A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 531

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 531

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“Eden Hyung bringing KICKS into this was truly a stroke of genius.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been burying his head in his phone for a while, finally looked up and spoke seriously.

“Why, did my grand plan to crush Lee Seo in the April charts work properly?”

Actually, the strategy of bringing in KICKS to catch Parachute wasn’t Ryu Jaehee’s idea but came entirely from my own head.

So I couldn’t easily guarantee success, but seeing Ryu Jaehee call it a stroke of genius, it seems to have succeeded fortunately.

At that question, Ryu Jaehee gave a thumbs up and nodded.

“Completely. Right now Jung Iseo’s buzz has been eaten up and he’s getting beaten from both sides. I’ll start briefing you so hyung can understand it all at once.”

Ryu Jaehee somehow knew I was curious about how Parachute was getting beaten up and thoughtfully showed me his phone screen while explaining in detail.

“These are the reactions that came out when Jung Iseo posted his comeback announcement.”

-Honestly I don’t think Hajun will lose so I’m at peace lol Think of it as Pomesurin getting divine punishment~

-If I see anyone trying to suppress our kid’s solo song, I’ll immediately think they’re Pomesurin fans and lose my mind

-Yeah the solo song is amazing Don’t you guys not have Yoon Eden’s songs?

-Similar comeback timing is actually good lol Let’s use this chance to properly teach those fans their place

-Crazy Hapjuk bastard Our Pome is trying to get back up but he’s interfering until the end damn it

-Don’t cry Pomeㅠㅠㅠㅠ Don’t be discouraged, you’re the bestㅠㅠㅠ

-Fuck I could tell from when he kept his mouth shut after Sports University ended and when he stayed completely silent during the 5KICKS original debut group media play, he’s so sneaky 100% chance he deliberately scheduled his solo song activities for the same time as Iseo

-Please let Iseo’s song be better than Gyeon’s… Let it be so good that the parachute talk disappears from everyone’s mouths…

“As you can see, our fans were angry at first but regained their composure, while Jung Iseo’s fans are still angry.”

I’m glad our fans don’t seem too stressed, but one reaction from our Daydream fans bothered me a bit. That… the parachute solo song is also my song.

-Connections vs Self-made lol

-No matter what, he can’t beat the pied piper who even dragged along his friend’s small company, right?

-Thinking about how New Born Entertainment’s stock price fell because of that parachute bastard or whatever, I could chew him to death and it wouldn’t be enough Die spectacularly

-Ah I can’t resist this match lol

-Gyeon Hajun’s solo song was fucking good but can he win? To win he’d need to bring someone like Seo Raon as featuring

-If Jung Iseo wins here, do we remove the parachute title now?

-Whether he’s really a parachute or someone who deserved to be dropped from the debut group will be clear this time

-Still I hope the victim does well I wish he could show the world that justice prevails

“Public opinion is roughly like this.”

The public seemed to consume this confrontational structure more as entertainment rather than taking it seriously. Still, there were far more reactions supporting Gyeon Hajun than supporting Parachute.

“Just as it was flowing into a victim vs perpetrator structure and before it could cause fatigue, fortunately KICKS dropped their comeback announcement right then.”

-Is it okay for a bullying perpetrator group to shamelessly make a comeback like this?

-Aren’t these guys also parachute victims??? Why is their reaction so different from Gyeon Hajun’s??

-Fuck did Gyeon Hajun lead and order the bullying? These guys drove someone to panic disorder through group ostracism

-Even so, isn’t it proper etiquette not to interfere when it overlaps with the victim’s activity period?

-Parachute is also brazenly coming out around the same time as the victim, so what can’t KICKS do Shifting to neutral~

-In the end Lee Seo ran with his uncle who parachuted him in with connections and took New Born artists and trainees to a new agency, so honestly how do we know if the bullying rumors were media play

-Kill each other from now on

-Why do I like this lol Jung Iseo’s evil fans kept chanting that KICKS would fail if Jung Iseo left, let’s see if they really fail after Jung Iseo left lol

-The bullying perpetrator group’s bloody shield is fucking disgusting

“So as you can see, it changed to a KICKS controversy arena.”

-Why do they schedule comeback timing like this to make people tired

-I wish Iseo’s new agency would pay more attention,,, I mean even if it’s a startup, can’t they find out Gyeon Hajun’s solo activity date in advance?

-Sigh he should have just stayed at New Born, why follow his uncle and create more gossip

“And as the fighting arena changed from Hajun hyung vs Jung Iseo to KICKS vs Jung Iseo structure, the continued conflict added fatigue to Jung Iseo’s comeback.”

It was a jackpot that exploded several times more than I expected. KICKS timing their comeback announcement well also played a part.

I should throw Kwon Yunseong a solo song later.

“So thanks to that, Hajun hyung, who gets mentioned the least in this three-way battle, now has an extremely advantageous structure. Briefing over!”

Ryu Jaehee finished his closing remarks with a triumphant face, turned off his phone screen, then looked at me and asked in a puzzled voice.

“But hyung, why do you have such a moved expression again?”

I was nodding with my mouth covered, overwhelmed by emotion washing over me like waves.

“I didn’t outsource it, I carried out such complex revenge entirely with my own head!”

I’d done plenty of paying back what I received since regressing, but this was my first time doing such complex, profound, and highly intelligent revenge.

“Isn’t this Hajun hyung’s revenge?”

This was very old resentment built up from before regression, so I didn’t bother explaining it to Ryu Jaehee. Of course, there is some revenge for Gyeon Hajun’s sake too.

But this is about 70% revenge for those who stole my songs and screwed me over both before regression and now, and tried to screw me over this time too.

“Hey, Youngest Member. Do you think this public opinion will continue?”

“We’ll have to see the public opinion trend after Jung Iseo’s solo song comes out tomorrow.”

Well, looking at the glass slipper song I gifted Jung Iseo, it didn’t seem like it would be easily overturned.

Why glass slippers? They look pretty when you see them, but when you actually wear them, your feet hurt and they’re not even that pretty. It was truly a song that perfectly fit the description of glass slippers. Of course, only when Jung Iseo got it.

Let Gyeon Hajun sing it. It’s just like a fucking beautiful shoe of a song.

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Monday 6 PM, Jung Iseo’s solo song was released to the world.

With our stage names that are amazing in many ways: Composer NMS, Lyricist NMS/CB.

First, my evaluation of the song when I heard it was…

“He was way too greedy.”

I clicked my tongue as soon as I heard it. It was a song that would have been terrible even if he sang it in his own style, but trying to imitate Gyeon Hajun’s guide vocals that I sent as a demo showed there was underground beneath the floor.

The melody was good. Of course it was, who composed the song.

But when the singer’s voice was layered on, a strange discomfort gnawed at my ears. To give it a one-line review: ‘A song I won’t listen to twice.’

And the public’s reaction was similar to mine.

-I didn’t expect anything anyway but it’s really below expectations

-Huh he was trying to compete with Hajun with this???

-The melody is fucking good but isn’t this just a singer problem?

-Today’s proverb: Pearl necklace on a pig’s neck (meaningless)

-The song feels like… forcing on clothes that don’t fit

Then we can’t leave out the story of Jung Iseo’s solo song lyrics where Gyeon Hajun participated as lyricist under the name CB.

At first I told him to write lyrics with metaphors containing what he wanted to say, but Gyeon Hajun couldn’t write at all and just clutched his head in front of the paper, so I told him to just write what he wanted to say to Parachute instead of lyric format.

Then Gyeon Hajun brought me several sentences filled with curses within 30 minutes, not even a day, after I corrected that instruction.

If these sentences came out as lyrics as-is, anyone could tell that lyricist CB was Gyeon Hajun.

If this were a Parachute diss track, it would have been a guaranteed pass, but this was a Parachute solo song that Parachute would sing.

The overall lyrical concept I set for Parachute’s solo song was a narrator’s grumbling about being fed up with a selfish, self-centered, main character syndrome lover.

‘Yeah take it all XX’ became ‘A world kind only to you Everyone’s on your side.’

‘You were going to leave anyway so why steal someone else’s spot and cause trouble’ became ‘The time I barely made But you’re unilaterally flaking again.’

‘Parachute XX’ became ‘We’re pieces that don’t fit each other Just forced together to match shapes.’

‘Do you think you can make a comeback with just one solo song? Wake up XX’ became ‘Even though I want to stay immersed in sweet dreams, now I have to face reality’.

‘Did you commission a song? The guy who gives it when asked is one thing, but what’s with the guy who shamelessly holds out his hand asking for a song?’ became ‘Your attitude as if it’s natural, as if you commissioned it, I’ve somehow gotten used to it’.

This way, I somehow renewed the lyrics Gyeon Hajun wrote to fit the song concept.

Calling it a renewal was generous – it was practically a complete recreation.

Gyeon Hajun briefly expressed dissatisfaction that his lyrics(?) weren’t being reflected as-is, but eventually accepted it after my persuasion that this song had to come out into the world somehow.

After all, the song concept was already about talking behind a lover’s back, so we couldn’t exactly include outright curses or harsh words.

If we did, the lyricist would be perfect target for criticism, and Jung Iseo might brilliantly recognize it was about him and reject the song, so sorry to Gyeon Hajun who had a diss track in mind, but this lyrical renewal was a necessary process.

Still, as Gyeon Hajun had hoped, there were people who caught on.

-The lyrics are basically at the level of parachute spinning criticism, right? Didn’t he feel guilty singing it?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Actually, didn’t the lyricist get burned by some parachute hire from another field before? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Though it was treated as conspiracy theory.

As expected, when you put sincerity into something, its true value is revealed someday.

Jung Iseo’s solo song entered the charts at 91st place.

Now Jung Iseo was stuck desperately waiting for KICKS to fail even worse than him.

A week flew by like this, and the day of Gyeon Hajun’s first music show for his solo activities arrived. And since it was his first music show, I specially decided to briefly join him on stage as featuring support.

It reminds me of the DTB Final stage. Back then, our friendship was twisted up like a pretzel so I couldn’t fully enjoy the stage, but this time I should enjoy it to my heart’s content, making up for that time too.

Even if the genre isn’t hip hop. I’m repaying the DTB Final featuring debt, right?

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