Chapter 42: The Storm

The excessively rich rookie period also makes many speculators have bad thoughts about Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a teenager who suddenly became popular.

Because of his debut song "Close Your Eyes Lightly" and the two songs "Flower" in the band's debut single, "Shimmer" are all original songs by Kiyoshi Sakamoto, and the quality of these three songs is excellent, so Kiyoshi Sakamoto will be considered a genius composer by the media and music critics.

However, when many media were touting it, several media broke the news that Kiyoshi Sakamoto's original songs were written by others!

The main one is a lesser-known media magazine called Entertainment Headlines. As soon as you hear the name, you know that this magazine is dedicated to reporting on things in the entertainment industry, and this magazine, on the cover of the first page in early September, published a picture of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, with big words "Genius composers? Behind the scenes are the hard work of those composers!!

As soon as this magazine was published, Kiyoshi Sakamoto immediately became the focus of social attention. Many people in the industry who were originally angry about the sudden appearance of this 14-year-old boy and the media who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic have popped up one after another and joined in this question.

In this magazine, it is speculated that all of Sakamoto Kiyoshi's original songs were bought by Sony from different composers in order to force him, and changed the composition and lyrics of the songs to Sakamoto Kiyoshi's name, in order to make Sakamoto Kiyoshi an instant hit, questioning Sakamoto Kiyoshi's age of only a teenager, how can he create a song like "Close Your Eyes Lightly"?

He also said categorically in the magazine, "This is the sadness of the music industry, and the sorrow of many composers." ”

This paragraph caused an uproar.

In the case of magazines, sales have more than tripled all at once. And many unknown composers have come out to question that Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a talented composer, also asks thieves like Kiyoshi Sakamoto to quit the entertainment industry forever.

Although there is no evidence in this magazine, it is just blindly chasing after the wind, blindly saying that Sakamoto Kiyoshi is a liar who deceived the majority of the people, and Sony is also involved.

At this time, Sony, who received the news, immediately held an emergency meeting to discuss the authenticity of this incident.

Because Sony knew that Kiyoshi Sakamoto's original song was not given to him by their company, but Kiyoshi Sakamoto took it out himself, which does not rule out that Kiyoshi Sakamoto was looking for the gunman. So at the meeting, Naoki Kitagawa, who has always had confidence in Kiyoshi Sakamoto, also called Kiyoshi Sakamoto himself to come over and make his own defense for this incident.

The three of Sakamoto Kiyoshi, who were resting at home, all knew about the "please gunman" incident that was now in an uproar, which caused great harm to both Sakamoto Kiyoshi and THE SUN, so the three rushed to the company from home immediately after receiving the notice of the emergency meeting.

In the face of inquiries from Sony's board of directors, Kiyoshi Sakamoto only spent ten minutes on the spot writing a complete song. This kind of performance made Sony's senior management dumbfounded, and they understood two things, one is: the magazine Entertainment Headlines is talking nonsense, and the other is: Kiyoshi Sakamoto is indeed a genius composer, no, a monster composer!

After learning about Kiyoshi Sakamoto's true composing ability, Sony immediately launched a fierce attack on the magazine Entertainment Headlines.

First, they published a statement on their official website strongly condemning the magazine's defamation, and sent a lawyer's letter to the magazine, taking them to court.

At this time, this small magazine has already tasted the taste of sales explosion, and it also wants to take advantage of this trip to push the magazine to another height, so it is still shouting on the official website of the magazine, saying that this is just Sony in order to cover up the truth of the facts, so they will be so angry to sue them to court, and also said that the magazine will not succumb to Sony's blow like this.

This magazine also puts itself in the position of a victim, and vividly performs the image of a righteous person who exposes the truth being suppressed by the big forces. This also made the majority of uninformed people join the ranks of denouncing Sony and Sakamoto Kiyoshi.

This made the sales of the singles of THE SUN, which was originally a hot seller, plummet, and suddenly fell off the singles chart.

When such an incident happened, Kiyoshi Sakamoto did not panic, chatted with Naoki Kitagawa for a while, and asked Sony to arrange a press conference to allow him to publicly explain the "please gunman incident". Naoki Kitagawa also agreed to this method after watching the ten-minute song writing skills performed by Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

Jump to September 10th, the day Sony held a press conference in the lobby of the company building.

At the press conference, reporters from various newspapers and magazines were waiting for the owner of the event to appear.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, accompanied by Sony music director Yuichi Yamada, arrived at the press conference.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who had just come in with a large flash light, just sat down, and the reporters in the audience all raised their hands and wanted to ask him questions.

After the press officer ordered a reporter, a middle-aged man with a voice recorder asked Kiyoshi Sakamoto a question.

"Excuse me, Kiyosan Sakamoto, what do you think of this disclosure of Entertainment Headlines magazine?" this is a man who believes that Kiyoshi Sakamoto asked the gunman to compose the music.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto first looked at the middle-aged man and saw that what was written on his work card was also an unknown small media. There was no angry expression, just a faint reply.

"Personally, I think this is a serious slander against me, and at the same time against my company, Sony Records, and this is a baseless slander. Next. ”

The middle-aged man just wanted to ask again, but was forced to sit down by Sakamoto Kiyoshi's words.

This time, it was a young female reporter who was wearing a work card with the words "Weekly Wenchun" written on it.

After seeing these words, Kiyoshi Sakamoto immediately tensed his body and concentrated his mind.

Here it is, the terrible Wenchun.

"Excuse me, Kiyosan Sakamoto, Entertainment Headlines magazine said that you hired a gunman to write a song for you, and you don't know how to compose music yourself, what do you think about this?"

"Well, I'm sure I'll let you know right away. Kiyoshi Sakamoto didn't ask the press officer to call the next reporter, sat down in his seat directly, and began to talk.

"The purpose of this press conference, through my company, is to respond to the slander and slander of my personal talent and strength by some shameless media in society. At this point, Sakamoto paused, looked at the reporters and cameras who were recording, and continued.

"I'll be on the spot and give my answer. ”

Immediately afterwards, everyone present saw Sakamoto Kiyoshi, who took a blank piece of paper and a pen from Sony Music Director Yamada, and then showed it to the reporter in front of him, and said.

"This is a blank slate, and I will create an original song on the spot in the next ten minutes that does not belong to anyone, of course, you can wait for me to finish writing it, and then I will find out if it is true or not. ”

After speaking, Kiyoshi Sakamoto immediately picked up the pen and wrote on the white paper.

After hearing Kiyoshi Sakamoto's speech, the general public present and those who were watching the live broadcast of the press conference all thought that this kid was crazy!

In ten minutes, create an original song with full lyrics, are you kidding?

How could this be possible unless Kiyoshi Sakamoto had a bunch of songs in his head. You must know that an original song cannot be created if you want to create it, it takes a certain amount of time, no matter how good the composer is.

Everyone was holding an attitude of disbelief, watching Kiyoshi Sakamoto write and draw at the press conference, and soon, ten minutes, passed.

Some reporters were also counting the time, and just after ten minutes, I saw Kiyoshi Sakamoto on the stage also stop writing.

"Did you really create it?"

This is the same idea of all those who do not know Kiyoshi Sakamoto's creative prowess.

And the Sony executives who have already seen Sakamoto Kiyoshi's magic skills, Ogawa Mako, Chiba Masaki, and Sister Ayumi Hamasaki, who I saw in the lounge some time ago, watched all this with great interest. They were all thinking, what kind of expressions did the reporters present who saw this magic skill look at later?

Are you dumbfounded, dumbfounded, or doubtful about life?

At this time, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was at the press conference, picked up the paper and showed it to everyone present.

I saw that the paper in Sakamoto Kiyoshi's hand was full of notes and lyrics, and there were obvious traces of alteration, which means that Sakamoto Kiyoshi really wrote a seemingly complete song.

And the name of this song is "SLOW DOWN".

That's right, this song is a song released by Taichi Mukai in 2016.

Because I like this song very much, and this song was released relatively late, it will not appear until 12 years later, so this song, Sakamoto Kiyoshi did not register the copyright with the RB Music Copyright Association JASRAC, so if you check it on JASRAC now, you can't find the existence of this song at all.

After seeing the name and lyrics of the song, the reporters present immediately reported the name and lyrics of the song to their superiors. Some of them are already using their laptops to look up the songs in JASRAC, trying to find the same song.

Looking for is found, the same name, there are many heads. After all, the same name does not mean that it is plagiarism.

Click in and take a look, compare the lyrics, no, and compare the melody, it's different.

The reporters who were looking for them at the scene were sweating profusely, and the editor-in-chief of Entertainment Headlines magazine and the editors of the magazine, who were hundreds of miles away, were all looking at the TV with dead faces.

"Look for it, you won't be able to find it anyway. ”

Kiyoshi Sakamoto sat at the scene, his hands on his chest, and with a grim expression, he looked at the people below who were already in chaos. Such a scene was also faithfully recorded by the camera.

This scene was later called "the contempt of the prince" by the do-gooders

Kiyoshi Sakamoto used his actual genius performance to crush everyone's doubts about him!