August is the peak season for the Kpop music industry, and in the past half a month, at least a dozen groups of popular groups with names have announced that they will return in the near future, especially because of the Olympic Games, many agencies have deliberately avoided the beginning of August to push back the artist's return time by one to two weeks, and around the 18th is a more suitable day.

And among so many artists who have released songs, the most popular is naturally EXO, which returned with the reissue album "Blood, Sweat and Tears...... Even if there are problems with the promotion due to some unexpected events, fans will definitely stick to the release of the song MV.

In fact, if you don't look at the heat and attention stolen by the Huang Meiying incident, this time in the reprint and return, "LOTTO" will not be talked about, the response caused by "Blood, Sweat and Tears" is very good, the trailer photo full of luxury and mysterious style has been widely discussed by fans so far, and the number of clicks on the trailer video is also very high, and the exquisite editing and attractive style have also attracted a lot of passers-by and curiosity.

The impact of light, and the freshness it gives to fans, is actually no less than the shocking strong dark wind of "Monster" two months ago.

When the time came to 0:00 in the morning of the 18th, the page of the official account of YouTube SM did not know how many refresh instructions were entered in an instant, which made many people's web pages pause, and the originally fast Internet speed became a little no longer smooth.

In addition to EXO's fans, many of the other men's and women's groups are also waiting for their meals, even if they don't like EXO, even black fans, it can be said that most of the music industry is paying attention...... Now it is recognized that the TOP group that has been completely disconnected in the industry has such a turbulent momentum.

SM didn't make a scolding bounce, and soon the MV of the two title songs of the reprinted album was uploaded, and in an instant, the two links that had just been refreshed were clicked by countless people.

The first thing that catches your eye is a luxurious temple decorated in the style of medieval religion, and from top to bottom, the nine EXO people appear in turn, passing through the messy black and white sculptures placed in it, and slowly walk in.

Finally, I stood in front of a large Picasso-style oil painting, quietly looking at the contrasting abstract and eerie patterns inside, while at the same time, a hazy background sound sounded faintly, hitting the eardrums of the listeners.

"Passacaria in D minor", even the most lovers of classical music can hardly pronounce the name of this background music directly, but at this time, this extremely niche melody is very suitable for the atmosphere here, and it is integrated like the finishing touch.

Sumptuous shirts and suits, solemn and luxurious halls, white and sacred chandeliers, strange and messy oil paintings, and background sounds like Bible chanting, just look at the beginning, and everyone deeply feels an elegant and mysterious aura lingering in their chests.

At the same time, he secretly sighed that the level of the background and camera movement, as well as the intention of the background construction and the delicacy of the costumes, are really not ordinary combinations that can touch porcelain......

"Hey, an ancient ......"

In the next second, an exclamation sounded in many rooms, and under the camera switch, the scene of the teaser photo that caused countless fans to be amazed a few days ago appeared on the screen, in the dark room, on the luxurious sofa, the nine members of EXO were each wearing expensive suits, standing or sitting, looking at the camera quietly and plainly.

The perspective slowly zooms in from a distance, while the melody of the background chant gradually rises, and when it reaches a high point, the camera switches, and a very neutral voice sounds:

"My blood, tears, and sweat, my last dance."

"Take it all away......"

This voice is really catchy, and it instantly attracted fans and listeners who had been emotionally raised by the previous pictures and music, looking at the picture that had switched to the group dance shot, all the members who were clustered together stared at the sky, slowly raising their heads and getting up, a strong sense of amazement emerged in my heart,

I have to say that Bian Boxian's opening is indeed very sence, his somewhat ethereal neutral voice is very suitable for the introduction here, and he sings the first sentence directly as killing part, which is difficult for even Chi Jingyuan to do.

Even if he can sing it, it is not as coquettish and freehand as he twists.

After Bian Boxian's surprising opening introduction, Ji Jingyuan, who had been standing behind him, came out of the side with a very freehand vibrational mechanical dance move, and stood in the C position of the formation instead of him, he looked at the glasses calmly, his moderately long black hair shook slightly, and he danced his part up and down while picking up the passage just now:

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

"Take it all away......"

In the countless rooms where there had been a lot of movement just now, a more intense exclamation broke out in an instant, and even many male fans couldn't help but shout in surprise.

If Bian Boxian's introduction just now attracted a girl-like ethereal voice, then Chi Jingyuan, who was standing in the C position at this time, brought a strong visual impact.

Originally, when the teaser photo was released, the surprise he brought to fans with his outfit brought the most discussion, and he finally appeared in the dance of the MV at this time. Luxurious and luxurious black suit, white shirt without tie, and solid black hair, as soon as they appeared, they made people feel elegant and sexy.

If you add a slightly cold expression and eyes, as well as the same slightly neutral falsetto singing, a very aggressive reversal charm jumps on the screen, as if it is glowing, so that everyone has only one standing in the middle of the line in their eyes at this time.

At the same time, the upper body is a delicately cut suit and shirt, and the lower body is a slightly tightened pure black trousers, which has a very eye-catching visual effect when jumping out of this part of the choreography.

It's a pity that before countless fans licked the screenshots, Ji Jingyuan's group dance shot in the C position only lasted for a few seconds, and the next second the camera cut away, and turned to a secret room full of fog, hints and religious style, Park Chanyeol started his handsome and rap.

…… This is an official MV, not a stage, it is to talk about concepts and show off skills.

Some fans simply paused to rewind to watch the footage of Ji Jingyuan, while others watched with more interest even if they complained and regretted.

After discussion, the MV of "Blood, Sweat and Tears" threw away many metaphors from the original meeting setting, suggesting that the scenes and pictures related to religion were still used, but the background and theme style still followed the setting of this mysterious religious style, but it did not engage in so many deep concepts, all the backgrounds, outfits, and atmosphere all have only one most important purpose:

Let the picture and people look more handsome, make the MV look a little taller, and let all the members show their sexy charm more.

The whole MV uses a lot of visual elements, with rich background sounds and electronic synthesized sounds throughout the whole process, the style of the main and auxiliary singing voices is very ethereal, as well as the background makeup and textured pictures that are obviously heavily arranged, the whole MV looks very theatrical, like a miniature Western fantasy opera.

Some people are very interested in these concepts and styles, but there are also many more fans and passers-by who simply listen to songs, watch people, and watch dances.

And in this MV, it seems to have successfully met everyone's requirements, there is style, there is a concept, the song is very brainwashing, and the dance is very handsome.

And people are even more absolute!

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

"Take it all away......"

After the long rap ended, Ji Jingyuan took a big stride from the side to the middle of the formation again, his hands were parallel, and he stroked the back of his head with a very rhythmic sense, at this time, the MV camera suddenly zoomed in to give a close-up, only to see his hands gently covering his face, tilting his head, and covering his eyes.

Before the fingers completely covered the eyes, the eyebrows that were slightly cold under the eyeliner decoration suddenly bent and chuckled, and the sultry eyes were half-revealed from between the fingers, and under the hands that covered most of the face, the only exposed mouth was gently cocked at the corners of the mouth, clenching his teeth a little harder, and a wicked smile bloomed with the covered eyes.

Ahhhh

No one expected that Chi Jingyuan, a young man with a relatively gentle face and a sunny smile and no offensive power, digested it so well this time when he walked in a sexy style, and there would be such a strong shocking effect.

There are many passers-by who can't get it before, and the rice is also vertically into the pit in an instant.

Unfortunately, before the screams in front of the computer erupted, the close-up that was imprinted in the hearts of fans in an instant was immediately over, and soon the scene of the group dance also changed, and the SM set and sculpture began to show off again.

Although I know that this is the MV...... But the emotional break caused by the continuous switching of this kind of picture still makes many fans feel a little uncomfortable.

But it also made the audience extremely interested in the stage of this song, and the few group dance scenes shown in this MV and the close-ups of some members brought fans a lot of amazement.

…… The charm of dance music still has to be shown on the stage, and there are too few dance shots in the MV, so let's wait to see the official stage.

After watching the entire MV, I don't know how many people feel that they can't enjoy it, and they are eagerly looking forward to seeing the first stage of the song EXO......

And after watching "Blood, Sweat and Tears", I opened the MV of "LOTTO" non-stop, and after the two title songs each gained a group of fans, before the ranking of the music source list came out this hour, the fan club and the Internet were already lively.

…………

In addition to countless fans and passers-by who like Kpop watching EXO's MV, there are actually quite a few idol artists in the circle who are also paying attention to the return of XO at all times.

In addition to those friends who are familiar with Chi Jingyuan or EXO members, the most important thing is actually the men's and women's groups that have returned recently and met EXO head-on.

The market in the Peninsula music industry is very small, and it is difficult to accommodate many popular songs with good results at the same time, and last year, the two-man competition between EXO and bigbang heated up the market, and the phenomenon of increasing the popularity of the market is not normal, mainly because the quality of the albums and songs of the two boy groups last year was too high, all of which were gods that Kpop had not encountered once in many years.

The normal situation is generally that the winner of the combination with the best results takes all, accounting for most of the exposure, and the popularity of others will be squeezed to a certain extent, which will have a lot of impact on the results.

The girl group that has released songs in recent times is okay, and it is not the same track as the fan market that EXO is facing, but the boy group is different, and they are positive competitors from all angles.

One of the most stressful is the once popular boy group VIXX, they just returned last week, but the day after the return, I saw SM announce the return trailer of the EXO reprint album, and the popularity gained just now because of the drastic change in the style of this single was instantly snatched away by the teaser photo of 'playing handsome in a suit'.

Since discovering that they were colliding with EXO, the members of VIXX have been under a lot of pressure these days, and today on the 17th, they are in "M! Countdown" completed the pre-recording of his return to the first stage, returned to the dormitory after a busy day, and complained a few times about today's fatigue, chatting about the increased sales and fan evaluations in the past few days......

Looking at the watch, EXO released a song.

There was not much anyone talking in the living room of the dormitory.

Originally, the activities were very tiring in the past few days, but seeing that the desperate activities did not get any effect, it was obviously just a preview of the return, just a song released at the same time, but it brought them huge pressure, not only the previous good momentum of the results slowed down all of a sudden, but even the agent has been in a hurry to talk and do things recently.

"Why don't you see how our competitors are doing this time?"

Seeing that the atmosphere in the dormitory was a little bad, LEO felt a little depressed, and took the initiative to tease...... Unfortunately, there were very few responders, and even when he said the word 'competitor', some members rolled their eyes in disdain.

I don't know if it's for him or a competitor......

Speaking of which, EXO and their VIXX were indeed competitors before, and both boy groups debuted in 2012, one in April and one in May, which can be regarded as debuting at the same time.

EXO-K hit the street when it debuted, EXO-M pounced on the Xia Guohuo Peninsula, and VIXX was not much better, on the whole, the two regiments were indeed half a catty and eight taels, which can be called competitors.

Or is it a difficult brother......

It's a pity that in just one year, in 2013, EXO relied on "Roar" to soar, and instantly opened a qualitative grade, and then even though they worked VIXX and slowly became a popular boy group in the first and second tiers, EXO has completed its own leap and transformation, and its results are completely disconnected, becoming the undoubted TOP in this generation of Kpop groups.

Seeing that the once difficult brothers and sisters are now so beautiful, it is difficult to say what is in your heart.

"If you can't find something to say, be quiet......"

RAVI WAS A LITTLE UNHAPPY WITH LEO'S LACK OF WORDS, AND COULDN'T HELP BUT SAY SOMETHING.

He always felt that the tone of the other party's words 'competitor' was a bit sarcastic, not mocking EXO, but mocking themselves, feeling like they were laughing at their incompetence and lack of fire.

The opponent is Xiba, our album has been sold for several days now, and it has just exceeded 70,000 copies, and the sound source has flown to I don't know where it is, yesterday EXO's group of idiot fans sent a big-character poster to celebrate the pre-sale exceeding 1.1 million, wrong What is the double digit This is a track for your Xiba?

Everyone saw it, but they all tacitly agreed not to mention it, what kind of big-headed ghost are you there?

"That's how I talked, and if I didn't want to listen, I went in by myself."

"Assi ......"

LEO, who was kind enough to ease the atmosphere, also looked at it directly and without concessions, and the anger of the two people instantly surged, and they stood up and prepared to fight.

But fortunately, although the other members next to him were cold bystanders, they also took the initiative to mediate, stood up and pulled the two apart, and each said some reassuring words and calmed down.

However, although there was no fight, LEO couldn't get used to this person who found fault, and slammed the door directly into the dormitory.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, and after a while, someone proposed: "It's okay anyway, look at their MV and see what it is, I heard that the style of their title song this time is quite similar to ours." ”

He smacked his lips and added in a somewhat helpless tone: "...... And maybe, I'll be asked about it on a variety show tomorrow......"

Many of the members' faces suddenly darkened.

Many variety shows and radio stations on TV stations will talk about some topics about the hottest songs at the moment, basically every time EXO returns, they will become one of the centers of these topics, and they will be asked by many MCs, and sometimes they have to cover.

Compared with the 'competitors' just now, being forced to cover on variety shows is actually the most uncomfortable......

Saying this, although they were unhappy, several people still opened their mobile phones and watched the MV of "Blood, Sweat and Tears" with scrutinizing eyes.

However, just by seeing a beginning, several members already wanted to close.

This time, VIXX has made a bold attempt to return to the style of the single, and the title song "Fantasy" adopts the style of 'dark sexy', which has also attracted a lot of praise from fans before.

As a result, EXO is also sexy this time, and it is the sexy of the elegant color under the contrast of the suit...... Therefore, these two regiments not only collided during the return period, but also collided in style.

In this case, the side with poor grades and poor performance will be more embarrassed and depressed.

And the beginning of this MV shows the gap between the two vividly.

For various reasons, the agency did not invest too many resources in the MV of VIXX's title song, and they almost only used two backgrounds throughout the whole process, one was a flat set built indoors, and the other was simply shot directly in the wild woods.

It's just that when they came to EXO's "Blood, Sweat and Tears", the luxurious and solemn medieval church-like background at the beginning had already made them speechless, coupled with the suits worn by the EXO members, the decoration on the walls, the oil paintings on the walls and the texture of the lenses, it really made people feel sad that the gap was large.

Listening to this forced downward look, the more I looked at VIXX, the more speechless a few people became...... They found that not only were they sexy in style, but even some of the shots and concepts were crashing.

In the music video for "Blood, Sweat and Tears", they saw several close-ups of XO members around the long dining table, holding goblets and drinking together, which was full of mysterious religious atmosphere...... Coincidentally, there is a similar scene in their MV.

EXO also made a special choreography specifically for this toast concept!

After seeing this scene, they already anticipated tomorrow's plot, although this religious concept is very common and often quoted by Kpop groups, but fans don't care about this, they will definitely compare the concept of the two boy groups with the picture, and then all kinds of yin and yang weird sarcasm trampling.

'Why is the same concept and style so big?' ’

'Some people are really elegant with a goblet in their hand, and some people are holding it like a male publicist ......'

These words are inevitable...... That's how annoying EXO fans are.

Just as the oppressive atmosphere of watching was about to come to an end, there was a sudden sound of angry slapping on the table.

"'Yuan is really sexy, I didn't find it before, I'm a fan!!' Is there such a special male idol in Kpop history......'"

RAVI seemed to have seen a message under the MV, and after reading it with resentment, he laughed angrily, and slapped the table full of confusion and indignation: "Are these fans NC?" Do you have eyes? I'm laughing to death, where does Chi Jingyuan look good? I'm really %%¥......"

The members next to him also knew that RAVI had always disliked Chi Jingyuan, and he didn't say anything when he saw that his emotions were a little out of control, so he let him vent there, just secretly logged on to the music source website, glanced at the ranking that had just been refreshed, and sighed deeply in his heart:

"XO - Blood, Sweat and Tears"

“XO-《LOTTO》”

.

(End of chapter)