Chapter 203 – #28. Single (5)
“Listen to the song I made!! I made it based on the song you sent me the other day.”
“No, why do you feel competitive about this?”
“Quickly!”
As soon as we met Ah-hyeon, she said that these were some of the best songs she had made so far, and she was busy playing them for me.
Surprisingly, all of the songs Ahyeon sang boasted of great quality, so my mouth naturally opened wide.
“I think you are really talented. Is the song really good?”
When did you become so good?
“Really? Aren’t you just saying empty words to make me feel better?”
“Of course you are serious! Isn’t that why we can’t co-compose because of the difference in level?”
“Absolutely not! I like to be with you And I couldn’t have improved without your help.”
“Certainly, with that, I’ve improved a lot lately.”
Teaching that is different from what you learn at the academy.
I’m not talking about the academy.
The knowledge learned from active pros is just a lot of things that are difficult to learn at academies that teach beginners.
“Aren’t you thinking about joining the company? If you come into the company, you will be able to learn directly from the teacher.”
“I was able to sell my songs only because you helped me. I’m still not enough on my own And when I heard from people around me, they said that it is not good for composers to work in the company.”
“Ah, well said. Even if it’s not, I wanted to tell you, but the teacher said it’s not really like that?”
“Isn’t it?”
She heard a lot of stories such as when a composer enters the company, her seniors take away her songs, and that she composes only as she is told to do, not in the genre she wants.
However, when she asked the teacher, she said that there might be such a company somewhere, but at least at Honey Enter, there was no such thing.
“You said that it’s nice to have a stable income once you enter the company, but I heard that you can’t compose the song you want and you have to do what the company tells you to do, right?”
“Huh. Other than that, I’ve heard a lot of stories of people who have worked so hard and barely finished their contracts and retired.”
“You were always the company’s exclusive composer. But they’ve never had anything like that happen. She said that she makes songs that the company asks her to make, but also makes songs she wants to make and sells them to other companies.”
“Really? It’s the first time I’ve heard of such a thing.”
“Is Honey Enter special?”
“Isn’t it?”
“But if that’s true, it’s right that no one should try to become an exclusive composer. But when the teacher selects exclusive composers, she says the competition rate is no joke, right?”
It seems that Ahyeon was confused by my words.
“Rather, she strongly recommended that if you belong to the company, you can systematically learn composition and build personal connections. She says that if she has a lot of talent, she’ll make use of it, not suppress it. If you have talent, she treats you better, so you’re trying to catch it somehow.”
“The seniors told me not to do it…”
“Do you say that and go to interviews afterwards?”
“They aren’t like that.”
Ah Hyun is so naive that she is very worried.
“Ah, please…”
He said it wouldn’t be her, but why is Ah-hyun’s expression ambiguous?
“I won’t say anything about it because I don’t think it’s something I’m going to intervene in. But I think the teacher and you got along well. Wouldn’t it be nice to learn more from under it?”
“If you go into exclusive possession, can you learn from him?”
“Maybe I won’t learn right away? Still, with her connections, I can ask you a favor.”
“… Isn’t that a burden to you?”
“At all! If I let you know what you’ve been working on, will you want to teach me?”
“Then I will ask you.”
“Ok!”
It is fortunate that Aheon seems to be gradually establishing himself as a composer.
There is also a way to introduce you to Jackie…
‘How should I introduce Ahyeon?’
As a lover?
As a friend?
Iffy.
It is better to just not do something that is worse than not doing it.
And while he was doing checks like that, I didn’t know if the relationship would be good.
“But I think it would be a little embarrassing to say that you will now join the agency… What if I say no now?”
“She has become much better than she was then, and there is no way she could refuse. She can be confident.”
“Then would it be better for you to do it with me?”
“… Were you still thinking about that?”
“You haven’t told me yet.”
Ah Hyun said she would listen to the end, so she had no choice but to answer.
“I prefer to do it with you.”
Hehe! It seems to be bowing down, but I don’t feel bad!”
Satisfied Ahyeon smiled hihi.
That also made her look pretty cute, so I laughed.
“Did you care that much about me co-writing a song with someone else?”
“Hmm… I can’t say no.”
Let’s think carefully.
What if Ahyeoni co-composes with someone else?
‘I’m jealous… Do you want to?’
I’m composing with a female producer… Does that make you jealous?
‘Um, let’s just say that.’
After hearing my answer, Ahyeon was satisfied, so it worked.
However, a few days after that.
After receiving the result of the song I was inspired by and self-composed, I wondered if I should cancel what she said to Ah Hyun.
It is also true that the result made by Jackie came out with a quality that made no sense.
It must have been a lot of hard work, but Jackie had lost weight in the meantime.
Her face was full of satisfaction, as she arrogantly raised her nose and crossed her arms as she nodded her rhythm to the music that flowed.
“Do you sleep well?”
“I cannot say no. Are you crazy? Wow~ Is this the song I made?”
“That’s right. The ingredients were fantastic, so I have to do this.”
It’s said as if it’s not a big deal, but it won’t be a song that came out easily.
During the last few days of practice, I clearly remember that Jackie was having a particularly hard time and often dozed off.
“It’s not quite complete yet.”
“I think this is enough, still?”
“You have to tell me what your brother lacks.”
“Hmm… It’s so good I can’t think of anything else.”
“Tell me seriously. Are there really no shortages?”
“Doesn’t exist. Listening to it again, I don’t see any reason to touch anything more here.”
“Really? Do you have any regrets or anything like that?”
“No, really.”
After confirming with me again, Jeki smiles, claps, jumps up, and hurrays.
“Oh yeah!! Finished!”
“If I said no, it would have ended.”
“Honestly, even if I made it, I said I made this? It was a well-made song that made me think like this. Still, he might see something I didn’t see, so he asked.”
“It made no sense to make a song like this and point out the shortcomings.”
“Heh heh! Let’s get this right away.”
“I had a lot of trouble making the song.”
Making dozens of melodies and giving them as homework to Jackie was a painstaking task that was nothing.
“It will definitely become this song. There is no better song than this one.”
“If we make a comeback with this song, won’t we eat up the charts?”
“Let’s watch the first place for a long time this time.”
“It will be more meaningful if that happens with the song we made.”
As much as we were satisfied with the created song, our mood was lifted.
Now all that remains is to submit the song and get evaluated.
No worries.
It was because I was certain that there would be no better song than this one.
And after a few days.
“Hey belly guys~!!! It’s okay!”
“Yes? What?”
“No way… ?”
“Your song passed. What the hell have you guys done? I heard it too, but the song was so good?!”
The news I was waiting for came sooner than expected.
It was news that our song was selected as a single album song.
♧ ♧ ♧
“I love the song!”
The song we made received a very good response even among the members.
People who listened to the song as well as the dedicated team praised it, and expectations for the single album grew as well.
Director Jo Yeon-joo said that during this promotion, we would raise money properly and make it bigger, but since the song came out well, it fit well and it felt good.
“I don’t think it’s been a while since I’ve heard a song that I don’t get tired of listening to.”
“It keeps ringing in my ears, but I can hum it without getting tired of it.”
When the song came out well, I naturally got excited, and when I got excited, the progress went quickly.
The best choreographer was commissioned to create the choreography, and the choreography was completed as if the joints were about to break.
As the preparation for the single album begins in earnest while preparing for the concert, time flies by so fast that you don’t even know how the day goes.
Nonetheless, we all enjoyed the present.
‘This is great.’
Although the group is well-known, there is still nothing that can be called a representative song, so it was because the song released this time was comparable to our group’s representative song.
“I need some time alone.”
Time flies by.
The title of the single album and the digital album cover draft of the song came out.
“Pink!”
“Boys are pink.”
“It is pretty. I think this is good too.”
“Can’t we just change the color of this?”
“In what color?”
“… No. I’ll do it in pink too.”
The cover of the digital album became pink.
The pink color came out overwhelmingly well, and the design came out beautifully.
Furthermore, since the main consumers of male idols are ‘female fans’, it was important to have a color that could appeal to them.
In that respect, it could not be denied that pink is the preferred color for fans.
“I really don’t know what fits so well this time.”
“Anything else good?”
“Yeah, I think you guys can rob an empty house this time.”
“The empty house thief!?”
“Huh. Among the groups making a comeback, there aren’t any groups that are huge enough to be wary of. If we make a comeback, it’s as if we won first place.”
“Wow, it’s like this because things are going well.”
Aside from overseas activities, when we were promoting in Korea, a group that was too big had to come back together, so we had to come down before we could fully taste the joy of winning first place.
Some would say that it was empty house robbery, so even if we won first place, the meaning had faded, but from our point of view, we couldn’t help but be happy.
“You’re feeding me!!”
“Honestly, I liked the song so much that I was confident I wouldn’t lose with anyone, but it’s a pity!”
I feel like the energy of the universe is making us number one.
Someone made it this far in the sky, but you know if you can’t win first place, right? Do you feel like doing it?
After all the hard work, the only thing left to do now is to reap the results, and we worked hard until the comeback while being very nervous.
It was our common idea that we should not lose our strength just because we were robbing an empty house, but instead we should work harder so that we wouldn’t talk out.
And finally.
“It’s a comeback!!”
The day for our single album comeback has dawned.
“Six o’clock today! It’s the day the music video comes out!!!”
“… Don’t you have too much time left to wake up at 4:00 a.M. And make a fuss?”
Ki Woo-yeon woke up early in the morning and raised her voice with her eyes wide open.
The song and music video will be released at 6pm, but the stage was scheduled to be shown for the first time at the broadcasting station before then.
The filmed stage will be broadcast after the song is released.
“I’m so nervous!”
“It’ll turn out okay. We prepared really hard.”
“Is that right?”
Ki Woo-yeon was so noisy that she eventually woke up and went out of the room, where one by one her members started crawling out like zombies.
“Why are you all up so early?”
“I just woke up early.”
“I didn’t sleep well last night.”
I thought only Ki Yeon-woo was trembling with her nervousness, but the complexion of her other members was also not very good.
