Chapter 128: Here and Now
At this moment, the environment of the Korean entertainment industry in September can be said to be good or bad for female artists in the music industry. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Good situation......
For example, on September 22, the debut EP "the." was released, and a new retro trend was created in South Korea with the title song "Nobody".
And "Nobody" has also become the third retro song to be liked and accepted by the public after "" and "So.Hot", and it has shown a big trend from the beginning, even better than when Lee Hyori released "U-Go-Girl".
Another example is Girls' Generation, although her popularity has been sluggish for a while because of the Black Sea incident at the dream concert in June and the scandal between captain Kim Taeyeon and Fang Mo'an due to her participation in variety shows in August, but she has recovered a game with the recognition scene at the S.M family concert at SH Stadium on September 13, which can be said to be a turn of luck.
And Kim Tae-yeon's new song "Can You Hear Me" released on September 17 and the TV series "You Are My Destiny" starring Lim Yoon-a have undoubtedly injected new vitality into the development prospects of Girls' Generation.
As for the bad case......
For example, the solo singer IU Lee Ji-eun, which was launched by entertainment company Loen on September 18, was not so happy, although she officially made her debut with the song "Fan'er" and released her first mini album a few days later.
But the slightly mature and overly sad style of "Fan'er" is obviously not suitable for Lee Ji-eun, who is only fifteen years old, and her debut can be said to have a mediocre response, compared with Lee Hyo-ri, who is also a solo, it can really be said that there is a heaven and an underground.
Another example is KARA, which belongs to Lee Hyo-ri's old club DSP company, and, Girls' Generation debuted in the same year of the girl group, in 2008 did not improve much, in February, KARA's member Kim Sung-hee quit the group due to academic problems, which caused a lot of blows to the development of the group, and at the end of July, with the addition of Goo Hara and Kang Ji-young, the two new members slowly eased up.
However, in addition to facing the practical problems of new members joining and the team needs to run in, Kara also has to deal with the sense of disparity between the results of the same period and Girls' Generation, and life is not satisfactory.
Of course, if the definition of female artists is more general, and then those trainees who are about to debut or have great hope and have the strength to debut, the number will definitely be more.
However, the lucky ones who are in good situations are often only in a few, and most of them are still in bad situations, in bad luck and hope that they can become lucky, or even those who have miracles and turns around in their lives.
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Lone, inside the recording studio.
Li Zhien is practicing his debut song "Fan'er" over and over again, striving to give the best play in the next singing show, that sincerity and seriousness, in essence, is very similar to Fang Mo'an, who debuted with "".
Of course, every guy who has made his debut should be in such a mood in his initial stage of singing activities.
Li Zhien, born in 1993, she was only fifteen in 2008, as early as the first year of middle school, when she was recommended by the physical education teacher to stand on the stage of the school performance, she had the idea of becoming a singer, and she also felt that she was the only one she was good at and liked.
After that, she participated in 20 trainee auditions, went to many companies including JYP, and was rejected, until October 2007, Lee Ji-eun passed the selection of Loen, and after more than 10 months of trainee life, she was able to stand on the stage and successfully debut.
Ten months, for many trainees' long practice career, is only a fraction of the journey, not long at all, can only practice for ten months to be recognized by the company, or so young people debuted is indeed a handful, and even, in the current Korean music industry, there is only one such as Lee Ji-eun.
And Li Zhien, she also knows that her debut is a big adventure, which has both the company's recognition and affirmation of her, and her ardent expectations.
In fact, in the past ten months of her practice in the company, she has received the help of many musicians, which is really unimaginable for an ordinary trainee.
Of course, Loen doesn't actually treat her as an ordinary trainee, according to what Li Zhien has learned, Loen values her very much, and even wants her to occupy her place in the music industry as a solo.
This is a big requirement, and it is not "huge" for Li Zhien, but the company looks up to her so much, how can she not look up to herself, besides, she is happy and good at singing.
Although at present, her debut response is mediocre, and not many people care about the newly established fanclub, and her mentality has indeed been affected by this, but Li Zhien believes that she will be fine in the future, because she debuted early and is young, as the agent said, she has more opportunities to adapt to the stage and constantly improve herself than others, not afraid of a mediocre start, but afraid of not persevering enough.
What she needs is to challenge herself and more opponents.
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Somewhere in Seoul, in a girl's boudoir, Kim Hyun-ah, who is only a year older than Lee Ji-eun, is still immersed in the joy that she is about to join CUBE and be praised as a core member of the company's upcoming girl group.
But what Kim Hyunya didn't know was that Fang Moan had already strengthened her own proposition and wanted to sign her into CCM and train her to become a LO, and the main imaginary enemy that Fang Moan designed for Kim Hyun Ya was precisely IU Lee Ji-eun, who had only just debuted as a SOLO now.
One can sing Lee Ji-eun, and the other is good at dancing Kim Hyun-ah, it is difficult to distinguish between the superior and the inferior, but they must compete and measure.
I have to say that Fang Mo'an has his own temper and stubbornness in this matter, and even at this time when Jin Hyunya has not joined CCM, he already plans to be a strict teacher and train Jin Hyunya to be his own senior apprentice, just like Li Xiuman once taught him.
However, Fang Moan didn't want to wait, waiting for Jin Hyunya to become the "awl" who broke the bag by herself.
Because what he wants is not only to let Kim Hyun Ah occupy his place in the song industry as a solo, but he also hopes to curb Lee Ji Eun's development through Kim Hyun Ah's "aggressiveness", and strive for greater possibilities for him to dig Lee Ji Eun to CCM from Loen.
Since he has made up his mind to train Kim Hyun Ah to be a solo, then he will never allow another company in South Korea called Loen to have solo talents who can compete with Kim Hyun Ah in the music industry.