Chapter 36: Addiction
In a Korean restaurant called 'two' on the west side of the JYP building near Xuanling Road, four or five trainees from neon are eating lunch around a table.
The main attraction of this shop is Korean bibibimbap, because the taste is good and the price is quite famous in the neighborhood, and some trainees from large and small entertainment companies around like to come here to try it from time to time.
The group was eating with a spoon in their mouths, and they had been really hungry since the morning, but there were two exceptions.
One is Momo Hirai, who is still managing her body diet recently, she didn't even order food, so she ordered a glass of water and sat there biting a straw to join in the fun.
Nan Mei, who was next to him, took a few bites and put the spoon there and turned out his mobile phone, feeling as if he had no appetite.
"Momo-chan ......" Minami Nai, who had been swiping his phone for a while, raised his head and winked at Momo Hirai, who was looking at him: "Can you lend me wifi to connect." ”
"Eh, okay." Momo Hirai, who was drinking water with hunger, puffed out her cheeks and nodded.
After connecting her to wifi for a while, Najing Nan lowered her head and fiddled with her mobile phone again.
"Is the music video of EXO out?" Sasha Minatosaki, who was sitting next to him, brought in a large mouthful of bibimbap and said with a greasy mouth while chewing.
She didn't need to ask to know what Najing Minami was doing.
"No, it's a few minutes." Minami Nai shook his head slightly.
"Woo woo woo ......" swallowed the food in his mouth hard, Sasha Minato raised his eyes and thought about it, and suddenly asked with interest: "By the way, how much is XO's pre-sale for this album." ”
"780,000 sheets."
"How much?" She wondered if she had heard it wrong, and her mouth was slightly open in disbelief.
"780,000 tickets, I just read the announcement not long ago." Glancing up at her, Nan Nai numbled his mouth.
"This ...... A little too much, what was the last time the 2PM seniors returned to sell albums? ”
"I don't know."
"qi~~mina, do you still say that you are a fan of 2PM......" Sasha Minato glanced at her, and when she became curious, she simply took out her mobile phone and checked it, and smacked her lips after ten seconds: "Less than 120,000 ......"
She chewed on the two sales figures, only to feel that the two did not seem to be the same grade of idol at all.
It's just 2pm, and it's obviously a very popular boy group on the peninsula before.
After eating a few more bites of food, she saw the famous Jing Nan and Hirai Tao next to her getting together, and her eyes lit up and pasted it: "It's public?" ”
Seeing the two nodding, she smiled and just wanted to stick it together and open her mouth to ask for a headphone, but as soon as she raised her eyes, she saw that a pair of headphones had been divided between the two of them, and both of them were staring at the screen tightly, and they didn't look at her at all.
Feeling abandoned, he wrinkled his nose and glanced at them, snorted softly, took out his mobile phone, connected the headphones, and opened the web page.
At the beginning of the MV, after the deep voice, the melody formed by the fusion of electronic music and drums sounds, and in a huge hexagonal labyrinth, the members of EXO show their faces one after another, and they can't find a way out of the maze and sit quietly in the wall, struggling, searching, wandering back, but they can't find the direction.
A front painting makes people feel slightly worried, and the production and quality obviously exceed the level of ordinary MVs.
"What does this labyrinth mean?"
Sasha Minato raised her head and asked, she didn't pay much attention to EXO like the two people in Minami Naii, and she just watched the news about a series of concepts and promotional photos released by SM before.
"The concept of this title song is to describe the inextricability of people who are addicted to emotions because they are caught in a relationship, as if they have walked into a labyrinth."
Nanai Nan finally heard her words and turned his head sideways to explain.
"Whew......" Sasha Minato nodded with a clear look.
"Here we go." With a reminder, Mingjing Nan quickly turned around and looked down at his phone.
“ein!”
The electronically synthesized vocals officially kick off the MV and seem to invite you into this labyrinth.
“papapapa……”
As soon as the picture turned, Jin Junmian pointed to the camera to make an opening, accompanied by a somewhat treacherous but rhythmic, extremely neat continuous clapping, the camera zoomed out, and the white set wall was covered with black mosquito coils.
The picture that caught my eye was the four members standing together, Chanyeol and Kai standing on either side, each supporting one of Kim Junmian's legs and lifting him up, while Do Jun-so was lying on his back directly below, and the four of them were still clapping their hands quickly.
And the gap between them just forms a regular hexagon, which is perfectly agreed with the maze concept of the title song, and it is just an opening that makes everyone who understands it feel bright.
The camera passes through this hexagon, and after a brief solo dance by Wu Shixun, with a wave of his hand, the camera seems to be pushed in front of Ji Jingyuan.
"With everything I have, I can't go back now."
"It's clearly dangerous poisoning."
“sobadopher。”
Chi Jingyuan hooked his hand at the camera, and sang the first lyrics with sharp and cold eyes.
The soft voice is a little dull and a little hoarse, and it suddenly leads people into a musical labyrinth where there is no way out.
At this time, his upper body was lined with crimson short sleeves, with a large maze logo on his chest, covered with a black slim jacket, and a wide range of black and red contrasting trousers on his lower body, and a pair of brown leather boots on his feet, on which dark markings were densely covered.
The pitch-black hair faintly reveals a deep dark red in the not very bright light, and with the general's bangs, the forehead is all exposed in a somewhat messy wolf running shape, especially his slightly sharp eyes are very different from the usual image, and the whole person firmly grasps the eyeballs as soon as he appears on the camera.
"Overdose" has a total of two sets of clothes for each person, and everyone in the opening scene is this retro style with contrasting stitching. Among them, the red and black color of Chi Jingyuan is the most eye-catching.
"Deadly, drunk in that trance."
“ohshewantsme。”
“ohshesgotme。”
“oh,shehurtsme!”
"Like heavier and heavier cravings!"
The drum beat suddenly accelerated, and under the change of rhythm, the six members stood in a row, constantly jumping up in place, shaking their shoulders to make a rope skipping action, this slightly abrupt action appeared here but it was very distinctive, with the last sentence of the part and the rope skipping action, Chi Jingyuan jumped up and took a step forward to the camera.
I saw that all six members of Team K were half-turned to face back, and their right hands were raised in front of their foreheads, creating an aura of momentum.
In the next second, everyone lowered their heads and turned back, and at this time, the pictures on the screen switched seamlessly in an instant, and the originally slightly dark set before the blink of an eye became a bright and wide labyrinth hall, the hexagonal ceiling lights were white and dazzling, and the clothes of several people had all turned into neat slim suits.
The MV for "Overdose" has a total of two shooting sets, corresponding to each member's two costumes, and the entire MV seamlessly switches back and forth between the two.
At the same time, it entered the first chorus of Team K:
"Someohedoctor, catch me, tell me that."
"Feelings are a disease, overdose."
"Time is slowly passing and it is becoming more and more difficult to hold on to oneself."
After the costume is changed, it looks like a completely different style from just now, and the suit, like a dress, with the constantly flickering white lights, combines luxury and misty, feeling contradictory but reasonable.
"Toomuch, yourlove, it's poison overdose."
"Toomuch, yourlove, it's poison overdose."
When it came to this part, Kim Junmian, Do Junxiu and Oh Se-hoon quickly knelt on the ground with their legs, and the two of them were in front of them and one behind, forming a triangle.
The other three members stood behind them in a rhythmic rhythm of their hands beating like drums, while the three kneeling members shook their heads and shoulders.
The action of this tapping is as if they are entering a preset password, and after the knocking, the three people standing behind them have their hands stretched high after a false grasp on their heads, and then wave their hands back and forth to make a command gesture, as if the brains of the three people in front of them are giving instructions.
And the three people in front also swayed left and right with the command from behind, the frequency of their hands and feet was exactly the same as that of the people behind, and they really looked like puppets being manipulated, and the movements of the three people kneeling and standing reached a strange and wonderful agreement.
At this time, the picture switched to the venue just now and the previous costume, Wu Shixun was controlled to roll to the C position, and made a gesture to point to the camera and point to the camera to make a transition.
Then Team K leaves the camera, and Team M enters the second verse.
This choreography really amazed a lot of people who were watching the MV, it was very handsome with a good match, and it was very distinctive and very in line with the theme concept of the song "Overddose".
Manipulated and unable to extricate himself.
Some of the more engaged people have involuntarily begun to shake their heads, and their hands have tried to make a beating posture, and their eyes look around as if they want to find someone who is controlled by them.
For example, Sasha Minatosaki.
She looked around and found that several friends next to her were sitting on their own business, especially Minami and Hirai Momo, who were looking at the same mobile phone together, and their heads were sticking together.
Feeling a little bored, she looked back at her phone screen, and her eyes soon lit up.
The choreography of the main chorus of the M team is not exactly the same as that of the K team, it is considered to have its own characteristics, corresponding to the K team's more shots of kai and Chi Jingyuan, the C position of the M team is the most luhan, followed by luhan.
It's just that if you compare carefully, you will find that the rhythm and strength of the dance on the side of Team M are obviously much weaker than Team K, Y and Luhan are okay, and the other members are a little weaker, especially with Bian Boxian, you can see that there is not much room for improvement.
After the last part of Team M, the picture turned to a new venue and the makeup of the suit, at this time, Ji Jingyuan appeared, standing in front of the camera with tao, tilting his head and puffing out his mouth, stretching out his index fingers with both hands and tapping quickly on both sides of his cheeks, and at the same time, the accompaniment sounded the sound of 'all all du'.
“omo!“
This cute face-knocking action, combined with Chi Jingyuan's appearance and eyes under the face slap, made countless female fans scream in surprise, and their minds fluctuated.
And under the strong and slightly psychedelic style of the song "Overdose", such a cute choreographic transition suddenly appeared, and a sense of contrast arose.
This time, in order to show the theme of 'addiction', most of the makeup of the twelve people in the MV is painted with thick eyeliner, and all of them are all-inclusive eyeliner that is very popular now, and Ji Jingyuan is one of the few members who did not wear this kind of makeup.
Because Cody doesn't think he needs to.
The all-inclusive black eyeliner of tao in the same frame next to it is a little too deep, even if the same action is obviously a little inconsistent, plus the difference in appearance, in contrast, it unconsciously highlights the superiority and plasticity of Chi Jingyuan.
Jin Junmian grabbed his chest forward, and the other members behind him kept bowing their heads and bending over and clapping their hands while changing their positions, officially entering the dance of the EXO twelve-person combination.
"I can't stop."
"Now this moment, youarei ......"
“E,X,O。”
After gesturing to the camera and announcing the iconic group name, eleven members surrounded the city in a circle, and Park Chanyeol, who was surrounded in the middle, started his own solo rap, which was also his only part.
Park Chanyeol made a command pose while walking around the circle, and the lights began to flicker incessantly to create a blurry and unreal feeling, and the other members also followed his gestures and swayed and leaned back neatly, and it was a unique choreography that cooperated with the manipulation, and the very distinctive group dance and excellent coordination were extremely impressive, and I couldn't wait to go back and watch it again.
With Wu Shixun's sentence "heydocter! The rap stage has ended, and the MV has officially entered the end.
"Even the long parting looks so beautiful."
"Toomuch, yourlover, this is poison overdose."
"Toomuch, yourlover, this is poison overdose."
In the last chorus, the two teams stand in two rows, the first to move, and the person behind is one beat slower than the person in front, making a series of movements like human centipedes.
Then both sides retreat at the same time to give way to the middle position, and as the long-awaited tao rushes up and does a somersault, the camera moves up, and the song part of the MV ends.
Then there was a close-up of a few seconds of the K team's main promotion kai, the camera was pulled up, and the maze logo and SM logo of this mini second series appeared on the screen, and the MV officially ended.
“…………”
After reading it, several people stared at the last two big logos for a few more seconds, as if they were reminiscing about the aftertaste, and then raised their heads again after a while.
"This choreography is really amazing, handsome and distinctive."
Hirai Momo frowned and shook her head, couldn't help but sigh in admiration, and then added: "The members of XO are really handsome, especially ...... yuan。 ”
Halfway through, she glanced at Mingjing Nan, and felt a little pity: "It's just that there don't seem to be a lot of shots." ”
"The combination of EXO twelve people is not much in the first place." Sasha Minato said a fair word: "And there are really enough shots of Yuan's predecessors, and there are still several killingparts that people can't forget after watching them, like this, that ......"
As she spoke, she turned around and leaned forward a little, impersonating the part of Chi Jingyuan she had just seen, puffing out her face and starting to beat with both hands, and her mouth made a sound of 'all of them'.
Nan Meijing and Momo next to him also smiled when they saw it, and then tilted their heads together and puffed out their faces, and for a while, several neon trainees on the table all began to cover Chi Jingyuan.
I just watched it once, but this face-knocking choreography is really impressive, and it looks really good.
Many people have seen the previous leaked version.,But that's not comparable to the regular high-definition MV at all.,It's not a concept.。
After the trouble, I discussed two sentences of the MV I had just watched, and Nai Nan originally planned to go back and watch it again, but everyone was ready to go back to the company after eating, so she gave up.
It's just that she finally looked at the maze logo on the screen, but she felt very interesting and a little inexplicably complicated.
Maze......
Addicted......
…………
"Our pre-sale is record-breaking, right?"
Du Junxiu, who had just finished styling, plunged into the crowd as soon as he came back, and asked with great concern.
Today is the first stage of the official return, and at this time, everyone in the EXO-K team is in "m! In the lounge of XO backstage, except for Kim Jong-in and Oh Se-hoon, who were still styling next to them, several other members were all crammed into a sofa, and even Park Chanyeol sat on the armrests of the sofa.
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"It's broken, with 778,710 pre-sales, which is currently the highest scheduled sales record for a boy group." Jin Junmian's face was happy, and when this number was said, he was really a little excited.
Many passers-by and a large number of XO fans across the peninsula are looking forward to this return, even though it is only a mini album, but this incredible pre-sale number still expresses the support and love of countless fans for EXO.
As soon as this pre-sale number comes out, it means that there is a high probability that the EXO mini album will once again reach the million sales they broke through last year, depending on how long it will take.
Last year's official album "XOXO" sold nearly 1.5 million copies of the original reprint, breaking the ceiling of Peninsula album sales for many years, re-expanding the market and ceiling, which can be regarded as a shot in the arm to the Peninsula music industry after a long period of sluggish album sales.
But until today, 14 years ago, so many singers have returned to idol and released so many albums in most of the year, but the only one who can touch this ceiling is still EXO himself, and the others are at least two grades behind, even the senior group SJ and Girls' Generation, who have always been known for their sales.
One has to sigh at the sheer number of XO fans, the number of die-hard fans who are willing to pay real money, and their support for their idol mania.
"But this time, there are really a lot more fans who buy albums over there in Xia Guo, and the proportion of middle losses is much larger." Kim Junmian found another peculiar place.
"yes, it's a lot more than last year."
Ji Jingyuan also looked at his phone and nodded.
Of the 778,710 pre-orders, 452,160 were sold for the Korean version and 326,550 for the Hakmun version, accounting for more than 40 percent.
During last year's "XOXO" period, although EXO was popular in Xia Guo, the proportion of mid-loss sales was not very large, but this time "overdose" has had a very obvious increase, and the number of fans and purchasing power in Xia Guo have increased significantly.
Chi Jingyuan's series of activities in Xia Kingdom because of the fire of "The Inheritors" really increased a lot of XO's popularity from the side, and the non-stop activities of the entire group added up to XO's popularity a great boost, and the increase in popularity was directly reflected in the sales figures.
"In addition to pre-sales, as of this afternoon, there have been more than 40,000 real-time sales on the G list, and I don't know if this increase can reach 100,000 within 24 hours." Jin Junmian was still broadcasting the good news, and the entire lounge was immersed in an atmosphere of excitement, and the temperature of the room rose a point with every word he said.
The two who were doing the modeling next to him also pricked up their ears and listened, shaking their heads from time to time to look a little anxious, probably wanting to hurry up and run over to share the joy with the members.
Because of last year's explosion, the results of this return will be very good, in fact, the company, including the members, has thought of it before, but after the dream comes true, everyone is still excited and difficult to hold on.
"Who came before the album's highest single-day sales record?"
"I just checked that BIGBANG's mini 4 album "Tonight" sold 50,000 copies in one day, but that was due to data delays, but it was still a record." Kim Jun barely talked eloquently, and he really had everything ready.
"Then won't we break their record by waiting for this trend?"
"But we are the number of Korean and Xia versions combined, and they are selling a single version."
"Rest assured, the single version will definitely be exceeded."
"Where's the sound source?" Du Junxiu was already smiling and couldn't close her mouth, and her thick eyebrows seemed to be dancing.
"See for yourself." Jin Junmian pointed the screen of his mobile phone directly at him, and what was displayed inside was the real-time ranking of the melon list.
As soon as the mini second album "Overdose" was released at noon, the six songs of the whole album were instantly washed up, firmly occupying the top six of the major music source lists.
Among them, in Melon, three songs, including the title song "Overdose" and the included song "Ineedu", were airborne at the same time, and in the Gengie chart, all the songs of the whole album were airborne and broken, and the strength of the explosion was surprising.
Three songs on one album were airborne at the same time, and it was the first time that Melon had broken the table.
It's been a few hours since the sound source was released, and the title song "Overdose" has broken the table twice in a row, and this explosive power is still continuing.
The leak of the audio source the day before yesterday, coupled with SM's uninterrupted publicity investment in the past few days, the extensive discussion caused by the popular MV of the precursor song "dope", and other factors, and under the aftermath of the popularity of "Roaring Filial Piety", the speechless and terrifying sound source results of the EXO mini second album exploded.
Judging from the trend of the first day of this return, the emergence of "dope" has significantly improved XO's YouTube data, which has not been excellent, and the current EXO has no shortcomings in terms of sales, to the explosion of music sources, to the number of fans and loyalty, and many of these data have surpassed the previous top boy group bigbang, and even the sales are still many times killed.
However, the oil pipe and the sound source are still not as good as the former, especially the sound source.
If the YouTube data can be a little stronger, and then the stamina of the sound source can be improved, they can even directly announce that they have reached the top on the spot.