"I'll shoot the cover for her new single?"

"Yes. Listening to this tone, it seems like I have said something amazing."

"It's not 'as if', but 'it'." In the recording studio, Masaharu Fukuyama sat down on the sofa opposite Ye Zhao, picked up a guitar next to him and improvised it. "Although I'm happy to receive such an invitation, I'm not a professional photographer, and it would be a bit rash if I agree."

"That's right, but Fukuyama Sang has always been interested in photography and has learned the skills of taking photos, right?" Ye Zhao did not beat around the bush, but directly said his purpose, "To be honest, Miss Kawamoto is about to debut. As a singer who was the producer for the first time, I certainly hope that her grades will be more impressive, so I want to do everything I can for her. Inviting Fukuyama Sang to shoot the cover of a single for her is also to create some topicality."

Masaji Fukuyama thought for a while, "Miss Kawamoto's performance video tape, Ye Jun also gave me one last time. He is indeed a very talented girl."

"So, please come and help me?" Ye Zhao persuaded, "And don't Fukuyama Sang plan to stop music activities and concentrate on learning photography from next year? Before that, taking a photo like this will also make everyone understand what Fukuyama Sang is going to pursue next."

"Um..." Fukuyama Masaji pondered for a moment, "It's not impossible to agree. However," Fukuyama Masaji raised his eyebrows, "If you agree, is there any benefit?"

"Of course... treats guests to dinner." Ye Zhao replied quickly.

Fukuyama Masaji looked disgusted, "I want to buy me with just one meal?"

"If one meal doesn't work, two meals are OK."

“…”

No matter whether it was a meal or two, Ye Zhao successfully brought Fukuyama Makoto into Kawamoto's debut plan, adding a heavyweight topic to her debut single. As for the company, because she was only shooting the cover of the record and did not participate in the production of the single, there were very few things involved. After informing AMUSE, she verbally told Kawamoto's executive producer Tadao Okazaki, and things were settled.

Interestingly, Kawamoto Makoto's debut single "Love Talent" and Fukuyama Masaji's new single "Message" were released on October 2nd. Of course, one is Xiao Zhiming, who just debuted, and the other is a star who is undoubtedly a top-notch star in film and television and singing. What kind of conflicts and fights do not exist at all.

In Ye Zhao's opinion, Kawamoto Makoto's debut single was able to enter the top ten in the first week of his debut... Oh no, the top twenty is already a miracle. As for the subsequent situation, being able to enter the top ten on the list with its stamina is a pretty good start.

After all, the times are different. Now is not the era of later generations where the first move determines the outcome. More than 75% of the total sales were sold in the first week. Reputation, subsequent publicity and topicality can bring countless miraculous possibilities.

...

In October, not only Kawamoto Makoto's debut single, but also the last single before Fukuyama Masaji temporarily bid farewell to the music scene. On October 10, Ye Zhao's first album will be released.

In terms of song selection, this album includes two million-level singles "Rainbow", "WINTER, AGAIN", as well as the single "Singer's Love Song", which is about to enter the 600,000 level. Although it sounds like half the sales of the single, given that "Singer's Love Song" is a "quasi-first single", this result is already good.

As for what singles exceed one million, it is okay to play with such things. If you want to come true, forget it. If you want to become a top singer, it is not enough to just have a good single sales. The sales of singles reflect an explosive popularity. If you want to see if those popularity can accumulate to last in the music industry for more than ten years or even longer in the future, you still have to look at the sales of the album.

If you look at the total sales of the historical charts, you will find that the singers ranked first have very balanced sales of their singles and albums, and even the total sales of many singers' albums are higher than the total sales of singles.

Having included two singles of millions and one single of 600,000, Ye Zhao did not search all the famous songs of later generations into this album, but chose some songs with good quality but not so popular to fill them into the album.

For the album's "grapes", we cannot eat up all the best and sweetest breath first, and finally face the situation where there is no music available, nor can we use the worst and most astringent part first, and we can lose the reputation in the early stage. The best way to match is to combine the popular songs of the divine songs and good songs.

In addition to the three singles scheduled to be included, this single also includes the song "FLY" from the Monkey Trick written by Sakai Izumizu, the album "Youth" collected by the band called THE HIGH LOWS after Lan Xin was disbanded, and the single "Ultra-Blue" collected by Spitz's band in 2007. As the theme song of the movie "I heard that Kirishima is going to retreat", the single "The Sun Will Rise" released by Yu Takahashi in 2012, etc., a total of ten songs.

Among these songs, there are two songs worth mentioning. The first one is of course "FLY" which was helped by Sakai Izumizu. It is the work of a national band lead singer and lyricist. Just because the name is printed on the lyrics book, there are already many things that can be explained.

As for the second song, it is the theme song "The Sun Will Still Rise", which will be the theme song of the movie. It was originally planned as a single and released as a single, which seemed more appropriate. However, Ye Zhao wanted to go the other way, put the song in the album in advance and published it openly in the lyrics book. Of course, this approach was not because he was "willful", but because he suddenly thought of another idea to "play" the song.

...

As the album release time gets closer, the recording has been fully concluded. In addition to the seven new songs included as the album song, the three songs that have been released as singles have also been re-recorded.

At the same time as the song was recorded, each time it was completed, it was sent to the mixing room for production. The last song that was delayed by Ye Zhao's procrastination until the end of September was recorded. After the single "Green Days" released by Keiyuki Makihara in 2007 was recorded, the other nine songs had been completed, and the songs were scheduled after the production was completed.

Qu Shun's affairs were finalized as the producer, Nagato Daiyu, and Ye Zhao did not interrupt and made an attitude of letting you arrange it. Anyway, this kind of thing can definitely be done very well when handed over to Nagato Daiyu. Moreover, this kind of attitude of boldly letting go and giving full power to Nagato Daiyu also made Nagato Daiyu, who was used to dictatorship, quite satisfied.

In addition to these ten official songs, Ye Zhao also produced an additional album intro with only twelve seconds. This short intro has neither music nor lyrics, but is like announcing that a new era is about to begin. It contains a simple but not imposing sentence from Ye Zhao, "Are you ready?"

...

It takes about two hours to drive from Tokyo to Minamiya, located in the southern part of Chiba Prefecture.

It is surrounded by the sea on three sides, as if floating on the Pacific Ocean. The sea tide is a warm current, so the climate is warm all year round, with many natural parks, botanical gardens, flower fields, and a sanitation resort for people living around the Tokyo Circle.

The terrain of the Fangma Peninsula is very interesting. The inner coast of Tokyo Bay is delicate and sandy. The outer coast of the Pacific Ocean is eroded by waves, forming many rock beaches and sea erosion, presenting a rough and bold scenery. However, because of the convenient transportation on the island, there is no need to worry about missing these two scenery.

Sitting in the car heading to the Nanfang General Office, Ye Zhao flipped through the travel manual and saw these on it... Don't get me wrong, he was not going on a trip, but to shoot the cover and inner pages of the new album.

"Yamagawa City? I only know the famous scenic spot in Kyoto Kasuke. What does it mean, 'Crossing Kasuke when the flowers bloom and set off for the encounter', it seems like that." Ye Zhao said something that seemed meaningless while looking at the travel manual.

"I don't know that such words are there." The staff member who was traveling with a smile and continued, "This is probably made up by Ye Zhaosang, right?"

"That's not..." Ye Zhao denied, "But, Kamakawa in Kyoto is the place where the thief Ishikawa Goemon was sentenced to a boil, right?"

"It's so cruel. Just when I mention this, I feel my scalp numb." The female staff member of the makeup artist acted and shook his body.

"Don't worry," Ye Zhao waved his travel manual at her, "There is no such cruel thing in Chiba's Kamakawa City. Although there is a famous scenic spot called Renyoumon Island, this 'Inyoumon' seems to have nothing to do with that thief."

Ye Zhao is not unfamiliar with the place name Nanfang. As a fan of the Three Kingdoms of the Angry and Nobunaga's Ambition series, while playing the game, he also read some information about the Warring States Period of Japan, remembering some small knowledge such as "The General Name of the General of the Supreme People and the General Name of the General of the Anfang Kingdom" and I don't know what it is useful.

Of course, even if he hadn't read the information, he knew very well the name of the "Shui Army of Fang" in the game, which was as annoying as a fly on a horse's back.

In addition to these, Ye Zhao's other and more realistic impression of Nanfang General was from the photos she took when she was traveling and recuperating from Shirahama, the Southern General.

...

The shooting location was concentrated in Fupu. The staff booked a resort hotel in advance in the heart of the Minamifang Zong Guoding Park. They will stay here for one night and return to Tokyo the next day.

I have the experience of spending hours of filming the cover of the first few singles. The reason I spent the night in the South Room is definitely not to enjoy the sea view at night, but to have not enough time.

The hotel I stayed in was surrounded by the sea and the super green. No matter which room you see from, you can see the sea in the Pacific Ocean. After finishing Ye Zhao's hairstyle, the makeup artist adhered to the light and natural style that BEING was used to in terms of clothing. The white shirt and blue cowboys were very compatible with the leisurely and pleasant place on the Fangma Peninsula.

From the hotel to the Fupu Sea Bath, you have to pass a winding path full of flowers. The Fangma Peninsula is pleasant in the climate. Except for the coldest winter, you can feel the beauty surrounded by flowers in the other three seasons of the year.

It is late September, and it is another weekday outside of Saturdays and Sundays. There are few tourists or pedestrians in hotels or beaches. Locals who occasionally pass by are wearing simple T-shirts and shorts and wide sun hats. When they see Ye Zhaohe's staff, they waved hello in a very leisurely tone: "Yo! I'm very energetic today!"

That casual look that was a little shameless, inexplicably reminded Ye Zhao of the Kansai people. This casualness can only be nurtured when time passes slowly.

However, he liked this way of greeting, at least ten times more than the traditional manner of nodding and greeting. So, after being greeted like this, he also smiled and replied, "You are also very energetic!"

...

The next morning, the shooting location moved to Shirahama's Flower Park. Although it was the first time I came to Shirahama, because I had seen the photos sent to him by Sakai Insumi, Ye Zhao looked at the surrounding scenery with a little "search" feeling along the way. When passing by the pier or passing by a local store, he would occasionally sigh with the meaning of "so that's it".

The staff members who were traveling with him couldn't help asking him: "Have Ye Zhaosang ever been to Shirahama?"

"That's not." Ye Zhao shook his head and said in a joking tone: "However, I dreamed of it when I was dreaming."

The staff who talked to him was surprised, "Is it true or false?"

"Maybe it's true," Ye Zhao's tone was vague, "so now I see the same scenery as in my dream, but I was really shocked by Jieyao."

This tone that clearly shows that "I'm talking eight things" made the staff sigh and said disgusted: "Ye Zhaosang really likes to fool people."

"This is wrong. I never fool people."

The staff showed a look of "Then what are you doing now?"

Ye Zhao smiled innocently, "I never fool people, I'm just talking nonsense."

"Really." The staff held his forehead, "Ye Zhaosang, you are really a singer, aren't you a funny artist..." Everyone is acquaintance, so they are not so polite to speak.

"Please rest assured about this. If the funny artists are only at this level, they can only perform in the park in beer boxes for parents who take their children for a walk." Ye Zhao said.
Chapter completed!