Chapter 16: Declining Grades and TARA
"Taeyeon Nuna?"
Chi Jingyuan looked at the person who came and shouted with a smile.
"Ah, junior, you've been here for so long, don't you know to visit your seniors? Don't you know that we also have a stage today? β
"Hey Yigu, it's worthy of the general trend of Yuanxi that has broken the record of the sound source, it's really amazing, I already need seniors to take the initiative to visit you."
Kim Taeyeon smiled at first when she saw Ji Kyung-won, and quickly retracted herself, and complained ruthlessly to him in the stormy version, saying that the tone behind her was yin and yang.
"Ani, I'm getting ready to go."
Ji Jingyuan got up and walked over, smiling sincerely.
"Cut." Kim Taeyeon glanced at him disdainfully, then crossed over to Ji Kyungwon, greeted Bae so-ji, who was saluting, with a smile, and greeted him warmly.
Obviously, there is actually no intersection, and the appearance of the two is like a good relationship.
After chatting for a while, Ji Kyung-won gave Bae so-ji and Park Jae-hyun a wink, and followed Kim Tae-yeon out of their lounge and walked towards the Girls' Generation lounge.
"Taeyeon-nu, you're the one? What about the other seniors? β
Ji Kyung-won and Kim Taeyeon walked side by side in the backstage, the pace was not too fast, and from time to time she saluted and said hello to artists she knew passing by, and she asked casually when she was free.
"What, the shelf is big enough, it's not enough for me to come alone?"
Kim Taeyeon looked at Ji Kyung-won and pretended not to be angry, but she couldn't pretend to be able to see his smiling expression, the corners of her mouth curled up and she laughed, glared at him and said angrily: "Xiuying and a few people went to find friends they knew, Yuna Yuri is still putting on makeup, and the others are doing their own play with nothing to do." β
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Chi Jingyuan nodded indifferently, he was just looking for a conversation.
"By the way, there is a private dinner on the night of the 8th, Jingyuan, remember to come over then."
At this time, Kim Taeyeon suddenly remembered, turned her head to look at him and admonished.
"No. 8...... What day is it? And I don't know if I have time......"
Ji Jingyuan blinked his eyes and looked at a puzzled expression, and without waiting for Kim Taeyeon to change his face, he immediately smiled and shook his hand: "The 8th is Taeyeon Nuna's birthday, of course I remember it, how could I forget it, the gifts have been bought in advance, don't worry." β
"Humph......"
Kim Taeyeon, who was just about to change color, couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth, looked at him with a smile, and said angrily: "You said you didn't have time to call you last year, but if you say that again this year, then we may not see each other in the future." β
"Nenene, you must go, you must go."
Chi Jingyuan nodded sincerely, looking happy and happy, but he was a little bitter in his heart.
I was going to work overtime again that day......
Girls' Generation and EXO's lounge are very close, just turn a corner and walk a few steps to arrive, and without saying a word, they arrived at the door, Taeyeon didn't even bother to knock on the door, but remembering that Ji Jingyuan was behind him, he knocked on the door perfunctorily, and without waiting for a response from inside, he directly pushed it open and walked in with him.
"Senior, Anihassaiyo ......"
As soon as Ji Jingyuan entered, he first glanced at it and saw that there were six members with Kim Taeyeon, and then he smiled and saluted and greeted them.
"Jingyuan is here......"
"Hey Yigu, Jingyuan, I haven't seen you for a long time."
"Jingyuan, come here, sit here!"
When the young sisters saw him, they also waved enthusiastically, and even the two who were putting on makeup paused slightly, turned their heads sideways and waved to Chi Jingyuan with a smile.
After saying hello in a circle, Ji Jingyuan walked over with Huang Meiying smiling and waving, and sat with them on the two adjacent sofas.
On the right is Hwang Mi-young and Kim Taeyeon, who also sat down together, and on the left is Sunny, who is lazily leaning on the sofa and playing with his mobile phone.
Ji Jingyuan glanced at Sunny speechlessly, and suddenly felt that this sister looked a little like himself in the lounge.
"Taeyeon didn't see you come after waiting for a long time just now, so she threw the door out in a rage, Jingyuan, she didn't have a hard time for you, right?"
Hwang Mi-young looked at Ji Kyung-won, smiling and squinting, hugging Kim Taeyeon and joking.
"Of course not, Taeyeon Nuna praised my popularity." Ji Jingyuan shook his head and looked at the other party with squinting eyes.
"Haha, I don't believe it, just Taeyeon's ........."
Hwang Mi-young laughed out loud, waved her hand with an impossible expression, and before she could finish speaking, she was slapped by Kim Taeyeon with her elbow, and then glared and suppressed.
"The song is well written, "Some" is really good, and the full version of the arrangement is much better than the half-finished product I listened to when I recorded the demo, and the singing is also good."
At this time, Sunny put down his phone, stretched and sat up, glanced up and down at Chi Jingyuan, took the initiative to praise, and finally playfully answered: "The lyrics are not bad, you are worthy of writing them, and people with insufficient experience can't write that flavor." β
"Hehe......" Ji Jingyuan didn't quibble, winking and grinning with Sunny.
"Yes, Kyungwon, you don't know, Taeyeon likes the song "some" very much, and I've been listening to it for the past few days, and I'm always talking about it......"
Huang Meiying was halfway through speaking, and her mouth was covered by Kim Taeyeon, and she quickly bent her eyes with a smile and raised her hand in surrender.
The two of them do seem to be quite close, and they get along in a very interesting way, and the roles they attack are not fixed, and they are always changing with the situation.
"Hehe......"
Ji Kyung-won and Sunny looked at each other and laughed, then looked at the two of them who were fighting, and after a deep sigh, he said, "If I have the chance, I will definitely cooperate with Taeyeon Nuna once in the future." β
"Cut, now you know that Nuna's singing skills are good?"
Kim Taeyeon's eyes lit up as soon as she heard this, and then she quickly retracted herself, pretending to glance at Ji Jingyuan with her head held high, and she was embarrassed.
"Ani, how could it be, I knew it on the first day of my debut."
Ji Kyung-won looked at Kim Taeyeon adoringly as a fan, and that appearance made Taeyeon can't hold back her laughter, and the bright laughter immediately spread throughout the lounge.
Ji Jingyuan sat there and chatted with Sunny for a while, and he didn't talk about things like the results of this return, and said some more attractive private things and embarrassing things, and the whole lounge kept smiling for a while, so that Yun'a and Yuri, who were putting on makeup next to them, kept looking at this side.
After a while, Zheng Xiuyan and several people also came back, and as soon as they entered the door and saw Chi Jingyuan, they also came over to greet and chat enthusiastically.
Zheng Xiuyan has always felt good about Ji Jingyuan because of Zheng Xiujing's role, although she witnessed Ji Jingyuan and Jin Yarong dating in the parking lot, she didn't bother to care about her private life, and it had nothing to do with her.
After a while, TVXQ from the lounge next to me also came over to participate in this issue of "M! The artists of the SM company of "c" all got together, laughing and chatting, and the atmosphere was quite good.
TVXQ is considered the company's big predecessor, the former pillar, the two remaining members after the split, Jung Yunhao and Shen Changmin, although they are not very close to Ji Jingyuan, but they have known each other for a long time, and they have participated in many SMTOWN family concerts together, and they are already quite familiar.
Both of them have quite good personalities, Jung Yun-ho is more cheerful and likes to joke, while Shim Chang-min is in great contrast with the more liberal style on stage. He is considered a scholar, and the Kyung Hee University he was sent to is a very self-disciplined person in private, and it is easy to make people feel good when he laughs.
Of course, these are some superficial perceptions of Chi Jingyuan when he came into contact with them, and he doesn't know the deeper true character and private style, and he doesn't need to know.
TVXQ also released the follow-up song "Fascinated" on February 27, which is currently playing songs.
It's really interesting to say, SM doesn't know how to arrange it, and I like to arrange for its artists to return in the same time period, and then beat themselves up.
Last year, fx and EXO were arranged to return on the front and back feet, and fx had a good momentum to take one more title song and was directly ended by "Roaring Filial Piety", but this year several groups are back together.
However, TVXQ's current focus of activities is no longer on the peninsula but on neon, and they are not so interested in one now, and the singing period has also been shortened a lot, and it is estimated that they will go to Neon to continue their activities after the end of the singing promotion in the past two weeks.
After chatting for a while, Ji Jingyuan also said goodbye, waved his hand with a few sisters and returned to his lounge, playing the game console while chatting with Pei Xiuzhi.
After more than half an hour, after accepting the MC's interview, Ji Jingyuan heard the assistant say that Girls' Generation was about to record the stage, so he put down the game console and stood up with great interest to go and watch, and asked his partner before leaving: "I'm going to see a few Nuna's recordings, are you going?"
Today is the first stage for the return of Girls' Generation, and with their status, it must also be the way in which the company sets up the scene in advance and then pre-records.
"I'm not going." Pei Xiuzhi looked in the mirror and didn't look back.
Ji Jingyuan nodded, closed the door and left the lounge and walked to the side of the stage, at this time Girls' Generation had already set up poses on the stage, and the prelude had already begun to play.
He found a place where no one was and leaned against the wall to watch.
γ. The singing costume is indeed very distinctive, Yishui's shirt and red tie and dark blue suit, with skinny jeans, very handsome and sassy, completely men's group style.
In the last two years, a number of sexy styles have dominated the peninsula girl group, and the pure style is mixed in, and every return of Girls' Generation is a completely different style.
Unlike some girl groups, after changing their familiar songs and styling styles, many of them will show that they are not suitable and cannot control the situation.
Girls' Generation's "Igotaboy" of last year's hip-hop route to today's ". Each style looks well digested.
That's where they excel.
Today's makeup on the stage is not bad, especially Taeyeon's style is really eye-catching, her black hair is tied together, she wears a top hat, and she looks handsome and milky in a suit, Ji Jingyuan feels that she is the most outstanding member of the makeup makeup this time, not even one of them.
The music is also OK, the sense of rhythm and toxicity are there, the choreography is not holding back, and several parts make people feel their charm on stage.
But that's pretty much it, if you let Chi Jingyuan evaluate, the title song of this return is a song that meets the standards of girls' generation, has bright spots, but is not so good that it seems a little ordinary.
After watching them record twice, Ji Jingyuan nodded to the sisters who had been watching from time to time since he appeared, left the stage and returned to the lounge, and then waited for the show to officially start recording.
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"M in the first week of March! Who will be the first place? β
"Girls' Generation to Yuan & Suzy, please see the screen public results! β
Ahn Jae-hyun and Jung Joon-young, two MCs, stood in the middle of the first row of the stage, enthusiastically presiding over the last award ceremony.
Two alternate Girls' Generation stood on their left side, while Ji Kyung-won and Bae so-ji stood on the right.
Chi Jingyuan stood there with a smile, his eyes swept over from time to time, and after the ranking of one was about to come out, he obviously saw that several sisters were a little nervous, staring at the screen next to them that displayed the scores.
Others look relaxed and smile as if they don't care, but in fact, their attention will still be on the top of the screen.
Whether it is the seniors of the same company or not, or whether the relationship is good or not, at this time, I must not want to lose.
And losing to the juniors of the same company is actually a little unacceptable.
"Source sales score ......"
βγ. γGirls' Generation 2500 points, "some" Yuan & suzy5000 points. β
"Record Sales Score ......"
βγ. 1000 points, 0 points for "some". β
"Social Media Score ......"
"M Program Score ......"
"The final score was ............"
βγ. γGirls' Generation 9363 points, "some" Yuan & suzy9850 points. β
βYuan& Suzy, Rough Kahamida! β
With Jung Joon-young's loud announcement, the dynamic BGM and the shouts of the fans below sounded at the same time, and silver streamers erupted from both sides and slowly fell on the artists on the stage.
At the moment when the results were announced, the faces of several members of the young group darkened slightly, but they quickly sorted out their expressions, turned sideways to look at Chi Jingyuan next to him, and applauded lightly with a congratulatory smile on their faces.
Chi Jingyuan took the trophy calmly, with a smile on his face, politely bowed slightly to the few seniors next to him, and then took the microphone and said his testimonial.
After the testimonial, they were about to enter the encore stage, and all the artists saluted each other and prepared to leave, and walked towards Ji Kyung-won under the leadership of Taeyeon.
Kim Taeyeon, who was at the head, wrinkled her nose at Ji Kyung-won and glanced at him, then grinned and showed her little white teeth and laughed, stretching out her two hands and shaking them while congratulating:
"Congratulations, you're amazing, junior."
"Consanmida." Ji Jingyuan smiled brightly and slapped Taeyeon with both hands hard.
It can be seen that Taeyeon is not in a very good mood because she didn't get one when she was a girl, but in the end, she has a very close relationship with Ji Kyung-won, and she doesn't take it too seriously.
Anyway, she had expected it before her return because of the amazing momentum of "Some", and now there is no surprise.
It's just that she boasted about Haikou that Ji Jingyuan couldn't get one by one, and now she can't help but feel a little embarrassed in retrospect, but fortunately, Ji Jingyuan is very eyey and didn't mention it at all, so that Taeyeon's predecessor's face can be saved.
Taeyeon was followed by Sunny, who also high-fived and congratulated him.
Her mentality seems to be very peaceful, and it doesn't seem to have any effect on one another.
Originally, Girls' Generation was ready to say hello and end the game, but Taeyeon and Sunny took the lead, and the people who followed followed did the same, and they all smiled and high-fived Ji Kyung-won in turn, showing SM's family love very well, and also alleviating the anger of their fans because they didn't get one.
After all, it's a junior brother, and it's not a big deal to give it to him in the first week, after all, "some" is really popular.
Chi Jingyuan smiled brightly, and after high-fiveing each young sister, he took the microphone and started encore, and this issue of the song ended under the neat chorus of fans.
It's just that there were some bad voices on the Internet afterwards, and many people think that the return of Girls' Generation has declined a lot, and the hegemony of the first girl group has obviously begun to decline.
"Laughing to death, I did so much publicity before I returned, and I was blown everywhere, but I was knocked away by my junior brother after playing a song for the first time for a long time, is this the first girl group?"
"Not to mention the first week, with the momentum of "some", before graduating with three consecutive championships, Girls' Generation didn't think that she could snatch one."
"The last time I made a return was "Igotaboy" in January last year, and this time it was a return after a year or two months, which can be regarded as something that countless fans are looking forward to, but the result is just this result, which is indeed a bit unsatisfactory."
"I was a sone until this year, and I didn't lose my fan until January 1 this year, when Yuna's relationship was exposed...... To be honest, there are too many people like me, many of the old fans before ran out because of this incident, and many of them are die-hard fans with very purchasing power, which can be clearly seen from the sales of this return. β
"Can you not talk endlessly just because you play a song, don't you know what kind of popularity EXO is now? YuaOP, he alone can't wait to account for more than one-third of the fans of the entire group, and there is such a popular idol partner as Xiuzhi, "some" is a rare music source hit divine comedy, isn't it normal to be able to play in the first week of return? If you believe it or not, you will be killed...... Oh no, you can't even get in a candidate, and no one counts the scores, it's so pitiful. β
"Yuan is also an artist of SM, and he is the junior disciple of our Ernnies, and he is not considered an outsider if he takes one, these other people's anti-strings are sour there."
When I was young, I lost the song on the first day, and many black fans came out and started to make noise.
Of course, the results of a comeback can't be determined by the victory or defeat of a singing stage, but some people are right, the sales of Girls' Generation's return this time have a very obvious decline, which is in the eyes of everyone.
After the release of Girls' Generation's "igotaboy" last year, the sales volume quickly exceeded 300,000 copies, completely blocking other girl groups, and opening a huge gap with the second best-selling one.
But this time the . . Since its release, the sales volume has just exceeded 130,000 copies, and it has been disconnected from other girl groups, beating the boy group, so that the sales gap that all SONE is most proud of is slowly beginning to be erased.
Although the album is still selling every day, it seems that it is already good to be able to exceed 200,000 copies from this trend.
It can only be said that the popularity of the top romance really hurts too much for a girl group, and in the seventh year of debut, it is indeed at the end of the vitality of a girl group, even if it is a girl's generation, it cannot be avoided.
The next day, March 7, "Music Bank", Yuan & Suzy once again beat Girls' Generation, who was also an alternate, to take a trophy with a record 11,150 points this year.
You must know that this is the highest score of this year's "Music Bank" when their sales score is 0, and it can't help but amaze idols and passers-by.
On March 8th, the 400th special program of "Music Center" was launched, and SM went to several groups of artists, including TVXQ, Girls' Generation, and EXO.
The cover of "Roaring Filial Piety" and "Sorrysorry" is already familiar to them, and they can't be more familiar with it, and they didn't encounter any problems after the performance went smoothly.
In addition to Kim So-hyun, one of the MCs, who took the initiative to go to the lounge to exchange contact information with Ji Kyung-won, what impressed him the most was that he saw the stage of the girl group tara that he had not seen for a long time.
In addition to their exchange of stage "DoyouKnowMe" with Ko Yoo-tae, they also performed their 2011 melon year-ranking song "Rolypoly".
Melon is really not an achievement that anyone can achieve, and this song is also the song with the best performance of the tara sound source, although the sales are a little short and the girls' generation is a lot worse, but it also represents their dazzling peak.
It's a pity that after the incident in 12 years, the situation of the whole group has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and the popularity of passers-by has collapsed, and in just half a year, it has gone from being popular among the whole people to the extent that no one cares.
After a period of time, Tara was still diligent in the turmoil, the squad, the cooperative song, and the members of the solo came all over again, but it was a pity that they were difficult to gain the love of the people after being violently attacked by the Internet, even if the title songs of several returns were good songs, but none of them made any splashes, and only the fans were reluctant to support.
This time I suddenly saw these girls again, and Ji Jingyuan couldn't help but think of the high-spirited tara who was hotly discussed by Park Chanyeol and several other members in private when they participated in the "Dream Concert" shortly after their EXO's debut, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
In the evening, Ji Kyung-won goes to Taeyeon's birthday party.
Before Ji Kyung-won went, because it happened to be the return period, both to give back to the fans and to promote at the same time, SM Company prepared a public birthday party for Taeyeon, and held a birthday party in a small exhibition hall.
Some screened fans came to the scene, and with the participation of all the members of Girls' Generation, they sang songs and blew out candles, and they celebrated Taeyeon's birthday in a lively and warm way.
After the birthday party, some young members left with the fans, and Taeyeon pulled a few closer friends to find a restaurant to open a private box, and held a private birthday dinner between friends, which Ji Kyung-won attended.
When Ji Jingyuan arrived, it was already late and almost early in the morning, and when Ji Jingyuan came, he handed Taeyeon the prepared gift, that is, a black silver-edged high-end brand custom microphone.
This gift really surprised Kim Taeyeon, and she felt that she was very good for her style and taste as a 'Kim singer'.
When I got my hand, I opened the box, held it in my hand and couldn't bear to throw it away, and after the interest came up, I forgot to take the unplugged microphone and sang a few words, which provoked the people next to me to besiege it before I proudly put it away, and at the same time gave Chi Jingyuan an exaggerated wink and a passionate kiss.
At this time, the sisters were already a little tired and full, but after seeing him coming, the conversation was quite interesting, and after ordering a few dishes, several people began to drink and chat at the same time.
Although he was very happy to get the gift, Ji Jingyuan could see that several people, including Taeyeon, who had a birthday today, were not in a very good mood, and there were a lot of emotions in their eyebrows and eyes, and in this atmosphere, they couldn't help but talk about a lot of past events.
Ji Jingyuan didn't intervene much, drank two sips of wine from time to time, and sat there quietly as an observer.
Seven years of idol experience in girls' generation,Plus their years of trainee career have been working hard to this day.,I don't know how much sunshine and rain I've spent in the middle.,A few sisters who have been slightly drunk seem to have returned to the old days.,Happy and exciting things when the members get along with each other.,And some disputes and contradictions are all resurfaced from memory in the wine cups.γ
The other sisters drank to increase their interest and enthusiasm for conversation, but Taeyeon took a few sips, and her cheeks were flushed, and she looked like she might fall on the table at any moment.
Seeing this, Hwang Mi-young snickered all of a sudden, took out her mobile phone and took a few photos of the staggering Taeyeon, and then proudly saved it, saying that she was going to show Taeyeon tomorrow how funny she was drunk.
Ji Jingyuan thought that Hwang Mi-young's fate tomorrow must be to raise her hand and surrender under Taeyeon's glare and fists, she estimated that she knew it, but she still enjoyed it after so many times.
It's really a relationship that has been precipitated over time, and it's good.
After staying until one o'clock, Ji Kyung-won said goodbye and left, got into Park Jae-hyun's car, which had been waiting nearby, and rushed back to the SM building instead of going back to the dormitory to rest.
I still have to work overtime today, and the other members are still practicing there.