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Lay didn't just run away like the previous two, but still stayed in EXO, but recently he didn't often go back to the dormitory at night, and he was always in meetings and negotiations with the company every day, obviously his thoughts were no longer there. Here it is.

But just like this single that EXO is practicing at this time, let it be.

"The key of the verse part of this song is not very high. When singing, the voice must not be too deep, because the tone itself is low. If it is too deep, the audience will easily feel a kind of 'mourning' and 'decadence' perception."

"But the meaning of the song "Let It Be Natural" is completely opposite. It is to express a feeling of breaking out of a cocoon and becoming a butterfly, breaking the darkness on a cold and gloomy winter night, and returning with the stars and the moon."

With the cooperation of the music teacher, Chi Jingyuan is talking to the members about the key points of the song "Let It Be Natural" and his thoughts and setting on the theme of the song.

After SM formally confirmed the plan for the winter single, under Lee Soo Man's suggestion, they directly handed over a lot of work in the guidance practice and recording to Ji Jingyuan. At the same time, after reading the MV shooting ideas and After the idea, I also said that it is very good. After the company makes some modifications and adjustments, it can almost follow this plan.

I don't know whether I really value and believe in Chi Jingyuan's ability, or I don't pay much attention to this winter single. Anyway, before next year's official second album will be one of the producers, he will also participate in this winter song A lot of production work.

While Chi Jingyuan was narrating, the music teacher next to him also echoed and added a few words from time to time. The two cooperated very well, and the members were listening very seriously. Some just looked at the score and lowered their voices trying to hum. said a few words.

It may be because of the recent continuous encounters with XO that have been suppressed for a long time. Even if it is only a winter single, each member is very serious and focused.

And many people really like the melody, lyrics and even the meaning of this song, and some of the emotions expressed in the song just echo what they think in their hearts.

After Chi Jingyuan finished his detailed narration, they began to practice together, and the enthusiastic working atmosphere in the whole room continued to rise.

"Let It Be Natural" is a relatively pure lyric song, without any dance movements, it is pure singing, but the requirements for voice and emotional expression are still quite high, and the requirements for the lead singer are also very high. Use the sound to create an ethereal feeling, especially the double acapella chord at the end is the essence of sublimating the whole song. How well the harmony is sung is very important to the quality of the whole song.

The word "acappella" is a transliteration from Italian, and in the peninsula, it generally refers to performing in the form of pure human voice a cappella without using musical instruments and accompaniment, that is, a cappella.

The section at the end of "Let It Be" is of this form, and it is also the highlight of the song.

Currently under the arrangement of the company, Chi Kyung Won and Do Kyungsoo will sing the last chord, but they haven't entered the recording studio yet to hear how the effect is. If the performance is not good, it is estimated that they will have to change people.

However, as one of the members with the best singing skills in XO, if both of them can't do it, it is estimated that the others are too good.

From the point of view of the part, more than half of the arias of the song "Let It Be Natural" are all completed by the four lead singers, including some pads and harmony are also their tasks, and Jin Jun is the only one of the other five Mian had a little more parts, and most of the other four had only one or two sentences.

Because some members with mediocre singing skills can rely on the tuner to improve their singing skills during recording to ease the embarrassment of singing skills, but if the microphone is turned on on the live stage, too many parts of them will easily reveal their true colors and cause a car accident scene, so we still restrain ourselves One point, it is more appropriate to assign this task of comparing singing skills to a few lead singers.

However, in this kind of ballad with relatively high requirements, it is very good to have two lines, which is much better than not getting a single line from Senior Yuner.

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For the next two days, the members of EXO will focus on this winter single, and the lead singers will consciously start practicing after finishing their individual schedules.

And Chi Jingyuan will rush back to the company to practice overtime with the members after finishing the filming work of the crew every day. After the end, he will stay in the company and work overtime to organize the comeback plan of the regular second series.

I have to say that the lead singers of EXO are quite outstanding. With their hard work, they practiced this difficult ballad very quickly. It took just two days to sing together and they looked good. There is no problem, and after a little familiarization and improvement, it is almost ready to enter the recording studio and start recording officially.

And Lay, who has been wandering around, but is getting more and more out of place, finally has the final result.

At noon on November 8th, after Tao left the team for a week, SM Entertainment officially issued a statement, announcing that EXO's Xia nationality member Lay will set up a personal studio with the company's assistance, and will officially start working after the neon tour in November. The focus is on Xia Guo's activities, and there will be less participation in group activities.

Although focusing on the business in the Mainland, SM also said that Lay is still a member of EXO and has not left the group.

After waiting for several days, the result finally arrived. This time, there were no surprises or surprises for the members including Chi Jingyuan, and even their mood was hardly affected.

Some of the thoughts that should have been in the preparation of the winter single two days ago, when I saw that he did not participate, had already calmed down in a few days, and I didn't bother to think about these issues anymore. Everyone focused on Check out next month's return above.

Although the members of EXO didn't feel much about the result this time, it caused a lot of turmoil for those black fans who had been looking forward to it, even passers-by who watched the excitement, and fans who had always cared about XO.

"It's 'still a member of EXO', but what kind of XO member is it if you don't participate in group activities? Is it interesting, who are you kidding?"

"Hahaha, I expected it a long time ago (see the post I posted when Luhan was running a few months ago), Luhan must stay for a short time after finishing the other two Xia Kingdom lines, sure enough."

"If you want to run, can you run cleanly? What do you mean by 'the focus of your career is on the mainland of Xia'? It means that you will not be involved in the itinerary and return on the peninsula? Then just follow your two seniors and sue for invalid contracts." Isn’t that the end of the story? Why do you insist on using the EXO brand? But you really think that doing this will make some fans feel good about you, right?”

"Actually, Lay has already left the group. It's just that SM saw that the other Xia Guo members who ran back were doing well there, and they couldn't bear the benefits of Lay's activities in Xia Guo, so they came up with such a ridiculous contradiction. statement."

"In this way, fx's victoria is really good. I have stayed in SM for so many years and haven't run away. Under such a comparison, I suddenly have a good impression of her... Unlike XO, have you been popular for two years? It's all gone."

"This kind of non-retreat is really disgusting. Anyway, in my heart, there are only 9 people left in EXO from now on. I hope that the 9 Oppas will start again. Come on, I will always support you!"

"Although I have already expected it, but after seeing Lay leave, I still feel empty. From 12, to 11, and then to 10, today it will become 9, and tomorrow will it become 8... ..."

"Xia Guo's line is all over, and there are only three members left in the EXO-M team. In this case, the M team has no meaning to exist, it is completely in name only, and the concept and setting of EXO's debut is that KM and KM will carry out activities separately. Now Only the K team is left with a limping leg, and the framework of the entire combination has collapsed."

"Indeed, Team M can be disbanded directly, EXO is completely finished."

"Yuan Oppa is still here, EXO can't finish!!"

"..."

In the crew of "Misaeng" in Seoul Plaza, Chi Jingyuan, who took a break after eating, sat up on the stool at this moment, looking at the comments on the Internet on the mobile phone, his heart was complicated and at the same time he was a little noncommittal.

SM's statement seems a bit ridiculous, Lay has almost left the group.

He himself will not go.

As for whether EXO will end, he doesn't know, but the M team, like some people said, has indeed existed in name only.

The departure of all three Xia Kingdom lines will have a great impact on EXO. The first thing that bears the brunt is the immediate collapse of the EXO-M team. No one will expect the three Peninsula members to continue XO's activities in the mainland. Among them is Chen. Chinese is better, and the others are just saying hello.

And without the participation of members of their own nationality, the enthusiasm and sense of substitution of the fans will be greatly reduced. It is actually meaningless to continue to support the M team in Xiaguo activities.

And the reason why EXO has been completely broken in the new boy group in the past two years, and the sales volume has broken the ceiling and pulled the overall market, many of them are because of their high popularity in mainland China. Every time they return to the album, they lose Both accounted for more than one-third of the level, and fans in the mainland made a decisive contribution to EXO's overall performance.

The current situation of the M team has directly impacted the team activities that EXO has been maintaining, and the mainland Xia market can be said to have collapsed directly.

This has also seriously affected SM's plans for EXO. From the beginning of XO's debut, the setting is the men's groups of the Xiaguo Peninsula. Every time they come back, the albums are basically bilingual and bilingual. It can be said that they did not pay attention to the fact that they made their debut in Xia Guo, and now that the three of them have left the team, the company also needs to make major adjustments to the future development direction of XO.

Should Team M be disbanded? After losing Xia Guo line members, should EXO still pay more attention to Xia Guo's market? Do you need to change the direction of development, so that future activities will focus on neon, or Europe and the United States?

These are things that the company urgently needs to consider.

Secondly, there is the problem of dance. The choreography of all the dances of EXO’s title songs is almost all in the form of K and M teams appearing in the two main and choruses, and everyone on the stage dances together in the last part. From "MAMA" From "Roar" to "Addiction" are all in this mode.

If you run one, you can ask Chi Jingyuan to make a guest appearance to fill up the number of people, and if you run two, you can barely make it. Now that all three are gone, there are only three people left in the M team. Of course, this kind of choreography cannot continue.

I don't know what will happen in the future, but the most important thing now is that EXO needs to change all the choreography of all previous songs from 12 people to 9 people, otherwise they won't be able to even go on stage now.

From the two teams performing separately and then combining to form a nine-member group, although the specific choreography may not change, both the part distribution and the position change are very large, so the workload of so many songs can be imagined And know.

It’s no wonder that the company’s statement said that Lay will not officially focus on mainland activities until after completing this month’s neon tour, giving the remaining nine members a certain amount of buffer time, otherwise unless a backup dancer is arranged to wear a mask to stand in Lay’s The position on the stage, otherwise the Fukuoka concert that is about to start does not know how to proceed.

Finally, there is the impact and impact on the fans. It is unbearable for any group fan who likes EXO to have members quit the group consecutively...

Forget it, watching too much really affects the mood.

Chi Jingyuan shook his head and swiped away the webpage on his phone.

He belongs to the kind of personality who would laugh at his black comments on the Internet, and sometimes read them with relish and even took the initiative to share them with members.

The black comments didn't have much effect on him, but seeing the disappointment and sadness of their fans Aili because of these things made Chi Jingyuan feel very uncomfortable, especially when he met many familiar fans he had seen before. It is even more unpleasant after ID or off-fan, or after climbing the wall.

Fans are the lifeline of idols, and it is also one of the important reasons why he loves this profession and works hard for it.

However, although some people in EXO have left the group one after another, it will cause a great blow to the group fans and even the soul of the group as a whole. However, they did not cause any real scandals after all. At most, there are some innocuous rumors such as "royal family grabbing resources" , There is no real hammer that really collapses the image.

For example, Tara, the bullying news from BTS, and all kinds of revelations about YG's reading and drinking, these are the real blows that make it difficult for the idol group to turn around.

Although the resignation of the group has a serious impact and is very bad, it does not involve the law and does not affect morality.

What is gratifying is that neither Luhan nor Tao mentioned this kind of thing when they left. At most, it just explained or alluded to the unfair allocation of company resources, "popular members are too arrogant" and so on. Nothing like 'bullying' is involved.

Although the XO team itself does not have such a situation.

But if you look at the extreme, after Luhan left, many members did exclude the remaining two Xia Guo lines, saying that they were not small or big.

Thinking about it for the better, compared to them, it is not irreversible for EXO members to leave the group one after another.

In the final analysis, the idol group still depends on the works, the quality of the songs and the charm on the stage. Now when the fans are panicking, what they say is not very effective. They need to use a successful comeback to restore EXO, which is a bit precarious today.

As long as there is another big explosion next year, maybe these fans who have taken off their fans will come back, and all those who look down on them will change their views, and the black fans who are jumping up and down like Chinese New Year and other boy group fans will also immediately. Shut up and dive quietly, even EXO may still make progress.

Just like the old Roar.

"Brother, Lay's personal studio should be a collaboration between SM and a mainland economic company, right?"

"I didn't pay attention to this, but I think it should be. He must have a shareholding himself."

Putting down the phone, I heard the voices of assistants Cui Zhichang and Park Jae-hyun chatting next to me. They hadn't finished their meal yet, and they talked about EXO while eating.

"The few of them run fast. After returning home, one is better than the other. I don't know how much influence it has on the other Xia nationality trainees. It's really..."

Cui Zhichang was obviously dissatisfied with several people, and criticized the few members who had left the team with an obvious tone of displeasure.

"What's wrong?"

After hearing this, Chi Jingyuan became interested and turned his head to ask.

"Jing Yuanyu has been too busy these days and didn't pay attention. Because of EXO's withdrawal from the group, the company has dismissed most of the trainees of Xia nationality in the past two days, leaving only a few related and real trainees. Looks good, the other ones just let them go and there is no leeway."

"In the past two days, I can often see people crying and leaving with their things in their arms. Some parents of trainees who were dismissed even went to the company to make trouble in the past two days."

Quickly swallowing what was in his mouth, Cui Zhichang hurriedly replied as if reporting a message, shaking his head while talking, not sure if it was dissatisfaction with SM's decision, or disgust with those few people.

"Is there such a thing?"

Chi Jingyuan was a little surprised when he heard it, but he soon understood it, and it was clear in his heart.

Wu Saike, and the matter of EXO is a good example in front of us. The members of Xia Guo who have been trained for many years and concentrated a lot of resources have sued one after another. However, SM has no choice but to Incompetent and furious to smear the other party, and then can't take much action other than responding to the lawsuit.

Even if you win the lawsuit in the future, you can get a share of the other party's profits, but it still seems a bit outweighed by the company's overall planning and the combination it is promoting.

It’s really because Xia Guo’s economy is good and the market is too big, and the money earned there is much more than here. Xia Guo’s idols have their own retreats after they become famous, and SM has no room for countermeasures. They simply emptied most of Xia Guo’s practice Born, not cultivated.

As for whether to accept it in the future, it depends on the situation at that time.

This kind of decisive approach also shows that SM company has indeed been greatly affected by this EXO matter, and even the company's overall strategy in the future has begun to adjust.

Although I feel that the company's approach is somewhat biased, it is understandable from Chi Jingyuan's objective point of view.

But these people won’t be unemployed if they can’t stay in SM, and they can go to other companies to try again, because the trainees from big companies have always been of relatively high quality and are very sought-after in the industry.

"And it's not just our company. I heard that many other companies in the industry have dismissed a lot of Xia Guo trainees because of the XO incident. Some groups that are about to debut have been affected."

Park Jae-hyun also interjected a few words at this time: "After all, SM has nothing to do with this kind of thing, let alone a small company. It is definitely unacceptable for them to get a popular member to quit the group suddenly. loss."

"..." Chi Jingyuan nodded silently, and what he said made sense.

Suddenly he froze for a moment, as if he remembered something, he quickly picked up the phone on the table, opened it, tapped it continuously and sent a message.

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"What's going on with EXO? Why are there only 9 people left all of a sudden?"

"It was so popular when it came back a few months ago. At that time, I really liked the stage and pen-hold shooting of Yuan's "dope". I watched it over and over again."

"I really like this one too, Yuan's police uniform looks really cool!"

"Pity."

In the JYP company building, Zhou Ziyu, who had just returned to the practice room after dinner, was sitting here when she heard a few female trainees discussing enthusiastically not far away. In two sentences, you can tell that you are talking about EXO.

After Lay left in name only, EXO, with only 9 members left, suddenly became the focus of discussion on the Internet, and in reality, especially in the music industry, many people were also talking about it, like many trainees in private I often talk about this matter.

Her Korean progress is neither fast nor slow, and she can't be said to be proficient now, but as long as she doesn't speak too fast and there are no uncommon words, daily communication, or listening to a corner is no problem.

Of course she also heard about the things about EXO, and she also took the initiative to send a message to Chi Jingyuan to ask about it, but the other party responded intermittently, either after a long time before replying, or simply pretending that she hadn't read it. I think, especially a text message sent the day before yesterday has remained silent until today, as if completely ignoring her.

But she also knows that Chi Jingyuan has been very busy recently. The last time I heard him say that besides the heavy workload of filming TV dramas, he has to return to the company to work overtime every day. It seems that he is preparing for his return. understandable.

And she was already used to it, but even so, Zhou Ziyu was a little dissatisfied with the other party's behavior of always ignoring her text messages.

It's just that they couldn't meet each other, Zhou Ziyu expressed his dissatisfaction by holding it in his heart and vomiting himself.

"With EXO in this way, we don't know who will be the next boy group to reach the top. XO has no hope for such a thing."

Discussions about Chi Jingyuan and the others kept coming from my ears, and they were all pessimistic:

"Even so, the size of their fans is still not the same as that of boy groups, especially the number and fanaticism of Aili and Yuan Wei fans. It's not unknown to you, they are all well-known in the circle."

"The impact of one retreat is already big enough, no amount of fans can withstand the continuous withdrawal from the group."

"I also think that EXO has nothing to do. If there is no group that reached the summit, some members left the group before reaching the summit. I think EXO will stabilize a little bit when they come back next time, and then it will be almost enough to remain a first-line boy group. It is impossible to go further. ...It's a pity, how good the momentum was before."

"This is not very good. Once EXO is down, the seniors of our company GOT7 can catch up and hopefully become TOP."

Immediately after the last sentence came out, the scene was strangely quiet for a while. The trainees participating in the discussion looked at the girl who said this sentence, and looked at each other with weird eyes.

Just when Zhou Ziyu also felt a little funny, there was a sudden shock in her pocket, she quickly took it out to look at it, and found that it was from Chi Jingyuan:

"Have you been affected in any way by JYP?"