Chapter 534: Watching the Football at an Overseas Performance
Others don't matter at all, all the cameras are pointed at AKB, because a dozen girls have completely collapsed.
Zhou Xiao's AKB in his previous life, when he was qualified for the red and white participation in 2007, was also very, very excited, but at that time, the girls who had just been established had experienced many years of hard work like the girls today, so they would be excited and happy, but they would not collapse...... Happy?
In this life, they are not like this, in 07, Brother Zhou Xiao's refusal to invite red and white was a very huge blow to the girls, not only because they were not red and white, but also because Brother Zhou Xiao obviously did not recognize their achievements.
I love them very much, and the person who supports them all the time is the one who denies them, and the sadness in this will definitely not be small.
After 2007, one of the reasons why the girls redoubled their efforts was to want Brother Zhou Xiao to recognize their efforts, and the proof was undoubtedly the stage of the Red and White Song Club.
It's time for this year, and AKB's table xiàn is good, but ...... After the events of 2007, no one dared to say that this year would definitely be on the line, so everyone was waiting and looking forward to it.
"I ...... I didn't think it would be so early! Takahashi Nan cried and said, it's true, it's the beginning of November, and in previous years, such announcements would not be announced until the end of November, but this year, firstly, it was determined that the first-time members were determined early, and secondly, they were asked by Zhou Xiao to arrange a little earlier, as for the reason for the advance? It's very simple, Zhou Xiao just wants to surprise the girls.
AKB's girls are really broken.,Hearing the news that they will participate in red and white.,The hardships and hardships of the past few years have come up.,AKB is not a super favorable group.,They debuted from Akihabara.,From the very beginning, they were labeled as "home",And the normal entertainment industry,AKB is born with a layer of estrangement.。
Such an AKB. Since its debut, I have encountered quite a lot of discrimination, many people even think that AKB is no different from a maid coffee, or even a wine girl, singing and dancing in the dark theater every day, shaking hands with obscene otaku and taking pictures, this combination should always be niche, just not popular.
Since their debut, AKB girls have encountered a lot of discrimination and bullying, and when they appear on TV, some men will ask the members for phone numbers through the light of their seniors. and even sexually harassed members. Doing activities outside is also the same, the men's eyes will never leave the exposed parts of everyone's body all the time, and if they don't pay attention, they will be secretly photographed under their skirts, and they will endure the continued slander of girls of the same age when they go to school, and put up with the impoliteness of boys......
Being an idol is far more than just singing and dancing.
Now, this qiē effort has finally paid off, and compared with red and white, the Budokan is indeed a very good achievement. But the Budokan only represents more people who support you, and red and white represent more, so to speak, red and white represent. It was AKB that was recognized as an idol group in the entertainment industry, and it was AKB's singing and dancing that was recognized by ordinary people rather than rice, not those who came to shake hands.
Although I'm a bit sorry to say this, it's all that red and white can do. That is, the recognition of the general audience is what the members want the most.
That's why Yuko Oshima was in the song that she heard that high school girls would sing in karaoke on Akbingo. The reason why AKB cried with joy when they were ranked fourth was that no amount of CDs would change their identity if they didn't have the approval of ordinary people.
To be honest, I actually see girls crying...... It's also very cool, especially the Chinese civilization puts beautiful words such as pear blossoms with rain on it.
Civilizations are actually interconnected, for example, the staff who watch the girls cry in the studio are all quite happy to watch, and some will laugh out loud.
Zhou Xiao was the same, but unlike the others around him, Zhou Xiao smiled and smiled, and felt that there was a little sand in his eyes.
In the past few years, it has not been easy for him either.
The girls will be criticized and attacked by all kinds of people, in fact, he has received a lot, and unlike the members, Zhou Xiao is not only subject to all kinds of criticism, but also under great pressure, it is impossible to have this kind of pressure when he is an artist, but when you have dozens of artists under your command, and you care so much about these dozens of artists, this pressure is quite huge.
I'm worried that I won't be able to take care of the members, I'm worried that AKB won't be popular now, and I'm worried about the future of each member...... Although it is not exaggerated to the point that Cheng Dù can't sleep at night, Zhou Xiao is indeed not less worried.
Between doubts and incomprehension, attacks and ridicule, Zhou Xiao took the AKB girls for four years before finally standing here justifiably.
Now he is no longer the otaku who can only face the computer screen in his previous life, watching the girls in the distance happy and crying, he is their brother, he protects them, and fights for the future and tomorrow for them, this dream is not something that anyone can achieve, but to say that he just crossed, he is destined to be able to do this journey, if he just took the shit luck, it would be a little too much to live up to his efforts.
The girls' crying, each other's successes, and their adoration and love for themselves are all deserved.
"Okay, okay, the press conference is going to be held soon, let's move towards the venue of the press conference." Zhou Xiao's emotion only returned to normal after a short time, he clapped his hands, and beckoned the members and other first-time artists present to go to the press conference together.
As he walked, Zhou Xiao handed the tissue to each member, and he said to the members dotingly: "Are you happy?" Look at how you all cry, let's do it in the future. ”
There is another reason why Zhou Xiao asked for the early announcement of the red and white debut, because many important members of the AKB are about to leave Japan.
They are going to perform the so-called overseas expedition performance.
AKB's overseas expedition performance or something, in fact, Zhou Xiao didn't care very much, the overseas expedition in his previous life went to New York, Cannes and Paris respectively, what is the effect...... Ordinary people, there are not many people who know AKB in 2009, and it is estimated that there are only one or two people who know and like it among hundreds of thousands of people outside of Japan, Zhou Xiao feels that what kind of overseas expedition at this time, if there is no invitation or sponsorship, is purely a thankless act.
But in this life. In the end, the overseas expedition performance was carried out.
The main reason is that this overseas performance was strongly promoted by Yasushi Akimoto.
Why did Yasu Akimoto have to perform overseas? In fact, one of the ideas he has always had is to push the idea of AKB overseas, although the idea has become Zhou Xiao's in this life, but Akimoto Yasushi gradually accepted these ideas in his cooperation with Zhou Xiao, and has his own ideas on top of this.
His idea is very similar to his idea at this time in his previous life, that is, he hopes to sell the concept of AKB, so that AKB spin-off groups can appear all over the world.
There is no doubt that Yasu Akimoto, who has lived in the past and present life, has ignored a question, that is, whether Europeans and Americans can accept AKB.
Since 2010, AKB's influence in East Asia has been huge. Especially in Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia and other places, in fact, no one knows much in Japan, and many times the members who simply ride the train on the shooting set can often experience the treatment that real stars should have outside Japan.
But in Europe and the United States, although there will be some people who like AKB, but on the whole, Europe and the United States still do not want to see AKB, as for the investors in Europe and the United States, they are more conservative and conservative, and the discrimination of discrimination, Zhou Xiao estimated. The AKB overseas performance in 2009 must have been accompanied by Yasushi Akimoto's hard work in promotion, but in the end, it must have been a huge damage.
In fact, culture is like this. Culture is usually very related to economic strength and national strength, and it is very difficult for a relatively weak cultural civilization to sell its own things to a strong culture. Japanese culture has actually introduced a lot of things to Europe and the United States, but the entertainment industry? The Japanese entertainment industry is a closed and introverted circle, and I don't know you well. Why should I accept your stuff?
It was also after this overseas performance that AKB's policy changed, from the original concept of striving for sales to focusing on the development of the Japanese domestic market, as for Southeast Asia? In the minds of Yasu Akimoto and AKB, the rest of Southeast Asia may be infinitely equivalent to barren land, and they would never have imagined that the purchasing power and votes of Southeast Asia would affect the ranking of the general election in the future.
Although Zhou Xiao knows that AKB can't get too good opportunities overseas or sell AKB's business concept, but the key is that Qiu Yuanyasu doesn't know, now although AKB is Zhou Xiao's only shares with Qiu Yuanyasu, but after a few years of operation, Qiu Yuanyasu's sense of identity with AKB is also very high, so he will work very hard to promote the concept of AKB, so hard and serious Qiu Yuanyasu, how could Zhou Xiao bear to deny him, so since he proposed it, Zhou Xiao is also good. Received the mention of Yasushi Akimoto's overseas performance.
Cannes, Paris, New York, three performances, Zhou Xiao and Qiu Yuankang participated in the whole process.
What is the effect...... It's basically the same as in the previous life.
Especially in the New York performance, some Americans who participated in the New York performance will go and say that AKB is doing something soft for children. Feeling...... And Akimotoyasu's negotiations did not achieve good results, Akimoto lived in New York for a while, as an upper-class person, he also had some friendships in New York, but these friendships did not bring him investment.
In the end, after the three performances, after taking the members of the selection team around the world, they hardly set off any waves in the European and American entertainment circles, and the only wave was inadvertently set off by Zhou Xiao and the members.
But if he had never done it once, Zhou Xiao would never choose to do it.
Here's the thing, AKB held a total of three overseas concerts, and the last of them was held in New York.
After the performance in New York, the AKB members still had a day and a night to free in New York, and after the girls went out to play around during the day, Zhou Xiao took them to Madison Square Garden, but not here to watch the concert but to watch the ...... A basketball game.
There is nothing to say about the game itself, although the New York Knicks at home are rich, but they have exploded in the team's performance, and the winning rate of one win and nine losses after the start of the game is simply miserable, but this does not prevent the glory of New York Ball City and the star-studded stars on the courtside.
Zhou Xiao originally felt that he was not in the European and American entertainment circles, so no one would find out, so he was relieved and boldly took ten of the sixteen girls who came to the concert to sit in the audience.
As a result, Zhou Xiao estimated that he didn't notice him at the beginning of the big screen shots and the like, but he ignored the people sitting around him, ten young, beautiful and cute Asian girls. Surrounded by a man, it is obvious that they still know each other, this meeting ...... It's just explosive, isn't it?
So, Zhou Xiao and 11 other people who didn't pay much attention after the kickoff, and when it came to halftime, the big screen on the scene began to pay attention to this side frequently, accompanied by the camera, as well as the surprise and coaxing of the audience, Zhou Xiao was embarrassed, among the girls present. Shinoda Oshima, Mayu Airi are not there, only Maeda Takahashi, Akimoto Kitahara and other members, Zhou Xiao and they are just ordinary relationships, there is nothing to coax at all, but he does look cool to sit among the girls......
However, although Zhou Xiao is embarrassed, the ten girls around him seem to like this state, and the Japanese don't have much love for basketball. Especially girls, many times if you want to say that you like it, it is estimated that you prefer to play basketball handsome high school principals, like now, a group of black and bright playing basketball in the court. Their attention is not very large, so a group of people began to pay more attention to the surrounding environment, especially after seeing the big screen in the center of the stage frequently paying attention to them, the girls will not be shy to wave when the big screen camera comes. To be an idol or something, the first thing to do is to liberate nature and abandon shame, girls are not as embarrassed as Zhou Xiao.
The most powerful are Maeda and Takahashi. When the big screen is pointed at a couple of spectators, the couple will kiss in front of the attention of tens of thousands of people, and the audience will respond with loud applause and cheers.
Today's little game is still running as before, but it's going around and around, and I don't know what the live director thinks, so it turned to the two girls, Maeda and Takahashi......
After watching most of the half-time football game, the two girls who had a lot of time staring at the big screen above their heads naturally knew the intention of this kind of double shot, and the two did not expect that the two girls would also be concerned by this kind of link, so they were all taken aback, but after the initial surprise, the response of the two immediately made a difference.
Takahashi was surprised and raised his hand to refuse and wanted to dodge, but Maeda was very excited and hugged Takahashi who didn't wait to run away!
Then, Takahashi leaned back desperately, Maeda pouted and leaned forward, looking very funny, and finally, with the "help" of other girls around him, Maeda fixed Takahashi's head with both hands as he wished, and kissed the girl firmly!
The cheers of the audience were louder than the sound of a dunk scored in the ball game below!
However, looking at the same cheers of the girls around him, Zhou Xiao's face turned green, since the camera on the scene was so naughty, it was so fast......
It turns out that Zhou Xiao's guess is still very correct, and after waiting for a few minutes, when the kiss game was played again, the camera lens was unexpectedly given to Zhou Xiao!
The most embarrassing thing is that this time the shot is given a larger shot than other people's shots! What is included in the lens is Zhou Xiao and most of the girls around him!
This...... Who is your sister's kiss?
The girls of AKB are also stupid, to kiss or not to kiss? It's embarrassing if you don't kiss, who is kissed if you kiss? And will Brother Zhou Xiao take the initiative to come over and kiss? Or do you want the members to kiss over here!?
Of course Zhou Xiao didn't kiss in the end, but there was no embarrassment of not kissing, he had to pretend to be stupid for more than ten seconds in the audience's coaxing, and finally endured this crisis moment, he had to do this, the girls around him are all his own employees, and they are all idols, if they don't kiss, this matter is not news, but if it is really kissed, Zhou Xiao will wait for the attack in Japan, this is not the most important thing, the key is that if he kisses, what will the girl who was kissed do in the future? Have you been tied to Zhou Xiao for the rest of your life? There was nothing going on, but in the end, I was stunned to make something?
So no matter how the people around him coaxed, Zhou Xiao couldn't make any moves.
The day after watching the game, Zhou Xiao returned to Japan with the members of AKB.
This trip to New York is the last leisure time for the members before the year-end work, and they have begun to become popular and have a lot of year-end work waiting for them after returning home.
And Zhou Xiao watched the game with ten members, fortunately, it didn't attract much attention in Japan, the Knicks team was already very bad, so Japanese TV didn't broadcast the live broadcast of the game, and it was only a small circle that really paid attention to it, plus Zhou Xiao and the girls didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and the matter passed quickly.
2009 is coming to an end, 2010 is just around the corner, and it will be a year in which AKB will grow and sweep Japan, and the journey of 2009 will end with AKB members on the red and white stage, and 2010 will begin with the members' New Year's Eve concert. (To be continued......)