The Seoul Music Awards will be officially held on January 31 at the SK Olympic Handball Arena in Seoul Olympic Park, and Team K is invited to participate.
This is the last of the four major award ceremonies in the music industry, and it is also one of the two most valuable award ceremonies, similar to the Golden Record Awards.
Like other awards ceremonies, the organizers still prepared artist seats and gathered all the participating artists to sit in the artist seats. They filmed various reactions while live broadcasting and awarding awards.
However, the artist seats at this award ceremony are not horizontal seats like MAMA. Instead, there are about a dozen white round tables set up on the left side below the stage. Each round table is occupied by one or more groups of artists.
The table was laid out with flowers and drinks, but not the food that all entertainers needed most.
But no one would eat on such an occasion.
EXO was sitting around a round table at the end of the artist booth, with the audience behind them. This is the position that a new group should stay in.
The table in front of them on the left is Sistar, the table in front of them on the right is F(x) and Missa, and SJ is sitting at the table at the front.
Following the announcement of award presenters Kim Woo-bin and Park Se-young, the audience cheered and applauded. All members of the K team in the artist's seat also stood up, showing surprise and joy at the right time, and bowed to the seniors next to them.
The surprise may have come from the performance, because before they came they knew that they had a high chance of winning the award, but the joy was real. After all, each group can only have a chance to win the Newcomer Award in the year they debut, and they will not wait until it expires.
The Newcomer Award at the Seoul Music Awards is very valuable. Winning this award is a recognition of EXO.
It could also be that the rookie groups that debuted in the same year were a bit mediocre, allowing EXO, whose debut was not a success, to win several rookie awards.
Of course, it probably has a lot to do with SM's behind-the-scenes operations.
There were probably a lot of EXO fans at the scene. After it was announced that they had won the award, the cheers were quite loud. The six members of Team K stood up and stood up to congratulate their seniors and kept saluting. .
Because after the award was announced, the camera was focused on this side at the right time. The etiquette of several members was very good. They bowed their waists and saluted all the way, and slowly walked out from the artist's seat.
Chi Jingyuan walked last, followed by Oh Sehun and Park Chanyeol.
Out of etiquette, the senior artists from other companies all stood up to congratulate them. A few people from F(x) seemed to be really happy for them. Luna kept applauding and gave thumbs up when passing by the table.
Cui Shirley seemed to be very familiar with Park Chanyeol, and she stretched out two hands to give him a high-five. However, Park Chanyeol was saluting the senior on the other side without seeing him, so Shirley patted him on the back, and then talked to him from behind. Wu Shixun and Chi Jingyuan raised their hands to signal.
She has a sweet smile, which looks good with her ear-length short hair.
Naturally, the two of them would not waste their senior's kindness. After Wu Shixun finished high-fiving her, Chi Jingyuan also raised his hands and gave Xueli a high-five. After that, the other party smiled sweetly, still on his back. Take a shot.
This senior seems to be really enthusiastic, and he seems to really like EXO. Chi Jingyuan can tell this from the last MAMA award.
After taking the stage, they stood in a row in front of the microphone. Ji Jingyuan automatically stood at the edge. Kim Junmyeon still gave the acceptance speech.
He may have been warned by his manager this time. After thanking a circle of people, Kim Junmyeon mentioned their upcoming new album again: "Thank you all from the bottom of my heart again. We are also preparing a new album in 2013. One of the title songs was composed and choreographed by our own member Yuan, so please look forward to it."
The screams in the audience suddenly became much louder, and many artists looked at the stage with surprise after hearing the news.
Chi Jingyuan, who was standing next to him, was also pushed by Wu Shixun, knocking down the microphone. Jin Junmian reached out to him and motioned for him to say a few words.
"Thank you very much for your support of our team EXO. Winning this award is our honor. I also want to share this honor with our EXO-M members."
Chi Jingyuan stood in front of the microphone without any stage fright. Under the gaze of all the audience and many artists below, he smiled and began to speak: "This time the company and the members have put a lot of effort into the new album. We will strive to become the best Great combination and keep working hard, thank you all.”
"We are one, we are EXO-K, thank you everyone." In the end, everyone shouted the slogan in unison, and left the stage with cheers.
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The next day, news appeared on the Internet that EXO was about to return. One of the title songs, composed by Chi Jingyuan, had been on the hot search for some time.
But the reviews are not that good.
In addition to EXO's own fans who were very happy and desperately spoke on the forum to encourage and express their expectations, fans of other groups and passers-by expressed their incomprehension, and the more intense ones directly made fun of them.
They have never heard that Chi Jingyuan has any creative ability, and the people of the peninsula have never had a supportive attitude towards idols composing their own songs. In the stereotype, idols only need to sing and dance on the stage. Creating such It is more suitable for professionals to do this kind of thing.
Unless the quality of the work is very good and the song is very popular, it will change the public's perception. For example, Big Bang's G-Dragon, his image in the eyes of the public is no longer an ordinary idol.
Generally speaking, most passers-by are not optimistic about this comeback project with the title song composed by Chi Jingyuan.
However, it caused a lot of discussion, and it was considered an exposure and warm-up.
"Wow, you won both the Golden Record and the Newcomer Award at the Seoul Music Awards. It's really impressive."
The day after returning after winning the award, Chi Kyung-won received a congratulatory text message from Kang Seul-gi.
"In terms of performance alone, we have no advantages other than sales volume. The company's operations contribute a lot."
Chi Jingyuan replied truthfully.
"The companies of each group must be operating. Winning awards is a reflection of strength... I heard that you are coming back?"
"It should be May or June, I've been preparing for more than ten days, it's so exhausting..."
"Wow, I'm so envious..."
Chi Jingyuan sat on the floor of the practice room to rest while sending messages to Jiang Seulgi.
The teammates next to them are also doing their own things, taking advantage of this time to rest a little longer.
They have just returned from recording in the studio and will continue to practice the dance for "Wolf" later.
The dance of this song is their biggest challenge in preparing for the new album during this time.
However, after more than ten days of practice, they have entered the state, and have memorized all the dance movements and rhythms. The next step is to slowly break in, make the group dance neat without making any mistakes, and the body has reached muscle memory. .
Although the members would sigh and complain about being tired every time they practiced, everyone was very serious and dedicated during the practice. Even the members with poor dancing skills kept persevering.
Everyone has a lot of energy in their hearts and has great expectations for this return.
Especially after they listened to the demo of "Roar".
I still remember that after the meeting that day, they went to the music room under the guidance of their teacher and listened to all the songs included in the comeback album. The first thing they listened to were the two title songs.
"Wolf" is okay. It feels like a pure dance song without dance coordination, but "Roar" is different. It's just a prelude. The strong rhythm and pleasant melody make everyone's eyes light up, and each other I looked at it a few times in surprise.
After hearing this, they all looked at Chi Jingyuan differently. Wu Shixun even ran to the side and flattered him.
Although the members are not professional in music production, at least they can tell whether the songs are good or not, and they have their own judgment on whether the songs will be popular or not.
This song gave EXO a lot of confidence.
Just after sending two messages, Chi Jingyuan's phone suddenly lit up. When he looked at the screen, he couldn't help but pursed his lips, said to the members, "I'm going to make a call," and then walked out of the practice room.
