Chapter 53: I'm Yours
Kiyoshi Sakamoto, wearing a white shirt and jeans, sat on a high chair and held a guitar on the stage, and began to play.
In an instant, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's fingers kept lifting and falling on the guitar strings, and a beautiful acoustic guitar sound reached the ears of the audience through the sound.
Hearing the crisp guitar melody at the beginning, the audience, who had been a little commotion, slowly quieted down and began to listen quietly to the performance that Kiyoshi Sakamoto brought to them.
Two eight-beats passed, and with the guitar melody, Kiyoshi Sakamoto spoke.
“Well you done done me and you bet I felt it”
“I tried to be chill but you’re so hot that I melted”
“I fell right through the cracks”
“and now I’m trying to get back”
“Before the cool done run out”
“I’ll be giving it my bestest”
“Nothing’s going to stop me but divine intervention”
“I reckon it’s again my turn to win some or learn some”
“But I won’t hesitate no more, no more”
“It cannot wait, I’m yours”
A series of English lyrics spit out from Kiyoshi Sakamoto's mouth.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto's original warm voice, coupled with the cheerfulness of this light ballad, suddenly made the audience feel as if they were in a rural orchard under the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, so warm and beautiful.
And Kiyoshi Sakamoto is the poet who is in the orchard, holding a guitar, sitting under a fruit tree, and playing and singing softly.
A picture of the countryside flavor appears in the minds of every audience.
When Kiyoshi Sakamoto knew that the concert would be held in Nashville, he had already chosen the song "I'm Yours" from the wizard singer Jason Mayez.
This is the longest-running single in Billboard history, with more than one million sales.
It just so happened that in Nashville, the birthplace of American folk songs, singing this song "I'm Yours" was a match made in heaven, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto believes that the effect at that time must not be as simple as one plus one equals two, at least equal to three!
So, when Kiyoshi Sakamoto first wrote the score and lyrics of this song when he was in the hotel, he asked Uncle Ishida to help him get the music copyright to avoid any worries, and then simply arranged the song and changed it to a simple acoustic guitar version, so that the rock of the original song was weakened a little bit, and the folk style was a little stronger, so as to match the preferences of the locals in Nashville.
Sure enough, on the stage, when Sakamoto Kiyoshi played the prelude, it could already be said that he had attracted the attention of the audience who liked folk songs at the scene; And the other audience was also very surprised, they didn't expect this RB person to be so fluent in English and sing so well.
In the first paragraph, Kiyoshi Sakamoto was still sitting on a high chair, his eyes closed lightly, his mouth facing the shaking microphone, and he was singing softly.
But in the second paragraph, Kiyoshi Sakamoto suddenly stood up, smiling at the audience while playing the guitar, shaking the microphone and increasing the volume.
“Well open up your mind and see like me”
“Open up your plans and damn you’re free”
Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was standing in front of the microphone, was playing the guitar and singing, and his body was still swaying gently, as if inviting the audience under the stage to sway together.
However, the audience under the stage really gave face, and some of them really began to gently sway their bodies to the light singing voice of Kiyoshi Sakamoto.
“Look into your heart and you’ll find love love love”
“Listen to the music of the moment people, dance and sing”
“We're just one big family”
“And it’s your God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved”
When Sakamoto sang these lines, most of the audience in the audience joined the big family that swayed together, and the audience of the entire Nissan Stadium and the version on the stage please, as if at this moment, it became such a big family that has no borders, only music.
A big family that swings together!
Seeing the emotions of the audience, they have been mobilized by themselves, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto is also very happy.
Because only the power of music is so powerful, it can make strangers who have never known each other communicate their feelings together.
“So I won’t hesitate no more, no more”
“It cannot wait I’m sure”
“There’s no need to complicate”
“Our time is short”
“This is our fate, I’m yours”
For the second chorus, the audience sang "I'm yours" at the end.
“but do you, d-d-do”
“But do you want to come on”
“Scooch on over closer dear”
“And I'll whisper in your ear”
Sakamoto Kiyoshi followed the lyrics, constantly squeezing his eyebrows at the audience, and his expression was very rich, which also made the audience like this ghost singer even more.
Although it seems to be very slow, in fact, the song is a few minutes long, and it quickly comes to an end.
The last chorus was sung by Kiyoshi Sakamoto and tens of thousands of viewers in the audience.
“But I won’t hesitate no more, no more”
“It cannot wait I’m yours”
Although it was not so neat, it was already very impressive for the four westlife people who were watching backstage, exclaiming, "KIYO is really a natural stage performer!"
"What an infectious performance it is to drive the audience and sing the songs that I have just heard for the first time!!"
On stage, Kiyoshi Sakamoto ended the singing of "I'm Yours" perfectly in the swaying of the fluorescent lights of the audience.
The moment after singing, a deafening burst of warm applause came to his face, Sakamoto Kiyoshi faced the applause of tens of thousands of people who came all at once, he enjoyed it very much, he wanted to open his arms and embrace this moment, but reason told him "You can't do this, you are not the hero of this concert." ”
So, in the end, Kiyoshi Sakamoto just closed his eyes, enjoyed the applause of the audience, bowed and thanked him, carried the guitar, and walked off the stage.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was in the stage passage, met the Westlife four who were about to go on stage to continue their performances, and all four of them hugged Kiyoshi Sakamoto in the past.
"Hey, KIYO, you're really good at singing!"
"This song is so well written!"
All kinds of praise seemed to be free of money, flying out of Westlife's mouth, which made Sakamoto Kiyoshi very useful.
"When the show is over, we'll talk slowly, and we'll go up and perform first. After a few brief words with Kiyoshi Sakamoto, the Westlife couple went on stage to continue the performance.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto returned the guitar he was holding to the staff and walked slowly towards the lounge.
Entering the lounge, Kiyoshi Sakamoto saw Uncle Ishida sitting in a chair, dozing off, his eyes half-closed, and his head kept nodding, but it didn't fall.
Seeing this scene, Sakamoto Kiyoshi, although his face was black, he still didn't wake him up, but lowered his footsteps and slowly sat on the chair opposite.
As the agent of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a lazy guy, Uncle Ishida is also very tired.
Because Kiyoshi Sakamoto is a minor, many times, he needs to apply for this and that, and these are all done by Uncle Ishida, running around, and all kinds of consolation staff work, all of which are Uncle Ishida, holding consolation goods, and sending them one by one, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto is just paying for it.
And this time in the United States, Uncle Ishida also went to the Music Copyright Society to help Kiyoshi Sakamoto get the copyright registration of "I'm Yours".
Kiyoshi Sakamoto also knows that his uncle has been running around with him for the past year, and he is also very tired. It's nothing, it's just that most of the work is done by Uncle Ishida, so it's no wonder that Uncle Ishida falls asleep in the lounge.
"Well, it seems that if you want to increase your uncle's salary or benefits or something, do you still want to find an errand assistant?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi was thinking about how to reduce it, when Uncle Ishida's work load, Uncle Ishida suddenly woke up, and saw Sakamoto Kiyoshi sitting on the chair opposite him in a daze, and immediately woke up, and asked, "Sorry, I accidentally fell asleep, how is it?
"It's okay, I'm Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a young genius singer, the little prince of Sony, the youngest winner of the Record Awards, of course, it's not for nothing. The audience outside was all by me, hehehe. Sakamoto Kiyoshi with a "Lao Tzu is bullish" expression is so awesome, that look, it makes people think about it... Hit him.
If Gakki or Sesame sauce were there, they would definitely beat him up and let him know why the flowers were so red.
And Uncle Ishida has taken the same way as Ogawa Shin and Chiba Masaki, that is, ignoring...
"Oh, that's good. Uncle Ishida just replied lightly, and there was no follow-up, so that Sakamoto Kiyoshi couldn't pretend to be able to do so.
The embarrassed Sakamoto Kiyoshi had to forcibly force this wave in his heart to finish.
"By the way, the company asked when you were going back?" Uncle Ishida asked Sakamoto Kiyoshi when he saw him getting serious.
"Hmm, what's going on at the company, is there something going on with Ogawa and the two of them?" "Although Kiyoshi Sakamoto is in the United States, he still cares a lot about the SUN band in RB.
"No, it seems to be about you. ”
"Oh, about me? Then I'll go back the day after tomorrow, and tomorrow I'll want to see somewhere else." Sakamoto Kiyoshi heard that it was not Ogawa's business, first breathed a sigh of relief, then thought about it, and set a time to return to RB.
"Hmm, where are you going?" Uncle Ishida was curious.
"Blue Bird Cafe. ”
"What are you doing there?"
"Go listen to the song. It's a gathering place for Nashville composers. The first time Kiyoshi Sakamoto came to Nashville, he asked the locals about this place, what are the good places to go, and someone said that this "Blue Bird Cafe" is a gathering place for Nashville composers, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto wrote it down, thinking that he would go to see it after the performance.
After all, if you come to the birthplace of American country music and don't listen to the works of local composers, isn't it the same as not being here?
So, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is going to check out this tomorrow, the "Blue Bird Cafe" highly recommended by locals.