Chapter 348: CD player, on sale!
On the day before the middle of the month, after finishing a whole day of recording work, Nakamori Nakamura returned to her apartment with tired steps.
"Hah~yawn~" She just changed her slippers and came to the living room, she couldn't help but stretching.
So she threw her bag away without hesitation, and fell directly into the sofa.
The originally soft sofa suddenly became dented, bearing the weight of life that it could not bear.
A few seconds passed quietly like this, and this non-still picture was interrupted by the sound of slippers slipping off.
"Hmm~" Rourou turned over with difficulty, and glanced out the window with half-closed eyes. It turned out that the stars were out.
Suddenly, as if she remembered something, she jumped up with a start, still having some baby fat.
I raised my wrist to check the time; it should still be in time.
Rourou's body rolled to the table in the living room quickly, with an incomparable flexibility.
With a flick of the finger, the black remote control was taken away. With a light press of the thumb, the TV screen in front of him flashed.
The whole set of movements was completed in just 5 seconds without any delay.
She turned on the TV and knelt in front of the table, staring at the screen with her bright eyes without blinking.
It was not until I saw that the 8 o'clock TV series had not yet started that I patted my chest in relief.
"Luckily, it hasn't started yet~"
With a soft sigh, she perked up and turned her attention to the TV in front of her.
However, what she wanted to watch was not the TV series, but a fixed-point advertisement before it.
If the firm is not mistaken, it is about now.
Just as she was thinking about this, suddenly a burst of music attracted her attention.
"Darling Darling Darling Darling Dar~"
First, the sound of the piano as a prelude jumps into your eyes, and then the soft humming of a woman's voice flows into your ears like a spring.
On the TV screen, a long-haired girl in a white dress was leaning against the window of the tram with a black pocket CD player in her hand, her eyes slightly closed, quietly enjoying her music time.
The mottled sunlight shines through the branches onto the smiling face, and a breeze blows through the long hair, making it dance lightly.
Just like the music at this moment, it is quiet and gentle, making everyone who sees this picture relax their body.
"Higuchi Kananko-san is so beautiful~" Nakamori Nakagawa relaxed her body and tilted her head to look at the advertisement on the screen, with a look of envy on her face.
I also listened to the music just now, which has a healing effect and seems to sweep away all the fatigue of the day.
Hey, why hasn’t the thing I wanted to see appeared yet?
Just as I thought of this, Kanako Higuchi, who was wearing a white dress on TV, stretched out her slender fingers and lightly pressed the CD player.
This time, a song was heard that made Nakamori Nakagawa very excited and very familiar.
"爱のメッセージ伝えたいあなたのセーターCuffs つまんで"
She couldn't help but hum along with the melody on TV.
But it was just an advertisement after all. After just a few seconds, the singing gradually faded away.
The only words left on the screen were "KITA Discman" and "49800 yen".
"Ah! That's so great!" The excited Pangcai clapped his hands happily.
Her big eyes were so narrow that only a gap remained when she smiled, and her pair of big white front teeth were particularly eye-catching.
From her excited expression, you can tell how happy she is at this moment.
This is the first time her song has been selected for an advertising CM. How can she not be happy?
And it’s a big brand, Shirakawa Electric’s advertising CM!
Who in the entertainment industry can refuse to appear in such an advertisement? With both fame and generous advertising fees, she is a true winner in life.
Honestly speaking, it felt like a dream that such a good thing could happen to him.
I just debuted in May. I am a complete newcomer, and I debuted as an idol singer.
No matter how you think about it, such a good thing will never come to her. There are countless seniors in the same firm, and many of them are better than her.
But things are so miraculous that my third single "Second Love" was fortunately chosen as the CM song for the Shirakawa Electric portable CD player.
It is said that this was the song that the other party took the initiative to find and select. No matter other artists or songs recommended by Yan Yin or Warner, they were all rejected.
When Akina Nakamori first learned the news, she was confused and didn't understand what was going on. Afterwards, her agent quietly asked her if she knew any big shot at Shirakawa Electric.
The naive girl quickly shook her head, thinking that she was just an ordinary girl and didn't know any big shots.
So she and her bewildered agent studied it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out.
In the end, he could only accept this generous gift with trepidation, but from beginning to end he never even met anyone from Shirakawa Electric.
In order to repay this appreciation, all she can do is to record this single with all her heart and try to present her best.
As a newcomer who has just debuted for less than half a year, her current reputation in the outside world is actually very subtle.
At that time, the Japanese pop music scene was more keen on styles with adult connotations, and Akina Nakamori continued this style when she debuted.
Therefore, the planning staff of Yanyin wrote the promotional copy for her packaging as "a beautiful new girl who is a little bit shy~"
After reading such an amazing copy, even Baichuan Feng would have to praise it as a genius.
I don't know how the planners associated her, who still has some baby fat, with SeSe. This is simply forced.
Not only the copywriting is like this, the second single "Girl A" also takes a rebellious route that is completely different from other female idols.
The lyrics contain very explicit adult descriptions. Although she herself is very opposed to such an approach, she has to succumb to such an arrangement under pressure from the agency.
As expected, the single was banned by NHK shortly after it was released.
However, because of this treatment, this song has attracted a lot of attention and has been widely discussed.
In the end, the sales of this single continued to rise, and sold a good result of 400,000 copies.
For a newcomer, this result is very impressive and absolutely unique.
But as I just said, big sales are also accompanied by various controversies.
The outside world's reputation for her is not very good, and there was even a rumor that she was a bad girl in school.
Therefore, in the production of the third single, taking into account the outside world's evaluation and Akina Nakamori's own requirements, "Second Love" returned to the folk style of an innocent girl.
This is also one of the reasons why Shirakawa Electric chose it as its advertising CM. Otherwise, with a song as explicit as "Girl A", Shirakawa Electric would have been waiting to be complained about.
It's just that Akina Nakamori doesn't know it yet. At this moment, she even pinched the soft flesh on her waist with some regret.
I can't help but sigh that at the age of 17 and with a height of 160cm and weighing 120 pounds, she is indeed a fat vegetable.
Otherwise, maybe the person who appeared on TV just now, Kanako Higuchi, could have been replaced by myself.
But on second thought, having a TIE-UP like Shirakawa Electric is already a pie in the sky, and one should learn to be content.
And that huge amount of advertising fees must be enough for the family to have a good time with plenty of food and clothing.
Not to mention the chattering of a certain fat vegetable, Shirakawa Kaede, who is far away in Chiyoda District, is also paying attention to his own advertisement.
The prelude of Darling~Darling~ is so familiar. It is the advertising song of BBK music phone, which is very suitable to be used here.
Listening to the pure sound quality, it simply brings out the full potential of Shirakawa Electric's portable CD player.
Well, Kanako Higuchi of this era is also very good-looking.
Regarding the selection of advertising spokespersons, Baichuan Feng had only one requirement for the Publicity Department, and that was that the spokesperson must be pure lovely with some intellectual beauty.
Finally, after personally reviewing the case, he chose Kanako Higuchi.
As it turned out, the final effect was quite good, allowing Baichuan Feng to regain the familiarity in his memory.
In fact, there are other candidates, such as the senior schoolmate next to me, whose appearance is also very suitable for such a scene.
However, after thinking about it, Baichuan Feng gave up the idea. Since she planned to take a break after finishing her last TV series, it would be better not to let her show up in public again.
"Is this the CD player that will be released soon? It looks really good." Yuko Tanaka, who was leaning on his shoulder, asked curiously while watching the advertisement on TV.
"Well, this is a portable CD player. How is it? Is it very different from previous players?" Baichuan Feng's tone was slightly proud.
Sony's big guys look really dumb compared to it.
They are both CD players, and although the sound quality is different, it can still easily beat tape players.
Isn't a CD player in your hand much cooler than one that can only be placed at home? The answer is self-evident.
"The song just now is the one that will be released as a single together with the CD player soon?" Tanaka Yuko didn't know much about business matters, but it didn't affect her curiosity at the moment.
"Yes, it's the world's first pop-style CD. I hope the sales volume will live up to its title."
Why did Shirakawa Kaede want this album to sell well? It was one reason that it was Neon's first popular CD record, and it was also related to the agreement signed by Shirakawa Electric.
In order to promote his own CD player, Shirakawa Kaede also took great pains.
Not to mention the carefully prepared advertisements that are broadcast on major TV stations at regular intervals.
In terms of content, because he was worried that CD player users would not have enough records to listen to, he even chose a single song to make a CD record and bundle it with the CD player for promotion.
Sony's CD player had just been released two weeks earlier, and the album it promoted was a collection of fifty classical music recordings.
Yes, you read that right, it is a CD produced of classical music.
This was an order given by Norio Ohga himself. As a musician who graduated from classical music, he has a special liking for this style of music.
In his original idea, the CD player was developed to make it easier for music lovers to enjoy classical music.
This... After learning the news, Shirakawa Kaede was simply unable to comment on Sony's outrageous operation.
So much money was invested and a lot of manpower and material resources were consumed, but when the product was launched, only classical music records were available to users.
What do you let ordinary people listen to? Not everyone has your high musical literacy, Ohga-san.
Although Sony later reacted and immediately let its own record company CBS Sony release an album by the Eagles.
But that's a foreign album, and we are in Japan, Japan~
Baichuan Feng was simply stunned by Sony's series of operations. It turned out that you only wanted to make a CD player, but didn't think about the related product ecosystem?
There was no other way. There was no hope for Sony. For the sake of his own portable CD player, Shirakawa Kaede had to do it himself.
