wavenovel Chapter 1067 to 1076, Akina's chapter, it's better to be a mentor!
Chapter 1067 to 1076, Akina's chapter, it's better to be a mentor!
Chapter 1067 1076, Mingcai's words, it's better to be a mentor!
Within two days, the audition advertisements for "Neon Voice" were spread all over the pages of newspapers and magazines, school bulletin boards, KTV and nightclub posters, and Japanese TV stations also advertised it during the intervals of the program.
The image of a hand holding a golden microphone alone tells us that this is a singer selection event.
"It's really attractive~" Akina at Yamazakurain exclaimed while holding a promotional leaflet, "You can only be selected based on your singing voice. If you are selected, you can team up with a popular singer. In the end, you can sign a contract with Shuyou and get Naoki-san's songs."
She turned to Naoki Nagayama with sparkling eyes.
"Naoki-san, how about I join in, too?!"
"." Naoki Nagayama ate his breakfast as usual, glanced at his wife and said, "If Akina wants to participate, she should also be a mentor."
"Eh?" Akina was a little delighted, "Teacher? Me? Am I too inexperienced?"
"After all, it's a show, so it still needs some gimmicks and highlights. If Akina's first show after her comeback is this music show, I think it's great. Diva Akina!"
"Singer? That's too much. I'll blush~"
Tsk. She was obviously smiling happily~
Akina and Naoki Nagayama have discussed their future music career and plan to move towards being a singer instead of an idol. That means releasing records and holding concerts, but not participating in so many announcements and variety shows.
However, "Neon Voice" is under the name of looking for potential singers, so Akina's participation is not as an idol.
"But the first term is more stable." Naoki Nagayama said, "The mentors chosen for the first term are Kenji Sawada, Takuro Yoshida, Miyuki Nakajima and Hideki Saijo."
These singers have been working in the music industry for five to ten years. Some are idol singers and some are singer-songwriters, and each of them is considered to be very famous.
In fact, Naoki Nagayama even thought of inviting Momoe Yamaguchi, which would surely cause a sensation. But after thinking about it, he decided not to. She has a happy family, and there is no need to drag her into the quagmire of the entertainment industry.
"This episode is to build the brand of 'Neon Voice'. In the next episode, we can use more topical mentors, such as Ozaki Yutaka and Matsuda Seiko, to make the show more popular."
Naoki Nagayama said to Akina,
"The baby will be born by then. If Akina wants to participate, she can be a mentor! Lead a team according to her own style."
"Hmm~~~My own style. Hehehehe huhuhuhaha~wuwuwuwu~"
As if she had thought of something strange, Akina's snickering just now turned into a bit of arrogance.
Naoki Nagayama had no choice but to roll his eyes and cover his wife's mouth. The young pregnant woman who was about to give birth did not look calm at all!
"Akina, be more reserved!" Naoki Nagayama let go of Akina's hand as she looked at him in confusion, "Don't smile so evilly!"
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Then Naoki Nagayama was attacked by Akina's two-finger Zen and small fists, forcing someone to beg for mercy.
“Private Marseille~”
".Huh~" After completing her revenge, Akina continued to imagine the scene of herself being a mentor, "After I select the team members, I will let them all wear hip-hop kimonos and dance together on the stage!"
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The planning for Akina's song "Passion" has been prepared, and even the hip-hop style stage costumes have been made. If it weren't for her pregnancy, it should have been recorded and sold at the beginning of this year.
Naoki Nagayama also looked at the early makeup photos and found them very interesting. The big gold chain and the Japanese kimono. The clash of the two cultures is very impactful and eye-catching.
If it pops up on "Neon Voice", it might really become a hit!
"Akina, you should register the brand of Hip Hop Kimono as a fashion clothing brand."
"Good idea! I'll do it right away!"
Akina smiled and nodded. She liked designing clothes. She already had a design studio. It wouldn't be impossible to add a fashion clothing brand. She even said she wanted to buy a clothing processing factory.
After having breakfast at home, Naoki Nagayama drove out.
Since July, his schedule has been very fixed.
In the morning, I had a leisurely breakfast at home and went out to the Shuyou Building to check out the program preparation and film editing progress.
Then go to the milk tea shop near the building to teach Hezi how to make new milk tea
Then usually in the afternoon I come back to take a walk with Akina, walk the dog, and pet the cat.
Anyway, I still feel very fulfilled at the end of the day!
"Naoki-san, morning~"
Suzuki Yuka greeted Naoki Nagayama with great energy.
"Good morning, Yukika-chan~" Naoki Nagayama nodded, but he was a little surprised not to see Xingjiahua, "Hana-chan, did you take a day off today?"
"No." Suzuki Yukika shook her head, "Hana-chan took the postman to the meeting room on the third floor."
"? The mailman?"
"Hi!" Suzuki Yukika explained, "DEMOs have been mailed in the past two days, and there were two large boxes this morning. Hua-chan took the postman directly to the third floor."
The third floor has a working group specially set up for "Neon Voice", responsible for the earliest auditions, that is, directly selecting from the DEMO. Of course, it is impossible for several mentors to blindly select from the beginning, otherwise, with so many participants from all over Neon, it would take ten days or half a month to listen.
During the blind audition stage of the recording program, there will be about fifty or sixty contestants.
"I see." Naoki Naoyama nodded, "I'll go take a look."
"Hi~"
When Naoki Nagayama arrived at the third floor, he could hear faint singing sounds besides the sound of the elevator door. After all, this was not a special soundproof room, so there would definitely be noise when listening to music.
As I opened the door to the "Neon Sound" studio, a barrage of noisy sounds instantly flooded into my ears.
There was an employee sitting in each of the seven or eight workstations. Each person had a player, and they would put demos in, play them, and then take them out after listening for a while. Sometimes it would take more than ten seconds, sometimes half a minute, to decide whether the registered contestants would stay or go.
It's impossible to wear headphones, and it's not to the point where you need to block out other noises and listen specifically.
After the initial screening, there will be a higher-level screening, which will be selected by the team leader or music producer, and finally by the person in charge at the level of music director, who will select the contestants suitable for participating in the recording of the program and then call them to come to Tokyo for the recording.
"Naoki-san?"
Xing Jiahua came out of the temporary storage room with a postman pushing a cart. When she saw Naoki Naoki, she greeted him immediately.
"Good morning!"
"Good morning, Naoki-san!" "Naoki-san is here~" "Oh ha~" "."
Then the people who were listening to the tape stopped listening and started to greet each other. Even the postman said "good morning" in this atmosphere. The gregarious culture of Japan is reflected in every detail.
"Well, good morning~ There are many DEMOs during this period, thank you for your hard work~"
Naoki Nagayama greeted everyone with a smile. Now he was able to handle the situation with ease.
"Hana-chan, did you get a lot of tapes delivered today?"
"Yes, a lot of them came that day after the promotion was released. Now the tapes sent from other places should have arrived as well." Xing Jiahua pointed at the postman Noda Kaisei, "Noda-san said that the post office in Ikebukuro said that they are still arriving."
"I'm sorry to trouble the post office~" Naoki Nagayama nodded slightly to the postman to express his apology.
"No, no, this is the responsibility of the post office~"
Anyway, the post office charges for mailing and door-to-door delivery, and entertainment companies like Shuyou are even bigger clients. They already have a lot of fan mail and parcels from various artists and have established long-term cooperation.
Xing Jiahua took the postman out, while Naoki Naoyama walked around the workshop.
The first wave of tapes sent over were all kinds of things, colorful and varied.
The songs sung by the contestants were of different styles, some were soft folk songs, while others were heavy metal rock and roll.
Some of them just came to join in the fun, recording a weird rap, answering machine, buzzing sound, and silence.
If you hear it in the dead of night, you might even think of the phone ringtone from "The Ring".
Naoki Nagayama walked into the storage room and took a look. There were already several cardboard boxes piled against the wall. Perhaps the entire storage room would be full in the future.
"If we recycle these tapes, we can make a lot of money."
That's what he was thinking. These DEMOs all have information such as name, address, and contact information written on them. Although they don't need to be returned, they still need to be specially processed before being destroyed.
When he walked out of the workshop, Naoki Nagayama happened to bump into producer Kazuhisa Fujiwara who had just rushed back from outside.
"Naoki-san?"
"Mr. Fujiwara, just came back from outside?" Nagayama Naoki greeted with a smile. Naturally, he had met producer Fujiwara Kazuhisa in the past two days.
"Hi, I'm back from the Japanese TV station." Fujiwara Kazuhisa is a middle-aged man with semi-long hair and a very trendy style. He looks very artistic. "There are some problems with the decoration of the studio over there."
"Oh? What's the problem with the studio?"
"It's the light on the stage floor that lights up when the style instructor turns around." Fujiwara Kazuhisa said briefly, "They are all minor issues, and they have been coordinated."
"Oh, that's good~" Naoki Nagayama didn't ask any more questions about such trivial matters, "Fujiwara-san, it's the early days of the Neon Voice program, and there are many things to do, and there are also registered DEMOs to be screened. You have to take care of it!"
"No, no, it's my honor to be able to participate in this program!"
Fujiwara Kazuhisa's expression was sincere. When Yoshimura Otomo talked to him about the plan for "Neon Voices" and invited him to be the producer, it was like pie in the sky.
He is extremely confident that this program will become a popular music talent show.
"The new equipment I purchased from the United States should arrive in the next few days. Please take care of the debugging."
"Hey, I've invited the best tuner in the industry"
Lighting, stage design, sound effects. Naoki Nagayama set a very high budget for "Neon Sounds" this time, determined to produce a high-quality program. Even the musical instruments were newly purchased from the United States.
After standing in the corridor and chatting for a while, Naoki Nagayama took the elevator back to the office. He thought about the subsequent production and promotion of "Neon Voice" for a while, and felt relieved when he felt there was no problem.
I took a demo from the basket on my desk and started listening.
This is a high-quality tape that has gone through two levels of screening. It is the first episode of "Neon Voice". It is also one of the final stages that determines whether a contestant can be admitted. The working group will deliver the tape to his office every day.
About an hour or two later, it was almost noon. After listening to the demo of "In the Basket", he didn't find any particularly moving songs, so Naoki Nagayama walked out of the Shuyou Building again and walked towards the milk tea shop.
"Eh? I think I forgot something?"
Naoki Nagayama suddenly remembered something when he was about to reach the milk tea shop.
"Ah, I didn't go to the editing room to check the progress of the movie today, so I'll check it out tomorrow!"
He walked into Mixue Milk Tea, looked at Tsuruko and Ishii Junsui and said with a smile:
"Tsuruko, let's study happily again!"
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TBS's Yasushi Akimoto was originally in high spirits during this period.
After leaving Fuji and moving to TBS, his reality show has received very good ratings, and is one of the best variety shows on Neon TV, and there is a trend of continued growth.
If we continue to broadcast a few more episodes, maybe we can catch up with the popularity of "Twilight Meow".
It’s a pity that "Fighting People" is not an audio show, but a comedy variety show. In this era, there is no Internet platform to keep the topic of comedy variety shows in the hot headlines.
Therefore, apart from advertising, there is no subsequent revenue such as records and peripherals. Otherwise, this program would definitely be more popular with TV stations and various entertainment industry agencies.
However, a few days ago, a Japanese TV station suddenly announced that it would cooperate with Shuyou to produce a music talent show - "Neon Voice".
I saw the promotion of "Neon Voice" again, and saw the words "mentor", "choice", "team" and so on. These words are very familiar to Akimoto Yasushi. They were all discussed by Naoki Nagayama and them when he was improving "Twilight Meow".
So, in fact, this time's "Neon Voice" is completely the work of Naoki Nagayama!
"Naoki-san, Naoki-san, why do you always add another layer of shadow to my life when I am about to step out of yours?"
Akimoto Yasushi felt a little miserable, but he couldn't say anything.
Because Naoki Nagayama has mentioned most of the content of "Neon Voice", except for the addition of a "blind turn".
"Why didn't I think of picking these out separately and making a talent show?!"
"Oh, what a bad idea!"
After a while of self-pity, Akimoto Yasushi regained his spirits.
“Fortunately, this time, ‘Neon Sound’ and ‘Fighting People’ are on different tracks, so there is no competition of the same kind.”
But after all, it is a variety show, and it is to compete for the audience's attention~
"Then, it all depends on which one the audience likes to watch! Naoki-san, I won't lose!"
Akimoto Yasushi thought for a moment, picked up the phone and called the assistant director of the program:
"I want to add a few special guests to the next few episodes of Otani-san's recordings!"
"Please help me contact Toshihiko Tahara, Fumi Fujii, Yukiko Okada, and Kyoko Koizumi."
He wanted to invite the hottest male and female idols to shoot the show, so that the topicality of the show could be raised to a higher level in a short period of time.
"Uh," Assistant Director Otani Kaito was surprised, "Mr. Akimoto, these guys are all very busy people, so their schedules are limited."
"Please be sure to invite them," said Akimoto Yasushi, "I will ask Director Ogata Kotaro to coordinate. With our current popularity, this is a rare opportunity for them."
Otani Kaito was silent for a moment, then agreed:
".Hey, I'll try my best!"
"sorry to bother you!"