Iwahashi Shinichi came to visit once, and he happened to be caught by Sakai Masatoshi and asked about the east and west.

Still, he didn't mind being led by the nose by the veteran producer — or rather, it should be said that was the result of his acquiescence.

Within the scope of acquiescence, he and Sakai Masatoshi exchanged opinions while discussing street singers and idols who were about to make their debuts, and at the same time got to know each other's ways of doing things.

Now it's time for the "tentative" part before we get to the point.

Sakai Masatoshi is also an interesting person.,It's not the kind of person who sits there and chats about things in a serious way.,It's a bit of a sentence.,Whatever you think of is what you want.。

Iwahashi Shinichi had a bottom in his heart, so he waited for Sakai Masatoshi to rummage through it. He took the piece of paper he handed over, and there were many names listed on it.

Harumi To, Yoko Kishishi, Aki Yashiro...... The names of well-known female singers are written on paper, but there are also some female names that look quite dignified and classical, such as Kiyoko and Masako.

"They are all representative singers. ”

Iwahashi Shinichi's eyes fell on the name of "Yashiro Aki", and casually mentioned, "Yatsushiro Aki-san is also quite good as a jazz singer. ”

"Yashiro-san is a master of pop music. ”

Masatoshi Sakai praised Aki Yashiro, a hexagonal warrior in the singing world, and with Shinichi Iwahashi's words, he casually pointed at Sayuri Ishikawa, "Sayuri is still one of the three Hopei girls." ”

The three Horipro mothers are Momoe Yamaguchi, Masako Mori, and Sayuri Ishikawa.

The three of them debuted as idols at the same time, and Sayuri Ishikawa, who switched to singing and acting halfway through, is now active, and the other two idols have married and retired.

Sakai Masatoshi is the producer of Momoe Yamaguchi, and he is also quite familiar with Horipro's other two mothers.

"When I was an agent for Mori Jinyisan, I met Changzi-san a few times. "As for Yamaguchi Momoe, it's really rare to see her. Unless she becomes a teacher for her two sons, or becomes a close friend of Miura Yukazu, it is estimated that she will not be able to enter her house.

Sakai Masatoshi said casually, "Masato-chan is still in contact with Baihui, and the two of them are similar people." It's not like Sayuri is a one-way person. ”

Yamaguchi Momoe and Mori Masako either yearn for or choose to get married and retire and return to the family. Sayuri Ishikawa is just the opposite, in order to avoid the way of retreating when he gets married, he deliberately chose to marry his agent.

As a result, after getting married, the relationship with her in-laws was tense, and her husband, who was originally eager to continue singing, also changed his mind to persuade her to go home to teach her husband and children. After being separated for a while, this year entered Heisei, and in February, Sayuri Ishikawa quickly cut through the mess and announced her divorce.

Not only did he divorce happily, but he also made a generous self-joke, saying that he was "the first celebrity to divorce in the Heisei years", which is quite free and easy.

Moreover, such Ishikawa Sayuri is not only not satisfied with being a housewife, but also takes advantage of the wind of the bubble era to invest in karaoke companies to make a lot of money.

Although I hadn't seen her, hearing about her deeds, Iwahashi Shinichi first had a clear-headed and calm impression of her.

"Sayuri's life experience is rich enough now. Singing is a bittersweet music, for singers, it is a good thing to have rich experience, and marriage and divorce can make her go to the next level. ”

Masatoshi Sakai said, "In the past, many singers and singers sang in bars and other places and watched the world, but today, when people are forced to sing by their livelihoods and are photographed by music producers who go to the store, it is almost impossible to do that again." ”

Sakai Masatoshi talked about singing this remark, which made Iwahashi Shinichi thoughtful.

Singing is bitter and sweet, so singers with rich life experience have a taste in singing.

On the contrary, it is the selection of idols, and the basic requirement for idols is purity, so idols are required to be blank sheets of paper when they are discovered. A blank piece of paper, and then it's up to the adults to decide what to put on it.

"I seem to have said before that I haven't worked with a singer like Fujimura. ”

Sakai Masatoshi mentioned Manami Murasei again, "Can Iwahashi-kun see it? Fujimura has a seven-year-old daughter. ”

"Ahh ”

Shinichi Iwahashi really didn't see it.

Sakai Masatoshi looked at his stunned expression and was quite satisfied, "I was shocked when I knew. Fujimura is now twenty-seven years old, and before his debut, he had been working as a folk singer in Akita Prefecture. ”

When Shinichi Iwahashi got this information, he was a little puzzled.

In other parts of Tokyo, local TV stations select and cultivate their own stars, and the locals support them with pride.

A popular singer from Tokyo goes on an expedition to a certain place, and it happens to collide with the performance of a popular local singer, and there will even be a degree of hanging out the singer from Tokyo and supporting the local singer with all his might.

Many celebrities are first well-known in the local area, and then with the support of their hometown parents, they go to Beijing to work hard.

Iwahashi Shinichi wondered, although Akita is a well-known poor country, but Manami Murasei has been a local folk singer for so long, and now she is in Beijing, and her debut has not been supported by her hometown parents at all?

Sakai Masatoshi guessed his thoughts, and his expression showed a hint of strangeness, "Fujimura is a little famous in Akita, but it is a bit special. ”

Particularly?

Sakai Masatoshi told him, "When she was in Akita, she married a local, had a daughter, and then divorced. ...... It is not surprising that a divorced single mother is, however, after the divorce, the man wanted to get back together with her, and when he was rejected, he committed suicide. ”

“......”

At the age of twenty-seven, he already had a seven-year-old daughter, and his divorced ex-husband committed suicide after reuniting. She herself is more or less a celebrity in the local area.

Shinichi Iwahashi could almost imagine how people would perceive her and such a piece of news in the backwoods of Akita, where it is rare to have a big news.

No wonder Sakai Masatoshi said that he had never handled such a singer.

He was speechless for a moment. While being silent, my mind subconsciously recalled the appearance of Manami Murashi that I had just seen.

Probably after hearing this, he thought back to Manami Murasei, and felt that there was a subtle calmness around her.

"In a place like Tokyo, suicide is a triviality that takes only three days to be swept into the trash. But in Akita, it was enough for Fujimura to withstand the curious gaze from all directions. ”

Sakai Masatoshi said half-jokingly, half-seriously, "Men don't easily give up their lives for women, so once you learn that she has such an experience, it seems that she and her person have become mysterious and full of magical charm." ”

Shinichi Iwahashi didn't answer, but he agreed.

While agreeing, he put together the words of Masashi Sakai, the production credo that "singers have a richer life experience is better", and Manami Murase's personal experience.

Stunned for a moment, Sakai Masatoshi first put away the topic just now, and said something else, "It's still about Fujimura, just right, I also want to ask Iwahashi-kun to take a look." ”

Masatoshi Sakai pointed to the piece of paper with the singer's name written on it, "It's about giving her a new stage name." ”

Shinichi Iwahashi looked at the pile of names, and then imagined the sales of Manami Murasei on the street and the situation of being sent to Sakai Masatoshi here to return to the pot for production, and thought in his heart, "Do you want that Fujimura-san to change his stage name and start again?"

"Exactly. Sakai replied.

For artists who failed to debut, change their stage names and return to the pot, which is a standard operation in the industry.

has saved a little fame before, and it is still a little good to keep the original stage name, but for a singer like Manami Murase, who has no such person, with the results of the previous two years on the street, there are disadvantages and no benefits.

Change your name and start again, and you can also pretend to be a newcomer.

"There are several fixed reference patterns for singers to use stage names. ”

For example, using the place name of his hometown as his surname, the "Yachishiro" of Yatsushiro Aki is Yatsushiro City, his hometown in Kumamoto Prefecture.

Manami Murasei is from Senhoku Prefecture in Akita Prefecture, but she has a strange reputation in her hometown, and it is difficult to use a stage name about the name of her hometown - mainly because it does not bring any benefits.

In addition, there is also the practice of following behind the already well-known predecessors in the singing industry and following them in naming them. ”

For example, take one word from each of the names of four well-known singers. In contrast, this approach is more feasible for Manami Murase.

"The stage name should still be simple and easy to write, 'Murasei Manami', maybe many people can't even read this name when they see it. ”

Instead of asking for Iwahashi Shinichi's opinion, Sakai Masatoshi asked him to help with the one-use elimination method to weed out the names that didn't work.

In front of him was a piece of paper full of singers' names, and the topic of conversation was the singer's name, and Iwahashi Shinichi quietly moved the topic closer to the large-scale project he was planning.

"Project album?"

Sakai Masatoshi responded to Shinichi Iwahashi's words while combining names.

jumped from a singer to an idol, and then jumped back from an idol back to a singer, and the two sides almost ended the "temptation" link. Shin Iwahashi started to talk about his business, and Masatoshi Sakai listened attentively.

"It's an interesting stage. ”

Shinichi Iwahashi told him, "The market for singing is being squeezed by idols, but idols themselves have also gone downhill, and the band tide is coming. ”

"The band tide is led by Iwahashi-kun. Sakai Masatoshi smiled and spelled out another name, "Ka......ori Tachibana" shook her head first, "Sony now has a 'Kasaika' who debuted a little later than Fujimura." ”

Kaoriri and "incense" are both pronounced as "Kaori".

It's not impossible to bump into names, but you can bump into the old-timers of decades ago, but you can't bump into the juniors.

"Although the edge of idols is weak, it is still a strong force in the industry. Even if the market share of singing is squeezed again, it is still the mainstream music form. Although the band is menacing, it can't do it alone. ”

Iwahashi Shinichi didn't hear "Xiangxixiang", and said his own.

"That's right. Sakai Masatoshi nodded, "In the era of the warlike country, it was the time of the Great Smash Bros. "I even thought about which forces to correspond to.

As long as you can endure his out-of-tune and out-of-tune style, then everything will be fine.

"At this stage, the generational change has not stopped, but the old style still has a wide audience. Shinichi Iwahashi explained his thoughts, "So, I came up with the idea of stringing these three together. ”

He took out the tiger skin of Kyohei as a banner, "I have such an idea, and the inspiration comes from the past visit to Kyohira-san of Kyo-sang, who mentioned that 'all kinds of music forms are perfectly integrated'." ”

"Hmm. ”

Sakai Masatoshi was about to ask Shinichi Iwahashi how about another alternative name. When the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back when he heard them.

"So, you want to make an album that is 'perfectly integrated'?" said Masatoshi Sakai became interested in this project album.

"To be precise, it's about how to collaborate and how to arrange an album that is supposed to be highly completed and cohesive. "Iwahashi Shinkazu.

In order to make a large-scale project with multi-party cooperation, we should not rely on just one momentum, but first consider the overall situation, and then add to this foundation.

Therefore, Iwahashi Shinichi simply prepared to make a plan for an album first. It's just that the song selection meeting, which should have been resolved internally, has become an external negotiation.

If you don't consider the whole, this kind of battle line and timeline will inevitably be a very long project, and it is very easy to go wrong in the middle of the project, or simply lack the stamina to end hastily.

Although it is necessary to find ways to connect people from all walks of life, it is by no means a matter of finding a family and counting one, but on the premise of having a goal, and then contacting the right person.

Because of this, I need the help of a producer like Sakai Masatoshi who eats 100 meals.

"There is a precedent for bands and idols to collaborate, and I've seen idol and song collaborations. ...... However, I can't really imagine what the effect will be when strung together on a line. ”

Sakai Masatoshi brought it up, "Iwahashi-kun, if there are any new trends in the future, can you tell me more details?"

"This is natural. Iwahashi Shinichi agreed.

Sakai Masatoshi nodded, the pen in his hand pointing to a name on the paper, "Keiko Fuji...... Fujimura also has a 'vine' in its name. ”

Next, Iwahashi Shinichi accompanied Sakai Masatoshi to form stage names and spelled out several names such as "Tachibana Masako" and "Fuji Ayako".

While giving Manami Murasei a new stage name, they chatted about the album project.

There were several stage names, just waiting to be brought to the meeting to make the final decision. On the other hand, the planned album is becoming more and more speculative.

......

Keiko Fuji became popular in the 70s and is a female singer who is famous for singing "resentment songs".

Her song style is quite dark, and her personality is not cheerful, and she married singer Kiyoshi Maekawa, and then married music producer Utada Terumi, moved to the United States, and raised a daughter together.

Utada's real name is a music producer, but in fact, there are no works that can be mastered, and his biggest fame and achievement is to marry Keiko Fuji, the queen of resentment songs of the year.

After moving to the United States, this year, Utada Terumi returned to Tokyo with his wife and daughter.