Chapter 501: Scramble
"Boys Over Flowers" has maintained a rating of more than 25% since the fifth episode, and by the ninth episode, it broke through the ratings of 30% in one fell swoop, reaching a new peak.
Cho Won-hee's title song "Gee", which was tailor-made for Girls' Generation, became an instant hit, from January 16 after defeating Baek Ji-young's "Like a Shot" to win four consecutive places in the music bank on February 6, setting a new record for Girls' Generation.
You must know that the title track of their mini album is also "NoNoNo" created by Zhao Yuanxi, and it only won three places, and the four consecutive championships made a group of girls overjoyed.
Sometimes the number of people in the Korean music industry does not care about the quality of the song, but depends on the environment in which the song is played, and whether there are strong competitors, which will directly affect the acquisition of one person.
And the release of Girls' Generation's mini-second came at a great time without a strong competitor.
Baek Ji-young's resentful lyrical style has always been no match for the cheerful and sunny girlish style of Girls' Generation, and the trend of SOLO's invincible team was vividly reflected in late 2008.
WG, the direct competitor of Girls' Generation, did not release a follow-up song after the retro trilogy, but was busy releasing multiple versions of "NoBaby" in Chinese, English, Japanese and South Korea, taking advantage of the fire to make money in Southeast Asia.
Kara, one of the three girl groups that debuted at the same time, has just completed the reorganization and has not yet gotten up from the quagmire of failure.
The natural enemies of the women's group, the general trend, the men's group are all in the singing period without exception, and SS501 has not moved since the fiasco of Zhao Yuanxi in the first half of 2008. Their captain Kim Hyun-joong is also busy filming at the moment, and the rest of the members are doing their own activities, and there is no plan to release a new album, and it will be a matter of the second half of the year to release a new album.
With "One Day at a Time" and "Red Xia", the popular boy group BB went to Japan to make money, SUJU and TVXQ are both members of S.M's own family, and of course they will not fight in the ring with their sister Girls' Generation.
The rest is that the opponent is JYP's two new boy groups 2AM and 2PM, 2PM debuted amazingly, this is not the singing period at the moment, and 2AM's lyrical music style does not pose a direct threat to Girls' Generation, but is suppressed by Girls' Generation everywhere.
Among the general trend SOLO singers. Zhao Yuanxi praised Girlhood, how could he collide with his girlfriend's group before he had time to do so. Kim Jong Kook, Rain and Lee Hyo-ri all released solo albums in late 2008.
Girlhood, momentum is like a rainbow, invincible.
Jessica has been in love and career lately, smiling brightly every day. The hostility and disgust towards Kwon Yoo-ri have also diminished a lot. It's still meeting and not talking. But the attitude is not as blunt as before.
Jessica's likes and dislikes are all on her face, and the members of Girls' Generation know that she has been staying at Zhao Yuanxi's villa every day recently, and they are secretly happy that they are back together. After all, if they had a stiff relationship with Zhao Yuanxi, they couldn't get along with themselves. What's more, Zhao Yuanxi is still the gold medal producer of Girls' Generation, who will write songs for them after offending him.
On February 7, S.M's artists almost flew out of the nest and flew to Thailand to star in the 2008 S.MTownLive. Mr. Cho did not go with the members of the company, but flew to Thailand alone with his agent, Song Ki-beom, and two assistants, Park Dong-kyu and Kim Jung-sung, a little later.
S.MTown was chosen at the Rajamangala Stadium in Thailand, a mega stadium with a capacity of 60,000 people. Of course, S.MTown wasn't proud enough to attract 60,000 followers, and only opened half the game.
Zhao Yuanxi arrived at the latest, and when he arrived at the gymnasium, he had already started rehearsals. After the rehearsal of the five girls at FX, it was Girls' Generation.
The characteristics and highlights of S.MTown lie in the wonderful combination of various groups under S.M, such as the duet between TVXQ Kim Jae-jung and Girls' Generation Kim Taeyeon, and the wonderful dance collision of Jung Yoon-ho, Donghae, Eun-hyuk, Kim Hyo-yeon, Kwon Yo-ri, and Song Qian, which are the strongest dances of S.M.
Cho has a total of five songs, "In My Singing", "TM", "Princess", "ItsLove" and "Angel", the latter three of which he has never performed before, and this is the first time he has performed on the stage in Thailand.
The song "ItsLove" was originally intended to be sung in duet with his girlfriend Jessica, and she was certainly the best choice; The original group members of "TM" were Kwon Yoo-ri and Lim Yoon-a, both of whom gave Cho Won-hee a headache.
Needless to say, Jessica has a look like you're looking at it, if you really choose Quan Yoo-ri, she can't tell how Jessica will mess with herself. As for Lin Yun'er, Zhao Yuanxi could only sigh, this kid has been cold and indifferent to him until now, just like treating strangers.
After choosing, Zhao Yuanxi picked FX's Song Qian and Xian Enjing, which stabbed the hornet's nest, not only Jesssica has opinions, but the members of Girls' Generation all have opinions, and they all accuse him of partiality.
"Why am I biased?" Zhao Yuanxi felt inexplicable.
Cui Xiuying was the first to jump out and speak: "Oppa, you are not partial, why don't you choose us as your dance partner and choose FX?" ”
Kim Hyo-yeon said: "Aren't we still as good as FX? Oppa, we've been to China together and have been to the Happy Camp, what do you say you are not biased? ”
The battle between Girls' Generation and FX evolved into this, and Zhao Yuanxi was unexpected.
Zhao Yuanxi was so noisy by a group of girls that he had to raise his hand and surrender, "Okay, good, good, I'll choose you, then Xiaoyuan and Xiuying will be fine." ”
"Yay." Kim Hyo-yeon and Choi so-young high-fived each other.
"Nope." Jessica shouted from the crowd.
Cui Xiuying glanced at Jessica and said unceremoniously: "Sika, you have sung love songs with Brother Yuanxi, so don't compete with us for the position of dance partner, and besides, you haven't practiced TM's dance steps." ”
"That's right, Sika, be a man and be content." Kim Hyo-yeon and Choi so-young's united front hurried to help.
Jessica snorted lightly, "I haven't practiced, have you practiced Cui Long Legs?" ”
Cui Xiuying crossed her hands on her hips, as if she was in a fighting posture, and glared at Jessica condescendingly, "I have practiced, not only in private, but also with Brother Yuanxi, how about it?" ”
"Cut, bragging."
"Let's play." Cui Xiuying relied on her height and long legs, and stubbornly squeezed Jessica to hold Zhao Yuanxi's arm, "Oppa, let's go to the rehearsal." ”
Choi so-young and Kim Hyo-yeon took Cho Won-hee on stage for rehearsals on left and right, Jessica was so angry that she jumped to her feet, and finally had the opportunity to dance with her boyfriend on the stage and was ruined by these two teammates. (To be continued......)