Peninsula Asteroid

"Why is it so popular?"

Li Xiuman looked at several twice hot search terms with burning signs on the computer screen in front of him, as well as the reports made by some marketing department employees in front of him. He frowned with a surprised expression. His small eyes under the rimless glasses were somewhat disobedient. His calmness and wisdom made him feel a little bad.

Twice suddenly became popular, and "cheer up" seemed to be a big hit this week. He had thought about and analyzed it several times, but he always felt that his rich experience and judgment in the past had lost their effect.

He is very clear about the past and present of the song "cheer up" and how he came to JYP to be the lead singer of Twice. He still remembers what he did in front of Ji Jingyuan after listening to this song. I remember the comments and words spoken very clearly.

"Jingyuan, you thought so too at first, about this song?"

As he said that, he looked at Chi Jingyuan, who was holding a cup of coffee and sipping it, his eyes flashing as if he was seeking approval.

"Um……"

Chi Jingyuan pondered for two seconds before saying very honestly: "Actually, I didn't have much experience with girl group songs before, nor did I do any analysis of the market and style. That would make me just think that this song It's relatively average, but it's not to the point of being a useless song... It's just that Teacher Li Xiuman and several musicians in the company said that later..."

This is to be honest. After he wrote this song, his evaluation was just average, with no highlights, but it should still be usable, so later he approached Lee Soo Man and wanted to ask him if this song was suitable for the company's girl group. , and then I was greatly affected after hearing the other party’s comments.

As he said that, he glanced at Director Nim, who was smiling but with a slightly dark face. He coughed lightly and interrupted the topic. Instead of continuing to dwell on the matter, he tried to explain to the other party:

"But Teacher Lee Soo Man is right. I also feel that the company's girl group is not suitable for the style of this song... And when Jinying hyung asked me to sing, I casually handed it over to him... Then he suddenly It was said that this song would be the main feature, but I was actually quite surprised.”

"Well……"

Li Xiuman picked up the tea cup and took a sip. After swallowing the tea, Li Xiuman took a deep breath and exhaled a long breath, as if to get rid of all the doubts and embarrassment in his heart. Then he put the cup down with a bang, and then turned it up in front of him. Several people who had just received the recent market report couldn't help but shook their heads: "Looking at the data and market reaction in the past few days, JYP is a girl group that has become popular. It is unusually popular. It is rare to see people's interest in a girl group." I’m so interested, the song “cheer up” is really…”

"Songs do have certain reasons, but I think more of them have to do with people."

"Human? You mean the members of Twice?" Li Xiuman closed his eyes and looked over.

"Well, the popularity of the song "Cheer Up" is indeed a bit unexpected. Not to mention us, JYP actually didn't expect it at all. When Jinyoung called me to thank me the day before yesterday, he looked obviously unhappy. Very surprised..."

Chi Jingyuan picked up the oil-based pen placed next to him and tried to spin it, but he couldn't control it and it flew away and hit the right side of the table with a bang. He ignored Li Xiuman's glance, which was very natural. He shrugged and continued, "I think it has a lot to do with the members of the group. Many members of Twice are very suitable for the style of this song. They have digested the cute energy style of transformation very well. The quality of the members themselves is very high, so, It can be said that people and songs achieve each other... If it were sung by a different girl group, if a few people or choreographers were changed, there probably wouldn't be such an explosive effect."

"And they have accumulated a lot of popularity before... It can be seen through pre-sales... Coupled with the accidental appearance of 'shyshyshy' and the crazy schedule every day, it is understandable that they have become popular."

"Um……"

After listening carefully, Li Xiuman thought for a few seconds and then slowly nodded in agreement: "Yes, I have studied the girl group Twice, and it is indeed the essence of JYP's trainees in recent years. Jingyuan, you are right, some songs He and the singer achieve each other's success, just like "Roar", it feels different if it's someone else singing it.

"Um……"

Chi Jingyuan first nodded his head, then suddenly blinked, narrowed his eyes and smiled shyly: "But teacher, I think "Roar" and "Cheer Up" are different, "Roar"... ...Whoever sings it will be popular."

Even now, Chi Jingyuan does not think "Cheer Up" is an outstanding song. Instead, he attributes the success of the song to Twice himself.

But "Roar" is one of the most satisfying boy band songs that Chi Jingyuan has ever produced, with its impactful concept of campus + school uniforms, stylish choreography and formation, and groundbreaking one-shot MV and stage , everything takes the two points of handsomeness and youth to the extreme. Although the song itself is very brainwashing, it also brings all fans an unprecedented visual experience. Looking back now, it is still timeless, even if this song If the song was released today and it was performed by a boy band, he thinks it would still be a hit.

It's just that EXO maximized the charm of this song because of its own configuration and appearance.

"hehe……"

Hearing Chi Jingyuan's somewhat conceited tone, Li Xiuman smiled and shook his head, without refuting his point of view. He pouted and flipped through the documents in front of him, his face became a little more serious: "The recent market is really It's very hot... Fortunately, you guys are coming back soon. The decision to change the plan and add a prelude song was really the right one, otherwise..."

Li Xiuman didn't finish speaking, but Chi Jingyuan certainly understood what he meant.

Chi Jingyuan frowned slightly and seemed a little worried: "Ah Ni, "Cheer Up" is so popular now, we really may not be able to beat them..."

Before Chi Jingyuan finished speaking, he looked up and found Li Xiuman looking at him with a smile. The look in his shining smile made him a little unable to continue acting. The two looked at each other and laughed together. .

"The comeback announcement will be made the day after tomorrow. Please make sure you say goodbye when you go back..." Li Xiuman waved his hand in a way that meant he was scolding Fang Qiu. He and even SM now have absolute confidence in EXO.

Then he remembered something again and asked: "By the way, Jingyuan, have you thought about the song in the 'Subway' project? According to the evidence, you have to prepare one month in advance at the latest. Do you want to Do you want to go solo or find someone to collaborate with?"

"Not yet..." Chi Jingyuan raised his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head: "There are no suitable songs in the music library. As for... I should find someone to collaborate with."

"If you don't have a clue, the company has a lot of songs in stock. You can listen to them when you have time. You can also collect songs from musicians. If you have a composer you like and appreciate, remember to mention it. Many composers want to Working with you..." Lee Soo Man folded the documents in front of him, picked them up, and put them in order on the desktop. At the same time, he said, "The same goes for your solo debut songs. Now you have to start preparing in advance. ”

"So early? Isn't it planned for the end of the year?" Chi Jingyuan blinked. It was only May, and he felt it was a little early.

"Get ready early." Li Xiuman looked over and smiled, her little eyes narrowed and she looked very kind: "You are the first solo member of XO, so of course you have a good start."

"Well, I understand."

…

On May 1st, SM Entertainment officially announced that its group EXO will make its official comeback with the release of its third regular album in June this year.

At the same time, before the official comeback, the prelude song "fire" will be released on May 12. The pre-order time for the regular album is to be determined.

In addition to the official comeback trailer, SM also released the first nine-member teaser photo of "Fire". The background of the photo is deserted and dark. In the light composition, the nine EXO members wearing different costumes stand in a row on the right side, and on the left side The blazing fire on the opposite side is facing each other, and the light of the flames is reflected in everyone's eyes. The flames on both sides of the photo and the members form an inexplicable sense of contrast. The new 'EXO' logo made of flames at the bottom of the middle gives the entire photo The photo is tinged with a mysterious and fiery atmosphere.

Although a lot of news has been leaked before, including Chi Jingyuan's own Instagram post of "recording", SM's official announcement immediately became the headline of today's entertainment section, with several flaming # EXO’s entry reached the top in a very short period of time, directly suppressing the likes of Rabbit Gas. The number of fans, attention, and nationality are fully demonstrated.

"Ahhhhhh, the oppas are finally coming back!"

"This is the best news I heard today! I have been waiting for more than half a year. Although it is just a preview song, I feel that the quality and grade of this trailer clearly separates it from other groups."

"This teaser photo is really cool and has a lot of sense. Yuan and Chanyeol really beat me to it."

"Is the prelude song still written by Yuan Oppa? Is the concept this time flame? Ahhhh, I really can't wait. This teaser photo and concept are so attractive to me. Can you put some more material out there!"

"Hurry up and come back. I really don't want to see the ugly girl Lin Nayeon and the group Twice become so arrogant. Their fans have been really excited recently. I really want those people to see what it means to be a real TOP!"

"Oppa is coming back! Shyshyshy~"

Just announcing the time for their comeback and releasing a teaser photo of the prelude song caused a huge response. The skyrocketing popularity also made many people feel the current popularity of EXO vividly again.

Some of the idol groups who had originally planned to release songs at the same time as EXO immediately turned pale. Looking at the heated discussion on the Internet, they felt a lump of air in their chests and didn't know what to say.

…

Amidst all the confusion, as time enters May, Twice, who has returned for the second week, has become a trend, with fans and popularity increasing rapidly. Many program groups have sent them program invitations, and nine The members also worked hard and ran the schedule like crazy.

"Cheer Up" is performing better and better on the music charts. At the same time, especially the part "shyshyshy" is becoming more and more popular. After Chi Jingyuan, there have been several popular artists and fans. Dou imitated this sentence in public places on the show and even on his own SNS, such as Park Shin Hye, Park Chanyeol, Kim So Hyun, etc., and even BigBang's G-Dragon uploaded a photo of shoes on his Instagram, Caption: "Put on new shoes, shyshyshy~"

G-Dragon is different from Chi Kyung-won. He has nothing to do with Twice. He just posted it because he liked the meme and found it interesting. It also proves that this "shyshyshy" sentence that seems to have no highlights is interpreted by Minazaki Saka. It really has a unique charm.

And on May 3rd, a hot search suddenly rushed to the forefront of the entertainment sections of many websites, instantly attracting the attention of most passers-by, and for the second time in a short period of time, it snatched away a lot of information about twice and attention of other combinations.

The protagonist of this hot search is from another popular A-list girl group, AOA.

In order to warm up for AOA's upcoming comeback in May, management company FNC and On Style collaborated to produce a group variety show for AOA, similar to last year's Girls' Generation's "Channel Girls' Generation", called "Channel AOA"

This variety show officially started broadcasting on April 12, with one episode a week. Although it is not very popular, in addition to being talked about by fans, it has also attracted a lot of passers-by to watch. It has attracted a wave of fans. There have been no problems before. , but when the fourth episode was broadcast today on the 3rd, a huge mess suddenly occurred.

In this episode of the group review, when captains Shin Ji-min and Kim Seol-hyun participated in a mini-game of guessing historical figures by looking at photos, neither of them could recognize the peninsula’s patriotic martyr Ahn Jung-geun, so forget it if they didn’t. , Shin Jimin also identified this martyr character as a member of a well-known violent gang, and also said his name in Japanese. At the same time, both of them used expressions and demeanor to create a show effect, and their words and attitudes seemed to be... Somewhat frivolous.

Ahn Jung-geun is a very famous martyr on the peninsula. He had been engaged in anti-invasion activities at that time, and finally risked his life to assassinate Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi. He is widely known as a national hero of anti-invasion in both the northern and southern peninsulas.

And after this episode of the group show was aired, it didn’t take long for interested people to see that something was wrong and started talking about it on the Internet.

Of course, it is said to be a discussion, but in fact most of them are passers-by scolding or expressing dissatisfaction, thinking that the two members of AOA are insulting and disrespectful to the national martyrs, while some fans are in favor, and some are against, and it is impossible to get into a mess. Make a deal.

Many of these incidents began to spread rapidly, became more and more intense, and became hot searches, causing great repercussions.

Chi Jingyuan naturally knew about this. Even "Cheer Up" had been robbed of the limelight. It was so noisy that he didn't even know about it.

"AOA is really unlucky...Hey, do you know An Junggen?"

Sitting in the cafe on the first floor of SM company, several EXO members were drinking drinks and discussing this hottest topic. As they were talking, Wu Sehun next to him suddenly turned his head and looked at Chi Jingyuan, a little unkindly. asked kindly.

He knew that Chi Jingyuan had never lived on the peninsula before, and naturally he didn't know much about some historical figures on the peninsula.

Hearing this, Chi Jingyuan put down his phone and turned to look at the provocative high school student with disdain. He then calmly said, "Nonsense, of course I know him... I am a student at Yonsei University. These things All learned.”

After saying that, he took a sip of the drink, looked like he was remembering something, and then turned around and looked over: "Hey, by the way, do you know him?"

"I must know him too."

Wu Shixun nodded as he should, and then seemed to want to explain more in order to increase his persuasion: "My grades are not bad, okay, I..."

"You have a perfect score in math?" Chi Jingyuan interrupted him directly: "But a perfect score in the math test does not mean that you are good at history."

"Axi, I told you not to mention this perfect score thing again. I didn't get a perfect score in the exam. That's what the fans said." Just like Byun Baekhyun's '35' age, Wu Sehun's 'perfect score in math' is still there After being told as a joke by Chi Jingyuan, it has become a frequent target of ridicule among EXO members in the past few years. Every time he tells it, he gets a little defensive.

Fans blow a lot of their idols’ rainbow farts, but Chi Jingyuan and the others can actually see them on the Internet. Some of the things that are already there are blown out so that the idols will feel very happy after seeing them, like praising them for being handsome. some type of.

But there are some things that he doesn't have at all, or that are far behind, and fans keep bragging about them. In fact, even the real owner will feel a little ashamed after seeing it, such as Wu Shixun's results.

In fact, Chi Jingyuan's results are also the same...

"I specifically watched this controversial segment, but I actually felt that there was nothing wrong with it. Jimin and Seolhyun behaved like they were doing the show normally. They just simply didn't recognize Ahn Jung-geun's photos."

Park Chanyeol, who is very familiar with AOA, stood up and tied them up to explain: "Ahn Jung-geun is so famous, they will know his name immediately, but there are not many people who can be directly recognized just by looking at the photos, and the photos It’s still so small and the pixels are not high, ugh…”

He sighed, and finally curled his lips and shook his head: "And I don't know what the program team's mentality was in releasing this clip. Why didn't such a controversial clip be edited out?"

"Too……"

Chi Jingyuan nodded in agreement, mentally agreeing with him.

When such a controversial scene appears in a non-live program, he feels that in addition to the idols themselves who need to blame, the program team responsible for filming, editing and review should have a relatively greater responsibility.

This was the case with the Lin Nayeon incident. It was not an important scene. If we didn't show it, there would be nothing wrong with it. However, the program team insisted on broadcasting the scene, and even gave it a close-up.

Coupled with the AOA this time, these program groups are really stupid and bad.

"Oh, Jimin and the others must be feeling a little uncomfortable after getting involved in this kind of thing."

Sighing, Jin Junmian made a conclusion.

No matter whose fault it is, idols will definitely be greatly affected if they get involved in this kind of thing, and this impact will most likely be negative.

"..."

"Okay, I'm leaving first."

After discussing for a while, Chi Jingyuan checked the time, bit the straw and took a deep sip, finished the last drink, stood up, carried his bag and was about to leave.

"So early?" Jin Junmian next to him looked over.

The return of the prelude is approaching, and everything that should be done is done. There is nothing to do today and it will be relatively free in the afternoon, otherwise they would not be here leisurely discussing others. It's just that he originally thought of calling Chi Jingyuan to have dinner with him later, but he didn't expect him to leave so early.

"Well, I'll have something to do later."

Chi Jingyuan turned around with a smile and waved his hand, explained briefly and then opened the door and left.

He had a date with his father in the evening.