Chapter 81 Can this cause cultural controversy? They are garbage bastards.
In November 2007, Bigbang's "Lie" won the Song of the Year, and 2NE1's debut single was officially confirmed.
One of the tentative songs is called "Fire", which was written and composed by Teddy, a senior in the company. The strong African style, reggae-flavored percussion accompaniment, and lyrics expressing dreams made several people fall in love with this song at once.
At that moment, everyone from top to bottom unanimously decided that this was the song.
Because of his seriousness towards his debut song, the president was not only present during the recording of this song, but he also planned to be with them during the recording of the MV.
The recording of the MV for "Fire" was not easy. After all, it was a girl group that had been warmed up for such a long time. Yang Hyun Suk had high expectations for them and was also more strict with them.
The MV was recorded in two versions: Space version and Street version. Difficulties arose on the first day of recording the Space version.
Because she had a pleasant experience working with the hairstylist last time, she was planning to work with her again this time. However, when she arrived at the dressing room, Ye-eun saw that Taehyun, who was in charge of Bigbang, was there. She asked curiously, "Why is it you? Where is the teacher from before?"
Taehyun looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to this side. He carefully lowered his head and whispered in her ear: "Last time I changed your Lollipop hairstyle, it caused some controversy online. This time the company let her take a rest first."
Ye-eun blinked in confusion, "Controversy? What controversy?"
There weren't many channels for obtaining online information during this period. Moreover, after recording Lollipop, she was so distracted by Kwon Ji-yong's affairs that she had no mood to pay attention to online news. She only knew that the feedback for Lollipop was good, but she didn't know that this song was controversial?
Taehyun shook his head, "It's not about the song, it's about the way you braided your hair. It's a bit of a cultural controversy."
Ye-eun said “Huh?” and searched the news. The reason was that a YouTuber who analyzed Korean idols’ hairstyles actually released an analysis of 2NE1.
When analyzing her hairstyle, the two clever ideas of her hairstyle, the two-way flat knot and the snake knot earrings, were mentioned. However, the YouTuber called it a classic Korean knot.
The video, which had only a small number of viewers, suddenly attracted a large number of Chinese users to correct her statements. The other party posted another video insisting that she was not wrong and crying about being cyberbullied by Chinese people. The Korean netizens who flocked to the video also started arguing with the Chinese netizens in her comment section.
Chinese netizens claimed that these knots originated from Chinese knots, while Korean netizens insisted that they were Korean knots.
Ye-eun was speechless. She put down her phone and turned to look at Taehyun: "What does that have to do with that teacher?"
"The flames of war are about to burn to you, the company must do something to appease everyone." Taehyun sighed, and felt very sympathetic for the colleague who suddenly suffered an unexpected disaster. "Oh my god, after all, your identity is so... sensitive."
"Chinese Korean?" Ye Eun smiled. Although she grew up in Korea, she had no sense of belonging to Korea because of her special identity. Even though there were more normal Koreans around her, there were always some people who looked at her strangely from time to time.
After all, according to the Korean media, the Chinese Koreans who come to Korea are most likely either illegal immigrants or other criminals. Even if they are just going abroad for normal development, their media regard them as foreigners who rely on their similar language to snatch Koreans' job opportunities.
Even though Ye-eun had known about the xenophobia in this mono-ethnic country for more than a decade, she was still shocked to learn that she had started to have haters because of her hairstyle.
"What a bunch of trash." Ye Eun smiled and blinked, trying to suppress her anger when she looked at Taehyun, "Then help me with my hair first."
We can't let her problems delay so many people's work.
The space-style MV highlights the sense of technology. In order to match 2NE1's setting of being uncontrolled by the public's attention, being unique, independent and confident, their costumes are all futuristic.
Combined with the poker card elements related to the game of blackjack discussed earlier, the earrings on Ye-eun's ears are patterns representing the queen. In order to show a futuristic look, she dyed her hair white today. After dyeing, she cut her originally long hair to her ears. The cut hair was hung on a small string of pearls and hung down from the top of her head.
The pearly white hair, which is not completely of the same height, is hung and crisscrossed from under Ye-eun's ears to her shoulders. It looks like a string of white tassels separated by a certain distance from the hair. Only by looking closely can you find that it is actually made of hair.
With this hairstyle and her already delicate face, she really looks like a humanoid robot that might appear in the future.
Everyone's eyes widened in shock, Kong Min-ji exclaimed with envy: "Ouni is totally awesome! I wish I was that pretty!"
The corners of Ye-eun's mouth slightly raised, and she swung her hands at her waist like a dance move, but the speed of the movement changed like a robot. The smile on her face seemed to be set, and the corners of her mouth remained in the same arc when she spoke: "I heard that only beautiful people would think that I am beautiful too."
The deliberately mechanical sound made Kong Minzhi laugh: "When did you learn this, Ouni?"
"Didn't you and Zhilong sing the background music for the show 'Space Hip Hop Tribe' before? We were bored at that time so we just played around with it." Learning robots was so tiring that Ye-eun returned to normal after saying just one sentence. She raised her hand and patted the youngest member's head, "Our Min-ji is the cutest and most beautiful youngest member! And you are so talented. Those who don't like you are just people with poor taste!"
Her eyes swept over Yang Hyun Suk who was standing on the side. Yang Hyun Suk shivered suddenly with his back to Ye Eun, and shouted to the staff: "Is the air conditioner off? Why is it so cold all of a sudden?"
The staff member looked at the air conditioner switch in confusion and muttered, "It's obviously on."
During the formal recording, several people finished recording the together scenes, and when it came to the individual segments, CL in front of the green screen was riding a motorcycle, leaning over and singing while filming.
Ye-eun stood aside with her head down, thinking. When she saw the president with an expressionless face and his arms crossed, her eyes curved, and she trotted over. She tilted her head cutely, and the strings of pearls hanging in her hair also tilted to one side. "Hello, President-nim!"
Yang Hyun Suk's mouth twitched, and he pulled his cap down. When he heard Ye Eun's sweet and sensible greeting, he shuddered again, "I told you to turn on the air conditioner! Is it on?"
Staff: “… within…” He rolled his eyes and gave a perfunctory response.
Seeing that the president didn't look at her, Ye-eun raised her lips and looked at Park Chun-eun who was about to record the "rabbit" scene, "President, last time you told us what the setting of our 2NE1 was? Independent self, not defined by the world, breaking the rules, right?"
Yang Hyun Suk turned his head helplessly to look at her, covering his left cheek. Every time he saw Ye Eun, the corner of his mouth twitched. Maybe he really should go for acupuncture. "What do you want to say?"
Ye-eun crossed her arms and said, "How can such a unique girl group be afraid of other people's comments and even change the content they originally wanted to shoot, right, President? Since the topic is so high, what's wrong with us taking advantage of our own popularity? Let's make another MV something special?"
"...No." Yang Hyun Suk pursed his lips and immediately knew what Ye Eun wanted to do, "Your debut must be foolproof."
If we get into this topic, we're going to offend either Chinese fans or Korean fans, so it's better to just ignore it. After so many years, he has learned that the quickest way to let things go is to take the cold shoulder.
Ye-eun rolled her eyes, sighed, and then said, "But President-nim, it's better to have controversy than no topic, right? And if a girl group like us hides away and pretends nothing happened when something happens, can everyone really believe in the concept we want to create?"
She pulled her fringe-styled hair and sighed, "President, I really misjudged you. Over the years, you've done a lot of excessive things, but you always correct them."
Suddenly start praising yourself? Yang Hyun Suk curled his lips and automatically ignored her previous words that she had done a lot of rubbish. "That's because our YG is a democratic and free company, which is different from other entertainment companies."
Ye-eun nodded vigorously and continued to praise: "And I always thought you have one good point. You are a hip-hop artist. Under your leadership, the whole company is very swag. And you have vision and focus on strength. You see, we and Bigbang have been criticized for being ugly, but we have never been criticized for not being strong enough. How amazing are you?"
Yang Hyun Suk's pupils dilated. Is this saying he's swag? And you still say he has vision? Or is it Li Yien who is praising him? ! Is he hallucinating because he's cold?
Either he is crazy or Ye Eun is crazy. Thinking of this, he still couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth. It turned out that it was really nice to hear someone who always scolded him suddenly praise him! He used to treat his employees like this, but now that someone treats him like this, he actually feels a little happy.
"Alas, I read something online before, saying that YG artists would be caught by passers-by and brought back to YG if they were thrown on the street. Now it seems that the president is the most YG-style." She lowered her head and sighed, sweeping her palms with her hair, as if sweeping away some garbage. "After all, without the president, there would be no YG's unique style of publicity and confidence."
She glanced at the staff member who called her over, and as she was about to leave, she glanced at Yang Hyun Suk one last time with her eyes curved: "What's in the lyrics about 'I want to be free forever like today'? We in 2NE1 will never be controlled by the public!"
"...Fuck! Who are we from YG afraid of?" Yang Hyun Suk closed his eyes and felt light all over because of Ye Eun's coaxing. "We are YG!"
However, when filming the Street version of the MV, his pupils dilated when he saw the red Chinese knot earrings worn by Ye-eun, who was sitting in the car, with the word "China" written on the left and the word "Guo" written on the right.
Later, she and he discussed having them all bring small elements from different countries, such as Ye-eun from China wearing blue and white porcelain earrings, Park Bom who grew up in the United States could use DC elements, Lee Chae-rin who lives in France and Japan could use French trinkets, and Park Sandora who debuted in the Philippines could also use corresponding props.
Kong Min-ji naturally represents South Korea. This way they are not too direct and still express their attitude.
However, now there is no problem with the other four people, only Ye-eun replaced the blue and white porcelain with a Chinese knot... Isn't this directly telling netizens that they, YG, think those are from China! ?
He must have been deceived by Ye-eun's words! Right! He was so angry that he narrowed his eyes at the five people dancing in front of him. However, when he wanted to curse, he changed his words again. He didn't dare to scold Ye Eun directly, so he yelled at the other members: "Park Sandara, can you stick out your breasts that you don't have!?"
"Kong Minji, open your eyes!"
"Park Chun, your face keeps smiling so stiffly, do you want to get it fixed?"
"CL, can you please look normal in front of the camera?"
"Li Yien, you, you glare at me again?"
At first, Ye-eun didn't hear what the president said because of the music playing. She was dancing when she suddenly noticed that all the staff had stiff faces. When the music stopped, she asked in a low voice what happened, and learned from the staff what the president had just said.
Seeing the embarrassed faces of several members, Ye-eun glared at them and said, "Boss, can you please brush your stinky mouth?"
Everyone was stunned. Yien narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest. "Also, if you say these things to female employees again, I'm going to suspect you of sexual harassment in the workplace!"
The atmosphere was a little frozen for a moment, but the female employees all lowered their heads and curled their lips. What do you mean by a girl group that breaks the rules? Isn’t the president still looking at these girls with the male gaze?
He even commented on other people's secondary sexual characteristics in public. He really deserved to be scolded like that. Seeing the girls all have this expression, even the male employees didn't dare to speak.
"..." Yang Hyun Suk was so angry that his face turned purple. Didn't you treat me like this when you asked me for help a few days ago?
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