It's hard to be an idol

Chapter 168 Sudden Enthusiasm

"EXODUS" is Chadan's second official album. Compared with the regular album "XOXO", "EXODUS" is much more mature, and basically got rid of the overly youthful teenage nature.The characteristics of allegro works, especially dance works, are very prominent. Apart from being absolutely popular, they emphasize the rhythm of brainwashing and poisoning.

All the songs have been collected. The title song is "Call Me Baby", a representative work of allegro. Before Xu Lai returned to South Korea, I heard that SM Company specially hired Nappy Tabs, a famous choreographer. The team participated in the MV choreography of this song, and a few days after Xu Lai returned to Korea, they officially started recording the song.

This time seems to match Xu Lai’s time. Xu Lai will go to the United States after the new year, and Universal Music will arrange his series of activities. This is after discussing with Universal Music, considering Xu Lai’s work in South Korea. As well as the holiday traditions, there is basically nothing that can be changed. After all, it is already March after the Chinese New Year, and this album is planned to be released around March.

Xu Lai once again returned to the group to work with everyone, but he has gained a lot of privileges. Compared with other members, he is more free, and most of their activities together are practicing in the practice room and meeting occasionally in the company. The other members have announcements that need to be rushed. Xu Lai only accepts interviews when needed, and spends more time in the recording studio communicating with his teacher Kenzie. The whole person has the atmosphere of Chadan, an idol boy group. out of place.

However, Xu Laihong's position in the team is indeed different after he becomes popular.

There were only a few people Xu Lai was close to in the team before, and he even didn't speak to some of them. But this time when they got together again, the other members didn't deliberately come to make friends with Xu Lai, at least they didn't treat him as a person like before. Transparent person, can feel his strong sense of existence, and occasionally have a word or two with him, a state of refusal and welcome.

But Xu Lai felt that it was not as good as treating him like an empty person, which made everyone feel awkward. You came to talk to me and there was nothing embarrassing about it. I didn’t know how to reply and could only laugh and be embarrassed.

But after all, it is a team. I feel that it is not the same thing that Xu Lai has been wandering outside the team like this. He can't have the feelings of the 12 of them in the past. At least he can become an ordinary friend, right?

Park Chanyeol is currently organizing as a bridge between Xu Lai and other South Korean members. He wants to make Xu Lai and other members more familiar, able to talk, and have topics to talk about. Park Chanyeol thinks it is very good Well, at least don't let Xu Lai stay with the other members like strangers, the people outside don't look good, and the previous rumors of exclusion were dispelled only after he interacted with Xu Lai many times.

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"It's so embarrassing, it's so embarrassing, I'm so embarrassed that I can pick out a villa with my toes..."

Of course, this is an exaggeration, but it actually shows the scene of Xu Lai and other members chatting awkwardly in the practice room.After returning to the dormitory, Xu Lai began to complain to Park Chanyeol. Recently, due to the need to record songs and shoot MVs, everyone’s work has been a little less, and they have more time to practice. Everyone spends more time together. Xu Lai felt even more uncomfortable at this time.

He is not the kind of person who is keen on socializing, and of course he does not refuse to communicate with others. His interpersonal communication is natural, and the number of times he deliberately makes friends with others is very small. The embarrassment of responding, of course, when others approach him proactively, he will be treated coldly for a while, because he is not used to it.

Thinking about how the members of the same team treated him in the past, and looking at their current attitudes, Xu Lai always feels an inexplicable awkwardness. There is no such thing as what netizens say: "Today you are ignoring me, but tomorrow "I'm letting you down" feels a little weird and always embarrassing.

Fortunately, not everyone came to him for awkward chats like this. The two people who came to him for awkward chats were those two people who were more cheerful and detached when they had a special kiss with Park Chanyeol. Let’s talk less, and ask Xu Lai how it feels to record a show that requires original songs for each episode in mainland China. Xu Lai is indeed responsive, but they can’t continue talking after a while because they don’t know each other well, so they have to forcefully embarrass each other. It's hard to talk.

"Don't resist them. It's good for everyone to get to know each other better. I didn't say that we must become very good friends with them, but at least we can't feel embarrassed when we talk together! Don't treat yourself as an outsider, okay? Okay? You are a member of our group!" Park Chanyeol looked at Xu Lai, who rarely complained, suddenly spit bitterness at him as if he couldn't bear it, and couldn't help comforting Xu Lai.

To be honest, Park Chanyeol also felt that the members' enthusiasm for Xu Lai came too suddenly. Although he told the members to be a little more enthusiastic towards Xu Lai, now it seems that this enthusiasm seems to scare Xu Lai a bit. Everyone Now it's even more awkward to get along with him, and it's not at all what he expected.

When it comes to why the other members are willing to show enthusiasm for Seo Lai, Park Chanyeol's face alone is not enough. It is more about what Seo Lai said when he divided the lyrics and scenes before.

"I sing a lot of my own songs now, so let the other members sing more of the group's songs! I don't have any problem, and the group's songs are more for the group's fans. I feel like I haven't given any How many fans does the group bring, so let's just leave it at that! I don't have any problems."

Of course Xu Lai did not say this in front of everyone. This is the gossip that Park Chanyeol, the bridge, secretly revealed to the South Korean members, in order to make everyone treat Xu Lai better.

At the beginning, they all said that Xu Lai would not take the group too seriously, but after signing with Universal Music Group, he still did not skip the group's album recording, and did not go to the United States in advance for activities. Instead, he first discussed the matter of Tea Egg Group in South Korea. Get it done first.

This seems to prove that Park Chanyeol's support for Xu Lai was correct at the beginning, and everyone also had some changes in their hearts towards Xu Lai, and this album's song lyrics and MV shots showed a turning point in their attitude towards Xu Lai .

Maybe other people can't decide their participle and shots, but Xu Lai is not an ordinary artist, he is now a big celebrity in SM company, besides, he doesn't want to make more appearances, but wants to reduce his appearances and shots for others Members have more opportunities, which is of course easily approved.

Of course, Xu Lai originally wanted to reduce word segmentation and scenes only for the sake of Park Chanyeol, Huang Zitao, and Zhang Yixing. Individuals can have one or two more scenes, and the lyrics can also be divided into half a sentence.

So fine.

"I know what you want to say, Brother Chanyeol, but you're not used to them like this. It's good to be a little normal to me, just like you were back then. If you get along naturally, you can get along naturally. If you don't get along, you can't force it."

"But someone has to take the initiative, right? It's unrealistic for you to take the initiative."

"Do you think it's for me? Let's become friends with the members! Just ordinary friends, and you can do anything else, okay?"

"Ah."

Xu Lai hesitated for a while before reluctantly nodded.

(End of this chapter)