Peninsula Asteroid

"I see……"

Chi Jingyuan glanced at Park Chanyeol and Byun Baekhyun who were assigned to the same team, and they all nodded in agreement.

"The highlight of this MMA stage is the main medley. Looking back on our achievements in the past few years in four songs, I believe it will definitely bring enough surprises to fans and audiences..."

After talking about MMA in detail, An Chengyuan took a sip of water and continued: "Then there will be MAMA on December 2. This time we will be the last performer as a major axis. With the addition of VCR, the organizer gave us a total of sixteen minutes of performance time. , the longest performance among all the artists that day..."

"Excluding VCR, transitions and personal performance time, we will perform three songs in total, namely "TransFormer", "Blood Sweat and Tears", and "FIRE"..."

"ah?"

Hearing what he said, the EXO members all screamed in surprise.

"Blood, Sweat, and Tears" is the title song of this year's reissued album, so it's natural to perform it on such an important occasion as MAMA, but "FIRE" is just the first song, not to mention "TransFormer", which is only their regular third song this year. This included song does not even have a MV or choreography. It is far less well-known than the several title songs. It is estimated that only their fans have heard of it. Choosing these two songs as performance songs feels a little weaker.

Although Chi Jingyuan really likes the song "TransFormer", he thinks the bridge before the chorus is very nice.

At the same time, he glanced at Wu Sehun next to him strangely... This song is the song with the most personal parts in EXO's history.

"Non-feature song + prelude song..." Jin Jun paused for a moment and hesitated.

"Don't worry, the company attaches great importance to this MAMA stage, and the song selection has been discussed for many times."

An Chengyuan noticed the expressions of several people, smiled and waved his hands and explained: "Several title songs are performed too many times during the end of the year, which will make the audience feel tired and repetitive, so we did this Choice, a more novel look and feel and more explosive stage effects will be more important in this kind of award ceremony.”

"The stage effects of these three songs have been carefully planned. The choreographers cooperated with the company specially made new choreography for "TransFormer". As for "Fire", which is the highlight, the company also specially invited a professional performance team , will directly bring the torch performance to the stage as a backup dancer..."

After the manager’s explanation, everyone was relieved and no longer had any doubts. Chi Jingyuan even became interested in what he called the ‘torch performance’.

"Fire" is really a good match for a torch performance. In addition, this song is already a very popular song. If the stage effect is well designed, it is really suitable to be placed on MAMA.

"...Our results this year are very good. All data and market response have exceeded the company's expectations. We will definitely be the biggest protagonist in the awards ceremony at the end of the year."

The agent waved his fist excitedly:

"Whether it's MMA or MAMA, there's no suspense for the best album, and there's basically no rival for Artist of the Year. In addition, one of the title songs, "Miss You", has a very good sound source. Recently, the sound source has picked up due to the onset of winter. Therefore, the song of the year is also very competitive. This year, we, XO, are very likely to win all three awards in a record-breaking manner. This is an unprecedented achievement!”

When An Chengyuan said this, many members' eyes lit up and they became interested.

EXO has won countless grand awards over the years, and they no longer have the tears of joy, intense excitement and satisfaction they had when they won the first grand award in 2013.

But no one has ever done this to win all three major awards. Even at XO's peak last year, it was not achieved because of Big Bang's obstruction. But this year seems to have this opportunity. If you can really get it, it will be a big deal. The members are excited.

However, Chi Jingyuan did not interrupt. He observed the expressions of the members next to him, twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, and looked down at the floor.

"Okay, let's start rehearsing now!"

…………

The end of every year is the busiest day for idols, and this year is certainly no exception. After entering November, Chi Jingyuan felt that he was obviously busy.

The practice and preparation of the award ceremony stage, the filming of "Ghost", the production of the winter special "For Life", and various brand promotions and platform activities in between.

After returning from Neon, the EXO group and himself were either busy working or preparing for the next work.

Especially Chi Jingyuan himself, because he often has to travel between the company and the crew for filming, and occasionally participates in various brand activities, the whole person becomes extremely fulfilled for a while, even if he has developed a habit before, he has to work with the company almost every day The frequency of calls or videos made by my young girlfriend Nai Minami every day has become less frequent, and the time has been pushed to the latter part of the night.

Because not only Chi Jingyuan has a lot to do, but Mingjing Nan and Twice are also extremely busy. It is almost midnight when they return to the dormitory every day, and sometimes it is normal to stay up all night.

As the most popular girl group in the peninsula recently, Twice has so many schedules and so much work that even Chi Jingyuan feels like his scalp is numb.

Even EXO, which is in a similar situation to them now and is in a stage of rapid popularity growth, did not have as many schedules as Twice does now.

Looking at Mingjing Nan, who was obviously very haggard after removing her makeup during the video call at night, and Zhou Ziyu's tired tone on the phone occasionally, Ji Jingyuan could only say that JYP really has no one...

But this is indeed something that popular idols must go through, and Ji Jingyuan and EXO have also gone through this.

For the profession of idols, it is a good thing to have more schedules because of high popularity.

...I think so.

In the second week of November, BTOB released the title song "Prayer" of the ninth mini album, Tara released a new song "TIAMO", MAMAMOO, B.A.P all released songs to return, and the entire music industry was extremely lively for a while.

However, as more and more boy and girl groups announced their return and joined the competition for the year-end schedule, the situation in the music industry these days is not as complicated and competitive as many people imagined.

The situation is becoming more and more clear.

Because there is a song that really relies on its own popularity and achievements, from the source to the sales and then to the promotion, it has swept away all the songs of most other boy and girl groups.

Twice's "TT"

What monster newcomer Blackpink, what lyrical group BTOB, what Xinting Taeyeon, what Mamamu I.O.I CbxVIXXBAP.

None of them are good enough.

In addition to the top two in the source, with explosive sales, Twice has taken the first place in all the promotion programs in the first two weeks of November with an absolutely strong attitude, and the scores are very different. In places like "Music Bank" or "Inkigayo", it is almost 10,000 against 5,000 or 6,000.

The title of "Big Devil" used to describe I.O.I more than half a month ago has been completely transferred to "TT".

The whole peninsula seems to have fallen into the wave of Twice's vitality. Every day when walking on the streets, campuses or turning on the TV, you can hear all kinds of "I LIKE TT" and "Nao Mu Hei Nao Mu Hei".

Even many nightclubs and clubs, which have completely different styles, are no exception. Many people are showing their tattoos, shaking their heads, and drinking and having fun. Suddenly, they hear the nursery rhyme "Nao Mu Hei" coming from the speakers.

It is so popular every time it is played, which is incomprehensible.

Even though Twice is a group he is very close to, Chi Jingyuan still doesn't understand why their song is so popular after seeing their current hot momentum. From his appreciation of girl group songs, he actually thinks that "TT" is not a particularly good song, and is not much better than other songs of the same period. He feels that the quality of this song is somewhat unworthy of such explosive popularity and results.

Just like he doesn't understand why "GEE" was so popular at the beginning.

But they did it, whether it was Girls' Generation or Twice... While slapping him in the face, it seems to confirm the saying that "big fire depends on luck".

It is not just Chi Jingyuan who is confused. Although Twice has been very popular recently, the number of black fans is also increasing rapidly because they are so arrogant. Recently, there have been many negative comments about them on the Internet. Many black fans edited some of their stage clips and uploaded them to the Internet to attack them. It was quite a big deal.

The focus of the attack was on "radio gymnastics", "poor ability", "live is not good", "no microphone" and so on... Oh, and "Lin Nayeon is ugly".

The last one was obviously made by Aili, and the previous ones can't be said to be very negative, because some of them are indeed objective.

However, except for "radio gymnastics", the other black spots are actually very common in idol groups, and can be found in almost any boy and girl group.

Because idols always have bad days in their busy schedules, and many stage equipments are often lame, no one can escape if they want to find faults. The stage accident scenes of Chi Jingyuan and EXO from their debut to now can be edited out for hundreds of minutes, and now they are compiled into a collection and posted on YouTube, which is liked by a group of their haters every day.

I can only say that Twice has been too conspicuous recently, and some of their shortcomings have been magnified by many people who are jealous of their achievements when they come to Zhou Ziyu and others... However, some members of Twice are indeed a little bit worse.

There are so many people who hate them, which also proves that they are really popular... and the more they hate them, the more popular they are.

Fortunately, although "TT" is arrogant during this period, it is not too presumptuous, because in terms of sound source, there is another song that can compete with "TT" and even surpass it.

The subway song "really really" by Chi Jingyuan and four other people.

Although "really really" has no physical album, after the explosion of the first two days of the release, the staying power of the music source is surprisingly strong. In the absence of any publicity and promotion, it has firmly occupied the top two places in the music source chart, and has been fighting for the top spot with "TT". Although it is squeezed out occasionally, it still maintains the advantage most of the time.

You should know that Twice is running around every day to promote the schedule and run to the point of vomiting. In contrast, this song is even more powerful and rare.

It's just a dance song, but there hasn't been a live stage since it was released. People who like this song can't even find a place to play on the stage. As the popularity gets higher and higher, many people are very dissatisfied. In particular, fans of Yoo Jung Yeon and Kang Seul Gi, whose popularity has surged recently, have been leaving messages online every day asking to see the stage.

Yu Dingyan was asked this question during the live broadcast two days ago, but she couldn't decide, so she could only deal with it. Afterwards, she privately sent a text message to ask Chi Jingyuan...

The appeals became more and more intense, and soon a week passed, and just when the top management of SM was cursed by the whole family again, SBS "Inkigayo" finally announced that Ji Kyung Won, Oh Sehun, Yu Jeong Yeon and Kang Seul Gi will be participating on this week's 13th. A special appearance of "really really" will be held in the "Inkigayo" issue.

…

"Seulgi said she's already here and waiting in the lounge...Where's Jeongyeon?"

"She's the MC, and she's also rehearsing for Twice. She must be busy right now. She'll be here soon."

"CBX is also playing music today. Will you go to Baekhyun's place later?"

"Okay."

Chi Kyung-won and Oh Se-hun arrived at SBS early in the morning on the 13th in a nanny car. They arrived at the backstage of "Inkigayo" with ease and walked towards the lounge while chatting.

Because it was not an official singing event, it was just a special performance stage, so the two of them came relatively late. When they arrived backstage, they saw many busy staff, as well as some idols who participated in the performance today and their managers walking past quickly. .

"By the way, Twice is here today. By the way, do you want to find a chance to secretly meet Mina xi or something? Aren't you very busy lately..."

Wu Shixun didn't know what he was thinking of. He whispered with a playful expression to give Chi Jingyuan advice: "As for SBS, there is a blind spot next to the vending machine room on the third floor. You can't see it if you stand farther away. It's love." It’s a famous dating destination, do you want to go and see it?”

"You all know this...forget it, how embarrassing it would be if I accidentally bumped into Brother Baekhyun there."

"Ha ha……"

Wu Shixun couldn't help but spit out Chi Jingyuan's mean innuendo.

The temperature has been very low recently. He was wearing a dark slim down jacket and striding in the backstage passage with a shoulder bag on his back: "I have been in touch recently, there is no need to be so anxious..."

"Those who are favored are confident." Wu Shixun clicked his tongue and gave him a somewhat contemptuous look: "I just don't know if Mina xi thinks the same way."

"Well..." Hearing this, Chi Jingyuan slowed down and felt that he had indeed not considered Mingjing Nan's thoughts. He glanced at him with a strange look and nodded in agreement: "...Let's find an opportunity later. , it’s not like we can’t see each other backstage, and besides, we can’t see each other on the stage when the first place is announced at the end.

"Yeah, you don't want to show off your affection on the stage, do you? Be careful, our fans have sharp eyes."

"Of course I know……"

"Senior Aniha Saiyo..."

As soon as Chi Jingyuan finished speaking, he was interrupted by a voice coming from the front.

When he looked up, he saw seven girls in private clothes standing a few meters away, bending at 90 degrees towards the two of them, giving a very standard salute, and then said hello loudly: "We have just debuted. Girl group MOMOLAND…”

A row of young newcomers stood in front of them. Chi Jingyuan glanced at them. Except for one with a mixed-race face, the first impression of the others was relatively ordinary.

However, the eyes of these new female idols were secretly looking at him and Wu Shixun with something strange at this time. Obviously, as newcomers who had just debuted, it was very surprising to meet TOP-level seniors like EXO in an activity. Something that surprises and reminisces.

"Um, hello."

Facing the enthusiasm of the new girl group, he and Wu Shixun acted relatively calmly. They nodded and responded without stopping, and walked directly over.

Chi Jingyuan could feel the light-like gaze following him, but he did not stop.

He has seen too many new girl groups from small companies like this. He almost always encounters them every time he comes to the TV station. None of them are particularly stunning. If they leave a deep impression on him, he rarely pays attention to such new girl groups.

"……what do you think?"

After walking a little further, Wu Shixun asked in a low voice.

Chi Jingyuan understood instantly, recalled it for a moment, and shrugged: "It feels normal."

He didn't need to ask much to know that Wu Shixun was talking about the new girl group he met just now.

"I think the mixed-race one looks quite distinctive... but his figure seems to be a little fatter, not ordinary fat."

"You observe so clearly? You just took a photo of me for a few seconds and even noticed your figure?"

"What are you pretending to be?"

As the two people were talking, a sporadic sound of footsteps came from the corner in front. A second later, several figures walked out quickly from the side, and stopped in their tracks when they saw the two people.

Chi Jingyuan has seen the performance list before. Today's episode of "Inkigayo" is really lively. Almost all the popular idols who have recently returned are here today. In addition to Twice, there are also several people he is very familiar with. They all starred, such as CBX and SJ’s Jo Kyuhyun, and BTOB’s Yook Sungjae.

At the same time, there are also some who are not so familiar...

Like Blackpink who appeared in front of them at this moment.