Chapter 307 It suits you very well

Chi Jingyuan's interview lasted about ten minutes. After it was over, he went to the monitor next to the PD to check the results of his shots. After confirming that the shots were passed, he walked aside and changed to the next member for the interview.

Not all twelve people will be interviewed. The organizer selected five relatively popular and fashionable members, including Chi Jingyuan, to be interviewed. The others only had the group's VCR and promotional videos shot.

This promotional video was shot from noon to evening before it came to an end. After saying goodbye to the organizer's staff, the hungry XO members got into the nanny van and grabbed a quick meal before heading off to catch up on their next schedule.

When we returned to the dormitory, it was almost 11 o'clock in the morning. After queuing up to wash up, the members started their own night life. Some watched TV, some chatted, made phone calls, ate late night snacks and played game consoles.

etc.

Because of their schedules, this time is when they are most energetic. Over time, they have developed a habit. Unless they are too tired due to too many trips, they will go to bed as soon as they come back.

After Chi Jingyuan chatted with Park Chanyeol and others in the living room for a while, he went back to the bed and sat there and started playing the game console. After playing for a few minutes, he suddenly remembered what Jung Soo Jung said before about their return.

FX had already performed the first comeback stage on "m!countdowm" today, July 3. Chi Jingyuan happened to be busy during the live broadcast of "m!c" in the afternoon, so he didn't see any details.

I seem to have heard someone say that their title song "Red Light" this time was pretty good on stage.

There was just enough time at this moment, so he put away the game console archives, held his phone and started watching tonight's video of "m!c".

There are so many returning artists recently. I have never heard of the idol Ji Jingyuan who performed in the previous groups. Judging from their makeup and stage scenery, it is obvious that they are not artists from a big company. Their songs and choreography are also average.

What's outstanding about it is that it probably only played songs once or twice and then disappeared silently.

But being able to appear on TV is already very good. At least it can be considered that they have done singing and have formal live TV performance experience. They are much stronger than those groups that can't even appear on singing programs.

There are too many such combinations in the peninsula. There are many new people debuting every day, and there are also many debuting artists returning to amateur status every day. Chi Jingyuan usually doesn't pay much attention to them and can't recognize them at all.

It was almost a third of the way through that he finally saw the first group he recognized, the more familiar idol group, AOA.

AOA started to pursue a sexy style in October last year. Following "Short Skirt" at the beginning of the year, they released a mini-album last month. The title song "Short Hair" performed well.

"Short Hair" is not like the purely sexy and borderline style in the two previous comebacks. This time there is some improvement, and the overall style tends to be both sexy and energetic.

After entering 2014, the overall trend of girl groups in the peninsula music industry is very obvious. The second-generation girl groups that were very popular in the past few years and have reached their peak are all in a declining trend. Girls' Generation is the most obvious one because of their continuous love affairs.

kara members left the group and were the first to fall behind. 2NE1, which had just come back to life and was on the trend of becoming popular, suddenly suffered a disaster. It is not yet known whether they will continue to carry out activities as a full group in the future.

In addition to the overall decline of the second generation, there are third generation girl groups that are slowly taking over the market and gaining popularity soaring. The most popular among them are Sistar and Apink, which are all enjoying very good momentum.

In addition, Girlsday and AOA also started to become popular this year.

AOA is a group that has rapidly risen in popularity among three generations of girl groups after changing their standard style.

Next is another familiar face. After Tara’s Park Ji-yeon, member Park Hyo-min also started her own solo.

Tara's member teams, sub-units, and solos are working hard to rejuvenate one after another, but their overall image has been affected, and it will be difficult to achieve the desired results if the public does not change their image.

Looking at Chi Jingyuan, he suddenly saw the stage of an unknown girl group and thought it was quite interesting. The typhoon and the scene felt good, and one of the members had a very distinctive appearance and did not look like a female idol at all, so he couldn't help but go

Searched it.

The name is Mamamoo. They are a new girl group that just debuted last month. They are actually able to perform so well. It seems that their debut performance should be pretty good.

After watching the performances of Taeyang and Beast, who have been competing for the top spot lately, at the end it was FX's turn.

The ending performance was really impressive.

But when he saw Zheng Xiujing's blonde shawl hair and black eye mask, Chi Jingyuan was really startled.

This makeup look is really unique, but he really can't get it, he just thinks it's weird.

Wearing headphones, he shook his head and watched the performance of their title song "red light". The choreography and stage style were excellent, the rhythm was very strong, and it was very FX's own style.

Just this lyric...

Chi Jingyuan checked the lyrics list online and confirmed his opinion.

The lyrics of "Red Light" seem to be alluding to an event that happened before.

I don’t know if it was intentional by the lyricist or arranged by SM, but it was clearly his intention.

Although this may be a bit of a gimmick, it can easily cause unnecessary trouble. If the official reaction is too extreme, they may forcefully stop singing.

Forget it, don't care about his business.

Excluding those things other than music, he thinks the title song "Red Light" is pretty good, with a strong style and an addictive chorus.

It's just that Chi Jingyuan feels that the style of this song may not be to the taste of Peninsula people, and the specific results are difficult to predict, but he estimates that there is no hope of becoming a big hit.

I wish everything goes well, and hope that FX can counterattack and rise despite the overall decline of the second generation, unlike Girls' Generation.

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"After many discussions, the company has decided that our official EXO fan name will be officially named 'EXO-L'."

"The company has begun to set up the official website of 'EXO-L', and has cooperated with relevant companies to develop a mobile application APP that allows fans around the world to register and log in. It has now entered preliminary testing. If everything goes well, it will be launched this month

The APP will be online.”

In the conference room, manager Lee Seung-hwan and relevant SM personnel were introducing their newly determined official fan names to the EXO members. At the same time, the designed fan club logo was displayed on the projection screen in front.

An EXO logo with a small 'L' in the upper right corner.

It is similar to the usual logos of the two KM teams, only the English letters in the upper right corner are different.

"EXO-L? What do you mean, brother? It sounds weird."

After listening, the members looked at each other with some confusion, and Park Chanyeol was the first to ask.

The company has been thinking about EXO's official fan name a long time ago, and has also issued a task for the members to think about it and provide opinions.

I don’t know whether it was due to lack of talent or lack of imagination. The twelve members thought and discussed it for a long time but couldn’t come up with a name that people thought was good. In the end, they had no choice but to give up and leave it to the company.

Unexpectedly, the official fan name was suddenly announced today, and even the website and APP are almost developed.

"'L' is the abbreviation of 'love', and 'L' in English letters happens to be between our two EXO team names, 'K' and 'M', connecting EXO-K team and EXO-

It means Team M.”

Lee Seung Hwan had obviously already studied, and explained to them very familiarly: "So 'EXO-L' not only symbolizes all the fans who love EXO, but also means that EXO-KLM is a whole, which is in line with our XO'we are one

'The slogan also represents the mutual connection between EXO and fans."

"Oh, I think the meaning is really good. Who thought of it." After hearing this explanation, several members' eyes lit up, and Jin Junmyeon said happily.

Chi Jingyuan also nodded. He also thought this fan name was great, both in terms of format and meaning.

As long as SM does not involve artist management, other aspects of supporting soft power, the level of various design teams is really strong, whether it is EXO's different and distinctive logo for each album, or the fan names this time.

A proof.

"I think it's pretty good, right? Haha..." Li Chenghuan smiled and nodded. His manager also thought it was pretty good. After laughing, he continued: "The official website will be officially launched at the end of the month or at the beginning of August."

Before it is activated, the company will take a picture of us with the 'L hand gesture' for publicity, and then you all need to post pictures of the hand gesture on your SNS to cooperate with the publicity."

As he spoke, he stretched out his right hand, folded his other three fingers, and stretched his index finger and thumb to form a capital 'L' shape. At the same time, he added: "This is the gesture, and this will be the symbol of our fans from now on."

Seeing this, other members followed suit and made this gesture, as if they had encountered a fun toy and it was very interesting.

"EXO-L, EXO-L, EXO-L..." Jin Junmyeon repeated the fan name several times quickly, smacked his lips, tasted it, and said to Li Chenghuan: "Brother, this name has a good meaning and vision.

, but when you think of it, it doesn’t feel very friendly. In addition to the formal name, should we consider giving our rice a more familiar nickname?"

"Nickname?" Li Chenghuan and the person next to him looked at each other, nodded to each other and looked over: "It doesn't matter, but as for the nickname, you members can come up with it yourself, and the company will not be involved."

"How about Lone?"

"Did you get into trouble with sone? You were the one who brought up Xone last time, right?"

"Why don't you call me Lo and read O-L backwards? It feels very close."

"Just call me L, it's convenient and straightforward."

"It's really straightforward... Anihasay, Ls... hahaha."

Several members have put forward their own opinions, but just like when they first came up with fan names, they are all names that people can't complain about, either imitating others, or being awkward and awkward.

Chi Jingyuan also began to think. He pursed his lips and looked up. After thinking for a while, he took out his mobile phone and made some gestures on it, and then said tentatively:

"When calling someone to express closeness, many people like to call them 'er' after their names, like Chanyeol'a, Sehuna, Kyungwona, etc. Then just add 'L' after EXO-L's name.

A'er', 'L'er' is called..."

"Ellie."

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The nickname Aili proposed by Chi Kyung-won was recognized by most people, especially Byun Baekhyun who liked this title very much. The heads of several companies of Lee Seung-hwan also expressed their appreciation, and the nickname Aili for EXO fans was basically decided.

However, we can’t say it yet. We will have to wait until the ‘EXO-L’ fan club APP and official website are officially launched. The specific time should be around the end of July or early August.

After the meeting, EXO took the time to tidy up and then went to the airport, and boarded a flight to Xia Guorong City during dinner time.

Having held so many concerts, all members are already very familiar with the process and stage performances, and there is no need to rush to the venue several days in advance for rehearsals like the original one.

Unless there are other local itineraries that need to be attended, now EXO only needs to fly to the destination the day before the concert starts, and then go to the venue to rehearse twice on the same day to practice, preview the moves and general steps, and that's basically it.

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On July 5th, EXO's Chengdu concert ended successfully at 9pm in front of 17,000 spectators at Chengcheng Sports Center.

Afterwards, under the recommendation of several Xia Guoline and Chi Jingyuan, a group of people went to a restaurant to have a hot pot meal before returning to the hotel.
To be continued...