162 – Last Activity (1)
Yawning constantly.
Ye-eun cried and cried the night before, but it was because she lost sleep while comforting her older sister.
‘Oh, I’m so tired.’
“Dohee, your eyes are so puffy today. Are you very tired? Didn’t you sleep last night?”
“Oh, I couldn’t sleep…”
And Seo-yoon unnie saw me like that and asked me.
“Why are you worried about me?”
Of course, I was not a person worth worrying about because I was usually very good at taking care of myself.
“Couldn’t it be that you’re not a kid and couldn’t sleep because you were so excited while playing?”
“Ah, as expected. I thought so.”
“Ha… This is why you’re still a baby even when you’re in high school.”
“It’s noisy, I haven’t even entered school yet.”
I got tired of talking to Kim Seo-yoon, who had been joking around since the morning, so I went out to the living room.
It was to lie down on the sofa and get some sleep.
And the culprit was lying on my sofa.
“Sister.”
“Uh, huh…? …? Why, why are you looking at me like that…! Did I do something wrong…?”
Anyway, after such an enjoyable vacation, we had to return to our daily lives.
And it starts with a meeting at the office building.
It was to discuss the next album and final overall activities.
But since it was a planned comeback, the A&R team will do all the songs.
Everything is planned, too.
I felt like it would end neatly at the end.
So, our steps toward the office building were somehow refreshing yet sad.
“Ah, welcome.”
However, the person I met at the meeting place was not a working staff member, but a director of Shock Entertainment.
We heard an unexpected proposal.
“I’m going to talk to your agency. Are you willing to extend your contract?”
It was about Saven’s extension negotiations.
* * *
Various events, stages, and awards ceremonies continued from the end of the year to the beginning of the year.
After completing all schedules, Saven entered a period of inactivity for a while.
However, the popularity of Saven, who received the grand prize at most award ceremonies, reached its peak.
[Real-time) Seoyoon’s Instagram followers exceed 2 million]
[Yeun is about to open the WE app. Yanrangdong asks her to turn it on quickly]
[Official] Saven 7-member girl group ‘contract renewal completed’ contract period is 40 years]
[Stop talking nonsense and watch Chaerin’s bubble.Jpg]
[It looks like Harang is proud of his thighs;; It’s going to turn]
[Dohee seems to have entered Hansung Arts High School? [There are eyewitness accounts from freshmen who said they saw it on the preliminary convocation day]
[3 Months before the disbandment, I made one of the company guys fall in love with the triplets hahahahaha Let’s die together, you bastard hahahaha]
[There are 1.1 Million YouTube channels that have not uploaded a video for 3 months? Yes, I recommend it, but you are talking about it. I’m really dying]
[It won the grand prize and sold over 1 million copies in the initial release, but honestly, wouldn’t all agencies benefit if it were extended?]
The fan community also had a very high traffic volume.
The content and topics of posts posted on fan communities include everything from serious to trivial matters.
In fact, this was partly due to the constant publicity of their name with the title of the target group, but also because the affection of existing fans became more intense.
The time left until disbandment is so short that this period of inactivity may continue until disbandment without any activity.
Because of that, fans waited, writing dozens and hundreds of articles with nothing but a piece of cake.
However, in fact, Saven’s activities were almost non-existent except for the occasional bubble.
The only thing that is uploaded is the official YouTube channel and behind-the-scenes footage of the year-end stage.
[SAVEN 2023 MWMA Behind #1]
[Behind the SAVEN 2023 Water Melon Awards]
[SAVEN 2023 Song Festival & Seoul Music Awards BEHIND]
But thanks to that, fans were able to guess one thing.
-This will be my last album.
The inference was that the last album would be released.
Otherwise, there is no way it would be so quiet without any notice.
-But if you look at what these guys from Shock Entertainment are doing, you really don’t know.
Now, even releasing an album was uncertain.
This should have been accepted as good news.
-If a new album comes out, it will be a regular album, right? Isn’t it possible for a regular release to be released once in a 4-year single?
└Originally, the project group did not release regular albums… Seasons 1 and 2 only released mini albums.
└Inus released a full-length album as soon as they debuted, right? hahahaha, from the beginning to the concert
└They got pushed back with a comeback instead lol This is why I don’t like LE because they only see all the singers as cash cows
└ㄹㅇ In the first place, if you look at the recent behind-the-scenes footage, this album was produced entirely by the members.
Of course, fans were dissatisfied with his recent actions.
In fact, the members have never had an issue with it.
With less than 100 days left, there was nothing to change, so I had no choice but to just trust and wait.
-There is no pleasure in commuting to work…
-When are you coming…? Guys, I’m cold…
One day, the cries were repeated over and over again.
Finally, recent photos of the members were posted on the official SNS account.
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SAVEN OFFICIAL (@SAVENShock)
[ㅎㅇㅎㅇ Shavenu, did you miss us?]
(Photo) (photo)
I’m not that good lol My heart isn’t that good lol
Chaerin told me not to write this down, but I just wrote it down hahahaha.
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All seven people appeared with their heads covered and hidden.
The fans were so relieved to see that they were preparing for a comeback that they were almost in tears.
-Ah hahahaha just looking at the article, Jeon Ha-rang wrote it hahahaha.
But that wasn’t the end.
New notices posted on the Saven official cafe one after another.
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[SAVEN 2ND CONCERT ]
Hello.
I am in charge of the SAVEN fan club.
SAVEN 2ND CONCERT
This is a detailed page guide.
Please check below for further details.
SAVEN 2ND CONCERT
-Performance date and time: March 23, 2024 (Sat) 6PM (KST) / March 24 (Sun) 5PM (KST) + Online streaming
-Performance location: Gocheok Stadium
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It was a concert.
Even the first Gocheok Stadium for a girl group.
Of course, this news spread to many places and became a hot topic.
Unexpectedly, the response from fans was lukewarm.
[Ah, I finally see the last concert]
[Are you doing both a comeback and a final concert?]
[I have to go first hahahaha]
[But isn’t this the first Gocheok girl group? The scale was really crazy… That’s why it’s even more disappointing… ]
Because the atmosphere was certain that it was the last time.
Thanks to this, fans felt it was closer to a funeral than a festival.
However, the gradually coming news changed the atmosphere.
First of all, the meaningful reactions of fans who calmly read the entire notice.
-But why is the concert name 2ND? Isn’t it originally called the last concert?
└Huh? I know? Running Rose and Mono Rush should both have been written as Makcon, right? Even before the comeback, they said it was their last album.
└It’s just the second time, so I wrote it for the second time. It’s a happy circuit for no reason.
-If you look at the introduction, ‘We will be together in the future’, it just feels like there’s something to it…
└B2B advertising promotional materials also say ‘Saven’s first concert in 2024’
└ Isn’t this really an extension?
-Do you believe that? Anyone can see that it’s corporate commerce. Got hit by LE once or twice?
Of course, there were still many doubters.
But after that, follow-up articles began to appear.
[All seven Seven members heading to one place… Concert at Gocheok Dome in March]
[Girl group’s first Gocheok concert, Saven rises]
[Target girl group Save confirmed to be popular, concert held at ‘Gocheok Stadium’]
These are concert articles.
These were ordinary, generic follow-up articles.
Among them, there were several articles with strange contents.
[Exclusive) Is there a possibility of an extension if the Sabers fill Gocheok Stadium?]
[Exclusive) Target girl group, first Gocheok Stadium Saves “It’s a shame they disbanded like this…”]
[Will Saven extend the year-end awards ceremony thanks to their all-kill performance?]
From noble mtl dot com
Somehow, this content instills anticipation in fans for an extension.
Reporters left room as if there was something going on, and increasingly disconcerting responses began to appear in the fan community.
-I heard that the members’ agencies have discussed contract extensions, so if they do really well, they might be able to renew their contracts?
-Is this really your second concert? Is there a third one? ㄹㅇ I hope the news of the extension comes like a lie…
-ㅋㅋㅋ Do you think Saven will be extended? Yeah, I believed that too in season 1 hahahahaha I still believe that, please…
And the anticipation eventually reached its peak when Shock Entertainment’s parent company, LE, announced its position.
[Exclusive) LE “Leave open the possibility of Save extension”… Will fans’ wishes come true?]
[Exclusive) Saven accelerates extension discussions… Negotiated with each agency]
[Should Saven extend his activities… “Collecting opinions from agency and artist” [Official]]
Afterwards, all tickets to Saven’s Gocheok Stadium concert were sold out.
Hmm I feel like an extension won’t happen since the MC is actually pretty principled when it comes to promises and would likely honor her agreement with top east to debut with her idol mates there.