Damn Idol - Chapter 186



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Fucking Idol Episode 186

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After the end of Coming Up Next Season 2 Episode 4, the internet was naturally flooded with songs sung by Koo Tae-hwan and Lee Ion.

It was a natural thing.

The buzz of entertainment programs aiming for 20% viewership ratings and the patriotic sentiment that led to the Apple advertising contract and the white band BOTY’s True Education.

And the anticipation for music that the Sedalbaekil brand has.

This was the result of all these combined.

Even though the song hasn’t been released yet, the number of views for the hour-long, infinitely looping video on YouTube has already surpassed one million.

But this was an external reaction, and the internal reaction was ambiguous.

-Why are only Tae-hwan and Lee Ion singing?

-The singer’s name in the subtitles is written as Gu Tae-hwan-Lee I-on???

-Since Masked Robber is gaining popularity, is a unit coming out?

-You said you were preparing your second album. But where would you have time for unit activities?

-I guess it’s just a leftover track from preparing the album. They’re releasing it for entertainment purposes. Haha

-No. It’s a song that came out while showing the album work in the program flow;

-Wouldn’t it be a shame if this didn’t go into the album?

-What, what, what. I’m so curious.

-I asked them on the official website, but they just said it was a secret.

-The fact that it’s a secret means that it’s not a junk track.

This was the reaction of a moderate TT who is an all-fan, or close to an all-fan, or a personal fan but doesn’t hate the other members…

-Why does Han Si-on always take care of Gu Tae-hwan and Lee I-on?

-This guy is a one-tool who can’t even sing, but he’s really greedy for screen time.

-Is it just me who thinks Han Si-on is gaslighting the kids?

The personal fans of On Sae-mi and Choi Jae-seong were in an uproar.

The name was changed to avoid being searched, but those who knew it had a familiar reaction.

Until the time when they recruited the second generation of TT, Sedalbaekil was not a group with many individual fans.

Coming Up Next, which was the beginning of 3 months and 100 days, was a team competition, so they came together to face the external enemy called Take Scene.

Next, we got together because of Ryan Enter’s dirty attack.

However, after the tremendous success of , the number of individual fans has been increasing rapidly.

Naturally, noise and issues related to individual fans that had not previously occurred were proliferating.

Knowing this fact, K-pop fans (even if they aren’t necessarily fans of Se Dal Baek Il) thought that Se Dal Baek Il would not be released.

Even if it was released, I didn’t think this would be the right time.

But it wasn’t.

[Unit Masked Robber – Separate Official M/V]

Ironically, the music video was released the very next day.

In fact, the original name of Koo Tae-hwan and Lee Ion’s unit was not Masked Robber.

But since the two of them had been using the name for several months, they became attached to it and eventually changed it.

Han Shi-on expressed his discomfort, saying that the name was too strange.

‘It’s better than three months and a hundred days… … .’

‘Three months and a hundred days or a masked robber… … .’

The members of Sedalbaekil, who knew their naming sense well, had long since given up on the desire to come up with a better name.

Besides, considering the fame of the name that followed from Self-Made, it might not have been a bad idea.

The problem wasn’t the name, it was the music video.

The public, who saw the sudden release of the music video, thought that the music video was a patchwork of self-made scenes.

But it wasn’t.

If you don’t need it anymore

Why did you give it to me

What you had

Why did you share it

It was a music video using the drama tights technique, which is widely used in the R&B genre.

The story of Koo Tae-hwan and Lee Ion each wooing a bad woman in their own way.

The content of the music video itself was obvious, but the visual beauty and scale were no joke.

Moreover, the way of contrasting the ridiculously handsome Lee Ion and the dangerously dangerous Koo Tae-hwan’s appearances in similar cuts worked.

Especially for teenage girls.

Sedalbaekil was a boy group with more fans in their 20s than in their teens, and had an overwhelmingly higher percentage of male fans compared to other groups.

It was all because of Han Si-on’s music, but there is no content in the world that satisfies everyone.

It wasn’t always the case that Han Si-on’s pursuit of more complete and more differentiated music worked.

That’s why, surprisingly, it wasn’t the top for teenagers who make up the majority of idol fandoms, but the masked robber worked.

To be exact, it’s the feeling that Lee Ion and Gu Tae-hwan give.

In addition, Han Si-on made all the rhythm and blues that the unit Masked Robbers sing into extremely easy listening.

It’s addictive as soon as you hear it, it’s fun to listen to, and you don’t get tired of it easily.

It’s called easy listening, but it doesn’t have the feel of Summer Cream, which was moombahton, but rather closer to bedroom pop.

In fact, Han Si-on is probably the person with the deepest understanding of easy listening on the planet.

As of 2018, easy listening is closer to a category than a music genre.

Easy listening is simply music that is made to be easy to listen to without much effort.

But the term easy listening has changed since the pandemic, which has caused a major shift in the music and entertainment industries.

Singers start to dislike having their music judged by genre.

In particular, I hate the narrow-minded view that when black people do contemporary R&B, it is classified as hip-hop, and when white people do emo hip-hop, it is classified as post-rock.

In this way, singers began to say, “My music genre is easy listening,” and from the 2020s onwards, easy listening became a genre.

A music genre that pursues the most pleasant sounds and melodies.

A music genre that captures the public’s tastes in the streaming era.

Han Shi-on was a person who lived in that era and enjoyed it for a long time.

That essence was included in the unit Masked Robber’s album.

That means.

[Unit Masked Robber – Courtship Official M/V]

It was revealed to the world that unit activities were based on albums and not singles.

The double title track, , was a music video filmed in the United States, and the filming crew was also a professional Hollywood filming team.

So, aside from the scale (which was the biggest), it was the highest quality music video that Sedalbaekil has shot so far.

So, just three days after the release of the fourth episode of Self Made Season 2, the album was released.

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Title: Stage Side A

Artist: Masked Robber

Track : 08

Track List

01. Separate (Title)

02. Courtship (Title)

03. Last night

04. Chicken Game

05. If we look elsewhere

06. Shower

07. Vitamin D

08. Stage

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There wasn’t any special promotion.

If you think about it, it was an album that came out without much promotion.

It feels more like they promoted it after it was released rather than before it was released.

However, if TFD was released under the control of Choi Maxho and Ryan Entertainment, it is not the case now.

Sedalbaekil has truly entered the mainstream.

It’s a ridiculous story, but these days, Ryan Entertainment is slowly avoiding the three-month-hundred-day policy.

I try not to go into the radius where Sedalbaekil appears, works, or acts.

This was because it was clear that if Sedalbaekil and Ryan Entertainment were tied together, the company’s image would be damaged.

So, in a situation where there could have been enough promotion, it felt like there wasn’t enough promotion.

Even if it’s a unit album.

This has also created discontent among individual fans of Koo Tae-hwan and Lee Ion.

-No, the song is so good, but why are you releasing it without any promotion?

-You didn’t do it reluctantly, did you?

-Han Shi-on seems to be the type to turn off attention unless he takes the lead;

From Han Shi-on’s point of view, it was nonsense.

Because the amount of effort he put into making this album was extraordinary.

Rather, TFD was easy.

Even Han Si-on arranged the songs of great masters that he could learn from.

However, fans of Koo Tae-hwan’s Lee Ion were dissatisfied, and this also offended the personal fans of On Sae-mi and Choi Jae-seong.

Regardless of whether there was promotion or not, it was an album that was made through the sacrifices of other members, so I couldn’t like it.

Of course, the one who was the most upset was Han Si-on’s personal fans.

-No, our Zion makes good songs, releases albums, and supports all the members, but he only gets criticized. Does that make sense?

In some ways, Han Si-on’s individual fans may have the most accurate view of the situation.

But anyway, this was an insider’s story, and the outside view was completely different.

-Dude, that song is so damn goodㅋㅋㅋ

-It’s just proper R&B. It’s not a lame rock ballad, nor is it a cheap imitation.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋWow that’s whyㅋㅋㅋ Honestly, all Korean R&B is just Rock&Balladㅋㅋㅋ This is Rhythm and Blues.

-Why is this crazy Iion singing so well?

-Koo Tae-hwan wasn’t a craftsman in the introduction… he was just a craftsman…!

-Every part that Koo Tae-hwan sings is just dope;

-Track 5 is not a mess. If we look elsewhere.

-ㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇIt would be better to make this into a music video.

Top star, superstar, trend leader, trend setter… … .

These titles ultimately meant the celebrities with the highest brand image at the moment.

So what kind of effects can singers with high brand image achieve?

The answer was simple.

When a song is released, I listen to it once.

This was really great.

It’s not the job of the marketing department to make sure your music is well-received by the public, addictive, or creates a lasting buzz.

It’s the A&R team’s job, and only composers and singers can do it.

So what does the marketing team do?

Makes me listen to music.

This is an absolute imperative for the marketing team, and it’s incredibly difficult.

However, singers with high brand image have their marketing team’s work omitted.

When the Beatles were at the peak of their power, they needed no advance publicity.

When the Beatles’ album was released, everyone in the world heard the songs.

If the LP was sold out, I looked for a vinyl record, and if I didn’t have a vinyl record, I looked for a pirated version.

why?

Because I want to hear it.

Although Sedalbaekil may not be comparable to the Beatles, anyone who listened to TFD couldn’t help but feel the same way.

If Sedalbaekil releases a song, I just want to listen to it.

Among listeners in Korea, there were quite a few who first encountered the full-length album thanks to Sedalbaekil.

And they opened their eyes to the pleasure that long albums can give.

I was addicted to the fun of tracing the narrative of the album, running from the first track to the last.

But there aren’t many singers who can provide this fun, and it’s always a shame.

There was no reason not to listen, since it could fulfill that.

In this way, the Masked Robber’s Ga began to sell at a terrifying rate.

The physical has not been released yet, but… … .

It wasn’t long before eight tracks topped the charts.