Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Forum Style丨Composer JY and Star...
Title: Knife 2 is so popular again!
Content: I thought the fourth-generation girl group scene was over, but who could have imagined a resurgence? Especially last year, she was unemployed, ridiculed online, and even rumored to be a "zisha" (purple sand) girl. But in just six months, she's rocketed to the top! Life's ups and downs are thrilling, but to experience the ups and downs and then take off like All Star Love is truly extraordinary. It takes a lot of heart to be a fan who follows her from head to toe.
Think about it, RD was a third-rate girl group last year, but this year their sales have already broken into the second-tier. That's incredible! Their single-player "All-Star Love" accounted for a third of their sales! Holy crap, I knew Blade II was going to be a resurgence, but I didn't expect it to be this popular. And their Chinese fans are impressive too. Where do they get all these old Chinese fans?
However, what triggered this feeling in me was that she was stranded in Japan, opened a short video account, and gained a million followers in three days. Now it is almost breaking 10 million. The data of her personal channel on YouTube is also bizarrely good. I looked through the comments, and the netizen Xiao Han next door is like a two-faced person. Last year he was sarcastic, but this year the comment section is full of flattery.
While others are unemployed due to the pandemic, Dao 2 has been a huge traffic generator during this period. I've watched every one of her beach guitar videos multiple times. The songs are beautiful, and the actress is charming. Even though it's just ordinary singing and playing, it's inexplicably captivating and keeps me watching again and again! And every outfit is so casual and everyday, yet somehow looks great, giving her a Japanese-style beauty vibe.
Moreover, the most popular short video happy challenge recently was also initiated by RD. It went from being popular on the external network to the internal network, and now domestic entertainment and ordinary people have started to start taking it up.
I paid attention to the data recorded by fans of each member. The traffic in the 24 hours after the four people released the video was very different. The number of likes and views of Quanxingai was far ahead, but to be honest, it was indeed hers that attracted me the most.
Watching the sunrise together, dancing on the beach, and the perfectly timed editing... It was completely from the girlfriend's perspective. The moment her face got closer, my heart went empty! She was without makeup, and she seemed to have dark circles under her eyes, but it was so real that it actually made me like her more.
I inexplicably feel that Dao 2 has a much stronger sense of life compared to other idols. She does not avoid the opposite sex at all, nor does she care about the opinions of the outside world. Maybe she cared about it before, so she has been silent. Now she has given it her all and returned, and she is even more popular than the year she debuted.
Ke Pao has been suffering from being a fake person for a long time. Recently, when I was working from home and was locked up at home and felt very irritable, I liked to watch Dao 2's videos. Her smile is very contagious, and she is also a top student. The old people are most susceptible to this. No wonder she has always been quite popular among the old people. She was an orphan, has a beautiful face, and is good at studying, but she is miserable... all the elements are present.
But I still want to get some gossip about what's going on between her and Song Chang? They only mentioned Song Chang, the only member of the opposite sex! Amazing! They're already swamped with rumors, yet they're completely unfazed. Are they really just collaborating on the next film? Ahhh, I really want to know. And who did she go to Japan with? Actually, if you look closely, the styles of the videos are clearly different. There must be multiple photographers involved. It's not like she brought a whole crew, right?!
1L: Compared to you blowing the knife 2 I prefer to see others 8 her scandals and gossip
2L: Whether she is popular or not, isn’t it just because of a few scandals that she became popular again...If she hadn’t had a scandal with GD before her comeback, why would so many people pay attention to her.
3L: It’s only been a few months since you became popular again. It’d be funny if you were to go back to your old ways with the next album…
4L: To be honest, I also prefer the current Blade 2. It has a stronger sense of life, and whether it is good or not, at least it is the real me.
5L: The data of her short videos is explosively good, each one has millions of likes. Everyone who is stuck at home likes to watch her surfing at the beach, but after such a long time, has no one figured out where she is?
6L: It seems to be on Kyushu Island in Japan
7L: Are you really with your boyfriend? Is the short video from the girlfriend's perspective?
8L: There’s a Sakura girl on Twitter who said she saw a girl who looked like Quan Xing Ai in Kyoto at the beginning of the month, with a guy…
9L: Wow! Big news! Blade 2 and the guy, who? Song Kang? Cha Eun-woo? These two recently participated in the Happy Challenge, both in Korea. Who is that?
10L: Have you forgotten about Blade 2's Nike resources? Could it be with Cage? Cage hasn't updated his social media since the couple started the new year. What's he busy with?
11L: Climb upstairs, don’t drag me, Long, into this.
12L: The last time Cage appeared on social media was when he liked Knife 2, but there was no news after that!
13L: Didn't Sakura take any pictures? Otherwise, let's compare them. Netizens love to solve crimes. Bring them to me and I'll solve the case.
14L: My dragon hasn't been out since he retired from the army except for selling shoes once. Don't add new gossips to him. Besides, his likes are just reviewing memorials, which is meaningless...
15L: Anyway, I really like Dao 2 right now. Gossip aside, her stage performance has been completely rejuvenated! She's a completely mature artist, much better than when she debuted with such a huge impact. I've watched the Gayo Daejeon videos dozens of times! When will they have a concert? I'm really looking forward to seeing Dao live!
16L: The idol just started filming a Korean drama as soon as he started to achieve some success. He is doing this all over the place. Now his good reputation among the public accounts for 60% of his admission into Seoul.
17L: Didn’t she get into Seoul National University by her own ability? Come on, that’s Seoul National University. It’s equivalent to a beautiful lady from Tsinghua University or Peking University. It’s natural that she will attract fans when she participates in a talent show... What’s more, she repeated her senior year under pressure in her busy schedule after her debut and got in. It must be because of the Korean restriction order, otherwise she would be even more popular.
18L: I can’t stand seeing Dao 2 being so free at home, ahhhhhhhh I envy her so much!
19L: It's ridiculous to link them together just because of a like. Not updating social media doesn't mean they are together. It's better to study how Dao 2 got into Seoul National University. I care more about this...
20L: By the way, will Blade 2 make it in time for school? Is she locked out of the country and can't come back? Laughing and getting rich...
21L: On the Blowing Knife 2 stage, on the contrary, I think her expressiveness is good, but she is too unique and stands out too much. If I were a neon, I would definitely suppress her.
22L: Stop kidding, teammates. You've been suppressing me for years. Your sword is almost obsolete and you're still suppressing me. In the end, it was my star that saved me.
23L: The inevitable path for every popular group is internal fighting...
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Surfing expert Jeon Seong-ae also saw the discussion on the forum about her. Besides those arguing and praising her, she noticed the post by Sakura Girl that seemed to indicate she had witnessed the incident. She was incredibly thankful that she had dressed very modestly this time, complete with hat and mask. Even Kwon Ji-yong had gone for a more low-key look, a departure from his usual style.
In fact, neither of them realized that when they made the decision to travel and were preparing to go out, their bodies had unconsciously returned to the mode of avoiding fans and paparazzi 10 years ago.
Before my mind could even think clearly, my body had already taken action, completely thinking, "Since I'm going out with him, I have to be low-key." Plus, they are both very sensitive to the camera, so since they were traveling by car and avoiding crowds, no photos were leaked along the way.
Aside from a few days in Kyoto, when memories of the past brought some melancholy, the rest of the time was spent relaxing. This was especially true in Kagoshima, where Jeon Seong-ae finally got some rare downtime. Perhaps it was the relaxation of the body that made the mind more alert, or perhaps it was the blessing of those old musical instrument friends who graced the Kyoto house, that inspired Jeon Seong-ae to pour forth like a flood.
After writing a song with Kwon Ji-yong that day, Jeon Star Love entered music mode. Every day when she woke up, a new melody would burst out in her mind. She would quickly find a guitar and start trying. When she found that the guitar was not enough, she drove herself to buy a piano. The crazy growth of her creative desire seriously affected her enthusiasm for making videos.
She now writes songs day and night, and has put her short videos and YouTube vlogs aside and no longer updates them.
Manager Oh Hyun-ho is worried about the short-lived popularity of Jeon Seol-ae's vlogs, but he also wants to encourage her current passion for writing songs.
After all, this guy is with Kwon Ji-Dragon now. Who can encounter such a God-given master class? If he is lucky, he might even be able to work with Kwon Ji-Dragon. That's GD. He wrote "Lies" at the age of 19. Every song of his is a masterpiece. He has been the number one superstar in South Korea since he became popular in 2006.
But RD's current popularity is just beginning to pick up momentum, and she hasn't established herself yet. Any slight disturbance could cause her popularity to plummet. Although Quan Xing Ai always makes people nervous with all the scandals, those are just groundless rumors. This is the real shocker. If people really knew that she was in Japan with a senior, living under the same roof...
He shook his head, not daring to think about it. The popularity gap was too big, and it was not easy to take advantage of this kind of popularity.
When he saw everyone's focus on the forum and 818, he nearly had a heart attack and stopped trying to persuade Quan Xing Ai to post videos. He told them to just stop and divert everyone's attention. However, this was also the first time he discovered that Quan Xing Ai's "Growing Flowers Next Door" was quite popular. He checked the list of the mini album and saw that—
Wow, the total sales volume has reached 200,000 so far. Xingai's personal sales volume is 80,000, and Zhonglu has 30,000. Not bad. They are a small company called Neo, and they can't pile up trending searches and marketing like the Big Three. To be honest, RIOT DOLLS has not made it into the Chinese market yet, but they have attracted so many Chinese fans just by this comeback.
Wu Xianhao couldn't help but ask the company's public relations department to post a question in disguise, and by the way, he brought up the trend of the forum to pay attention to various scandals of Star Love.
*forum*
Title: If you don’t understand, ask Dao 2. How did it suddenly become popular in TC?
Content: Honestly, hasn't this group always been obscure? Why did they suddenly become so popular? Especially All Star Love. I had only heard of their name before, and they were known for negative news. How did they suddenly gain so many fans?
1L: Because the old Chinese only love academic masters and beauties, not to mention that Dao 2 is a real academic master and a real beauty...
2L: It’s a pity for her. She is good-looking but has a miserable background. She is a natural tool for gaining fans by playing the victim, but unfortunately she is not strong enough.
3L: Is it really popular? I can only say that it has made some splashes...
4L: All the other girl groups of the fourth generation have gone to the US, and we are ready to make a comeback = =
5L: Don't worry, our swords have their own rhythm! 23333
6L: To be honest, the title of Kpao’s first Seoul University can fool a lot of people who come here to watch the fun. I even bought a copy of the album just for fun.
7L: And she is back to full strength now. The stage is the best tonic. With this expressiveness, Blade 2 will succeed in everything.
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Wu Xianhao summarized the collected data and found that although the Chinese people next door had limited Korean influence, the market potential was still astonishingly large. Even a small gap could make a lot of money, so he quietly put the Chinese learning course on the members' schedule as quickly as possible.
At the weekly online meeting, he expressed his opinion that the new album could be considered for release in the Chinese market, that songs in the style that fans of "Zhonghua" would like could be added, and that a social media account could be opened to increase interaction.
President Moon has been stuck overseas lately due to the pandemic, but during an online meeting, he stated, "I hope this album can capitalize on the opportunities presented by this pandemic. While this sudden event has brought inconvenience to the entertainment industry and the world, a crisis can also be an opportunity. We can discuss the theme and form of the new album, whether to continue with the conceptual style or explore a new path. I've been thinking about taking a lyrical and healing approach lately."
Quan Xingai, who always slacked off during online meetings, finally perked up when her boss said something like, "Just when she's dozing off, someone's offering her a pillow!" Her recent songs have all been lyrical, and the company has decided to go for a lyrical style. How can this not be considered good luck? And Chuangzhong isn't bad either. Its fans are the most enthusiastic and appreciate lyrical songs with catchy melodies.
"Xing'ai, I saw the look in your eyes. What's wrong? Do you have anything to say about this topic?" President Wen smiled.
"Yes, I completely agree with what the president said. Lyrical is good. I love lyrical!"
"Because the songs Xingai wrote recently are all lyrical and healing, she is living a very comfortable life in Japan." RD has a group chat, and Quan Xingai chats with everyone in the group every day. Her teammates naturally know that she is stranded in Kagoshima, but facing the sea with spring flowers blooming, she can still sleep until she wakes up naturally, and she is full of inspiration to create every day.
"Oh, does Star Love You create with Zhenli unnie every day?" Park Jinwen asked curiously.
The teammates only knew that Xingai lived in Kagoshima with Park Jinri and He Ra, and had no idea that Xingai was actually traveling with Kwon Ji-yong.
Wu Xianhao and Ji Mingzhen suddenly started coughing on the other end of the video. The two people who knew the inside story attracted the attention of President Wen, who also knew the inside story. She smiled meaningfully but did not say anything.
Jeon Seong-ae felt a little sorry for hiding it from her teammates, but it seemed strange to bring it up on her own initiative. She and Kwon Ji-yong seemed to have developed a relationship that even they themselves couldn't figure out. Putting aside the complicated relationship, she turned her attention to the new album.
"...We'll discuss it together. The songs I've written recently are indeed lyrical. In this state, I think people's senses should be connected. Everyone needs something warm and healing. But this is just these few songs. We still need to discuss the specific album concept. If the style is too different, will the fans have trouble getting used to it?"
"Xing Ai played me some of her compositions, which are quite good, with beautiful melodies, but the style is a big issue. A ballad album is certainly fine, but given the current situation in Korea, do girl groups really have to focus on ballad albums? And - Xing Ai, several of the files you sent me have columns marked with composition and arrangement. Who is JY among them? Did you create them together with this JY?" Mike's video lit up, and then he spoke.
Quan Xingai sprayed all the water out, and after wiping it off, he said nonchalantly, "Oh, yes, a producer friend helped us discuss this."
Yes, the producer is Ji Yong Ben Yong.
Most of the songs that Xingai created in Kagoshima were discussed with Quan Zhilong. Both of them were deeply involved in the production. Most of the songs were composed by Xingai herself, and the arrangements were made by Quan Zhilong.
One night, when they were talking about signatures, Xing Ai remembered the various rumors about her and Kwon Ji Yong that she had seen before, so she asked him with her chin propped up, "Let's not talk about the quality of these songs. The people in the company just picked them without thinking when they saw the producer list. Who would use GD's golden signboard..."
"What? Don't you want to borrow Oppa's light?"
"Yes, thanks to you, Gdragon retired from the army and changed his ways, breaking off all ties with Waiji and now collaborating with a third-rate girl group. Is this a loss of humanity or a moral collapse..."
"Maybe it's the witch's temptation." Quan Zhilong interrupted her with a smile.
"Not Aquaman's fish pond anymore?" Quan Xingai curled her lips, then looked at Quan Zhilong seriously: "Think of a new stage name for yourself. Don't use GD or KJY. Don't you want to try to shed the halo of a superstar and see if your songs can still be recognized by the market?"
Quan Zhilong, who was just joking at first, was piqued by the girl's provocation. "Don't try to play tricks on me. Do you think I don't know that you just don't want to continue writing those messy news stories and want to avoid trouble? But if it's your idea, I will respect it. JY, use the name JY instead."
"Zhilong?"
"You're so disrespectful!"
Her memories were brought back, and she turned her attention back to the online meeting in front of her. Mike was still chattering in praise of her song, making everyone else curious about Quan Xing Ai's new work.
"Mike, one month is almost up. Let's discuss the song when I come back." Quan Xingai interrupted Mike's muttering.
"The vacation days are coming to an end. Congratulations, Xingai. Come back and get into work mode." The teammates said happily.
"Thank you..."
The online meeting ended with everyone laughing and chatting. The album style has not yet been determined. Quan Xingai is already thinking about how she will make the new album from the perspective of the team and the industry. Although the lyrical temptation is great, it is indeed a risk from a market perspective.
She left her room and went downstairs. She heard a melodious piano melody, a familiar tune. She tiptoed closer, only to see Kwon Ji-yong, wearing a graffiti T-shirt, sitting at the piano. She couldn't make out his expression. The living room echoed with her songs, songs from the past—Sarah Kim's songs.
She sighed. Did coming to Japan with Quan Zhilong this time help him get over it, or did it make him fall deeper into it?
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