79 episodes
After the second VCR, suggesting that it was a solo stage, Hwang Sae-byeok, dressed in a free-looking outfit and with messy hair, was standing on the stage holding a standing microphone.
He was wearing several rings, including a team ring, on both hands. The session behind them was the band members who had been together in middle school.
Stork was a biting pick, playing perhaps the most famous alternative rock guitar riff in history. And as the drums began to sound, Hwang Sae-byeok’s scratching vocals filled the hall.
Fans screamed at the harsh voice of Hwang Sae-byeok, who usually sang the intro and pulled out the softest vocalizations possible.
‘Our leader has decided… … .’
To be a part of the team, you couldn’t just do what you’re best at. Therefore, on the solo stage of this concert now, Hwang Sae-byeok was showing what he is best at.
After the band’s performance and all the sessions were down, Hwang Sae-byeok walked over and put on the leather jacket that had been draped over the drum chair left on the stage. And after sitting in front of the drum, Joo Won Ahn and Ji Woon Shin came up to the stage.
The hot lights calmed down, and a new song with jazz on top of the drums of Hwang Sae-byeok was heard.
‘free and clear’
All the lyrics were in English, so I couldn’t understand them at all, but it didn’t matter. Fans were already confused by the sum of the faces of the three people. I had just entered the club, soberly intoxicated, and all the music seemed to be perfect. Hwang Sae-byeok’s drums, Shin Ji-woon’s low-pitched, dictable rap, and Ahn Joo-won’s soft vocals pushed fans into a dream state.
‘I have no debts. It is because of me that I succeed.’
Even vaguely from the repeated lyrics, fans could recognize that the lyrics were sung to some grown-ups by these two people born in 2005 with two weeks left before they became adults.
Fans expected that neither the cover stage of foreign songs nor the second stage, where the lyrics should not be interpreted, would be included in the concert Blu-ray, so they pressed it in as much as possible.
* * *
At the time of First Light’s concert, the behind-the-scenes video of the VMC Music Awards’ ‘Boys’ was uploaded on TYT’s official YouTube channel.
[Wow… … It’s not as funny as purple.]
[No, it’s funny and what the kids don’t talk about?]
In the video of the boys uploaded to the behind-the-scenes video of the BMMU, the First Light members barely spoke and covered their faces with the camera. Even Min Ji-ho, who was usually noisy, whispered to the members if there was something he wanted to say.
[Why are you whispering in front of the camera hahahaahaha]
[Why are you here?]
As the reaction was slowly getting worse, Hwang Sae-byeok muttered ‘Uh’, wrapped his sleeves, got up and said to the staff.
“I’ll go to our waiting room for a moment.”
Then the members quickly got up and went back to the waiting room along the stork dawn. Then Jung Hae-won, who was working in the waiting room, covered the MacBook.
“brother!
Min Ji-ho ran over and pointed at the camera.
“I have a camera.”
“yes.”
Jung Hae-won took a deep breath and said while looking at the camera.
“They look like this, but they are surprisingly shy.”
“I don’t look like that. My brother said I was cute.”
“Cute but heavy.”
As Min Ji-ho hung on his back, Jung Hae-won dragged him and put it down on the sofa. Meanwhile, Hwang Sae-byeok picked up Jung Hae-won’s bag.
“Do you have a band-aid?”
“There is, but ask the boys and staff for it.”
“… … I? For those you don’t know?”
“Uh, huh. Can’t we just say that the leader is someone he doesn’t know?”
Tired of nagging, Hwang Sae-byeok covered Jeong Hae-won’s ear with his hand, took out a band-aid from the bag where the necessary things were organized, and put the band-aid on the scratched area of the sleeve.
[Jung Hae-won is a bobu statue]
[No, did you go to your waiting room to put on a band-aid hahahaaha
[It wasn’t about catching Gao, it was about covering it up… … ?]
[Why are you doing that with that face? … ?]
[Suddenly the audio cuts off]
[Furra surprisingly follicle in the corner of the room]
[↳ hahahaahaha no but it’s real]
[Seeing this way, I understand the rising atmosphere after Pura Jung Hae-won came in. The kids are coming back to life.]
[But Jung Hae-won seems to be a little uncomfortable with the camera]
[↳ I felt this too, once the members enter the waiting room, they tell you all the camera locations]
[↳↳Huh, I saw this again and knew it]
[I’m not a Pera fan, I don’t know, but is Jung Hae-won mental?]
[↳It’s okay to have fans, but I don’t know when there aren’t fans]
[↳ I don’t know when Haewon doesn’t have a fan because it’s a bit of a universal remedy222]
[↳↳Are you okay with having a fan?]
[↳↳↳ㅇㅇ]
[↳↳↳I also thought it was a stage fright concept when I was 6, but when I watch Pura shows, I get a lot of tea… … It’s just that he wants to hide it so much that even the sunbeams don’t say anything… … ]
* * *
Between Hwang Sae-byeok and 05’s stage, Seon-jae Park spoke to Jeong Hae-won behind the scenes.
“Brother, the reaction is very good!”
“… … uh.”
I was so nervous that I barely even answered the question.
All the members were busy for today’s performance, but they couldn’t even say those words in front of Jung Hae-won.
When the members talk about what they want to do on the solo stage, Jung Hae-won finds a way to put it together and connect it, and arrange it.
I have a belief that I will do anything, so I would like to cover foreign songs, bring my own band friends, and opinions that the two of us in 05 who lived abroad when they were young would perform in English from start to finish were all accepted.
Park Seon-jae said while arranging the in-ear strings.
“Your brother is the freedom of the first light.”
At that, Jung Hae-won looked at Park Seon-jae and barely smiled.
“Sometimes you say you nag a lot.”
“It’s because the brothers didn’t listen. I am not!”
Jung Hae-won laughed a little cooler this time at Park Seon-jae’s aegyo.
“They said that what you asked for was as difficult as a foreign song cover, youngest child.”
That was it. Park Seon-jae laughed.
Then, after the stage of Matthew, arranged for the concert, a white curtain was set up in front of the stage after the raucous comments about the stage.
After the highlight of this year’s activity period passed by shooting a beam over the veil, the veil was lowered. Meanwhile, the stage was replaced with lovely devices.
There were Christmas decorations, and a huge tree on the stage.
‘I want to put a huge tree on stage!’
It was the stage device Park Seon-jae wanted.
With the dancers on the stage, Han Hyo-seok, Min Ji-ho, and Jung Hae-won performed solo stages with the motif of the Nutcracker’s doll dances from around the world. It was a dance that controlled the dynamics with strong energy with light movements that utilized the entire stage.
Finally, as the cute choreography of the three members continued along with Park Seon-jae’s carol, the laughter of the fans who were lost in their hearts poured out. Considering the overwhelming performances a while ago, it was a waste of talent for the youngest. The members couldn’t handle the excessive cuteness and all burst into laughter.
* * *
I recommended a more difficult song to Park Seon-jae. Because I wanted to show off the skills of our Mebo. Then, Park Seon-jae said that he just wanted to have fun with the fans. Seeing that the fans were happy and did not know what to do, Park Seon-jae was right.
After the comment, the title of the full album full of freshness, the coupling song, and the unit stage followed.
As soon as I got off the stage, I collapsed on the floor and the staff quickly brought me a respirator. It was the same for me as well as the other members.
The directing team warned us that we shouldn’t be at a good age if we set up the stage so tightly, but we pushed on that we wanted to experience the limits.
“Members, drink water even if it’s hard. Forcibly!”
Thanks to that, the backstage was a mess. The members who could barely move were changed into their next stage costumes and forcibly fed about half of them with water. I also drank water in a confused state and said to Hwang Sae-byeok, who was leaning his head against the wall.
“Lie down for a moment.”
“… … I don’t think I’ll ever get up if I lie down.”
When the members laughed at Hwang Sae-byeok’s pathetic voice, the production staff admired it.
“Wow, really young ones are the best. Are you laughing?”
“yes!”
Min Ji-ho answered and immediately got tired and took the ventilator to his mouth. Shin Ji-woon said lying down.
“Who wrote the set list?”
Then Ahn Joo-won, who was next to him with a towel covering his face, said:
“… … us including you.”
When Shin Ji-woon spit a short cursing at those words, Park Seon-jae said next to him.
“Jiwoon hyung 100 million.”
“When did it become 100 million?”
“I don’t know, just 100 million.”
The VCR was passing by while they were all in a hurry and uttered a word. Even Han Hyo-seok, who was number one among us as a major, muttered while looking at the monitor.
“… … 0.5x speed, please.”
At those words, the members giggled again. Laughter certainly had a stamina recovery effect.
In the VCR, where it was day, night came again, and as the rain poured down, fans could hear cheers. Because I could guess the next stage.
We took to the stage in comfortable, warm knits or cardigans.
* * *
As expected, the VCR ended and the fan song ‘Sunny Day’ started. And the moment I was about to sing after the previous week, the music stopped.
While the members were bewildered, the sound of fans singing was heard in the quiet venue.
[I walked in the rain for a long time, so I can’t remember the sunny days.]
Messages from fans were passing through the screen.
“ah.”
“Wow, what?”
The members looked at the screen one by one and sat down to read the message. Park Seon-jae, who listened to the ‘How to Cheer on a Sunny Day’ prepared by fans in the middle of the song, said.
“We are the eternal sunshine of the sunshine.”
“Oh, I’m going crazy… … .”
Hwang Sae-byeok looked at the message and muttered, but when he looked at Jung Hae-won, he was standing still and staring at the message. When the fans were worried about the shocked appearance, Shin Ji-woon said ‘It’s okay’ with a mouth and asked him to pretend he didn’t know.
Jung Hae-won was biting her lip and holding back her tears to read the fans’ messages to the end. Min Ji-ho said with red eyes when anyone saw it.
“But how do we call a sunny day in this state? Members, can I call you?”
Ahn Joo-won replied to that.
“If you sing along with the sunshine, I will sing.”
“I’ll call you together.”
Han Hyo-seok spoke and continued, pointing to Jung Hae-won.
“But the composer is out of his mind.”
At that, Jung Hae-won turned around and said.
“Wait, 30 seconds… … .”
Saying that, I tried to laugh, but I couldn’t speak and squatted down and started crying. Next to them, the members started to make fun of Jung Hae-won, crying too.
“Can I have 30 seconds?”
“Ah, because of this hyung, the sunbeams will be going home late today.”
Jung Hae-won cried when the next one handed him a word, then shook his shoulders and laughed. Then, holding the hands of the members who lifted him up, he stood up straight and took a deep breath, then wept again and sighed.
“No, why are you giving me such a present… … .”
Then he gestured to the staff.
“Just start, I don’t think it will stop anyway.”
At those words, the members and fans as well as the staff laughed and played on a sunny day. After crying, the members sang a sunny day with clearer expressions and voices, and the fans cheered. Jung Hae-won knew he couldn’t really sing, so he handed the microphone to the fans for his part, and the fans laughed and sang Jung Hae-won’s part.
* * *
The last song was the first song that 7 of us sang as a team at Kuk Seon-ah, ‘If I Become a Star’.
We wore concert goods and walked around the auditorium to greet the fans. I ran to where my parents were.
My parents weren’t exaggerating, and they were crying for three hours almost from the beginning of the concert. If my sister and I had come, I would have taken care of them, but I couldn’t come because I was early in my pregnancy, so I made a video call instead of regret. It was the first time I saw my sister cry, whether it was because I hung up the video call and cried, or my brother-in-law contacted me separately, including dating and marriage. I was kind of sorry.
I ran to my parents’ place and made a gesture with my mouth to tell me to drink water because I was dehydrated, and both of my parents said ok. Then, waving the light stick, he sang ‘If I Become a Star’ and started to follow the cheering method.
‘If I Become a Star’ was the song of the time when I received the most malicious comments. Still, I was sorry and thankful that I memorized them all and even knew how to cheer.
Still, I’m glad you look happy now.