Chapter 212 The Beginning
Apink won one by one in the first week, but this did not hinder the opponent's Tara's path to the peak of enlightenment. On the contrary, from the second day, I don't know if it was because of the layer of strange bus, the combination officially began to go wild.
It's okay to sell the album. Everyone knows that this album is actually just a single package, which is... undoubtedly cheating money. However, the title song "lovey-dovey" is really high-quality and high-popular. With the popularity accumulated by Tara itself, the song went wild in February with an unscrupulous feeling, and the sound source was not mentioned, and the songs were also one after another in the song show... In fact, when the song ended, the song got 13 ones before and after, and then it was forced to end by bigbang, who returned in March.
However, to be honest, it is not embarrassing to be ended by bigbang in the Korean song industry. What's more, when spring is in full bloom in March, Tara is indeed a bit over the last time, so taking advantage of the opportunity to end the song tour, it gives people a feeling of following the steps.
However, when all eyes were staring at the handover between Tara and Bigbang, as early as late February a week ago, the newcomer group Apink, who had been with him for more than half a month, had already followed the crowd and not many people paid attention to it.
In fact, when Tara got off the stage and had not changed into the singing uniform, the apink here had already started to rest for nearly a week.
However, on this day, six Apink people who had stopped singing for nearly a week were called by the company to participate in a banquet.
"Come on, thank you for your hard work a month ago." Choi Zhenhao, who raised a glass of wine, rarely showed a smile on his face. "Cheer to the first one of our apinks. This is the one we got in one year of our debut, and the value is incalculable."
In the apink of the same table, two underage little guys immediately picked up the juice and milk honestly, while the four adults picked up the wine simply. In addition, there were many working team members who followed this group all raised their glasses happily.
After all, as Choi Zhenhao said, whether you can get one person in one year of your debut is indeed a very important sign, because not to mention that the industry will be impressed by you, from a more practical point of view, it also concerns whether the team can get out of the newcomer period as soon as possible, and then...uh, whether it can start making money as soon as possible.
In short, no artist will think that he will become famous too early.
That's right, this is the real reason why acube delayed more than a week to hold a celebration banquet for Apink... By the way, since the company was established, Cui Zhenhao insisted on opening a separate account. However, over the past few years, he has only invested and only obtained human and material resources from the head office, but has no profit at all. This makes it difficult for the arrogant Cui Zhenhao to accept.
However, since now, 2012, the end of the world has not been waiting, but he finally waited for the success of Apink. Speaking of which, when Representative Cui Da reviewed last month's financial statements yesterday, he found that even if it was not included in the commercial performances during the rest period in the next few months, Apink's return has achieved a balance of revenue and expenditure! This really made the representative of the cube branch feel proud!
Therefore, Cui Zhenhao couldn't help but book a large private room in this hotel near the company, saying that he would celebrate the first apink!
Why did you go a week ago?!
"Is the cake ready?" After three rounds of wine, as the atmosphere gradually became more and more intense, Cui Zhenhao, the organizer of the banquet, suddenly stood up and came behind a desk chief who felt a little facial paralysis.
There is no way, as a leader, these things must be considered. Today is March 3rd, which was originally the birthday of the captain of Apink. Since it was celebrating the award for Apink, how could it be forgotten? Moreover, when I was the most tired during the songs, the birthday of the group's storeman Na Eun was taken for granted. Now I just took the opportunity to make up for it together. He even made an extra gimmick. Yes, Choi Zhenhao also prepared a big cake with only one candle for "apink"... I really don't know where this is counted.
"Oh." The face-paralytic chief was slightly stunned, but immediately responded. "I have already agreed to the hotel, but are you going to go now?"
"Go." Choi Zhenhao glanced at the six apinks who were happily eating helplessly. "You can't let them eat six more. Other combinations shouted about body management and felt a bit like joining in the fun to attract attention... These six... don't you know?"
"Yes, too." The chief immediately stood up. "Let them go back after cutting the cake... I'll arrange it together now."
"Thank you." Cui Zhenhao immediately relaxed and patted the other person on the shoulder, then watched him leave the private room.
In fact, Cui Zhenhao only said half of what he said just now. Although body management is very important, in fact, there is another more important reason he can't say... On Chu Long's birthday, you locked people here. What if Kim Jong-ming holds a cake and can't wait until midnight? Who will blame him then?
However, no matter what happened, five minutes later, as the face-paralyzing chief opened the private room door and nodded at him, Cui Zhenhao, who had been nervous for more than a month and had been nervous for almost four years, felt that he was relaxing all over his body... Tonight, it was supposed to be his own.
Everything that followed was normal and smooth: the lights turned black as promised, and everyone pretended to exclaim clearly. Choi Zhenhao even saw Chu Long smiling in the darkness, and then Naeon looked at the door with some trepidation.
However, when the birthday song sounded and the lights came back, Choi Zhenhao was stunned!
Nothing else, the person who appeared in the private room and pushed three cakes was not the expected hotel staff, nor the person from his own company... Well, this statement may not be true, because the people who pushed the cakes were indeed from UB companies that were so standard that they could not be standard anymore, but they were not just from acube!
First of all, the person who pushed the candle cake to the apink group was the face-paralyzing chief. It could be seen that he was a little helpless and confused.
And the one who pushed Naeon's adult birthday cake turned out to be Hong Shengcheng, the general manager of UB!
As for Chu Long's birthday cake with 22 candles, the person standing was Jin Zhongming with a smile on his face!
The private room was really silent for a while, but immediately there was a burst of warm laughter and applause. Everyone thought this was a scene arranged in advance!
Of course, except for Choi Zhenhao who arranged this matter.
By the way, Choi Zhenhao followed God as a friendly assistant after graduating from university and still had the qualities he should have. So, even though his mind was a little confused and even wanted to curse, he still got up immediately in the noise, and then took the face-paralleled director aside in the chaos and stood behind a cake by himself.
Now, it seemed very touching. So the applause became warmer again, and the celebration banquet and birthday party also reached a climax.
The atmosphere here at apink is both harmonious and harmonious... However, on the same night, I just left the stage and was actually driving a party to celebrate the party, and there was something wrong with the atmosphere.
In fact, the party there was a little bit of a good feeling from the beginning, because it was a new team of apink, but it was very popular. Tara here, as the hottest girl group at present, had just swept thirteen people... There were only a few tables of people, basically all of them were the core of the company or the staff of the Tara team. They were also opened in the canteen of the CCM company, and then ordered a large number of high-end takeaways.
Sure enough, after three rounds of wine, Kim Kwang-soo, who sat on the middle table with Tara, finally couldn't wait to uncover the real bottom of the meal.
"You seven are ready." Kim Kwang-soo, who was blushing, reached out and pinched a dried nut casually. "Tomorrow I will take two little girls to have a formal meeting with you. They will become the eighth and ninth members of Tara in the subsequent album."
"Do you want to add someone again?" After a while of silence, Zhaoyan, who was the most uncontrollable in her mouth, couldn't help but ask directly. "Two more?"
"Oh!" Kim Kwang-soo still smiled naturally, his tone was still casual, but he answered firmly and earnestly, and even with some inexplicable excitement. "I understand your thoughts, and I also expected your reaction, but adding people is necessary. I am not discussing with you, but notifying you!"
Baolan and Juli looked at each other, but didn't say anything again; Liu Huaying lowered her head and played with her chopsticks alone, not knowing what she was thinking, but she didn't speak anyway; the current captain Zhao Yeon was scolded by her own president, and knew that she was actually halfway through and had no say at all, so she could only shut up powerlessly; Ji Yeon wanted to say something, but she was too young, and recently she was almost invisible in this hottest round of activities, and her presence was not as good as before, so she had to look at the remaining two people in a help-seeking manner.
Eun-jing and Hyomin looked at each other, and then Eun-jing naturally took it as a matter of course: "But President, have you considered it? Today's popularity and benefits are achieved by our former members. We have to share some of the people... and how long will it take to integrate? Adding people, have you considered the feelings of us members?"
"I'll tell me something." Kim Kwang-soo seemed to be ready, and he reached out and nodded Eun-jeong and Hyo-min. "You two, two people who debuted in 2009, have the media counted the income of the whole year last year? Among all Korean idols, one ranks fourth and the other ranks fifth. I'm right?!"
Xiaomin, who originally wanted to keep up, became weaker when he thought of the house he had just rented in Qingtandong.
"Tell me a thousand words." In front of many core staff of the Tara team around, Kim Kwang-soo was also earnest. "What you are talking about is popularity and interests, back to a final indicator... what is it? Isn't it income?"
Enjing leaned helplessly on the chair, and turned her back expressionlessly and tidied up her hair that had gradually grown longer.
"Why are you less popular than Shaoshi and less debuting time than Shaoshi, but you have no worse income than them?" Although Eun-jeong did not rush to refute, Kim Kwang-soo seemed to be trying to reveal his feelings to the end. "Because compared to the guy like Lee Soo-man who treats artists as machines, I, Kim Kwang-soo, respects your hard work and labor very much."
When he heard the name Li Xiuman and compared it with Shao Shi, Zhao Yan's expression on her face also eased a lot.
"You just ask, is the share I give you the highest in the industry?" Kim Kwang-soo picked up the wine glass and drank it all, and then put it on the table. "The law stipulates that an exclusive contract is 7 years, but is there any share? I dare not say that it is a perfect person, but there is also a company that wants to collect money on it. First, there are so many staff members who serve you to pay their wages. Have you tried their best to do it?"
This sentence is very lethal, and everyone couldn't help but look back at the assistants in their team who are usually very close to each other. They felt embarrassed and felt inexplicable. The little dinosaur immediately blushed and bowed his head.
"Let's do it." Kim Kwang-soo was indeed prepared. "Take this renovation, I'll give you another chance to revise the contract. I'll share the largest advertising revenue for you..."
"President." Enjing, who had sorted out her hair, directly interrupted the other party. "You have convinced us about interests, share profits, and other things. Just like what you mean, we are very hard, but you didn't treat anyone badly, not to mention that so many assistant brothers and sisters are here, and if we continue to get entangled, we seem to be rogue."
"Oh." Kim Kwang-soo nodded to his most satisfied disciple. "I just like Eun-jin, your cheerful and straightforward personality... Isn't that okay?"
"How is that possible?" Enjing retorted bluntly. "President, don't pretend to be garlic. My question just now was actually two. In addition to the issue of this newcomer sharing the income... More importantly, what should I do if the newly added members cannot integrate into the team? The team is in its peak period and continues to accumulate popularity. What if the newcomers have a negative impact on our team? Let me just say, did Hua Yinglai really integrate into the team the year before? Until the Hua Meinan program, she was still a little lonely? Isn't it still a lot of sociable groups until this round this year?"
Eun-jing asked questions one by one, and directly named it, which made Kim Kwang-soo, who originally wanted to escape the three words Liu Huaying, helpless. However, what made him feel relieved was fortunate that Liu Huaying had kept quiet until now... It made him feel relieved.
"Hua Ying was young at that time and was ignorant when she was just a little bit sensible. There is no need for you to mention it." Kim Kwang-soo calmed Liu Hua-young's heart first. "And now, we have come to this point together. We have just dominated the Korean song industry. Are you still going to drive her away?"
"Have I said this?" Speaking of personality and qualifications, Eun-jeong is really the only person who dares to fight Kim Kwang-soo. Hyo-min next to her is so cowardly that she can still fight back directly. "President, do you think I am a madman or a fool? I have been holding it up for so long before, and now Tara has achieved such an achievement, so I want to drive people away?"
"I'm just giving an example..." Kim Kwang-soo was embarrassed.
"President, can you change the example? Do you really don't understand what Sister Enjing means?" Liu Huaying next to her couldn't listen.
By the way, this seventh member of Tara is now very satisfied, really satisfied. On the one hand, Tara has achieved such achievements, and she is of course very excited. On the other hand, although she has not won the movie, she gradually replaced Jiyeon in daily activities. You know, she is just a young newcomer who has just entered the industry for less than two years. She has come to this point without even having a trainee. What else do you want?
However, the most important point is the achievement and honor and the aura brought by him, the feeling of rapid rise in status and popularity itself... This month, Liu Huaying clearly felt an unprecedented kind of respect and treatment. When she went to play songs, the TV station arranged the best standby room for the TV station. The TV station staff were serious about the second and third-rate singers, but they looked nice and even had some respect for themselves.
Life is good... It's okay to add people or something, but why do you do it yourself?
"Well!" Kim Kwang-soo was really helpless when facing these two people. One was the student he had known for the longest time, valued the most, and felt the most sorry for; the other was helpless. Although this guy didn't know anything, he had a strong and scheming twin sister who ate himself tightly!
"To be honest." Kim Kwang-soo finally decided to express his thoughts. "I did this for the words you shouted to the public when you debuted. I really hope you can surpass a group. At that time, it was in the connection of "Golden Fishery". I couldn't say it directly, but here, everyone is my own people, and I don't need to hide it. I just want Tara to surpass Girls' Generation... This is my long-cherished wish! But this time I returned, I saw two fatal weaknesses in our tara. If I didn't make up for it, even if the prospects seemed bright, it was still incomparable to Shao Shi!"
The whole floor was silent, and everyone was waiting for Kim Kwang-soo's explanation.
"One is the strength of the stage." Kim Kwang-soo really got his heart out. "Don't be afraid of embarrassment on this topic. Not only the media and colleagues sarcastically said that we are pure Yantuans, chameleons, and even our own fans and ourselves understand... The stage strength is poor and we can't deny it. Why can't I agree to join when I saw Zhao Yeon? It's because the overall strength is really too poor and I really need someone to dance and sing. This situation happened when Ji-ah, a music professional, chose to withdraw, and it was even more dependent on Zhao Yeon alone. As soon as she caught a cold... we couldn't go on stage. Is it a fake thing? Not even talking about Shao Shi, this time he met the new group Apink, and he lost one by one... Although Kim Jong-ming suddenly stood on the stage to sell face, it was like singing... We really lost, right? That Jung Eun-di... I want to defeat Shao Shi, shouldn't we have a Jung Eun-di?"
Enjing let out a long sigh.
"There is another age." Kim Kwang-soo swept away the two 86 parties and Park Soo-yeon without hesitation. "Girls' Generation is all from 89 to 90. So-yeon's outstanding strength is defeated because she is two years older. So-you's question is, three people in our team are three or four years older than them, and they can't show up now, but after a long battle, in 2015 and 2016, you three are over 30, and they are still in the golden period of 26 or 27, what are you fighting? Look at the apink with full potential, the largest one is only 91 and the youngest one is in 96 or 96! Then, with Ji Yeon and Hua Young, let alone the youngest one, even this combination that you debuted two years later will be defeated, right?"
Now, there was no one who sighed.
"Anyway." Kim Kwang-soo began to pour wine for himself, but found that the bottle was empty. "I drank a lot today, so I said so many things... I hope you understand that not only you have ideas, but I, Kim Kwang-soo, also have my own ideas. The reason why Tara has been able to get to this point is because we were able to unite all our ideas and work together... This is why today. Everyone can have their own thoughts, but they must tolerate and unite each other, and then achieve their goals! For this purpose, we Tara must join young and powerful newcomers! Two!"
"We understand." Liu Huaying looked at everyone who had been persuaded by Kim Kwang-soo, and was the first to smile and react. She ran over to pour wine for the other party with a bottle of freshly unwritten wine. "Everyone understands your painstaking efforts by President, why not introduce the new Xiaoba Xiaojiu?"
"Okay." Kim Kwang-soo took the wine poured by Liu Huaying with a smile and drank it all. "I drank a lot. I won't introduce it in detail today. I'll just briefly talk about it. One is a little girl born at the end of December 1999. She hasn't grown up yet... I'm going to let her join again at the end of the year. You have to raise her well!"
There was a burst of laughter in the cafeteria, and everyone in Tara laughed blankly. Even Enjing, who had been very tough, blushed a little. After a long time of fighting, she turned out to be a young child who was nearly the same generation as hers... How could such a child have a dispute over the distribution of interests? As for if she really couldn't integrate into the team, it might be the blame for those who were over teenagers older?
"Don't worry." Liu Huaying took the opportunity to pour another glass of wine for Kim Kwang-soo. "Ji Yeon and I will take care of her well together... December 1999... It's really "hellobaby"!"
"There is another." Feeling the relaxed harmonious atmosphere, Kim Kwang-soo couldn't help but become more proud. "Li Yalin, we will meet tomorrow. I'll go to RB soon and I'll make her official debut... The little girl is from a music family and is the first in the practical music major. She has a great effect on our strengthening. You should also watch it..."
"I guess." Liu Huaying put down the bottle and walked back and asked with a smile. "It should be the first place in high school...the music major. Is this not from 1996 or 1997? Is it the first year of high school?"
"I guessed wrong." Kim Kwang-soo smiled and corrected. "I was only one year younger than you in April 1994! But the little girl sang very well, much better than you all!"
Zhiyeon, the man-made, immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, he is still one year younger..."
However, Liu Huaying, who is also a busy man, didn't say much, but just returned to her seat with a dry smile. She... was eager to call her twin sister. This was her first reaction after encountering uneasy things since she was a child.
Chapter completed!