Chapter 254 King of Kpop
The investment in selecting the next generation of Masked Dancer went smoothly because Ye-eun got to know the Korean dancers in the group during her previous training.
Their current plan is to select dancers from middle and high school students in Europe and the United States. The few people that Yeen sent over for the interview are all relatively young but talented children.
It would be best if someone could be selected, but if no one is selected it is also a good opportunity to improve oneself. The children were all excited when they set off.
Who would have thought that after joining Ye Eun's dance troupe, I would have the opportunity to come into contact with the world's top dancers so soon.
When they arrived at the airport, they saw a huge red and black promotional photo of "Coup/Dat" on the billboard outside the airport. In the photo, only GD senior's sharp eyes were revealed. The only difference was the color of his clothes, and his whole body was covered tightly, but everyone could recognize his eyes.
They suddenly remembered, oh no, today is the day of GD senior’s solo comeback!
On August 18, Kwon Ji-yong released the first part of his second full-length album, which contains five songs.
"Coup d'Etat" by Diplo and Baauer feat., "Niliria" in collaboration with European and American OG Missy Elliott, "Black" in collaboration with Sky Ferreiry, "ROD" in collaboration with Ye-Eun, and another title song "Who You".
Five songs directly occupied the top five of all Korean music software at the same time, among which the MV playback volume of "Coup d'Etat" and "Who you" also soared.
When the two main songs topped the charts many times again, Korean netizens were no longer surprised. GD, with his vast sound source, is the kind of guy who will definitely top the charts whenever he releases a song.
What's more, the quality of part 1 of this album is already incredibly high, and the singers on Feat are all big names from Europe and the United States. No, there's an Asian face familiar to them mixed in on one of the songs.
Although he complained in his heart that the lyrics of this song were too direct, when GD released the second part of the second album two days later, the third title song "Crooked" almost instantly became a national hit, and everyone's attention was drawn back to the collaboration between the two.
On August 25, less than a week after Kwon Ji-yong released his album "Coup d'etat", the New York Times reported on the album, "The era of K-POP imitating American pop music will pass, and the whole world will learn from G-Dragon."
The entire front page only promoted a Korean singer and introduced an album in a completely unfamiliar language. This was unprecedented.
When this sentence came out, MBC's "Music Center" also released a warm-up for Kwon Ji-yong's return to the stage.
For the first time, an artist was given more than 20 minutes to return to the stage, and the recording schedule for their return to the stage was as follows.
"Coup d'Etat", "Who you", "Crooked" and "ROD".
Among the four songs, the only one with a co-operating artist is "ROD" which he collaborated with his girlfriend.
When MBC announced the ticket release time, all fans of the artists who were recording their music shows that day knew that this time they would not only have to compete with GD's fans for tickets, but more frighteningly, they would have to compete with Kwon and Yi's CP fans for admission spots.
Ah Xi, MBC, you want to rely on them to earn ratings again, right? ! !
The MBC staff were indeed all grinning from ear to ear on the day of GD's return to the stage for recording. Not only did the quality of the food at MBC, which is usually not very good, greatly improve today, but YG also specifically provided reverse support to the staff and fans who came to the recording under the pretext of supporting GD.
The MBC staff member in charge of artist coordination was holding a cup of coffee and couldn't help but marvel at the five costumes that Kwon Ji-Yong had prepared today. It was the first time he saw an artist changing his costumes for every song on his return stage.
Even several stylists, makeup artists and hairstylists were arranged to ensure that everything would go smoothly during the costume change.
A staff member who has worked at MBC for several years couldn't help but take a bite of the cake in his hand, and turned to complain to the new junior: "GD is really like a kid who was originally raised in poverty and suddenly found out that his family is a chaebol family, and was taken back and taken care of carefully..."
The new employee was quite puzzled and looked towards GD's lounge in confusion. He simply did not close the door because people were coming in and out. He was now wearing a black shirt, blue jeans, and had thick eyeliner on his eyes. However, he was holding his girlfriend's hand and seemed to say something coquettishly. The staff around him all laughed, and Ye Eun's ears suddenly turned red.
"Why do you say that, senior?" He turned his head and looked at his senior politely, but he kept his eyes on GD and Ye Eun.
The senior swallowed the last bite of the cake and shook his head: "When GD released his first album, there wasn't much publicity, not to mention the reverse support for the TV station staff and fans. This year, the publicity is completely overwhelming."
However, the money paid off. For more than a month, I could hear people talking about GD's comeback on the street, and his comeback really lived up to everyone's expectations, just like the tribute he made in the song.
"This revolution will not be shown on screen, this revolution is within you, this revolution is here."
When the sampled voice of Hip-hop godfather Gil Scott-Heron appeared on the stage, the audience looked at the stage in front of them with shock.
The comeback stage for the first song was designed to look like an abandoned semi-elliptical underground building.
At the front of the stage was a row of burning flames, and behind the black railings on the left and right sides, there were rock supports that extended out like ruins, and after converging at the top, the audience could see countless black chains hanging from the top.
On the smoky stage stood two rows of dancers with their heads covered by red hoods, their upper bodies naked, and their lower bodies wearing loose red leather pants with only their eyes exposed.
They all lowered their heads, with their arms two fists' distance away from their sides and their fists clenched, looking like they were resisting something.
Accompanied by Gil Scott-Heron's voice, they began to move forward, and in the open space in the middle, Quan Zhilong, dressed in black, with even the lower half of his face wrapped in a black scarf, appeared.
The style is similar to that on the album cover, with the hat on his head tilted, revealing only one eye with black eyeliner, his gaze is full of confrontation, rebellion and wildness.
The camera moved forward and aimed at one of Quan Zhilong's eyes. When Quan Zhilong's hand touched the hat in front of his forehead, it slid down quickly, grabbed the scarf and pulled it hard, revealing the lower half of his face. At the same time, the cross earring on the side of his ear also moved due to the force.
"This is my pop revolution." Kwon Ji-yong held the microphone in his right hand and slightly raised his head, looking down at the audience in the center of the smoky stage.
The smoke gradually turned into a bloody orange-red color. As the dancers behind him started moving, only Quan Zhilong remained in black on the entire stage.
Among all the dancers with their upper bodies naked, Kwon Ji-yong, wearing a black plush coat, seemed like the only villain, and also like the only maverick who did not blindly follow the crowd.
"The song has begun, and my hide-and-seek game has begun." When singing this line, Quan Zhilong turned his head to look at the dancers beside him, as if he was really going to start hide-and-seek. He tilted his head and slowly knelt on one knee, "Hide well, I can see your hair."
Quan Zhilong, with only one eye and the lower half of his face exposed, had an arrogant, unruly, proud and disdainful look in his eyes. The fans in the audience were so excited that they even had the urge to kneel down with him.
Although I was kneeling, there was a kind of arrogance that seemed to be far superior to you even though I was kneeling.
Until the end of the "hide and seek" segment, the audience watched Kwon Ji-yong stand up again, and sang "Bang bang bang" together as he moved his hand that was not holding the microphone as if turning a steering wheel.
"It's all done. In this game, I am the thorough veteran, and you are the antique from the beginning to the end." Amid the screams of fans, Kwon Ji-Yong slightly raised his hands and made swag gestures freely. At the same time, his hand passed over the hat imperceptibly, and the other eye that had been covered finally came into view.
He tilted his head and raised the corner of his mouth proudly, "My phone keeps making noises, like the dog next door, bowing wow wow, refusing to talk big."
Quan Zhilong looked at the camera with disdain, raised his hand as if answering a phone call, then stretched out his hand and hooked his fingers as if calling a puppy.
"This is good news, You want some." Kwon Ji-yong calmly once again knelt down with his legs slightly apart and his head slightly lowered, while the dancers behind him had changed from resisting to kneeling down with him.
The originally eccentric person is still different, but he seems to have become a cult leader, controlling everyone.
Quan Zhilong slightly curled his lips, his eyes still nonchalant, and the movement of standing up and stretching out his hand was full of rebellion, "Give me some."
"This is my Coup d'Etat, I use my mouth to play with the boomerang." Kwon Ji-yong squinted his eyes, raised his hand and put on the black scarf that he had taken off at the beginning, with a weird smile in his eyes.
At this moment, the picture on the stage suddenly disappeared, and the technology stage jointly created by YG and Samsung appeared again.
In the center of the blank stage filled with red flags, Kwon Ji-yong was dressed in red, with a red balaclava on his head that was exactly the same as the one he had just danced with, leaving only his eyes exposed.
It is not known whether it was due to a change of identity or the control of power, but at the end of this song symbolizing anti-war, Quan Zhilong, dressed in red, looked directly at the camera with fierce eyes, and sang the last line of lyrics behind the mask: "The song starts, I will play hide-and-seek."
Anti-war? Integration? Fight?
Disdain? Look down on others? Arrogant?
All thoughts suddenly became unimportant. The audience below waved their crown lights and looked into those fierce eyes and suddenly felt...
The King of K-pop has appeared!
After going off the stage to change his clothes, Kwon Ji-yong quickly trotted back to the lounge, pulled off his hood, and took off his black jacket. He lowered his head to let Taehyun-no-na fix his hair, while taking the makeup remover cotton pad handed to him by the makeup artist to remove his eye makeup.
When he raised his head, the makeup artist immediately re-adjusted the makeup, quickly filled in the base makeup on the eyes, and then re-applied a gentler eye makeup.
Kwon Ji-yong was putting on his pants, and Ye-eun looked at him as he suddenly changed from a "gangster" in black to a fresh and beautiful boy wearing a red hat and all white. She couldn't help but whispered, "From "Police" to "Who You", the fans will go crazy."
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