Thinker in the entertainment industry

"Are you already asleep?"

"No, just sitting on the bed," said Zheng Zhiyong, who had already changed into pajamas and pajamas, "Is there something wrong?"

"Just to see if you are used to it, haven't you stayed in a hotel for a long time?"

"That's true, but it's okay." Zheng Zhiyong said.

Zheng Zhiyong lived in a single room. He didn't bring much luggage when he came here, so he couldn't mess around now. The quilt on the bed was thrown aside, and there was a tablet with a bright screen in the middle. computer.Zheng Zhiyong walked back, leaned on the pillow and sat on the bed again, and Park Jayong also looked away from the trousers that covered his heels. He sat down on the chair: "Are you still used to it here?"

"Fortunately, my communication skills are better than my brother's, isn't my brother a gay friend everywhere?" Zheng Zhiyong picked up the tablet and put it on his lap, and said with a smile, "This is also through practice, I When I was young, when I went out to travel, besides having fun, I had to learn how to deal with people from different places. But it was easy at that time. When I was young, others would not be serious with you. I tried to brush my face, and it has been very smooth. Now I have no age. Advantages, if you want to brush your face, you have to pay attention to the method, but it is another experience.”

"You have done enough, I can at most let go when I am underground, you are completely two people." Jay Park sighed.

"Where is it? I look upright on the ground and underground at first glance, but it's a bit sharper when I'm underground, and it's still the needle-hidden type."

"Well, my description is not accurate." Jay Park raised his hands in a gesture of surrender and poked his head forward at the same time, "What are you doing?"

"Writing lyrics, this time I want to try a song that is all rap, but the style is more popular. Now it seems that it is not going very well." Zheng Zhiyong said, "I'm afraid I will ask Zico for help when I go back, but I don't know if he has enough time. ".

"If you are interested in this kind of style, he will be more than happy to take you along. Zico doesn't want to write those pop-style songs, but he just can't help it." Jay Park said.

Anyway, he couldn't help much, Zheng Zhiyong and his thoughts on music were too far apart, and neither of them wanted to accommodate the other.

Zheng Zhiyong's face drooped, and he joked, "So I rejected Long Junheng and sold it to Yu Zhihao?" He sighed again, "It's okay to work when you feel like it, but if you become It’s a burden to work.”

Park Jae-bum is not as easy to fool as Long Jun-hyung: "But you still want to go this way." If it is just a hobby, Zheng Zhiyong can write about the genres he is good at or do underground hip-hop, why bother? To try something new?

"That's right", Jay Park Park has seen the more embarrassing appearance before, and Zheng Zhiyong has no need to hide this little thought, "I want to make sure that I will continue to do it, and I must make sure that I can do well. Although I pretend to be living casually, I am still afraid of failure."

"You don't believe in yourself enough," Park Jay said, "I didn't like sentimental people before, but after getting to know you, I have to admit that such a person can be excellent at the same time, but..." He smiled wryly, "My Approval doesn't seem to be doing you much."

"This thing has to reach a certain amount to be effective," Zheng Zhiyong said with a smile. He doesn't think he is worse than anyone else. However, he received too much cold water when he was a child. He is not a very firm person, so he is still affected by it. , the two tendencies of self-confidence and inferiority, have been engaged in a tug of war, so that now he is gentle and cautious when working, and he is doing hip-hop underground, but he does not point out the country or make ridicule, and his life is becoming more and more divided. Fight for yourself, the response to the song is good, and the sense of self-confidence will naturally come."

"That's true", although Zheng Zhiyong is often hesitant, there is no major problem with his thinking, and many times it is quite reasonable, and Long Junheng and the others can't find a reason to convince him that he treats music as a part-time job. He and Jay Park are the same, plus Jay Park knows the specific situation of Zheng Zhiyong, so he will subconsciously be tolerant, "What is the theme of the song you made this time?"

Besides, Zheng Zhiyong is quite "hard-working", and he has to find time to write lyrics when he comes out to play, which is much better than Simond.

——Zheng Zhiyong is not the only one who complains about Simond, who has been very low-yield recently.

"mywayornoway is also the title of the song, but I didn't intend to write the lyrics very aggressively. This sentence can also be used as 'differences do not seek each other', and I can't write very strong words.".

"If the words are not strong enough, will using this as the title of the song cause misunderstanding?" As a native English speaker, Jay Park is not very clear about Koreans' understanding of English.

"I don't know, but the title of the song in the back is too long and hard to remember." Zheng Zhiyong, who has been gifted with languages ​​since he was a child, doesn't know the understanding of others. "But the bigger problem is that I originally wanted to put It is divided into several parts and expressed with raps of different timbres, and the result is that it is written in the same style from the beginning to the end."

The problem Zheng Zhiyong faces is not just that he is not interested in music enough, nor is it just the difficulty of "it is difficult to write a song without a theme". Facing Long Junheng, his purpose is to reject the other party's proposal, not to show How much trouble I have-this may bring out the subtext of "do you want to do me a favor", so he only said part of it. When An Xiaozhen came to him, what Zheng Zhiyong said was his other part. one question:

He is not good at dividing songs into different parts.

Since he started writing, most of the songs written by Zheng Zhiyong were sung by one person, such as "Spring" for ledapple at the beginning - ledapple is a band with only one lead singer, and the rest are basically songs that can be done by two people , one vocal, one rapper, such as "Tears".

He discovered this problem when he was working with mq. For the song "you don't know", the method he adopted was to divide the song into sections. The difficulty is ranked from top to bottom, and the singing skills of mq members are ranked from high to low. Then corresponding to the distribution, the songs and the personal characteristics of the members are not really a good match, let alone the fact that he couldn't add a rap to the song, so that rappermir had to sing.

Zheng Zhiyong later recalled his previous cooperation with Long Junheng.

"There needs to be an effect of lifting the atmosphere up, and then we will enter the chorus." Long Junhyung made an "upward" movement with his hand, "What do you think of me splitting the beat like this?"

"Isn't it a bit too fast? After entering the chorus, it will slow down instead, it will be awkward." Zheng Zhiyong thought seriously, "Would it be better to use this beat?" He directly put his fingers on the table and set the rhythm Knock it out.

Long Junhyung shook his head: "This is Hyun Seung's part. It's a bit difficult for him to slow down the tempo after almost half a song is high. It's not a chorus, and the turning point is fine."

……

Well, who will sing, how much to sing, how to sing, etc., are all determined by Yong Junhyung.

When Ahn Hyo Jin arrived at aomg, Jung Jiyong, who was already aware of this problem, explained it truthfully to An Hyo Jin: I don’t seem to have any in stock that is particularly suitable for you, and it’s a bit difficult to compile it according to your characteristics...

So Jay Park would say something like "I found a problem again" on the phone.

Although in the eyes of Jay Park, Zheng Zhiyong is a kind of "hardworking" person, but in Zheng Zhiyong's view, creating this thing is not in a hurry. The basic skills need to be learned, and the rest is more dependent on I feel, so generally speaking, during his vacation in China, he spent a relatively leisurely time. He used his tablet to create creations before going to bed at night, and basically went out during the day. , When the translation is busy, he also takes a temporary shift to act as a communication bridge between China and South Korea.

Because of this, he became a little familiar with Zhang He.

"Aren't you going to debut? I think the conditions are pretty good."

...Everyone who is a little familiar with him seems to ask such a question.

A row of black lines silently hung down on Zheng Zhiyong's forehead: "I don't think the conditions are ripe, it's my own problem."

When he said that, it was difficult for Zhang He to continue to ask the bottom line, so he changed the subject: "The three groups will get together to shoot soon, do you want to meet other people?" There is no need for contacts, but Zhang He felt that Zheng Zhiyong should not reject this, so he raised it.

other people?Zheng Zhiyong shook his head: "I'm going back to my country soon, I don't have time, so forget it."

"Well, there are singers and variety shows in other groups. I think you are more likely to need it in the future. I am an actor... Have you ever thought about acting?" The last sentence was obviously a joke.

Zheng Zhiyong's eyes flickered: "Brother, when I recover to the point where I can digest strenuous exercise, I'm afraid I'll be at least my age."

So Zhang Hyuk withdrew the "I'm sorry to forget that you were injured before and it's a little inconvenient to act" that he was about to say, and replaced it with: "What do you mean by my age?"

Zheng Zhiyong scratched his head: "Isn't it better for me to use 'I haven't acted in an underground rapper yet' as an excuse?"

"Thinking of it now?" Zhang Hyuk acted instinctively, and put on a gloomy face, "It's late."

So that's how it went.

After hearing about this incident, Park Jae Fan was very speechless to Zheng Zhiyong: "You are really cautious, can An Qixuan remember you?"

"And the staff of SM", Zheng Zhiyong said, "Although it's been so long, I don't take any risks."

"So you slipped away before the meeting, right?"

Zheng Zhiyong nodded wildly.

Park Jay Bum: ...he has absolutely nothing to do with Zheng Zhiyong, let him go.

When Zheng Zhiyong decided to continue to be an ostrich, in an artist's "resident base" near SM, Zheng Xiujing took her mobile phone and found Kim Jonghyun and Choi Minho who were eating: "Do you have time, can you identify someone for me? "

recognize someone?Kim Jonghyun and Choi Minho look at each other

, felt a little confused about Oh Soo-jin's request.Oh Soo-jin didn't explain much, just handed over the phone and showed them the photos inside.

"This is... Park Jae-bum and senior Jang Hyuk?" Kim Jong-hyun recognized the two people in the center of the screen.

"Look at the back", Oh Soo-jin pointed to the staff members who were photographed behind - this is a photo of the rehearsal scene, it's not surprising that other people were photographed, "This person".

Kim Jong-hyun and Choi Min-ho looked along what Jung Soo-jin pointed, and after a while, their expressions became serious.

"Where is the photo?" Kim Jonghyun asked.

"Senior kangta participated in a Chinese program, and my team leader went to be a guest star. When she uploaded the photo, she looked at it and found this one." Oh Soo-jin said in a low voice, "She's not sure, so am I. What do you think? ,looks like?"

"Like, but it's hard to say, it's just a profile", Kim Jonghyun sighed, but his face was still tense, "Zheng, Zhi, Yong, he disappeared for seven years."

"Someone must be sure." Oh Soo-jin said.

"It's better not to let him know." Kim Jonghyun said with a wry smile.

The two people who still remember what happened seven years ago exchanged a helpless look.

Zheng Zhiyong was considered one of the influential figures when he was in SM back then, but he was not high-profile and he was a private trainee, so he didn't get too much limelight.After disappearing suddenly, the number of mentions went up to a higher level instead—and made those who remained suffer.

But what happened seven years ago, no one knows.

"I remembered something." At this moment, Choi Minho, who had been silent for a long time, said with a sinking face, "I seem to have seen this person, not long ago."