Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 1550. Calm and confident
After Akina Nakamori finished her promotional work, Shinichi Iwahashi went out and the first thing he did was to talk to the people from Sony about Mika-chan's solo plan.

After suppressing her wild impulse, how to make her solo activities colorful is a necessary task. In addition, during Meihe-chan's solo activities, how the band's schedule can be coordinated with her also needs to be carefully arranged.

As the center of the band, Mikado-chan only needs to write songs and sing happily, but Shinichi Iwahashi has a lot to consider.

Ayumi Hamasaki visited Iwahashi's home on Sundays. After she and her mother Akiko moved to an apartment provided by the record company, Ayumi Hamasaki still visited Iwahashi's home on holidays.

In the spring, Iwahashi Shinichi arranged a training course for her in New York, and in the fall, he sent her there for three weeks. He had already made up his mind not to train her in the current way.

Since this girl decided to become a singer, her spirit and energy have been completely renewed.

This time, Ayumi Hamasaki came to visit and brought cookies that she and Akiko made together. She gave the gift to him and was a little surprised when she talked about it: "When I was in Fukuoka, my mother and I had never tried to make cookies ourselves."

In a way, Zhangzi didn't become truly independent until she went to Beijing. She became a single mother early on, lived in her mother's home, and raised her children with her mother's help. This experience was so natural that it blurred this point.

The innocence and romance in Zhang Zi's personality largely comes from this "immaturity".

Coming to Tokyo opened up a new life for the mother and daughter. After living together in Tokyo, Ayumi Hamasaki felt a brand new experience of being a daughter.

Akina Nakamori brought the baby to Ayumi Hamasaki. The girl stared at the child intently, and when the baby instinctively grasped her fingers, she couldn't help but laugh.

This situation is like an older girl in the family coaxing her younger sister.

The beautiful girl coaxed her daughter, and Akina Nakamori watched and felt happy. The storm that had blown up in the hearts of the women in this family in the past had long since subsided, and now there was only a beautiful scene of calm and peace.

Iwahashi Shinichi didn't understand the situation, and soon he called Hamasaki Ayumi and ordered the girl to go to the recording studio, "You come here, just in time to help Akina."

Akina Nakamori spoke up for Ayumi Hamasaki and scolded her husband: "Ayu is a guest today."

"I never treated her as a guest." Shinichi Iwahashi said as a matter of course.

Ayumi Hamasaki quickly said, "I want to help Akina-san." She didn't ask what the favor was, as if Shinichi Iwahashi's tone, which did not allow for rejection, made her lose her composure.

Before leaving, Shinichi Iwahashi did not forget to tease his daughter. The girl saw how he interacted with the baby and truly experienced what it was like for an imaginary father to become a real father.

Recently, the staff from Warner Bros. sent some songs from their music library. Akina Nakamori listened to them as a pastime while taking care of her children, and helped the record company select songs for new artists. Although she did not make a comeback, she did work as a producer.

The benefits of having a recording studio at home are fully demonstrated at this moment.

Shinichi Iwahashi invited Ayumi Hamasaki to the recording studio to record a demo tape for Akina Nakamori.

Ayumi Hamasaki is used to this job. Ever since she decided to become a singer, she has been called to the recording studio from time to time to try out singing various styles of songs according to Shinichi Iwahashi's requirements. At a young age, she is already an experienced studio girl.

After singing the tape, Shinichi Iwahashi will take Ayumi Hamasaki's audition tape to the company and give it to the producers he trusts, who will listen to the audition tape and compare it with the composer and style that suits her. From now on, they will build a music library for her.

Shinichi Iwahashi prefers young composers to famous composers. The super idol in his mind should not have the shadow of singers from the old era.

In addition to being able to sing, she also needs to have some epoch-making characteristics. This characteristic comes not only from her, but also from the ideas and her team when she was produced. Shinichi Iwahashi has extraordinary patience with Ayumi Hamasaki.

This time when she met Shinichi Iwahashi, Ayumi Hamasaki brought her own lyrics. When she first showed her lyrics, she felt ashamed to show her diary to others, but now she is able to do it calmly.

Previously, Iwahashi Shinichi asked Nakamori Akina to be the producer and let Ayumi Hamasaki and Hikaru Utada debut as a girl group. At that time, they were encouraged to try their own creations. The public release of their works relieved Ayumi Hamasaki's shyness about showing her inner thoughts.

Shinichi Iwahashi took her lyrics, read them and found them fascinating. He commented: "There seems to be someone you are looking at in your lyrics."

"..."

The girl didn't answer immediately. After a while, she replied, "Isn't this the 'world view' you've been talking about?"

Iwahashi Shin nodded. "So it's fictional."

He jumped to conclusions so easily that Ayumi Hamasaki couldn't help but want to play against him. She said: "I will also experience it for the sake of writing lyrics."

Iwahashi Shinichi smiled: "It sounds pitiful."

"Pitiful?"

"In that case, no matter what I do, I will have the burden of collecting materials." Iwahashi Shinichi closed her lyrics book, "It's better to experience life to the fullest. As for whether the things I have experienced will become the material for writing, it doesn't matter. Before becoming a singer, I must first be myself."

Whether through imagination or experience, there is a visible object of gaze in the lyrics, and this is the embodiment of Ayumi Hamasaki's genius.

An object of attention that tends to be unified is the key to establishing a complete worldview of lyrics. For a lyricist, the most important thing is always a complete worldview. Only by establishing one's own worldview can one's own words be free to express themselves and be accepted by the audience.

After hearing this, Ayumi Hamasaki lost her temper and suddenly became shy. She suddenly said, "Iwahashi-san, I have also tried to compose music... although I just hummed the melody I thought of."

Living under the same roof with Utada Hikaru and producing albums together, Ayumi Hamasaki was subtly influenced by Utada Hikaru and began to want to write songs of her own.

Leaving the Iwahashi family and living with her mother also means having her own space, which gives Ayumi Hamasaki a sense of security to try things she is not good at.

Shinichi Iwahashi was very interested and said to Ayumi Hamasaki: "The opportunity for me to enter the industry was to help listen to the melodies hummed like this."

That is Shinichi Iwahashi's past that few people know about.

Ayumi Hamasaki accidentally got a glimpse of his past and was a little excited: "Mr. Iwahashi, will you also listen to the melody I hum?"

"If you bring it, I will certainly listen."

Iwahashi Shinichi looked at her: "But you know the music score, right?" He nodded and confirmed himself: "You should learn how to compose music."

With just a casual remark, he added another course for Ayumi Hamasaki.