Chapter 41: Kiyoshi Sakamoto's Ambition
When he heard this, Sakamoto Kiyoshi was a little unresponsive and asked his teacher, "What do you mean?"
"It's nothing, it's just that Genesys thinks you're a threat and starts asking his artists not to associate with you. "Fukuyama broke big news.
"What's the situation? Am I a threat to Janis now? I've only been debuting for less than a year... Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was already a little conjectural, really didn't know why Denis thought like this.
"It's because you've only debuted for less than a year, but you've already robbed a lot of female fans who originally belonged to the Genesys boy group, and it's because you're an idol who isn't an idol, a talented, backer, and a new all-round artist. ”
"Huh, that's it, I'm so good, and I still make them feel threatened?"
"Originally, as the leader of the boy group, Jennis didn't allow anyone to touch his cake in his mouth, but now although you haven't touched their fundamental interests, they have noticed your rapid growth, so that's why it's like this. ”
Kiyoshi Sakamoto kind of understands the meaning, everything is because of interests.
Because Janis thought that Sakamoto Kiyoshi would grow to a certain extent in the future, he might snatch this piece of the cake of male idols, so he would take some measures now to avoid future conflicts of interests.
Although the current Sakamoto Kiyoshi is still only a super newcomer, it does not mean that he will not become an existence like Kimura Okami in the future, so Janis's practice of strangling the bud in the cradle is a common method used by those big firms for some small things.
But because Sakamoto Kiyoshi is behind Sony, it is just to change the strangulation to estrangement, and it is not impossible that with the rise of Sakamoto Kiyoshi in the future, it will change from estrangement to suppression.
After listening to Masaharu Fukuyama's analysis and his own reasoning, Kiyoshi Sakamoto probably knew why the other party was cold when he met V6 and Arashi.
Because they should have given an order in the office not to associate with Sakamoto Kiyoshi.
"I can't let you down. Janis's small face made Sakamoto Kiyoshi feel the strength and domineering of the so-called top four firms in the RB entertainment industry, and also gave him an idea.
To become an RB king who can't stop himself even from a firm like the Super Four!!
And to do this, you may have to be more powerful than Takuya Kimura at the peak.
In terms of music, movies and TV series, and producers, they must be top-notch, so that they can no longer look at the faces of the so-called top four.
And to invest in Facebook, it is also to achieve this goal, Sakamoto Kiyoshi's first move.
In RB, having money means having the right to speak, because this is a country ruled by a consortium, and there are too many things that can be bought with money.
And next, Sakamoto Kiyoshi's second move is to make himself popular and become a figure that cannot be ignored in the entertainment industry.
And now he is walking on this road.
Musically, less than a year after his debut, he already has a million singles, so to speak, the first half of 2004 is the first half of Sakamoto Kiyoshi.
But as a singer, a singer like Ayumi Hamasaki who has won three consecutive awards at the RB Record Awards will still be overwhelmed by the trend in this era of rapid development of digital music.
But if you become an actor at the same time, the charm of the movie and the exposure of the TV series will further expand the influence of Kiyoshi Sakamoto.
That's the benefits of amphibious.
Takuya Kimura and Masaharu Fukuyama are the role models of Kiyoshi Sakamoto.
So Sakamoto Kiyoshi first set a small goal for himself, to earn it 100 million first... No, it's to become the leading actor in a movie or TV series first.
It's not difficult to say cross-border, it's not easy to say, as a key training object of Sony, as long as Sakamoto Kiyoshi wants to, he can act at any time, but it's more difficult for the actor.
After all, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's popularity is very high now, and he can play a supporting role or something in a movie, and strengthen the popularity of movies and TV series, which is what every director wants;
Fortunately, when Kiyoshi Sakamoto was in Sony, he also consciously took acting classes, and the two girls who usually practiced with the "acting club" also practiced often. In terms of acting, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is still so strong and learns quickly, in the words of the acting teacher Sony found him, it is "the current Kiyoshi Sakamoto can already star in a low-budget movie"
The acting skills are there, but it's just a chance to perform. Knowing Sakamoto Kiyoshi's willingness to act, Sony is also helping him find a suitable script, I heard that he is a little eyebrow-raising, but he doesn't know which drama it is.
At the end of August, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who returned to the busy publicity period, received a call from Ayumi Hamasaki.
"Moxie Moxi?"
"Hello, KIYO-kun, what are you doing?" this sister always likes to sell cuteness in front of Sakamoto Kiyoshi.
"I just finished shooting for the magazine, what's wrong? "During the promotion period, Sakamoto Kiyoshi and Ayumi Hamasaki have been on the same show many times, after all, THE SUN and her are singing at the same time period, so the number of times they are promoted on the show together is also more opportunities to meet, so after coming and going, the three of Sakamoto Kiyoshi have become much more familiar with Ayumi Hamasaki.
"Gee, are you free now?"
Kiyoshi Sakamoto had just returned home and looked at the clock, it was eight o'clock in the evening.
Next, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who had no itinerary, replied, "I'm free, today's trip has just ended." ”
"Alright, are you going to come over to dinner with me? I haven't thanked you yet. "It's about the reward for the song "CAROLS" that Kiyoshi Sakamoto helped her write, please eat.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto just got off work, and he hadn't eaten anything in his stomach yet, so he agreed when he heard Sister Step say so.
So, after being disguised, Kiyoshi Sakamoto walked into Sister Step's apartment in Roppongi.
Ayumi Hamasaki is a very serious person in music, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto's understanding of music is also very advanced, which just coincides with Ayumi Hamasaki's thoughts.
Because in the past two years, Ayumi Hamasaki's record sales have been declining, which made her have the idea of changing her genre, and it just so happened that the song "CAROLS" given to her by Kiyoshi Sakamoto is a lyrical love song.
So Ayumi Hamasaki looked at this little brother and how pleasing to the eye, and soon became commensurate with him as a sister and brother.
And Sakamoto Kiyoshi is also very close to this sister who likes to sell cuteness to herself, and the domineering step sister on the stage is so gentle in private, which also makes him a little novel.
Sakamoto Kiyoshi was eating, and during the conversation, he learned that Sister Step was going to release the song "CAROLS" he wrote in September as a single, and Sakamoto Kiyoshi was naturally indispensable, originally this song was released in September, and now after passing through Sakamoto Kiyoshi's hands, it was still released in September, and in the dark, it seems that everything has its own arrangement.
In September, after a lot of publicity, THE SUN's debut single sold 700,000 copies in five weeks after its release, and won the weekly champion of the public trust chart for three weeks.
This also made Sakamoto Kiyoshi's reputation even more famous, because he wrote and composed the lyrics and music for the two debut singles alone, so many music critics in the industry praised him as a "Heisei talent", among which the one who became "Sakamoto Blow" is Makoto Kamiki, who is quite famous in the Tokyo music critic circle.
This Makoto Kamiki, when Kiyoshi Sakamoto first debuted, wrote a music review praising Kiyoshi Sakamoto, which made Kiyoshi Sakamoto's song "Close Your Eyes Light" spread so quickly in the Tokyo circle.
Since then, Makoto Kamiki has become a big fan of Kiyoshi Sakamoto.
When I knew that Kiyoshi Sakamoto was preparing to make his band debut, when he was live on the streets of Inokashira Park, Makoto Kamiki, who was always paying attention, went over to watch it in person.
After hearing the song "Flower", the music critic was also very surprised, and wrote another article on this song, praising Sakamoto Kiyoshi for his beautiful singing voice, changeable composition style, and a large number of justified advocacy, which also made Sakamoto Kiyoshi's name as a musical genius even louder.
For this reason, Sakamoto Kiyoshi also deliberately wrote a large paragraph in his blog to thank this guy who has been blowing about himself.
Well, this Shenmu brother is really a good comrade!
After a period of intense publicity, the three TEH SUN almost fell apart, and in September, they had time to take a break.
While Kiyotachi Sakamoto was resting at his home in Tokyo, the media from the outside world did not stop.
At this time, the RB music industry was in decline.
Among the singers who generally sing, whether it is the four major singers, or the national band Nantian Stars, B'z, Mr. Children and so on, in addition to a song "Sakura" from Naotaro Moriyama, so far, a person's name can be said to be the most familiar, and the singer who has been the singer throughout the entire first half of the year is only Kiyoshi Sakamoto.
The debut single "Close Your Eyes" released in February had accumulated sales of as much as 1.2 million by September; two live performances by the band mobilized 12,000 people; the band's debut song "Flower" was released at the end of July, and sales exceeded 700,000 in five weeks by September! With three months to go before the end of 2004, in the eyes of many media and musicians, "Flower" exceeded 1 million and was just around the corner.
In this case, a fourteen-year-old rookie singer has two million singles in the first year of his debut, which is also the youngest million-dollar single singer in the history of RB music, and he is also another rookie male singer who won the championship as soon as he debuted after Naotaro Moriyama.
The media have counted the experiences of Kiyoshi Sakamoto since his debut, from the failure of his debut in the world, to Sony's self-recommendation, fainting turmoil, and then to the single relying on the wind of movies, exceeding one million;
In the first year of such a rich debut, the name Kiyoshi Sakamoto was deeply engraved in the hearts of the people in 2004.