Chapter 8: Gao Yaotai
The company's expansion is still proceeding steadily, and Baek Sang-yan has not made much fanfare, following Li Shenglin's instructions to recall his predecessors and recruit new ones. Baek Sang-yan, the www.biquge.info of Pen, Fun, and Pavilion asked Lee Seung-rim about his plans, and Lee Seung-rim didn't have to hide it from him, and directly told him that his target was Lee Hyo-ri, the captain of Fin.K.L.
For Lee Hyori and Baek Sang-yan, although he had already left the DSP company when Lee Hyori debuted, he still knows which trainees in the DSP company are, not to mention the scheduled members of the girl group. After breaking with the DSP company, everyone can be regarded as an opponent.
I still paid attention to the other party's debut girl group, but it was not the same as being suppressed by DSP or Lee Yinghao over the years. Lee Seung-rim asked Baek Sang-yeon about his previous work in the DSP company, but Baek Sang-yan didn't say it, but he knew that the reason for leaving was related to Lee Young-ho and the people behind him.
It's not that you haven't done a relationship with the top level when you start your own company, but it's not as big as the one behind the DSP, and the relationship is not close enough. There aren't too many people who stand out for LT, which is why it's so bleak now. Regarding Lee Seung-rim's plan, Baek Sang-yan mistakenly thought that Lee Seung-rim was going to sign the entire Fin.K.L.
Baek Sang-yan was a little unimpressed, he didn't know that the members of Fin.K.L would fly solo in a few months, and Lee Seung-rim was not very easy to say. LT was so dismal that he couldn't even receive any news and intelligence, and Li Shenglin didn't know if his choice was wrong. Now that I've acquired LT, I don't have a choice. At least for a complete set of training trainees to get it yourself, this is not a loss.
DSP company and S.M company urine Li Shenglin knows very well, although S.M company can suck away the bone marrow of artists, there is a kind of everyone's atmosphere. DSP is now the only company on an equal footing with S.M, but in the next decade or so, S.M will be the sole leader of the Korean entertainment industry.
In the future, the remaining two of the three giants in the Korean entertainment industry, YG and JYP, will be able to catch up with S.M. Park Jin-young's Nobody Divine Comedy became popular all over Asia, making WonderGirls unbeatable in the number one position. Even some boy groups are not as popular as WonderGirls.
It's a pity that Park Jin-young has no matching strategic vision for the boldness of popularity, and is always inferior to S.M and Lee so-man. After WonderGirls became popular, Park Jin-young planned to realize the American dream of Koreans, and delusionally wanted WonderGirls to conquer the United States with only one divine comedy.
Although WG is also popular in the United States, the European and American pops don't buy the Asian pops. WG did not have follow-up songs to consolidate its popularity, the United States did not conquer, but the popularity of South Korea gradually lost, and it was replaced by the boyhood who experienced the Black Sea three times, and occupied the first place of the girl group for several years.
The style of the DSP company is not as good as that of the S.M. S.M only gives little money to its artists, and its star-making ability is extremely outstanding, which also makes countless young boys and girls who want to be famous flock to S.M even if they know the virtues of S.M. DSP is a well-known wine company, and there have been many cases of its artists suing the company for insulting things.
In addition, the treatment of DSP company's artists will not be much better, Li Shenglin feels that as long as he uses enough money, there is still hope to snatch Lee Hyori from DSP company. Because the current Lee Hyori is still not the national fairy queen Lee Hyori, the DSP company does not know her future achievements and will not hold on to it.
But before waiting for the news of Fin.K.L's solo flight, another thing filled the entire small Korean entertainment industry.
In 2002, when Gao Yaotai was smooth sailing, member Jin Qiu was exposed to drug use, and fellow group members Kim Jong-min and Shin Ji were not able to stay out of the matter, and they were inevitably suspected of drug use, and malicious news flew all over the sky for a while.
Lee Seung-rim knows Ko Yo-tae, and the title song of Ko Yo-tae's first album, "Pure Love", has won the first place on the K-pop song charts for three consecutive weeks on the charts of major TV stations, and has sold 30,000 copies in 10 days. 10 years later, the song is still a classic among Korean commercial dance music classics.
In 2004, Gao Yaotai entered the peak, and the 6 albums continued the success of Gao Yaotai. Its title song "Disco King" and the follow-up song "Spark" also won the championship for three consecutive weeks in the MBC music camp and KMTV's popular ballads.
Li Shenglin also knew Gao Yaotai through the song Spark, and when he learned about its members, he found that the name of the female lead singer was Shen Zhi, and Li Shenglin's first thought was that his real name was unstoppable, and the Chinese translation of highkick was Shen Zhi in the funny family.
originally thought it was just a collision between the name of a real person and the name of a character in the TV series, but after learning about Shen Zhi, he found out that this Shen Zhi was that Shen Zhi, and Li Shenglin also knew that most of the people in the funny family used their real names.
At the beginning, Li Shenglin always thought that Gao Yaotai was a person's stage name, and the popularization of the Internet and computers in China was very late, Li Shenglin only watched Gao Yaotai from TV, and the Korean group did not introduce much, so that Li Shenglin thought that Gao Yaotai was a male or female singer, and the remaining female or male was a backing singer. And then add the backing dance!
After getting to know Gao Yaotai, Li Shenglin learned about Gao Yaotai's development process, Gao Yaotai is known as the Korean disco king, but the development is not all smooth sailing. First, the lead singer left and joined Kim Jongmin, Kim Jongmin had a poor memory due to a head drop when he was a child, and his silly style was very different from Cha Sungmin's image and singing style.
Ko Yo-tae's fans did not accept Kim Jong-min, but with the help of Shin Ji and Kim Qiu's insistence, Kim Jong-min still became a stable member of Ko Yo-tae and was also accepted by fans, and then today, Kim Kyo was exposed to drug use. In addition, Li Shenglin also knew that even if the matter of Jinqiu passed, the members of Gao Yaotai would have to go through a change before they would be fixed.
After Jin Qiu took drugs, Gao Yaotai's agency wanted to dissolve Gao Yaotai, Kim Jong-min and Shin Ji begged Ruli Company, and the company decided to give them a chance. So there was Gao Yaotai's "10,000 people convened", Gao Yaotai successfully convened more than 6,000 people (Gao Yaotai's task is 5,000 people) The success of the convening was for Shen Zhi, and Zhong Min established the confidence to continue walking. also further sublimated the friendship between the two.
At this time, Ko Yao-tae was left with only Shin Ji and Jong-min, until the 4th episode was released, and when the 4th episode was released, he joined the member Kim Young-wan, and later left. In 2003, Jung Myung-hoon joined the album in the fifth album, although the album was very successful and won multiple awards. But soon Jung Myung-hoon also left. It wasn't until 2004, when the 6th album "KOYOTE.6" was released, that the new rapper Bai Jia was added to stabilize the group.
Looking at the news in the newspapers and on the Internet, Li Shenglin felt that he should make a move? Taking advantage of Gao Yaotai's low period, it would not be bad to take Gao Yaotai under his command.
On April 14, 2002, during the day, when Shin Zhi and Kim Jong-min were shouting everywhere on the street with a loudspeaker, Lee Seung-rim sent Baek Sang-yan and others to negotiate with Ko Yoo-tae's brokerage company.
Ruli Company originally had the idea of disbanding Gao Yaotai, but due to feelings and other reasons, Gao Yaotai mobilized a 10,000-person convening activity. But this is not to say that Gao Yaotai will not be disbanded, if the convening of 10,000 people fails, Gao Yaotai's company will see that Gao Yaotai's prospects are bleak, and will definitely disband Gao Yaotai mercilessly.
Now someone is willing to take over the 'mess', something that Gao Yaotai's company can't wait for. Moreover, Li Shenglin's compensation price to Gao Yaotai's company is also satisfactory, and both parties are naturally happy. didn't want Gao Yaotai to fall into a period of silence because of the change of agency, Li Shenglin discussed with Ruli Company and asked him to cooperate with SL Entertainment to customize Gao Yaotai's itinerary.
It will definitely take a while to take over various things, and if there is the cooperation of Ruli Company, SL Entertainment can take its time. SL Entertainment was willing to pay a portion of the compensation, and Ruli readily agreed. It was agreed that on April 15, Ruli Brokerage Company and SL Entertainment jointly issued a statement that Gao Yaotai joined SL Entertainment.
The success of the convening of 10,000 people made Kim Jong-min and Shin Ji very happy and moved. However, after the concert, they were notified by the company to terminate the contract and sign a contract with SL Entertainment, which made the hearts of the two fall into an ice cellar.
Kim Jongmin, who was a little stupid and very simple, was desperate in his heart, and shouted to his agent with tears in his eyes: "How can this be, now it is obviously successful." Doesn't that mean okay?" Kim Jong-min spoke a little slowly, and he spoke very concisely, and ordinary people sometimes couldn't understand what he meant. And Shen Zhi didn't speak, just silently kept tears.
The agent naturally understood what Kim Jong-min meant, but he was also very helpless, this decision was not made by him, and the company decided that he could only accept it. So he explained: "Today, the boss of SL Entertainment personally came to the company and offered to sign Gao Yaotai, and it seems that he gave the company a lot of compensation. After the above discussion, it was agreed, and SL Entertainment also asked the company to cooperate with you to run the itinerary. ”
After being sad for a while, Kim Jong-min got up angrily, "I won't sign it, it's a big deal that I'll be Gao Yaotai myself in the future." This means that he will not sign a contract with SL Entertainment, and the company will have to terminate the contract with him, and he will not sign a contract in the future, and he will not be an artist without an album.
The signing of an artist is not like football, where the contract is in the hands of the company and you have to transfer or be loaned out. The transfer of an artist can only be done when the contract expires or the original company terminates the contract, and he can join the new company and sign a contract with the new company. Now Gao Yaotai is the tacit understanding between Li Shenglin and the original Gao Yaotai company.
Gao Yao Taiyuan Company has made a decision, if Kim Jong-min and Shin Ji do not sign a contract with SL Entertainment, their fate will either be disbanded by the company or be hidden. Because he didn't sign a contract with SL, the contract was still in the hands of the original company, and the artist was just a kneaded life.
Shin Ji was much calmer than Kim Jong-min, and after the sadness, she figured it out a lot, she stopped Kim Jong-min and didn't let him say any more, turned to the agent and said, "I want to meet with the boss of SL Entertainment, you go and help me arrange it." Naturally, the agent agreed to arrange it.
After the agent left, Kim Jong-min turned his head and looked at Shin Zhi suspiciously: "Shin Ji?" Watching the agent leave, Shin Ji also turned his head to look at Kim Jong-min, "Brother Jong-min, do we have a worse situation than disbandment now?" Shin Zhi, who knew Kim Jongmin's character, stopped the anger that Kim Jong-min wanted to express and continued to explain.