Chapter 143 Chapter 143 Group Show
The next day, while many Ji Shao fans were still lingering on the homepage, catching up on the dozens of beautiful pictures and videos compiled by their co-posters, a blog post quietly appeared in the latest updates on many people's homepages. Before long, its share, likes, and comments grew much faster than those beautiful pictures and videos.
"WP offline event invitation!" This line of words was repeatedly displayed on the homepage of a certain blog of fans. Although there had been a promotion of "online show" in cooperation with this luxury brand last time, such an obvious offline invitation for cooperation really made many fans feel extremely excited.
It can also be seen from the blog messages sent out in advance by its own fan club that as a luxury brand, WP naturally hopes that fans can give more offline support, otherwise it would not have deliberately released a preheating for the platform activities that will not open until the beginning of next month.
Elsewhere, Zhou Xiao was still looking at some content compiled by his co-hosts. The screenshots in their blog posts actually captured "You"'s strong performance on major music platforms in a short period of time. Amidst all this heated discussion, Ji Shao himself received an overwhelming amount of praise.
Speaking of this, we have to mention Ji Shao, the center of the boy band. Amidst last night's sloppy, off-key, and "awful" performances, he stood out as the brightest spot among the few high-quality performances at the gala. Zhou Xiao, a fan, also used her skills to show more viewers that there are such outstanding performances and such outstanding idols in the Chinese entertainment industry.
The film's massive opening-day box office of over 1 billion yuan not only garnered unparalleled traffic and buzz for the actors during this year's extra-long Golden Week holiday, but also, somewhat unexpectedly, helped launch the national style music scene for the boy band NINE STAR, who performed the film's first promotional song. This helped them gain popularity and share their popularity.
Inside the hotel, Qi Sisi stood at the sink, washing the fruit she'd brought specially. Having nothing else to do today, she'd come to find Zhou Xiao to watch the latest episode of the group variety show. As Zhou Xiao walked into the kitchen and helped her carry the fruit into the media room, Qi Sisi reached over, grabbed an orange from the fruit bowl, and tossed it up, saying, "Xiaoxiao, have you seen the preview for this group variety show?"
Zhou Xiao, who was asked, had of course watched it. This morning, all the fan clubs had received a special announcement from Hua Yao in the group chat: to celebrate the huge success of NINE STAR's first promotional song, an extra episode of the group variety show, originally scheduled for tonight, would be added!
As soon as the news broke, netizens on the forums were already speculating about the content of the extra episode. Zhou Xiaoyou took a quick look and felt that his thoughts were quite consistent with those of the netizens: the extra episode would definitely be related to the movie, but there were different opinions as to whether it would be a music video.
The MV of "You" was obviously shot on a green screen, which saves time and effort, and was re-edited with some clips from the movie... But seeing that the members worked very hard, there are still many fans behind the scenes who want to support them.
Just as everyone was excited about tonight's group variety show, a bombshell, thickly coated with sugar, dropped on Nine Star fans. Huayao Star Entertainment was planning to create a customized debut solo album and photoshoot for the member who topped the NINE STAR debut album sales.
This was an irresistible temptation for fans, and within minutes of the news being released, it had spread throughout the fan community. Especially with the instigation of fans, a rumor quietly fermented on the forums that the performance of the first album would determine resource allocation.
Zhou Xiao listened to Zhu Jian who initiated a voice call in the small group and cursed the economic company on the other end of the phone. She and Qi Sisi beside her looked at each other and sighed in their hearts: Look how depressed this kid is!
Huayao's actions were clearly intended to boost sales. Zhou Xiao had previously reviewed the performance of "Wind"'s first album, which sold nearly 100,000 copies in its first week, with sales exceeding one million. This was actually a pretty good performance; even without a promotional campaign, the sales and customer base were already impressive.
In fact, before the sales push began, the various fan clubs had already made preparations. As the top of the heap, many people were looking to Ji Shao's fan club, waiting to see what they would do. Would they continue to invest in a nine-way battle, or simply invest enough to repel the others?
Regarding Huayao's move, even many fans of the March Show who had already left to join the new talent show "Dream Come True" next door returned to follow. As netizens speculated and compared the payout ratios of various companies, the matter became increasingly lively.
"Help!" Qi Sisi, who was originally watching the discussion in the forum, couldn't help but let out a loud cry after inadvertently looking at the time on her mobile phone.
Zhou Xiao yawned, looking away from her phone screen to Qi Sisi beside her. The Weibo account she was surfing on had been added to a small group the moment she was notified of the incident. Most of the followers in the group looked familiar, active Ji Shao fans. Zhou Xiao was immediately engulfed in a flood of discussion, and she'd been following the chat logs ever since she joined.
Qi Sisi frowned, "Have we forgotten why I came to see you today?"
"Group variety show!" "Variety show!" The two of them said in unison, as if remembering something. Zhou Xiao checked the time and pulled up NINE STAR's group variety show on Blueberry Video. It was over two hours long, so long that after watching it, he could have just tucked into bed and fallen asleep.
"No problem, I'll see if there's a cut out now." Zhou Xiao seemed to remember something and opened a website. Sure enough, today's most diligent fan had quietly emerged! "Ji Shao 4K Station," diligent and seemingly unfazed by gossip, had already edited today's group variety show cut out.
Zhou Xiao glanced at the edited video; it was nearly half an hour long. While 4K Station edited Ji Shao's solo cut, it also included context for the story's completeness. He was considered a high-quality video editor in the industry.
So Zhou Xiao simply projected the video onto the screen, and together with Qi Sisi, watched the edited fourth episode of the group variety show -
This episode of the group variety show was quite simple. The opening credits showed the McDonald's commercial the members had filmed during this period. Zhou Xiao even went back to watch it. Ji Shao, dressed as a fast food waiter, acted quite naturally in this somewhat frivolous commercial. The footage given to him by the sponsor showed how satisfied they were with Ji Shao.
The scene cuts to a recording studio entrance, where a bus slowly approaches from a distance. As the camera zooms in on the bus door, it slides open horizontally. Ji Shao, already standing at the entrance, bared his large white teeth and waved a greeting. Simultaneously, a chibi figure of Ji Shao in the upper right corner of the video also greets the audience.
The scene shifted, and Ji Shao and the members were already following their manager deeper into the studio. On the way, the manager jokingly asked them if they had memorized the lyrics and if they were nervous. Upon arrival, as the members pushed open the closed dressing room door, even the photographer's camera visibly began to shake.
Inside NINE STAR's dressing room, several prominent figures gathered. The stars of the film "The General" were smiling as they met their new cast members. Zhou Xiao noticed that among them were Shu Shi and Li Anben, who had taken photos with NINE STAR at the "Fashion" dinner.
While the members standing at the door were still stunned, Ji Shao was the first to react. He first gently bumped into Wu Yanyan, who was still in shock, and gave him a subtle look. After being reminded by Ji Shao, Wu Yanyan led the members to greet their seniors.
Zhou Xiao couldn't help but find it a bit amusing to watch Ji Shao, who, after introducing himself to each other, had already naturally found a makeup mirror and sat down, waiting for the others to calm down. But now, looking at the reserved expressions of some of the members, Ji Shao's personality seemed a little better.
What surprised Zhou Xiao was that in the cut clip, because of the fans' editing skills, adhering to the premise that ant meat is also meat, the original shot of Ji Shao in the corner was also artificially magnified.
So, the audience can see, in the video that has been restored to the best possible clarity, Ji Shao, standing at the end of the queue in front of the recording studio. At this moment, he is chatting with Li Anben who is passing by in the back. Although the image is quite blurry, the two people in the video seem to be chatting happily.
Ji Shao, who entered the recording studio last, also looked very relaxed. The members would exchange their experiences with each other after the recording was finished. As the last one, Ji Shao naturally absorbed a lot of people's experience.
Through the glass wall of the control room, Ji Shao could clearly see him in the recording studio. He put on the headset that the previous person had placed in front of the sheet music and began to immerse himself in the rhythm of the music. Although this scene only lasted a few seconds, watching Qi Sisi, who kept returning to the screen to play this clip again and again, I believe everyone understands how important these few seconds are.
——【Forum】——[October 1st, early morning]
[Topic] Stayed up late to watch the latest group variety show (not talking about album sales...)
[Main Building] I thought NINE STAR was already high-flying after taking a photo with them at the "Fashion" dinner, but I didn't expect them to participate in our small group variety show this time... I remember that the box office revenue of a certain cat has reached 1.8 billion so far, right? What is our small group variety show really worth?
1L
Although, this has already been discussed last night. I heard from the main actor's fan that the main actor team of "Will" happened to be shooting a promotional short video there, and our Huayao missed it hahahaha
24L
This promotional song is really worth recording. Which movie will cooperate with the singer of the promotional song? It is a favor to be able to interact with him. Haven't you seen some singers get so angry that they want to die?
51L
Originally, some people used Qiao's status as a singer to look down on idols and show people, but in the end, their traffic, products, and treatment were all killed one by one. Who wouldn't be anxious?
87L
Now it all depends on the album sales, right? I, the spectator, just hope someone can come up with some real money to beat the other guy.
91L
The guy above killed the whole conversation. The original poster said he would not talk about the album anymore. The forum was flooded with messages from you guys all night yesterday.
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