Today is the dress rehearsal, and Akina Nakamori has already changed her costume for the performance. For this year's Red and White Song Festival, she chose the newly released single "missed the shock" to sing.
On the stage, Akina Nakamori is better said to be "singing" than "singing".
A major style of her performance is to prepare emotions that are in harmony with the lyrics while singing, and design small movements that match the style of the music, just like a stage actress who is fully devoted.
Since he is an actor, "costumes" are never sloppy.
Although I don’t prepare the most stunning performance costumes every year like the big boss Sachiko Kobayashi, I always carefully design each set of clothes and participate in the whole process myself.
If Miwa-chan's aesthetic sense in clothing was half that of Akina Nakamori, Shinichi Iwahashi and the staff at the office would just let her do whatever she wanted and not worry so much about her.
Of course, Akina Nakamori is the fashion queen proclaimed by the media in this era.
Comparing her with her, her level of unreasonableness is comparable to that of a parent who bought a copy of "Harvard Girls" and wants their children to become monks and masters.
Shinichi Iwahashi looked at Akina Nakamori's dress. She dressed up as a queen on the stage this year, wearing a sparkling crown on her head.
Although giraffe hoods are incomparable to crowns, both of them wore something today.
"Thanks for your hard work."
Even through the hood, Nakamori Akina couldn't see his smile and said hello to him.
People were coming and going backstage.
However, there were no staff following him, and no one urged them. The two of them stopped and chatted naturally.
"Backstage yesterday, Mr. Giraffe seemed to be very popular," she said.
Mentioning this incident, Shinichi Iwahashi couldn't help but smile bitterly, but his smile was in vain. He laughed at himself: "Rather than being popular, I feel more like a mascot for an attraction."
The backstage of the Red and White Song Festival is an attraction. How do you prove that you have been here? Of course you have to take a photo with the mascot that appears in the attraction as evidence of your visit... That's how it feels.
Hearing what he said, Nakamori Akina seemed to have heard some joke.
"What's wrong?" Shinichi Iwahashi was curious.
Nakamori Akina was about to answer, but when the words came to her lips, she deliberately turned around, shook her head slightly, and replied with a smile: "Nothing."
"..."
Shinichi Iwahashi was helpless, "Akina-san, I have something to test you."
"What is it?"
"I want you to guess what my expression looks like now."
Akina Nakamori smiled and narrowed her eyes, but did not answer his question and told him, "Actually, it was yesterday that Koizumi Kyoko-chan also said the same thing."
"Attraction mascot?" Iwahashi Shinichi said, "Wouldn't it be better to tell it earlier?"
However, what Koizumi Kyoko said was quite to the point.
Akina Nakamori still smiled... she definitely didn't tell him, she was deliberately trying to keep it a secret.
While laughing, he looked at Shinichi Iwahashi's giraffe hood, and suddenly pointed to the crown on his head, "I'm wearing something today too."
It seems that they thought of going together.
Shinichi Iwahashi said, "However, the giraffe hood and crown give people a completely different feeling."
Akina Nakamori answered him, "But I think these two things are put together."
"How do you say it?" Iwahashi Shinichi was intrigued by her.
"There won't be a queen wearing such a crown in the world, right?"
Nakamori Akina touched the crown on her head, her eyes wandered back and forth between Iwahashi Shinichi's shoulders and the giraffe hood, and she said with a childish smile, "If there is such a kingdom, it is a kingdom with giraffe men.
"
She walked around in a big circle, as if she was confused, but she didn't feel embarrassed at all and looked at Iwahashi Shinichi openly.
Iwahashi Shinichi understood it.
There will be no queen wearing such a crown, and there will be no giraffe man.
But now, the dressed-up queen and the giraffe man are chatting happily here. This scene, in a sense, is also extremely "dreamish".
It seems to be in a magical world, not the real world. A dream world where the queen dresses up, sings and dances, and gets along well with her giraffe boyfriend.
This is what Akina Nakamori wants to convey.
Iwahashi Shinichi was very interested in her perspective on things and replied, "If such a kingdom exists, it would be here."
Such a reaction made Iwahashi Shinichi realize that she thought from the beginning that he could understand what she said.
The topic ended and neither of them spoke again.
For a moment, there was silence.
The staff backstage were walking in a hurry. Akina Nakamori looked at Shinichi Iwahashi. Although she couldn't see his face, she knew in her heart that he was looking at her the same way.
After thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "Let me guess your expression now?"
"What?" Iwahashi Shinichi looked at her with great interest, "Then please take a guess."
Wearing a hood, you can't see your face, but that's why she came up with this idea.
Nakamori Akina looked at him with a smile, confident, "You're smiling, right?"
Rather than saying that he was laughing from the beginning, it would be better to say that he was amused by her words and expression. Seeing her smiling and staring at him, he couldn't help but smile too.
"You guessed it right." Shinichi Iwahashi said with a hint of laughter in his voice.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Although Nakamori Akina couldn't see the expression of the giraffe man, nor could she receive his gaze. However, the tacit understanding allowed everything she wanted to convey to be conveyed.
"So, see you next time?"
The first one to speak was Iwahashi Shinichi.
"See you next time..." Nakamori Akina smiled, "It's tomorrow."
tomorrow.
…
Thirty-one days.
After two rehearsals, the entire nhkhall was thoroughly explored, and the flow of the performance was also completed. After arriving today, I confirmed the positioning of the performance, and the rest was to stand by and wait for the opening.
The backstage on this day was a little more relaxed than the previous two days, although the atmosphere was unprecedentedly tense.
The main ones who are nervous are the staff responsible for scheduling and the new singers at the Red and White Song Festival. The reason why they are relaxed is because there are people scheduled to appear at the Record Awards today. At this moment, they are rehearsing in the studio of TBS TV station, waiting for the awards.
start.
The three members of the band came to nhkhall in the afternoon. Since they were a new band, they were not qualified to enjoy a separate lounge.
During the rehearsal, I had squeezed in with the singers from the red group, but today, I was assigned to share the same lounge with three bands, tmwork and slump, from the white group.
NHK probably thought it was quite considerate, because before the official performance started, the band had to adjust the instruments and practice fingering. They put singers with similar styles together so that one person would not get bored while the other person was practicing.
There was no interaction during rehearsals, but now they are "under the same roof."
