On Tuesday morning, a magazine called "Weekly Popular" was delivered to Ye Zhao along with the sales statistics.

"What is this magazine?" Ye Zhao was a little curious.

"Ye Zhaosang, take a look, there is your report on it. The office clerk Hideyuki Sato said, but judging by the leisurely expression on his face, there must not be anything bad written in it.

Ye Zhao put the magazine aside and picked up the sales list first. Although "Rainbow" is a popular song, it is still a lot worse than that kind of demonic famous song, so Ye Zhao didn't have the idea that this song could kill for a month. In the third week of release, the MS effect caused the sales of singles that should have naturally fallen to soar to 400,000 in that week, and in one fell swoop, they were promoted to the million-dollar singles club, and in the fourth week of this week, after the effect subsided, sales also returned to the normal level of the fourth week of singles, with more than 90,000 copies, occupying the third place on the weekly chart, and in front of him were the two new singles released that week.

After reading the list, Ye Zhao began to read the weekly magazine. If you take a closer look, on the left side of the cover of the magazine, on the shoulder of the cover woman, there is a small line of words: "The Secret Words of the Strongest Newcomer Ye Zhao Before His Debut".

Flipping through the magazine and finding that page, it is a simple report with pictures and texts, the general content is that the media interviewed Ye Zhao's classmates and teachers when he was a teenager, and the things that were sorted out after the media interviewed Ye Zhao's classmates and teachers when he was a teenager, nothing more than what clubs he participated in when he was in school, how he performed in school, etc., and also accompanied a group photo of his classmates in middle school, circled his portrait in red, and the person who wrote the report also wrote a line next to the photo "Ye Zhaosang, who was very eye-catching when he was a teenager".

After becoming famous, tabloid magazines dig three feet into the ground to find things before their debut, which is a part that every artist must go through, and it can even be said that if you don't let them dig around, it is not popular enough, and the people who have always loved to watch the lively melon eating are also happy to see this, and they wish to even take off the artist's underwear to show them the style.

Looking back on the life trajectory of his predecessor, the only thing that can be called "black history" is the past with the wine girl Mika Ogawa, although Ye Zhao didn't think it was an unsightly thing. First of all, he is not an idol but a singer, or a singer-songwriter, there is no need to sell pure lovers, and besides, when the two were together, the man was not married to the woman, and he was not involved in any shady things such as seducing minors or eating soft rice, it was just a normal relationship, no matter how outrageous it was, it was not the intelligent era of later generations, and it was impossible to leave the kind of photography masterpieces that could not see the light.

After thinking about these things clearly, Ye Zhao put this matter aside. But then things seemed to be slowly moving in a strange direction.

After "Weekly Public", a magazine called "Weekly Women" also published a report about Ye Zhao, the content of this report revolves around the various deeds of Ye Zhao's underground band period, briefly introduces the band called Chapeak, and even has a few photos of the performance that is said to be provided by the club owner, on which everyone except Ye Zhao is painted with mosaics. After the introduction, he was followed by the owner of the club and a member of the team with whom he had formed a team under the pseudonym A-san, and the two conveyed the same message in the interview: "Because the band can't write original songs at all, they have been relying on covers to maintain their performances for more than a year. ”

After this report came out, the keen melon-eating masses quickly sniffed out the direction of the magazine's content: Since Ye Zhao didn't write a single song when he was in the band, why can he get so many good tunes in one breath now? Is it that he has always "left a hand" when he was in the band, or is there something wrong with the songs he writes now?

With the rhythm of "Weekly Women", several music magazines have also been mixed in, making specious analyses of Ye Zhao's music, during this period, there are also some small magazines that are not in the stream have also followed up with some gratuitous speculative reports, their content is varied, and the degree of self-release is not lost to "Weekly Truth", because they have no credibility, they are only regarded as rubbing the heat, but with these small magazines jumping up and down, Ye Zhao's topic popularity has also risen again and again.

What is really called a hammer is a music magazine called "MUSIC LIFE". They didn't talk about ghostwriting theories or anything like that in the report about the signals released by "Weekly Women", but directly aimed the cannon at Ye Zhao and the BEING company behind him at one time, and even the title of the article was "BEING'S "B" IS BORROW'S "B"?" (BORROW has the meaning of adoption and plagiarism).

The writer in charge of this article is Azusi Kobayashi, who writes reviews for "MUSIC LIFE", and his writing style is tricky and vicious, picking on other people's sore feet, and this article is no exception. He did not criticize Ye Zhao at the beginning, but wrote a few hundred words about the history of BEING's fortune, focusing on the business strategy of Nagato Daiyuki "as long as it can be imitated".

"BEING is not only good at chasing popularity, but also embarked on a self-imitation route in the 90s. Most of their singers rely on composers such as Tetsuro Oda and arrangers such as Masao Akashi, so their musical styles are very similar, and it is safe to say that even if two different bands exchange tunes with each other, it will not be strange for everyone to sing. Relying on this self-replication, after the first BEING singer became popular, other singers with similar styles will also become popular, which can be said to be the most vivid embodiment of President Nagato Daiyuki's cunning and utilitarian management policy. ”

After that, Kobayashi Xu turned his pen and led the topic to Ye Zhao.

This year, BEING signed Ye Zhao, an underground singer who was all the rage. I originally thought that Ye Zhao, as a singer-songwriter, did not need to rely on BEING's composers, and perhaps grew into a unique existence like BEING's SOLO singer Daikoku Moji. However, when he released his debut single "Rainbow" and made his first TV debut, I was deeply disappointed because I saw a shadow of someone in him. ”

Here, the magazine specially invited a well-known composer teacher to make a reasoned analysis of the song "Rainbow", from the song structure to the melody in an all-round analysis, and finally through the composer's joking words, they said what they wanted to express: I will not doubt this song even if it is sung by Masaharu Fukuyama.

After this conclusion, Kobayashi Xu wrote: "Although in the music world, a certain style will never become someone's exclusive property, but BEING can so nakedly package a 'Fukuyama Masaharu No. 2', it seems that their nature has been difficult to change for many years." INDEED, THIS MADE YE ZHAO TAKE A SHORTCUT, HIS DEBUT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY SUCCESSFUL, BUT HIS SUCCESS MADE ME CAN'T HELP BUT ASK, IS THE "B" OF BEING THE "B" OF BORROW? OTHERWISE, WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS SO GOOD AT IMITATION AND COPYING?

As soon as the magazine went on sale, fans of Masaharu Fukuyama protested against this "bad imitation", and even launched a campaign to buy Masaharu Fukuyama's CD, sending the single he released a few months ago to No. 16 on the daily charts.

In the office of the president of BEING, after seeing this report, Nagato Daiyuki angrily slammed the magazine on the table and scolded: "Bastards! These tabloid reporters who can chew their tongues are even more annoying than flies!"

can be scolded and scolded, but Nagato Daiyuki has nothing to do about these reports. Don't look at BEING, this will be in the limelight, but due to their shallow foundation, not only is their energy limited in the circle, but there are also a lot of enemies, especially the BRUNING firm, which once tried to win over BEING by acquiring the copyright but was categorically rejected, is staring at BEING every day, as long as he grabs the pigtails of his singers, he must definitely make a big splash in the tabloids.

As for suing the magazine for slander, not to mention suing "MUSIC LIFE" and "LIFE MUSIC", just this small essay on Ye Zhao and BEING, the whole article is a subjective comment, and there is no fabricated any gossip at all, so you don't even have a reason to sue him - you can't help but let people talk, right?

After dissipating his anger, Nagato Daiyuki came back to his senses, thinking of the various reports against Ye Zhao for a while, how to think about it and how to feel uncomfortable, these reports seem to be painless, but they all seem to point in the same direction, this feeling of mountain rain coming but unable to control it makes Nagato Daiyuki feel very unhappy.

In the evening of the next day, the secretary hurriedly rushed into Nagato Daiyuki's office, "President, this is the "Weekly New Wave" that will be released tomorrow, and there is a report by Ye Zhaosang on it......

"Is it a small essay, or are you going to interview his old neighbors and classmates again?" Nagato Oyuki interrupted him with some disapproval.

"No," the secretary looked worried, "it's really troublesome this time......

Nagato was fortunate to see this, and took the magazine suspiciously, the line with the largest font on the cover, the title was "Ye Zhao's Crazy Life Doxxing! Ex-Girlfriend's Secret Words and Truth", after turning to the report, the content described in detail this "ex-girlfriend who had an inseparable relationship with Ye Zhao", introduced her identity as a wine girl and the process of the two met, in the interview, the ex-girlfriend with the pseudonym M Sang described Ye Zhao as a gloomy temperament, People with weak feelings, including him, have a very poor relationship with his parents, have cut off contact, and have a mediocre relationship with his teammates in the band, and once threatened to "find them to form a team just to become popular".

If it's just such a report, at best, it's just a small essay with a different angle, and it won't be called "trouble" by the secretary, the real big trouble is that this report is accompanied by a few photos, one is a photo of Ye Zhao and a blonde woman face to face, a dimly lit and angled side face photo, the person in the photo is holding a cigarette in his hand, and the most exciting is the third one, which is a half-fruit photo of a young man burying his face in the arms of a blonde woman. Although the last two are not faces, the body shape is very similar to Ye Zhao, and with the first group photo, the credibility has almost reached 90%.

After reading the report, Nagato Daiyuki endured it again and again, and ordered the secretary with a trembling voice: "Quick, call Ye Zhao and let him go to the company immediately...... No, let him stay at home and don't come out, let alone give any interviews. ”

The secretary hurriedly went out and hurried in, "President, Ye Zhaosang's mobile phone can't get through......"

Ye Zhao, who lost contact, didn't know about the new report of "Weekly New Wave", and now he and Sakai Izumizu were sitting in the carriage of the Yokosuka Line, and the two of them were heading towards Kamakura together.