As RB's biggest music program, it has always been the dream of many singers and idol groups to appear on the stage of "MUSIC STATION", and the successful appearance in this show is also a symbol of entering the mainstream music industry. Therefore, many singers made a lot of jokes because they were too excited when they first appeared, such as incoherent speech, singing and crying, etc., or pediatrics, and even fell down the iconic staircase when they appeared. Even many of the biggest names in Europe and the United States have a must-visit to "MUSIC STATION" when they come to Japan to promote it.

Don't look at Ye Zhao's rhetoric that "if you don't win Zhou Guan, you won't be on MS", this show is not something anyone who wants to be on it, especially as a rookie singer, it is very difficult to appear in "MS" once, in addition to the sales to pass, you have to give the company a lot of strength, after all, this show is broadcast once a week on Friday, and you can only invite so many groups of guests each time, and you have to give the green light to the old singers and related households who have been in the debut for many years, and those who really belong to new faces are only two or three positions at most.

In the 90s, when the relationship between BEING and "MS" was not bad, it was not difficult to push Ye Zhao onto the stage of "MS", as Nagato Daiyuki said, as long as he could break into the top ten of the weekly list, he would have a chance. Under such a premise, Ye Zhao still insisted on participating in "MS" only after winning the weekly championship, which also has a sense of relying on hard power to appear.

The headquarters of BEING and the TV Asahi building are not far away, which is said to be one of the reasons why BEING does not refuse its singers to star in MS - anyway, it will be there after a meal.

On Friday afternoon, Ye Zhao, accompanied by his assistant, took a Toyota nanny car to the headquarters of TV Asahi.

The assistant that BEING assigned to Ye Zhao is named Akihiko Aragaki, a man in his thirties with a very mature appearance and personality, and when he learned that his surname was Aragaki and he was born in Okinawa, Ye Zhao almost asked him if he had a relative named Yui...... Of course, it's just a matter of thinking about it, after all, the surname Aragaki in Okinawa is similar to the surname Sato in Tokyo, and they are all shouting and turning back.

Entering the backstage, as a newcomer singer who has just debuted, the first thing Ye Zhao has to do is to worship the mountain. In the RB entertainment industry, it is right to be polite, greet in time, greet politely, the more and more timely the greeting, the higher the evaluation of others will be for you, on the other hand, if you don't say hello or don't play in time enough, you will be regarded as arrogant by the artists and staff who co-perform.

Since there is an acre of land in MS, the person who must be worshipped is, of course, the host Tamori. Since the launch of "MS" in 1986, except for the first year when Hiroshi Sekiguchi served as the host, he has been sitting in the battle for the next 30 years, and in these 30 years, Tamori can be said to have witnessed the popularity and fall of countless singers and artists.

The lounge of "MS" is arranged according to seniority, the top one belongs to Tamori, and the singers are arranged down in order according to their debut time, as the youngest guest in this episode, Ye Zhao's lounge is at the end of the corridor, by the way, it is diagonally opposite the bathroom.

Came to the outside of Tamori's lounge, after knocking on the door, a sound of "please come in" came from inside, and Ye Zhao pushed open the door of the lounge while saying "excuse me".

As the host, Tamory's lounge has always been dedicated to him, so the layout inside is also different from Ye Zhaozhi's lounge, including the furniture, many of which are Tamory's own things. Ye Zhao bowed and said, "Hello Tamorisan, I'm newcomer Ye Zhao, this is my new single, please accept it." He handed his single with both hands.

"Are you Ye Zhao?" Tamori took the single and looked at it, put it on the low table in front of him, and looked at him quietly through the brown sunglasses, "Nice young man." Let's do a good job for today's performance. In terms of what he has shown in just a few tens of seconds, Tamori is an ordinary uncle who looks very kind, but Ye Zhao will never relax in front of him because he looks kind, you must know that he has been standing in the entertainment industry for decades, and Takeshi Kitano and Akashi saury are called BIG3 funny giants, and he is one of the small groups of people who stand at the top of the pyramid in the entertainment industry, although he has a good relationship with him, he may not get much benefit, but if he offends him, don't think about mixing in the circle in the future.

As a newcomer, don't think about how to win favor with the big guy when you meet for the first time, talk and laugh with the big guy, and after saying hello, Ye Zhao said goodbye and left the lounge with a very good look.

Today's lineup, whether it is now or in the future, has to make the audience shout luxury. In addition to Ye Zhao, a newcomer who has just debuted, the other groups of singers are SMAP, Kyoko Koizumi, Keiyuki Makihara, LINDBERG, NOKKO, and the band DEEN, which also belongs to BEING.

NEEDLESS TO SAY, SMAP IS A NATIONAL IDOL GROUP, KYOKO KOIZUMI IS THE ROYAL IDOL OF FILM AND TELEVISION SONGS, TAKIYUKI MAKINOHARA IS A BEST-SELLING SINGER-SONGWRITER AND SONGWRITER OF SMAP'S "THE ONLY FLOWER IN THE WORLD", AND LINDBERG IS A GIRL'S IN THE LATE 80S ROCK's leading figures, with a total sales of more than 10 million yuan; NOKKO is the lead singer of Rebecca, the pioneer of the female lead singer and male member group; as for DEEN, although their peak period was short, they still had a good record at the time: the first singer to achieve a single and album sales of one million on his debut.

Although DEEN and Ye Zhao belong to the same company, they can't talk about friendship because they haven't met at all before. DEEN's lead singer Shuichi Ikemori has a shy and kind personality, and after greeting him, he didn't forget to encourage: "It doesn't matter, just treat it with a normal heart." Having said that, the tension on his face is even worse than Ye Zhao's, and it's no wonder that they only debuted a year earlier than Ye Zhao, and the personalities of BEING singers are generally introverted.

"Thank you, Ikemori-senpai. Ye Zhao smiled. He didn't feel nervous, but curious. In the sum of his two lives, this is the first time he has entered the studio, and he has participated in a super-branded show like "MS".

This look made Ye Zhao see a team of familiar figures, to be precise, five familiar faces and one raw face, these six people walked into the backstage under the leadership of a short, mediocre-looking, but very capable woman - that's right, this team of people is SMAP and their agent Iijima Sanchi. At this time, Mori Jixing has not quit the group and retired from the office in order to pursue the dream of racing drivers, and SMAP is just a popular idol group, which has nothing to do with the words "National Heavenly Group".

If you want to talk about the SMAP group, the most powerful thing about them is not that they have broken any records or produced a bug-like character like Takuya Kimura, but that their appearance has greatly changed people's definition of the idol profession.

The word corresponding to RB's idol is IDOL, when it comes to this profession, in the seventies and eighties, it was actually relatively noble, whether it was Yamaguchi Momoe or Matsuda Seiko, Nishijo Hideki or Xiang Hiromi, when it comes to these people, what people can think of is a beautiful and handsome face, a shining typhoon, and a reserved and elegant conversation, so to speak, idols are people's sustenance for all good things.

On the other hand, the earliest idols emphasized the beauty of Kiyomasa, and they were a kind of existence that would say "strawberry ice cream" when asked what they liked in an interview, and "gentle people" when asked about their favorite type. In variety shows, in order to protect the professional image of idols, even if they like funny hosts, they will not trick them.

And in the end, it was two groups of idols who broke this rule: Kitten Club and SMAP, although the changes brought about by the two were two very different consequences.

In the 80s, RB TV held a lot of talent shows, including "Star Birth!" for the selection of idols, "Yuji Miyake's Awesome Band Heaven" for the selection band, and in 1985, Fuji TV also launched a program called "Dusk Meow" under the proposal of a fat man with black-framed glasses, recruiting female high school students as assistant hosts, and derived the idol group of Kitten Club. Unlike the idols that have been strictly selected in other shows, the threshold of "Dusk Meow" is extremely low, which makes a large number of amateur girls hitchhike and get addicted to idols.

The emergence of the kitten club not only broke the image of the original idol in people's hearts - these ordinary students who had just tasted the taste of fame boldly confided their truth in the show, and broke unfavorable news one after another, and the excessively low selection threshold also made people's original impression of the idol "cloud man" greatly reduced, and this noble profession was completely devalued.

The emergence of the kitten club largely led to the decade-long idol ice age in the RB entertainment industry, and idols, a profession that all girls aspired to, became worthless. Linked to AKB, an idol who can meet later, it can be said that the reason why the status of the female love Shake Lu has dropped again and again, and the guy Yasuya Akimoto has to bear great responsibility.

Contrary to the sequelae of the kitten club, it is SMAP.

SMAP, which debuted in 1991, first unfortunately bumped into Chuck and Asuka's hit single "SAY YES" when they debuted, and because the living space of idols at that time was repeatedly compressed, so that they were always in a state of half-red and not black, until they starred in a variety show called "Dream MORIMORI", in which they did a somewhat deviant thing - funny. Before SMAP, idols couldn't be funny, even if it was the idol ice age, idols still strictly abided by this rule and maintained "not funny" as the last dignity.

Giving up the reserve of the so-called idol, SMAP boldly did all the things that idols would not do, and gained a lot of audience popularity, and then Takuya Kimura opened the door to film and television dramas, Masahiro Nakai began to be the host, and Shingo Katori even put on women's clothes in 2000 and released his million-dollar single "Shingo Mother's OHA Rock". The five members showed their talents in various fields, proving to the world that idols can have so many faces and so much strength.

Although in 2016, SMAP, which debuted for 25 years, finally did not avoid the fate of disbanding, but before them, no idol group could always stand at the top of the entertainment industry for more than 20 years, no matter what kind of impact they faced from latecomers, it was difficult to shake their status as a celestial group. And their attempts in various fields have also opened the doors that were originally tightly closed for idols, giving idols a more diverse way of survival for this profession.