Chapter 251: The Red and White Incident
On the last day of 2006, at the Red and White Song Party, known as the "Japanese version of the Spring Festival Gala", there was a scandal that shocked the whole country!
The scandal, which was later called the "2006 Red and White Incident", went through this process.
At 10:22 p.m. on December 31, 2006, in the second half of the Red and White Song Party, DJ OZMA, the singer of the White Team, suddenly threw off his coat and pants while singing his song "Give, Give to Every Knight", and only a pair of ultra-small shorts painted with male genitalia were left on his body.
At the same time, the fifty-one actors dancing behind him, probably more than half of the women, all threw off the golden trench coats covering their bodies in uniform movements; under the spotlight of the stage, I saw that all the backup dancers were naked on their upper bodies and only wore narrow underwear on their lower bodies.
Moreover, at that time, Red and White was still in the live broadcast...
This is also the reason why the three Sakamoto Kiyoshi who were in the lounge were all confused when they saw this scene.
Because it was so unexpected, the host and the audience were dumbfounded and didn't have time to react.
DJ OZMA and his backup dancers calmly finished the show...
This sudden scene made the three Sakamoto Kiyoshi sitting in the lounge, the audience watching the performance at the scene, and the audience watching the "New Year's Eve Party" with their families at home, their brains were instantly blank.
Since the Red and White Song Festival was broadcast live, this scene was exposed to audiences all over Japan without any hindrance, and the whole country was in an uproar for a while.
In a very short period of time, NHK TV stations were flooded with complaints, and countless viewers angrily criticized why such a program appeared, and questioned the impact of being seen by children on occasions such as the Red and White Song Festival.
This caused Mino Miyake, one of the hosts of the night, to interrupt the show after 30 minutes and apologize to the audience.
In Miyake's explanation, it's all DJ OZMA's fault.
In between the words, DJ OZMA's performance program is purely self-proclaimed.
also quibbled, saying that "during the rehearsal, after his backup dancer threw off his windbreaker, it was a bikini swimsuit inside, and it wasn't that he didn't wear anything" Yunyun...
The lame explanation still couldn't calm the anger of the audience.
This can be seen from the first day of 2007, the headlines of major news magazines and newspapers are angrily denouncing NHK and DJ OZMA, it can be seen that the public does not buy NHK's explanation...
However, in any case, this unexpected event made NHK reluctantly the protagonist of the number one news of the new year.
And the "wonderful cooperation between Kiyoshi Sakamoto and Arashi", which originally occupied a certain space that night, or the "popular limited group" ARASHIYO's "first red and white debut", was also robbed of headlines and the public's attention by this sudden incident.
In this regard, Denis, who originally wanted Arashi to go further, also scolded the initiator in his heart, DJ OZMA, who "made his own decisions".
As for the fact that DJ OZMA is not making his own claims, Kiyoshi Sakamoto has a different opinion.
HE DOESN'T THINK IT'S ALL DJ OZMA'S OWN INITIATIVE.
You know, what kind of stage will the Red and White Song be on?
However, the historical ratings exceeded 80 percent, and in recent years, the ratings have hovered around 40 percent, and among all TV programs in the country, the "Japanese version of the Spring Festival Gala" has the highest rating!!
Moreover, the organizer is the national television station NHK, which adds a bit of seriousness.
The status of red and white determines the nature of its stage, which is cautious and stable, not seeking merit but seeking no fault, which is the idea in the hearts of all program personnel every year.
However, no matter how good-looking the show is, after being held for nearly 50 years, there will be aesthetic fatigue.
Last year's ratings have fallen below an all-time low, only about 40 percent of the red and white, probably because of this, there are also some different voices internally, these "reformers" try to use some hot news, to stimulate the declining ratings.
Such a possibility is not impossible.
Moreover, such a New Year's Eve party hosted by national television and watched by more than one-third of the people in the country could not be so casually mixed up with a program like DJ OZMA.
It would have been discovered as early as the rehearsal.
In this case, there is only one possibility.
That is, all of this is NHK TV, in order to make a big news and raise the ratings, so it wrote and directed such a year-end show!
And it just so happened that DJ OZMA, who was a little bit of a decline, became the scapegoat...
However, all of this is just Sakamoto Kiyoshi's personal thoughts, and there is no evidence to prove it.
He hoped he was wrong.
After all, this kind of thing, arguing about who is right and who is wrong, is pointless, it just exposes the dark side of this circle...
And as a person in this circle, he doesn't want the public to feel that he is also that kind of shady person.
Although he also has dark moments.
However, for this "year-end farce", many people believe that the appearance of such an "episode" is not completely bad news for NHK.
At the very least, such an "accident" may bring back some people's interest, and maybe it can.
Judging from the results of the competition, the audience did not seem to take the negative impact of this incident too seriously, and DJ OZMA's white group still won the red and white duel, so that the white group was 29:28 ahead of the red group in the total number of games.
And, judging by the highest ratings of the night, the moment that soared all the way to 45 percent was in the minutes when DJ OZMA "Celestial Motion" was there.
Even the ratings of SMAP in the few minutes of its appearance were slightly inferior...
It is conceivable that this incident exploded.
This can be regarded as making NHK TV a "good" start in the new year...
At least it has attracted the attention of the public, and it is already a very successful operation, as for the complaint calls and letters from all over the country, what are these? Can they be eaten? Can they increase the ratings?
No.
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After spending a somewhat special red and white song party, the three of Sakamoto Kiyoshi all went back to their respective homes and looked for their own mothers.
Compared to Ogawa Shin and Chiba Masaki, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, whose family is in Tokyo, does not have to take a plane back to Nagasaki overnight for New Year's Eve as before, but can return home early and spend the last day of 2006 with his family. . .
In this way, Makoto Ogawa and Masaki Chiba had the idea of buying a house and bringing their families to Tokyo in their hearts.
Buying a house in Tokyo, where every inch of land is at a premium, is not a difficult task for Ogawa Shin and Chiba Masaki.
After all, two of them don't know how much they have earned since their debut...
Compared with Kiyoshi Sakamoto, the other two members of the SUN band can be regarded as a money-absorbing weapon.
Not to mention, only the music copyright fee that Kiyoshi Sakamoto can get, and the equal share of record income has already made the two of them rich.
IN THE PAST TWO YEARS, THE SUN HAS RELEASED TWO SINGLES AND ONE ALBUM, WITH A TOTAL SALES OF MORE THAN 6.2 MILLION COPS!!
THE SUN, the two of them, can rank in the top ten of the singer's annual income list in terms of income in the past two years.
And the first, undoubtedly, is Kiyoshi Sakamoto...
Although the public doesn't know the specific figures, it doesn't prevent them from speculating on the income of artists through various data and intelligence, and then making an annual income ranking list for these high-income artists.
You must know that the income of Japanese artists mainly comes from advertising endorsements, catwalks and so on, while the majority of singers' income is mainly copyright fees.
This is also the reason why Kiyoshi Sakamoto will be ranked first on the singer income chart.
After all, since his debut, he personally, as well as most of the singles and album songs of the SUN band, have been written and composed by him, and even the arrangement has been handled by him...
And Ogawa Zhen, as a resident guest of variety shows, often appears in major variety shows, although the announcement fee is not much, but after a year, it is not small, and there are many advertisers who take a fancy to the super popularity and influence of his band THE SUN, coupled with his personal handsomeness and poisonous tongue, so they all come to him to endorse.
In the past year, he has been second only to Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Tomohisa Yamashita, Takuya Kimura and other advertisers' darlings.
Coupled with some miscellaneous income, Ogawa Shin's income in the past year has reached a staggering 600 million yen!!
And Chiba Masaki, although in 2006, was under Yasusu Akimoto, learning to produce a girl group, and did not have as many advertising endorsements or variety show invitations as Ogawa Shin, but he is also a member of the SUN band, and he is a very talented lyricist.
Under the introduction of Yasushi Akimoto, he has made a lot of money in the past year by writing lyrics and arranging music for many singers.
As a result, although his income is the smallest of the three members of the band, it still reaches a staggering 400 million yen!
These income figures,Or Sakamoto Kiyoshi in private.,Listen to what Ogawa Zhen and Chiba Masaki said.。。。
For Sakamoto Kiyoshi, they all trust unconditionally, and, in their eyes, their own income is not a fraction of Sakamoto Kiyoshi's income...
Besides, both of them know that they can make so much money because of Kiyoshi Sakamoto.
Therefore, for the relatively private matter of telling their income, the two don't feel that there is anything to hide at all.
For his teammates, the act of trusting himself so much makes Sakamoto Kiyoshi feel warm in his heart.
Therefore, he also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
"Since you've all told me about your income, then I can't hide it, my income is... ”
Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who thought that he was very sincere in exposing his income figures, would be forgiven by his teammates and would not think that he was showing off his wealth, and finally told you with a blue nose and a swollen face.
"Don't mention your income !! in front of your teammates"