They didn't go have a drink with Miwa-chan and Nakamura-san on Christmas Eve. Shinichi Iwahashi and Akina Nakamori left the LIVEHOSUE backstage, and they didn't just go home.
We had just finished watching a lively performance. At this moment, our moods had not calmed down. Neither of us wanted to go home just like that. However, although our spirits were still excited, our bodies were a little tired. If we wanted to go dancing somewhere else,
Wu, apparently too lazy to move.
While backstage, Shinichi Iwahashi called the driver and asked him to come pick him up.
The affectionate driver sent the two of them to watch the show tonight and was on call at any time during this period. Now, he sent the two of them to a regular members-only bar to sit for a while.
"Do you want to drink, Yoshida-san?" Nakamori Akina picked up the wine glass herself, but suddenly remembered and asked Iwahashi Shinichi.
Iwahashi Shin nodded, "Although I'm not a good drinker, I always want to drink two drinks."
"Is that so~" There was something in her words.
Iwahashi Shinichi glanced at her. Nakamori Akina seemed to be arranging him, and then asked, "So, during the band's recording, did you also pay that much attention to Yoshida-san?"
"Then there's no need to ask." Iwahashi Shinichi said matter-of-factly, "Eight times out of ten, you'll get very angry and quarrel with her."
Akina Nakamori seemed to be waiting for this answer.
She couldn't help laughing as she imagined Yoshida Miwa arguing with him unconvinced when Iwahashi Shinichi said this. After seeing the two people quarreling backstage tonight, this imagination became more concrete.
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She smiled and picked up the wine glass. With a bit of in-your-face provocation, she took a sip of whiskey and moved a little closer to Shinichi Iwahashi. "I'm not on alcohol prohibition right now, right?"
When Nakamori Akina challenged Iwahashi Shinichi with words, she did not realize that although she had fun in the drinking tug-of-war with Iwahashi Shinichi, she also accepted his rule of "not drinking during the recording".
Iwahashi Shinichi looked at her wanton expression and didn't know how to respond. He only stretched out one finger and gently broke off her hand holding the wine glass.
The warm temperature on the fingertips and the cold outer wall of the wine glass.
Stimulated by cold and heat, Nakamori Akina suddenly felt her mind swaying, like a side effect of drinking too much.
"When I suggested coming to the show," Shinichi Iwahashi talked to her, "I was worried that you wouldn't agree."
Nakamori Akina was absent-minded, "Why don't you agree?"
Shinichi Iwahashi was talking about last Christmas Eve, when he proposed to invite Akina Nakamori to watch a performance next time, her subtle reaction was as if she had no interest in watching DREAMS E TRUE's performance together.
However, at this moment, Akina Nakamori said confidently, "Last year was last year."
She put on this posture, leaving Iwahashi Shinichi speechless and unable to do anything to her. He just smiled and said: "That's true." He paused, "But you came with me to see the band.
I'm very happy about the performance."
Mineshima, the person in charge of LIVEHOUSE, was the one who led him on the road of becoming a manager and gave him a direction to realize his whimsical possibilities. DREAMS E TRUE was the one who gave him whimsical ideas and made him realize them.
A band that tries its best to make it happen.
Today, the band has become famous, and LIVEHOUSE, which was born due to the band's success, has been handed over to Fengdao, providing a stage for many dreams to be displayed and preparing an opportunity for many people with the same whims.
On Christmas Eve, a performance promised to be held every year, a stage that was born because DREAMS E TRUE's dream came true.
In such a place, Shinichi Iwahashi would certainly be happy to watch the show with Akina Nakamori.
"Then I've come to the right place."
Nakamori Akina accepted his words with a smile and did not ask about the reason for this happiness.
Since Shinichi Iwahashi felt happy, this was enough. And... she told him like a charlatan, "I'm very happy that you invited me to come with you."
She got to know him better. Moreover, it was Iwahashi Shinichi who took the initiative to open his heart and welcome her in. Nakamori Akina had no reason not to be happy about watching the show together.
In a sense, the joy of two people coming to watch a show together comes from the connection of their minds.
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After Christmas Eve, a blockbuster news dominated the headlines of all newspapers and media - the Soviet Union's Gottlieb announced his resignation. Immediately, the Soviet Union declared its disintegration. This superpower has come to an end.
Mainstream newspapers from all walks of life have made serious reports. Turn on the TV. In the orthodox news programs, the hosts solemnly broadcast the reports. In the news programs for the younger generation, even for such news, they can urgently conduct interviews on the streets and investigate the younger generation.
How much people know about the Soviet Union and what "disintegration" means.
After experiencing the disillusionment of their ideals, more and more Japanese youth since the 1970s have become uninterested in politics and indifferent to society. Japanese experts at that time called them the "Three No Generations"
". That is: no energy, no emotion, no concern.
In the 1980s, the newly grown Japanese youth came to an era where they paid more attention to their own feelings and individuality. Various fashions were popular. At this time, experts stood up again and called this generation "new humanity" to express their support.
Their incomprehensibility.
In the early 1990s, young people who were interviewed on the street gave even more diverse answers when faced with interviews, as if this was not a news program but a comedy variety show with random interviews.
I don’t know when new experts will pop up and give this generation of young people a new title.
Christmas Eve has just passed, and the streets seem to still have some of the atmosphere of the previous night, as if the aroma of the delicious roasted meat steaks left in the air. - The meat steaks were just taken out of the oven not long ago, but the aroma that has cooled down, the smell
Although it tastes like steak, it is more or less greasy and makes people feel stomach-churning.
Under this situation, the young people who accepted this kind of interview, whether it was the questions themselves asked to them, or their reactions and answers, all formed a subtle reflection of this atmosphere.
In fact, when reporters ask questions to young people, they are already secretly expecting to hear some outrageous answers from the interviewees in order to increase the entertainment of the program. And bad answers without common sense are also
It can arouse a sense of intellectual superiority in the audience in front of the TV.
The producer of a program may not be as smart as the audience thinks, but he will never be as stupid as the audience imagines. If a segment of a program makes the audience feel stupid, the production team will not know about it.
In the end, it was just intentional.
Street interviews are almost always conducted in a predetermined direction, even though they are labeled as "random".
The superpower that kept pace with the United States ceased to exist. Although Shinichi Iwahashi also had some basic understanding of major historical events - to put it modestly, it was impossible not to know about the "disintegration of the Soviet Union". However, when he sat in the office
, holding a newspaper in hand and reading the fresh news, one cannot but feel the emotion of being in the midst of history at this moment.
Major historical events are often like the erosion of termites. By the time the existence of termites is discovered, it has reached the brink of collapse. Next, the world will usher in new changes.
Iwahashi Shinichi read several newspapers one after another. The newspapers with different stances reported on the matter and had their own tendencies in the content. He turned on the TV in the office, and he could see it on any channel if he played it at random.
News currently playing.
He watched the indifferent and erroneous answers of the younger generation being interviewed on TV. He did not find it funny or boring, but thought in his heart that the performance of young people actually gave the public a false sense of security.
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In Japan today, the bubble era has reached its end, and that kind of hysteria has penetrated into almost every aspect. The desire for security and the confirmation of the lifestyle of the bubble era is the same all the time.
During the war in the Gulf region, Japan provided US$11.5 billion in financial aid at the request of the United States to support the United States' actions. However, this incident was considered by the Japanese to mean that powerful Japan was helping the United States.
The media is certainly responsible for making the Japanese think this way.
For the same thing, what the media says can determine how the public views it.
But for the Japanese with inflated self-esteem, experiencing the dream-like bubble era and publishing books like "Japan Can Say No", they believe that they have already surpassed the United States and become the number one in the world. Financial groups
They wantonly buy iconic buildings in the United States. When it comes to land prices in Tokyo, they often translate into "the price of land in such-and-such a place can buy such-and-such state in the United States."
The Japanese cannot accept this. Even if they are in an unprecedented dream era, they still have to obey the United States - such a reality.
Therefore, we need the spiritual comfort of "powerful Japan is helping the United States."
Inferiority and arrogance are the current state of the Japanese.
Of course, how the United States peeled off Japan's cramps and beat it, and other things that further prove that Japan cannot walk independently, are distant and unfamiliar topics to ordinary people.
Even if the news is published in the newspaper, as long as it is conveyed to the public in another way, it becomes another matter. It is enough for a certain part of the people to stay awake. What the media has to do is to let most people live in a dream.
middle.
At this moment, putting the reaction of the younger generation on TV also gives a sense of security.
Although a major event that shocked the world and will be written into history happened, because I saw the familiar young people from my country on TV who were indifferent to the point of stupidity, I still had a feeling of "everything is business as usual, everything has nothing to do with Japan"
"A sense of security.
Even for serious news that seems objective and calm, the host's broadcast strives to have a tone of indifference.
To Shinichi Iwahashi, who was watching with cold eyes, all this seemed like a chaotic carnival before the end of the world.