I took out the business card that Iijima Sanchi gave him the first time I was in the MS backstage from the business card holder, and dialed the number on it. The waiting time lasted for a long time, and just when Ye Zhao was about to hang up, he was finally picked up.

"Hello, this is Iijima. ”

"Iijima-san, I'm Ye Zhao. Call Iijima-san now, no trouble, right?"

After Ye Zhao reported his home, Iijima Sanzhi's voice was a little more cordial, "Ye Zhaosang's phone call, no matter when it comes, it won't be troublesome." ”

"That's really polite. Ye Zhao said politely, without waiting for Iijima Sanzhi to ask, he took the initiative to cut to the chase, "I called Iijima-san to tell you that the song for SMAP-san has been produced, and then I will send the sample to the record company, please pay attention to Iijima-san." ”

Iijima Sanchi was a little surprised, "It's done so quickly?"

"After all, I promised Iijima-san first, and it would be rude for you to wait too long. ”

Ye Zhao's words made Iijima Sanzhi quite ironed, "I originally thought that Ye Zhaosang had so many things recently, and he would have to wait for a while." In that case, I'll be looking forward to receiving the tune. ”

"If Iijima-san thinks it's inappropriate," Ye Zhao said with a smile, but his tone was very serious, "I'll accept returns here." ”

Although Genesys has built a huge idol empire, the record contracts of its artists have been signed to other record companies, such as Hikari Genji signed to Polly Kanin, SMAP signed to VICTOR, and TOKIO signed to Sony. It wasn't until the eve of the boys' debut that Kitagawa set up an exclusive Jennis record label for them, and since then, more and more groups have debuted through Jennis's own record label. (Note 1)

The sample that Ye Zhao sent to SMAP not only made the arrangement, but even invited the harmony staff in the recording studio to help sing the voices responsible for each member, which can be said to be quite complete. He is full of confidence in the song "The Other Side of the Night Sky", and he believes that this song will be enough to impress SMAP and Iijima Sanchi, and impress the executives of the company that decided to release the single.

……

"I'm thinking of you right now, and I'm going to tell you in a singing way. ”

"How can I be there for you on rainy nights and winter mornings? ”

"While imagining the happy ending of the movie while singing, there is such a beautiful sentence, please listen to it very shortly. ”

"I love you. ”

……

Coming out of the recording room, Ye Zhao could see the appreciation in the eyes of Sakai Izumisui sitting in front of the console. Taking off his headphones, Sakai Izumi looked at him, "What a good song." ”

"Thanks, though a little embarrassed. Ye Zhao looked away slightly.

"Excuse me?" Sakai Izumi held his cheek with one hand, full of interest.

"It's a little embarrassing to sing 'I love you' so bluntly. Ye Zhao rubbed his cheek with his index finger, "If I really want to put this song on the album, I will probably pull up the curtain when I record." ”

"My feeling is the opposite," said Sakai Izumi, "isn't it quite subtle for people who are not good at expressing themselves to express their love through music, and you also wrote in the lyrics that you can't express it because of shyness." ”

"That being said, but when we were recording, wouldn't the sound engineer Sang have us sing the same phrase over and over again? ”

Due to the special environment of the studio, the sound you hear in the monitor headphones is always dry, with no reverberation and no echo. The professional recording and monitoring equipment also makes any slight flaws from pitch, breath, rhythm and other aspects can be revealed.

Therefore, recording a song in the studio is to repeat it over and over again, for a certain paragraph and a certain sentence, and finally send countless scattered audio tracks to the mixing room for synthesis. It's too difficult to sing, or when the singer is not in a good state, it's not impossible to sing the same lyrics for three hours in a row.

Not to mention a sound repairer with an annual salary of one million, he is also a serious singer, not an amateur player who comes to play tickets across the border, if you have to rely on a sound repairer, it is better to quickly change careers and retire behind the scenes, lest one day contribute to a car accident scene that will go down in music history, and you will have to be nailed to the pillar of shame for years or even more than ten years in the future.

Speaking of which, we have to mention the stage of MUSIC MAIR. The reason why singers are easy to sing on MF is because the stage sound effect of MF is very close to that of the recording studio, and the shortcomings are infinitely magnified, so there are countless singers who have been in a series of car accidents here.

As a veteran singer who has been rooted in the recording studio for many years, Sakai Izumisu naturally knows this, and when he says this, he can't help but laugh. Then he asked teasingly: "Does Ye Jun have someone you like?"

"What?" Ye Zhao reached out to grab the hand of the teacup.

"With such profound lyrics, it feels like it's hard to write without that kind of feeling. So I couldn't help but want to ask. Sakai Izumi added, "Ye Jun, don't think of me as an Obasang who loves to gossip. ”

"There is no such beautiful Obasang in the world. Ye Zhao took a sip of black tea, "If you want to say that there are people who like it, there must be people, but you can't support this kind of profundity just by liking, if you want to write good lyrics, most of you have to love dreaming." ”

"Love to dream?" Sakai Izumizu felt a little fresh about this statement, thought about it, and then nodded approvingly, "Actually, when I write lyrics, I also make up a 'he' in my mind, and treat the lyrics as if they were written for 'him'." ”

"What does Sister Quanshui's 'he' look like in her heart?" Ye Zhao was a little curious.

"Well," Sakai Izumi smiled slightly, "keep it a secret." ”

……

The song that Ye Zhao is singing now, its name is "Singer's Love Song", which is a single released by Kazuyoshi Saito in 1997. As Sakai Izumizu said, this is actually a very subtle love song. The singer who is not good at words tells his love by singing, although he boldly says "I love you" twice, but combined with the lyrics before and after, it gives people a feeling of courage, although apprehensive but firm.

As a love song, this song is top-notch in terms of lyrics and melody. It is precisely because it is enough to move people's hearts that it has been sung as a famous song since the day it was born.

After the sample of "The Other Side of the Night Sky" was sent, Ye Zhao finally took time out to prepare his new album. As for the soundtrack of the TV series, because the production cycle is quite generous, it can be put aside for the time being, and then slowly after the TV series starts and the finished product of the first episode comes out.

Compared with singles, the production cycle of the album is much longer, and it has to be prepared at least half a year in advance. This is still in the case of Ye Zhao's abundant songs, if you want to collect songs little by little like ordinary singers, this preparation period can even last for a year or more. So, while demos are being produced in May, even in the quickest case, the album will not be released until October or November.

Since the preparation period of the album coincided with the production period of Sakai Izumi's single, he could meet Sakai Izumi almost every time he came to the studio at night these days.

With the conversation with her in the studio last time, when Ye Zhao faced Sakai Spring Water again, they got along much more naturally. Recording is a very boring thing, even if you love music, I am afraid that you will often have this feeling, so in the interval between recordings, Ye Zhao and Sakai Izumi will occasionally visit each other, listen to the songs that the other party is recording, chat about some inconsequential trivial matters, and relieve the mental tension brought about by the excellent recording.

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"Having said that, Sister Quanshui's new song this time is really amazing. ”

"Awesome?"

"yes, this speed of speech really scared me, if it were me, I would definitely bite my tongue. Izumi Sakai is scheduled to release her new single "愛が見えない" in June, and the composer and arranger of this song is not the familiar Tetsuro Oda, Seiichiro Kuribayashi and Masao Akashi, but the guitarist of the band PAMELAH, Masasumi Ozawa.

Speaking of Masasaki Ozawa, we have to mention his "Attraction", this song has been used as the top ten goal background music of the state-owned five stations "World Football" column, and Ozawa Masaki's name is also known to many Chinese people because of this song.

The song "愛が見えない" is a relatively rare fast song in the songs of Sakai Spring, not only the speed of the lyrics is fast, but the rhythm of the whole song is also very fast and intense, which is quite a test of the singer's skills.