The left bank is my unforgettable memory, the right bank is my bright years worth grasping, and the middle is flowing quickly is the faint sentimentality of my years. ———— Guo Jingming, "Left Hand Reflection, Right Hand Youth"

At half past nine in the morning, Jun Watanabe arrived at the Ai Hui Music Headquarters Building.

Mai Shiraishi was already waiting there in advance.

"Early?"

"Oh hey!"

"Don't be so polite, it's also a senior sister. ”

Watanabe smiled narrowly.

Mai Shiraishi glanced at him, and stopped talking.

"What do you want to say?"

"Nothing. Mai Shiraishi thought that his current identity was no longer a junior from the former school, but a management in operation.

Bringing personal feelings to work should be an anachronism.

"What kind of songs? I've seen your YouTube videos, they're all folk songs, right?"

"No, it's more popular this time, R&B (rhythm and blues), biased towards this style!"

Jun Watanabe explained that Ni Bang is the second largest music market in the world, and 73% of its revenue comes from physical music, which is quite strange. After all, in the era when physical records are declining and digital music is dominating the mainstream, CDs are selling so well, I have to say that this copyright protection is really good.

Thinking of this, Jun Watanabe suddenly realized that in addition to Apple's iTunes Store and Sony's Mora, these two major online platforms that sell high-quality lossless audio sources are still niche, and they have not become mainstream like South Korea's melon and other music source websites.

Instead, Watanabe Entertainment can fund the production of an app similar to Penguin or Xiami Music, and engage in paid downloads of genuine music sources. It's not that there are no apps of this type on the market, but they are all petty fights, and the repertoire is incomplete, and many songs can't be searched at all for copyright reasons.

Young people have to go to the store to buy genuine CDs to listen to songs, and then go home to catch the tracks, which is too troublesome, and even more inconvenient for people who are not very computer savvy.

Therefore, an app that includes more than 90% of the sound sources of pop music, once launched, will definitely be well received, and it will also fundamentally change the habits of neon people listening to music.

You don't need a Sony HiFi-level professional player, you don't need an Apple phone, you can enjoy lossless audio anytime and anywhere with an Android phone.

The idea is good, but it is very difficult to implement, first of all, it is necessary to bypass JASRAC (RB Music Copyright Society), and second, it is necessary to bypass the copyright holders of records, major offices or record labels.

The app is easy to do, but the music library is not good.

......

"Huh?" was poked in the arm.

"What are you thinking?"

Mai Shiraishi didn't expect that there would be boys who would wander away when they walked with her?

Sure enough, there is no trace of appeal?

I can't help but feel a little lost.

"What did you just say?"

"If you don't hear it, forget it. ”

Mai Shiraishi bit her lip and glared at him quietly.

"Let's go in, it's a recording studio inside, I wonder if Mr. Kazuhito Kikuchi is here?"

Jun Watanabe pushed open the door first, and Shiraishi followed his steps and walked in.

Mr. Kazuhito Kikuchi and his assistant had already arrived early, and the song that Jun Watanabe had written before was playing on the speakers——— "Honey, That's Not Love".

Kazuhito Kikuchi actually grabbed his voice out of the demo and put it into a new arrangement.

The result is now a completely finished piece of music.

"Jun is here!" Kazuhito Kikuchi stood up from the couch and motioned for his assistant to turn off the music.

The music is still, and the room is quiet.

"Who is this beautiful girl?" Kikuchi Kazuhito looked at him with a somewhat ambiguous gaze.

Jun Watanabe shook her head helplessly, "Mai Shiraishi, my song is for her." ”

"Kunichiva!" Mai Shiraishi bent down to say hello.

Kazuhito Kikuchi smiled, "Nogizaka no Yan, I've heard of you, and sure enough, real people are more beautiful!"

"The teacher has won the award!" Mai Shiraishi waved her hand slightly in embarrassment, looking at Watanabe's pure and straightforward pleasure, it turned out that she would be embarrassed to face other people's praise, it was really cute.

Sensing the boy's gaze, Mai Shiraishi glanced back at him, releasing a burst of coldness.

Let you ignore me again, my mother is also very popular, okay?

"Let's sit down first!"

Kazuhito Kikuchi greeted, and several people sat on the sofa next to the coffee table and began to chat.

"How could Chun write songs for Shiraishi-san, is there any chance?"

Jun Watanabe raised his eyebrows, and it was difficult to explain anything, so he glanced at Shiraishi and asked her to speak.

"Watanabe-kun is the art director of our Nogizaka 46. ”

"Oh, no wonder!"

Kikuchi Kazuhito had such an expression, no wonder the first time he recorded before, even Namie Amuro came to watch the scene in person, and even the president of the company, Katsuto Matsuura, personally explained to him for the first single, and even heard that the boy played exo in Ai Hui, and Katsuto Matsuura strongly suppressed the matter.

Sure enough, it's not easy, and at a young age, he is already the art director of Nogizaka 46.

"The arrangement is ready, listen to it?"

Jun Watanabe nodded, but Mai Shiraishi said, "Is it the song I heard when I entered the door just now......?" Watanabe-kun's voice?"

"That's right!" Kazuhito Kikuchi asked his assistant to play the music.

As the brisk intro sounds, Jun Watanabe discerns that this is not a sound collected by a real instrument, but a sound effect made by an electronic synthesizer. For him, a musician with an outstanding sense of hearing, it is obvious that the timbre of the piano and drum kit is not natural.

However, in pop music, few listeners pay attention to the instruments and accompaniment, and the vocalism of the singer is more important than the accompaniment.

If the weight of the accompaniment exceeds the vocal, then the cart is turned upside down.

Jun Watanabe's first single CD is three songs, biased towards the folk style, folk and rock are the same, playing in a band, paying attention to real, and cannot be produced in this way according to the pop music assembly line.

That would only lose the folk and rock 'n' roll flavor that resembles the original homegrown.

As the last line of lyrics ended, Mai Shiraishi appeared a little silent and her expression stiffened.

She glanced up at Jun Watanabe, her head hanging slightly, and she didn't speak.

The scene was a little awkward.

"Don't like it?" Kazuhito Kikuchi thinks that this song is already an outstanding work for pop music.

Jun Watanabe's works are already a guarantee of quality in the eyes of this gold medal music producer.

"No...... Yes, the song is good. Mai Shiraishi raised her head again, not seeing a hint of anything unusual.

Jun Watanabe vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

Could it be that there is something wrong with the song?

Before he had time to think too much, Kazuhito Kikuchi had already handed over an A4 sheet of paper with typed lyrics and sheet music.

Mai Shiraishi sat there and studied with her assistant for a while, and suddenly began:

"This song is a bit difficult, I want to go back and practice, and come back to record it in two days, okay?"

Her request was very reasonable, and the song was a bit stressful for her in the treble part.

"Well, let's come back at this time the day after tomorrow!" Kikuchi Kazuhito readily agreed.

Mai Shiraishi downloaded the demo to her phone, then got up and bowed again.

"Then, Director, Mr. Kikuchi, see you the day after tomorrow!"

"Goodbye!"

......

Even if Kazuhito Kikuchi was sluggish, he felt a little abnormal.

What is the relationship between this girl named Mai Shiraishi and Jun Watanabe?

The strange atmosphere between the two told him that this was absolutely unusual.

That's not love, my dear!

The problem probably lies in this song.

Why do young people not know how to cherish it so much, but they want to die, and they have to write songs when they die?

Not to mention wasting such an excellent musical talent, do you still treat a beautiful girl like Mai Shiraishi as nothing?

"Jun Watanabe, are you sick?"

......

"The teacher looks like I'm sick?"

Mai Shiraishi had just left, and Jun Watanabe recalled the last glance she had given to herself before leaving the door, and she felt a little worried.

For a while, even my brain became dull.

"If you're not sick, why write a song like this to bully people?"

"I bullied her?"

"Yes, who would be like you, completely deny the previous relationship, not to mention, and write a song for the other party to sing, even if it's really not love, but it's too cruel to do so, isn't it?"

Cruel?

Cruel?

Cruel!

Just like a frightened bird, Jun Watanabe is eager to get rid of the influence of his predecessor on him, but he forgets that the two have long been integrated.

Even if he is me, I am also him, why should I divide one another?