Chapter 255: The Association Triggered by the Two Ape Heads

Although it was a memorable first time, it was only a short three minutes.

However, if you count the host's jokes and song introductions before the start, it can barely have five minutes. If you calculate it this way, it is not so little.

After all, it's just a newcomer singer who debuted. Although the Red and White Song Club is also a stage of "who am I afraid of", but if you want to get better treatment, in addition to popularity, appropriate qualifications are also needed.

What's more, his popularity this year is far from the level of "who am I afraid of", and there is still considerable room for improvement if he wants to become "different" on this stage. And becoming a big singer, becoming a guest of honor at the Red and White Song Club, and winning high ratings are all goals that will never be bypassed in his future career.

It's like the fruit that must be eaten on the adventures of Takahashi's celebrities, or the weapon capsules that the Contra brothers must get on their way through the level.

After some jokes and song introductions by the host, Ye Zhao finally stood on the stage of the Red and White Song Club and started his own performance. Although it is always said that the scene of the Red and White Song Club is indifferent, it does not mean that the audience is really indifferent to watch the show the whole time, it just won't be as high as the concert.

After all, when Ye Zhao first appeared, several men shouted "Come on!" from the audience. As for why it's a man and not a girl...... It is important for the girls to maintain their image, and he can understand.

For the first time to participate in red and white, he was not very excited when he received the invitation, and he was not too nervous before the debut, so he sang calmly and calmly throughout the whole process, and then retired from the stage in the applause of the audience, completing the first red and white appearance of his singer career.

His performance was arranged at the end of the first half, that is, when he returned to the backstage after the end, there were still more than two hours before the end of the whole show, but even so, there was no way to go home immediately, but to wait honestly backstage, and wait until the end of the show, and then show up with all the singers who appeared, and sing the song "Firefly Light" equivalent to "Unforgettable Tonight".

The stage in 1995, as a later view, is indeed quite simple, but in terms of the sincerity of the program planning, it is not lost to the later Red and White Song Club, and even stronger in some places. But even so, it is difficult to calm down and enjoy the show in the chaotic backstage, but it is more interested in this star-studded backstage.

The singers who debuted in 1995 are mostly very vigorous in their careers, and those veteran singers who have often appeared for decades will not mention it for the time being, Junjun has become Japan's premier producer because of the father of Good Morning Niang, and although Sakai Noriko finally incarnated a string of tears of the times, she has really had a pearl career.

As for Namie Amuro, Maya Okamoto, or Tokio and Smap, these people are all figures who are still active in the mainstream music scene in various ways until more than ten or even twenty years later, so when you stay in this backstage, basically the singers who pass by can be named.

Of course, the vast majority of them belong to Ye Zhao's state of "knowing" them, and they also "know" Ye Zhao, but both sides don't know each other.

However, when surrounded by so many future big singers, what attracted Ye Zhao's attention was a group that had been short-lived for more than a year and soon fell silent. In fact, to be precise, it was not the faces of the group members that caught his attention, but the striking ape heads worn on the female members.

When it comes to this ape-man head with vampire fangs, you can't talk about bape, you can't talk about bape, you can't talk about nigo, you can't talk about nigo, and when you talk about nigo, you can't fail to mention the girl who wears the ape's head on her body now...... That's right, the name of this group is East Endxyuri.

And this girl who wears the ape head, which is still only popular in the Harajuku cultural circle, onto the stage of the Red and White Song Society, is the female rapper in the group, Yuri Ichii, nicknamed Yuri.

The reason why the identity of Yuri Ichii is associated with just through the head of the ape is that the current mainstream singers will not put the ape head on such a formal stage, as for the second, it is this Yuri Ichi, who later married Nigo, the founder of Bape, although they divorced immediately, but it does not prevent the two from being linked together.

Thanks to the group's pioneering efforts in the two years from 1994 to 1995, rap was finally known throughout Japan as a form of music that went underground to the ground. Although they are still a bit of a novelty in the conservative red and white audience, the audience did not give them too much enthusiasm when they appeared on the stage.

But in any case, two million-dollar singles, the first rap group to appear on the red and white stage, these are enough to make them pioneers of Japanese rap music.

In addition, the more important point is that rap is a relatively niche music form, and if it wants to make it into the mainstream market, commercialization and appropriate compromise are inevitable, but where the balance between rap and the mainstream market lies, and how to integrate the two, is a question that needs to be constantly considered.

And the combination of East Endxyuri just pointed out a direction for the latecomers to think and explore.

After the show enters the second half, it is basically a stage for singers and veteran bigwigs. Especially the singers, from the first half to the second half, the sense of presence is quite strong, and people can't help but shout in their hearts "The prosperous age of singing".

Among the many singers, the one that impressed Ye Zhao the most was the outdoor enthusiast Sayuri Ishikawa who led the red and white audience over the mountains (over the heavenly city) and the sea (the winter scenery of the Tsugaru Strait) every year in later generations.

Although she did not sing these two masterpieces this year, she still did not change her true character as an athlete, and rowed the boat on the stage with great momentum. That powerful aura made Ye Zhao somewhat wonderfully think of the female general of Da Ori, and when he watched her perform backstage, he couldn't help but secretly think that he should carry two short knives in her arms.

However, just like when you see bape, you think of Yuri Ichii, as a latecomer, when you see Sayuri Ishikawa, the first thing that comes to mind is the Flaming Mountain that turns over year but can't turn over year after year, oh no, it's Amagi Mountain. 2k reading web