Peninsula Asteroid

"Are you free these two days? Do you want to have dinner together?"

At noon the next day, Chi Jingyuan found a time and took the initiative to call Pei Zhuxuan on his mobile phone.

"Ah, you..." The voice of the young lady who avoided the members and came out to answer the phone was obviously a little surprised, obviously feeling a little sudden about Chi Jingyuan's invitation.

Moreover, Chi Jingyuan was not used to Chi Jingyuan's active behavior, but a sense of anticipation suddenly surged in his heart.

"You have given me so many presents, and I don't have time to buy anything in return recently, so I can only treat you to dinner first to express my gratitude..."

With a smile, Chi Jingyuan spoke naturally in a normal-sounding tone, but Pei Zhuxuan understood what the other party meant, his body felt warm suddenly, and his face couldn't help but spread out. smiling face.

This was a wonderful feeling of feedback and response to her own thoughts and enthusiasm, which made her eyelashes tremble slightly, and the corners of her eyes and mouth curved into a beautiful arc.

After the phone summary, Chi Jingyuan's voice suddenly became a bit strange and complained: "Actually, when we met yesterday, I was not too embarrassed to say that the patterns on the several souvenirs you gave me were a bit strange. These Nordic-style things are In this way, sometimes when the lighting is not so good at night, it suddenly looks really scary..."

"After I went back yesterday, I searched for a long time. In the end, I still think that the astronomical clock and the button card are the most interesting. I put the card in the bag as an decoration... By the way, you don't know. I was looking at those gifts in the dormitory yesterday. At that time, Wu Shixun still wanted two of them to go back to play, but I directly scolded them back."

"Pfft..." Pei Zhuxuan, who was already in a great mood, couldn't help but burst out laughing when she heard this, as sweet as an oriole, and then said in a reproachful tone amidst her smile: "Why are you scolding the members? I bought a lot this time, and I will send you some remedies when the time comes..."

"It's not reluctance, it's just that I don't want to give it to him." Chi Jingyuan snorted softly, his tone sounded a little childish.

"You, haha..." Yingying laughed twice at first, but then Pei Zhuxuan's tone became a little lower: "Of course it's okay to eat...but our schedule is a bit full these days, maybe... "

After the return of "dumb dumb", red velvet can already be regarded as a first-line girl group. It is one of the best among the new generation girl groups that have debuted in the past two years. Even if they are not in the comeback period at the end of the year, they are still very busy. It is already very late.

But before she could finish her regretful voice, she was interrupted by the opposite party. Chi Jingyuan said casually on the phone: "Then it will be a few days."

"..."

Hearing the other party's tone, Pei Zhuxuan immediately understood, and responded with a gentle but powerful voice: "Okay!"

She paused for a second, and then her tone rose, her voice became clear with her excellent mood, and her tone sounded a little delicate: "You still said that the things I bought looked scary, but in fact I The ones I bought are all very cute. I have been choosing them for a long time. Let me tell you, the ones that Sheng Wan bought are really strange. She put a very abstract doll next to her bed yesterday. I was shocked when I saw it, and my head hit the railing..."

"Then... did you scold her harshly?" Chi Jingyuan stood at the high-rise of the TV station near the window, looking at the sun that was blooming in the sky outside, but it was not dazzling but rather warm, and asked with a smile .

"Well, I said a few words to her... Hahaha."

...

The end of each year is the busiest time for idols other than the comeback period. If they don’t participate in the same event, even artists from the same company can hardly meet each other.

red velvet has a very full schedule, of course EXO will only be busier than them, plus their comeback is approaching, in order to prepare for the stage and showcase, Chi Jingyuan and the others often have to go back to the company to practice overtime after running the schedule these two days, practicing until late Only when I can go back, I don’t have much time to make phone calls, I can only send and send text messages occasionally with a few close friends.

Even so, judging from the news that Chi Jingyuan got from Mingjing Nan and Zhou Ziyu, Twice's schedule seems to be a little busier than their EXO's. During the day, various schedules and activities can't stop at all. Many campuses Raid and other small cases that XO doesn’t even look at at all, JYP is full of picks for Twice, one school runs after another school, and at night they often doze off in the early hours of the morning and have to record programs, It was morning after recording.

From this point of view, the meaning of the group name Twice is not so much "Twice the eyes and ears once", but rather "Double work during the day and one night at night, double the hard work." '

But the income is indeed doubled, and the rookie period is the time when the popularity grows the fastest, and it is also a time of hard work. It is impossible to wait until the debut of seven or eight years before working hard like a group... Many small company groups want Busy, the company doesn't have the resources to pick up activities for them.

On December 9th, the first episode of "Weekly Idol" recorded by Chi Jingyuan was also officially broadcast.

Two days before the broadcast of this episode, the program team of "Zhou Ou" announced that Yuan will replace Zheng Hengdon as the MC of "Zhou Ou" temporarily, which immediately attracted a lot of attention.

When Jung Hyung-don announced his break at the time, it actually had a great impact on "Zhou Ou". He has always been the core of this show, and the other MC Defconn is actually a helper, and now the core is gone. Many People immediately expressed their negative opinion of "Zhou Ou".

However, the announcement of this replacement MC immediately aroused the audience's strong interest. The main audience of this show itself are some fans in the Kpop circle, who just come to watch idols, and Chi Jingyuan, as the current TOP boy group TOP idols are well-known in this audience group. Except for Heizi, most passers-by actually have a good impression of him.

As soon as the news came out, the reviews of the program were reversed quite a bit. Those speeches that were viewed as bad were all squeezed out, and the rest were all expectations for Chi Jingyuan's replacement MC.

However, it is also indicated that it is only the third period of replacement, Chi Jingyuan will get off after the third period, and there will be a new fixed MC for "Zhou Ou".

But that's for later. Now the audience wants to see what Chi Jingyuan is like as a host.

On the 9th, "Weekly Idol" was broadcast on time. Many viewers who had been looking forward to it for several days, as well as a large number of XO fans stuck to the broadcast, watching from beginning to end.

In terms of the naturalness and effect of being funny, Chi Jingyuan is certainly not as good as Zheng Hengdun. After all, he is a professional and has been doing it for so long, but he also has his own characteristics as an MC.

The first thing that bears the brunt is good-looking, which is pleasing to the eye when you go there. Appearing in front of the camera can make the eyes of many female fans shine, and even focus on the person instead of watching the show. This effect is far from that of Zheng Hengdun. Brother can compare.

Afterwards, the huge popularity he carries will give him something to watch. Many people like to watch some interactions between male and female idols, and this kind of top male idols naturally like it even more.

In this way, even though the hosting style is a bit young, it seems that it unexpectedly has a contrasting sense of humor.

In the first episode, twice was the guest. Compared with EXO and Chi Jingyuan, the popularity of the new girl group twice is much lower. After seeing them, many people posted online "Who the hell is this?".

After watching the whole process, there are actually not many jokes. The main focus is still on Chi Jingyuan. sparked extensive discussion.

"Yuan is really interesting, his style is actually quite suitable for hosting "Zhou Ou"."

"Indeed, the interaction between popular male idols and girl groups is really good. It's just that Twice's popularity is a little bit weaker. I don't know each other at all, so I feel a lot less. Can Girls' Generation or red velvet have an issue? I really want to look!"

"No matter what to watch or not, I just want to watch Yuan standing there, and the others don't matter at all."

"This girl group called Twice looks so earthy. Is it JYP's new girl group? The make-up is ugly, and the looks are average. After watching the whole process, the member named Nayeon is very cute and very recognizable. "

"This girl group is actually okay, "sixteen" is quite popular, and their debut performance is also good. The members Nayeon, Sana, and Tzuyu are all pretty good-looking, and Mina is actually pretty good. "Sixteen" was very good. But this time her makeup is too weird, so she looks a bit ordinary..."

The audience ratings of this episode had a very obvious increase. The ratings of the previous episode with the boy group VIXX as guests was 0.7%, but this episode directly rushed to 2.6%. The gap was several times greater. It shows the general trend and popularity of this substitute MC, and "Zhou Ou" has always been characterized by low ratings, but high popularity and discussions. This time the ratings have doubled, and other statistics have naturally increased.

This kind of reaction greatly alleviated the impact of Zheng Hengdun's rest, and also made the program group deeply relieved while excited.

But what came soon was regret and reluctance. After all, Chi Jingyuan would only record three episodes, and after the third episode, the show would probably be revealed.

When the program was broadcasting, Chi Jingyuan came to MBC again and recorded the next episode of Zhou Ou.

It was past ten o'clock when he finished his work and returned to the dormitory, and at exactly eleven o'clock in the evening, SM also officially released all the sound sources and title song MV of EXO's winter special "sing for you".

At the same time, countless long-awaited Ai Li, as well as passers-by who came here admiringly, as well as many practitioners in the circle and even other idols, all opened the YouTube on time, and skillfully clicked into the just-uploaded "sing for you" "page.

The snowflakes all over the sky are extraordinarily dazzling in the pitch-black night, covered up by white mist, dyeing the world with a layer of sadness and desolation.

The astronaut who has lost contact is floating helplessly and dazedly in the universe. At this moment, he is the loneliest person in the whole world.

The guitar sound of the prelude is mellow, low, and sad, and just a few chords pull everyone into a lonely world.

"Pick up my old guitar, the confession I didn't say..."

"And the words that choked in the throat but remained unspoken."

"Pretend to write a song, and now I'm going to tell you."

In the next second, the singing voice emerged, and Chi Jingyuan's opening introduction seemed calm and unremarkable, with a flat tone, a flat accompaniment, and a calm emotion, but many people could feel a deep and deep feeling surrounding them when they heard it. loneliness.

Immediately afterwards, other singers played one after another, and the members in the MV gathered together with laughter and laughter, whether they were driving, having dinner, or playing, everyone seemed to be laughing happily.

It's just that the color of the background is extremely deserted, and there is always endless heavy snow floating outside the window.

The entire black and white MV screen looks very textured and compelling, but this pantomime-like scene in the midst of the eloquent singing makes people feel even more lonely and lonely.

"Now to speak, just listen."

"I will sing for you, sing for you."

"Just listen to it and laugh about it."

The melody of the chorus part is more subtle and revolving than before. In the simple and low-pitched piano and guitar interweaving accompaniment, the human voice is set off more clearly. Several lead singers rang out one after another. When there are some obvious emotional fluctuations, the chords that follow are just right.

It's just that with the MV on the black border, many people feel that it doesn't sound like a song, but rather like a boy talking or praying to the empty sky and snow.

One of the themes of this song is loneliness.

There is a very impressive picture in the MV. In the deep space universe, an astronaut and a whale look at each other peacefully.

And these are the two core concepts of this MV, one is a whale, it is called Alice, because its communication frequency is 52 Hz, while the frequency of normal whales is only 12 Hz, so no one of the same kind communicates with her, it is called 'The loneliest whale in the world'.

The other represents the astronaut Michael Collins. When he orbited the moon and floated to the back of the moon, all communication equipment was cut off, and he was disconnected from the entire earth for 48 minutes. During these 48 days, he became the world's the loneliest man.

These two not very well-known animals and people jointly form the core elements of this shocking picture. Although many fans actually don't understand it very well when they see this picture, they can still feel it. A sense of loneliness and sadness that blows over my face.

The black and white images are profound and fascinating. In the second half of the MV, the scene where the members are alone is in stark contrast to the previous scene of laughing and laughing together. EXO’s winter special this time, this song "sing for you" is really impressive. Eye-opening, it doesn't use the popular style like other idols, and it doesn't express your heart like ordinary ballads. Instead, it uses the theme of 'loneliness and loneliness' to express a lot of feelings. Different people through the MV and this song Songs can have different feelings.

It can only be said that the planning team is really good, and EXO is indeed not an ordinary boy group.

Although the background, melody, picture and even the style seem a bit lonely and sad, many people can still feel a clear and precious warmth from the singing, adding to the somewhat cold picture and music. There was a burst of bright colors, which also made many listeners breathe a sigh of relief.

"ah……"

After listening to the song "sing for you" and watching the MV, some fans couldn't help but sigh with emotion while looking at the blacked out screen, and their thoughts raced for a while.

This kind of compulsion has obviously improved by more than one level compared to many other boy groups, and this style of songs does not always feel that it fits well with boy groups. .

It's really amazing, whether it's the core and picture quality of the MV, the theme conveyed by the song, or the melody and lyrics of the song.

Although some fans may not like this kind of sad style of songs, this style of songs is actually not very popular in the peninsula music industry.

But honestly, it sounds really good.

It can only be said that the winter special is special to EXO, it is not entirely for the pursuit of music sales and other achievements, but also seems to express some other, more things to fans and audiences, from some other aspects Showing XO's side that is different from ordinary boy groups, whether it is last year's "Let It Be Natural" or this year's "sing for you".

But of course SM company also understands very well, knowing that the song "sing for you" is a bit low-key and not in line with the mainstream, so this winter special has set up a double main track. After the two main songs "Eccentricity", the style immediately became completely different...

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The full-professional airborne, the double main package took the top two of the 8 music charts, and the sales of the two versions of the album in Chinese and Korean also occupied the top two of the G chart.

Even if the release is a winter special lyrical song, and the title song does not conform to the mainstream style, it is still not difficult to achieve this step with EXO's current fan size and popularity.

To be honest, if this sad song "Sing for You" is sung by another boy group, or even a girl group, Girls' Generation or Red Velvet, it is estimated that it will be rushed in an instant.

Although it sounds good, everyone at the end of the new year is happy. Who likes to listen to such a sad song, isn't it because you feel uncomfortable?

And the style of "sing for you" has naturally caused some controversy on the Internet. People who like it love it very much, but there are many people who can't get it. Many passers-by actually prefer cheerful songs, such as the double title "Eccentric" .

After the sound source was released on the night of the 9th, EXO also officially returned on the 10th of the next day with a winter special. After recording a few programs in the morning and accepting a few interviews for publicity, Chi Jingyuan came with the big group in the afternoon Arrived at Lotte World in Jamsil-dong, Seoul.

As the sky darkened and everything was ready, with the cheers of the audience and the loud shouts of the host, the comeback showcase of this winter special officially began.

"EXO!"