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It would be burdensome to gather outside, so I thought I should send the members home, but there were so many people in the studio that there was no need for that. Park Seon-jae told me.
“Hyung, if we hadn’t come, it would have been a disaster. Is not it?”
“Uh, really… … .”
Since you rented a recording studio from TYKE Entertainment, it is completely understandable that TYKE ENTERTAIN A&R is moving around.
VVV Enter A&R is… … Well, let’s say it could be. What’s with the TRV staff here? I don’t know that I’m going to have to take down the sound source elsewhere, so I understand that I’m here to record my own singer.
I couldn’t tell anyone to go because I could understand why everyone here was here.
It was a completely different situation from what I expected to be recording quietly by myself. Seriously, if our members hadn’t come, the recording would have been ruined.
No one followed the recording studio, but I could still feel them snooping outside. Fortunately, Yang Yi-hyung closed the door with a grim expression.
“I’m afraid I’m going to die because of the vocals already.”
As I grumbled, my vocal teacher and vocal director Jang Seok-hoon said:
“You’re fine with singing now. I taught you.”
“It’s not okay at all.”
Jang Seok-hoon pushed my whining back and pushed me into the booth.
Just before the recording, I said while stroking the wall of the recording studio at Tike Enter.
“Wow, the walls are nice too.”
“Hey-san, don’t be rude, please.”
Yang Yi-hyung was annoyed, so I responded.
“No, it’s really cool. Shall I ask for a wall like this later?”
“Don’t be ridiculous, I don’t want you to have a dark wall like that, I guess.”
That’s right.
Embarrassed, I smiled and started recording.
* * *
Tike Enter A&R asked Shin Ji-woon.
“Are you a team of three like that?”
“The three of us must have eaten more than we did with the members.”
“Ah, I’m dying of curiosity.”
A&R grumbled and turned to Min Ji-ho and Ahn Joo-won. I was listening to First Light’s next title song with wired earphones in my ears.
When I asked Shin Ji-woon, the next First Light title seemed to be connected to Jung Hae-won’s solo song.
Tyke Enter A&R sighed. I didn’t know anything about the song and I only heard the title ‘Fruity’, so I asked Shin Ji-woon.
“First of all, how are you? bright? Does it feel fresh? A lot of juice?”
“Isn’t that the kind of hyung that suits you? Not at all.”
“Hey, with that face, any concept would suit me.”
As I was sneaking around the recording studio, the TRV staff naturally tried to enter the recording studio. Shin Ji-woon looked back and said.
“It’s being recorded. Do not go in.”
Then the TRV staff was rather embarrassed and said,
“You can go in quietly. What if we are not allowed to enter our company’s singer recording studio?”
When I said that, Shin Ji-woon said now with a wrinkled expression on his face.
“You said you weren’t going to give me a solo.”
“No, that’s… … I was wrong, so I decided to make a bet. again.”
The TRV staff, who had been hesitating, suddenly opened the door as if trying to escape into the recording studio. The sound of music came from inside.
At that moment, the A&Rs of Tike Entertainment and VVV Entertainment listened occupationally. Tyke Enter A&R said.
“… … Wow, what is this?”
The heavily distorted sound of strings pierced my ears through countless tracks.
The melodies of string instruments that break through the magnificence of the stacked instruments overflowed the song with a sense of pity.
“But how do you get such a fantasy feel?”
To the self-talk of VVV Enter A&R, Tyke Enter A&R answered without knowing it.
“I think it’s because FX (sound effect) is FX used in RPG games.”
“ah. That’s it. Oh, thank you. Wow… … this. hey… … It’s just good.”
While it was noisy outside, Jung Hae-won stopped recording as soon as the door opened. It was because I was not confident in my own voice.
And looking at the face of the TRV employee, his expression hardened as if he had roughly understood the situation.
Min Ji-ho quickly ran to the door and said.
“Hyung, the song has increased! do well! Don’t be scared!”
With those words, Jung Hae-won released the chilly expression that was rarely made even to the members. Jung Hae-won smiled as he signed an OK with his hand, and Min Ji-ho closed the door. And I told the TRV staff.
“Why bother when you’re not helping!”
The youngest members, who always stopped Min Ji-ho from speaking and acting as they thought, did not stop him this time, but just watched.
“No, even if I listen to the music that the agency will release, I don’t see it… … .”
“I’m not giving it away!”
“Did you decide to give it to me?”
“I do not like it!”
“That’s what Jiho decides… … .”
“Oh, no!”
No need to explain the complicated situation, as Min Ji-ho said he hated it unconditionally, so there was no conversation. In the current state of not understanding ‘how far can I say it’, it was close to the most appropriate answer.
Kang Hyo-jun A&R, who entered the recording studio at that time, heard the explanation of the situation and told the TRV staff.
“Haewon is going to release a solo album on a new label.”
“yes?”
“I am the representative. You tell me.”
what does this mean
The face of the TRV employee, who had not even heard of Jung Hae-won’s request to release a solo song from another agency, became white and tired of guessing. Then he immediately called and disappeared somewhere. It was like reporting to the company.
* * *
After the door to the recording studio was closed, Yang Yi-hyung spit out harsh swear words as if it was ridiculous. And he said to Jang Seok-hoon.
“The company was in trouble.”
“Iknow, right. I hope Haewon goes on TRV safely.”
While the two of them were talking on the topic of the company just in time, I put together what I wanted to say for a moment. and said right away.
“So, hyungs, pack your bags quickly. Lee hyung hyung is in the studio, so let’s go closer to the new company.”
I haven’t said ‘let’s go together’ yet.
I thought, of course, that I would go, and I also wondered if I would go to a new company that had nothing to do with Yang-yi-hyung, even though I had worked with TRV for several years.
At my words, Yang Yi-hyung glanced at me and said to Jang Seok-hoon.
“What is he? Should I just say that and we should go?”
“Are you going?”
“No, I will. Shouldn’t I be buying some rice and telling you?”
My heart sank at those words. I said with a laugh.
“No, I’m going anyway, so what do you ask? Isn’t it heartbreaking?”
“Hey, we also have uh, human rights.”
TRV without First Light was a matter of growth, while TRV without bivariate was a matter of maintaining the status quo.
Fortunately, Yang Yi-hyung seemed to want to follow me, with or without TRV. Like Jang Seok-hoon, since he is Yang Yi-hyung’s college junior, if Yang Yi-hyung didn’t say that he would come, he wouldn’t come either.
Seeing two people who don’t even think about it, I’m becoming more and more convinced that my closest people won’t betray me. Come to think of it, it seems that there were more loyal people than the disloyal people I met in my life.
With that in mind, maybe I’m a person with a bit of integrity.
To hide my excitement, I made more fuss.
“What does it have to do with human rights? Just die, but Sana, uh, a team with me. If we die, we die together; if we live, we live together.”
“You’re funny, X-foot. Hey, if we die, let’s all die.”
“ah. Why are people so dry hyung?”
“Hey, isn’t it dry that we want to die together?”
“Not moist.”
I was arguing with Yang Yi-hyung, so Jang Seok-hoon was patient and finally shouted.
“Oh, save your neck!”
“Oh, yes.”
I shut my mouth and started recording again.
Anyway, I will do the vocal editing by myself, and I know everything where and what I need, so there was no need to discuss or do this in the middle. There were very few changes in the middle.
However, I had a very weak neck, and it was impossible to sing one song at a time, so I needed a break in between. Drinking warm water and stretching while recording, I used up one program (about 3 hours and 30 minutes).
When I finished recording, I came out and said,
“I’ll have to stay up all night to edit vocals today.”
“I’ll do it. Consult with Seok-hoon.”
Yang Yi-hyung said, and I shook my head.
“Why are you doing this? I will do it.”
“Ah, you know what you’re going to do and how you’re going to do it. But if you do it, it will effect everything without a trace of your voice.”
“Because it’s a song I made for that.”
Maybe because we ate and slept together, Yang-hyung knew in advance that I would distort everything because I didn’t like my voice very much.
“I don’t like it,” Yang-hyung said.
“Hey, let’s die together. But can’t you entrust me with one vocal editing? Trust me.”
“You don’t want to die together?”
“Oh, I’ll die together, you can just die.”
Ahn Joo-won, who opened the door to the recording studio at the sign that the recording was over because we were fighting over useless things, asked curiously.
“What did you say, did you say we want to die together?”
So I responded happily.
“If this hyung dies, I die with him.”
“Ah, that crazy man twists that thing like that.”
“… … What do you distort to make this happen?”
Ahn Joo-won was embarrassed, Yang Yi-hyung was angry and grabbed the back of his neck, and I was excited. Hi-Hi.
I came out of the recording studio, except for Han Hyo-seok, who went first for a ballet entertainment shoot, and Hwang Sae-byeok, who went because of a schedule related to the Japanese drama OST that I recorded a while ago, everyone waited for me. To be honest, I hid what I was very moved by and asked Ahn Joo-won.
“What have you been doing?”
“I saw a movie nearby.”
“Oh, why do you guys watch movies without me?”
“… … Did you watch a movie while you were waiting?”
“Yeah, I know, but I just tried to frown.”
I said and laughed.
Thank you for coming with loyalty, but I didn’t really know that you would wait until the end of the recording. I decided to buy a meal after dinner with the people who were waiting. The price of rice was unexpectedly high, as expected.
* * *
The next day, I was working on a song related to Fruity in the studio, and waited for Ahn Joo-won’s single title to be released in time.
‘I’ll give you the first snow’
When I checked and immediately entered the X bus, it was completely upside down as expected.
Wouldn’t it be more interesting to see the sunbursts, check the review and find out that Joo-won Ahn and I collaborated? I’m looking forward to it because I think the sunshine will like it.
Yang Yi-hyung edited vocals all night right after recording, and sent me the soundtrack to me in the studio the next day.
Honestly, it was good. Yang Yi-hyung was condescending on the phone.
-Look, it’s okay to use your voice.
“Who has been so good at editing vocals?”
I admired and gave a speech.
As soon as I hung up the phone, I immediately texted Kang Hyo-jun.
[Fruit is here]
[Hyung, come quickly]
Even if I send a text message like that, maybe it’s because I’m the person who will be the representative of my agency, so there was a strange tension different from when I was with someone else’s company A&R. Anyway, if the CEO is A&R, I think we can trust them musically.
While I was waiting for Hyo-Jun Kang, I got a call from Vice President of TRV. Yesterday at the recording studio, it was the first time I heard that I would be releasing a solo somewhere else, so it seems that they are calling. I don’t have any other phone calls these days.
No, when I asked for it, they said they wouldn’t give it to me, but I don’t know why it’s suddenly like this.