Damn Idol - Chapter 133



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Fucking Idol Episode 133

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The day I returned to Korea.

Han Si-on, who returned to the three-month-old dormitory after meeting Kim Hyun-soo, thought the members would be sleeping.

After having a few drinks with Uncle Hyun-soo, it was already past midnight.

But surprisingly, the members of Sedalbaekil were gathered in the shared living room instead of their individual bedrooms.

“What? Why aren’t you sleeping?”

“I can’t sleep.”

Han Si-on tilted his head at Choi Jae-seong’s answer.

One person may not be able to sleep.

But if four people can’t sleep at the same time, maybe they ate something wrong?

I had that thought, but first I opened the carrier and handed out the gifts.

“Huh? Did you buy a gift?”

“Yes. I had something to live for.”

Since we went to the US together and came back a little late, there was no need to buy a gift.

But as far as Han Si-on knows, except for Gu Tae-hwan, no one else is well off.

To be exact, Onsemi is poor, and Lee Ion does not ask for help from his parents.

Choi Jae-seong is a bit ambiguous, but he seems to have quite a few expensive clothes and items, but he doesn’t seem to have much cash.

So, while buying things from Uncle Hyun-soo, I also bought various other things.

Because I couldn’t do any shopping in America either.

Onsemiro was startled when he received Hanshion’s gift.

“Isn’t this too expensive?”

“It’s imitation.”

“… … No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem like that?”

“It’s imitation.”

“Brother Zion, then isn’t it true that we can’t wear these? It looks like an imitation.”

“You can never tell.”

“Because it’s genuine?”

“It’s imitation.”

“Is this an imitation with a quality certificate?”

“Stop asking.”

“Because it’s an imitation?”

“It’s imitation.”

The members burst into laughter as if they were dumbfounded at seeing Han Si-on possessed by an imitation bot, and then gratefully enjoyed the gift.

After the brief gift-opening ceremony, Han Si-on opened his mouth.

“But why aren’t you sleeping?”

“I was nervous. I kept you waiting.”

Han Si-on tilted his head at Gu Tae-hwan’s words.

“Nervous? What nervousness?”

“The color show will be released tomorrow.”

“Why is that?”

“People have such high expectations, but what if the results aren’t as good as expected?”

For three months and a hundred days, no one thought their music was that good.

But regardless of the level of the music, there is a possibility that it won’t turn out as well as expected.

Color shows are slow-burning content rather than creating a hot topic all at once.

But the current atmosphere felt like it had to get tens of millions of views right away.

At first, Han Si-on couldn’t sympathize with the members’ tension, but as they talked, he came to understand.

It was for a simple reason.

Because it’s my first time having expectations.

They have been under attack ever since Coming Up Next ended.

Because members of show business, led by Choi Max-ho, were eyeing them.

When not under attack, they were left indifferent.

Even though we reached number one on the music charts, we didn’t get to appear on a single music show or get featured in a single article.

So, Sedalbaekil gritted his teeth even more and immersed himself even deeper.

You fuel your negativity, create a spark with your efforts, and burn out your passion.

But things have changed.

Now people have expectations of them.

They clap their hands and say, “You’re great!” and urge you to respond with applause.

That was a huge pressure on Sedalbaekil.

It’s actually quite common.

There are more cases than you might think of athletes armed with the underdog’s venom and hungry spirit rising to the top and then falling.

There are more cases than you might think where people who grit their teeth in hostile situations end up freezing in the love of the public.

‘hmm.’

Han Shi-on stroked his chin.

I know that feeling burdened is a difficult emotion to overcome.

So when I was putting together a team, I always excluded the bird chest.

No matter how great one’s skills or talents are, those with small hearts are bound to cause problems in real life.

However, in Han Si-on’s experience, the members of Sedalbaekil were not newbies.

If that were the case, I wouldn’t have felt the elation on the stage of Coming Up Next.

Since it is only a temporary phenomenon, it needs to be resolved.

Han Shion recalled his past for a moment.

He certainly had his immature days, and there was a time when he first got people’s attention.

How did you resolve the burden you felt at that time?

“… … ?”

Han Shion was momentarily confused.

That was because I didn’t remember ever feeling burdened.

But that’s not likely.

How many years have you lived without ever feeling burdened?

Yeah, the Super Bowl halftime stage.

How did you feel when you first stood on the Super Bowl stage, where only Western superstars were allowed to stand?

“… … .”

I think he wanted to perform alone, without any other performers.

I think I also thought that singers who kept talking were annoying.

Yeah, it’s probably because of the infinite regress.

For him, life is a game with infinite coins until the goal is achieved.

It’s too brutal to be called a game, but that’s what it is.

So, just think about the first round.

Han Si-on, who reflected on his first life like that, realized the truth.

He had never felt burdened before he met the devil.

No wonder casting directors in entertainment companies ask questions in the form of songs every time they hand out business cards.

If I get this right, I’ll visit the agency.

‘Come to think of it, wasn’t there someone who matched with me a while ago?’

I stopped by Koo Tae-hwan’s parents’ store and was busking, and the casting director of Double M answered the quiz correctly.

It was a really difficult problem to solve.

Han Shi-on thought about that and came to a conclusion.

I don’t know why, but I’ve never felt burdened.

Besides, I have never hired team members who felt burdened, and I don’t think that Sedalbaekil is a team with small hearts.

So the solution to the temporary burden of color shows is simple.

‘I’ll just give you more of a burden.’

Then the burden of color shows will disappear without a trace.

Han Si-on jumped up from his seat and connected his cell phone to the audio system in the living room.

“I haven’t decided on the track order yet, and I’m not sure where Resume and Colorful Struggles will go on the album.”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

At Gu Tae-hwan’s words, Han Si-on tapped her phone with her index finger.

“I finished the album.”

“Album? EP?”

“No, the first regular album. The title is… … The First Day.”

Didn’t the fans who loved Sedalbaekil the most in this world do that?

If we work for three months and a hundred days, they will swim in that time forever.

Time Traveler.

So it’s clear what we can do for our fans.

We must live every moment faithfully.

From the first day of the hundred days to the last day of the hundred days.

There should not be a single moment of regret or lack.

Even if there is a return waiting at the end, great steps must be taken.

And now is the first step.

The title of the album contained such meaning.

In another sense, it was the first day of overcoming the pressure of the maximum and greeting the world.

The members’ faces changed strangely at Han Si-on’s words.

‘Wasn’t we talking about the color show?’

‘Suddenly a full album?’

Of course, my curiosity about the album was a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand times greater, but I just couldn’t follow the flow of the conversation.

But that thought was fleeting.

As Han Si-on started playing the song, the members’ faces turned serious.

The helmsman of the ship called Sedalbaekil is clearly Han Si-on.

However, it is difficult to have an attitude that it doesn’t matter which way the ship flows.

Han Si-on has a musical ability that is so deep and wide that it is hard to understand, but there is a possibility that something might go wrong at some point.

So the members tried to understand even a little bit of the music that Han Si-on showed.

“Take it easy. It has 11 tracks.”

“Including resume and colorful struggles?”

“No, except for that.”

Then 13 tracks.

It’s a real regular album.

Although they were already serious enough, the members focused on the music with even more serious expressions.

As the music started to flow, conflicting emotions began to appear on all the members’ faces.

Some people felt a creepy ecstasy, while others became anxious.

Some people feel comfortable floating through space, but they also feel anxious.

Even when Onsemiro was so happy, her face would brighten up, but then suddenly become gloomy, repeating this.

And so, in exactly 45 minutes and 32 seconds, the 11-track playback was over.

Han Si-on, who had been quietly observing the members’ faces, opened his mouth.

“How is it? How is it?”

The members were silent for a while.

Then I looked at Gu Tae-hwan.

There is one rule that is shared unspokenly among the members of Sedalbaekil, excluding Han Si-on: if something incomprehensible happens, they are to look at Gu Tae-hwan.

Then, Koo Tae-hwan would explain very precisely the unspeakable emotions they felt.

This time it was the same.

“It’s such a beautiful and perfect performance. But it’s so perfect that I don’t think I should touch it.”

Yes, that was the correct expression.

The 45 minutes and 32 seconds that Han Si-on told us really grabbed their spirits.

45 minutes is not a short time, but it passed by in a flash.

It’s like experiencing exactly 4 minutes and 5 seconds.

It was beautiful, enchanting and comfortable.

But even so, the reason they felt anxious and uncomfortable was because they didn’t feel the three-month-hundred-day position.

It’s a song that’s already complete just by playing it.

It’s an instrumental that sounds like it could come out of a New York cafeteria in a movie.

What more could you possibly add to this?

Even if they do sing, it’ll probably feel like the New York Philharmonic’s year-end concert.

It doesn’t have the feel of idol music.

As the members, starting with Koo Tae-hwan, began to express their concerns, Han Si-on laughed like a mischievous child.

The members stopped in their tracks because it was the first time they had seen Han Si-on smile like that.

Now that I look at it, it seems like the atmosphere in Hanshion has changed a bit in just a week.

Even when I joked or smiled, the feeling of constant, damp gloom disappeared.

This was because Han Si-on realized the meaning of the words, ‘I will go all the way,’ but the members did not know.

“First of all, there’s the main piano melody in the song you heard, right? That’s the song we’re going to sing.”

“ah?”

“So, the vocal part is already included in the song. I don’t add anything else to it.”

“But wouldn’t it be awkward if we sang that piano line?”

“Of course it’s awkward. We have to adjust it to fit the human voice. But the emotion will remain the same. By the way, the parts where there’s no piano are the rap and bridge parts.”

“What’s the second one?”

Han Shion shrugged.

“We’re going to put on a really, really K-pop-like stage with this and do some promotions.”

Rather than the New York Philharmonic’s Lincoln Center, we will play music that suits Jamsil Indoor Stadium or Gocheok Dome.

“With this music?”

The members had faces that were hard to imagine, but Han Si-on didn’t think so.

I wanted to create an album that would provide different pleasures when listening to it and when watching it on stage.

When you just listen to it, the song flows smoothly, but when you add performance, it becomes splendid.

“Choi Jae-seong.”

“yes?”

“Who is the best choreographer or team in K-pop? In general terms.”

“Well, if it’s boy group choreography… … .”

As the names of 3~4 teams came out of Choi Jae-seong’s mouth, Han Si-on nodded.

I remembered everything and will hand over the commission.

To do that, there must first be a guide version of the song.

There’s no need to record all the songs right away anyway.

Colorful struggles and pre-released songs from the album are enough.

“Are you recording Colorful Struggles again?”

“I told you. There’s a K-pop version, not a color show version.”

“Oh, that’s right.”

Han Shion shrugged.

“Okay, then let’s catch up for now. We have to start marching tomorrow.”

“Zion, can you send us the album tracks too?”

“I’ll send it to you right away.”

Han Si-on smiled secretly with satisfaction as he sent the album tracks to the members.

I’m glad that the method of relieving burden with burden seems to have worked.

But this was the perspective of a regressor whose general sensibilities were ruined… … .

‘My stomach hurts twice as much… … .’

The members’ thoughts were a little different, but that was the story.

A few days passed like that.

The color show is revealed, and the take scene is buried.

In Korea, a little later than in the US, Seaside Heights’ performance became a hot topic, and the take scene was buried.

The name of Sedalbaekil is posted on Billboard, and the take scene is completely buried.

Those were the times.

And finally, when the music show activities of Sedal Baekil were announced, the fandom of Sedal Baekil, TT, cheered.

But the cheers were short-lived.

The moment they got excited and were about to run to the official website.

Ding-

“uh?”

It was an alarm from the official app that came to mind.

“… … !”

[Could you please decide on a song for our promotion TT?]