A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 289

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 289

[DROP THE BEAT SEASON 4 Ep.7- Group Audio Mission Stage & Producer Team Selection Time]

[Audio tracks released on each music site after Episode 6 aired!]

[DTB 4’s group mission songs that swept the upper ranks of the charts like a bamboo-splitting force]

Screenshots of audio charts from each music site flashed across the screen.

Blurred usernames with their star ratings and reviews were also attached to that data screen.

[And each group preparing for the stage where the fate of elimination hangs in the balance]

A screen split into five sections showed the five groups. Among them, the screen of Skoen’s group, positioned at the top right of the split screen, was enlarged first.

[Skoen’s Group]

[A01: Parton, you’re standing out too much. It’s the latter half now. You did well during recording. Why are you doing this during the stage performance?]

[Parton: This is the style I’m used to, so I can’t help it. Recording and stage performance aren’t the same thing. The situations themselves are different. That’s why I clearly said it back then. I’d try my best during recording, but I wasn’t sure about the stage.]

[A01: Of course you should perform on stage just like during audio recording. What if this affects the rankings?]

[Skoen: Now, now, both of you don’t raise your voices. Parton, you know our live stage is essentially an individual battle, right? A01 is giving advice thinking of you, so don’t take it too harshly. Where are you having difficulty? I’ll help you out, so tell me.]

Skoen’s group navigated through unexpected difficulties well with Skoen’s gentle leadership.

-Wow, as expected, Skoen is perfect in both skill and character for real

-Anyway, Skoen will win! Anyway, Skoen will win! Anyway, Skoen will win! Anyway, Skoen will win!

-Parton should know he’s blessed. If he went to Seven Kick’s group, it would’ve been hell like Choi Hwa

[Yupi’s Group]

[Yupi’s group in a gloomy atmosphere after the audio performance results were announced]

[G-TE: That’s why I said we should shorten the hook part a bit. I warned you the song length was too long.]

[Freehit Style: Eh, why are you bringing up something that’s already over?]

[G-TE: No, it’s just frustrating. Frustrating. If we had just shortened the length a bit, we probably wouldn’t have gotten complaints about it being boring.]

[An Gyeonghoon: G-TE did keep insisting on it, but the group leader rejected it too confidently.]

[Yupi: …Let’s practice.]

Yupi, gritting his teeth at G-TE’s scolding who was convinced his opinion was right due to the audio evaluation, abruptly stood up and turned on the MR.

-Well… since he insisted on it, he has to take responsibility for the results too, what can you do,,,

-Wow, Yupi was grinding his molars hard

-G-TE’s nagging skills are artistic, he must have learned from Yoon Eden

-Yoon Eden didn’t grab him by the collar for nothing lol. Yupi is a gentleman for not grabbing the collar after hearing that to his face lol

-But it really is frustrating. If Yupi had swallowed his pride and accepted G-TE’s opinion to shorten the hook part, they probably would’ve produced a pretty decent song

-Isn’t this a tragedy that came from the group leader being too confident in himself? This is why team projects are fucking terrible

[Seven Kick’s Group]

[Choi Hwa: Can’t we add this stage device?]

[Seven Kick: We can’t because of budget shortage.]

[Choi Hwa: Ah, then we can just remove this. You just added this without even asking us.]

[Seven Kick: No, **(beep). Why the hell do we need soap bubbles? Is our stage some kind of stage overflowing with dreams and hope? Do you think soap bubbles flying around would suit our stage? Think before you speak, Choi Hwa, please!]

When Seven Kick roughly messed up his own hair and scolded him, Choi Hwa huffed angrily and shoved a video of a dark concept idol music show stage right in front of Seven Kick’s eyes.

[Choi Hwa: So is this stage shooting soap bubbles because it’s overflowing with dreams and hope? **(beep), you should know when to stop treating people like thoughtless idiots. You picked an expensive glamping site without thinking about the budget, saying it was for team bonding, and when we said let’s buy charcoal, you said they had it there so we didn’t buy it, then bought it at several times the market price, and now you’re **(beep)ing about budget shortage.]

[Seven Kick: Wow, I **(beep). I really can’t handle being group leader. Now I have to get cursed at for spending the team bonding budget that everyone agreed to?]

[YISIK: Oh my, why again? Both of you calm down for a moment. Choi Hwa, can you show us that video? Yes, turn up the volume.]

[Sapo: **(beep) It sucks. Why do this. Ugh, if we had just spent less money at the team bonding event, we wouldn’t be racking our brains over such crappy options.]

[Seven Kick: Hey, what did you say?]

[Sapo: Can’t I even talk to myself? Geez.]

[YISIK: Hyung, please calm down for a moment. Sapo, that’s not right either. We all saw the team bonding budget settlement and agreed to it. So the responsibility lies with all of us. We shouldn’t blame one person.]

[Seven Kick: **(beep), it’s really depressing that I have to explain it like that for you to understand. After this is over, let’s never see each other again except for YISIK, you **(beep)s.]

Seven Kick took off the snapback he was wearing and roughly threw it on the floor, then left, deliberately slamming the practice room door with a bang!

The atmosphere in the practice room with the remaining three became tense.

-Here comes the turn for the shittiest teamwork

-Of all things, they’re fighting over spending too much budget at the team bonding event

-Didn’t you guys decide that? If you wanted to invest in the stage, you should’ve gone to karaoke and had a bowl of soup like Yoon Eden’s group instead of grilling expensive barbecue at a glamping site and then complaining

-Fuck, these bastards keep feeding us sweet potatoes until the end

-I vote that Choi Hwa will definitely be eliminated from this group

-Choi Hwa is buried as the biggest villain, but that bastard Sapo is no joke either

-When the beat and team member pool are fucked, you should feel sympathy for the group leader, but I feel sympathy for YISIK. What would’ve happened to that team without YISIK mediating, for real

-Why doesn’t that bastard Seven Kick think about enduring or somehow reviving the team atmosphere instead of fighting together and falling over

└For real, I want to Seven Kick him

[Yoon Eden’s Group]

[Nijeous: Let’s just throw in all the good stuff. We didn’t spend much money at the team bonding event anyway, so we have money left.]

[Yoon Eden: Yeah, let’s do a laser show too, and set off fireworks at the front of the stage at the end.]

[Raizo: Make it shine so much that our faces aren’t visible as much as possible. Then people won’t know who’s who and will just vote randomly for anyone.]

[Nijeous: Then everyone will just vote for the group leader hyung.]

[Raizo: Oh wait, that won’t work then.]

Yoon Eden’s group, thanks to their overflowing fight money from saving and saving, made decisions to add stage effects refreshingly without conflicts like Seven Kick’s group just had.

-This is the first group that doesn’t lack money even after adding all the flashy stage effects lol

-Cost-effective Love Actually big picture is insane

-After listening to the audio, they became my most anticipated stage

-Won’t they reveal the costumes? I’m most curious about that team’s stage costumes

└Expectation -100 because Yoon Eden said he won’t wear idol stage costumes

[Toohyeok: But what does it feel like? These lasers, when shot on stage? Won’t it look tacky or hurt the eyes so much that people can’t focus on the stage?]

[Yoon Eden: Me? Are you asking me?]

[Toohyeok: Yes, since you’ve been on stage a lot, I thought you’d know well.]

[Yoon Eden: Well, it’s my first time too… Setting up stage sets is all with the agency’s money…]

When Yoon Eden scratched his cheek and smiled awkwardly, Toohyeok’s eyes looking at him became sympathetic.

-Is he indirectly criticizing his agency for not spending money on stages right now?

-Why does Toohyeok have such a pitiful look? Yoon Eden’s wealth is several times yours, snap out of it

-Huh, so the broadcasting station doesn’t set it up for them

[IJM Group]

[IJM: Good. If we keep doing it like this, I think we’ll do well on stage too. Just pay a bit more attention to the doubling.]

[Ha Minseo: Yes.]

IJM’s group was calm with no issues in both practice and additional stage effect discussions.

[NP: I calculated the budget and it seems like we could add one more stage device.]

[IJM: Then let’s add one more that fits the price range. Everyone agrees, right?]

[No Name: Yes, I’m good with it.]

[IJM’s group proceeding smoothly]

-The screen time since last week is seriously making me want to cry

-This is why in survival shows, stirring up trouble to secure broadcast time is also a skill

-And when you cross the line, you become Seven Kick’s group

After briefly showing the five groups’ stage preparation process, the group mission music stage finally began.

[IMITATION – Skoen, Parton, Geek Seung, A01]

-If it weren’t for Killing Beat and DTB drama, this song would’ve easily topped the charts…

-Who can beat Skoen’s verse as an opening, seriously

-Making the hook a singing rap was really a stroke of genius

-Parton’s part is definitely more grating live than it was in the recording, which is a shame

-It’s not that Parton lacks skill, but he didn’t fit this beat and this combination, that’s the problem

└We’ll have to hear Yoon Eden’s group Toohyeok’s live performance to judge, he has a similar issue to Parton

-The live performance is really good with the added atmosphere… I’ll wait until the Parton-removed version gets uploaded to YouTube

Skoen’s group received mostly positive reviews, but there were occasional comments that the live performance was disappointing compared to the recording due to Parton’s parts.

[Panorama – Yupi, G-TE, Freehit Style, An Gyeonghoon, Double T]

-Why do they all look unfriendly even when performing on the same stage?

-Honestly, it lacks staying power. Both the listeners and performers get tired

-I didn’t mind anything else, but after hearing the lyrics targeting Yoon Eden, I really didn’t want to listen anymore. Yupi, the only reversal you showed was when you faced Yoon Eden in the third preliminary. Know your place

-The hook is good, but I’m not sure if it’s worth maintaining at the cost of song length

-They should’ve done indirect diss like Yoon Eden;;; Are you that envious of Blank Cunning?

-Hang in there Yupi hyung, if there were only four team members, hyung would’ve been first place

Yupi’s group had a better stage than their recording, but it was chaotic with mixed reviews criticizing the disappointing length and the blatant targeting.

[Nightmare – Seven Kick, Choi Hwa, YISIK, Sapo]

-So you guys fought and pulled each other’s hair just to present this kind of stage to us? Give me back my license fee

-Goodbye Choi Hwa

-Former Sapo vs biggest villain Choi Hwa, who will be eliminated?

└Predicting this is more fun than watching the stage lololol

-Your completed song quality is also a nightmare, you bastards

Seven Kick’s group stage reviews were even worse than when their recording was released.

[Feel Good – IJM, Ha Minseo, No Name, NP]

-Even the stage is consistently mediocre

-If they had at least a laser show, I would’ve applauded for a last-minute twist

-Are the live audience even responding? I can’t even hear any reaction sounds lolololol

-Should we say these guys were lucky to meet each other as a team or unlucky?

└Having no villains is both their biggest advantage and disadvantage

IJM’s group, as their evaluations had always been, remained truly mediocre until the end, receiving ambiguous reviews between criticism and praise.

And finally, Yoon Eden’s group decorated the spectacular finale.

[Killing Beat – Yoon Eden, Raizo, Toohyeok, Nijeous]

-They fucking brought the beat to life properly, they actually revived it

└Holy shit, when they were choosing beats I thought this team was doomed, but it found a good owner and became the craziest beat

-Wow, the song that was so bad that even G1 gave up defending it and threw harsh criticism turned out like this

-Yoon Eden lost his initial intentions, why is his stage outfit just a black hoodie?

-Oh, the graffiti on the clothes was glow-in-the-dark, that’s cool

-I understand what it means for a stage to look full

-They’re all wearing the same clothes with caps pulled down so I can’t tell who’s who, which one is Yoon Eden?

└The one whose head sticks up alone

-If you’re curious about the hopeful version of group projects, look up and see Yoon Eden’s group stage

-I vote that this becomes the textbook for future season group music missions

-If Yoon Eden fans say they got music chart 1st place through streaming power lolololol don’t the public have ears? Shit? lololololol

-How can you even beat this lol Yoon Eden started by hitting with the hook, went through the verses smoothly, and properly tore it up with the combo of Yoon Eden’s verse + straight to hook at the end

-The ending atmosphere was perfect thanks to the stage effects lolololol

-If the recording was good because it was clean, the stage live performance was good because the synergy between those four properly exploded

-Toohyeok is the same in both recording and stage

-Yoon Eden used his head really well. Skoen’s group had Skoen take the first verse and went with singing rap for the hook, so it’s like “oh” at first but gradually gets boring toward the end, which is inevitable due to rap’s nature. So Skoen’s group tried to catch that by adding melody variations and singing parts, though it was obvious they were trying

└But Yoon Eden’s group went with rap for the hook too and grabbed attention with the hook at the beginning, then put Yoon Eden’s verse at the end, so even though there were only hooks and verses, they maintained tension without getting boring until the finish

-Considering the other members’ skills and the first recording, I can only think that Yoon Eden properly gave them a ride on the bus as he had boasted

-Experienced workers are definitely different

It was the majesty of music chart 1st place that no one could dispute.

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