"But I don't want this."
Ming Jingnan's voice was soft and didn't look weak, but her tone seemed a bit firm.
The two neon friends looked at each other without saying a word. After more than a year of getting along with each other, they had almost understood that although this fellow could not be seen on the outside, he was actually very independent in his heart.
Once you make a decision about something or someone you like, it is difficult to change it. A person who persuaded his family to come to the peninsula to be a trainee alone when he was ten years old is a good proof.
After finishing the meal, several people stood up and walked towards the company. They seemed to feel that the atmosphere became a little silent because of them. However, Najing Nan put away the depressed look just now, stretched out his hands from his sleeves and stretched out his temples. Her hanging hair was tucked behind her ears, and she smiled with a smile on her face, with a little bit of gum exposed on her white teeth. She waved naturally to the two friends next to her:
"Don't be silent. Don't worry about me. Let's not talk about this matter recently..."
"It's better to seriously participate in the company's survival audition first. Whether you can debut depends on this. I've been practicing the opening dance in the past two days and I'm almost exhausted..."
As she changed her mood and took the initiative to adjust, the somewhat solemn atmosphere relaxed. The two friends glanced at her and started chatting about the competition.
The figure walked farther and farther away, but the voice could not be heard clearly.
…………
On March 11, SM Entertainment officially announced through social networking sites that its girl group Red Velvet will release its first mini album "Ice Cream Cake" on the 18th of this month, and announced the addition of new member Yeri.
After the announcement was released, it attracted a lot of attention. Time can dilute everything. Last year, the senior fans who fought against red velvet when they first debuted have lost the passion for the original battle after so long. After all, there are actually several groups. There was actually no real contradiction or conflict before.
Up to now, except for FX fans who still hate Ledbebe because of what happened to their idol and the current situation, the fandom of other fans has almost died down, and the previous grand occasion of being black on the Internet no longer exists.
That’s not right. EXO’s beauties still bring up the rumored scandal between Yuan and Irene in a tone full of ridicule and contempt from time to time, mocking the shameless and over-the-top leader of this messed-up team in a condescending manner.
There are a lot less people scolding, and many people have expressed high expectations for Ledbebe's return. After all, it is a new generation girl group launched by SM. The company's brand and reputation are here, so red velvet Brings its own heat.
Even though the first two debuts and comebacks did not make much splash and can be regarded as a splash, in fact, whether they are family fans or ordinary passers-by, many people are quite interested in the development of this new girl group, and even some people are interested in the development of this new girl group. Fans are all concerned about when they will disband and whether this will be their last album and other survival issues.
But what’s interesting is that in addition to those who are looking forward to the album, there are many people who claim to be old fans of Red Velvet who appeared out of nowhere and firmly oppose the addition of the fifth member Yeri on the Internet. They are very dissatisfied with SM’s approach of adding people to the group. , was emotional, used difficult words, and said many unpleasant things.
Even Chi Jingyuan was a little puzzled and surprised when he saw it. It turned out that red velvet had so many old fans before. It felt that although it was far less than the number of Aili, it was not much different from those second- and third-tier groups.
To actually hide it so deeply, I thought they were confused before. I really underestimated them.
During this period, after two weeks of accumulation, EXO, which has fully gained momentum for this comeback, is constantly carrying out various schedules, and is also ruthlessly harvesting all the singing spots it can get on music programs. .
"The person honored in "M!countdown" this week is...EXO!"
"Congratulations to EXO! Won the top spot in this week's "Music Bank"!"
"Today's "Music Center" first place trophy belongs to... EXO! Rough Camida!"
"EXO! Camida won the first place in "Inkigayo" in the third week of March."
This week, except for "The Show" where EXO still did not go and the program team did not hand out trophies, all the other five singing shows were completely won by EXO, and the comparison of scores was extremely strong. Almost every selection was There is no suspense at all, especially in "Music Bank" where the record sales score is relatively dominant, the record score alone has exceeded the opponent's total score.
By this week, VIXX, last week's main opponent, had lost its ability and started to fall behind. Chi Jingyuan and the others had also replaced their opponents with Shinhwa, which returned at the same time. The response and songs of this senior boy group's return were really quite good. , it can be considered a very exciting and sincere comeback, and all the results have actually exceeded expectations.
It's a pity that EXO was bumped into the singing program, which is very important for idols, resulting in no success so far since their comeback.
Although a trophy like a first-place trophy cannot fully represent the overall performance of the group's comeback, after all, the gold content of winning a first-place song in this year is still very high, and the number of first-place winners can be a very intuitive indicator of whether the performance is good or bad. By showing it, many fans and passers-by can easily see what the performance of this group is.
I can only say that EXO themselves probably didn’t expect that “Call Me Baby” could be so strong this time.
…
"Snowflakes are falling."
"It's going away little by little."
"I miss you."
"I miss you."
Today is March 16th. EXO has just finished a week of singing and activities. At this time, the title song "Spring Day" of the unreleased single album "X" is being played in SM's practice room. EXO's Nine The members are sweating profusely practicing the dance to this song.
As the title song, even though it is a ballad, the company and Chi Jingyuan still choreographed the song for the expressiveness of the stage. Although the frequency of movements is not as complicated and intense as "Call Me Baby", it is still It has its own difficulty and characteristics.
Compared with "Call Me Baby", which has fragmented movements and large body waves, the choreographer of "Spring Day" does not have a large body movement when dancing, and the movements are not that intense. Some movements are more melodious and tactful, more in line with the ballad. characteristics, and attaches great importance to the rhythm, frequency and neatness of the footsteps, especially the chorus part.
Panting and dancing several times in a row, nine people formed a circle under the clapping of the dance teacher. Several members glanced at the VJ standing in the corner of the practice room who was filming, then looked away and began to concentrate. Listen to the dance teacher's instructions.
Just as Chi Jingyuan said to the fan during the previous raid on the Hanlin Art High School campus, the behind-the-scenes footage of the regular first album "XOXO" received a very good response after it was released. It not only attracted many passers-by to watch, but also provided The newly popular EXO has played a very good role in solidifying fans, so this time the regular second album SM's old tricks are repeated, starting from the initial preparation and planning, including recording, dance practice, private rest, criticism, and even During the meeting, a VJ will be filming nearby.
Chi Jingyuan and the others have long been used to it.
"I have just emphasized the key point of the stage. There are not many difficulties in choreography. The most important thing is the rhythm of the steps."
The dance teacher stood in the middle and commented on their previous practice: "Especially the chorus part. In the second verse of the chorus, there are two consecutive large-scale movements on the stage, from left to right, and then from right to left. Here Improper dancing will greatly affect the overall effect of the stage."
"As I said before, when moving in a large group in a circle, you should use the members in the center as the base point, and use their positions to judge whether your own rhythm is correct. The first time it goes back and forth is Yuan, and the second time it is Yuan suho, the third time is Yuan, the formation must be neat, neither fast nor slow, just follow the beat, don’t rush the fastest or end up last.”
The teacher pointed out the current problems of EXO very sharply, and the members listened attentively.
In fact, Chi Jingyuan and the others have been practicing the dance of "Spring Day" for a long time, and they even learned it earlier than "Call Me Baby". It's just because it's not the first release, but the main feature of the second single album. , coupled with the fact that I have been busy since my return, my dancing proficiency still has some minor flaws.
But these are just some details, and overall there are basically no problems.
"Let's take a rest." After that, EXO danced several times, and focused on practicing the large group moving choreography in the chorus. After being exhausted, they finally entered the rest time at the teacher's signal, and the VJ next to them also The camera was turned off at the right time to stop the behind-the-scenes shooting.
"Hmm~"
As the youngest members, Chi Jingyuan and Wu Shixun took the initiative to go to the small refrigerator to get drinks and mineral water and gave them to the other members. They each took a bottle and returned to their seats and sat down on the floor. After drinking a few sips of water, Chi Jingyuan let out a pleasant sigh.
"Where are you going to have lunch?"
"There are activities in the afternoon, it won't be long, just find a restaurant nearby..."
"But I want to eat barbecue..."
Hearing that the members next to him were already chatting about lunch, Chi Jingyuan happened to have nothing to do at the moment. He took out his mobile phone and opened the web page to check the news about red velvet's return.
Ledbebe, who has already announced that he will return on the 18th, has started frequent warm-up and promotions. On the 13th, he uploaded a live preview video, and on the 14th, he announced one of the double hits of this mini album. The MV for "Automatic", and the MV for another title song "Ice Cream Cake" will be released at noon today, and tomorrow all the sound sources of the entire album will be released.
To be honest, despite the poor performance of the first two comebacks, the first mini-album adopted the form of double title songs. The company actually values red velvet quite a lot.
However, Tianchi Jingyuan has already watched the MV for one of the title songs, "Automatic", so how can I say...
The style of the song and choreography are somewhat similar to their cover of "Be Nature" last October, but the style is softer and more urban.
Overall, after reading it, he felt it was quite average.
But there are also highlights. At least Bae Joo Hyun's appearance in a few shots is very eye-catching. One is the blond hair with big waves at the beginning, which looks stunning, and then there is a pink-clad blond sitting in the driver's seat in the middle holding the steering wheel. The lens is also quite nice.
In addition, the makeup of Kang Seulgi, Son Seungwan and other members are also OK. At least compared to "Be Nature" which sounds somewhat similar, Cody has really put his heart into the styling of this comeback.
Although the title song Chi Jingyuan feels that it is not popular enough, there is also a title song "Ice Cream Cake" in the album. The fact that it has the same name as the album means that the following song should be the main recommendation. Speaking of which, it will be released soon. He is still looking forward to the MV.
After thinking about it, Chi Jingyuan took out his headphones, put them on, and clicked on a red velvet live preview video in the video list.
What this video is about is that Ledbebe and the others were informed by their manager that they were going to do a live broadcast to promote their comeback on the 18th, so they began to think about what to say during the live broadcast and how to introduce themselves.
Ji Jingyuan has already watched this video uploaded on the 13th once. At the end of the video, several people gave a birthday cake to Kim Taeyeon, who made a guest appearance, and asked the senior for some experience and advice.
Speaking of which, at the birthday party on the 9th, Taeyeon mentioned that she had just met Bae Joo Hyun, which should be referring to the filming of this video.
The whole video is actually not interesting. The funny level of the Red Velvet people except Son Seungwan who seems to be quite talented is actually average. And the reason why Chi Jingyuan came in to watch it again...
After he clicked on it, he directly pushed the progress of the video to a third of the way. Bae Zhuhyun was showing off his personal skills - imitating Doraemon's voice and saying...
"My dear friend."
A hoarse voice came into his mind through the earphones. Chi Jingyuan looked at Pei Zhuhyun on the screen and couldn't help laughing.
Doraemon's voice itself is very distinctive. The hoarse and deep voice is very comical through Bae Zhuhyun's deliberate imitation. Combined with her helplessly designed thick golden bangs, it looks like It looks so silly that it makes people want to laugh.
She kept laughing shyly after imitating herself, obviously knowing that she looked stupid now.
Don't tell me, the imitation is really similar.
God knows how she could regard this as her personal skill, and she doesn’t know whether she came up with it or it was designated by the company. This personal skill is completely different from her own appearance and gentle temperament, but Chi Jingyuan does. I think it sounds magical.
Maybe it's because he likes Doraemon very much.
There could also be other reasons...
Nothing was going on at the moment, so he just sat there drinking water, constantly pulling the progress bar to look back, and Pei Zhuxuan's voice kept repeating in his ears:
"My dear friend."
"A close relative"
"..."
…
"We agreed to eat barbecue, but in the end we ended up with bibimbap."
Park Chanyeol complained a little disappointed after scooping a few spoons of bibimbap.
"I told you that I have something to do later, so I don't have time for you to go eat barbecue. Let's talk about it after we get off work in the evening." Baekhyun, who was sitting opposite, glanced at him, curled his lips and said angrily: "If you don't want to eat bibimbap, why don't you go eat pizza with Minseok and the others?"
"Forget it." Park Chanyeol sighed, remembering that he would probably be busy until the evening, so he honestly picked up the spoon and started eating.
Because I was pressed for time, I could only do some random things around the company. For lunch today, EXO split into two groups and chose bibimbap and pizza respectively.
They have long been familiar with several stores around the company. There are many stores where idols and even trainees usually eat there at noon. They are no longer surprised to run into EXO from time to time. Occasionally, there will be special ones. Fans come and wait for a chance encounter or something.
On the contrary, the most interesting thing is that they would rather go out to eat bibimbap than eat in the company canteen.
"Jingyuan, are you full?" After taking a few bites, Park Chanyeol glanced around and saw Chi Jingyuan put down his spoon and picked up his phone, not knowing what he was looking at.
"Well, that's almost it."
Chi Jingyuan wiped his mouth with a tissue while operating his mobile phone.
To be honest, he didn't really want to eat bibimbap, so he just tried to satisfy his stomach.
Opening the webpage on his mobile phone, he went directly to SM's official YouTube channel. At this time, the MV for red velvet's second title song "Ice Cream Cake" had been officially released. Chi Jingyuan put on his headphones and clicked on it to start watching.
Basically every time after the MV for EXO's comeback title song was released, close friends like Bae Joo Hyun and Kang Seulgi would watch it immediately and give him some feedback and encouragement. It just so happened that EXO was free at noon today. , he can be considered as reciprocating the favor.
And Chi Jingyuan also knows that this return is also very crucial for red velvet. It affects whether this group can continue to go forward. In terms of importance, it is not inferior to EXO's return at this time. As a close friend, he has always been Also quite concerned.
"la la la la la la la la~~"
"Please give me that sweet taste."
“Ice Cream Cake”
After watching the MV, the last continuous English rap still echoed in my ears. Chi Jingyuan blinked and was surprised that it still felt pretty good.
No matter the makeup of the five people, the style and melody of the entire song, or even the choreography and the shots and scenery of the MV, everything is OK.
At least it felt better than "Automatic" made him feel.
"The MV for "Ice Cream Cake" was shot very well, with many highlights." Looking up at the members who were still eating, Chi Jingyuan took the initiative to send a message to Bae Zhuhyun.
The other party's reply came in less than a minute. Apparently Bae Zhuhyun had been watching the release of the MV with her mobile phone: "jinjia? Is it really good?"
In just a few words, it seemed that Pei Zhuxun's uneasiness was revealed, as well as the joy and excitement in his heart after learning Chi Jingyuan's evaluation.
The two often talked about some songs of their own group and other groups in their private text message chats. Chi Jingyuan's sensitivity in this regard is still very accurate. In many cases, his judgment of a song is not too different.
"Well, your looks and costumes are very good-looking, your choreography is also very unique, and the melody of the song is also quite nice. It is obviously much better than the last time you came back. There will definitely be many people who like it." Chi Jing Yuan could tell that Bae Zhuhyun was a little worried, so he typed a lot of words to praise the "Ice Cream Cake" MV to encourage her.
At this moment, Bae Zhuhyun might be fine, and she replied very quickly: "kkkk I can get compliments from Jingyuanxi, thanks to our hard work in shooting in such a cold weather in LA (smiley face)"
The MV for "Ice Cream Cake" was shot in LA, the United States. At that time, Bae Joo Hyun complained to him that the temperature there was very low, and the clothes in the MV were very thin. It was really cold during the filming, and it made people freeze. All trembling.
Thinking of the two MVs he had watched, Chi Jingyuan followed up with another one: "I see that both of your MVs for the title song have driving scenes. Zhuhyunxi, do you like driving very much?"
"In "Automatic" I just sat in the driver's seat and held the steering wheel without driving. For "Ice Cream Cake" kkkkk... it looked like I was driving, but in fact it only looked like that in the camera. In fact, it was a foreigner wearing it. Wig, pretending to be me driving...I can only watch from the outside (sad)."
"But actually I quite like driving (laughing)."
Seeing that the emotion expressed in the text was obviously much happier, Chi Jingyuan laughed and sent: "The shot of the swimming pool is not bad either."
What he was talking about was that in the middle of the MV, there was a shot of Bae Zhuhyun wearing a one-piece swimsuit, lying on an inflatable mattress and floating in the swimming pool. Although it passed by in a flash, it left a deep impression on him.
"(blush)"
"The scene in the swimming pool was the most annoying when I was shooting it. The inflatable mattress was too small. As soon as I lay on it, it kept sinking. After several shots, it didn't work. In the end, I had a female staff member dive and hold me under the water. I barely finished the photo while holding on to the mat..."
"...Don't say I'm heavy. You know for yourself whether I'm heavy or not (glaring)."
Ji Jingyuan's encouragement and recognition of the title song MV obviously made Bae Zhuhyun let go of a lot of new embarrassments. At this time, he was obviously very talkative. He sent several text messages in a row and happily talked about a lot of things during the filming of the MV. The details can be seen between the lines. She not only wanted to distract herself from her worries about the performance of this album, but also wanted to share her happiness and excitement of finally being able to return again.
As for whether she is heavy or not...
Chi Jingyuan recalled the feeling of picking her up and nodded to confirm that it was indeed not heavy.
On the other side, Bae Zhuhyun was sitting on the edge of the sofa in the dressing room. She was leaning on the armrest, holding her mobile phone in both hands, and carefully reading the text on the screen. She pursed her lips and put a thick and cheerful smile on her face, showing her inner joy. In such a mood, I changed my posture and folded my legs together. I raised my hair and started typing: "You just said that our styles are all very good, so who do you think has the best look?"
"Seulgi."
Chi Jingyuan replied quickly, but unfortunately it was not the name she wanted to see.
Before Bae Zhuhyun could reply, the other party sent another message: "And Kim Yelin."
Pouring his lips, Pei Zhuxuan hummed, sat up a little, and quickly tapped the screen with both hands. However, before the large string of text was finished, he received a message from the other party:
"Let's not talk about it for now. Let's get to work right away."
(End of chapter)
