Chapter 394: Warm Response
The performance ended successfully and the ending was also very neat. Yoo Hee-yeol came on stage, said a few words, and then expressed the hope that everyone could support Antenna Family's music. Today's performance ended.
A group of people were walking towards a nearby parking lot, followed by a number of audience members who were taking photos excitedly. It seemed that today's performance was extraordinary.
But in addition to the unrest behind and around me, it was also uneasy around me.
“President!”
"Will there be a next performance?"
Hong Jin-young, who had filmed the entire show with a camera, squeezed in front of Zheng Xiuheng and asked pitifully. Now she regretted it so much. It was such an interesting and hot performance, and one of the participants was now filming something with a home camera...
Hong Jin Young is really regretting her decision. What she is most worried about now is that the chairman is really angry with her. If he gives up on her in the future, then isn't that really the end?
Zheng Xiuheng turned his head and looked at Hong Jin Young's pitiful expression. He didn't give her any sunshine and just replied calmly: "Maybe. Why, do you still want to participate?"
“Hmmmm!”
Seeing her like a chicken pecking at rice, Zheng Xiuheng smiled and replied: "Then wait, when the company prepares hip-hop music, we will consider letting you go on stage!"
"Ha! Ha! President, I can actually sing anything. I think as long as it's good music, it doesn't matter what genre it is!"
Looking at Hong Jin Young's embarrassed look, Zheng Xiuheng would not say yes so easily.
"Let's see how you perform in the future!"
Zheng Xiuheng has now figured out that he can't be too nice to this girl. With Hong Jin Young's typical attitude of beating the snake with a stick, if she is given a little sunshine, she will be extremely bright.
Hong Jin Young fell behind with a "sad" look on her face. Imagine the past two years of theater experience, how could it be so harmonious now. Moreover, not long after joining the company, she got the opportunity to debut soon, and sang a feat for Lee Hyori. In fact, if you think about it this way, she is already many steps ahead of others. She is definitely the luckiest of the lucky ones.
This made Hong Jin Young forget the nervousness she should have felt, but now that she was there, the president's inexplicable attitude made Hong Jin Young much more sober. It seemed that not always being coquettish and cute with the president would be effective.
Without waiting for Lee Hyori's album to be released on the 28th, the internet was already abuzz with reports of Antenna Family's performance on the second day of the performance. Reports were everywhere, and basically all were praises. The audience also uploaded many videos to the internet, which attracted many music critics to comment.
The Teletubbies who performed naturally attracted a lot of fans. Although it was less than a day, it was too easy for these cute girls to attract fans.
Jin Baoer also attracted the attention of a few people, most of whom were women.
The next one is naturally teacher Kim So-hyang. You should know that a few days ago, the video of Kim So-hyang singing in the practice room achieved extremely high clicks on many video websites, and it even exceeded two million on Naver.
Of course, there are also pseudo-middle-aged bands that netizens talk about with great relish, but the craze caused by Lee Hyori was ranked behind these. It seems that people always have greater curiosity and expectations for unknown things.
But no matter what, the first performance of Antenna Music was a success. Although there were many shortcomings, the effect was unexpectedly good.
Especially at three o'clock in the afternoon, an article by music critic Jiang Mingshi directly put Zheng Xiuheng at the center of public opinion and also brought more attention to Antenna.
"YG Yang Hyun-seok, JYP Park Jin-young, SM Yu Yong-jin...Jung Soo-hyung?"
"In the field of Korean music producers, apart from the emerging figures in recent years, such as Brave Brothers, Sinsadong Tiger and other young musicians, the most influential and powerful are still the famous musicians in these major companies.
The most representative ones are of course YG, JYP, SM...
The status of these three in the music industry is unquestionable. Whether it is the pioneering of music or the training and promotion of singers, they all have distinct personal styles. It is difficult to rank them because they still have more and better works being released. The groups and singers created by the three companies have slowly influenced Korean popular music.
I would have loved to see this happen in the 90s, because it was a groundbreaking era for K-pop, and that was indeed the case.
However, up to now, popular music still remains in the realm of dance music and electronic music, and has left an indelible mark on the Korean music scene. This may not matter to the general public, but it is sad for musicians.
Just like these emerging young musicians, apart from slightly different personal coding methods and creative concepts, their music genres are undoubtedly surprisingly consistent. The occasional flash of lyricism or hip-hop cannot make up for the lack of genres in the mass market.
But this does not mean that Korean pop music only has these things. In independent music that the public does not care about, there are still many songs with diverse styles and beautiful sounds, but these songs are not recognized by the market.
Rather than the public being unable to accept this statement, I am more inclined to believe that the market promotion efforts are not strong enough, and entertainment companies cannot operate with an idealistic attitude to promote music...
However, yesterday, Antenna Family's street performance in Myeongdong refreshed my impression of this company and also refreshed my understanding of the young musician Zheng Xiuheng.
Although I expressed my anticipation for his music last time, I didn't expect to receive a "response" so soon. As for the songs sung in the performance, except for "What Do You Know" sung by Lee Hyori and Jung Soo-hyung, and "Evening Sky" sung by the girl named Kim Bo-ah, the other songs are completely different from the music currently popular in Korea, and contain more heart-moving musical elements.
Most importantly, these songs are of a type that the general public can completely accept, judging by the reactions to the performances. Facts have also proven that good music, no matter what style it is, will be loved by the general public.
In addition to his identity as a musician, what surprised me was that Zheng Xiuheng is also the chairman of Antenna. This result made me have more expectations for this company, because with such a musician as the chairman, plus Yoo Hee-yeol and other predecessors who focus on personal music and have distinctive colors, although I don’t know what Antenna’s star-making ability will be like, but at least, Antenna’s music will definitely be full of all kinds of wonderful colors.
After yesterday's performance, I have become more determined that in the future, when people mention antennas, they will no longer say it is Lee Hyori's agency.
On the contrary, I firmly believe that in the future, maybe not too long, even within this year, when people talk about this company, they will think of Zheng Xiuheng, think of this young musician, just like the three major music companies in the music industry. Of course, in SM, maybe we can combine the names of Lee Soo Man and Yu Yong Jin, maybe Yu Soo Man? Okay, just kidding...
From instrumental music , to ballads, to R&B elements, classical elements, New Age music, to European and American POP, as well as light, beautiful and soulful music...
I don’t know how many amazing things this young musician Zheng Xiuheng has in him, but there is no doubt that based on the qualities he has shown so far, I believe that he is definitely not inferior to the other three musicians.
As for the new generation of musicians, in my opinion, their creation speed, grasp of the market and how to create pop songs may be as good as Zheng Xiuheng, or even a little better. However, in terms of musical literacy and the weapons they use , they are not on the same level.
So I am looking forward to Antenna Family, and even more so to Zheng Xiuheng’s… music.”
"Isn't this the soft article you hired someone to write?"
"no!"
"Really?"
"Really not!"
"Tsk, it seems like these music critics don't have very good taste!"
Lee Hyori was sitting next to Jung Soo-heng. The two of them were looking at the news on the computer. Lee Hyori couldn't help but complain a few words.
Both of them stayed at home today and did not go to the company to feel the hot atmosphere. One reason was that Zheng Xiuheng really needed a break as his nerves had been too tense during this period.
Secondly, Lee Hyori's mini album will be officially released the day after tomorrow. Although this sister is still very popular, apart from special performances on the three major TV stations, she will not participate in weekly live performances, but she will carry out autograph sessions and other announcements.
Simply put, in the next one to two months, Lee Hyori will enter a period of full-scale activities, and the two will not meet like this all day long at that time.
"I think it's pretty good. If this music critic hadn't said it, I wouldn't have known how good I am. But... it seems that there are more Antis too!"
Zheng Xiuheng looked at the comments below with interest. There is no such thing as perfection in this world. Although there were many good reviews today and the media all applauded, not everyone liked it. Especially Jiang Mingshi's music review, which made many company fans unhappy.
Regardless of whether these people have watched the performance videos, even if they have, they can still find a lot of faults. For example, the Teletubbies' instrument playing level is disgustingly low, and there are also attacks on Kimball for looking too androgynous, and some say that those songs are just like the one in "Buzz", full of fly noises.
Later on, it was said that musicians like Zheng Xiuheng and Park Jinying were far inferior to him, and that even the brave brothers could not compare to him.
Of course, compared with the large number of positive comments, these comments are not very noticeable. Only a weirdo like Zheng Xiuheng would specifically look for negative comments.
