Damn Idol Episode 68

As soon as I entered the studio, I turned off all the cameras mounted by the broadcasting station.

I'm not saying anything that others shouldn't hear, but there's no reason to let this scene remain as footage.

"Don't stand, sit on the sofa."

Onsaemiro sits on the sofa without saying anything.

Seeing that he doesn't react much even though he was suddenly dragged in, he seems to think it doesn't matter.

Actually, I don't mind either.

However, I plan to correct some misconceptions about Onsaemi.

So I turned off all the cameras, dragged the engineer's chair over, and sat down on the other side of the sofa.

"Onsaemiro. "I asked if you could beat me, right?"

"that's right."

"It's impossible. That never happens. "Do you somehow recognize it?"

"… … "Is it because your talent is greater?"

"It's not wrong, but it's not the right answer."

"then?"

"Because you're not the only one who can't beat me."

"Who else can't win?"

"Right now, in this world, no one who is making music."

"… … ."

Onsaemiro, who was blinking slowly, laughed.

It seemed absurd.

"Consolation?"

"no."

This is not comfort.

"It's the truth."

It's the cold truth.

It doesn't matter if Onsaemiro quits music because he can't overcome despair, and it doesn't matter if he retires after coming up next.

However, if the reason is 'desperation with the talent of an aspiring idol on the same team', then that is wrong.

Because I'm just not that kind of person.

So, I plan to change that proposition to 'I was in despair after seeing the most outstanding musician on the planet.'

I am not a natural genius.

But endless time made me a genius.

So you can be sure.

Currently, there is no musician on this planet with greater talent than me.

"Onsaemiro. "Say something."

"what?"

"Really, just say anything. 페이드 개새끼, 이런 것도 좋고."

"… … Coming up next."

I muttered Onsaemiro's 'Coming Up Next' a few times and picked up the guitar.

"Look Carefully. "It's improvisation."

And then he played the guitar.

Even Onsaemi would know because he has ears.

The rhythm and pitch of the nothing sentence you just said out of your mouth are turned into music as the main melody.

It will be a performance worth listening to.

"Again, say something."

"… … "Onsaemiro."

"Shouldn't you have had that kind of self-love sooner?"

This time, I played the bass along with the phrase "Onsaemiro."

"I play the keyboard the way I want."

I played the keyboard, but I didn't know how to play the drums, so I filmed it with a virtual instrument.

Playing four sounds at once.

"… … !"

I can feel Onsaemiro being surprised.

No, but I was a bit surprised too.

This is good, right?

"The composition is finished. It took 25 minutes. Arranged into popular songs. Do you like PBR&B?"

"I don't know what it is… … ."

"Don't you know the Weeknd?"

"know."

"That's it."

The Weeknd is a singer I used as a role model when I first entered the R&B scene.

By 2025, official album sales will exceed 200 million copies.

Of course, this is an RIAA tally that includes unit sales and streaming sales.

There will probably also be an EP or compilation album included.

Using the devil's method of counting only physical albums, I think the number would be a little over 50 million.

No, now is not the time to think about this.

When I think about other singers' album sales, I become overly absorbed.

I arranged the song in an instant.

It takes a long time to refine the sound, but the arrangement itself is done quickly.

While arranging, I also created a vocal line.

Since I didn't have time to write lyrics, I wrote the lyrics of the song I sang during the R&B challenge.

And then, I sang a song.

Do your best.

Surprise spreads across Onsaemiro's face.

Because it will be better than any song I've ever sung on Coming Up Next.

Of course.

Mission songs have the limitations of a mission, so they must be sung within a set framework.

In contrast, the song I'm singing now was created without restrictions.

Also, I sang it alone.

To put it bluntly, the team I want is one in which there is no difference in level between the songs sung by 'Han Zion' alone and the songs sung by the 'whole team'.

GOTM was a group that could do that.

As soon as the song ended, I picked up the guitar again.

Then, I began to look through and reconstruct the melody of the song I had just sung.

No, but this is really good.

It's not that I don't have songs made by luck, but it's been a long time since a song that was born by chance is this good.

As I am in a good mood and playing the guitar excitedly, Onsaemiro looks a little tired.

Even if you don't know much about music, you know that I just expressed the same melody in dozens of variations.

And you will also know that the work was done to transform those dozens of things by breaking them down into dozens of words.

After that, I concentrated on making music.

There was something I wanted to show to Onsaemiro, and I also felt like I had to touch this song properly.

When the completely reconstructed song was completed, I sent the lyrics to Onsaemiro as a message.

"Call me once."

"I?"

"The melody caught your ear. "If you give me some direction, I'll call you right away."

Onsaemiro was hesitant, but when I played the beat, he started singing.

"no. "You have to drop the notes rhythmically there."

"Um, raise it higher. Instead, put it up comfortably. "Don't tighten the sound box."

"Don't think of the sound starting point as your throat, think of it as the back of your head. "The sound goes straight from the back of the head to between the eyebrows."

No, but what is it?

When I started directing, I accepted that it would be frustrating, but it came along quite well.

To this extent, I am more talented than I thought.

Why didn't I know?

"Have you never learned to sing? "Even though I was fired, I was still with the agency."

"Because it's only for a short time."

"How long?"

"Two months at most. "If it's short, maybe 15 days?"

"… … "

Even good trainers have their own methodologies and colors.

So, no matter how good a trainer is, if he or she is constantly replaced, that will ruin the singer.

Come to think of it, during Team B's selection competition, they did a performance imitating Under the Streetlight, right?

I did quite well during Seoul Town Punk, which took care of everything in detail.

In that case, Onsaemi currently has no reference point.

For some reason, whenever I was emotionally affected, the ups and downs of the song were greater.

After some time passed, Onsaemiro finished recording.

Because it wasn't an album recording, there were parts that were overlooked, but there were also parts that surprised me with more fluent expressions than I expected.

"listen."

So, I played the song recorded by Onsaemiro at full volume.

It's a good song and good vocals.

However, the guide version that I sang in one take is much better than the song that Onsaemiro sang individually.

Even though the bits in the guide version are noticeably worse than the bits in the current version.

"Do you understand now?"

Onsaemiro nods.

"me too… … "You're talented."

What are you talking about?

Here, we should be looking at my talent, not yours, right?

But I couldn't say what I wanted to say because Onsaemiro suddenly burst into tears.

After a while, Onsaemiro, who had gathered his emotions, opened his mouth.

"I know what you mean."

"… … ."

I'm not sure if I really understood it correctly.

But I'm also human, so in an atmosphere like this, I think, 'Okay, if you compare yourself to a genius like me, you'll be unhappy.' I can't say anything like that.

At that time, Onsaemiro looked straight into my eyes and asked.

"If you have this level of talent, isn't everything so easy as to be trivial? "What is your goal?"

I thought about it for a moment, but decided to tell the truth.

"200 million albums sold."

"Why that?"

"I had a dream. "If we sell 200 million copies, our parents will wake up."

"… … ."

"When I woke up from the dream, it felt like the whole world was a lie, but I had no choice but to believe."

Onsaemiro, who was silent for a while, nodded.

I don't know what exactly he's thinking.

But I know that the despair has been washed away.

Once Coming Up Next is over, 3 Months and 100 Days will be disbanded, and after this episode is over, I will return.

But at least I don't think Onsaemiro will ever give up on singing.

"And if I tell you one thing, PD Kang Seok-woo will never ask you for that money, right?"

"How do you know that?"

"Don't you know what advance payment means? It's money you get paid in advance. "Then where did you pull it from?"

"… … ?"

It's a bit frustrating.

"It was pulled by Onsaemiro from the future. "I think you are the person who will continue to appear on M Show even after Coming Up Next ends."

"… … !"

Onsaemi-ro is surprised, as if he really didn't know.

"And you would have just done that? "It means that you must remain loyal even if you become famous later and no longer need to appear on broadcasting stations such as M Show."

It seems that PD Kang Seok-woo evaluated On Saemi-ro's political sense too highly.

Well, Onsaemiro looks a bit calm.

"Besides, that amount is enough even if we divide the PPL so far into 10 parts."

Plus, I tend to enjoy eating whole saemi.

Even when I was eating pork belly in Myeongdong where I had a karaoke mission, I showed off my spirit by eating 3 to 4 servings by myself.

I didn't think much of it at the time, but now that I think about it, I understand why Onsaemiro always ate a lot.

I haven't had much opportunity to eat food like that before.

People are more subjective creatures than we think, so they always judge the world according to their own standards.

So, people who have lived in ordinary families cannot properly imagine someone else's poverty.

Honestly, I don't know either.

A life that a high school student can live only by giving up all future values ​​and focusing only on part-time work.

However, if there is one thing I have realized after living for a very long time, it is to accept other people's lives as they are rather than judging them.

Ah, but I really don't know about Fade's life.

"Now that I think about it, Fade said we should take advantage of my weakness together?"

Next time I get a chance, I'll have to beat him up some more.

* * *

[Choi Jae-seong_Three months and 100 days_Observation log]

It wasn't that long ago that Choi Jae-seong started writing observation journals for three months and 100 days.

I think it was probably while preparing for Seoul Town Funk.

As a 19-year-old youth with his blood boiling, he was stuck in Pocheon and had nothing to do.

Of course, there was joy that came from practicing and performing on stage, but it was not easy to live 24 hours just for that.

So at first I kept a diary, but as the number of people I stayed with every day was three and a hundred days, it soon became an observation diary.

Now I was writing an observation diary in earnest.

[Case_1]

[Brother Ion said something shameless again today. Everyone seems to be getting more and more handsome after getting a camera massage, so why are you the same?]

[As I was staring at him in bewilderment, Taehwan answered calmly. That's because he has already reached the highest score.]

[There was a possibility of denying it, but Ion hyung responded, 'Ah, I see.']

[He is truly an unknown brother.]

[I'm not narcissistic, and I'm not trying to show off. Rather, the Ion type is a very objective state.]

[Ah, so that's why. Have you looked at your own face objectively?]

[Case_2]

[Since this morning, Si-on and Onsaemi-ro have been in a bit of a strange state.]