Chapter 82: I want to make big news
It was nearly noon when I came out of Loen. This return of Cheon Myung-hoon is of great significance and has to be taken seriously.
Kim Jong Ri's idea is to start a propaganda campaign at the end of this month to try to return before the Chinese New Year. The Spring Festival in '06 is on January 29, so the preparation time is about two months.
It feels nervous though. But if it goes well, it's actually completely sufficient. Even if he is an ordinary singer, his singing skills are flawed. Recording a song is a few hours of work. It can't be done in one afternoon, and it will be delayed until the next day. It may be less common than a one-time pass.
So to prepare an album, it doesn't go well to look at the inclusion of songs. For traditional singers, receiving a good song is a rare thing. Behind the birth of each classic is a life insight.
Lyric songs are not the same as K-pop dance music, and it is not enough to have a melody that moves and hits.
However, there is a truth that Qian Mingxun didn't understand before, and then slowly accepted it. That is, not all songs are the work of the author's heart.
If all composers wrote songs only when inspiration struck, the total number of songs in the world would drop by 90 percent. And as a rookie singer, he is destined to sing a lot of songs that he doesn't like so much. Even the quality of the title song may be mediocre.
The songs that come out of "mass production" are certainly not much better, and there is even less room for newcomers to choose. Think about it:
If someone writes a high-quality song, of course it will be a treasure. Carefully select singers as if they were their own children, hoping to send them to people who can sing well and carry it forward. Start the popularity of both parties and make a deal of fame and fortune.
In such a cycle, most of the high-quality songs flow into the hands of seniors. It is even more difficult for junior singers to complete the counterattack.
Unless you're a singer-songwriter and can write your own songs. And the great thing about singer-songwriters is that their status is higher than that of ordinary singers.
Because singer-songwriters can not only write songs for themselves, but also write for others in the future! Compared with ordinary singers who use other people's works to achieve themselves, the value of singer-songwriters is much greater. Moreover, the composer has the highest status and income in the music industry, which is respected by all people in the industry.
Of course, that kind of cross-field, not just a singer artist. The income through advertising endorsements and other aspects is, of course, several orders of magnitude higher than the singer's own income.
Younha's current name bears the word "newcomer". The Japanese album of her debut had her own songs. It doesn't matter if the self-composed song is the title song or not, it can be included in the album. The nature of the matter has already been determined.
If there is no original work in the future. No matter how good his singing skills are, the status of the rookie period is not as good as Younha's.
(There is one thing here that makes me very entangled, that is, Cheon Myung-hoon copied the small plot of "Cute" to Kim Jong Kook in order to appease Yuna.) It conflicts with my big set.
The biggest problem of the protagonist in the early stage of the book is that he can't write songs, and there are no original works in the eyes of the outside public. Therefore, the triple crown of Kim Jong Kook at the end of the year will not have anything to do with the protagonist for the time being. There will be no plot of Kim Jong Kook thanking anything when he receives the award.
Don't take it too seriously, just ignore it for the time being. In the future, I will find an opportunity to design the plot and patch it around. )
Kim Jong-ri is confident that it will be completed in two months, and naturally it is not empty words.
Through the contacts he has accumulated before, part of the work of collecting songs has been completed ahead of schedule. And now that he is the artist director of Loen, he has a wider range of channels. There is no need to worry about songs of ordinary quality to fill the number, and there will be many composers who take the initiative to contact Kim Jong-ri.
Loen is also very wealthy. Since it's possible to use it, it's better to buy it first. If you don't need it, you can sell it to others later.
To create an album, you have to have a core concept. It's a bit of a formality, and for most people, it's like looking for a fig leaf. Let the intention of making money not be so naked.
These people's repertoire was originally a patchwork, and it was not the result of my own feelings for a certain period of time. It's just that it's good to probably screen and unify, and not be so varied.
However, this concept has gradually been diluted and disregarded. In later generations, there were some albums that were a mix of genres, and then they were called a whole new concept.
Of course, Kim Jong-ri was not so perfunctory, and he also made some planning. For Cheon Myung-hoon's age, the appropriate style of song couldn't be more obvious:
First love, dreams, youth, childhood......
These themes are the most lyrical broad category and are the most common songs. It's a safe bet to fill albums. You don't need to be unique, you can just be modest.
As long as the quality of the song is passed, you can stand out with Qian Mingxun's singing skills. Then invest a little more in the post-production of the album, and the outlook is very positive.
This is a practice that does not seek merit but does not seek fault. It is also Kim Jong-ri's lowest expectation of Cheon Myung-hoon's regular series.
Kim Jong-ri has long planned to show his strength, how can he only do it to this extent?
If you can create a topic-level core concept, it will instantly raise the level of the album to a much higher level. Just like the song "Sister is My Woman", it sparked a heated discussion on the Internet that was close to the national level.
Only by achieving such results can Kim Jong-ri be worthy of a year's hard wait.
Then the question arises – how to make headlines in the right posture?
This is a breeze for some people, all they need is to post a selfie on a social networking site. For others, it's a timeless problem......
For example, a male singer surnamed Wang in the Celestial Empire racked his brains in order to make headlines on the entertainment page. Every time, he was defeated, and he killed a certain bite of gold halfway and cut it off the horse. It seems like the whole world is preventing him from making headlines.
However, after feeling the malice of this world, "help him make headlines" inadvertently became the headline of netizens' hot searches. It's really funny.
Loen is undoubtedly a local tyrant and is also rich in resources. But he has little experience in promoting singers.
Loen has a wealth of album sales channels at his fingertips, and knows how to sell albums higher, farther and faster. But when it comes to hyping up topics and teasing the media, it's definitely not as good as a professional planning company like S.M.
Kim Jong-ri quickly discovered the problem after taking office, but he was also a little powerless about it. Publicity and promotion can be effective with money, but finding the wrong way is still half the effort. And Kim Jong-ri has no "cards" in his hand to negotiate.
During the one-year blank period of Qian Myung-hoon, he has no artists to operate. Watching the popularity of Cheon Myung-hoon's debut dissipate day by day, it becomes more difficult to gather the original attention again.
If you have the popularity of Cheon Myung-hoon's "national brother" at the beginning, some propaganda does not need to be entrusted by Kim Jong-ri, and the media will naturally help you. But on the other hand, the current Qian Mingxun, even if it is not cool, it is almost the same. Even if Kim Jong-ri finds a way to publicize it, there must be a topic that can be promoted.
Can we only bring up the old things again: "National Brother" Myeongxun is about to release a regular series, everyone come and take a look?
If you reject the proposal, you can only create new topics. So what else can Qian Mingxun do to promote?
Self-detonation is indeed powerful, but the side effects are not small. And Kim Jong-ri didn't have that guts.
Qian Mingxun is not idle to sleep every day this year, isn't he preparing for the college entrance examination? Moreover, he skipped one level to take the college entrance examination in advance! This incident is not ordinary, and it can easily attract the attention of the people.
And Kim Jong-ri also learned about Cheon Myung-hoon's academic performance, and he was even more surprised for a while.
Qian Mingxun's academic performance is so good, so there is no room for his own performance? As long as he performs normally in the college entrance examination, he will be admitted to a well-known university in China at that time. This kind of topic will turn Cheon Myung-hoon's situation in an instant.
A one-year gap? Is that still a problem?
A student's job is to study, and he should be praised for giving up performing arts activities and studying hard. As long as the results of the college entrance examination are worthy of the party and the people. Not to mention a year, even if it is three years.
So Kim Jong-ri suppressed his excitement and took a break for four or five days after the end of Cheon Myung-hoon's exam, and he couldn't wait to ask him how he did in the exam, and whether he had thought about which university to fill in?
When Cheon Myung-hoon heard Kim Jong-ri ask this question, of course, he didn't think it was out of the concern of his elders. If it's related to the return plan, naturally you can't say anything like "you can rest assured".
The total score of the exam is 400, and Seoul National University needs a score of 370 or 380 to have a chance. Probably no more than five wrong questions, unless the questions are particularly difficult.
And unlike the Celestial Empire, which may be disqualified, South Korea adopts a two-way mutual election system. In other words, a person may be admitted to multiple colleges and universities at the same time, and the final choice will be delegated to him/herself.
This year's topic is relatively simple, and Cheon Myung-hoon also has a lot of resentment about it. If the question is simple, the score will be higher, and the point of competition between him and others will become who is more serious. If there is something that loses points because of carelessness, it is a regret that makes people beat their chests.
But no one can guarantee that they will not make mistakes, in case of a supernatural event such as "ghost blinding", the head will be short-circuited. It is possible that no matter how much you check, you can't check for errors.
Qian Mingxun can only say that there are no questions that he can't get accurate, but he can't guarantee that all the questions are good. But even if you make one or two mistakes, it shouldn't affect the result. It doesn't matter if it's a perfect score or not, as long as he's at the top of the rankings.
After listening to Cheon Myung-hoon's words, Kim Jong-ri was a little speechless. If he gets a perfect score and becomes the champion, then there is nothing to do with him. It's time to take action, before the results are announced.
The greater the risk, the higher the reward. If Qian Mingxun's results are publicized after they come out, won't it seem boring.
On the contrary, since Qian Mingxun himself has such confidence. It's better to release the prediction in advance. At this panicked juncture, he happened to make a big news.