Chapter 23 Isn’t this also a kind of NTR? A few days later, Jin Shiming finally received a reply from IU. "IUxi really likes President Nim's song and is quite willing to cooperate with him. However, the other party has some opinions on the specific form of cooperation." As soon as Jin Hengen got the news from his relatives, he reported it to Jin Shiming immediately. "She wants to increase the proportion of parts in the song, not just put it in the title of a feat, right?" Jin Shiming said in a confident tone. "President Nim, you are so predictable!" Jin Hengen nodded and said, "IUxi hopes that both parties can cooperate on an equal footing and change 'feat' to 'with'." In collaborative music, there is a fundamental difference between 'feat' and 'with'. Feat means that a singer participates in the song as a special guest. Singers with feat labels usually sing in chorus, provide background vocals or other forms of collaboration in the song, which brings a different style or sound to the song and increases the richness and appeal of the track. To put it bluntly, singers with feat marks are often not the leaders or lead singers of the songs, and their part ratio will be much smaller accordingly. For singers marked with, & or a slash, it means that the two parties are basically in an equal cooperative relationship, without a clear distinction between host and guest. In fact, many passers-by who listen to the song do not quite understand the difference between these two forms of collaboration and just think that both are collaborative songs.
This indirectly gives some artists room to hype themselves up and forcibly raise their own status. For example, some idol singers, who flatter famous European and American singers in various ways, finally get a feat title, and then they brag wildly about their influence overseas, and even label themselves as international superstars. After that, they buy some press releases and hot searches, and fans cooperate to hype up the topic, and bystanders may really be misled. "Just do as she says! My bottom line is that I must be the first choice among the singers!" Jin Shiming made the concession very readily. Mr. Lu Xun said it well: if there are a lot of people in a room and you want to open a window, no one will agree. But if you want to lift the roof off the house, others will agree to let you open the window. Jin Shiming knew very well that with IU's current status, it would be almost impossible for her to be a feature for him, not to mention that the two of them had no previous relationship at all. But this song "Besides Spring, Love and Cherry Blossoms" is very much to IU's taste and she finds it hard to give it up. At this time, as long as Jin Shiming makes appropriate concessions and gives IU the corresponding step, this cooperation will basically be a sure thing. "Yes! I will tell President Nim's words to IUxi's agent right away!" Seeing that Jin Shiming agreed so readily, Jin Hengen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When the people at the top open their mouths, the people below will run themselves ragged. Jin Hengen was afraid that Jin Shiming would not be able to save face, causing this cooperation to come to a stalemate. At that time, he would be unable to report to Jin Shiming, and it would be difficult for him to give an explanation to his relatives and friends. He was really in a dilemma. Fortunately, Jin Shiming has high IQ and EQ, and is much more mature than his peers in dealing with people. His style of doing things already has some of the demeanor of a helmsman of a large company. This is undoubtedly a blessing for BD Entertainment. …… Practice room. Zheng Yilin, who had just joined the company and was a complete social terrorist, quickly integrated into the group of trainees. In comparison, Jin Yiyuan, who joined BD Entertainment at the same time, is more shy.
However, since she was the youngest and had a very likable personality, she naturally enjoyed the treatment of the youngest member and everyone took good care of her. "Wow! It's amazing! Yelin, you and Yewon have the same birthday!" Jin Sejeong exclaimed. "And you both have the same character in your names, what kind of fate is this?" Jin Shaoqing agreed. "Hehe! Maybe Yewon and I were sisters in our previous life!" Zheng Yilin hugged Jin Yewon and rubbed the maknae's chubby cheek very naturally. "Ouni!" Kim Ye-won was not used to this unnie's intimacy, but did not resist out of politeness and could only complain aggrievedly. "Our Yewon is so cute!" Choi Yuna covered her chest with both hands and said with an exaggerated expression as if she was hit in the heart. Born in 97, she was originally the youngest among the trainees. Now with Kim Ye-won, who was born in 98, she has finally become an unnie. However, as an older sister, she is often not as reliable as the youngest sister. "Just now I went to the restroom and happened to run into Director Jin making a phone call in the corridor. Can you guess what I heard?" Li Sulu suddenly lowered her voice and kept everyone in suspense. "Ah Xi, stop keeping us in suspense! Tell us who that devil Director Jin is talking to on the phone?" an impatient trainee urged. "President-nim seems to be collaborating on a song with IU senior!" Lee So-yul said word by word. "Oh my god! Is it really IU senior?" Li LUDA couldn't help but screamed when he heard it. Everyone around him was startled. Li LUDA is usually shy, sensitive and quiet, but occasionally shows a dark and funny side. But overall, she is undoubtedly the type of person who is not very good at showing herself and has a weak sense of presence. The reason why Li Luda was so excited was that she, like Kim Sejeong, admired IU very much. "Sejeong unni, is what Souryul unni said true?" Lee Luda turned her head to look at Kim Sejeong, trying to get confirmation from her. "I've been with you guys from morning to night recently and haven't met Oppa much, so how would I know these things?" Kim Sejeong said with an itchy feeling in her heart. As a die-hard fan of IU, she can fully understand Li Luda's excitement at the moment. If Jin Shiming really has plans to collaborate with IU on a song, will IU come to BD Entertainment to record the song? If so, wouldn’t it be a chance for you to see your idol in person, and maybe even take a photo with him? "Ah! I understand!" Cui Yuna seemed to have just figured out the situation. She clapped her hands and said in surprise. "Cui Mengmeng, what do you know now?" Jin Shaoqing slapped him and said unhappily. "A few days ago, President Nim asked me to record a demo, maybe it was that collaboration song." Choi Yuna said belatedly. "You're so stupid, when did you secretly record a demo without telling us?" "Tell me, do you have any other secrets that you are hiding from us?" "President-nim approached you but not Sejeong-unnie. I think you are the real royalty!" "Ouni, please tell me, what do you think of that collaboration song?" Everyone immediately surrounded Choi Yuna and started asking questions. "How should I describe it? It should become a classic song that must be listened to in spring, right?" Choi Yuna thought for a moment and answered. Thinking of the scene when recording the demo, Choi Yuna couldn't help feeling a little lost and regretful.
For such a beautiful song, she could only sing for a demo, but the person who actually collaborated with Jin Shiming was someone else. To some extent, isn't this also a kind of NTR? When will she be able to officially collaborate with her idol as a singer? (End of this chapter)