Damn Idol - Chapter 151



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Fucking Idol Episode 151

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That’s what MacArthur did when he ended the Korean War.

Old soldiers never die, just fade away.

The achievements and accomplishments of old soldiers will never disappear. So they don’t die, they just disappear.

But you know what?

Old musicians die and disappear.

Diseases that kill us usually come across as trends.

But how about this?

Would it sound like I’m some old fart from NME or Rolling Stone if I said that my lifelong blues music has been given a youthful sensibility?

Then listen to the track Zion co-wrote with Jankos Greenwood.

I always teased Jankos by calling his genre pop-jazz, calling it jazz-pop.

But Holiday is pop jazz.

This is exactly the sound that Jankos wanted.

Maybe Yankos can do well now too.

Because you can just watch and learn.

Oh, but Mary Jones’ techno was so childish. I’m grateful that Zion arranged it to this level.

Honestly my favorite track on is… … .

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-No, crazy? So Han Si-on and Donald McGus co-composed the song?

-You’re saying it’s not sampling.

-Is this really written by Donald McGus?

-Yeah, that’s right. It’s Donald McGus’ SNSㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Wow, crazy. What the? Did Chris Edwards help you?

-Does that help?

-So all the other participating musicians are also co-composers??? Lucid Bean?! Jankos Greenwood?!! Eric Scott!!!

-Maybe we are living in the age of Han Zion?

-No no no I don’t know yet. Donald McGus is definitely the one, but other musicians might be sampled.

-why?

-Donald McGus and Han Shion have a connection. They met in New Jersey.

-What does that mean?

-There are a lot of newbies who don’t know this. (Video) (Video).

-Huh? Is this Han Shion?

-ㅇㅇㅇㅇ I went to film the Color Show and became friends with Donald McGus and Han Si-on at Seaside Heights. This video became a hot topic in the American community and entered Billboard.

-omg;

-Wow, I didn’t know this either?

-Thanks to this, I was able to get through the music show tooㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Shit when is Han Si-on official coming out?

-“Oh yeah, it’s you, hyung. You composed it all together.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋI feel vicariously satisfied just thinking about itㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-What didn’t come up in the three-month-hundred-day public notice?

-You must be busy today because you’re on M Showㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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“crazy.”

I laughed so hard when I saw Donald McGus’ review.

No, this is not a review.

In Korea, it was translated that a blues master named ‘Donald McGus’ wrote a review of the Sedalbaekil album, but the format of the article is not a review.

It’s more like a review written with a joke on one’s own SNS.

If the word review is a bit off, I think the word recommendation would be more appropriate.

Anyway, if you think about it, it seems like Donald McGus had this in mind from the beginning.

“You live like a movie star. Are you fighting against such evil capitalists with music?”

“I think I can help you out a little bit.”

“Do you know what the power of old people like me is?”

“It just seems to exist. When old people talk, it just seems to exist for no reason.”

I didn’t think much of it when we were talking at the New Jersey hotel, but now I know.

What Western listeners found amusing about this review was that McGurth specifically mentioned other artists by name.

The issue of Mary Jones was particularly big.

In Korea, Donald McGuss was reported to have dissed Mary Jones while reviewing Sedalbaekil’s album.

But I’m saying this because I don’t know the sentiments of that market.

Blues great Donald McGurth and techno great Mary Jones are quite far apart in genre.

But the two get along quite well.

They also revealed photos of themselves vacationing together after the awards ceremony.

Perhaps because of this, the two have often exchanged joking hate speech at award ceremonies where they were nominated together.

“Congratulations to Mary Jones, who is the best of all the people who can’t make melodies.”

Donald McGus played around with techno and the genre’s specifics like this.

“Blues? Aren’t those old jazz musicians who can only play 4/4 time?”

Mary Jones responded with a blues twist.

Blues musicians didn’t like it when the blues was called a subgenre of jazz.

The response to this ended with McGus giving a look of having been hit with a bullet.

However, reporters who were not familiar with this history (or did not even try to find out) were writing articles calling it a diss.

If it were the Mary Jones I remember, I would have started writing as soon as I saw that review.

As expected, on his SNS.

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SO, WHO`S THE TITLE?

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This article was posted two hours ago.

What this means is, ‘So who got the title song?’

The pinpoint that made me decide on this album’s title song was because it was co-composed by Mary Jones.

And that’s not all.

Chris Edwards, Jankos Greenwood and others who have worked on our albums have written that they will be posting reviews of their own soon.

To be honest, this is my first time experiencing this.

Over the years, I’ve enticed them with music and have co-composed countless songs.

Several great artists have praised my album in private or in public.

But I’ve never seen such blatant aggro.

When I think about what the difference is… … .

“ah.”

Because I am in Korea.

When you work in the United States and get them to co-write songs, there are bound to be some politics involved.

For example, when I was with Gingerbread Man Records, it was hard for Roots Robbie, who was with Interscope Records, to publicly praise me.

Gingerbread Man Records is a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, and Interscope Records is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.

Since the two music groups are in a fierce competition, the artists are also taking notice.

Of course, an artist as great as Roots Robbie wouldn’t tremble and watch what others say, but it’s a virtue to not do things that ‘necessarily cause problems.’

It’s not just the agency’s problem, there’s also the awards ceremony committee’s problem.

I always release a great debut album as soon as I get to America, but I rarely win any awards.

It usually ends with a nomination.

Because he is a strange oriental person.

But I might feel uncomfortable at the award ceremony if the masters praise me.

Because of this situation, this phenomenon could not have happened while I was in the United States.

But now I’m in Korea, I have no connection to the American market, and I don’t even have a distribution contract with a Western company.

No.

If you think about it, it is a completely independent capital system without an agency even in Korea.

That’s why they say whatever they want without any hesitation.

The beginning was made by Donald McGurry, who still had the emotions of a teenage boy.

Hmm, but honestly, it’s a bit disappointing.

Originally, I was planning on getting cursed at more.

As the controversy over the full sampling grew bigger and bigger, Choi Ma-ho couldn’t stand it anymore and rushed to attack.

That was exactly when I was trying to reveal the truth and create a plot twist.

“If you look closely, Zion is a pervert.”

“I?”

“Why do you like being cursed at?”

“It’s not that I like getting cursed at, it’s that the aftermath is thrilling.”

“Usually, if I can avoid getting cursed at, I try not to.”

Is that so?

But I’ve never been in a situation where I didn’t get cursed at.

In the West, when Asians become media stars, they are bound to get criticized no matter what they do.

So, it’s important to eat it deliciously even if you get scolded.

Anyway, as a leader, you must be able to respond flexibly to changing situations.

With the rush of reviews from the masters coming in, I guess I’ll have to change my plans a bit.

-dripping.

As I was thinking that, there was a knock on the door to the waiting room and someone came in.

“Oh, hello!”

“hello!”

The members also jump up from their seats at the sight of a familiar face.

It was PD Kang Seok-woo.

That’s right.

We were now in the waiting room for the music show M Show.

“How have you been? It’s nice to meet you here.”

“How have you been, PD-nim?”

“Of course. Mr. Lee Ion has become more handsome. I was impressed when I saw the footage of Mr. Lee Ion during Coming Up Next.”

“Thank you for always taking such good pictures.”

The members of Sedalbaekil know what kind of relationship I and Kang Seok-woo had and what kind of transactions we had.

He even helped recruit Onsemiro as a masked singer.

So everyone treated producer Kang Seok-woo quite kindly.

Besides, PD Kang Seok-woo was scheduled to direct our first entertainment show.

“But what brings you here?”

“There’s nothing special to see, but I was thinking about the entertainment format and was curious about the actual situation.”

“What are the facts?”

“Did you really co-compose with those masters?”

“Yes. Chris Edwards helped me get involved.”

“Is that something that can be accomplished with someone’s help?”

“If you do it well, it will work out.”

PD Kang Seok-woo, who heard what I said, stared at me and smiled.

“You’ve changed a lot, Han Si-on too.”

I?

At first it was strange, but when I thought about it, it made sense.

Yeah, I guess I’ve changed a lot.

My first album came out and I didn’t have any nightmares.

To be honest, our album sales are a bit disappointing.

As soon as I returned to the hospital, I searched the sales of K-pop idol albums in 2016.

Their best-selling album didn’t even sell a million copies.

I think it was slightly over 750,000 copies.

Although there are differences between groups, usually 20% to 50% of total sales are sold in the first week of release.

That’s what’s commonly called initial sales.

Our initial reaction was… … .

Three months and one hundred days

Regular 1st Album

219.3**

About 220,000 sheets.

You can think of pre-orders as taking up a significant portion of the sales.

People are incredibly surprised.

Because initial sales volume represents the firepower of the idol group’s fandom.

I knew we had a high profile, but I didn’t know we were this popular.

Oh, but I have to subtract 20,000 sheets.

20,000 copies were purchased by Chris Edwards.

It wasn’t that we wanted to have 20,000 copies of our album, we were running errands for the maestros who were involved, and it seemed like Alex was up to something.

Alex, Eddie’s manager and HR Corporation’s ace, kept coveting me.

I think they might run some simulations among themselves and then offer us a distribution contract.

220,000 copies is a poor record for me.

If you were active in the US, you would have considered a comeback if your debut album sold 200,000 copies in its first week.

But strangely enough, I feel okay.

I don’t think this album will ever sell 200,000 copies.

Pink Floyd’s “Silver” set a Guinness World Record by staying on the Billboard 200 for a whopping 949 weeks.

I believe our album will become Korea’s.

It’s an album that’s that well-made.

We will probably sell at least 1 million copies this year.

Then Kang Seok-woo continued asking questions.

“But why isn’t it revealed officially?”

“Looking at the way it’s turning out, I think the people who participated in the album will mention it. It looks prettier than I say.”

“Hmm.”

Kang Seok-woo nodded his head as if he was thinking deeply about something.

At that moment, a staff member from the music show approached us and gave us a signal to wait.

As I stood up from my seat with the members, I opened my mouth because something came to mind.

“PD Kang Seok-woo.”

“yes?”

“Please pay our appearance fee today as a down payment to Onsemi.”

“Is it a payment?”

PD Kang Seok-woo tilted his head and then belatedly applauded.

And then he smiles.

“Oh, that’s right. I’ll pay.”

Onsemiro opens her eyes wide.

“I don’t think PD Kang Seok-woo would ask you for that money?”

“Don’t you know what a prepayment means? It’s money that you receive in advance. Then where did you get it from?”

“I was drawn to the future Onsemiro. I thought you would continue to appear on M Show even after Coming Up Next ends.”

In the end, what I said to Onsemiro came true.

“I’ll tell the finance team. This kind of thing needs to be done thoroughly.”

“thank you.”

When Onsemiro hesitated, he gave her a slap on the back and left the waiting room.

A little later, our second music show began.