Chapter 27: Trainees
At the end of the finale banquet, the people who have eaten and drunk enough, singing, playing games, and chatting, are not as nervous as they usually go to work.
Most of the people have begun to be slightly drunk, and when they are so happy today, they have worked hard for so long, and everyone wants to relax.
The success of the blue love of life and death also has their share of credit.
"Da Fu Xing, have you ever thought about being a star?" Shen Yinhe also looked at Li Tang with a little drunkenness on his face, and brought up the half-joking old things again.
Star?
If you change countries, you can think about it, this is a cold country, a famous star sweatshop.
In his previous life, whether it was H.O.T in the past nine years or TVXQ in the past few years, they were all smash hit idols, and they did not end up in a lawsuit with an entertainment company.
If you want to make your idol debut, some of them start contract training from elementary school or junior high school, and when you are a trainee, you have to live in a group and strictly control it, which is stricter than prison.
The confiscation of mobile phones is basic, you can't contact your family, you can't have contact with the opposite sex, you can't even exchange phone numbers, and meals are strictly controlled, according to the time regulations, how much to eat at each meal, and many times you can only eat one or two meals a day.
Entering the dormitory, it is a militarized management, and a lot of dance and vocal training is carried out every day, and many times in order to step up training, it is even more time to sleep.
Entertainment companies don't give you much time to sleep, they just say, "Only when you get used to this kind of work can you take over the job well, and sleeping is not profitable." ”
Don't think this sentence is a joke, artists in the cold country are famous for 'sleeping less and doing more'.
When you reach the age of sixteen or seventeen and are not yet adults, you have to start selecting and debuting, and the practice time is at least two to three years, and some even ten years or even longer.
And how high is the elimination rate of trainees in the cold country, Li Tang has seen statistics on the Internet before he came, starting from the audition trainees, it is not possible to become a trainee as soon as they come up, and the audition will start to perform programs.
The domestic entry rate is as high as 800:1, and there are also overseas competitions, and Lisa of the BLACKPINK girl group successfully broke through from 4,000 people in Thailand, and only got a ticket for the first place, and this is only a ticket for trainees.
I knew that before Li Tang came, the trainees of the Han Kingdom had reached one million, and it was said that there were 10 million people who participated in the auditions, and the Han Country was only a country of only 50 million people, and the proportion of one-fifth, except for the elderly and children, all had idols per capita.
With such a huge base, the number of group members per year is only 325.
Another difficult thing to endure when a star idol is the long period of poverty, not only the life of a trainee is poor, but also that he will not be rich after his debut.
Even if you stand at the top and become the one percent, with most of the income in the circle, you will earn 2 billion cold yuan a year, which is only about 10 million Chinese coins.
And the remaining 99% of the artists are even less pitiful, and their monthly income may be several thousand Chinese coins.
How much the entertainment company invests in the early stage, they will suck back more, they can't stand it and want to terminate the contract, they will take out a sky-high contract and put it in your face, pay their youth, work hard for so long, let alone make money, and may owe a lot of debt.
In the previous life, the SM company in the cold country was very famous in this industry, and the signing started for seven years, and the share of the album was only 5%.
At that time, TVXQ, which was popular, was also the most classic example of victims, which was the memory of several generations of people in the cold country, and the top idol boy group.
They can only sleep three to four hours a day, only have seven days of vacation every year, hold more than 100 concerts, and only have a salary of more than one million yuan a year after such hard work, which is still far from the gap we imagined.
And their contract is even more ridiculously long, plus the compulsory military service of the cold country reaches fifteen years when they reach the age.
Fifteen years plus the life of an intern is almost like nearly 20 years of labor, and the liquidated damages of these top idol boy groups are as high as 2.2 billion Chinese yuan.
And even if you have survived these difficulties, there is still a challenge that every idol star has to encounter, and you are terrified of the endless worries.
Idols are just commodities for entertainment companies, and the debut of every new product is a return to blood for them, so there will be new idols debut every year.
And fans will also be updated with age, and young fans are the main force in the market.
Idol idols of the same age will give them a lot of identity, so the most popular idols are always between the ages of seventeen and twenty, and those over twenty years old are older idols, which shows the short lifespan of star idols.
Unless you have an extraordinary appearance like Sister Pei and Yun'er, or other irreplaceable properties.
And the most important thing is that artists in the cold country are high-risk professions, and there are too many artists who die around the age of twenty every year.
If he hadn't understood Shen Yinhe, Li Tang would have thought that this person would push himself into the fire pit.
"I don't want to at all, don't hurt me, how difficult it is for idols, I still like the profession of screenwriter, and I can still have my own ideas, star idols are never good." Li Tang decisively refused.
"That's right, celebrity idols will only have a little bit of freedom when they become the top ones, but it's a pity that you have this face."
Shen Yinhe also felt that he had said the wrong thing, in the current state of survival in the entertainment industry, artists are indeed not as good as people imagined, and there are many people who can't bear to leave the world.
Those who survive are not necessarily at a cost.
"There aren't many artists who are free, unless someone can stand up and change this phenomenon."
Li Tang also sighed, the current entertainment circle in the cold country is okay, it has not developed to the point of the previous life, but the trend of history will not deviate too much.
In his last life, he only heard about the various behaviors of the entertainment industry in the cold country, and this time he came to this world, and he can be regarded as stepping into this industry with half a foot.
He himself was lucky to meet Li Suyan, otherwise in the situation of Hanguo, where even the two people in the seat have to be divided into classes, he didn't meet Suyan's producer, no matter how powerful he is, he has to climb up from below, at most he walks a little faster than others.
"Change?"
Shen Yinhe smiled, the country/family has been absurd enough in the past few years, and the entire country/family is almost unable to make its own decisions.
Want to change? Do you rely on those dozen or so high-ranking chaebols?
They won't change, what's the difference between changing and killing them, and the chaebol has had a hard time in the past two years, and the top 30 chaebols in the cold country have also fallen six in this financial crisis and merged again, and the rest are now controlled by the beautiful country.
"What can the industry do to change?" Shen Yinhe couldn't figure it out, so he asked back.
"Now that entertainment has just developed, with more companies with a bottom line like you, you can develop better, at least slowly, maybe idols in the future will have another way to choose."
Li Tang didn't know what he was talking about, he just said whatever he thought, he was just a screenwriter, let him be the savior, and he didn't have the ability.
The entertainment industry in the cold country will be darker and more breathless in ten years.
"Our company is so important to the entertainment industry."
Shen Yinhe didn't expect to mention their company, and their company's system is not too relaxed, but they treat people as human beings compared to other companies, and everything that should be managed is managed.
"It's important to have an entertainment company like it, to make people know about it...... Oh, so there is such an option. ”
A life with choices is not terrible, but what is terrible is a life arranged by others, and you can't get rid of it.
In the end, the only option is to leave.
There is only despair in life......
That day, Li Tang and Shen Yinhe didn't talk too much, and this kind of thing can't be solved by a few people chatting.
Or maybe they're too drunk.