It's hard to be an idol

Chapter 63 Limitations and Expectations
Red cups and sweaty bodies everywhere
Let's celebrate and dance

Hands in the air like we don't care
wave your arms, don't care

'Cause we came to have so much fun now
Unlimited joy, endless fun

Bet somebody here might be the one now
Looking for party masters to mobilize the party atmosphere

If you're not ready to go home
if you don't want to go home

Can I get a “Hell, no!”?
just party
Cause we're gonna go all night
Tonight's party, the scenery is unlimited

Till we see the sunlight, alright
Party all night till dawn

……

In the musical instrument room in France, Yin Daoxian and the others sat quietly to the side, half surrounding Xu Lai in the center, and became the first audience of Xu Lai's new song.

Xu Lai’s new song was inspired in Ireland. After a few days of traveling in England, it was finally turned into a finished product in France. This is the first time Yin Daoxian and the others heard the full version of this song. It was just Xu Lai’s acoustic guitar accompaniment. A voice is singing, the whole song is gentle and energetic, and the lyrics of the whole song are about the youthful life of young people...

However, Xu Lai likes to sing this song slowly. This song does not need to be so elaborately produced, but he feels it is good enough. All he wants is that feeling.

Yin Daoxian and others, who were listening to Xu Lai's singing, had nothing to say now, and what they could say might just be admiration.

They are the witnesses of Xu Lai's recent dramatic changes. They have witnessed Xu Lai's transformation from an unknown newcomer to a well-known singer who can be recognized on the road, let alone the current situation in South Korea. The fierce public opinion was just happening before their eyes. When they were walking on the road with Xu Lai in the UK, occasionally someone would take a group photo, someone would ask for an autograph, and even their road show became extremely popular.

They all know that these changes are because of Xu Lai, and they don't have any jealousy towards Xu Lai. After all, Xu Lai's "Galway Girl" is still ranked No. 1 on the UK chart. This is something they have never done. They are proud of Xu Lai, but they will not have any psychological imbalance.

Heaven is inherently unfair. This was understood when Yin Daoxian and the others met Xu Lai in the musical instrument room for the first time. There is nothing to do with talent. Xu Lai’s high talent is recognized by them, but now Xu Lai can It surprised them to do this, but it didn't surprise them.

Genius is to stand out in front of the world and receive cheers and applause.

"Papa papa papa~~"

As soon as Xu Lai's performance ended, Yin Daoxian led others to start applauding. Even the photographers and directors who were standing behind them came to the musical instrument room and witnessed Xu Lai's first stage performance. Afterwards, he expressed his heartfelt admiration. .

Xu Lai's status is completely different now. Before that, he was a newcomer introduced by Kenzie. He was the addition to the whole show. Although he is talented, his popularity is there after all. He has not experienced long-term variety show shooting. Neither performance is necessarily great.

But now Xu Lai's performance has completely exceeded everyone's expectations. Not only does he have a good sense of camera, he is not shy at all in street performances (I guess he feels that no one knows him anyway), and he even wrote a song that topped the UK list during the show. In "Galway Girl", he gradually transformed himself from a little transparent at the beginning of the show to the center of the whole show.

It can be said that as soon as "BEGIN AGAIN" aired, most of the people who came to watch the show came for Xu Lai. After all, Xu Lai is really popular now, not only because of his popularity abroad, but also because of his new song abroad. South Korean netizens spontaneously publicized and rehabilitated Xu Lai. The injustices he had suffered before were revealed, and the fan circle culture was once again criticized. Although Xu Lai is a mainlander, he He is an artist from SM Company, and he can be regarded as half a K-pop musician.

Seo Lai pop = K-pop pop
After such a conversion, even if Xu Lai is not a South Korean, it is enough to satisfy the national pride of South Korean netizens. After all, Xu Lai is a product of K-pop culture (they think).

The current Xu Lai brought them a sense of being satisfied with their self-esteem, so they temporarily regarded Xu Lai as one of their own, and the almighty netizens immediately helped Xu Lai to vindicate him in South Korea, and washed away all the black spots he had caused for no reason before. Bai, the planetary fans who boycotted him were scolded too much to raise their heads. Since then, Xu Lai has ushered in his spring in South Korea. There are very few voices against him, and even netizens are already voting to force SM to let Xu Lai I have a solo album.

Indeed, SM company also intends to do so.

Before filming the MV of "Galway Girl", they were not willing to spend a lot of money. Now they are more anxious than netizens. They waited for Xu Lai to come to South Korea to record his new work after more than ten days of variety show shooting, and they have given Xu Lai To get to the bottom of it, let him write more songs. The company will help him collect two songs. First, the whole mini album will stabilize the popularity. It would be better if he can go abroad to get some results.

SM has also tried to open up the situation in Europe and America, but the popularity of K-pop is very limited, and there is no way to open up the situation in Europe and the United States. Girls’ Generation before and XO have tried it before, but unfortunately the gains are not very great. , and most of the results over there were obtained by netizens from South Korea and the mainland, and they did not receive any recognition from Europe and the United States.

But Xu Lai is completely different, he is just a newcomer who has just debuted, he has no fans, no fans, no popularity, and he has reached the top of the UK list by himself (SM also believes that their promotion is not in the UK. Not very useful), in addition to Xu Lai's singing and writing skills, his style is also favored by Europe and the United States. Compared with spending more resources on idol teams, hoping that they can open up the situation in Europe and the United States, it is better to let the style Xu Lai, who is more lovable in Europe and America, is the one who breaks the game.

Of course, no one can be sure how much Xu Lai will be able to achieve in Europe and America, but he is more likely to achieve results than others.

SM company is just betting that Xu Lai can achieve something. After all, Xu Lai's performance is too tempting for them. Let alone Europe and the United States, Xu Lai may have success in South Korea and mainland China. Great harvest, this is not as simple as 1+1+1=3, it is simply a huge radiation effect, radiating from the results in Europe and the United States to South Korea and the mainland.

It has to be said that Xu Lai's value has been fully reflected now, he is the vanguard of SM company to expand the European and American markets, whether SM company can defeat the other two entertainment companies and become the dominant one may depend on Xu Lai.

Besides, there was another piece of good news that lifted SM's spirits all of a sudden.

"XO's new member Xu Lai's new song "Galway Girl" debuted on the B chart for the first time, temporarily ranking at No. 97."

　The first update and the second update are still being written.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)