Chapter 38 Commodities
Mika Kawashima grabbed Ye Zhao's arm casually and pressed him to the empty seat on the right side of Akishi Masao, "Don't be stunned, sit down quickly. This is your first time attending a party. Everyone is waiting to have the first glass of wine with you!"
"Yes, I've been waiting to see you!" Maeda Genhui, who looks like an ordinary office worker, smiled very casually, "At the time, this summer, TUBE has also lost a lot of color."
TUBE is a band famous for summer music that is as famous as the stars of the South Sky. On the various summer music charts, the top few are basically divided by TUBE and the stars of the South Sky. In later generations, despite these two powerful bands, Yuzu's "Summer Color" still broke through the siege and firmly locked in the first place on the various summer music charts. Now Ye Zhao has taken out "Summer Color" in advance. With the super strength of this song, it is not surprising that Maeda Gawain expressed such emotion.
Even so, there must be necessary modesty. "Where is nothing compared to TUBE, after all, summer is TUBE, which is common sense that RB public knows."
Mika Kawashima couldn't help but complain: "Are you two going to turn my BEER party into a flattering meeting?"
Akio Akishi picked up the beer glass, poured a glass of beer into his cup, and then filled the cup in front of Ye Zhao, raising the glass, saying, "Today is Xiaoye's first time attending a BEER party, welcome him together."
"Cheers~!" Everyone raised their glasses together. Because the table was relatively long, they just clinked the glasses with each other with the neighbors.
After a glass of wine, Kawashima Mika said with a little regret: "You were attending a party for the first time. I originally wanted to call everyone, but unfortunately Brother Inaba returned to his hometown for something. Mire and Mari had a radio broadcast tonight..."
"And that guy Oda," Akishi Masao interrupted suddenly, "I don't know what's going on, but suddenly I want to go to be a judge of the selection meeting and have a meal with the organizers tonight."
"I am already flattered by this lineup now." Ye Zhao said. He said the truth, B’z, WANDS, TUBE, Dark Moji, any person who pulls it out is enough to make ordinary people scream.
"By the way, Matsumoto Sang," Ye Zhao raised his glass to Matsumoto Takahiro Yayao, "Thank you for helping with the recording of the accompaniment belt."
Takahiro Matsumoto took a sip of beer and said, "It's just a little bit of work. Besides, I also like the song "Because you are by your side". You can make such a delicate punk, you're pretty good."
"And I'm there," Dahei Moji joined in the fun, "Ye Jun, don't you thank me?"
"Of course I have to thank Sister Dahei." Whether it was helping to help Takahiro Matsumoto or introducing him to the composers and arrangers of BEING, if it weren't for her help, Ye Zhao wouldn't have been accepted by this small circle so smoothly. He quickly filled the cup with beer, clinked a glass with Mori, and drank the whole glass of wine in one breath.
"It's good alcohol content, Ye Jun." Mika Kawashima picked up a few pieces of roasted beef glutinous rice into his plate. "I told me before, "I'm not over twenty years old." She is obviously a veteran in the bar!"
Ye Zhao smiled "hehe" and picked up a piece of beef and stuffed it into his mouth, "It's so delicious! It's worthy of being a high-end Wagyu beef!"
Next, everyone with their own wine-loving attributes sing and drinking happily. Only Ye Zhao, after drinking the third cup, was taken away by Akishi Masao and reminded him: "Don't drink anymore. You are less than 20 years old and are a newcomer who has just debuted. It would be bad if you are drunk and are photographed."
"That's right, although there are a lot of underage drinking artists, drinking privately is one thing, and being discovered in public is another thing." Dark Moji echoed.
What surprised Ye Zhao the most was Uesugi Shin's actions. Uesugi Shin was drinking silently tonight and had almost never joined any topic. In addition, his appearance was a bit cold, Ye Zhao thought Uesugi Shin hated him, but he came to the party because he couldn't let go of his face. However, after hearing the words of Akishi Masao and Okuromoji, he quietly poured a cup of oolong tea, stood up and handed it to Ye Zhao.
"Thank you, Brother Uesugi." Ye Zhao thanked quickly.
"Yes." Uesugi Tsuke nodded and continued to drink his wine on his own.
"This guy has this kind of virtue. Don't take it to heart when it's cold on the outside and hot on the inside." Mika Kawashima attached to Ye Zhao's ear and whispered.
The party lasted until 11 o'clock in the evening, and everyone left the barbecue shop together.
With the priority of women, Okuro Moji and Kawashima Mika got into the first taxi. The second taxi followed. Maeda Hokki and Akishi Masao, who were not yet happy, dragged Matsumoto Takahiro Matsumoto and Haruhata Doya together, and four of them rushed to the lounge in Ginza to continue their stalls. On the empty street, only Ye Showa and Uesugi Tsuke were left.
The first person to break the silence was Uesugi, "Why do you want to join BEING?"
Ye Zhao thought for a while and said, "I don't like being bound by too many rules and regulations. Joining BEING is to do more freely what I like. Moreover, BEING has many excellent composers and arrangers, and I can learn a lot here."
"Do you have more freedom to do what you like?" Uesugi Tsuke sneered, "Sure enough, the fledgling young man Qing is thinking the same thing." He muttered in a low voice, "...I'm the same."
"What?" Ye Zhao didn't hear the last sentence clearly.
"It's nothing." Uesugi Shin regained his cool expression again, looking ahead, and no longer caring about Ye Zhao. Seeing this, Ye Zhao was too lazy to make things boring and stopped talking to him.
A taxi came late, and Uesugi raised his chin, "You go first, I suddenly felt that I didn't have enough fun to drink, so I planned to find a nearby izakaya to have a few drinks."
Ye Zhao was not polite, thanked him and got into the back row of the taxi. After reporting the address, the driver started the engine.
Ye Zhao, who is familiar with history, naturally knows why Uesugi Shin said that.
Until the mid-1980s, BEING did not successfully launch any group of singers. Although they made no achievements in business, they produced songs for many well-known bands and idols in the RB music industry, and accumulated considerable experience and connections for their future establishment of the "BEING dynasty".
Afterwards, with the launch of a series of bands such as TUBE and B’z, the impression of "BEING=Rock" was deeply rooted in the hearts of RB people. Uesugi Tsuke, who had great enthusiasm for rock, joined a group under BEING called "BEING Revitalization Association" with his longing, and was later selected to become the lead singer of WANDS.
However, the subsequent development did not seem to be what Uesugi Shin wanted.
Nagato Daiyu is a businessman who is profit-oriented. At his request, WANDS sang commercial pop rock. Even when they first debuted, they collaborated with their idol Miho Nakayama who was very popular in the 1990s. Although it was a nominal collaboration, the protagonists of the whole song were Miho Nakayama. The members of WANDS stood at the end of the stage and served as the harmony and accompaniment of Miho Nakayama.
Later, WANDS finally became popular successfully and became one of the pillars of the "BEING dynasty" in the 1990s, adding a strong mark to BEING's sales myth. However, as the band became more and more popular, Uesugi Tsuke was increasingly dissatisfied with this commercial packaging that deviated from his initial expectations. After years of game with BEING and several times of bold changes in the band style, he finally chose to withdraw from WANDS and BEING in 1996 and formed a grunge (grunge)-style band AI.NI.CO.
It can be said that when Uesugi Shin-seong first joined BEING, he was in the mood of wanting to do what he liked freely like like like now, but reality gave him a heavy blow and turned him into a product placed in the window.
Chapter completed!