92 Concert Preparation (Part 1)
The fourth public performance was a breakthrough for Xin Mengting herself, but in the eyes of the audience, injuries were not the reason for stage mistakes. The stage of "You Have Guts" that connected cause and effect was touching enough, but the ranking in the on-site voting was really not high.
After the fourth public performance was broadcast, it first caused a lot of abuse among fans. Even though the original editing did not deliberately amplify the emotions, with Xin Mengting's current fan base, it was still enough to bring about a wave of tears. Her fans were busy feeling distressed and questioning her ranking. The Leng Ci family, who had been fighting with her over popularity data, wished that the popularity gap between the two would widen. The war between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out, and the newly appointed review AI server of the "Yuanxin Planet" was about to spark.
If AI could really rule the earth one day, Yuan Xiao could guarantee that hers would definitely be the most vicious one among them.
Similar frictions are actually common in fan circles, but such a large-scale dispute is the first time among Yuanxin artists. The fans of the two people are not satisfied with Yuanxin’s policy of covering their mouths, and directly started a full-scale war on other social media platforms.
Yuan Xiao was helpless. It was difficult for the trainees to speak out at such a time. The company's influence was limited. No matter what they said, they would be regarded as crooked by both sides or punished.
This is probably the first time that Yuanxin and many individual marketing accounts have received orders to sing the praises of love and peace. The wording and copywriting can be seen to be quite clumsy, with rows of topics and reposts scrolling down, just like a human machine.
Many fans who were not involved in the dispute were laughing in the comment section, lamenting that Yuan Xiao was like a helpless parent trying to stop the fight between two sides. In fact, this was indeed the case. Yuan Xiao felt heartbroken in the conference room. "I Have No Future" did not have a voting mechanism, so there was no real battlefield for the two groups of fans to determine the winner. Emotions had no outlet, so of course something bad would happen.
Yuan Xiao knew very well that the routine of public relations was actually to divert attention. At times like this, it was necessary to quickly find something else for both the onlookers and the excitement itself to do. She flipped through the materials she had on hand that could be used, and luckily, there was something that could be published.
I don’t know if this is the first group endorsement in the domestic entertainment industry before they even debuted. The brand has agreed with Yuanxin to produce a joint endorsement short film for all 30 or so trainees from the second phase. Not only are the sponsorship conditions generous, but there are almost no other additional conditions except requiring all trainees to be present.
It seems that Yuan Xiao deeply suspects that the person on the other end is a fan of the show, but there is no evidence.
Such a short film naturally cannot treat the sponsor unfairly. She happens to have a plan that is very suitable for the girls and, of course, also meets the requirements of the brand.
The thirty-six trainees were divided into three groups and organized flash mobs and dances in city squares, large shopping malls and university campuses. They danced from the album's main song to the theme song and secondary creations, one song after another. The girls wearing masks suddenly rushed out of the crowd and started dancing. The large group's movements and group dances were performed in different locations in the city.
The final recorded and edited short film also switches between different songs and scenes, as if just a few minutes had captured what they would look like after forming a group.
Another summer has passed. During these three months of sunshine, they practiced a lot of dances, sang a lot of songs, and shot a lot of materials. The cameras in the company building faithfully recorded every minute of the past, and the collected editing materials filled the hard drive.
No matter how noisy and chaotic the outside world is, Yuanxin's practice room can always make people immersed in the pure land on the stage. As the formation night is getting closer, they are about to face graduation, and the time they can spend together is getting less and less. The girls stick together almost all the time except for practice time, and sometimes they still talk for a long time even after the lights are turned off in the dormitory.
There is only half a month left.
The second season formation night of "Idol Unnamed" was the first time that Yuanxin used its own software to sell tickets to the public. It was also the first time that fans were officially allowed to answer questions to grab tickets. Many die-hard fans of the show were eager to try it out. Even if they were unable to arrive at the scene due to various reasons and distance, being able to pass the question-answering session was considered a reasonable assessment of their loyalty.
Some fans even joked that this was not a ticket grabbing game, but rather a college entrance examination for fans of "I Am Not Alone".
The questions are simple, but the reaction is difficult, as one has to answer quickly and well, which makes the ordinary photographers' high-tech methods ineffective. Later, when fans checked the answers, they found that not only were the questions randomly selected from the question bank different for each person, but the answer options also often changed. The only teaching material for this set of questions is the first six episodes of "I Have Not Yet", and the key points are from the first second of the episode to the ending song.
In the program's super topic, fans who quickly grabbed tickets posted pictures and flooded the forum, saying that without scalpers and proxy photographers, ticket grabbing was smooth. Some fans who failed to successfully get tickets could not complain about the unfairness of the organizers, as it was purely a matter of personal ability. If they couldn't get tickets, they could only practice hard and try again next time.
The ticket grabbing process on the night of the group launch was so smooth that many of Stary's fans who have been following him since last year expressed their envy and jealousy, and decisively requested that Stary use this ticket grabbing method for his next group tour.
No matter if it is the basic information of the five people, the album content, or a collection of materials released on various platforms, or even magazines and interviews, you can test it however you want.
Yes, the concert needs to be approved a long time in advance. Ever since the promotion period of Stary’s second album ended and he started releasing the contents of the new EP as singles, the keen domestic entertainment fans realized that a concert truly belonging to Stary should be coming soon, and have been keeping an eye on the approval process in major cities.
Logically speaking, some of the non-hit songs in the first and second albums, especially the second album, rarely have offline performances. When Stary appears on variety shows and music festivals, the program team and organizers often have certain requirements for which songs they should sing. Representative works such as "Dawn", "Misplaced Lighthouse" and "Dear Journey" are almost required to be sung at every stop, but for fans, the ranking of their preferences in Stary's entire album is mostly different from that of passers-by.
They are always the group of people who pay the most attention to Stary. Correspondingly, the little satellites always go back to search and watch Stary's variety shows and Reuters. The classic songs are of course good, but the novelty will definitely decrease after listening to them again and again. Therefore, the existence of concerts is a gathering among family members, which is very suitable for taking out non-main songs in the album to bask in the sun.
Therefore, the production of Stary's new EP and the preparation of the concert were put on the agenda almost at the same time.
This time, Yuan Xiao did not let them release the entire album directly like before. In today's data-oriented domestic entertainment industry, it is actually a minority who release albums one by one. Most singers and idols will choose to release the new songs in the entire album separately and then combine them into a complete album in the end.
This will not only give fans time to collect data, but also extend the album's promotion period. Like Stary's previous first and second albums, it will indeed cause fans to disperse their energy and lose focus when promoting and publicizing the album. If not for the fact that every song in Stary's album is so good, some songs would probably be buried even more.
Of course, direct sales also have advantages, such as not consuming the enthusiasm of fans and less repetition when promoting songs. It can be said that there are pros and cons to each.
The reason why the new EP was released in the form of a single is because the estimated release period is expected to coincide with the concert. Yuan Xiao hopes that they will release the minimum number of songs for the concert first, and then release the remaining songs slowly. In this way, each stop can retain at least one new song stage. Even if many die-hard fans choose to attend the full tour, they will not have to watch the same stage at every stop.
Preparing for a concert is a big project, but for Stary, their first task is only one, and that is physical fitness.
Although the promotional period for the second album has just ended, in fact, as early as when they were on the group tour, the sound cards that Pei Zijin and his friends carried with them already contained the demos prepared for the new EP. This trip was not just to relax, as the five of them were already accustomed to recording their inspirations anytime and anywhere as musicians, and the writing of the new EP was much faster and smoother than that of the second album.
Until now, fans often ask Stary through various channels when the clips that the five members created in the group variety show vlog and the main film will be released, and they also do what they say. Three of the new songs they prepared this time are from that journey.
In this way, Stary's available playlist for a tour has increased to 28 songs. In addition to the reserved songs that must be sung in every show, the remaining songs can be separated into three different versions of the playlist. Yuan Xiao plans to have them hold a total of 15 shows in six cities, so that different playlists can be changed on the first and second days.
However, such a dense arrangement also puts new challenges to the physical fitness of the five members of Stary. Even if a singer sings on stage for several days in a row, he will be exhausted, not to mention the idols who sing and dance throughout the concert. The stages built in various gymnasiums and stadiums are also large enough. Sometimes it takes ten minutes to walk from one end to the other. If you don't have some basic skills, you may not be able to last the whole show.
For many days in a row, Stary and his five friends could be seen jogging and climbing the stairs in the corridor of Yuanxin Company while practicing their vocal breathing. They climbed from the first floor to the top floor and then took the elevator down every day. The whole company was filled with the ghost howling in the corridor.
“I’m going to die.” Yu Le let himself slide down the stairs like a ball of mud. “Hell only has eighteen floors, but the Yuanxin Building has twenty-two floors!”
"Practice." Jin Zeyu ruthlessly pulled him up from the ground, "You have to sing and dance for two and a half hours in the concert."
They have completed the recording of the new single during this period and handed it over to post-production. Then the whole group devoted themselves to the planning of the upcoming concert.
After Yuan Xiao contacted the venue, he synchronized the work with a few of them. Currently, not every city can allow them to open a stadium. It is likely that there will be several stations in the gymnasium and stadium respectively. The ratio of the four-sided stage to the three-sided stage is almost exactly one to one, so most of the dance moves have to be readjusted, and two versions have to be adjusted.
The brothers are already skilled in dancing. After dancing on so many stages during the two promotional periods since their debut, Stary is no longer the newbies who would get nervous at a small campus music festival. In Su Chen's words, based on their current muscle memory, they will probably still be able to play the opening song of "Dawn" when they are 80 years old and lying in bed, and start "We born to be legends——" when they hear the prelude of "Dawn Breaking".
For Stary's first concert tour, the entire idol department of Yuanxin was mobilized, from the makeup for every show and every song, to the choreography, to the pre-recorded clips played during the costume changes, as well as the layout of the entire venue and the coordination of materials. It was a major mobilization within the company.
This was when Yuan Xin's subsidiary company took on most of the work of liaising with the site, organizing the stage construction and contacting security. The team at the headquarters only needed to be responsible for the conceptual design and planning of the concert. Yuan Xiao had to once again sigh for her mother's forward-looking and wise vision. This subsidiary company really helped her a lot.
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