The Princess' debut album of the same name also adopts the format of a regular album. The entire album contains a total of nine tracks.
When the audition was announced, Jiang Yuan's name was also marked as the full producer.
Jiang Yuan's name also appears first in the album's lyrics and music, including the position of arranger.
So much so that when the album started to be promoted, many news posts also labeled the album with the label created by Jiang Yuan, which attracted a lot of attention.
Top music critics like Aaron were attracted by the full album preview of "The Princess" and even started a live broadcast to listen and share it with the audience of his column.
Before this, Aaron usually didn't pay much attention to new album developments such as kpop. The reason why he did the live broadcast this time was purely because of Jiang Yuan.
It can be said that after releasing a high-level English album, Jiang Yuan has also successfully opened up a reputation.
Originally, music critics like Aaron were purely interested in Jiang Yuan's last album, but after one album, they have become more interested in Jiang Yuan as a person.
As long as it is a musical work related to Jiang Yuan, I will basically pay attention to it.
"Today is the time for our weekly music review summary, but before we officially start recommending this week's outstanding works, I would like to briefly listen to the new girl group The Princess' self-titled debut album with everyone."
"I believe that in the first half of the year, everyone should have heard of this group's name and works. Of course, what attracts me even more is that this album was produced by Jiang Yuan."
After the opening remarks, Aaron also went directly to the topic.
After hearing Jiang Yuan's name from Aaron's cue, the viewers who often follow Aaron's column also had a flash of understanding in their hearts.
After all, Jiang Yuan's name and works appear quite frequently in columns.
One single per month plan, each one will be on Aaron's recommendation list, and then promoted to more listeners.
So these viewers may not necessarily be familiar with The Princess, but hearing Jiang Yuan's name really piqued their interest.
"Let me take a look. This time The Princess' album has a total of nine tracks, all written by Jiang Yuan." Aaron clicked on his computer screen and found the album's preview video.
The text of the video included the lyrics and music of each song. After noticing that Jiang Yuan's name basically appeared throughout the song list, Aaron's lips also twitched into a smile.
Before clicking on the video, Aaron noticed that many viewers were unfamiliar with the new group The Princess, and he specially gave the viewers some science based on his own understanding.
"...Through PK after game, Team A successfully obtained the group name The Princess. This is their official debut album." Aaron briefly summarized the process of The Princess.
Being able to talk about this whole process can be said to have a relatively complete understanding of The Princess.
After listening to Aaron's brief introduction, the audience watching the live broadcast also became interested in listening to the album.
The story of victory after twists and turns along the way is always more fascinating.
"Okay, after everyone has a general understanding, we will officially start the audition." Aaron said and clicked to play the video.
Although the general audition video is called a video, it is actually just a dynamic PPT that continuously loops without any actual content.
But the preview of The Princess's debut album is obviously not the case. Not only Jiang Yuan's team is very attentive, but also the program team of "The Princess" is also very hardworking behind the scenes.
After all, after The Princess won the championship, we don’t care about the future development for the time being, but the official debut represents the face of the program to a certain extent.
If the results achieved by the winners of the show after their official debut are not as good as those of the losers, then subsequent shows will obviously not be that easy to run.
So as the debut time approaches, it can be said that the nervousness of the entire program team is much higher than that of Jiang Yuan Studio's label.
But Aaron didn't understand all of this, and he didn't pay much attention to kpop audition videos, so Aaron simply praised the opening of the audition video.
The video begins with a macaron-toned music box animation. The music box slowly starts up, several members of The Princess appear on the music box, and the first piece of music starts to play.
"This is like the opening of a music video," Aaron commented first, and then added after hearing the music, "Some people may think this music sounds a bit familiar, because this is what they have already performed on the show.
It has passed, and it has been a market-proven single.”
The first half of the album of the same name consists of actually all the original songs that have been performed since the end of the show.
In the concept setting of the album, it is also divided into two, defining the world view of the first half as the A Team period before it has grown into The Princess.
For example, in the setting of the music box scene, there are also many elements that can express A Team.
The first track is "Psycho", which is like a dreamy opening, bringing the listener into the dance of The Princess.
"When you listen to this song and watch the dance, you will feel like you are seeing a dreamy elf-like beauty."
Aaron had previously reviewed this song and continued to express his love for it after listening to it again.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, just as the comments were finished, the listening time for the first music ended.
The rotation of the music box paused slightly, and the entire animation scene changed accordingly, entering the audition of the next song.
Aaron explained to the viewers of the live broadcast that this song was a complete single that had been released, which relieved many viewers who had heard the song through a preview.
The second song of the album is also arranged in the order in which A Team performed the original songs on the show. The second song comes to the song "Way back home".
The most brainwashing chorus part of the song was also played directly at the beginning.
So before Aaron could say anything, many viewers had already started leaving messages, expressing their familiarity with this song.
A considerable number of viewers, although they do not know that this song is sung by The Princess, have listened to this track through some short videos on weekdays.
With Aaron, through an audition, he was able to match the song with the singer.
Aaron looked at the relevant messages and nodded, "It seems I don't need to introduce this track to you."
Talking with a smile, the music box scene changed colors again, and the members of The Princess also changed their outfits again.
"Oh! I like this song very much, and it is also a popular single." As soon as the music started, Aaron said with a smile.
While listening to the music, I unconsciously started dancing along with it.
It is a world-famous song like "Nobody" that has also received a lot of love in foreign markets after being spread for a certain period of time.
So much so that the program team of "The Princess" also counted the performance of this song into their own program.
Judging from the popularity of this track abroad, the program's initial plan to create a world-class idol group's survival battle has a slight possibility of success to some extent.
Sure enough, after Aaron reminded the audience, when listening to this audition, they could not help but move along with the music.
If we talk about the previous single, it only often appears as the background music of short videos.
So "Nobody" can be said to have really set off a trend to a certain extent, and many people have specially filmed this set of simple and easy-to-learn dance challenges.
After three songs in a row, many viewers left messages saying that they finally matched the song and the combination.
"After hearing this, everyone should be looking forward to the follow-up tracks, right?" Aaron paused and asked the audience, wanting to do a small survey.
However, the replies I got were all asking Aaron not to pause and continue playing.
The fourth song has a different style, "Queencard", which killed everyone on the finals stage, and the previous song "Kill This Love" which made a stunning transformation.
Listening to two consecutive tracks also changed the audience's impression of The Princess's previous music style.
After listening to the first half of the album, Aaron stopped and read a description of the album's playlist design.
Each song will be a staple in life. This description can be said to be exactly the same as many of Jiang Yuan's previous albums.
"That's why I enjoy Jiang Yuan's album so much." Aaron said, shaking his head.
"Let's take a look at the description of the copy. After the first half of the album is over, there is a dividing point..." Aaron exited the video stick and read the concept copy.
"From A Team to The Princess, in the second half of the album, new colors belonging to The Princess will bloom."
After Aaron finished reading the copy, according to his past thinking, he generally didn't pay attention to this type of copy.
But under the premise that he clearly understands the quality of the first half of the album and that Jiang Yuan is involved in the album, Aaron will be more confident in this copywriting.
"The first song in the second half, "Attention", really caught my attention right away because of the song title." Aaron read the song title again and returned to the video playback.
The second half of the preview started to play, and the video scene was reversed. It jumped out from the music box scene and seemed to be in a real scene.
It also symbolizes the change from the identity of A Team to The Princess. At the same time, the costumes of the members also changed with the scene, switching to high school costumes that are more suitable for the age group.
The scenes were also switched to on-site shooting, instead of being shot in a studio as before. The music box scene was mostly done through post-production special effects.
This change also made Aaron praise it immediately.
"A very clever transition, designed to fit the album concept in a preview video."
"From A Team to The Princess, the dreamy scene turns to reality, coupled with the more age-appropriate appearance, it all reveals a message that The Princess has truly come to reality."
"This kind of design that tears through the dimensional wall, if it continues to be officially included in the album visuals, it will be as amazing as it is now."
Aaron praised the transition for a while, and he finally understood the design intention of the album concept, which was easy to understand.
"If nothing else goes wrong, this is probably the scene from the song MV." Aaron pointed to the video and said before starting to play it again.
With Jiang Yuan labeling each song as the title song, the program team of "The Princess" did not skimp on funds and resources at all. They invited a well-known team from Peninsula to produce this MV, and even provided special music for each song.
They all conducted exclusive MV shooting.
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The first single of the second half of the album, "Attention", was also the song that Jiang Yuan matched immediately after thinking about the ages of the members of The Princess.
The single comes from NewJeans' first debut EP, and is also the first single in the EP.
Because of the high quality of the songs and the excellent group concept, NewJeans became a big hit as soon as they debuted, and their songs can be said to be a hit on the music charts.
Just at the right age, Jiang Yuan gave this song to The Princess without even thinking about it.
The song audition part starts directly from one of the verses of the song.
“Owo three……..
Here~you see~…….”
The fast-paced singing also made Aaron subconsciously follow the beat.
The excellent melody, coupled with the beautiful timbre, and the relaxed and rhythmic singing caught Aaron's ears at once.
"Drop the question,drop the drop the question,
Want attention,wanna want attention.....
(Stop asking endless questions, trying to attract your attention...)"
Aaron's face was full of expressions that he had heard good music, and he swayed to the rhythm of the music, as if he was caught in the attention just like the lyrics described.
“You got me looking for attention~~
(You make me crave your attention...)"
The audition of the first song ended quickly with the first line of the chorus of the song, which happens to be the most catchy part.
Aaron was waiting for the smooth progression of the song, but was interrupted here.
I opened my eyes angrily, and then I realized that this was just a trial video, and then I gave up and sighed, "Suddenly I regretted starting the trial first. I should have waited two more days."
Although Aaron said this, he still moved very quickly and immediately jumped to the next song.
The second half of the album of the same name has a total of four tracks, which means that this new album actually only has four new songs.
Jiang Yuan was not stingy in providing four songs, and all provided high-quality, hit-level tracks.
The corresponding MV concept, including the dance part, has been well completed.
This is already reflected in the clips of the audition video.
After listening to all the previews, Aaron directly listed this album as the most anticipated new album of the week in his column, and the review was extremely high.