Traveling through the Tokyo bubble era

Chapter 126 Ming Caijiang's Movie TIE-UP Song

Fast forward to March.

Filming was in full swing at Ofuna Studio, and in Tokyo, Hideki Hanyu gradually perfected the choreography of "Youth Album", and began to formally teach the three of them.

In the brand-new dance room on the first floor of the Yunying Pictures headquarters, the three Vitality Girls have just finished practicing a set of dance moves to the music.

Hideki Hanyu pressed the stop button of the player to silence the dance room, and then walked up to Yukiko Okada.

He first made a dance move by himself, and then told Okada Yukiko.

"It was from this movement that Yukiko-chan slowed down by half a beat."

As he spoke, he walked over to the player, rewound the tape, and pressed play again.

The music started, and when the sound reached a moment where a strong and weak beat repeated, he pressed pause.

"Yukiko-chan, remember the beat here, every time the beat changes, it is the starting point of our dance just now."

As he spoke, he pressed the play button again, and when the obvious beat transition appeared, he pressed pause again.

"Remember the beat of the music, once on stage, Yukiko-chan has to react instinctively to the music, not just rely on the lyrics, understand?"

"I understand, I will work hard." Okada Yukiko promised energetically.

Hanyu Hideki nodded helplessly, this was not the first time, the attitude of the other party was very sincere, but the effect of helplessness was mediocre.

I only hope Yukiko Okada can improve as the training continues.

This is not the opposite, some people are not good at dancing by nature, their bodies are not coordinated, and their responses to rhythm are not sensitive enough.

This situation can only be improved with a lot of practice, but it is impossible to completely solve it.

After Yukiko Okada finished speaking, Hideki Hanyu walked up to Yoko Minano.

"Yang Zijiang's performance is very good, but dancing sometimes requires effort, but sometimes it needs to be relaxed."

After finishing speaking, Hideki Hanyu played the music again, and then came to Yoko Minano, imitating the other party's dancing just now.

"Yangzijiang used too much force in these movements, which destroyed the cute effect of the dance. Of course it is right to dance seriously, but you must relax."

"I see."

Looking at Hideki Hanyu in front of her eyes, she could feel the temperature from Hideki Hanyu's body while breathing, Yoko Minano blushed and her eyes were a little dazed.

Seemingly realizing that the girl in front of him was distracted, Hideki Hanyu coughed lightly, "Yoko-chan, do you remember what I said?"

"Ah... Remember, don't use too much force when dancing, and relax when it's time to relax."

"Well, that's it, I still need to practice more."

After talking about Yoko Minano, Hideki Hanyu looked at Minako Honda beside her.

"Minako-chan is doing very well, please continue to work hard."

For this girl who is always smiling on weekdays, Hanyu Hideki is really satisfied.

His singing skills are the best among the three, and he has been respectfully praised by Da Ben many times, and the praise is enough to cope with the level of Neon Enka.

The talent in dancing is also outstanding, basically as long as he teaches the other party, he can learn it quickly, and never needs Hideki Hanyu to take care of him alone.

Strong learning ability, gentle personality and will take care of teammates, so it is no surprise that he was designated as the captain.

After the compliment, Hideki Hanyu stopped the music, turned around and told Minako Honda again.

"As the captain, Minako-chan, you must remember that you are a group on stage and will be seen as a whole. When performing, you need to take care of your teammates and not just your own rhythm."

After speaking, he said to the other two.

"It's the same for both of you. Groups and individuals are different. What we need more is integrity rather than too abrupt individual performances."

"We know." The three girls replied in unison.

"Very good, this is what you want on stage." Hideki Hanyu affirmed.

As soon as Hideki Hanyu finished speaking, outside the door of the dance studio, Santomo Iijima was gesturing to him through the glass on the door.

He turned his head and said to the three girls, "Okay, let's rest for 10 minutes."

Pushing open the door and going outside, Hideki Hanyu asked, "What's the matter?"

"Warner Pioneer has arranged for Ming Caijiang to go to Los Angeles to record, and we are sure to leave tomorrow morning."

"So soon?"

Recently, Hideki Hanyu has been focusing on the energy girl side, and has not paid much attention to Akina Nakamori's itinerary.

"It's too late, Chiemi Hori, Hiroko Mita, Yuu Hayami, Hidemi Ishikawa, and Kyoko Koizumi from Burning Production, their debut promotions have all spread out, but we haven't even recorded their debut song yet. , the production of media promotional materials and the reservation of TV programs will take time."

"Iijima-san is going to America with you too?"

"Yes, that's why I came to see Mr. Hanyu. After get off work in the afternoon, there is a meeting about the follow-up work of Akina sauce, which Mr. Hanyu needs to attend."

"Okay, I see, I will definitely go."

"Then I won't bother Hanyu-sensei."

After bidding farewell to Mitomo Iijima, Hideki Hanyu returned to the dance studio and continued to give lessons to Vitality Girls.

Mastering the dance proficiently is only the first step, and the next step is to practice singing while dancing.

As a mature girl group, singing and dancing skills are essential.

In order for the energetic girls to sing and dance perfectly, he even found the Neon Audio-Technica Electronics Company to customize their own wireless microphones for them.

Originally, he wanted to find an electronic audio company in Europe and the United States to customize. After all, the technology in Europe and the United States is more mature, and the customized microphones of famous singers in Europe and America are all done by them.

However, whether it is Shure of America or Sennheiser of Germany, the customizer is required to go to the headquarters of the other party for sound measurement in person, and no door-to-door service is provided.

Just when he was about to take the three girls to Europe and the United States, Ito Shinsuke suggested to him that he could try to consult the Audio-Technica company of Neon.

And this company, established in 1962, not only guarantees that it can meet the customization requirements of Hideki Hanyu, but also can arrange engineers to provide on-site service.

That's why Hideki Hanyu finally chose Audio-Technica for microphone customization.

Customized microphones, as the name implies, are to make exclusive microphones according to the singer's voice characteristics and sound quality, and the price will naturally not be cheap.

He asked Audio-Technica for custom-made microphones, and the single price exceeded 70 yen, which was still the price after he lowered his requirements.

It will only be more expensive if you find European and American manufacturers to customize, and it is impossible without two or three million yen.

This kind of luxury microphone should be used with care. It is no wonder that people will steal the microphones of celebrities in the future.

In fact, what he wants more is a wireless headset, but the current technical conditions can't make it at all, and even the wireless microphone needs to carry a transmitter with him.

After finishing the dance training of Genki Girls in the afternoon, Hideki Hanyu took the elevator to the sixth floor.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw that there were already many people sitting inside. Apart from Hirohashi Asako, Yoshioka Shota, Iijima Mitomo, and Nakamori Akina, Warner Music's publicity manager Nobuo Tomioka was also present.

"President Hanyu, good afternoon."

Seeing Hideki Hanyu, Nobuo Tomioka felt chills on the back of his neck. The strong attitude of Hideki Hanyu at the last meeting left him a deep impression.

"It's hard work for Tomioka-san to come to the meeting so late." Hanyu Hideki replied politely.

At this time, Shota Yoshioka saw Hanyu Hideki carrying a black bag in his hand, so he asked jokingly.

"Hayu-san came to the meeting and brought something with him, so it can't be a gift for us."

"It's a gift, yes, but it's not for you, it's for Ming Caijiang."

After Hanyu Hideki finished speaking, in Nakamori Akina's surprised eyes, he handed the bag in his hand to the other party.

"Mr. Hanyu, what is this?" Akina Nakamori asked curiously.

"You'll know when you open Akina-chan." Hideki Hanyu didn't answer.

Hearing this, Akina Nakamori opened the bag with some anticipation, took out a heavy white paper box with a texture, and placed it on the conference table.

On the surface of the carton, there is a logo with two stacked triangles inside a circle.

Seeing this LOGO, Akina Nakamori didn't know what it was, but several other people guessed it, but they didn't remind them. After all, Hideki Hanyu obviously wanted to give Akina Nakamori a surprise.

After Akina Nakamori opened the cardboard box, she really showed a surprised expression. It turned out that there was a beautiful microphone in the box.

She carefully picked up the microphone and examined it carefully. The whole body of the microphone was silver and white with a metallic texture, and it was very beautiful in shape.

Nakamori Akina weighed it carefully, it felt very light, and it didn't affect the movements of his hands at all.

Turning the microphone, Akina Nakamori was pleasantly surprised again that there was a row of letters engraved on the metal on the side of the microphone grip.

Nakamori Akina.

It is the Japanese pronunciation of Nakamori Akina's name.

"Mr. Hanyu, is this a microphone specially for me?" Akina Nakamori asked in disbelief.

"They all have Ming Caijiang's name written on them, so it's impossible to give them to others."

Hanyu Hideki jokingly asked, "Why, don't you like it?"

"I like it, I like it very much."

The joy in Akina Nakamori's tone almost overflowed.

"This is a microphone specially customized according to Ming Caijiang's voice. Remember the last time I asked Ming Caijiang to measure the sound? That is to customize this microphone, both of you and the vitality girl."

On weekdays, Hideki Hanyu seldom interferes with Akina Nakamori's work, but that's because he doesn't want to interfere with Akina Nakamori's development, not because he really favors one over the other.

To customize the microphone for the vitality girl, naturally Akina Nakamori will not be forgotten.

As for Akina Nakamori, who was holding a brand new microphone, after hearing that this microphone belonged to both her and the girl, the thought that Hideki Hanyu was biased was immediately swept away.

After delivering the presents, Hideki Hanyu took his seat and announced the start of the meeting.

Because of the pressure brought by each competitor, in addition to confirming that Akina Nakamori will officially debut in early May, this meeting also determined a series of publicity methods.

A lot of offline publicity, using local TV stations, broadcasting bureaus, and record stores to conduct a full neon tour, distribute materials, and let more people remember Akina Nakamori's name.

In this way, after Nakamori Akina's debut, those who remember Nakamori Akina's name will definitely be interested in this girl and become her potential fans.

It's just that apart from these, the programs of major TV stations must be participated in, but Warner Pioneer lacks resources in this area at Neon, so it is estimated that there will not be too many programs to participate in.

During the meeting, Hanyu Hideki has been listening to everyone's speeches, without expressing any opinions.
Such an attitude made Nakamori Akina next to her nervous again.

The custom-made microphone just now made her feel that Hideki Hanyu cared about her, but now Hideki Hanyu's appearance made her doubt herself again.

The girl's heart is so young and sensitive.

Facing the person he cares about, even a small move will give him countless thoughts.

But just when everyone was talking about it, Hideki Hanyu finally spoke.

"I still have a way to promote it here. I don't know if everyone wants to hear it."

"Hanyu-san, don't be foolish, tell me quickly." Hirohashi Asako urged.

"I wrote a theme song for Love Home, but I never thought about who I would give it to sing. Since Mingcaijiang needs promotional resources, let Mingcaijiang sing it."

"The movie TIE-UP song? It is indeed a solution." Hirohashi Asako felt that Hanyu Hideki had a good idea.

The so-called TIE-UP, also known as TIE-UP business law, is a business strategy for selling records.

The popular explanation is that when a singer releases a song, the song will also be used as the theme song of a TV series, animation, movie, or a promotional song for a large event.

As long as the linked project is popular, it will further drive song sales, which will naturally help singers increase their popularity.

TIE-UP commercial law has actually been applied in the industry for a long time.

For example, the movie "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun" that is currently being screened, because of the popularity of the movie, helped the theme song of the same name sung by Yakushi Maru Hiroko to hit the oricon chart.

However, the pinnacle work of TIE-UP business law is the theme song "Let's Dance Together" by Chibi Maruko produced by being company in the future, which won the first place in the annual single of the Oricon Oricon Oricon Chart with sales of more than one million.

"Mr. Hanyu, can we hear what song it is?"

As a representative of the record company, Nobuo Tomioka wanted to listen to what kind of song first.

If the song is too weird, TIE-UP will not only bring no benefit, but will have the opposite effect.

"Then please wait a moment."

After Hanyu Hideki finished speaking, he turned and left the conference room.

Not long after, he came back with a guitar and a sheet of music.

"Whether it's suitable or not, Mingcaijiang can sing it once."

He handed the sheet music to Akina Nakamori, "Akina-chan, get familiar with it first, and let me know when you're ready."

Akina Nakamori picked up the sheet music and hummed softly to become familiar with it.

After a while, she raised her head and said to Hanyu Hideki, "Mr. Hanyu, I'm ready."

"Then let's get started."

Hideki Hanyu picked up the guitar, and slowly plucked the strings under the curious gaze of the others.

A faint, slightly sad prelude appeared.

Immediately afterwards, Nakamori Akina's singing sounded.

look under your feet

this is the way you go
come see your future

that is your future

mom brought me
so much warmth
she told me to

move forward with love

me at that time

young and ignorant

she took my hand like that
walk together today

dreams always seem to be
far in the sky
……

The name of this song is "Future へ", which was composed and sung by Chiharu Yucheng, the lead singer of the later neon group Kiroro.

The song tells about the most sincere affection between a child and a mother.

But Huaxia fans are most familiar with this song, but it is the cover version of Wanwan female singer Liu Ruoying, called "Later".

In the conference room, although everyone could hear it, Akina Nakamori was obviously not familiar with this song.

Emotional music, warm and simple lyrics, performed by Nakamori Akina's unique mid-bass, let the touch from the deepest part of life slowly soothe everyone's heart.

The guitar sound stopped, the singing ended, and the tough guy Yoshioka Shota gently wiped the corner of his eyes.

"Hayu-san used this song as the theme song for making love and going home. Did you think everyone didn't cry enough last year?"

"It's really... a really touching song."

Nobuo Tomioka, who heard Hideki Hanyu's composition for the first time, was shocked after being moved.

Compared with the two people's thoughts on songs, Hirohashi Asako considered commercial issues.

"Ming Cai-san debuted in early May, and Love Home is tentatively scheduled for mid-May. This song can just boost Ming Cai-san's popularity after her debut song."

"Since everyone thinks it's okay, Asako-san will contact Kamakura and ask Ito-san to take the music video of this song while the movie is still being filmed."

By promoting the movie, the music video will be shown on TV when the time comes, and the song, movie, and Akina Nakamori will all be promoted, killing three birds with one stone.

"But Akina-chan will go to America tomorrow to record her debut song, how can I shoot without her video tape." Iijima Mitomo reminded.

"You can only shoot the story first, and then shoot Ming Caijiang alone, and edit them together."

Hideki Hanyu had just finished his suggestion, but Nobuo Tomioka suddenly opposed it.

"No, this kind of edited music video is not smooth enough. We can go to America a day later. Let Akina-san go to Kamakura tonight, and try to finish the video tomorrow."

Apparently, realizing how good the song "Mikuへ" is, Nobuo Tomioka didn't want to make a half-hearted music video.

And in Nobuo Tomioka's view, if Akina Nakamori can catch up with the promotion of "Love, Go Home", it will be far more effective than participating in any TV show.

If you don't believe me, just look at how well Yakushi Maru Hiroko's song with the same name in the movie sells, no one in the circle is jealous.

Most importantly, he was afraid that the song would be cut off by Shochiku.

"Don't be impatient, Tomioka-san. The film over there can't be finished in a short time. If you don't want to use an edited version, you can wait until Akina-chan returns from America." Hirohashi Asako persuaded.

"That's right, filming is busy right now, and there is no filming script, even if Akina-san is allowed to go there." Yoshioka Shota also echoed.

"Don't worry, Tomioka-san, Ming Caijiang is an artist of the subsidiary company of Yunying Pictures. This song must be sung by her, and no one can take it away."

Hideki Hanyu seemed to see the worry in Nobuo Tomioka's heart.

"Alright then, we will complete the recording as soon as possible on America's side, so as not to delay the promotion of the film."

Even with the guarantee from the creator and chairman Hideki Hanyu, Nobuo Tomioka was still a little worried.

After all, the partner of Yunshang Pictures is Shochiku Pictures. If they are determined to want this song and give up a little profit, it is not impossible for Yunshang Pictures to give up a song.

Once the work is busy, the time passes quickly, the meeting is over, and the moon in the sky outside is already in the sky.

Hanyu Hideki treated the hungry people to dinner, and then went home.

After all, there is a little girl like Akina Nakamori around, so I don't want to go to the nightclub to refill after eating.

Hideki Hanyu is not Yasushi Akimoto, who would do such crap things as entertaining related parties and members of the Yakuza with his young artistes.

The next day, Santomo Iijima accompanied Akina Nakamori, followed the staff of Warner Pioneer, and took a plane to Los Angeles, America.

With Akina Nakamori leaving, Yunshang Entertainment lost more than half of its work.

After all, for the current Yunshang Entertainment Office, the debut of the Genki Girls Group is still early, and Nakamori Akina's debut is the most important job, and the entire office is almost wandering around Nakamori Akina.

It's just that in Hanyu Hideki's view, they are simply busy now, and they haven't waited for the time for them to really exert their strength.

For example, the parent company Yunying Pictures, several young supervisors and script writers there have already helped Akina Nakamori design the advertising script in advance to show their "loyalty".

As long as Akina Nakamori makes some achievements in his debut, Yunying Pictures will show the circle what the strength of a top advertising production company is.

It is common for other firms or record companies to charge low-cost performance fees and try out songs for free in order to allow their newcomers to appear in commercials.

But here in Yunshang Picture, there is no need for it, good reputation, strong production ability, and many successful advertising cases in the past.

As long as they open their mouths to recommend it to the brand and let Xiaopangcai win the opportunity to appear in the advertisement of a big brand, it will be a matter of course.

Such resources in the field of advertising production are beyond the envy of other firms.

Anyway, as long as Hideki Hanyu is willing to make a move, it may be impossible to make such a big influence as cute, but there is still a chance to make a movement like a thousand-layer routine.

Nakamori Akina has such treatment, and the vitality girl is also indispensable.

Pocari Sweat, which has just been on the market for two years and has achieved gratifying sales results, is very satisfied with the cooperation with Yunying Pictures this year.

Therefore, we initially reached a consensus with Yunying Pictures, as long as the debut performance of Vitality Girl is not too bad, the protagonist of the summer commercial shooting will be handed over to Vitality Girl.

Since Pocari Sweat likes to shoot advertisements with energetic and beautiful girls, Hanyu Hideki went to see a collection of Pocari Sweat's advertisements in his previous life.

That video brings together all Pocari Sweat ads from 1985 to 2023.

Whether it's passionate, creative, or dance explosive, we have everything you need.

As long as he is willing, it is no problem to contract Pocari Sweat's advertisements for the next few decades from now on.

So, it's still good to look around at the beautiful girls if you have nothing to do.

But advertising or something is a matter of the future.

The most important thing now is that he has to hurry up and produce the accompaniment of "Futureへ".

In addition to boosting Akina Nakamori's promotion, this song's more important role is actually to promote the movie.

Therefore, Hideki Hanyu's life rhythm, in addition to creating at home every day, and occasionally giving dance lessons to energetic girls, has more content in the recording studio.

When the independent label Young Music Records was founded, Hideki Hanyu initially agreed to let him arrange all the songs of Vigorous Girls first.

Hirohashi Asako agreed at the time, but she didn't want to put all the burden on Hanyu Hideki alone.

Therefore, she is still actively recruiting other music producers to accumulate background for YM Records, but the progress has not been smooth.

Until recently, a friend who formed a band with Shota Yoshioka when he was young approached him.

This friend established a music production club three years ago, but unfortunately, the development has been tepid.

At the beginning of the year, when the other party visited his former boss, Akuyo, Akuyo inadvertently chatted about Hideki Hanyu because of Akina Nakamori, and mentioned the Yunshang Department created by Hideki Hanyu by the way, lamenting how powerful young people are.

This friend was interested in listening, and after going back to investigate, he found out that Yunying Pictures had actually set up an independent label, and was planning to launch some idol band.

And after discovering that his old friend Shota Yoshioka, who formed the band before, turned out to be one of the founders of the Yunshang Group, he planned to cooperate with the Yunshang Group.

What this friend wants to do is not only to help the band launched by the independent label of Yunying Pictures, but also to deepen cooperation with Yunying Pictures.

After all, no music production company in the industry can refuse the commercial song resources that Yunying Pictures has.

Not to mention the big boss of Yunying Pictures, Hanyu Hideki, whose continuous release of works is simply a treasure trove of TIE-UP.

Therefore, after the investigation was clear and he made up his mind to cooperate, he took the initiative to visit Shota Yoshioka.

In Shota Yoshioka's new home, this friend first chatted with Shota Yoshioka about their youthful days when they formed a band when they were young, and finally changed the topic and tactfully proposed the idea of ​​cooperation.

Who would have thought that Yoshioka Shota heard the words, but explained with a wry smile, "Nagato-san made a mistake, what we are going to launch is not a band, but a girl idol group?"

"Girl idol group? What is this?"

Taiko Nagato was full of question marks.

　The song has been added to Netease Cloud, 'Through the Age of Bubbles' playlist.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)