"Ah, Miss Teresa! So you are here! It's really a headache for us to find it!"
"That's right, foreigners are really rude! Even big singers can't Isn’t it too irresponsible to run away without saying a word?”
Everyone at Ning Weimin’s table was startled by these two rude interruptions and subconsciously turned around at the same time. Head looked over.
I saw two staff members who looked like the program team walking over with expressions containing resentment.
Then, as if Teresa Teng owed them a lot of money, he loudly rebuked Teresa Teng and her agent in public for leaving without saying goodbye, which affected the rehearsal work of the program team.
This sudden noise immediately attracted the attention of other people in the cafe.
At this time, it is only one hour before normal white-collar workers get off work. It is the time when Tokyo Broadcasting Station has the most visitors of the day. There are many people sitting here to receive guests and waiting to meet.
Under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of eyes, not to mention Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki felt humiliated, even Ning Weimin and Akira Okamoto felt as embarrassed as needles on their backs.
The only good thing is that most of the people who witnessed this scene are people from TBS headquarters, and there will be no adverse effects from leaks.
Even if there were reporters, they would not expose this embarrassing scene.
But having said that, no matter what, the attitudes of the people from these two program groups are really too much.
You must know that Japanese people are actually most concerned about keeping quiet in public places. Avoiding disturbing others is the most basic morality and quality.
Even if you are angry, you cannot make such a loud noise that it will make people unable to get off the stage in front of you.
Furthermore, the Japanese also pay attention to the concept of hierarchy, and it is rare for the lower to overcome the superior.
It sounds like these two people are just ordinary crew members of the show, but they are so unscrupulous that they ignore their rank and reprimand a popular A-list star, without even mentioning any ethics or quality. This is too abnormal.
It is obvious that these two people are confident, so they deliberately show off their power and humiliate Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki in public. One cannot help but suspect that there is some special reason behind it.
What's more, Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki are still very aggrieved in this matter.
Even though they explained again and again, they had already informed the executive director who was responsible for assisting the chief director in rehearsing that they were coming to meet the guests, and they clearly informed that the meeting place was at the coffee shop on the first floor of the building for the convenience of the crew. Notifying them is useless.
The other party not only showed no understanding or consideration at all, but instead made sarcastic and sarcastic remarks.
I bit Teresa Teng to death and won the Limited Broadcasting Award, so I didn’t pay attention to the Record Award. She was too perfunctory and insincere in her work.
For this reason, they also insisted that they must end the meeting immediately, explain to the director immediately, and apologize to the other actors.
Just like that sarcastic, self-righteous villain, anyone who looks at him will frown.
As one of the parties involved, Ning Weimin, who was negotiating cooperation with Teresa Teng and Minoru Fukaki, got angry at the sight of them and wanted to beat them up.
In addition, he also felt that this meeting had harmed Teresa Teng, and he had to bear some responsibility, so he couldn't stay out of it.
However, just when he was about to speak out, Akira Okamoto pulled his cuffs and stopped him in a low voice.
"President Ning, please don't interfere. Otherwise, President Funaki and Theresa will be troubled, and even suffer in vain. The situation here is very complicated, so let's wait for a while..."
Facing the serious and unpredictable look in Okamoto's eyes, Ning Weimin, although full of doubts, knew it was not good to act rashly.
In this case, I had to restrain my violent temper, watch Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki being made difficult for them, and apologized repeatedly, in exchange for the "condescension" of the two stage managers. Closed.
Needless to say, if these two uninvited guests were so disrupted, the cooperation negotiations between the two parties could not be completed.
We can only call it a day and then make an appointment by phone to complete the contract.
In this way, until the two sides said goodbye to each other hastily, Teresa Teng and Minoru Funaki were "escorted" by two stage managers and rushed upstairs to the studio again.
Afterwards, Ning Weimin left the TBS headquarters building with Okamoto Akira.
However, the two did not return to the office, and found another izakaya to have a drink.
It was only then that, with cold beer, tamagoyaki and grilled bird skewers, the incident that had just happened was brought up by Akira Okamoto and used as a topic of discussion while they were drinking.
It was precisely because Ning Weimin heard some gossip circulating privately in the entertainment industry from Akira Okamoto that he was surprised to discover that Teresa Teng's situation in Japan was actually far worse than he imagined. The spring breeze is so proud and the scenery is infinite.
According to Akira Okamoto, in the Japanese entertainment industry, Teresa Teng belongs to the "Gaitare" category, which is the category of foreign artists.
So as early as the 1970s, when she signed a contract with Polydor and first came to Japan to develop, she was ostracized.
Her Chinese identity, as well as her personal insistence not to take a Japanese stage name or wear a kimono, are disliked by Japanese audiences and industry insiders.
Not only are many songwriters unwilling to write songs for her, but she often encounters harassment and humiliation from rude audiences during performances.
For a long time, she did not have an independent dressing room and could only share the dressing room with ordinary actors.
But even so, Teresa Teng's voice is so sweet, her ethereal tone and gentle temperament are completely unique.
After a year of obscurity, when she found her market position, her voice was like a shining pearl, blooming with dazzling luster in the Japanese music scene.
The single "Airport" released by him, even if it does not have a strong Japanese flavor, is completely a lyrical song in the universal enka style, and it really has no characteristics.
But it captured the hearts of many audiences and music fans, broke many record sales records, and also set the best-selling record for Polydor's singers since its establishment.
With this, he has won many awards including the "Japan Music Festival Silver Award", "Japan Record Awards New Artist Award", "Shinjuku Music Festival Bronze Award", "Ginza Music Festival Hot Performance Award", etc. She became a well-known singer in Japan.
But unfortunately, because of her Chinese identity, her dazzling achievements not only failed to improve Teresa Teng's situation, but instead brought her more hostility and more enemies.
In addition to causing many Japanese singers to be jealous and jealous of her, they are also greatly afraid of her strength.
Even among the selection committee of the Japan Record Awards, which awarded her the Best Newcomer Award, some people felt humiliated because they had to give this award to a foreigner.
You must know that before this, no foreign artist has achieved such achievements as Teresa Teng in the Japanese music scene.
After that, Teresa Teng could be said to have been ostracized by the Japanese music scene and became a common potential enemy of Japanese musicians. Although no one expressed this hostility openly, the criticism was everywhere. Many singers refused to cooperate with them, and some deliberately framed them.
Like the "fake passport" incident, someone saw the right opportunity to report it to the Japanese government. Teresa Teng, who fell into the trap, not only went to jail for it, but also caused a lot of legal trouble.
After that, I had to give up my career that was just starting to take off in Japan and was forced to leave Japan for several years.
However, just when many people thought Teresa Teng's career in Japan was over.
No one thought that she could actually make a comeback, and once she came back, she won the Japan Limited Broadcasting Award for three consecutive years, refreshing everyone's understanding, creating more brilliant achievements than before, and becoming An Asian diva that truly cannot be ignored.
But the problem is that while Teresa Teng's singing ability is fully recognized by all Japanese people, the existing problems have not been solved, but have become more serious.
With her "double crown and three consecutive wins", she is almost considering the Limited Broadcasting Awards as her exclusive award. How can other defeated singers and record companies not regard her as a major concern?
Feng Shui is changing, you have taken away the pot all by yourself, what is this?
Besides, Teresa Teng is not a prolific singer. She can win a major award every year with just one hit song from an album. Others can only achieve a record sales increase by releasing three or four albums. Defeat her.
This is like deliberately showing off your strength and slapping the Japanese music industry.
However, in view of the special rules of the Japan Limited Broadcast Awards, the selection is entirely based on Japanese viewers calling in one by one, and then recording the song request data of these viewers.
This award is the fairest and it all depends on popularity. No matter how envious other people are, there is nothing they can do about her.
Unless the limited broadcast bonus can change the rules of the game.
In this way, the more popular Teresa Teng becomes in Japan, the more isolated she will become. No Japanese singer will really be willing to be friends with her.
At the same time, the Japan Record Awards, Japan's only music award comparable to the Limited Broadcast Awards, has become the only award for Japanese music singers to save their face.
After all, in addition to the record sales performance, the final list of the Record Awards is determined by just a few judges. To put it bluntly, it is a black box operation.
It’s not hard to imagine how the jaw-dropping stage setting at the end of every year on the record album came about.
Whoever has a smart record agent, whose record company is strong, and whoever has more "sponsorships", whoever masters these items will be the winner of the "Grand Prize".
To put it bluntly, it is a private area for everyone to share pork.
There is no doubt that for Teresa Teng, this door is completely closed.
In this life, she will never win again in the Japan Record Awards.
In addition to her Chinese identity being the biggest obstacle, the record company that signed her is too weak and has no financial resources to help her get through and run this award.
Since it is impossible for her to be shortlisted or nominated, how can she win the award?
But the problem is that Teresa Teng's singing voice is so popular that it is enough to beat her Japanese counterparts for two consecutive years. This year's "Time of the Current" is another masterpiece.
The audience likes it, is addicted to it, and has countless fans. As a singer with an enka style, he has sold two million records based on his good reputation, surpassing most of the best marketers and record sellers. pop singer.
Moreover, her main fan audience is middle-aged people in their forties. This group is also the backbone of today's Japanese society. Even office workers are in management positions, and their right to speak cannot be ignored.
So in fact, it is only theoretical that the Record Awards can keep Teresa Teng out.
On the contrary, the Record Awards judging panel has to endure huge pressure from public opinion in order to adhere to "Japan's correctness" and not allow foreign artists to be shortlisted.
Although in 1984 and 1985, Teresa Teng was not nominated for the Japan Record Awards and turned a blind eye to her, this attitude suffered a backlash this year, which suddenly caused Japanese fans to and a huge emotional backlash from the audience.
The Japanese people have begun to express their dissatisfaction strongly and have begun to question the fairness and rationality of the Record Awards. Many people have expressed through major media that if it is as good as "Toki's flow of the body" If songs can't be selected, there really will be no need for the Record Awards to exist.
To be honest, if Teresa Teng is not nominated now, the judges of the Record Awards will not even be able to find a reason. I am afraid that they will be ridiculed a lot afterwards, and may even seriously affect the reputation of the Record Awards over the years—— The sharing of pork was too much. Even "Toki no Ryū れに body をまかせ" couldn't win the prize. This is to stick your head in the sand and act like an ostrich!
If this happened, it would be like ripping off the last fig leaf of the Academy Awards.
In Japanese society, when the credibility of an award is seriously questioned, especially by people in the cultural field, how many people can it still support in the future?
Will this be the beginning of the decline of awards?
In this case, the judges of the Record Awards are in a dilemma.
Teresa Teng can truly rely on her personal abilities to make an organization that can influence the career prospects of countless artists in the Japanese music industry have to face her existence.
This is very unscientific, but she did it.
So this year Teresa Teng knocked on the door of the Record Awards due to widespread public support, and was successfully nominated for the Record Awards competition. If nothing else, she would definitely not watch it. Returned empty handed.
Due to the pressure from the outside world, in order to reverse the negative impact, the Record Awards must be given to Rourou. She could get a pig tail no matter what.
When the time comes, her record sales and fame will also see a bonus period of one or two months of growth after the awards.
But the problem is that these rewards and gains are not so easy to get. This is a double-edged sword.
Because the Record Awards’ charitable act this time was completely kidnapped by public opinion and was not done willingly, how could the jury not be resentful?
So the welcome was expressed openly, but secretly some disgraceful methods were performed, and the jury's idea was also very simple.
I will catch your faults and try my best to torment you. Whether you have faults in your words, deeds or attitude, or you have decided to withdraw from the Daesang Awards, then we cannot blame our judges and the Daesang Awards.
So Teresa Teng accepted the nomination for the Record Awards and was invited to the TV station to participate in the rehearsal of the program.
In fact, she had already stepped into a trap of fame and fortune that was unavoidable and impossible to hide from. She had no other choice but to bear the humiliation and persevere until the day when the grand prize was awarded, in order to escape.
Otherwise, not only will she get nothing, but it will probably also damage her reputation.
Those people at the Record Awards will not hesitate to beat her up and criticize her.
This is probably why the ordinary staff of the program team dared to ignore their grades and yell at her. (End of this chapter)