Chapter 326: The Candidate for the English Song
"Terracehou Color" is finally about to be released.
Zhou Xiao planned a new variety show on Fuji Channel, and Zhou Xiao personally directed the first two episodes, this gimmick ...... It's enough.
Many viewers and Zhou Xiao's meal sat in front of the TV on time and waited for the broadcast of the show, this new show, judging from the news announced before, is very curious and looking forward to it.
Just like Zhou Xiao thought, some shows you make after eight years may just be an ordinary variety show, but if you make it eight years in advance, and it happens to be made in 2oo4, when a similar trend is popular in all of East Asia, it represents considerable innovation.
In short, the show appeared a little late eight years later, and now the time is just right.
And then...... The show began.
The first to appear was the Toyota trademark.
The screen gradually dimmed, and soon the TV appeared with a Toyota sedan driving on a busy street.
The melodious sound of the violin rang out.
"Here...... Will a new story be born? Zhou Xiao's voice rang out.
The camera switched to the car, and Zhou Xiao in the car said with a very gentle expression: "Six men and women with completely different backgrounds, experiences, and habits live in one place for a certain period of time, and we have prepared a good house and car for them, of course, this show ...... There aren't any scripts. Well...... Three men and three women live together, there may be love, there may be friendship, there may be quarrels and hatred, everything will be born, or nothing will be born...... I don't know exactly what will happen, so ...... Please look forward to it with me, and look forward to them creating a good story. ”
After Zhou Xiao's words were finished, the picture soon changed, and it was daylight. And the camera is looking down at the earth and the ocean at a very high angle.
The scene switches again, the beautiful sea, the undulating waves, the tights in the dry, and the tanned lean man with sunglasses......
Although Zhou Xiao watched the first season of "Terracehou Color", he didn't actually think that this time he could find a surfer like the first season to do this show, and the fact is that this time the program team was looking for candidates. No surfer at all would be interested in participating in the show, but ...... Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe the cheerful man by the sea will really be more interested in this kind of show, the first person Zhou Xiao found, like the surfer in the first episode, has a young, handsome and tall good figure, with tanned skin, but his profession is not a surfer, but a ...... A member of the Beach Rescue Team.
The handsome man walked up the stairs with his luggage. The camera caught his calf and knew the man push open the door and walk into the prepared room.
And then...... The music started.
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Taylor Swift's original song was sung in 2o12, and she really made her debut in 2oo4. But for Zhou Xiao, there is naturally no need to go to her to sing this song, not to mention whether it is troublesome or not, she is only 14 years old now, and it is also a question whether she can control this song.
Thereupon. Zhou Xiao was about to find another person to sing this song, but as soon as he found someone, he had a problem......
English ...... for Japanese people in general It can also resonate with the Indians. Of course, it doesn't mean that Japanese English is not good, many people who come back from Europe and the United States can speak very fluent Japanese, from this point of view, it is impossible to say that Japanese people can't speak English well because of the wrong talent for tongue or mouth sound, and Japanese people can't speak English well, except for not loving to learn, there is only one reason, that is, the way Japanese directly writes all foreign words into katakana strange sounds hurts them.
Zhou Xiao is looking for someone like this, there are very few people who can really meet his requirements, there are actually many singers who have singing skills to sing this song, after all, the difficulty of Taylor's song is not high, but there are not many people who can speak such fluent English, and if it is linked to fame, of course it is no problem for a returned child like Hikaru Utada, but this is actually just a song of a variety show episode, and Hikaru Utada, who is now in his prime, will he be interested in singing?
"If it's just someone who can sing English songs, I have someone I can recommend to you." made the soundtrack with Zhou Xiao, said the Fujitai staff.
"Oh? Who do you want to recommend to me? Zhou Xiao asked.
"It's a friend of mine, whose mother is American, and she's been doing music since she came home the other day."
Zhou Xiao nodded, this means very simply, since returning to China a few years ago, he has been carrying out music activities but is not known by anyone, it is obvious that he is the kind of singer who has been looking for opportunities to find many years and has not been able to do so, there are many such singers in China and Japan, if there is an opportunity, it is likely to become popular, but if there is no opportunity, even if Zhou Xiao is famous in that history, it is likely to be unknown to everyone in this time and space.
"Is there a song she sang?" Zhou Xiao asked. For this kind of singer, it is better to listen to the songs she sings than to audition.
Two days later, the Fujitai staff member handed over the disc to Zhou Xiao.
It seems that because Zhou Xiao's song is originally in English, this singer is also singing an English song, and what makes Zhou Xiao care is that this singer's voice Zhou Xiao sounds very familiar!
"What's her name?" Zhou Xiao looked left and right; "Her name is An Yi Shengshimei."
"An Yi Shengshimei?" A name that Zhou Xiao had never heard.
"English is pretty standard." Zhou Xiao commented.
"Yes, the children who have returned to China."
"And does she have an English name?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"English name? Her English name...... It seems to be called ange1a......"
“ange1a? Oh, ange1a...... I see, is she signed with the company now? Zhou Xiao asked.
"It seems that there is no such thing as yet."
"Then you go and ask her if she is interested in signing with us AZX, and if she is interested, she will come to our company for an interview tomorrow." Zhou Xiao originally wanted to say that he would sign a contract with our company directly, but thinking about it, it was too direct, so he had to give up.
ange1a, whose stage name is ange1aaki in the Japanese entertainment industry. Most Chinese Japanese music fans only knew her after listening to her "To Fifteen-Year-Old Me", but in fact, since 2oo6, many of her songs have been very famous, she originally debuted in 2oo5, and it took only more than a year to 2oo6 to appear on the red and white stage and also held a solo concert at the Budokan, and her first single also sold 600,000 sales at about the same time, which is already quite good sales.
Such a singer cannot be regarded as the kind of singer who can become popular and bring a lot of income to the company. But its tepid sales and results can also be called a high-performance stock, so the singer's fans and sales are often quite stable, and all kinds of acupuncture 1ive will not lack popularity, even if she doesn't attend TV shows much, signing her will definitely not be a loss-making deal.
As for herself, the dream of becoming popular in 2oo6 years was realized more than a year ahead of schedule, and it is certainly a better choice.
The process of signing Ange1AAKI is very simple, I heard that some companies are interested in him, and it is also hand-picked by Zhou Xiao, Ange1AAKI is about to go crazy with excitement. She has been in Japan for many years, and for the past few years she has been running around various underground performance sites and music festivals large and small, and although she has enough confidence in herself, the reality is often not satisfactory. My own efforts are like a stone in the sea, and in the end, what I get is often just a bill for water and electricity bills and a blank eye.
But this time, God finally favored Himself. Zhou Xiao's hand-picking can almost be regarded as a golden signboard, plus just signed, AZX smashed a single down. What does this mean? It shows that she doesn't need to go through any training and learning after joining, and she can release a single directly!
The dream came true so fast that Ange1Aaki couldn't keep up with the rhythm!
Just the day after signing the contract, ange1aaki has already begun to enter the recording studio to prepare new singles, and there are not many English singles sold in Japan, so Zhou Xiao found someone else to match the Japanese name and lyrics of "EarenevereverGet Quite Backtogether", of course, the version in the variety show is still the original English version.
Of course, the styles of ange1aaki and Taylor Swift are very different, so when recording this song, Zhou Xiao did not adhere to the original arrangement style, but modified it according to Ange1Aaki's own style, although Ange1Aaki's style is different from Taylor Swift, but her style is still a petty bourgeois style, and there is no sense of disobedience in "Terracehou Color".
Good background music and the help of the show itself go hand in hand, if it is a not very good-looking program, with good music, or vice versa, it will give people a sense of incongruity, only when both are excellent, will people feel that the sound in their ears is so moving.
The bronze-skinned beach ambulance team, the warm man who is a little shy, the young herbivore man, and the cute, sexy, and finally famous three girls, the first issue of "Terracehou Color" focuses on the acquaintance of these three pairs of men and women, but this is enough, enough for everyone to gently play with the background music in the show, and feel the petty bourgeois feelings that rarely appear now.
The broadcast of "Terracehou Color", the first issue received 4.o% such a high rating in the late night file, if it is only the ratings, the key is that the praise of Zhou Xiao from various evaluations in the world comes one after another, in fact, Zhou Xiao has not received such praise when the work came out for a while.
Zhou Xiao, an interloper in the Japanese entertainment industry, often does things that are unexpected, he dares to do a Japanese drama for a 4O-year-old man at the age of 2o, dares to do a heavyweight show like "Divine Tongue" at the age of 2o, and the three scripts that were handed over to Genesis to make Zuò are all the kind of shows that come out in the first episode to make people feel what this guy is doing.
But this time the show, although it was only the first episode, made everyone's eyes shine.
The villa by the sea is very beautifully decorated, and the six men and women are also handsome men and women, and it is Zhou Xiao's editor who shows the technology and ideas, along with the exhibition of technology and culture. The world's culture is changing faster and faster, and even after 2o1o, there will be a feeling that its culture changes every year, in such a rapidly changing cultural exhibition, eight years seems to be a short time, in fact, the use of various lenses in the eight years, editing methods, and even the novelty of the whole program are very different from the current 2oo4 years.
This change is difficult for some people to accept, but more people feel the novelty contained in this episode. In particular, various entertainment workers and critics at the forefront of the entertainment industry have said that Zhou Xiao's show is really innovative, from the shooting method to the content, compared with the previous variety shows and movies and TV series that are excellent but indeed a little decent, this new work seems so novel, in the eyes of many people, this is what Zhou Xiao, a genius boy, should have.
It's not just these people who are highly rated, Toyota has also received very exciting reviews, especially Zhou Xiao's car at the beginning of the show. The number of Internet views and inquiries, as well as the number of sales in the week after the broadcast, have increased significantly, and Toyota estimates that the program will only need to be properly guided. It is likely to be the focus for some time.
As for Zhou Xiao......
Zhou Xiao was actually a little frightened, he really didn't expect this show to be so popular.
When the show "Terracehou Color" was broadcast eight years later, it was just a relatively ordinary program, and Zhou Xiao made this show. In fact, all that exists is the idea of befriending Toyota, if he really wants to do this show well, at least he will grasp the selection of all the members and not only direct two episodes but at least one quarter. As a result, such a show that seems to be unintentionally inserted into the willows suddenly became popular in the middle of this year, which suddenly made Zhou Xiao a little unacceptable, in Zhou Xiao's plan, the highlight of this year is the movie "The Life of the Disgusted Pine Nut" and the ninth month "Symphonic Lover's Dream", what became popular this year, but there is no room for this "Terracehou Color", and now this show is suddenly popular, making it difficult for Zhou Xiao and Azx to determine the next action for a while, Do you want to start promoting pine nuts as usual, or do you want to let it go and wait for this trend to pass? The pine nut film has a strong tone and a relaxed style, but it is a complete tragedy, and there is a huge difference between this film and "Terracehou Color", and it will be very troublesome to promote the two things together.
But...... It's not okay to promote Matsuko, because the release date of the movie has already been set in mid-October, and if the promotion doesn't start, the release of the movie will be late.
So, AZX and the crew of the film Songzi took the plunge and started the warm-up activities of the movie.
And at this time, the sales of Zhou Xiao's other movie at the end of last year have basically settled.
"Just Loving You", a movie that also came from Zhou Xiao's whimsy, was originally released in Japan at the beginning of this year, and the box office of 7o hundreds of millions of yen in the end made AZX, including Uncle Inoue, smile crookedly, and Zhou Xiao was even happier in the face of this number, the reason why he was happy was that although this work was filmed with the original story, Zhou Xiao, who was directly involved in the battle, was semi-original, and the gap between the box office and the previous life of this movie was nearly nine times, which made Zhou Xiao's sense of accomplishment very large, nine timesFor the traverser, isn't the greatest sense of accomplishment to make something better than the original, blue out of blue and better than blue?
Moreover, this is not the end of the number, because in addition to Japan, "Just Loving You", a thoroughly Japanese-style little fresh romance film, was released in the first half of 2oo4 in other regions outside Japan, especially in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and even China's Big 6 have this movie released!
For the whole of East Asia, Japanese cinema cannot be regarded as a very dominant thing, especially in the early years when there was such an oriental Hollywood as Hong Kong, Japanese cinema was mostly in a position of self-entertainment.
The reason why Zhou Xiao sold the company's film outside of Japan was mainly because of the confidence gained by later generations in this film. On the domestic network of later generations, the movie originally starring Aoi Miyazaki and Hiroshi Tamaki was evaluated quite well, although such a pure love movie did not break away from the cliché of life and death, but the key is that the small and fresh taste in the movie is quite popular.
Therefore, this time, Zhou Xiao simply promoted the movie to the whole of East Asia in the state of getting quite a good evaluation in China, and he didn't mind how much money the film could make, so the promotion of the movie was also directly pushed to the local company, just letting Miyazaki Aoi take the supporting actors to Taiwan once, which is half publicity and half tourism. Anyway, for the company, the film has long since recouped its cost, and every yen at the box office will become the company's pure profit, so why not?
So, the movie "Just Loving You" began another whirlwind in the whole of East Asia, this time the whirlwind is not very big, and the number of moviegoers in most places is not much, but the key is that there are about ten countries in the whole of East Asia together, most of these countries can contribute millions, and some can contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the total number of large and small combined is more than 2 billion yen, which barely pushed the total box office of this movie to 10 billion yen! Now next week, Zhou Xiao finally understands why those Japanese filmmakers say that Japan's small and fresh movies make money, because compared with the box office of 10 billion yen, AZX's film investment of less than 500 million is simply a business without capital! Compared with "The Life of the Disgusted Pine Nut", which doesn't know if it can please after working hard, maybe it only has a good reputation and a good box office, but it is not very good, such a small freshness, as long as there is a guy with box office appeal like Zhou Xiao, it is really a business that can count money while lying down. (To be continued......)
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