Chapter 684 Support
"250,000 orders in one day, it's really scary."
"It's already exceeded our total sales in one day..."
"It seems that only the fan clubs of two members have placed orders, and it's already 250,000. I don't know if the fans of other members will be the same... I heard that Xia Guojingyuan oppa has the most fans, will he buy more..."
"They should have bought it during the pre-sale, otherwise the pre-sale alone would have been so high, this sales volume is too scary."
Also in the backstage of "Music Bank", Twice's lounge seemed very lively. Park Jihyo, Lin Nayeon and three or four members gathered together to chat about today's news. Even the injured Yu Jeongyeon was arranged by the company for some reason, sitting aside with her left leg in plaster.
Zhou Ziyu, Kim Dahyun and two or three other members sat on the side to listen and play with their mobile phones at the same time. The other members, Mingjing Nan and Minatozaki Sana, sat in front of the dressing table, and were being curled by sister Cody, dressing up beautifully.
"Actually, I've seen many people say that the songs in EXO's album this time are not as good as last year, but the fans' reaction is still so good. Many people say they like this style very much..." Park Ji Hyo looked at the online reviews for a while, and suddenly had an idea to look at the agent and made a suggestion: "Oppa, how about we use this similar dark style and apply some battle-damaged makeup when we return next time?"
"I agree!" Before the agent Kim Sang Min said anything, Lin Nayeon's eyes lit up and raised her hand high to cast her vote of approval.
"Then you two go talk to the PD." Kim Sang Min glanced at the two unrealistic members and was too lazy to reply: "See if he will personally apply battle-damaged makeup on you."
This time, Mini II relied on "Cheer Up" to transform so successfully that it was a big hit, which was completely beyond the company's previous expectations. JYP also found that Twcie seemed to be very suitable for this kind of energetic and cute style. Of course, they had to strike while the iron was hot and continue. How could they change to dark style battle-damaged makeup? This style is something you can digest now, especially those with rabbit teeth like you?
"Hehe." Lin Nayeon grinned and smiled cutely, with curved eyes and shining rabbit teeth, without any embarrassment.
"Okay..." After chatting casually for a few words, Jin Shangmin clapped his hands, and when he saw that the members' attention had turned to him, he simply explained: "The company has confirmed the schedule for the next period of time. Regardless of whether we can get the first place trophy today, this week has been confirmed to be our last week to participate in the song promotion for "Cheer Up."
"It has been a month and a half since April. Both the company and fans are very satisfied with the song promotion results. Now there is enough time. In addition, EXO will return. Starting from next week, there should be no hope for the first place. The other artists of the company, Bai Yayan, are similar. Next, we will focus on the autograph session and other schedules."
EXO's return is so popular that they are jealous and surprised as insiders. After so long, Twice's popularity for "Cheer Up" has subsided a lot, and they have won a lot of first places, so they might as well stop while they are ahead.
But even if it didn't fade, they knew that they couldn't be a match for JYP.
At the end, Kim Sang-min remembered something and turned to look at Lin Nayeon: "By the way, Nayeon, you have a special stage here..."
"Dong Dong..." Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a knock on the door. The assistant standing by the door quickly stood up and opened the door. Kim Junmyeon and others stood at the door and waved.
It was very respectful for the returning senior to come and give the album. When they saw the senior coming to greet them, the few members of Twice who had nothing to do stood up and greeted: "Aniha Saiyo..."
Kim Sang-min also interrupted the previous topic, winked at Park Ji-hyo, and then greeted him with a smile: "I'm here..."
As he said, he glanced around casually and asked with a smile: "Jingyuanxi didn't come."
The one he was most familiar with, or the one he valued the most in EXO was Chi Jingyuan. He originally thought that he would come to visit and chat a few words.
"Hehe, he has something to do..." Jin Junmyeon also explained with a smile, not daring to say that Chi Jingyuan was lying on the sofa playing with his phone and was too lazy to come.
"..."
Zhou Ziyu, who was standing in the crowd behind, wrinkled her nose slightly when she heard this, and snorted in her heart:
"He must be playing games, tsk~"
...
"Game over."
Seeing the big words displayed on the game console screen, Chi Jingyuan couldn't help but bite his teeth, his expression was not very good.
He half leaned on the sofa, clenched his fist lightly, and was about to start over when the agent walked in and looked around:
"Are Suho and the others back?"
"No." Jin Zhongdae, who was texting someone on his phone and laughing for a long time, responded.
"Wait for them, the program team notified us to go to rehearsal later...you should get ready first."
"Got it."
After waiting for ten minutes, Jin Junmyeon and the other person came back. After a short rest, a group of people went to rehearse under the leadership of the agent.
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After arriving at the studio and waiting for a while, EXID, who had just finished the last rehearsal, was bowing and thanking the staff. The two groups passed by and waved and simply said hello.
Today's performance is still the stage of the two songs "Miss" and "Monster". They had already taken time to pre-record the stage of "Monster" in the SM COEX venue yesterday, but rehearsals still need to be rehearsed.
At this time, the staff were tidying up the stage and switching songs, while EXO was waiting for a while on the side. Chi Jingyuan looked around. There were many staff around the stage, which seemed quite lively, but no one had entered the audience at this time. There were only a few spectators sitting below to watch the rehearsal. It was unknown whether they were fans or friends of the artists.
Chi Jingyuan suddenly found that there were three girls sitting in the second row of the audience. There was a very conspicuous Aili stick next to the seats of these three people. They were obviously fans of their EXO. I just don't know how they got in at this time.
It is estimated that there is some relationship inside, which is normal.
Interesting, but these three people didn't seem to notice that EXO had come out to rehearse. Instead, they lowered their heads and looked at something in their hands intently. Their lips were trembling slightly, as if they were mumbling something.
After taking a quick look, Chi Jingyuan found it interesting. He looked and found that it would take two minutes to prepare for the stage, so he walked over gently and stood in front of the three fans. He found that two of the three were looking at an A4 paper full of things, and one was looking at his phone, mumbling something in his mouth, as if he was reciting something.
He observed for a while, then took the initiative to ask, "What are you looking at?"
"Oppa!"
The voice woke the three people up. Seeing Chi Jingyuan appear in front of them, the three fans were stunned at once. They looked at the smiling Chi Jingyuan in front of them in disbelief, and felt their hearts stop, their eyes shining.
The next second, one of them reacted immediately. He first looked at Chi Jingyuan greedily, and then quickly handed over the white paper in his hand like a treasure: "Yuan Oppa, we are looking at this. This is the support form for "Monster" released by the fan group. Because it was just released not long ago, we haven't memorized it yet, and we are taking the time to memorize it now."
Chi Jingyuan felt the hand of this female fan and the obvious trembling of the paper in her hand. He smiled at her gently and took the A4 paper to take a look.
It was full of the lyrics of their song "Monster", and each lyric was marked with which member's part it was.
More importantly, it clearly indicates which sentence should be cheered under and what should be said each time:
《Monster》
(Cheer! Be strong!)
Baekhyun: She got me gone crazy
(EXO-L: EXO! Mon! s! ter! Note: three stresses)
Baekhyun: Why does my heart keep beating
(EXO-L: EXO! Mon! s! ter! Note: three stresses)
D.O.: You are gorgeous, you are my goddess
(EXO-L: goddess!)
……
Yuan: : Don’be afraid
(EXO-L: afraid! Note: the sound is emphasized, and the ‘d’ sound is omitted)
Yuan: Love is the way
(EXO-L: way!~Push harder!)
…
Seeing this extremely detailed, hand-painted little expressions, and girlish cheering list, with every part clearly marked with how to cheer, even the punctuation and stress, Chi Jingyuan opened his mouth and paused: "Is this just made today? So soon there is a standard for cheering?"
"Yes, it was made overnight by several unnies in the fan club, and all the Aili's lists are the same." The two girls next to him also reacted, rushing to answer each other, not missing any opportunity to talk to Chi Jingyuan.
"Are you guys memorizing now for the recording that's coming up?" Chi Jingyuan asked knowingly.
"Of course, when the Oppas are performing on stage, how can there be no cheering from the audience?" They nodded, replied without thinking, and looked as if it was a matter of course. .
"Huh..."
Looking at the expressions on the faces of these three fans who were not very good-looking, Chi Jingyuan suddenly felt a kind of pressure, a little heavy, but at the same time a warm current appeared, called touching.
He exhaled lightly, although his heart was a little complicated, but he did not show it. He returned the support sheet to them, looked at the three people, and asked with a very beautiful smile: "The rehearsal will start soon, um... do you want an autograph?"
When the three people heard it, they instantly showed surprise in their eyes, looked at Chi Jingyuan with joy, raised the prepared notebooks and even the banners and the oil pen, and asked tentatively: "Is it okay?"
"Of course."
Chi Jingyuan took it naturally and quickly started to sign. At the same time, he asked the names of the three people in turn, and each of them wrote a TO signature.
The timing was just right. When the last person finished signing, Kim Junmyeon was already calling him. Ji Jingyuan returned the last signature to the surprised girl, smiled and waved goodbye to them, said "Kang Sang Mi Da", and then turned back to the stage and started to prepare for rehearsal with the members.
"Wow, Jingyuan Oppa is so handsome in person. I couldn't even catch my breath just now."
"Shh, huh~huh~huh~I haven't recovered yet, wait a minute... touch my chest, my heart is about to jump out."
As soon as Chi Jingyuan left, the three little girls looked at the TO autographs in their hands with great excitement, trying to suppress their excitement and whispering:
"But why did he say 'Kangsangmida' to thank us at the end? Shouldn't we say it?"
"That's right, Jingyuan Oppa's TO autographs are very precious. There are not many of them in all these years."
"Oppa is such a polite person!"
"Why did you run so far?" After being called several times before returning, Chi Jingyuan walked back to the stage and took his place. Before the music started, Wu Sehun next to him asked curiously in a low voice.
"I met three of our fans and signed autographs for them." Chi Jingyuan also whispered back.
"So good? You are really dedicated."
He smiled softly:
"It should be."
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Not visiting the lounge does not mean that you can't meet each other. The backstage is so small that you can bump into each other if you walk around, not to mention that there are common activities.
Today, EXO had an interview activity for their first stage of "Music Bank". After recording the interview, Ji Jingyuan and EXO met Twice who were waiting nearby. They have won four first places in "Music Bank" since their return. If they win the first place again today, it will be five crowns, which is a very outstanding achievement, so there is a personal interview today.
It is five crowns but not five consecutive crowns, because it was interrupted once by EXO's "Fire".
Today, Twice's stage is not "Cheer Up", but a special stage. The nine people have changed their makeup and styling styles today, and they are all dressed very beautifully.
Especially Ming Jingnan, her chestnut short hair was re-permed by Cody today, and the ends of the entire lower part of the hair were curled. The makeup also changed a lot. She also wore black silk calf socks. The makeup and makeup matched each other and looked a lot more mature, which was very different from the cute style of "Cheer Up" before.
But she was pretty and inexplicably attractive. Chi Jingyuan felt that her temperament seemed to be very suitable for this slightly more mature makeup. Although the two groups just greeted each other when they met and didn't say much, Chi Jingyuan's eyes lit up when he saw her and looked at her twice more.
I don't know if Ming Jingnan felt something. After looking at each other and passing by, she beautifully brushed her hair up, and smiled with her lips pursed as if she thought of something.
Unfortunately, the makeup and dress were beautiful, but the stage was difficult to evaluate.
Today, Twice's special stage was a song that left a deep impression on Ji Jingyuan. It was a so-called gift song "I'm gonna be a star" that he had heard from JYP before.
Ji Jingyuan didn't expect that after listening to it that day, he would see the song live again. He watched the live broadcast of Twice's stage on the monitor in the lounge.
"Is this also a Twice song?"
"It's so bad."
The other members next to him were very straightforward and couldn't help but complain before they finished watching.
Ji Jingyuan just felt that the magic sound filled his ears, but because he was familiar with Twice, he didn't want to say it too directly.
To put it more tactfully, he felt that this song was not Twice's style... It sounded like PSY instead.
I heard that this special stage was arranged to give back to the fans.
Twice's fans, once, must be very touched.
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“Everyone has been waiting for this moment! We can finally enjoy these people’s performance!”
“Yes, today, through the comeback stage, we will show two different charms…EXO’s comeback stage is so handsome, come and enjoy it!
“Welcome back, EXO! ”
With the introduction of the two MCs, and the loud cheers of the audience, we finally waited until the end of today's program, EXO's first stage of return.
Although the showcases of the previous two days were actually the first stage, and most fans had already seen them, for them, every stage was a new enjoyment and experience.
More importantly, today EXO's "monster" costumes completely restored the MV, and everyone also put on the iconic battle-damaged makeup. As soon as they stood on the stage, the atmosphere on the scene was completely agitated, and various cheering sticks and banners below were waving non-stop, and even the fans from other groups who were present were all cheered up.
TOP is indeed worthy of being TOP, and the atmosphere was obviously different after he appeared.
I don't know if other people have this idea, but Chi Jingyuan on the stage really feels it very clearly.
He feels that today's "monster" stage is different from the showcases of the previous two days.
"She got me gone crazy~" The music started, and after a signature group dance, Byun Bo Hyun sang the first line of the opening.
Unlike the showcase stage, when the fans just screamed, after this line today, all the fans in the audience gave a huge cheer: "EXO, Monster!!"
"Why does your heart keep beating."
"EXO, Monster!!"
From the beginning, almost every time a member sang a line, the fans below followed and cheered. Every line was unusually neat, loud and passionate, and people thought they were at an EXO solo concert.
Who knew that this song was only released a day ago?
Others may not have learned about it specifically, but Chi Jingyuan knew that this cheering list was just made today. In just a few hours, all the Ailis on the scene memorized it very skillfully, as if they had practiced together for a long time. The cheering sound even overwhelmed their performance and the sound above.
"Don't be afraid~"
"Afraid!"
"Love is the way~"
"Way~"
When it was his turn, the cheers from the crowd seemed to get louder, and they were so uniform that they could be heard by thunder. Chi Jingyuan looked around and saw people waving their love sticks everywhere. The three little girls he saw before were no longer sitting, but he knew that they must be in the crowd, cheering and cheering excitedly.
Or, everyone was actually the same as them at this moment.
Chi Jingyuan felt the passion and motivation of courage in his heart, and even his voice and dancing strength were much stronger than before.
He sang his classic part in front of the camera like last time, but he couldn't help but smile in his eyes: "You can call me monster."
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EXO's stage was the last one. When they went on stage to perform, it was already the end of "Music Bank". At this time, they were still on stage, and the backstage entrance of the studio was already full of people waiting for their idols. Everyone was waiting for them to go up and present the last award after the stage.
The two MCs were standing at the front of the corridor, and Twice was standing behind them, very close to the stage. They could clearly hear the noise and music outside, and even see the performance on the stage.
Although only a side face could be seen, the figure was blocked by the camera's rocker.
"You can call me monster^~"
"I'm creeping in your heart babe~"
Some people were in a daze, some were chatting in a low voice, and some were looking at the stage in front of them seriously.
As they watched, Minato Saki Sana retracted her gaze, suddenly hugged Mingjing Minami who was staring at the stage in front of her, but her eyes were a little empty, and leaned close to her ear, whispering: "Do you think it's handsome?"
Hearing the voice in her ear, Mingjing Minami turned around, turned her head to look at her and blinked, and her red lips shining with crystal light opened slightly, and suddenly smiled:
"Yes."