Chapter Twenty-Four: The Great Black Seniors
The contract is in duplicate, of which BEING has already stamped the official seal, and only waiting for Ye Zhao to sign and press his fingerprint, this contract will officially take effect. After signing his name on the contract, Ye Zhao thought a little nonsensically, is he the first brother of the male SOLO who has just come to BEING?
Putting the contract away, Ye Zhao asked, "What am I going to do next?"
"Your "Summer Color" is gaining momentum right now, right?" said Nagato Daiyuki, who seemed a little out of bounds.
Ye Zhao nodded, "Listening to Apollo, it seems that another 200,000 sheets have been printed." ”
"It's not easy to be an underground single. Nagato paused, "But in my judgment, the potential of this song is much more than that, and now it's just the beginning of the big hit." If you are scheduled to make your debut right now, it will definitely affect the sales of your single. After all, in the hearts of ordinary people, there is still the idea that regular singles are better than underground singles. ”
"What does President Nagato mean?"
"I listened to your performance in the single, and I don't think you have much formal vocal training. Seeing Ye Zhao nodded, Nagato Daiyuki continued: "With your current singing skills, you are fine in the recording studio, but you must sing live for your official debut, and you can't perform too badly when the time comes, and if you can't learn the correct way to pronounce your voice as a singer, your voice will also accelerate your voice degradation." What I mean by this is that you will be given a month-long training session for you, during which you will study while preparing the song for your next single, and when the popularity of "Summer Color" reaches its peak, we will take advantage of the situation to push you out. ”
This proposal was quite reasonable, and Ye Zhao happily accepted it. After the assistant sent the pass to enter and leave the company, Ye Zhao offered his resignation. Nagato Daiyuki personally sent him to the elevator and gave him a courtesy that would definitely flatter the newcomer.
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Although as a musician, you don't have to clock in and out like ordinary office workers, as a student with vocal lessons, Ye Zhao must report to BEING at 9 o'clock every day and complete a one-and-a-half-hour vocal lesson in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. Ikebukuro is a long way from Roppongi, and every morning in a car like canned sardines, I still feel unreal at the thought that he has become a contracted singer.
When he came to the company, he asked from the front desk about the specific floor of the vocal music classroom, and Ye Zhao walked towards the elevator. At this time, a woman wearing sunglasses, simple black short sleeves and blue jeans entered the elevator before him. The elevator door closed halfway and slowly opened, and it should have been the woman who pressed the button to open the door.
Ye Zhao walked into the elevator and politely thanked the woman: "Thank you." ”
"You're welcome. At this time, the woman had already taken off her sunglasses, her face was not beautiful, and instead of using words such as beautiful or cute, it was better to say that she had a handsome appearance like a heroic eldest sister's head, coupled with her somewhat familiar hearty voice, a name appeared in Ye Zhao's mind.
Among the theme songs provided by BEING for Slam Dunk, in addition to the most famous "Four Pounds of Soybeans and Three Belts", there are "Until the End of the World" and "Only Staring at You", as a fan of Slam Dunk, Ye Zhao is not only familiar with these songs, but also knows very well who is singing, so at a glance he can see that the person in front of him is-
"Big Black...... Mo Ji?" Ye Zhao blurted out subconsciously, and even forgot to add the "さん (Sang)" in the back.
Fortunately, Dahei Moji was free and easy by nature, and he didn't care about his impoliteness, but greeted him in a friendly manner: "Hello, I'm Dahei Moji." Are you a newcomer who has just signed a contract?"
Ye Zhao hurriedly introduced himself: "My name is Ye Zhao, and I just joined the company yesterday. ”
"Ye Zhao, is it the underground singer who released "Summer Color"?" Dahei Moji smiled, "Your single is quite a sensation in the industry, but I didn't expect it to be picked up by our company." ”
"But then again, how does Big Black know that I'm a newcomer and not a staff member?"
"Needless to say," Dahei Moji teased, not caring that Ye Zhao called her sister familiarly, "Because you are handsome, the president of the Nagato is famous for his love of discovering good-looking people to debut." ”
To say that the appearance of BEING's singers can be called the top part of the entertainment industry, Nagato Daiyuki took the set of packaging idols to package singers, and launched one "rock idol singer" after another, to be able to debut under Nagato Daiyuki, the first element is to have a high appearance, otherwise even if you are talented and good at singing, you have to obediently queue up at the back.
Let's just say that the big black Moji in front of her, when she joined BEING, the degree of completion was already very high, her singing skills were invincible, and she was one of the few singer-songwriters in the company who could not rely on Oda Tetsuro, but even so, Nagato Daiyuki still delayed her debut, and only let her work as a harmony, although there is a saying that Daikoku Moji's personality is too strong to grasp, but Xiaodao has always been said that Nagato Daiyuki thinks she is not beautiful enough.
However, in Ye Zhao's opinion, the appearance of this eldest sister is above average, although it cannot be compared with a beauty like Sakai Spring, but it is more than enough as a singer.
The elevator stopped on the sixth floor, and Ye Zhao and Dahei Moji walked out together, but one went to the vocal music classroom, and the other went to the rehearsal room next to it.
Hearing that Ye Zhao was going to take vocal lessons, Dahei Moji said intimately: "Teacher Maeda in vocal lessons is of a very high level, although she is a little strict, if you are scolded, you don't have to take it to heart, she has no bad intentions." ”
Ye Zhao nodded, "Thank you, Sister Hei, for reminding me." ”
The vocal music classroom is located at the end of the corridor, Ye Zhao arrived about five minutes earlier than Maeda-sensei, and when Maeda-sensei came in, he saw that Ye Zhao had arrived, and nodded secretly, anyway, modesty and politeness are the universal rules of the world.
Maeda-sensei is about forty years old, and her appearance is mediocre, and the two vertical lines at the corners of her mouth make her look a little difficult to get along with, "Hello, I'm Yuki Maeda, who will be your vocal teacher from today." ”
"Hello Mr. Maeda, I'm Ye Zhao, a newcomer who just joined the company, please advise. ”
"Well," Maeda-sensei nodded, "Then let's start class." First of all, you sing a cappella, and I'll see how good you are. ”
As a half-man who has never been trained, and he was also the lead guitarist in the band before, what level can Ye Zhao have? In the past, he used to use his capital indiscriminately when he was young, and he was just a layman, and it could be said that he was miserable in front of the real singing touch. Teacher Maeda listened to Ye Zhao's song with a straight face, pointed out five or six points that needed to be corrected in one breath, and then urged Ye Zhao to start from the basic way of raising his voice and vocalization, and pull back in the direction of professionalism little by little.
The one-and-a-half-hour class passed in a hurry, and when the class was about to end, Maeda-sensei finally showed a smile and encouraged: "Although your foundation is a little poor, but your understanding is good, and the speed of learning is a little beyond my expectations, I believe that at this level, when you finish this course, you will be able to become a professional singer." ”
Bidding farewell to Mr. Maeda, Ye Zhao walked out of the classroom. At this time, the door of the rehearsal room was also pushed open, and Daikoku Moji walked out of it while making a phone call. Seeing Ye Zhao, Dahei Moji said to the other end of the phone: "What a coincidence." After a few simple words, he hung up the phone and greeted Ye Zhao: "Class?"
"Yes, Big Black. ”
"What, are you still used to the course?"
"Fortunately, thanks to Maeda-sensei, I was able to correct a lot of my bad voices. ”
Dahei Moji nodded, "What's next, if it's okay, I'll take you somewhere, there's someone who's super interested in you!"
"Who is it?" Ye Zhao asked.
"You'll find out when you go!"
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The elevator slowly descended to the negative floor, and Dahei Moji took Ye Zhao to the recording studio located inside BEING. The equipment of this studio is relatively simple, and it is not comparable to the top recording studios that BEING has in Tokyo, but it is a place where many of the company's composers and singers write and audition.
There were already three people gathered in the recording studio, and the tallest of them, Ye Zhao, recognized it as BEING's gold medal composer Tetsuro Oda, who was stepping on a chair with one foot at this time, talking to the other two with great interest, without the slightest producer's shelf.
The other two people, one is a middle-aged man with gray hair and a fat body, and the other is a woman in her twenties, with long wavy hair, wearing a crimson T-shirt with sequins and a black miniskirt.
"Meixiang, I brought someone to you. Big Black Moji said loudly as he walked inside.
can talk and laugh with a big guy like Tetsuro Oda, and his name is called Mika, Ye Zhao can only think of one person: Mika Kawashima.
Mika Kawashima is a female composer under BEING, and one of the company's main composers, her two most familiar masterpieces, one is ZARD's "Don't Forget That Smile", this song once ranked first in the fan vote, and the other is MANISH's "Capture the Shining Moment" sung for Slam Dunk, although she may not be well-known compared to the well-known Oda Tetsuro and Seiichiro Kuribayashi, but her strength should not be underestimated, including ZARD, WANDS, Many BEING singers, including MANISH, Arina Ainai, and Aya Ueki, have sung the songs she wrote. In addition to BEING, she also provided music for Sakai Noriko, and by the way, the lyricist of that song was a certain fat man with black-rimmed glasses, perhaps the thread pulled at that time, and later Mika Kawashima also wrote a theatrical song for Namba 48.
Mika Kawashima's gaze crossed the big black Moji and fell on Ye Zhao's face, "I didn't expect this little brother to not only write songs well, but also be a handsome guy." WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO CONSIDER JOINING MY BEER?"