A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 275

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 275

After receiving the second half of this year’s schedule and next year’s mid-term schedule, we left the conference room.

“But you, will that be possible?”

Seo Yehyeon asked me cautiously, which was unlike him.

That guy being considerate of me like this, is this the positive influence of a slump?

“I can’t live crushed under a slump forever. Still, these days musical ideas come to me better than before. Of course, not to a satisfying degree though.”

“No, that’s not what I mean. You’re filming DTB right now. As I know, doesn’t that filming end in late August or September? We’re making a comeback in November, so can you prepare in time?”

We had to finish all music video and concept photo shoots by October, so the song had to come out by September at the latest.

DTB 4 still had 8 more weeks left. Moreover, since the finals were broadcast live, working on Rev’s song would be completely impossible then.

Hearing Seo Yehyeon’s words, I realized something anew.

“As expected, Hyung also believes I’ll make it to the finals.”

Amazing, myself for earning RESPECT even from Seo Yehyeon who doesn’t know the first thing about hip-hop.

“Don’t smile so smugly and just get eliminated.”

When I looked back at Seo Yehyeon with a face full of pride, Seo Yehyeon grumbled in disgust.

“Still, shouldn’t Eden go as far as he can? Since Eden is already in a slump state, it would be burdensome to leave it entirely to him, so we should help as much as we can.”

Gyeon Hajun spoke calmly.

“I wouldn’t seriously tell him to get eliminated…”

Seo Yehyeon muttered with his shoulders drooping as if deflated.

Gyeon Hajun’s gentle suggestion followed that we shouldn’t say things like “get eliminated” even when we’re alone, in case it brings bad luck.

Seo Yehyeon looked back at Gyeon Hajun with slightly fed-up eyes.

“Don’t worry, Hyungs! Here’s the Billboard chart composer, Kim Dobin!”

Kim Dobin suddenly interjected, making a V with his fingers.

“How long are you going to milk that damn Billboard? Say it with the Hot 100 chart. When were you whining that the royalties weren’t much?”

After making it onto a minor Billboard chart, Kim Dobin had been whining to me every other day about when the royalties would come in, but when he finally checked the amount of royalties deposited, he was dejected for several days.

I clearly split it 60-40, so I wondered if I had mistakenly recorded the contribution ratio as 90-10, but when I checked, it came in exactly right.

“Everyone says Billboard is the dream chart, and with YouTube breaking 90 million views, I thought the royalties would be like 100 million won.”

“Dream big. If songs that made it onto such minor charts earned that much in royalties, there’d be inflation worldwide, man.”

While scolding Kim Dobin, I organized the schedule step by step in my head.

Now DTB filming had the music source team mission stage, producer team selection, and the main competition ahead.

The solo concert after team selection and four stages in the main competition.

This was assuming I made it to the finals, but since there was no way I wouldn’t make it to the finals, let’s consider this the established truth.

The music source would be released right after episode 6 aired, and the team performances would proceed one day after the music release at the earliest, three days at the latest.

Now once the music source rankings were established, eliminated contestants from the first-place team would get a second chance.

Since episode 4 had aired now, there were eleven days left until episode 6 aired.

Our team’s music source currently only had final recording work remaining.

I couldn’t say for certain since I didn’t know the status of other teams, but I could confidently say our team’s work pace was fast. It was all thanks to my big picture.

‘Then now is the best time to work on songs.’

There were schedules like Adidas photo shoots in between, but if I made it to the main competition, even though it would be with producers, I’d have to produce one song per week, so now was when I had the most free time.

There were team mission song practice and stage rehearsals, but these could be done in parallel with song work.

Since the schedule was set and the topic came up, I dragged the members to the studio to start working right now.

Due to slump recovery rehabilitation training, complete songs were still early, but I could produce song fragments well.

If I picked the best one among those fragments and added and subtracted from it, a decent complete song could emerge.

“Unconditional praise, none of that is needed. What I need is only honest evaluation.”

I emphasized this beforehand before playing the slump recovery works I had been working on bit by bit.

“Oh, I’m totally confident in that.”

Seo Yehyeon, with eyes full of determination to return all the harsh criticism he had received from me, nodded very enthusiastically.

Soon, the played song echoed in the studio. To think this was a song I made. I only played it because they were our members; I’d be too embarrassed to play it anywhere else.

When the song fragments ended, Seo Yehyeon was the first to shake his head and speak.

“No.”

“What’s no?”

“I can’t pinpoint and explain what exactly, but it doesn’t seem right.”

“So what exactly is wrong?”

“I told you. I can’t explain what exactly.”

“Wait, aren’t you a liberal arts major? Why can’t you explain?”

“Abandon the prejudice that all liberal arts majors can articulate these abstract feelings well.”

Seo Yehyeon definitely helped with my slump recovery. Because it made me want to overcome the slump quickly so I could torment Seo Yehyeon more intensely.

“How about Hyung just goes to the dormitory?”

“If I leave, it seems like there’ll be some food party here that would shock me – chicken party, pizza party, jajangmyeon party, whatever.”

Seo Yehyeon was uncannily pinpointing the reason I was trying to send him away.

“Then is a snack party okay?”

“Doby, would that work?”

While Seo Yehyeon was suppressing Kim Dobin’s nonsense, Ryu Jaehee, who had been quiet, spoke up.

“I can feel you being cautious in the song.”

“Being cautious? Me?”

“Yes. It feels like you forcibly crammed in mainstream appeal? But that mainstream feeling doesn’t seem to come alive either. It just became neither here nor there.”

When I glanced at Gyeon Hajun, he nodded slightly in agreement with those words.

Was it because the evaluation of – that I lost mainstream appeal while trying to capture musicality – was too deeply embedded?

“Shaking off this evaluation and result comes first.”

At least I seemed to have grasped how to escape from the slump.

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Having finished the final recording of the music source, we entered stage practice in the practice room borrowed by Dubnet ahead of the team music source mission stage.

“If everyone could just support the last hook part together? Since I go straight into the hook after my part ends, I’m a bit short of breath, so if Toohyeok Hyung could lay down a low tone, that would work. You don’t need to consciously lower it since your tone is similar to mine.”

“Right after the part ends?”

“No, after I do one measure of the hook, from the next measure. And everyone goes together for the back part.”

Wiping sweat with a towel, I gave instructions to Toohyeok and turned to Nijeous.

“And Gyuchan, come in right after the opening hook ends. Don’t rest for half a beat. You keep being half a beat late. That’s why you’re short of breath in the back part.”

“Come in right after ‘We’re free’?”

“Yeah, you understood well.”

Nijeous was quite fast at accepting and applying advice. He was just built for the stage.

“And Raizo Hyung, don’t come in right after Toohyeok Hyung’s part ends, rest for half a beat before coming in. Your entrance is too fast.”

“Even when I count half a beat, this always happens.”

Raizo nodded while scratching the back of his head with an embarrassed face. Conversely, Raizo was strong during recording but slightly weak in actual performance.

I had predicted Nijeous would get the lowest votes, but after actually doing stage practice, I thought it might be Raizo.

After finishing today’s practice, I picked up my phone that I had placed in front of the mirror.

From the numerous missed calls, texts, and messages piled up on my phone that I had set to silent, I intuitively realized something had happened.

Seeing that the missed calls from DTB production crew, Jiwon Hyung, and Yongcheol Hyung made up the largest portion, it seemed some DTB-related controversy had erupted.

Could it be that the script where they planned to eliminate me in the Yoon Eden vs Yupi one-on-one battle and draw viewers with a revival round was leaked? So DTB is getting criticized now?

Since I hadn’t done today’s search quest anyway, I searched combining ‘Yoon Eden’ and ‘DTB’ with a pounding heart, and posts quickly appeared on the portal.

Without scrolling much, I could see a post title that made me stiffen my expression, and I immediately touched that post.

[Yoon Eden DTB Cypher Lyrics Plagiarism Suspicion]

Author: Anonymous Views 81,265

Obey 1st album track lyrics (released 4 years ago)

-Spitting out hungry spirit and money bragging simultaneously

Giving handouts even to bastards with no standards or principles

Everyone knows hip hop’s basic attitude is respect

Yoon Eden’s cypher lyrics from DTB Season 4 Episode 4

-Spitting out hungry spirit and money bragging at the same time

Handing it out even to kids with no standards or principles

Everyone knows hip hop’s basic attitude is respect

Except for the profanity cleanup, it’s exactly the same without a single particle wrong – what does everyone think about this?

Comments 712

-Are you Obey himself by any chance? I didn’t even know such a song existed in the world

└I didn’t even know there was a rapper named Obey

-Wow, unknown rapper, unknown song, lyrics plagiarism ㄷㄷ

-It’s literally exactly the same except they changed “bastard” to “child”? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-This can’t even be defended by saying he was just influenced – the sentences are exactly the same

-Hold a press conference, bow your head, apologize to the nation, then voluntarily drop out

-Right after pulling the Blank Cunning move, real cunning got exposed,,,

-I applauded those lyrics when they killed it in the cypher, but it was plagiarism – so fucking disappointed

-Let’s have Obey himself step up and snipe that idol rapper who sweetly sucked up recognition with his song

-Now the DTB production crew will have a hard time cutting and editing Yoon Eden’s screen time

-Goodbye Eden, it was fun until episode 4, though the crop top was kinda shit

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The one getting cursed at wasn’t DTB, but me.

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