Chapter 402: Pioneer
The A4 performance has a very important place in the history of TeamA, because ...... Well, in fact, there is nothing special about the A4 performance, there are three ensembles, five units, and a few ensembles at the back, and the special thing is that there is nothing easy to remember about the whole song of this performance, except for "bingo! In addition to songs such as "Contemptuous Love" that later became singles, the only thing that can be remembered is probably another little yellow song "Onlytoday".
In terms of unit, it is Maeda in "First Love at 7:12", Mai Oshima in "Before Spring Comes", Minami Takahashi in "Pure Love Crescendo", Tomomi Itano in "Faint", and Mariko Shinoda in "Homecoming".
A3,Minami Takahashi,Mai Oshima,Mariko Shinoda is in the same unit,Maeda and Itano Tomomi are in the six-person unit,Like this, it's obvious that the role and the primary and secondary situations are an obvious feature of the A3 performance.,And when it comes to the A4 performance, there is no such problem.,Five units and five centers,The first four are members who were very strong from the beginning of Group A.,The fifth Shinoda is from the back row members to the current position. Although Yona Kojima regretted not to get a unit in this performance, she also starred in "Pure Love Crescendo" with Minami Takahashi and Minami Minami Minegishi, and formed the debut group of the three "NO3B".
Overall, the A4 performance was balanced and reflected the characteristics of each member. But the cohesion is not very sufficient, Group A gradually began to form two completely different styles from Group K after such a performance, relatively speaking, Group K is the kind of team full of cohesion, everyone thinks in one place, and strives to work together, while Group A is more self-centered, and everyone has characteristics at the same time, it gradually loses the cohesion of some teams.
Such an A4 performance, at least the unit part does not need any adjustment in Zhou Xiao's opinion, although the members of Group A are now different from their previous lives. But before Takahashi. The six-man lineup dominated by Kojima Shinoda and Itano Oshima Ma has not fundamentally changed, but there is still some need to make some deliberations on the selection of the unit. For example, Mai Oshima's song "Before Spring Comes". Originally, Mai Oshima sang with Michiru Hoshino. Hoshino's sister is a very good girl, she sings well, and she is very gentle. is even more of a talented girl, there is no problem in writing songs by herself, she is a pretty good girl, but I'm sorry, even so, Zhou Xiao still wants to replace her with Mita Yurika.
Because although she is a very talented girl, her popularity is still not high, and although Mita Yurika is not young, she will take the female anchor route in the future, and the opportunities in the future are still very broad, which cannot be compared with Hoshino.
Although the unit part is not going to be modified, in the whole song, Zhou Xiao has a different opinion on this performance.
It is undoubtedly good that the unit part of this performance highlights the characteristics of each member, but the loss of cohesion of the whole team is not what Zhou Xiao wants to see, so Zhou Xiao decided to replace another song in the performance with a song, and his goal is "LOVECHASE", the first song of the encore song in the performance.
"LOVECHASE" is a song that few people know in later generations, because in the performance, this song is relatively a song with no sense of zài, in fact, Zhou Xiao still likes this song, the fast melody is very good, if there is any other choice, Zhou Xiao will not replace this song, but unfortunately, the other song he wants to replace is also a fast song, AKB's performance, the most common form of encore is a fast song with another slow song, Another slow song that accompanies the song "LOVECHASE" is "Why was I born in this wonderful world" ("なんて素敵な世界に生まれたのだろう"), Zhou Xiao's love for this song is even more than "LOVECHASE", so unfortunately, "LOVECHASE" had to make way for other time.
The song that replaced "LOVECHASE" definitely has the right to be placed in the position of the first song of the encore song, not only that, but Zhou Xiao also feels that this song may be the most important song in Group A.
This song is naturally "Pioneer", which was supposed to be the last song of the A6 performance!
The historical A6 performance started on July 27, 2010, and by this time, Mai Oshima and Hoshino Orii and others had graduated, and Minami Mine Kishi and Tomomi Itano were also moved to Group K.
In his previous life, Zhou Xiao regretted that the members of Yuan A could not sing this song, "Twenty-two small seeds, there is also a day when they are waiting to be released, we are TeamA, the vanguard of the whole army......"
It is said that each group should have a team song of their own, such as "Turning into a Rolling Stone" in Group K, and "The First Day" in Group B, "Pioneer" in Group A was originally the most likely to become a team song, but it was a pity that it appeared a little late, so it was not very recognized.
And now, there will be no such problem, Zhou Xiao moved the song from A6 to A4, it seems that it is just the difference between the two performances, in fact, there has been a gap of three years, at this time, Yuan A has not dispersed, and the vast majority of the members are still in Group A, let these people sing this song "Pioneer", not only can be regarded as a dream of Zhou Xiao, but also can deepen the cohesion of the entire Group A, so that the members of Group A can take into account the entire team while having enough personal charm, such a teamA, is the A group that Zhou Xiao wants to see.
The girls in Group A were also very happy when they got this song "Pioneer", and in the K2 performance before Group K, the song "Turning into a Rolling Stone" that can represent the spirit of Group K made the girls in Group A envious and jealous, although most of the girls in Group A have their own attitude towards work and do not pursue a sense of teamwork like Group K, looking at the group in Group K. Group A here will naturally be a little uncomfortable.
This song "Pioneer" also poses a very unexpected problem.
The lyrics of this song are still written by Yasu Akimoto, but Zhou Xiao is not without contribution in terms of lyrics, when he gave Yasu Akimoto the tune of this song, he told Yasu Akimoto what kind of song he wanted, and Zhou Xiao even sang two lyrics such as "WearetheTeamA, the pioneer of the whole army" to ensure that Yasu Akimoto could indeed write the "Pioneer" he wanted and not any other song.
Such a song, which is considered the most common way for Zhou Xiao and Qiu Yuankang to cooperate in creation, was unsurprisingly well received after being given to the girls in Group A as usual, but what made Qiu Yuankang very unhappy was that the girls were moved by Zhou Xiao's brother who had been caring about them. Wrote such a suitable song for them. But he turned a blind eye to him Yasushi Akimoto, who really created the song and wrote the lyrics!
I have to say that sometimes, good things do happen when people are handsome......
Such thoughts. Qiu Yuankang also told Zhou Xiao. It would have been for him. It's just a joke to tell Zhou Xiao, but Zhou Xiao seems to be quite serious about this matter, and specially talked about it one day when the members of Group A are complete.
"Mr. Yasushi Akimoto is also very concerned about you. I just made a tune for this song, and he was the one who really wrote the lyrics, and you can't ignore Mr. Akimoto's work for some other reason, from the perspective of making zuò people, I am equal to him, and he is also our senior, and it is also important to respect him, especially his work. ”
Tell the girls that these things are in the AKB theater in Tokyo, but in fact, Zhou Xiao has rarely been in Tokyo recently, most of the time he spent in a small town called "Sakata City" in Yamagata Prefecture, the total inhabitants of this small town are only about 110,000 people, the countryside is surrounded by beautiful nature, and you can see the magnificent mountains in the distance, so the scenery seen in this small town is naturally incomparable with the magnificent mountains and rivers in western China, but it also has its own unique beauty of Japanese scenery. It's quite a nice view.
There is a crew making a movie in the city, and the person who made the movie is not someone else but Zhou Xiao, this news spread in Sakata City, and soon the head was well known, so next, as long as the crew has location shooting, when the film is filming, a large number of onlookers will soon gather, not to mention the local, when the news that Zhou Xiao is making a movie came out, many of Zhou Xiao's meals even took a car to Sakata City to watch Zhou Xiao filming, which is also strange, other movies, Fans are chasing the male protagonist and heroine, and it is too rare for a large number of fans like Zhou Xiao to chase the director like an idol star.
On the one hand, this group of meals made Zhou Xiao's movie popular before it was broadcast, and soon everyone on the Internet knew that Zhou Xiao was making a movie, and even the newspaper reported that Zhou Xiao was making a movie, not only reported Zhou Xiao's movie, but even Zhou Xiao's joke that he had not won the Oscar last year was turned out.
In the eyes of many people, saying such things on such a big stage as red and white, Zhou Xiao is really irrational, so he made a goal, what if you can't get it then, isn't it equivalent to being slapped in the face by the wish he made? Such a Zhou Xiao can be said to be too imprudent.
At the same time, because of Zhou Xiao's desire to win the Oscar, people are particularly concerned about the content of his filming this time, and everyone wants to see what kind of thing Zhou Xiao will shoot this time.
Then, the news of the people who went to observe Zhou Xiao's exterior came over.
Because of the confidentiality of the crew, many people can only see a rough idea, and this very general observation finally turned into a concept: "mourning hall"!
That's right, many of the exterior scenes of Zhou Xiao's new drama are arranged in the style of a mourning hall, and his non-movie seems to be telling this story!
What kind of movies make a lot of use of funeral hall sets? The first reaction of almost all people is ...... Ghost movie!
Then, everyone immediately rejected the idea, a ghost movie or something, is it possible to win the Oscar? En...... "People and Ghosts" is a ghost movie? said that it is a ghost movie, but this film is actually more like an emotional film.
Then, the highly anticipated new film of Zhou Xiao. What kind of film is it?
People want to guess, but find that there is no way to start, Zhou Xiao's works, whether it is a movie or a TV series, are too jumpy, no one can guess what Zhou Xiao will do, some people will even think that even if Zhou Xiao really makes a ghost film to compete for the Oscars, it is not surprising, and even Zhou Xiao's ghost film really entered the final link of the Oscars, it is also not surprising.
This is probably the strongest appeal that a director can do.
Because many exterior aspects of the new film have been exposed, Zhou Xiao thought about it. simply released the basic information of the new film. This information includes a basic picture of the new film and, most importantly, the name of the film.
"The Undertaker", as soon as the name of the new movie came out. The speculative audience finally understood what Zhou Xiao was filming.
If it's in another country. The title of the movie for this mortuary came out. I'm afraid many people are already worried about Zhou Xiao, a 23 or 4-year-old young man who knows how to enter the mortuary. I know how to die.
But when this movie was shot in Japan, everyone was looking forward to it, Japan is really a country with too much death culture, plus Zhou Xiao is such a super director who broke into a huge name at a young age, and his previous works are not without contact with death, "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko" didn't start with a death.
The disturbances from the outside world, the marketing around the movie and other things have not affected the filming of the movie, ordinary people in the outside world may not know what kind of movie Zhou Xiao is, so there will be all kinds of speculation, but the people in the crew, not to mention the actors, even the camera, recording, props and others have all read the script, as a practitioner in the film, it may be a little difficult for them to make a good movie, but it is not difficult to understand the script and understand how good the story is this script. Almost everyone in the crew knows that Zhou Xiao's work is not here to play, and it is not even to make money in such a small market as Japan...... This work...... It's really good, maybe the Oscar or something, with everyone's ability, you may not know if Zhou Xiao can do it, but the excellent mother of this work is undoubted, in this case, such a good work, Zhou Xiao must be very serious and hard-working, if you really mess around or mess up something when Zhou Xiao is filming this work, don't go down in AZX anymore.
The filming of a movie, especially this kind of film, which requires a lot of thought, will waste a lot of time, and soon, AKB's fifth single, which is the one with a super long name and focuses on two Chinese members, "You can't give love on a planet without rain, right?" is on sale.
It is undeniable that there may be some reaction from the Chinese members or something in the rice group, but the current AKB influence, joining the Chinese members and releasing a single because of these two people, no one will care about it at all, and it is not big news, so the hairstyle of this single still has not achieved much good results.
AKB's last single "verybeauty" was off the list of more than 40,000 results to make the operation very exciting, but to this single, in terms of sales, it is a pity to usher in a dive again, the first day of 10,000 and 700, the first week of 22,000 sales made everyone very disappointed, obviously the last single seems to have seen some hope, why did this single retract again.
Even if the sales in the first week are only 22,000, there will still be no shortage of activities and publicity, small performances in various places in Tokyo can gather three or four hundred people every time, and TV is not impossible, Akimoto Yasu and Zhou Xiao have been using their relationships to find various announcements for AKB from the five major private enterprises to local TV stations and even pay TV stations, and it is certainly impossible for AKB to resist any big programs and stages in its own name, even Zhou Xiao's "Flash Trip", It's just that as an assistant, I added Mariko Shinoda and Yona Kojima two girls to make soy sauce that may not have any lines in the whole show, but these things are indispensable, even if they can't let the audience remember a member of AKB, at least let them know that there is this group, and know that they were founded by Zhou Xiao and Yasuya Akimoto.
Of course, this way of being on TV is also an incentive for AKB's girls, they may not be very good, or they may make the whole show lackluster, but this is growth, Zhou Xiao does not expect that everyone will be able to become an idol with strange and miraculous coexistence that cannot be produced in Japan in the future, at least so that they can express their own things and express what they want to say when they appear on the show in the future.
In addition to these jobs, Atsuko Maeda finally ushered in what she considered to be the pinnacle of her sixteen-year-old life, after a performance one day, she boarded the Shinkansen to Sakata City in Yamagata Prefecture overnight, and a few hours later, Maeda Shun Lì checked into a local hotel, and tomorrow morning, she will enter and really participate in the filming of Zhou Xiao's film. (To be continued......)