84 Second Edition Released

When the third episode of the second season of "I Have Not" was broadcast, Stary had already finished his fifteen-day journey and returned to the company, waiting for the results of his second album to be released.

Just like they said, this group variety show was just to take the fans out for fun, and the five of them had a blast. The production team gave them a lot of freedom, so their schedules for the later stages were also erratic, let alone private activities, even their IP positioning could hardly catch up with their position.

The scenery in Xinjiang is so beautiful that every spot looks like a painting. Stary and his five companions drove with the program crew, not caring about whether it was a scenic spot or not, and drove to wherever they wanted.

Every day's vlog is new and they always point the cameras at themselves and their brothers, recording the joy along the way from the closest perspective.

At night, I stay in a hotel or B&B and record the melodies I think of during the day using a portable sound card. Sometimes I also do a live broadcast in the hotel and play games to decide who sleeps in a better room.

Or maybe they don’t even need to choose a room, they just want to play.

Obviously, they are all very simple games. As long as you play with your brothers, the five of you can also play out 200% of the dramatic effect. From arm wrestling to shouting names, a five-minute game can have the effect of an hour of noise and play.

Fans haven’t seen such intensive live broadcasts of their lives for a long time. The five of them look so natural and happy as a family, laughing and playing together all the time, which makes people happy just by watching them.

They had a great time. At this time, the idols were no longer the big stars with delicate lighting and a sense of distance on the stage, but naughty boys like the younger brother next door, full of life that was about to overflow.

Captain Xiao Pei's unlucky nature was finally revealed. This seemingly steady captain always comes last in any game of luck. His strength over the years is all due to his extreme bad luck. He never guesses the options correctly, which has enabled him to develop such a meticulous and careful character.

In the game, Pei Zijin is always successful as the team's brain, but as long as it is related to luck, even the youngest can bully the eldest brother.

Yu Le is generally recognized as the funniest among the five people, which is consistent with the image he has among his fans. He is a younger brother who does not bear grudges or remembers being beaten, and always takes the bait when teased. The happiest time in most games is listening to the sound of Yu Le breaking down his defenses.

And there is Jin Zeyu, this cool guy who always makes people deceived by his appearance, but he is actually a hidden lover of cold jokes. He enjoys trying out his new jokes with the co-pilot while driving every day. It can be said that if driving wasn't hard, Yan Fan, who has a bad temper, would have taken action long ago.

There is no such thing as a fight between boys. During the daily wrestling in the group, only Su Chen, who was steady and composed, acted as a war correspondent, with his camera always aimed at the brothers and sisters who were fighting each other. He lamented his lack of physical strength and added fuel to the fire, but in the end he was always dragged into the battlefield and beaten together.

After this trip, Stary's fans were almost spoiled. Why couldn't these good days of watching his live broadcasts and vlog reports every day last forever? Until Stary boarded the return plane, the little satellites were still immersed in the pain of withdrawal.

It is said that it takes fourteen days to form a habit, but the group variety show just happened to end on the fifteenth day, and the release of the main film is still a long way off. Yuan Xin is simply doing so many evil things!

Yuan Xiao's comment section and private messages were bombarded once again. This noisy live broadcast format was unexpectedly popular. Yuan Xiao simply changed the promotion mode of the second album and asked Stary and others to do a live broadcast to unbox the second album.

Yes, after the recording of the group variety show was completed and the third public performance of "I Have Not Been" was about to be released, Stary's second group album "trajectory" was also officially launched. The number of people who watched it online in seconds exceeded the data of the first album's release two months ago. The data of digital albums and physical albums on various platforms have refreshed the upper limit of domestic entertainment groups. The 24-hour transaction amount not only exceeded the historical record, but also opened a gap like a chasm with the second place. Stary is now worthy of the title of the first male group in domestic entertainment.

This album has richer configuration than the last one. Stary started a live broadcast at the announced time, and then five people gathered together and carried a big box in from behind the camera.

"Hello first." Pei Zijin patted the members one by one and told them not to be busy studying the album. The live broadcast had already begun. He got a little tanned during the recording of the group variety show, which made him look more sunny.

"Hello everyone, we are——"

"Stary!"

This is probably the first "trajectory" unboxing video on the entire internet. The album was just released at noon, and the new album ordered by fans in seconds has not yet been released. The one in Stary's hand is of course the beta version, which is the first batch of goods sent from the factory to Yuanxin, and is still wrapped in a cardboard box.

Jin Zeyu couldn't wait to take out the knife he had prepared in advance, and quickly peeled off the album's outer cover. He held the album box in his hand and weighed it: "Oh, it's so heavy."

"Wow, the box is so pretty." Five heads came together in an instant, blocking the camera tightly, and the screen was filled with fans' barrage of protests:

“Fans eat first!”

"What's going on, Xiao Shuo!"

Yan Fan patted Yu Le and asked him to hold the box and show it to the camera. The album cover was made with very fine craftsmanship. Yu Le held the box in front of the live camera and showed the album cover in all directions:

"It's a lenticular cover process. You can see the texture like a moving picture from different angles."

The artistic word "trajectory" on the box seems to be submerged in the water, floating and shimmering with the change of light, like an old TV screen with textures. It looks very textured, not like a packaging box, but more like a separate material.

"The front is a cover like this, and the back has Yuanxin and our logo. There is an anti-counterfeiting code in the lower left corner. Satellites who received it can scan it to enter the official website to see the anti-counterfeiting code."

Pei Zijin kindly reminds: "When buying, please make sure to identify the official platform, buy according to your needs, and support us within your means."

Yes, although it is very abstract, there is a certain chance of purchasing pirated albums of Stary on a certain second-hand trading platform.

Yuan Xiao had no idea how these pirated copies were made. Although the price of Stary albums remained high due to the fact that the albums were no longer sold, which was always profitable for pirates, she was impressed by the fact that pirated copies could be made to such a high level that even the cards and CD players were reproduced.

What can't we do with this technology?

Therefore, this time the second album has unified coding, and it is official direct sales of authentic products, so beware of counterfeits.

There is a layer of plastic cover on the album box. After tearing off the plastic film, you can open the box. The whole box is made into a pull-out type. From top to bottom, the first layer is the album body and the new small card.

Yan Fan reached out and took out the album and lyrics book from the box on the first layer. The lyrics book was in the form of a combination of photos, with exquisite layout. Each page could be enlarged to become a separate poster. As for the album itself, it was naturally burned on CD. The CD player that every Stary fan has cannot be wasted.

There are eight new photo cards in total, five individual photos, two group photos and one special craft. The styles are all from the MV, steam retro, leather boots and jackets, and Jin Zeyu even has airplane glasses on his forehead, which is extremely cool.

The one with special craftsmanship is slightly larger, about the size of an adult's palm. It is a grating card with three-dimensional relief inlays, like the old-fashioned TV screens that cover the entire wall in layers, with creases pressing out an uneven texture. Each small screen contains a photo of Stary on the stage, immersed in snow-like noise, and constantly switching between the logo and the photo on the black screen as the angle changes.

Five people raised their hands to vote on which card they liked best. The other four chose the grating that was very consistent with the style theme. Only Yu Le, the little conspicuous guy, firmly and arrogantly chose his own card and pasted it on his forehead.

Yan Fan: ...

There is no poster for this second album. The last item on the first layer is a colored window acrylic. The newly taken group photo of the five members of Stary is photocopied in the middle of the acrylic. Yan Fan cooperates with Jin Zeyu while Yu Le gets up to dim the lights in the room. Jin Zeyu shines the flashlight from his cell phone, and the five people in the colored window are projected onto the floor behind them, like a portable poster.

Jin Zeyu explained: "The space in front of the camera is limited now. After you get it, you can project it onto a white wall, and the effect will be better."

It is like the colorful light cast by the retro stained glass windows in the church of the last century at noon, the projection is hazy and floating, as if in a dream.

The second layer is the tape pendant and melody card. In the end, the design of the pendant was decided by them together. Pei Zijin placed the exquisitely designed metal mechanical recorder pendant closer to the camera where every detail can be seen clearly: "Let me show you this small pendant that I like. It has a rope buckle on it. It can be hung on a mobile phone or bag. There is a switch on the back. Long press to turn it on, and short press to switch it."

The small tape recorder is very delicately designed, like an expensive steam-powered device from the last century scaled down many times. It is small but feels heavy in the hand.

"Can we play it? Can we play it?" Pei Zijin looked up and confirmed with his agent behind the camera. Now the online audio source and digital album are on sale. He received the signal: "Okay, let's play a short clip."

There are five songs pre-stored in this pendant. Pei Zijin held it close to the microphone and pressed the play button. Music with a slightly distorted electric sound came out of the pendant, which was a different version from the source.

"Then there's the melody card. I'll talk about this together with the last one." Su Chen opened the last layer. This little piano first appeared in a vlog. When the album configuration was first announced, many fans couldn't believe it. After all, this thing looked very high-tech, and Yuanxin was actually put into the album configuration.

In the end, Yuanxin failed to obtain the patent and had to settle for the second best and order a batch of products specially redesigned for the album from the original manufacturer at a price relatively lower than the market price. After turning on the laser, the Stary logo will first be outlined on the desktop, and then it will switch to keyboard mode.

Su Chen unpacked the package and turned on the machine, then handed the keyboard to Jin Zeyu and asked his second brother to add the BGM first. Then it was his turn to hold the melody card and get close to the camera to show the fans in the live broadcast room the little clever ideas they had designed on it.

"The top piece is a reversal film, and the bottom piece is a simple musical notation printed in gold."

Each melody card corresponds to a song in the album. It is made of hard card paper that feels very thick, with a dark background and golden notes. Reversal film is embedded in the upper part of the card, which also contains photos of each person with a slightly retro filter feel.

Film, machinery, noise, color windows, lasers, the entire second album presented by Stary was configured according to steampunk style, with great care in every detail. The various configurations of the entire album were disassembled and placed on the ground among the five people. The final price was 238, which was slightly more expensive than the first album, mainly because of the keyboard.

There is no way, Yuan Xiao has already tried his best to cut costs.

The score is simplified, but if you have never touched a keyboard, there is an even simpler method. Jin Zeyu switched to display the keyboard teaching mode, with numbers marked on the projected keys. Even fans who don't know how to play musical instruments can play the main melody of each song by imitating others.

Yuan Xiao has taken every aspect into consideration, and it can be said that she is a genius in planning.