This was the idea that came to me when I saw the poster. Back at the office, Shinichi Iwahashi had a plan to write this idea into a proposal. At this time, Watanabe Manyumi called him over and brought such news, so he simply took advantage of the situation to mention the idea to her first.

"Joan Jett is coming to Tokyo to perform. ”

"Really?" Watanabe's reaction, apparently unaware.

It is not surprising that the music market in this country is huge, and there are many 1238-tier foreign singers who come to Japan to perform.

Unless it is a well-known battle like Michael Jackson and Madonna's visit to Japan, they are neither the organizers and co-organizers of the concert, nor do they have any business dealings, nor are they fans, nor do they pay special attention.

"I think that before, we only limited our attention to the country, and some of them reached a dead end. ”

Shinichi Iwahashi used Joan Jett as an introduction to talk about his thoughts, "This music festival does lack a figure who has enough topicality and can finalize the shock, but this big man does not necessarily have to be a domestic singer." ”

"You mean, you don't want to invite Joan Jett to the finale, do you?" said this, there was nothing Watanabe Manyumi didn't understand.

Shinichi Iwahashi didn't answer directly, "In terms of female rock, I'm afraid there is no more suitable and appealing spokesperson than Joan Jett." ”

"This one does. Watanabe Manyumi also admitted.

The world of rock and roll has always been a man's world, and girl bands themselves are in a niche around the world. When it comes to success, the impact of The Runaways is unprecedented.

Not only that, but their success also sent a good signal that many women who love rock and roll can see the direction and hope of women in the rock world.

Joan Jett, who has been successful as a band and both individually, is undoubtedly a hero to the hearts of women in rock and roll.

"But that's more than that. ”

Shinichi Iwahashi mentioned the main point of his thoughts, "Regardless of whether to invite Joan Jett or whether to invite her, what I thought was that wouldn't it be a good idea to increase the influence of this festival and raise its scale to an 'international' level?"

"On an international scale?"

"It's not fun to just invite a big foreign name for the finale. ”

In that case, from a sensory point of view, Joan Jett doesn't look like she's coming to light up the finale, but like a tigress invited by a bunch of monkeys in the mountains who lack a boss.

Pulling a little farther, the current Yue himself really dares to shout the slogan of "Yue Ben First", and he didn't even pay attention to the former godfather of the United States. Even if it is clear that there are no big-name female rock singers in China, so such a person is needed to suppress the formation, it cannot make them feel that they need foreigners to save the scene because they are not good.

Thinking of the various meanings behind this sentence, Watanabe Manyumi couldn't help but laugh.

Although it is said that it is herself, Watanabe Manyumi's style and many ideas, but she is not very much like herself, and even disgusted with some traditional ideas that are deeply rooted in this society, and to a certain extent, she is a "progressive woman".

So, to create a kind of music festival led by Benz, attracting singers from home and abroad, even that Joan Jett to join in—so that the senses will be much better, and they can not only achieve their own goals smoothly, but also satisfy the arrogance and inferiority of this nation.

"I thought, since we have already thought of inviting big names from overseas to perform for the finale, why not just look at the world and invite outstanding female rock musicians from abroad as well. You don't need qualifications or fame, as long as you are talented female musicians with excellent live standards, you will invite them to perform on this stage once. ”

"Not only Europe and the United States, but also maybe try to invite singers from Rabbit Country and Kimchi. Iwahashi said.

"Rabbit Country?"

Watanabe Manyumi had been quietly listening to his idea just now, and only then did he speak for the first time.

"I'm sorry, I don't know much. It is only known that Teresa Sand is a very popular big star. "Watanabe Production was the first office signed by Deng Lijun when he came to Yuben to develop.

But other than that, Watanabe has little to no idea about the arts world in the Rabbit Country - in fact, at this stage, the Rabbit Country has not yet formed its own ecology of the entertainment industry.

Watanabe asked, "Does Iwahashi-san know any female rock musicians from there?"

For her, it was a distant and mysterious land. Even geographically speaking, it is much closer to the rabbit country than to the rice country or Europe, but the feeling of remoteness comes from the psychology.

Iwahashi Shinichi hesitated for a moment before saying, "I don't know if there is such a character." ”

For Shinichi Iwahashi, it was a land both familiar and unfamiliar. Familiarity is familiarity, where he was born and raised, and strangeness -

Modern science has eliminated geographical distances, and if you can afford to pay your bills, going to the distant shores of the ocean is as simple as turning a globe.

But people have not yet grasped the mystery of how to make time go right or against the current, and it is impossible to pave the way between the two worlds thirty years ago and thirty years later.

So for Shinichi Iwahashi, an outlier, even if he has the memory of his previous life, the Rabbit Country in 1986, an era that he has never personally experienced and witnessed, is also strange and distant.

"Rock 'n' roll in Rabbit Country started very late," Iwahashi said half-truthfully, considering the words, "I've heard from friends who have been to Rabbit Country that rock music is just budding in Rabbit Country, which is probably the same as when Group Sounds was first introduced to him. ”

Before the invasion of Group Sounds, the music scene was still dominated by songs and folk songs, and the pop music system in the modern sense had not yet been established. With the development of the economy, the improvement of the standard of living of the people, and the increase in the proportion of the population going to university, young people who have received higher education and have become active in their minds and broad-minded have led to a new trend of music.

"I see. Watanabe nodded.

If you use the analogy of Group Sounds, then she almost understands.

In fact, not only are the backgrounds similar, but the situation is also similar.

The main driving force for the cultural and intellectual openness of the eighties came from the cultural elite. This is true of literature, and it is also true of music. People who struggle to make ends meet don't care what literature is, and people who have to make a living don't have the money to get in touch with rock 'n' roll—not only do they not have that margin, but they don't have that opportunity.

Because of this, the seeds of the national shake are planted among college students, members of song and dance troupes, and children of cadres, who are relatively well-off, materially satisfied, and whose minds are enriched by knowledge, and who have access to this new genre of music.

After all, this is an era when college students are assigned bags, they don't have to worry about work or housing, and they eat public food when they go to work.

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