Chapter 40 What should come will always come
On Tuesday morning, the one delivered to Ye Zhao along with the sales statistics list was a magazine called "Weekly Volkswagen".
"What is this magazine?" Ye Zhao was a little curious.
"Look at Ye Zhaosang, there is your report on it." The office clerk Sato Hideo walked on, but looking at the leisurely expression on his face, there must be nothing bad in it.
Ye Zhao put the magazine aside and picked up the sales rankings first. Although "Rainbow" is a popular song, it is still much worse than that kind of monster song, so Ye Zhao didn't have the idea of this song killing one month. The MS effect in the third week of release made the sales of singles that should have naturally declined soar to 400,000 that week, and advanced to the million-dollar single club. In the fourth week of this week, after the effect subsided, sales also returned to the normal fourth week of singles, with more than 90,000 copies, ranked third in the weekly chart. The two new singles released that week were the two new singles released that week.
After reading the list, Ye Zhao began to read the weekly magazine. If you look carefully, there was a line of small words on the left side of the cover of the magazine on the shoulder of the cover woman: "The Strongest Newcomer Ye Zhao's Secret Words Before the debut".
I opened the magazine and found that page. It was a simple report with pictures and texts. The general content was compiled by the media interviewed Ye Zhao's classmates and teachers when he was young. It was nothing more than a club when he was studying, how he performed in school, and a group photo of his classmates when he was in middle school. He circled his avatar in red circles. The person who wrote the report also wrote a line next to the photo with a line "Ye Zhaosang, who was very eye-catching when he was young."
After becoming famous, tabloid magazines dig three feet into the ground to find what they had before their debut is a part that every artist must go through. It can even be said that if you don’t let them dig in a circle, it is not popular enough. The melon-eating crowd who have always loved to watch the fun is also happy about it, and they are eager to even take down the artist’s underwear to show them the style.
Looking back at the life trajectory of his predecessor, the only thing that can be called "black history" is the past with the drinker Mika Ogawa. Although Ye Zhao did not think that was shameful. First of all, he was not an idol but a singer or a singer-songwriter, so there was no need to sell pure love personality. Besides, when the two were together, the man was not married and the woman was not married, and there was no involvement in any shameful things such as seducing minors or having a soft meal. It was just a normal relationship. It would be a bit ridiculous. Now it is not the intelligent era of later generations, so it is impossible to leave behind such a photography masterpiece that is not very visible.
After thinking through this, Ye Zhao put this matter aside. But the progress of the matter seemed to slowly move in a strange direction.
After "Weekly Mass", a magazine called "Weekly Women" also published a report about Ye Zhao. The content of this report revolves around the various deeds of Ye Zhao's underground band. It briefly introduced the band called Chepick, and even included several photos of the performances that were said to be provided by the club owner. Everyone except Ye Zhao was mosaiced. After the information introduction, the club owner and a member of the club owner who had formed a team with him by the pseudonym A San. The two conveyed the same message in the interview: "Because the band could not write original songs at all, they have been relying on covers for more than a year of residency."
After this report was released, the keen melon-eating crowd quickly smelled the direction of the magazine content: Since Ye Zhao had never written a song during the band, why can he produce so many good songs in one go? Is it because he kept "leasing his hands" when he was in the band, or is there something wrong with the song he wrote now?
With "Weekly Women" leading the rhythm, several music magazines also intervened and made speculative analysis of Ye Zhao's music. During this period, some insignificant magazines also followed up with some unreasonable speculative reports. The content was varied and the degree to which they let themselves go was not inferior to "Weekly Truth". Because they had no credibility, they were only regarded as riding on the popularity. However, with these small magazines jumping up and down, Ye Zhao's topic popularity has also risen again and again.
It is truly called a heavy hammer, a music magazine called "MUSIC LIFE". However, they did not talk about the ghostwriting theory about the signals released by "Weekly Women" in the report, but directly pointed the barrel at Ye Zhao and the BEING company behind him at one time. Even the title of the article was "BEING's "B" is BORROW's "B"?" (BORROW has adopted it, meaning plagiarism).
The person in charge of this article is Xiao Lin Xu, a critic who wrote a review for "MUSIC LIFE". His writing style is tricky and vicious, and he specializes in picking others' hurt feet. This article is no exception. He did not criticize Ye Zhao at the beginning, but wrote hundreds of words for BEING's history of making a fortune, focusing on exaggerating the business strategy of "as long as you can become famous, it doesn't matter."
"BEING is not only good at pursuing popularity, but also emulates itself in the 1990s. Most of their singers rely on composers led by Tetsuro Oda and arranged artists led by Masao Akashi, so their musical styles are very similar. It can be said that even if two different bands exchange songs to sing with each other, everyone will not find it strange. Relying on this self-replication, after the first BEING singer became popular, other singers with similar styles will become popular. This practice can be said to fully reflect President Nagato's cunning and utilitarian business policy."
Afterwards, Kobayashi Xu turned his pen and brought the topic to Ye Zhao.
"This year, BEING signed the popular underground singer Ye Zhao. I originally thought that as a singer-songwriter, Ye Zhao, who did not need to rely on BEING's composers, might grow into a unique existence like BEING's SOLO singer Okura Moji. However, when he released his debut single "Rainbow" and completed his first TV debut, I was deeply disappointed because I saw someone's shadow in him."
Here, the magazine specially invited a well-known composer to conduct a well-founded analysis of the song "Rainbow", from the song structure to the melody, and finally used the composition teacher's joke to say what they wanted to express: I would not doubt this song even if it was sung for Fukuyama Masaru.
After this conclusion, Kobayashi wrote: "Although in the music industry, a certain style will never become exclusive to someone, BEING can so nakedly package a 'Fukuyama Masaji Second', which seems to be their nature difficult to change over the years. Indeed, this made Ye Zhao take a shortcut. His debut was undoubtedly successful, but his success made me want to ask, is BEING's "B" the BORROW's "B"? Otherwise, why are they always so good at imitation and copying?"
This report not only tied Ye Zhao and BEING together, but also brought Fukuyama Masaji to inject it into the fire. As soon as the magazine was released, Fukuyama Masaji fans protested this "bad imitation" and even launched an event to buy Fukuyama Masaji CD, delivering the single he released a few months ago to No. 16 on the daily chart.
In the office of President BEING, after seeing this report, Nagato Daiyuki threw the magazine on the table in anger and cursed: "Bastard! These tabloid reporters who are gossiping are even more annoying than flies!"
But no matter how scolded it, Nagato Daiyu has no choice but to have any help from these reports. Although BEING is in the limelight, because of their shallow foundation, not only are their energy limited in the circle, but there are also many enemies, especially BRUNING, which once tried to win over BEING by replacing copyright but was flatly rejected, is staring at BEING every day. As long as you catch the braid of his singer, you must exaggerate it in the tabloid.
As for the slander of the magazine, let alone sue "MUSIC LIFE" and "LIFE MUSIC", just this short essay against Ye Zhaohe BEING is a subjective comment, and there is no gossip at all, so you don't even have a reason to sue him - you can't stop talking, right?
After abstaining from the breath, Nagato Daiyuki returned to his rationality. Thinking of the various reports on Ye Zhao this time, he felt uncomfortable no matter how he thought about it. These reports seemed to be painless, but they seemed to point in the same direction in the dark. This feeling of a storm coming but having no control made Nagato Daiyuki very unhappy.
The next evening, the secretary rushed into Nagato Daiyuki's office, "President, this is the "Weekly Trend" to be released tomorrow, and there is another report from Ye Zhaosang..."
"Is it a short composition? Or is it going to interview his old neighbor and old classmates again?" Nagato Yoshiki interrupted him with some disregard.
"No," the secretary looked worried, "This time it's really troublesome..."
Seeing this, Nagato Daiyu took the magazine suspiciously. The line with the largest font on the cover was titled "Ye Zhao's crazy life! The secret words and truth of his ex-girlfriend". After reading the report, the content in detail described the "ex-girlfriend who had an inseparable relationship with Ye Zhao", introducing her identity as a drinker and the process of acquaintance between the two. In the interview, the ex-girlfriend, who was a pseudonym Msang, described Ye Zhao as a person with a gloomy temperament and a weak relationship, including his poor relationship with his parents, had cut off contact and had a mediocre relationship with the band's teammates, and once threatened that "I just wanted to form a team for the sake of becoming famous."
If it was just such a report, at best, it was just a small essay with a changed angle, and it would not be called "trouble" by the secretary. The real big trouble is that this report is accompanied by several photos, one is a photo of Ye Zhao and a blonde woman with a face close to her face, and the other is a side face with a dim light and a slightly lateral angle. The person in the photo is holding a cigarette in his hand, and the most exciting one is the third one, which is a half-fruit photo of a young man burying his face in the blonde woman's arms. Although the two behind the two are not frontal faces, their body shape is very similar to Ye Zhao. In addition, the first photo is in the credibility of almost 90%.
After reading the report, Nagato Daiyuki endured it and said, and his voice trembled, he ordered the secretary: "Hurry, call Ye Zhao and let him go to the company immediately... No, let him stay at home and not come out, let alone accept any interviews."
The secretary hurried out and came in again, "President, Ye Zhaosang's cell phone cannot be connected..."
Chapter completed!