Chapter Ninety-Five: Preview
"Tsk, it's all about giving you grievances."
Sun Shengwan looked very energetic today, leaning on the table next to him with a big golden retriever on his head and chattering: "It's all about saying that you have been nominated for the Emperor for two consecutive years, and it doesn't matter if you win the popularity award or not." ”
"Hmm."
Ji Jingyuan didn't know if he heard what she was saying, so he didn't raise his head to respond.
Yesterday's winner of the popularity award in the film category, Du Junxiu, who was sitting opposite, also interjected after hearing it: "Indeed, the gold content of the nomination of the emperor is also relatively high, and if there are no special circumstances for the popularity award, any of us can take it." ”
"Yikes." After reading it for a long time, Sun Shengwan finally found that Chi Jingyuan didn't seem to be listening carefully, and she patted him a little annoyed: "I've been talking for a long time, why don't you react at all!" ”
"Alas......" After being physically attacked, Chi Jingyuan couldn't raise his head, and glanced at his enthusiastic relatives: "You don't really think I'm disappointed that I didn't win the award, didn't I expect it before, yesterday it was because there was a camera shooting, and the expression was for the organizer and fans." ”
"And ......" Chi Jingyuan glanced at the bells and whistles of the mobile phone in Sun Shengwan's hand, and his eyes were a little helpless: "And I have seen the messages you read that were highly liked to the top before." ”
"Humph!" Feeling that his enthusiasm was extinguished by a handful of cold water, Sun Shengwan snorted indignantly, but Jiang Shiqi next to him giggled, thinking that the conversation between the two people in front of him was very interesting.
When it comes to understanding Chi Jingyuan, Sun Shengwan is a little inferior to Pei Zhuhyun, as a genuine female parent, she doesn't mean to come up to comfort, it seems that she knows that Chi Jingyuan doesn't care much about this, just sitting next to her with the latest Ipad that Ji Jingyuan gave her when she came back from the last trip to Ami, and is playing beautifully, while listening to the movement here with his ears pricked up.
Although she actually texted the first thing last night......
While speaking, Chi Jingyuan thought of something, reached out and pulled the shoulder bag next to him, opened the zipper and took out two packs of walnut snacks from inside.
is the brand that became popular because of his live broadcast before, and the manufacturer is estimated to not be able to eat the snacks he sent to the company until next year because of his gratitude.
“!”
Sun Shengwan, who was still sullen, saw Chi Jingyuan's movements and the snacks he took out, his eyes lit up, and he naturally thought it was a gift from his relatives to make amends, and just squeezed out a smile and was about to take it, but he saw Chi Jingyuan knock on the table with his fingers, and then threw it lightly to Pei Zhuhyun, and Pei Zhuhyun also put down the tablet with a tacit understanding, patted his sea-dog-like hands cutely, smiled on his face, and directly received the snacks in the air.
"Cut." The smile that had just been squeezed out quickly disappeared after a second of stiffness on his face, and Sun Shengwan, who felt that he was being played, was just about to say something, but found that Pei Zhuhyun and Jiang Shiqi next to him had already come together and tore open the package and were ready to start tasting.
She glanced at Ji Jingyuan, then turned her head and narrowed her eyes, a sincere smile appeared on her face again, and she took three steps and two steps to Pei Zhuhyun's side, put her arms around the captain's neck with one hand, and shouted in a boyish voice: "Ernie, I want to eat too!" ”
"Ha ......" Pei Zhuhyun, who was hugged by the neck, smiled happily with her eyes, and took the initiative to take a walnut kernel and feed it to her mouth, which was swallowed directly by Sun Shengwan with a whimper, and several people laughed together, talking small while eating snacks.
Finally gone.
Chi Jingyuan suddenly felt a lot quieter.
It's just that he didn't sit for a while, and Li Chenghuan strode over: "I was notified that we will be rehearsed in half an hour, so you can prepare for ......"
As soon as he finished speaking, he found that there were few members of EXO in the unified area of this large lounge SM, except for several assistants and a group of backup dancers, and immediately frowned: "What about the others?" ”
"Let's go out and play." Ji Jingyuan glanced back and shrugged his shoulders as a matter of course.
Kim Jong-in and Taemin, the two brothers, don't know where they went, Park Chanyeol, Oh Se-hoon and Bian Bo-hyun also estimated which girl group to go to, the interesting thing is that Kim Jong-in didn't know where to go, just now Ji Jingyuan saw him answer the phone and left.
There are a lot of guests performing at the Dream Concert every time, and dozens of groups of artists are acquaintances everywhere, and it is normal to chat together.
Li Chenghuan sighed and waved his hand to several assistants next to him: "Go and find it, make a phone call to inform you." ”
After debuting for four or five years, and at the same time, as the new pillar of the company, he has been crawling in the circle, and the mature EXO members are no longer the young and obedient children who listen to what their agents say when they first debut, and they honestly stay in the lounge every time they participate in activities, and everyone's thoughts and behaviors are actually a lot wilder.
There's not much he can do about it.
But it's a trivial thing to be disobedient occasionally, and liking to play with female idols or something, and it's normal, as long as he's not on the legal news like YG, he and the company can accept it.
After giving the order, he looked at Jin Junmian, who was sitting in place and guarding the duties of the captain, nodded with satisfaction and beckoned him to come over, and then began to explain in a very intimate voice: "......"
Ji Jingyuan glanced at it, and was embarrassed to tell Li Chenghuan that this brother had just come back from outside.
“…… As I told you before, the company has discussed with the organizer that after our first stage "Fire", the trailer of our three series and two title songs will be released directly on the big screen. ”
The voice next to him came, and Lee Seung-hwan and Kim Jun-mian said one of their most crucial things tonight, even more important than the stage.
The regular third album No. 9 is about to be officially released.,The trailers for the album's two title songs "Missing" and "monster" have also been cut and made.,Originally, the preparatory version was uploaded to YouTube tomorrow.,But for the sake of publicity and gimmicks,Under the discussion between SM and the organizer,The first release of the trailer was advanced by one day.,Directly placed in the gap between the EXO stage as the last performance.,
Although there are many artists participating in the dream concert, according to the usual practice, it has always been the private place of SM artist fans for several years, and more than half of today's audience may be EXO fans, and when you see the trailer of the return of your idol between the stages, you can imagine how much reaction it will have, and how surprised the Ellie who will be present.
I was able to release my own trailer for the first time in such a super-large platter concert, which is EXO.
"Fans must be very excited after the trailer is released, but you can just introduce it a little, don't say too much, or keep some suspense ......"
"Don't worry, brother, I know." Jin Junmian easily gestured OK, these tasks were all small cases for him.
A few people chatted for a while, and the EXO members who went out also came back quickly under the notice, and seeing that Lee Seung-hwan was looking at them angrily, several people were not afraid, they came over with a smile and said hello, and they came in naturally and seamlessly.
After everyone arrived, Li Chenghuan looked at the time: "Let's go, prepare for the rehearsal." ”
A group of people in the back immediately stood up and followed behind.
Walking out of the lounge to the corridor, I saw a group of dancers in white skirts coming over, because the corridor is not very wide, the two groups of people are clearly layered to the left and right, staggered.
Originally, I thought it was just a few people, but the white dress dance next to me hadn't finished walking for a long time, and after knowing that he was out of the backstage, Chi Jingyuan glanced back differently: "Which troupe is this dancing with, why are there more than us?" ”
Because there is a stage of "Fire" today, the company has sent their forty backup dancers over, so their place in the lounge will be a little crowded, originally Chi Jingyuan thought that their backup dancers were enough and the pomp was big enough, but he didn't expect to meet a group with more than them.
According to his estimates, there will be fifty or sixty female backup dancers in the past.
“.I.” originally thought that no one knew, but Jin Junmian replied directly: "The backup dancer on the stage of "Pick Me". ”
"Brother, you know so well," Chi Jingyuan looked at him in surprise.
Jin Junmian also looked at it in surprise when he heard this:
"Because I just went to talk to them......"
……
The 2016 Dream Concert officially began at 6 p.m., with the opening stage performance of the girl group want to B, and at the same time, multiple TV stations, V Live, and Mango TV in Xia Guo will broadcast live on all platforms at the same time.
Putting the trailer on such an occasion to be public, SM did put a lot of thought into it.
There are a lot of artists present today, and there are 28 groups of men's and women's group Rap singers, including many popular groups, such as the men's group EXO, BTOB, VIXX, the girl group red velvet, loveliz, Gfriend, and some of them have not seen much of Ji Jingyuan, or have not encountered them for a long time.
Like Tara, Ji Jingyuan hasn't met them at an event in the peninsula for a while, because of the bad reputation on the peninsula, Tara has turned to the mainland of Xia a few years ago.
I heard that the development over there is very good, and the popularity is very high, and many concerts have been held. When countdown held a platter concert in the mainland, it also specially invited Tara to boost its popularity.
But Ji Kyung-won and the members of Tara are not very familiar with each other, and they just say hello, that is, Park Ji-yeon has met and had dinner once under the introduction of Lee Ji-eun before, and they have contact information.
There are also a lot of acquaintances in other groups, but Twice, which has become popular recently, didn't come today, and the artists of the JYP family didn't come.
When six o'clock just started and it wasn't dark yet, the necessary things to create the atmosphere and support on the stage, such as cheering sticks and lights, were not needed, so it was not a good time to perform.
However, because the ticket price is extremely low, less than 20,000 won, the average ticket price equivalent to RMB 100 yuan can make fans and middle school students come to the scene without any financial pressure, and see idols that are usually not seen at all.
Even though the opening time is still early, the girl group performing is not a general trend, but the melodious cheers can still be heard backstage.
As the sky slowly darkens, the stage lights and cheering sticks are all lit up and the atmosphere is even hotter, and almost every artist group on stage performs, as long as it is familiar, the audience can sing songs, and almost all of them will cause a chorus of many audiences.
The venue of the Seoul World Cup Stadium itself is a super large venue that can accommodate nearly 70,000 people, although the concert is only open on three sides of the stands, there are 40,000 or 50,000 spectators who come to the scene, and there is no need for everyone to speak.
Although more than half of the audience here today was Ellie, wielding EXO's silver Elli stick, but at this time, the EXO-Ls were not stingy to cheer for other groups, and there was not much competition and anti at this time, what they wanted was an atmosphere and excitement.
For example, when Red Velvet appeared on the stage, even if there was Bae Joo-hyun, who used to be very annoying to Ellie and would only seduce them Yuan Oba, the voice of support was still very loud, and the two songs "Dumb Dumb" and "Ice Cream Cake" were almost sung from beginning to end, and even Bae Joo-hyun's rap part in the middle did not fall a word, completely overshadowing her voice from beginning to end.
Ji Jingyuan heard it clearly in the backfield, and he even felt that the rap sung by the fans was better than that of the young lady, and the strength was obviously much stronger......
On occasions of this kind of platter concert, artists usually perform the title song of the most recent return, but the interesting thing is that it has only returned once in the past few months, but Red Velvet has not sung the most recent title song "July 7th", and performed two songs from last year.
Obviously, the people at SM actually understand it too.
And what impressed Chi Jingyuan the most was Gfriend's stage, their stage was obviously prepared very carefully, and they ingeniously skewered together the campus trilogy "Glass Beads", "Start Us Today" and "Time Lapse" after their debut through pitch transposition, and mixed them into one song.
The parts and actions in the last second are still "Glass Beads", and the next second will become "Time Lapse".
As an idol Chi Jingyuan knows very well that this kind of stage song mixing together is very easy to make the performers confused and make mistakes, and the difficulty is very high, and the six members of Gfriend performed so skillfully without any mistakes, obviously they have practiced for a lot of time for this purpose.
A girl group from a small company, whose debut results are generally ridiculed by many people, can become one of the candidates for the first girl group of the new generation after a year, and even if it weren't for the sudden rise of TWICE last month, this 'one' can be removed, which is really powerful.
It wasn't until the four-hour concert came to an end, and when the last EXO appeared on the stage, the entire venue cheered, and the atmosphere had reached the climax of the night before the music even began.
"Ahhh......h
Chi Jingyuan, who had just walked up, was still looking for his position, and was about to squat down to pose for the opening pose, and was instantly startled by this sound, under the slightly dazzling light, he half-squinted and looked at the crowded audience in front of him.
The spectacle of tens of thousands of spectators was truly spectacular, and the silver light flashing everywhere made each of them feel full of excitement.
Although it is a platter concert, the organizers have also reserved a place for many fans of popular groups, but according to the convention, this kind of occasion is generally chartered by Etude, and if you look at the stands on the second floor in the distance, even if the beams in front of you have many group names written on them, such as VIXX, BTOB, and lovelyz, indicating where their fans should sit.
But at this time, the audience sitting in the middle of those places was almost all waving an Elli stick, and at a glance, the entire middle of the venue and more than two-thirds of the area on the right side were a sea of silver.
It's really, so exciting.
With the flame in his heart, many EXOs stood in position, and as the music sounded, Ji Jingyuan swallowed and spitted and opened directly.
"It's burning......"
He noticed the problem when he sang the first line, the headset was too far away and the sound was a little small, so he quickly put down the microphone with his hand to keep it closer to his mouth.
It's just that in the next second, under the neat chorus of tens of thousands of people in the audience, a mountain of "Fire" directly shook his eardrums, completely covering the sound of EXO and the stereo.
Yes, whether they hold the microphone or not, it doesn't seem to matter if they are loud or not.
When the red velvet,The support of the ellies is very face-saving and the whole chorus is sung.,When they came out, they burst out with all their enthusiasm.,From the beginning of the song, "Fire" didn't drop a word.,The same is true for the difficult rap.。。
And Ji Jingyuan still thinks that the fans' rap chorus sounds much better than their own......
The other members soon discovered this, and even with the microphone on, their voices were completely muffled by the chorus of the audience, and it seemed that the protagonists and singers were no longer them, and they just had to be honest backup dancers.
"Jump up and go crazy"
In the second half of the song, Chi Jingyuan walked to the C position in the center of the stage, he raised his hands flat, led the whole team, and nine people stepped on the floor continuously with full strength, and at the same time, fireworks sprayed into the air next to the stage, and the enthusiasm of the scene and the light of the fireworks reflected each other, directly illuminating the night sky.
After the backing dancers appeared, everyone's voices rang out again, and the neat and powerful sound lasted from the beginning to the end.
"Burn everything ~~Bow wow wow~~"
"I've forgiven you."
As the tens of thousands of people in the audience shouted in unison 'Bow wow wow' and 'forgive you' fell, the deafening cheering voice barely stopped a little, and after the "Fire" performance, forty backup dancers hunched over and quickly descended from both sides, while the nine EXO people walked to the center of the stage and stood in a row panting, just when the audience looked at their idols and shouted excitedly, the originally bright lights on the stage and the big screen behind them suddenly dimmed.
The cheers dropped suddenly, and before everyone could figure out what was going on, the big screen suddenly lit up again, and countless fans looked at it, only to find that there was a VCR inside that they had never seen before.
The crisp drum beat and the smooth piano sound sounded, and a bird's-eye view of Seoul appeared on the screen, and the camera quickly advanced from front to back under the colorful night, and several members of EXO appeared in turn, some standing in front of the sidewalk waiting for a red light, some running quickly in the alleyway, and some standing on the bridge and quietly looking into the distance.
Accompanied by a pleasant melody, everyone feels a kind of loneliness under the blurred background.
As the camera progresses, it slowly turns into daytime, and the perspective also reaches a room where the curtains are closed, and the rising warm sunlight gently shines through the curtains and gaps, reflecting the side of the only figure in the room.
And half of Chi Jingyuan's body was bathed in the sun, standing in front of a piano, gently plucking the keys on it with his hands, and at the same time, a clear and gentle singing paragraph sounded in the background:
"I miss you~~I miss you~~"
Before the sentence ends, the picture goes black, and an oval appears in the middle of the rotation and spreading, forming an EXO logo.
The names of the nine members also appeared in white letters on a black background, and the LOGO disappeared and became two rows of large artistic fonts:
“EXO”
“《Missing you》
I was a little confused just now, but at this time, all the viewers and fans have already seen that this VCR is playing the trailer of EXO's new album, and the novelty of ordinary audiences is not mentioned for the time being, and all the Ellie are all fanatically excited.
"Is this a trailer for the return of the Oba?"
"That melody just now, and that part listen so well!"
Some fans are discussing enthusiastically, and more are forgetful and cheering, extremely satisfied with this surprise.
But before they could remember much about the time of the VCR just now, the screen went black again.
Some eerie and eerie electronic melodies sounded, and a large close-up portrait of Chi Kyung-won appeared on the screen.
Different from his previous photo style, his style on the screen is particularly strong at this time, with thickened eye makeup and rarely tried before, just the right eye shadow, blackened eyebrows, indifferent gaze, and a dark red scratch that extends from his cheeks to the bridge of his nose.
He tilted his head sideways, bowed his head slightly, and could only see half of his face clearly, and the other was all hidden in the shadows, the shadows were deep and dark, like a blank space of silence.
"Ahhh......h
Far louder than just now, I don't know how many screams sounded from all directions at the same time, containing strong excitement and enthusiasm, gathering together to overturn the stage.
All the elements are combined, and the whole portrait exudes a dark style, with a cold temperament and handsome face, which brings a strong sense of impact to all the fans on the scene, even if many idols who are watching the live broadcast of the monitor in the background can't help but cry out in amazement at this time.
Then, under the repeated electronic melody, the portraits of the nine members of EXO appear one after another, each looking at the camera from a different angle, but the same dark color palette, eye shadow, and signature battle-damaged makeup, some of them wear delicate lip rings to accentuate the atmosphere.
As the drums and melodies get faster and faster, the speed of the photo transformation is also getting faster and faster, and then the portraits of the nine people keep changing and flickering, until a few seconds later, when the final rhythm reaches a peak, suddenly a sound of glass breaking is heard, the photo suddenly disappears, the screen suddenly turns black, and the same font and introduction appear as before:
“EXO”
“《Monster》
At the same time, a high-pitched voice full of power and like a shout appeared in the background, which was deliberately lowered by the tuning, and seemed more and more distant and deep.
Familiar people and fans can instantly hear Chi Jingyuan's voice:
“You can call me monster!”
I'm going to go to the field today, and if I come back early tomorrow, there will be an update, and if I'm late, I'm going to have pigeons.