Chapter 48 Start a company
The recording of the new single lasted for a total of seven days, and with the addition of Sakai Izumi, the immature melody of track1 was also given a new meaning, and Ye Zhao had only one request for Sakai Izumi to sing this short song, which was to relax like when he was walking and humming, rather than waiting for the mentality of recording CDs.
"It's like playing, just as casual as possible. Ye Zhao also put forward the same requirements for the musicians who participated in the recording, and even in terms of arrangement, he tried his best to move closer to this kind of casualness. Extreme relaxation can sometimes lead to shoddy work, but Track1 has clearly taken on a different lease of life because of this relaxation. When the finished product came out, even Masao Akashi, who was a little dissatisfied with the song, didn't say anything more. Of course, this is another story, the recorded audio track has just been sent to the mixing room, and it is still a long time before the actual finished product comes out.
In the days when he was preparing for the single, Ye Zhao also took the time to do a big thing: opened his own office. When he first entered the entertainment industry, because BEING agreed to only sign a record contract, Ye Zhao didn't make another move to sell himself again, and then his debut single exploded, and everything went smoothly, so Ye Zhao put this matter aside. It wasn't until after this incident that he realized how hard it was to work alone in the circle, even if it was just to not have to do everything himself, and it was necessary to open his own company.
Signing to a record label and agency is more like opening the door to an opportunity, although the opportunity in the door may not belong to you, and you may get nothing or even lose more if you go in, but if you don't manage to open the door, then all the opportunities will not have anything to do with you.
It is not difficult to register a company with RB, and it is possible to apply even with a capital of one yen, and the only necessary conditions are to rent an office, and of course, the basic things such as engraving a seal and providing valid documents are not to mention. Although he was just a bare-pole commander with no junior brother and no partner, due to the existence of the company's registered agency, these things did not take up too much of Ye Zhao's time.
By the time the entire track was finished, a company called ZYE quietly opened an office in a building in Roppongi, Minato-ku. Ye Zhao originally wanted to use the English of "Ye" in his name as the company name, but a game manufacturer had already taken the first step to take possession of the name "LEAF". Well, that's it.
Daewoo Company released a game called "Star Volunteer 3" in 2005, at the beginning of the game, the protagonist Jin Haoxun's agency only had him and the little secretary, Ye Zhao was a little lower than his starting point, and he didn't even have a little secretary...... To be precise, it's still recruiting. The job posting has been sent to the job search office, and it is a matter of whether anyone has come to the door, after all, ZYE now looks like a suspicious leather bag company.
At this difficult time, it was Dahei Moji who solved Ye Zhao's urgent need and sent him the company's first employee, a forty-year-old man named Jun Takeda.
"It's a fellow villager in Hokkaido, and I met at a fellow villager in Tokyo a few years ago before I made my debut, and Mr. Takeda used to be an agent in Yoshimoto for ten years, so I don't have to say anything about my experience. How about Ye Jun, do you want to meet?" In the coffee shop near the company, when Ye Zhao mentioned that he had just opened an office and was about to find employees, Dahei Moji took the initiative to say.
Yes, of course. With Ye Zhao's current relationships and connections, it's okay to find a few miscellaneous people, but it is really unavoidable to find an agent who can take care of the overall situation for him.
Jun Takeda has a medium build, a flat head and thick eyebrows, and two knife-like nasolabial folds at the corners of his lips, which looks a little serious. Through conversations, it was learned that Jun Takeda resigned from Yoshimoto Kogyo two years ago, and because he had signed a confidentiality agreement with Yoshimoto, he hibernate for two years before restarting his work as an agent. As for the reason why he was willing to talk to Ye Zhao, it was also simple and rude: Dahei Moji told him that the monthly salary given by Ye Zhao was two percent higher than that of an agent of the same level.
During the conversation of about thirty minutes, Ye Zhao was very satisfied with Zhu Tianjun's ability and way of dealing with people, but out of caution, Ye Zhao still asked the reason for Zhu Tianjun's resignation first. After all, he came out of the No. 1 black force in Kansai, and if he offended Yoshimoto's boss, Ye Zhao would not dare to provoke him no matter what.
Jun Takeda also understands this, and explains in a few words: "Two years ago, my five-year-old son was seriously ill and resigned in order to accompany him to see a doctor. β
"How is Ling Lang now?"
"Healed. Takeda Jun smiled for the first time after meeting him, "So in order to repay the loan when I saw a doctor, I can't work hard." β
Since this is the case, Ye Zhao has no reason not to use him. Not to mention anything else, he has worked in Yoshimoto Industrial for ten years, and he has basically run large and small TV stations across the country, and he is familiar with various industry rules, which is definitely the best candidate at this stage.
Jun Takeda took office, and soon found several people who had work experience in the entertainment industry for Ye Zhao, Ye Zhao retained three people from these people, one named Nanjo Kan, who had been a PD on Fuji TV for three years, and one named Yuki Uemura, who had brought newcomers in AMUSE for two years, as for the third person, it was a twenty-year-old girl named Yuki Tamura, with short hair and baby face, who had been an assistant to the idol Yoko Minamino for more than half a yearγ However, at this time, Ye Zhao was disgusted with fun, thinking that since he had compared himself to Jin Haoxun in "Star Volunteer 3", he should also put the entire little secretary in the company at this time. In this way, Yuki Tamura was recruited into the company as a mascot and was responsible for the trivial tasks of sending and receiving messages and making phone calls. At this point, ZYE finally has its basic prototype.
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On November 22, after a five-month wait, WANDS fans finally got their hands on their new single "Let's Wander". Long before the release of the single, the title song "Let's Go Wandering" has been known to many people as the theme song of RB TV's baseball broadcast program, in this baseball country, a song can be used as the theme song of the baseball program, and its publicity effect will never lose to any way of playing songs, when the single is on the shelves, many people who have not heard WANDS songs have also deliberately bought it at the record store. And when consumers saw the name of Ye Zhao marked on the back of the single, the lyrics of the title song and the composer, their eyes widened: This guy who has been singing little and fresh, actually made such a fierce song?
ON FRIDAY OF THAT WEEK, WANDS TOOK TO THE MS STAGE WITH THE SONG "LET'S GO WANDERING". Unlike newcomers who need to prove themselves with their grades before they can debut, singers who already have qualifications and sales are guaranteed often receive an invitation from MS before the release of the single, and they can perform on stage the week of the release. EVEN SUCH AS GENJI, THE SUPER IDOL OF GENJI, THEY APPEARED IN MS ALMOST EVERY WEEK IN THE YEARS THEY WERE ACTIVE, RANKING FIRST IN THE HISTORY WITH 234 APPEARANCES.
During the interview, Tamori deliberately led the topic to Ye Zhao, "I received your single in the background just now, I took a look, the song was provided by Ye Zhao?"
"Yes. Uesugi nodded, "Actually, the lyrics were also done by Ye Jun, but when I got the song, I felt that the last sentence was not appropriate, so I contacted Ye Jun, but I didn't expect him to not only agree to my revision very happily, but also insisted on adding my name to the lyricist." β
"What a good talker. β
"Yes. β
"Then again, it's the first time I've heard Uesugi-kun say so much. Tamori teased with a smile.
After hearing this conversation, Takuya Kimura, who was sitting in the back row, picked up the microphone and interjected, "The last sentence has been changed quite well. β
"Really, you've heard this song already?" Tamori turned to look at him.
"That's right, it's very flavorful, and it feels like I'd rather die than be free. β
Uesugi owes a debt, "Thank you." β
"BY THE WAY, WHAT WERE THE LYRICS THAT YE ZHAOSANG ORIGINALLY WROTE THERE?" ASKED HIROSHI IKISHIMA.
"Well, it's 'if you haven't even wandered once, you can't die in vain'. β
"And what did you change?" Tamori asked, curious.
"'If you haven't even wandered once, you might as well die.'" ββ
Tamori smiled, "It's so straightforward, it turns out that Uesugi-kun is this kind of character who would rather be broken?"
Uesugi smiled but didn't say anything. HIROSHI IKUSHIMA TOOK OVER THE TOPIC, "THEN THE NEXT THING IS THE PERFORMANCE OF WONDIS-SAN, AND YOU CAN ALSO FEEL THE MOMENTUM OF UESUGI-SAN'S 'RATHER FOR THE JADE CRUSHED'." Listen to "Let's Go Wandering". β
This issue of MS received an excellent response, and the combination of Uesugi Shobo's voice and Okuda Minsheng's tune produced a strong chemical reaction, and many people even felt that this song was a song tailored by Ye Zhao for Uesugi and WANDS. And the kind of freedom and freedom conveyed in the song "Let's Go Wandering" is exactly what RB people who are bound by social rules and carefully suppressed yearn for but cannot achieve, and it can be said that it hits their acupoint.
With the opening of the title song provided to WANDS, the doubts about Ye Zhao's music were immediately much smaller, and BEING also took advantage of the situation to release the release time of Ye Zhao's new single, making a preliminary warm-up for the start of the battle. On the WANDS side, because of Ye Zhao's sudden appearance to provide a single, it slowed down their transformation, although this song is not the popular rock full of BEING flavor that listeners are familiar with, but it is not to the extent that it scares them. In this way, killing two birds with one stone, he succeeded in maximizing the benefits, and I have to say that Nagato Daiyuki's abacus is really shrewd.