Thinker in the entertainment industry

"Hahahahaha", if there were no outsiders present, Jay Park would definitely laugh even more disfigured. Even so, his current appearance is not much different from "rolling all over the floor", "Do you do things like Speaking Jeju Island dialect to foreigners and saying that they don’t learn Korean well?” Korea is not a big place and there are many dialects, and the words on Jeju Island are not much different from foreign languages ​​in the eyes of Seoulites.

"Incisive." Zheng Zhiyong gave him a thumbs up.

"What does Chinese rap look like? You said it was in Jay Chou's song?" An Xiaozhen's focus is different.

Jay Chou is well-deserved No.1 in the Chinese music scene, and has a certain reputation in South Korea, but the main reason is not his songs, but the movie "The Unspeakable Secret". After some homework, even the singers are unfamiliar.

After all, this is no longer the era when Cantonese songs followed Hong Kong movies and swept South Korea.

"Basically they are used in r;&b style songs. In our words, it is lyrical rap, and there are very few hip-hop songs." Zheng Zhiyong said.

"Like what I sang this time?"

"It's a bit like it", Zheng Zhiyong nodded, "I have it in my phone, if you want to listen to it after the recording, you can make a copy from me."

"Not now?" Xu Suzhi interjected.

"Affects the state." Zheng Zhiyong flung this sentence lightly.

In the promotion, the birth of each song is the painstaking efforts of the creators and singers, which have been meticulously crafted.But in fact, in the Korean music industry where there are so many singers and so many songs, shoddy or even assembly-line produced songs are absolutely indispensable, and even account for most of them.

Currently the three major composers in the music world, Brave Brothers, Sinsadong Tiger, [-]nd Duan Side Kick, Brave Brothers are said to "copy themselves", Sinsadong Tigers are always accused of copying other people's songs, can you still Do you expect everyone else to calm down and write and record each song carefully?

At least exid didn't get much budget from the company to record songs this time, and even used aomg for the recording studio. aomg is a hip-hop label established by Jay Park in 2013. Later, simon.d joined and served as the representative of aomg together with Jay Park.Zheng Zhiyong and Park Jae-bum have known each other for nearly ten years, and have been with Park Jae-bum for four years. A year ago, he had planned to join aomg, but due to various reasons, he failed to make the trip. Outsiders had speculated about this matter, but No matter what you guess, it is ridiculous to guess that Park Jae-bum and Jung Ji-yong are having conflicts. The well-equipped recording studio of aomg is a big evidence. Zheng Zhiyong contributed almost all of the money he earned doing simultaneous interpretation to it.In the following year, Zheng Zhiyong did not miss activities with the people of aomg.

It is precisely because of these origins that Zheng Zhiyong borrowed aomg's recording studio, and there was no problem at all in terms of emotion and reason.

Zheng Zhiyong is no stranger to how to operate the recording equipment, and with the help of Park Jae-beom next to him, it was ready in a short time. Zheng Zhiyong nodded to Xu Suzhi, who was standing in the recording room, and signaled her to start.

"The bottom of the valley without light, the unstoppable tears that flowed, it still bitters my heart, reminding of eternal loss."

Park Jay Fan also put on a pair of earphones. After Xu Suzhi's singing pierced through the eardrums, he subconsciously glanced at Zheng Zhiyong, but Zheng Zhiyong didn't seem to notice it. He held the earphones with one hand, and the other He paused the recording with one hand: "Try to prolong the sound of 'reminder' a little bit."

Jay Park returned to South Korea four years ago and started again. In terms of music, he almost started from scratch. He mainly runs the agency sidushq for actors, which can't provide much help in this regard.Zheng Zhiyong, who has been with Jay Park for four years, is no stranger to the song production process.

Park Jay Bum stretched out his hand to support his forehead, and covered his eyes along the way—he recalled the scene of meeting Zheng Zhiyong when he just returned to Korea four years ago.

At that time, Jay Park had already come out of the worst situation and was mentally prepared for all kinds of difficulties that would arise in the future.As for Zheng Zhiyong, his situation perfectly explained what is meant by "no hope is more painful than no way out". The life winner of Korea University, the top university in Korea.

Has Zheng Zhiyong really come out now?

"Can we directly record the next part now?" Zheng Zhiyong asked after Xu Solzhi finished recording the first part. The next part of her is actually after An Hyojin's rap, but it doesn't have to be recorded. Follow the order of the songs sung exactly.

Xu Suzhi nodded, indicating that there is no problem.

"I won't fall down, no matter what, even if the dream that is so precious is dead, but it's hard to say goodbye to tears, if you don't know how to continue better."

This is a passage of emotional explosion. Xu Suzhi's trembling voice rises and falls, conveying clear and subtle emotions.

I will keep moving forward, but this does not mean that I have been able to calmly face what I have lost.

This is not contradictory.

So don't just blame my tears.

Zheng Zhiyong smiled and nodded at Xu Suizhi, indicating that she performed very well in this episode. Later, Xu Suizhi said that he still needs to check his status, and he readily agreed and asked An Xiaozhen to record first.

When Xu Solzhi and Ahn Hyojin exchanged positions, Zheng Zhiyong stood up and moved his shoulders, waist and neck. He tilted his head and happened to meet Park Jay Bum's gaze on his face.

He blinked at Jay Park.

Jay Park knows the feelings of Zheng Zhiyong hidden in the song "Tears". It is not difficult to guess that Zheng Zhiyong was dragged by him to learn music creation. No one knows better than Jay Park what he thinks.

——Even outsiders are very clear about this, otherwise how did Zheng Zhiyong get his stage name "thinker" and how could it be unanimously recognized?

Like Jay Park, this self-written song also brought back many memories of Zheng Zhiyong.

To be honest, Zheng Zhiyong was really embarrassed to let Jay Park see the lyrics. Although he was far less determined than Jay Park, he had already accepted it.

When he and Jay Park met by chance in 2010, their situations were actually a bit similar.Zheng Zhiyong was admitted to the Japanese Department of Korea University, and he seemed to have come out of the tragedy that made him break his wings at the moment before flying, but the fact was much worse than others imagined, and Zheng Zhiyong still couldn't Forget all that he lost all of a sudden. Foreign languages ​​are what he is good at and what he must master in order to survive in the future, but they are not what Zheng Zhiyong likes. The courses at Korea University are not difficult for him at all. Zheng Zhiyong's confusion is getting deeper and deeper.

As for Jay Park, he is mainly active as a rapper in the underground and also started a music label with his friends, but he is an orthodox idol.Jay Park is a Korean who grew up in the United States. In 2005, he joined jyp, one of the three major economic companies in South Korea, as a trainee. Three years later, he debuted as the captain and lead dancer of the idol group 2pm. However, a year later, 2pm and Jay Park When Fan's popularity was rising all the way, the "Korean humiliation incident" that shocked the whole of Korea broke out. When Park Jae-bum first arrived in Korea, the words he wrote in his personal space complaining about life in Korea were found out, and there was a lot of scolding.The ruined Park Jae-bum was forced to leave the team and return to the United States, but public opinion changed after that. Fans were dissatisfied with the fact that the group was short of seven, and after the public calmed down, they began to feel that the reaction to the "children's complaints" was too intense. Rumors of Jay's return to the team were high, but in February of the following year, the agency jyp announced that Jay Park would leave the team permanently, on the grounds that Jay Park admitted that he had made "a more serious mistake", and the members of 2pm also stood up. On the company's side, this incident has caused less disturbance in the entertainment industry than the original "Korean humiliation incident", but the impact on 2pm's fans is really not small. Until now, to explain what is meant by "fans can also become anti", 2pm That's still the best example.

What exactly happened in those months remains a mystery.It's not that Zheng Zhiyong and Jay Park's other friends are curious, but Jay Park doesn't want to mention it, and he made it clear that he doesn't want to have anything to do with JYP. As friends, all they can do in this situation is to stand Jay Park over there.

In the summer of 2010, Jay Park returned to South Korea because he was invited to shoot the movie "Hypenation", and then signed a contract with sidushq, the largest actor agency in South Korea. Jay Park, who had regrouped at that time, did not lack courage and faith.

Even when he met Zheng Zhiyong who had been "missing" for three years, he took the initiative to extend his hand to him, hoping that Zheng Zhiyong could walk a new path like himself.

"This world is so vast, where is my hope? If I am happy enough to be alive, why am I still so sad? Even if my hands are bloody, I still have to grope, looking for a dream that I don't know where. I shed tears unknowingly, and the time full of longing become like this.”

Ahn Hyo Jin came from a low background, her rap is not lacking in momentum, but when it comes to expressing emotions, she is a little lacking.At least in the opinion of Zheng Zhiyong, who is very proficient in pronunciation, An Xiaozhen's voice is still "hard" at this time: "Don't care about momentum, emotion, emotion."

In order to demonstrate to Ahn Hyo Jin, he even recited this rap by himself.Zheng Zhiyong's magnetic voice is strong, coupled with a melancholy and confused tone, even without the cooperation of facial expressions, he can still attract people's sympathy.

After the recording ended, Ahn Hyo Jin half-jokingly asked, "Is "Tears" Thinker's own story?"

Zheng Zhiyong glanced at her, and also half-jokingly and half-seriously said: "Don't make random guesses in the future, if you listen to "Six Relatives Are Discorded, You Are Compassionate", and think that I have a pair of irresponsible parents, it will only cause trouble for myself." .”

But there is no denying it either.

I met Jay Park in 2010. Zheng Zhiyong, who had no idea about his future, followed him into hip-hop music, and gradually discovered some fun in it, and later discovered his talent in the field of music creation. In 2013 I started working as a language teacher in Cube in [-]. After graduating from university a year later, I became a full-time employee and got a stable job. At the same time, I started trying to write songs for others.Looking back on the past four years, Zheng Zhiyong has to admit that his life could hardly be better than it is now.

Unless what happened seven years ago didn't happen.

After recording, Ahn Hyo Jin and Heo Sol Ji left.As a group that is not popular, exid naturally cannot receive many travel invitations, but because they are not popular, they need to strive for exposure opportunities. Even if there are not many people watching street performances, they can still go up if they can, no matter how bad they are. Some stage experience.

Taking a step back, as long as you are not too idle, even going to practice is more useful than staying here and watching Zheng Zhiyong do post-processing.

After the sound is recorded, the next step is to match the accompaniment and beat, and to do some post-production sound correction when necessary.Zheng Zhiyong doesn't know how to do those delicate processing, and he doesn't want to do it. He just plans to match his own arrangement and singer's voice, and then send the piece to exid's brokerage company. If they are satisfied, they will be satisfied. change. Exid's company can't afford professional production staff now, and most of the faults are reworked by Zheng Zhiyong. Zheng Zhiyong understands this, so he wants to save himself some trouble.

Jay Park continued to stay by the side to help. For the past four years, he has taken the route of "doing it by himself" in singing. He is naturally no stranger to what Zheng Zhiyong has done. In terms of music, compared with Zheng Zhiyong, the arrangement of his own songs is simply too simple.

"But brother, you like that." It's good that Park Jae-bum didn't mention this, but when Zheng Zhiyong mentioned it, he couldn't control his desire to complain, "We haven't had a musical collaboration until now, really. ..."

"This proves thinker that you have principles," Jay Park said with a smile, "I can't stand the fact that I always play a very long prelude and insert 'jaypark', 'gray', and 'chacha' in it, and it can't change me, so I just don't cooperate. Very good, even if I can't make you budge, it means that you are making your own music."

Jay Park's words are half joking and half serious. Zheng Zhiyong has a face that looks good even among idols, but the music he writes is also popular. His attitude towards idols singing rap In a poor underground, it is inevitable that Zheng Zhiyong will cause controversy.

Zheng Zhiyong didn't speak, he turned off the device silently, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Keep doing it, you don't have to worry about financial pressure, do you?" Jay Park said with a smile, pointing out the fact that he has a stable job and there is no need to please the audience for the sake of making a living. This is Zheng Zhiyong's favorite when he is arguing with people in the underground s method.

"I just don't know what the future will be like." Zheng Zhiyong could no longer feel the throbbing anticipation in his chest even though it was his favorite thing.

"Try it, even if it's not what you expected, there is a way out, isn't it, thinker?"

"Yes, that's right."

Zheng Zhiyong nodded and muttered to himself.

"I won't fall down, no matter what, even the most cherished dream has died..."

He sang the lyrics of the chorus of "Tears" softly. Unlike Xu Suzhi's heart-pounding sadness, Zheng Zhiyong's singing has a kind of calm and exhaustion brought by time.Only when you calm down and listen, can you hear the sadness behind it.