“…………”

"First it's a picture of each person, and then all the members just stand in a row here and look at the sun in the sky."

"Right here, remember the location."

"This shot is very simple, whether it is smiling, pursing lips, or expressionless, but remember not to have too exaggerated expressions, don't look at the camera, look at the sky, look at the sun. Do you know all about it? ”

PD glanced at the EXO members who were standing in front of him, rubbing their hands constantly, and he waved his right hand to explain the key points of the shooting very imposingly.

"Inside, got it."

All nine of them quickly responded.

At this time, they were on the East Sea shore of Gangwon Province, including EXO, early in the morning before dawn, dozens of staff dyed this cold beach with a layer of hot working atmosphere, their own lighting will shine on the dark beach, and all kinds of shooting equipment have already been erected at this time to check.

Yesterday, the recording of "Let It Be" was officially completed, and post-processing began, and EXO began filming the MV.

Because it is a winter song and there is no choreography, the design of the MV is relatively simple, and all the front shots can be shot in Seoul in real time or on set, only the last shot needs to be shot live on the Gangwon side of the province and shoot the sunrise.

I didn't sleep much after returning to the dormitory after being busy last night, and after squinting for a while, everyone got up and drove from Seoul to Gangwon-do with the staff who had already been ready, and began to hurry up on makeup and erection equipment as soon as they came.

Chi Jingyuan was still sleepy and lost in the lake, as soon as the cold wind blew on the beach, he instantly woke up, the sea breeze in the early morning stabbed his cheeks a little painful, he wrapped his coat in the constant rubbing his hands there to keep warm, thanks to the assistant handed everyone a cup of hot drink to relieve a little.

"......" He noticed that Wu Shixun and Park Chanyeol next to him didn't feel cold, and they each took a selfie with a mobile phone, probably preparing to upload it to their SNS in two days.

Walking a few steps forward and standing on the beach, Chi Jingyuan saw this strange and somewhat familiar place, and couldn't help but think of the time when they used to shoot the first group show "EXO Showtime" by the twelve of them here, it seemed that they were really having fun playing in the water on this beach.

I remember that at the end of the group, the twelve members watched the sunrise on this beach, and everyone shouted a word of blessing, what did he say at that time?

Chi Jingyuan forgot a little, but looking at the calm but dark and deep sea in front of him, he suddenly had a lot of feelings.

Speaking of which, the final shot of the MV here is still his suggestion to the company.

I simply came, he also took out his mobile phone and found a well-lit place to take two selfies, and the last time he updated his ins was a certified photo sent when he got the MMA Award trophy to express his gratitude to fans and the organizers, it is a very business update, and the last time it will be a long time ago.

"It's almost time, go check your makeup and change your clothes, Barry Barry!"

After taking a few shots, the PD shouted twice more with a megaphone, and the members quickly ran over.

Everything was ready, and the shooting after sunrise went smoothly, and after the last shot, I thanked the staff, got into the nanny car, and started to return to Seoul.

Seeing the empty nanny car, Chi Jingyuan felt a little unaccustomed for a while.

Originally, when the EXO brigade was active, it was generally K and M teams to sit in a car separately, but after the M team retreated three people in a row, this habit was suddenly unnecessary, and now it is the two nanny cars that they want to get on which one of them, and at this time they add four people to this car, which is in stark contrast to the crowded situation when they sat in the car before.

Originally, Ji Jingyuan was going to rush to the crew directly, but just now Lee Seung-hwan said that he would go back for a small meeting first.

"Based on our current progress, the return date for this winter single has been officially confirmed."

After returning to the company's practice room, Lee Seung-hwan also knew that the members still had something to do at the meeting, so he stood in the middle and clapped his hands and began to explain: "The official return time is set for next month, that is, December 4." ”

"We will perform a special stage of 'Let It Be' on MAMA on December 3rd, and then officially release the music source and music video on the 4th, so as long as the stage performance is impressive, we can use MAMA's influence to directly promote the best publicity."

"The stage where 'Go with the Flow' is performed directly on mama?" Several members were a little surprised when they heard this, and Jin Junmian couldn't help but ask repeatedly.

At the end of October, the company had already negotiated with the MAMA organizers, and at that time, EXO would have confirmed that he would attend this year's MAMA Awards, and the specific stage performances had already been confirmed, in addition to Kai's solo dance for transitions, they would perform "DOPE", "Black Pearl" and the title song "Addiction" from this year's mini-second album.

For this stage performance, they have been taking a lot of time to practice since the beginning of the month, and recently they are rehearsing the nine-person version of the dance, but they didn't expect that the time would suddenly change to a different song.

But this decision is also very good, itself this winter song is not very valued by the company, the song is estimated to be about a week, although the reputation and credibility of the MAMA award ceremony is not very strong, but compared to the awards, it actually pays more attention to the performance on the stage, every year, whether it is the gimmick discussion caused by it, and the viewing group is very considerable, and being able to perform "Let It Be Natural" at this year's MAMA is also a borrowed hand.

As long as the stage effect can make people shine, its publicity role is difficult to compare with the singing program.

"I hadn't thought about it so much because I hadn't decided on a plan for a winter single before, but since I decided to return to the company with a winter single, I definitely had to re-plan it. After seeing that the preparations for our return could be completed before MAMA, the company communicated with the organizer about changing the song, and the organizer was very willing to hit it off, after all, it was the first song of our XO, which could also have a good publicity effect on MAMA. ”

"The teachers of the company are planning the specific stage performances and effect displays, and they can start practicing in a few days."

Seeing that several members nodded and understood what they meant, Lee Seung-hwan also smiled with satisfaction, and then admonished: "We will fly neon tonight, and when we come back from Tokyo this time, we will hurry up to carry out the final shooting of the MV, and there is not much time left for post-production." ”

Several people glanced at each other and responded together:

"Araço ......"

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On the morning of November 21, Ji Kyung-won, who had just finished a three-day Neon Tokyo tour, landed at Incheon International Airport with the members of EXO and the company's team.

The Tokyo concert was held at the Yoyogi National Stadium, and the number of viewers over the three days was higher than that of Fukuoka in Shanghai, with a total of 42,000 people buying tickets to watch the concert.

Exo, who has never debuted in Neon and has only opened two showcases, can hold such a 10,000-person concert in Neon and can hold it for three consecutive days, which also positively illustrates their popularity and market potential on the neon side, and the enthusiasm of fans here is not diminished at all compared to the local food on the peninsula, and some of the most loyal only rice fanaticism and relenting are even better.

As far as Chi Jingyuan himself feels, Peninsula, Xia Guo and Neon fans have their own characteristics, and the latter two will be a little more affectionate in chasing stars, but on the whole, as long as it is XO's meal, they are the best in the hearts of these idols.

This time, the process is very different from that of Fukuoka Station, and at the same time, it is still to let Ji Jingyuan act as the translator of the members, which has become a topic of conversation in the neon local meal and even on the hot search, because the proficient language has also made him gain a lot of goodwill.

After three days without incident, they boarded the plane and returned to the peninsula early the next morning.

At this time, there were a lot of reporters around who seemed to be squatting on them, and as soon as they saw EXO coming out of the security check, they immediately aimed at them, and after counting from beginning to end, they found that there were only 9 people in EXO and immediately became excited, picked up the camera and began to take pictures quickly.

As mentioned in SM's previous announcement, after the Neon Tour in November, member Lay also began to focus on activities in the summer and no longer participated in EXO's group trips.

After the concert last night, Lay took the initiative to invite all the members to have a meal together, which was also an official farewell in front of the XO members.

Because it was his casual meal, whether they were dissatisfied with him in their hearts or unhappy with him, everyone temporarily put down the mustard in their hearts and went together to save face, and also restrained some negative emotions, at least on the surface, they were okay.

Although the atmosphere of this meal is not very good overall, it can be seen that Lay himself has a lot of emotion, and he took the initiative to drink a lot of wine without persuasion, and recalled the trainee period from time to time, as well as some things that happened in the two years after his debut.

There were many things that I didn't think were anything special at the time, but after such a long time, they were suddenly talked about in words, and when the pictures of the past flashed in front of them, they really aroused the feelings of many people.

The relationship between Ji Jingyuan and Lay has always been not far or close, not as good as Luhan's relationship, and in general, they can only be regarded as relatively familiar colleagues. But even so, he was affected by the atmosphere and drank a lot of wine, which can be regarded as a goodbye to the members of the last Xia Guo line.

The things in the dormitory have already been sorted out.,This time Lay didn't go back to the peninsula with the big group.,But returned to Xia Guo on the same flight as them.,I heard that his personal studio was set up very smoothly.,I received a lot of cases before the official event.,This time I will go back and there will be a variety show recording immediately.。

Speaking of which, the three members of XO who went back are better than the other, whether it is advertising endorsements, variety shows, and TV series, they have received a lot, especially Luhan, who was the first to go back, he was originally the captain and main member of the M team, and the popularity of EXO's top line is the highest in terms of popularity and popularity.

After he went back, he immediately became a top star as soon as the short turmoil passed, and all kinds of big-name resources were soft, and the living space of Wu Saike, who was originally the first to eat crabs and lived a very nourishing life after coming back, was directly exhausted.

Chi Jingyuan was also a little dissatisfied with the three members who had withdrawn from the team, but no matter what, it was the same team, although he didn't say it explicitly, but he still transferred what he had said to Luhan to the other two in his heart, and he could only say that life has dreams, and each is wonderful.

As EXO walked out of the airport and got into the nanny car, it didn't take long for things like to pop up online:

"Lay has officially returned to China, and there are only nine exo left."

"All the members of the Xia Kingdom have withdrawn, where will XO go in the future?" and so on.

Then the following is followed by a bunch of their own analysis, from the various things and data encountered by EXO recently, it shows that this once trendy boy group is now in a rapid decline, and it is no longer the momentum of the new generation of men's groups, and the other three generations of men's groups have a tendency to catch up.

Finally, it is accompanied by the mention of a boy group for promotion and comparison, or infinite, or b1a4, or got7 or something like that.

The gesture of stepping on one and holding one is very obvious.

I don't know how much money the economic companies of several other boy groups have invested in marketing, since the beginning of the month until now, this kind of news on the Internet has not been broken, and it is said that it is the same as exo is about to disband in situ, no wonder those fans ran to the door of the crew to squat, after all, these marketing news seem to be quite convincing.

Anyway, there are not a few media or marketing accounts that are optimistic about the continuation of the glory of the nine-person exo, one or two of them will step on one foot and hold other groups by the way, and the real purpose does not need to be said.

Recently, the fans of Alie and these boy groups have been pinching each other very much, and SM has not responded much, and I don't know if it's too lazy to respond or it's unnecessary, and the members of XO are also very angry when they start to see it, like Park Chanyeol and several people have also posted ins to satirize these marketing accounts, but now I'm used to seeing more of them.

However, today, when EXO returns to the peninsula from neon, SM also officially announced that EXO will return next month with the winter single "Been Through", and will perform on a special stage at the MAMA Awards on December 3, and release the music source and music video on the 4th.

It also notes that the winter single "Let It Be" was arranged and written by EXO member Yuan, and is a pop lyric that blends soulful piano melodies, rock-sensual drums and other sounds.

There has been no sound since the members left the group continuously, surrounded by various speculations and rumors, and the news of the return of EXO, which had been silent for a long time, finally came out, and the news immediately aroused widespread attention from fans and countless passers-by.

"The best news I've seen in this time, and I'm finally looking forward to the news of the return of the Obas, and I'm desperate to wait......"

"This is another song by Yuan? The title of "Let It Be" is also very good, and it feels like the members are expressing their views and feelings about the XO scene, which is really exciting. ”

"But last December was a winter special, a mini-album that was released! How did it become only a single this year, and there is no physical album, and it is obviously a resource downgrade, and these things that happened to EXO in the second half of the year seem to have a really big impact, and even the winter college is gone, alas......"

"I'm really disappointed that I can't buy and support the Oba as an Ellie member, but we will definitely work the list!"

Fans are very happy with the news of EXO's return in winter, and the return naturally proves that the previous upside-down dissolution rumors on the Internet are pure nonsense, but there are also many people who are very dissatisfied with the return of SM to only release digital singles, thinking that this is ironclad evidence that EXO's resources have been siphoned off by the company.

As for Kuroko and the fans of other boy groups, they are naturally ridiculed again: "When are you still engaged in winter specialty?" Don't have any brains? ”

"XO is really pitiful, in the first half of the year, it was only a little short of reaching the top, Asia's most powerful boy group, at the end of the year, even a mini album company was not released, so I could only make do with a digital single to get fans in the lake, I was really about to laugh to death kkkk, Ellie are so happy! Envy! ”

"Digital Single...... kkkkk, this return at no cost would have shown that the company did not expect much from them, otherwise it would not have been so perfunctory. In the past six months, SM should only return in the form of digital singles from a bad group like Red Velvet, right? Anyway, it doesn't matter if there is no cost loss, I didn't expect EXO to fall to this point, so which of these two regiments will be disbanded first? ”

"It should be Red Velvet, XO is better than before, but the fan volume is still here, there are few boy groups on the peninsula that can catch up with them, and the parrot group still can't touch the porcelain at present, and it is estimated that they should be disbanded when they return once next year."

"Who disbanded first? EXO said I don't know either, so let it be. ”

Seeing these black fans see the carnival-like performance after seeing just a digital single, Chi Jingyuan is also helpless and funny, this time the title of the winter song "Let It Be" was amused by this group of sunspots, and I don't know how to contact Red Velvet.

Red Velvet can be scolded for any.

As for the resource downgrade questioned by fans, it is not necessary, although the planning company submitted by Chi Jingyuan is still being discussed, but regardless of whether it will be adopted or not, it is obvious that the return of EXO to the company will definitely invest the most resources.

But in other respects, the Alice are not wrong, this time the winter single time is rushed, but the company is not too concerned, and this is already after Chi Jingyuan and the company have fought for it, if it is released in the form of a 'game promotional song' originally set by SM, it will be called a real lake man.

In fact, it is mainly because Chi Jingyuan likes the song "Let It Naturally" very much this time, and the lyrics are also of special significance to him, otherwise he would not be too lazy to fight for anything with the company, after all, next year's return is the real focus, and now the time is already so tight.

But since it has already been done, it is definitely necessary to do the best within the framework, and this time the company also won them the opportunity to perform this song on a special stage on mama, which is generally not too perfunctory.

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"Have you already chosen the song for the winter single? "Let It Be", I feel as if I've heard you say this word, does this name have any special meaning? ”

Ji Jingyuan, who was working overtime in the crew of "Unborn" at night, saw a message sent to him by Bae Joo-hyun an hour ago.

Since the time when he was relaxing by the river at the beginning of the month, the negative emotions hidden in Pei Zhuhyun's heart have gone down a lot, and they can be regarded as returning to normal.

Although he doesn't send messages to Chi Jingyuan as often as before his debut, he will take the initiative to chat with him when he gets his mobile phone at night from time to time.

It can be seen that the dedication and self-esteem make Bae Joo-hyun still hold his breath in his heart.

"There may be a little bit of meaning, you will know the specifics when you listen to it."

took the coffee that Cui Zhichang prepared for him and poured two sips, and Chi Jingyuan sat there and quickly replied.

"Did you just finish filming? Is it cold for the crew? (Curious)"

Bae Joo-hyun looked really idle, Ji Jingyuan had just returned to the past less than thirty seconds before she came back, and at a glance, she knew that she should have been playing with her mobile phone.

Red Velvet also entered a semi-hidden state after being on a few variety shows last month but did not improve, the whole group has no itinerary activities, and the singing of "Be Natural" has also ended with zero one, and now they are either practicing in the practice room or picking their feet in the dormitory every day, preparing for the year-end stage of several TV stations, while waiting for the news of the next return.

Chi Jingyuan held coffee in one hand and tapped on the screen with the other: "I didn't finish filming but took a break for a while, it may be one or two o'clock tonight, and I will shoot the MV after the end, and it is estimated that I will turn the axis today...... It's not cold, the crew has enough heating, and it's even a little hot. ”

"That's really hard (poor)...... Looking at the company's announcement, this time your winter single is Jing Yuan xi, is it your self-composed song? ”

Seeing this question, Chi Jingyuan hesitated for a few seconds, swallowed the coffee in his mouth and laughed:

"The song is yes, the words of the lyrics...... No. ”

Bae Joo-hyun can be called a second reply: "Didn't you write it?" Who's that? The company's announcement said that you did it. ”

"The company thought I did it alone, but in fact there was a part of the word that I didn't, I heard it from others."

"Who is it?"

"You'll know when you hear it."