Chapter 9 Preparations for debut
After signing a five-year contract with Sony, Kiyoshi Sakamoto immediately entered the preparations for his debut.
After listening to Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "Close Your Eyes", Sony's senior management is very confident in this newcomer who has just been signed. So after Kiyoshi Sakamoto signed the contract, with the aim of becoming famous in one fell swoop, he immediately began to dispatch various departments to support this single debut.
For a single debut, all you need is a song, a MV, and most importantly, publicity. As a newly debuted singer, a lot of exposure is king. In this way, an unknown artist can be pushed in front of the people at once, so that more people can recognize Kiyoshi Sakamoto, and only when more people know it, can the single sell better.
But Sakamoto Kiyoshi didn't coerce, after all, his company is now Sony, Sony Dafa is good!!
As one of the four major records, Sony,Isn't it easy to push it?。。 In the case that the song is ready, there is no need for Kiyoshi Sakamoto to worry about what is promoted, what is packaged. In this way, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's task is only to record and shoot the MV.
On this day, accompanied by an agent, Kiyoshi Sakamoto went to a recording studio owned by Sony and recorded the song "Close Your Eyes".
As a person who has not yet debuted, of course Sakamoto Kiyoshi does not have any big-name agents to follow, after all, no one notices him as a little shrimp.
However, Sony temporarily assigned him an old agent, which can be regarded as helping him a lot. This agent is an uncle in his thirties, a veteran employee who has worked in Sony's company for more than ten years, and generally if he has been in a company for ten years, he will be promoted to a certain extent.
But this uncle is still a small agent, and now he doesn't have any artists. It's because this uncle is too honest, after turning many artists, he has a good reputation, but he just has no ambition, some artists want to take him out of other companies, but he refused, and he passed ten years in a dull way.
However, Uncle Ishida enjoyed it, and according to his own words, he loved Sony very much and wanted to work at Sony until he retired.
For such an old employee, Sony assigned him to Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a fledgling boy, and asked him to take a little white with him.
But this uncle named Ishida has been in the entertainment industry for ten years, but he is an old fritter in the entertainment industry, and he knows all the bends and bends in the entertainment industry, and it is good that there is Uncle Ishida, otherwise Sakamoto, a little white, will do wrong in many places.
The RB entertainment industry is closely related to its social system, with countless rules, as a strict relationship between seniors and subordinates, the relationship between superiors and subordinates is extremely strict, but at the same time it is very free, as long as you are rich, or famous to a certain extent, no rules are rules.
After all, the rules are set by people.,As the person at the top of the pyramid.,What the hell are the rules.。。
But none of this is about Sakamoto Kiyoshi, after all, he is just a small singer who has not debuted now, and he can only follow those rules well.
And Uncle Ishida is such a person who taught him the rules to survive in the entertainment industry.
When he came to the recording studio, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who had just entered the door, immediately bowed and greeted the recording engineers and scholars.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who has lived in RB for more than ten years, although he still has that heart, but in many places he is the same as a standard RB person, and he has long been numb to bowing such a etiquette. Just know that being polite is definitely good.
The people in the recording studio, looking at the newcomer who was highly praised by the company this year, sighed at his youth, and said in return. Well, politeness works anywhere.
Next, it's time to record. However, for Sakamoto Kiyoshi, it took about two or three hours to complete the recording. After all, this song "Close Your Eyes Lightly", Kiyoshi Sakamoto doesn't know how many times he has sung it, and he is already familiar with it.
After finishing the recording of the song in a short time, Kiyoshi Sakamoto was free.
Why? It's because the MV is still being filmed. Because I didn't expect Kiyoshi Sakamoto to finish the recording so quickly, Sony hasn't started to contact the staff and director of the MV yet. But fortunately, Sony already has a group of MV directors who are used to it, and it is enough to find any one to shoot, but it still has to wait a few days, so I gave Sakamoto Kiyoshi a few days off.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto suddenly got the holiday, and he thought, if he is idle, he will be idle, or he will go home. After buying a ticket to Nagasaki, Kiyoshi Sakamoto went home on the night of the recording.
January 20, 2004, Nagasaki City, Sakamoto House.
"I'm back!" Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was holding a bunch of things and pushed the door open, shouted happily.
"Welcome home!" Sakamoto's mother, who was in the living room, replied very calmly as if she had been prepared.
Uh, what's the situation, why does this look like a three-hall triage? Looking at Sakamoto's parents sitting on the sofa in the living room, and a little boy, Sakamoto Feng.
"Come here, sit down. Dad spoke, Sakamoto Kiyoshi had to obediently put down the things in his hand, sat on the sofa on the other side, ready to listen to his parents' "education".
"Smack!" "Smack!" "Smack!"
Several cannons rang out in the house, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who hadn't reacted yet, spotted an unexpected figure and appeared at home.
Masaharu Fukuyama walked out of the kitchen with a cake in his hand and said with a smile, "Congratulations!
looked at Fukuyama, then at his parents, and at the salute in Xiao Sakamoto's hand, Sakamoto Kiyoshi's eyes were a little red.
Sakamoto Kiyoshi couldn't imagine that the most important people in his life were here, supporting him, to be honest, Sakamoto Kiyoshi was not a crying person, but at this time, he could only hold back tears, smile to his family and teachers, and say, "Aligado!!Aligado!!!Aligado!!"
Before the words fell, Sakamoto Kiyoshi still couldn't help it, tears flowed out of the corners of his eyes, but he was still smiling on his face, forming a unique look with tears in his smile.
At this time, a hand was stretched out next to him, holding a tissue in his hand, this was Sakamoto Feng, and his brother, who was just ten years old, looked at his brother distressedly and handed him a tissue.
"Ni-chan, don't cry, be happy!"
"Hmm!" Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who had taken the tissue, replied heavily after giving his brother a touch on the head.
"How do you know I'm coming back today? I didn't tell you, to buy a ticket, I also asked the agent uncle to buy it... Uncle Ishida told you?"
"No, I asked him. Masaharu Fukuyama said at this time.
"Uh, teacher, do you know uncle?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi couldn't imagine that Uncle Ishida and Fukuyama Masaharu would have anything to do, after all, one was a big star and the other was a small agent, except for the age of the two, Sakamoto Kiyoshi couldn't think of anything else in common.
"Because he's my classmate!"
"Eh????? Uncle Ishida is your classmate! He also studied in Nagasaki??!
Unexpectedly, this world is so small, and another "relation" appears beside him, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto has no complaints. No matter how you go, there are people who have a relationship with you, and Fukuyama is his father's younger brother and his teacher. Uncle Ishida is Fukuyama's classmate and his agent. There aren't many Nagasaki people in Tokyo's entertainment industry.,How did you let yourself meet them all.。。 This can form a Nagasaki gang...
Thinking of this, Kiyoshi Sakamoto complained in his heart, "This is amazing, my brother!"
Next, after spending his fourteenth birthday at home, Sakamoto and his teacher, Masaharu Fukuyama, flew back to Tokyo together.
January 23rd, Tokyo.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who had just returned to Tokyo Narita International Airport, suddenly felt the mobile phone in his pocket vibrate, took it out and took it out, and found that it was Kobashi, Nanami Hashimoto.
Looking at the birthday greeting text message sent by Xiaoqiao to himself, Sakamoto Kiyoshi happily blossomed in his heart.
In the past two years,Sakamoto Kiyoshi has been in contact with Hashimoto Nanawei.,Sometimes I often go to Hokkaido to find a small bridge to play.,For the Lori version of the old bridge,Sakamoto has already treated her as his sister in the morning.。 So when I received her text message, no matter how busy I was, I would reply with a sentence or two.
On the taxi home, Kiyoshi Sakamoto has been teasing little Lori on his mobile phone.
It didn't take long for him to arrive at the apartment building in Meguro Ward, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto returned to his kennel in Tokyo after a three-day hiatus.
As a traveler who made a small fortune in the 2002 World Cup, although he has a little money in his hand, about tens of millions of yen, it is still not enough to buy a large house in the center of a city like Tokyo. It's definitely okay to have a small house, but in Sakamoto Kiyoshi's opinion, if you want to buy it, you can buy a big one, otherwise you will live in the current one first, anyway, he is the only one who lives here, and he has lived there for two years, and he has feelings.
Back in the room, Kiyoshi Sakamoto immediately lay down on the bed, took his mobile phone and sent a few text messages to Xiaoqiao, and then said goodnight to each other. And Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was so tired, fell asleep after sending a text message to his home and Fukuyama.
The next day, it was the day of work. It was the day when Kiyoshi Sakamoto filmed the MV.
Fortunately, I had slept early yesterday, otherwise Kiyoshi Sakamoto wouldn't have been able to get up. Under the bombardment of the phone call from his agent, Uncle Ishida, Kiyoshi Sakamoto hurriedly got into the car waiting downstairs in the apartment, and under the drive of Uncle Ishida, he arrived at the studio where the MV was filmed.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto still looked like he was going to die in the car, but as soon as he got out of the car, he seemed to have a different face, and walked into the set with a sunny and warm expression.
Luckily I wasn't late. Someone touched the non-existent sweat on his forehead and thought happily.
At this time, Kiyoshi Sakamoto looked at a middle-aged man who seemed to be a director, talking to a young girl.
And when Sakamoto looked at it, he was surprised!