After Xiao Wei signed the contract and returned home, she was so excited! She still can't believe that she actually signed the contract! And it¡¯s not the celebrity entertainment agency that signed the contract, but it was signed directly with Kadokawa Shoten! This is amazing! You must know that in Japan, the routines of the entertainment industry are different from those in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even mainland China! What kind of system does Japan have? To put it simply, celebrities must belong to an economic company! The power of economic companies is infinite! Even some firms that specialize in music have their own record companies! It can be said that record companies are dependent on brokerage firms! This agency scouts out all kinds of new people, and then starts training them for a year or two, and finally packages them and puts them on the market. Then they can release records to the market through their relationships or their own record companies!
This is completely different from the actors and singers in Hong Kong and Taiwan who sign their own managers, and then sign record and film contracts with record companies, film companies, etc.! In Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China, it can be said that the development of the agent system is quite imperfect, and it is relatively weak. It is basically at the level of working for celebrities! And their abilities are not good enough to discover and train new people! Basically, newcomers in Hong Kong become famous after participating in various competitions, and then they are discovered by record companies, and then find someone to be their manager. And this kind of agent is likely to be a relative of one's own family, such as parents, sisters, etc. In such a situation, don't agents only work for celebrities?
Relatively speaking, it is not the same in the United States. The brokerage system in the United States is relatively more developed. When an American manager signs a contract with a new singer or something, he or she will constantly try to send the new artist's demo to various record companies to try. But that's all. After all, in the American brokerage system, one can become a brokerage company. They don't bother to discover new talents, but only represent the business of big stars! As for the various newcomers. Then you can only cooperate with various agents who are not doing well and specialize in newcomer business. But Japan is different. Their agent system and the training of newcomers are very powerful. In fact, this can be seen from the entertainment industry of a country like South Korea, which learns from Japan in every aspect.
In South Korea, after a newcomer is discovered by an entertainment agency, don¡¯t think about performing on stage right away. That is completely impossible! What they have to face is all-round packaging and training from the inside out. For example, after signing a contract, there will be a training period of about two years. During such a training period, I practiced singing, dancing, etc. under the arrangements of the company every day. You also need to practice every word and action to repair your body and so on. During the packaging process, Korean economic companies will also package newcomers into "roles" that are likely to be accepted by the market. For example, the "characteristics" that Korean artists basically have are filial piety, hard work, etc. Are these really like this? Of course it¡¯s impossible. In fact, these are all packaged!
Those economic companies in South Korea have long figured out what type of celebrities most Korean consumers like, so they will do everything possible to move their artists in that direction! Give these artists a false mask to make consumers like it. This is the form of the entertainment industry in Japan and South Korea! This is true in South Korea and similar in Japan. It¡¯s just not as perverted and stressful as South Korea. Because almost half of South Korea's population lives near the metropolitan area of ??Seoul or Seoul, the entire entertainment market in South Korea is just like this capital area! Almost all artists are competing for jobs in such a market, so is there not a lot of pressure?
Relatively speaking, Japan is a much larger country and has a much larger population. So relatively speaking, the market is larger and the competition is not so fierce, so it is not so abnormal! But if you really talk about it. It's also very hard to get along here in Japan. Newcomers often have to go around to participate in competitions held by various firms and get signed by the firms through selection. Then various trainings were arranged by the office. And being arranged into various roles, and then after one or two years of practice. Only then can they successfully enter the market!
As for Jia Hongjian, now she is asking Xiao Wei to cooperate directly with Kadokawa Shoten, a company that wants to create animations, and sing the theme song directly for the animation This is like asking her to perform solo! Such solo artists are so rare in Japan, they can be said to be rare! In such a situation, how could she not be surprised? And on the other hand, she is only 14 years old after all. Although it is true that she likes to sing, one day she was suddenly informed that she wanted to sign a contract and then learned that she would be singing "Fullmetal Alchemy" which is very familiar to her classmates. "Teacher" singing How could I believe it all at once! So until dinner was over, Xiao Wei was still a little unresponsive.??Come here!
In fact, she was not the only one who didn't react, even her parents didn't react at all! It was like her mother, who had been sitting on the sofa stupidly, thinking about something after returning home. It wasn't until dark that everyone's stomachs were growling with hunger, and she hadn't even realized she was going to cook! Xiao Wei's father seemed to have been watching TV and seemed very calm, but in fact he was also thinking about it in his heart at this time! After he returned home, he sat on the sofa and turned on the TV and started watching. But he didn't even notice a single picture, and didn't listen to a single line of dialogue coming from the TV! So when it got dark, his stomach was already growling, but he wasn't hungry yet! If this were normal, he would have to talk about his wife anyway!
Finally, Xiao Wei, who was still very hungry, came to her senses at around 8 o'clock in the evening and woke up her mother quickly, who then went to cook in a hurry. After the family finished eating, everyone went to take a shower. After taking a shower, Xiao Wei finally came back to her senses. She hurriedly called her good friends and girlfriends to inform her one by one of today's events. What a matter! Then she and her best friends were excitedly thinking about the future. They were extremely envious of her good luck, and all of them said that if she becomes famous in the future, she must not forget everyonesuch a series of reactions from her best friends. , it really made Xiao Wei so happy. She was so happy that she spent the whole night thinking about the future, and she was so excited that she didn¡¯t even fall asleep!
Then she came to school the next day, and everyone in the school knew that she was going to sing for "Fullmetal Alchemist". Such a girl suddenly became a famous figure in the school! All of a sudden, all kinds of classmates were surrounding her. Everyone began to treat her as a star. Many classmates even started asking her for autographs! This feeling made Xiao Wei feel like she really was a staruntil after school that day she went to a recording studio arranged by Kadokawa Bookstore and started trying to practice singing. What's wrong? After she came, she was told to stop so many times! After all, no matter how good she sang before, it was still at an amateur level. It can only be said that she has great potential and performed relatively well among ordinary people. Compared with real professionals, it is still incomparable. !
In Japan, a country with the most developed music in Asia, there are so many people who want to become famous through singing. To be honest, having a professional voice and skills will definitely make you recognized! Many times it depends on fate! Just like Ken Hirai, who sang the original song "Gainingthroughlo private" of the "Meteor Garden" theme song "Meteor Shower", he began to participate in various competitions at the age of 20. After training, he officially debuted at the age of 23, but the results have always been lukewarm. If it's not popular, it won't be famous, and it finally became an instant hit in 2000!
With a voice like Xiao Wei¡¯s, although she is very talented, in the eyes of professionals, Xiao Wei¡¯s skills are still too poor, and her emotional investment is also very insufficient! She sang the theme song of "Fullmetal Alchemist" dozens of times throughout the afternoon, but it didn't even pass the teacher's approval! She was almost crying! She used to feel that she was very talented in singing, but now she feels like she can't do anything else? This is inevitable! Where did she work hard before? Who was she compared to before? Now she has to compare with all kinds of people who rely on such a profession to support their families or even make a fortune. This level is completely different, okay!
But fortunately, Xiao Wei¡¯s talent is really good. After a week of continuous training, at least she can sing this song well! On the basis of maintaining her original crystal-like voice, she also invested a lot of emotion, rendering the entire song like a poem praising a hero! Describing such a story with a poetic voice that looks at the suffering and struggle of the hero. At the end, just listening to her sing it again can really make the listener be moved by her voice without even realizing it. In a short time, she was brought into the world of "Fullmetal Alchemist"! At this point, it can be said that it¡¯s time to really start recording!
And pure recording is just the first step for such a little girl to become famous. After the recording, there is still a project to shoot a music video, and even some changes and variations of the re-fanx version need to be prepared for her to sing. Because in the end, Kadokawa Shoten not only sells animations, but also sells CDs and various peripherals! Just talking about CDs, it¡¯s impossible to have just one song on one disc, right? How do you say you shouldn¡¯t play a song over and over again and make five, six, seven or eight versions? Only in this way can it be filled into a CD! (To be continued)