Chapter 553: New Single and International Mi
As Zhu Zi said, the two of them spent a warm Valentine's Day at home. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhu Zi, who went home for the first time in four months, was still a little strange.
"Time is really like water." Zhu Zi leaned on the sofa and sighed with emotion.
"When did you become sentimental? That's not your style, Zhu Zijun. Masami Nagasawa smiled.
"Actually, I'm such a style, and I'm going to shoot "Naoki Hanzawa" in a few months, and I thought I could work with Ueto-san. I can't wait to get excited. Zhu Zi said.
"But will your body be able to hold on?" Masami Nagasawa was a little worried.
"You'll look down on me if I'm not in good health. Can the two of us still do that kind of thing in the hospital? Zhu Zi looked at Masami Nagasawa with a smile.
Masami Nagasawa's face turned crimson: "I hate it, you guy." ”
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On the 20th, AKB48's new single was released.
The advertising slogan for the single reads, "The cherry blossoms are not yet blooming, our spring is in full bloom."
The title "So long!" is the English word for "So, goodbye!" ".
The title song "So long!" is AKB48's sixth single with a cherry blossom theme. Since February 2006, AKB48 has released the cherry blossom-themed underground single "Cherry Blossom Petals", and since then, the group has released songs with the same theme at the same time every year, including "Cherry Blossom Petals 2008" released in February 2008, "10 Years Sakura" released in March 2009, "Cherry Blossom Imprint" released in February 2010, "Turning into a Cherry Blossom Tree" released in February 2011, and "GIVE ME FIVE!" released in February 2012. However, the title song "So long!", like "GIVE ME FIVE!", does not contain the word "cherry blossoms" in the title.
This single is released in 4 types: Type-A, -K, -B, and theatrical plates.
"So long!" is the theme song of Nippon TV's three-night series "So long!" and the cherry blossom-themed "Turning into a Cherry Blossom Tree" was also featured as the theme song for the 2011 episode "Letter from Sakura ~AKB48 Graduation Story~" broadcast by the same TV. The title track was featured on the TBS music program "Fire Song! It was also the first time that Mayu Watanabe took the center of the title song.
A-side song "So Long!" The MV is directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, and the 64-minute MV is equivalent to a long-form musical film, significantly exceeding the 34 minutes of the previous longest "GIVE ME FIVE!" and the longest in AKB48 history. In consideration of the playback of the music program, there are also excerpts limited to the "short version" of the tune. Actors Masahiro Takashima, Shinjiro Igarashi, Tokie Sa, Iko Higaguchi, Minami Inomata, Saki Terashima, and Kenichiro Motegi also starred. The music video was filmed in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, Nagaoka Zokei University, and Fukushima Prefectural Hobara High School.
The single won the "Best Selling Japanese Album" at the 12th IFPI Hong Kong Record Sales Awards 2013, co-organised by IFPI, Radio Television Hong Kong and IFPI Hong Kong Phonographic Association.
TYPE-A
List of cover members: Yuko Oshima, Erika Ikuta, Mayu Watanabe, Rina Matsui, Aya Yamamoto, Minami Takahashi.
The B-side lead single is directed by Toshiro Sonoda. The filming location was Lockhart Castle, a marble village in Takayama Village, Azuma County, Gunma Prefecture.
TYPE-K
List of cover members: Yona Kojima, Haruka Shimazaki, Mariko Shinoda, Tomomi Itano, Yuki Kashiwagi
TYPE-B
List of cover members: Miyuki Watanabe, Minami Minegishi, Rino Shihara, Yui Yokoyama, Aya Yamamoto, Riei Kitahara
A total of 16 members participated in the A-side song "So long!", all of whom were the most well-known members from AKB48, SKE48, NMB48 and HKT48, and also topped the general election:
(Center: Mayu Watanabe)
Team A: Mariko Shinoda, Minami Takahashi, Mayu Watanabe
Team K: Tomomi Itano, Yuko Oshima, Erika Ikuta
Team B: Yuki Kashiwagi, Yona Kojima, Haruka Shimazaki
AKB48 Graduate Students: Peak Shore South
AKB48 Team A / NMB48 Team N: Yui Yokoyama
AKB48 Team K / SKE48 Team S: Satoei Kitahara, Rina Matsui
NMB48 Team N / AKB48 Team B: Miyuki Watanabe
NMB48 Team N: Aya Yamamoto
HKT48 Team H: Refers to Rino Hara
Shinoda, Itano, Kashiwagi, Shimazaki, and Yokoyama continued to enter the selection after the previous work "Eternal Pressure", and everyone other than Kitahara was a member of the selection of the previous work "UZA". Kitahara re-entered the selection for six months since "checkered pattern". Sakira Miyawaki of HKT48, a member of "UZA", failed to make it this time.
It is worth mentioning that Feng Annan was demoted to graduate school because of the scandal.
On January 17 this year, Feng Annan was secretly photographed when he stayed at the home of young artist Shirahama (19 years old), and the relationship between the two has since been exposed. After that, this incident was widely reported by "Weekly Wenchun". And because Minami Mine once said in an interview, "Because of the ABK love prohibition regulations, I haven't felt like a heart until now." Such remarks caused an uproar among fans after this incident.
However, the matter did not end there, after AKB Chief Superintendent Minami Takahashi personally supported Minami Minegishi, on the evening of January 31, Tomonobu Togazaki, the director of the AKB48 theater, issued an official statement, saying that due to the adverse impact on AKB48 caused by the incident involving Minami Mine in the recent weekly magazine, it was decided to downgrade Minami Minami to graduate school from February 1.
At the same time, AKB48 Japan officially released a 4-minute video of Koshinan's apology. And what is very shocking is that in the film, Feng Annan actually left the country with a bald head and choked up several times to apologize. And said that he was very sorry for what he had done, and the results of the subsequent processing were fully handed over to Yasushi Akimoto and the operation team.
Minami Minegishi has been debuting for 5 years as a first-term student of AKB48, and has been around 15th in the AKB48 general election for four years, and although he is not as popular as Atsuko Maeda, who has graduated, he also has a very stable fandom. As a first-term student, the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls have already entered the normal age of love. And the management model of AKB48, after this incident, is really beyond the scope of common sense. Its idols cut their hair and apologized, and this incident did have a great impact on AKB48, but it was not because of the scandal in Feng Annan, but because AKB48 had no love for its idols. Even Minami Takahashi, who is now the leader of AKB48, has publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the handling of this incident, and AKB48 may really need some thought.
In fact, after this incident, many people expressed their support for Minami, such as the first generation members of AKB48.
Yona Kojima, Mariko Shinoda, Tomomi Itano and Minami Takahashi expressed their support for their partners.