82 Second Creation
When the second season of "I Have Not" officially announced the full lineup of trainees, the one who received the most attention was not Leng Ci, who gained six fans as soon as he appeared on the show, but several trainees from Xin Mengting, Chen Ying and Yuan Lantian who "returned" for the second time.
When Xin Mengting first participated in the talent show, she also had a certain fan base. The fact that she had no work afterwards can be attributed to the overall environment and the company. This time, with her new comeback, she was immediately the focus of marketing accounts. Before her debut, she had already attracted a lot of controversies.
Although Yuanxin has never used fan voting as the criterion for the debut of boy bands and girl groups, the idol industry is a fan economy after all. The first season has already established the foundation of amateur trainees discovered and auditioned by Yuanxin itself. If a few trainees who participated in talent shows were to appear in the second season, some fans would immediately be unhappy.
It's not just a matter of fan base. These trainees have been training for longer years, and if they are put on the same stage to compete, the fairness of the program will of course be questioned first.
But there are also fans who used to be their fans and have regained the feeling of being upset at that time, and have smoothly returned to the fandom. This time, they said they didn’t want to see Zidan’s broken eyes in tears anymore, and started a battle to argue for Zidan who failed to make a successful debut. People are naturally different in talent and appearance, so how can there be absolute fairness?
The quarrel continued until the show started. It was difficult for the official to intervene easily in such a dispute between fans. It was not until the first episode of "I Have Never Been" that interviews with Xin Mengting and her friends and all the other trainees were released. The dispute was slightly resolved and moved into private.
This time, the pilot film is a heart-warming one. The girls are in groups, either on the lawn or on an empty stage. They lean on each other in twos and threes. Some are slightly sweaty and wearing stage makeup, while others are just wearing simple training clothes and black-framed glasses, with long hair draped over their shoulders. They answer questions raised by the production team from behind the scenes:
Q: How do you plan to make the audience remember you?
Mo Shuangzhu pushed up his glasses and answered quietly, "Be myself."
Q: Are you worried about not being able to debut?
Xia Wentao hugged her knees and smiled at the camera: "It would be a lie to say I'm not worried, but it's useless to worry about this kind of thing. When you're anxious, just take a nap and think about it tomorrow."
Q: What would you like to say to your past self?
Xin Mengting had not yet removed her stage makeup from the previous moment. Because of the lights and intense exercise, her forehead was sweaty. Her makeup was no longer as delicate, and her eye shadow was slightly smudged. She didn't look like a distant idol, but just a girl who was working hard to live her life.
She thought about it, and sat back on the empty, lonely stage: "Don't choose this path."
Xin Mengting smiled but didn't cry, and added: "Do something that will definitely pay off if you work hard."
Q: If you could write a letter to yourself ten years from now, what would you like to say to her?
Shen Ying looked up at the sky, thought for a moment, and smiled: “Let her write me a letter and ask her if I will still be on the stage at that time, whether what I have done has any results, and whether I can continue to do what I like?”
"I really want to know."
Even people who didn't know these trainees who hadn't debuted before could easily tell who was the one who was re-joining the show from the thirty-plus people.
Just like long-distance running, people who have been running for a long time naturally know not to care about what others say. It doesn't matter if they run slowly or their running posture is not elegant. Only the runner himself knows how to save energy and run farther.
In this industry, hard work and strength do not mean luck, but persistence sometimes does.
Trainees who have had an opportunity once can also have a new opportunity, just like Yuanxin sent a number of trainees to various talent shows this year.
If they can debut successfully, Yuanxin will sign the sub-contracts of these trainees out and hand them over to the platform operation of the limited group, retaining only the basic team to serve the artists.
If the pilot of the first season showed the audience the sweat in the practice room and created an ideal country where hard work can bring rewards, then the pilot of this girl group season is a collision between reality and ideal, putting the trainees' confusion and courage in front of the audience from the very beginning.
They have to face all these problems and challenges both in and after the show, or it can be said that the unfairness starts from the time they are born. The environment is like this. Girls face a more harsh environment from birth, and they often have to be more outstanding to get the same recognition.
Yuan Xiao knows this clearly, so the boy group season and girl group season of "I Have Never Seen You" adopt different narrative methods. They may not always be as exciting and explosive as a group of hot-blooded crazy people, but their calm and down-to-earth strength can be seen in every shot, as they grow upward step by step.
The pilot video was fully edited into the process of the trainees rehearsing the theme song. The song quickly became a hot topic after the show was broadcast. Just as Yuan Xiao felt, there is a gentle rebellious power in Mr. Fu's music. Even though it does not have a strong rhythm and looping melody like "Dawn", the audience can still feel it.
But what is even more touching is the adaptation segment in the program. This time, the trainees had more time to prepare for the program, and they also had time to make some innovative interpretations of the theme song. After practicing the original song, they still had time to do some secondary creations.
The adaptation session was a free team formation session, and the trainees could choose to rewrite the lyrics or arrange the theme song, whether to change it into a fast or slow song or a lively style was all up to them. Although there was no formal stage and they could only perform on the lawn behind the company building, and the audience were only employees and trainees, they still completed the task very well and seriously.
The final quality is even better than the original arrangement.
This segment was fun, as several producers among the trainees got together and each led a team of people, dividing them into five groups to adapt the theme song, and agreed that each person would do a different style.
Right from the start, Mo Shuangzhu rewrote all the lyrics of the original song, added electronic style to the arrangement, and adjusted the BPM to 1.2 times. When Leng Ci, wearing sunglasses and a stern face, led the group out on stage, he first made the trainees look so handsome that their screams were deafening.
Sure enough, husband is a feeling. Some people may not kill men, but they will definitely kill women.
Xin Mengting also chose to write lyrics, and her style is completely different from Mo Shuangzhu. Her group are all stereotypical sweet girls, who either look well-behaved, have sweet voices, or have gentle personalities, but their lyrics are the most opinionated.
"Travel Around" was changed to "Difficult". If the original lyrics and music can be considered mild irony, then Xin Mengting's version of the theme song adaptation is extremely bold, as if all the disciplines and stereotypes were hit back with a baseball bat. She said we should not be well-behaved, but difficult. The sisters sang the most hardcore lyrics with the sweetest voices, directly igniting the entire stage.
As soon as Xin Mengting finished singing, Song Lianqing rushed over and hugged her tightly. She was stunned for a moment, and then she heard enthusiastic praise in her ear: "You are so great, how can you be so great! You are so talented, and you write so well!"
The trainees who were originally sitting on the lawn listening to the music and watching the stage all stood up and gathered around, shouting the names of each trainee in their group and surrounding them in a lively manner. No one knew who started it, but all the trainees began to sing the chorus that Xin Mengting had rewritten together:
"The word 'good' is the plastic wrap stuffed into the mouth, and 'sweet' is the anesthetic injected into Barbie. When all the mirrors order me to smile, I say no. I am the most difficult to deal with!"
They shouted loudly: "I said no, I'm the most difficult to deal with!"
Being well-behaved, gentle, and virtuous is not a compliment. Thank you for saying that I'm difficult.
This was the attitude she had wanted to write in other programs but was rejected. However, she lived her life the way others thought she should be, but still got nothing and lost herself.
The camera was focused on her smiling shyly in the arms of her friends. She was called the most difficult person to deal with on the stage, but her ears turned red with shame due to the overwhelming praise. Fans almost couldn't recognize whether she was still the gentle but sweet producer who kept a distance from everyone in the original show.
But, no one would dislike Xin Mengting who is so popular now.
The pilot is so rich in content that it is almost as good as a main episode. From the theme song to five original creations, it is almost equivalent to six different stages. The beginning of the second season has fed the fans who have been waiting for it, and even exceeded the expectations of the fans of the show. If the quality of the pilot can be maintained in the future, maybe it can really break the curse of the domestic entertainment industry that the second season is always inferior to the first season.
The several secondary creation stages were all very exciting. There was no ranking of these stages. In the minds of the audience, there was only a difference in which style they preferred, not in which high or low.
After the program was officially launched, limited peripheral products for trainees of Yuanxin's fixed routine program were also put on the shelves. The sales volume of the pilot link this time has more than quadrupled or quintupled compared with the same period of the first season. The various peripheral products and exquisite small cards produced by Yuanxin have become standard collections in the fan circle in the past year. Even the downstream group buying vehicles and live broadcast rooms have spawned a whole industry. Mature fans have already mastered how to get the most desired peripheral products at the lowest price. In their words, Yuanxin, just focus on research and development and technology, and don't worry about anything else.
The girls in the show are not like the guys in last season. Occasionally, they would have sloppy looks after practicing all night, but this season's female trainees are all beautiful whether they are singing or dancing. From the makeup team to the post-production, the show has implemented Yuan Xiao's instructions that the girl group is to lead the trend, and all the makeup and outfits are carefully designed.
Not long after the second season started, bloggers on the short video platform began to make daily makeup and stage makeup imitation tutorials for the second-generation students of Yuanxin. Yuan Xiao specifically asked the publicity and promotion department to release related activities on the short video platform. Whether it was imitation makeup, the show's outfits, or stage analysis, they could get subsidies provided by Yuanxin Company according to the output quality, which brought about a wave of craze.
After this season's show went online, the customer service of the mini-program selling peripherals was overwhelmed with calls. Many fans hope that Yuan Xin can do some fashion brand clothing business part-time. Without mentioning anything else, she should first make a set of uniform skirts and pants.
After watching too many perfunctory domestic entertainment programs that rely entirely on the uniforms that the trainees wear, I feel my eyes clear when I see the neatly cut and designed school uniforms.
Even the fabric of the training clothes makes people feel very comfortable. I don’t know where Yuanxin orders all the trainees’ clothes from. Can’t they sell it to fans?
Yuan Xiao could only express regret that clothing brands are too detrimental to the company's reputation. It's okay to distribute some week-end T-shirts and cheering clothes, but clothes suit different people differently, and it's too difficult to satisfy everyone. Fashion brands are not an industry she can easily get involved in now, and even if she really tries clothing someday in the future, she probably won't let her artists promote the products.
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