1905 movie network news After KUN and Rocket Girl, capital and audience are looking for the next "KUN" and "Rocket Girl".
According to the "White Paper on Idol Industry and Fan Economy in 2019", the size of China’s fan economy market has reached 45 billion yuan in 2018, a year-on-year increase of 60%; It is estimated that the total size of China’s idol market will reach 100 billion yuan in 2020.
Behind the growing market scale, the trainee market, as one of the origins of idols, has become hot, and various talent shows have appeared together, and C-bit group has become the common goal of most trainees.
In the just-concluded "Creation Camp 2020" finals, seven trainees, namely, Xilin Nayi Gao, Akira, Wang Yijin, Chen Zhuoxuan, Zheng Naixin, Sally Liu and Zhang Yifan, stood out from 101 contestants and became the winners of the night.
However, the idol draft system has always been a pyramid, with a few people standing at the top, and the losers constitute a wide and thick tower. Most of the trainees who fail to form a group may gradually disappear from the public’s field of vision with the decline of the popularity of the program.
And more practitioners, may be at the end of the trainee’s career, is still a nobody who didn’t get a chance to perform.
"Nobody" is the norm.
In the era of fast food, trainees have become one of the most common ingredients in the canteen made by inner entertainment idols. This is also one of the few paths that ordinary people take to the Avenue of Stars.
In 2014, in order to fulfill her dream of being the lead singer of a women’s group, Mumu resigned from a job as a primary school music teacher in her hometown of Xi ‘an and started her career as a trainee in Beipiao. The company has excellent resources, which corresponds to the training plan of benchmarking Korean system. The normal training time is ten hours every day, but self-training is the norm.
"It’s normal not to sleep at night, because someone will always work harder than you." During that time, Mumu practiced for an average of fifteen hours a day. Double training is the best way to quickly acquire the qualification for debut from an amateur and survive in the fierce competition. Lisa, a tutor who came out of the trainee mode, once said that she would practice until three or four in the morning because opportunities were not always there.
Brokerage companies usually arrange systematic training courses for trainees, including vocal music, dance, performance, etc. Like graduating classes with heavy schoolwork, there are corresponding weekly and monthly exams. Some companies will distribute nameplates with different ratings to trainees according to the test results, and they are required to wear them at any time until the next test rating changes.
For Mumu, the most difficult thing is physical training every day. The pain caused by push-ups and zama steps comes not only from the body, but also from the psychology. If the number of exercises is not up to standard, the whole team should do it together. If you don’t want to get involved with your teammates, you can only force yourself to reach the standard as soon as possible.
After about two years of training, I moved to Beijing, Shenzhen and other places. The initial team of more than 300 people became smaller and smaller, and the day of formal group formation was getting closer and closer. In the end, Mumu’s Group A successfully broke through, but on the eve of his official debut in South Korea, he was told that the plan was cancelled.
"The whole mentality has collapsed, and there is no income. I have been doing one thing for two years, so I have worked hard through layers of selection. As a result, when I want to debut, some requirements that I have never known are in front of me. If you don’t cooperate, you can’t debut." At that moment, Mu Mu felt that two years of hard work had been wasted.
"One is the reason for the contract time of eight to ten years, and the other is the plastic surgery. Although he didn’t say that forcing will make you whole, in fact, there are some in the contract, and some people before the company, some of them are quite serious." Because of doubts about these two points, Mu Mu didn’t sign the contract, and finally the group plan ran aground.
In 2018, Hua Du, CEO of Lehua Entertainment, admitted in an interview with the media that it takes at least 40 million to 50 million to be a group. This also makes the brokerage company have to sign long-term contracts with trainees. The person in charge of Jiaxing Xinyue said that the contract period should take into account the time of pre-training, and also hoped that the creation of artists would be a long-term plan.
After ending his trainee career, Mumu was once confused. Although the dream of the female lead singer ran aground, her love for music remained the same. Shuttle between reality and dreams, let Xiao Mu learn to do his job as a music training teacher, and strive to move forward in the direction of outstanding independent musicians.
And some of the trainees who once had an intersection with Mu Mu are still active on the stage, such as Yasaki, who formally formed a group in Youth with You 2, and contestants Mo Yao and Shujun Ma. In Xiao Mu’s eyes, these people have made great progress in various businesses and are more confident than before.
Without a suitable exposure platform and a groping training system, most trainees may be "nobody" throughout their lives.
As a former passer-by, Mumu disapproves of people who are very young to be trainees, because the pressure disproportionate to their age has a great impact on a person’s mind. If they are able to go online and become mature, they can also make a debut as trainees.
Freedom sometimes gives way to dreams.
In contrast, some people are much luckier.
"When Aidou came across the stage, I was shocked and liked him very much. In fact, he was a very cute boy under the stage." Before entering junior high school, Bubble Zhu was circled by the stage performance of a Korean male star in the mobile phone screen. This also inspired her to follow in the footsteps of idols and become a trainee.
This idea has also been supported by parents. At that time, there was a trainee auditioning in the company. Accompanied by his mother, Bubble Zhu participated in the competition and was chosen by luck.
After several years of training, Bubble Zhu got the opportunity to participate in Youth with You 2. According to the person in charge of Jiaxing Xinyue, the company currently has about 40 trainees (including those who have appeared). Under the premise of limited resources, the internal competition of the company is equally fierce.
Although he stopped in the top 35, Bubble Zhu’s life has undergone some subtle changes. At first, someone asked her for her autograph, and there were more program announcements, so she had some fresh work experience. But if there are not enough topics and works to maintain the popularity, even mature artists will soon be forgotten by the market, especially trainees who have just been concerned by the audience and the market.
Bubble Zhu also has his own regrets in Youth with You 2. She thinks that the styles of her performances in the first three performances are similar, and she failed to show more of herself. In order to have a chance to show herself more comprehensively next time, she made a training list for herself. Although simplicity and freedom are the state of life she wants to maintain, her anxiety about the future may have been hidden in her subconscious.
Besides being an artist, she also wants to be a freelancer who travels around and makes a living by bringing goods. In the eyes of the new generation of trainees, freedom sometimes gives way to dreams, and success requires corresponding chips.
At present, in the trainee market, more people may not even have a chance to tour the idol talent show. In 2018, the two programs "Creation 101" and "Idol Trainee" involved about 15,000 trainees. Few people can "have names" on the stage, and most of them are unknown.
Even if you stand in the spotlight, the light condensed on the draft stage is always cold. No matter whether you make a successful debut or not, high-quality works and personalities are the best preservatives for artists. For trainees born in Generation Z, it may be more important to be yourself than to be a member of KUN or Rocket Girl.
Continue or change careers, each trainee has a different answer.
