Chapter 425: Amazing Chorus
For Xiao Mayou and Xiao Airi, Zhou Xiao has really known each other for many, many years.
Two little girls who were six or seven years old many years ago were as simple as a blank sheet of paper, and they didn't have any characteristics in their personalities, they just liked Zhou Xiao so they joined AZX.
They joined AZX at the age of child stars, but they ushered in a "placement" period that lasted for more than six years.
It wasn't until the end of 2006 that they officially appeared in front of the world.
Zhou Xiao did this...... It's a bit ...... Odd?
Not only is it strange, it can even be said that it is so strange that it explodes, and the most strange thing is that any company can leave the person who joins the company for more than six years without making his debut?
Of course, they have not been idle for more than six years, but this is also very strange, six years, in these six years, for the training of two girls, Zhou Xiao spent a lot of money into it, and after so much money of training, he just joined AKB and started as a small funny artist, which is really a bit incomprehensible.
After joining AKB, the two girls did not stand out as popular as their real abilities, in the past nearly a year, the two have only done the work of ordinary little idols, although the performances and the like have been praised by the fans, but they have not shown anything particularly strong, what the two lack is some opportunities, some opportunities that can show their abilities, and become an instant hit.
But let's be honest, there are a lot of potential girls in AKB, and who doesn't need this opportunity.
Such a duo, coupled with the fact that they have not grown in the first two phases since joining AKB, it is understandable that they are temporarily inferior to Maeda Oshima and others in popularity.
Of course, the two girls are not as good as the top, and it is still easy to surpass the ordinary members of the first two episodes.
And the two girls gradually began to have their own personalities.
They are all very smart and very good at learning, among them, Xiao Airi's personality is more natural, a bit of a dull character, Xiao Mayou's character looks like a perfect idol but is actually more funny in front of acquaintances. And she's also an otaku.,I like to watch anime and animation.,There's even a collection of beautiful girl figures.。
Such two people, who spend almost half of their lives together, have already formed a very strong friendship and mutual trust.
Usually in the process of getting along, little Mayou will always tease Airi, and Airi's personality is more generous, and he laughs at Mayou's teasing habits, and rarely takes things seriously, and this kind of tricking is even occasionally brought to public performances and TV appearances. If it's two men, it must be disgusting to poke me and I poke it, but two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls can only make people feel cute when they play like this.
Zhou Xiao estimated that most of the meals of these two girls were so-called double burdens, that is, the two girls liked them all, if this was the case, how to shake the two girls who were separated from the queue at the handshake meeting was a problem.
Looking at their somewhat sparse queue, Zhou Xiao was slightly worried, would they be disappointed? After today's handshake is over, does he need to go and get the two girls?
Thinking so, a staff member from the AKB came running. said in Zhou Xiao's ear: "Boss, something is wrong!" ”
"What's the problem?" Zhou Xiao asked in surprise, this handshake seems to be quite normal, what is the problem?
"There were too many people coming to the handshake party. More than 3,000 people have been put in now, but half of the people outside the stadium have not come in, which means that the total number of people who came to the handshake meeting today is at least 6,000 to 7,000! ”
"How can so many people come?" Zhou Xiao was surprised, if there were seven thousand people here today and each person had three handshake tickets. In the end, at least 21,000 of the 28,000 handshake tickets were consumed in one day, which is definitely bad news, not only because the crowd flow in the stadium today is uncontrollable. There are many people shaking hands with the members, and when it comes to tomorrow's handshake party, there may be too few participants, and the scene will be very deserted, and either of the two situations is the last thing the operation wants to see.
"Just now our people secretly went out to ask, it doesn't seem to be our problem, there are some people who don't have today's handshake tickets also came to the scene, in addition, there are a small number of people who won the two-day handshake meeting at the same time, a total of three."
The distribution of theater plates is very rigorous, how many theater plates are sent out every day, how many people will come to shake hands in each part, and there is a very detailed grasp of the original operation, basically there will be no more people today and fewer people tomorrow.
But this is the first time for eggs, and it is understandable that this situation will occur when Zhou Xiao is not familiar with other people in operation.
"In that case, don't worry about the people outside." Uncle Inoue didn't know when he came over, and said after hearing the conversation between the two.
Zhou Xiao didn't speak immediately after listening to his uncle's words, he thought carefully for a while and said, "It's true that those people outside just don't care about them, but I think ...... This is our first handshake...... Some benefits are better if they can be given, as long as you don't form a routine and let the investment be too big. ”
"Zhou Xiao, what do you mean......?" Uncle asked.
"If the stands in the stadium are opened, it should be able to fit most people, right?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"No problem, most of the space in the stands is empty, it's just not in a good position." Said the staff.
"In this way, you organize some staff to go out and investigate how many people have brought tomorrow's handshake tickets, and if this rate is relatively high, let them in to watch the show after checking the handshake tickets of these people."
"Okay! The staff nodded. ”
"Uncle Inoue, please go and investigate, in addition to the performance and the members participating in the handshake party, there are any other members who are free, and we may have more performances today." Zhou Xiao said to Uncle Inoue that now that the grandstand has also invited the diners to enter, the original plan needs to be modified.
Although it is said that the members are allowed to perform on the stage, but the really popular people can't perform on stage, such as Maeda Oshima and Mita Yurika, the three of them are two-day fourteen handshake parties, basically, they are shaking hands when they come to the stadium in these two days, and there is only a small part of the rest time to say hello on stage.
It is also very difficult to arrange for a few thousand more people to enter the venue, and at the same time it is difficult to distinguish these people from those who have handshake tickets, and the people who are shaking hands in front of them cannot see it. All the staff in the backstage started their work at a trot, a few staff members went out to investigate the situation of the meal with the handshake ticket, a few people began to assign the passage at the entrance of the gymnasium, and some people began to contact the network department, asking them to quickly call up the ticket situation for the handshake party tomorrow and the next day from the database.
Twenty minutes later, the staff who went out to investigate came back, and in addition to reporting the odds of getting tickets for today's handshake party, they also reported that although some people did not bring them, they asked if they could enter if they had the password on the handshake ticket.
Zhou Xiao didn't even close this problem, but handed over the matter to the staff of the network department on the spot, and if he could solve it, let this part of the people in. If you can't solve it, forget it.
After waiting for about half an hour, the main entrance of the stadium was partially opened again, and the action of releasing people to the stands began, and the performances on the temporary stage were also adjusted to enrich the content of the performances.
In this emergency, Zhou Xiao's actions in terms of operation are still very satisfactory, the response is very fast, and the response is decent. It's just that the experience of the handshake meeting is still a little insufficient, and this can only be done after a long time of cultivation, so Zhou Xiao doesn't blame them.
The handshake went on for a while, and a staff member came over and said to Zhou Xiao, "Boss." Wait a while, it's supposed to be a break for Mayou and Airi, how about letting them go up and perform? ”
"Let them go?" Zhou Xiao's heart jumped and thought of one thing.
Before, he was thinking about the lack of popularity of these two girls, and now he is gathered here. Contains almost all of AKB's die-hard meals, and AKB doesn't have much to show off their abilities on TV these days, and can show them at handshakes. It's almost equivalent to showing it to the vast majority of AKB rice, which is definitely a good way.
As for what to ask them to perform...... This kind of problem is simply too easy.
After resting in his lounge for a while, there was a knock on the door.
"Please come in." Zhou Xiaodao.
"Brother Zhou Xiao!" Mayou immediately pushed open the door and ran in after hearing Zhou Xiao's voice, and the girl was followed by Airi.
"Brother Zhou Xiao, it's so tiring to shake hands! But then the queue of the two of us was gone, woo woo woo, the popularity of Mayou is so low. Mayou said.
"yes, yes! My hands are sore. Airi also ran over and stretched out two small hands in front of Zhou Xiao.
"Really?" Zhou Xiao reached out and held Airi's little hand, gently rubbing it to help her relieve the soreness.
"I want it too, I want it too!" Mayou also stretched out his hand to visit Zhou Xiao's hand.
Four small hands hold two large hands, transmitting the warmth between each other.
"Now, after a few minutes of rest, will you go on stage and sing?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"Huh??? Why? I was finally able to stay with Brother Zhou Xiao for a while. Xiao Mayou said unhappily.
"It's also to increase your popularity." Zhou Xiao said.
"Compared with increasing popularity, it is more important to stay with Brother Zhou Xiao for a while." Airi said.
"Brother also likes to stay with you, but work also has to be done, so let's wait for the handshake to end, you go to my house, and I'll ask Sister Ogura to make food for you." Zhou Xiao said.
"Well...... All right. The two girls nodded sensibly and said.
"Okay, let's eat and go out, okay?"
After speaking, Zhou Xiao took out his mobile phone, ordered three lunches to come up, and ate lunch with the two girls while chatting.
"Are there any seniors who have a good relationship with you now?" Zhou Xiao asked while eating.
"Sister Yuko, and Sister Takahashi take good care of us." Mayou said.
"Oh? Does Sister Takahashi take good care of you too? Zhou Xiao asked.
"To be precise, Sister Takahashi is taking care of everyone." Airi said.
They are right, Takahashi Minami is the kind of girl who will be operated and will take care of many people.
After eating, the two girls held hands and prepared to take the stage later, and Zhou Xiao also ran outside, waiting for the girls to appear, and he was ready for the song they were going to sing. This song is AKB's fourth single "verybeauty" in this time and space. Before the song was released in any AKB or Zhou Xiao's related works, Zhou Xiao taught it to the two girls and let them practice it in the recording studio.
After a while, two girls appeared on the stage.
The little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old looks very petite standing on the huge stage, but fortunately there is a big screen behind her, which can show the appearance of two girls, otherwise people will only see two unclear figures.
"Hello everyone, I'm Mayu Watanabe." "I'm Airi Suzuki." "Next, allow us to sing a song called 'VeryBeauty.'" The two girls said together.
The venue burst into applause and cheers.
Zhou Xiao was slightly disappointed, the popularity of these two girls is really not high now.
"Although it's not very popular. But...... After today, no, five minutes later, these two girls should be all eyes on them. Zhou Xiao thought confidently.
Why is he so confident? Just listen to the music playing in the venue.
The song "verybeauty", AKB's single is a simpler arrangement, and some difficult parts have been modified to a simpler style, of course, this will definitely lose some of the places that can show the singer's ability and silver, this is the magic of arrangement. When "verybeauty" was finally released, the whole song was no different from some of the other AKB singles.
And now this version of "Verybeauty" is sounding, and from the very beginning, the arrangement is different, and the key of the whole song has been raised. There are also some differences in the arrangement, and even if ordinary fans can't hear the specific difference, they can hear that it is indeed different from the normally released version.
Some of the fans in the stadium turned their heads in surprise, and most of them didn't notice the strangeness of the song. Still lining up for the handshake.
Then first, Mayu Watanabe sang.
"Look at yourself in the mirror again. Ah~ Why such a face? ”
Crop! At the same time as Mayu Watanabe's voice sounded, the entire gymnasium seemed to be quiet suddenly, and the people who weren't looking at the stage turned their heads one after another, and the people who were originally watching the stage all grew their mouths!
Why is this happening? Because Mayu Watanabe sings too steadily!
The new arrangement gives the song a slightly different flavor, and at the same time brings several parts of the first round of lyrics with a sharp increase in pitch and scale, but Mayu Watanabe, a little girl who is not yet thirteen years old, sings it with ease with her delicate voice that seems to have not gone through the voice change period!
Even if you don't know any music, these people can hear it, and this version sung by Mayou is much more difficult than the version released by AKB, and it is also a lot better!
And Xiao Mayou continued to sing on stage: "When I open my eyes tomorrow morning, it would be nice if I could become more beautiful......"
The lyrics were sung sentence by sentence, and Mayou, who was immersed in the singing, didn't notice it, but Zhou Xiao saw that in the entire venue of the handshake party, the queue that was originally marching actually stopped, even the staff who were invited, everyone was listening to the girl singing!
Soon, one of Mayou's songs passed, and after the interlude, Airi's voice rang out.
"I just want to be alone, ah~ occasionally try to take a long detour......" Although the difference can be clearly heard in the voice, the delicate and beautiful are the same.
After Airi finished singing a part, the two began the chorus, and the audience realized that the chorus part sung by the two was not simply singing but having harmony! Singing a chorus or something, it's just that the two of them are singing the same music together, and only harmony together is the real chorus!
The voices of Mayou and Airi are one high and one low, one is slightly light, the other is slightly steady, the most important thing is that the two voices are combined, but there is no sense of abruptness when you listen to it, everyone at the scene feels that this song should be sung like this, this is what this song really looks like!
The time of a song is not long or short, no matter how short it is, there are more than three minutes, in this three-minute time, the entire handshake meeting venue is limited to a pause, and the handshake queue will hardly move forward.
In the end, it is just a stadium, although the sound is of good quality provided by AZX, but the sound effect is still not completely satisfactory, but only these are enough, the two girls used the time of a song to completely conquer the thousands of fans present, when a song ended, the venue sounded huge applause and cheers, which was unexpected by the two girls on the stage, they were pleasantly surprised to carry the excited meals under the stage, it can be said that for the first time they felt the joy and happiness of being an idol singer.
"That's ...... It should be fine, right? They...... I grew up with it. Zhou Xiao smiled and looked at the two girls on the stage with surprise and joy, and his heart was full of pride. (To be continued......)