Chapter 83 The first one-shot performance

Chapter 83 The first one-shot singing stage

In December 2007, as soon as the promotion in Korea was over, Bigbang was packed up and thrown into Japan. For the Japanese market, the company even booked a hotel for them in Japan for nearly three months.

It was the first time that the two of them were separated for such a long time, and every day Ye-en would receive photos from a foreign country. From the sunset photographed from the car, the sparkling sea, the occasional birds circling by, to the withered cherry blossoms on the branches, Ye-eun seemed to be able to imagine every scene as he squinted his eyes and raised his phone to take the photo.

"I want to watch the sunset with you."

"I haven't seen the sea with you yet."

"Ask the bird if it can carry me back to you."

“The cherry trees without flowers look so lonely.”

Every piece of information allowed the breath of his life to penetrate into Yien's mind, making Yien, who didn't like playing with mobile phones, accustomed to carrying her mobile phone with her at all times.

On the New Year's Eve before his debut in Japan, it was said that Kwon Ji-yong tried to escape back to Korea with the members, but the plan was leaked for some reason, and in the end he could only stand helplessly in Japan, looking up at the fireworks rising into the sky while calling Ye-eun.

Hearing the sound of fireworks exploding from behind as the man on the other end of the phone complained about who had complained and that their passports had been taken away by their manager, Ye-eun curled her lips, imagining him lying on the table with a desperate expression on his face, "When I was a child, you wanted to kidnap me to go to elementary school, and now you're kidnapping the members and running away? The first time I was punished to kneel in my life was because of you."

Quan Zhilong's angry voice came over: "How come it's me who kidnapped you again! Don't slander me, it was you who hugged my legs and cried and said you wanted to go to school with me!"

He seemed to be very angry at Ye-eun's "confusion of right and wrong", and kept saying: "You can't just say nonsense because you are young! And do you remember that time when you suddenly didn't want to go to school, and begged me to pretend that Uncle Jin asked for leave for you, I called the teacher, but the next day you said it was my idea!"

Yi Eun frowned. How come in her memory, when Kwon Ji-yong saw that she didn't want to go to school that day, he excitedly said that he would pretend to be her uncle and ask for leave for her? "You are embellishing yourself in your memory, aren't you the mastermind at that time?"

"Oh no? Li Yien, keep talking nonsense! When I was broadcasting at the school radio station, who suddenly rushed into the broadcast room and said that he was the principal and the whole school was going to have a day off?" Quan Zhilong, who was far away in Japan, lay on the bed in the hotel, his legs dangling, with a smile on his face, "You can't have forced me to say that, right?"

Yi-eun frowned again. This happened when she was in the third grade of elementary school, but she vaguely remembered that it was Quan Zhilong who gave her the "manuscript". "You are talking nonsense again. You definitely instructed me to do this. I was so well-behaved when I was a child!"

Quan Zhilong burst out laughing, "Or you can ask my mom and the others, they..."

Suddenly, a loud bell rang outside the hotel, and the clear sound echoed in the room. Quan Zhilong's eyes curved up, and he said in a baby voice, "Ye Eun, let's move towards the fifteenth year of our acquaintance together."

Ye-eun also smiled and nodded: "Ji-ryong, nice to meet you. This sentence comes from Lee Ye-eun in 1994 who made you cry the first time we met."

After they finished speaking, they were silent for two seconds, and then suddenly laughed together, "Let's continue to walk happily together in 2008."

On January 4, 2008, Bigbang officially debuted in Japan as an overseas singer rather than a Korean pop group by releasing their first Japanese mini album "For The World".

A month later, on February 1, 2NE1 released the hip-hop song "Fire" and officially debuted in South Korea. As soon as "Fire" was released, it replaced "Last Greetings" from Bigbang's second mini album "Hot Issue", which had topped the music chart for eight consecutive weeks.

On the same day, YG released two versions of the music video, "Space" and "Street". Once the Street version was released, it was played more than 500,000 times within two hours.

You have to know that in a country with a population of only more than 40 million, this data may not be so amazing when compared with popular groups such as TVXQ, Bigbang and Wonder Girls, but this is a new girl group that has just released its debut song.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh that there was a reason why YG's president had been warming up for so long.

Even the controversy caused by one of the members wearing Chinese knot earrings with the word "China" written on them was considered to be deliberate hype by the company.

After all, in recent years, remarks such as "Anesthetics were invented in Korea", "Korea performed the world's first surgical operation", and "Dragon Boat Festival is being listed as a world heritage site" in the TV series "Dae Jang Geum" have caused occasional friction between netizens of the two countries.

The girl group looked very different in Korea and was disliked by many men. Coupled with the hot cultural controversy, it was inevitable that the only foreign member, Ye-eun, became the first member to have a black fan station while having the highest level of discussion.

When she first saw the website called "Anti-Li", Ye-eun clicked on it seriously. Facing the four members who looked worried, she was the one who comforted them: "Wow, look at the ugly photos here, you can't even tell that it's me, can you use it to blacken me? Also, this one is actually quite interesting, they drew a red face on me, it's quite cute."

"Also, when someone insults a family member like this, the other party's parents must be very humorous to have created such a joke." Ye Eun muttered, "They posted such filthy things online, and I don't know if they would be able to insult them if they met in real life."

"Ye-eun...are you okay?" Park Chun squatted down worriedly, afraid that Ye-eun was forcing a smile, and patted his shoulder, "If you are sad, just cry a little?"

Park Sandara also sighed and wanted to take Ye-eun's phone away, but Ye-eun tightly guarded her phone, her face full of caution: "Ouni, it was Zhilong who caused your phone to be confiscated. You can't take revenge on me, okay?"

"Ah..." Park Sandara smiled speechlessly. He could still joke with himself like this. It seemed that he really didn't take those things on the Internet to heart. "It's good that you're okay. Anti, everyone will have it when the time comes."

"I'm really fine. I've been prepared for this. It's impossible for an artist to be liked by everyone. Hey, Jiyong is also the first one in Bigbang to have an anti-fan website. We are worthy of being the top brother and sister!" Ye Eun was flipping through the posts in the website. She was about to comment on a comment that scolded her for not being worthy of debuting, but when she clicked on it again, the website had disappeared.

Li Cailin glanced at her phone page and patted her head, "Why do you and GD Oppa both have bloody constitutions?"

Ye-eun shrugged, put her phone away in boredom, and said shamelessly: "Maybe it's because we are too dazzling?"

The remaining four people, except for the young Kong Minzhi, actually rolled their eyes. Even the most gentle Park Chun complained: "I really worried about you in vain."

People who have never cared about what others think since childhood seem to have a big heart.

Ye-eun didn’t care about all the chaos on the Internet. She cared more about their first debut stage.

February 9, 2008, SBS Inkigayo.

As with Bigbang’s previous debut stage, the music show will be in the form of intro + music promotion, and each member will be given time to perform their own dance in the intro part. When the SBS staff learned that 2NE1 was going to have a one-shot entrance, they were a little worried.

Over the years, no idol group has ever taken the approach of filming their first stage underground. After all, the cost of promoting their songs needs to be borne by the artists themselves, and most idol groups are already unable to make ends meet just by promoting their songs, let alone working hard on the stage.

However, when they heard the other party's agent say that they should not only use the usual equipment but also use Samsung phones for filming, they understood. It turns out there is sponsorship.

From the waiting passage to the elevator, there are subtle but visible Samsung logos on the stage. Ye-eun glanced at these logos and nervously lowered her head and clenched her hands.

In order to achieve harmony on the official stage, she dyed her hair into a cold tea brown color, and kept the mullet that Kwon Ji-yong had two years ago. Her hair only reached her shoulders, and her makeup was deliberately drawn in a cool direction, which gave her originally gentle face a hint of neutrality.

He wore a black inner layer and a yellow jacket on the upper body, and yellow overalls on the lower body. At first glance, they were all wearing pants, unlike the other girl groups who were almost all wearing skirts.

Because Ye-eun is the tallest in the team, she only wore two-centimeter high heels, while Min-ji, who has not yet grown up, wore ten-centimeter high heels at a young age and is now waiting nervously on the side.

In fact, not only were they nervous, but even the staff who had never done a one-shot performance in a music show were still nervously reviewing the process even though they had already rehearsed.

"Ouni, fighting!" She quietly raised her hands and clenched them into fists, cheering for Ye-eun. The remaining three people who were wearing headsets also turned around and gave Ye-eun a thumbs up, "Go!"

Yien's heart was already beating fast at this point, but everyone's encouragement made her relax a little. She smiled at everyone and lowered her head to adjust her headset for the last time. When she heard the countdown coming from the headset, her expression changed, and the gentleness in her eyes was instantly replaced by sharpness when she looked at the camera teacher.

As the first one to go on stage, Yien not only had to lay a good foundation, but also had to pay attention to her positioning, because the combination of cameras and mobile phone shooting made the already narrow passage seem even narrower.

"2NE1, get ready! No. 1, three, two, one!" When the staff's countdown reached one in her ear, Ye-eun realized that her image had already been synchronized to the big screen on the stage. Listening to the faint screams coming from above, Ye-eun put her hands on her hips and curled her lips. She was wearing only two-centimeter high heels, but because of her body shape trained in ballet since childhood, she could walk in the narrow passage like a catwalk.

She stared at the camera pointed at her, and as she walked from the aisle to her dance solo venue, Ye-eun raised her hand and hooked her finger towards the camera.

As the camera moved forward, she bent her waist and began her half-minute solo show. Her neat dance moves were matched with her disdainful eyes. The underground space that she had spent a lot of money on actually made a few red floor lights during her final ending pose. When the lights shone on Ye-eun, she looked as enchanting and beautiful as a succubus that had emerged from the ground.

She raised her hand and the camera switched to high-definition face-to-face shooting again. Ye-eun walked towards the elevator whose walls were decorated in the style of playing cards. She finally leaned back with her elbows and leaned against the elevator. The scene of her doing so instantly made the cheers of the audience on the upper floor spread to the lower floor again.

Her one-shot was over, and Sandara Park took over as the second member to appear on the big screen. The two cameramen who were following Ye-eun immediately turned off the cameras and trotted to prepare for Min-zy, who was the third member to appear.

Hearing in her headphones that Park Sandara had successfully started her stage show, Ye-eun breathed a sigh of relief, and her elbows that were originally resting on the elevator railing also relaxed slightly. She lowered her head to wipe the sweat from her palms and narrowed her eyes. Although she was nervous, she completed the task very well.

She had never seen Kwon Ji-yong's official debut stage on a music show, but she had heard him say that he was so nervous backstage that he didn't want to talk at all. So it really was like that.

After relaxing for a dozen seconds and calculating that Park Sandara's solo show was almost over, Ye-eun posed again. Sure enough, Dara unnie was walking towards her not far away, just like her.

However, the next moment, the elevator door, which had not been controlled for a long time, suddenly began to close slowly. Park Sandara couldn't help but her pupils trembled. Where was the staff who controlled the elevator!

Ye-eun also panicked for a moment, and immediately reached out and frantically pressed the door-opening button. Fortunately, the elevator door was fully opened when Park Sandara's photographer walked to the elevator. Ye-eun, who was frantically pressing the elevator button a second ago, had already returned to her original pose when the photographer turned around to shoot the scene inside the elevator.

It seemed like a scene without any mistakes, with only Ye-eun's frantic heartbeat and slightly trembling fingers indicating what had just happened.

The camera left again. Ye-eun and Park Sandara looked at each other, not daring to speak, but smiled and shook their heads at the same time.

When all five people reached the elevator, the two staff members squeezed in the small corner patted the five people standing in the middle. When the elevator rose to the stage, as soon as the elevator door opened, huge cheers came in.

The five members smiled, and their leader CL raised her hand and shouted, "This is 2NE1, I go by the name of CL of 2NE1." They filed out of the elevator and started the first stage of 2NE1.

Amidst the huge cheers, everyone danced hard and seriously, and tried to sing exactly the same as the source music. Even Park Bom, who was the worst dancer, tried her best to do every move well. They had practiced the song for countless days and nights backstage, but the performance on stage lasted only three minutes. When the music ended, they slightly hooked their chins and did the ending pose, listening to the fans' cheers and smiling confidently.

2NE1, who is determined to develop their own unique style, has officially debuted!

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