As Chi Jingyuan expected, it was close to one o'clock when the crew finished work until half past twelve in the morning today, said hello and changed clothes, and got into the nanny car and drove out of the set.

This is already considered to be an early departure, or is it because the director knows that he has something to do tomorrow morning and has to get up very early, so he is humane, usually it is almost two or three o'clock.

Around 0:00 this time is the general time for artists to end work, and it is almost the most active time after work, so Chi Jingyuan is not sleepy, he is actually quite energetic when he sits in the car, and he doesn't even feel cold, so he opens the window and lets the cold wind come in and blow all the way.

Park Jin-young probably knew that the EXO dormitory was in Gangnam-gu, and the place of appointment was also nearby, and it was a slate barbecue shop.

After meeting so late, they were all relatively relaxed and didn't hold it, and after saying hello, Park Zhenying directly greeted the food, and then chatted casually.

After eating something and drinking a few glasses of wine, he almost got into the groove, and he got into the main topic after evaluating the new arrangement of "Come on" with Ji Jingyuan.

"Jingyuan, what do you think of Twice's debut this time?" This brother is on the table with one arm in his hand, holding chopsticks in his right hand and holding the dishes but looking at Chi Jingyuan, the expression of drinking and laughing just now has become more serious, but I don't know if my eyes are open.

"It's okay, it's a success."

Chi Jingyuan thought for a moment and replied.

TWICE's debut is not a big hit monster newcomer, but the data is already pretty good for newcomers, and the campus itinerary that they have been running desperately since their debut has actually played a lot of effects, and their popularity and popularity have obviously increased recently.

"It's really okay......"

Park Zhen was noncommittal when he heard this, nodded and said some internal news: "The financial report has not yet been announced, but TWICE is actually very profitable, and the operating costs have been recovered in more than a month after its debut, and the response from fans is very good, some members, such as Ziyu, also have great potential in the advertising market, and our financial report for the fourth quarter should look better......"

"Of course, it's not like XO." He looked at Chi Jingyuan, who was listening with his ears, and made a joke as he spoke.

"Hehe......" Chi Jingyuan also laughed, picked up the beer and took a sip.

He actually wanted to say, 'GOT7 is actually okay', but after thinking about it, he forgot about it.

"But ......"

Immediately afterwards, Park Zhenying's tone changed: "The smooth debut actually has some of the popularity accumulated by "Sixteen" before, and there is so much foreshadowing before, plus a large number of trips after the debut...... Although the popularity and market performance are good, there are still some ...... that do not meet the company's expectations"

Then your expectations are really high, Red Velvet debuted with this result, and it is estimated that there will be no song "Let It Be"......

Ji Jingyuan glanced at Park Zhenying, nodded lightly and sandwiched a piece of meat, and then heard this brother continue to ask, "Jingyuan, what do you think of Twice's current style?" ”

"It's okay, at present, there are very few handsome and sweet girl groups in the peninsula, and the market is still quite considerable."

Style is very important for a group, especially a girl group, and determines whether your audience is popular or niche, and whether it is male or female.

The style of the girl group in the Peninsula song industry is actually quite crowded, some small companies are whatever is popular, the first two years of sexy style was popular, including girlsday, AOA and the like are all transformational sexy have a chance to come out, but this year this trend has obviously changed, almost none of the several girl groups with good momentum in their new debut are taking the sexy route, and the group that was popular because of the sexy route before is also obviously transforming.

TWICE's "Elegant" is still quite rare.

"If you were to run it, what style would you let them do? Is it still the way it is now? ”

"Am I coming......" Hearing this, Chi Jingyuan paused for a moment and did not answer directly.

His reply just now was still a little polite, but seeing Park Jin-young asking so carefully, this question also aroused some interest, and he tried to substitute the feeling of 'he will run twice', and thought seriously for a while.

In his opinion, twice is also worthy of being the essence of JYP's female trainees in recent years, the overall appearance is far above the level, and there are members in the team who are very prominent, recognizable and visual, and the configuration and hardware are actually very good. But the overall strength of the members is really average, whether it is singing skills, or dancing, not to mention compared with other combinations, the gap in the team is actually quite obvious.

After thinking for two minutes, Chi Jingyuan said with some uncertainty: "If it were me, according to my impression of their age and appearance, they should be allowed to take the route of youth and cuteness...... But it's not simple and pure, after all, there are too many girl groups of this style, and to find different characteristics from other girl groups, I feel that they still have a lot of potential in this regard......"

"Actually, that's what we think." As soon as Ji Jingyuan's voice fell, the wine glass in Park Zhenying's hand was placed on the table and made a muffled sound, and he answered with some joy: "The company has held many meetings, and it has been decided to change the style of TWICE when it returns next time, which is consistent with the general direction you just said......"

"Actually, there was still a debate at the time, and it wasn't completely sure, and the company was also trying to collect songs according to several different styles to see if there was a suitable one, and then I heard the ......song you sent," Park Chun-young said and laughed: "It really gave me a big surprise at the time." ”

"Now it's been confirmed, Kyungwon, your song will be the title song of TWICE's next comeback, and with this song as the core, change the style of the members and create a new concept of the group, and this song is all done by you, and your ability is also very obvious in the return of XO and Taeyeon xi, so I think it is most appropriate for you to be the producer of this song." Speaking of which, this brother finally talked about tonight's theme and officially sent out an invitation.

Although Chi Jingyuan has some interests, the producer itself is one of his recent development directions, and the target is Zhou Ziyu's girl group, but he did not agree, but smiled bitterly and declined: "It's not that I don't want to go, it's that I don't have experience in making girl group songs, that cute style of tunes and XO songs are completely two different concepts, if it fails...... And there's been a lot of things lately, XO is probably going to start preparing a new album, and I'm going to film......"

What he said is the reality of the situation, but the lack of time is one aspect but not the main one, after all, at present, the most important thing in Chi Jingyuan's itinerary is the filming of "Signal", and the return of XO has not yet been determined, even if you start to prepare, it will take a while, so time can still be squeezed out.

But he really doesn't have much confidence in this kind of girl group song, and he hasn't tried any pure and cute songs before, and as for Kim Taeyeon's "I", this is not the same style at all.

And he didn't think that the song "Come on" could be successful, he originally thought that this song was very ordinary after it was written, and the lyrics that were filled in casually were not very careful, and this song had already been rejected by SM and Li Xiuman...... If the album and songs are not good after the production and release, whether it is Park Zhenying or Zhou Ziyu, or even himself, it will actually be quite embarrassing.

However, Park Zhenying was not discouraged, but analyzed it with him very rationally: "According to your busyness, it is estimated that you will not be able to spare time for the whole album, but the production of just one song actually does not take too much time. ”

"Style and experience are a matter of ...... The general direction of the company has been determined, and it's OK to go according to the plan, and it's not me, I'll be the main producer of the whole album...... Jingyuan, we absolutely believe in your ability, so this song will give you a lot of freedom and dominance. ”

"How big?"

"Not to mention the production of the song itself, you can make the decision on everything else from choreography and part assignment, and even you can intervene in the styling......"

"So big?"

Chi Jingyuan smiled and ate two bites of food.

He didn't understand such a thing, so how could he meddle in it.

And having said that, in terms of JYP's emphasis on twice, Park Jin-young will definitely stop it if his ideas are contrary to JYP's overall plan, such as asking everyone to wear swimsuits and shoot music videos and other nonsensical ideas that don't match the expected style at all.

Of course, Chi Jingyuan knew it all in his heart.

But this brother can say this, and he is indeed quite sincere.

Then the two sides were very tacitly quiet, Ji Jingyuan needed to think about it, Park Zhenying would not be too urged to give him time to think, and the two naturally chatted about other things after being quiet for a while, mixed with various chopsticks touching the plate and the crisp sound of clinking glasses.

When the supper was about to end, Chi Jingyuan put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked up and asked, "Brother, are you JYP really so optimistic about the song "Come on"?" ”

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you to rearrange the song, let alone use it as the title song." Hearing this question, Park Jin-young glanced at Ji Jingyuan a little strangely, and then said in a natural tone.

Then he remembered something and added: "By the way, we changed the name of this song, not in Korean but in English, called "cheer up""

The corners of Chi Jingyuan's mouth twitched twice, not knowing what to say.

Isn't it all the same thing? Is it just a name change if it's just translated into English?

For the sake of fashion?

After a strange pause for two seconds, Ji Jingyuan exhaled: "When will the production of "Come On" ...... "Cheer Up" start?" ”

"The album plan has almost been decided, and preliminary preparations have already begun, and the title song should start in late January and early February." Park Jin-young couldn't help but laugh when she heard Ji Jingyuan's tone, and her eyes opened to form a slit.

"Hmm......"

Chi Jingyuan took out a tissue and wiped his mouth, and nodded slightly: "Then I'll discuss it with the company." ”

……

said that it was a discussion, but it was almost agreed, and SM would never set any restrictions on the itinerary that Chi Jingyuan wanted to pick up.

In fact, as an artist of SM, it is not very suitable for Chi Jingyuan to make songs for artists from other companies, this kind of thing is okay in other small and medium-sized companies, and some will appear from time to time, but there is still a little problem with SM, and in recent years, all the invitation companies from the outside world have basically been rejected.

Of course, it's not completely negative, some invitations SM actually agreed, but Chi Jingyuan didn't accept it after taking it.

Although the relationship between SM and JYP is good because of several cooperations, and there have been a lot of exchanges and cooperation in the past two years, Ji Jingyuan estimates that he still has to talk to Li Xiuman.

However, the song "Come on", or "cheer up", is a very ordinary waste song in the eyes of SM and Li Xiuman, and it shouldn't stop anything, in addition to cultivating his ability, it is estimated that he will even think about the malicious idea of letting Ji Jingyuan miss and let the new JYP girl group directly hit the street......

Leading the girl group song for the first time was really a big challenge for Chi Jingyuan, but at the same time, it also ignited his long-lost interest and enthusiasm, so that he couldn't sleep for a while after returning from the night after finishing supper, lying on the bed with some thoughts about twice and this song, all kinds of wonderful inspirations popped up one after another, making him toss and turn, and his spirit was not good.

There are also some very strange ideas, such as according to Park Jin-young. The lyrics are divided into parts and let him take the lead, in this way, can the whole song be sung to Zhou Ziyu, and the others don't have a word?

In that case, she won't be bullied by the other members when she goes back......

or don't give Zhou Ziyu a word, let her be a backup dancer throughout the whole process, and make her angry......

As if imagining that this girl was pouting beside her, and she didn't dare to resist the aggrieved appearance of being angry, Chi Jingyuan couldn't help laughing.

Although I have expected a few interesting scenes, these are all things for next year, and now the important work is to get these parties at the end of the year done.

Early the next morning, a somewhat refreshed Ji Kyung-won got up and followed the EXO group to Samseong-dong COEX to participate in the recording of this year's SBS Song Battle.

This year's song war is not a live broadcast, but a record in advance, and the form of playing on the same day, which was recorded on the 27th today and is scheduled to be broadcast on the 29th.

SBS's year-end song wars will engage in some attractive gimmicks, such as the charity chorus of hundreds of artists the year before last, and the team by color last year, and the song war is usually the best and highest-rated party among the major TV stations.

But this year, it is uncharacteristically not doing any work, it is obviously a more important year for the 25th anniversary of the establishment of SBS, but there is no special way to celebrate, although some cover special stages of ancient artists have been added, but from the perspective of process and links, it is just an ordinary year-end party.

But no matter how you say it, it's also a song war, and the number of 32 groups of artists is already very powerful.

EXO has been a regular visitor to the year-end party for several years, and is already very familiar with the various processes.

Their stage today is still the most popular title song of the two songs this year, "Call Me Baby" and "Boy with Luv", in addition to the opening solo dance of Kim Jong-in in front of the stage, both songs are also remix versions, and a new special choreography is designed in the middle, plus more than a dozen backup dancers The overall effect looks very good, and the company is very careful about this.

Some time ago, Chi Jingyuan didn't have time to practice together while filming, but he went back to the company at night two days ago to learn from the teacher temporarily, but fortunately, there were not many new choreographers, so he could be regarded as coping with it.

The song war,Or SBS has always been said to be the SM family's own place.,The few combinations that ended at the end of the second half were all SM companies.,Arranged according to seniors.,EXO goes first.,After the performance, it's SHinee.,Finally, it's Girls' Generation.。

Compared with the only two groups that JYP participated, GOT7's performance position was not long after the opening of the second half, and twice only had 2 minutes of performance time, so this year's SM company's strength in the music industry is undoubtedly revealed, from the previous generation of the summit group to this generation of the summit group, and then to the new generation with good momentum, it makes other brokerage companies blush.

At the end of the Girls' Generation performance, all the artists reappeared, and after the two MCs Lee Ji-eun and Shin Dong-yeol said a few closing words, the big screen cut to a video of the PSY concert on the other side.

Today's song war is still the last end of the PSY, this brother is really beautiful after the explosion of "Gangnam style", although the songs of the past two years have lost their previous results and the overseas popularity has declined significantly, but he is still the most well-known Kpop singer in the world, full of cards, he did not come to the scene, and the organizers of the song war still chose to record the video of his concert as the last stage of today's party.

All the artists on the stage looked at the screen next to them to support, especially when it came to the song "Gangnam Style" at the end, the meaning of this song was really extraordinary, and everyone looked at it and shook their bodies together.

EXO stood at the back when he was queuing up at the end, and he didn't bother to squeeze forward when he got on the stage, so he simply stood directly behind the crowd, and the black pressure in front of him basically completely blocked the camera.

Ji Jingyuan stood in the crowd and clapped his hands lightly, paddling there very lazily, his eyes were casually looking back and forth among the artists around him, XO happened to be twice in front of him, and this rookie girl group didn't know if it was to grab the front row position in order to grab the camera, and they EXO still had to go forward, making expressions in front of the camera in the gap in the crowd.

It's really scheming.

But it is estimated that it is the first time to participate in this kind of party like the Song War, and many of them obviously look a little nervous, such as Mingjing Nan in front of him, Zhou Ziyu and several people are full of business atmosphere with various gestures of support, and their movements look a little stiff when the camera is over.

But today's makeup is good, especially Zhou Ziyu, her makeup today is just right, and the eyeliner is not abrupt, so that a pair of big eyes look like Buling Buling, without the naïve atmosphere of the past, it still looks a little beautiful.

Ji Jingyuan, on their left is Red Velvet, at this time, Bae Joo-hyun and several people are wearing stage costumes, and the princess dress of the velvet cake in five different colors looks a little exquisite.

Pei Zhuhyun and Sun Shengwan were standing close together, shaking their bodies gently with PSY on the screen, and when Ji Jingyuan's gaze swept over, Sun Shengwan leaned into Pei Zhuhyun's ear and didn't know what uncomfortable words he said, the expression on Pei Zhuhyun's face instantly changed and his face was full of disgust, frowning and his head retreated to the side as if he wanted to stay away from her, but Sun Shengwan seemed to be energetic, making an exaggerated and greasy expression and sticking it upwards, and the two of them were sticking one to hide and having fun.

Chi Jingyuan glanced at it a few times with strange eyes, smiled and then withdrew his gaze, and after glancing around, he didn't look at it anymore, but when he saw the familiar or unfamiliar faces around him, he did suddenly feel some emotion in his heart.

The guests standing on the stage now have changed a lot from the year when they first debuted, and many familiar faces are no longer visible in the lively occasion of the song war.

What has happened in the music industry in the past two years, the second-generation groups that were once dominating the world are either declining or dissipating at a rapid speed, and gradually withdrawing from the public's field of vision from the mainstream position that occupied the screen before.

For example, kara, 2NE1, and beast were still at their peak when EXO debuted, and the combination of the former top or first-line groups slipped off unexpectedly.

There are still some who are still struggling to maintain, such as Tara, who is still returning but the situation is obviously not good, as the senior who debuted in 09, in today's song war in which many newcomers participated, the order of the stage was actually ranked at the beginning of the first half, and there were few cheers.

Until now, he can still maintain his status, that is, the former TOP group Girls' Generation, BIGBANG and the like.

Change is really fast.

This year, the Peninsula song and ballad industry has obviously begun to renew, and in recent years, the newly debuted men's and women's groups have been like carp across the river, and there are no longer a few people with names and popularity, and unconsciously, they seem to have replaced those former faces and become the new protagonists.

red velvet，MAMAMOO，EXID，Apink，Gfriend，twice，GOT7，ikon……

And among them, the most brilliant, the most indisputable protagonist this year, ascending to the position of the new generation of TOP group, is their EXO.

The loud music of "Oba Gangnam Style" kept coming from his ears, and Ji Jingyuan clapped lightly in his hands, and looked past the twice standing in front of him to look at the camera in front of him, but his vision was blocked a lot by the shadowy people.

When they first debuted at this kind of party, they could only stand in the back and watch the second-generation seniors, SJ, bigbang, and the like become the center of everyone, and accept the cheers of the fans and the envy of the juniors in the front.

And this time, although he was still standing behind, the eyes that came from time to time around him reminded him that it was already different.

Kpop, it's their time.

There is still one last chapter left in this volume