Chapter 113: Debut Album (Asking for Subscriptions and Tickets!!)
"How's the comparison just now?Is it handsome?" Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Makoto Ogawa, and Masaki Chiba walked out of the music club and chatted in the corridor.
"Well, barely. Chiba Masaki said deliberately.
"Eh?!! reluctantly, really, what do you think? The sentence I just said, the winner has been decided, isn't it handsome?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi turned his expectant eyes to Ogawa Ma, with an expression of "hurry up and praise me", waiting for Ogawa to answer.
But how could Ogawa do what he wanted.
"General. Ogawa replied indifferently.
Cracking sound...
Kiyoshi Sakamoto found out in his heart, as if something was broken, and when he looked down, oh, it turned out to be his fragile little mind.
Hey, bastard, do you have teammates like that?!!!
A little annoyed, he put his arms around the necks of the two of them, lifted his feet off the ground, and hung his hands on the bodies of the two of them.
The two of them were also caught off guard, so they had to lean forward slightly so that Sakamoto Kiyoshi would not fall to the ground.
The picture of the three of them fighting made everyone who saw it involuntarily say "What a slapstick picture!"
Ahh!!h
After returning to the band's exclusive practice room, the three did not practice, but chatted about the topic of Sakamoto Kiyohatsu's acting.
"Qing-chan, by the way, isn't acting fun? Didn't I hear that filming takes a long time? Why did you finish filming so quickly? and... The impatient Chiba Masaki threw out a bunch of questions at once, which made Sakamoto Kiyoshi's head hurt.
"Stop, stop, don't ask so many questions at once, I don't even know which one to answer you first. Kiyoshi Sakamoto stretched out a hand, palm facing Chiba, his expression was a bit like constipation, very uncomfortable, but the kind that he couldn't say.
"Okay, then tell us first, is acting fun?" Chiba was like a curious baby, expecting some magical answers from Sakamoto's "father".
However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto told him in a very cruel tone, this planet is not fun, go back to your alien planet.
"It's not fun, it's very tiring, the shooting time is quite long every day, and when the acting is not good, I will be scolded by the director... Kiyoshi Sakamoto deliberately scared Chiba Michi.
"Huh, is it so miserable? I thought you were playing happily in the crew this month. "Chiba Masaki was disappointed.
"Hey, so you think I'm going to film to play? Yaga, although it's not as bad as I said, but I'm serious about filming, not playing, bastard, what do you think of me?!!" Sakamoto saw Chiba's face of "losing interest in acting", he was speechless, and he couldn't say him to his face, so he had to complain in his heart, this teammate with a problem with brain circuits.
By the way, thinking of what Kitagawa Kenji asked him about yesterday, he suddenly thought of a very important thing.
Isn't the father of AKB, the registered disciple of Yasusu Akimoto, just sitting in front of him alive?
If you want to know the progress of the AKB plan, just ask this, and follow the children who learn lyrics from Qiu Fatzi, isn't it okay?
After all, this guy has been following Qiu Fat Man for two or three months, and he knows a little bit about AKB, and this guy is an intelligence expert who is also known as a gossip master, so...
"By the way, Masaki, you are learning lyrics with Akimoto-san now, how are you learning?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi first cared about the learning of a wave of teammates, and laid the groundwork for the following inquiry.
"Well, it's okay, it's just that Mr. Akimoto has been so busy lately that I want to go to him for advice on the use of words and sentences, but I can't find anyone else. Chiba Masaki, who was sitting on the sofa in the practice room, pouted and said sullenly.
There's a play!
Kiyoshi Sakamoto felt that the rhythm of this conversation was ok now, and then pretended to be upset for Chiba Masaki and said, "Is that so? Akimoto-san is not in the AKS office?"
"No, I rarely see him during this time, and when I see him, he seems to be busy with something big. Chiba replied.
"Then do you know what he's been up to lately?" asked Kiyoshi Sakamoto, seemingly casually.
Chiba Masaki didn't doubt him, although he didn't know why Sakamoto Kiyoshi asked this, but Chiba still directly said the information he knew.
"I think he often has a meeting with the president, Yasushi Kuwata, and a guy named Shiba Kotaro, and the three of them are in the conference room, all day long. ”
As a person sent to study from Sony, Chiba Masaki can still come and go freely in the AKS office, which also gives full play to his ability to gather intelligence, that is, the ability to gossip.
Yasushi Kuwata?The big guy of the Akimoto group?
Autumn Moto Gay Group, this is such a name given by Sakamoto Kiyoshi to the friends of the autumn fat man in order to satisfy his bad taste.
Because when Yasu Akimoto founded AKB, he had a lot of friends who helped him.
Among them, the three well-known founders of AKB: Yasusu Akimoto, Yasushi Kuwata, and Shiba Yukitaro.
And I heard that among the three, Yasushi Wakita is in charge of the company's operations, and Shiba Kotaro is in charge of the money, as well as settling the underworld.
And Akimoto Yasu, needless to say, everyone knows what he's responsible for.
According to Kiyoshi Sakamoto's understanding, the AKB group, the forces behind it, in the early days, there were only two major factions.
One is AKS and Office48, led by Yasushi Akimoto, which control the operation rights and brokerage contracts of AKB, and the other is Sony Records, which controls the distribution and sales of AKB records.
It was because of the loss of a lot in the early exploration period that Sony gave up AKB, so there was a later division of dentsu and Jingle and other forces, and before Sony did not withdraw, Sony still had a lot of power.
Sakamoto saw the benefits of his identity as Sony's own family, so he wanted to insert a foot in AKB.
Although Chiba Masaki's information is more helpful for Sakamoto Kiyoshi to understand Akimotoyasu's movements, however, because he is not Akimotoyasu's person, there are still many confidential things that he still has no chance to inquire about.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto wanted to learn about the AKB plan from him, but he was disappointed.
I couldn't ask too much about Sakamoto, so I had to put it down first and talk to my teammates about the interesting things during the shooting.
Suddenly, when Ogawa and Chiba were watching Kiyoshi Sakamoto perform a scene in the play, suddenly, the door of the practice room was pushed open.
It was Yuichi Yamada who came in.
The three of them were also stunned, and then returned to normal, and Chiba Masaki greeted him, "Yamada-san, we are watching Kiyo-chan's performance in the play, can you come and take a look?"
"No, I'm here because I want to talk to Sakamoto-kun. Yamada had a bunch of music scores in his hand and sat down on the couch unceremoniously.
"Eh, what's the matter?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi heard that he was looking for himself, and immediately sat up straight and looked at Director Yamada seriously.
"Don't be so serious, just bring some tunes and let you see them. Yamada pushed the sheet music on the table in front of Sakamoto.
Sakamoto picked up some music sheet with some confusion, looked at it a few times, and asked curiously, "Yamada-san, what's the situation?"
"That's it, you see, you've been debuting for more than a year, and you've only released two singles, and each single has been a big hit. The company sees that you still have a lot of room to rise, so they are ready to help you release your first solo album, of course, if the whole album is your original, it would be even better, but I am afraid that you don't have so many original songs on hand, so let our Sony composers carefully create some songs for you. Yamada pointed to the pile of music scores and proudly explained, "No, that's the one you have." ”
"Eh, eh, ??? my first solo album?" Kiyoshi Sakamoto was a little surprised, but quickly calmed down.
Come to think of it, since I debuted in February last year, and now it's May, it's been a year and three months, and the number of singles by Kiyoshi Sakamoto is only a pitiful two.
It's no wonder that Sony is going to urge Sakamoto to clear his first album, after all, if it goes on like this, it can't work, if there is not too much exposure, the popularity will fall, the popularity will fall, the record will not sell, the record will not sell, and Sony will not make money.
So, Sony is more anxious than Kiyoshi Sakamoto.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto began to look at the tunes.
Ten minutes later, about fifteen songs, Sakamoto finished reading them all.
At this time, Yamada was also waiting for Kiyoshi Sakamoto's answer.
"Well, Yamada-san, are you going to let me pick out some of these songs and add them to my album?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi looked into Yamada's eyes seriously, and his tone couldn't tell whether he was angry or happy.
"Of course, this is a one-sided idea of the company, and your idea is more important, after all, this is your first solo album. Yamada said.
"So, can I make the whole album original?" Kiyoshi Sakamoto said in a firm tone.
"Well, yes, but do you have so many original songs in your hands now? We plan to release this album in the middle of the summer vacation, if you wait for you to create slowly, it may be a little too late... Yamada looked embarrassed, but he said it anyway.
"Of course, I don't have a lot of anything, just a lot of original songs. After Sakamoto finished speaking, he immediately ran to the corner and flipped up his backpack.
Soon, Kiyoshi Sakamoto took a Sony mp3 player and returned to the couch.
Yamada looked at the MP3 in his hand suspiciously, and asked, "What is this?"
"This is the mp3 of my original songs that I have been storing, and there are about 100 songs in it, some are just songs, and some of them have lyrics. Come, I'll let you hear it, and give me some advice by the way. As if to show off his creative abilities, Kiyoshi Sakamoto handed the mp3 to Yuichi Yamada.
And Chiba Masaki next to him, heard Sakamoto Kiyoshi say that this mp3 contains a hundred songs he wrote himself, and he was surprised to blurt out "Four gay (awesome)!"