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"Anihasay, I am exo's Yuan."
"Hello everyone, I am Irene from redvelvet." In front of the camera, Chi Jingyuan in light blue short sleeves and Bae Zhuhyun in an off-shoulder red patterned white dress are smiling beautifully, facing the camera and talking about today's "Music Bank" In the opening remarks, both of them wore small wreath-like ornaments woven from flowers and plants on their heads, which not only highlighted the summer style, but also seemed to have an inexplicable sense of pairing.
As soon as the audience below saw the two MCs appear on the stage, they immediately started to scream enthusiastically, making the atmosphere in the venue, which had been slightly cooled down by the performance of the unknown group just now, instantly become restless.
"Yuanxi, the weather has been so hot recently!" After entering the hosting mode, Pei Zhuxuan frowned, fanned herself with the script, pouted as if complaining, and looked at Chi Jingyuan sideways.
"Yeah, it's really too hot." Chi Jingyuan also imitated fanning with his hands, nodded in approval, and then expressed concern with warning eyes: "But at this time, your appetite will be worse. , irenexi, you have to remember to eat even more, do you understand?"
"Indeed!" Pei Zhuhyun responded sweetly.
"Promise me!" Chi Jingyuan blinked and looked at him, and at the same time stretched out the little finger of his right hand, as if he was about to check.
"..." Pei Zhuhyun's eyes were crooked, her mouth was pursed and she immediately stretched out her little finger to hook it with him.
"Ahhh..." Now their hosting style has gradually been finalized. Apart from being completely unacceptable to their respective crazy wives and husbands, it has also won the love and affection of many neutral audiences, and even some fans of the two. They all began to slowly change their stance and felt that the two of them seemed to match each other well, and their style was so sweet that it made people lose their teeth.
At this time, many people screamed when they saw the two throwing candies. This is simply sweeter than "We Got Married", isn't it? Moreover, "We Got Married" has such a good-looking CP with such a tacit understanding?
"But yuanxi." After typing, Pei Zhuxuan took his hand back and stared at Chi Jingyuan with a gleam in his eyes, looking curious: "Why have you become so gentle today?"
"Is it very gentle?" Chi Jingyuan blinked: "Then I am so gentle, are you moved, irenexi?"
"Ah..." Is it really okay for you to be so straightforward? "Music Bank" is so beautiful!
"No." As if she heard the screams of the audience below, Pei Zhuxuan couldn't help but laugh a little, but she soon showed a proud smile, shook her head and denied directly: "Maybe it's a little heart-warming, but it makes my heart beat. It’s not you, it’s someone else!”
"Who is it?" The voice was low and questioning. Cheeks bulging slightly, Bae Joo Hyun tried her best to suppress her laughter and said the introduction in the script: "That's Liu Chengyu, who is cute when he smiles, and six handsome men, beast! They will make their comeback in "Music Bank" today I really want to see them!" As she said this, she weighed her feet twice while standing on the stage, as if she was really eager to try and very anxious.
"Then I'll leave first." Chi Jingyuan replied angrily. He turned around and seemed to want to walk off the stage. However, before he turned around and took a step, Pei Zhuxuan reached out and grabbed his wrist. She pulled back, and Chi Jingyuan also stopped and turned back. The dissatisfied expression just now disappeared immediately, and he laughed brightly, turned around and looked at her, and then looked at the camera together: "Haha, then Let's take a look at who the kchart candidate is in the fifth week of July..." Although it has entered the stage of announcing the candidates for vcr, there are not many people who care about it. Many viewers are still thinking about the two mcs just now. A boring interaction.
Even though many people in the audience knew that it was a script, they still felt that the performance of these two people was really real, especially when Bae Joo Hyun pulled it at the end, it was simply a conditioned reflex.
"Music Bank" is so good! After finishing the opening ceremony, Chi Kyung-won and Bae Zhu-hyun walked off the stage, leaving the camera to the next girl group to perform on stage.
By the end of July, the girl groups that were so fiercely competitive at the beginning of July have gradually ended their singing period. For example, AOA and sistar stopped playing songs a long time ago, while Girls' Generation won three or four awards. After that, he seemed to be satisfied, and probably put the experience into his upcoming regular album, which also ended the activity period for the preview album.
Among the girl groups competing this week, Chi Jingyuan is more familiar with gfriend, who thinks the new song is good, and apink, who finally became a candidate. Many viewers also noticed that today "Music Bank" broke into a candidate, and still The one who relies on EXO here to compete is apink, who has finally entered the waiting list. Speaking of apink’s return with a regular album after more than half a year, after nearly half a month of activities, the approximate results can be seen. .
In terms of sales, nearly 100,000 copies were sold, setting apink’s highest sales since their debut, which proves that their fan base is really strong among girl groups. There are really not many girl groups that can sell this number nowadays. Obviously, the previous three consecutive hits have brought a large number of viewers and a solid fan base to Zheng Eunji and the others.
However, the sound source has dropped significantly compared to before. Although the title song "remember" was good and broke the charts once, its stamina is obviously lacking, and it immediately pales in comparison to the songs from the previous mini comebacks.
The important thing is that in the song competition program, Apink has only won two first places so far, which is completely different from their unstoppable momentum that "luv" swept through January at the end of last year.
Although apink's results are actually very good, and overall it is one of the best among the girl groups that have come back in recent times, it may be because their last comeback was so successful, people always feel that their regular album this time seems to be Something is missing.
Chi Jingyuan and apink members are familiar with each other, especially since Zheng Eunji is still there. Before the show started, he naturally went backstage to chat with them for a while.
It feels pretty good. The members of apink don’t seem to have so many thoughts and are quite satisfied. Not to mention Son Na-eun, who gets along more and more naturally, Jung Eun-ji is very lively and crazy, grinning non-stop at one moment, and irritable and serious at the other. He looked like he wanted to hit someone, fully displaying his barbaric aura in the Busan countryside.
Apart from Apink, Chi Jingyuan paid a little attention to GFriend. When it was their turn to take the stage, he took a closer look at the performance of this girl group at the backstage entrance.
There are not many fans of the song "Today We Start", and the fans can hardly hear it. However, the strength of this group is really great. The stage effect is good, and the pure and campus song style shows a sense of power. In addition to the loud voice of the lead singer, the one who left a deep impression on him was this woman. The group dance was really neat.
Looking at it, he even felt that it seemed to be more tidy than EXO, who always had someone holding him back. After the stage ended, there were not too loud but sparse applause and cheers. Chi Jingyuan leaned against the wall and blinked.
Pity. Artists performed on the stage one by one, and he and Bae Zhuhyun also stepped in to host a few words from time to time. Soon, today's broadcast came to an end, and all the artists came on stage to award trophies.
A candidate, exo "boywithluv" and apink "remember"
"..."
"So today's protagonist is..."
"Apink, rough Camida!" As the picture of the last winner was displayed on the screen, Chi Jingyuan took the microphone and loudly announced today's winner. At the same time, BGM remembered that ribbons were floating down from the ceiling.
"Congratulations! Congratulations!" Chi Jingyuan turned sideways, holding the trophy in both hands and handed it to Sun Naeun who was standing next to him. Sun Naeun smiled, took the trophy, looked at him, and then handed it to the captain Park Chulong next to him.
At this time, several members of apink looked very surprised, because they really did not expect to be able to defeat EXO, who has become the guardian boss this time. In "Music Bank", a program with no restrictions on one person, "boywithluv" After sweeping through two months, they still had some energy left after fighting from June to July. Last week, they once again killed Girls' Generation without mercy.
By the way, maybe that's why SNSD stopped singing... Kim Nam-joo and Oh Ha-young didn't have much hope before, but a surprise suddenly came. Oh Ha-young looked like he was about to cry.
"Please give your acceptance speech." Pei Zhuxuan reminded a few people who were a little stunned with a smile. Park Chulong immediately reacted, took the microphone and started talking.
"Thank you very much..." Chi Jingyuan smiled and clapped softly beside him. There was no surprise or disappointment on his face, and he looked like he was happy and blessing Apink.
He is indeed not disappointed. When he won first place in "Music Bank" last week, he had already felt it through the increasingly lower total score. Even with the popularity of EXO and the results of "BoyWithluv", after two months The time has come and we are already at the end of our game. Last week's "Music Center" was not on the waiting list. It is normal that we cannot get it this week.
And they have indeed been relying on it for too long. Every time the several girl groups in front are fighting each other, the funny scene where the last one is EXO who never came at all can't help but be tainted by the so-called 'summer girl group war' A layer of funny colors and elements, now it’s time to return the stage to them.
If what is expected is true, "bwl" should not have a chance to win another trophy in the future. However, this song has completely dominated for nearly two months without playing songs for such a long time. This is Such achievements and experiences are legendary enough.
By the way, how many first-place winners did "bwl" win this time? Chi Jingyuan looked at the apink members who were giving speeches, and suddenly began to make calculations in his mind, but he couldn't remember clearly.
But he knew it after a while.
"EXO's "boywithluv" won "Shoion" and "M!", three consecutive championships in "Inkigayo", six consecutive championships in "Music Center", and seven consecutive championships in "Music Bank", with a total of 22 top songs, creating The idol group made history and became the idol group and K-pop song with the most number of hits in history." After get off work, while Chi Jingyuan was returning to the company in the nanny car, he saw some press releases and posts from fans on his mobile phone. I quickly found the battle report post recording EXO’s first-place result. After clicking on it, I immediately saw it clearly.
Ariel remembers things like the number of people that are related to honor and self-esteem much more clearly than the members of XO.
"It's really amazing. I remember many years ago, you could be called a popular group just by picking one. Now, although it's a little simpler, exo is a bit too exaggerated. I feel like it's very popular for many groups. They just take the difficult trophy as if it were wholesale.”
"This is the result achieved when exo didn't play songs at all. If they keep playing songs, I feel that the popularity can continue and maybe they can win two more. By the way, EXO has not participated in "The Show" in the whole process. If If we go, we can probably get 3 more.”
"So many words are meaningless. Now he is the first, right? I wonder if you have noticed Yuan's expression when he announced that Apink won the first place today. He was smiling and looking very happy. I feel that he has already taken it. Take it again." In the post, the comments below are basically all exclamations and praises. Even if you are not a fan of EXO, as long as you are in the kpop circle, no matter which group you are a fan of, you will sigh for this terrifying one-digit number. Incessantly.
While the true fans of many families are still working hard to become the first singer since their debut, some people no longer know where to put the trophy... with a little pride and strong feeling. With a sense of honor, Chi Jingyuan smiled and clicked on another post.
"In the history of kpop artists and songs, all of them rank in the top five."
"The first place exo "boywithluv" 22."
"Second place psy "Gangnam Style" 19."
"Third place exo "callmebaby" 17."
"The fourth place exo "Pao Xiao" 17."
"The fifth place apink "luv" 17." Among the top five songs with the number of singles, three are all named by the same group. It is very intuitive to see it this way, and the shock it brings is beyond words.
The poster also added: "This is the ranking list of kpop songs. If it goes up to the category of all Korean songs, the first place is "iknow" released in 1992 by Seo Taiji and the Children, which won 25 in total. One, and the others in the top five will move one next." Even if they move one one behind, there are still three exos in the top five, so there is another burst of praise and rainbow farts below this post.
However, Chi Jingyuan was not too excited after being briefly happy. Especially after seeing the exaggerated number of Xu Taizhi and children, he felt the need to be modest.
It is indeed easier to get the one-time trophy now than before. After all, the number of singing shows has increased, and there are also "The Show", a maverick place where lake reunions can come true. No matter how you look at it, the number of one-time trophies is more valuable than before. Go lower.
After all, there were only a few singing shows that senior artists could participate in many years ago, and even if they all took part in it, it wouldn't be much.
For example, Girls' Generation's "gee" won a total of 14 first places, but with their overwhelming popularity at that time, if there had been two more singing programs at that time, maybe the first place would be theirs now.
So after looking at it, he felt that the number of people was just that, and he was overjoyed.
Don't be too arrogant, and don't end up like some seniors. If you used to have a dozen, but now it's difficult to get three or four, it will be a bit embarrassing.
... After Chi Jingyuan returned to the company, he met up with the members and his manager. Soon they took the gifts they had brought before, took a chartered car to the airport, and flew to Xia Guochuan City.
Tomorrow, August 1st, there will be a concert at Sichuan City Sports Center. The concert was nothing special. It was the place where Chi Jingyuan held the concert when he was happy. Among the Chinese food, his favorite was Sichuan food. Although there are several delicious ones in Seoul, it always feels boring if you don’t eat locally. That energy.
When the day arrived on the 31st, he took Jin Junmyun and others out for a late-night snack. After the concert on the 1st, they went out for hot pot together, and then reluctantly left on a plane the next day. Class, returned to Seoul.
"As far as I'm concerned, the theme and style of the song "i" don't match well with rap, and it would look a bit abrupt when added to it." In the conference room of SM Company, Chi Jingyuan, a producer, was talking with Others expressed their opinions: "But I tried to remove that rap section, but I always felt that something was missing." Today is August 3, and at this time, the conference room on the fourth floor of SM Company is discussing about For some important events at the end of Kim Taeyeon's solo album, in addition to the producer Ji Kyung-won, several other related musicians were also present. The main producer Lee Soo-man and the principal Kim Taeyeon were also present.
What they are discussing at this time is about whether to add rap to the song "i". This song has basically been completed, and the arrangement has been given to different composers to make several versions, but about this The problem is that Chi Jingyuan, as the main creator, has not yet fully decided to pay attention.
"Hmm..." Li Xiuman nodded calmly, glanced at Kim Taeyeon who said 'I'm thinking seriously too', and then looked at Chi Jingyuan: "Still not sure about paying attention?"
"A little hesitant." Chi Jingyuan pursed his lips and told the truth. He did have some hesitation and had been thinking about this for several days.
"Then tell me what you think." Li Xiuman nodded and looked at the producers and musicians working on it: "What do you think of the effect of the rap in "i"?"
"I also feel a little bit about what Yuanxi said..."
"I think this rap is quite good. It reflects the theme of the song in different ways and adds to the diversity of the song."
"And after removing it, the connection between the main song and the following will be very stiff. I will definitely have to compose a new song in the middle. In that case, the arrangement may have to be redone..." Several musicians present expressed their own opinions. , both Chi Jingyuan and Li Xiuman listened carefully and nodded from time to time.
Kim Taeyeon also listened very carefully.
"..." After discussing for a while and collecting all the opinions, Li Xiuman pondered for a long time and finally expressed his thoughts and decisions: "I think it's better to add it. The problem you mentioned, Jingyuan, is indeed a bit, but How can a kpop song be without rap? You can slightly reduce the amount of rap, but it cannot be without it."
"Yeah." Chi Jingyuan nodded slowly and agreed with Li Xiuman's statement. Although I don’t know the specific reason, it is true that rap is required in kpop songs, regardless of whether they are suitable or not.
It’s not appropriate anyway, just try to be appropriate.
"Also, the most important thing about this rap is that it allows you to do this feat." Lee Soo Man added as he spoke.
"Me?" Upon hearing this, Chi Jingyuan was stunned for a second and pointed at himself with his eyes open.
"Unless the artist requests it, we are accustomed to finding it from within. Jingyuan, we all know your rap ability. If we find it from within the company, there won't be many people who are better than you. And with your popularity, Whether she is a producer or a feat singer, Taeyeon's title song will be full of gimmicks, which can be of great help in publicity." Lee Soo Man explained with a smile: "Whether it is the song itself or other In all aspects, I think you are the most suitable one."
"In this way..." Chi Jingyuan nodded lightly, but he had no objection. Li Xiuman analyzed that there was indeed nothing wrong with it, and singing feats was just a trivial matter for him. There was nothing difficult about it except that it would take up some time.
He glanced at Kim Taeyeon who kept nodding at him and smiled: "Then let me try."
"It's definitely no problem." Ignoring Kim Taeyeon who was blinking and flattering him, Chi Jingyuan sorted out the information and documents in front of him, and his expression became serious: "Some of the title song "i" The matter is almost over, the rap will not be deleted for sure, I will sing the feat..."
"Now, the songs have been finalized. Taeyeon Xi's solo mini-album tentatively named "i" has been confirmed to include the title songs of the same name "i", "ur", "Gemini", "Pressure", "Tell Me First" and the instrumental version of "i" are six songs in total."
"There is still a little bit of preliminary preparation left, and it should be completed in the next two days. Then the song recording will start simultaneously, and some other work can also start."
