Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

"Alright, all the recordings are finished. Thank you all for your hard work."

In the recording studio, after saying this, Jiang Yan took off his headphones.

At the same time, all six members of the Major team breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

We started recording early in the morning and continued until after 4 p.m., finally finishing the vocal recording.

But what Jiang Yan didn't tell them was that this speed was achieved after he lowered the standards.

If we follow his own standards, then these six people probably won't be able to finish recording even if they stay until tonight.

You should know that when Yoo Jeongyeon came to record songs alone before, she would record until late at night.

This is also thanks to the fact that Park Jin-young didn't have high expectations of them.

Because after Jiang Yan finished recording each person, he would turn around and look at the gorilla, exchange glances with the person, and only after receiving a nod of approval would he move on to the next person. This is also why the other person would stay here with him.

As Jiang Yan stood up, Minatozaki Sana said in a soft, sweet voice, "Thank you for your hard work, PD Jiang~"

Jiang Yan looked at her and smiled, "Sana, you've worked hard too. I hope you won't blame me for being too strict with you today."

"No, I learned a lot from this recording session. Thanks to PD Kang for pointing out many of my shortcomings."

"The recording is finished, so please stop calling me that. It sounds really strange."

Jiang Yan felt quite uncomfortable hearing Minatozaki Sana calling him "Jiang PD" repeatedly.

After hearing him say that, Sana Minatozaki immediately changed her address to "oppa," and the two started chatting.

However, they didn't talk for very long, since Park Jin-young was still there.

"Alright kids, we still have some things to discuss. You can go back to the practice room and start thinking about the choreography for this song."

Park Jin-young told the Major team members to leave the recording studio first, and after receiving this instruction, Minatozaki Sana and the others said goodbye to the two and quickly left the room.

"Yan-sang, I'm leaving now."

As Mina passed by Jiang Yan, she whispered her goodbye in Japanese.

It was fortunate that Jiang Yan had good hearing, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to hear what she was saying.

After the last person left the room and closed the door, Park Jin-young finally spoke, looking at Kang Yeon and asking, "Approximately how long will the post-production take to complete?"

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Yan said, "About two or three days. I'll send it to you as soon as it's done."

Upon hearing this, Park Jin-young nodded silently: "Then I'll have to trouble you these next two days."

"You're too kind, Brother Zhenying. If there's nothing else, I'll head back now."

As Jiang Yan spoke, he put the recorded file into his portable hard drive.

He will definitely go back to do the post-production of this song and won't stay in JYP's recording studio anymore.

However, just as Jiang Yan was about to get up and say goodbye to Park Jin-young, the other party, after a thoughtful expression, spoke again: "Don't rush off, there's something I'd like to hear your thoughts on."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yan stopped what he was doing and looked at the other person with confusion: "Brother, is there anything else?"

"Who do you think is most suitable to debut among these kids today?"

"Um?"

You're asking me this?

Jiang Yan didn't expect Park Jin-young to ask him this question. It seemed inappropriate, since he wasn't a JYP employee.

Seemingly sensing Jiang Yan's doubts, Park Jin-young added, "It's okay, you can tell me your immediate impressions of each of them after recording them today."

Hearing him say this, Jiang Yan could roughly guess the gorilla's intentions.

SIXTEEN has now reached the final mission stage, the final round. The gorilla is about to finalize the debut lineup himself, but he also wants to learn more from other people's perspectives.

Although Kang Yeon is not a JYP employee, he was once a JYP trainee and is a relatively successful solo artist, so Park Jin-young wanted to see his opinion on this group of trainees.

Since the gorilla had asked so proactively, Jiang Yan pretended to think for a while before revealing his "trump card":

"In my personal opinion, if I were to choose a solo artist, I would choose Minyoung. Somi also has the potential in this area, but at the moment she doesn't seem to be able to stand on her own."

After Jiang Yan finished speaking, he paused to look at Park Jin-young's reaction. The latter paused for a moment with a blank expression, and then said, "Continue."

"But if I had to choose an idol, I would definitely choose Sana and Mina first. They are very suitable to be idols. If I were a fan, I would probably want to buy their albums."

"Hmm... are there any other people?"

"Chaeyoung is positioned as the rapper, right? Although she seems a bit immature to me, if I remember correctly, out of the sixteen people at the beginning of the show, she was the only one who seemed like a rapper. If the debut group needs a rapper, then there probably aren't any other options."

"As for Natty, she doesn't seem to be old enough to debut."

After saying these words, Jiang Yan muted his microphone.

Anyway, he said everything he needed to say. Apart from the personal stuff he included in the Sakura Line, everything else was his purely subjective opinion.

After listening to his words, Park Jin-young simply nodded and did not continue the conversation. She then asked him if he wanted to have dinner together later.

Jiang Yan naturally did not refuse, so the two of them set off together and left JYP in Park Jin-young's car.

……

Over the next two days, Jiang Yan finished post-production work on "미쳤나봐 (Are You Crazy?)" at CUEB's studio.

Then, according to the original plan, he should have started preparing for the music video shooting for his comeback album's title track.

But now, he has changed his original plan and instead stayed in the studio to produce a new song, an English single.

As mentioned before, after Bang Si-hyuk launched his "YouTube for America" ​​plan ahead of schedule, Kang Yeon will also launch his plan ahead of schedule.

So, that's what he's doing right now.

However, compared to BTS attracting the attention of Westerners with novel music video content like "Dope," Kang Yeon certainly wouldn't replicate that approach.

He chose to start with a top-rated single, copying Xing's "That's What I Like" as his first step into the American YouTube scene.

Although it's a bit of a waste, there's no need to feel bad if it's not your own song.

After finishing the song, the music video naturally had to be filmed immediately, but Jiang Yan couldn't find a good choice for the female lead.

Because he needs a female lead with a good figure who can appear on camera in a sexy bikini.

Actually, Kim Seolhyun could be a good candidate, but that would be a bit risky.

After all, the two had been rumored to be in a romantic relationship before. Even if it wasn't confirmed, if they were to work together, they would definitely be targeted by paparazzi again.

Just to be on the safe side, Jiang Yan didn't plan to contact her.

Originally, they didn't plan to find a suitable female lead among female idols, but after looking through Kakao's friends, Jiang Yan unexpectedly found a suitable candidate.

She was a friend I added during the same period of promoting music at the time, Jeon Hyosung from Secret.