Chapter 54: A little ordinary
"The hero of this week's show is ......"
"Red Velvet, Rough Kamida!"
After Zhou Mi, who was in charge of the MC, announced one of the "show" this time, the five members of red velvet standing next to the MC were all moved, some of them opened their eyes wide and seemed to be a little incredulous, and some of them looked like they didn't react.
It can be seen that the five people know that the results are very bad this time, and they are not mentally prepared for being able to get one, and they are a little helpless when they get the trophy.
Bae Joo-hyun originally pursed her lips with a calm expression, looking at the front of her a little distracted, as if this one had nothing to do with them, she didn't come back to her senses until she got the trophy, a smile appeared on her face, and she began to take the microphone and say her speech with some excitement.
Bae Joo-hyun, who has always been good at endorsement, actually seemed a little flustered when he talked about his testimonials this time, and said that he was still stuck in the end, looking at the left and the right, as if he didn't know how to express the emotions in his heart.
"Ah...... We're all worried about this album...... Thank you so much for allowing us to get this ......."
When Park Xiurong gave a speech, his eyes were red directly, and he was already choked up before he finished speaking, so he quickly ended his words and stretched out his hand to wipe his eyes.
And Jiang Shiqi held back when she won the award, and when she was on the encore stage, she finally didn't hold it up, and when the other members sang in front, she hid with her back to the audience and wiped her tears, and in the end it was their competitor today, MAMAMOO, who was also a candidate, came over and gave a comforting hug after seeing it.
After the encore performance ended, Jiang Shiqi, who walked off the stage, finally couldn't hold it anymore, and just stood there and cried as soon as she walked down.
The pressure on them in the past few days is too great, last night in the middle of the night no one could sleep, several members got up worried and asked each other what to do, only to get a silence and wordless heaviness.
They didn't expect to get a single one for this song, and at this time, the pressure and worry of many days were finally able to be released, and some members finally couldn't help it.
After seeing it, Pei Zhuhyun's eyes were also shining with tears, and she walked next to Jiang Shiqi, but she couldn't say anything with complicated emotions, but just patted her shoulder gently to show comfort.
Only Sun Shengwan was the most energetic, ran over to the two of them, and comforted them in a hearty voice: "Why are you crying, don't cry, don't cry!" β
"Uh......h I really didn't expect us to get a ...... this time" Seeing that her sister and relatives were here, Jiang Shiqi choked with tears like rain, wantonly venting her emotions in the past few days.
"Who would have thought that yesterday I was worried about disbanding the ...... Hahaha, don't cry if you're ugly. Sun Sheng laughed out loud when he heard it, and hugged Pei Zhuxun and Jiang Shiqi, looking like an optimistic big sister.
"Ernie, you're not going to cry too, are you?"
ββ¦β¦ Whisper...... Not at all."
"Haha."
After red velvet won the first place in "the show" on the 22nd, he won "show champion" and "M! Countdown.
Winning one place does not reverse the fact that Red Velvet has returned to a poor performance, and sometimes getting one does not mean that the results are good, it may be due to the fans' efforts, or it may be because the competitors in the same period are not very strong.
Red Velvet is considered to be both, except for the biggest opponent MAMAMOO, who has returned to the final release in January, Ji Jingyuan heard Bae Joo-hyun say that these few fans of Xia Guo have made a lot of efforts in voting.
But anyway, being able to get a singer is also a great encouragement for Red Velvet in an unfavorable situation, which can release their pressure to a certain extent, at least when he talked to Pei Zhuhyun on the phone in the past two days, and when he finished communicating with Sun Sheng, Ji Jingyuan clearly felt that the mood of the female relatives and the relatives was much better than the previous two days, although they were not much happier, but they were not as tight as before.
A week after my return, I finally heard good news.
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Red Velvet is working hard to make the already doomed album look better and regain some lost popularity, while EXO is also busy preparing their new album, in addition to becoming more proficient in the dance of "fire", the recording work has also been completed quickly in the past two days.
The secret of the gratifying progress is very simple, the seniors of the same company often do this, which is nothing more than to give more parts to those who sing well and record fast, and divide one or two sentences with those who sing badly.
And Ji Kyung-won also returned to JYP on the 24th after a busy few days with his new album, and today in addition to checking the progress of twice's current preparations for the song "cheer up", there is also a meeting for the production of the MV.
Just when he came out of the parking lot, waiting for the elevator on the first floor was a little bored, looking at a poster that seemed to have just hung up on the wall next to him, there was a sound of chirping from behind that sounded a little familiar, and before he could look back, the greeting came
"Oh, that rice just now is really, it's too salty...... Ah, Oba, Anihassaiyo......"
Ji Jingyuan, who heard the movement, turned around and took a look, Jin Daxian, Zhou Ziyu, and Sun Caiying were standing behind, each carrying a small bag, and they were greeting him at this time while looking at him with unexpected eyes.
Chi Jingyuan was still reading the pictorial just now, but now the real person suddenly appeared in front of him, and he inexplicably had a very strange feeling, feeling that the pictorial was far less pleasing to the eye than the real person.
"So coincidentally?"
Chi Jingyuan nodded to the three of them, smiled and said, "Just finished eating?" β
His gaze stopped on Zhou Ziyu for a while and glanced at her, this girl is still wearing this school uniform at this time, carrying a schoolbag, big eyes blinking, looking quite innocent.
"Ne, we just had dinner, and Oba came so early today?"
"I'm going to have a meeting with your PD later.,Discuss the MV thing.γ Chi Jingyuan looked a little lazy, as if he had just gotten up.
Sun Caiying's eyes lit up when she heard this, she covered her mouth with some surprise, and then leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Qingjia?" Oba: Are we going to shoot a music video? When? β
She speaks with a lot of character, with her own characteristic tail note, which sounds funny.
"I'm not sure yet, but it should be next month......"
"That's going to be soon, too."
"Oba, have you watched our variety show?" After a few words of greeting, Kim Dahyun asked with a smile, looking looking forward to it.
"It's interesting to see a little bit."
At this time, the elevator finally arrived, Chi Jingyuan nodded while walking inside, and after standing still, he looked at Zhou Ziyu who was secretly observing next to him, and sighed: "I didn't find that your ears were so big before, right, Yoda?" β
Kim Dahyun is talking about twice's recent group variety show "Elegant Private Life" broadcast on Mnet, Ji Jingyuan also went to watch two episodes in his free time, and the shooting was quite interesting, and there were two pictures that impressed him the most, one was Lin Nalian cutting strawberries with the back of a knife, and then praised Yu Dingyan who pointed out this very surprised and sincere, "You have found this?" You're so smart'.
Ji Jingyuan didn't know if she was pretending to be stupid for the sake of the broadcast effect or if her brain was just a little unbright, anyway, that expression was the same as Chi Jingyuan's reaction when he pointed out that she took the potato chips in reverse some time ago.
The other is that Zhou Ziyu raised his head and started his ears with the nickname of 'Yoda'.
Zhou Ziyu was still eavesdropping, but suddenly saw Chi Jingyuan mention that he immediately pouted with some dissatisfaction, the corners of his mouth twitched twice, although he didn't make a sound, but judging from the shape of his mouth, he should be saying in fragments, 'Your ears are big'.
And Chi Jingyuan looked at Zhou Ziyu's side face, and his eyes seemed to be about to pass through her hair and shoot directly at her ears: "Yoda's nickname is really ugly, who gave it to you?" β
Without waiting for Zhou Ziyu to complain, Chi Jingyuan nodded again: "Don't say it, it's a bit similar." β
"Poof......" Kim Dahyun and Son Chaeyoung couldn't help but laugh all at once.
Seeing that Zhou Ziyu seemed to be a little angry, Chi Jingyuan smiled and added to himself: "But I think 'Fat Ding' is more appropriate, how cute Fat Ding is." β
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The mood was very stable, Zhou Ziyu was dissatisfied for a while, and she was happy for a while, she couldn't help but turn around and glance at Chi Jingyuan, looked at it and suddenly blinked: "Why don't you look energetic?" β
Seeing Chi Jingyuan's puzzled eyes, Zhou Ziyu stretched out his hand and pointed to his eyes, and said word by word: "Dark circles!" β
"Can you see that? Because I've been sleeping late these days. β
Ji Jingyuan pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, slightly surprised.
He is wearing a light-colored sweatshirt with jeans today, a very ordinary set of private clothes, and at the same time, because he is completely without makeup, he specially wears a pair of eyes to cover it, but he didn't expect Zhou Ziyu's eyes to be so sharp.
"Isn't 'The Signal' over?"
"......" Ji Jingyuan sighed and looked at her with a slightly strange look: "You think you're going to prepare an album?" I'm an idol too......"
βqingjia? Is EXO senior nim coming back? Sun Caiying, who was originally listening to the conversation between the two happily, came back to her energy, looking at her grinning and curious, she looked like a loyal Aili, her eyes were big, and she was not lost to Zhou Ziyu.
"Well, it should be a little later than you guys......"
Chi Jingyuan nodded and said casually, then looked at the open elevator door, and the three girls who had arrived on the floor of the TWICE practice room but did not react reminded loudly: "You guys...... Isn't it there? β
"Ah...... Inner, thank you Oba. β
The three of them looked up, nodded hurriedly and trotted out, each looking back to thank Chi Jingyuan with a wry smile.
Chi Jingyuan waved his hand a little speechlessly, and in order to alleviate their embarrassment, he pressed the door button several times in a row.
He didn't go to their practice room with Zhou Ziyu and the three of them, but went directly to Park Zhenying's office, chatted with this brother for a while, exchanged opinions, and then went to the conference room for a meeting together.
The song "cheer up" actually has no obvious theme, and the focus of the MV is actually to show the charm of each member of the dance, and there is no need to make up any story plot for the MV shooting.
After discussion, JYP also agreed to Ji Kyung-won's proposal to show each member's unique charm by shooting different shots and clips.
Then, after some discussion, it was expanded from this proposal to 'each member cosmimics a movie, or the characters and scenes in the film and television drama, and uses these classic screen images to amplify the characteristics and memory points of each member of TWICE'
To put it bluntly, each of the nine members found a picture of a film and television drama to imitate, and then edited it together.
Coincidentally, Park Jin-young originally had a similar idea, and after Ji Jingyuan proposed it, his eyes lit up and hit it off, and to some extent, he can be regarded as a hero.
This MV is quite simple to say, but it's actually quite troublesome to do, just the framing of different backgrounds actually takes a lot of energy, and it's much more responsible than the kind of MV that dances and dances in one place and plays handsome. And the most important thing is to find a memory point, a movie shot suitable for the TWICE members to imitate, and make a look that suits everyone.
Especially the latter, the makeup of the idol group's return is very crucial, and Ji Jingyuan also emphasized this point during the meeting, because after observing some of the stage and camera looks after TWICE's debut, he no longer has any trust and expectation for JYP's cody group.
Ji Jingyuan even had an idea that he could do better than the previous ones by becoming Cody of TWICE, because he at least knew not to paint such a heavy blush on Lin Nalian and Najing Nan's faces, and he also knew that pink high heels with blue socks looked really weird.
After setting the time for the MV shooting in early April and finalizing the preparation of some backgrounds and props, the meeting ended, and after chatting with Park Jin-young for a while, Ji Kyung-won and Kim Sang-min went to the practice room of TWICE.
"Be fascinated by me, 5 4 3 2 1 ......"
βTouchdownοΌβ
When they walked into the practice room, the nine of them were practicing the dance of a song in the album, and just halfway through the dance, Ji Jingyuan stood in the corner and watched the dance of the song with great interest for a while.
"Was this the title song that was originally planned?"
He looked at it for a while, and asked Jin Shangmin next to him in a low voice.
Park Jin-young mentioned to him during the casual chat before that TWICE's return was actually going to use this "touchdown" as the title song at the beginning, and this song is close to the style of the debut song "Like OOH-AH", which is more girl crush and power, which can be regarded as the same style as the debut.
It's just that after thinking about it, JYP decided to change the style of twice, and it happened that at that time, Ji Jingyuan's "Come On" demo for Park Jin Young came into their field of vision, and they didn't know what evil they had hit, and it took a short time to decide to use "Come On" as the main hit.
"Yes, the original plan was like this, and the company is also very optimistic about this song." Kim Sang-min nodded, and then said a little insider: "It's just that Park Jin-young PDnim thinks that the children don't digest this style very well, and the song style is too strong to cover up the highlights of the members themselves...... Later, he also advocated using "cheer up" as the main song, but we didn't actually expect it. β
"Hmmm......"
Chi Jingyuan nodded slightly.
He actually didn't expect that he was quite puzzled when he learned that this waste song recognized by SM had become the title song of twice, but this is actually good, because no matter how good or bad the song is, one of the two people, Lee so-man and Park Jin-young, must have a brain in the water.
When the time comes, Chi Jingyuan can stand on the side of the winner and wantonly laugh at the person who has no vision.
"Let's jump off Cheer Up and see how we're doing......"
After a short break after the dance of "Touchdown", Ji Jingyuan clapped his hands and commanded, and the nine girls quickly stood up from the floor and lined up to start performing.
After practicing for so long, the nine people twice have mastered the dance of this song very well, whether it is the strength of the movements, the neatness has actually reached the level of performing on stage, although the choreography is relatively simple, but it can also be seen that it has been practiced with hard work.
And now, Chi Jingyuan actually feels more and more that the style of the song "cheer up" is very suitable for twice, the effect and appeal of this cute and cute dance are obviously much more natural than the song "touchdown" just now, especially suitable for several of the members, such as Lin Nalian, when curling up and grinning rabbit teeth, it is indeed very shiny.
Just watched them dance a few times, but Chi Jingyuan pursed his mouth as if thinking about something, and then stopped them after the third jump.
"What do you think of the choreography of the 'Shyshyshy in the hometown'?"
Chi Jingyuan stretched out his hand and waved it up and down, imitating their dance moves just now, and asked tentatively at the same time.
"It's okay......" Park Zhixiao and a few people also waved their arms, not understanding what Ji Jingyuan meant.
"What do you think, Sana?" Chi Jingyuan looked at Sasha Minatosaki: "You sang this part, what do you think of this action......"
Sasha Minatoki, who was named by name, opened her mouth slightly, made movements in her hands, and hesitated for a few seconds before whispering back: "Yes, it's a bit ordinary?" β
"yes, I think so." Chi Jingyuan and Minato Sasha glanced at each other and nodded: "This part should be very cute, right, your voice is also sweet, the current choreography is too ordinary, and it has no characteristics in general......"
The choreography of this 'shyshyshy' is just a very ordinary left and right hand stretched out and shaken and then crossed, and there is no highlight.
Saying that, Ji Jingyuan paused, and then looked at the nine people in front of him: "I think it's better to change to a more cute action...... I'm not very good at this, do you guys have any ideas? β
"Cute, isn't it?" When Sun Caiying heard this, she directly put her hand next to her eyes and began to bulling, and the other members also followed, some began to try choreography after listening to Chi Jingyuan's words, like Hirai Tao, and some had not yet grasped the context, and looked at the people next to them curiously, like Mingjing Nan.
"Or else?" Sasha Minato put her hands on her chest, stretched out her index finger and kept pointing, with an expression of 'baby is embarrassed and shy', and then looked at Chi Jingyuan with some expectation and asked.
"This one is okay." Ji Jingyuan nodded.
Hirai Momo also thought about a move, pouted slightly and swayed his hands on both sides of his body: "How about Oba?" β
"It's pretty much the same as before, but it's better than the original." Jumping with her movements, Chi Jingyuan thought about it and commented.
Selling cuteness and pretending to be cute is really a female idol major, just like natural skills, you don't need to think about it, everyone thinks about it casually, it's all acting.
βshyshyshy~shyshyshy~shyshyshy~β
At this time, a noise next to him attracted Chi Jingyuan's attention, he swept over there, and found that Lin Nalian, who was standing on the side, was halfway through the choreography and playing, and was selling cuteness to Yu Dingyan, grinning and squeezing his eyebrows very contrivedly, while curling his two hands into fists, arching on both sides of his cheeks like a kitten.
And Yu Dingyan, who was pretended to be attacked, was leaning against the wall, looking like he was loveless, helplessly looking at the eldest sister in front of him and constantly "shyshyshy~", looking at her expression, he couldn't wait to kick the person in front of him away.
"Huh......"
Chi Jingyuan looked at it for a while, and suddenly came to his senses: "Na Lianxi's action is good. β
"Huh?" Lin Nalian was performing, but suddenly heard her name, her movements stopped suddenly, turned to look at Ji Jingyuan, confirmed that his eyes were looking at her, and at the same time reacted to what he just said, the fist that was still next to her cheek arched twice in a daze.
The meaning is obvious: 'Are you sure you're talking about what I'm doing now?' β
"This action is very good...... Chi Jingyuan nodded, clenched his fists and imitated Lin Nalian's action just now, and then pouted at the other members: "You guys try it and I'll see ......"
"Very good, then the choreography of this part will be changed to this movement ...... now."
"In addition, sana's action just now is also good, I want to think about it, how about putting it in the previous sentence 'Mi Ah Nei' and try it......"
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Ji Jingyuan had a flash of inspiration and made some small adjustments to the choreography of "cheer up", and the members of TWICE did not express any objections, it is normal to adjust the choreography, it is normal to change a few movements every few days, and even many groups have returned to the song and will change the dance when they start playing.
And in Chi Jingyuan's opinion, the effect is indeed much better, just in terms of these two parts, it looks much more energetic and cute than the previous shaking arm, especially after being performed by Minato Sasha, so that this singing segment, which originally had no bright spots, has the potential to become a killing part.
After deciding to change the choreography, Ji Kyung-won asked them to rest for a while to practice on their own, while he found a place to sit down on the sofa and began to think about what more suitable movies and characters to imitate for twice in the MV.
"Oba, drink water!"
A few minutes later, a familiar voice sounded in his ears, Kim Daxian stood next to him with a cup of water he had just received and handed it over, and Sun Caiying also followed beside him, looking at Ji Jingyuan with a smile.
"Thank you."
Ji Jingyuan took it with a smile, and then thanked him.
After being a producer for TWICE, Park Jae-hyun's habitual water reception work was almost replaced by Kim Da-hyun, and the caring little girl really still looks the cutest.
Some people of the same age just don't have eyes.
"Hey......
The two little girls smiled, and then the two of them took out their mobile phones, and Kim Dahyun asked probingly: "Oba, can you exchange contact information?" β
Chi Jingyuan looked at these two people who seemed to be a little nervous, smiled, nodded and said naturally, "Okay." β
Kim Dahyun reminded him when he said that he had been a producer for twice for so long, and until now there are only the contact information of Zhou Ziyu and Mingjing Nan, which is actually quite easy for others to think about.
As he spoke, he reached out and took the shoulder bag next to him, unzipped it and took out his mobile phone, and took the initiative to ask, "What is your number......"
Kim Dahyun hurriedly reported his phone number, and added Kakaotalke's friend by the way.
Seeing the excitement here, Minato Sasha was the first to come over, tilting his head next to him and observing for a while, his eyes lit up, and he took his mobile phone when he went back, and after a while, several other members also came over, and soon Chi Jingyuan and all the other members of TWICE exchanged numbers.
Whether it is as their own producer, or a senior in the circle, or even a TOP idol, of course they are happy to exchange contact information.
Mingjing Nan is very interesting, she has a number early in the morning, and she pretends to come over and take a turn, and after feeling Chi Jingyuan's strange gaze, she looks at it cutely and shows her gums, and smiles a little shyly.
And Lin Nalian would also come was something he didn't expect, Chi Jingyuan hesitated to exchange contact information with her when he saw the big panya who was following behind, but he only changed his mobile phone number last year, and it would be a little uncomfortable if it was exposed again.
But everyone else gave it, and if she was the only one left, it was too targeted, even in the face of her own black fans, Chi Jingyuan still didn't embarrass this girl.
If you don't count Lin Nalian's black powder attribute, in fact, after being in contact with it for so long, he thinks this rabbit tooth is quite likable.
Pity.
After chatting for a while, Ji Jingyuan walked out of the practice room and went to the bathroom, but when he came back, he found Yu Dingyan and Minato Sasha walking around the door of the practice room, as if they were waiting for someone.
The two of them looked over when they heard the footsteps, and immediately rejoiced when they saw that it was Chi Jingyuan, and then walked over quickly.
"Birthday?"