While fresh net girls are expected to usher in a brand new glory in their careers, more members of waifu girl groups can’t even pass the first round of information screening.
Idol talent show online variety into the third year, the new season of the major programs will soon start in the first quarter one after another. In addition to the various ways and no girl group experience of the net red actively join, in the past did not participate in the idol talent show SNH48 this year also to come down.
These circumstances seem to indicate that the talent resources of idol talent show has become tight. But as far as the reporter knows, while the fresh netizen ladies are expected to usher in a brand new glory of their career, more members of the waist girl group can’t even pass the first round of information screening.
“Every year idol talent show variety recruitment, the agent let us record self-introduction video, but every year, the stone sinks without reply. “Lele (a pseudonym) told reporters. The girl group that Lele joined has been established for 4 years now and is close to 20 people. But in the past few years, most of her work has been running comic book conventions, and she has never been able to wait for better exposure resources.
What is the real Life and psychology of the bottom girl groups who are eager to be on the variety show? This reporter interviewed two waist girl group artists, some girl group operators, and big fans to try to understand the basic ecology of the waist girl group members. From what we know, the income of ordinary girl group members has no advantage compared with office workers, but the future they face is more uncertain, and the members are extremely mobile.
In Lele’s opinion, “the main problem with small companies is that the company has no money, and the artists are no longer good enough to get ahead. “Pei Pei (a pseudonym), who has moved through two girl groups, chose to quit the girl group not long ago, “out of resistance, I do not want to watch the talent show variety. Although as a professional qualified artists, should be to see. “
“We don’t deserve to be called entertainers, just ordinary people who can’t afford to eat.”
The lights went out and the fans exited the stage. The girl group girls left the theater in twos and threes.
When this reporter met Lele in Shanghai, she had just finished a rehearsal. The energetic girls of the girl group on stage, came off stage and took an expressionless P selfie, ready to send a small essay on Twitter to end the day’s business.
“It’s too tiring, the show is interlocked, basically no rest Time. “For this public performance, Lele has been rehearsing in the practice room for two or three months, she sighed.
The girl group that Lele is in is not considered outstanding among similar groups. Despite having stepped on the stage of BW’s daytime Comic Con event, the number of Lele’s Weibo followers, who has been in the industry for four years, is only a mere 10,000.
The life of the female group members of the waist is not bright and shiny, and even salary are some “sad clouds”, compared with ordinary office workers and no advantage.
Lele told reporters that her salary is divided into base salary and outside services share. “The base salary and external service share of different students are different, decreasing step by step, the lowest trainee, popular members will be higher. “As a popular member, her base salary is 3,500, and the ratio of artist and company share is 4:6.
However, the number of activities the company receives is not stable, and she jokingly calls it “high season” and “low season. The “off-season”. “The month with a lot of activities, probably one or two thousand activity wages. Out of a few hundred dollars, a few hundred small hundreds have, depending on the activity. “
Pei Pei in a well-known domestic female group established nearly ten years, she has been in the industry for four years in two female groups, the girl group love beans pay situation more understanding. She introduced, in the first girl group when the base salary is fully transparent, according to the song and dance, self-selected tracks, MC hosting ability and other artist ability project assessment results to determine the A-level base salary of 5,000 per month, BCD level decreasing step by step, to the second girl group, the base salary to hand only two thousand eight, plus a small amount of activity commission.
A good momentum of the female group members of the pay is also not high, this female group in late 18 years got financing. Its relevant operating sources told reporters that its earliest members’ salaries were at the level of six or seven thousand, but then the base salary dropped from six thousand to five thousand, and after adding the handshake coupons and photo coupons commission, the popular members’ monthly salaries were in the early ten thousand.
In addition, the reporter interviewed in the relevant girl group, all the proceeds from the sale of peripheral raw writing products are not related to the girl group members.
In the conversation with the reporter, the two girl group girls inevitably mentioned SNH48. “(We) are no different compared to their back multi-stage students, but compared to the top of the 48 general election is a big difference, they are regular artists in my eyes, worthy of the word entertainer. We are all artists when we talk about it, but ……” Pei Pei mocks herself.
Compared to office workers, the cost of living for girl group members is not high. In Shanghai, most girl groups have dormitories for their members, and clothing is provided for company-directed shoots and events at no out-of-pocket expense.
But the pressure is there all the same. “There aren’t going to be particularly many beds, and there’s no way to take care of all the artists. “During the trainee period, the company will not provide a dormitory, and there is no base salary, only a small company subsidy,” Lele said. Without the help of Family members, it is simply impossible to survive in Shanghai. “
Pei Pei experienced a situation where her dance teacher was too strict and scolded the members into tears, and afterwards she approached the operations staff to communicate, only to be dismissed in four different ways.
“Female group members are definitely in need of psychological guidance, conflicts between agents and members, conflicts over resource allocation, etc. all require the company to provide an outlet for negative energy. “Pei Pei believes that there are some girl groups will have professionals for psychological guidance, but more small companies do not have this awareness.
Good or bad resources have nothing to do with training
Lele has encountered bottlenecks many times, and she is worried that the development trend of domestic idol business is not good and she can’t make money as a small idol. When the reporter asked her how she figured it out, she laughed bitterly: “Because I don’t earn money by being a small idol either. “
More than talking about fans, Lele is more willing to talk to reporters interested in training courses: “The company is equipped with basic idol courses such as voice, stage, form and table, and the faculty is more professional. Courses are basically arranged during the working day. “
This is the basic pattern of domestic girl groups: weekday classes, public performances on event days. The reporter noticed that, unlike many girl groups, Lele’s group still attaches more importance to training courses.
However, what makes Lele worried is that the intensity of the company’s training and the level of exposure resources the company can give is not linked, most of the time her girl group’s job is to run Comic-Con, the past few years she has run all over the well-known domestic Comic-Con, there has never been a greater promotion.
In contrast, because of the difference in company volume, Pei Pei is exposed to events with greater impact. Some of the events she has participated in include live TV parties on Eastern TV, filming of high scoring web dramas on Douban, recording of TV variety show openings, LPL opening shows, secondary spring gala, AIBB Asian Idol List selection, and more.
But in comparison, the training of Pei Pei’s girl group is less stressful. Except for the first performance of each round of public performances before the company will arrange a special intensive rehearsal, after that every weekend is directly on stage, after the trainee period, she later only rehearsed before the company.
How mobile is the girl group: “Most quit in two or three years”
After moving through two girl groups, however, Pei Pei eventually decided to change direction and retire to the background after graduating from college.
“This girl group thing can’t be a lifetime career, I just came to work part-time during college to earn some pocket money on the side. ” Pei Pei told reporters.
Her termination was also relatively peaceful. “Before I left, I talked to my boss twice and finally signed a contract and left. The contract requires a one-year titling period on various platforms, and I’m going to spend a year under the girl group’s name before announcing my graduation from the group. “
“The girl group is very mobile, really want to leave the company can not control. “Pei Pei said,” the contract of these small companies is soft protection, not hard protection. Stay to the back will find that these contracts are scrap paper, just used to coax the little munchkin. “
She gave an example, although the company forbids female groups to fall in love, but basically every female group has a relationship phenomenon. And the company contract and Marriage law also produce conflict, the company is not very likely to win the case.
What also makes her uncomfortable are the conflicts that often occur within the team. “There are many reasons, contact with the resources, stage standing, assessment results, and even plastic surgery quota. “
She revealed that the boss would pick 2 to 3 female group members he thought were good to go to Japan each time to do some small projects such as face slimming injections, hyaluronic acid and lifting, while the big projects were spent on the C-position.
Although the discourse declared the need for secrecy, but the obvious changes in the face would make the members who did not have the opportunity to be selected unconvincing in their minds and break out to tear.
She recalled that when she first joined the group she also had conflicts with other members over the standing issue. At that time, she directly disliked back in the past and became famous in one battle. Later, the company gave her the persona of “the most rigid in the group”.
But according to her own words, the fundamental reason for quitting the group is not internal conflicts, but to consider their own development.
Many girl group members enter the group with the fantasy of a fire, which is a very normal mentality at first, but should also see the reality. Many girl group members say my ideal is to be a girl group, but in fact the subtext is that I don’t know what I can do besides being a girl group, so I have to stay on. I’m sure there will be fear when I leave, but I’ll be abandoned by the girl group market after all if I keep dwelling in this fantasy. “
According to her description, most members into the group will stay for three or two years, often before the upper age limit of the girl group quit the group, the members of the mobility is very large.
Looking back on the girl group experience, she feels that what plays a positive role in her future life is her sense of control over the stage. “I step onto the stage now and it’s like walking on flat ground. “
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When the reporter asked the company about the future development plan of the girl group, Lele gave the information not optimistic: “The domestic operation team is obviously not as perfect and mature compared to Japan and Korea. Japanese idols are not very good in China, except SNH48, other underground girl groups are difficult to survive. The girl group is not profitable, it’s not easy to live. “
“I think the waist girl group are not planning, can do a little is a little. ” Pei Pei, who has left the industry, told reporters. Before becoming a girl group, Pei Pei who attended Comic-Con as a cosplayer was often often recognized by fans at Comic-Con, but when she joined the girl group, no one could recognize her anymore.
After quitting the group, Pei Pei returned to the commercial market as a solo artist and found that most commercial events did not require a large group of girls; four or five was enough. If the agent pushes the whole group up, the price she receives is only the price of four or five people.
In the opinion of several interviewees, in comparison, SNH48’s model is more intelligent: developing a single line of artists first, and after making Juzhen Jiuyi popular, SNH48’s popularity also played along.
“It’s too difficult to develop a group in the domestic market. Most female groups’ agents and Staff’s vision is largely limited to developing the group. “Pei Pei thinks, “If no one is making money, what is the basis to support the people behind? “
Pei Pei also made a point of mentioning the direction of the Bee Girls’ Team’s output. “The bee girls team to the girls are shoved to the variety show, this direction is correct, this is the desperate old office performance can not reach the effect. The girl group still needs a larger platform for output, can not be limited to the theater singing and dancing. “
In addition to limited access to resources, Pei Pei on the operation of the unprofessional also quite a feeling. “Most of the operating members are fans of the girl group, because of the love of doing Staff, or because they can not reach the level of the girl group, to do Staff to get satisfaction. “
More than one female group operating Staff side staff admitted to reporters, due to the lack of funds, most female groups are following the footsteps of the market explosion of Music launched similar replicas, brainwashing songs a fire to push brainwashing songs, ancient wind songs a fire also followed the layout.
“And then brainwashing also need to smash money and resources to promote. “Pei Pei said that her group has previously launched a drama web series invested by the boss, but because of the poor publicity, the water is all gone.
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