The DEMO sent to Sony Music is like a sea of ​​stones, and the contract offered by Yuko Nakano also gave up his idea of ​​signing an agency to save the country. Other artists can wait for the day when they are late to achieve great things, but Ye Zhao cannot, because what he owns has a deadline, and as time goes by, only less and less can be cashed out. Therefore, on the night when he met Yuko Nakano, Ye Zhao had a bold idea in his mind, that is, to use this million yen to make an underground single at his own expense.

On the 1993 RBORICON annual singles, the third place was an underground single called "ロード". It is said that when it was released, the band found a total of 44 record companies, but none of them agreed to publish the single. In the end, they could only release it through underground labels. As a result, the single sold nearly two million copies that year. This band called THE Tiger Dance also became a hit and became the target of major record companies.

Not only that, because it is an independently released underground record, the single's lyrics, music stamp duty, original disk stamp duty, publishing stamp duty, secondary usage fee, etc. are all owned by the band. The band's lead singer Takahashi George, who wrote the lyrics and composed the song, received a royalty of up to 200 million yuan in just one year.

Ye Zhao did not intend to copy such a myth. He just wanted to make a top-notch single as a stepping stone to enter the mainstream music world. Now he is just an unknown little character? It doesn’t matter, so just create a business card for himself.

After all, he was betting on all his wealth and let go. Ye Zhao was very cautious in choosing songs. Even several million singles that were highly sang in later generations were PASSed in his heart.

But just now, when he walked out of the restaurant and felt the stuffy air in Tokyo, almost immediately, a song that could be used as the mainstay of the single appeared in his mind - this song released in 1997 has not had a commercial achievement of selling a million yuan, but with its super high singing level, it dominated the first place in the "The Song I Want to Listen in the Summer" in the next ten years and became the enduring summer song in the hearts of RB people.

The name of this song is "Summer Color", and its original author is a Japanese folk band called Yuzu.

The RB in 1994 also has a special background, which was the second hottest summer in Tokyo in the 1990s. Although it was still a while before July and August, the heat wave was obviously stronger than in previous years. At this time, a simple, fresh and catchy summer ballad was launched, which just happened to wipe out the boredom brought by the hot weather.

The most direct way to test whether a song is popular among the public is of course to sing it directly. Therefore, after thinking of this song, Ye Zhao immediately decided to perform an improvisation here in public.

...

Yuki Ueda is a student at Aoyama University. She has loved music since she was a child. She did not embark on the road of pursuing music. Instead, she studied honestly and was admitted to this well-known private institution in RB. When she visited Ueno Park, she also had the idea of ​​singing on the street because of her wonderful performances by artists there.

On this day, as usual, after finishing her review, she took the tram to the restaurant she had worked in. The kind-hearted boss lady agreed that she could perform outside the restaurant. Today, she seemed to be a little unfavorable. She sang three songs in a row and only got a few coins. Just when she was a little depressed, a man and a woman came towards her.

The man is a handsome guy who is not inferior to a movie star, and the woman's appearance is far beyond the average. Ueda Yuki even thought that these two were both artists. It seemed that they were going to have dinner at the restaurant. When they saw Ueda Yuki, the man showed a thoughtful expression, then stopped in front of her and put a thousand-dollar bill into her piano box.

This is the first thousand-yuan bill Ueda Yuki got today, and it is also the last thousand-yuan bill she got today. After that, she sang for more than an hour. In the hot weather, sweat kept flowing down her forehead. No wonder no one stopped. In such weather, who would endure sweating and support a singer?

Yuki Ueda, who decided to close the stall early, was sorting out the tips in the piano box. The man and woman he met in the evening stopped in front of her again. The man stepped forward and asked, "Hello, can I lend your guitar to use?"

Ueda Yuki's first reaction was that the man wanted to sing for the girls around him. After all, such scenes often appear in the love novels she has watched. Based on the idea of ​​adult beauty, and the man is her biggest customer today, Ueda Yuki said very understandingly: "Please use it."

"Thank you." The man took off the guitar from the guitar and tried it skillfully. He seemed to be a veteran. However, the singing scene he imagined by Ueda Yuki did not appear. The man held the guitar and faced the road, cleared his throat, and swept the strings. This posture was clearly the same as the opening before her singing.

No? Ueda Yuki looked dark and asked her for some reason at night that she borrowed the guitar, but she turned out to be singing instead of her. Isn’t this person really full? Thinking of this, her eyes when she looked at the man became subtle.

At this time, the man plucked the strings.

"Are you folk songs? This guy's guitar is good." The prelude sounded, and Ueda Yuki thought secretly. As the melody slowly unfolded, Ueda Yuki suddenly realized something was wrong: I don't seem to have heard of this song before?

As a singer, Yuki Ueda is most proud of that there is nothing she can't sing about any song that is slightly famous on the market. Not only that, as a music enthusiast, she goes to the record store every week to select a few new albums, so if she hasn't heard a song, it's either too unpopular or it's his original creation!

"Whether it is original or not, this prelude sounds so comfortable..." Just as Ueda Yuki Kifu was thinking about it, the man started singing.

"The cat in the parking lot yawns..."

The first lyrics were sung, and Ueda Yukichi felt his eyes lit up, and a strong sense of picture appeared in front of her.

...

"The sunset at 5:30 is exactly the same as when I was a child."

"Whether it is the sea, the sky, the clouds, or us... they are all dyed red..."

As the singing sounded, Yuki Ueda's thoughts seemed to have wings, and she took her back to her hometown in Fukuoka and back to the long dike that she must pass when she went to school. She had passed by with her friends countless times when she was after school. It was her most leisurely time.

...

"Everyone is sleeping in on holidays, only you look busy"

"By the way, find some time to go there"

"The sound of the midsummer night's tide has sootheed the mood incredibly, and I forgot everything in the sound of the waves..."

...

"In this long downhill, you sit in the back seat of my bicycle. I hold the brakes tightly and slowly slide downhill..."

The lyrics of this song are all without any sensationality, and the melody is bright and brisk, but Yuki Ueda's eyes are red. Since she came to Tokyo, she has been traveling around every day to go to school, working and singing. Even if she occasionally goes shopping with her school friends, the girls who pursue fashion always plunge into the huge mall like a maze. When they come out, they will dye them red no longer the sunset, but the neon lights flashing in the city with bright lights.

"When it's August, go back to your hometown to go to the fireworks conference with your friends." Ueda Yuki said to herself in her heart. When she looked at the man again, the confusion and contempt had disappeared, and replaced by a strong appreciation. Such a song that can almost be said to be a perfect song. If it has been released, it will definitely be a famous song sung on the streets and alleys. Since she has never heard it, she can only prove one thing: it is really his own song.

Good songs can transcend the times, and this song proves this. As Ye Zhao sang this song on the streets, people kept watching it. If it was in the later generations with developed Internet, it would probably be that Ye Zhao's singing scenes would soon appear on video websites or social media. Now, the only thing the audience can do is stop and listen to the song quietly.

At the end of the song, some of the audience immersed in the music world constructed by Ye Zhao still failed to come back to their senses. The first one to break the silence was a little girl. The little girl looked about five or six years old, holding a cone of ice cream in her hand, wearing a white lace-adored dress, combed with a princess's head, and a pair of big deer-like eyes, which was very cute.

The little girl jumped to Ye Zhao, spread her left hand tightly held. A coin worth 20 yen was lying in her palm, probably found when she bought ice cream. She squatted down and gently placed the two coins into the piano box, showing a big smile: "Big brother sang so well!"
Chapter completed!