"Did you receive the tape? Watanabe Manyumi picked up the phone and asked.

"Got ......" Iwahashi Shinichi replied and asked her, "Manyumi-san, wait to see you, are you free?"

Watanabe Manyumi guessed that she was going to talk about the new lead singer, looked at today's itinerary, confirmed the current time, and readily agreed, "It's just right, we can have lunch together." How about a chat while eating?"

"Hmm. ”

Iwahashi Shinichi replied, "Of course, it's good to talk while eating, but before I do, I'll go to the office to find you, and I'd like to hear something for you first." Okay?"

The phrase "listen to it".

Watanabe Manyumi thought about it and agreed.

Putting down the phone, I was a little curious, and I couldn't guess what Shinichi Iwahashi was selling. When he first called, he thought he was going to talk about the new lead singer, but if he asked her to watch the audition tape again, the tone was not like it.

On the contrary, there was a kind of desire to show her something she had never seen before.

Before waiting for Shinichi Iwahashi to come over, Watanabe Manyumi thought about it herself, so that she could prepare for what he had to say next.

......

It took a long time to get here from Kawasaki's office, and when Iwahashi arrived, it was almost eleven o'clock. The clerk had already been instructed to go and see Watanabe Manyumi.

"What did you do with those tapes?"

The two of them each had a sofa in the small meeting room. Watanabe Manyumi didn't ask him what he meant, and threw out his own question first.

"It's just a call to you after watching the tape. Shinichi Iwahashi lived up to her hard work in sending the tape, and seriously expressed his opinion about the performance of the girls he circled.

“...... In short, on the whole, the one with the best performance is undoubtedly Izumi Inamura. Iwahashi Shinichi came to a conclusion, but he stopped talking, as if he was considering the next "but".

Watanabe Manyumi also contributed a lot to the selection of a new lead singer, and even called an outsider to the audition meeting to personally select people. And what I have to say next is undoubtedly to veto the previous efforts, and not only that, but also to throw her a somewhat troublesome question.

Watanabe saw that he had something else to say, so she neither debunked nor asked, waiting for him to throw out the topic.

What needs to be said must be said.

Shinichi Iwahashi took his office worker handbag and took it out of the few copies of the tapes, "Borrow your VCR, okay?"

As soon as she saw the tape in his hand, Watanabe knew that it had nothing to do with the videotape of the audition meeting, and asked, "This is what you said you wanted to 'listen to' for me?"

Iwahashi nodded cautiously, "Anyway, let's listen to it." ”

The clerk came to deliver tea, and Watanabe Manyumi just ordered her to come over with a VCR.

Iwahashi Shin shoved the tape in, put it on one plate, and changed another, and let Watanabe Manyumi listen to all three copies. It's a recording of a cappella, and it sounds like it was recorded in a recording studio, and Watanabe Manyumi listened carefully.

After all three servings were released, Shinichi Iwahashi asked her, "How is it?"

Watanabe Manyumi thought about it for a moment and asked in turn, "Whose recording is this?"

"Didn't I tell you before that Akamatsu brought a pretty good girl over?" said Iwahashi Shinichi.

Watanabe Manyumi thought about it for a while, and then confirmed it, and reminded him euphemistically: "I remember being a model from the Star Office...... Right?"

Shinichi Iwahashi emphasized Sachiko Kamaike's singing skills, but Manyumi Watanabe directly mentioned her current belonging, and quietly, the two of them each conveyed their thoughts to each other.

"Yes, that's her. Iwahashi Shinichi said, "Kamaike-san - her surname is Kamaike, and her name is Sachiko." Kamachi-san signed a three-year contract with Xingchen Office, but now the contract period has just passed three months. ”

“......”

Iwahashi Shinichi deliberately explained the contract situation of Sachiko Kamaike to her, undoubtedly showing his attitude. Even though he knew that she already had an office, he still didn't give up, and he still wanted to pull Sachiko Kamaike to this side.

However, if you do so, you will have to deal with problems between firms, which are too complicated.

Watanabe Manyumi looked at him thoughtfully. After thinking about it for a moment, he raised his wrist to look at the time, "It's noon." I've booked a restaurant, shall we?"

"Okay, just to wait for your words, my stomach is growling. Shinichi Iwahashi said, not minding putting the topic aside for the time being, leaving her room to think.

At the end of the day, he brought a new option to Watanabe when she was ready to accept something. This room for reflection must be given to her.

It was this exaggeration that made Watanabe Manyumi laugh.

The restaurant is near the office, and at noon, the people who come to eat are all nearby office workers. In a different place, the topic just now did not turn over, or rather, it was a different place to continue.

"You used to see Ann Lewis when you were a kid, right?" said Iwahashi Shinichi.

Watanabe Manyumi nodded, "Ann Lewis was only fourteen or fifteen years old when he first entered Beijing, and he lived in my house until he was eighteen years old before moving out. ”

In the past, artists had a low status and low income, and since they wanted to start performing arts, they had to come to Tokyo from all over the country.

Especially for minors, if they live alone, the guardian is not at ease, so there is a tradition in the industry where the president acts as the guardian. On the one hand, the president acts as a parent, and on the other hand, he can save the artist rent money.

De, Deyun Club?

Of course, there is another reason.

If the artist lives in the president's house and is taken care of by the president, then he has to go all out to repay his kindness and be loyal to him, just like a radical who drinks a glass of wine and recognizes the boss as "おやじ (Daddy)", and from then on he goes to the soup and fire.

For example, when Yukiko Okada went to Beijing, she lived in the house of the president of SUNMUSIC and was taken care of by the president.

Because there are such rules, as long as it's not the kind of deceptive company that sells dog meat on the head of a sheep, there is no need to worry or make up any strange book plots. The reason why this rule has survived so long is because it has not been broken.

There are many rules in the entertainment world that are born from the pole, and the rules of the pole are the "master-apprentice system" inherited from the craftsman.

In the past, the junior apprentices lived in the master's house, serving tea and water to the master, and the master taught the young apprentice skills, if someone bullied the master, the little apprentice would rush to the front, and when he could leave the school, he would go to work in the place introduced by the master.

It is said that the ancestors of the modern extreme path are those master and apprentice families who fought because of the rush to work.

If you dump the master and run away, it is called deceiving the master and destroying the ancestors. If you change to the extreme road, you will be hunted down, and if you change to the entertainment world, you will be blocked.

Of course, after all, it is the old rules, and now there are fewer and fewer such "cottage business" companies.

"When Ann Lewis got married, I went to the wedding on behalf of my father. I remember that at the wedding, Mariasan Takeuchi also sang the song "Linda" herself. ”

Ann Lewis's full name is "Ann Linda Lewis", and when she and Mashiro Kuwana were about to get married, Maria Takeuchi wrote a sweet song "Linda" for her to congratulate her on her marriage.

Although Ann Lewis and Masahiro Kuwana later divorced, the song remained as a classic.

"I like the song "リンダ" very much, I was only 18 years old at the time, but I thought that it would be nice if I could have such a unique wedding song when I got married. Watanabe Manyumi smiled nostalgically as she talked about the past.

"That being said, whoever falls in love is that Linda. "If you think so, as long as the couple loves each other, even the wedding march is unique." ”

"He's really good at talking. Watanabe Manyumi teased him.

Shinichi Iwahashi just smiled.

However, talking about Ann Lewis is not a pointless small talk. Starting with her, Shinichi Iwahashi continued, "Ann Lewis was born as a child star, and she also became a photo idol, and she went through a lot of things to become a singer, and it was not all smooth sailing. ”

Watanabe Manyumi understood as soon as she heard it that this was a signal for the topic to continue.

Changing from the office to the restaurant, changing the location of the topic, in order to leave room for thinking, now, the time is about the same, the ideas that should be sorted out, she considered it, and finally talked to him about Sachiko Kamaike head-on.

"I don't know much about music, and I can't tell you what the advantage of that Kamaike-san is in singing. "As a layman, the most direct thought is 'it good'. ”

"Yes, 'good'. Iwahashi nodded cautiously, showing his appreciation for her, "This is important. ”

"Yes, we don't make music for insiders and people who understand music, but for ordinary people. So, the first impression of the sound is important, and the 'good sound' is the most important thing. ”

"That's similar to what you emphasised before the audition meeting, 'feeling comes first'. Iwahashi said.

When Watanabe heard him say this, he could understand why he had to bring Sachiko Kamaike's audition tape to her. Or, it was precisely because he watched the videos of the selected candidates that he realized the rarity of Sachiko Kamaike.

If there were no comparisons, his determination would not be so strong. Even Manyumi Watanabe has to admit in her heart that Sachiko Kamaike is better than the few people selected at the audition meeting.

But even so......

"Acting on feelings doesn't work. Watanabe said.

"U-MIZ has just been established, and if we want to use Watanabe Productions to poach people from other studios, even if it is just a model who is not in the limelight, if we do such a thing, we will not be able to gain a foothold in the industry in the future. ”

In the final analysis, this is not a question of the size of the coffee seat of the poached person at all, but a problem that cannot be done in itself.

If it's a big, full-fledged firm, there's room for maneuver. However, a small firm that has just been established and has not yet gained a firm foothold, instead of working its own, first goes to use the power of the family to reach out to other offices and poach other artists.

This practice is not only unseemly, it simply touches a minefield in the industry.

If you really do this, you will either be rejected and lose face, or even if you want to get someone as you wish, you will be isolated in the industry in the future because you don't understand the rules - who wants to provoke such a person?

"And your GENZO," Watanabe Manyumi said bluntly, "you have to gamble your entire net worth and prepare your own work, and as a result, you go to poach artists from other studios and come back as lead singers." If you take this first step, the road ahead will be blocked. ”

If a small production company like him does this, he will not even have a chance to be isolated from the industry.

All he needed was a little ventilation, and when the time came, he would just be the owner of a money-losing company that made homemade records for underground musicians to sell live.

Watanabe Manyumi didn't understand that such a simple truth, with Iwahashi Shinichi's meticulousness, should not be ignored. Besides, the more he admired Sachiko Kamaike, the more he should understand that poaching was a practice that would ruin her talent.

It's because Iwahashi Shinichi has not been in the industry for a long time, and he still doesn't understand these unspoken rules of the industry and the forces between firms, so he made such a mistake. But Watanabe Manyumi couldn't convince himself of this statement.

"Unless it's a three-year wait, when that Kamaike-san's contract ends, and then negotiate another contract with her. Watanabe Manyumi let go of the doubts in her heart about him and gave her answer in this matter.

Even if Shinichi Iwahashi admires Sachiko Kamaike, she thinks that Sachiko Kamaike is talented, but U-MIZ will not reach out to other firms no matter what.

"It's going to take three years. Iwahashi Shinichi listened to her words and smiled wryly.

In three years, who knows how many variables will happen. The entertainment world is also a place where every second counts, and no one waits for three years to stay where they are and wait until everything is ready.

"So," Watanabe Manyumi calmed down, "Although Kamaike-san has talent, considering the reality, it's better to give up for the time being." Izumi Inamura was supposed to be the first choice in his heart, but after listening to Kamaike-san's singing......"

"Or, it's okay to have a lead singer audition for ABNORMAL. Watanabe said.

Shinichi Iwahashi was silent, as if he was thinking about something, and Watanabe Manyumi also looked at him silently.

Finally, he spoke slowly, "Or ......"

"What if you don't poach people from the Star Office, but seek their support and cooperate with them?" Iwahashi Shinichi made a proposal that Watanabe Manyumi did not expect.

Her heart moved, and she figured out in an instant why Shinichi Iwahashi just now suddenly became unsophisticated. It's not because he's confused, or because he was carried away by Sachiko Kamaike, but he has other plans.

The problems of poaching that she said, Iwahashi Shinichi himself had already thought about clearly. He didn't wait to be reminded by her because he was confused, but let her say the impossibility of this practice herself.

Only then will he be able to speak his true mind.

Thinking about this, Watanabe Manyumi was speechless for a while.

However, although he calculated it, Watanabe Manyumi still thought of his good intentions and caution in this euphemism than he felt uncomfortable.

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