Chapter 143: Collision
"Upside Down" was launched without warning, as the second title song of Li Jingming's regular series, it was directly released online without any warm-up and without any publicity, which is really not like the style of LAD Entertainment that will do things in the past, and the planning departments of many companies can't figure out what kind of chess LAD Entertainment is playing this time, but according to their previous understanding of Song Shijae, this approach should have deep meaning.
The MV of "Upside Down" is very distinctive, only Li Jingming's back can be seen in it, everything around him is developing backwards, but he himself has been moving forward. The flowers turned into buds, and the water flowed, but Li Jingming still walked forward, it seemed that a person was the opposite of the whole shijie, and there was no turning back in the entire MV, until he walked to zuihou and walked to a woman's side, and the two backs were side by side, and then the picture darkened, and the song ended.
The meaning of the MV is widely disagreed, and there is no conclusive conclusion, but the song itself is very good-sounding and is unanimously certified, the lyrics are too literary, and a large number of literary and artistic young people were killed in seconds at once, and you will only think of me when the whole shijie is upside down, and the helplessness and pain Li Jingming only used a back and a faint voice to express it.
Li Jingming's singing skills have been affirmed by many musicians, and many of them will only say good things after receiving the benefits of Song Shizai, but if Li Jingming's own strength is not strong enough, no one will believe these people's praise, it will only have the opposite effect, so Li Jingming is now quite a bit of a young generation of masters in singing. said that Li Jingming's singing skills were the strongest, and he couldn't come up with any evidence, but now in the younger generation, as long as he talks about singing skills, Li Jingming's name will automatically pop up, this is Song Shizai's cleverness, the so-called three people become tigers, not to mention that Li Jingming's singing skills are already powerful.
A few days before Upside Down, YG's boy group Bigbang released a title song from their fourth mini album "Always", and one of the title songs, "Lies", received a surprisingly good response, but considering that the boys had been precipitating for a year, it seemed natural that it was time to produce a good work. There was a lot of fire over there, and the hastily released appearance of "Upside Down" looked like it was deliberately competing with "Lies" in the eyes of others.
In fact, there is no competition between the two at all, Lee Jingming's fans are all literary and artistic youths, and many people don't want to listen carefully, but when they hear that Bigbang is a YG artist, they directly PASS and don't care, because YG is synonymous with hip-hop in South Korea, and these literary and artistic youths will listen to hip-hop songs? They only saw one letter H on the Internet and skipped it. Bigbang's fans are a group of hipsters who like pop and avant-garde, and those who like avant-garde will like literary and artistic things? It's even more impossible, in their eyes, all literary and artistic things are pretentious and moaning without disease. To sum up, in fact, "Lies" and "Upside Down" can't compete at all, and the market is not together.
Li Jingming was forced to have no choice but to agree to release, he was going to report to USC on the evening of August 24, and after he applied, USC happily accepted him, those schools were wide in and strict out, and Li Jingming was Harvard's master's all A grades were very dazzling, originally because the application time was late, Li Jingming was still ready to let the Chicago consortium say hello, and he was admitted smoothly. School goes well, but what to do with the album, only get the album out first, and then talk about it, Li Jingming doesn't count on the promotion of songs, let Song Seok-jae worry about it, but the singer who came out of the album is gone, and I don't know if it will be the first time in the history of the Korean music industry (the first one is Lin Jae-fan).
These days, "Lies" has the momentum to dominate the ballad industry, with very ear-catching melodies and lyrics, and fancy raps, which have won the popularity of countless young people at once, especially the ten generations of men and women are the craziest. After the release of Li Jingming's "Upside Down", the momentum was far inferior to "Lies", but everyone found a strange thing, "Upside Down" is actually a slow-burning type, and other songs are strong in the front and weak in the back, but the sales performance of "Upside Down" did not explode but steadily improved, and gradually there was a trend of being different from "Lies".
This phenomenon is mainly due to the relationship between different audiences, young people are very impulsive to buy things, they will pay for them if they like, and they also like to follow the trend, everyone says that they don't have so much face for the things they have, and the students are humming the tune of "Lies" and they haven't heard how embarrassed to go to school, so those shops at the entrance of the primary school campus are the most profitable, and the money of middle school students is just as easy to make. People who are a little older are more stable, even if they like it, they will wait until they are sure that they are not a momentary idea before buying, Li Jingming's image and positioning determine that his current fan base is slightly more mature, these people just thought it sounded good when "Upside Down" first came out, and only after a few days did they make up their minds to pay for it.
In the sixty-first volume of the "Treatise on the Land of the Yogis", the Buddha said that people have eight sufferings - birth, old age, sickness, death, love and parting, resentment and hatred, and the five yin are blazing. Li Jingming's "Upside Down" is the pain of not being able to ask for it, and the person he loves does not love his feelings.
According to statistics, every 30 million pairs of men and women will have a couple who really love each other and spend their lives together (I don't know how to count), now the Republic of Korea has a total population of only 50 million, and there is no husband and wife who really love each other, so everyone has the pain of not loving themselves with the person they love, so Lee Jingming's song can easily resonate with these people. Just looking at the momentum, "Lies" is much stronger, but looking at the online sales, "Upside Down" was released five days late, and it was about to catch up, if it weren't for the fact that online sales locked the IP address and eliminated the possibility of cheating, others would definitely say that LAD Entertainment cheated. In this way, some people also suspect that LAD Entertainment has stuffed benefits and deceived several websites, and if it weren't for the solemn statement of several audio source websites that they are ready to sue these rumors, I don't know what zuihou would have become.
The young man's shijie is impulsive and passionate, and there are VIPs who go to the Internet café to buy the audio source of "Lies" one by one, and also mobilize the bear children to take the computer at home to brush some data for "Lies". "Lies" is indeed very good, and the ten generations of fans don't want to lose their favorite songs and favorite groups because they need to go to school because they are young, so they try every means to confront those older literary youths who have already worked. Strictly speaking, this is not a collision of two songs, not a collision of Lee Kyung-myung and Bigbang, but a collision of people from two eras, each of whom has their own preferences, and each does not want to be the losing side.
Lee Kyung-myung was really speechless, looking at the meaning of those people on the Internet, he was already a representative of the senior club, but he was only one year older than Choi Seung-hyun, the oldest in Bigbang, and he was much younger just by looking at his face......
"Lies" hit the song, and the three singing stages on the weekend directly detonated Seoul, and the effect of the singing was obvious, and the sales suddenly got rid of "Upside Down" and got bigger and bigger, it seems that this short confrontation has divided the winners and losers, but then something more exciting than the singing stage appeared.
At 6 o'clock in the morning on August 24, an announcement suddenly appeared on the official website of LAD Entertainment that their artist Li Jingming was going to Los Angeles to study at the University of Southern California. The announcement said that because Li Jingming was reluctant to fans, he was afraid that fans would keep him, so he waited until Zuihou to release the news a day, and Li Jingming took a 10 o'clock plane in the morning and left South Korea four hours later to start a one-year doctoral program.
Could it be April Fool's Day that has changed the day? Many people looked at the news online early in the morning and actually saw this news, and went to the official website of LAD Entertainment to confirm that it was true! This kid must be crazy, there are a lot of artists who go out for further study, but Li Jingming, who just debuted two months ago and went to further study, is still the first, many people don't understand, the album here is so good, the sales of "Upside Down" are also very good, why did he suddenly throw his hands and run away.
Some people found that the part about education information on Li Jingming's personal homepage was finally made public, and that gorgeous resume blinded the eyes of countless people. The high school is a Celestial High School called "Jinzhong", and the information about this high school has also surfaced under the efforts of netizens who have worked hard to dig and query, this is a super high school that specializes in students from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford and other well-known universities, and that talent rate can make the principals of all high schools in Seoul ashamed. Next, the university where Li Jingming once studied is well known, the "first school" Harvard University! Not only the bachelor's level, but also the master's level is studied there. Just writing a few lines like this is definitely not convincing, several of Li Jingming's degree certificates and graduation certificates have been erased and uploaded to the Internet, and even Li Jingming's master's defense video has been made public, and now it is okay, Li Jingming is actually a top student at Harvard!
Koreans attach great importance to academic qualifications, and the phenomenon of looking at people by academic qualifications is much more serious than that of the Celestial Empire. Li Jingming is actually a student who graduated from Harvard University, and he studied psychology instead of vocal music, how could such a talent come to the people in the music industry is very puzzled, and the answer was found in LAD Entertainment under different opinions, and Li Jingming's letter to fans was made public.
It's very simple, Li Jingming just said that he felt embarrassed to come to the music and ballad industry without professional study, so now he is going to learn this knowledge, and he will come back after practicing jishu, I hope everyone will not forget him in a year. Regarding the original intention of entering the entertainment industry, Li Jingming also explained, basically how to say it brilliantly, righteous and awe-inspiring, hoping to promote an ideological cloud through the media means of the entertainment industry, saying that if he does psychological work according to his profession, he can only treat a limited number of people, and entering the entertainment industry can allow more Koreans under high-pressure life to get psychological treatment.
Where can such a haode child go to find a second one?