Lay didn't just run away like the first two, but still stayed in EXO. However, he didn't often go back to the dormitory at night recently. He just kept meeting and negotiating with the company every day. Obviously, his mind was no longer there.
This way.
But just like this single that EXO is practicing at this time, let it take its course.
"The key of the main part of this song is not very high. When singing it, the voice must not be too deep, because the key itself is low. If it is too deep, the listener will easily sound "sad" and "depressed"
perception.”
"But the connotation of the song "Let It Be" is completely opposite. It is to express the feeling of breaking out of a cocoon and becoming a butterfly, breaking the darkness on a cold and bleak winter night and returning under the stars and the moon."
With the cooperation of the music teacher, Chi Jingyuan was telling the members the key points of singing "Let It Be", as well as his thoughts and settings on the theme of the song.
After SM officially confirmed the plan for the winter single, under Lee Soo Man's suggestion, many tasks in coaching and recording were directly handed over to Ji Kyung Won. At the same time, after reading the ideas and ideas for the MV shooting that he submitted,
After the idea was expressed, it was very good. After the company made some modifications and adjustments, it was almost possible to follow this plan.
I don’t know if he really values and believes in Chi Jingyuan’s ability, or if he doesn’t pay much attention to this winter single. Anyway, he will also participate in this winter song before he serves as one of the producers of next year’s regular second album.
A lot of production work.
While Chi Jingyuan was telling the story, the music teacher next to him also chimed in and added a few words from time to time. The two of them cooperated well, and the members were also listening attentively. Some of them just looked at the music score and lowered their voices and tried to hum.
Two sentences.
Maybe it's because XO has been depressed for a long time due to the recent continuous encounters. Even though it's just a winter single, every member is very serious and focused.
And many people really like the melody, lyrics and even the meaning of this song, and some of the emotions expressed in the song just echo what they are thinking.
After Chi Jingyuan finished speaking in detail, they began to practice together, and the enthusiastic working atmosphere in the whole room continued to rise.
"Let It Be" is a relatively pure ballad, without any dance movements it is just pure singing. However, the requirements for voice and emotional expression are still quite high, and the requirements for the lead singer are also very high.
The overall sound is used to create an ethereal feeling, especially the two-person a cappella harmony at the end is the essence of the entire song. How well the harmony is sung is very important to the quality of the entire song.
The word 'acappella' is a transliteration from Italian. On the peninsula, it generally refers to a performance in the form of pure human voice singing without the use of musical instruments or accompaniment, that is, a cappella singing.
The section at the end of "Let It Be" is in this form, and it is also the highlight of the song.
Currently, under the arrangement of the company, the last harmony is sung by Ji Kyung-won and Do Kyung-soo, but I haven't entered the recording studio yet to hear how it works. If the performance is not good, I think they will have to be replaced.
However, as one of the members of XO with the best singing ability, if they are not good at it, I guess the others will also be in trouble.
Judging from the part, more than half of the song "Let It Be" is completed by the four lead singers, including some pads and harmonies. Among the other five, Jin Jun is the only one.
Mian has more parts, and most of the other four only have one or two sentences.
Because some members with average singing skills can rely on the sound engineer to fix the embarrassment of their singing skills during recording, but if the microphone is turned on on the live stage, too many parts will easily reveal their true colors and cause a car accident, so it is better to restrain themselves.
First, it would be more appropriate to hand over this task of comparing singing skills to a few lead singers.
However, in this kind of relatively demanding ballad, it is very good to have two lines, which is much better than YoonA sunbaenim not being able to get a line.
…………
In the next two days, EXO members will focus on this winter single. The lead singers will consciously start practicing after finishing their personal schedules.
And Chi Jingyuan will rush back to the company after finishing the filming of the crew every day to work overtime and practice with the members. After that, he will stay at the company to work overtime to organize the return plan for the regular second series.
I have to say that the vocal skills of EXO's lead singers are quite outstanding. With their hard work, they practiced this difficult ballad very quickly. They sang it together in just two days and it was perfect.
There is no problem. After a little familiarity and improvement, you can almost enter the recording studio and start recording.
And lay, who has been lingering around but becoming more and more out of place, finally has the final result.
At noon on November 8, a week after Tao left the group, SM officially issued a statement announcing that EXO Xia member Lay will set up a personal studio with the help of the company and will officially start working after the Neon Tour in November.
The focus is on Xia Guo’s activities, and there will be less participation in group activities.
Although he is focusing on his career in the Mainland, SM also stated that Lay is still a member of EXO and has not quit the group.
The result of waiting for several days is finally here. This time there is no surprise or surprise for the members including Chi Jingyuan, and even their mood is hardly affected at all.
The thoughts that I should have had already surged when I was preparing for the winter single two days ago and saw that he did not participate. After a few days, I had already calmed down and was too lazy to think about these issues anymore. Everyone focused their energy on
Come back next month.
Although the members of EXO did not have too many feelings about the result, it caused great turmoil for the anti-fans who had been looking forward to it, even the passers-by who watched the excitement, and the fans who had always cared about XO.
"They say they are 'still a member of EXO', but what kind of XO members are they if they don't participate in group activities? Isn't that interesting? Who are you kidding?"
"Hahaha, I already expected it (look at the post I made when Luhan ran away a few months ago). After Luhan left the other two Xia Kingdom lines, he would definitely stay there for a short time. Sure enough."
"If you want to run, can you run a little cleaner? What does 'focusing your career on mainland Xia' mean? Does it mean that you won't be involved in the trip and return to the peninsula? Then just follow your two seniors and sue for the invalidation of the contract.
Isn’t it over? Why do you still have to hang up the EXO brand? But you really think that doing this will make some fans like you, right?"
"Actually, Lay has already retired from the group. It's just that SM saw other members of Xia Kingdom who returned and were doing well there, and they were reluctant to benefit from Lay's activities in Xia Kingdom, so they made such a ridiculous inconsistency.
statement."
"Victoria from fx is really good when you look at it. She has been in SM for so many years and has not left. After such a comparison, I suddenly have a good impression of her... unlike those from XO, who have only been popular for two years.
All gone."
"This kind of insistence on retreating is really disgusting. Anyway, in my heart, there are only 9 EXO members left from now on. I hope the nine oppas will start again. Come on, I will always support you!"
"Although I had already expected it, I still felt empty after seeing Lay leave. From 12, to 11, to 10, today it becomes 9, and tomorrow it will become 8...
…”
"Xia Guo's line is all over, and there are only three members of the EXO-M team. In this case, the M team has no meaning of existence and is completely in name only. Moreover, the concept and setting of EXO's debut is that the KM team will carry out activities separately. Now
Only Team K is left with one leg lame, and the entire framework of the combination has collapsed."
"Indeed, Team M can be disbanded directly. EXO is completely finished."
"Yuan Oppa is still here, EXO can't finish!!"
"…………"
On the set of "Misaeng" in Seoul Plaza, Chi Jingyuan, who had taken a break after eating, sat up on a stool and looked at the flood of comments on the Internet on his mobile phone, feeling complicated and somewhat noncommittal at the same time.
SM's statement seems a bit ridiculous, Lay has indeed almost quit the group.
It is true that he himself will not leave.
As for whether EXO will be finished, he doesn't know, but as some people said, Team M is indeed in name only.
The departure of all three Xia Kingdom lines has a huge impact on EXO. The first one to bear the brunt is the immediate collapse of the EXO-M unit. No one expects the three Peninsula members to continue XO's activities in the mainland. Chen is the only one among them.
He speaks Chinese a little better, but others only say hello.
Moreover, without the participation of members of this nationality, the fans' enthusiasm and sense of involvement will be greatly reduced. It is actually meaningless to continue to support Team M in Xia Country.
The reason why EXO has been completely popular among the newly debuted boy groups in the past two years, with sales breaking the ceiling and pulling up the overall market, is largely because of their high popularity in the mainland of China. Every time they come back, the album will be a success.
They account for more than one-third, and mainland fans have made a crucial contribution to EXO's overall performance.
The current situation of Team M has directly impacted the team activities that EXO has been maintaining. It can be said that the domestic market in Xia has directly collapsed.
This has also seriously affected SM's plans for EXO. From the beginning of XO's debut, the setting was to be a boy band from the two countries of the Xia Kingdom. Basically all of their comeback albums are bilingual versions in Chinese and Korean. Team M simply
It can be said that they didn’t take it seriously since they debuted in Xia Kingdom, and now that the three people have left the team, the company needs to make major adjustments to XO’s future development direction.
Should Team M be disbanded? After losing members of the Xia Kingdom line, should EXO pay more attention to the Xia Kingdom market? Do they need to change the direction of development so that future activities will focus on neon in addition to peninsula, or Europe and the United States?
side?
These are things that the company urgently needs to consider.
The second issue is the dance. The choreography for all the dances of EXO's title songs is almost always in the form of two teams, K and M, appearing separately in the two main and chorus sections, and then in the last section, everyone comes on stage to dance together. From "MAMA"
From "Roar" to "Addicted", it's all the same pattern.
If you run one, you can ask Chi Jingyuan to come and make a cameo to fill up the number of people. If you run two, you can barely do it. Now that all three have left, only three people are left in the M team. Of course, this kind of choreography cannot continue.
I don’t know what will happen in the future, but the most important thing now is that EXO needs to re-choreograph all previous songs from 12 people to 9 people, otherwise they will not be able to even go on stage now.
The form of two teams performing separately and then joining together has been changed to a nine-member group. Although the specific choreography movements may not change, both the part distribution and the changes in position and movement are very large. The workload of so many songs can be imagined
And know.
It’s no wonder that the company’s statement said that Lay will officially focus on mainland activities after completing this month’s neon tour, giving the remaining nine members a certain buffer time. Otherwise, unless a backup dancer is arranged to wear a mask to stand next to Lay
The location on the stage, otherwise I wouldn’t know how to proceed with the Fukuoka concert that is about to start.
Finally, there is the impact and impact on fans. The continuous withdrawal of members from the group is unbearable for any group fan who likes EXO...
Forget it, watching too much really affects my mood.
Chi Jingyuan shook his head and swiped away the web pages on his phone.
He is the type of character who laughs off negative comments about himself online, and sometimes even reads them with gusto and even takes the initiative to share them with members.
The negative comments had little impact on him, but seeing their fans, Allies, being disappointed and sad because of these things made Chi Jingyuan feel uncomfortable, especially after meeting many familiar fans that he had seen before.
It's even more unpleasant after the ID is taken off or after climbing the wall.
Fans are the lifeline of an idol, and they are also one of the important reasons why he loves this profession and works hard for it.
However, although EXO has some people quitting the group one after another, which will have a big impact on the group fans and even the overall group soul, they have not caused any real scandals in the end. At most, they are just some innocuous rumors like "the royal family is grabbing resources"
, there was no real impact that really completely shattered the image.
Things like Tara, BTS's bullying news, and YG's various revelations about reading and consuming yao, these are the real blows that make it difficult for idol groups to turn around.
Although quitting a group has a serious and bad impact, it actually does not involve the law and does not affect morality.
What's gratifying is that neither Luhan nor Tao talked about this kind of thing when they left. At most, it meant or insinuated that the company's resources were unfairly distributed, and that "the popular members are too powerful" and the like.
There is no such thing as 'bullying' involved.
Although this situation does not exist within the XO team itself.
But if you go to the extreme and dig deeper, after Luhan left, many members did exclude the remaining two Xia Kingdom lines, whether it was small or big.
Thinking about it on the bright side, compared with them, it is not irreversible that EXO members have left the group one after another.
In the final analysis, idol groups still rely on their works, the quality of their songs, and their charisma on stage. It doesn't matter what you say when fans are panicking now. They need to make a successful comeback to restore EXO, which is currently in some turmoil.
As long as they can continue to have a big hit next year, maybe these fans who have lost their money will come back, and all the people who look down on them will change their views. The anti-fans who are jumping up and down like they are celebrating the New Year and the fans of other boy bands will also immediately
Shut up and dive quietly, even EXO may still make progress.
Just like the old "Roar".
"Brother, Lay's personal studio over there should be a cooperation between SM and a mainland economic company, right?"
"I didn't pay attention to this, but I guess it must be the case. He must have participated in it himself."
Putting down the phone, I heard the chatting sounds of assistants Cui Zhichang and Park Jaehyun sitting next to me. They hadn't finished their meal yet, and they talked about EXO while eating.
"They are quite fast. After returning home, each of them develops better than the other. I don't know how much impact they have on other Xia nationality trainees. It's really..."
Cui Zhichang was obviously dissatisfied with a few people, and he criticized several members who had left the team with an obviously unhappy tone.
"What's wrong?"
After hearing this, Chi Jingyuan became interested and turned around and asked.
"Jing Yuanqian has been too busy these days and didn't pay attention. Due to the withdrawal of EXO members, the company has eliminated most of the Xia nationality trainees in the past two days, leaving only a few who have some relationship with the real ones.
If you like the ones you like, let them leave the others without leaving any room."
"In the past two days, I often see people crying and leaving with their things in their arms. Some parents of dismissed trainees have even come to the company to make trouble in the past two days."
Cui Zhichang hurriedly swallowed what was in his mouth and replied quickly as if reporting a message. He shook his head as he spoke. He didn't know whether it was dissatisfaction with SM's decision or disgust with those people.
"Is there such a thing?"
Chi Jingyuan was a little surprised when he heard it, but he soon understood and understood.
Wu Saike and EXO are a good example. They have trained Xiaguo members for many years and concentrated a lot of resources to support them, and then they sued one after another and ran away. However, SM has no other solution, except
Incompetent and furious to smear the other party, and then unable to take many measures other than responding to the complaint.
Even if you win the lawsuit in the future, you can get a share of the other party's profits, but for the company's overall planning and the highly promoted combination, it still seems to be a bit outweighed by the gains.
It’s really because the Xia country’s economy is so good and the market is so big that you can make much more money there than here. After Xia country’s idols become famous, they all have their own escape route. SM has no room to counterattack and simply clears out most of Xia country’s practices.
To be born, not to be cultivated.
As for whether you will accept it in the future, it depends on the situation at that time.
This decisive approach also shows that SM has indeed been greatly affected by the EXO incident, and the company has even begun to adjust its overall strategy in the future.
Although I feel that the company's approach is indeed a bit biased, Chi Jingyuan can understand it from an objective perspective.
However, these people won't lose their jobs if they can't stay in SM. They can go to other companies and try again, because trainees from big companies always have relatively high quality and are quite popular in the industry.
"And it's not just our company. I heard that many other companies in the industry have also fired many Xia nationality trainees because of the XO incident. Some groups that are about to debut have been affected."
Park Jae-hyun also interjected at this time: "After all, SM has nothing to do with this kind of thing, let alone a small company. It is definitely unacceptable to them that a popular member who has finally been promoted suddenly quits the group and runs away.
loss."
"..." Chi Jingyuan nodded silently, and what he said made sense.
Suddenly, he paused for a moment, as if he remembered something. He quickly picked up the phone on the table, opened it, and typed continuously to send a message.
…………
"What is going on with EXO? Why are there suddenly only 9 people left?"
"Obviously it was so popular when I came back a few months ago. I really liked the stage and direct shooting of Yuan's "dope" at that time. I watched it over and over again several times."
"I really like this too, Yuan's police uniform looks so cool!"
"Pity."
In the JYP company building, Zhou Ziyu, who had returned to the practice room after eating, was just sitting here when she heard several female trainees not far away having a heated discussion. The voices were loud enough to hear clearly. She listened.
In just two sentences, you can tell that we are talking about EXO.
After lay left in name only, EXO, which has only 9 members left, suddenly became the focus of online discussion. In reality, especially in the music industry, many people are also talking about it. For example, many trainees have been talking privately in the past two days.
I often talk about this matter.
Her Korean progress is neither fast nor slow, and she can't be said to be proficient now, but as long as she doesn't speak too fast and doesn't use uncommon words, there will be no problem in daily communication or listening to someone in the corner.
Of course she had also heard about EXO's affairs, and took the initiative to send a message to Chi Jingyuan to inquire about it, but the other party's replies were intermittent, either after a long time before replying, or simply pretending not to notice.
Especially the text message I sent the day before yesterday has made no sound until today, as if she was completely ignored.
However, she also knew that Chi Jingyuan was very busy recently. Last time she heard him say that in addition to the heavy workload of filming TV series, he had to return to the company to work overtime every day. It seemed that he was preparing for his return and had no time or was too lazy to reply to these unimportant messages.
Understandable.
And she was actually used to it, but even so, Zhou Ziyu was a little dissatisfied with the other party's behavior of always ignoring her text messages.
But since they couldn't meet in person, Zhou Ziyu expressed her dissatisfaction by holding it in her heart and vomiting herself.
"With EXO, we don't know who the next boy group to reach the top will be. XO has no hope if such a thing happens."
The sound of discussions about Chi Jingyuan and the others kept coming to their ears, and they were all looking down on each other:
"Even so, their fan base is still lacking among boy bands. Especially the number and fanaticism of Aili and Yuan Wei's fans. It's not unknown to you. They are all well-known in the industry."
"The impact of one person quitting the group is already big enough. No matter how many fans we have, we can't withstand one after another quitting the group."
"I also think that EXO has nothing left to do. There is no group that has reached the top of its game and has had members quit the group before reaching the top. I think EXO will be a little more stable next time they come back, and then they will be able to remain a first-line boy group. It is unlikely to go any further.
...What a pity, the momentum was so good before."
"Isn't this good? If EXO comes down, our company's GOT7 seniors will be able to catch up and hopefully become top."
Immediately after the last sentence came out, the scene became strangely quiet. Several trainees participating in the discussion looked at the girl who said this sentence and looked at each other with strange eyes.
Just when Zhou Ziyu also felt a little funny, there was a sudden vibration in her pocket. She quickly took it out and looked at it. Her eyes flashed and she realized that it was from Chi Jingyuan:
"Have you been affected in any way by being in JYP?"
