Chapter 177 Do you want to go to the club to celebrate?
Thanks to MBC's magical operation, it seems more certain that Ye Eun will accompany Kwon Ji Yong to record the show. YG adheres to the public relations principle of either making people angry or not responding, and calmly forwarded the picture of Jung Hyung Don wearing mosaic sunglasses, with the caption "Unable to confirm".
Korean netizens have long been accustomed to YG's usual Legend responses, and because of this incident, the sales of a certain brand of sunglasses and the endorsement by Jung Hyung-don suddenly increased, which made netizens begin to joke that MBC might have done this to attract investment.
At this time, Bigbang and 2NE1 had already arrived in Japan. When 2NE1's "Nolza in Japan" tour was officially launched in early May, Bigbang's "Hope and Love" tour also reached the final preparation stage.
Each group held seven or eight concerts within ten days, so YG naturally made a lot of money, but the two groups were exhausted.
On May 9, the last concert of 2NE1's first Japan tour ended. Amid blooming stage fireworks and falling ribbons, the five members slowly returned to the backstage on a lift.
After eight concerts in ten consecutive days, even CL was exhausted. However, seeing Ye-eun removing her makeup while sending messages, I couldn’t help but sigh: “Can dating help you restore your energy quickly?”
The staff and several other members also laughed. The concert schedule these days was too tight. Even though both groups were in Japan, Ye-eun and Kwon Ji-yong didn't see each other very often. However, they received calls from each other every day.
Manager Xiaopang is the most speechless. When Ye-eun is busy, she is afraid that GD will worry if he can't contact her, so she just hands her phone to him. Every time he receives a call from GD and hears the other party's regretful and helpless "Xiaopang, why is it you again", he can only smile and secretly complain, "GD, how can you make so many calls in a day?"
However, thinking about the "accompanying recording" incident between his artist and GD at the end of last month, he became curious, "Does GD still have time to write songs? Doesn't he have to discuss cooperation with Park Myung-soo?"
Kwon Ji-yong was indeed so busy that he had no time to meet with Park Myung-soo, so he had to ask Park Myung-soo, his senior, to come to Japan from South Korea.
On the afternoon of May 15th, in the backstage lounge of Bigbang concert.
The lounge usually accommodates five people and is ridiculously large. As you enter the door, there are three dressing tables with mirrors on the left side of the door, and a long full-length mirror on the right side for artists to check their makeup. Directly opposite the door are various costumes.
Although there are a lot of things, it doesn’t seem crowded because of the large area. It is almost twice the size of 2NE1’s lounge when their concert was held at the same time.
Even CL couldn't help but complain about Yang Hyun Suk's "partiality" when she first saw the difference between the two lounges, and the other members nodded in agreement.
Ye-eun naturally knew that everyone had become more and more dissatisfied with Yang Hyun-suk in the past two years. He was originally very strict with 2NE1 and insulted the members' appearance many times when Ye-eun was not around.
However, what is more important is that no one in 2NE1 has any solo plans so far, and the comebacks of many singers have been constantly postponed. Ye-eun sighed, and when she thought about the complaints that everyone in YG had made against the president, she felt that the reason why YG Family could be so united was because of the president's "selfless dedication".
Ye-eun's mind was full of random thoughts. She glanced at the staff who were setting up the camera, then sat down on the sofa in the corner of the lounge with Taehyun, and then lowered her head and started playing with her phone out of boredom.
When she casually clicked into her Twitter account, Yeen found that she had many more followers. Confused, she clicked on the list and saw that the avatars of the new followers were almost a row of mosaics of various shapes, which looked weird and scary. Although these people did not comment, Yeen looked through her own updates and it seemed that they had liked many of her updates over the past few days.
It looks like it's marking something... She couldn't help but think of the criminals in the news who marked various "selected" girls living alone. Looking at the strange behavior of these accounts, Yeen couldn't help but be shocked. Could this avatar be the logo of some xj organization?
Even online, Ye-eun was still worried. Was she being targeted because her updates were revealed to be from a girl? But she didn't post any photos.
However, when she clicked on a few accounts with confusion, the updates posted by the other party were very daily, and they even posted photos of their daily lives, which looked like what ordinary people shared on the platform. Yien frowned and said, "Mo Ya, is this some kind of organization?"
After all, this kind of avatar full of mosaics looks really weird!
When she frowned, Kwon Ji-yong, who was sitting at the conference table in the middle of the lounge, heard footsteps at the door and stood up immediately. Senior Park Myung-soo had arrived.
Sure enough, before the door was fully opened, the other party was already shouting "Hey, GD, I'm MD".
Kwon Ji-yong immediately bowed and greeted him. He was wearing a simple white T-shirt and trousers, a beige flat-top hat on his head, and a red and black scarf. He looked refreshing and handsome.
Park Myung Soo looked Quan Zhilong up and down, and when he heard the other party knowingly ask "Why did you come to Japan?", Quan Zhilong, who was obviously busy running to find him because there was no progress on the song after a month, waved his recently sold-out sunglasses and said proudly: "Don't get me wrong, I didn't come to see you on purpose."
Not to mention Kwon Ji-yong, even Ye-eun and Taehyun who were sitting far away laughed.
As expected, Park Myung-soo couldn't help himself after saying this, and asked directly, "What's the style of the song?"
Quan Zhilong sat at the conference table with Park Myung-soo. "The first part was the kind where the woman kept asking the man who he was with and scolding him..."
He made a phone call gesture with his hands, his face looking serious.
Park Myung-soo suddenly sat up straight, his small eyes began to light up, "Oh, GD, have you ever been treated like this?"
He glanced at Ye-eun, who was sitting on the sofa on the other side, and said calmly, "It seems that you live the same life as me."
Park Myung-soo, who already has a daughter with his wife, looked solemn.
Yi Eun looked up at Kwon Ji-yong, but couldn't figure out what was going on, so she simply logged out of her account and decided to be more careful next time. Quan Zhilong noticed her gaze and immediately raised his hand to wave it away, smiling and denying, "Moya, I wrote this song based on your life, Hiong, because I watched many episodes of Infinite Challenge."
Park Myung-soo shook his head and said, "I have prepared a sample. Please listen to it first."
The prelude of the song, which was played by a man older than Grandpa Quan Zhilong, instantly made him laugh out loud, and he unconsciously held his scarf to cover his face.
"That's the style. Listen, grandparents will burst into tears within five seconds of hearing it." The music then switched to modern eight-beat electronic music. The abrupt change made Quan Zhilong laugh and cry.
"Ah~ So Hiong likes this style. It's actually not bad." He said politely.
Park Myung-soo keenly noticed that the other party didn't like it very much, so he crossed his arms and sighed, "Then let me hear what you wrote."
Although he is busy, Quan Zhilong is very serious about his work. He not only wrote the song but also recorded the demo in advance. However, it is still a rough sample. Quan Zhilong's perfectionism kicked in. He lowered his head to pick up his phone and muttered softly: "It feels a bit embarrassing. How about just listening to a short clip?"
The camera was aimed at Kwon Ji-yong, and Park Myung-soo also glanced at his phone. There was a red fox on the phone's lock screen, which looked very artistic. He didn't pay much attention to it. He watched him open the lock screen and open the music production software, his eyes full of anticipation.
The baby voice of Kwon Ji-yong when he was singing immediately came out from the phone, from the rhythmic melody rap at the beginning to the cheerful and relaxed chorus, and finally to Kwon Ji-yong's fast rap. He said that it was not finished yet and only part of it could be heard, but almost the whole song was played.
As Ye-eun listened to the song, she couldn't help but nod her head slightly to the rhythm, and Taehyun couldn't help but look at her.
"After all, it's a music festival, so I thought that instead of sticking to a certain format like other programs, it would be better to make songs that can please the public on the spot." Kwon Ji-yong looked at Park Myung-soo seriously, sizing up his expression.
However, Park Myung-soo couldn't help but frown as he listened, "There are too many rap parts."
Quan Zhilong smiled brightly and put his hands in front of him in a compressed gesture, "Then do you want to reduce it a little?"
Park Myung-soo still frowned and shook his head, "And it's too advanced. I sing songs like 'Cold Face' every day, and it was the same when I was filming the MV for 'Lies'. It was really hard to sing your part."
"That's 'Day by Day.'" As Quan Zhilong listened to him singing day by day, he couldn't help but put his hands together in front of his mouth and laughed with his head tilted back.
Several staff members and Ye-eun at the scene were also completely amused by his outrageous rap rhythm, and this guy had finished filming the MV and singing the song but still hadn't remembered the song title.
Park Myung-soo paused and sighed, "Yes, it's the MV you filmed with that guy. Oh my god, and this song is completely in the style of Bigbang. It doesn't suit me."
Quan Zhilong and "that someone" looked at each other with smiles in their eyes. However, when Park Myung-soo said directly, "Just help me with this song like "Lies", I smiled half speechlessly and half helplessly, "Hiong, this is not something I can write just because you requested a song. I wrote that with great difficulty!"
Ye-eun glanced at the smiling Kwon Ji-yong and couldn't help but complain in her heart, it must have been difficult, she had to hold a rose in the rain all night, and then write it while drinking milk with a high fever.
Thinking of this, Yien silently put down her phone, leaned back on the sofa, and looked at Kwon Ji-ryong with a smile in her eyes.
Quan Zhilong noticed her gaze, looked back and saw the smile on her face. He couldn't help but smile as well and lowered his head to touch his nose. Oh my god, everyone has been young and frivolous and done stupid things!
He looked at Park Myung-soo again, "Actually, I told the president that this song was written for you, and our president felt it was a bit of a pity."
Park Myung-soo crossed his arms, sighed softly, and said with an unhappy look on his face: "Tell him to mind his own business and focus on his own work."
This disdainful tone instantly made Quan Zhilong unable to hold back his laughter and bent over. As expected, Yu Guangzhong Yien gave a thumbs up with satisfaction. Although she had only a mediocre impression of this senior because of some things she had heard, she still agreed with this sentence.
"'Just treat it as your song, it's a bit of a shame.' Did he really say that?" Park Myung-soo twisted his mouth and asked directly, "How much is your company's share? Come to my company, when will the contract expire?"
Kwon Ji-yong was both funny and helpless. Although he said "there is still a lot of time left", he also started thinking about the issues related to contract renewal in his heart.
After all, their contracts actually expire at the end of this year.
"Then come by yourself," Park Myung-soo said seriously, not giving up. "Generally, if the leader is poached, the others will follow. Even if others don't say anything, that person will come, and then Bigbang and 2NE1 will all come."
Quan Zhilong had a low sense of humour to begin with, and the other party was still saying these words with a serious expression, and he was instantly amused. He was obviously a guest and the other party was the MC, but when he saw that the other party wanted to continue talking, he still tried to pull the flow back: "How about I write another song?"
Park Myung-soo also muttered to himself that he was chatting again. When he heard Kwon Ji-yong say to write another song, he started to hesitate again: "But I also feel it's a pity to leave this song to Bigbang."
Quan Zhilong's eyes curved, "Then let this song be given to Bigbang, and Bigbang will get a few first places."
"Tsk, let's wait and see. Are there any other songs?" Park Myung-soo looked conflicted. This song was indeed good, but he really couldn't sing it.
"Oh my god, hiong, are you really going to sing an opera?" However, after saying that, Kwon Ji-yong patiently played the demo of another song from his mobile phone.
Ye Eun couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. Didn't he want to put this song in Bigbang's next album? However, Kwon Ji-yong was willing to do so, but Park Myung-soo was not happy, "This song is not my style either."
Even though the other party repeatedly rejected his songs, Quan Zhilong's respect and upbringing for his predecessors were fully demonstrated at this time. He listened to Park Myung-soo's favorite songs again and heard a rap in one of the 80s eight-beat European dance music. He raised his eyebrows and asked, "Hiong, can you sing this kind of rap?"
"Yes!" Park Myung-soo was full of confidence. This kind of slow-tempo rap was what he was best at and what he liked best.
Hearing the other party's rare affirmative answer, Quan Zhilong finally showed some of his usual authority as a team leader, "Are you sure? Are you sure you can sing this?"
"Really!" Park Myung-soo nodded seriously.
Quan Zhilong thought for two seconds and immediately said, "In this case, I think it's better for me to rewrite it. Let's see how it goes with the disco or retro dance music you like."
Park Myung-soo nodded in satisfaction, "Then listen to the members' opinions after your concert, especially Daesang, he's the most popular! That song 'Look at Me, Guishun' is so nice."
"That was written by me, too." There was a hint of pride on Kwon Ji-yong's face, and he raised his hand like a child answering a teacher's question.
Yeen couldn't help but curl her eyes. The copyright income of this song is indeed high.
"Oh my god, if you can write that kind of songs, why are these two songs like this?" Park Myung-soo's face was full of anger.
The ruthless "virtue" made Ye Eun, who had been in the lounge, frown. After all, for a creator, the saddest thing is to be told that the songs you wrote and the dances you choreographed are worthless.
She looked up at Park Myung-soo. Knowing that some of the other party's words were for the effect of the variety show, Ye-eun looked at Kwon Ji-yong who was still good-tempered and smiling, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, "Oh my god, it turns out that the artists who work with Park Myung-soo have to be good-tempered."
The concert was about to begin in an hour, and MBC staff began to collect equipment and prepare to shoot a few scenes at the concert site.
Quan Zhilong was not angry because of the other party's difficulty. Instead, he was very happy because he was sure of the other party's preferences. While putting on the performance jacket, he was full of confidence when he said: "This way, I can write it quickly."
"Okay, then let's wait until after the concert this month and then write a song based on your preferences." Ye-eun's eyes curved, and she couldn't help but smile when she saw Kwon Ji-yong's confident look. It turned out that this man's confidence in his music would never change.
"Yeah." Kwon Ji-yong also smiled. Before going on stage, he turned his head to look at the staff in the rest room, and then looked at Ye-eun who was waiting for him backstage to end the concert and go back to the hotel together. He was the last member to walk, so he quickly lowered his head and kissed Ye-eun on the mouth, then followed the members with satisfaction.
Yien couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth as she looked at his excited back. She raised her hand and silently touched the corners of her mouth under the teasing gazes of the staff, then sat on the sofa as if nothing had happened, waiting for him to get off work.
On May 19, 2NE1 finished recording a Japanese variety show. This Japanese comedy variety show was completely out of character for their style. It was bold and strange, and they were almost confused when they finished recording.
Bigbang's Love and Hope tour also officially ended. When the other members received a call from Kwon Ji-yong asking if they wanted to go to the celebration party together, they immediately refused, saying that it would be better to go back to the hotel and rest than to celebrate at the club.
Ye-eun was originally going to refuse because she was too tired, but when she heard Quan Zhilong's mumbling, she couldn't help but nodded, "Okay, send me the address."
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