Chapter 548 548. Madness in Progress (Part 1)

Chapter 548 548. Madness in Progress (Part 1)

A rather fashionable building located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, is the base of Sony Records in Japan.

But this is not the headquarters. As a world-class record company, its headquarters is naturally set up in the United States, where pop music is most prosperous in the world. What is here in Japan is just a branch.

But after all, Japan is Sony's headquarters, so this branch is the root of Sony Records for many Japanese people.

The weather was fine that day, which should have made people at work in a good mood, but for many employees of Sony Records, such a good mood could not eliminate their inner worries.

When many people pass by an office, they know that the people inside can't hear their footsteps at all, but they will still unconsciously lighten their pace and speed up their pace at the same time, with a feeling of escaping, as if there is something terrible inside.

But speaking of terrible, there is indeed a terrible person hidden inside.

Kitagawa Takashi, one of the company's directors, is also the director of a department of the company. He is a leader with noble status and real power. He has a certain say in the record company. The plan to launch Mika Nakashima to block Alan half a month in advance was decided by him.

This is also the reason. Judging from Alan's current situation, Kitagawa Takashi's decision has obviously failed.

There are even many rumors in the circle, saying that Sony has suffered a big loss this time, and that Mika Nakashima is strong on the outside but weak on the inside. As a singer at the level of a quasi-queen, she can't even suppress a rookie who has just debuted.

Although these rumors are only spread privately due to Sony's strength in the local market, no one dares to bring them to public occasions, and there will be no media reports, but they make Kitagawa Takashi, who has a strong self-esteem, feel deeply insulted.

He is a person with a strong self-esteem. Facing this kind of victory that could have been easily won, he failed in the end. You can imagine how depressed he is.

The most important thing is that he was criticized by the company's board of directors.

If Nakashima Mika could successfully suppress Alan, then there would be no problem with his decision. The key is that things did not go as smoothly as expected, so in the eyes of the board of directors, this was a mistake made by Kitagawa Takashi.

After all, because of this incident, the rumor that Nakashima Mika started high and ended low has re-emerged, making it increasingly difficult for this quasi-queen to remove the word "quasi". If this continues, let alone the queen, it is not certain whether the three words "quasi-queen" can be kept.

Let the company's important singer lose value just for a fight of arrogance. The company's top management will naturally not let Kitagawa Takashi go, even if he is one of the company's directors. This is also the reason why Sony is so powerful. All privileges cannot override the interests of the company.

After being criticized by the company, Kitagawa Takashi's first order when he returned to the office was to call the employee who had instigated him to stop Alan.

Then he was kicked out with two slaps and a contract to terminate the contract.

That guy did leave in disgrace, but Kitagawa Takashi was still angry. He felt that after the company announced it, all the employees looked at him as if they were laughing at him.

This was also the reason why he was in a bad mood in recent days. Many employees had been reprimanded and punished by him for inexplicable reasons. Even his secretary was not spared and knelt down in the office to admit his mistakes for an hour. Although the secretary felt wronged and felt that he had done nothing wrong, this incident also caused quite a stir in the company.

After a few days, everyone knew that Director Kitagawa was in a very bad mood and was very irritable, so everyone tried to hide.

However, Seo couldn't hide today. A staff member brought the latest news, and he had to report it to Kitagawa Takashi as soon as possible.

Arriving at the door of the office, Seo knocked on the door.

"Come in." A rather cold voice sounded from inside. Seo sighed and opened the door.

"Director Kitagawa, here is the latest news about Alan." After entering the office, Seo walked to Kitagawa Takashi's desk, bowed his head slightly, handed over the report in his hand, and reported briefly.

"Alan!?" Hearing this name, Kitagawa Takashi, who was processing documents, raised his head instantly.

"Yes, it's Alan." Seo confirmed, watching Kitagawa take the report in his hand, and then waited anxiously for Kitagawa Takashi's reaction.

He didn't read the content of the report, but heard from the staff below that the content seemed to be related to Alan's new album. It was a big deal. Seo was very nervous. If there was any good news about Alan in it, he might get beaten today.

He waited anxiously for five minutes, but he didn't get a slap, but he got a big laugh from Kitagawa Takashi.

Seo could hear that Kitagawa Takashi laughed very happily, and he felt relieved after being suppressed for a long time. He was relieved immediately, at least he didn't have to get beaten.

"Hehe, Nie Wei and Alan are really inflated, and Avex is becoming more and more naive. They actually agreed to such an outrageous plan. Matsuura Katsuto will definitely become a joke in the Japanese music circle this time, and Nie Wei and Alan will all be jokes." After laughing, Kitagawa Takashi excitedly muttered to himself.

Seo was very curious about what plan made Kitagawa Takashi laugh so happily and ridicule so unscrupulously.

It seems that he has been suppressed for too long. Beichuan Long also wants to find someone to share this "surprise" in front of him. So when he saw Seo's curious eyes, he was patient and told him the content of the report. Of course, he added a lot of his own subjective judgments and ridicule of Nie Wei's plan in the process.

"This kind of plan can only be done by a company like Sony that has a world-class music library, but we won't do it. It's too wasteful, especially for such a small singer. It's not worth it at all. As for Avex, they can't do it and it's impossible to do it."

"I can only say that they are too naive. Such publicity is enough for the eyeball effect, but the result will only be a joke."

"And complete it with fans? Are you kidding me? If you play it this way, as long as one of the ten songs is not of good quality, the audience's attention will drop instantly, and the whole album will collapse."

"Do you think they are crazy? Alan is finished this time and should go back to China in disgrace."

"And that Nie Wei is really too arrogant. It seems that his success has been overwhelming his brain. I hope this failure can calm him down."

Listening to Kitagawa Takashi's subjective analysis, which was mixed with many sarcasms, Seo agreed with him in a flattering way, but he also had a question in his heart.

In Kitagawa Takashi's subjective thinking, this matter was bound to fail, but knowing that it would fail, why did he finally launch this plan?

Nie Wei didn't know much about him, but he knew that he was a super-rich man. Would such a young super-rich man really swell up because of the smooth sailing as Kitagawa Takashi said?

There is also Matsuura Katsuto, who can be said to be an old rival of Sony. In Seo's cognition, the general manager of Avex is a very calm person, but this time he also agreed to this plan. Could it be that he and Nie Wei were both carried away?

In Seo's opinion, the probability of this is even smaller than a comet hitting the earth.

But if neither of them was carried away, it would undoubtedly show that the two of them are very confident in this plan, which means that this plan has the possibility of success, but where does this confidence come from? After all, after listening to this plan, he felt that Kitagawa Takashi's analysis was quite reasonable.

When Seo walked out of the office, his mind was still very confused. In the end, he gave up thinking about this problem because he couldn't get an answer at all. He just hoped that this matter was really as Director Kitagawa Takashi expected, and never as he worried. If the other party succeeded, then his life would be even more difficult.

There are many people in Japan who laugh at this plan like Kitagawa Takashi, especially in the music industry. After learning about this plan, many record companies think that Avex and Nie Wei are really crazy. They dare to do this.

Everyone is waiting to see the joke, after all, this thing is not possible in their eyes.

Many people think that this is a crazy move by Matsuura Katsuto. After all, no matter how you look at it, it needs the strong support of Avex to complete this album, but can Avex do it?

According to everyone's understanding of Avex, it may be no problem for Avex to come up with one or two high-quality songs for Alan, but it is impossible to come up with nine songs. Even Sony can't do such a luxury.

Perhaps there is another possibility, that is, the initiator of the plan, Nie Wei, created it himself.

As a well-known music producer in Asia, Nie Wei's creative ability is indeed obvious to all. The "Prisoner-of-Love" sung by Alan before was created by Nie Wei, and the quality of the song also shines extraordinary light under the pressure of Mika Nakashima.

But Nie Wei wanted to come up with nine more songs of the same quality as "Prisoner-of-Love", which was simply an impossible task in everyone's eyes.

Especially after everyone's inquiry, this gentleman's activities in the first half of the year were basically running schedules and filming movies. He had no spare time. How could he have time to create?

And the singer Alan, can she really handle so many styles of music?

And her recording status, one song a week, seven days is plenty for a singer in good condition, but who can guarantee that the condition will always be good? Especially this kind of one song a week, if the quality of the song does not satisfy the fans, it will inevitably be criticized, so can Alan really maintain the condition under such criticism?

Even some queen-level singers will have bad conditions, and it is not uncommon for the recording to be stuck for a month. Now Alan promises one song a week. What if she is not in good condition? Will she perfunctorily use low-quality works to perfunctory the fans? It's simply gambling with her own singing career.

Too many people are not optimistic about this plan, even the employees of Nie Wei's own company don't have much hope for it. Nie Wei knows everyone's status, but he doesn't care too much. Sometimes, it is more convincing to speak with results.

And his most important job now is to help Alan record the second song, and to determine what Alan's third song will be based on the votes of online fans.

If Noda Xiongyi knew that Nie Wei had not even written the third song so far, he would probably jump off the building directly. In this world, I am afraid that only Nie Wei dares to play like this. After all, he is full of confidence, but others don't know, so now many people look at Nie Wei with a look of seeing a lunatic.

And the company soon gave Nie Wei a nickname, called the big madman. If there is a big madman, there is naturally a little madman, and that little madman is naturally Alan.

A singer who dares to cooperate with Nie Wei's crazy plan is naturally a madman.

The whole company thinks that Nie Wei is making fun of Alan's future, but the person involved still looks like "Nie Wei is doing this for my own good", and listens to Nie Wei's words, as if he is loyal to you and will never go west.

This also makes many people in the company who are worried about Alan speechless, because these two people are completely willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, and their own worries seem to be holding them back.

If there is only one thing that can comfort people, it is that since the plan was exposed, Alan's fan club has ushered in another wave of fans. It broke through 50,000 on the same day and is rapidly moving towards 60,000. At this rate, it will be no problem to exceed 60,000 within a week.

People inside the company are worried, and people outside are waiting to see the joke, but all of these are isolated outside the recording studio.

Inside, Nie Wei and Alan only need to work and record the song well.

Three days passed unknowingly, and the song recording was mostly completed. Alan is a singer with a big heart. Under high pressure, she burst out unimaginable energy, and the recording of the song went surprisingly smoothly.

This was under the premise of Nie Wei's strict requirements. It was rare. Even Nie Wei, who rarely praised people at work, praised Alan twice in a row in the past few days.

In the recording studio, Nie Wei and Alan were discussing the singing of two lines of lyrics in the song.

"I think the ending of this section should be extended to highlight the emotion."

"Too long is not good. I think it should be concluded neatly. What this song needs here is strength, and it is best not to drag it too much."

"Try both. We will compare them when the time comes. Whichever feels better, we will choose it."

Alan, wearing a pair of slippers, walked into the recording studio and prepared to record both. At this moment, the door of the recording studio was suddenly pushed open.

The person who walked in was a company employee in uniform. Nie Wei looked unfamiliar, but a musician next to him recognized the person.

"Mr. Jingtian, what's up?"

"I'm here to see Director Nie Wei. The results of the online voting are out." The staff member named Jingtian reported directly to Nie Wei.

Thanks to Qiu Yeliangyue and 0773 for their support.