Chapter 318 Let you see the power of the Korean Wave
It’s Friday again, and the four-to-three competition officially begins.
On the stage, the contestants have already started to perform. Su Xing, the first contestant to appear, and his partner A Duo performed a jazz dance version of "I Want Your Love".
Backstage, what the planners are most concerned about is the ratings of the program. After all, this program has been scolded by netizens for almost a week because of Zhang Wei’s song "Bauhinia in Bloom". The planners are very worried about the ratings. dropped significantly.
“What are the ratings now?”
"1.71%!" the staff member replied.
"So high? At the beginning of the show, it had a ratings of 1.71, which was 0.2 higher than last week! If you calculate it like this, the average ratings of today's program will definitely exceed 2.5. You are better off. If so, 2.6 or even 2.7 is possible!”
After all, it is a local satellite TV. It can have an average ratings of 2.5% during prime time on Friday. If converted into a viewership share, it is almost 9%, which is definitely At the same time, it ranks first in the country.
However, compared to Supergirl back then, the ratings were still far behind. In 2005, when Supergirl advanced to the top three, the ratings reached an astonishing 8.31%, and then in the finals, the ratings were even higher. Reaching a terrifying 11.65%, it is also the only variety show in China with a ratings of over 10.
In the internal entertainment market, boys 'drafts are indeed not as high as girls' draft ratings. After all, for many boys, playing games on Friday night, street stringing, or going to jump bubbles may be better. choice.
Moreover, in the past two years, other satellite TV stations have also launched many variety shows, which have also absorbed a lot of ratings.
Although it is far inferior to Super Girl two years ago, the planner couldn't help but feel happy. Unexpectedly, after being scolded by netizens, the ratings of the show increased instead of falling.
This is the effect of the Internet age. More people are scolding, which actually brings popularity. Many netizens did not pay attention to this talent show originally, but when they see someone scolding them online, they will pay attention to it. .
Another reason for the increase in ratings is that summer vacation is here, schools are on vacation, and the majority of students have time to watch TV, which will naturally push up the ratings.
Supergirl, which became popular across the country in 2005, started airing on July 15th. There were six national finals, which ended exactly on the weekend of the week before summer vacation, just before students returned to school.
The large number of students watching is one of the reasons why the show's ratings have exploded, and parents' complaints also stem from this.
Seeing that the ratings had stabilized, the planner felt a lot more at ease, and he began to pay attention to the performance of the contestants.
Su Xing's jazz dance is relatively average, but he is better at singing. In terms of dancing, his level is average.
His partner, Mr. Aduo, is from the Tujia ethnic group and has a background in folk dancing, but he turned into a singer ten years ago. It can only be said that his dancing skills are still there, but there is no way to bring him many points. item.
The next ones to appear were contestant Wei Chen and teacher Yang Yang. They chose a tap dance song called "Green Light".
This group performed significantly better than the previous group. Wei Chen has the best image among all the contestants. He is handsome, 185cm tall and has a standard model figure.
As a top dancer in the country, Teacher Yangyang has done heroic dance programs before. Naturally, she is also proficient in various dances. With her level, she can lead even her partner who dances mediocrely.
Next, Chen Sheng partnered with Teacher Moon and danced a tango. The song he chose was called "Drunken Tango".
The Moon itself is the choreographer of the Fast Boy program. She is obviously superior in terms of choreography, and the final stage effect is also very good.
The last person to appear is Zhang Wei.
"Zhang Wei also dances jazz dance. The song has an English name. Is it an English song? TroubleMaker? Troublemaker? Isn't this guy a troublemaker? Is this based on the song he chose?"
The planner looked at the program list, snorted coldly, and then asked: "Have any of you heard of this English song called "TroubleMaker"?"
In the director's room, everyone, look at Look at me, look at you, no one says anything, obviously no one has heard.
"Has no one heard of it? It seems to be a very uncommon song!" the planner said to himself.
At the same time, the host also began to introduce the following program:
"Next, please invite Zhang Wei and SARA to bring "TroubleMaker"!"
"Who is SARA?" Someone in the audience immediately asked the companion next to him in a low voice.
“I’ve never heard of him. Do you know?”
“I’ve never heard of this person either. Is he from Hong Kong and Taiwan?”
“I remember. There is news that there is a Korean as a guest at this event. Could it be this SARA?”
The audience does not know Jiang Shihua, and obviously cannot bring extra fans to Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei and Jiang Shihua came to the stage, and the lights suddenly turned on and pointed at the two of them. Zhang Wei was wearing a black suit, a white shirt underneath, and a black tie. He didn’t look like He was going to perform a show, but he seemed to be attending a banquet.
Looking at the lady next to Zhang Wei, the audience couldn't help but say "Wow".
Zhang Wei’s unmatchable character makes a stunning appearance with a dazzling brilliance that cannot be ignored. She was wearing a white tight skirt with some sparkling embellishments. Under the light, she stood out next to Zhang Wei in a black suit.
On her feet were a pair of twelve-centimeter high heels, which not only made her height directly exceed 1.7 meters, but also made her legs appear extra long.
When a girl stands there wearing high heels of this length, the physiological structure of the human body will cause the whole body to involuntarily show a forward and backward appearance. In addition, it is originally a tight skirt, which perfectly outlines her graceful figure. posture.
Coupled with Korean-style heavy makeup, it adds a bit of wildness and uninhibitedness.
With just this appearance, the four words "sexy goddess" have been engraved in the minds of the audience.
Zhang Wei on the stage vaguely heard the audience’s exclamations, and was still very satisfied.
Although the program team arranged for him an unknown Korean star as his partner, Korean stars also have the advantages of Korean stars. In terms of body management alone, they can beat 90% of domestic entertainment stars.
What's more important is that Korean stars can accept more sexy outfits. In this regard, domestic entertainment stars are obviously much more conservative.
If you look at the Blue Dragon Awards ceremonies over the years, you will know that Korean women are not afraid of showing their flesh. Many times, Korean stars even wear some weird dresses in order to attract attention.
Those well-known female movie stars in South Korea would be embarrassed to win the Best Actress Award if they didn’t sacrifice for their art and if they didn’t make a large-scale movie.
As for Korean girl groups, the final outcome is also a sexy route.
Many Korean girl groups took the innocent route when they first debuted. After all, these girl groups were less than twenty years old when they debuted, and some of them were underage at all. It would be unsexy to take the sexy route. stand up.
If some teams fail to become popular after a year or two, the agency will change their strategy, let members take a sexy route, start selling meat, and even introduce some marginal clothing and dance moves in order to increase their popularity.
The most famous song is Stellar's "marionette". In the environment like Korea, it was a 19-ban MV.
And if the team becomes popular, it will just follow the youthful route for two more years and then become a sexy girl group later.
Those Korean girl groups that are relatively well-known in the country were young and beautiful girls who acted very cute on the stage when they first debuted. After a few years, they all became sexy and beautiful young women, performing all kinds of sexy dances in hot pants.
These are just what we can see on the surface. Behind the scenes, we can’t even imagine the happiness of those Korean chaebols!
Deliberately showing off sexiness is something that many stars in domestic entertainment cannot do. Among other things, many female stars cannot wear just this tight short skirt, let alone twist and turn on the stage in this outfit. Went.
But Korean stars don’t have this problem. For Korean stars, showing off their sexiness is their sharpest weapon.
The song "TroubleMaker" that Zhang Wei came up with this time just needs sexiness. ...
The prelude of the whistle sounded, which immediately gave people a refreshing feeling.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Wei started singing: "ninunulbomyon, nanTroubleMaker."
"It's in Korean, Zhang Wei sang in Korean!" Everyone was surprised.
When I saw the English name of the song, I thought it was an English song, but I didn’t expect it to be a Korean song.
In the player's waiting area, the other three were suddenly startled.
“Holy crap, Zhang Wei can also speak Korean!”
“His partner is Korean, so it’s normal to sing in Korean!”
“Zhang Wei is a top student at Tsinghua University, so it’s normal to know another foreign language.”
“Korean is actually very easy to learn. When I was studying in Australia, I had Korean friends, and Korean was almost like pinyin, with just a few characters, it would be faster if I practiced it specifically.”
Backstage, in the director’s room. Everyone also looked at the screen in surprise.
“I’ll find you a Korean dance partner, and you really want to sing a Korean song for me!”
The planner suddenly felt frustrated, and he felt even worse. Zhang Wei's performance obviously exceeded his expectations.
The program team arranged a Korean partner for Zhang Wei, of course, in order to weaken his performance. Koreans, if they don't speak Chinese well, will have problems with communication, and their tacit understanding will definitely be affected.
Furthermore, this Korean star is not well-known yet, and cannot bring Zhang Wei any extra points at the fan level.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Wei directly changed from passive to active. Just this sexy appearance successfully attracted the audience's attention.
Next, Zhang Wei directly challenged the challenge with Korean songs. Koreans singing Korean songs will definitely have no problem with their performance.
The key is that this song really sounds like K-pop!
Korean music is quite different from the Chinese music scene in terms of overall style and details.
In 2007, the style of Korean pop music had matured. At this time, Korean music, whether it was fast club songs or slow ballads, paid special attention to rhythm.
When you go to a nightclub to dance and hear the Korean songs played by the DJ, you feel very energetic; when you find an Internet cafe to watch Korean dramas and listen to the very lyrical interludes, you feel very emotional resonance.
This is because of the sense of rhythm. Compared with Chinese songs, Korean songs have a stronger sense of rhythm and are also very recognizable.
Even a program planner who doesn't understand music can feel that Zhang Wei's "TroubleMaker" has the style of a Korean song.
Hearing such a sense of rhythm, the planner's expression became solemn. As the management of a domestic first-tier entertainment company, he knows the power of Hallyu very well.
However, the planner did not know that the real power of this song "TroubleMaker" is not the melody and rhythm of the song, nor the lyrics that Chinese people cannot understand, but the dance in it.
The sexy dance performed by the female dancer is really eye-catching.
The song "TroubleMaker" is the work of Sinsadong Tiger. People who are familiar with Korean entertainment should know that this guy is the top songwriter in Korea and is known as the "hit song making machine".
The biggest feature of the songs he writes is that they are very brainwashing, which means he is good at writing all kinds of brainwashing songs. The well-known Korean groups that emerged after 2010 basically have songs written by him, and almost all of them are masterpieces.
T-ara is a typical example. Some of T-ara's most popular songs, such as "BoPeepBoPeep", "LoveyDovey", "SexyLove", and "NO9", were all written by Sinsadong Tiger . Anyone who stayed in Master 7’s live broadcast room back then should have heard these songs.
With Sinsadong Tiger as a guarantee, this song "TroubleMaker" is definitely of the highest quality among Korean songs.
But what really makes this song pop is HyunA’s hot dance.
In 2011, Korean singers Jang Seung-hyun and Kim Hyuna formed a two-person limited group called TroubleMaker. The first song released by this group was "TroubleMaker".
HyunA was originally a member of the second-generation Korean girl group WonderGirls, but she later quit the group. Then WonderGirls' "Tellme" became popular, and then the song "Nobody" was released. Both of these songs were once bad songs. WonderGirls has also become the top girl group in South Korea, comparable to Girls' Generation.
Before the group fire, the person left. The main target was a 2700-point clearance. This Hyuna also has a straight back.
After that, HyunA changed her agency and went to 4MINUTE to debut again. This group only became popular for a while, and then it was unable to continue.
During this period, HyunA collaborated with Jang Seunghyun on the song "TroubleMaker". In the MV of this song, HyunA showed off her sexiness in all kinds of costumes and dance moves, successfully bringing out this song. lock up.
After that, HyunA also officially started a sexy route. Heavy makeup, hot dancing, and showing off her figure became her trademark. Later, she got the title of "Little Wild Horse" because of her twerking motor, and her success has become one of the top singers in South Korea.
4MINUTE, a girl group with a weak following, relies entirely on HyunA to support itself. At that time, some people also jokingly called 4MINUTE, which was HyunA and her dance partners.
How popular was the song "TroubleMaker" at that time? After this song was released, it has dominated the charts of the three major music programs in South Korea for a long time, and has topped the list of the three major music programs more than once.
It is not difficult to dominate the three major music programs in South Korea, but in 2012, it was really hell mode to dominate the three major music programs in South Korea, because that period was the era when the gods of the Korean music scene were fighting. .
In 2012, Girls' Generation's song "Twinkle" was able to gain a firm foothold on the music charts in the United States, but its ranking in South Korea was not as good as in the United States.
In the same year, T-ara began to reach its peak and released several brainwashing songs in succession, including "rolypoly", "LoveyDovey", "SexyLove", and "Daybyday".
It was also this year that BIGBANG's song "Fantastic Baby" and the phrase "bangshakaraka" became popular throughout Asia. You will definitely hear this song while dancing in nightclubs.
The most valuable one is Uncle Psy's "Gangnam Style", which helped Korean music gain a foothold in the European and American markets.
From then on, Koreans really thought that K-POP was awesome, and the whole world liked K-POP. As a result, the World Expo promotional video featured a K-POP, and everyone repeated the phrase "only one choice" back and forth. It was a success. Became the laughing stock of the world.
The song "TroubleMaker" was able to break out in 2012 when the gods were fighting, and it can be regarded as a representative song of the peak era of Korean Wave.
So when Zhang Wei learned that his dance partner was Korean, the first thing that came to his mind was this song.
After meeting Jiang Shihua in person, Zhang Wei was more convinced of this idea.
Jiang Shihua's dancing skills are definitely not as good as those of Hyuna, but as long as she dresses sexy and twists sexy, that's enough.
As for Zhang Wei, it doesn’t matter whether he dances well or not. Anyway, in this song, the male dancer is just a foil, equivalent to the pole in pole dancing. It doesn’t matter even if he stands still.
Normal people’s eyes will definitely be focused on the female dancer. Who would look at that tube!
Now that the performance has begun, the next step is to let the program team feel the lethality of the peak Korean Wave!
(End of this chapter)