Chapter 341: The Battle of the Retro (Part I)
Park Ji-sub's rebirth has changed a lot of things, such as Lee Joon-gi's popularity is much higher than in the previous life. Although the other party still took the old route before, he became famous with "The King's Man", and then transformed from an idol to a powerful actor, the exposure rate is not high, and he doesn't even participate in variety shows much.
But he can't stop Park Ji-sub from being such a troublesome BOSS, and every time Citrine has any news, he has to be taken with him to appear on camera.
Of course, this is just one of them. Such as the appearance of "Rights and Power", and the position of Knight Press in the publishing world, these are small things. Because it only affects the distribution of the market and who earns more, but it has no effect on the trend.
So strictly speaking, a song that will be popular will still be popular, and a movie that wants to be famous will be famous. Because Park Ji-sub is changing the market share, not the market environment. So...... The prototype of the five girls is actually the early WG.
Park Ji-sub is not really an expert planner, he is just a person with a prescient vision and a more unique vision. If you really want to say how much talent there is, that's all. It can be seen from the publicity of the five girls in the early stage that the company's ability is not enough! Plus Park Ji-sub doesn't have any good plan at all.
That's why he chose to develop steadily, from his debut to the present! The five girls have been tepid. Relying on Citrine's gimmick, it is widely known, but in fact, not many people like this combination in essence.
And the appearance of "The Birth of a Family" has made Quan Xiaosheng attract a large number of fans. and the singing of Cui Zhina's TV series, which also made some people realize that the group of five girls actually has strength and image. It's just that...... None of this is useful, because Citrine.P doesn't have the propaganda power of S.M, and it can't multiply these exponentially.
So, what the five girls need is simple. A 'Divine Comedy' that can make them famous in one fell swoop in today's circumstances.
Just like BIGBANG, which has already hit the streets, the song "Lies" made this boy group, which was nicknamed "the ugliest boy group in history" by the public, suddenly become a hot boy group. The popularity is close to SJ, according to the analysis of professionals, if Quan Zhilong, a talented man pushed out by Yang Xianshuo, continues to hold on so strongly, it will not take two years! BIGBANG is definitely a boy group that can compete with TVXQ.
And that's just the effect of a song. So...... Park Ji-sub has moved out of the killer feature!
The retro trilogy, which is WG's famous work. Just because of the three main hits, this group dominated the Korean girl group market in 2007 and the first half of 2009. If it weren't for the sudden rise of Girls' Generation, maybe the name of the legendary girl group would really be taken away by WG.
But that's all hypothetical, because now! This Park Jin-young's divine plan was stolen by Park Ji-sub.
The new album of Five Girls was launched strongly, with the title song "TELLME". With retro dance as a gimmick, a promotional trailer was released on July 20! JUST A CLIMACTIC CLIP HAS BEEN HIT BY MORE THAN 10 MILLION HITS ON MAINSTREAM ONLINE MEDIA PORTALS SUCH AS NAVER AND YOUTUBE.
Five people with hot bodies, dressed in retro-style costumes, dancing retro dances modified from nightclubs in the eighties and nineties, plus toxic melodies! and the cute image created by Jeon Hyo-sung in "The Birth of a Family" appeared again in the MV.
There is no need to publicize it at all, just a fragment has caused a trend.
Meantime. S.M's rookie girl group Girls' Generation also broadcast their debut variety show "Girls Go to School" amid many criticisms. People also got to know the nine girls first, but compared to the momentum caused by Citrine.P. It seems to be a little weaker.
And JYP was not far behind, and broke out in big news. Hong Seung-sung, the former president of JYP, officially announced that he would break away from JYP and establish a separate company CUBEEntertainment, and threatened to launch a new boy group in the near future. At the same time, it was also announced that it had signed a mutual covenant with Citrine.P, and the two companies would share resources to a certain extent.
Park Jin-young was very calm in the face of this matter. After explaining a few words of cause and effect lightly in front of the media, he pulled the topic back to the return of WG, and at the same time announced that a new boy group would be launched next year.
The entertainment industry, which has been silent for two months, has once again been stirred up by these companies, and the girl group war! and next year's men's team scuffle, which has made the news media into excitement.
And several companies that are parties. But it's all in the meeting. In the S.M company, Kim Young-min, Lee so-man, and a cadre of the company's management were all sitting in the conference room, although their expressions were a little different! But they all have one thing in common, and that is that their expressions are somewhat gloomy.
"The company's liquidity is insufficient, and the promotion of Girls' Generation should be slow."
The head of the finance department carefully reported that the two bosses of the company did not seem to be in a good mood recently.
"How's the staffing arrangement?" Kim Young-min asked expressionlessly.
"The assistant, the agent, and the management team are all on standby, but whether Girls' Generation needs to be cleaned up again, that Zheng Xiuyan has been in a lot of mood swings recently." Wu Shencheng, the head of Girls' Generation planning, reached in a low voice.
"Do you want to report this?" Li Xiuman sneered and asked lightly.
"This ......" Wu Shencheng's face stiffened, and he replied cautiously: "This girl has had contact with Citrine before, and her sister is also in Citrine.P company, so she paid attention to it. ”
"It's my order, does Director Li have any opinions?" Kim Young-min added coldly.
"You go on, I'll just listen." Li Xiuman simply leaned back in his chair, put on a comfortable expression and said casually: "What is lacking in Girls' Generation now is not propaganda, but the foundation." ”
"What, does Director Li have any good suggestions?" Kim Young-min raised an eyebrow and asked sarcastically.
"Although I'm not very good at girl groups, I am always building stars after all." Lee so-man ignored Kim Young-min's tone and said extremely calmly: "Park Ji-sub is talented, she can take good songs and pile them up, but we can't." ”
"So President Kim, you'd better not have a hard fight with him! Otherwise, you will die a terrible death. Li Xiuman said with a smile.
Jin Yingmin's face sank, frowned and thought for a while, then he glanced at Li Xiuman with a little meaning, turned his head and ordered: "Pacify Zheng Xiuyan, arrange a collective variety show with Girls' Generation and SJ next month, and transfer TVXQ back by the way." ”
"Continue to follow the current train of thought, just lose one game, I can afford to lose." Kim Young-min said with a sneer.
On the other side, in Citrine.P, Park Ji-sub was also sitting in the conference room. Wu Xijie, Xu Junxiu, Tang Bin, Hong Shengcheng and Yang Xianshuo are all here, gathering all the executives and heads of Citrine.P today.
"We're going to win in August, and we're going to win beautifully! BIGBANG's new album has been postponed, and I will arrange for them to increase exposure for "Infinite Challenge" and "Two Days and One Night", and then promote them after the end of the five girls' singing period, President Yang has no problem with this, right? Park Ji-sub said with a smile.
"Feel free, just be happy." Yang Xianshuo smacked his mouth and said sullenly.
From above 10,000 people to now under 10,000 people, he is still unhappy in his heart. It's just that Park Ji-sub doesn't have anything to find fault with, so he can only answer the other party with this resentful tone. (To be continued......)
PS: There is one more at eight o'clock~!