Sony Music's headquarters is a 6-storey green building, shaped like a storage compartment, composed of small boxy lattices, refreshing and uniform, from the appearance, you would never think that in this inconspicuous small building actually hides the second largest company in the Toei record industry. (The first is Ai Hui, with a total sales volume of 2.7 billion RMB in 2013, and Sony is slightly behind, about 2.5 billion.) ）

When Tian Licheng followed Muramatsu Kitagawa into a recording studio, the glittering starlight inside almost blinded him.

Rainbow Band's lead singer HYDE, who has dreadlocks and a punk outfit, is chatting with his captain, Bass Tetsu, and Takayo Nishikawa, who is wearing a casual suit and gold-rimmed glasses, and next to them is a petite girl, isn't it the popular singer-songwriter Miwa?

That bald uncle should be the legendary Li Qian, who is the flowing prodigal son with long hair next to him, it seems that he is not very familiar.

"It's finally here!Muramatsu-san, we've been waiting for a long time, and if you don't come back, you'll have to take care of the meal at night!" HYDE said with a dissatisfied expression. His natal name is Hideto Takai, and his height is only 161, but he has a handsome and bewitching face and monster-level singing skills.

Although he is 45 years old this year, the years have not left any traces on his face, this trendy matching, this fashionable hairstyle, at first glance, this uncle is much younger than Tian Licheng.

"Haha, haven't you been shouting for a long time to meet the author of "Romantic Flight"? I've already brought him, and then I'll leave it to you to talk slowly, I still have a party at night, so I'll miss it first. Muramatsu said, apologizing to everyone in the room with his hands folded, and left the studio, as a senior manager of Sony Music, it was inevitable to be sent off.

Tian Licheng has done research on the situation of these people, but he is not very restrained. Under the recommendation of Kitagawa, he greeted the musicians present one by one, and from the introduction, he also knew the identity of the long-haired prodigal son, Ozawa Sei, the music teacher of Nogizaka 46.

Lao Tian's attitude is still as humble as ever, and he took the initiative to shake hands with several others as a junior, and also said their representative works: Rainbow Orchestra's 1998 famous songs were released in succession, "HONEY", "Flower Burial", and "Immersion ~lose control~" The three singles were released on the same day, and all of them sold more than 500,000 copies in the first week, and the sales of "HONEY" reached 1.32 million copies, and the total CD sales in a single year in 1998 were more than 8 million copies.

Nishikawa Guijiao's passionate stage performance, weird performance costumes (dirty black short leather jacket with short leather pants, etc.), classic blowing style (crazy scarf on the stage, let the fan blow wildly to create an elegant feeling), and millions of works "HOT LIMIT", "WHITE BREATH", so that this big name is also a household name in Dongying, plus he has also starred in many variety shows, it can be said that he has maintained a stable exposure.

Miwa is a bit bleak compared to these two groups of gods, but it can't be underestimated. Her works have won the fourth place on the public trust list, "ヒカリへ" can sell more than 80,000 copies in the current downturn of the record industry, a total of 25 weeks on the list, and the girl is most famous for her ability to sing, short body contains a high-pitched voice, which makes her voice highly recognizable.

"Heroes don't mention the courage of the past, and the current music scene is no longer our time. However, I am very pleased to see that there are successors to Benge's music. HYDE smiled and patted Tian Licheng's shoulder, his height is about the same as Nanase Nishino wearing high heels, while Lao Tian has 182, how to look at this shoulder patting action: "Didn't you also form a band? I watched the video of your performance, it's really good, when can we communicate with each other." ”

"Ah, really? How embarrassing it is. The seniors are too polite. Lao Tian thanked again and again, after all, this is the top big band in the total sales of Dongying CD, and it is a tempered experience to leak a little thing.

Rainbow is all the rage with its unique psychedelic rock and British rock style, which still has a huge influence on the music scene today, and what is even more commendable is that the four members of the band are extremely creative, and the style of music is varied, and the unexpected twist is also one of their characteristics.

Li Qian, a bald man, crossed his arms and joked with a smile: "Don't be deceived by his rhetoric, after the exchange, he will ask you to help write songs, the favor of the Rainbow Orchestra is not so good." ”

HYDE covered his face: "Brother Qian, can you not casually poke at others, so that an old guy like me is so funny to lose face in front of a young man? Besides, this is called taking what you need, okay, I want to prepare for the concert of the 25th anniversary of our band's debut." ”

Listening to HYDE's words, not only Li Qian, but everyone in the studio burst out laughing: The Rainbow Band debuted in 1991, and by the time of their 25th anniversary, it was 2016, and you started preparing for 2016 in 2014, which is also too advanced.

Tian Licheng didn't expect that the glamorous and cold HYDE on the stage was actually a very funny guy in reality, if he could really provide songs to the Rainbow Orchestra, it would be a very rewarding thing, after all, this is the first group of Asian artists to hold a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, and the theme song "Ready Steady Go" of the animation "Fullmetal Alchemist" that he was obsessed with back then was also their work.

"These gods have a very strong creative ability, and if they provide them with Japanese songs, unless they come up with good songs on the board that were originally reserved for their own band, the others may not be able to get into their eyes. By the way, Madison, how did I forget this! I can't speak Japanese and English, but HYDE is one of the few singers in Toei who is also good at English and speaks it standardly. ”

LAO TIAN THOUGHT ABOUT IT PROPERLY, AND SAID TO HYDE WITH A SMILE: "I WON'T MAKE A FOOL OF MYSELF IN FRONT OF MY SENIORS WHEN IT COMES TO JAPANESE SONGS, BUT I HAVE AN ENGLISH SONG, AND I THINK MAYBE YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SEE IT, SO NEXT TIME I HAVE A CHANCE, I WILL PREPARE IT AND ASK YOU FOR ADVICE FROM YOUR SENIORS." ”

"Haha, PANDA-san, it's better to choose a day than to hit the sun, you just show your hand here, let us also see and understand, you can't favor one over the other." Nishikawa Guijiao is also a guy who likes to join in the fun, so he directly coaxed Tian Licheng to show it on the spot, and he also wanted to take this opportunity to see if this young man lived up to his name.

And MIWA, who was silent on the side, directly hugged a huge acoustic guitar. She was only 148 tall, and it was quite difficult for her thin body to hold this huge guitar, but at this moment there was a sense of schadenfreude in her heart: Aren't you called a genius? Now it's a mule and a horse, pull it out and slip away.

Miwa has been known as a musical talent in the industry since she was a child, and graduated from the Faculty of Commerce of Keio University, a well-known private school in Toei, and began to perform in various TV programs at an early age, and even won the Best Newcomer Award at the Toei Record Awards.

But even with so much aura, she has not been highly praised by Director Li Qian like Tian Licheng, although she also admits that she really can't write such excellent works as "Negative けないで" and "Romantic Flight", but in any case, losing to a guy who is younger than herself is unhappy.

"I was actually driven ducks to the shelves...... That's it, come on, it's okay to play this song, the lyrics, the meaning is on the line, anyway, just swallow the dates, let them hear the chorus part clearly. ”

Tian Licheng took the guitar from Miwa's hand, adjusted his sitting posture, plucked the strings a few times to find the feeling, and cleared his throat: "Everyone, it's ugly." ”