Peninsula: It’s just a dream, are you serious?

Chapter 462 Saying I don't have any songs? I do have songs, quite a few!
Clicking into the entry, the first result is a long article posted by someone claiming to be a veteran musician.

The article analyzes the arrangements of all of Chen Yan's songs released to date from the perspective of a professional musician and provides his evaluation.

The first song is "Peach," with lyrics and music by Lee Ji-eun and arrangement by Chen Yan.

The musician's assessment was simple: the melody perfectly captured the emotions IU wanted to express in the song, but the arrangement lacked technical sophistication; even a first-year composition student could have put together such an arrangement.

The second song is "So Bad," a track that Chen Yan wrote for 2PM's second Japanese album. He wrote the lyrics, composed the music, and arranged the music.

Review: The arrangement is okay, but nothing special; it's just average.

The third song is "A Certain Spring Day," the title track of 2AM's second full-length Korean album, with lyrics, music, and arrangement by Chen Yan.

Review: The arrangement is also mediocre, with nothing particularly outstanding, but the lyrics are decent.

The fourth song, the one that truly made Chen Yan stand out and gain some fame, was "I Got a Boy," written for Girls' Generation.

This is also Chen Yan's best-performing song among his released works to date.

However, this same song was criticized by the musician as worthless, even less so than the reviews of his previous songs.

Some say this song is completely stitched together, the arrangement is unlistenable, and it's not even a K-pop song; it's a hodgepodge.

They also said that a large part of the reason why this song achieved such great success was due to the popularity of Girls' Generation.

Even if it weren't this song, any other decent song, with Girls' Generation's popularity, would have performed quite well.

The fifth song is "Don't Forget Me," the OST for "Gu Family Book," released in May.

The musician's assessment was also unremarkable, suggesting that the success was largely due to Bae Suzy's high popularity.

The last song is "Baby Don't Cry," which was released at the beginning of the month.

This song actually received the highest praise from this musician, who said that the piano intro was a highlight and that it was the song with the highest arrangement quality among all of Chen Yan's songs released so far.

After a final analysis, the veteran musician concluded that Chen Yan was talented, but his reputation was overrated, and it was absurd to say that he could be compared to President Park Jin-young.

He even put on a mask, saying he was a fan of Park Jin-young because he felt indignant seeing people online comparing Chen Yan and Park Jin-young, so he wrote this analysis post.

He also said that the post only represented his personal opinion and had no intention of targeting Chen Yan personally.

Inside Park Jin-young's office.

Park Jin-young and Chen Yan turned their gazes away from the computer screen in the middle, each frowning slightly, their faces showing a thoughtful expression.

After a moment, Chen Yan spoke first: "Brother Zhenying, was this post posted on purpose?"

Park Jin-young nodded: "It's highly likely that someone is behind this. This post is just a trigger, intended to spark discussion. The poster seems neutral, but the target is clearly you, Xiao Yan."

He reached out and swiped the mouse: "Look, most of the comments below are negative."

Chen Yan glanced at the comments below the post.

[Oh my god! Finally, someone said what I've been wanting to say. Just to clarify beforehand, I'm a complete casual observer, not a fan of anyone, but I genuinely think Chen Yan is being hyped up way too much.]

Honestly, I don't think any of his songs are good. I really don't understand why you guys keep praising him.

Chen Yanzhen is no match for Park Jin-young. His songs aren't anything special; all we see him doing is trending with female celebrities, and his position as a director at JYP Entertainment is clearly just a result of his family's wealth and investment in the company.

About eight out of ten comments were negative, with some even suggesting that his position as a director at JYP Entertainment was bought by his family.

While this is indeed true in essence, especially in the peninsula where chaebols hold sway, this situation is all too common.

However, the resentment of the wealthy among the people of the peninsula is genuine, and if this trend is really set in motion, it will definitely not do Chen Yan any good.

So this is definitely aimed at Chen Yan, or to put it more bluntly, at JYP.

It's hard not to suspect that this is a deliberate attempt by online trolls to stir up trouble.

Park Jin-young also noticed this, his eyes narrowing slightly: "Someone is trying to use public opinion to sabotage your image, Xiaoyan, and thus affect JYP."

If Chen Yan, the star producer cultivated by JYP, is ruined, JYP will inevitably be affected, most directly by the decline in its stock price, which has been rising in the past few days.

When an employee of a company has too much personal influence, any scandal involving that employee will inevitably affect the company. This is especially true in entertainment companies.

For example, if Bae Suzy suddenly terminates her contract with JYP, or if a scandal occurs that could destroy her personal image, JYP's stock price will definitely plummet.

The deeper impact of such an incident is that it damages the company's image and reputation in the public eye, which is definitely not a good thing for the company.

Could it have been Loen?

Chen Yan thought of a possibility.

"It's highly likely, or it could be more than just Loen; there are other people behind him."

Park Jin-young frowned as he pondered the increasingly popular post on his computer screen.

It's possible that LOEN started it all, but it's not impossible that other companies, seeing the situation, could stab it in the back.

As the saying goes, peers are enemies.

The peninsula market is only so big. If you become stronger, it means you'll take a bigger slice. There are plenty of people who don't want to see JYP grow and thrive.

If Chen Yan really becomes a top music producer recognized by the public as being on par with Park Jin-young, it wouldn't be a good thing for them.

SM Entertainment already had two stars in one company, and now JYP Entertainment is joining the fray. You can imagine the pressure on other companies.

Especially now that Chen Yan has become a director of the company, he will definitely have to prioritize the company's interests in the future, so whether he will write songs for other companies is uncertain.

While Chen Yan has gained popularity, he still lags behind in terms of the quality of his works.

The only song that could be considered a hit was "I Got a Boy," but unfortunately, it was also a song with mixed reviews.

This is probably why this musician dared to denigrate the song so harshly in the post.

See, I'm not the only one who says that.

However, Park Jin-young knew that this was because Chen Yan's popularity had been inflated excessively recently due to various circumstances. Compared to this high popularity, the work's achievements seemed somewhat weak.

If Chen Yan didn't have such high popularity, this achievement would actually be quite impressive.

After all, only a year has passed since he graduated from university.

Even Park Jin-young wouldn't dare say that he could have achieved what Chen Yan has at the same age.

Park Jin-young tapped his fingers lightly on the desk a few times, then looked at Chen Yan and asked:

"Xiao Yan, how many songs have you collaborated with other companies that haven't been released yet?"

Chen Yan thought for a moment and said, "Four songs: one from Dream Tea Entertainment, one from Acube, and two from SM Entertainment."

Are they all title tracks?

"Correct."

Are there any releases coming soon?

Chen Yan glanced at the time displayed at the bottom of the computer screen: June 20th.

"The song I wrote for Dream Tea Entertainment's Girl's Day will be released in 4 days. Dream Tea Entertainment announced the release date a few days ago."

Park Jin-young nodded: "What do you think of the song's quality?"

Chen Yan smiled and said, "I think it's a good song."

He's not the kind of person who would doubt himself based on a few comments from others; he has plenty of confidence in his work.

"Yes, these four songs, plus the solo album you're preparing for Sunmi, make a total of five. That's enough."

The best way to deal with this public opinion is to respond with his work. Chen Yan's unreleased singles are enough.

Park Jin-young smiled and said, "I'll contact the presidents of these companies right now and see if we can get them to issue a statement to ride this wave of popularity."

"Then we'll have a meeting with the public relations and publicity departments to see how we can win this public opinion war."

"it is good."

Then, Park Jin-young picked up his phone and called the presidents of these companies one by one.

DreamTea Entertainment and ACUBE quickly agreed to the offer, especially after hearing that Park Jin-young was planning a media campaign, they had no reason to refuse.

Both of them knew that it would generate a lot of buzz, and that they could simply issue an announcement to ride that wave of attention without having to do anything else. Only a fool would refuse.

After obtaining the consent of both families, Park Jin-young made separate phone calls to Lee Soo-man and Kim Young-min.

After explaining their purpose and asking for their help, they proactively mentioned that Chen Yan's collaboration with SM Entertainment has always been very pleasant, and they hoped that this good working relationship could continue.

This means that if SM wants Chen Yan to help write songs in the future, Chen Yan will not refuse because of his position as a director of JYP.

Kim Young-min and Lee Soo-man didn't refuse and happily agreed.

When it comes to riding the coattails of trending topics, SM Entertainment is the real pro, not to mention they even got a guarantee from Chen Yan that he wouldn't refuse to work with them again because of his position.

After finishing the call, Park Jin-young immediately notified the heads of the public relations and publicity departments to hold an emergency meeting in the conference room in ten minutes.

The time came to five o'clock in the afternoon.

After more than two hours of discussion, the hashtag "[Chen Yan, a talented man packaged by JYP]" has reached fifth place on Naver's trending list, and the number of people discussing it continues to increase.

Half an hour later, another keyword related to Chen Yan quietly climbed onto the trending list and quickly entered the top ten.

[Chen Yan made remarks in June, July and August].

However, this seemingly meaningless entry, when compared with the entry "Chen Yan, a talented man packaged by JYP" which is located a few places away, suddenly excited the netizens.

Clicking on the entry will take you to the first post, which is an announcement from JYP's official website.

The content is very simple; it's just a simple timetable.

The following songs, which my Chen PDnim has completed but not yet officially released, are:
"Something" - a collaboration with Girl's Day, a girl group under Dream Tea Entertainment, will be officially released on June 24th.

"NONONO" - a collaboration with Apink from ACUBE Entertainment, will be officially released on July 5th.

"First Wisdom Tooth" - a collaboration with SM Entertainment's f(x) group, officially released on July 29th.

"Roar" - a collaboration with SM Entertainment's EXO group, officially released on August 5th.

Note: All four songs above are the album's title tracks.

Additionally, our artist Lee Sunmi will be making her solo debut in early September. Her solo album and title track will be planned and produced by PDnim Chen.

really.

After reading the announcement, the onlookers thought to themselves, "Just as I expected," and a surge of excitement and anticipation welled up inside them.

Good heavens, this is a clash of titans!

This is clearly aimed at the trending search terms mentioned earlier.

Didn't you say that my music producers have no talent and are just packaged up? Well, take a look at these four songs, these four songs that were picked up by other companies.

Are these companies all idiots? Can't they tell the difference between good and bad songs?

These are still four songs that are the main tracks of the album, not the songs included in the album. Those are songs that are meant to be performed on stage.

Don't these companies want their artists to have better comeback results and make money for the company?

(When a Korean group makes a comeback, the song used to promote the album must be the title track; any other tracks from the album are not acceptable, even if they perform better on digital music charts than the title track.)
In no time, countless office workers who had just finished get off work and students who had just finished school saw the situation online and immediately started watching the drama unfold.

However, before they could even enjoy the gossip for long, another bombshell suddenly exploded online, completely igniting public opinion and leaving onlookers thrilled and jumping around in the gossip field.

(End of this chapter)