Chi Jingyuan's interview lasted about ten minutes. After it was over, he went to the monitor next to the PD to check the results of his shots. After confirming that the shots were passed, he walked aside and changed to the next member for the interview.
Not all twelve people will be interviewed. The organizer selected five relatively popular and fashionable members, including Chi Jingyuan, to be interviewed. The others only had the group's VCR and promotional videos shot.
This promotional video was shot from noon to evening before it came to an end. After saying goodbye to the organizer's staff, the hungry XO members got into the nanny van and grabbed a quick meal before heading off to catch up on their next schedule.
When we returned to the dormitory, it was almost 11 o'clock in the morning. After queuing up to wash up, the members started their own night life. Some watched TV, some chatted, made phone calls, ate late night snacks and played game consoles.
etc.
Because of their schedules, this time is when they are most energetic. Over time, they have developed a habit. Unless they are too tired due to too many trips, they will go to bed as soon as they come back.
After Chi Jingyuan chatted with Park Chanyeol and others in the living room for a while, he went back to the bed and sat there and started playing the game console. After playing for a few minutes, he suddenly remembered what Jung Soo Jung said before about their return.
FX had already performed the first comeback stage on "m!countdowm" today, July 3. Chi Jingyuan happened to be busy during the live broadcast of "m!c" in the afternoon, so he didn't see any details.
I seem to have heard someone say that their title song "Red Light" this time was pretty good on stage.
There was just enough time at this moment, so he put away the game console archives, held his phone and started watching tonight's video of "m!c".
There are so many returning artists recently. I have never heard of the idol Ji Jingyuan who performed in the previous groups. Judging from their makeup and stage scenery, it is obvious that they are not artists from a big company. Their songs and choreography are also average.
What's outstanding about it is that it probably only played songs once or twice and then disappeared silently.
But being able to appear on TV is already very good. At least it can be considered that they have done singing and have formal live TV performance experience. They are much stronger than those groups that can't even appear on singing programs.
There are too many such combinations in the peninsula. There are many new people debuting every day, and there are also many debuting artists returning to amateur status every day. Chi Jingyuan usually doesn't pay much attention to them and can't recognize them at all.
It was almost a third of the way through that he finally saw the first group he recognized, the more familiar idol group, AOA.
AOA started to pursue a sexy style in October last year. Following "Short Skirt" at the beginning of the year, they released a mini-album last month. The title song "Short Hair" performed well.
"Short Hair" is not like the purely sexy and borderline style in the two previous comebacks. This time there is some improvement, and the overall style tends to be both sexy and energetic.
After entering 2014, the overall trend of girl groups in the peninsula music industry is very obvious. The second-generation girl groups that were very popular in the past few years and have reached their peak are all in a declining trend. Girls' Generation is the most obvious one because of their continuous love affairs.
kara members left the group and were the first to fall behind. 2NE1, which had just come back to life and was on the trend of becoming popular, suddenly suffered a disaster. It is not yet known whether they will continue to carry out activities as a full group in the future.
In addition to the overall decline of the second generation, there are third generation girl groups that are slowly taking over the market and gaining popularity soaring. The most popular among them are Sistar and Apink, which are all enjoying very good momentum.
In addition, Girlsday and AOA also started to become popular this year.
AOA is a group that has rapidly risen in popularity among three generations of girl groups after changing their standard style.
Next is another familiar face. After Tara’s Park Ji-yeon, member Park Hyo-min also started her own solo.
Tara's member teams, sub-units, and solos are working hard to rejuvenate one after another, but their overall image has been affected, and it will be difficult to achieve the desired results if the public does not change their image.
Looking at Chi Jingyuan, he suddenly saw the stage of an unknown girl group and thought it was quite interesting. The typhoon and the scene felt good, and one of the members had a very distinctive appearance and did not look like a female idol at all, so he couldn't help but go
Searched it.
The name is Mamamoo. They are a new girl group that just debuted last month. They are actually able to perform so well. It seems that their debut performance should be pretty good.
After watching the performances of Taeyang and Beast, who have been competing for the top spot lately, at the end it was FX's turn.
The ending performance was really impressive.
But when he saw Zheng Xiujing's blonde shawl hair and black eye mask, Chi Jingyuan was really startled.
This makeup look is really unique, but he really can't get it, he just thinks it's weird.
Wearing headphones, he shook his head and watched the performance of their title song "red light". The choreography and stage style were excellent, the rhythm was very strong, and it was very FX's own style.
Just this lyric...
Chi Jingyuan checked the lyrics list online and confirmed his opinion.
The lyrics of "Red Light" seem to be alluding to an event that happened before.
I don’t know if it was intentional by the lyricist or arranged by SM, but it was clearly his intention.
Although this may be a bit of a gimmick, it can easily cause unnecessary trouble. If the official reaction is too extreme, they may forcefully stop singing.
Forget it, don't care about his business.
Excluding those things other than music, he thinks the title song "Red Light" is pretty good, with a strong style and an addictive chorus.
It's just that Chi Jingyuan feels that the style of this song may not be to the taste of Peninsula people, and the specific results are difficult to predict, but he estimates that there is no hope of becoming a big hit.
I wish everything goes well, and hope that FX can counterattack and rise despite the overall decline of the second generation, unlike Girls' Generation.
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"After many discussions, the company has decided that our official EXO fan name will be officially named 'EXO-L'."
"The company has begun to set up the official website of 'EXO-L', and has cooperated with relevant companies to develop a mobile application APP that allows fans around the world to register and log in. It has now entered preliminary testing. If everything goes well, it will be launched this month
The APP will be online.”
In the conference room, manager Lee Seung-hwan and relevant SM personnel were introducing their newly determined official fan names to the EXO members. At the same time, the designed fan club logo was displayed on the projection screen in front.
An EXO logo with a small 'L' in the upper right corner.
It is similar to the usual logos of the two KM teams, only the English letters in the upper right corner are different.
"EXO-L? What do you mean, brother? It sounds weird."
After listening, the members looked at each other with some confusion, and Park Chanyeol was the first to ask.
The company has been thinking about EXO's official fan name a long time ago, and has also issued a task for the members to think about it and provide opinions.
I don’t know whether it was due to lack of talent or lack of imagination. The twelve members thought and discussed it for a long time but couldn’t come up with a name that people thought was good. In the end, they had no choice but to give up and leave it to the company.
Unexpectedly, the official fan name was suddenly announced today, and even the website and APP are almost developed.
"'L' is the abbreviation of 'love', and 'L' in English letters happens to be between our two EXO team names, 'K' and 'M', connecting EXO-K team and EXO-
It means Team M.”
Lee Seung Hwan had obviously already studied, and explained to them very familiarly: "So 'EXO-L' not only symbolizes all the fans who love EXO, but also means that EXO-KLM is a whole, which is in line with our XO'we are one
'The slogan also represents the mutual connection between EXO and fans."
"Oh, I think the meaning is really good. Who thought of it." After hearing this explanation, several members' eyes lit up, and Jin Junmyeon said happily.
Chi Jingyuan also nodded. He also thought this fan name was great, both in terms of format and meaning.
As long as SM does not involve artist management, other aspects of supporting soft power, the level of various design teams is really strong, whether it is EXO's different and distinctive logo for each album, or the fan names this time.
A proof.
"I think it's pretty good, right? Haha..." Li Chenghuan smiled and nodded. His manager also thought it was pretty good. After laughing, he continued: "The official website will be officially launched at the end of the month or at the beginning of August."
Before it is activated, the company will take a picture of us with the 'L hand gesture' for publicity, and then you all need to post pictures of the hand gesture on your SNS to cooperate with the publicity."
As he spoke, he stretched out his right hand, folded his other three fingers, and stretched his index finger and thumb to form a capital 'L' shape. At the same time, he added: "This is the gesture, and this will be the symbol of our fans from now on."
Seeing this, other members followed suit and made this gesture, as if they had encountered a fun toy and it was very interesting.
"EXO-L, EXO-L, EXO-L..." Jin Junmyeon repeated the fan name several times quickly, smacked his lips, tasted it, and said to Li Chenghuan: "Brother, this name has a good meaning and vision.
, but when you think of it, it doesn’t feel very friendly. In addition to the formal name, should we consider giving our rice a more familiar nickname?"
"Nickname?" Li Chenghuan and the person next to him looked at each other, nodded to each other and looked over: "It doesn't matter, but as for the nickname, you members can come up with it yourself, and the company will not be involved."
"How about Lone?"
"Did you get into trouble with sone? You were the one who brought up Xone last time, right?"
"Why don't you call me Lo and read O-L backwards? It feels very close."
"Just call me L, it's convenient and straightforward."
Several members have put forward their own opinions, but just like when they first came up with fan names, they are all names that people can't complain about, either imitating others, or being awkward and awkward.
Chi Jingyuan also began to think. He pursed his lips and looked up. After thinking for a while, he took out his mobile phone and made some gestures on it, and then said tentatively:
"When calling someone to express closeness, many people like to call them 'er' after their names, like Chanyeol'a, Sehuna, Kyungwona, etc. Then just add 'L' after EXO-L's name.
A'er', 'L'er' is called..."
"Ellie."
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The nickname Aili proposed by Chi Kyung-won was recognized by most people, especially Byun Baekhyun who liked this title very much. The heads of several companies of Lee Seung-hwan also expressed their appreciation, and the nickname Aili for EXO fans was basically decided.
However, we can’t say it yet. We will have to wait until the ‘EXO-L’ fan club APP and official website are officially launched. The specific time should be around the end of July or early August.
After the meeting, EXO took the time to tidy up and then went to the airport, and boarded a flight to Xia Guorong City during dinner time.
Having held so many concerts, all members are already very familiar with the process and stage performances, and there is no need to rush to the venue several days in advance for rehearsals like the original one.
Unless there are other local itineraries that need to be attended, now EXO only needs to fly to the destination the day before the concert starts, and then go to the venue to rehearse twice on the same day to practice, preview the moves and general steps, and that's basically it.
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On July 5th, EXO's Chengdu concert ended successfully at 9pm in front of 17,000 spectators at Chengcheng Sports Center.
Afterwards, under the recommendation of several Xia Guoline and Chi Jingyuan, a group of people went to a restaurant to have a hot pot meal before returning to the hotel.
These two food events after the concerts in the mountain city of Rongcheng really satisfied Chi Jingyuan, who loves spicy food. These very authentic flavors are usually not available in the peninsula.
They didn't stop after that and flew back to the peninsula the next morning.
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"What about the rest?"
Chi Jingyuan, who had just finished his personal schedule, returned to the company's practice room. It was now around four o'clock in the afternoon and it was almost time to eat.
Today, he remembered that there was no group schedule at this time. All the members should be in the practice room at this time, but when he walked in, only Kim Jongdae and Kim Minseok were left chatting inside. Chi Jingyuan was surprised after saying hello.
asked.
"There's nothing going on in the afternoon. Luhan and the three of them went to have dinner first. Baekhyun, Chanyeol and Kyungsoo have their own schedules and haven't come back yet. The others went to see the company's new girl group."
Kim Jongdae smiled at Chi Jingyuan, nodded and said hello, and explained: "The new girl group's practice room has been moved to the same floor as ours, right in the north corner."
"Oh, so... Brother, you didn't go?" Chi Jingyuan put his bag on the sofa, took a bottle of water from the small refrigerator, took a few sips, and asked casually.
"I just went to check it out. I said hello and came back." Kim Min-seok seemed to be thirsty after seeing Chi Jingyuan's actions. He put down his phone and walked over to grab a bottle of water and drink it. After a few seconds, he put it down.
Added:
"They don't know when they will debut yet, so they moved to the practice room so early...I heard it's still a few months away. I remember that we, XO, moved to the third floor when we were about to debut. Before, we had always been down there.
of."
"Maybe it's early... I'll go over and take a look." Chi Jingyuan greeted the two of them and walked out of the practice room towards the north corner.
Being on the same floor is very convenient and very close. I arrived at the door within a few steps. The door was not closed, and voices kept coming from inside.
I walked in and took a quick glance. This practice room was very similar to their EXO room. It had the same blue sky and white clouds wallpaper, the brightness of the incandescent lamp above my head and the position of the sofa were very similar, but the area looked larger.
A little smaller.
Several members of XO, Kim Junmyeon and Oh Sehun, were chatting with a few people from this new girl group. Mainly Kang Seulgi and Park Sooyoung were answering the conversation. Bae Joohyun and Son Seungwan were laughing next to them.
It looks quite lively.
Except for Son Seungwan who came relatively late and may not be very familiar with each other, the other three members of this new girl group basically knew each other before their debut, and some of them are still familiar with each other, such as Kang Seulgi who was introduced by Oh Sehun.
For Chi Jingyuan.
"Jingyuan." Sun Shengwan saw him as soon as he came in. She waved her hand and shouted with a smile.
"Jingyuan is back, so early?"
"We're just going to have dinner together later."
Several members also smiled and greeted each other. Chi Jingyuan walked to Son Shengwan who had been waving, glanced at her and Bae Zhuhyun who was looking at him next to him, and asked: "Why do you change practice so early?"
You're already in the room, didn't you say you planned to debut by the end of the year?"
"I don't know either. Since the past two days, our practice progress has suddenly accelerated. We will soon be preparing to shoot the MV for our debut song."
Pei Zhuhyun shook her head and was a little confused, but she didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, her eyes were filled with anticipation: "Maybe the debut date has been advanced."
"It's best in advance. I can't wait to perform on my debut stage tomorrow..." Son Seungwan smiled happily and twisted on the spot to express his excitement and expectations.
"Are you okay? Have you practiced your debut song?" Chi Jingyuan glanced at her and curled his lips in question.
Son Seung-wan joined SM in 2012, and after two years of practice, she was able to enter the debut group. Her talent and the attention of the company are self-evident, but she was mainly selected as a vocalist. In terms of dance foundation, it is obviously better than other training
The difference among members who have been around for longer is much worse.
Similar to Chen and Baekhyun in EXO.
"Of course you can do it after practicing for so long. Jingyuan, what's the look in your eyes? Do you want me to sing it to you again now?" Feeling that his professional ability was being questioned, Sun Shengwan frowned and looked at it angrily.
he.
"Ani, no need, I know Wendy Xi's strength very well." Chi Jingyuan quickly waved his hand, complimented her and then looked around, his eyes suddenly swept to two stools placed back to back not far away.
, took a curious look.
"That's the prop we just used for dance practice."
Noticing Ji Kyung-won's gaze, Bae Joo-hyun pursed her lips and explained: "The company arranged for Seulgi and I to perform the song "Be Natural" by S.E.S. seniors, and we will shoot it in one shot. We will meet in a few days.
Uploaded to the Internet as SM Rookies."
""Be Natural"? A jazz-style song? You two?" Chi Jingyuan looked at Jiang Seulqi and then at Bae Zhuhyun, a little confused.
Of course he had heard this song by the senior girl group of this company. The song was not very popular, and the style of the music was rather unique, so he felt it was not very suitable for these two people.
"The teacher re-choreographed the dance to a more sexy style, and used chairs as props to fully demonstrate the curves of the legs and..."
As she spoke, Pei Zhuxuan fell silent and took a step back because she keenly felt that Chi Jingyuan's eyes were looking at her exposed legs in shorts like a searchlight, and at the same time, the other party
The slight expression on her face and the twitching corners of her mouth made her want to kick him.
Height has always been one of her pain points, and body proportion is also among them. Like age, it is a taboo that Pei Zhuhyun cares about very much.
Feeling the shameful, angry and murderous look in Pei Zhuhyun's eyes, Chi Jingyuan quickly withdrew his gaze, his face took on a new look and revealed a sunny smile, he nodded and looked at her sincerely and said:
"It feels like it really suits you..."
"You...go to hell!"
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On July 10th, the EXO team flew to Wanwan and played two games in a row at the Taipei Arena starting from the 11th. Among them, the one on the 12th was too popular during the previous ticket sales, which caused strong dissatisfaction among fans who did not get tickets.
, a performance temporarily added by SM.
The form of the KM unit and the fact that basically all songs have both Korean and Chinese versions make EXO really popular in the Chinese entertainment area. The atmosphere of the concerts held in these areas is sometimes even better than that of Peninsula.
It will be much higher locally.
Because these overseas fans don't have as many opportunities to see their idols as local fans, they can only express their support for their idols by expressing their enthusiasm on tours that can only be held once a year.
EXO returned to the peninsula on the 13th. The team schedule was reduced in the next few days. More than half of the members received personal resources from the company. For example, Luhan received a filming job for a mainland movie, and Lay also received a hosting job.
Frequently travel between the two places.
Chi Jingyuan is also busy with his own advertising case. In order to cooperate with the promotion of LG and other endorsements, he often flies to Xia Guo to stand for the brand, accept interviews, etc.
It was not until July 16 that the twelve members of EXO reunited and participated in the 2014 Fashion KODE fashion show. After that, they flew to Xiaguo Magic City with the team the next day for another two consecutive days of concerts.
After the second concert on the 19th, the exhausted and extremely high members took the bus back to the hotel. The manager held a brief meeting and told them not to run around and to return before 12 o'clock.
After arriving at the hotel, we announced our disbandment.
Chi Jingyuan often came to Magic City a few days ago for advertising reasons and ate a lot of delicious food. Today, he is no longer very interested in eating here. After thinking about it, he was too lazy to go out and was ready to go back.
I was playing games in the room for a while, as the official event happened to be held recently.
Just when he came out of the small conference room and was about to return to the room, he was suddenly stopped.
Luhan called him, walked up to him and patted his shoulder with a smile: "Jingyuan, let's go out to eat together?"
Chi Jingyuan felt a little sudden, turned his head and looked at his face, and he also laughed after a few seconds:
