Chapter 115: Objective Evaluation

The moment SM released all the music on the album, countless hits poured in, and the two new songs "If You" and "EXODUS" added to the regular second middle school were pushed to the top of the chart in an instant after countless listens.

Relatively speaking, the lyrical song "If Your" has been favored by more people, and many people have become interested in this song that Ji Jingyuan said in an interview that he liked his favorite song in the entire album after watching the live broadcast of the press conference of the second album of exo.

In countless different places, living rooms, bedrooms, streets, alleys, bright lights, and even driving cars, countless people's ears rang this song at the same time

The sound of the guitar sounded softly, and the melodious sound of it entered everyone's hearts one by one, like the ripples of rain drops on the surface of the river, so soft, so silent.

Extremely simple chords, with soothing melodies, but unconsciously substitute people into a sad rhythm.

Just a prelude that catches the ears of the listener at once.

"She's gone from me."

"I couldn't do anything."

"I stood there like a fool."

Chi Jingyuan opened the whole song with a little hoarse and deep voice, reciting his lyrics flatly and directly, and didn't seem to have much emotional investment, but just a few simple words, a few voices, and a few chords, as if he had told a story and told a regret.

"I can only watch the back of the departed."

"Knowing that the dot is gone."

"Will it be forgotten with the passage of time?"

The voices of several lead singers appeared one after another, with different voices and singing tones, but they had the same aftertaste and feelings.

Many familiar fans heard it at once, from the beginning to the present, it has been the voices of the four lead singers of EXO that have appeared one after another, and the parts of the other members are very few, obviously this is another team building of the group's lead singers.

But this kind of atmosphere and tune of the song needs this kind of immersive sound and singing skills.

“if you~~”

“if you~~”

"If only it wasn't too late."

"Can we go back to the way things were?"

When it comes to the chorus, the rhythm and tone are still not significantly improved, and they are still singing in the same low voice as before, like the sound of the night breeze echoing in their ears, even if they can't see any picture, they can still make a picture emerge in front of many people who listen, they seem to see Chi Jingyuan and several people standing on the empty and dark stage, only under the light of a dark and momo lake, vaguely and reluctantly watching them each holding a microphone, lowering their heads and singing sadly.

Everyone seems to be talking about their memories and the person in the memory.

It's not a cheerful song, it's a song that tends to make people sad.

This is not a song that makes people high, it is a song suitable for a person to stay quietly in a certain place, and a person to taste quietly.

But it's a good song, a song that makes people can't help but remember.

"If you're in as much pain as I am."

"Couldn't we get along a little easier?"

"I regret that I didn't cherish it when I was there."

At the end, Ji Jingyuan, who ended the whole song, was calm, and there were not many fluctuating voices, and it seemed that it was just an ordinary end to an ordinary story.

But at the moment when the music disappeared, that strong sense of regret surged into everyone's hearts.

After listening to this song, many people couldn't help but quiet down, even though the surrounding environment may be very noisy, but he can still feel the waves in his heart.

Under all kinds of mixed emotions, after listening to the last paragraph, many people have thoughts like 'I have lost someone important' or 'someone is leaving me'.

However, after a period of reminiscence and sadness, they reluctantly discovered that it was only yesterday's self who disappeared and gradually left him.

After listening to this song "If You", many people who either know or are familiar with Chi Jingyuan, such as Bae Zhuhyun, such as Zhou Ziyu, and even Zheng Endi and Sun Naen, inadvertently looked at the composer's position, looked at the extremely familiar name, thought of the song he heard just now and the feeling that surged in his heart, and he was speechless for a while, and he had his own thoughts.

Because of the release of the whole album, all the songs that came down from the previous rankings and even the flying charts returned and were directly put at the forefront, such as melon's real-time chart, at this time, among the top 12 rankings, ten songs are singers of exo.

The other two songs, which were announced at the same time as them, are BIGBANG's two new songs this month, "Sober" and "Last Dance", which ranked third and fourth respectively.

With the end of June, the major girl groups of the Half University have begun to gradually return, and the summer songs of various girl groups have become frequent guests on the list recently, and they have also begun to guide the recent trend of the song industry to the female idol groups.

Known as the 'Queen of Summer', Sistar returned to join the Summer War with her third mini album on the 23rd, and the sound source of the title song "Shake It" was very fast, breaking the watch and breaking the girl group record 13 times in 6 days, although it did not win the weekly crown because of the extremely exaggerated momentum and very strong results of "Boy With Luv", but it still remained at the forefront of the major music charts and was very stable.

However, at this time, almost all of the top ten positions on the real-time list of major music sources on the peninsula were occupied by two boy groups, and SISTAR's "Shake It" was directly squeezed down, although it was certainly only temporary, but it still made people sigh that these two top boy groups have really gone beyond the category of boy groups, and they themselves represent popularity and trend.

After all, when the sound source of the boy group can be pressed against the girl group, there used to be only bigbang, and from this year onwards, another exo has been added.

With the return of recent months, Peninsula is very good at KPOP chasers, whether fans or not, have become accustomed to listening to the two new songs released by EXO and BIGBANG in the early morning of the beginning of each month, and this kind of inertia and recognition is really a very rare thing.

Early the next morning, entertainment media large and small naturally began to report the news of the release of the second album of EXO, and now this regular second album, which has been delayed for five months, will finally stand in front of everyone's eyes completely, and ten well-made songs have been included in their own playlists by countless people, in an infinite loop.

And all the well-known practitioners in the music industry, as well as professional music critics, and even veteran Kpop fans, also stood up to express their views and evaluations of the album "Exo-L" after the release of the album.

One of them is very famous in a music forum, and a comment post posted by many musicians on the second day was topped by many people, and was also reprinted by some self-media releases:

[What should I do if an album is full of title songs-On the Undoubted Beak Divine Album "EXO-L"]

"In the early hours of this morning, I finally waited for the release of the second album of exo, and the last two songs that I had been looking forward to for a long time finally listened to it all over again, and after recirculating all the songs of the whole album a few times, I wrote this music review overnight.

I've commented on the songs of the previous single albums many times before, like "Call Me Baby", a dance music that makes the trend and handsomeness to the extreme, from melody, to meaning, to "Spring", which is extremely good in MV, "LHT" full of campus vitality, and as for "Boy with Luv", which is a song that goes against the sky, I don't need to evaluate it more than once.

So this time it's mainly about talking about this album and how exaggerated the quality of this album really is.

Those who are in the kpop circle should know that for the vast majority of idol groups and even singers, song resources are very tight.

A good song that you know has the potential to be a big fire may have to go through fierce competition in private before it can finally belong, and some well-known songwriters, such as 'Erdan Horizontal Kick' and 'Black Eyes Must Win', have been commissioned for an unknown amount of time, and it takes a lot of connections and connections to get the song from them.

As for small companies without connections, they can only rely on ordinary composers, or collect some songs that others are not optimistic about to try their luck.

Therefore, it is already a very good thing for the idols of some small and medium-sized companies to be able to get a song with excellent quality as the title song, and the other songs included in an album will naturally not be so serious and important, and the quality will be much lower than the main song, which is also a common problem of most idol groups.

One is limited by habits, and the other is that you really can't get good songs.

And the most helpless and emotional thing about the regular second album of EXO this time is that there are ten songs in the whole album, and the lowest are all songs with the quality of the main song.

Not to mention a few big hits that were originally used as the main hit in the previous singles, and not to talk about the included songs like "Orientation Sniper", which are more popular than the main hit, even if the non-main songs such as "El Dorado" and "Butterfly" are placed in ordinary, it is more than enough to serve as the title song in the second-tier or so boy groups.

And the two newly released songs, "Exodus" is a dance song with a strong sense of rhythm, exotic style, and very unique, in terms of quality and popularity, it may not be as good as the previous XO hits, but it is definitely a song above the level, and I personally like it very much.

And "if you" is even more to my appetite, as soon as the prelude sounded, my whole person was calmed, yuan seems to be tasteless, but in fact, the very infectious opening introduction is simply amazing, his feelings brewing and expression are really powerful (by the way, this song is still his work, I don't know how he wrote this song that mainly expresses lost love and regret, I always feel that his face and this theme and style are not very compatible).

At the same time, the performance of several other lead singers is also very good, expressing the feeling of regret and reluctance very well.

I feel that this song can already compete for the honor of EXO's best lyric song, I have commented before, compared to other boy groups, SM company likes to give exo lyrics very much, but it is not shoddy, and the quality of the songs given is surprisingly good.

In the past, I personally rated the best lyric songs of EXO as "Moonlight", "Let It Be" and this year's "Spring Day", and now "If You" can also join the discussion.

There may be some EXO fans who are very dissatisfied with this song, because only four people's voices can be heard throughout the song, only the four lead singers have their own prat, and the other members only to find out after listening to the song that they probably did not participate in the recording of the song.

But to be honest, lyrical songs like "If You", which have high requirements for emotional expression, can really only be sung well by members of the lead singer's level, and others are really more than one grade behind.

Try it yourself, import the opening of "If You", the chorus and the part at the end, replace Yuan's voice with Oh Se-hoon's distinctive electronic sound, and try to imagine it for yourself to know the difference.

I can only say that exo fans are really lucky, and there are four members of exo who are rare to see other idol groups and can't ask for them.

This is actually the reason why exo, as a boy group, sings lyrical songs but doesn't feel awkward at all, and many songs are unexpectedly good.

Turning back to the topic, the two new songs "EXODUS" and "If You" may not be as popular as the previous titles, but the quality is definitely not to be said, especially the latter, I really like this song.

Looking back now, the album "Exo-L", the lowest ten songs are at the level of ordinary boy groups, and there are more than one, even as many as three or four, which can lead the trend of a big hit.

You must know that this kind of big hit usually doesn't see a few songs a year, and a chance encounter with one can directly push a second- and third-tier boy group down to the status of a first-tier popular group.

(By the way, Yuan is really credited with it...... As long as you know Yuan, a member of Yuan, you should know that he is really a bit powerful, he has almost all the talents and abilities needed to be an idol, and they are all the best, I see that many fans of the group give their idols the title of very reluctant rainbow fart, only Yuan's 'natural idol' I am the most recognized.

The configuration of the members of the EXO group itself, from appearance to strength, is already very good, and Yuan's addition has directly raised the ceiling of the entire group by a large margin, Li Xiuman was able to make the decision to temporarily add people on the eve of EXO's debut, which is really admirable. )

And now this album is this configuration, and all I can say is, really, too extravagant.

The extravagance makes people's hearts ache, and people can't help but feel that SM's wealth is magnificent, and the extravagance makes other small companies jealous of the wall, and the extravagance makes people speechless.

It's hard to find an album with such an extravagant song configuration in the entire history of Kpop, and I really feel that SM has taken out all the best songs in the library for several years, and I may have been really scared by last year's turmoil.

However, BIGBANG, which competed with XO at the same time, actually released songs that came back several times this time are also very good, and the two new songs released this month are also high-quality.

If the quality of the new songs added by BIGBANG next month and when their regular album is released can also be at this level, then the overall quality of their album "Made" this time can be compared to "Exo-L".

It's just that if you look at it now, although Bigbang's songs are also excellent, they were still a little weaker than EXO at the time, which is the main reason why they were considered to be inferior in the competition by many passers-by and even professionals (including me) in June, and even lost the competition of this top boy group, and their title song is still not as popular as the other party.

As for the other three generations of boy groups at the same time as exo, there is no need to mention it, just the quality of the songs of this regular second album, and the influence are enough for them to chase for a lifetime, and they may not be able to release such a album or such a hit song until the group disbands.

I can only say that the three generations of boy groups at the same time as EXO are really unlucky, even if I'm not an idol, but the powerlessness of being thrown away by someone can still feel a thing or two.

So what should you do when you encounter an album with all the title songs, a variety of styles, dance music and lyricism, and several big hits among them, with such an extravagant configuration?

Of course, I bought a collection of relatives.

Even though the eight songs of the entire album have been released in the past few months, it still can't change the quality of this album to a convincing level.

There have been many musicians and fans who have thought that EXO's official album "XOXO" is a god album, and I don't deny it, after all, "XOXO" is indeed an extremely high-quality album, with many well-known and popular songs.

But this time, the second series of "EXO-L" came out, redefining the concept of "divine specialization", and also redrawing a standard for "divine specialization".

It is estimated that it is not easy to find a few equally excellent albums in the history of KPOP, which is probably the reason why most of the songs on the album have already been released, and it is still possible to pre-sell more than 800,000 people.

(By the way, this number is really a bit exaggerated, it's not difficult for this pre-sale of the exo regular second album to reach a single million, it is estimated that it will take less than a week, plus the sales of the first four singles, if you pay attention to the market data, you will find that as of July 2015, exo's physical album sales have accounted for more than 60% of the entire sales market.)

In other words, as of today, in the first half of the year, all the physical albums sold by all returning artists in the music industry are not as many as exo groups, and it is really hard for me to imagine how they did it, but it is too biased to rely on fans to pay for it.

According to statistics, last year in 2014, the annual physical sales market was about 7.6 million, and now all the sales of EXO are about to account for half.

It can only be said that the top combinations that have reached the top of each era have their own differences from other combinations, this kind of team is not limited by things like ceilings and large markets, they themselves are the ones who create the ceiling, and the sales of EXO are really the most terrifying I have ever seen, there is no one)

(By the way, in my personal opinion, this time the competition between the two generations of TOP boy groups of EXO and BIGBANG has been decided, and EXO has surpassed and even crushed the opponent in terms of sales, music sources, YouTube, influence, popularity, etc.)

Even if BIGBANG can have a big hit in the future, it will be difficult to reverse this situation, and it may be overtaken in terms of music sources, but the difference in sales is like a moat in front of them, and it is really not a painting style.

If there are no major accidents, EXO will officially reach the top at the end of this year, becoming the undoubted top of all boy groups and even idol groups in this era.

Actually, I think it can be said now, of course, there are definitely many people who will not admit it)

Even if it's EXO himself, I think it's hard to have this kind of high-quality god in the future, so for those who like kpop, it's really a pity not to buy this album.

Maybe some .p, or fans of other boy groups think that my evaluation is too biased, and the whole article is all kinds of boasting about exo's achievements and songs, thinking that I received money from SM, or that I am a fan of exo or something.

I hereby solemnly declare that I have absolutely not taken SM money.

As for whose fans it is...... Friends who know me well know that I didn't fan any boy groups before.

But now, it's really a bit of a no-brainer. ”