...... It's true that the words are so passionate.

The ideals are ambitious, and resigning from the Odyssey is a logical end, but there is no logical path ahead.

He is now like a child who has just learned to walk, and everything starts with falling on his heels and carefully maintaining his balance.

In the days that followed, in addition to working part-time at a pizza parlor to make ends meet, Shinichi Iwahashi began to frequent record stores, rented cassette tapes, and bought several mainstream music magazines in the market.

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. He wants to sell Miwa Yoshida's excellence, but before he can sell her, he must at least have a general understanding of the current market fashion.

In 1985, the record market was still an era when CDs, LPs (vinyl records), and cassettes were sold in parallel, and CDs, which were almost dominated by later generations, are still rubbed on the ground by LPs and cassettes.

The reason for this situation is simple: CD was born in 1982, and it is only in its third year.

To be fully rolled out, at least every home has to have a CD player. In order to do this, it is necessary to continue to develop technically. In addition, it is necessary to change the habit of using cassettes and LPs.

As a time-traveler, he always has a bit of a prophetic advantage, that is, he is more sure than anyone else that the future must be the era of CD. For now, though, it doesn't seem like much use to know that.

In order to have a full understanding of the market popularity, I listened to songs for several days in a row, and checked all kinds of information in music magazines, and then, Iwahashi Shinichi sincerely sighed:

Akina Nakamori is really TM (broken sound).

Previously, there was another equally top idol in the music world, Seiko Matsuda, who fought with her.

These two people, Akina Nakamori took a mature and handsome route, while Seiko Matsuda took a pure and orthodox route, as if copying the big battle between Momoe Yamaguchi and Junko Sakurada back then, and even the fans were divided into two factions.

Interestingly, the chic and handsome Akina Nakamori is a good girl, while the pure and sweet Seiko Matsuda lives a chic life, and the personalities of both parties are completely opposite to the characters on the stage.

In the second year of Matsuda's debut, he fell in love with another top male idol at the time, Xiang Guangmei, almost to the point of talking about marriage, but because of career differences, it finally collapsed.

Seiko Matsuda cried heartbreakingly at the breakup press conference, saying: "Not in this life, if you have to stay with Xiang Hiromi in the next life", this scene was photographed and printed in the magazine as a permanent memorial-

Three months later, in June of this year, she and actor Masaaki Kanda held a wedding of the century that cost 200 million yen and released 300 pigeons, and temporarily retired from the entertainment industry after the marriage.

This chic attitude towards life can be regarded as the first in the female idol industry.

The biggest opponent withdrew, and in this way, the music scene became a situation where Akina Nakamori's strength crushed the whole audience. But this is not because of the withdrawal of her opponent caused by the dominance of the family, but because of the re-expansion of her own strength.

In short, no matter who you are at this stage, as long as your female SOLO debuts and comes to Akina Nakamori, you will only be hanged and beaten.

Or, you don't have to go out to beat you up in person, Koizumi Kyoko, Kikuchi Momoko, Okada Yukiko and other female idols have already sent a large group fight.

And Fuji TV's "Dusk Meow" program, the large amateur female idol group Kitten Club, came out in a bikini and used a song "セーラー服を取がさないで" (don't take off other people's sailor suits) to make up for the last knife.

...... Then again, even thirty years later, the kitten club is big enough.

Previously, Maori Amaya had told him about the show "Meow at Dusk", and now it seems that her words are indeed not wrong. Compared with the previous orthodox idols, the kitten club gives people a feeling of "is this okay?".

Generally speaking, it is now a female idol that is popular, and the world of songs and ballads dominates the world, leaving a very limited soil for female singer-songwriters, especially Yoshida Miwa's music style is still far from popular ballads.

In this case, if you want to promote her, I am afraid that you must have a head that is more iron than writing a niche essay at the starting point.

Bold words are cool for a while, but it is not cool at all to put them into action.

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On Friday evening, when I got home, there was a message on the phone. Iwahashi Shinichi picked it up, it was from Maori Amatani, and asked him to go to the rehearsal of the Mimi Club tomorrow.

At half past three in the afternoon of the next day, Shinichi Iwahashi met with Masashi Amaya at a café near Shinjuku Station.

Since the last time they danced, Iwahashi Shinichi hadn't seen anyone from Mimi Club, and as soon as they met today, Maori Amaya replaced her bubble noodle-like wavy curls with shoulder-length straight hair, and the image changed so quickly that Iwahashi Shinichi almost didn't dare to recognize it.

"Iwahashi-san. It was Amaya Maori who took the initiative to greet him.

Shinichi Iwahashi sat down across from her, "Long time no see, Amatani-san." ...... I got a new hairstyle. ”

"Yes. Amatani Maori subconsciously touched the tips of his hair, "It's still suitable, right?"

"Quite nice and suits you perfectly. He told the truth, and silently added the second half of the sentence that he couldn't say: It's much better than the previous instant noodle head.

"Well, I was a little apprehensive at first. ”

After the coffee he ordered was served, Masashi Amaya suddenly told him something: "I have good news for Iwahashi-san to hear." ”

"The good news is of great interest. ”

Masashi Amaya smiled lively, "The band signed a contract with a record company and is ready to make its mainstream debut." ”

"Really?" Iwahashi Shinichi was also happy for her, and he was a little curious, "Which company did you sign with?"

"CBS Sony. ”

"That's amazing, big company. "When it comes to record labels that are famous all over the world, this one will never be left behind.

"Minejima-san has been helping to send the band's audition tapes and videotapes," said Amatani, "and some record companies have agreed to sign the band, but they felt that our structure was too bloated, and agreed to sign on the condition that Onoda-san and us as backup dancers be cut, but both Ishii-san and Mineshima-san refused." ”

This is the embodiment of Mineshima's understanding of the core charm of Mimi Club. Even if this kind of charm is not accepted by the world at this stage, Minejima insists on not throwing it away to cater to the mainstream until this persistence is rewarded.

From this point of view, Minejima is undoubtedly an excellent agent, and it is lucky to meet him at Mimi Club. In terms of promoting music styles that are not yet accepted by the mainstream, Shinichi Iwahashi and Mineshima share the same mood.

Mineshima was also the one who taught him the concept of "selling excellence", and he was the only one who could give him advice.

Iwahashi Shinichi has only one side of Mine Island, so before he came to see Amaya Matoshi, he had already made a calculation in his heart, hoping to contact Mine Island through Amaya Matoshi. And now the news that Amatani told him has strengthened his confidence in Minejima even more.

Whether it works or not, give it a try first.