I'm a pirate in Tokyo

Wu Sheng came up with the idea of ​​an underground album, rather than signing a contract with a record company.

In his opinion, releasing a private album by himself is a simple and easy way to make money, not to mention that Neon's underground band culture is extremely popular and may become popular.

What is underground?

Just don’t do commercialization and don’t sign with a major record company.

Many old hardcore punk rock bands are like this.

Most underground music opposes commercial packaging, emphasizes the ideological nature of works, and pursues the originality and personalization of musical language.

But this is a real world after all. Wang Del once said: "When rich people get together, they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money."

Therefore, after a period of "underground" development, most excellent underground music will be bought by large companies and integrated into the mainstream.

So the idea of ​​Wu Sheng coming up with underground records is very strange.

Several of the songs he wrote are obviously very orthodox pop music.

In Brook's opinion, after they recorded the demo and sent it to some major record companies, their band really had hope of debuting.

What are the benefits of releasing an underground album? It’s troublesome and doesn’t sell well, so why release an underground album?

These songs of yours are obviously mainstream and royal music!

Brooke was a little puzzled when he heard Wu Sheng's underground album plan: "Wouldn't it be better for us to find a slightly professional recording studio to record the demo, send it to the record company, and make a direct debut as a band?"

"Eh? Why do you have to sign with a record company?" Wu Sheng was stunned. He didn't want to be controlled by others: "Isn't freedom bad?"

In his heart, he is obviously just playing for fun, that is, he wants to be famous and make money, but he does not want to lose his freedom and be controlled.

Releasing underground records seems to be a very simple matter to outsiders.

But in actual operation, it is actually much more troublesome than imagined.

Recording, printing and various intermediary fees, as well as the packaging of the record, should it be burned into vinyl or CD? Is it a large CD or a small CD?

And you have to find a publisher to print it. If the distribution is not good enough, then you will basically rush to buy it, then go bankrupt and the band will be disbanded.

Or sell your own goods when attending music festivals.

Neon music festivals are indeed popular, and they are different from the domestic ones that take place in a day or two. This is a performance that takes place in the mountains or at the beach for several days and nights. More than 200 groups of domestic and foreign musicians can participate every time.

From hardcore rock to pop, from pop to folk, from folk to jazz, it covers a variety of music types.

Far away from the mundane world, the mountains are filled with clouds and mist, and people are completely immersed in music. They listen to songs during the day and hold bonfire parties at night, which is really like holding a festival.

Music lovers all bring tents to participate, and everyone can find their own happiness here.

But underground bands like this kind of super-large music festival are not up to par. They still have to be somewhat famous and capable.

At their current level, they don't even have serious stage performance experience, so they probably have no hope of success. If they really want to make underground records on their own, they can only participate in more small underground live performances and slowly accumulate fame.

It's hard, tiring, twice the result with twice the result, and not worth it.

If they sign with a record company, they can handle everything from arranging to recording, from packaging to distribution, from selling to becoming famous, from LIVE to concerts, from TV shows to music festivals, and you don’t have to run around at all.

, tired of running for his life.

This is really trouble-free! Leave professional matters to professionals, and musicians only need to make their own music.

Brooke briefly explained the situation to Wu Sheng, which promptly extinguished his naive illusions.

Brooke had originally thought about simply releasing underground records by himself. After all, his own songs were indeed very... offbeat and not accepted by big companies.

But after I learned about it myself, countless realistic things came to mind. In addition to these, there is a more important thing, that is, underground records, but you have to pay for them!

Like a single, only 2,000 copies are released. There is no advertising fee from beginning to end, and the actual cost is about 1.5 million yen!

Brooke really just comes from an ordinary middle-class family. His family does not support his music dream. If he goes to work to make money by himself, how long will it take him to make money?

Therefore, Brooke's dream of high school music was shattered. Everyone in the original light music club went to college, went to college, entered the society, went their separate ways, and disappeared from his life.

But they are different now!

These songs "written" by Wu Sheng are really good!

Even though his arranging skills are not as good as those of super professional masters, Brooke is confident that after sending it to the record company, signing the contract will be a matter of minutes.

"Although the record company is likely to let you debut alone rather than with a band." Brooke explained: "Compared to making an underground record by yourself, it is more convenient and free for you to sign with a record company."

Luffy was surprised: "We sent the album in the name of the band, why would Takeda make his debut alone?"

Ah, this kind of thing happens often, right?

Everyone in the activity room looked at each other, not knowing how to explain to Luffy.

"Hmm, anyway, Takeda, if you really decide to make a debut and make a record, it would be better to go find a record company." Brooke concluded, this is all based on his experience after having suffered a lot in the past few years.

"I understand, I thought too simply." Wu Sheng touched his nose: "Then let's take a long-term view... After all, Keya is really not suitable for public appearances, right?"

He looked at Keya. The three boys would probably be fine, but Keya was the eldest daughter of the Kamijima family after all, so it would probably be difficult for her to make her debut.

"Eh? Why is that?" Luffy asked stupidly again: "Keya plays the piano very well!"

"..." Wu Sheng didn't know how to explain such a relatively obscure and complicated matter to him.

Keya smiled softly: "I'll ask auntie about this when I go back."

If they had the support of the Kamijima Group, their debut might become very simple.

After all, entering the entertainment industry with a backer and without a backer are really two different things. What are you doing here to promote it? You can say that the smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley. When people come, they are overwhelmed with top-level resources, covering all directions from the beginning of the alley to the end of the alley.

!

How can you compare with others!

"Okay." Wu Sheng and Brooke nodded: "Then let's continue!"

Anyway, I’ll finish the four songs first, and then I’ll have options whether I record a demo and send it to a big company, or I release an underground record!

"oh!"

...

After rehearsing all afternoon, Wu Sheng went to work at GM Tokyo at 5 o'clock.

Lunzi and the others had also heard about the school festival. Sanji seemed to be Wu Sheng's number one fan. Every day when he came to the store, he started bragging about the amazing songs Wu Sheng had written. It was as if there was no friend before or after.

Those who come are ordinary.

Now even Ohana feels that maybe she was burying her talent when she originally wanted this Takeda boy to be a chef.

"Isn't your boy born to be a genius in cultural and creative fields?"

Wu Sheng smiled, waved his hands and said no, accepted their teasing, and instead invited: "Mr. Ohana, you must come and participate in our school's campus festival! Our performance is in the morning, so it shouldn't delay the business."

As we all know, campus festivals are open to the outside world, allowing students to organize their own activities and show the society's achievements to the society.

"Okay!" Chef Renzi heard the invitation, put down the ingredients in his hands, and agreed with a gentle smile: "We haven't participated in such an event for a long time, right?"

"Yeah." Kyono also leaned over and said, "After all, opening a store is really too busy."

Ohana was very arrogant: "It depends on the situation. I'll go when I have time. The food at the school festival is too unpalatable."

"I'm not asking you to eat, but to watch a show!" Chef Renzi slapped him.

"Okay, okay..." Ohana shrank her head and responded quickly: "When the time comes, let's go and see if he is as awesome as Sanji boasts! I was..."

Ohana started to tell the story of how she led her class to open a store during the campus festival of her high school students, which became popular among thousands of girls.

Everyone was joking and chatting about the campus festivals in their respective student days. They were now away from campus life, and for a while they had some expectations for the campus festivals in this era.

Wu Sheng looked at everyone with some reluctance. Tomorrow is the last day.

Now when it was time to leave, he actually felt a little reluctant to leave.

He took a deep breath and silently encouraged himself: "It is because he can't let go of this group of people that he has to become stronger and conquer Linda's palace as soon as possible in order to protect this store from the glutton's crazy desire for destruction."

It was another busy night, Wu Sheng and Sanji said goodbye on the subway.

It was 10:30 pm again when I got home.

After taking a shower, I sat on the sofa at home feeling fresh and refreshed. I picked up the sample issue of next week's Shonen Junk and read it. Then I remembered that I would continue to use the magic mirror to search the palace with Nami today.

So Yunami sent a message asking her to come up.

After a while, Nami came up wearing slippers and casual clothes. She walked into Wu Sheng's house and yawned and complained: "If I come here like this every day from now on, Noki Gao will be suspicious!"

When she just received a text message saying that she was coming to Takeda's house, her sister smiled very strangely, as if she was saying, "You and Takeda are not having an affair," and "Sister supports you!"

It made her very uncomfortable, and she went to Wu Sheng's house with random thoughts like "Why are women all about love?" swirling in her mind.

"What do you suspect?" Wu Sheng walked to the refrigerator and didn't react for a moment: "What do you want to drink? Oolong tea?"

Nami paused and looked at Wu Sheng with empty eyes: "It's nothing."

Is this guy really the kind of steely straight man who doesn't understand amorous feelings as he says?

"I want sugar-free oolong tea."

"Okay." Wu Sheng took out a bottle of oolong tea and threw it to Nami: "Go on."

Of course he is not a straight man, but he is very familiar with Nami, and she was a character in a hot-blooded comic in his previous life. From elementary school to graduation to work, in the past 20 years, there has been nothing about love in this comic, it is all about dreams.

and friendship.

Twenty years of stereotypes have been brought over and extended to this Nami. Even though she is just an "ordinary" female high school student now, Wu Sheng doesn't have the slightest idea in that regard.

He sat down next to Nami and turned on the TV: "Would you like to play a few games first? Didn't you say last time that you wanted to play Three Kingdoms Warriors Orochi? When I first came up, I saw a discount when I passed the game store.

I bought a bunch of games again."

Only then did Nami find a paper bag on the table, took it over and opened it: "You bought so many games again? You haven't played the ones you originally bought, right?"

"Haha..." Wu Sheng took a sip of his drink: "How much is this?"

In my last life, I bought a lot of games on that fat man’s platform.

I haven’t played any of them! Why don’t I keep buying them?