Chapter 62: Dancing with Dragons (5)
"You're going to coax me," Sunny gave him a blank look, clearly disbelieving him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Ah Jiu gently shook Sunny's hand and said, "I don't know how to explain it, but I really think that if I can live with you for the rest of my life like this, I am willing." ”
"Huh?" Sunny heard the difference in Ah Jiu's tone, and looked at him unexpectedly, suddenly a little shy, embarrassed to be in his arms.
Ah Jiu gently hugged Sunny's waist, didn't make a sound for a while, and suddenly lowered his head to touch her stomach, Sunny couldn't cry and laughed, and said, "What is this for, it's impossible to get pregnant." ”
"What if?
"It's annoying...... Sunny hit him as if he had no choice, and the two of them laughed as the moon hid behind the clouds in shame.
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Ah Jiu asked the Chaoshan gang to help get two tickets for IUfanmeeting, he wanted to take Sunny to see it together, Sunny was very positive, but she was a little inconvenient, after all, she was a girl's generation, and such a blatant fanmeeting to IU was discovered by reporters, I don't know what to say. But Ah Jiu couldn't be relieved to leave Sunny alone in the hotel, so in the end, Ah Jiu decided to put on makeup for Sunny so that the two could go together.
Speaking of makeup, it seems that Ah Jiu has a suspicion of having an axe in front of Sunny, but the actual situation is that Ah Jiu's makeup skills are definitely not below her, Sunny's makeup skills are to be beautiful on the stage, and Ah Jiu's makeup skills are completely to save his life, sometimes for the task, he has to carry out all kinds of disguises, the most exaggerated time, he has also played a woman, for agents, quick dressing, quick makeup, are all necessary skills.
Ah Jiu is also the first time to tinker with this for Sunny.,It feels quite different.,In the past, he tinkered with these.,It's for the task.,It doesn't matter if it's good-looking or not.,But now the object is his wife.,Every time he moves.,It's a lot more complicated.,What if it's not good-looking.,Will you be desperate.。
Luckily, his skills were quite passable, and he tinkered back and forth a few times, and finally made a Zhengtai costume for Sunny. Wearing a baseball uniform, he looks like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, while Ah Jiu is dressed in a sweatshirt, and the two are together, just like an elder brother leading his younger brother to see IU's concert.
"Brother!IU Ernie is mine, don't rob me!" Sunny glared at Ah Jiu in a rough voice, Ah Jiu held the baseball cap, patted her on the head, and said, "The kid understands a fart, does the hair grow together?"
Sunny raised an eyebrow, "Don't you know?"
"My God......" Facing such an old driver's wife, Ah Jiu didn't have a way, pinched her face, and said: "Don't say such things now, let others hear it, and think that my orientation is unknown." I'm your husband, fool. ”
"How dare you call me a fool," Sunny snorted and turned his head, "I won't let my brother go to bed tonight." ”
"Alas......" Ah Jiu held his forehead with his hand, did not continue to entangle with him, and waved his hand: "Hurry up and leave quickly." ”
"Got it, brother!" Sunny kept calling Ah Jiu as a boy, as if it was fun to tease him. The two of them entered the elevator hand in hand, and at first they didn't feel anything, but suddenly Ah Jiu noticed that the person in the elevator seemed to be looking at him a little strangely, so he cleared his throat in embarrassment, let go of Sunny's hand, and instead put it on her shoulder.
It's much better in this way, originally, as a brother, it's still a little more common to put on a shoulder than a hand.
What he didn't notice was that IU actually came out of the hotel at about the same time, but the two of them were two elevators and they just missed it.
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IU's popularity in HK has always been very good, and as the most successful solo female singer in Korea after Lee Hyo-ri, IU actually has the strength to be completely equal to her predecessors, and at the same time, she also has a charm that her predecessors did not have.
It should be noted that strength and popularity are never the same thing, there are always such strange things in the song industry, obviously the singer's strength is very strong, but the popularity is always tepid, many people think it is strange, but there is a reason for everything.
Some people are powerful, but they have problems with their character. Fans have a good impression of idol, it is undeniable that part of it is because of his strength, but can the strength be a real circle? The answer is no. You're a great singer, and I think it's good when I see it, but at most, oh, this person sings very well, to this extent, how can you be willing to pay for a CD and watch a concert because of this?
Some people are powerful, but they are too good at being human, they don't know how to be restrained, they are domineering, etc., which will become a point of disgust for fans. Li Xiuman once said a sentence to explain why S.M does not allow idols to fall in love, and the explanation he gave is that idol is originally a lover of 10,000 people, and if you choose this path, you should make trade-offs and give up.
In a word, the true meaning of the idol economy has been broken. Those who are willing to shell out real money to support their idols, more or less, whether they admit it or not, treat their idols as lovers.
And IU is just too lethal.
When IU debuted, it was not outstanding. There are a lot of reasons, and to sum up, she has almost no advantage compared with the female idols of her time. Although she debuted as a solo singer, she unfortunately caught up with the blowout era of the girl group. In the environment at that time, where did solo singers come from to live in the space? In the past, there were powerful girl groups blocking the way one by one, and then there were powerful predecessors, such as Lee Hyori and others, who taught them to be people, and Leon at that time was not a specialized brokerage company, but just a department that was temporarily set up by a distribution company in order not to waste manpower. The company's strength is not superior, and the personal image is a little fat because of the babyface that has not faded, so it is not surprising at all that IU's debut did not make any splash.
But IU's character is doomed, she is not such an easy person to admit defeat. She worked hard to lose weight, and at the same time kept training her singing ability, and at the same time, when she was idle and had nothing to do, she learned lyrics and composition by herself, and began a self-reliance path that was different from that of domestic idols.
Finally, the talent still got the opportunity to show, and the three-stage treble skills in one hand were amazing, and at the same time, people suddenly found that the little chubby girl who was the babyface suddenly became beautiful.
IU is a very smart girl, although she didn't understand anything at the beginning, and the company didn't teach her, she learned a lot from the girl group of the same era. She has come a long way from obscurity to today.
At the beginning, her debut was not a success, and there were not many announcements, and she thought at that time what the future would be. It was also at that time that she began to haunt her fanclub in person, which was logically forbidden by the company, but at that time, the company was already planning to give up on her, so she didn't care much. IU was originally a person with a good personality, and after diving in her fanclub for a while, she finally couldn't help but announce her identity because someone questioned her song, but because of her persistence, not only was she not dissed, but she was a blessing in disguise. Since then, she has found that it is okay to get along with fans in this way, so she has persevered and has become the female artist who communicates with fans the most in South Korea.
Companionship is the most affectionate confession, and IU has made a position to fans with her actions, that is, for her fans, companionship is not one-sided.
At the same time, her cleverness is also reflected in other aspects, for example, she gradually found her own style of dressing.
In the beginning, IU didn't have its own stylist. Her stylist is responsible for all the owners of the company, and because of the salary, the level of the stylist is also worrying. So at the beginning, whether it was participating in the show or participating in the red carpet, there were definitely not a few of her 'car accident scenes', but there were occasional highlights, because the stylist was in charge of others, and she didn't have time to care about her, and she wore it casually.
This made IU realize that she was not actually suitable for the so-called dress. What an ordinary girl wears, she also wears, is actually the best-looking.
IU began to study herself, then slowly experimented, and gradually found her own style, which was in line with her age. Korean paparazzi also wrote a report on this, saying that IU's style can be summed up in three words, 'soft and sweet', soft, not aggressive, white, pure and lovely, and sweet, which refers to her smile.
Although IU has also deliberately studied dressing, I have to admit that this kind of thing is still different from person to person, this style, put on IU, is like a spring breeze, but if Xiuying does the same, as long as you imagine it, you will get goosebumps on the ground, it's not that it's not cute, but it's really not suitable.
With such a style, it is easy for people to fit into the role of 'sister'. So after IU played a little fame in the three-stage treble, the most common title is the national sister.
The word "national" is not something that can be used casually in South Korea. If a person who doesn't deserve these two words uses these two words, it will not be popularity, but diss. IU is very much in line with the image of her sister, so she has gained popularity, and she has also jumped from a second-tier and third-tier solo singer to a Korean business card-style figure.
This period is the first peak of her career, and this is also the time when she met Ah Jiu.
In the report written by the reporters, IU's 'soft and sweet' style is called 'male chopping', also known as 'straight male chopping'. The meaning is self-evident, a straight man has no resistance when he encounters such an IU. Ah Jiu is such a straight man, he struggled twice, but he still fell into IU's charm.
But is that all she has? Of course not. Straight men attract only straight men, and IU's fan base is very extensive. For female fans, IU's charm lies in itself.
She worked hard and never relied on her as a means to stand out. Her success story is an inspirational book. What she always conveys is the positive aspects, and she is definitely not the big-chested white rabbit that straight men expect in their hearts, she has a very clear plan for every stage of her life and every age. After she made money, she never squandered it, but according to her own situation, she chose the simple way of financial management of investing in real estate, and now she has faintly become a rich woman among the young generation of female idols.
The girls liked her, more often because they wanted to be her. The power of this role model is the main reason why female fans follow.
And the smartest thing about her is that she understands how a woman should live.
In the Korean music industry, both men and women, there is often a problem, and that is the reluctance to step out of their safe zone. What is a safe zone? That's what a person does best. In order to allow fans to quickly accept their artists, the most common means used by Korean brokerage companies is to 'make a person'. For example, EXO, I got a son of some ability back then, these are all character designs. Moreover, when the girl group debuted, it established a cute line, which led to a problem, twenty years old can be cute, what about twenty-five? Thirty? Both men and women can't resist the years, and once the character is erected, the constraints will be greater.
After being established as a 'national sister', if you change to an ordinary person, you will definitely use these four words to play, and you will be soft and sweet. But IU didn't, she chose to deliberately downplay this image when her national sister was at her loudest, and tried to be a musician, not a singer, let alone idol, because she clearly knew that idol couldn't be done for long, and musicians could be a lifelong musician. At the same time, she also worked hard to enter film and television and become an actor, if she didn't have a very clear plan for herself, how could she make such a clear decision?
You can be a sister at the age of twenty, you can be cute at the age of twenty-one, and since the age of twenty-two, she has deliberately added a little sex to her image. Not so much, just a little bit, but this little bit has become the finishing touch, which makes fans realize that the younger sister can no longer be regarded as a younger sister, because she will grow up.
It was this decision to choose to follow the change of age and not deliberately pursue the character design, which made her popularity explode again. In the hearts of uncles, she is a daughter, in the hearts of Oba fans, she is a sister, a lover, in the hearts of younger brothers, she is a soft and cute young lady, and she is the object of her crush who dare not confess, in the hearts of aunt fans, she is a model for her daughter, in the hearts of her peers, she is a role model for hard work, and she has lived what she wants through her own efforts......
No matter how you look at it, IU is undoubtedly a very successful female singer of this generation in South Korea. In the hearts of many seniors and seniors, now she should enjoy this kind of success and have no worries, but as fate would have it, she met this person, haunted by her dreams, and she couldn't escape the love catastrophe.
Backstage, the show is about to begin. IU is putting on makeup, and her makeup today is a bit thick compared to the previous fanmeetting, because she has to cover the dark circles under her eyes that she hasn't slept well for many days. IU didn't sleep much yesterday, and this is not only because of Ah Jiu, but also because of the sequelae of her announced relationship. Fans announced her relationship with Zhang Jihe, and the call for boycott was much louder than expected, especially this fanmeeting, since last night, some fans have pulled banners at the door of the hotel, with words of boycott written in Korean, which makes her very uncomfortable, if it is true, then she will admit it, but she herself knows that this is fake, but now, these words cannot be explained to fans, which makes her very painful.