Chapter 108: You Didn't Get Approved

When the EXO members took time to run their personal resources separately, and the matter of "Ghosts" on Ji Jingyuan's side was about to settle, the activities of the EXO group continued without delay.

Originally at the invitation of the program team, SM considered letting EXO participate in an indoor variety show "Brother I Know", which has become more and more energetic recently, but because there have been too many things recently, I didn't go, and after discussing with the program team, it was moved to August and September, and the follow-up album came out.

However, the nine members were scattered and participated in the recording of several indoor variety shows, in addition, according to EXO's convention, as long as the return to the radio station is enough, plus the signing meeting and some commercial performances, as well as the live broadcast of V LIVE from time to time, the first week of the return period is considered to be very sufficient.

As some people joked, with the current fan base of EXO, even if you post a children's song, you can easily get one of the top songs in the singing show, and the quality of the title songs of the three episodes itself is very good, coupled with the extremely attractive and impactful style and appearance that makes fans ecstatic, the repercussions caused by it are not as simple as 1+1.

In the form of the return of the first week, in the melon list, the sales list of the G list, and even the spread to the entire song industry, can only be described by two words, in terms of popularity, except for "Give Me Money", which has a fixed audience, can occupy some when the music source is released, there are almost no opponents that can compete with it.

In addition to the list, the influence also exists in all aspects, "Missing" has appeared in most restaurants, cafes, schools, and even clubs in Seoul and even the peninsula in less than a week, this catchy pop lyric has gained a lot of love, melodious and fresh melodies are easy to immerse, and the tune that can be hummed once you listen to it helps a lot to create the atmosphere.

Many people think that this is a very good seasonal song, just like EXO's "Spring Day" last year, and it is warm with a bit of regret and is perfect for cycling in the winter single.

Although it's summer......

The dance music attributes of "monster" are not as excessive as "Missing" in terms of nationality, but the style and choreography are more loved by fans, especially by many overseas fans. And the chorus dance of the lead dancer was constantly imitated, and the popularity remained high for a while.

In this case, it was soon time for the second week to play.

“You can call me monster!”

"Ahh......hh

After watching Ji Jingyuan stride to the C position on the stage and sing the killing part that has become a famous scene, the fans in the audience couldn't help cheering, shaking the audience's cheering stick crazily.

Although I watched all the stages last week, and I have watched all kinds of videos and direct shots on the Internet I don't know how many times, but every time I get to this part, looking at Chi Jingyuan in the center of the stage, Aili can still feel a strong impact with excitement.

Although there are many classic dances and shots in the song "Monster", the part that left the deepest impression was the first one.

After appreciating this part nostalgically, several acquaintances in the audience got together and whispered:

“…… Did you watch last week's "Music Bank", Yuan's direct shooting? Super good-looking. ”

"Of course I watched it, I've watched it countless times, Yuan's direct shooting has been very popular in the past two days, and I feel like another direct shooting is about to explode."

"Indeed, that black and red song costume + battle-damaged makeup is really to my appetite, and the direct shot looks really a visual miracle...... This week's song doesn't seem to wear this makeup, which is a pity. ”

"Oba looks good at everything!"

After the enthusiastic support of the fans, EXO ended his stage, and there are no big seniors returning recently, and their stage is usually arranged last, and they will enter the final award ceremony immediately after the performance.

"Wow, Bai Yayan is right to EXO, today's "M! Who is the protagonist of the Countdown trophy? Now let's see the final results! ”

Jin Qifan held the microphone and quickly broadcast the final score statistics:

"Audio source sales results...... Record sales results...... Most Popular Score...... As well as the final result of calculating the score of the live text vote, one of today's glorious ones is ......"

"Bai Yayan "SO SO" 5300 VS EXO "monster" 9988."

"Congratulations XO!"

……

"One of the candidates for "Music Bank" today is Twice and EXO, so let's take a look at the ownership of the trophy."

"Source Sales Score: 3583 VS 2878."

"Audience favorability ......"

"Broadcast Score ......"

"Record Sales Score 45 VS 9987."

"The end result is ......"

“Twice《cheer up》 5005 VS EXO《monster》 13185.”

"EXO has got one place today, Rough Camida!"

……

"In the third week of June, "Popular Songs", the competition for one trophy today is EXO's "Missing" and EXO's "monster".

“……”

"One of the winners is monster, congratulations XO!"

The sky ribbon floated down, watching Jin Junmian receive a trophy, Chi Jingyuan smiled and applauded lightly on the stage of "Popular Ballads", this week they were like Mount Tai pressing the top, without any suspense won one of all the singing programs they participated in, and the scores of each award were extremely different, and they did not feel any challenge and competition.

Peers in the industry seem to have a very tacit understanding, and there has been no general trend of returning artists in the past two weeks, and they are competing for one place and even Bai Yayan and Twice, who released their songs very early.

And Bai Yayan and Twice, the two JYP artists, seem to have seen that the limelight is wrong, and the enemy is too strong to compete with it, and last week they ended their singing trip very wisely, and this week the two groups of people didn't come to play at all, Chi Jingyuan and their opponents who were both alternates in the first two songs this week didn't show up at all, and today's "Popular Ballads" is even the two title songs of EXO to beat themselves, and they don't even have an opponent.

won three first place trophies in a row, but Ji Jingyuan felt a little bored inexplicably.

Thinking about it this way, the thrilling victory scene of "Fire" before seems to be a little more interesting......

I was thinking about it, and suddenly heard the member next to him call him, Ji Jingyuan came back to his senses and quickly took the microphone, and after hearing the reminder of Du Junxiu next to him, he switched to the Chinese and said thank you to the fans: "Thank you very much to the fans in the mainland for their support to us......

And seeing EXO's sweeping three major songs for a week without any suspense, fans on the Internet are naturally extremely excited:

"Congratulations to XO for winning three places in the first week of singing, and winning three trophies!"

"Look at this score comparison, it's all double killing, it's not a grade at all, this is the TOP group."

"The day before yesterday, I really laughed at the comparison between the sales score of "Music Bank" and twice, 45 to 9987, this should be the most disparity in sales, right?"

"Twice's album has a high sales volume, but it's been almost two months since it was released, and it's normal that it can't sell the album now...... However, EXO's sales are really a little too terrifying, and after the song is released, there are fans who raise funds to place big orders every week, and this week it seems to be a fan of Chi Jingyuan, and more than 400,000 orders were placed all of a sudden...... With them as a comparison, I feel that it was obviously very good before, but only the first line can only sell hundreds of thousands, and the sales of 200,000 seem to have become very poor results. ”

"How do I feel like I don't have any strong opponents? Why has it been so long that an alternate is still Twice, an artist who released a song more than a month ago, how come no one has returned recently, I watched it for a long time and a SISTAR next week, or an old girl group that has become outdated, isn't summer always a hot period of return? I remember that at this time last year, a lot of popular groups returned, what kind of girl group battles or something, the music industry was lively, how did it become like this year? Is Kpop not working? ”

"Then you have to ask why EXO chose to return on June 9th......"

"What a heinous crime our group has!"

……

After finishing the last song of the week, Ji Jingyuan returned to the company building directly after having a meal with the group, and started a new job after taking a breath and resting.

The reason why this return is very busy, and I can't even participate in a large-scale variety show, and even the members of EXO, and even Ji Jingyuan, have no time to meet and make love with their daughters recently, is because many things have been crowded together during this time.

In addition to EXO's already very busy return itinerary of the three episodes, each member's personal itinerary also has a lot, Ji Kyung-won, Bian Bae-hyun, and Park Chanyeol, all of which have things related to TV dramas and movies, and they also have to spend a lot of time to seriously practice the three tours that will be held next month, which is the top priority, and the workload is very large, so you can't ignore it.

In addition, there will be a reissue of the regular three albums that are expected to be released in August.

Although fans are hotly anticipating, the company still hasn't announced it to the public, but internally, it has already been determined that there will be a reissue of the three albums this time, and even the songs have been prepared a long time ago.

Re-release of this kind of classic leek cutting behavior of picking the title song and adding two included songs to the original album, changing the cover and changing the style, and selling it at the price of a regular album without spending anything or investing too many resources, among the major brokerage companies in the music industry, SM is the most accustomed to playing this hand.

However, EXO's only time, that is, the re-release of the regular album "XOXO", the quality of the album is really very high, and the re-release of the title song "Roar" alone is worth the price, and almost all the songs on the whole album are very good, all of them are well-made excellent works, so it is not a complete leek cutting behavior at all.

With EXO's current popularity, this money is not made for nothing...... And now it's not that they take the initiative to come up with it, but fans are calling for them every day to come out.

After a number of planning meetings, it has been confirmed that a reissue of EXO's regular three albums will be released in mid to late August. This reprint is the same as before, and the company is also not perfunctory, and has put a lot of effort into it.

This reissue is confirmed to be in the same form as the original, and one of the songs will be "LOTTO" composed by LDN Noise, a top production team that has been working with the company for a long time.

The other song was composed by PDOGG Kang Hyo-shin and Ji Kyung-won, with the participation of EXO members, and finally named "Blood, Sweat, Tears"

In addition to the double titles, a total of five songs will be added to the re-album with lyrics from Kim Jong-dae, "Can't Bring Me Down", and a rearranged and remixed version of "monster" by LDN Noise.

Although, the last three songs are actually a little filled, but the quality of the double main hit is really high.,

Whether it is "LOTTO" or "Blood, Sweat and Tears", Chi Jingyuan likes it very much, and the quality of the song style and melody is very high, especially the latter, which is very distinctive in terms of choreography...... Although the words written by Park Chanyeol and Kim Junmian looked a little awkward.

But Kpop songs don't emphasize words in the first place, and good lyrics are a plus point, but not good is actually not very important...... He gritted his teeth and could accept it.

At this time, they are seizing the time to practice the title song.

"My blood, sweat and tears, my cold breath~"

"Take all ahahahahah~~~"

……

"Hoo ......"

In the staircase compartment on the fifth floor of the SM building, Ji Jingyuan picked up his petite female and pressed him against the wall, and his body and lip lines were all pressed together.

And Bae Joo-hyun also wrapped his legs around the waist of his boyfriend, and his two arms were tightly wrapped around his neck, and he didn't care about the cold feeling when the skin and the wall were in contact after being lifted off the corner of his clothes, just closed his eyes and kissed selflessly.

Today, EXO came back in the afternoon to practice the stage of the concert at the company after running the trip in the morning, and Bae Joo-hyun did not go to film today, but practiced the dance of their new album with the members of Red Velvet in the company.

I contacted with my mobile phone, and the two who knew that the other party happened to be in the company hit it off, and they found a time to come out together, and they naturally hugged each other after arriving at the already inexplicably deserted stairwell.

Ji Jingyuan and Bae Joo-hyun haven't seen each other for more than half a month because of their busy work, and the frequency of texting is not as much as before, and it has slowly become a habit that their emotional enthusiasm seems to have dropped a little after such a long time, but as soon as they met, it was like ignition, and they were a little impulsive...... It's also a bit gluttonous......

In the secluded stairwell, there was a faint sound of clothes rubbing and lip lines exchanging, with occasional dull moanings.

It took a while for the movement to subside.

Sensing that Ji Jingyuan lifted the hem of his clothes again and explored inside, he was a little unfinished, and he was already a little emotional, Pei Zhuhyun, who was panting lightly, quickly came back to his senses and patted him with disgust: "Let's go, I'm still waiting after winning......"

During the break, they came out to meet secretly to make an excuse, saying that they were going to take Sun Shengwan to the café on the first floor for a drink, and at this time Sun Shengwan should be waiting for the two of them in the corridor of the Red Velvet practice room.

But in addition to this reason, after waking up, Bae Joo-hyun is actually not very adaptable, and she doesn't like to kiss her boyfriend on this occasion......

It wouldn't be nice if someone came all of a sudden...... She's someone who's had this experience, even though she wasn't the protagonist at the time.

"Let's talk about it in the evening......"

Chi Jingyuan exhaled a little heavily, gently put down his daughter-in-law, and then took a step back, quietly admiring the appearance of the young lady tidying up her clothes.

Pei Zhuhyun felt the gaze of her boyfriend, although she had experienced it many times before, she was still not very used to it, she was a little shy in her heart, she buckled her hands behind her back for a long time, but she had always been a little unable to button the bandeau, and when she was a little anxious, she looked at Ji Jingyuan without any movement, and was still looking at it, she couldn't help but raise her leg and kick him, and scolded squeamishly:

"Help!"

…………

"Ernie, why is your face so red?"

First went to wash his face and tidied up his hair and clothes, and then he received Sun Shengwan, who was not in a hurry at all, and the three of them took the elevator downstairs, and in the elevator, Sun Shengwan looked at Pei Zhuhyun's lingering rhyme, dyed with some red tide, and asked casually.

At the same time, she also came over and felt that it was funny, stretched out her index finger and gently poked Pei Zhuhyun's right face, feeling the touch of the tender face rebounding, and couldn't help but smile and praise: "kiyo~"

It seems to feel very good, looking at her appearance, she seems to be a little addicted and wants to poke it twice, but Bae Joo-hyun took a step back without missing a trace, gently brushed her hair, and replied calmly: "It's a little hot just after practicing, and the air conditioner is not very ...... Don't you think? ”

She looked very natural, and for a moment she turned against the guest as if she had to ask back.

"It's like... Yes, there is. Sun Sheng didn't think much about it, nodded when he heard the words, nodded a little approvingly, and slapped himself twice with his hand.

"When I was in the practice room just now, I felt that the air conditioner was turned on too small, but Shiki has been a little uncomfortable for the past two days...... "Bae Joo-hyun freely diverted the topic and chatted about the trivial matter just now.

Ji Jingyuan stood behind and watched the conversation between these two people, especially Bae Joo-hyun's unchanging expression and the active operation in an instant, he couldn't help but praise in his heart.

I always feel that when the young sister is in the red velvet team, there are two different flavors when she is with him in private, and there is a different kind of charm when the eldest sister is the captain......

The three of them walked out of the elevator and came to the café, when it was not open to the public, this café on the first floor became a place where many artists and employees of the company would patronize, and Chi Jingyuan had already come I don't know how many times.

There was no one at this time, the three of them walked to the bar, and Bae Joo-hyun took the initiative to stand in the first place to order, and at the same time she glanced back at Ji Jingyuan: "Or chocolate?" Or orange juice? ”

"Orange juice." Chi Jingyuan pouted.

This hobby of what you like to eat and what you like to drink is no longer a question to ask.

"Ernie, what about me?" Sun Shengwan looked at the tacit understanding between the two and interjected with some envy.

"And what do you drink?"

“…… Don't you know? ”

"How do I know? What do you drink? ”

(upset)"

"Haha, I know ......"

Just when the two of them were having a good time flirting, Ji Jingyuan's mobile phone suddenly rang, and he took it out to see that it was Li Chenghuan calling:

"Jingyuan hurry up, there are a few urgent impromptu meetings for you to attend."

"Okay, I'll go back now."

Ji Jingyuan immediately responded when he heard this, and at this time, the two of them in front of Pei Zhuhyun also looked back after hearing it, and the young lady asked tentatively, "Is there something urgent?" ”

"Well, I said it was going to be a meeting." Chi Jingyuan nodded, and he didn't have time to wait for the orange juice to be ready, so he was ready to leave directly.

"Let's go, then." Bae Joo-hyun was not surprised, and waved his hand to urge him, but immediately added: "Wait a while, we will send the drink to your practice room, and you can drink it after the meeting." ”

"Okay."

……

Chi Jingyuan walked into the conference room, and immediately found that the atmosphere was not very right, several familiar agents, department heads, and even representatives and operating directors were not very good, and even many high-level executives who had already arrived did not keep quiet, but gathered together to whisper something, and the buzz gathered together matched the surrounding atmosphere, bringing people a lot of pressure.

He suddenly remembered the scene when the company urgently recalled them to a meeting after Luhan left the team.

Chi Jingyuan didn't speak after feeling the atmosphere, and after saluting lightly with Li Xiuman, he found a place to do it.

Not all the EXO members came, only Kim Junmian was alone, and it seems that the two of them were selected as representatives to attend this meeting.

He glanced at Jin Junmian and exchanged a few words in a whisper, and after Chi Jingyuan came in, all the people were all there after a while, and soon the door was closed with a 'bang', and even the temperature of the whole room seemed to become solemn.

After a few seconds of silence, under Li Xiuman's signal, a room chief stood up, and he didn't make any opening speech, but directly said the key point in a deep voice:

"We submitted the EXO concert in September in the summer country...... Not approved. ”

The head of the room paused for a moment and added in a heavy tone:

"In other words, not only EXO, but all the company's artists have not been approved for all their performance applications in the mainland after August and September."

(End of chapter)