Chinese entertainment, from radio love songs to superstars
Chapter 246: A Turning Point
“Um……”
“it is good……”
“Bye-Bye.”
After a few words, Shen Lang hung up the phone, returned to the mahjong table, and said with a smile: “It’s my turn to draw a card.”
Everyone nodded.
Shen Lang stretched out his hand and touched the tiles blindly. His thumb gently rubbed the front of the tiles. His eyes lit up immediately, and his face was full of surprise. He said, “I touched three tiles by myself. What a small trick!”
Before he finished speaking, complaints arose all around.
“Ah, my all-in-one hand, I was just missing this one card, how come you took it away!” Wang Zuxian shouted in annoyance. His expression was so resentful. He was about to make a all-in-one hand, but it was messed up by Shen Lang. He was so depressed.
“My Thirteen Yao was almost taken shape, but now it’s all ruined!” Liu Jialing also shouted, frowning as he looked at the cards on the table and sighed, with regret written all over his face.
“My Ligugu Ligugu is gone too. Oh, my luck is so bad!” Brigitte Lin couldn’t help but complain. She felt so unwilling to waste such a good opportunity on Shen Lang’s part.
Wow, seeing that apart from himself, the other three companies are all big names, Shen Lang couldn’t help but laugh: “Luckily you ran fast, you scared me to death.”
And today, not only did I relax my body and mind, I also received good news.
Du Ting just said on the phone that there was news from South Korea’s SM company, which was willing to transfer three trainees, Jessica Jung, Yoona Lim, and Taeyeon Kim, on the condition that Shen Lang would create an album for the boy group Super Junior that their company would launch next year.
In their opinion, Jessica Jung, Yoona Lim, and Taeyeon Kim are newly recruited trainees. There are hundreds of people like them. After several months of training, there is nothing special about the three of them, and they will not have much impact if they are released.
They just launched the boy group TVXQ this year, which received very good responses, but it also consumed a lot of the company’s resources. The 11 members of Super Junior are trainees who have been trained for three years. Their debut must be successful and cannot fail. In the case of insufficient company resources, if they have the help of Shen Lang, then they will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
The senior management held a meeting to discuss the feasibility of the matter, and after weighing the pros and cons, they decided to cooperate with Jingtao Music.
In fact, they knew that Shen Lang’s purpose in hiring people was nothing more than to create a girl group, and they were quite confident in this regard. They believed that Shen Lang was not capable of playing in the Korean entertainment industry, and even if he gave him 10 trainees like Jessica Jung, Yoona Lim, and Taeyeon Kim, they would not be able to achieve anything significant.
Shen Lang had originally given up hope, but who would have thought that the other party would give in.
However, he did not agree directly, but bargained with SM Entertainment, and the condition was changed to two singles tailor-made for Super Junior.
An album has 10 songs, and they are Korean songs. Not to mention that he can’t write them, even if he can, he can’t be given so many.
Because, with his current influence and commercial value, one of his songs can sell for tens of millions.
SM company didn’t agree at first, saying the price was too harsh, cutting it by four-fifths. That wouldn’t work.
Then, Shen Lang made a concession and wrote two singles tailor-made for Super Junior until they were satisfied.
This is his chance to show his confidence in this regard. The nickname “Bao Manyi” is not just a boast.
SM company was still a little hesitant and dragged it out for a week before finally agreeing to this condition.
On the day of signing the contract, Du Ting brought the two songs to them, and they were stunned on the spot.
Shen Lang hadn’t even met Super Junior yet, nor had he asked them about the style or theme of the song, but he managed to write it in just seven days?
Are you just trying to please them?
But since it had already been written, it had to be inspected. At any rate, it had to be completed until they were satisfied, so the music director was called in.
[——《Sorry, Sorry》
Lyricist: Shen Lang
Composer: Shen Lang
Arranger: Shen Lang] …
【——《love scenario》
Lyricist: Shen Lang
Composer: Shen Lang
Arranger: Shen Lang]
……
Shen Lang himself doesn’t listen to many Korean songs, but with the emergence of Douyin, those Korean songs that were once very popular have become the BGM of short videos, and he has to listen to them.
The first one is the title song of Super Junior’s third album, which was released in South Korea on March 2009, 3. It was also this song that made them popular in China.
The second song is the title song of iKON’s second album, which was officially released on January 2018, 1. Hu Yanbin also wrote the Chinese version of the lyrics for them.
The lyrics given to them this time were written by Shen Lang himself in Chinese first, then translated directly into Korean, and finally adjusted some words in terms of rhyme.
Because the songs of boy bands are mainly based on melody and dance, the lyrics don’t need to be so sophisticated, and Koreans can’t listen to them too sophisticated.
So he thought, he would wait until they were dissatisfied, and if that didn’t work, he would just pay a Korean lyricist to write the lyrics.
As a result, the music director of SM Entertainment watched the two songs and listened to the demos recorded by Shen Lang. He couldn’t help but like them and praised them, saying, “(Korean) is very good. I really admire Mr. Shen’s talent in music.”
The vice president at the side was stunned. He naturally believed in the music director’s level of appreciation, but he couldn’t believe that the cooperation ended like this. It was too fast. They estimated that Shen Lang would need three months to half a year.
Du Ting smiled and said, “(English) It’s a pleasure to work with you.”
In this way, Jessica Jung, Yoona Lim, and Taeyeon Kim became artists under Jingtao Music.
The three of them were very confused. They were still in training today, and then they were told that they had changed companies, and it was a Chinese company.
But when they heard that it was Shen Lang’s company, they immediately became excited.
The winner of 7 Grammy Awards, the pride of Asia, the world pop king, everyone knows him.
Moreover, the song “Trouble Maker” sung by Shen Lang and BoA is still ranking first on major music charts in South Korea.
But after calming down, the three of them were both excited and worried about their future.
You know, although Korean groups look glamorous on stage, the hard work they put in off stage is something not everyone can do.
In the original time and space, many Chinese trainees who used to be trainees terminated their contracts and returned to China because the training was too hard. For example, Chen Xuedong and Zhang Bichen could not stand the torture. Lu Han, who debuted in EXO, even sued SM company because she could not stand the harsh conditions.
They have to get up early every day and go to the company to work out, because fitness can increase muscles and strength for dancers. They have dance classes six days a week, and each class lasts for five hours. During this time, they are not allowed to go to the toilet or drink water, and are not allowed to turn on the air conditioner, just to sweat a lot and exercise their physical strength and endurance.
There is also a test, where the people sitting in a row in front of you have no expression on their faces and will not react no matter what you do. Ordinary people would not imagine this kind of test.
Before debuting, one song usually has to be practiced over and over for three months. The consequence of practicing only one song for 12 weeks is that you will feel like vomiting whenever you hear the music of that song afterwards.
Not everyone has the opportunity to debut, and 90 percent of the trainees’ years of hard work will go to waste.
Jessica Jung, Yoona Lim, and Taeyeon Kim know that Shen Lang’s company has overseas artists, and that they are developing very well. Taylor is the best example, so they are looking forward to their future. However, they only know a little bit of everything at the moment, and there are many trainees who are proud of their looks, so they are worried about their future.
However, Shen Lang had taken all these issues into consideration. After they entered the company, they naturally had to practice for a period of time. He could teach them singing, and as for dancing, he could directly invite professional Korean dance teachers to teach them. There would be no big problems.
At the same time, Song Qian, Park Ji-yeon and Kim Hyun-ah were in the same mood as Jessica Jung, Lin Yun-ah and Kim Taeyeon. They were even more confused. (End of this chapter)