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The next day, Chi Jingyuan made an appointment in the morning and went to the composer Kenzie to participate in the arrangement of the title song "overdose" for this comeback.

Kenzie is nearly forty years old this year. She is a well-known composer in SM Entertainment who was discovered by Lee Soo Man. She has produced many excellent works since her career and has also created many hit songs. She has been a member of several popular groups including TVXQ, SJ, Girls' Generation, etc. He has written songs and has a high status in the company.

And she is no longer just a composer. It is said that she is also serving as a director of SM Corporation. Although she may not have much power over operations, at least her status is here.

However, she was very enthusiastic about Chi Jingyuan. She was full of praise for his song "Roar" and praised Chi Jingyuan's creative skills.

When we get along with each other, Kenzie does not look like a middle-aged woman. She seems quite cheerful and laughs all the time. After work, she will curiously ask some private things about Chi Jingyuan.

It was only after Chi Jingyuan officially took over the arrangement that they discovered that the song "Overdose" should have been completed a long time ago. It was just that they left a few blanks in the arrangement and deliberately left no one to fill it in. At a glance, it was clear that the company had specially given it to Chi Jingyuan. What was left was so that he could participate in the creation process of the title song, and also allow him to write his name on the song signature.

It can be seen that SM really values ​​Chi Jingyuan very much. This kind of initiative to promote artists and sign their names is extremely rare in SM, especially for semi-new groups like EXO. Those who have been debuting for many years Basically none of our seniors get this kind of treatment.

Feeling this kind of attention and optimism, Chi Jingyuan was actually quite happy and enjoyed it. In addition, he liked the song "overdose" very much, so he naturally used all his strength to start working hard.

In this way, his schedule became Kenzie's music room, JYP, and EXO's practice room, running back and forth in a non-stop cycle. From time to time, he would go out for a run with the team. His life was extremely fulfilling for a while. .

Fortunately, the work on several lines went smoothly. The arrangement of the title song itself was actually too difficult, but Chi Jingyuan also put in a lot of effort in order to shine.

Needless to say, practicing on stage in the practice room is their specialty.

JYP's collaborative single is also progressing very quickly. Bae Suzy really got the idea. Although her voice still doesn't have the full emotion, it already has the sense of ambiguity they have been pursuing, so the recording The progress is also very fast. At this rate, the recording work will be completed in a few days and the MV can be shot.

A week passed in a blink of an eye, and January 16th came.

After several days of warm-up and debut trailers, and yesterday’s title song MV released, on the 16th, JYP announced that its boy group GOT7 would officially debut, and held a showcase to show off their debut stage, attracting many fans and audiences. Go watch.

However, not long after this news was sent out, when JYP's publicity department wanted to see the reaction on the Internet, another even more exciting news stole their attention.

Loen Entertainment, JYP's major shareholder, announced today that it was selling off all its JYP shares after seeking to take control of JYP, but was unsuccessful due to Park Jin Young's manipulation of the company's backdoor listing.

The major shareholder's withdrawal and statement caused investors who didn't know the truth to follow suit, causing JYP's stock price to plummet wildly, and the entire company fell into panic.

The attention of the outside world was also attracted by this news, and the news about the debut with GOT7 was completely covered up, which meant that no one cared about it.

Although several unknown companies later quietly absorbed all the shares they sold after Loen's exit, pulling JYP's stock price back a lot, they still failed to restore the confidence of investors and the recognition of them by the industry market. , JYP felt a little precarious for a while.

At this time, Chi Kyung-won was sitting on a small sofa against the wall in the temporary backstage lounge of the Peace Hall of Kyung Hee University in Seoul, where the Golden Disk Awards will be held today. He had finished styling and leaned back comfortably with his legs crossed. There, he was holding his mobile phone and looking at the screen.

"What are you looking at?"

Next to him, Wu Shixun came over and sat on the armrest of the sofa. He turned his head and glanced at Chi Jingyuan's mobile phone and asked.

"Look at JYP's MV for the title song of the new boy group that debuted today."

Chi Jingyuan looked at the screen without turning his head and replied.

"JYP's new boy group? Debuted today? Why didn't I know about it?"

Wu Shixun sounded a little puzzled, as if he had never heard the news at all.

This is also the downfall of GOT7. Both the preview news and the official debut announcement were not suppressed by the more exciting news. The former encountered the exposure of Lin Yoona's relationship, and the latter encountered the plummeting stock price of JYP.

Only fans who have been paying attention to them and passers-by who are interested in this news will know this news. It is really tragic.

"How about this new group?" Wu Shixun glanced at them.

"The song is just average...the MV is also average." Chi Jingyuan shook his head slightly and gave his own evaluation.

After listening to got7's title song "Girls Girls Girls", Chi Jingyuan felt that this song was quite flat. In order to emphasize the addictiveness, several beats were repeated infinitely. If you don't carefully distinguish which is the verse and which is the chorus , there was not much ups and downs throughout.

He thinks this song is not as good as EXO's debut "MAMA". Although "MAMA" was scolded at the time, which made EXO's debut blur, but it also has its own bright spots. At least the sense of religion and ritual makes people feel Very profound.

Moreover, the appearance of "MAMA" is so ugly that people can't help but keep scolding it is also a skill.

"Girls Girls Girls" is not good, the shape is not brilliant but it is not ugly, it is very mediocre. After listening to him, there is almost no impression except for the infinitely repeated beats.

It seems that Park Zhenying wrote the lyrics, composed and arranged the song himself, but the quality seems not as good as Chi Jingyuan imagined.

Obviously, the songs that Park Zhenying wrote for Missa are very good, especially Missa's debut song won the grand prize within 5 months, which shows that the quality is extraordinary.

I didn't expect that the men's team is at such a level, which is a bit disappointing.

After watching the entire MV, Chi Jingyuan didn't feel much about the members of Got7 except for the one who kept doing somersaults all the time.

However, he did find a few familiar faces in the MV. Some of the people who participated in it were members of JYP's new girl group 6mix. For example, Yu Dingyan and that rabbit tooth Chi Jingyuan saw in the MV. Ya is also the heroine of this MV.

Although it is not very beautiful, it looks quite recognizable.

"Jing Yuan, come here and tell you guys about the awards ceremony tonight..."

Li Chenghuan beckoned at the door, Chi Jingyuan took a look at the words, put down his phone, followed Jin Junmian and the others and walked out.

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In 2014, the 28th Golden Disc Awards officially started at four o'clock in the afternoon.

Every year, the Golden Disc Awards will be held in two sessions. In the first half, various awards and awards in the music department will be presented, and in the second half, awards and awards in the record department will be presented.

Moreover, the first and second halves will not start consecutively. The first half of this year's awards ceremony will start at four o'clock in the afternoon, while the second half will start at eight o'clock in the evening.

Several awards were presented in the first half, and in the middle of the show, EXO and FX, who were already prepared, came up to perform a special cover stage of "Mixed Songs of Past Awards\

,"Team M first went up to perform "Spell", and then came down to wait for the stage, FX went up to perform "the boys", and then team K went up to perform "sorry sorry", and finally all the two groups took the stage together for the curtain call.

Ji Jingyuan and members of EXO are all dressed in formal stage costumes with black suits and leather shoes, they look handsome and serious, very feel.

It's just a pity that being handsome is handsome enough, but the performance just now had some flaws.

The K team has no problem. On the M side, Baekhyun and Tao all made obvious mistakes when they performed on stage. More than one part made a wrong move. I don’t know if they were nervous or what happened. I'm familiar with it, and I've practiced it for so long recently.

After stepping off the stage and returning to the lounge, Chi Jingyuan felt a sense of depression as soon as he entered the door. When he looked up, Lee Seung-hwan and Team M's manager Lin Xuanjun stood there with uneasy expressions, staring at the returning EXO members with sharp eyes. After everyone came in, they locked their eyes on Baekhyun and Tao who made a mistake just now.

These two people also knew that their mistakes were serious and they would definitely be scolded, so they both hung their heads there and dared not speak. The other members also stood there silently, fearing that they would become the fish in the pond.

After watching them for a while, Lee Seung-hwan did not curse, and explained: "You guys have to go on stage later, there will be performances and awards in the second half, hurry up and get ready, and we can talk about other things when we go back."

He obviously worried that EXO will have a very important stage in the future, and it would be even worse if he scolded the members for a while and made mistakes for a while. Lee Seung-hwan gave Baekhyun and Tao a few hard glances, and at the same time glanced at the other members standing next to him: "This kind of stage mistakes can happen, you guys have really been slack lately."

"..."

The members remained silent.

"Forget it, let's change clothes first."

Li Chenghuan waved his hand and walked out with Lin Xuanjun.

After they went out, several of them took a long breath, Tao's sweat dripped from his forehead to the tip of his nose, while Baekhyun patted his chest exaggeratedly, with a frightened expression on his face.

"What's the matter, I didn't see any mistakes during the rehearsal, but during the official performance..."

"Remember to treat guests to dinner, because you two will definitely be scolded when we go back."

Standing by the side, Park Chanyeol curled his lips, and gave a bad reminder.

"I don't know what's going on, I suddenly forgot to move."

Baekhyun frowned, looking helpless and innocent.

"Forget it, go back and talk about it. Don't affect your mood. There will be a performance later. Let's change clothes first."

Seeing that the atmosphere was not very good, Jin Junmian clapped his hands, stood up and said a few words, the members didn't complain anymore, and quickly got ready.

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In the entire first half, EXO only had this one cover stage, and their main stage and award presentations were concentrated in the second half.

In the first half, the grand prize in the sound source department was finally awarded to PSY.

psy released a brand new single "Gentleman" in April 2013, but the influence and popularity are much worse than his "Gangnam Style" which was popular all over the world in 2012.

However, "Gangnam Style" successfully established his reputation, and became a well-known artist in the peninsula. This year's "Gentleman" took advantage of this power, although the results were far behind his last year, but The objective evaluation is not bad.

"Gangnam Style" is really too successful, so successful that even if PSY releases dung songs every year for the next few years, he can eat for many years.

The first half of the awards ceremony ended with psy's speech. It was close to six o'clock, and the EXOs didn't dare to eat. They just found some snacks and biscuits to pad their stomachs. They talked with seniors from the same company in the backstage lounge The groups chatted for a while.

Today Golden Disc SM came to join a lot of people, besides EXO, there were also fx and shinee, while Girls’ Generation only came to a few people, among them Taeyeon and Tiffany were the MCs of the second half.

After chatting and joking for dozens of minutes, they separated to prepare for the next performance. It didn't take long for the second half of the Golden Disk Awards to officially start at 8 o'clock.

The opening is also a series of "Songs of the Great Awards of Past Dynasties".

But this time it’s not like their SM ancestors are glorious and there are so many people. They can perform their company’s predecessors’ Daesang songs with their own company’s group. The cover stage in the second half is a collaborative stage for several groups of idols from different companies.

Because there was no artist seat prepared, Chi Jingyuan and the members sat in the backstage lounge and watched the live broadcast on TV.

When he saw Apink who appeared on the stage, his eyes lit up, and he was slightly taken aback.

Apink is on the stage at this time and is on the cover stage, performing the famous song "Happiness" by H.O.T.

What surprised Chi Jingyuan was that their stage costumes looked and looked very distinctive. The six of them were all wearing blue denim overalls and red striped shirts. They looked full of youthful and lively feelings, and people couldn't help but praise them. .

Sun Naen's twin ponytails are quite eye-catching, and the one who surprised Chi Jingyuan the most was the team leader, Pu Chulong.

In his impression, Park Cholong has always been a female idol with a weak sense of existence, a fat body, and an unqualified figure. In Apink, he is a border-like existence.

It's just that Chi Jingyuan hadn't paid much attention to her before. Now watching her on stage, he suddenly realized that Pu Chulong, who had always been fat in his memory and had no star flavor, was already in a very standard figure at this time.

At this time, she was wearing suspenders and was standing there with a slanted ponytail. She couldn't help but make people's eyes shine. She was really a different person from last year.

Sure enough, everyone is working hard, and everyone is making progress...

Looking at Apink who was lively and jumping on the stage, Chi Jingyuan sighed in his heart.

To be honest, he felt that the cover stage of Apink was much more attractive than when they sang their own songs in the first half. They looked lively and youthful, very likable.

Unfortunately, among the six people, only Zheng Endi can sing.

Not long after the opening, EXO went up to receive an award. After receiving the award, they performed their stage, "intro" and "Roar".

They performed this "intro" once on the stage at the end of the year last year. It was a melody with chord changes and a special choreography. The process was very short, less than one minute, but it sounded very rhythmic and the dance was very handsome. .

"intro" did not release a special sound source. After performing on stage last year, it received quite a lot of praise. Many fans hoped that SM Company would release the sound source and MV of "intro". The voice was very high, but unfortunately the company has never Means to do so.

There was no need for too much praise for the subsequent "Roar". The appearance of the big hit song naturally attracted the cheers and chorus of the audience, which brought the atmosphere of the second half of the awards ceremony to a high point from the beginning.

Amid the screams of the audience, EXO left the stage. As soon as Ji Jingyuan walked into the backstage, Jin Junmian and the others quickened their pace and ran to the lounge to start changing clothes. The four of them will appear as award presenters later, and they need to wear Wear a formal suit.

Soon, after a stage, Ji Jingyuan, Kim Junmyeon, Park Chanyeol and Kai stood on the stage and spoke the speeches.

This award is a newcomer award. Generally, last year's winners give speeches to this year's winners to express a sense of inheritance.

Last year the winner of the Rookie Award was EXO, so this year they will be the award presenters.

What made Chi Jingyuan the most amusing was that the object they were going to present the award to was the group that Wu Saik joined, BTS.

BTS came from a small company, and the company's operational capabilities are not very strong. They won the Golden Record Newcomer Award, which can be said to be developing well.

Although they don't have any one of them so far, but because of the special style of the song, there are also one or two good-looking members in the team, which has attracted a lot of popularity.

BTS can be regarded as one of the few male idol groups that can make some splashes under the suppression of EXO's "Roar" in the second half of last year.

Looking at the BTS members standing in front of him who kept saluting after receiving the trophy, especially Wu Saik who forced a commercial smile and kept bowing to him, Chi Jingyuan felt that this scene was really real. It's very interesting, the development of the world is really unexpected.

Chi Jingyuan reckoned that if the awards were not being presented on the stage now, considering how much Wu Saik hated and disliked him, he would have wished to spit on his face and then step on his feet.

Thinking of this, Chi Jingyuan smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Wu Saike, and encouraged him with a sincere and playful tone in Chinese that the other party could understand: "Come on!"

Seeing Chi Jingyuan stretching out his hand, Wu Saike was stunned for a moment, and after hesitating for half a second, he quickly stretched out his hand to hold it and bowed to salute. However, when he heard the phrase "Come on", his expression froze obviously. His eyebrows twitched a little.

Seeing the other party's reaction, Chi Jingyuan almost laughed out loud. After they presented the awards, they stood aside and watched BTS give his speech.

Looking at it, he noticed one thing. There was a little distance between Wu Saike's position and the other six people. It was not very obvious, but he could find it if he looked carefully.

He stood at the farthest side, with an expression on his face that he wanted to speak, and kept looking to the left, but the members over there seemed to have not seen it, and passed the microphone back and forth, talking endlessly.

It was only at the end that he handed over the microphone and asked him to say a few words of thanks in Xia Wen, and the award presentation was over.

When they left the stage, they didn't walk together, Wu Saike walked in front, and several others walked behind, with a gap in the middle.

Chi Jingyuan shook his head, he knew at a glance that the current atmosphere in the BTS team is probably average, and the members may not get along very well.

But it had nothing to do with him, and after taking a glance, he withdrew his gaze.

When the awards ceremony was coming to an end, it was no surprise that EXO was given the grand prize in the recording department.

Standing on the podium and enjoying the passionate BGM and the deafening cheers below, although the members laughed happily, they also calmed down a lot, not as excited as they were when they won the awards a few times before.

At least no one lost control of their emotions and cried bitterly.

After the members finished their testimonial speeches one by one, and Ji Jingyuan also spoke in English for a while, the Golden Disc Awards were coming to an end, leaving only EXO's final encore stage.

To be honest, the testimonials this time were not as sincere as the previous two. Most of them were the iconic words of thanks.

I can only say a lot of things. Although you are still very happy after getting it, you will no longer cherish and value it as much as when you didn't get it.

Entering EXO's encore stage, all other artists left, only fx and shinee from the same company were left on stage to join in the fun and encore together, and at the same time show family affection.

Silver ribbons kept falling from the sky, the accompaniment of "Roar" sounded, and the encore stage didn't need to be so formally danced. The members stood at the front of the stage with microphones, interacting with the audience and fans while having fun singing.

Chi Jingyuan stood at the back of the members, specially keeping his figure blocked, kept smiling, and paddled there with a microphone.

At this time, Kim Taeyeon, one of the MCs in the second half, walked over step by step wearing a white dress and high heels, and stood beside Chi Jingyuan, smiling happily, clapping and joining in the fun.

"Nuna, aren't you tired wearing such high heels?" Chi Jingyuan glanced at Taeyeon, noticed that the other person's height was obviously wrong, put down the microphone and leaned over to ask a question.

Because it was on the stage, he wasn't too close, it was still a safe distance, just enough to allow the other party to hear him speak.

"Isn't it good-looking?" Kim Taeyeon looked her skirt up and down and asked back.

"It's pretty." Chi Jingyuan said truthfully.

"Just look good, it doesn't matter if you're tired or not." Kim Taeyeon blinked and smiled nonchalantly.

At this time, Cui Xueli, who was standing behind just now, also came up and stood beside Chi Jingyuan, congratulating them with a bright smile on winning the grand prize.

Seeing this relative, Chi Jingyuan also smiled happily and chatted for a while.

At this time, Jin Junmian, who was in charge of the encore, turned his head and gave Chi Jingyuan two winks, the meaning was obvious, telling him to stop paddling and be more serious.

And Chi Jingyuan immediately understood, picked up the microphone and sang a few lines along with the chorus, and at the same time symbolically danced the dance of "Roar", which had already entered the chorus.

Seeing Ji Jingyuan's movements, Kim Taeyeon and Cui Xueli next to him, and Zheng Xiujing who ran to him at some point also smiled and jumped up together. The movements were not standard, and Kim Taeyeon was wearing super high heels. I can't even lift it up, and it looks like it's no different from playing around.

However, the picture of these four people dancing "Roar" together in the same frame is really interesting, and it may become a classic scene for fans to recall 2014 after many years.

After returning to the backstage, the members of EXO happily celebrated for a while, chatted with the seniors of the company for a while, and then dispersed. Lee Seung-hwan called all the members together and prepared to take a certification photo and upload it to SNS.

It's just that he glanced at the members and found that a few people were missing:

"Where is Tao, where is Luhan?"