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Extra Story: Chapter 025 "Unlimited Replay"

Considering that many local Americans are very unfamiliar with the AKB48 combination, Akimoto Yasuke specially chose a genuine English song for the members to make a good start.

Although I have worked hard for half a year, some members still find it difficult to change the weird emphasis of Japanese English. However, seeing more and more people taking photos with their mobile phones gathered around the scene, this has invisibly increased the self-confidence of many members.

"Hello everyone, we are the idol girl group AKB48 from RB~~ Please support us more."

On the stage, Yuko Oshima, who will be the C position in the next song, held a microphone and greeted the comic fans who were surrounded by the audience in stiff Japanese English.

"The following song, please enjoy our performance next~~"

The men and women in the audience applauded with friendly and "decorous" expressions.

Although in the eyes of many people, this is a group of girls who come here to perform in costumes similar to those in Japanese anime, the leading girl speaks very hard and speaks English, which has won the favor of many people.

I wonder what songs will be performed next?

In case of English songs, they can also feel the interpretation from the East.

Under the eagerly watched by a group of audience members, Yuko Oshima raised a confident smile on her face and threw a Wink at the rows of boys below in conjunction with the song.

The girl held up her microphone and raised her hands in the sky, "1,2,3,4!"

Then, the gathered members quickly spread out and danced simple and very easy to imitate.

“I Want You~~

I Need You!

I Love You!

Music~~Heavy Rotation~~”

The songs that AKB48 is currently singing are actually the new single "Infinite Replay" that will be officially released next year, in the summer of 2010.

This song was sent by Lee Hyun-cheol in the form of an email to Akimoto Yasushi's personal email address a long time ago, and was adopted by him as the seventeenth single of this girl group.

Unlike all the original works of AKB48, the lyricist column is all played by Akimoto Yasuhiro. Because of Lee Hyun-cheol's intervention, he has now become the producer of AKB Department's works with Akimoto Yasuhiro.

The mysterious writer "Li", who was previously strictly protected by Oki Production, was very curious with the outside world, and used various means to search for personal information about "Li".

Many people have also noticed that AKB48's single album often has a producer named "Li", who writes lyrics, composes and arranges them completely. Even the copy of their MV dramas is completed by this person alone.

A media interviewed Akimoto Yasushi, "Are you anything you want to explain about the creator 'Lee' who appears on the AKB album most often?"

Akimoto Yasushi just repeatedly replied to this, "Considering that 'Lee' does not like being disturbed and his personality, please forgive us for not publishing information about him, age, real name, and place of residence."

Now, in order to make the performance of this trip to the United States successful, Akimoto Yasuhiro chose to let the song be released first in the live form, which shows his desire and attention to the overseas market.

But... Akimoto Yasushi didn't know that if Lee Hyun-cheol knew that he would take out this song and let the members sing it to a group of Americans who were deeply influenced by the orthodox European and American mainstream pop music, he would definitely not have splashed.

There is an essential difference between European and American music and Jpop. This difference is difficult to describe in clear language to ordinary people, but as long as you take out two songs to compare, you can clearly feel the difference.

Moreover, the works of idol groups in Japan and South Korea actually have one similarity.

Regardless of boys and girls, there are actually many successful examples of popular and popular among fans for their saliva songs.

However, saliva songs are not popular in Europe and the United States at all, and Akimoto Yasushi may not know about this.

But Lee Hyun-cheol, who has lived in the United States for many years, knows it clearly.

"Like popcorn explode...the words of 'like' are jumping...just thinking of your face and voice...I'm fidgeting..."

"Infinite Replay" has exerted its strength and visual effects beyond other previous single stages with the cooperation of the first generation of "Shen Qi" members led by Atsuko Ta.

When Akimoto Yasushi, who was far away in Tokyo AKS, saw this scene, he consciously applauded.

He is very optimistic about this song, or when many operators in AKS heard the initial demo version of this song, they unanimously agreed that it would be popular.

"Teacher, Mr. Li's excellentness is beyond our expectations. I think this trip to the United States will definitely be successful."

Yoshio Imano, who was watching AKB's performance in the United States with Yasuhiro Akimoto in his office sighed.

"Whether from lyrics, composition, or the arrangement of members' parts, the arrangement of dances is a masterpiece.

Although Mr. Li has never been to RB, it can be seen from this time that his control over AKB style is not inferior to that of the company's operations."

"He has always created the birth of AKB himself. The outside world thinks I made this group, but I am just an agent who executes established decisions."

Akimoto Yasumi turned off the projector. He thought there was no need to continue watching the next performance. He was very confident in the AKB48's field control ability. Moreover, there were other guests in the office today.

"So, we have to start to let the staff think about the publicity work of "Infinite Replay" 24 hours a day."

Lazy and leaning on the chair with his fat belly, Akimoto Yasushi said, "According to the boss's plan, next summer will be the release date of AKB48's 17th single. The person in charge of YouTube has contacted us and will produce their performances in the United States into a collection for pushing."

Speaking of this, Akimoto Yasuhiro looked at Tonight sitting opposite Yoshio, "What do you say about Kitagawa Kenji?"

"Then said that we have watched the script of the MV of "Infinite Replay" that we sent, and chose Mika Ninagawa to serve as the cover photo and supervisor of the seventeen-single."

Tonight Yoshio immediately said, "The shooting of the MV and the editing of the video are also produced by Kitagawa Kenji's firm KRK. This is exactly the same as the candidates selected by Mr. Li in the email he sent to the teacher."

Thinking of the fact that the person actually arranged all the preparations for this single and the positions everyone was responsible for, Yoshio Imano suddenly felt so overwhelmed.

In this world, unknown things will always bring fear to people, and people will also be afraid of them only appearing in the mouths of others.

Like a person who has never seen in the legend, he is respectful, and Lee Hyun-cheol is a person Imano Yoshio respects very much.
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