Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 481
Television stations control the entertainment industry, and artists are passively classified into different circles.This point is reflected in the various award shows at the end of the year.

For example, Fuji TV's year-end awards show, FNS Gayo Festival, has no interest in DREAMS COME TRUE, a band that wears the label of TV Asahi and whose debut program beats the rival Fuji TV program to the ground.

If you want to get the prize money from this awards show, I'm afraid you have to wait until the band becomes a popular fried chicken.

On the other hand, if the All Japan Music Festival hosted by TV Asahi has not been suspended this year, then DREAMS COME TRUE has a high probability of winning some awards.

There are people in the court who are good at doing things, no matter where they are placed.

In order to promote the strategy, the band has no new songs to sing on the TV stations at the end of the year. The most popular single since its debut is "So Happy!"so happy!Really like! ", after being asked by NHK not to sing at the Red and White Song Concert, the programs of other TV stations also made such requests.

As a result, the band's most popular single since its debut was forced to be temporarily sealed due to the self-restraint order.

Fortunately, it's only temporary, otherwise, if a popular song is banned, what kind of black face is it?

However, although it was temporarily blocked on the TV station, the performance of this song was extremely brave on another important publicity channel outside the TV station, commercial radio.

The reason for this is due to the rebellious psychology of the audience, especially among young people.

In itself, the young people who have grown up in this generation are the indifferent new generation that scholars say have no interest in current affairs and Zheng Zhi, and pay more attention to themselves.

Now, because of the self-restraint order, various entertainment activities are restricted. This year's hit song, which was supposed to be sung happily at the end of the year, is now forced to be temporarily sealed and disappeared from the TV.

For young people who pay more attention to personal feelings, this restriction undoubtedly adds another layer of firewood to their dissatisfaction.

Terrestrial TV stations have all kinds of concerns, but there are not so many rules and regulations on the radio station.As a result, viewers who couldn't see the band singing the song on TV picked up the phone to contribute to the radio instead.

In this approach, it is not only the dissatisfaction caused by not being able to see this song on the TV station at the end of the year, but also the dissatisfaction that I have to be honest at home at the end of the year.

Anger was full of power, and the dissatisfaction from the audience unexpectedly made this single, which had been released for more than half a year, climb up the radio charts at the end of the year.

TBS TV's "THE BEST TEN", when each episode of the program starts, will quickly go through the statistics of the ranking data of each list in the TV program, including the radio on-demand list.

When the radio chart was broadcast on the TV screen, I saw "So Happy!" flashed quickly.so happy!Really like! The title of the song, most of the young viewers who were watching TV smiled knowingly, feeling the joy of overcoming this inexplicable self-discipline.

There will be such a situation, which the band's production team did not expect in advance.

However, the spontaneous behavior has nothing to do with me. The production team does not need to react at all, as long as they happily wait for the next quarter's royalty settlement.The more on-demand, the higher the usage fee.

What's more interesting is that the song "So Happy!"so happy!Really like! "The on-demand rate in Kansai remains high, and the actual data proves that Kansai people like the band and are indifferent to the self-restraint order.

After receiving this information, Yanqiao Shinichi had a whim, and decided to go to Osaka during the New Year holiday.It's true to play, of course, it's also true to discuss ZARD promotion with the TV stations and broadcasting bureaus in Osaka.

Not only is he going, but also the four people from ZARD.

In this way, Haruko Akamatsu, who is in charge of ZARD, will naturally act with them.

Knowing that Shinichi Iwahashi is going to take ZARD to Osaka, Haruko Akamatsu also invited them to play at her home in Kyoto.The decision on this matter rests with Iwahashi Shinichi, and he only needs to agree.

Iwahashi Shinichi was really curious about what the big landlord's house in Kyoto looked like.I was born in this kind of ancient capital, and I was still a wealthy family, and the house might be like a Japanese garden or something.

The curiosity of the country bumpkin Shinichi Iwahashi was aroused again, but even so, he didn't agree, but said that if the schedule allowed, he would go to Akamatsu Haruko's house to visit her family.

This matter is purely a small episode at the end of the year. After the itinerary is set, it will be put aside.

"So happy!so happy!Really like! "The momentum in the last month of the year was unexpected, but the trend of "Future Vision II" is related to the next series of plans.

The effort to buy up commercial radio stations across the country to promote this song has not yet shown that kind of violent momentum in the past few days.

However, after the end of the first week, based on the feedback from the audience and the specific listening rate, the trend of this song is undoubtedly on the rise.

When the data came out, the broadcasting bureau breathed a sigh of relief.

To play a song that is seven and a half minutes long is to risk the audience turning the channel.Since the data is stable, the broadcasting bureau is more or less relieved and is willing to continue to cooperate with this song promotion.

The data is rising, which is much more optimistic than the data showing an explosive trend at the beginning and then falling.

More people liked the song on the second day than on the first day. As long as this can be guaranteed, the word-of-mouth effect of the audience will bring huge gains.

After all, the earliest publicity method of human beings was word of mouth.

In this way, in the last month of 1988, DREAMS COME TRUE seemed to return to the 60s, and cooperated closely with radio stations.

……

After ten o'clock in the evening, there were not so many cars on the road. Kanda, who has always driven safely, relaxed and turned on the car radio.

The youth team's song was playing on the radio. Kanda didn't like Johnny, so he changed the station.

He drives a Volkswagen Golf, which he bought in installments during his junior year. He only needs to repay [-] yen per month during school, and [-] yen per month after he takes office. The repayment period is five years.

However, Kanda is already considering paying off the loan next year, selling this Golf, and then buying another car.

In today's era, college students have a bright future.Whether it is a manufacturer that has launched a car purchase business with installment payment, or a student who buys a car with a loan, they are all confident.

The same is true for Kanda. During college, he confidently signed a contract to buy a car in installments, officially becoming a car owner.Now, less than a year after joining the company, I have enough time to pay off the loan.

During college, Kanda wanted to buy a car because he wanted to have his own space.To realize this wish, it is absolutely impossible to buy a house. Even now, Kanda does not dare to think about buying a house.

However, the car is so easy to buy.Close the door, it is your own little world.

As an ordinary person, Kanda signed an installment contract.Afterwards, I drove my own car for a drive during the holidays, and felt a kind of real happiness, and a yearning for my own space became real happiness.

After having a car, he has almost every weekend arrangement, running around.

It was also in the year when he bought the car that Kanda dated Yoko, a girl who worked part-time at a convenience store near his rented apartment.She is small and cute, but she has nothing to do with beauty.

The same goes for Kanda himself. He was an ordinary college student at school, and when he got a job, he was a common-looking company employee, and he was everywhere on the morning train every day.

Kanda and Yoko went on a date when they were students.Two ordinary young people, walking together in a fashion paradise like Shinjuku and Shibuya, will be secretly ridiculed by those fashionable young people as a rustic couple from the countryside.

Facing the ridicule, Kanda and Yoko were rather shy than unhappy.And compared to going here for a date, I like to drive together to play with a tacit understanding.

In order to go for a drive with Kanda, Yoko would discuss shift shifts with the convenience store colleagues in advance, and the two of them used this golf car bought by installments to go to various places around Tokyo.

Then, after experiencing all kinds of preferential treatment when companies recruit workers, Kanda graduated from University and joined the current company.In less than a year, I have enough time to settle the loan and have higher pursuits.

Going around with the seniors in the company, seeing the nightlife in Tokyo, and gaining a deeper understanding of luxury goods, Kanda began to feel a little unwilling to just be an ordinary self.

He drove a golf to work, and was laughed at by his seniors, saying that this kind of car would be laughed at when he went to Roppongi.Kanda, who was not afraid of being ridiculed as an "earthy couple" when he was a student, now feels terrified when faced with the words of his seniors.

Will it be ridiculed?
However, the relationship between Kanda and Yoko has always been stable.

Although Yoko was still Yoko before, Kanda began to care about her clothes. Yoko didn't think much of it. He first thought of buying a Tiffany heart-shaped pendant for her.

Compared to wanting to give Yoko such a gift, is there any vanity in it such as "hope Yoko's colleagues know that she has a boyfriend who can buy her Tiffany's"?
Kanda was unwilling to delve into such a question.However, after graduation, the two quarreled several times because of this difference.

In December, because of the self-sufficiency order, the catering industry was hit hard.However, the convenience store where Yoko works is still busy.She was on night shift today, and Kanda promised to pick her up.

Yoko has not changed, everything is ordinary.Although Kanda sometimes felt dissatisfied because of Yoko's simplicity, he never thought about empathizing with others.

It's just that in the past, Kanda, as an ordinary person, walked forward in step with the ordinary Yoko.And now, Kanda wants Yoko to keep up with her.

The world is moving so fast, is it wrong to want Yoko to experience such a world?

……

On the radio, the chat session ended and the song session started.The prelude sounded, it was an unfamiliar song.

Still, Kanda's first impression of the song wasn't bad.He used to use the radio to pass the time, since the first ear has a good sense of hearing, so he continued to listen.

"It's the third spring since graduation"

The singer began to sing.As if to narrate, the song started with such a peaceful and simple sentence.

Driving alone at night on the main road, Kanda thinks the slightly slow rhythm of the song is just right, and it sounds relaxing.

The song unfolded slowly, and it turned out that it was a story about a couple who came from school days.

Written in such detail, isn't it the singer's own experience?

While listening to the song, Kanda thought nonsensically that if he wrote it, he would write the story of driving with Yoko to Shonan into the song.

Unknowingly, Kanda was attracted by this song and wanted to hear the next lyrics.

Although the song sang about another love, the overly life-like lyrics made Kanda involuntarily think of his own love.

This is probably the so-called resonance.

What resonates is not what happened in the lyrics, but the emotions of ordinary people.The song sang about the love life of ordinary people, and the current audience is just one of countless ordinary people.

When Kanda was moved by the song, the pursuit of the times was temporarily put aside, and he returned to the essence of ordinary people.

"No matter how many years have passed, I can maintain this mood and will not change."

The two people in the song drove motorcycles when they were students, but changed to cars after work.The means of transportation have changed, and the codes for mutual confession have also changed.

However, the reason why the code works is not because they still love each other?

Everything is changing, so if he wants to get a new car and live a more free and unconventional life, isn’t that also a change in himself?

Since he is still in love with Yoko, why can't Yoko change with him?
"Because I'm with you, I've been drawing a vision of the future in my heart"

This envisioned picture of the future was not conceived by one person, but drawn by two people together.Because it is two people together, so today, everything has changed, and the mood of loving each other has not changed.

Kanda suddenly thought, did he ask Yoko what he thought?
In his heart, he also imagined the future with Yoko.However, is he now taking the paintbrush from Yoko and drawing a picture of the imagined future by himself?

The signal lights ahead changed, and Kanda stepped on the brake slowly.

Little did he realize that what he was listening to was a song that was a little too long.It is because the lyrics of this song are eloquent, the melody is quite smooth, and the singer's interpretation is also perfect.

Listening to a wonderful story, so forget the length of time.

Kanda recalled his school days, walking the streets of Shibuya with Yoko.In a fashion paradise, the two of them are extremely rustic.Kanda was very embarrassed, "It seems that I came to the wrong place."

Yoko said, "What does that matter? Even if you are laughed at, it is enough that happiness is real."

She is always so confident.Kanda thought, he was attracted by Yoko's self-confidence, right?

"Are you happy now? Kanda-kun." Yoko asked him.

Kanda did not forget his answer, "Very happy."

The song ends with a long riff.During this improvisation, Kanda indulges his thoughts.

At this time, the horn of the car behind came urging.The semaphore has changed.

Kanda hurried forward.

On the radio, the song ends and commercials begin.

Kanda thought, I still don't know what song this is.Otherwise, call the radio station and ask about it later?
He suddenly felt annoyed.

(End of this chapter)