Peninsula Asteroid

"Well, it's a new song, I think it should be better in terms of popularity..."

"Okay, I'll send you the demo after I record it."

After hanging up, Chi Jingyuan made a phone call with the people from the company to talk about the matter, then he hung up the phone and stretched himself.

The communication went smoothly. Although the program team and SM were a little curious about the sudden change, they didn't do anything to hinder them. They almost agreed to it very readily. The Yinyin program team just wanted to listen to the demo, and SM's side Say no problem without even listening.

In this way, the decision to bid farewell to the stage was considered a matter in Chi Jingyuan's heart. He took a sip of water and looked down at the score of the song again.

This song "dream" was an idea that came to him suddenly after watching two couples in a row yesterday.

Although it was completed very quickly and did not take much time, the arrangement was actually relatively simple and could be played with just a guitar. But in terms of quality, in his opinion, it is definitely a male-female duet song above the standard.

And some of the lyrics, in fact, he wrote according to his real situation and thoughts.

like...

"It's so beautiful, today is the same as yesterday..."

Looking at some words in the music score, Chi Jingyuan curled his lips as he thought of something, and then waved away some other emotions. After checking the time, he picked up the score and went to the recording studio, preparing to record a simple demo.

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"Zhuxuan, the company has informed that your farewell stage in "Music Bank" has been changed. This is the score of the song, and the parts have been divided. Hurry up and practice..."

At night, the manager walked into Red Velet's practice room, called Pei Zhuxuan who had just finished practicing with the members, and handed her a stack of bound documents.

"Replaced? Wasn't it announced in the morning that it was "45.7CM"?"

Pei Zhuxuan reached out to take it, and didn't look at it in a hurry, but looked over with a puzzled expression and strange eyes.

Early this morning, after the program team over there communicated with the company, the agent informed her that the farewell stage was confirmed, and it was the song "45.7CM", and also coordinated the time for the joint practice.

And because the song "45.7CM" is not very popular, Pei Zhuxuan has never heard it before, so she went to find the sound source and listened to it several times...

However, she doesn't like this song very much.

The melody is actually not bad, and the duet between men and women is quite tasteful, but the man and woman in the song have a crush on each other, but they stick to their duties, and the lyrics are clear until the end. No matter how good the melody is, it sounds, I don’t know Why does it always make her feel a slight depression in her heart.

She doesn't like it.

But this should be the most suitable for a pair of screen CPs who are not real, exist in the dreams of fans and themselves, and are about to get off the car.

Seeing this song, I have always been a little dissatisfied with this MC cooperation before, but the crazy fans who have endured it because the opposition has no effect should be very happy.

She was a little self-deprecating in her heart, but she didn't raise any objections. She took time to practice singing a few times during the day, and she was already good at singing by the end of the day.

Unexpectedly, at night, the manager suddenly notified that the stage song was changed.

"Well, it was the company that notified me suddenly, and I have already communicated with the program team." The agent nodded and explained, and then he didn't know what he remembered, and specifically mentioned: "I heard that the people from the company Said that changing the stage song was a suggestion from Chi Jingyuan..."

"He mentioned it?"

Pei Zhuxuan blinked her eyes in surprise, and immediately stopped asking any more questions, but quickly lowered her head, and took advantage of the time to look at the score in her hand.

"dream"

The title of the song is kind of interesting.

After watching it for a while, she found that this was another song she had never heard before, and it was different from the "45.7CM" that she had heard, although she hadn't heard it before. From the title to the melody , to the lyrics, she has no impression at all.

Just as she was looking down, the manager next to her said: "This seems to be a new song, specially prepared for this stage... I don't understand it well, but just now I talked to Mr. Li He chatted a few words casually, saying that the quality of this song is very good, and he felt that it would be a waste to use it only for a special stage... I just don't know if there will be a sound source..."

After hearing the manager's words, Pei Zhuxuan's heart twitched, and her hands tightened at the same time. There was a sudden change in her mind while watching the song.

Her eyes wandered among the lyrics, and finally stopped on a sentence, her eyelashes trembled slightly:

"I had a pleasant dream."

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After completing the selection of songs for the farewell stage, and at the same time adding some arrangements for "monster", Chi Jingyuan returned to the crew and started filming again.

Pei Zhuxuan should have known the news of the stage change and got a new score, but the two of them haven't contacted each other in the past two days. Chi Jingyuan didn't take the initiative to speak, and Pei Zhuxuan also remained uncharacteristically silent.

Chi Jingyuan saw something unusual, but he didn't go into it too deeply. Pei Zhuxuan was about to get off the schedule that was very important to her. It was normal for her to have complicated emotions. Even Chi Jingyuan himself had a lot of turmoil in his heart.

It's good to be a little quieter.

At the same time, because of the invitation from JYP, before returning to the crew, Ji Jingyuan also sorted out some of his thoughts on the song "cheer up" that he had sorted out these days and made a production plan and sent it to Park Zhenying by email, and then got Notice to go to a production meeting in a few days.

It is said that work on twice's new album is about to start.

In the past few days when he returned to the crew to film, the turmoil on the Internet has not calmed down, but has become more lively. After entering 2016, there have been several eye-catching news. In the past week, last year Almost all the various lists of Kpop artists have been released. Some media and fans compiled the rankings of these lists and posted them on the Internet, which immediately attracted the attention of fans and passers-by in many circles.

For example, last year's Melon annual list, which attracted the most attention, was also freshly released, and finally announced the final ranking position. .

Last year, the style of "boy with luv", one of the title songs of EXO's official album, was very popular among local audiences in the peninsula. In addition, it was fed back by the achievements of overseas, especially Ami. It can be called a big hit. Since its release, it has always occupied the first place in the daily list and also won the monthly crown for two months. At the same time, it has also been ranked among the top few in the annual list one month later.

And bigbang's "bangbangbang" was not particularly explosive when it was first released. At that time, some people didn't like this song very much and gave a lot of bad reviews on the Internet, but with the spread of word of mouth, the song's staying power It is so powerful that it is unexpected. You can almost hear it in any nightclub or school party. The effect of the unique hot atmosphere has been sought after by many young people.

At the same time, the ranking of "bangbangbang" has been rising all the way on the annual list, and finally rushed to the top two together with "boy with luv", and there is a significant data gap with the following songs Occasional Reading. In the last two months It was a life-and-death fight for the number one spot on the yearly list. During this period of time, the fans on both sides had renewed their efforts, frantically swiping each other’s data, and they all paid a lot for their title song to get the number one spot on the yearly list. effort.

The two songs that were released for nearly half a year unexpectedly became the focus of everyone's attention at the end of the year, and they are the only ones in recent years.

At the end of 15 years, relying on the extensive popularity of "boy with luv" and the strong fans as always, it finally beat "bangbangbang" and won the first place in the 2015 Melon annual list, and at the same time, this is also a combination of SM. After a lapse of six years, it won the first place in Melon's annual chart again. The last time it was "GEE" from Girls' Generation in 2009. For a boy group that has always had a bad sound source, EXO and this song can be regarded as a mileage version. history.

But Chi Jingyuan is a bit out of the ordinary, because he, Yuan and Suzy's "some" ranked first in 2014. Apart from proving that this song is popular and many people like to listen to it, this number one actually doesn’t have much substantial benefit.

After the two championship songs "boy with luv" and "bangbangbang", there are several essential singers such as NAUL, ZION.T, and then the sixth "loser", the seventh "Spring Day", The eighth "baebae", the tenth "roof room", the eighteenth "call me baby" and the twenty-fifth "orientation sniper".

The songs released by the respective albums of EXO and bigbang have all entered the list, and the two groups have occupied 18 positions on the TOP100. With some related collaboration songs, there will be more songs. Basically, every few songs will The appearance of their names, especially as you look forward, the frequency becomes denser. When it comes to the most important top ten positions, the two regiments directly took five places, which is jaw-dropping.

EXO, bigbang, XXXX, XXX, bigbang, EXO...

You can see a series of the same names at a glance on the list. Such a strong performance immediately aroused the shock of many people. In the past, the girl groups with strong music sources were directly squeezed out here, and there was no one in the top ten. .

"Isn't this too strong?"

"Didn't it mean that the sound source of the boy group is not good? What's going on?"

The performance of the two groups dominating the list instantly makes people feel emotional. Could it be that the boy group's heyday is coming?

But after careful research, people found that it’s not that the girl group’s performance is not good, the sound source of the girl group is still very strong, and the songs of sistar, AOA, and EXID are much, much better than other boy groups.

At the same time, it is not a big event for boy groups, because most of the music sources of other boy groups are still in a mess, and Shinee's hit song "VIEW" hits the bottom of the list.

It’s just that the two combinations of EXO and bigbang were too strong last year. In this year of Kpop’s blooming flowers, they have shown a level and performance far beyond others.

And bigbang's sound source has always been excellent, and EXO, which broke out throughout the year, really refreshed people's perception of them.

In addition, there are some questionnaire survey lists. For example, in several surveys by Gallup, which has relatively strong credibility, among the top 10 most popular idols, Park Chanyeol ranked seventh and was the second person from EXO to enter the list. Chi Kyung-won ranked second, narrowly losing 1% to the exaggerated IU Li Zhien, who has a good nationality, and GD Quan Zhilong ranked third.

In the top ten of this list, only EXO and bigbang are still selected.

In addition, it is still the same in the rankings of the most popular songs, the most popular singers (groups), and even these two boy groups are in the ranking list where some idol groups are overall inferior, and the essential singers dominate the rankings. You can still plug it in.

It felt like they were everywhere.

It can only be said that in 2015, the year when Kpop reached its peak, both EXO and bigbang achieved brilliant results. Although XO had the upper hand in frontal collisions and some competitions, these two groups were tied with the third place. The gap like a fault has been opened, so that other male and female groups that are actually very good and have good songs are reduced to a foil.

Maybe the existence of other groups made the 15-year Kpop more exciting, but the protagonists are obviously not them.

After many years, when those groups of the new generation replace the current groups, are wildly sought after by fans who are still enthusiastic, and become the new darlings on the camera and on the stage, looking back at 2015 many years ago, there can still be a few moments that were once in full swing. a name.

or a name.

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Until the 8th, the scenes of the past few days came to an end, and Chi Jingyuanlu followed the team to Incheon International Airport, preparing to fly to Singapore for a two-day second concert tour there.

EXO's second tour started in March last year, and it has been almost a year since New Year's Eve. The major countries in East Asia have almost traveled all over the place.

But this time, the second tour, which made SM and EXO members make a lot of money, is almost over. There are still a few countries in Southeast Asia, and then in February, the tour of Ami and Canada will start. .

In the original second tour plan, EXO only had three tours in Ami, and the venues were not too big, two with a capacity of 15,000 people, and one venue in Chicago with a capacity of only 5,000 people. The planning is very conservative, basically just to test the water and open up the market by the way.

However, with the release of the album in the middle of the year and the popularity of the title song "BWL", Chi Jingyuan's popularity and number of fans here are increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The company immediately changed the original plan after seeing this situation. , directly added three more games to the original three games, and the three minimum venues were all 15,000.

The tickets sold very well, and they were sold out soon after they went on sale, and it even seemed that the supply was in short supply.

For the current Kpop as a whole, an artist who can hold a tour in Ami, or hold several shows in many places with tens of thousands of people in a row, and whose tickets can be sold out, is really a rare talent, and now it is EXO.

Sitting in the quiet waiting room was a bit boring. Chi Jingyuan opened the V APP after watching the news for a while, and found that there was a photo of the famous Jing Nan in the live broadcast pushed to him. After clicking in, he found that the other people in twice were not there. She I was doing a game live broadcast there alone.

"...So let's play this game together today..."

"...Does the peninsula also have that kind of egg-like electronic pet level? Yes, maybe there is a haha... I have a lot of small game consoles, like Super Mario, I have played this too... I really played a lot of games..."

Mingjing Nan was talking to the camera alone in a little embarrassment, and from time to time tidied up the wine-red bangs hanging on his forehead like a curtain. Turn on the laptop and play the game.

But after watching Chi Jingyuan for a while, I can see that she should have accepted a game endorsement. This live broadcast is also for advertising and publicity, but she is quite proficient in operating her character, I don’t know if it is Not specially trained.

But what's interesting is that I don't know if Mingjing Nan has no experience in advertising. After watching for a while, Chi Jingyuan didn't know the name of the game she endorsed. This girl didn't even mention it once, she was very devoted Playing there, from time to time, two business-like embarrassing cheers came out.

This ad made...

"Jing Yuan, what are you looking at?"

I don't know how to attract the attention of the people next to me. Park Chanyeol, who was sitting tight and bored, leaned over to look at Ji Jingyuan's screen. His voice also alarmed Wu Shixun and Kim Junmyeon on the left. The person also glanced this way.

"Oh, the live broadcast..." After seeing it clearly, Park Chanyeol gave Chi Jingyuan a strange look: "Do you still like to watch the live broadcast of girl groups?"

"It's boring, I found it when I scrolled through the tweets." Chi Jingyuan was a little tired, explained it truthfully, and then took advantage of the situation and directly exited Mingjing Nan's live broadcast room.

However, even though he withdrew, the Mingjing Nan in the live broadcast just now seemed to have aroused the interest of the few people nearby. They stopped looking at Chi Jingyuan's phone, but chatted on their own:

"Isn't this person the one from Twice, that neon member, what's his name..."

"It seems to be called Mina..." Wu Shixun was a little uncertain.

"It's called Mina. In fact, among the new girl groups that debuted this year, Twice is considered to be a group with a relatively high average appearance, such as Nayeon and Tzuyu..."

The person who knows him best is obviously Park Chanyeol. This guy started talking with a familiar face. He paused when talking about Zhou Ziyu, glanced at Chi Jingyuan, patted him and said: "Everyone It’s quite pretty, but this mina feels average to me…”

He looked at the screen of Chi Jingyuan's mobile phone that had already exited the live broadcast room and APP, and after thinking about it for a while, he began: "It's not very conspicuous in the group, and the red hair looks weird, and there are many moles on the face, which makes it awkward to look at. A neon man... oh..."

Park Chanyeol talked for a while, and finally shook his head with a puckered mouth, feeling that he didn't have a good impression of Mingjing Nan.

He said it a few times before, he thinks Lin Nayeon and Zhou Ziyu stand out the most in Twice...

After evaluating it, he felt that it wasn't enough. He remembered that he had just watched Chi Jingyuan's live broadcast from Mingjing Nan, and looked over with curious eyes, "Jing Yuan, what do you think of this Neon member?"

"..."

Chi Jingyuan pursed his lips and glanced at him, then picked up his phone and checked it again, as if he didn't intend to answer.

But he couldn't hold back a curse in his heart.

It's the exact opposite of you, idiot.

...

After more than four hours of flight, they arrived at Singapore Changi Airport. After a night of recuperation at the hotel, the next day the EXO group arrived at the tour venue, the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

However, this time the concert was not as smooth as before, but there was a bad accident.

In the second performance on the 10th, Kim Jong-in suddenly deformed his movements during the "Call me baby" stage in the middle, and sprained his ankle. After dancing the song with force, he couldn't hold it anymore. At that time, there was a burst of worry and panic from the audience.

After years of dance practice, many people in EXO have more or less injuries, Chi Jingyuan is no exception, and Jin Zhongren's right ankle is also an old problem, and he feels a little uncomfortable when practicing in the morning , but I didn't pay much attention to it because I often made mistakes. I didn't expect a problem in the middle of the performance.

Fortunately, Chi Jingyuan and the others usually specially practiced the stage positioning and formation of eight or even seven people, just to deal with this unexpected situation when someone couldn't appear on stage. After Jin Zhongren took the stand, they immediately comforted the audience. Then eight people insisted on completing the performance.

Because of an unexpected situation, after the concert ended, the manager directly sent Kim Jong-in to the local hospital. After a simple check-up to make sure there was no major problem, he did not make any diagnosis and treatment. He returned to Seoul overnight with a large group, and then In the hospital that cooperated with SM in Seoul for a re-examination, the final result was that Kim Jong-in had problems with his ankle and Achilles tendon, and he had to rest for at least three to four weeks. It is estimated that he will not be completely healed.

But fortunately, if he is injured now, he will be able to catch up with the preparation of EXO's new album by the time he recovers. It is quite troublesome to rehearse for several important stages such as the Golden Disc Awards and the Golden Disc Awards.

On the second day after returning to Seoul, SM announced the news that member Kim Jong-in was injured, and when the fans outside were concerned, Ji Jingyuan came to the practice room prepared by the company.

After knocking on the door lightly, he pushed it away, and immediately saw Pei Zhuxuan who was also looking this way.