In EXO's practice room, the other 11 members formed a circle. Chi Jingyuan and five dance teachers danced the two songs twice in front of them.
At first, the members were sitting on the floor watching, but halfway through watching everyone stood up and started jumping along excitedly like parrots.
It is said that many dances can be performed at a glance, and by the end, you can dance decently.
"handsome!"
“This choreography is so cool.”
After dancing twice, everyone applauded vigorously. It was obvious that they were very satisfied with the choreography of these two songs.
Hearing the praise from the members, Chi Jingyuan waved his hands with a smile, temporarily turned off the accompaniment, and then distributed the lyrics and music scores that the company had divided into parts to everyone.
After the choreography of the two songs was completed, the company had already divided the parts of each member by referring to the division of lyrics and the proportion of C positions in the choreographed dance.
Of course, it cannot be evenly distributed. The featured members will have many more shots of their faces and C-positions, and some will even arrange some killing parts for certain members.
As for some members who don't take it seriously, or who want to suppress them, there are almost no frontal shots in the entire song, and there are only two verses. They stand behind and dance along the whole time. It's not too much to say that they are just backup dancers.
Uneven part division is an important means for the company, which they use to control the uneven popularity of their members.
Of course, people who show their faces a lot, have good looks, and have a killing part are more likely to attract fans.
Standing in the back row, there is no C seat, so naturally no one pays attention to the members with ordinary looks.
Of course, it is not absolute, and sometimes there will be some accidents.
From the emergence of "Wolf", to the popularity of all members of "Roar", to today, the popularity order of all members of EXO so far is basically and somewhat fixed.
First of all, Chi Jingyuan is the rock-steady number one, and the second most popular member is at least a few notches behind him.
Originally, after "Roar" came out, other members rushed to catch up, causing Chi Jingyuan's lead to drop significantly. However, after "The Heirs" was played, his popularity once again skyrocketed like a rocket.
Jiezi's popularity, especially in Asia, is beyond the reach of many members.
Coupled with the newly released "some", it is another powerful booster of popularity.
What's more important is that because of Chi Jingyuan's continuous success as an actor and his personal production of EXO's hit songs "Roar" and "Some", he is no longer ordinary in the minds of many fans and passers-by.
As an idol, his status and personality are obviously a step above.
Many big-name manufacturers and advertising companies are very fond of him, and the fact that they want to hire him to shoot commercials or be a spokesperson is a good proof.
In addition to some reasons for Chi Jingyuan's background, the excellent image, public recognition and excellent advertising effects are all important factors.
After Chi Jingyuan, the big TOP, is EXO's top circle of popularity. The leader is Luhan, who is promoted by Team M. Because he is the target of Team M's promotion, the company has always given him a lot of resources, and because of his excellent appearance and
Balanced strength, whether in the peninsula or in the Xia Kingdom, he is the most popular member after Chi Jingyuan.
Although it is said to be the second largest, it is actually quite far behind.
In addition to Luhna, there are also Park Chanyeol and Oh Sehun of Team K in the upper circle. These two people actually don't have many resources. They attract fans purely because of their outstanding appearance.
Especially Wu Sehun, in all of EXO's songs, he basically only has one or two lines in each song, and there are very few C-position scenes, but his popularity remains high due to his handsome face, and he has always been in the upper circle of popularity.
Then there are the people in the middle circle, Baekhyun, Kai, Xiumin, who are the main players of Team K, etc. are all in this group.
There are a few others at the bottom that I won’t mention.
Every combination needs top popular members to attract attention and drive the entire team. This is very necessary. But in fact, the company does not like a certain person who is too popular, so it often uses some means to average out the members of the combination.
Popularity.
They can't control Chi Jingyuan, but other members are often affected.
The members each received the music score and looked at the divided parts with different expressions.
Anyone who is ambitious will naturally want to sing a few lines and show off his face, but unfortunately such things are decided by the company, leaving little room for discussion.
They were left with a period of time to read the lyrics and score, and sort out their happy or unhappy moods. After a while, Chi Jingyuan clapped his hands, and together with the dance teacher, he began to demonstrate the decomposed movements bit by bit.
them.
While demonstrating, he was still talking about the key points to pay attention to: "The most important thing about the dance of "Dope" is the explosive power, which should give people a sense of strength."
"Second, the movements must be fast, clean and neat, and the rhythm must be beat, following the beat and lyrics..."
"This song is slightly different from our previous songs. The style will be stronger, and the reaction will be in the dance..."
The other members were divided into two teams and stood on both sides of the practice room to learn together.
The two songs "dope" and "i need u" do not have a joint dance, only a six-person version with choreography. The dances of teams K and M are exactly the same, but the people dancing are different.
According to the division of parts, the person with the most C positions on team K is Chi Jingyuan, and the one on team M who plays the same position as Ji Jingyuan is Luhan.
His cold seems to have gone away, and he seems to be much more energetic than the past few days. He doesn't often have a dark face like he did a while ago. He is talking and laughing while studying.
It's just that Xia Guo's line from Team M, except for Luhan, Y's expressions were a bit not very good. It's probably because the part weight of the song didn't meet their standards.
The same goes for several members of Team K.
But no one paid any attention to it. This kind of thing has happened to me several times. Every time there is a new song part, I will do it once or twice. I have already become accustomed to it.
They are already very proficient in the dance of "overdose", the recording work has been completed, and other preparations except for the MV shooting are almost finished.
The focus of work in the next few days will be on these two songs, dance practice, recording and MV shooting. According to the scheduled comeback date, the time is still relatively tight.
Many members also temporarily suppressed all kinds of thoughts in their hearts and entered the working state. They followed Chi Jingyuan to learn new dances over and over again and worked overtime until late at night.
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"Taeyeon, what are you listening to?"
Huang Meiying walked into the dormitory, first glanced at the shoe cabinet at the door, and estimated in her mind how many members had not returned yet, then she changed her shoes and walked into the living room.
At a glance, she saw Kim Taeyeon with her legs curled up on the sofa, holding a pillow and wearing headphones. She walked over and sat next to her, stretching out her feet, which were tired and sore from wearing high heels for a day, and kept using her hands.
While massaging her, he approached Kim Taeyeon and asked curiously.
"Jingyuan's new song..."
Kim Taeyeon took off one of her earphones and replied. As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Huang Meiying's movements from the corner of her eyes. She glanced at her sideways and curled her mouth in disgust. She moved her butt to the side twice, away from this person.
The imageless woman was afraid that the hand she was wiping her feet would rub against her, so she hummed softly and said: "
"You still know you're coming back. I thought you weren't going back to the dormitory today... You're going to come back soon, but you still act like this every day. Those who didn't know better thought we were on vacation."
Judging from Kim Taeyeon's tone, it is obvious that she is somewhat dissatisfied with her members' late return.
"I'm exhausted...Oh, Nichkhun finally came back from Neon. Of course I have to meet him...I even rushed back in the evening."
Huang Meiying rubbed her feet, put it to her nose and smelled it, then followed Kim Taeyeon with squinting eyes and explained with a smile, her tone of voice didn't seem to care.
"And Xiuying hasn't come back either. Why don't our golden leaders talk about her?"
"Tch, you have indeed grown up."
Kim Taeyeon shook her head and ignored her, not answering.
She has a very close relationship with Huang Meiying, and there is no problem in expressing her dissatisfaction directly. However, Cui Xiuying is different. Sometimes she cannot be so direct when communicating.
As Girls' Generation has been debuting for longer and longer, the members have become older and older, have more and more personal affairs, and have stronger personalities. Not to mention her as the leader, even the company is no longer very easy to manage.
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Taeyeon pouted again, not wanting to dwell on this issue, so she put on the headphones she had just taken off and prepared to continue listening to music.
"I want to listen too!" Upon seeing this, Huang Meiying reached out and grabbed one of the earphones and put it in her ears. She faced Kim Taeyeon's disgusted eyes and symbolic push because she had just touched her feet.
Huang Meiying kissed her nonchalantly, and the two of them listened closely together.
Taeyeon's counterattack was fruitless, so she could only give her a hateful look and let it go.
After the two listened for a while, Huang Meiying took the initiative to speak: "When I came back in the car, I heard this song being played in the store... I also heard them say this afternoon that this song seems to have a particularly good sound record?"
"Well, all the charts are empty. It has broken the charts many times since the sound source was released, and judging from the trend, it has great staying power. It is a rare song in our company that has a good reputation among passers-by."
Kim Taeyeon obviously knew it very well and talked about some of her achievements after releasing "Some".
"The results are really good. We don't seem to have such good music sources. Chi Jingyuan is really amazing..."
Huang Meiying sighed after hearing this, and then looked at Taeyeon with a smirk: "You pay so much attention to this song, is it because the demo was sung by You?"
"Of course not, it's because we are coming back soon, and it seems that this song "some" is going to hit the spot. As our biggest competitor, we must pay attention to it, and..."
"ah!"
Kim Taeyeon didn't look at her and spoke confidently, but her face became more and more rosy under Huang Meiying's narrow eyes. Finally, she couldn't make it up anymore and yelled, hitting her head against the pillow several times in a row as if venting her frustration.
Then he buried his face deeply into it.
"Hahaha……"
Seeing Taeyeon's appearance, Huang Meiying burst out laughing with no sense of sisterly love. She didn't laugh twice before Taeyeon gritted her teeth, lifted up the pillow and hit her head hard several times before she surrendered.
She liked this song very much when she recorded the demo before. Now that she sees "some" performing so well, it will obviously give a great boost to the career of Bae Suzy, who collaborates with Ji Kyung-won, and she will naturally have some other emotions in her heart.
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Like, "If it were me, I would definitely be able to sing much better than Bae Suzy."
Or, 'If I had asked for it and had been more urgent, maybe I would have sang it'.
Of course, she is so old and has matured a long time ago. She knows that those thoughts are meaningless, but she is just a little complicated in her heart, and she can't help but pay attention to the song "some".
In addition, the sound quality of this song is really terrible. They have never seen several songs with such explosive power in all the years since their debut.
After arguing for a while, the two sat together again and chatted about the hot new song by Chi Kyung Won and Bae Suzy. They couldn't help but feel a little worried about their upcoming return.
"The results of this comeback are very important to us. We didn't have any strong competitors at first, but we didn't expect that a collaboration song suddenly appeared. Really, I don't know how the company arranged it..."
Huang Meiying leaned on the sofa, feeling a little dissatisfied with the company's arrangements.
"Hey Yigu, you guys who are about to come back and stay up all night will care about our results?"
"So you know that our current situation is not very good? I thought you didn't know."
Kim Taeyeon glanced at her and said sarcastically, then rested her head on the pillow, obviously worried:
"I hope it goes well this time..."
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Since the official release of the sound source of "some" on February 21, after a week of song promotion, and word of mouth from all the fans and passers-by who like this song, this collaboration between Ji Kyung Won and Bae Suzy has become a
A new trend in the peninsula music industry.
Seoul is a city that keeps up with trends. As long as you pass by some busy business districts with a lot of people and listen to the music coming from the nearby stores, you will know which song is the hottest in the peninsula music industry today.
In the second half of last year, it was "Roar", and now it is "Some". This ambiguous love song sung by a man and a woman has now become the new favorite of most stores in the peninsula, especially stores with products related to couples.
It even makes consumers feel that this place is not fashionable and very low, so they turn to other places.
While being widely praised, "Some" is also extremely dazzling in terms of music performance. Since it entered the music charts, it has never lost the first place on the geine chart.
In the data chart of the Melon chart, it is also constantly breaking the charts, hitting the records of various music sources in a very short period of time.
In just one week, the song "Some" has achieved great results in terms of sound sources, and it has become almost the most brilliant song among all SM company's songs.
And judging from the curve, this song still has great stamina, and its performance and popularity are constantly fermenting and rising.
Many people have already attributed the title of "Divine Comedy" to "some".
JYP, which had always been in a bit of embarrassment, was naturally overjoyed and was extremely surprised by the results in the first week, so it quickly increased its investment in resources. SM, which had been a little neglectful before, also turned around and joined forces with JYP to once again contribute to publicity.
After entering the second week, Yuan&suzy won their first first place trophy in "m!countdown" on February 27th.
Interestingly, before awarding a trophy, "m!c" played a VCR preview of Girls' Generation's comeback next week, which also made Ji Kyung-won, who was watching the screen on the stage, smile inwardly.
I still bumped into these seniors from SNSD, and I don’t know if Taeyeon’s boastful words about making Haikou impossible for Ji Kyung Yuan to win even one by one are still counted.
Looking at the current momentum of "some", it seems a bit difficult.
What's even more interesting is that the two candidates competing for the first place today, besides Chi Kyung-won and the others, are Lee Sun-mi, who recorded the first stage with them last week.
During the award ceremony, the two groups of artists stood in the middle of the MC. When the MC announced a winner, Chi Jingyuan glanced over there and saw Li Xuanmei pursed her lips, with a helpless smile on her face.
It feels a bit familiar.
After receiving a trophy from the latest regular MC in this issue, Chi Jingyuan observed it for a while and then passed it to Pei Xiuzhi.
It is worth mentioning that after the long-time MC Kim Woo Bin stepped down in the February 13 issue, this issue of "m!c" welcomed new regular MCs, actor Ahn Jae Hyun and singer Jung Joon Young.
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The former was okay, but Chi Jingyuan wasn't very familiar with it. The one behind was Zheng Junying, who he didn't like the first time he saw him when he was participating in the archery competition of the "Idol Games". For some reason, he always looked at the other person's smile.
It felt a bit sinister, and it made him a little unhappy.
However, there was no interaction with Chi Jingyuan in the first place and he didn’t care. When Zheng Junying came to the practice room for an interview this time, he also took the initiative to say hello warmly. From his words, he seemed to be familiar with Park Chanyeol, and he looked like he wanted to be with Ji Jingye.
The source also seemed to have a closer relationship.
However, Chi Jingyuan didn't respond at all. After a few perfunctory words, the other party saw it and stopped pestering him. He turned around and aimed at Pei Xiuzhi, and started to talk warmly again.
Pei Xiuzhi covered her mouth and laughed non-stop every time she said a witticism, with her big eyes dazzling.
But after they left with satisfaction after the interview, as soon as the door of the lounge closed, Pei Xiuzhi, who had been laughing non-stop, immediately stopped. She and Chi Jingyuan looked at each other, their expressions were helpless, and they pursed their lips.
Seeing Jiang Hu's expression, Chi Jingyuan couldn't help but chuckle and shake his head.
"Thank you very much to the program team for giving us such an honorable award. Thank you to Mr. Lee Soo Man and President Kim Young Min..."
Winning a prize for him is no longer as exciting as it was during the "Wolf" period. What he had dreamed of for a long time now feels a little dull.
Taking the microphone, Chi Jingyuan gave a speech with a smile and thanked Li Xiu in a formulaic manner.
This was originally Kim Jun-myeon's job, and he didn't feel unfamiliar with it at this time. After talking for a while, he handed the microphone to Bae Suzy, who also started with Park Jin-young and thanked him again.
When it came to the encore stage, Chi Jingyuan and Bae Suzy stood at the front of the stage. After the intro started, before they could speak, the audience below started singing the chorus themselves.
"Occasionally I get inexplicably irritable."
"Obviously I haven't changed anything about you..."
This song is so popular that in just over a week, almost everyone in the audience can sing it.
Hearing the chorus below which was not very neat, but loud and enthusiastic, Chi Jingyuan was stunned for a moment, then laughed happily. After looking at Pei Xiuzhi, he picked up the microphone and started to harmonize, singing from time to time.
A sentence to heighten the atmosphere, and finally bowed in a warm atmosphere and loud cheers, ending this encore stage.
"Are you so busy these days?"
On their way back to the backstage lounge, Bae Suzy followed behind and asked curiously.
Recently, Chi Jingyuan will leave immediately as soon as the temporary group schedule is over. It seems that time is very tight, and according to Pei Xiuzhi's observation, she feels that Chi Jingyuan's face does not look very good in the past two days, as if he has not had a good rest.
appearance.
"In addition to the schedule with you, we also have to prepare for our XO comeback album. I also wrote several songs this time, as well as the choreography. The company's schedule is very urgent..."
Hearing this, Chi Jingyuan turned his head and looked at her, sighed and complained: "Besides, you and I have more and more schedules, and several new commercials are lined up waiting to be shot. No,
You know when you will be busy."
"Have you Missa done anything recently?"
"What do you think?" Pei Xiuzhi tilted her head and looked at Chi Jingyuan.
"…………"
Chi Jingyuan nodded knowingly and didn't ask any more questions.
Bae Suzy had told her once before about the situation of missa, and it was quite complicated.
While chatting, Chi Jingyuan returned to the lounge. He packed up his things, picked up his shoulder bag and left: "Let's go now, see you tomorrow."
"Well, see you tomorrow."
Pei Xiuzhi smiled and waved, watching Chi Jingyuan and his group walk out of the practice room and close the door before looking back.
"Suzy, this is the advertising invitation that the company has just approached for you. Take a look..."
At this time, her agent came to the side and handed over a bag of documents. After opening them, she started to explain...
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Starting from "m!countdown" on the 17th, "Music Bank" on the 18th, "Music Center" and "Inkigayo" on the 19th and 20th, Yuan&suzy won the first trophy on all singing stages this week.
Especially in this issue of "Music Bank", "Some" ranked first among all song award-winning scores in this year's "Music Bank" with a record-breaking 10,980 points.
You must know that "Some" did not sell physical albums. It ranked first this year with zero sales, which shows how explosive this song's sound source and other aspects have been.
Except for "Show Champion" which was suspended this week, Ji Jingyuan and Bae Suzy won four places in a row, directly sweeping all the singing programs this week.
"Yuan xi, what do you think of the song "some"?"
At this time, Chi Jingyuan and Pei Xiuzhi were participating in an interview arranged by the company. A reporter asked a question that left him speechless.
He has answered this question many times. These people just change their condoms but not their medicines.
Chi Jingyuan sighed in his heart, still maintaining a warm smile on his face:
"The title of the song "some" is taken from the first half of the English word 'something', which means 'some' things that happen between men and women, that is, something."
"The title of the song can also be literally translated as "Ambiguous"."
"The lyrics of this song express the feelings of a man and a woman before they actually date, conveying the pure but eager love and eagerness when a man and a woman have a crush on each other."
Pei Xiuzhi held a microphone and kept smiling. She was actually a bit like Chi Jingyuan. Neither of them liked to be interviewed. Whenever something like this happened, she would hide next to Chi Jingyuan and smile with big white teeth.
non-stop.
"Indeed." The reporter nodded, then looked at the notebook and asked again:
"Many fans have left messages. They want to know how Yuan Xi composed such a song that depicts the ambiguity between men and women, and the lyrics are so apt. Is it because he has had such experience before?"
