164. Personal Style

Cream cannon, hair dryer, with confetti foam granules paste face. It's a very good idea, so let's make such a happy decision!

...... It's weird.

To say that the degree of undisciplined variety shows in this variety show sometimes reaches the level of refreshing people's imagination, and now it is even more exaggerated to play people in the 80s, Iwahashi Shinichi deeply feels that it takes extraordinary courage to debut as a funny artist.

But even so, there are still rules that need to be followed in the industry that has no discipline.

Variety shows that are all participated in by artists can sacrifice the festival to change the effect, it doesn't matter how you do it, and even literally risk your life to play.

But like now, a show that focuses on ordinary people and has amateurs as the protagonists can't do that.

This is, first and foremost, a very basic morality.

Regardless of whether an artist is popular or not, whether he is a newcomer or a big thing, he must have an awareness.

When you become an artist and decide to enter the industry, you must accept the self-sacrifice that comes with the identity of an artist.

From this point of view, in the entertainment industry, the status of an artist is very low.

However, the amateurs who come to participate in the draft are not really insiders, so the play in the circle is not suitable for them. Even if you want to add a little entertainment, consider a gentle, innocuous approach.

Besides, this is a music talent show after all. Proper jokes can be used as a seasoning seasoning for Sichuan peppercorns, however, you can't let Sichuan peppercorns become the main ingredient in the pot.

In that case, the real cart before the horse.

In addition, some of the bands that come to participate will make their debut in the industry, and may even make some achievements - this must be assumed.

It would be disrespectful to treat the band that came to join as if it were a monkey. Not only will it make the really good band oppose the show, but the excessive entertainment will make the audience instinctively despise the band that plays in the show.

If you want to sell something in this show, then it should definitely not be a "joke".

Finding a balance in this takes a bit more effort.

The big framework of the show is set up, and the script is being written, precisely because the basic things have been decided, Iwahashi Shinichi has to think slowly, like decorating a house, adding some small details.

Some of the staff sent by AE had dealt with Shinichi Iwahashi before, so they knew a little bit about his behavior, but the rest of the production team felt very strange about this guy who was so junior that he had to give advice every time he came.

Fortunately, he is not untargeted, although there will be arguments and doubts, but everyone will always work in the same direction.

To do this show, there are already more than 20 people in the production team who can sit in the conference room, not including the on-site personnel later, lighting, photography, field affairs, etc., are not things that can be completed by a few people alone.

The house is built with bricks, but the bricks piled up there are not the house.

......

The name of the show was eventually set as "Yuji Miyake's Super Band Heaven", under the banner of Yuji Miyake's title show.

The term "band heaven" comes from the probe of the probe in front of Jingu Square, and now because of the large number of amateur bands, the former probe of the probe has become the band of heaven in the mouths of the people.

Before and after planning this show, Iwahashi Shinichi often hangs out in the area with Watanabe Manyumi on weekends, and his recording studio is in Yoyogi, which is not far away, and the two go there almost every weekend, and after discussion, even the name of the show was decided to be "Band Heaven".

For amateur bands and band lovers in Tokyo, there are probably very few people who don't know about "Band Heaven".

It's said that it's hot, so let's just say it.

The newcomers sent by AE are all teenagers, and the youngest is only fourteen years old, and when he stands in front of Iwahashi Shinichi and says hello crisply, Iwahashi Shinichi, who has been a man of two lives, deeply feels that he is already an old gangster.

Although they came to make the audition tape, none of these people were selected to join the studio as singers.

In this era, Yoyoshi Osato's style of doing things is not very different from that of the traditional Sakamoto Performing Arts Office. He refers to his artists collectively as Artiste, rather than subdividing them by labels such as singers and actors, as other firms do. Therefore, even newcomers who are not interested in singing should be confirmed for their singing ability.

However, since they are not professional singers, and they have almost no relevant learning experience except for school music classes, most of these newcomers are at the karaoke level, and occasionally there are one or two, which is the level of "Offering of Love".

Shinichi Iwahashi, who has an absolute sense of tone, has made rapid progress in the studio, but for him, who has an absolute sense of tone, it is really painful to listen to a tryout tape that is not in tune.

That sense of hearing is no less than a fingernail scraping a blackboard, and the teeth are so sore that the soul is trembling.

Big Brother Masato Nakamura gloated, and Shinichi Iwahashi was holding back his teeth here, he was holding back his smile there, and the weak friendship that was already with the meaning of grabbing food was even more precarious with the arrival of this batch of young boys and girls in the flower season.

Only Miwa-chan, who was held in their hands by the two of them, still looked carefree, and when she was happy, she began to hum a song, and then recorded the melody she thought of on tape.

Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura were in charge of reviewing her recordings, on the one hand, to see if the melodies had been born, and it would be terrible if the melodies that I had heard by chance on a certain day in a certain year, month, and now they are remembered again.

On the other hand, it is necessary to review whether there is a need to reprocess these melodies, and if they are deemed worthless, then they are simply passed as scrap songs.

The three of them are rooted in the studio, making music for others as well as for themselves.

However, while most of them are not of a good standard, there are a few voices that are well recognizable. For example, the fourteen-year-old girl who said hello crisply.

"The sound is surprisingly textured, Eri-chan. Shinichi Iwahashi said to her.

Fourteen-year-old girl's name is Eri Fukatsu, short hair and thick eyebrows, a little bit of juvenile heroism, in a state of no makeup, there are a few innocuous freckles on her face, but add a little playful freckles, big eyes, calm eyes but not lose agility, just fourteen years old, already a little adult taste.

When she first came to the studio, Miwa-chan saw her and secretly said to Shinichi Iwahashi, "Although that kid is young, he has the taste of an adult." ”

"On the contrary, you, although you are already a real adult, sometimes you still look like a child. Shinichi Iwahashi teased her.

Hearing him say this, Miwa Yoshida had a crooked neck disease again, and leaned forward to him, "Only children would say that about others." ”

Iwahashi Shinichi ducked back and said with a smile: "Things gather like things." ”

This is a model of going crazy and even beating yourself.

Complimented by him, Eri Fukatsu curled the corners of her mouth and smiled, "Thank you, Iwahashi-san." ”

The smile hung on her face, and the boyishness faded again, so she looked like a beautiful girl.

Eri Fukatsu was born in a scholarly family, and her mother, Yumiko Fukatsu, is a somewhat famous calligrapher, and last year she stumbled into a small-scale draft competition and won the grand prize. As a result, he was given a photo by Yoyoshi Osato and signed to the office.

From this point of view, Iwahashi Shinichi can't help but admire the provocative vision of Yoyoshi Osato in his heart.

The entire batch of audition tapes was made, and Eri Fukatsu was not the best singing in it, but Shinichi Iwahashi recommended her first when he attached his impressions.

After AE receives these audition tapes and impressions, he may not be moved by the idea of making the debut of Eri Fukatsu. However, newcomers with acceptable performance and training will have one more path outside of actors.

Acting as a singer is also a way to increase exposure.

......

When I was working on the cover albums of Tokyo Music Industry Co., Ltd., I didn't think that when I was making this audition tape, Shinichi Iwahashi had a feeling of being overstretched due to lack of manpower.

Now almost all the production is done by him and Nakamura Masato, although Abnoral was also signed, but it was not a producer contract, and besides, the standard of the band is quite high, not surprisingly, Iwahashi Shinichi will definitely find a way to let them debut, or sign up for this band's heavenly show.

When making the audition tape, Shinichi Iwahashi made a mental assumption that if the audition tape was sent back to AE, Yoyoshi Osato's proposal to let his production company produce the singer, how far he would go.

Then, he found that a problem was exposed: although the production company is not responsible for the lyrics and music in theory, if the production company wants to become large, it must have its own full-time songwriters and arrangers.

If AE didn't provide the lyrics and songs, but instead entrusted them with carte blanche to do so, the production company would have to find a suitable one in the stock songs of Miwa Yoshida and Masato Nakamura - however, Miwa Yoshida's songs can only be sung by herself, and her singing is not so difficult as her style, and she may suffocate if she is not careful with shortness of breath.

There is still abnoral where you can buy koji, but you can't tear down the east wall to make up the west wall.

Being able to provide songwriting is a very big advantage. Don't wait for the opportunity to come, but be prepared to embrace it.

It's just that it's hard to find songwriters who are willing to join at some level.

......

It was a Saturday, and at eight o'clock in the evening, Haruko Akamatsu came to Yoyogi's recording studio.

She came from the company's office in Kawasaki, and after the company was founded, she occasionally worked part-time as an employee, and as the black-hearted boss Shinichi Iwahashi said to Yukiko Okada, the salary was not high.

However, she didn't care. In other words, these musicians gathered around Shinichi Iwahashi at this stage are all people whose ideals are greater than everything else.

When Haruko Akamatsu arrived, there was no one else in the studio, just Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura, the absolute protagonist Miwa Yoshida was not there tonight, saying that he was going to attend some Hokkaido fellow sorority.

I don't know if I should praise the people of Hokkaido for being humane, but Iwahashi Shinichi hasn't heard of any Shizuoka associations in the underground music scene - maybe he'll take the lead in organizing one another day, even though he's a fake Shizuoka.

Recently, Masato Nakamura has begun experimenting with composing lyrics for Miwa Yoshida.

Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura agree on this, Miwa Yoshida is certainly a genius, but her songs are unrestrained and sometimes lack the necessary selling points, in order to be able to push her to higher places, she should be adjusted appropriately, not to change her style, but to make songs with selling points on the premise of adapting to her style.

Miwa Yoshida was thinking about how to sing, while Shinichi Iwahashi and Masato Nakamura were thinking about how to make her songs heard.

Because she can't read music, Miwa Yoshida doesn't know how to write lyrics for other people's tunes, but even so, after thinking about it, Shinichi Iwahashi thinks that the tunes can be sung by others, but the lyrics must be written by herself.

This stems from the fact that he has been working with Miwa Yoshida for a long time, and when he listens to the songs of singer-songwriters such as Miyuki Nakajima, Yumi Matsutoya, and Yosui Inoue, he discovered and summed up one thing.

That is, the creator's lyrics contain the creator's own worldview.

The creator may write a hundred lyrics, and the lyrics express a variety of things, but if you read them carefully, whether it is the choice of words and sentences, or the way you look at things, they all have their own style.

Shin'ichi Iwahashi didn't want to spoil this unique Yoshida Miwa style, and believed that this strong and solid style was the key to attracting and keeping listeners.

Iwahashi Shinichi thought about it far-reachingly, and the reason why Miwa Yoshida was reluctant to sing the lyrics of Masato Nakamura was very simple, completely stemming from his dislike of the lyrics written by Masato Nakamura.

"Masato-san has no talent for lyrics at all. Miwa Yoshida said.

In order to show fairness, let's excerpt a song by Masato Nakamura: "One to three four rhymes, kiss kiss kiss, kiss three times".

At this point, Masato Nakamura was completely defeated and honestly learned how to write the lyrics for Miwa Yoshida.

Writing lyrics for other people's tunes is embarrassing for Miwa Yoshida, and it is even more difficult for Masato Nakamura to match the tune after getting the lyrics. It's a pity that he is a studio musician who has been behind the scenes for many years, and he has written a lot of tunes, and now he bothers to work hard, and he may not be pleased.

Masato Nakamura made several new songs at once, wrote the tunes, and called Shinichi Iwahashi to hear his opinion. At first, it was just the two of them, and they didn't pay much attention to it, and the two of them smoked and discussed, which made the studio smoky.

As soon as Haruko Akamatsu came in, she was choked.

The two quickly extinguished their cigarettes and apologized to her: "I'm sorry, Akamatsu-san." ”

"It doesn't matter. Haruko Akamatsu replied, "Are you two busy?"

"Let's talk about a new tune. Iwahashi Shinichi went to turn on the exhaust fan, "Is there something wrong with Akamatsu-san?"