Thinker in the entertainment industry

Regarding the future trend of "Up and Down" and "Tears", Zheng Zhiyong would like to use a Chinese nursery rhyme he learned when he was a child to describe:

"The snail is carrying that heavy shell, climbing up step by step..."

To be honest, it is not uncommon for a song to be unpopular when it was released, but later become popular due to a certain opportunity.Like MBC's "I'm a Singer" hit the air a few years ago, veteran rock singer Jay Im's "For You" sang tears and rained tears on the spot and in front of the audience in front of the TV, and even brought his two albums released ten years ago It was also hot for a while.But in any case, the process of "fire" is that the public's interest is ignited, burns quickly, and then gradually cools down more or less quickly.The ranking of sound sources is slowly going up, neither rushing up nor falling down, the speed is slower than Zheng Zhiyong's climbing stairs, what is the situation?

Isn't the line of "boiling a frog in warm water" popular in the Korean music industry where a bunch of new songs come out every day?

"Maybe it will become popular in the future?" Zico laughed.

"You may have witnessed history." Xikou said with a serious face.

Zheng Zhiyong could only respond with a "cut" to these two products with completely different expressions but no difference in meaning.

Zheng Zhiyong has been exposed to hip-hop music underground for four years, and has been active as a rapper for two years. The time is not short. However, because he may not be aggressive but definitely unique, the friends he met Not many, most of them were introduced to him by Jay Park.However, there are exceptions. The "Underground 92line" composed of him, Zico and the West Exit was constructed by Zheng Zhiyong on his own initiative.

One of Zico and Xiexit is a popular idol from an underground rapper, and the other is a returnee who has been active in the underground.

"You don't have much expectation for the result. Why are you so concerned about it now?" Zheng Zhiyong's "cut" came out, and the west exit finally failed. He stretched himself and tied his hair tie leisurely. Xu Solzhi would recognize him when he was there, he was the headband guy who played before cknut and Zheng Zhiyong that night, and was in freestyle from the beginning to the end.

"I really don't care much about how much fame or income "Tears" can bring me."

Zheng Zhiyong's posture is still upright, and his aura is still gentle and friendly, but if you observe carefully, you will find that there is something called "certainty" missing in his well-textured pupils from beginning to end.

"But when I found out that the songs I wrote might have an impact on whether a group can survive, it felt different."

This feeling did not appear when I gave "Spring" to ledapple, because I knew that the hope of the band's survival was very slim. It's a combination whose title song has never been heard, and if the members release a ballad without publicity, there will be little hope.What Zheng Zhiyong thinks is that the songs he wrote can be performed by a suitable performer, and then survived. As for how much fame or income it will bring him, it is not in his consideration, anyway, he will not lose money.

But when "Tears" became the turning point of exid along with "Up and Down", a strange emotion emerged.

"How should I put it... I'm not ready to affect the fate of others?" The question is not easy to describe, and Zheng Zhiyong, who is usually eloquent, also got stuck.

Zico and Xiexit looked at each other and sighed in unison.

"You can't let the ledapple know." Zico said.

"Exid's people are too." West Exit added.

"They didn't have much expectations for the songs I wrote, so why should I work hard instead?" Zheng Zhiyong muttered, "Okay, don't say it."

"Of course not", Zico was just joking just now, "But I want to correct you, the situation of exid is different, although your songs are indeed cheap, they really don't want to spend money, they can also let Le write them." le is the stage name of exid's rapper Ahn Hyo Jin.

Xiexit agrees with Zico's statement: "To some extent, they really appreciate your song... By the way, thinker, did your song sell at a loss?"

"According to the one-day sales in the top [-] of melon, now they are rushing to the top ten. It must be a loss. I think thinker didn't ask for more copyright share when selling the right to use the songs." If you don't understand the "market" in this aspect, Zico knows it very well.

Zheng Zhiyong had nothing to say: "I said, are you my friends?"

"As a friend, I feel so sad for you that my heart will break." Zico made a heart-shaped gesture.

"I'm so disgusted that I'm going to spit out the overnight meal." Zheng Zhiyong complained.

Zico is more than 1.8 meters tall, with a big frame, and often has a fierce appearance. His image is considered very strong among idols. Now he is pretending to be weak, which really makes Zheng Zhiyong feel awkward—even if he knows that he had a heart attack when he was young Zico, who had surgery and severe asthma, is really weak.

In fact, Zico himself is quite awkward. Before Zheng Zhiyong complained, he had already adjusted his expression back to his normal state: "How about this, come and help me arrange the music, I will definitely not cheat you."

"Exid and the others didn't want to trick me," Zheng Zhiyong corrected, "Arrangement? Didn't you just come back? Your solo song?" Zico's group blockb originally planned to come back in April this year, but was caught by the Sie Yue shipwreck incident. It was delayed, and it took three months to come back with the title song "her". "her" didn't get many trophies in music shows, and it didn't have the power to occupy the top spot on the music list for a long time, but the victory was quite long-lasting , the final score, the light of the boy group's sound source.

"I have written several songs for solo. They are the songs of the small group. I don't know when the group will come back next time. There must be some personal activities in the middle."

"Who will the squad choose?" Zheng Zhiyong asked.

"I don't know, when the time comes, draw lots, exclude me, and draw three people to form a team."

As soon as Zico said this, both Zheng Zhiyong and Xikou almost knelt down to him. "Then what are you writing now?" Nishiguchi felt that Zico was unreliable even if he was not familiar with the process of making music for idols.Don't worry about whether the company will agree, the company where blockb works is super small, and there are only fourteen or five members of blockb, Zico, who is the soul of the group, can speak for himself in this regard.But...you can't mess around just because you can talk?

"I have a few songs in preparation. In fact, I mainly look at rappers. It doesn't matter who sings. Thinker, you understand." Zico said.

Zheng Zhiyong nodded, he knew the situation of the blockb group, the three rappers had clear characteristics, and the difference in the singing voices of the others was not so great: "Listen to me first."

"Here", Zico found the file, passed the earphone to Zheng Zhiyong, and then leaned back comfortably, "Finally, I can rest for a while, every time this time comes, I would like to thank Brother Zai Fan for discovering your talent." Creative talent can save me a lot of trouble at this time."There are group and individual schedules to catch up during the day, and creation in the studio at night. After a long period of time, even if Zico is a workaholic, he can't hold on sometimes.

Zheng Zhiyong glanced at him, then put on the earphones and concentrated on listening to the music. Curiosity was aroused at the west exit beside him, "What's going on?" Everyone knows about it, but West Exit is only close to Zheng Zhiyong, he is not very familiar with Park Jay Bum, so he knows very little about the details.

Zico is different. He is familiar with Zheng Zhiyong and has a good relationship with Park Jae-bum. Now Zheng Zhiyong is helping him read the arrangement, and Zico is spreading gossip with Xiexit: "thinker learned when he was young. I have learned many musical instruments, including piano, violin, and guitar, but this kid is handicapped, or in other words, his hands and brain are uncoordinated. He is barely good at the beginning. When the difficulty is high, his hands and head are out of sync. He has learned everything. , didn’t learn anything deeply, but the fife was the one that took him the longest to learn, because he could keep up with his hand speed. It stands to reason that if the performance level of an instrument is high enough, he must learn to compose music. In other words, he never learned composition. Four years ago, he started to hang out with Brother Zai Fan. At that time, Brother Zai Fan had to do music creation by himself, so he followed the formal learning of composition. Unexpectedly, he learned it very quickly, especially It's an arranger, he is familiar with musical instruments, and he writes chords in a variety of tricks, which makes me jealous."

West Exit listened with gusto: "In this way, Jay Park really did a great deed, and now I have seen thinker's ability to compose music." Zheng Zhiyong didn't appear on the stage much in the underground, and he seemed to be unpopular in the underground. He is an idol singer, but he still became famous. When he wrote a song for his idol, it was the second song that became popular.

"It's even more difficult to arrange music well. It took me a long time to get started." Idol singers have become very popular in recent years, but those "singer-songwriters" are basically composing lyrics and composing music, and almost no arrange music. , Zico can be an exception because the company is too poor to save production costs, otherwise he doesn't want to do it himself.

Xikou, who came to the lyrics casually but knew little about musical notes, smiled and "coughed", and changed the subject: "By the way, thinker seems to like to use traditional instruments as accompaniment when he arranges music. Is it okay?" Your group is playing strong dance music, right?

Zheng Zhiyong couldn't listen anymore, so he took off his earphones: "Who said I can only write chords with traditional instruments." The voices of these two boys were not low when they arranged him. While listening to the piece given by zico and listening to them talking about themselves, he finally couldn't help it: "I can write without chords."

"Electronic?" Zico became interested.

"No, I've been working on a song with only drums and rap recently, Zico, I need you to show me the beat after a while."

Zico was dumbfounded. He glanced at the west exit: "Why do I feel that my affairs have increased instead?"

West Exit almost smiled and lay on the sofa in Zico's studio: "thinker, please be merciful, Zico is very busy."

"I'm busy too, okay?" Zheng Zhiyong also said with a smile.

"Why, there is a new job so soon?" Xikou said.Zheng Zhiyong seldom appeared on the stage underground, and being a trainee teacher is also a leisurely job. Although the remaining time is not wasted, it will not be too busy.As soon as Zheng Zhiyong said that he was busy, West Exit immediately guessed it.

"Well, Yoon Doojoon introduced it."

"What job?" Zico asked.

"Working with MQ on their last album." Zheng Zhiyong said.

Time went back to when Yoon Doojoon called Jung Jiyong out for dinner.

"Cooperate with mq?" Although I thought that Yoon Doojoon calling himself out might not be as simple as announcing "Tears" and "Up and Down" together, there may be other things, but after hearing Yoon Doojoon's proposal, Zheng Zhiyong still felt very uncomfortable Accident.

"That's right, they are going to release an album in November, focusing on ballads and creations by members, and no promotion." Yoon Doojoon briefly introduced the situation.

"It's just to release the last album before disbanding to make some money." Zheng Zhiyong quickly looked through the phenomenon to see the essence, "Brother, you asked me to come over, you can't help save money."

"There is a reason," Yin Doujun admitted generously. MQ and his group beast debuted on the same day. When they were both newcomers, they often appeared on shows together. They are very familiar with each other. People claim to be a brother group, and they fought a bloody way out of a bunch of girl groups in 2009, and then they all faced threats from the boy groups who debuted later. The "revolutionary feelings" are still quite deep, "It's not all for you. The downside is that your reputation as a producer has not yet risen, although mq is going to disband, at least it will be popular for a while, and your reputation will always be stronger than those groups that are not even in the second tier."

"After my song was given to ledapple, ledapple disbanded, this time MQ disbanded again..." Zheng Zhiyong always felt weird.

"You think too much, not every song of the brave brother is popular." Yoon Doojoon said, "I think it is mutually beneficial. If you have difficulties, let it go. I just ask your opinion first, and then talk to that one if possible." While saying hello, don't worry too much."

Zheng Zhiyong, who was picking up food, heard this and looked up at Yin Doujun, "Is this so?" His eyes were a little more thoughtful, "Well, brother, I will participate as a friend, as long as the copyright, how about it? "

"Ok?"