Chapter 237: Wake up, wake up
Looking at Mirei Takahashi like this, eighty percent of her thoughts are flying and I don't know where I want to go. At this time, if you want to say something more, it is simply a fool asking for trouble.
Therefore, Ye Zhao just smiled, took a step, and walked towards the recording studio. Mirei Takahashi was a little behind him, and between the two of them, they maintained the so-called polite distance that they knew at a glance that their relationship was not particularly close.
When he returned to the recording studio, Mari Nishimoto was standing alone in front of the console, wearing headphones to check the recording before going to dinner, Ye Zhao and Mirei Takahashi walked in one after the other, noticing the two, Mari Nishimoto nodded, as a greeting. Ye Zhao was also very knowledgeable, so he didn't bother her, but waited next to him for a while.
It wasn't until Mari Nishimoto took off the headphones that he greeted her again: "Long wait, Miss Nishimoto." β
Mirei Takahashi also apologized to her, "I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Miss Nishimoto." β
"It doesn't matter. Mari Nishimoto put the headphones in his hand on the console, his calm gaze swept over Ye Aki and Mirei Takahashi, and showed a kind smile, "If it's okay, let's continue, shall we?"
To continue is to continue. Not only that, but it will have to go on for quite some time.
The recording lasted until two o'clock in the morning, during which Mirei Takahashi and Mari Nishimoto's agent came over to deliver a supper, Manish's agent configuration was quite formal, and when they carried out activities and recordings in the name of the group like this, the agent with them was a middle-aged lady surnamed Matsumoto, and in addition, the two also had their own exclusive agents.
"I think if we try again tomorrow at the latest, the recording will almost be over. Recording engineer Saeki said, while looking at Ye Zhao, "What do you think, Ye Zhaosang?"
"Hmm," Ye Zhao swallowed the oden in his mouth, took a sip of water, and nodded, "If the next goes well, I think it can be over today." In any case, working with experienced singers always has a lot of peace of mind. "It's not like when I supervised the production of the first single for Makoto Kawamoto, it took months from entering the studio to the final product.
It's not that Kawamoto Makoto's singing skills are so bad that he has to hire a reviser with an annual salary of one million, in fact, even the kind of newcomers who sing well and are selected from the audition meeting layer by layer, when they first enter the recording studio, it is difficult to compare with the veteran singers with mediocre singing skills but rich experience.
The veteran singers, when participating in the recording, have already quietly accumulated their own unique experience, whether it is the timing of ventilation, the grasp of emotions, the singing and articulation, all of which are at ease.
It has only been three years since Manish's debut, and Mirei Takahashi has shown such ability, which is enough to see her strength in singing. The longer I spend with her, the more I see, and the more I feel sorry for her.
After eating supper and taking a short rest, Mirei Takahashi and Mari Nishimoto entered the studio again to carry on the unfinished recording again, and when the last round of recording was over, Ye Zhao and Saeki exchanged glances with each other and nodded, and then announced to the two through the microphone connected to the recording room: "Hard work, the recording is over here." β
"Good work. When the two came out of the recording room, Mirei Takahashi and Mari Nishimoto bowed together, and Ye Zhao and Saeki also hurriedly returned the salute, and the two sides bowed to each other several times in such a slimy manner.
The recorded track is sent to the mixing room, where the mixer performs the final step of production. As for the arrangement of this song, Ye Zhao once again went into battle in person, abandoning the usual style of being, and it is expected that when the finished product is released, it will be another song that you would never think of if you don't look at the company.
Saying goodbye to Mirei Takahashi and Mari Nishimoto, the two of them got into the agent's car and left first, Ye Zhao yawned tiredly, looked at his watch, "Well, it's already past two o'clock." β
"Do you want to go back now?" asked Yuki Uemura.
"Forget it, let's sleep here. Ye Zhao said, yawning again. Then, as if it would be contagious, even Saeki next to him yawned.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Saeki rubbed away the tears that came out of his yawn.
"I'm here. Ye Zhao smiled, "Mr. Saeki is also going to rest, right?"
"Not yet, I'll have to go over today's track. Saeki said, first "catching" Ye Zhao, "Ye Jun can do it himself." β
Ye Zhao got up and said goodbye to Saeki, went to the lounge prepared by the recording studio, and was confused on the sofa for a few hours. At about five thirty o'clock, Yuki Uemura came over and called him, "It's almost time to go, Ye Zhaosan." β
ββ¦β¦ Be. Ye Zhao stretched, although his head was groggy, he got up from the sofa, rolled up the blanket covering his body and put it aside, took the toiletries prepared by Yuki Uemura in advance, and went to the bathroom.
After cleaning up briefly, he walked out of the recording studio and stood under the eaves of the porch, Ye Zhao let out an "ah", put his hands in his coat pockets, and raised his head to look at the gray sky: "It's snowing." β
Yuki Uemura also raised his head, and first repeated it like a repeater, "Ah, it's snowing." After a while, he said, "It seems to be the first snow of the year, right?"
Ye Zhao thought for a while, "It should be." β
"It's fast, winter. Yuki Uemura said.
That's right.
In August, when the egg whites and yolks were mixed together, the slimy sunlight on my body felt as if it hadn't disappeared, and in the blink of an eye, it was already snowing in Tokyo.
After the recording last night, the reason why I didn't go home and chose to stay in the studio for the night was because at 6:30 today, I was going to shoot the music video of the song "The Sun Will Rise" in a studio in Shiboura, Minato Ward.
The song "The Sun Will Rise", as the ending song of the movie "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire", has been included in the new album released in October this year, so now, why do you want to make a MV for it?
The answer is very simple, Ye Zhao is going to re-release this song as a recut single.
The so-called recut single refers to the re-release of a song that has already been released as an album song without a single song. The counterpart to the recut single is the so-called "precursor single" mentioned above, in which the album song is released as a single about a month before the album is released.
A relatively different place between the Japanese music market and the Western market is also evident here, in the West, there is no such thing as a recut single, although Western singers release one or two songs before the release of the album to warm up, and after the album is released, the song is selected from the album as a single to hit the chart, which is similar to the Japanese pre-release singles and recut singles, but in the West, this practice is conventional, a single is a single, and the singles before and after the release of the album will not be called a pre-release single and a recut singleγ
The recut single exists either as a special form of publicity to revive the album that has already been released, or because one of the songs on the album is so popular, it is specially re-released as a recut single. However, because it is a song that has already been included in the album, the number of fans who are willing to pay for it will be greatly reduced, and the sales will often not be very beautiful. Some artists release recut singles in a limited edition.
However, when it comes to the sales of recut singles, although most of them are mediocre, there are many exceptions (by no means more than ten or eight). For example, the most famous chestnut is SMAP's national comedy "The Only Flower in the World", which was released in the form of a single-cut.
This song was included in SMAP's album "SMAP015/drink!smap" as early as 2002, and later in 2003, it was broadcast as the theme song of the TV series "My Way of Survival" starring member Tsuyoshi Kusa.
Another example is Hikaru Utada's famous song "First Love", which was originally included as an album song on the debut album "First Love" of the same name, and later this album sold 7.65 million copies, setting a sales record that no one else estimated before and no one else came, and this song was also re-taken out as a recut single.
Although he keeps saying beautiful things such as responding to the public's expectations, the recut single has the greatest significance, and to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than two words "cheating money".
However, for Ye Zhao, wanting to release this recut single is definitely not as simple as cheating money. As early as when he decided to make the movie "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire", he had already decided to include the theme song of the movie in the album and release it as a recut single later.
Speaking of the reasons, the first is to drive the sales of the album by the way, which is also the most basic responsibility of the recut single, and the second is to promote the movie and the single by re-releasing the single to coincide with the release date of the movie.
As for the third and most important point, since it is a song that will be released as a single again, it is essential to have an MV. And this MV, Ye Zhao had already decided that he would direct it himself.
Although I paid a sky-high "tuition" of 100 million yen, I watched the filming of the film up close in all directions, and there were professional directors and teams on the side to guide me, but just because I made such a movie, I can directly get started in person in the next one, "punch and kick" the professionals, and become a director who directs the film independently?
Wake up, wake up. What do you sleep in the middle of the day?
Sleep and sleep, what do you daydream about?
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