Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 207: Blue Bird

"Good morning, dear listeners, this is the music program "アラサー單身女のだらジオ" on NHK FM radio channel. I am the host, Kyoko Koizumi."

"Hello everyone, I'm Kurai Yun."

"Hey, Ms. Kurai Yun, I heard that your new work "Kurai Yun Clinic" is about to be released..."

"Well, this is a videotape movie that I starred in with Tony Futari, the guitarist and lead singer of the band Beasts... I played the role of a doctor in a special clinic that treated some boys with movement difficulties..."

The two chatted for a while about the inspiration for the new work and interesting stories behind the scenes, and then Koizumi Kyoko said, "Thank you Ms. Kurai Yun for visiting our radio station."

"Now let's play a new song by the band Beasts, 'Blue Bird'."

"Wow, I heard that many songs on this album are sung by Ms. Akina Nakamori. I'm really looking forward to it."

"I am also looking forward to it. Akina Nakamori has recovered very well in the past two years. She is also a frequent guest on our program's on-demand list and is deeply loved by our program's listeners."

"Okay, please enjoy the new song "Blue Bird" sung by Akina Nakamori of the Beasts Band..."

In an instant, through the satellite signal, all the radios listening to this program began to play a prelude.

Ten seconds later, Akina Nakamori's magnetic and slightly ethereal singing voice came from the radio.

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Spread your wings and fly
Please make up your mind not to look back.
Our aspirations

It's the blue sky

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Awakening from the dream of an unknown world,
Spread your wings
Fly to the vast sky

When the wings fly

Please make up your mind not to look back

The direction we are flying to

It's the snow-white flowing clouds

When breaking through the clouds

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Fly to the blue sky

Fly to the blue sky

Fly to the blue sky

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The song "Blue Bird" is only suitable for female voices or male voices with thin voices.

Logically speaking, as the most popular theme song of Naruto, there should be many people who have covered it.

but……

More than ten years have passed since this song was released in its previous life, but there is still no cover that can approach the level of the original, let alone surpass it.

Because it is so difficult to sing this song well!

This song is tailor-made for the voice and singing style of the original singer Yoshioka Seie.

In order to master this song, Akina Nakamori asked Ryuichi Sakamoto to adapt and modify it.

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To sing this song well, first of all, your voice must be feminine so as to show a sense of helplessness.

But the song must be sung with vigor, showing the determination to keep climbing up in the face of adversity, and at the same time it must convey a sense of sadness and strength.

This is why many people have heard the experience of crying...

In just a few minutes, the song was engraved in the ears of the audience.

Many people's first reaction after listening to the song was to listen to it again. Some were impatient and started calling to request songs. In a short period of time, "The Blue Bird" became popular.

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As the first song to hit the charts, Akina Nakamori and Bunta Takakura discussed it several times and finally decided to release "Blue Bird".

The album "Ainu People" has ten excellent songs. "Lemon" is definitely the last song. As for the remaining nine songs, "Blue Bird" can compete with "Ten Years" for the finale.

Both the lyrics and the music are excellent, and many of the techniques are even groundbreaking and leading compared to today.

Such a blockbuster song should have been released later, either to top the album or as the last song during the promotion and charting period.

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However, considering that in March and April, there was a fierce competition among the top singers, there were countless good songs, and so many people were watching, a step-by-step approach would be too slow, and I am afraid that the publicity effect would not be good.

It is better to do the opposite, play the ultimate song first to shock the whole audience, and then slowly play other songs to consolidate popularity and influence.

Therefore, "The Blue Bird" shouldered a heavy responsibility and became the pioneer of the "Ainu" album.

And this song did not disappoint the trust of the Beasts band. After it was listed on radio and television charts, it quickly aroused widespread response among fans and the media.

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The technical content of "The Blue Bird" is extremely high.

The most classic chorus part, the same three notes, the rhythm and pitch are distinct, and the three notes are independent. Ordinary people without systematic vocal training can't sing it well in one try...

Not to mention the steady three repetitions at the end of the song.

There is also the ending transition, and Akina Nakamori, under the guidance of Ryuichi Sakamoto, succeeded in the clever singing method, which raised the momentum of the phrase by more than one level, and it did not feel out of place with the lyrics...

Even people who don’t understand music theory will be moved by the emotions expressed in the song, so it’s not unreasonable that this song is the most popular in Naruto.

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Some fans of the band Beasts praised the lyrics to the sky.

At the same time, they also started to criticize the vulgarity of other singers' songs, including many works of Akina Nakamori.

They think that the songs that Akina Nakamori sang in the past were a waste of her talent.

This statement caused dissatisfaction among many other fans of Akina Nakamori.

We are all listening to songs, why is there an internal discrimination chain? You like to listen to your "Blue Bird" and I like to listen to my "Girl A". We are both fans, so why do you step on me?

The two sides soon started arguing, and the main battlefield was the 2ch forum.

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The 2CH Forum is a huge message board group in Japan, which is divided into multiple categories. Each category has multiple message boards. Discussion threads can be opened freely on the message boards. It is a BBS system with a very simple architecture.

The status of this forum is equivalent to Tianya Community and MOP. The netizens who hang out in 2CH include scholars, students, employees, lunatics, and all kinds of people gathered together.

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In the message board group of One Piece Entertainment.

One party despises the other party for being vulgar and disgraceful;

This side thinks that the other side is putting on airs and pretending to be cultured;

There was a group of people trying to stop the fight, saying that Akina Nakamori is not a singer with a single style, but has a wide range of creative talents.

It can be seen from previous albums that there are both popular "vulgar songs" and high-end masterpieces, just to better attract fans.

Moreover, when Akina Nakamori was interviewed by Fuji TV's music program last time, she made it clear that this was her last album with the band, and also the curtain call of her career...

Let's listen and cherish it...

This moderate group occupies the majority of Akina Nakamori's fan base. As the debate between the two sides gradually subsided, a new wave of controversy arose...

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The tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. A hostile force on the Internet is fanning the flames and provoking confrontation everywhere.

Their core ideas are:

It has been proven that Akina Nakamori can write excellent songs.

But in order to expand her influence and gain fans, she consciously "lowered the standard" and produced some relatively "vulgar" songs...

It is designed for ordinary people with low music appreciation, and is used specifically to boost album sales.

Akina Nakamori's behavior is not that of a musician with dreams, but more like that of a music businessman.

This caused the public opinion in the 2CH community, which had been gradually calming down, to stir up again...

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Faced with this kind of out-of-control public opinion, Mayu Watanabe, who was in charge of domestic intelligence, quickly came to a basic conclusion through technical means.

The leaders of Johnny's fan clubs are the driving force behind this...

Johnny's Office has been operating in the 2CH community for a long time and has deep roots. Kanda Keiko asked One Piece Entertainment's public relations department to organize several counterattacks, but the results were not good...

In the end, Bunta Takakura simply asked Akina Nakamori to register an official account on Telegram.

This move is to remove the fuel from the fire.

By letting Akina Nakamori herself come to Telegram to interact with fans, the users of the 2CH community were attracted to Telegram in a blink of an eye.

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The enthusiastic fans and onlookers directly overwhelmed the Telegram server.

This was the first time that Telegram's Japanese server crashed. Half an hour later, the backup server was activated to recover...

Akina Nakamori also became the first superstar to publicly appear on the anonymous social software Telegram.

Telegram specially gave her account a small logo as an anti-counterfeiting mark.

In this age without live webcasting, this kind of "face-to-face" communication between netizens and celebrities is the first time in the global entertainment industry and is extremely rare.

Telegram became an instant hit on the Internet, with new users and online time soaring. Everyone wanted to see if they could catch Akina Nakamori and the other members of One Piece Entertainment...

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In addition, military enthusiasts discovered that the military section of Telegram and the community of Mimihaji PMC have added a section with a real-time world map.

This is the remaining GLONASS satellite positioning system of the Northern Empire acquired by Mimihaji PMC.

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In 1960, the Northern Empire identified the need for a satellite radio navigation system for the precision guidance of its planned new generation of ballistic missiles.

The existing Tsiklon satellite navigation system receiving stations at that time required several minutes of observation to determine a position, and therefore could not achieve the purpose of navigation positioning.

This is a solution that is in no way inferior to GPS.

The Northern Empire mobilized the State Planning Commission, the Military Industrial Commission, the Ministry of National Defense, the Academy of Sciences, nine naval, land, air and space research institutes, 600 related majors and 8000 supporting manufacturers.

In 1975, Northern Empire spent more than 30 billion US dollars to complete the networking of the GLONASS navigation satellite constellation.

This satellite navigation system continued until the collapse of the Northern Empire and the new Russia adopted shock therapy.

Investment in the aerospace sector was cut by 96% and two-thirds of the workforce was laid off.

This paralyzed the GLONASS satellite navigation system.

The system requires 24 satellites to be fully functional.

Due to insufficient funding, a large number of functional satellites have exhausted their service life and become space junk orbiting the Earth. The satellite network has not been supplemented with new functional satellites...

The system currently has only four fully functional satellites.

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After Mimihaji PMC acquired the GLONASS satellite positioning system, it invested 10 billion US dollars and started the reconstruction of the entire satellite system.

Through Hokkaido's four integrated supply bases, there is also commercial satellite launch cooperation with the red soil continent.

Currently, a network of 12 satellites has been rebuilt, which can basically cover Asia and Europe and provide civilian satellite positioning and SMS services.

Mimihaji PMC also jointly developed with Metaverse Co., Ltd. to embed the "Observation Haki" military chip into cheap micro-communication satellites.

Thousands of units are launched into Earth orbit to form the Starlink in low-Earth orbit, serving as a subsystem of the GLONASS satellite positioning system.

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Through its own social platform Telegram, One Piece Entertainment has regained control of public opinion.

"The Blue Bird" quickly gained a large number of fans thanks to its continuous exposure and super high quality.

Coupled with the support of the lead singer Akina Nakamori's own fans, the song began to quickly top the charts.

The day after the release of the song by the Beasts band, it reached number eight on all major charts and on the third day it entered the top three.

In the early morning of March 3, after staying at the second place for two days, "Blue Bird" finally made a comeback and overturned Morning Musume's "ファーストタイム" (First Time), which had dominated the charts for more than a month, and officially topped the charts.

Of course, as the song that opened the idol Warring States Period in the original time and space, "Featured Time" is not to be trifled with and soon began to counterattack.

The two songs were fighting for the top spot.

Until March 3, the Beasts released their second chart-topping song...

(End of this chapter)