Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 612
As soon as a topic is over, the next one immediately follows.

Mayumi Watanabe sighed, "Is there any more?"

This posture seemed to be secretly brewing some internal and external conspiracy, deliberately trying to hold her back and not let her go back to the office.

Yanqiao Shenyi joked: "I have prepared a basket."

"It's terrible." She said so, but she smiled at this sentence.Complaints are complaints, but he didn't leave after all, and continued to listen to Yanqiao Shinichi's words.

Hearing the good news from DREAMS COME TRUE in advance made Wanyumi Watanabe not so anxious to go back.

Of course, Yanqiao Shinichi didn't really prepare a whole basket.

At the meeting just now, BOLAN's debut was also discussed.The official debut is scheduled for June 21th, and the debut press conference will be held on May [-]st.

According to the record company's plan for this year, from late May to June is ZARD's vacant production period. Arranging BOLAN's debut at this time can just free up some resources from ZARD and put them there.

Unlike ZARD, which has Star Office behind it, BOLAN signed with Mayumi Watanabe's office.

Although it is enough to be a "direct line", after all, there is no luxury to join a family with poor resources.It all depends on hard work.

In addition, the circus tour of DREAMS COME TRUE will be held in Fukuoka on June [-]th.BOLAN, who has been scheduled to follow the band as a member of the tour team, just happened to catch up with the popularity of his seniors and advertised his debut.

This method of being popular first and then popular is not special. In order to promote favorite new bands, many well-known bands will invite them to do opening performances.No rubbing, no rubbing.

There are more people at hand, and when things are done, there are more choices.

The heat that is obviously rubbed off is heat, and resources can also be exchanged secretly.

This trick was used when I went to Osaka to promote ZARD. This time, I must continue to use DREAMS COME TRUE to participate in the program as a condition to replace BOLAN's promotional resources.

ZARD has just made a successful debut, and is not yet at the point where it can be exchanged for resources...just consolidate the existing popularity first.Even so, in BOLAN's debut, ZARD is not completely invisible, but contributes in another way.

If BOLAN wants to debut, he must have his own exclusive production team.Iwahashi Shinichi continued to take charge of the overall situation and served as the chief producer of BOLAN. Not only him, but also several people in the team responsible for ZARD came to support BOLAN.

This is not only because of the lack of human resources in small companies, but also because the team has accumulated a certain amount of experience with ZARD, and now it is just about to be used by BOLAN.

However, although Shinichi Iwahashi continued to serve as the chief producer, this time, he went to negotiate with Sakuma Masahide's personal office and entrusted him with BOLAN's music production, and he was only in charge of the overall production.

Masahide Sakuma is the producer of the defunct legendary band BOOWY, and the inspector of the band Heaven. He is quite good at producing pure Japanese rock. He is only responsible for music production and does not participate in songwriting. He is the quality of rock band production in the industry. ensure.

"BOLAN and ZARD are different."

Iwahashi Shinichi reiterated the old saying that he said at the meeting just now, "Compared to ZARD, BOLAN actually has more potential for an orthodox rock band. Therefore, in terms of the strategy for dealing with BOLAN, ZARD cannot be copied."

The two bands belong to the same record company, and the production team has overlapped. If the music producer is also the same, there is a risk of "cross-flavoring" and the suspicion of coming off the same chocolate candy assembly line.

There is a little advantage in doing this, that is, listeners who are used to the chocolate candy produced on this assembly line, if they think ZARD sounds good, they will go back and buy BOLAN's songs.

But the disadvantages are also obvious. The styles are too similar. If you don't like ZARD, you will never like BOLAN, and you can't open up markets other than chocolate candies.

In addition, once the audience is tired of chocolate candies, ZARD and BOLAN will be abandoned at the same time-compared with food, music can be crueler.

If the chocolate is too sweet, there will still be new audiences, but the singer will be eliminated if he is tired of listening to it, so he has to go back to the furnace and recreate it.

Whether a small record company just started to use this similar style to quickly open up the market, or choose each with its own style, let Iwahashi Shinichi decide, then he will obviously choose the latter.

It’s not that they can’t have the same style. Maybe after ZARD becomes popular, they will launch bands with similar styles according to ZARD’s model, but a band like BOLAN, which was created as a signboard in its initial period, cannot be the same.

In particular, ZARD has not yet become popular. If BOLAN is also close to ZARD's model, it is tantamount to putting all eggs in the same basket.

And since it is decided to produce separately, it is necessary to build a new product line for BOLAN.

Although the R&D personnel overlap with the chocolate candies, the boss is still the owner of the Six Totoro Company, and the packaging box may also have the shadow of chocolate candies, but what is packed inside is the latest flavor of crab roe and broad beans.

The purpose of opening a record company is to let the public feel that the singers of this company are rich and diverse and of high quality, so they like it very much, not to make the public feel that the singers of this company come off the same assembly line and just suit their own tastes.

On the one hand, it is for the long-term development of the record company and the band, and on the other hand, Shinichi Iwahashi has several jobs and will soon be involved in the production of the planned album, and there is also a circus of DREAMS COME TRUE Touring waits for no one.

If it is not enough for a person to divide himself into five equal parts, consider letting go.

Yanqiao Shinichi felt that it would be better to try to cooperate with outsiders than to grab it by himself.

It is not easy to recruit a top-notch producer like Sakuma Masahide.

Thanks to the production band Tianguo, during the broadcast of the program, Iwahashi Shinichi was complained enough as "Iwahashi-kun outside the picture", and at the same time, he and the three censors also established a not-so-deep friendship outside the program— —

I only gave Iwahashi Shinichi a chance to negotiate, instead of saying that there is no problem without saying anything.

This time, Shinichi Iwahashi went to ask Sakuma Masahide, and he also deliberately talked to him, telling the big producer that the band BOLAN had participated in the band Heaven, and was transferred to his production company after being eliminated.

Not only that, but I also specially negotiated with TV Asahi to ask for the video of BOLAN's participation in the band Heaven, and sent two copies of the band's current performance video to Sakuma Masahide.

Put the candid attitude ten to ten.

This is to persuade Sakuma Masahide to produce this undebuted rookie band, and secondly, to take this opportunity to let the big producer evaluate the potential of BOLAN.

Masahide Sakuma received the two videotapes he sent, and after watching them, he called Shinichi Iwahashi and expressed his impressions solemnly, telling him, "BOLAN is a branch that shines brighter the more it is polished. band."

Compared with becoming famous in TV shows, they are obviously more suitable for this way of honing themselves from the basic LIVEHOUSE performance.

"Hand over the music production to Sakuma-san, let BOLAN make his official debut first, and then let them participate in this new project." Shinichi Iwahashi made it clear for the first time that BOLAN will also participate.

"Have you thought about how to arrange them?" Watanabe Mayumi wondered.

Yanqiao Shenyi didn't answer, but repeated the old saying, "Manyumi-san said that Moriyou-kun is a fragile and beautiful man."

Wanyumi Watanabe reacted, remembering that she had indeed said that, but she couldn't guess why he suddenly brought it up, so she remained silent.

"After you said that, I tried to observe it." Yanqiao Shinichi told her.

Although it is a bit strange to say that it is a bit strange to secretly observe the male lead singer of the record company to see if he is a fragile and handsome man...

"and then?"

Watanabe Wanyumi thought of going with him, and began to find it funny.

This smile made Yanqiao Shinichi feel quite heartbroken.

There is no way, let’s talk, and the business is important, "... Wanyumi-san has a good eye for seeing people."

To be precise, it is accurate enough to grasp the temperament.When I met Inamuraizumi's unreliable temperament before, she had already shown her excellence in this aspect, and this time she didn't lose sight of Moriyu Lanshi.

"is it?"

Hearing what he said, Wanyumi Watanabe seemed to be in high spirits, with a wonderful feeling that a little praise just happened to be in the right place.

She asked one more question: "Do you want me to be more specific?"

It's not really because of being complacent after being praised by Yanqiao Shenyi for being in the right place, but because he knows well that Yanqiao Shenyi will not talk nonsense for no reason.

"Please." Yanqiao Shinichi was not polite to her.

There is such a tacit understanding between the two people.

Watanabe Wanyumi told him, "Tomomori-kun gives me the feeling that it is very similar to Ermeime in traditional operas. It is fragile and childish, but it has an advantage. It can exile itself and die for love for women."

"what."

Yanqiao Shinichi looked at her with a delicate expression.

Wanyumi Watanabe smiled, "Of course, perhaps in Shinichi-kun's opinion, it is not an advantage to exile yourself and die for a woman. But the function of the Nimeime actors in the repertoire is to be able to Die for the woman you love."

The so-called Ermeimu is the role of a handsome man who is in charge of talking about love in traditional plays.

In the Edo period, folk dramas flourished. On the one hand, it was the background of the era that respected samurai, and decent protagonists could not be randomly arranged to have a relationship with their children. On the other hand, ordinary people yearned for love and love.In this way, there will be Ermeimu that specifically satisfies the appetite of ordinary people.

It is not advisable to praise or criticize a certain thing without combining the context and context.

"It's not like this."

Iwahashi Shinichi denied it, and smiled, "I have no objection to the role of Nimeime actors..." He just admired Watanabe Manyumi's precise vision in his heart again.

"Manyumi-san," Iwahashi Shinichi said to her, "I want BOLAN to cooperate with enka singers, and I found one or two suitable candidates."

Watanabe Manyumi showed surprise.After a brief moment of surprise, I started to feel curious.

Although Yanqiao Shinichi didn't really prepare a whole bunch of things to tell her, but this alone was enough to keep her.

……

ZARD's new single will be released this Friday, and the record stores will start to hit the shelves a day or two in advance.When the single was released, there were more trips back to record companies than before.

I have to hold a meeting with the team members to hear about the arrangements for the promotion period, and there are still a bunch of singles waiting for them to sign and do activities and send favors.

Shinichi Iwahashi didn't have time to see ZARD, but he didn't forget to ask the staff to tell the band members to prepare a special signed version of the single, and then send it to Osaka for Mitsuo Terada's mother.

Last Saturday night, after the show, I just saw Terada Mitsuo himself in the restaurant and found out about it.With such a little friendship, the band members put extra effort into this matter.

As Sachiko Kawachi signed, she still hadn't forgotten about inviting Shinichi Iwahashi to the performance.

This week, there are evening performances from Friday to Sunday.

The band members were busy signing autographs in the company's lounge, and Akamatsu Haruko came out of the production department's office and stopped by to have a look.

Haruko Akamatsu finished her studies and officially joined the record company.

She also has the identity of a former female lead singer of the band, she quit the band, but worked hard for ZARD in various ways as a behind-the-scenes black-clothed identity.In the record company, many employees secretly said that she was "the fifth person in ZARD".

On the one hand, it's her doing jobs for up-and-coming bands that keep bowing their heads.On the other hand, the classmates who graduated at the same time as her and are now working in large companies, living a life of singing and singing every night, feel unreasonable for her, a graduate of Waseda University, to come to a small record company as an employee.

Students from prestigious schools have a wonderful sense of self-esteem. If they feel that their classmates are engaged in a job that does not match their status as "students from prestigious schools", they will treat this person with special respect.

However, Haruko Akamatsu made up her mind and never wavered. She wholeheartedly became her behind-the-scenes man in black, and signed a formal entry contract with GenZo, turning from a temporary worker to a full-time employee.

When she was still a part-time job, she was affiliated with ZARD's production team and followed ZARD. Once she officially joined the job, her daily work was no longer just like a personal manager.

……

"Then, I will excuse you first."

Haruko Akamatsu said goodbye to the members of ZARD and came out of the waiting room.

At the meeting on Monday, BOLAN's debut was decided.Haruko Akamatsu was not able to attend the meeting that day, and was informed later that she was seconded to BOLAN's production team as a foreign aid.

Before graduating, Haruko Akamatsu participated in the band production as a part-time job, and also sat on the representative seat of the band Tianguo as a representative of the production company. Although she is a full-time employee who has just signed a contract, she has quite a lot of work experience.

Not only that, she brought BOLAN to Shinichi Iwahashi, just like bringing Sachiko Kamachi to the recording studio...

Both bands have a strange relationship with Akamatsu Haruko.

She accepted the arrangement, and this morning, she packed her things and reported to BOLAN's team.Anyway, the overlap rate of the staff of the two teams is quite high, and there is no trouble of re-adapting to the new environment.

Akamatsu Haruko turned across the corridor.

"Chisong sang?"

He was suddenly stopped by someone.

(End of this chapter)