I Decided To Become a Perfect Girl chapter 110

110 – Year-end Stage (2)

[Pure Girl, Controversy over Rookie Award]

(Sports World = Reporter Lee Ki-baek) With the girl group Pure Girls winning the Rookie of the Year award at the ‘Watermelon Music Awards’, there is a heated debate over whether or not they are suitable for the award.

Pure Girl won the Rookie of the Year award at the WMA held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 26th, beating SAVEN, who was ranked #1 in voting. Immediately after receiving the award, Seol-ah said, “I am honored to receive such a meaningful award. I would like to thank the fans who always love and support me. Starting with this award, I will become a pure girl who will develop further and show a better side of me.”

However, fierce debate continues online over Pure Girl’s award.

This is because Saven recorded an overwhelming 52% share in the vote.

Some people raised suspicions about this, saying, ‘Isn’t this a script that was already planned?’

In fact, netizens post comments on various articles and through SNS, etc.

“I feel ashamed that I voted for this.”

“I hoped it would be a fair and authoritative music awards ceremony in a reality where there are no music awards, but Watermelon can’t help it.”

“I’ll present a fact. If you count music sources and vote rates on a yearly basis, ‘Violet Beauty Salon’ should have won the Rookie of the Year Award. Pure Girls’ voter turnout was 18%, and ‘Violet Beauty Salon’ had an 8% voter turnout. Based on the debut song alone, it’s Saven. But why? Why was it a half-hearted pure girl? If it’s a debut song streaming and down, it’s Saven. If it’s a cumulative streaming and down, it’s ‘Violet Beauty Salon’? What’s the standard?” Opinions are pouring out.

On the other hand, there were netizens who congratulated the innocent girl on her win and argued that she deserved it.

In the process, some netizens poured out indiscriminate criticism towards Saven.

In fact, there were many posts pouring out criticism beyond criticism, such as “What are you going to do when you win the Rookie of the Year Award for a group that is already in a time-limited life?”, Which raised eyebrows.

Meanwhile, ‘WMA’ announces that it selects the winners by compiling music usage data from music site Watermelon and online voting results from music fans.

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[WMA Rookie Award Feedback Results (Pure Girl, Saven Controversy)]

1. Very first answer

‘Includes only one month of debut song release.’

2. Response after Rookie of the Year controversy

‘Proceeded through one year of music listening data and voting.’

3. Strange part

If you look at music listening data for one year, ‘Violet Beauty Salon’ was by far the highest.

Even ‘Violet Beauty Salon’ has ‘A Poem of You and Me Hoping for Tomorrow’ at number 4 on this year’s annual chart.

(Photo ranked 4th in annual chart)

Of course, it is true that Pure Girls’ voter turnout is far ahead of Bami’s.

If you only consider the voter turnout and her debut song, Seven is overwhelming.

However, there are bound to be questions about the fact that a mediocre innocent girl who is nothing like this is the Rookie of the Year award.

Moreover, Pure Girl is part of the 4th major entertainment agency ‘Repro’.

-Watermelon and Lepro are both sh*t hahahaha.

-This is a really sick awards ceremony.

-What is Sangju’s standard?… If it’s a year, it’s Bami and if it’s her debut song, it’s Seben;

-Why has Repro been like that at every award ceremony since last year?

-I guess I could have just given them both.

-But honestly, if Bami only considers her music, she got what she got.

└Because it is an indie band, the voter turnout is low due to lack of popularity.

-It’s a robbery, I’m really upset.

-Pure Girl is good, but does it compare to Saven?

-We have nothing to do with it, but I wonder if WMA has anything to do with it. It’s better for a group that won the Rookie of the Year Award to continue to be active and sell a lot of music than to disband.

└It’s really too much for a group that’s only been around for a year and a half.

-Originally, the awards ceremony was held in a deal with all planning agencies. If you look at the fact that it was a rep party this time, it looks like they got a deal on everything, including the prize.

-Since when did award ceremonies in our country have any authority or fairness? They gave whatever they wanted, lol.

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From noble mtl dot com

The inside story was complicated.

The four major entertainment companies currently account for 40% of Korean music releases.

And the two major companies that currently divide Korean entertainment distribution are Choco Entertainment and LE.

Choco Entertainment is the parent company of Watermelon and hosted WMA.

LE is the parent company of Mwave and hosted the MWMA.

What was important was the struggle between collaboration and competition.

First of all, both Choco Entertainment and LE could not ignore the four major entertainment companies that monopolized the music industry.

The four major agencies also could not ignore LE and Choco Entertainment, which completely monopolized distribution in Korea.

Furthermore, both LE and Choco Entertainment acquired entertainment agencies and video studios as subsidiaries, allowing them to independently carry out all processes from content production to distribution within their affiliates.

In the end, WMA and MWMA have long been a music festival rather than a prestigious awards ceremony, and a business venue for the four major entertainment companies and two large distribution companies.

Of course, we couldn’t ignore the groups with overwhelming performance that appeared from time to time.

Anyway, MWMA had to give up the Rookie of the Year award to ‘Saven’, a project group from Mwave, and give up the Rookie of the Year award to ‘Pure Girl’, a group of ‘Repro’ from one of the four major agencies.

Instead, ‘Pure Girl’ was supposed to receive the Rookie of the Year Award at WMA.

An additional circumstance is the rivalry between the WMA and MWMA organizers.

Choco Enter was steadily draining its workforce, mainly from high-ranking positions in LE, and the areas of activity of the two companies were overlapping day by day, and competition was intensifying.

Of course, Choco Entertainment, the organizer of WMA, would not have wanted to give the Rookie of the Year award to ‘Saven’, a project group and member of MWMA.

We couldn’t just compete, so even though we distributed our debut song through ‘Choco Entertainment’ through collaboration, in the end, business was business.

To the two arrogant distributors who are famous for neglecting Korea’s best solo female singer who won the grand prize, Saven must have been a flashy group.

This time, I feel again that the only important thing in the entertainment industry is the power of the agency and overwhelming recognition.

I am suffering amidst the absurdity and irrationality of the world.

After.

“Dohee, don’t be shy, come quickly and take a picture!”

“It’s been a while since I had a cake~”

…What do you know?

The members must have felt relieved after winning the Rookie Award at the MWMA.

“As someone who knows everything, I expected that Lee Do-hee was setting a record in her head.”

“Yeah, no.”

“Yes, it’s written on the face.”

…I know so well.

“Dohee~ Let’s take a picture with you!”

In fact, everyone except me seemed to be enjoying this moment.

For some reason, Sarah got away from me and was randomly taking selfies in front of her trophy.

In the end, it seems like the true rookie of the year award will be decided at the Gold Disk.

You should ride it at least on the Gold Disc.

Ugh…

But I really liked Violet Beauty Salon’s song.

I actually like indie band songs.

I liked the song quite a bit…

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The Gold Disc Awards ceremony was not held immediately.

Gold disk comes in one month.

In the meantime, there were various awards remaining, including the music festival of the three public broadcasters SBC, KBC, and MBS.

And to practice the joint stage, which is a special stage among the year-end stages.

We arrived at the practice room of another agency, Repro, the agency of ‘Pure Girl’.

‘But the practice room is really spacious. The ceiling is three stories high.’

The building of ‘Repro’, the wealthiest among the four major entertainment companies, even had a very large practice room.

Three people who came in advance.

I seemed to be the last one because I was filming an advertisement.

“Hello, this is Lee Do-hee of Save! Please take care of me!”

Our special stage team name is ‘Mak Makz’.

It was a team made up of only the youngest members of the music industry’s youngest girl groups who were well-known candidates for this year’s Rookie of the Year Award.

The members were like this.

Navia’s Minjoo, 18 years old.

Catch One’s Natsuyo is 17 years old.

And of course, 17-year-old Lucy from Pure Girl, who won the Rookie Award at WMA.

Lastly, Dohee Lee… 2Nd year of middle school.

I’m glad I debuted at an early age, but I also regret it at times like this.

In any case, she didn’t think that an innocent girl had taken away the Rookie of the Year award, so she had no intention of distancing herself from those members.

Innocent girls were also victims of excessive criticism.

Host Sarang’s agency is the problem. What’s wrong with the members?

I am not a child, but I can distinguish between merit and life.

I just tried to maintain a business-like distance and be reasonably friendly.

“How great is your skin!?”

“Let’s be friends with my sister!”

Of course, it seemed too late.

Lucy, the pure girl who has been clinging to me since a while ago.

In fact, it was all the temporary team members who stuck together.

“Wow, you look like a real doll! But I watched Jeodol 3 in my spare time in my schedule! We will see each other often in the future and let’s stay close!”

“You know, I’m a real fan too!”

Everyone was living as the youngest child, but there was a strong atmosphere of cuteness as a new youngest child was born.

It’s nice to be liked… Ugh.

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After about a few hours of practice, the awkwardness disappeared and the team members, who had become closer to each other internally, no longer hesitated to touch each other.

“Wow, Dohee’s cheeks are really soft!”

“Hey, you too, be soft.”

“But I think middle school students are a bit softer!?”

Even when the youngest members get together, they feel sad because they are the youngest members.

Stop touching me…