TV bureau.

I had a few discussions with Kameyama Chihiro several times before for the ghost draw show, but the two parties had little friendship in private.Therefore, Yanqiao Shinichi first greeted Akimoto Yasushi and explained his plan.

Akimoto Yasushi was easy to talk about in this kind of matter, and even gave him a favor, letting him be the host, and invited Yanqiao Shinichi to drink with Kameyama Chihiro.

Fat youth is quite reliable.

Fuji TV's two kanban TV series, "Yuejiu" at [-] o'clock every Monday night, and "Wooden Ten" every Thursday night.

Japan and South Korea use Qiyao to name the seven days of the week, Monday is Moon Day, Thursday is Wood Day, and nine and ten are the broadcast time slots.And Chihiro Kameyama is currently participating in the production of Yuejiu File.

When Shinichi Iwahashi went to the bar where he had agreed to meet, Yasushi Akimoto was drinking with two men who seemed to be in the industry.

This fat young man, when he was free, could change to five stalls in a row starting at seven o'clock in the evening, and drink with different people until late at night, so Yanqiao Shen was not surprised at all when he saw a stranger drinking with him.

Before Chihiro from Kameyama arrived, Yanqiao Shen was accustomed to the process of this kind of occasion, so he sat down first.

Yasushi Akimoto introduced to him the two people who were drinking together. Shin Iwashi thought they were people behind the scenes of the TV industry. Unexpectedly, one of them was the manager of Skylark Productions, and the other was the producer of Columbia Records in Japan.

The mother body of Columbia Records Japan was the Japan-Mimi Accumulator Chamber of Commerce, which was a joint venture with the United States in 1910. From before the war to 1967 after the war, it was the distribution company of Columbia Records in Japan.

In 1968, Sony and Columbia jointly established CBS Sony, and the agency contract between the two parties came to an end. After that, it continued to operate as a local record company.

The feature of this record company is that it has a large number of enka singers, including Hibari Misora, Chiyoko Shimakura and other enka stars, as well as Sayuri Ishikawa, who debuted as an idol of "Columbia Little Public" but eventually became a candidate for enka big names.

Hibari Productions is a personal office opened by Misora ​​Hibari.

Two people close to Hibari Misora ​​drank with Akimoto Yasushi, which made it clear that the fat young man's business had expanded to the Queen of Enka.

Working in the entertainment industry, people are the people I see the most throughout the year. At this time, all I need is to exchange polite greetings, and then sit and drink and wait for people. Occasionally, Qiu Yuankang throws a topic to him, and just picks up a sentence.

Not long after, Kameyama Chihiro also arrived.

Three people become four people, and four people become five people.After two more drinks, the five of them came out of the bar together.The two from Misora ​​Hibari took a taxi and left, and the five became three again, taking Yasushi Akimoto's car, and then went to the next stall.

Drinking with several groups of people you don't know in one night, at least in the industry, is very common.

The people in the industry, unless it is some great event, would rather eat from the bowl and watch the pot, go to one appointment while waiting for the next one, rather than sit alone in front of the bar while drinking and waiting Appointment people come over.

Anyway, for those who come to the appointment, it is not a bad thing to get to know more people and change one more business card.Working in the entertainment industry, not only does it meet a lot of people, but it is also a pleasure to meet more people.

With the stomachs of the wine mat from the previous booth, the three of them moved to a new place while they were already slightly drunk. After sitting down for a long time, they were able to get straight to the point.

Iwahashi Shinichi told Kameyama Chihiro that the band was preparing for their debut.

"Theme song for a TV show?"

Kameyama Chihiro listened carefully, and thought for a while, "The Yuejiu drama in January next year has decided to use Nakayama Miho-chan as the leading role, and the finalized title is "Kimuno Hitomi ni 恋してる" (Fall in love with your eyes). "

"Can't Take My Eyes Off You?" asked Shinichi Iwahashi.

It's not that he has outstanding associative power, but the standard title of this song in Japanese disco is "君の门に恋してる~Can't Take My Eyes Off You".

"That's right," Kameyama Chihiro smiled, "The inspiration for the title comes from this famous song."

At this stage, disco is blooming everywhere, and the names of popular disco songs can be added to the filming of monthly nine dramas.

"I've heard ZARD's Kuchi-san sing this song in karaoke." Iwahashi Shinichi said casually, "She likes this song very much."

Kameyama Chihiro was a little interested, "Really?"

"However, with Nakayama Miho-chan as the leading role, the title is "Fall in Love with Your Eyes". Is it a pure love drama?" The fat young man interjected.

Kameyama Chihiro replied, "Yes."

The filming of the TV series has not yet started, and on such an occasion, Chihiro Kameyama did not give any spoilers, but only gave a general description.

Generally speaking, it is one of a group of girls who think that it is embarrassing to be a virgin without kissing at the age of 20, and want to do "things that should be done before the age of 20" before entering the age of 20 And so there are a bunch of stories of this and that.

It's embarrassing to be 20 years old without kissing and still a virgin...

Come on, as expected of the Japanese.

Having said that, Zhongshan Miho is less than 19 years old this year, and she is the youngest leading actor in the ninth episode of the entire month, so she can be called young and promising.

Together with Shizuka Kudo, Yui Asaka, and Yoko Minano, she is known as the "Four Idol Kings", and her career as an actress is also flourishing.

"For the theme song of this TV series, I want something that is more hearty, and it would be quite good if it is sung by a female singer." Chihiro Kameyama roughly described his thoughts.

"For such a request, I think ZARD might be suitable." Since Chihiro Kameyama didn't say that the theme song had been decided, Shinichi Iwahashi hurriedly promoted his own people.

Furthermore, ZARD can really give a try to a brighter female singer.

"Mr. Shen Yi is very cautious," the fat young man was drinking and listening leisurely. At this moment, he answered casually and gave him an assist. "He can say that, maybe it's worth listening to."

Kameyama Chihiro's reaction looked half-pushed, obviously not embarrassed.

In the final analysis, the promotional method of the theme song of the TV series has not been taken seriously by various companies. There is no strong opponent watching it, or it has been booked in advance.

"There is no evidence for what you say, maybe it's the blind confidence of a producer."

Yanqiao Shinichi was familiar with the fat young man, so he answered him jokingly, and took the opportunity to discuss with Kameyama Chihiro, "Send over the band's audition tape, please listen to everyone in the production team, how about it?"

Shinichi Iwahashi specifically mentioned "everyone in the production team", leaving Chihiro Kameyama a room to refuse.

Anyway, he sent the audition tape over, and it was the TV station that made the final decision on whether to use it, but the person he asked for help was Chihiro Kameyama.If you think the song is good and it works smoothly in the end, it is Kameyama Chihiro's credit.

However, if the song is inappropriate and finally passed, because he specifically pointed out that it is for "everyone in the production team", so that the rejection has nothing to do with Kameyama Chihiro.

Aware of this, Kameyama Chihiro looked at this young man differently.

"Of course." Kameyama Chihiro readily responded, "I'll be looking forward to it later."

The fat young man was listening, and he raised his wine glass with a smile.

After this matter is finished, the mission of Yanqiao Shinichi's trip is considered to be completed-as for whether it can be successfully used, it is not included in today's meeting.

After that, the three of them drank for a while.After nine o'clock, Kameyama Chihiro was about to say goodbye.

Sending Kameyama Chihiro away, Iwahashi Shinichi was thinking about saying goodbye to the fat young man too, but Yasushi Akimoto preemptively said, "How about going to continue it? Shinichi-kun."

Having borrowed his light just now, I can't immediately turn my back on him and run away.

Anyway, there was no arrangement after that, Yanqiao Shinichi got into Akimoto Yasushi's car, the three of them became two, and they changed to a new place to drink.Said it was a new place. When Shinichi Iwahashi was the manager of this club, he was called by this fat young man to drink with him.

Mr. Akimoto has contributed a lot on his way to become the walking guide of Ginza Roppongi.

The two hostesses sat down beside them, and after ordering, the four of them chatted casually.In a shop that can make fat young people become frequent customers, the hostess may not be outstanding in appearance, but she must have superb speaking skills.

The topics are scattered, there is no point, and everything can be talked about.

The less important the topic is, the more it will suddenly go to an unexpected place without knowing when.

"Tonight, I will meet with people from Hibari Productions and Japan and Columbia." Akimoto Yasushi suddenly mentioned the two people I met at the beginning, "It is the invitation song from Misora ​​Hibari-san, for a certain song in her new album. Write a song."

"It's amazing, that Misora ​​Hibari-san." Iwahashi Shinichi didn't just compliment him.With Misora ​​Hibari's status in the industry, being able to write lyrics for her can be regarded as an affirmation as a lyricist.

"If I can write a good lyrics for her, no one will laugh at me in the future as a boring lyricist who can only write lyrics for popular idols."

However, throughout the Kitten Club era, the fat young man was prolific and wrote a bunch of strange lyrics. In the eyes of some orthodox in the industry, this guy is indeed a bit out of date.

"That's the way it is, it doesn't matter if you're not popular." Qiuyuan Yasushi said with a smile, "Everyone says the Kitten Club is bad, but I still regard the Kitten Club as the pride of my career."

"The Kitten Club was born after breaking the old rules, and now they are broken and crushed." Akimoto Yasushi seemed to ask himself, and he seemed to ask Shinichi Iwahashi, "After the Kitten Club was broken and crushed, what was born again?" What could it be?"

Yanqiao Shinichi couldn't speak.However, I thought in my heart that occasionally one or two small flowers and a few clumps of grass can grow on this pile of ruins, but new buildings will probably not be built in a while.

"Shinichi-kun produced Moritaka Chisato and WINK one after another." Akimoto Yasushi narrowed his eyes, his fox tail looming, "The opportunity to know you is that you planned the transformation plan of Matsumoto Akiko-san, to destroy an original orthodox idol."

"..."

"At that time, I never thought that a person who wanted to destroy orthodox idols could become an outstanding idol producer." Listening to Akimoto Yasushi's words, he couldn't tell if he was a compliment.

However, when he was trying to transform Akiko Matsumoto, Shinichi Iwahashi never imagined that he had not produced a formal work as a band producer in the industry, but as an idol producer, he did well.

"However, the other way around. Those who can find the weaknesses of idols and smash them must also be proficient in making idols." Yasushi Akimoto commented.

Yanqiao Shinichi smiled, "If you say that, you are a producer who is proficient in idol production."

"Haha!" Qiu Yuankang smiled heartily.

Then he said: "Before the kitten club was disbanded, Goto-kun and I had some disagreements. According to the original idea, the members of the kitten club only recruited female high school students who are registered. Afterwards, as they graduated from school, they also recruited 'Graduate' in the group."

One advantage of this approach is that the group is always in a state of fresh blood, which can keep fans fresh.However, the problem is also obvious. The highly popular members tend to gather in the first few issues. If the popularity of the members who join later cannot be maintained, then, as the popular members graduate, the popularity of the group will also collapse.

"So, Goto-kun plans to change his strategy and cancel this graduation system." Yasushi Akimoto shook his head, "But it's obviously not possible to do this, is it?"

Yanqiao Shen thought for a while, and agreed, "As far as the operating model of the Kitten Club is concerned, the graduation system cannot be cancelled."

"The problem is how to find the balance between graduation and maintaining popularity." Akimoto Yasushi said this, and smiled self-deprecatingly, "However, this building has collapsed before finding this balance."

The building built at an unprecedented speed collapsed at an unexpected speed.

It can be said to be a representative work of the tofu dregs project.

However, Yasushi Akimoto chattered about the Kitten Club, not reminiscing about the past and complaining to Shinichi Iwahashi about his old partner through drinking, but thinking about another thing.

"Shinichi-kun, if we can form another group like the Kitten Club..."

Rising in the era of idols, relying on idols to make a fortune, he became a celebrity in the industry, and ruined the reputation of the idol profession.Such Akimoto Yasushi has an obsession with idols.

Although the Kitten Club failed, Yasushi Akimoto still did not give up on this combination model.

(End of this chapter)