Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Chapter 565 Don’t care about my appearance, I’m just a singer

Author: Tang Juyi

Chapter 565 Don’t care about my appearance, I’m just a singer

Seeing Nobuo Tomioka being so respectful, Cao Zhiqiang, who had been typing for a whole day, didn't think much and just nodded lightly.

"Ah, Section Chief Tomioka is here, is there something wrong?"

"Hey, I really have something to do." Nobuo Tomioka smiled, "Well, do you have time now? It's something about songs."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "That's right, just wait a moment, I'll go to the toilet and come back to talk to you."

"Yes, please do so." Nobuo Tomioka bowed politely.

Cao Zhiqiang didn't say anything, he could only nodded and went to the toilet.

Everything is good in Japan, but there are too many nodding and bowing rituals that make him a little uncomfortable.

It doesn't matter to him, but if someone takes the initiative to bow to him, he will always nod in response, otherwise he will feel uncomfortable.

It's better to be in China, where there are so many bows. Even to buy groceries, you have to nod and bow. Are you tired?

No wonder the Japanese are said to have a craftsmanship spirit. They indeed like to bow.

Bowing seems to be respectful, but if you bow too much, it will just be a formality and no one will take the bow seriously.

After using the bathroom and washing his hands, Cao Zhiqiang came to the dining table and sat down.

Before she could speak, Akina Nakamori meekly came over and asked, "Zhiqiang-san, what would you like to drink? Coffee? Or black tea?"

"Let's take black tea." Cao Zhiqiang said, "Add some lemon slices."

"Okay." Nakamori Akina smiled and nodded, "Please wait a moment."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded and ignored Nakamori Akina.

On the contrary, Nobuo Tomioka smiled kindly and joked: "Oh, Cao Sang, I really admire you! Akina Sang is a flower of our Warner, many people like her, and many rich young men are chasing her.

But she doesn't like any of them, so I didn't expect that you would succeed, it's really amazing!"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled faintly: "Well, when it comes to relationships, the main thing is that two people look at each other. If they don't look at each other, it's useless no matter how hard they chase."

Tomioka Nobuo was stunned for a moment, then he touched his head and said with a smile: "Hahaha, that's true. But you have to be good enough, Cao-san. Akina-san has a very high vision."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded, and then went straight to the topic: "Chief Tomioka, let's talk business first. You came to me specifically, but you didn't come to investigate my private relationship with Akina, right?"

"Ah, yes, there is indeed something serious." Nobuo Tomioka nodded.

Immediately afterwards, Tomioka Nobuo became serious and said sternly to Cao Zhiqiang: "Cao Sang, have you listened to the music broadcast on the radio yesterday afternoon?"

"Yesterday?" Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "Sorry, I was busy writing a novel yesterday and had no time to listen to the radio."

"Writing a novel?" Nobuo Tomioka was stunned for a moment, then he didn't care about it, but continued, "It's a pity that you haven't heard of it."

After a pause, Nobuo Tomioka said with a smile: "That's it. Yesterday's music radio program, your song "Kun がいるだけで" (As long as you are here) was broadcast as scheduled, and the results were very good

.

Let's put it this way, as soon as the song ended, there were a lot of hotline calls asking the radio station to play it again.

Then after the host played it again, before the second play was finished, many hotline calls came in, all asking for it to be played again.

In this way, after playing it five times, there was still a steady stream of hotline calls, either asking for replays or wanting to know the detailed information of the singer named "Forest Green Spring".

Unfortunately, the radio station cannot play a song all the time, so it stops playing after five times.

However, although the song has been stopped, the hotline calls are still non-stop, asking about the name of the song and the singer's situation.

At the beginning, you said you wanted to keep it secret, so we just asked the host to report your stage name, height and age, without revealing any other information.

Don't tell me, your method of keeping a secret is really good. The less information about you, the more curious they will be about you.

In addition to many people asking about your specific situation, there are also many people calling the radio station to ask when you will officially debut and when the record will be released, and they all said they would buy it as soon as possible."

Speaking of this, Nobuo Tomioka shook his head with a smile, and then said: "Cao Sang, based on my experience, the radio effect is so good, and most of them are young people. The results of this record release should not be bad."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded calmly, his expression not particularly happy, just a matter-of-fact look.

Just kidding, this is "Jun's がいるだけで" released by Mimi CLUB in 1992!

In Cao Zhiqiang's previous life, this song was quite powerful, with initial sales of 925,000 copies. This achievement was unprecedented. It was not surpassed by B'z Band's "LOVE PHANTOM" until 1995.

The so-called initial sales refers to the weekly sales volume one week after the release.

In 1992, it was not considered the golden period of the Japanese music industry. At best, it could only be regarded as the frontier of the golden period. During this period, it was able to achieve a record of 925,000 copies a week, which was absolutely extraordinary.

In addition, in 1992, this song achieved a total annual sales of 2.762 million copies, setting the record for the highest number of points in a single week on the Oricon rankings. It also won the first prize at the Golden Disc Award and the Japan Record Award, making it a sensation.

No two.

At that time, Mimi CLUB, before releasing this song, was just a band with a very average reputation, and its performance was tepid. The only previous single that exceeded one million was the advertising song "Romantic Flight", but that

The performance is very good, which is largely related to the vigorous promotion of Japan Airlines.

On the contrary, the song that came out later, "Kun no Tsuki", although it was the theme song of a popular TV series, it didn't have much money to promote it before, so it became a natural hit.

Although this song also had the bonus of the TV series "No Makeup No Makeup" at the time, in general, the song itself is of excellent quality and is a mutual achievement.

In this time and space, although Cao Zhiqiang released this single as his debut song, it did not have the bonus of the TV series "No Makeup", but don't forget, this is not 1992, but 1983.

The Japanese music scene in 1983 is simply incomparable to the Hundred Flowers Blooming period in 1992.

It can be said that the Japanese music scene in the early 1980s cannot be said to be tepid, but its popularity was limited. It is not an exaggeration to call it a dark age for the Japanese music scene.

For this, just take a look at the Oricon single sales rankings.

Among the top 50 best-selling singles of all time on the Oricon Chart, they are basically songs from the 1990s and early 2000s, and even further back, there are songs from the 1960s and 1970s.

Among the songs from the 1980s, only one song in the top 50 singles list, "Kuraku" by Tatsuro Yamashita, appeared on the list, and it seemed to be a song from 1983, just in December.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the 1980s in the Japanese music scene is called the dark age. It is indeed true.

Otherwise, with Nakamori Akina's strength, she would not have started to dominate the entire Japanese music scene in the 1980s after 1985. In fact, in the Japanese music scene since then, there is really no one who can compete.

But that’s strange to say. It’s true that the Japanese music industry entered a dark period in the 1980s, especially in the mid- to late 1980s. But Japan’s economy also happened to be the hottest in the 1980s, especially in the mid-1980s.

In the later period, it was a real economic peak, and it was also called a bubble boom.

On the contrary, it was the 1990s when the Japanese music scene was in full bloom, and that was all after the bubble burst.

It seems that the entertainment industry, especially the music industry, is indeed going against the economy.

The better the economy is, the worse the entertainment industry is. The worse the economy is, the better the entertainment industry is.

If you think about China carefully, in the 1980s and 1990s when China's economy was in poor condition, many good songs and movies were actually produced.

On the contrary, two thousand years later, when China's economy began to develop rapidly, the number of good songs and movies gradually decreased.

Not to mention Hong Kong movies.

It seems that the earlier the economic downturn goes, the crazier the entertainment industry, especially the music industry, becomes.

On the contrary, when the economy is booming, the entertainment industry is not so prosperous.

There is also the United States. In the 1980s, such as the current Reagan period, the United States was actually not doing well. The entire economy was experiencing a period of great stagflation, which was not much better than the Soviet Union during the same period.

But it was also during this period that the United States had a music legend named Michael Jackson!

In the earlier Elvis Presley era, that is, the 1970s when he was active, the U.S. economy was actually not that good. It was also in a period of stagflation. It was just that at that time, the U.S. economy was in the early stages of great stagflation, which was not serious.

Perhaps because of this, Elvis Presley's achievements are far from comparable to Michael Jackson's.

After all, the 1980s when Michael Jackson was active was a period of even greater economic crisis in the United States.

Of course, this is not absolute, and it is not always the case, but it seems to be the case in most cases.

That is to say, the more prosperous a country's economy is, the less good its entertainment industry will be. On the contrary, the entertainment industry will be quite developed.

By the same token, that is the Korean economy.

In fact, the period when South Korea's economy took off was from the 1970s to the 1990s. The so-called Miracle on the Han River basically happened during this period.

But it cannot be said that the Korean entertainment industry during this period was not good at all. It basically had no sense of existence. Local movies were basically dominated by Hollywood movies and Hong Kong movies. The same was true for music, which was brainwashed by American music and Hong Kong music.

On the contrary, two thousand years later, South Korea began to revitalize the entertainment industry and the entertainment industry began to flourish. However, it was also during this period that South Korea's economy was actually declining. However, due to the inertia of the Miracle on the Han River, the economic decline was not obvious.

It has been declining until 2023, and South Korea's economy will be completely in ruins, but its entertainment industry has gone abroad and completely adopted the Korean Wave trend.

It can be seen from this that the economy and entertainment may really go in opposite directions.

No matter what, there is no way to say the quality of "Kun no Tsuki". It was released in 1983, and calling it bullying is a bit excessive, but calling it a dimensionality reduction attack is absolutely correct.

The reason is very simple, that is, during the so-called dark period of Japanese music in the 1980s, it was not that the audience's aesthetics deteriorated, but that the artists' creativity failed.

Music is art and a kind of creativity. Only by writing good music first and then good lyrics can it become a masterpiece.

As long as you have good music and good lyrics, even if the singer's level is not that good, you can still take off right where you are.

Just like the famous poems of the Tang Dynasty, as long as the quality of the poem itself is good, it doesn't matter whether it's an old man reciting it or a cute girl reciting it. This is the power of poetry itself.

Songs and poems have something in common, even pop songs are actually similar.

In short, Cao Zhiqiang chose this famous song as his debut single. He felt that there was no need to promote it at all. As long as Japanese people have some basic aesthetics, they can all hear the song's goodness.

Even though this was the 1980s, and there was no bonus from TV dramas, the results might not be as good as when this song appeared in the previous life, but it was more than enough for the initial hit, or the sales of 100,000 copies in the first week.

In the 1980s, the records of the Japanese pop music scene, which initially sold 100,000 copies, were well within the top five of the Oricon weekly charts, and there was a high chance of ranking first.

If it can have an initial sales volume of 200,000, then no need to ask, at least during this period, it will definitely rank first on the Oricon weekly list.

Having this kind of achievement is enough, there is no need to be too demanding.

"Cao Sang, you don't seem surprised to hear the news." Nobuo Tomioka smiled.

Cao Zhiqiang shrugged: "No, it's just that I'm new here and don't know the situation here, so it's hard to comment."

"I see." Nobuo Tomioka nodded, "That's right. As for us, if we test the waters before the release, that is, if the radio station can replay it more than three times during the testing period, we can basically conclude that the song is a big hit.

It’s a hit song, and your song has been replayed five times, which is the radio station’s maximum number of replays, so it’s no problem for it to become a hit.”

After a brief pause, Nobuo Tomioka said: "Because the results of this test have been good, we decided to increase our promotion efforts before the official release.

To this end, I specifically approached the president, who agreed to increase the promotion fee to 80 million yen.

You know, this fee is very high. Akina-san is so popular now, and her record promotion fees are not even that high.

So, we would like to invite you to take some photos at the company. At that time, we will make your photos into posters, calendars, street sign advertisements, subway advertisements, etc.

It will be promoted for three days first, and when it is officially released, it will be launched on TV MTV as an advertisement. I believe the sales will be good.

What do you think?"

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "When will the photo shoot be taken?"

"It's best to go tonight." Nobuo Tomioka said, "Of course, if it's inconvenient for you, you can do it early tomorrow morning. But it's best to go quickly and not later than tomorrow. After all, today is Sunday, tomorrow is Monday, and we will go on Wednesday.

It won’t be officially released for many days.”

Cao Zhiqiang thought for a while and nodded: "Yes, I can go with you now, but I have a condition."

"What conditions?" Tomioka Nobuo asked.

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "When taking photos, I don't want to show my face, I want to wear a mask on my face.

Considering that I may have to do some singing poses, the mask can be like Zorro's mask, which only covers the upper half of the face and exposes the mouth,"

"Wearing a mask? Not showing your face?" Nobuo Tomioka was stunned, "Isn't this inappropriate?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head: "No, no, no, Section Chief Tomioka, we need to open up the situation and don't be bound by traditional thinking.

You think, since I started with the mysterious style, I might as well stick to the mysterious style to the end.

Since the radio station only introduced three pieces of information: my stage name, age and height, wouldn’t it be more mysterious and arouse more curiosity when taking pictures of me wearing a mask?”

"That's what I said, but I've never done this before." Nobuo Tomioka frowned.

"No one has done it before, but that doesn't mean we can't do it." Cao Zhiqiang smiled.

"Tomioka-san, you also said that the radio test results of my song were good, and everyone liked the song very much.

Since the listeners of the radio station cannot see anyone and can only hear my singing, we might as well use my voice as a selling point.

For example, you can say slogans, but for the sake of singing, you can recognize people by hearing the sound.

In other words, don't care about my appearance, I'm just a singer.

If you do this, will you immediately become taller?

In addition, my voice is indeed very recognizable. I have never heard of any singer here with a voice similar to mine, so you won’t be mistaken just by listening to my singing.

In this way, this is all a gimmick, and it will definitely arouse people's curiosity.

Human beings are very curious animals.

Once humans become curious, they have to find out whether they like it or not.

If this happens, will sales still be bad?”

Nobuo Tomioka frowned at first, and then suddenly slapped his thigh in surprise: "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, it's really wonderful! This is a great idea, I think I'll do it like this!"

(End of chapter)