A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 456

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 456

“Even though it’s the instrumental track that’s the main thing on stage rather than our live performance, we can’t just stand there holding instruments doing nothing, right?”

Everyone nodded at my words. Even Seo Yehyeon, who wouldn’t be holding any instruments.

“Let’s aim for exactly the level of a high school band club – no more, no less. That way we’ll at least avoid creating dissonance with the instrumental track.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Kim Dobin’s face turned ashen.

“Our school’s band club was run by music majors, so the bass player was almost semi-professional level.”

“Oh right, you went to an arts high school. What about middle school?”

“I don’t remember.”

In contrast, Seo Yehyeon’s face visibly brightened.

“Why does hyung look so cheerful? What was the level of your school’s band club like…?”

“I don’t remember if there was a band club in high school, but I remember the band club vocalist in middle school had similar skills to me. I’m relieved you said high school band club level.”

“How does that make sense? Then how did you end up as the vocalist?”

“I sang well at karaoke too. Except for songs with high notes.”

I pressed my forehead listening to Seo Yehyeon’s shameless words.

“I forgot that everyone went to different schools.”

Since I naturally set my own high school band club as the baseline, it would be problematic if Seo Yehyeon’s school band club level became the standard.

“Let’s aim for amateur level. Just don’t look pathetic on stage.”

This explanation should be enough for them to understand.

“What’s the difference between amateur and pathetic?”

“If watching makes you think ‘they may not be great but they’re trying hard’ and smile, that’s amateur. If watching makes you frown and think ‘what are those guys doing,’ that’s pathetic.”

“What level would make people smile?”

“You’re persistent.”

In the end, I had no choice but to pull out practice videos from my high school band club days. Fortunately, I had saved them on my drive instead of deleting them. I kept them for memories, but who knew they’d become a textbook like this.

“Here, this is the minimum standard. Let’s do at least this well.”

“Wow, the video quality is really terrible. Did you film this with a flip phone?”

“Hey, during my school days, I used flip phones much longer than smartphones. And this wasn’t filmed with a flip phone, it was filmed with a camera.”

Just because there’s a two-year age gap, where do you get off treating me like an old person? I grumbled while pressing down on Kim Dobin’s head. Actually, the years I lived without smartphones felt like a past life, so my memory of when I switched from flip phone to smartphone was hazy.

“Is the person playing drums you, hyung?”

“Your appearance has improved so much since then. Back then you really looked like you’d hit someone’s head with drumsticks if they picked a fight.”

“Hey, who are you calling a thug?”

When I played the practice video from our school festival performance on my laptop, these damn guys weren’t listening to the ensemble I told them to focus on, but were evaluating the video quality and my high school appearance instead.

Only after I scolded them to listen to the performance did everyone focus on the essence of the video.

Ryu Jaehee, who had been carefully watching the electric guitar performance, looked back at me with a tired expression.

“Isn’t the electric guitar level too high?”

“It’s fine. If you practice hard, even you can reach this level, youngest. What’s the point if you can’t beat what a mere high school student is playing?”

Though I said this, the friend who played electric guitar and vocals in the practice video had been playing guitar since elementary school.

I heard he’s currently working part-time as an instructor at a practical music academy after returning to school.

Taking the electric player’s experience into account, I slightly lowered just the electric guitar standard from my baseline.

Drums don’t matter since that’s me in this video, and piano should be better than this since Gyeon Hajun plays well. For bass, the guy holding bass in this video also joined after learning for 2-3 months, so he’d be similar to Kim Dobin. Ryu Jaehee just needs to follow along well.

“Alright, we’ll try ensemble practice in a week, so practice hard for a week. The agency said they’ll provide instructors if we want. Anyone who wants to learn from an instructor, speak up now. I need to tell Yeongjin hyung by tomorrow.”

When I relayed what I heard from Manager Hyung, Kim Dobin immediately raised his hand.

“Please get me one. I want to enter the semi-professional world too.”

“Good, study hard and try to catch up to the bass level in this video.”

“Oh, can I ask one question? Do we bring our personal instruments on stage, or does the agency buy them?”

“The agency will purchase them, but you can use your personal instrument if you want.”

“Then I’ll definitely bring mine. I bought an expensive one, and finally there’s a chance to bring it on stage!”

When Kim Dobin showed me the bass model he was buying, I had scolded him for buying something unnecessarily expensive as a beginner, so I had nothing to say. How was I supposed to know we’d have a chance to perform on stage with a band concept?

“What about you, youngest. Don’t you need one-on-one lessons?”

“Can’t I learn from you, hyung?”

“Oh, you want to do that?”

Seeing how I made Kim Dobin capable of doing his share in composing, I clearly had talent for teaching. Ryu Jaehee had followed along quite well when I taught acoustic guitar before too.

Unlike the beginners, I had basic skills built up from long ago, so I didn’t need to devote myself entirely to practice, meaning I had plenty of time to guide Ryu Jaehee.

Gyeon Hajun would practice well on his own reading sheet music.

Seo Yehyeon, who had been blinking blankly, casually asked.

“What do I practice?”

“Hyung… not standing around too awkwardly? Holding a standing mic and naturally nodding your head?”

“Do I really need to practice that? Can’t I just do it? Like this?”

His head nodding looked so stiff it was pitiful to watch, making me click my tongue. To think such a simple motion requires dance practice-level training – poor guy with no sense of rhythm.

* * *

“The Music Center 1st place winner for the last week of May is…!”

Ryu Jaehee, holding the microphone and trophy at the MC position, delivered his line while slowly approaching and naturally slipped between the members.

“Yes, congratulations! Rev!”

As soon as the other two MCs delivered their lines, Ryu Jaehee’s gesture of triumphantly raising the trophy he was holding looked quite amusing. I bowed my head while receiving the bouquet from another MC.

With this, we successfully achieved a triple crown! This had been a dream record since before my regression, and we’re finally achieving it!

Of course, I had achieved it with my own songs, but never as Rev.

Before we knew it, all the singers had left and only we remained on stage for the encore performance.

“Daydream! What about Rev’s 1st place promise? You said you’d take recommendations from our Daydream! Our heads can’t come up with ideas anymore!”

In response to our SOS, all sorts of shouts came from various parts of the audience fan section.

“What? Sexy dance? Wasn’t our choreography already a sexy dance? Weren’t we sexy? What did you say? Vulgarly? This is terrestrial broadcasting! We’re in big trouble!”

Following the fans’ wishes, which came out as the most popular opinion, we presented a proper encore stage with full effort for the first time in a while, without any promises.

Before leaving the stage, we didn’t forget to give each other high-fives.

[From. Eden]

Daydream, have you been getting stronger day by day since our comeback?

With today’s Music Center as the finale, our 2nd full album [NOX] activities have come to an end.

This was our second full album, and it was quite different from what Rev had shown before – the genre, concept, and process were all experimental without exception, so I was quite nervous when we released it to the world. But receiving much more overwhelming love than we expected, I can only be grateful.

Our title track 【Nightmare】 also achieved a triple crown on all three terrestrial broadcasting stations. It’s an honor to achieve this dream record, and I thank Daydream once again for sharing the glory of this triple crown with us. Thanks to Daydream, we’ve achieved triple crowns with all of Rev’s songs.

We won’t make you wait too long, so don’t be too sad about the end of our activities, and stay healthy until we meet again on stage and through music.

p.s. Reading this again, I wrote it too much like a farewell message… Don’t worry, I’ll keep posting on fromm ㄴㄴ

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-Congratulations on Rev’s triple crown!!!! Now let’s go for the grand prize!!!!

-We won’t make you wait too long *loading sound*… We won’t make you wait too long *loading sound*… We won’t make you wait too long *loading sound*… We won’t make you wait too long *loading sound*…

-Why did you already cover your hair ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ I liked the half-and-half hair because it was unique and pretty ㅋㅋ

-Now just have confidence in your music and always walk the path of success, Eden

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After the whirlwind regular album activities ended.

A brief rest period given to us who had to immediately prepare for the repackage album.

Normally we would have gone to our family homes or met friends to hang out, but today everyone was gathered in the dorm living room without going anywhere.

Remembering the pre-regression and early debut dorm scenes that were completely empty because everyone went out even during short breaks, I was newly moved by this change.

Even when I first returned to debut day, I never thought I’d become this close with these guys.

Since we were worse than strangers, I thought it would be a blessing just to maintain a decent team business relationship, but now even the thought of returning to our pre-regression relationship was horrifying.

Back then, I hated being stuck in the dorm so much. How desperate must I have been to buy a house – a house!

“Our Daydream will be bored for two months. We can’t even upload spoilers of our band practice.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had buried his chin in the sofa cushion he was hugging, muttered.

“Well, at least Hajun’s fans won’t be as bored. He’s appearing in a drama, and he’s releasing a solo song as the drama OST.”

When I glanced at Gyeon Hajun sitting next to me and replied indifferently, Gyeon Hajun desperately grabbed at the remote control in my hand and shook his head.

Of course, since I was also gripping the remote tightly, instead of falling into Gyeon Hajun’s grasp, the remote became a victim of our tense tug-of-war.

“Do we really have to watch this?”

“Of course. It’s your first drama debut. But at this rate the remote’s going to break, Jun. Let go.”

“You let go first.”

“If I let go of this, you’ll turn off the TV, take the remote, run to your room so we can’t watch this drama, and lock the door. Tell me if there’s anything wrong with what I said.”

“I won’t go to my room. I was just going to take a light walk.”

“With the remote?”

Eventually, Gyeon Hajun, who had worn himself out and let go of the remote first, asked in a completely deflated voice.

“Then is there a reason we absolutely have to gather together like this to watch…?”

“Of course, since we’re one team. Didn’t you watch DTB 4 like this?”

“No, that was because Eden, who was the person involved, called everyone together. For this drama, I’m the person involved and I…”

“Oh, it’s starting!”

Gyeon Hajun’s protest was drowned out by Kim Dobin’s extremely excited voice. The drama that had been a hit before my regression finally began its opening as Gyeon Hajun’s first acting idol debut work.

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