Thinker in the entertainment industry

Zhang Xiansheng has a voice that is very suitable for lyrical songs, but he does not have a brain that is suitable for lyrical songs... As the lead singer and lead dancer of beast, his singing skills are nothing to say, but his ability to understand and express emotions is very average.

Within a few minutes of recording "Street Light", Zheng Zhiyong felt this deeply.No wonder Yong Junhyung said that Jang Hyun Seung is suitable for the part that raises the atmosphere, but Yang Yaoxie is the one who expresses emotions. It is hard to say about the others, this is indeed the truth.

"Have you ever expressed your feelings well in a ballad?" Zheng Zhiyong asked after taking off his earphones.He hadn't done much homework on this, so he had to ask when he needed to.

"My thoughts and the song have...resonance." Zhang Xiansheng said.

"for example?"

Zhang Xiansheng didn't answer immediately, he lowered his head and thought, whether he was thinking about what example to give or hesitating whether he should confess to Zheng Zhiyong, it is unclear.But in the end Zhang Xiansheng gave Zheng Zhiyong a reference: "Chris Brown's "don'tjudgeme"."

The lyrics of this song flashed in Zheng Zhiyong's mind: "so please don't judge me, andiwon't judge you, cause it could get ugly, before it gets beautiful..."

Please don't judge me categorically, and I won't judge you, because then everything will become ugly, before it becomes beautiful...

Zheng Zhiyong glanced at Zhang Xiansheng: It's not easy to be in the entertainment circle with such poor expressive ability, it's quite normal to be misunderstood or something.

"I see," Zheng Zhiyong said, "I simulate a scene from "Street Light", how about it?"

Zhang Xiansheng was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Zheng Zhiyong to come up with such an idea: "Please tell me."

"There are fans waiting outside the company every day, and sometimes you will talk to them, take photos with them, and even give autographs."

"If it's too late, they will go back. Some will come back after going back. Some people are far away from home or even overseas. It's not easy to come back again, but they will still support their idols after they go back. Buy albums and peripherals, and some people don’t know when they left their meals, and after leaving, they will never come back.”

"Fans are waiting for idols, and idols are waiting for fans."

Zheng Zhiyong stopped talking, but sang a chorus from "Street Light" softly:

"The street lights that will eventually go out, I will one day stop waiting. Just like you, live your own life..."

"Okay," Zhang Xiansheng interrupted Zheng Zhiyong as if he had been poked into a sore spot, "Is this the experience you have accumulated working in an entertainment company?" He sighed softly, "Let me think about it."

The story described by Zheng Zhiyong obviously put Zhang Xiansheng in a bad mood. Although he still listened to Zheng Zhiyong's suggestion, tried to substitute himself, and finally completed the recording of "Street Light", but after the recording, Zhang Xiansheng's The emotions still haven't recovered, and Zheng Zhiyong began to wonder if he had come up with a bad idea.

"I'm fine. I know what you said, but I just don't like to think about it." In the end, Zhang Xiansheng found Zheng Zhiyong staring at him and explained, "I'll have something to eat first, and I'll record the title later. questionable".

Abdominal breathing is used when singing, so it looks like standing still, but it actually consumes a lot of energy.Zhang Xiansheng had already prepared for this, and brought a piece of chocolate cake to the recording studio to supplement his calories. He has been too thin recently, so there is no need to taboo about gaining weight in terms of diet.Zheng Zhiyong is not used to eating a lot of sugar at night, he is not hungry now, he just poured half a glass of warm water and drank it, and then planned to rest for a while.

Zhang Xiansheng had already unpacked the cake expressionlessly, but instead of eating it immediately, he took a photo with his phone first.

"What are you doing shooting it?" Zheng Zhiyong asked.

"Post it on ins", Zhang Xiansheng said, "It's safer to take pictures... Actually, I don't like updating very much, I don't know what to write."

"But fans feel unhappy if you don't write anything." Zheng Zhiyong sat down on the sofa next to him and said, "Your fans often complain that you disappear completely when you are not active, and you don't even update your personal homepage like ins. information".

Zhang Xiansheng nodded: "That's right...I don't want to take this as the main point, so let's try it if possible."

He checked the picture again and found nothing wrong, so he posted it directly on ins.Only then did I pick up the included plastic spoon and start eating.

"By the way, Zheng Zhiyong", when it came to ins, Zhang Xiansheng asked casually, "Will you open ins in the future?"

"I have no plans, I don't want to spend time and energy on this." Zheng Zhiyong said.

Zhang Xiansheng raised his head to look at him, the corner of his mouth was still stained with chocolate, what was written on his face can be summed up as:

Why are these words so familiar?

Zheng Zhiyong blinked brazenly: "On this point, I think the same as my brother, but I'm not an idol, so I don't need to consider fans' welfare."

… Zhang Xiansheng had nothing to say, and replied half-pissed, "Well done", lowered his head and continued to eat.Zheng Zhiyong was amused by his appearance, and he said remedially after laughing: "Actually, it is good to have a voice platform. For me, but no one takes things on ins seriously. It's better to write songs .”

"If you give a lecture on ins, someone might listen to it, Mr. Zheng Zhiyong." Zhang Xiansheng said.

Zheng Zhiyong laughed even harder, no wonder Zhang Xiansheng is said to be a four-dimensional person, how did he link ins with lectures: "How much content can be contained in one ins."

"Then start the live broadcast."

Live broadcast... This time the idea is more reliable.

If it is reliable, you must admit it. "Well," Zheng Zhiyong nodded to confirm, but still used a joking tone, "If I fail as a producer and can't get along in the company, I will become an anchor on the Internet."

After the joke was over, the atmosphere improved a lot.Although he was choked by Zheng Zhiyong twice, and after eating the cake, he glanced at the comments on ins, and when he went to record again, Zhang Xiansheng was in a good state.It didn’t take long for the inner confession in the verse to record the heart-pounding feeling that Zheng Zhiyong wanted.

The chorus is a bit troublesome, at least judging from Zheng Zhiyong's previous description, the feeling in it is very subtle.The lyrics say that the mood is "sweet pain", which is a very abstract description, but Zhang Xiansheng needs to use his voice to make it concrete.

"I have never taken on such a heavy task." After hearing Zheng Zhiyong's request, Zhang Xiansheng complained like this.

But when I actually started to sing, I felt that I found the right place on the whole. What needs to be strengthened is... "Let go a little more", Zheng Zhiyong said, "This is the lyrics and music written by me. No one will take it as your voice."

"Is that your voice?" Zhang Xiansheng had nothing to say to Zheng Zhiyong.

Zheng Zhiyong smiled: "Do it again."

As for how Zhang Xiansheng found love, Zheng Zhiyong asked him before, and the answer almost made him fall to the ground - Zhang Xiansheng combined his activities with Kim Hyuna in "No Tomorrow" in 2013, and his participation in the musical "bonnie;&clyde" in 2014 "experience of.Those two works were based on a famous pair of desperate mandarin ducks in American history, wandering on the edge of law, society and even life and death, love became brilliant and painful because of it.

It seems to be right to say that it is "sweet pain"... But why does a good song want to find feelings in such a scene?

However, the method is to make people speechless, but the final result sounds good.Zheng Zhiyong also recognized it.This time it is not easy for him to describe it to Zhang Xiansheng, not only because the matter is a bit too personal and inconvenient to speak out, but also if Zheng Zhiyong analyzes it now, he cannot clearly analyze his mood at the moment. If he wants to analyze it clearly, then Not emotional anymore.

"I want to see your smile, I hear the pounding heartbeat, the sweet pain, I'm hopeless—"

Zheng Zhiyong felt that he seemed to be like that, and he didn't seem to be.

In the silent recording room, Zheng Zhiyong supported the earphones, listening to Zhang Xiansheng's singing from inside, he suddenly felt a little stuffy in his chest.

Maybe it's because An Xiyan is about to come back and stand on the stage, but he can only let another person sing his feelings in the recording room.

When you like someone, you are both emotional and rational, presumptuous and restrained, and the result is this:

sweet pain.

"This time, what's the problem?" Zhang Xiansheng asked.

"No, very good", Zheng Zhiyong said, "Keep the current feeling and sing again".

It was already past two o'clock in the morning when the recording was finished, Zhang Xiansheng was fine, Zheng Zhiyong's biological clock had been very regular in the past few years, and he felt a little tired every time he did so suddenly.Wrapped in a coat, he rested in the recording studio for the night. When the sound source of exid came out at noon, Zheng Zhiyong still couldn't open his eyes.

On April 4th, exid came back with "ahyeah". The sound source of the whole album was officially released at noon this time, and the album sales also started at the same time. However, the sales of the girl group have been sluggish, basically nothing can be expected.

At present, there are two songs at the top of each music list, "Who is the mother" by jyp leader Park Zhenrong and "onlyu" by jyp's girl group Missa, and Xu Solji and Ahn Hyo are ranked third overall Zhen's previous collaboration song "Reunion", "ahyeah" was released two hours after its release, except for the slightly worse results on bugs and daum, the other charts basically occupied the first or second place, and melon took the fourth place. Just behind "Reunion", by the evening, "ahyeah" has surpassed "Reunion", and Missa's "Onlyu" is in second or third place. As for Park Zhenrong's "Who is Mother", It still ranks first.

The stamina of "Reunion" is still not enough, how long has Missa's "Onlyu" been on the list and still fall in love with exid... Zheng Zhiyong thought after heaving a sigh of relief.

As for the results of the jazz version of "ahyeah" edited by Zheng Zhiyong, he didn't expect it at all. The success of exid still depends on the original version. The jazz version is only used to build word-of-mouth later, so he didn't come out with "Reunion". Zheng Zhiyong is already very satisfied to be able to rank more than 40 on the music source list under the pressure of time.There are very few people who pay attention to the included songs, and those marked with "xx version" are often regarded as money-making works, and they are even less popular. In 2009, Superjunior's "sorry sorry" became popular in Asia, but the lyrical version of "sorry sorry" included in their album is not known to many people except fans.

Seeing that the sound source of "ahyeah" was okay, Zheng Zhiyong was half relieved. For the first comeback after ""Up and Down" Retrograde", the members of exid are under a lot of pressure, if there is a good result, that would be great.

But the other half still can't let go, because although "ahyeah" has a good sound source, the online evaluation is as expected... not so good.

"The publicity said it was hype, but it turned out to be "Up and Down" 2.0."

"It's better to just sing 'left, right, left and right'."

"Exid might as well just change its name to Up-Down Combination."

"It's no problem to match the song of "ahyeah" with the dance of "Up and Down". Finally, Sinsadong Tiger has copied enough of others and started copying his own?"

……

Fortunately, the bad reviews are not on exid for the time being. We all know that exid is a combination created by Sinsadong Tigers. Among them, there is only one creative person, Le An Xiaozhen, and he has never participated in such issues as determining the route. The public opinion is relatively relatively tolerant.

But going on like this is not going to work, exid will have to make changes sooner or later, otherwise public opinion will come second, and the audience will get tired of it, and that is the scariest thing.

Fortunately, there is no need to worry, if this comeback is successful, there will be no accidents, exid can last another four or five months.

Thinking about it this way, Zheng Zhiyong finally felt relieved and continued to devote himself to the work of making the album.It is not difficult to find a replacement song according to Zhang Xiansheng's preferences. After Zheng Zhiyong made his decision, it took two or three days to choose it. There are no major problems in styling and choreography. Now the most troublesome thing left is, Instead, it was the MV shooting of the title song "First Love of the Twenty Generations".This song is said to be the most suitable for a story MV, but the budget given by Cube is difficult to shoot on location.

It's a bit difficult to shoot the story well in the studio... Jung Ji-young is in distress.

Annoyance is annoyance, Zheng Zhiyong still keeps the habit of checking the music list twice every morning and evening.

In the past two days, the music performance of "ahyeah" has been quite stable, ranking either third or fourth on each list. Zheng Zhiyong is used to watching it, and there is still no surprise this time.

However, after stepping back to the overall list of Melon, Zheng Zhiyong glanced down the list and found something extraordinary.

Isn't "ahyeah" fourth in Melon? How did it drop to the top [-]?

Wait, this is the jazz version... the jazz version?

Zheng Zhiyong stared at the screen and saw it right, it was indeed "ahyeah(jazzver.)".

What happened, why is it going retrograde again?