"Nan Xiang Wei is an important opportunity for our band to succeed in the process, and it is also one of our important partners in the future. - "A Confession of a Waste, Teach You How to Become a Scumbag - Career" by Tian Licheng

This staff member who walked out of the studio was called Nango Wei.

He has a fair face, a pair of rimless glasses, and a flat head, because he liked AKB48 in college, so he stays in the dormitory outside of club activities, and he is a little thin, and he looks like a bit of a "weak" taste that rotten girls like.

This year is Nango's third year at Sony Music. When he first joined the company, he was just an ordinary management training intern who followed his seniors to bring tea and water, and sorted out the materials with his bag.

But after Sony launched the plan for Nogizaka 46, as a rare current idol push, he found a way and privately got into a relationship with producer Kenji Kitagawa, the actual head of Nogizaka's operation team.

During the conversation, Kenji Kitagawa found that this young man not only has a good reputation for outreach, but also has excellent musical literacy, and more importantly, he has the same love for the idol career as himself.

So Kitagawa Fumi's second generation greeted his father, the CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, Naoki Kitagawa, and directly promoted Nango to the position of planning, operation and consultant of Nogizaka 46.

And Nanxiang has proved his value with excellent performance in his work.

As the youngest member of Nogizaka 46's operation team, he became a bridge between the girls and the operation - after all, he was only slightly older than the older members of the group at the time of 23.

And his own resume is eye-catching enough: he majored in administration and management at the University of Tokyo, served as the president of the music club and the head of the student union's external relations department during college, which is more than enough to deal with Nogizaka's girls.

Through his effective connection, many of the management team's operational strategies can be well understood and accepted by the members of Nogizaka, so the relationship between the members and the operation team is quite harmonious.

Nango's excellent performance made Kitagawa Kenji who promoted him quite satisfied, after all, when he was promoted to this newcomer, he was under a lot of pressure, but now Nango's excellent performance has undoubtedly slapped those doubters, and even Kitagawa Naoki has praised his son in front of people more than once for knowing how to make good use of people and daring to be promoted.

It's just that Nanxiang, who has always been left and right, has also encountered an annoyance recently.

Two weeks ago, Beichuan suddenly received an invitation to say that HN Airlines was about to launch a number of direct tourist flights from Dongying Province to Sanya this summer, and now it is recruiting spokespersons and advertising songs from Dongying Province.

Several companies have already expressed strong interest and are about to submit their own candidates and songwork.

Nogizaka's operations team also has a strong desire for this opportunity, after all, HN Airlines is one of the four major airlines in China, with 158 operating aircraft, not only in China, but also in the international arena has a certain influence, if it can become the spokesperson of Hainan Airlines in Dongying Province, it is undoubtedly a major opportunity for the development of Nogizaka.

It was only when Kitagawa and they enthusiastically began to prepare that they discovered a huge loophole - in the Sony music library, which has always had everything, they couldn't find a song that could perfectly fit the theme of the airline!

"What do we do with so many producers in our company? Hurry up and get them to write! With just over a week to go before the bidding, I can't believe I can't write a song that works. Kitagawa complained at the planning meeting, his mouth pursed, and his long face protruded into an arc, like a shoehorn, but he didn't care about his image anymore.

"But the producers also have their own jobs, and they asked them to write a song for us in such a short time, and the time was a bit too rushed, and they all turned us down for various reasons." A female OL in her thirties, with short shawl hair, explained, her name is Lu Zhen, and she is responsible for the internal resource coordination of Nogizaka Contract Co., Ltd. and Sony, Sony Music has a large number of artists and staff, and Nogizaka 46 is one of the group of artists, and often needs to coordinate schedules with other artists and share resources, and her responsibility is this part of the inline.

"What about Mr. Yasu-sensei Akimoto? Is it possible for his production team to provide us with songs? "Kitagawa thought of Yasushi Akimoto, the nominal chief producer of Nogizaka 46, so you can't sit idly by and watch the group hang under your name.

Nango, who was in charge of outreach, shook his head and said, "I contacted Mr. Akimoto's assistant as soon as possible. She said that Mr. Akimoto has been busy with the AKB general election in June recently and needs to concentrate on dealing with it. And AKB48 is also interested in participating in this bidding, so he is not prepared to help on both sides in order to avoid suspicion. It can be said that it is reasonable for Akimoto Yasushi to make such an answer, after all, the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, and the best thing for him to do is not to help each other.

Beichuan rubbed his brows, pondered for a while, and asked, "What if we invite other artists to sing?" Or jointly bid with other companies, we will produce people, and they will produce songs, is it feasible? ”

"If we invite songs from other companies, we at Sony will definitely be ridiculed by other companies for having too shallow music library, which may have an adverse impact on the company's reputation." Yoshio Konno, the president of Nogizaka Contract Co., Ltd., who looks to be about 50 years old and has an ordinary appearance, is the number two person in Nogizaka's management team.

"Companies with suitable songs will only give their own artists, if you insist on using our people, I'm afraid you will have to pay a lot of price, and the gains may outweigh the losses, Beichuan Sang still has to think carefully." Another older staff member objected. His name is Shin Fukumoto, and he has been working at Sony for 30 years, and he is old-fashioned and stubborn, but he is loyal to the company, so he was assigned by the company to be in charge of the financial aspects of the group.

Seeing that the idea he racked his brains was immediately rejected, but it was still rejected so difficult to refute, Beichuan could not suppress the anxiety in his heart, he slapped the table and was furious: "This is not good, that is not good, then you mean to let me give up this opportunity?" He paused and took a breath: "I just made a package ticket at President Kitagawa's place some time ago, are you going to see my jokes now?" ”

Everyone lowered their heads, not daring to face the anger of the rich second generation, Kitagawa Kenji's usual temper is still quite gentle, but this time he actually slapped the table and glared at him, I was afraid that he was really anxious......

"Why don't you speak? Aren't they all quite able to talk about each one? Why did it wilt at the critical moment? All of a sudden dumb? Beichuan's mouth then spewed out a bunch of swear words, scolding the young people present for a bloody head, he is now in a panic, the huge Sony can't get an advertising song, this is a big joke, but this joke happened to the team he was in charge of.

Staff, you look at me, I look at you, and suddenly everyone turned their eyes on one person—Nan Xiang Wei.

Everyone looked at him, hoping that Nanxiang could appease the emotions of the second generation of Xia Fu: "You are the descendant of his lineage, he has always regarded you as his right-hand man, and now at this point, isn't it the time for you to come out to solve his problems?" ”

Seeing that everyone was staring at him, Nanxiang couldn't hide if he wanted to, so he could only drive ducks up the tree and stand up.

Seeing Beichuan's expectant eyes, he thought twice and carefully considered the words: "Beichuan P, you can dissipate your anger first, and you can't solve the problem if you get angry now." Since it's not okay to invite songs from other companies on the surface, why don't we all mobilize our private connections and see if there are other ways to find songs around, there will always be freelance musicians who are not affiliated with any company, right? Underground bands, online singers, these may also be discovered. ”

"Makes sense!" Lu Zhen nodded in agreement.

"But can the quality of the songs be guaranteed, freelance musicians generally don't have a record company to sign because they don't have good works, right?" Someone objected.

Nanxiang immediately retorted: "But now we can only use dead horses as live horse doctors, better than nothing, right?" If you really can't find a better work, you can only find a random song in the music library. ”

"If we find people who don't know how to provide songs, it will make other companies look down on us even more, and if the company's reputation is damaged because of this, can you afford to take the responsibility?" Fukumoto stood up and confronted Nango, in his mind, Sony's reputation was above all else, and Kitagawa's face was nothing compared to the company's face.

Seeing that Fukumoto came to scold himself again after scolding Kitagawa, Nango was also a little anxious, so he began to argue with Fukumoto.

Seeing that his subordinates began to make infighting, Beichuan was even more headed. One is his own key training object, and the other is the company's veteran, no matter which one is not easy to say, and it is difficult to pull the shelf.

"Hey, that's it, Nanxiang, I'll leave it to you to find a song in private, but you must keep a low profile, and you must not let other companies do this. If I can't find it, then forget it, I'll go and apologize to my father. ”

Now, Beichuan was also a little excited, he waved his hand and walked out of the conference room on his own, leaving the others looking at each other.

Nango sprang into action immediately after the meeting and began to use his connections to find the right song.

But the more anxious I was, the more unsatisfactory things became, and after a few days, there was still no progress.

However, during the recording of "Where is Nogizaka" today, the video of Nanami Hashimoto and Nanase Nishino woke him up at once, who said that there are no powerful characters outside the record company? He recognized Tian Licheng in the band at a glance.

When Lao Tzu was the president of the Todai Music Society, he found a very powerful guy, his creative ability, but not inferior to those professionals, just like Nishino said, just two songs, in Nango's opinion, do have the strength to take the first place in ORICON.

"I just don't know if he's willing to give me this face. Ahh By the way, Sanada is the president, let me ask him. ”