Chapter 677: Six-Year Orchestra
Year after year, the girls have grown up, and the big screen continues to show their experiences and important moments in the first two years of their debut, and there are many shots of the girls practicing their instruments as they continue to grow up, implying that their instrumental training has not stopped since before the official establishment of AKB.
Then the fifth students, led by Kashiwagi and Tsuchihara, joined AKB, and the two girls were soon introduced to instrumental training, but the supposedly band single never appeared.
"Brother Zhou Xiao, when will the band single come out?"
"Brother Zhou Xiao, when will the band single come out?"
The girls started asking in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009......
The situation of the group got better and better, and the number of members increased, and later even the members of SKE were added to the instrument training team, but ...... Every time the girls asked the question of the single, Zhou Xiao's answer was: "The time has not yet come, wait, don't relax your practice." ”
Still practicing? The girls looked at each other, and it was true that such a thing as music, especially with their abilities and talents, was very necessary to practice, no matter how long it was.
And almost every time, every six months or even every quarter, there will be considerable progress.
Time is just getting closer and closer in the continuous and rapid video switching, the Budokan is over, and the Saitama Arena is over...... Even the second general election is over......
Finally one day, Zhou Xiao gathered the girls together.
"The band single, there's already a tune." Zhou Xiao sent the score of the song to the girls one by one.
"Is this single finally going to be released? We've been preparing for a long time, so I'm looking forward to it! "Girls like Maeda and Takahashi are looking forward to it.
"Uh...... In fact, it can't be regarded as finally going to be released. Zhou Xiao arrived.
"How?"
"Because the release date of this single has not yet been decided, it is likely that it will not be released until after 2011." Zhou Xiaodao.
"2011!? Doesn't that mean we'll have to wait more than a year? The girls were surprised.
"Yes, we have a plan for the next singles." Zhou Xiao said.
"So, we have to prepare for this song for at least more than a year?" The girls asked.
"Don't just prepare this song, I'm going to let you have this stunt instead of just playing this one. You just need to practice this piece more. Zhou Xiaodao.
So,The video switched again.,The girls began to get in touch with each other more.,Begin to gradually participate in joint practice.,Especially in the back.,Yamamoto Aya and other girls also joined the team.,The whole team gradually took shape.,Although there are also Mai Oshima.,Itano Yumi and others withdrew.,But a whole band is gradually taking shape.。 There are more and more opportunities and times of joint training, and the girls' tacit understanding and love for this work are also growing.
"I can't wait! We've been practicing for five years, but a performance in ten years is nothing? The girls discussed in private.
In fact, they are not completely without the opportunity to perform, in private, they have performed with Zhou Xiao many times, but of course this kind of thing cannot be taken out.
Then there was a long waiting period, another full year later, after the general elections in the second half of 2011. Zhou Xiao finally brought the girls together again.
At this time, the selection team was very different from the selection group six years ago, some people quit here and quit AKB, and some people joined the AKB group and joined this selection group.
"Is it finally coming......" after six years of anticipation. After hearing the news, the girls no longer had the first excitement, but accepted it all rather blandly.
"In the next six months or so, I hope everyone will try to practice the part they are responsible for as much as possible." Zhou Xiao commanded.
With his words, the connection between the girls finally came to the part of the overall joint practice, but. At this time, some people have noticed that by the time of the girls' joint training part in the back, the original training soundtrack that would occasionally appear has disappeared. What is left is more of the video of the girls practicing and the sound of the soundtrack that will follow.
This video, which has been broadcast for more than five minutes, completely restores this magical project that has been quietly going on for six years since 2005, and the girls have gone from not knowing a certain instrument at all, to stumbling and playing melodies, and then to becoming more and more proficient, and even ordinary people can't hear too much difference from professional musicians......
The rice guys understand a little bit, this new single, this new single focuses on the selection group of the old members, and these few minutes describe the girls' practice and growth video, this single is a staged summary of the girls' changes and growth, learning, learning and progress.
And the form of the band is used to let the audience feel the growth of AKB, and many smart people began to speculate that maybe when the MV of this song comes out, more pictures of the girls when they first started practicing a few years ago will be added, and this kind of picture should be able to produce an obvious comparison effect compared with the proficiency of the girls now, plus the obvious growth of the girls in recent years, the final effect is absolutely outstanding.
After the video ended, the lights in the venue came on again, and to the cheers of the diners, there was another figure in the center of the stage.
"Zhou Xiao!" The worship of the man in the center of the stage has exploded again, such a project can only be done by this man, and the man who has created countless legends and planned so many legendary projects is now ...... again No, I played a project six years ago that would also be recorded in the legend of AKB.
In six years, the fourteen-year-old pink girl has grown into a twenty-year-old national idol, and the girls who can't even read the music have become girls who are now skillfully playing music on the stage.
After the meals calmed down, Zhou Xiao's first words were......
"It's so hard for me to hide it!"
"Hahahaha!" The rice cooks laughed.
"You may not know that from 2005 to the present, there have been more than 30 members who have practiced musical instruments, and in the past few years, these 30 people have been asked 473 times on various occasions and places, 'Do you have any special skills?' What kind of instrument have you learned?' and so on!
You don't know at all, so let them say with their usual faces, 'I haven't studied!' ''I don't have any special features!'' These are the negatives, and how hard it is to say them hundreds of times! ”
"Hahahaha!" The rice cooks continued to laugh.
"Still. After watching today's performance, I think the hard work of these years is very worthwhile, and I am very satisfied with the ability they have now! Zhou Xiao smiled.
The fans also expressed their gratitude to Zhou Xiaohe for the efforts of the girls behind him in the past few years with the greatest applause.
"Of course." Zhou Xiao's words are not finished: "The hard work of the past few years, after being able to do this, it is definitely not the end, in the future, they will have more related work in the future, especially those in the team with music as the main development path, for example, in a few days and in February, we will hold an AKB Group unplugged concert!" ”
Unplugged! The rice was boiling. Unplugged concerts or something, almost the most intuitive way to prove a singer's strength, female idols or something, eighty years of the batch can open unplugged concerts, but after entering the era of kitten clubs, there are very few idols who can do this, I didn't expect that now AKB will be unplugged in!
"Of course, this unplugged concert is not for everyone. Most of the members who are not music-oriented will not participate, but important members such as Aeri Matomoto, Aya Yamamoto and Minami Takahashi will definitely not be absent, so I hope you can support them a lot! Zhou Xiaodao.
"Of course I will!" The rice people shouted loudly.
"Good. That's all I have to say, and then I'll leave the time to the members. Zhou Xiao waved to the audience and walked off the stage.
After all, this stage still belongs to AKB, and he came up to announce that the girls' next activities can go down.
A song ends, there is no closing remark and no instrument is taken off the stage. Obviously, the girls weren't going to sing just that.
"Next, please listen, "Ponytail and Hair Ring"!" Maeda announced.
It's still the guitar that opens. A new version of "Ponytail and Hair Ring" from the newly arranged band was played at the concert venue!
"givemefive" is only the first song that everyone is not familiar with, and the later "Ponytail and Hair Ring" is very familiar to everyone, and the new arrangement that is familiar and unfamiliar is almost instantaneous.
The RH100 is over, and the attention of the whole of Japan has arrived.
A lot of non-AKB meals are a little annoying for a moment, AKB news is too much, it has not been interrupted in the past two years, every other month or even less, there will be a bunch of big and small news jumping out, for this news frequency, the audience is indeed a little bored, but the audience also has to admit that AKB news is really interesting.
Like this time, the girl orchestra? Rock 'n' roll? Female idols have been labeled as young and incapable since 20 years ago, and now there is such a group of girls who stand up and use live performances to tell everyone that they are not vases without depth and connotation, they have never given up learning, and they can also dive into learning and progress.
It's just enough for a bunch of AKB girls, but it's not over.
In addition to the girls who stood on the stage that day and revealed their musical instrument skills, there was another group of people who also practiced their musical instruments with these girls.
The day after RH100, many girls, including Tomomi Itano and Mai Oshima, and even two E-girls, Aya Takamoto and Mami Nakajima, posted videos on their blogs and Weibo!
"Finally, I can stop hiding it, I'm practicing bass! Is it handsome? Tomomi Itano said on her blog.
Underneath this sentence of the blog, there is a video that has obviously been prepared for a long time, and the girl in the video skillfully sings a song with a bass.
Kindness...... On the Internet, there are often some slender figures wearing beautiful cosplay clothes and standing guitars or basses or pianos, which attract quite a lot of people.
For example, the so-called paper towel Ji who was wearing Nagato Yuki's clothes and always had a box of tissues by his side, these works still have considerable influence on the Internet, so what about the problem...... It's the makers of these works.,What a tissue Ji or something.,Most of the time it's actually created by a slender man.。
But through these works, it can be seen that people still eat the set of "girls playing musical instruments", but it turns out that there are not many people who can really do this, around 2000 there was ZONE, when it first debuted, it was just an air band, but after a lot of hard practice, it finally performed well, and then there were excellent girl bands or bands including Qia Mengqi, stereopony, etc.
Since 2010, AKB has brought a large number of girl idols. The girl band has also been affected by this.,Including the voice actor orchestra derived from "Light Girl",And Scandal and others are all going this way.,The most shining existence of them is babymetal (but this band doesn't play instrumentals) This girl band that plays gothic metal.,The so-called gothic Lori is such an interesting setting.,Even caused quite a lot of repercussions around the world.,In the later period.,babymetal even reached a higher level of influence in the world than in Japan.。
In fact, at the beginning, Zhou Xiao also considered getting babymetal under his own. You must know that BM's lead singer Suzuka Nakamoto and Nogizaka's Nakamoto Hiya are still sisters, but this plan was finally abandoned by Zhou Xiao.
People like this kind of thing, so the announcement of Tomomi Itano's video caused quite a huge response, and the musicians who used to only wear beautiful clothes but didn't dare to show their faces. Now it's become a beautiful girl.,It's playing with a whirlwind of duck lips all over Japan.,The gap between the two is huge.,It's enough to leave the kind of scum in front of it.。
And. Itano Tomomi is not the end!
Mai Oshima also uploaded a video of her playing with the keyboard, and then there was a collaborative video of Aya Takamoto and Mami Nakajima, and the two girls were playing ...... Two violins.
Further back. The second phase of the student Nami Okumana, Kiriko Takemura, Ai Shinozaki, etc., also uploaded the stunts they were asked to hide for many years!
Explosive surprises and discussions circulated throughout the Japanese entertainment industry, in addition to discussing the girls, more people were also discussing Zhou Xiao, so frustrating, the unbelievable plan made people dizzy, Zhou Xiao's confidence and dedication to the girls were clearly displayed in front of everyone just by such a news.
Playing the plan that started six years ago, even if it can't be proved that Zhou Xiao has the determination to make this group of girls last for six years, at least it can prove that he does have enough long-term plans for AKB, and has long-term support for the girls, and there is absolutely no possibility for them to hate Zhou Xiao like this.
A week after RH100, AKB's first New Year's handshake party was held in Tokyo.
This handshake will last for a total of two days, but Zhou Xiao did not participate in this handshake meeting, because of some cooperation matters, when the handshake was held, he was in England with Akimoto Yasu, and these discussions also included the application of AKB members to perform in Europe, which must be handled by him and Akimoto Yasu.
The handshake party, including the group photo meeting, will last for two days, and the handshake on the first day will be normal, Zhou Xiao also received news from Japan, and the atmosphere of the whole work looks very relaxed.
In the evening in Japan and the morning in the UK, about an hour after the cooperation negotiations began, the agent suddenly walked in from outside.
"Boss, there's something going on over there in Japan." The agent came over with the phone and said.
"Excuse me." Zhou Xiao stood up, took the phone, apologized, and walked out of the conference room.
"What's wrong?" He asked, leaning into the microphone.
"Zhou Xiao, just now we noticed that someone broke the news on the Internet that Xia Hai and men were in friendship." Uncle Inoue said.
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Hirashima Natsumi, the early student of this AKB, still hasn't escaped her catastrophe in the end.
The reason why I say this is because Zhou Xiao didn't recruit Rumi Yonezawa, who would have had an accident with her at this time, according to the memory of his previous life, Hirashima Natsumi was because he had enough time, and then he was seduced by Rumi Yonezawa, a member of the dried fish group, that is, Rumi Yonezawa, so he went out to socialize with a man and was exposed.
Now that there is no Rumi Yonezawa in the group, it stands to reason that there are fewer possibilities for girls to encounter problems, right?
But it turns out that the attraction of Rumi Yonezawa is definitely not the main reason for this girl to do something, the main reason is that she herself has this idea.
"Don't deal with anything for now, wait until I get back." Zhou Xiao said.
"There's no need, it's just her, you still have a very important job over there." Uncle Inoue said.
He was right, Hirashima Natsumi is just a girl who has no sense of existence in the AKB group, and Zhou Xiao doesn't need to fly back specifically for her and hand things over to the operation, or Zhou Xiao can handle it remotely through the Internet in the UK.
"No, I'm going back, just let Mr. Akimoto handle it all here, I think I should go back too!" Zhou Xiao said. (To be continued......)