Entertaining Children

There are a total of six TV shows in South Korea, one every day from Tuesday to Sunday, of which the more famous and influential are the four from Thursday to Sunday.

Today is Thursday, and the sound source of the song "Expectation" written by Xiao Yao to Gstar was launched on several music source websites in South Korea early this morning, and their song making journey started on Friday.

Xiao Yao is not a member of KM Entertainment, and Xiao Yao does not need to accompany Gstar to the TV station's song playing program. Xiao Yao went to SBS TV station to do a rehearsal preview with the program group on Saturday afternoon. After recording his own songs on Thursday and Friday, Xiao Yao had some free time on Saturday morning, so he contacted another songwriter in South Korea. An acquaintance, the Korean singer Yoo Woo-won whom I met on "Singer" at the beginning, went to pay a visit.

Liu Youyuan is a very capable singer-songwriter who belongs to a South Korean entertainment company called YPL. In addition to being an artist of the company, he also serves as the company's music director and vocal teacher.

After receiving a call from Xiao Yao, Liu Youyuan, who was working in the company, directly invited Xiao Yao to meet at their company.

When Xiao Yao arrived at Liu Youyuan's company, Liu Youyuan was already waiting at the door of the company very politely. The relationship between Xiao Yao and Liu Youyuan is not as familiar as that of Hong Xiuyan, but the two spent a long time together on "Singer" back then, and their relationship is quite good.

After some warm hugs and pleasantries, Liu Youyuan also took Xiao Yao for a brief tour of the company. YPL is a medium-sized entertainment company in South Korea. Its scale cannot be compared with that of KM. It has no overseas branches, so it can’t talk about its headquarters. The company is only a five-story building, which looks far inferior to KM’s headquarters. The building is so grand.

After shopping around, Xiao Yao found that this company is "small but well-equipped", and the company's internal environment and facilities are quite good.

After taking Xiao Yao for a brief tour of the company, Liu Youyuan brought Xiao Yao into his office, and the two also chatted about their current situation.

Liu Youyuan participated in "Singer" because he wanted to open up his own market in China. After "Singer" ended, he also participated in some activities in China. However, his development as a Korean in China was not particularly smooth, so he only persisted for half a year. , Liu Youyuan didn't go to China much anymore.

However, although Liu Youyuan's development in China is not going well, and he has hardly been to China for more than a year, Liu Youyuan has always paid attention to Xiao Yao, who impressed him the most in "Singer" back then. The two didn't completely break contact after "Singer", and they would occasionally contact each other to say hello, so Xiao Yao came to Korea this time, so he thought of visiting Liu Youyuan.

Liu Youyuan knew that Xiao Yao's main purpose of coming to South Korea this time was to participate in the film festival, so when chatting, he smiled and reminisced about how Xiao Yao emphasized that he was an actor several times in the "Singer" program, which made Hong Wei unhappy.

However, Liu Youyuan is a singer and has not been involved in the film and television industry, so he didn't talk too much about film and television and Xiao Yao's actor status. After a brief congratulation, he still focused on music.

"Xiao Yao, is the new song "Looking Forward" by KM's girl group Gstar your work? I heard it, and it feels really good!" Liu Youyuan praised Xiao Yao with a smile.

When talking about music, Liu Youyuan naturally talked about Xiao Yao helping KM's Gstar write songs. As an artist and manager of a Korean entertainment company, Liu Youyuan must be very concerned about the affairs of the Korean music circle. The song "Expectation" written by Xiao Yao for Gstar has been launched on the music source website. The songwriters of this song are all Xiao Yao's English names, so it is impossible for Liu Youyuan not to notice.

"Thank you Brother Youyuan!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"It seems that you are very good at writing Korean songs. I wonder if you have any other Korean songs?" Liu Youyuan continued, "Our company has a girl group that is preparing to debut, and we are looking for songs for them recently, but there are no songs yet. Find too many satisfying songs."

"Brother Youyuan wants to invite me to sing?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Well," Liu Youyuan nodded, "I was very impressed with your creative talent when I participated in the show in Huaxia that year. Xiuyanxi's "The Thorn Tree" and RedSilk's "Alone" are both your Korean works. I In fact, I had planned to invite you for a song. I just thought that you are here to participate in the film festival this time. There may be many activities. I don’t want to disturb you. I originally wanted to contact you to talk about this matter after the film festival is over. But you today You took the initiative to contact me and came here again, then I will tell you formally."

"So I delivered it myself?" Xiao Yao laughed.

"You can say that." Liu Youyuan smiled and nodded.

"I want to explain first that the copyright of my songs and works is generally in my own hands. I authorize singers or other companies to cooperate in the form of revenue sharing." Xiao Yao first emphasized, "But Don't worry, I generally don't give a song to two singers or groups that are in direct competition at the same time."

"There is no problem with this," Liu Youyuan said with a smile, "We are not a giant company like KM, and the sharing model is acceptable."

"Well, we have the prerequisites for cooperation. But I can't guarantee whether there are suitable songs." Xiao Yao nodded, and continued to ask, "You invite songs for the girl group because you want "Expectation" "A song like that? By the way, by the way, I also made up the dance for Gstar to perform this song, do you need me to make up a dance to match the song?"

"You also choreographed their dance?" Liu Youyuan was surprised, and then he stretched out his thumb and said, "I saw Gstar's comeback stage at the Music Bank yesterday, and the suspender dance was great! "The choreography of that sexy dance!"

"But I don't need that kind of song, and I don't need that kind of dance." Liu Youyuan continued, "To be honest, the girl group that our company is planning to launch is not the same as Gstar's style, and it is different from many mainstream girl groups in Korea now. The style is also different.”

"Different from other girl groups?" Xiao Yao repeated doubtfully.

"Well," Liu Youyuan nodded, "The girl group we are going to launch is called SYS..."

"Wait, what do you think their group name is?" Xiao Yao interrupted.

"SYS!" Liu Youyuan replied, suddenly recalling the business card that Xiao Yao gave him back then, and said with a smile, "This group has only three members, and SYS is the first English letter of their names. I now I just remembered that your fashion brand also has these three English letters, is this what you Chinese people call fate?"

"This..." Xiao Yao smiled speechlessly, and stretched out his hand to signal Liu Youyuan to continue, "You should continue to talk about how they are different from other girl groups."

"The three of them were basically taught by me. They all have good singing skills and perfect harmony, but they are not very prominent in dancing." Liu Youyuan continued, "The company positions them as a For a group that mainly expresses singing skills, it is not to say that there must be no dancing, but it will not be the focus. They may not be able to dance well for more difficult dances. So I hope that the songs I find for them mainly reflect singing skills. The good thing is that you don’t need to dance, you can conquer the audience on the stage with the song alone.”

"Only singing and not dancing. That's a female singing group. How can it be a girl group? But Korean groups seem to be called groups, and maybe there is no such thing as a singing group." Xiao Yao thought about it in his heart, and smiled. He said to Liu Youyuan, "A girl group that only sings and doesn't dance is indeed different from the mainstream girl groups in Korea. Your girl group is a bit anti-traditional!"

"Our company is different from KM. The artists we launch are all with certain characteristics." Liu Youyuan laughed, "Ten or twenty years ago, there are also some girl groups in Korea that are only good at singing and don't dance much. Yes. We can only be said to be anti-trend, not anti-traditional, right? Perhaps, we can say that our girl group is a retro girl group?"

"Retro?" Xiao Yao's heart twitched, thinking of a few Korean songs from around the millennium in his previous life.

In the previous life, the late 1990s to the early 21st century was the period when China had just come into contact with Hallyu stars. Although Li Hao, who was still a high school student in his previous life, was not of the early Ha-Han family, he was still deeply impressed by the songs of some Korean girl groups and liked them very much. Since Liu Youyuan said that he wants to go back to the past, are some slightly older songs from the previous life just right?

"I accept the song invitation!" Xiao Yao thought for a while, and said to Liu Youyuan, "But your girl group hasn't debuted yet, and there must be no videos of their performances on the Internet, and I haven't even seen their faces. , I don’t know how well they sing, this song is not easy to write.”

"So you want to meet them first and have a sound audition?" Liu Youyuan said, "No problem! It's late now, I'll treat you to dinner at noon, and I'll let them come to the company to meet you in the afternoon and arrange a recording studio for you Listen to their singing!"

"Not today," Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I'm going to SBS TV station rehearsal preview in the afternoon, and if all goes well, I'll go to SBS TV station's special stage to perform tomorrow. These two days are relatively busy. I'll come to your company next Monday to talk to them Let's meet, brother Youyuan, please arrange it, can you?"

"Are you going to SBS TV station to participate in the special stage performance, "Inkigayo"?" Liu Youyuan asked in surprise.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded and smiled, "What's the matter? Brother Youyuan can sing on our China's "Singer", but can't I sing on your Korean TV show?"

"Of course not," Liu Youyuan said with a smile, "it's just that there are more popular idols on shows. We also have "Singer" programs in Korea. People like you should go to "Singer" programs to meet those singers." Compare it!"

"I have already participated in Huaxia's "Singer", so the Korean version should not be much different, right? On the contrary, there is no such program in Huaxia, so I took this opportunity to see it." Xiao Yao smiled, "And I'm here this time It is estimated that I will stay in South Korea for about two weeks at most, and I can only go to a singing show once, but if I am participating in "Singer", it will take a few months!"

"That's true!" Liu Youyuan nodded with a smile, "I wish you success in your performance in the song playing show, and you will get one!"

"Brother, none of my Korean songs have been released yet. I went to a special stage, and I didn't participate in the selection of the show!" Xiao Yao smiled helplessly.

"Ah?" Liu Youyuan smiled embarrassedly, and changed his tune, "Then I wish your performance a success and attract a large number of fans in Korea!"

After agreeing on work matters, the two chatted for a while. At noon, Liu Youyuan insisted on being the host and invited Xiao Yao to lunch, but Xiao Yao did not refuse. After lunch, Xiao Yao bid farewell to Liu Youyuan, and went back to the hotel to rest for a while. After the staff sent by the KM company came to the hotel, Xiao Yao went to the SBS TV station under the leadership of the KM staff to conduct a rehearsal preview of the special stage of "Inkigayo".

Xiao Yao also prepared a Korean song that was very popular in the previous life for the special stage of this show. The quality is not bad, and Xiao Yao’s performance is also very good. stage performance.

The "Inkigayo" on SBS on Sunday is a program on Gstar's song-playing itinerary. Xiao Yao's participation in this program is specially recommended by KM Entertainment to the TV station. Whether it is going to a rehearsal or a formal performance, people from KM Entertainment are required to accompany him. , so on Sunday afternoon, Xiao Yao and the five girls from Gstar went to the TV station together.

Gstar, as a girl group that has already debuted, the company arranged an exclusive nanny car when they came out to run the schedule. Although there is still room in their nanny car, Xiao Yao can fit in it, but Xiao Yao is a guest and partner of KM Entertainment after all, so KM also prepared another nanny car for Xiao Yao.

Although they didn’t ride in the same car, they came together after all, and Xiao Yao’s participation in the show this time can be regarded as a member of KM in a sense, so after Gstar’s nanny car arrived first, the five girls didn’t get out of the car immediately Entering the TV station, he deliberately waited until Xiao Yao's vehicle arrived before getting out of the car, and walked to the gate of the TV station with Xiao Yao.

"Gstar!"

"Gstar!"

When the group walked to the entrance of the TV station, some of the fans waiting at the entrance of the TV station held various support signs and shouted loudly.

In South Korea, it is not uncommon for fans to wait for their idols at the door of artist companies, let alone at the door of TV stations. The recording time of "Inkigayo" is not a secret. Almost every week at this time, there will be fans here waiting to meet and support their idols. Gstar recently ran a hit show, and the itinerary was announced to fans long ago, so it is not surprising that there are their fans here.

"Thank you everyone!" Seeing fans shouting for support, the five girls stopped and smiled and bowed and waved to them.

"Yuni, can I shake your hand?" A young man among the fans suddenly stretched out his hands and shouted loudly.

The young man looked to be only about twenty years old, and he was dressed like a student. Yuni saw that his face was a little red, he seemed a little shy and nervous, and he was the only one in the whole fan group who made a request, so he smiled and nodded, and walked towards the boy.

Seeing Yuni approaching, the young man let out a cry of excitement, raised his hands with palms down, and closed them towards Yuni's outstretched right hand.

Seeing that the young man's hands were about to hold Yuni's right hand, someone next to him suddenly reached out and grabbed the young man's right wrist, and then twisted it forcefully to his back.

"Ah~" The young man's right hand was twisted behind him, and he immediately screamed loudly.

"Ah!" Yuni was also taken aback by the sudden blow. After looking up and seeing that the person holding the right hand of the fan in front of him was Xiao Yao, he immediately asked loudly, "Xiao Yaoxi, what are you doing?!"

"Hehe, I didn't expect to see a phenomenon unique to the Korean entertainment industry when I came to Korea for the first time to participate in a TV show!" Xiao Yao smiled, and did not answer Yuni, but turned to Pei Minyi and said, "Minyi, take out your phone Take a video and take a close-up shot of his hand, so that no one will say that I beat someone for no reason!"

"Hand?" Yuni and the others looked at the man's right hand curiously, and immediately shouted in shock, "Blade?! God, Anti!"