Chapter 898 – #97. Lanna (58)
“Kyaaak! Thank you!”
“…”
A thick fringe is coming.
‘Because I’m still an idol.’
I feel the need to develop idol power.
The purpose of the concert is no different than playing tricks on my family to make me look pretty.
So, this level of aegyo needed to be polished in advance for the concert.
Of course…
“But you, your face is red.”
“Kuhmm… It’s embarrassing.”
I tried to manage my expression as shamelessly as possible, but I couldn’t stop my face from blushing because it was much more embarrassing than I thought.
“Didn’t they show off a lot of cuteness like this at the concert?”
“You don’t have a plan for that?”
“Do it! Why don’t you do cute things like this?”
“I’m old too…”
“It doesn’t matter because it suits you.”
To be honest, when I do concerts, I tend to listen to a few cute acts that fans want.
But to do aegyo to the fans in front of the family…?
‘Can my exorcism last?’
Since we decided to invite the children, excluding our families, we need to prepare the stage to a certain age.
There are a lot of kids, but can’t we make a stage with a sexy concept?
But even so, it did not mean that they would forcefully act aegyo just because they matched the age group.
“Do you want to see real aegyo?”
“Of course it would be nice if you did.”
“Write it…I’ll file it for now.”
If possible, I think I will do what my family wants to see.
I didn’t think that it would become aegyo, though.
“But is it okay to be raising children like this? Aren’t you very busy preparing for the concert? I watched the documentary on Airplane yesterday.”
“Wow~ I filmed that a long time ago, did you see it?”
“Yes. I was surprised to see that he suffered so much there.”
If you had seen that documentary, it would have been strange that I was playing casually like this.
But there is something she doesn’t know.
Even though it looks like it’s resting, it’s not really resting.
My body was still stuck in the practice room, preparing hard for the stage.
So even if you look like you’re resting, you’re not resting.
Even if the process of preparing for a concert doesn’t seem very busy, in reality it’s so busy that you don’t even know how time flies.
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Beep- Beep! Creak!
“Whoa, whoa! Whoa…!”
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
I can’t remember how many hours I was in the practice room.
I just came to my senses and looked out the window to see that the day was bright and then dark, then dark and then bright, and so on.
When my family came to a concert, I showed them how to perform, but have I really taken my time and made a stage for my family?
I had a similar mindset when I was doing concerts for fans, but now I have a stronger mind.
‘Because I want to make it impossible for you to fall for me forever.’
A concert where at least everyone who came to the concert aims to become my fans.
What was needed for that was to decorate a high-quality stage.
When promoting as a full group, there were times when we had to restrain ourselves according to the level of the members.
If I use all my natural bodily abilities, something out of balance will happen.
“How is it?”
“Wow… It’s true that you’ve been hiding your skills all this time.”
The choreographer who checked my stage exclaimed.
I finished one stage, but I didn’t wear out that much stamina.
“Why don’t you try increasing the difficulty more than this?”
“It’s possible, but there’s a risk of injury and it’s hard to manage your stamina, right? It’s not just one stage.”
“Since I just tried it, I think I can handle it enough? I’ll increase it to the level I can do as much as I can, and if it’s difficult, I’ll compromise. I want to be greedy for this stage.”
“You want to see where the limits are?”
“Yes.”
“Hmm…That’s good. There are some things that have been modified through realistic compromises, but I’ll reproduce them again. I also need to see how much I can do.”
“All right.”
From then on, the choreographer and I spent a long time revising the choreography.
The choreographer tells me to do it once without thinking, and I meet that expectation, then the choreographer asks me to try this one more time, increasing the difficulty, and I meet that expectation again.
Haha…! Heo-eok…! Whoa…!”
“This… Ha… I made it, but it’s too bad… Why are you doing this?”
When the choreographer finally saw the finished choreography, he exclaimed and burst into laughter.
It is true that if this is a person, it should not be successful, but it was not enough to make the stage a success, so I took the point of the dance that the choreographer made and even upgraded it.
“Haha, it’s because you do it, so if you ask me how I did it, it’s hard to explain.”
“I think you can do more here, right?”
“But if I raise it more here, I think the balance will collapse.”
The fact that I couldn’t concentrate on singing because I was distracted by dancing was also a bad performance from my point of view.
I need to strike a balance with singing at the level of dance I can do as much as possible.
“Certainly, when I see a performance like this, I don’t think I’ll be able to concentrate on the song. But I’m a little worried. Are you really going to decorate the stage at this level? I think my body will be torn apart.”
“You just saw it. We performed all the time without a break. At the concert hall, there will be breaks in between and we will have talk time, so it’s no problem.”
“Maybe… I don’t want a seat, can I take a look at it from the corner? I made it myself, but I want to see how it will feel when I stand on stage. Honestly, I think it will be a masterpiece of my life.”
“Sure. I’ll drop you two seats.”
“Ugh! Two seats? Thank you.”
Choreography that would have grabbed you by the collar saying you were crazy if you told me to do it myself.
From a choreographer’s point of view, the choreographer must have wanted to see the choreography successfully performed on stage.
‘Wait…If the choreographer takes two seats…Give some to the staff, add some family members to the members’ acquaintances…And write, if this is the case, is there room for the kids? Wouldn’t 300 seats be enough?’
It’s a concert I’m preparing with the utmost care, but I’m sure I wasn’t able to completely block out the rumors.
At first, I didn’t bother to refuse the requests of those acquaintances, but now I felt a sense of crisis that the seats were going to get tight.
‘If 300 seats are not enough, we have to raise it to 1000 seats…’
Because of the limited number of venues, if a 300-seat venue was not enough, the only choice was to raise the level and rent a 1,000-seat venue.
700 seats suddenly increase…
‘Can you fill them all up?’
Even now, the work has grown big enough, and 1,000 seats…
I thought it would be perfect if it had 400 seats, but it was disappointing.
It seemed that from now on, I should stop giving up my seat for a separate request.
‘If I keep going like this, I think I’ll be able to put on an all-time great performance?’
The staff at the agency were also very interested in my concert.
The choreographer must have spread rumors to the staff, and the members heard the rumors and came to see me and confirmed that I was practicing.
“Hyung, you’re crazy. Wow… Is this a dance that humans can do?”
“I knew that this hyung was usually adjusting to us, but I didn’t know there was such a big difference.”
“I think it must have been broken? Is this okay at the hospital?”
Didn’t go to the hospital.
And there’s no way my body would have this much trouble.
“I’m rather thick-boned. I’m also very strong. But I’m sure I’m exhausted after practice.”
“I think it’s the first time I’ve seen my brother run.”
The members checked my safety on stage while practicing and spat out exclamations.
Even from my point of view, the stage choreography being prepared right now is a composition that I cannot help but admire.
If you add stage equipment and even wear costumes, the atmosphere will come alive.
Even though it was difficult throughout the preparation, it was because I imagined that my fans and my family would enjoy it.
“We also have to work really hard on stage. It’s going to be a big deal.”
The members must have felt a sense of crisis after checking my stage.
“You guys give me more time.
“I’ll have to shorten the travel period a bit.”
Suddenly, he said that he needed to practice more, and he was asking to voluntarily make time.
I was well aware of the members’ competitive spirit, so I relaxedly watched them talk seriously while laughing.
Reputation has been gained, career has been built up now.
Around us, we live a life that elevates us above and beyond our reputation.
“Let’s do this for the next album as well.”
“If we can do this, we’ll say it sooner! We can follow!”
“…Let’s do this? Are we?”
“Is there anything he can’t do? If he did it, we should too.”
“We have to think about our age. If we make a comeback at this level, all of our knees will be shattered.”
“So you’re not going to?”
“…No, I mean it needs to be brought down a little to a human level.”
Nonetheless, our children still had a spirit of improvement.
To be honest, it was not an easy mindset to try to improve in this way in a situation where I had better skills than others.
‘This is why I like the members. It’s because I’m not losing my spirit of improvement.’
That’s why when the members need help to improve their skills, they are willing to help.
If I really want a stage like this this time, I thought I would at least take care of the kids so they wouldn’t get hurt.
“If the stage is like this, I think the concert will be a hit.”
“This can’t be unconditionally a jackpot.”
“I’m sure the fans would like to see it…It’s a pity. Didn’t you say 300 seats?”
“Yes. 300 seats.”
“At least too little.”
“Right, too few!”
“Can’t we just go up one level?”
Take it up a notch?
Coincidentally, I was also thinking about the seats, so I was curious about what the members were thinking.
“Do you really think it’s right to increase the number of seats? Isn’t it bad to increase the number of seats? It’s not good to have empty seats.”
“Vacant seat, what nonsense is this person talking about?”
“There are many people who will come as long as my brother increases them!
“There’s no proper venue, so I have to rent a venue with 1,000 seats to go up one level. Suddenly, 700 seats increase, and who will fill the seats? All of them with underprivileged children?”
No matter how you think about it, filling all 700 seats with children is serious.
