Chapter 434: Everyday, Headbands
At the same time that Zhu Zi began filming "Housewife Mita", AKB48's new single, which was also the last single before the general election, went on sale. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The musical film of "Everyday, Headband" is directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, who once directed the champion TV series "Jumping the Search Line" of the "100 Most Powerful Japanese Dramas in History in 2001". The music video for the single was filmed in Guam, and the film also has a plot part in addition to filming the members dancing on the beach, starting with Atsuko Maeda riding a bicycle, interspersed with the 26 members who play the students in the film, in the classroom and beach life on the island, and finally Maeda and Mariko Shinoda, Minami Takahashi, Yuko Oshima and Tomomi Itano wave goodbye to the other members who left by boat on the shore.
Lifestyle and entertainment information sites "Tokyo Headline" and Oricon feature reviews both commented that the music film was filled with the atmosphere of summer, and pointed out that many scenes in the film are very similar to previous works, such as the scene of Maeda's "full sprint" in "I Want to See You", the bicycle scene in "May is an Excuse", the quarrel between Maeda and Miyazawa Sae in "Loud Diamonds", and "Infinite Replay" The scenes where the members sleep together are presented in a similar way in this music video, as if to bring the audience back to the history of AKB48 before the general election.
The music videos for "Everyday, Headband" and "Wonderland Now" are included in the two versions of Type-A and Type-B, the dance version and the theatrical version of "Everyday, Headband" are included in the two versions of Type-A and Type-B, and the "Fighting Spirit" and "Human Power" are included in the music videos for the two versions of Type-A and Type-B respectively It is also included in the two versions of Type-A and Type-B, and the bonus movie "Q version of AKB48: Continued: Small Theater 3 Consecutive Releases" is also included in two versions.
Most music critics have given positive reviews to "Everyday, Headband". Jun Yamamoto, a critic on the music website "hotexpress", admitted that he didn't like the song when he first auditioned it, but after listening to it many times, he found that the song had the same brisk "royal road pop music" rhythm as "Loud Diamond", and the last repeated "I really like you" was an uplifting and explosive lyric. The "CDJournal" audition review compared this song to "Ponytail and Hair Ring", saying that the melody of this song is as charming and gripping as the former.
On the other hand, Chiaki Misawa, a critic of the music information website Oricon, pointed out that the song begins with a slightly sad string music, but then moves on to the French horn and the main theme full of "galloping", creating a scene of running under the sun and on the beach, so that listeners can feel the liberation of summer, and in terms of lyrics, the song "Everyday, Headband" is the same as the previous year's summer single "Ponytail and Hair Ring" It also tells the story of a boy's unrequited love for a girl, and it is a continuation of the latter's story, for example, there is a lyric in "Ponytail and Hair Ring" that is "now they are just ordinary friends", and in this song, the two have experienced several years: "After several years, the two of us are still friends", and the lyrics of the previous song describe "You are still the same girl as you are" in this lyric become "Before you know it, you have grown up" , showing that the boy's perception of unrequited love has changed, but the protagonist in this song has become more mature, encouraging himself to continue to work hard with "this love will be discovered by you one day".
Misawa also believes that lyricist Yasushi Akimoto is good at writing romantic songs, such as the fantasy in which he describes the "headband" as an "angel's halo" in the lyrics, which can only be imagined by people in love.
Commentators on Tokyo Headlines felt that the lyrics of the song were a sweet and sour story of youthful love, and lyricist Yasu Akimoto skillfully used words such as "sun", "sea breeze" (tidal wind), and "beach" (sand hama) to instantly bring to mind the scenery he wanted to describe.
In January 2012, the Management Committee of the High School Baseball Tournament chose "Everyday, Headband" as the entrance march for the 84th Election High School Baseball Tournament (the 84th Election High School Wild Ball Tournament, Koshien) because the song was expected to bring vitality to Japan after the Great Earthquake, and AKB48 was actively involved in disaster relief activities after the disaster.
The single sold 942,475 copies on the day of its release, which was the first week it took for its predecessor "Turning into a Cherry Blossom Tree" to reach sales, and at the time reviews had predicted that the single would be the first female artist and the second overall number one on the Oricon weekly chart that week, and the next day's total sales reached 1.085 million, surpassing Hikaru Utada's record for the highest sales of a Japanese female artist in the first week with "AddictedToYou" in November 1999. A week after the single's release, sales had already exceeded 1.334 million copies, breaking the record of 1.208 million Japanese singer's singles set in February 1996 with "Unknown Poems", and the top five records before that were all from the 1990s, when the Japanese music industry was at its peak. A month later, the single sales exceeded 1.5 million, and the last single that sold more than 1.5 million was the single "Youth Amigo" by the limited group Shuiji and Akira Yamashita formed by KAT-TUN member Kazuya Kameri and NEWS member Tomohisa Yamashita in November 2005, and the single with more than 1.5 million sales by female artists was MISIA's single "Everything" in October 2000, and the girl group SPEED was also updated with "WhiteLove" The fastest sales record reached 1.5 million (12 weeks).
"Everyday, Headband" is also the third single from AKB48 to sell more than one million copies, after "Beginner" (1.07 million copies) and "Turning into a Cherry Blossom Tree" (1.15 million copies), and the sales volume has increased by 2.6 times compared to "Ponytail and Hair Ring", which also came with a second general election voting card. At the same time, "Everyday, Headband" is also the eighth consecutive single since "RIVER" to achieve the No. 1 sales on the day of release, which is on par with PinkLady's single "Transparent World" released in 1978.