Chapter 374: A2 Performance
The large number of such comments is undoubtedly the most hurtful, and the harshness of the otaku makes the girls almost lose confidence.
Regarding the girls' thoughts, Zhou Xiao said: "Fan is not stupid, how is your appearance, how is your heart, you can see it at a glance, do you really think that they are scolding you because they are far behind Group A in singing and dancing?" If they were really interested in the best, then they would have gone to dinner as a professional singer a long time ago, so why would they still watch idols in the theater?
The reason why they say this is because you didn't convey your efforts, and your singing and dancing are indeed not as good as Group A, which has been practicing this public drill for more than half a year, but on this basis, you must be willing to say: 'Although Group K is not as good as Group A in terms of performance, it is not worse than Group A in terms of effort'!
I believe that if you have this kind of effort, even if you are really not as good as Group A, the fans will not care, what they want to see is actually just the way you work hard. ”
Zhou Xiao's words, not to mention the girls in Group K, even the staff present nodded again and again.
"To beat us!? Even if you can beat us before, you can't win against us now! After Zhou Xiao finished speaking, everyone was thinking in silence, and suddenly a voice said.
Zhou Xiao turned his head to look over and found that the person who said this was actually Zhijing Bu, and the current eldest sister of Group A didn't know where she got the courage to interject Zhou Xiao.
"Oh? The sister in Group A has already sent a challenge, what do you think of Group K? Zhou Xiao turned his head and asked the children in Group K.
"We're not going to lose either! You can't lose! The person who spoke, Zhou Xiao, didn't have to think about it at all, and he knew that it was Qiu Yuan.
"You should all know that the unfriendliness between the members is the most intolerable thing for me, but if it is a fight on the stage, on the performance, of course I support it, the opponents on the stage, and the teammates off the stage. While fighting for food, don't forget that there is a wider world waiting for you to fight for, and the battle in front of you is to make you stronger. Zhou Xiao finally said.
In the original history of Zhou Xiao, in fact, after the normalization of the performances of the two teams, the battle between Group A and Group K was very hot, this kind of positive investment not only extended from the stage to the backstage but also extended to the side of the meal, and there were even cases of the rice boycotting Group A or the opposite because of their support for Group K. These battles eventually led to the disrupting of the two groups A and K, and then formed two performances of the Sunflower group, which allowed the members of the two groups to communicate and help each other. It is considered to be a certain process on which the walls of communication are broken.
Now, because Zhou Xiao is very concerned about the unfriendly behavior of the members dragging their feet behind each other, plus the operation does not deliberately promote the opposition between the two groups, plus the exchange of 4 for 4 members, the relationship between the two groups is quite good, but just like Zhou Xiao did, although there is no need for the two sides to die and never get along with each other, but they are kind to each other, and the fight for the team to go further is still necessary. It is precisely because of this that Zhou Xiao told the members of Group K that he wanted them to fight with Group A and muster the courage to defeat Group A.
The success of boosting the morale of the members of Group K quickly made a difference. When Zhou Xiao watched the performance again, it was obvious that the girls were much more professional in terms of movements and expressions, and they looked very hard and serious, and they looked like they were going all out. The sweat on their faces touched their hearts and wanted to support them.
"This kind of K group is the K group that I remember to go all out......" Zhou Xiao thought with some emotion.
After Group K's performance is on track, it's Group A's turn.
From the end of last year to April this year. In more than four months, Group A has held nearly 100 performances, if it is a few years later, what is this 100 performances, some performances have even staged more than 200 performances, and Akimoto Yasu's performance plan has been postponed again and again, the entire NMB group has only one original performance, the entire HKT has been established for so long, the fame has been out, and the concert has been held in many very powerful places, but there is not even an original performance.
Of course, the situation in a few years is different from now, there are not enough AKB people now, there are not many opportunities to appear on TV and various places, and the only way for the fans to meet the members is probably just a theater performance, and the update speed of the new performance is not comparable to that of future generations, so when the members of Group K first joined the group in March, the second performance of Group A has already begun training, and the four people who were born in the second phase of Group A have also directly become part of the A2 performance.
Compared with A1, this A2 performance has a lot of personality parts.
The A2 performance should be regarded as the most special performance of the AKB group, which can be seen from the order of the performance, the normal performance usually follows the whole area, unit, and then the whole song, and finally the encore form, but the A2 performance, the first song of the whole performance, "Sighing Puppet", turned out to be unit!
This "Sighing Doll" was originally sung by Atsuko Maeda, Takahashi Minami, Itano Tomomi and Nakanishi Rina, and Takahashi Minami also made the center position on this song, and now Takahashi Nan is not the little giant-like Nan brother many years later but a Lori-like Nan Mei, and the team operation also attaches great importance to her, and letting her do the center in the first song is enough to prove this, but at this time, except for Zhou Xiao, no one can think that Takahashi Nan did not become the center of the girl idol in the end, Instead, he has become the pillar of AKB, and the deviation of this person's image is probably not expected.
As for the position of this song, it has now been replaced by Zhou Xiao with Mita Yurijia, who emigrated from the second phase of the student.
"Sighing Doll" is followed by a unitary song, and the second song of this A2 is also a divine comedy. "Shonan of Tears", a song with a very beautiful melody, has been sung by many people, but no matter how it is replaced, in Zhou Xiao's eyes, this song is undoubtedly Mai Oshima's representative track.
In addition to Mai Oshima, the other four singers of this song are Ayumi Orii, Yukari Sato, Shiho Watanabe and Mariko Shinoda, all five of them are tall and slender girls, and they wear red costumes that show off their figures, and they are really beautiful when they dance this song.
After "Shonan of Tears", it's time for another song "会いたかった" that has been released on CD. The song "I Want to See You", not to mention AKB rice, at least in recent years, people who have been in contact with some Japanese entertainment circles, I am afraid they will have a lot of impressions of this song, it can be said that although AKB is not popular by this song, this song has been on a lot of music programs with AKB, no way, who made this song famously catchy, Zhou Xiao was once curious. If this song was released when AKB was a hit, it might be as popular as Yuko Oshima's single "HeavyRotation".
In fact, Zhou Xiao actually really thought about it, his idea was that if he didn't make the song zuò now, but made other songs in the future, such as the fourth general election, the song "Checkered Pattern" that Yuko Oshima sang after winning the championship, and then sang this song "会いたかった" when Yuko Oshima won the championship for the second time, can it be sung very popular instead?
This idea turned and turned in Zhou Xiao's mind, but he finally gave up. There are several reasons.,First of all, one worry is that God knows if this song will be made by its original author.,Again,The style of the song "会いたかった" is relatively old.。 It may be good to come out in 2006, but in 2012 13 years, maybe only the kind of "会いたかった" that Nogizaka covered is suitable for modern music, don't look at it, it's only been eight years. But in this era, eight years is not a short time, enough to give birth to many changes. If "会いたかった" is really delayed for eight years, it is likely that it will not be liked.
So, in the end, the song still appeared at the A2 performance as usual.
After "会いたかった",A2 performance continues,And this fourth song,It's finally the turn of "Nagisa CHERRY".
The song "Nagisa CHERRY" can be regarded as a very legendary song on the A2 performance, first of all, this is a solo song that seems to be a unit song, Atsuko Maeda has a clear difference in color from the other three people in this song, and the other three people only have a harmony part and no lyrics when singing.
This made the lyrics of this song cause a lot of waves when it was sent, and the three people behind Maeda found that they only had a backup dance on this song and no singing part of the sad crying, Maeda was also very resistant to this song for this reason, on the first day of the A2 performance, Maeda once cried and left the center position on the performance stage, because at this moment, she has not completely departed from the idea of being an amateur, so do the center, It was too painful to feel the unwilling jealous gazes of the three girls behind her.
Among the other three people, later generations once described her experience from a very sad perspective when she participated in the program she participated in, describing the plot of her hugging and crying with two other friends after seeing that there were no lyrics of her own.
But when she saw this part, Zhou Xiao actually wanted to complain in her heart, because such Feng Annan has not been in the team for seven or eight years without any results, how can Feng Annan, who has been selected for Chang Lian, formed a team with others, and variety shows are also very concerned, can be regarded as surviving, but when the A2 performance was announced, what about the other two people who suffered with her? Masuyama Kamino left AKB, let's not talk about it, Hirashima Natsumi has been in the group for a long time after AKB became popular, she has worked so hard, she has been a supporting role for so many years, what does she get compared to Minami Minegishi?
The world is actually so unfair, when the song "HeavyRotation" was played, there was a period of time when it became big news that Rino Hara only appeared in the MV for one point and six seconds, but compared to those who couldn't even enter the selection team, how extravagant is this six seconds?! How many people have worked hard for eight or nine years to make these few seconds of appearance but never get it?
After the song "Nagisa CHERRY" ended, it was time for the song "ガラスのILOVEYOU", originally the singer of this song was Takahashi Minami, Itano Tomomi, Nakanishi Rina and Narita Risa, among the four people, Narita Risa did not participate in the selection in Zhou Xiao's AKB, and Nakanishi Risa also moved to TK, Zhou Xiao did not let Takahashi Minami sing two songs in a row, so this song was paired with Itano Yumi, and it became three Lorio Manami from the 2nd period, Kiriko Takemura and Ai Shinozaki.
Itano Yumi has been practicing dance for many years, and now she is also taking the cute route of Lori, so, compared to the two Loli and two girls in her previous life. Zhou Xiao's AKB version of this song has become a complete Lori song, and the song sung by the four cute children with a milky voice is much more classic than the version in Zhou Xiao's previous life.
The A2 performance is basically over here, and after the end of this song, it is followed by two songs sung by seven people, and then the rest, most of them are whole songs.
In mid-April, this special A2 performance was held, and on the first day of the stage, I was overwhelmed before the performance. But Maeda, who was completely unseen by Zhou Xiao, cried on the stage unexpectedly, but the whole performance is still very classic and very popular with otaku, especially Zhou Xiao specially prepared a lot of time for girls to train, and the four girls born in Phase 2 may still be a little clumsy, but the others have already expressed themselves very perfectly.
After dealing with these things, the filming of Zhou Xiao's movie has also entered the middle stage.
The drama "How to Steal the Key" as a whole does not have many scenes, and with the help of AZX, Zhou Xiao basically filmed when he arrived at the theater, and he could leave after filming. Very worry-free.
During the filming process, the expressions of several main actors became more and more proficient and free, and Zhou Xiao felt that this drama was the most enjoyable scene he had filmed since he became a director. The three main actors are all extremely smart, and they are also very enthusiastic and professional in their work, and many scenes are filmed in one go and have many days of shooting. even completed the work that was expected to take a day in half a day, and even Uncle Inoue, who has worked in the entertainment industry for many years, said that it was the first time he had met a crew with such an easy time filming in so many years.
It doesn't mean that a film that works slowly and meticulously is necessarily a good film. Sometimes the filming speed is fast enough, not necessarily because the director and actors are not good at filming, but the actors have already interpreted their roles to the extreme, and no matter how fastidious the director is, he can't find a problem, which makes the film completed quickly.
From the end of last year, Yu Fukuda began to shoot with the crew, to the beginning of the year, Zhou Xiao officially joined the crew and gradually brought up the filming progress, after more than four months of storms, the entire crew raised their heads and found that this drama was about to enter the final stage!
The filming time of more than four months is incomparable with some well-known fast masterpieces such as Johnny To's "Gunfire", but this speed is also quite fast, you know, including Zhou Xiao, no one is consciously speeding up, and now this speed is achieved without any reduction in all the work, simply because of good cooperation with each other.
is also too fast, when Zhou Xiao gradually got out of the filming work, he found that he had a few days on his schedule.
In the middle of 2006, after filming "The Way to Steal the Key", the time came to the end of April, and there was still about a month of free time before the filming of "Marriage Proposal" began in late May, although Zhou Xiao still had some work in his hands, such as AKB's new single, and for example, the selection of AZX will also be carried out in this month, but it will really take a lot of time, but there is no work to create by himself, which makes Zhou Xiao seem to be idle all of a sudden, and he can't find any work to do for several days.
If it were an ordinary person Zhou Xiao, he might be very happy to get a vacation after being busy and dark, but now Zhou Xiao is a little different, now he likes it a little and looks forward to work, AKB Needless to say, this work is simply the source of his happiness, filming and variety shows Zhou Xiao also likes it, he goes to work with great expectations every day, and he doesn't think about rest and other issues at all.
Zhou Xiao, who had thought about it for a long time, decided...... Travel to go!
It's just that this tour is not a rest, but a work.
Because Zhou Xiao brought with him on this trip, in addition to a crew, there was also Ayako Imoto, and the two traveled to South America by plane across most of the world, as for the program they wanted to record, of course, Zhou Xiao had already planned it, and this time he finally had the opportunity to start producing zuò's "itteQ".
The show "itteQ", with becky, funny artist Mori Sanzhong, Yuya Denice's hand, and even Tetsuro Izukawa and Mitsura Uchimura, two veteran funny artists, can be said to be a show with a very strong lineup structure, but if you really care about this show, you will find that these people in the show seem to be important but all of them are supporting roles, and there is only one real soul of this show, that is, Ayako Imoto, who is being taken by Zhou Xiao.
Although he handles this variety show, as before, Zhou Xiao does not appear on the camera as usual, in fact, the TV station also hopes that he can act, and the Japanese entertainment industry has a lot of criticism that Zhou Xiao has not had a prime-time program, thinking that it is a waste of Zhou Xiao, but the reality is that he really doesn't have much time to produce a show and also star in the show, and the other is ...... In Japan, the work of actually acting in a show is like the hard work of a blue-collar worker compared to doing creative work.
For example, the program "itteQ", Zhou Xiao's so-called production zuò is actually just a general idea of the program, as a director and the program team to shoot one or two episodes of the program, and then give the program some plans in the future, but what Zhou Xiao got was the largest in the entire program group, the remuneration of the chief producer, the remuneration of the chief producer plus Zhou Xiao's bonus as a big name, so that Zhou Xiao's income per episode of the program even far exceeded that of the program MC, not to mention these ordinary artists around him. (To be continued......)