62 episodes
Since our unit ended with 5 New Days and me, the 12 members including Min Ji-ho and Han Hyo-seok from the rest of the dance part naturally became the same unit.
Min Ji-ho and Han Hyo-seok often didn’t get along, but since they had only one place to rely on the two strangers, they were sitting with their backs against the wall, watching the rest of the ten chatter and chatter.
Seeing that, I’m worried about the rest of the members, who will each be torn and unfamiliar… … No, they’re not kids, they’ll figure it out.
I looked through all New Days songs and all our songs, but there was no song to write on this topic. After thinking about it, we decided to have a video call and ended the meeting with no income.
Before leaving the waiting room, Jinyoung Kang said to me.
“Hyung, we want to do well this time somehow. Even if we fall last, I want to show the stage that New Days fans think they did well to go on this survival stage, even if it was just one stage.”
It’s strange, but the reason for this gamble was clear. I nodded.
“Yeah, let’s die.”
The members of New Days stopped at my words, then came back to me and said,
“I will do whatever he tells me to do!”
“Can I buy you coffee?”
“If you need our producer’s contact information, I’ll give it to you!”
“… … Can I just give it to you?”
“I don’t know!”
After I spit it out, I called and got permission and gave my contact information. Heo Hae-jun, one of the best hit song makers in Korea, was a composer. that is great. On this occasion, I should ask everything I don’t know, hehe.
And I went straight out into the hallway to go back to our waiting room, and INO and the rest of the First Light members were gathered.
“Are we starting again?”
Han Hyo-seok, who was standing one step behind me, said:
“It’s a serious problem.”
“I don’t understand.”
The story of the two teams playing baseball with their own content came out during their last activity, but there is still an undecided problem, so it is not progressing.
INO leader Kang-woo said.
“You don’t have to go by the rules of baseball for a member of society, it’s neat. Only players registered with the Korea Baseball Organization are elected. Or everyone else.”
As soon as he heard that, Ahn Joo-won responded with a smirk.
“It doesn’t make sense, Suhan hyung was a pitcher at a prestigious middle school even though he was a middle schooler. How do ordinary people deal with it?”
“What kind of ordinary person are you, there are kids who used to play baseball because they were physically savvy.”
“It’s a little baseball team.”
“Hey, Hyo-seok Han worked out in high school!”
Saying that, Kang Han-woo pointed to Han Hyo-seok, and Han Hyo-seok said with an absurd expression.
“It’s not exercise. Ballet is an art.”
“Where is the art of using the body like that?”
“Here you are, Ballet. And to be honest, Suhan hyung should be classified as elected. Or go right field.”
Then, INO Lee Soo-han, who was at the center of the controversy, raised his hand and said.
“Anyway, I can’t throw it as hard as I can. There is no one to take it.”
At that, Shin Ji-woon said.
“Brother, then, take out the change ball.”
“Are you going to throw?”
“Ah, bro. My ball is just a batting ball.”
“Hey, don’t cheat.”
Are you elementary school students? No, that’s an insult to elementary school students.
“I’d rather New Days have grown up.”
Min Ji-ho said with a smirk at my self-talk.
“Hyung, please take care of me and Han Hyo-seok, not New Days.”
“You know how well you do.”
“… … I suddenly felt a sense of alienation from a child who knows how to do it well.”
Min Ji-ho grumbled. When I split the unit, suddenly people like me a bit. It’s burdensome to have to choose that much quality, but honestly, I’m really happy.
By the way, I have to play baseball too, I don’t even know the rules… … After a while, the production team and PD Woo Hye-jung talked about something, and then PD Hwang Ji-seok came to us and asked.
“Isn’t this already fixed?”
“We didn’t.”
Kang Han-woo answered and Hwang Sae-byeok was still, but spoke one beat later.
“Ah, us too.”
However, I seem to be learning the role of a leader more and more because I often meet other team leaders. It’s a bit slow though.
After that, the managers and employees of each team gathered for a while, and then our team manager Park Jung-woon came and said.
“I could play baseball in Gocheok. As a Lunar New Year special.”
After that, the two teams were quiet for a moment. It was because I had a bad memory of an athletic meet filmed on a holiday on another channel.
Manager Park Joong-woon continued.
“There is no audience. Let’s just play baseball really neatly.”
After listening to the explanation, it seems that there are people who like baseball in the production team. It’s not the same, it’s a backpack.
It was only after he said that there was no position from the audience, both team members looked relieved. Han Hyo-seok muttered.
“Idol Baseball Classic… … .”
“IBC?”
“What? IBC? Good?”
Everyone was excited. It’s not that the idols were excited because they performed in Gocheok, but to be honest, it’s really ridiculous to see them excited about playing baseball.
* * *
I returned to the office workroom and sat down.
There are more people I rely on than usual, but I was lying on the sofa listening to music without thinking of anything. The door opened and Shin Ji-woon came in.
“Hyung, aren’t you coming to the dorm today?”
“I can’t go.”
“Ah, solitary, lonely, lonely.”
Shin Ji-woon also seems to be unable to go home because he has to work on the unit. Rap units should at least write their own rap.
Regardless of the mission, we just played our favorite music and both took a deep breath. I asked.
“Have you decided on a song?”
“Uh, Jaebin Choi on IMX… . .”
While Shin Ji-woon was talking, he glanced at the camera and gave his name.
“Since Mr. had written a beat, we decided to split it up into parts and write a rap for each.”
“How do you put them together?”
“I don’t know. We had a fight when we talked, and after writing the lyrics, we decided to have a meeting. It’s vague, so I don’t write any more.”
It seems difficult to unite opinions because they are not trainees, and members of several teams that have already debuted are gathered. In that sense, our unit is a fight for spirit, a fight for pride, and peace without… … . Wow, I’m really brainwashed. It’s getting better… … .
Shin Ji-woon asked.
“What’s wrong with your brother?”
“You have to find a song that suits even middle school students, with a traumatic theme and a powerful performance.”
“I don’t think there is such a song in the world.”
“yes. Now, I asked composer Heo Hae-jun, and he was embarrassed that he didn’t know either. If he doesn’t know, he doesn’t exist.”
“Make one.”
“How to make and choreograph in a week.”
“What is this?”
Shin Ji-woon pointed to the iMac screen and I answered.
“For the final stage.”
At my words, Jiwoon Shin put on a headset and played music for security. The face you are listening to is a satisfied expression on everyone’s face, so your confidence is rapidly returning.
He said as he read the lyrics that Shin Ji-woon had memorized.
“But this is a song about trauma.”
“no? It was just made according to our worldview.”
Shin Ji-woon frowned at my explanation and said.
“Hyung, this is a song about trauma. See you again.”
“I made it, I know, bastard.”
“Oh, let’s see.”
Shin Ji-woon was stubborn, so I sat down again and read the lyrics.
The song I’m making for the finale is the story of a king who loses all his memories and lives begging because of a bad wizard who wants to take the throne. Since he has no memory anyway, the king is not sad, nor is he particularly happy. I just worry about what to eat and where to sleep that day.
And one day when the memory returns, the king thinks in sorrow. If sadness comes from memory, then the time when there was no memory was better.
It was a song that I was trying to make in a lighthearted way compared to the lyrics. It was because the lyrics seemed to feel rather bitter if it was bright.
But I don’t know if this is music about trauma or not, even if I read it again. I don’t think so, but for some reason Shin Ji-woon insisted on doing that, so I’ll have to discuss it with the other members, Yang Yi-hyung.
Shin Ji-woon continued.
“It seems like both our members and the company will hate it, hyung.”
“yes.”
“Giving songs inside is relatively easy if you have hyung’s ability. Giving songs to other singers is really difficult. It’s a good song that anyone can give it to. You’re going to give it to someone else’s company, A&R, and even composer Heo Hae-jun.”
That is definitely true.
“Of course I want to sing this song too. But hyung gave this song another singer, right? Then hyung, that will be your position.”
Seeing the use of the word Jiji, I think I looked a little uneasy at times. I deliberately said it more cheerfully.
“Hey, am I being deceived today, or am I suddenly able to talk to people at the same time?”
It was just as Shin Ji-woon said.
Giving a song to another company or team incomparable to giving a song to my company or my team is several times more difficult and requires a lot of competition. Now was the chance to skip all that competition.
“If that happens, we will have to start preparing for the finals again. I’m going to swear by the staff and members.”
After thinking about Shin Ji-woon’s words, I found the song I had been working on by myself.
“There was one more thing I was working on.”
“What.”
“Noir.”
During the two years of hikikomori life, I watched a lot of movies. I watched a movie and watched it again the next day. There was even a time when I watched three episodes every day for three days in a row like The Lord of the Rings. Well, Mattangi was there anyway, but when I think about it, that was a normal daily life.
I watched all kinds of things, and among them there was noir.
I listened to Shin Ji-woon the only song I was working on.
“I didn’t do it because it wasn’t for the stage.”
Shin Ji-woon put on the headset again and listened to the music.
I know by looking at your face.
“Do you like this one more?”
“uh. Going crazy.”
looks really good
“brother. this… … Why didn’t you listen?”
“Because it’s too dark.”
“What are you talking about, the sunbeams absolutely love this. If I sang this, would I wear a black suit or a leather jumper on stage?”
Five? Five. I will fly a lot… … .
Shin Ji-woon immediately called Min Ji-ho and Han Hyo-seok in the practice room. I first contacted the A&R team.
And at the end of the meeting that followed, the final concept was decided as ‘noir’.
* * *
Jinyoung Kang of New Days was sitting in the corner of the practice room with a cell phone, and New Days leader and songwriter Chae Yoo-ho came and sat down next to him.
“Jinyoung, are you still waiting for the phone call?”
“Can I do it first? If I call you, will it sound like you’re wiping? Then you have to be patient.”
In Kang Jin-young’s head, a plan came out to beat five members with a low probability of being number one in one unit. Judging by the state so far, the quantity does not come out well even when gathered, but I also thought that it would not come out any more if it was torn.
First of all, it is a strategy for quantity, but Kang Jin-young’s faith in Jung Hae-won was almost concrete. During the first mission stage, the other members did as well, but Jinyoung Kang was especially enamored.
The youngest member of the unit, Kwak Jun-woo, a third-year middle school student, also sat in front of his cell phone.
“Brothers, I want to wait with you.”
“Yeah, sit down, sit down.”
Jinyoung Kang waved his hand and sat Kwak Junwoo down. Kwak Jun-woo asked.
“What if Jinyoung hyung and Haewon hyung can’t find a song to arrange?”
“Then they will contact you saying you couldn’t find it, so you should think about it from then on.”
As the number of people waiting increased one by one, all five people gathered and put their heads together to select a candidate song. When I picked out about five candidate songs that I didn’t really like, but that fit well, a video call came.
Jinyoung Kang answered the phone right away.
“Haewon hyung!”
-… … uh.
He received it right away, and seeing five heads looking down on the other side of the screen was a very bewildered expression.
At that moment, the door to the practice room swung open, and composer Heo Hae-jun with an excited expression entered. Then, knowing that the members were on the phone, I told them to call me with their mouth, and then left again.
Five more looked at the phone.
– Composer Heo Hae-jun, I sent it to you first, and he said it was okay.
‘The expression on your face just wasn’t a ‘okay’ expression… … .’
The five thought and nodded their heads. Jung Hae-won turned the chair, brought the phone to the speaker, and pressed a few keys.
– Can you hear me?
“I can hear you well!”
– Then turn it on.
And the moment the music started, the five of them exchanged glances at the same time.
‘Haewon hyung, maybe… … Are there any songs left?’
‘Why don’t you use this song on the first light stage and use it when you play with us?’
‘Really?’
‘Aren’t you just bragging that First Light has a song like this?’