Chapter 80: Young Dreams
In addition to being a frequent guest of the Red and White Song Club, Akiko Wada is also a frequent visitor to the annual "Weekly Women's List" of "Most Hated Actresses of the Same Sex", and has won the championship many times.
Hetian Qiuzi has won the championship many times, in addition to the older and meaner appearance, the character of relying on the old and selling the old is also one of the important reasons for being annoying.
Japan is a country that pays great attention to seniority, and the seniority of Wada Akiko determines that even in the face of the "three royal families in the funny world", they can be called by their names unceremoniously.
Who are the "Three Families", you ask?
They are Takeshi Kitano, Akashi saury, and TAMORI.
By the way, this is not an analogy, Hetian Akiko, an old woman with zero emotional intelligence, has really done this kind of thing.
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So, why does this "BIGMOM" in the singing world have trouble with Hikaru Utada?
This is actually a "grievance" between the elders.
In the early seventies, Akiko Wada, who was still a minor at the time, had a special crush on singer Kiyoshi Maekawa, and the two dated for a while, but they had a big quarrel on a date and broke up.
Soon after, Kiyoshi Maekawa and Keiko Fuji, who is also a singer, got married, but divorced only a year later. After that, Keiko Fuji married music producer Terumi Utada, so there was Hikaru Utada.
From the day Fuji Keiko "snatched love with a horizontal knife", Wada Akiko hated her, and later hated Hikaru Utada with her feet, and focused on "black light" for 20 years, until Lin Hai crossed, she still insisted on smearing and ridiculing Hikaru Utada on various occasions.
Speaking of which, I believe you can understand why I put the above "grievances" in quotation marks.
Yes, no matter how you look at it, Wada Akiko's hatred for Utada's mother and daughter is a bit vexatious.
First, she broke up first, and Maekawa Kiyoshi got married later. Considering her character, it's hard to say that the two broke up without her own reasons.
Second, Fuji Keiko only maintained a husband and wife relationship with Kiyoshi Maekawa for one year before divorcing, and later after remarrying, she did not intersect with her ex-husband.
Third, it is really a loss of identity to sprinkle resentment on the younger generation......
Well, combined with what Akiko Wada said on a TV show - she once said to the media: "Keiko Fuji defiled the man I like", Lin Hai felt that she hated Utada's mother and daughter deeply, and there was probably only one reason -
Because he was still a minor at the time, he was not able to successfully get Maekawa Kiyoshi's "first blood".
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Lin Hai jokingly expressed his speculation, which was spurned by the two women.
"I'm not excusing her, but to be honest, that old woman deserves a lot of sympathy......"
"You still say!" Hikaru Utada widened. If it weren't for the scruples, she would have been eager to press Lin Hai to the ground and rub it hard.
"Does Lin Jun care about 'one blood'?"
Kyoko Fukada asked with a blushing face.
Seeing Lin Hai looking at her, Kyoko hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I haven't, I haven't ......."
"Are you stupid!"
Hikaru Utada drilled Kyoko Fukada's head with his fist and said angrily, "You can say these words too?"
"But ......"
Kyoko Fukada finally broke free and wanted to argue, but looking at the other party's clenched fist, she finally chose to shut up obediently.
Lin Hai persuaded: "Okay, you also grew up in the United States, as for such a big reaction?"
"What's wrong with the United States?" Utada Mitsuru was anxious, "Although I grew up in the United States, I didn't ...... either"
Speaking of this, she realized that something was wrong and quickly covered her mouth.
Kyoko Fukada laughed and said, "You still talk about me, you didn't say that you missed your mouth - ah!
Hikaru Utada put away his fists and stared at Lin Hai with fierce eyes: "You can forget it within one minute." ”
"What did you just say?"
Lin Hai began to play dumb.
Utada stared at him intently, and after a while, she grabbed her hair irritably, and said deflatedly: "Forget it, in short, you remember it for me, I'm not a random girl!"
This is the end of the matter, but Silly Gong is starting to be stupid again.
She asked Hikaru Utada curiously: "I heard that Americans are very casual, is it true?"
"What's my business!"
Hikaru Utada replied angrily, realizing that his tone was wrong, so he adjusted his emotions and said: "My mother taught me when I was very young that a girl's first time is very important, and once you give it to the wrong person, your whole life will become cheap in the future...... So you must not be stupid on this issue......"
I don't know how much Kyoko Fukada listened, but she replied quite quickly: "Don't worry, until I find His Majesty the King, I will definitely be a ...... like a jade."
“……”
“……”
This is a fool.
Hikaru Utada and Lin Hai glanced at each other, and both showed helpless expressions.
……
Fuji Keiko's words of educating Hikaru Utada will probably make some feminists uncomfortable, after all, the value of a woman's life is by no means represented by a membrane.
But this is probably her most real life insight.
Keiko Fuji was married six times in her life, five of them with the same person.
Yes, after she and Utada remarried, they divorced and remarried again and again, so much so that their daughters said that "they should be interested in divorce".
Of course, this is just a perfunctory joke for journalists, and the actual reasons are much more complicated.
"Mom's mental state has not been very good all these years. ”
Hikaru Utada said in a depressed mood: "Sometimes I suspect that she married her father in the first place, completely self-defeating......"
Lin Hai didn't know what to say.
The reason why Keiko Fuji divorced Kiyoshi Maekawa was because of different goals in life.
Although Keiko Fuji debuted as a singer, she was not interested in acting, and she was more eager to go to the United States for development.
Keiko Fuji, who was in full swing in the Japanese music scene at that time, was indeed qualified to do the "American dream", but shortly after her divorce, she had a problem with her voice, and after undergoing surgery, her voice changed, and then she retired and made a comeback several times, making her slowly lose the love of her fans.
What it was like to fall from the peak of his life to the bottom, Lin Hai had never experienced it, but he knew that it would definitely be uncomfortable.
Fuji Keiko officially retired and moved to the United States in 1979, and married Utami Utada in 1982. It seems that she has entered a new phase in her life, but in reality, she has not come out of her dreams.
In the years that followed, she never gave up releasing records, until her daughter officially debuted, she recognized the reality and completely terminated all contracts with the record company.
For a singer who was once a smash hit, it was cruel for her to realize that she was outdated. What's more, in Lin Hai's view, Fuji Keiko has never really loved music from beginning to end, she just uses singing as a tool to chase fame and fortune.
Fuji Keiko's desire for money is extremely strong, but the honest father who is weak by nature can't give her the drunken life she wants, which is probably the fundamental reason why the two are separated and combined.
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Lin Hai looked at Hikaru Utada.
This is also a poor man.
Probably because she was too deeply influenced by her parents, she has always longed to have a happy family, but unfortunately she has repeatedly met unladylikes, and her two marriages ended in divorce.
There are eight hardships in life, and the most bitter is "unbelievable".
This sentence is probably the truest portrayal of this mother and daughter.
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Seeing that Hikaru Utada was lost again, Lin Hai thought about it and spoke.
“Hikki……”
"Huh?"
"There's a question I've always wanted to ask you. Lin Hai paused for a moment and said, "If one day you reach the peak of the music scene, what do you want to do?"
"You don't have a fever, do you?" Hikaru Utada asked rhetorically, "Where did the music world come from?"
"You have to set a goal, right? Like we're doing, I'm hoping it will be replaced by a 'gramophone.' ”
"How dare you think about it!"
Hikaru Utada knew that the gramophone that Lin Hai was talking about was referring to the Grammy Awards. To be honest, although she is confident in the songs she is recording, she only expects the market response, and does not expect to be recognized by the Grammys at all.
"What if?" asked Lin Hai persistently.
"If there really is a day......"
Hikaru Utada thought for a moment and said, "I'll probably continue singing." ”
"It's weird, isn't it?" Hikaru Utada smiled, "Daddy always thought that I liked to sing, just influenced by my mother, just to fulfill her unfulfilled dream." This is not the case. ”
"No, there was a time when I did. Hikaru Utada corrected, "When I was younger, I actually preferred to draw, and I used to dream of being a manga artist, but my parents both made music, so I knew I was destined to follow this path. For a while, my idea was that when I became famous and had money, I would quit the music scene and find someone I liked to wander with, and use my brush to record the beautiful scenery around the world......"
Lin Hai nodded and said, "What now?"
"I've been in music for a long time, and I've found that I really like singing, so—" Hikaru Utada shrugged, "even if I don't lack anything now, I'll continue to sing until the day I can't sing." ”
Kyoko Fukada interjected, "Maybe you met someone you liked, and then went wandering?"
"Who knows. ”
Hikaru Utada didn't dwell on this question, and asked Kyoko Fukada instead, "What about you? Is there anything you want to achieve no matter what?"
"I'm ......"
Kyoko Fukada thought for a moment and said, "My words, no matter what, I will find my Majesty the King......"
Well, you know what not to expect from her.
Lin Hai smiled and said to Kyoko Fukada: "Then I'm afraid you have to be mentally prepared......"
But he knew that this fool hadn't married himself off until twenty years later......
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Both girls spoke out about their dreams and asked Lin Hai to talk about him as well.
Lin Hai raised his arms passionately and said, "My dream is to become the king of the pirates - ahem!"
was pinched by Utada Hikaru, and Lin Hai got serious.
"Well, my true dream is that the world is ruled by me, and the great waves are at my command......"