Chapter 249 – #36. Round (4)
On the day of filming, I rested well and started the meeting the next morning.
There was an opinion that it might be okay to rest for a few days.
“I even said that, but the rice is overdone, so you want to play?”
“… Let’s have a meeting right now.”
When I heard that I had declared war on Olivia Tree, the words that I would take a break easily went in.
“Get out the ideas everyone has in mind.”
“Me!”
Ki Woo-yeon was the first to express his opinion enthusiastically.
“How about the Goant song Superpower?”
“Oh, that song is fine.”
“The song itself is good, but the genre is so minor that it is difficult to get many votes. You have to think about the table too. The opponent is Olivia Tree. At least here, they have an overwhelming number of fans.”
“Hmm, then what about Vander One more night?”
“The agency will gladly allow us to sing that song.”
It’s a song about spending the night with a girl you’re meeting for the first time and tempting her to spend one more night with her because it’s so fantastic.
There were many lyrics that compared sexual acts, so it was not suitable for us as idols to sing.
“Hey~ Kangjun, do you like this kind of song?”
“… The song is ok The lyrics are a bit like that.”
“Any other songs?”
Since then, several songs have been consistently nominated, but they have been rejected for various reasons.
In the meantime, I suddenly came up with an idea and told the members.
“Should we overwhelm you with our visuals this time?”
“Huh? Visual?”
“Visual, not skills?”
“Think carefully. Singing well is a skill, but is being good looking a foul?”
“… That’s not it.”
“Visuals are one of our strengths. We’re not good looking without hard work. Of course, there are good-looking things to be born with, but you have to pay for the hard work you have to take care of.”
How much money does the agency spend to manage our visuals?
The time I spent at the skin shop, the time I spent at the massage shop, and the days I sweated at the gym for a beautiful body.
“Honestly, it annoys me whenever I hear people who don’t know anything believe that they’re good-looking and show off.”
“That’s right!! If you don’t put in effort, it will show right away!!”
Even when promoting and before promoting, I always had to control what I wanted to eat.
Do you know how painful it is to not be able to eat what you want to eat?
Appetite, lust, and sleep are the three basic human needs.
One of these, managing the visual while enduring the pain of not being able to properly fill the appetite.
However, people who looked at us crookedly would click their tongues, saying that we live easily with good looks.
“But when you think of Haesol hyung, isn’t it worth it? That brother is too deceitful. Among us, she is the least cared for and has the best skin.”
“Why am I turning again?”
“Because hyung talks about visuals. When this story comes out, naturally I have no choice but to envy you.”
Members constantly work hard to maintain their visuals.
However, I had a fraudulent beauty-maintaining cosmetic (?) Called Coin, so I tended to make concessions to the members if there was something good.
“Anyway, so what song do you want to do?”
“To beat Olivia Tree, what you showed in the first round isn’t enough. What are we best at? It’s a visual.”
Airplane did not lose their skills even when they debuted.
However, people paid attention to their visuals first and liked them.
In other words, the biggest weapon for us is visual rather than skill.
“I did a good job showing my skills in the first round. Thanks to that, even if you push through the second round with visuals, you won’t hear that you’re not good enough.”
“It’s frustrating, but it’s an acknowledgment that being handsome is your greatest weapon.”
“You have to deal with Olivia Tree, but you can’t be conceited.”
The members have been affirming my opinion to put forward a visual.
Everyone agreed to do everything we could, so now we had to think about how to decorate the stage and what song to sing.
“How about singing a drama OST?”
“Drama OST?”
“You have that. Fantasy drama. It’s very famous.”
“Ah! An immortal empire?”
“Huh. That. As a cast member, we decorate and act. It’s like directing a scene on stage.”
“Under… Isn’t that bad?”
It is a legendary drama that few people have not seen because it is such a famous drama.
It tells the story of a family in an empire who accidentally summons a demon called the Immortal King during a power struggle.
Currently, season 6 has been aired, and season 7 is currently in production.
There were many seasons, so there were many OSTs, but there was a main title that reminded me of that drama.
“But the song doesn’t have lyrics.”
“We should make it.”
“Is it like a musical?”
“Oh! I think musicals will be fine too.”
There is no one who will say that they broke the rules just because they showed a musical stage in Amazing Star.
This was only possible because the main PD was the person who would do everything OK as long as he could show a stage that the audience would be satisfied with.
“But isn’t there too little time for a musical?”
“Four minutes is not enough. I think it should take at least 10 minutes.”
“Nuna, ask producer Pie how much time you can give. I want you to accept as many as possible.”
“Okay. Leave that to me I’ll make sure to get 10 minutes no matter what.”
“Ah! But would this be okay with copyright?”
“I’ll ask PD-nim about that part too!”
My manager noona said something quite reassuring.
As if I wasn’t the only one who was excited to try a new genre called ‘musical’, all the members started picking out characters they wanted to do.
“I want to play Denver.”
“Denver was something I wanted to do too.”
“The person who overlaps is decided by rock-paper-scissors. I can’t help it.”
“Who else are the characters?”
“Nana! Dragon Sorcerer Aomun.”
“Hey, the image with you doesn’t match too much.”
“Honestly, Haesol hyung should be the dragon magician. He is the most handsome man in the empire.”
“No, let it be a coincidence. If it’s a coincidence, it’s enough to make you the most handsome man in the empire.”
Heheung~ As expected, Haengnim is the best!”
Ki Woo-yeon clung to me, calling me Haengnim after a long time.
“Who is the Immortal King?”
“I.”
In fact, I didn’t give up my role for coincidence.
It was because there was a different role he was aiming for.
Immortal King.
In the Immortal Empire, he was in charge of the final boss and the greatest villain.
“Oh! I don’t think it’s bad. The Immortal King has the force, so someone who knows how to act should be in charge.”
“Is there anyone who wants to be the Immortal King? If you don’t tell me now, will I?”
“Doesn’t exist.”
“But why is he the Immortal King? You are a villain.”
How many terrible things the Immortal King did.
There are also very famous scenes.
It was a scene in which people were hung upside down, cut their throats, hung over a bathtub and bathed in the blood dripping from there.
‘It’s famous for the greatest appearance ever.’
So far, it only appeared in the conversations of the characters, and it was the first time it appeared in that scene.
The overwhelming directing gave a strong shock to numerous drama fans, and made all immortal kings have no choice but to recall the scene.
“It would be a real hit if we put that scene on stage.”
“Ah, being too famous is not something you touch. Being compared.”
“That’s right. If you do well, you’ll be flat, and if you don’t, you’ll die.”
There are so many secondary creations made under the name of the Immortal Empire.
It was produced as a game, novel, and animation and gave a lot of money to the people who made it.
However, not all of the secondary creations were successful.
It was the animation that was the problem, but it was beaten by fans for directing that ruined the original work instead of transcending the original work by investing a lot of money.
“Since the anime went bankrupt, I know that no one wants to touch the Immortal Empire.”
“We have to do really well.”
“High risk, high return?”
The risk is great when it fails, but there seems to be no better idea than this to beat Olivia Tree.
“Finish what I suggested, and try something else. It hasn’t been decided yet, and since P.I. PD-nim might say no, I think it would be better to have at least two or three candidates.”
“Uh… I can’t remember.”
“Can there be a better idea than a musical?”
Everyone was fascinated by the idea I had already suggested, and no more good ideas came out.
“Wow~ What would we have done without Haesol hyung? In the first round as well as in the second round, Haesol-hyung carries everything.”
“I am not great. So take care of yourself.”
In the end, the meeting that day dragged on with small talk and ended in a blur without a better opinion than a musical coming out.
There were a few good-looking ideas, but none looked better than the musical “Immortal Empire” Stage.
It was not clear whether I would be able to do the ‘Immortal Empire’ musical on air or not, so talking with Py PD became the most urgent thing.
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“Py PD-nim’s reaction is good. They say 10 minutes can be enough. However, he said that he would have to talk to them about copyright issues to find out. He told me to wait because I will move as quickly as possible and get an answer over there.”
“Oh! It’s hot too.”
“It’s the worst thing to be able to do without waiting for time, but that can be avoided.”
“Pi PD-nim said he would do it, so can we prepare?”
Pie PD was very sincere in preparing for the Astar stage, so the feedback was very fast.
When I received a call from my manager sister, she immediately answered what I could do at my own discretion, and I said that I would definitely come to a conclusion and let you know by tomorrow at the latest about things that I needed to find out.
In my opinion, it seemed like the story that P.I.D. Said that it was possible to do it.
“Since Py PD-nim said he would try it, wouldn’t it be okay to prepare?”
“Oh yeah!”
“Actually, we’ve been having meetings with each other since a while ago.”
Since each of the characters to be played had been decided, we were discussing which scene would be good to make into a musical.
I knew that I had to proceed with the work after the decision to be able to broadcast was made, but I couldn’t stop the expectations of the members who were already immersed in the musical stage.
Even if I started it, it was an idea from the kids to fill the stage.
Even the staff of the agency joined the meeting in earnest, so the progress went much faster.
How to decorate the stage, how to wear clothes, make-up, how to write lyrics for songs… Etc.
Meetings were overflowing and time was limited, so we needed to move quickly.
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After I confessed my ability, I was relieved of a lot of pressure to show myself in Korea.
I was busy preparing for the stage, so I always had to meet the women around late in the morning, but no one was dissatisfied with that.
“The fans over there must be picky, not kidding… Still, if I succeed, the reaction seems to kill me. How can I wait for it to air? I really look forward to it.”
After hearing about the stage we were preparing for, Boksun noona responded positively.
She’s risky too, but she agrees that if she can make it on stage, Olivia Tree will definitely win.
In the first round, only on-site voting and expert voting were aired, so the winners and losers were different, but from the second round, since it was a live broadcast and even received votes from viewers, a lot of attention was paid to preparing the stage.
If you make a mistake, many people will see it.
Without editing!
‘Just imagining it is terrifying.’
A live broadcast gives a different level of tension than mistakes made at a concert.
‘Since I said I would do a musical on such a stage, the Pie PD is going crazy.’
The woman, from the first time she saw her, she felt the madness about the ‘stage’.
She cheered, saying that no contestant had ever tried this hotly…
It was the content that the manager sister, who was being informed of her situation in real time, received from her staff.
Thanks to that, a huge burden was placed heavily on our shoulders as we prepared.
