The moment SM released all the music in the album, countless clicks poured in. The two new songs "if you" and "EXODUS" added to the regular second album were instantly ranked on the charts after countless listens.
The forefront position.
Relatively speaking, the ballad "If Your" has been favored by more people. After watching the live broadcast of EXO's regular second album press conference, many people are interested in what Chi Jingyuan said in an interview.
, one of his favorite songs on the entire album created a strong interest.
In countless different places, living rooms, bedrooms, streets, alleys, busy bars, and even driving cars, this song rang in the ears of countless people at the same time.
The sound of the guitar sounded softly, melodiously entering everyone's heart, just like the ripples caused by raindrops on the river, so soft and silent.
Extremely simple chords, with a soothing melody, put people into a sad rhythm without even realizing it.
It's just a prelude, and it immediately captures the listener's ears.
"She stayed away from me."
"I'm at a loss what to do."
"But I stood there like a fool."
Chi Jingyuan opened the song with a slightly hoarse and deep voice, reciting his lyrics in a straightforward manner. He didn't seem to have much emotional investment, but it was just a few simple words, a few sounds, and a few words.
Each chord seems to have told a story and a regret.
"I can only watch the departing figure."
"I know it will turn into a small dot and disappear."
"Will this time be forgotten as time goes by?"
The voices of several lead singers appeared one after another, with different voices and singing styles, but the same aftertaste and emotion.
Many familiar fans recognized it at once. From the beginning to now, the voices of the four lead singers of EXO have appeared one after another, with very few parts from other members. Obviously, this is another team building for the lead singer of the group.
But a song with this kind of atmosphere and melody needs this kind of immersive voice and singing skills.
"if you~~"
"if you~~"
"If it's not too late."
"Can we go back to how we were before?"
When it comes to the chorus, the rhythm and tone still haven't improved significantly. It's still the same low singing as before. The sound like the night wind echoes in the ears. Even if there is no picture, it can still make many people listen.
A picture appeared in front of the people's eyes. They seemed to see Chi Jingyuan and several people standing on the empty and dark stage. Under only a dim and blurry light, they looked vaguely and reluctantly, each holding a microphone and lowering his voice.
He held his head and sang sadly and immersedly.
Everyone seemed to be talking about their memories and the person in them.
This is not a happy song, it is a sad song.
This is not a song that gets people excited. It is a song that is suitable for a person to stay quietly somewhere and taste it quietly.
But it is a beautiful song, a song that can bring back memories.
"If you are in the same pain as me."
"Can't we get along more easily?"
"I regret not cherishing it when I was here."
Finally, Chi Jingyuan, who ended the song, had a plain voice without much fluctuation, and seemed to just draw an ordinary ending to an ordinary story.
But the moment the music disappeared, that strong sense of regret flooded everyone's heart.
After listening to this song, many people couldn't help but become quiet. Even though the surrounding environment may be very noisy, he can still feel the waves deep in his heart.
Under various mixed emotions, after listening to the last paragraph, many people had thoughts similar to "I have lost someone important" or "Someone is leaving me."
However, after a period of reminiscence and sadness, they helplessly discovered that the person who disappeared and gradually left him was just himself yesterday.
After listening to the song "if you", many people who knew or were familiar with Chi Jingyuan, such as Bae Zhuhyun, Zhou Ziyu, and even Zheng Eunji, Son Naeun, etc., looked at it inadvertently.
From the position of the composer, looking at the very familiar name, thinking of the music he just heard and the feelings that surged in his heart, he was speechless for a while, each with his own thoughts.
Because of the release of the entire album, the songs that had dropped in the previous rankings and even flew off the charts have all returned and been directly ranked at the top. For example, in Melon's real-time chart, among the top twelve at this time, ten
The singers of this song are all EXO.
The other two songs were released at the same time as them. Bigbang's two new songs this month, "Sober" and "Last Dance", ranked third and fourth respectively.
With the end of June, the major girl groups have begun to gradually return. Recently, various girl groups’ summer songs have become regulars on the charts, and they have also begun to guide the recent trend in the music industry to female idol groups.
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Sistar, known as the 'Queen of Summer', returned with her third mini-album on the 23rd to join the summer war. The title song "Shake It" was very fast, breaking the charts 13 times in 6 days, setting a new record for a girl group. Although
Because "Boy with Luv" still has extremely exaggerated momentum and very strong results, it did not win the weekly crown, but it still remains very stable at the top of the major music charts.
However, at this time, on the real-time charts of major music sources on the peninsula, the top ten positions were almost occupied by two boy groups. Sistar's "Shake It" was directly squeezed out. Although it is definitely only temporary, it still makes people sigh.
, these two top boy groups have really transcended the category of boy groups. They themselves represent popularity and trends.
After all, when will the music source of a boy group be better than that of a girl group? In the past, there was only Big Bang. Since this year, EXO has been added.
This airborne performance has long been a very normal thing for passers-by. With the return in recent months, Peninsula is very accustomed to people who follow Kpop, whether they are fans or not, in the early morning at the beginning of every month.
Listen to the two new songs released by EXO and BigBang. The development of this kind of inertia and recognition is really a rare thing.
Early the next morning, large and small entertainment media naturally began to report the news of the release of EXO's second album. Now this regular second album, which has been delayed for five months, is finally in everyone's sight.
In front of me, ten well-produced songs have been included in countless people's playlists and circulated endlessly.
All well-known practitioners in the music industry, as well as professional music critics, and even senior Kpop fans also came forward to express their opinions and evaluations of the "EXO-L" album after the album was released.
One of them is very famous in a certain music forum and has many musicians. A review post posted by many musicians the next day was upvoted by many people and was also reprinted by some self-media releases:
[What to do if an album contains only title songs - On the undeniable god album "EXO-L"]
"In the early hours of this morning, I finally waited for the release of EXO's regular second album. I finally listened to the last two songs that I had been looking forward to for a long time. After re-circulating all the songs in the album several times, I listened to them all night long.
I wrote this music review.
I have made many comments about the songs in the previous single albums many times. For example, "Call Me Baby" is a dance song that is trendy and cool to the extreme. From the melody, to the meaning, to the MV, it is extremely excellent.
"Spring Day", "Love Me Right" which is full of campus vitality, and "Boy with Luv" are songs that have incredible results and no longer need to be evaluated. I have said this more than once.
So this time I’m mainly going to talk about this album and how exaggerated its quality is.
Those who are involved in the Kpop circle should know that song resources are very tight for most idol groups and even singers.
A good song that has the potential to be a hit as soon as you hear it may go through fierce competition in private before it finally gets the title. Some well-known songwriters, such as "Double Kick" and "Black Eyes Must Win", are subject to
I don’t know how long the commission has been waiting for. If you want to get songs from them, you still need strong connections and connections.
As for small companies without connections, they can only rely on ordinary songwriters or try their luck by accepting some songs that others are not optimistic about.
Therefore, being able to get a high-quality song as the title song is already a very good thing for some idols from small and medium-sized companies, and other songs included in an album will naturally not be so serious and serious.
If you pay attention, the quality will be much lower than the main products. This is also a common problem of most idol groups.
One is due to limitations of habit, and the other is that I really can’t get good songs.
What makes me feel most helpless and sad about EXO's regular second album this time is that there are ten songs in the album, at least all of which are of title song quality.
Not to mention a few hit songs that were originally singles that were featured as the main hits, nor to talk about "Orientation Sniper", which is more popular than the main hits, even "El Dorado" and "Butterfly" are very popular songs.
It's more than enough to serve as the title song for an ordinary, second-tier or so boy band.
As for the two newly released songs, "EXODUS" is a dance song with a strong rhythm, an exotic style, and a very unique dance song. In terms of quality and popularity, it may not be as good as the previous XO hit songs, but it is definitely
It's a song above the standard, I personally like it very much.
And "If You" is my favorite. As soon as the intro started playing, I was completely mesmerized. Yuan's opening introduction may seem bland, but in fact it's very contagious. His emotion is amazing.
The preparation and expression are really great (by the way, this song is still his first work. I don’t know how he wrote this song that mainly expresses lovelorn and regret. I always feel that his face and this theme are
It doesn’t match the style very well).
At the same time, the other lead singers also performed very well, expressing the feeling of regret and reluctance extremely well.
I feel that this song can already compete for the honor of EXO's best ballad. I have commented before that compared to other boy groups, SM loves to produce ballads for EXO, but they are not shoddy and the quality of the songs they provide is the same.
Surprisingly good.
Some of EXO's best ballads that I personally rated before include "Moonlight", "Let It Be" and "Spring Day" released this year. Now "If You" can also be added to the discussion.
There may be some EXO fans who are very dissatisfied with this song because you can only hear the voices of four people in the whole song. Only the four lead singers have their own prat. After listening to the song, the other members realized that they probably did not participate.
A recording of this song.
But to be honest, only members with lead vocal skills can sing well in a ballad like "If You", which requires a lot of emotional expression, and the others are really not up to one level.
Try it yourself. Change the opening introduction, chorus and final part of "if you", and replace Yuan's voice with Wu Shixun's distinctive electronic music. Try and imagine it for yourself and you will know the difference.
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I can only say that EXO fans are really lucky. EXO has four members who are at the level of a major vocalist, which is rare in other idol groups.
This is actually the reason why EXO, as a boy band, doesn't feel awkward at all when singing ballads, and many of their songs are unexpectedly good.
Returning to the topic, although the two new songs "EXODUS" and "if you" may not be as popular as the previous hits, the quality is absolutely nothing to say, especially the latter. I really like this song.
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Looking back now, in the album "EXO-L", the ten songs are at least at the level of an ordinary boy band. Among them, there are more than one, and even as many as three or four, which can lead the explosion of the moment.
song.
You should know that you don’t usually see a few of these big hits in a year. If you come across one by chance, it can directly knock a second- or third-tier boy group to the status of a first-tier popular group.
(Insert, Yuan’s contribution is really big... Anyone who knows Yuan should know that he is really quite powerful. He has almost all the talents and abilities needed to be an idol.
They are all the best. I see that fans of many groups give their idols the title of "rainbow fart" which is very reluctant. Only Yuan's "natural idol" is the one I recognize the most.
The configuration of EXO's members is already very good in every aspect from appearance to strength. The addition of Yuan directly raised the upper limit of the entire group by a large amount. Lee Soo Man was able to make a temporary addition on the eve of EXO's debut.
This decision of man is really admirable.)
And now this album has this configuration. I can only say that it is really too luxurious.
The luxury is so heartbreaking that one can't help but lament SM's wealth. The luxury is so luxurious that it makes other small companies jealous and hit the wall. The luxury is so luxurious that one is speechless.
It is difficult to find an album with such a luxurious song arrangement in the entire history of Kpop. It really feels like SM has taken out all the best songs in the music library for several years. Maybe they were really frightened by last year's turmoil.
However, Big Bang, which competed with XO at the same time, actually released several excellent songs this time around. The two new songs released this month are also excellent.
If the quality of BigBang's newly added songs when they release their regular album next month can reach this level, then the overall quality of their "MADE" album can be compared with "EXO-L".
But looking at it now, although Big Bang's songs are equally good, they were still weaker than EXO at the time. This is why they were considered by many passers-by and even professionals (including me) in June to be at a disadvantage in the competition, and even lost.
The main reason for the competition among top boy groups is that their title songs are still not as popular as their rivals.
As for the other three-generation boy groups at the same time as EXO, there is no need to mention them. The quality and influence of the songs in this regular second album alone are enough for them to follow them for a lifetime. Maybe they will not be able to release such an album until the group is disbanded, or this
A hot song.
I can only say that the three generations of boy bands at the same time as EXO were really unlucky. Even though I am not an idol, I can still feel the powerlessness of being thrown away by others.
So what should you do when you encounter an album with such a luxurious configuration that has all the title songs, a variety of styles, dance music and lyricism coexisting, and several big hits?
Of course I bought it and collected it for my relatives and friends.
Even though the entire eight songs have been released one after another in the past few months, it still cannot change the fact that the quality of this album has reached an amazing level.
Many musicians and fans previously believed that EXO's regular album "XOXO" was a divine album. I don't deny it. After all, "XOXO" is indeed an album of extremely high quality, with many familiar and popular songs.
But this time the second album "EXO-L" came out, redefining the concept of "divine specialty" and setting a new standard for "divine specialty".
Going through the history of Kpop, it is probably not easy to find several equally excellent albums. This is probably the reason why the album has been able to achieve the terrifying pre-sales figure of over 800,000 even though most of the songs in the album have been released.
(Insert, this number is really a bit exaggerated. After this pre-sale, it is not difficult for EXO’s regular second album to reach one million single copies. It is estimated that it will take less than a week. Plus the sales of the first four singles, if you are paying attention
Anyone familiar with market data will find that as of July 2015, EXO's physical album sales accounted for more than 60% of the entire sales volume.
In other words, as of today, the total number of physical albums sold by all returning artists in the music industry in the first half of the year is less than that of EXO. It’s really hard for me to imagine how they did it. They just relied on fans to pay for it.
Moving to a specialization would be too biased.
According to statistics, last year in 2014, the overall physical sales volume for the whole year was about 7.6 million, and now the total sales of EXO account for almost half.
It can only be said that the TOP groups in each era have their own differences from other groups. This kind of group is not limited by things like ceilings and the market. They themselves are the ones who create the ceiling. EXO's sales are really
The scariest thing I have ever seen, bar none)
(By the way, one final comment. In my personal opinion, this time the competition between EXO and BigBang, the two top boy groups, has been decided. EXO has already achieved great success in terms of sales, music sources, YouTube, influence, popularity, etc.
The data surpassed and even crushed the opponent in all aspects.
Even if BigBang has a big hit song in the future, it will be difficult to save this situation. Maybe the music source will overtake them, but the huge difference in sales is like a chasm in front of them. They really don't share the same style.
If there are no major accidents, EXO will officially reach the top by the end of this year, becoming the unquestionable TOP and number one among all boy groups and even idol groups in this era.
In fact, I think this can be said now, although of course many people will not admit it)
Even for EXO themselves, I think it will be difficult for such high-quality albums to appear again in the future, so for those who like Kpop, it will be a bit regretful not to buy this album.
Maybe some V.I.Ps or fans of other boy groups feel that my evaluation is too biased. The whole article is all about bragging about EXO's achievements and songs. They think that I have received money from SM, or that I am a fan of EXO.
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I hereby solemnly declare that I have never received any money from SM.
As for who is a fan... Friends who are familiar with me know that I have not been a fan of any boy groups before.
