1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Jive's promotion of the Backstreet Boys is indeed not that good, but it's not bad either. It's basically the company's normal standard.

After all, the Backstreet Boys were a new group, and they only had so many resources, and when they purchased the song rights, they had already exceeded their budget.

The song "Yellow" was originally given to the Backstreet Boys as an extra, and it also cost a lot of money to get this song.

In addition, when they recorded "yellow", they also recorded two more songs, which exceeded the budget.

The combination of these factors resulted in the cost of publicity being reduced.

However, the response to the song was pretty good on the first day it was released. Although the sales of the CD were average, a lot of feedback from fans was received after the music was broadcast on both radio and TV stations. Most of the feedback from fans was positive. towards.

Many music fans are reporting that they want to buy the single CD of "Yellow" but don't know where to buy it.

……

"Wow, there are so many people."

At the ticket gate of the Workers' Stadium, Xin Donglai looked at the long queue behind him and couldn't help but sigh.

Li Yuanyuan next to her nodded and said, "There are indeed a lot of people, but we check in early so we won't delay watching the concert."

"Looking at the situation, the tickets are probably almost sold out." Xin Donglai stood on tiptoe and looked around again, "I don't know where the rest of our support club is."

Both of them are members of the Zhou Yanyan Normal University Support Association. Li Yuanyuan is also one of the founders. She was the vice president back then and is now the president.

Usually, most of the people who come to a concert are college students, and today was no exception. There were basically young faces in attendance.

Shizuka Kudo sang several of Zhou Yan's songs, and their fan club would naturally come to support her, so there were many people from their fan club today, but everyone bought their own tickets and couldn't sit together.

There are several entrances to the stadium, and the ticket check-ins are not all in the same place.

"Don't look around, there are probably many people who have already gone in." Li Yuanyuan said.

Xin Donglai smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. I made an agreement with Liu Yang and the others. When we enter the venue later, we will light the lighter so we know where they are."

Li Yuanyuan rolled her eyes and said, "Have you not seen a concert in several years? The security check is very strict now and you are not allowed to bring lighters in."

"Really or not, I don't know. This guy Liu Yang told me that he would bring a lighter in because it would create an atmosphere, so I brought it." Xin Donglai said in surprise.

"People are afraid of people like you who create atmosphere, so they banned it."

In the past few years, you could indeed bring lighters into concerts. One year, Zhao Chuan held a concert in Yanjing, and many people at the venue lit lighters to cheer up the atmosphere, which scared the security personnel at the venue.

After that, it became clear that lighters were not allowed into the concert venue.

As the two talked, they arrived at the door. The security personnel clearly told them that lighters could not be brought in. Xin Donglai could only obediently put a lighter in his pocket into the basket.

"I spent a lot of money to buy it." Xin Donglai said distressedly.

Li Yuanyuan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. You can come over later if you don't mind the trouble. Maybe I can get a lot of lighters."

After entering the venue through security check, he saw many people waving fluorescent sticks in the stands. Xin Donglai wondered, "Why are there so many fluorescent sticks today?"

Glow sticks are not high-tech. Fans have brought them to concerts in recent years, but the number is very small. Like today, you can see many people waving them as soon as you enter the venue, and they are all pink, Xin Dong I've never seen it before.

Let alone Xin Dong, Li Yuanyuan has never seen him.

And soon, they knew why.

These light sticks were not brought by the fans themselves, but were placed directly on the chairs by the organizers. Xin Donglai scanned around and couldn't help but exclaimed, "There is one for every seat!"

When he got to his seat, Xin Donglai picked up the light stick and looked at it.

This fluorescent stick is very simple. It has a few small lamp beads inside, a layer of foam on the outside, and a note on it that says "Rainbow in the sky, rainbow on earth, Changhong TV, you deserve it."

"Let me go, there are advertisements on it."

Changhong TV is very famous, and this slogan is also familiar. Xin Donglai did not expect to see it here.

Li Yuanyuan also picked up the light stick on her seat, and then saw the slogan on it, and couldn't help but sigh, this is really a unique concert.

No wonder the concert was so generous, with light sticks placed on every seat. It turned out to be advertising sponsorship. It is estimated that these light sticks not only cost the organizer no money, but also made money for the organizer.

For such a special advertisement, Changhong would have to pay hundreds of thousands of advertising fees. These light sticks would definitely not cost so much money, and this advertisement is not temporary. Li Yuanyuan can imagine that the news will report this form in the future.

The concert held by Neon Man is indeed different. It is deeper than the routines of domestic singers. Domestic singers really need to learn from them.

In fact, Li Yuanyuan misunderstood. The matter of light sticks had nothing to do with the Neon Singers. There was no such thing in Neon. The reason why the organizer did this was entirely due to Zhou Yan's suggestion.

The organizer also contacted several brands for sponsorship. In the end, Changhong provided the most sponsorship fees, so Changhong was chosen.

In order to sponsor Kudo Shizuka's two concerts in Yanjing, Changhong not only produced hundreds of thousands of light sticks, but also provided more than two million yuan in sponsorship fees.

"I'll try to open it."

Xin Donglai found the switch, and after turning it on, the fluorescent stick lit up. It was not dark yet, and the color of the fluorescent stick was relatively dim, and it looked nothing special.

"Turn it off first. The concert will start soon and the battery will run out."

"It's okay, I saw someone still handing out glow sticks."

At this moment, there was someone in the aisle holding a large pile of glow sticks, handing them out to anyone who asked for them.

The weather is very hot in June, but as the sun sets at any time, the heat subsides, and the air in the stadium gradually becomes cooler.

By 7:30, the sky was slowly dimming, and the glow sticks lighting up inside the venue became conspicuous.

There is nothing special about glow sticks alone, but when tens of thousands of glow sticks are lifted together at the scene, the visual shock is completely different.

By eight o'clock, it was dark and the scene was plunged into a sea of ​​pink.

At this time, a burst of footsteps suddenly sounded in the direction of the stage.

Hearing this voice, the originally noisy audience fell silent and stared at the stage attentively, waiting for the arrival of the protagonist tonight.

The footsteps became louder and louder, and finally there was a knock on the door.

squeak-

A beam of light hit the center of the stage, and Shizuka Kudo appeared there wearing a suspender-shaped leaf dress.

Shizuka Kudo is holding a ukulele and with a bright smile on her face, she looks like a girl next door.

She did not speak, but raised her hands in the shape of a trumpet and shouted to the audience, "One, two, three!"

When the word "three" fell, the live music started playing, and she started to play the ukulele and soon started singing.

"Remember the lights at that concert
Still remember that cool late autumn
Still remember the crowd pushed you towards me

......"

The screams at the scene, several beats late, finally sounded at this moment.

At this time, the lights were also moved to the back of the stage, and the audience discovered that there was a band brought to the scene.

Shizuka Kudo has been famous for a long time. She has experienced many stages and has seen many big scenes. She is very good at handling typhoons.

The song "Little Hands Holding Big Hands" is inherently light, and it is especially suitable for Kudo Shizuka's typhoon.

The melody of this song is simple and catchy, so when Shizuka Kudo sang, the audience also sang along, and the atmosphere of the concert was immediately heightened.

The reason why "Little Hand Holding Big Hand" is arranged as the first song is also based on this consideration. This song is very suitable for the warm-up.

Even people who rarely listen to this song can probably sing along with the line "You are my dream, like the wind in the north."

Xin Donglai liked this song very much. He had been singing along since the beginning of the concert, and he sang it very loudly.

Although many people at the scene were singing along, Xin Donglai was right next to him, so what Li Yuanyuan heard most clearly was his voice.

Li Yuanyuan couldn't help rolling her eyes. She had spent money to buy a ticket to hear Xin Donglai sing.

……

After singing the first song, Kudo Shizuka waved to the audience, and then said with a smile, "Hello everyone, I am Kudo Shizuka. Thank you all for coming to my concert today."

The audience was a little surprised when they heard Kudo Shizuka's pronunciation. They didn't expect Kudo Shizuka's Chinese to be so good.

Although her pronunciation was quite good when she sang just now, singing and speaking are two different things after all. There are many foreigners whose pronunciation is okay when singing, but their secrets are revealed when they speak.

On the one hand, singing has a tone, which can cover up some pronunciation problems. On the other hand, the lyrics are fixed and can be memorized.

Of course, this opening line by Kudo Shizuka can also be memorized.

But Shizuka Kudo continued, "This is not my first time coming to Yanjing. I stayed in Yanjing for a long time last year to record the album "Original Dream". Maybe I walked in Wangfujing before. I have met some of you on the street." After saying this, the audience was really surprised, and many people's eyes widened.

It is impossible to say that there is no accent. You can clearly hear that there is still a problem with Kudo Shizuka's pronunciation, but it is not easy to be able to finish such a long sentence at once.

The key is that there is basically no problem with the word order of Kudo Shizuka's words.

After hearing her words, many people also sighed, no wonder she speaks Chinese well. It turns out that "The First Dream" was recorded in Yanjing.

Shizuka Kudo's words were also very clever. She mentioned specific place names like Wangfujing and said they might have met before, which immediately brought her closer to the audience.

"The song just now is called "Little Hands Holding Big Hands". I believe you all have heard it. I heard many people singing along, so I was particularly touched. This song was written by a good friend of mine. I am the first I loved it the first time I heard it.”

When Shizuka Kudo mentioned "good friends", there was a burst of booing.

"roar~"

Someone even shouted Zhou Yan's name.

Sure enough, many people have heard about the scandal between Kudo Shizuka and Zhou Yan.

It has been reported in the news many times before. After all, Kudo Shizuka has publicly "expressed love" many times.

"Will Zhou Da come to the scene today?" Xin Donglai turned to ask Li Yuanyuan.

The sound at the scene was so loud that Li Yuanyuan could not hear clearly what Xin Donglai was saying.

"What did you say?"

"I said, Zhou Da Da will not be here." Xin Donglai increased his volume.

"It's possible, probably in the VIP area of ​​the infield."

There will be no big screen at the concert, and there will be no close-ups of live guests.

Shizuka Kudo on the stage heard the audience cheering, her eyes turned into crescent moons, and she felt very happy.

Perhaps, if everyone knew that she was with Zhou Yan, they would also send their blessings.

She didn't chat too much, and then she took off the ukulele and said, "The next song is also a song that I like very much. It's called Lamentation. I hope everyone likes it."

The song "Weeping" was originally a song by Miyuki Nakajima. After Shizuka Kudo covered it the year before last, the single sold more than one million copies and was very popular. This time they also added Chinese lyrics to the song and placed it on " "First Dream" is in the Chinese album.

"First Dream" has a total of ten songs, but during this period, Ogi Production helped Kudo Shizuka to compose two Chinese songs, both of which were made by filling in the previous neon songs with Chinese lyrics.

But even so, only twelve songs are definitely not enough to support a complete concert, so Shizuka Kudo also covered several songs by other singers, mainly Teresa Teng's songs.

Because Teresa Teng's song was sung, the audience's mood was somewhat low, because Teresa Teng had just passed away early last month.

It's not that Ogi Productions wants to ride on the popularity of Teresa Teng's death. The song list for the concert has been decided in advance. Shizuka Kudo started practicing several of Teresa Teng's songs last year.

No one expected that Teresa Teng passed away just in her early forties.

After singing "When Will You Come Again", Shizuka Kudo also suggested that the audience turn off their light sticks and observe a minute's silence for Teresa Teng.

In any case, this popularity happened by accident. The entire concert, whether it was positive, light, or sad, aroused the emotions of the audience.

When the concert came to an end, Shizuka Kudo changed into a different outfit. Different from the previous outfits, this outfit was very gorgeous.

Wearing a dark blue long skirt, the hem looks like a starry sky. Compared to the fresh and sweet look before, Shizuka Kudo looks mysterious and dazzling at this moment.

She was not tall enough and had to wear high heels. Kudo Shizuka wore a pair of high heels with a heel height of 12 centimeters and a waterproof platform. However, the tulle on the outer layer of the skirt covered the high heels. In addition, the high waistline of the skirt made her entire body look more attractive. He's quite tall.

If Shizuka Kudo hadn't spoken, viewers far away would have thought it was someone else.

After changing her attire, Shizuka Kudo's voice seemed to have changed, becoming quiet and calm.

"The next song is still written by my good friend, "Stay with Me". I hope you like it."

After a simple opening, Shizuka Kudo took the microphone and sang.

However, the audience discovered that Shizuka Kudo was singing a cappella without any accompaniment.

Could it be that the sound system at the venue was malfunctioning?
But judging from Shizuka Kudo's reaction, it doesn't look like something went wrong.

Is it just singing a cappella?

"Goodbye
The water train will arrive soon

On the way to the future

......"

After Shizuka Kudo finished singing four lines, the piano suddenly sounded.

When the piano sounded, the audience didn't react much, because the piano accompaniment was nothing special.

But when the stage lights hit the side and rear of Kudo Shizuka, there was a scream.

Under that beam of light, the lift slowly rose up from the ground.

A piano and a person.

The man was wearing a black suit, facing the audience from the side. Some people immediately recognized him as Zhou Yan.

Many people didn't actually recognize who it was, but when they heard someone screaming, they started screaming too.

At this time Kudo Shizuka said with a smile, "Let us welcome - Zhou Yan!"

Hearing Zhou Yan's name, the screams at the scene became even louder.

Amid the screams of the audience, Shizuka Kudo lifted up her skirt and walked towards the piano with slow, firm and elegant steps.

As she walked, she never stopped singing.

When she finished singing the first verse, she happened to walk to the piano.

Shizuka Kudo turned slightly sideways, leaning against the piano, her eyes focused on Zhou Yan.

Li Yuanyuan looked at the stage, Zhou Yan, the piano, and Kudo Shizuka, forming a beautiful picture.

No wonder Kudo Shizuka would change into this outfit. It turned out to be to match Zhou Yan and the piano.

One plays and one sings. This scene makes these little girls so excited.

It can be clearly felt that after Zhou Yan appeared on the scene, girls occupied an absolute dominant position among the screams.

Many viewers did not expect that there would be such a surprise.

Zhou Yan originally just lowered his head and played the piano seriously. Halfway through, he raised his head and looked at Kudo Shizuka.

This exchange of glances didn't matter, but it made the girls below so excited that their screams increased by a few decibels.

After the song "Stay with Me" ended, Kudo Shizuka said with a smile, "Thank you to our good friend Mr. Zhou Yan. Mr. Zhou, please say hello to everyone."

Zhou Yan also turned around and waved to the audience.

Shizuka Kudo handed her microphone to Zhou Yan again, and Zhou Yan said into the microphone, "Good evening, everyone, I am Zhou Yan."

After the wave of applause passed, Zhou Yan continued: "Ms. Kudo is a very good and very hard-working singer, and I am honored to collaborate with her on these songs. Today is her first concert in China. But it’s definitely not the first one…at least there will be one next week.”

This joke was so cold that many people didn’t react.

Zhou Yan did not care about the audience's reaction and continued, "I hope everyone can support Ms. Kudo as always. I believe she will give back to everyone with more good songs and wonderful stages."

Kudo Shizuka put the microphone back and said with a smile: "Then will you still write songs for me?"

Then she quickly handed the microphone to Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Definitely."

Hearing this, the audience screamed again.

"Hoohoho-"

"Then it's settled."

Kudo Shizuka smiled and did not leave Zhou Yan alone. She stepped aside and walked out of the lift platform, "Let us give applause to Mr. Zhou again."

Zhou Yan also waved his hand, and then slowly went down the lift platform. (End of chapter)