Chapter 354: A Real New Song
"Uh...... Teacher Xia, Sister Xia, is it really necessary to expel that child? After being expelled, there are only nineteen people left...... "Zhou Xiao asked.
"What did you say when you brought me here?" Although Zhou Xiao is the boss, Teacher Xia Zhengong, who has a huge aura, is not a vegetarian, and there is a big gap in age between the two sides, and Zhou Xiao needs her to help rehearse, so she is also very polite when talking to Zhou Xiao.
"But ......" Zhou Xiao was helpless.
"Have you forgotten what you said during the final selection? These girls, you can't think of them as big shots! They are a group of eliminated goods who have nothing but their dreams! They are not outrageous artists with good talent under you, so they can't be treated like raising stars, otherwise, they will soon begin to be full of illusions that they are already big shots, they are already big stars, in fact, you are already very good to them, if you want me to say, there is no need to give them such a good environment and so much training, only let them grow, they are not delicate flowers in the greenhouse, they are all weeds! ”
"Okay......" Zhou Xiao could only reluctantly agree with Xia Zhengong's statement.
In fact, he is also very entangled for Zhou Xiao, if it is an important person in the team like Maeda Kojima who is expelled by Xia Zhengong, it is okay, but the person who was expelled is such an unimportant figure as Oe Asami, who will not be important in the future, in the case of AKB's glory days without this person's name, it will not matter if she stays or not, Zhou Xiao just said it when he feels that there are too few people now, and it will be difficult to maintain the performance if it is reduced.
After the failure of fighting with Xia Zhengong to bring Dae Asami back, what made Zhou Xiao a little melancholy was that AKB's performance had not yet begun, and among the so-called Yuan A2O people, there were 3 people who would never be called Yuan A in this life.
Asami Oe was expelled, allowing her to join Hitomi Tsuya, who did not participate in the audition this time. Together, Narita Risa has become an AKB member who was fanned off by Zhou Xiao's butterfly wings, and these three people, I'm afraid it will be impossible to hang the halo of "original AKB48 member" on themselves in this life.
In addition to dance training, the girls also have to fill out a lot of surveys and questions every day, which will help the company understand them and position them correctly.
These are filled in the stuff. Zhou Xiao and Qiu Yuankang also have a lot of mastery, unlike Qiu Yuankang himself who did not have enough time in the previous life, in this life, the two of them have so much time to run a performance, they can polish and modify the songs in the performance to their heart's content.
The first thing Zhou Xiao handed over to Akimoto Yasu was the A1 performance in his memory, AKB's performance was distinguished by the team, and the A1 performance represented the first performance of AKBTEAMA, and this performance was also the first performance of AKB48.
In fact, there are quite a lot of songs that have been passed down from the A1 performance, and "Party Begins" is AKB's first song. "Dearmyteacher" is another colorful AKB song, plus songs such as "Skirt Fluttering", "Christmas Eve with You", "Cherry Blossom Petals" and so on. The whole performance can be said to be quite classic, but this performance is not without regrets, for example, the average repertoire of a future performance is 13 songs, but this performance only has 11 songs, and the performance process of 13 songs is usually 1o songs. Finally, there are 3 other songs in the encore song, but since there are only 11 songs in the A1 performance, the current performance is the same as the 1o song. The last encore is an encore version of a song that does not have a main article plus two songs, "Skirt Fluttering" and "Cherry Blossom Petals".
Why are there two songs that are encore versions and not new songs? Zhou Xiao estimated that in addition to the lack of songs, the lack of training of the members may also be one of the reasons.
Zhou Xiao didn't know if Yasu Akimoto and the AKB members in his previous life would have some small regrets at this point, but since he is here, and the preparation time is also very sufficient, making up for this performance, releasing two songs, and then letting the girls practice well, so that the whole performance is complete, which is his most important work in the next few months.
And...... Zhou Xiao quietly made a decision in his heart, the two songs in this encore stage, if you can, try to use ...... Songs that haven't been seen before.
It's not a song that hasn't been in 2oo5 years now, it's a song that hasn't been in the hard drive in Zhou Xiao's mind ten years later, and in 2o14!
That's right, Zhou Xiao is ready to ...... Write two songs yourself!
Zhou Xiao himself did slowly learn to compose songs, which began when he just debuted in 2ooo years, and made a promise in his heart to establish AKB's dream, after five years have passed, he is a little afraid to use his own tunes for the songs he sings, because it is likely that the director will smash his own signboard, but if it is a song with low musicality like AKB, it will be easier for Zhou Xiao.
But composing your own music is not something you can do just by doing it, the most important point is that the two songs you want to do must be integrated with the overall atmosphere of the A1 performance.
Zhou Xiao first listened to the A1 performance in his mind several times, and then set some styles and tones for the whole performance in his heart, the A1 performance as a whole is a "uniform" performance, and the uniforms used in the whole performance are very much, Qian Sange, "Party Begins", "Dearmyteacher" and "Poison Apple" When singing, the first set of clothes worn by the girls is the uniform.
Then there are the two units of "Skirt Fluttering" and "Classmates", the skirt fluttering in the A1 performance is a five-person song, and "Classmates" is a four-body system, these two songs still use uniform costumes, but there are few differences between them and the first three in style.
The uniform style did not change until the sixth, seventh, eighty-third songs, and in the case that the three songs did not adopt uniforms, by the beginning of the ninth song, the entire costume style returned to the uniform style, completing the style unity of the entire performance.
In the case of encore, A1 uses a song with the same name as AKB48, AKB48, which is a "pulling" song, and the lyrics use a lot of place names from Tokyo and the vicinity of Akihabara. It sounds so catchy that it's easy to remember and by the way, the Akihabara 8th floor Don Quixote AKB48 theater described in this song.
So...... If you add two more songs after this song, what song will you add?
What Zhou Xiao thought of first was the main story that had been very complete before.
"Since the style of the main story is uniform, making AKB an idol activity for girls who are going to school, then the style of these last two songs is very subtle, these two songs must be unified with the previous uniform style, and at the same time, they can't blindly pursue the uniform style, otherwise it will be redundant, in that case......" Zhou Xiao made a decision in his heart.
He lifted his laptop. The creation of two new songs began.
"Is this really necessary?" When Qiu Yuanyasu got Zhou Xiao's two songs, he said.
"Of course it's necessary, and I want the whole show to be a little more complete." Zhou Xiao said.
"Okay, what do you do with the lyrics?" Yasu Akimoto asked.
"That's right, you listen to me hum to you first." Zhou Xiao pulled a guitar and said.
Strictly speaking, Zhou Xiao's two works are not difficult, the pitch is not high, and the overall style is not fast, which can be regarded as a relatively normal lyrical style. In terms of style, the style of Zhou Xiao's first song is quite special, the whole song is obviously divided into two parts, and the overall rhythm of the first part is slow. The melodious melody makes people feel very comfortable, but in the middle, the style of the whole song changes abruptly, although it does not become too passionate and crazy. But there is also more sense of rhythm and jumping.
After playing the tune of the first song, Zhou Xiao said: "This first song, I hope to play the role of connecting the past and the next. Presented, it is a school uniform style that undertakes the main part of the performance, creating a style that is not too early and ready to end class.
In the second half, the style of the song changed, indicating that the class had ended, and as soon as the children who got out of class took off their uniforms, they turned into idol artists, jumping briskly and starting their own performances. ”
"Well...... Yes, I see what you mean. Akimoto nodded.
"Uh......" Zhou Xiao looked at Yasu Akimoto, who was beginning to think about how to write the lyrics, and stopped talking.
"What's wrong?" Yasu Akimoto asked.
"That...... How about this song? Zhou Xiao pretended to be unintentional and asked.
"What's wrong with you? It's so strange all of a sudden, why do you seem to be nervous? This song is not bad, on the whole, it is no different from other songs performed, and in my opinion, what is better than other songs is that there is a faint feeling of youth in this song, if it is a new composer, it may be nothing, and a guy like you who has written tens of millions of sales can create this kind of youthfulness and make people feel amazing! Akimoto said.
"Really? Ahaha, ahahahaha......" Zhou Xiao scratched his head a little embarrassed, Qiu Yuankang, the fat man, may never guess, this is indeed Zhou Xiao's youthful work.
However, since Qiu Yuankang didn't feel too many differences between Zhou Xiao's works and the previous works, Zhou Xiao was also relieved, if Qiu Yuankang could hear that this song was far from the previous song, Zhou Xiao would be a big loss.
"Then let's listen to the next song!" Zhou Xiao picked up the guitar again and said.
Most of the melodies used in his second song are his previous creations, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to write two songs at once for a while, of course, even if it was his previous creation, Zhou Xiao also added a lot of things that are different from the times, and this difference in the times is very obvious in Zhou Xiao, on the one hand, he is the first brother of music creation, on the other hand, he has experienced more than the current era of music styles, these styles are mixed together, making Zhou Xiao's music with a very strange sense of the times, It is not only like a novice work, but also has a time-ahead aesthetic.
At the end of another song, Zhou Xiao explained: "This second song, as you heard, I hope to create an idol style, implying that the girls have gone from the campus to the theater, and they are idols next." Zhou Xiao said.
"So...... In order, you mean ......" Akimoto thought of something.
"That's right, I think it's more appropriate to put the song that introduces AKB48's position in these two songs, the first song is the process of becoming an idol, the middle song is like a girl soliciting customers outside the theater, and the last song is a farewell mixed with idol elements, giving the audience a feeling that they are already idols standing here." Zhou Xiao said.
"Wouldn't the overall style seem too informative? The encore of the three songs. Isn't it a little annoying? Akimoto asked with some concern.
"No, the normal performance arrangement is thirteen songs, but because the original number is not enough, there are two more repeated songs in the original performance tracks, and the overall style, I think the thirteen songs are just right, too much, too little. Compared to having two repetitive songs, three full new songs can not give a worse experience. Zhou Xiao said.
"Since you insist, do it, give me a week. I'll go back and write the lyrics according to your ideas. Yasudo Akimoto.
"A week? Teacher Akimoto, we have to speed up, now we can catch up with fewer songs, and there will be more songs in the future, maybe more than 200 songs will be released a year, and an average of a little more than a day will be written. Zhou Xiao said.
"Hahaha, you're kidding, no group can produce more than 200 songs a year." Akimoto didn't believe it at all, he didn't know that in the future, he would be the leader of the five groups by himself.
Akimoto Kang took the tune back to create, and Zhou Xiao set his sights on the remaining nineteen girls.
Nineteen girls were trained by Xia Zhengong, and the dance was not the end, but only the beginning. In the next music lesson, the girls faced a huge challenge.
Most people in later generations may know that AKB is the so-called half-open microphone, which is understood by many people as lip-synching, but in fact, AKB is not outright lip-synching. There are still quite a few cases where the team will actually sing. On the one hand, the music training of the members is not enough, and the operator can't squeeze out too much money to give everyone a grasp of the tone and style. In addition, many times the live sound equipment is limited, and it only supports the microphones of a dozen people, and it is impossible for hundreds of people to sing together.
Although most of the situation, such as the liptto of the chorus, is understandable. But this doesn't mean that lip-syncing is acceptable, Zhou Xiao doesn't really care about whether it's lip-syncing, but thinking about the various attacks on AKB in the future, Zhou Xiao feels that it's best to improve the singing ability of some girls, and it doesn't need to be too high, at least when singing with unit or less than 16 people, you can use real singing, and when a girl who is not very good at singing enters the team, she can cover up her singing skills.
When the girls' vocal lessons were carried out in the recording studio, Zhou Xiao also participated twice, but Zhou Xiao's participation in these two vocal lessons was quite painful, because every time he appeared, the girls immediately had a full face, "Brother Zhou Xiao, we really want to hear you sing, go and sing it to us, okay?" The expression made Zhou Xiao quite uncomfortable, and these invited teachers often care about Zhou Xiao's main line, and they have to ask Zhou Xiao to go up and demonstrate how to sing in a certain link, which is quite annoying.
As for the physical and entertainment industry training, the girls are practicing with the newcomers of AZX, including Kana Nishino, who was signed in the previous AZX selection, Naomi Watanabe, and Nana Ozaki, who was signed through Guò not very formal channels, etc., all of these people were put into classes together, and Zhou Xiao was a little eye-opening that these people had already been divided into three, six, nine and so on before they entered the training of the entertainment industry.
Kana Nishino is undoubtedly the most sought after one among the people who take classes, unlike AKB Selection, Kana Nishino was hyped by the company in the AZX Selection, and the promotional copy even said that she has a voice that is sent by God, which attracted a lot of attention in the first half of this year.
Under Kana Nishino, the members of AKB began to group with the outside world, but this kind of group is also divided into various small groups, in general, the older ones are together, the younger ones are together, those with experience in the entertainment industry are together, and those without entertainment industry experience are together.
As for Naomi Watanabe and Nana Ozaki, don't look at the previous two people who don't like this ugly and vulgar combination, the two of them may not be much closer, so most of the two of them belong to their own situations, which makes Zhou Xiao also a little worried, worried that they will not be able to persist in this kind of cold violence one day and quit their jobs at AZX.
But relatively speaking, Nana Ozaki is the lonelier person, because Naomi Watanabe is not without friends in AZX, once because he wanted to make clothes for AKB, AKZ's costume creation team Chino Shinobu found a place to train, and a few days later, Zhou Xiao was surprised that Chino Shinobu and Watanabe Naomi became friends!
They...... Are they researching where to find their own model of clothes? Or are you researching where to eat?
Sure enough, things gather like people, and people divide into groups.
I just hope that Naomi Watanabe doesn't take Chino Shinobu badly.
As for Nana Ozaki...... Zhou Xiao didn't bother to care about her, with her personal image, presumably this kind of cold violence will not be less in the future, let her get used to liking it now, if she goes over to help her, I don't know what strange words will come later. (To be continued......)
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