A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 550

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 550

“But isn’t that too far from your usual style? I think you’d be more stressed wearing it. You usually pay a lot of attention to fashion too.”

At Jiwon Hyung’s concerned words, I lightly patted his shoulder and deliberately replied in a playful voice.

“Of course I’d like to dress in my usual style. But what can I do when my original sin runs this deep? I need to establish strict discipline from the beginning so it’ll calm down more than Season 5.”

And I need to wear this kind of radical fashion to avoid criticism for sitting in the producer’s seat acting all high and mighty when I’m the very person who turned DTB into a fashion show.

Last year, even though I didn’t even show my face on Season 5 of DTB, I still got so much hate.

Even if it means lowering my style a bit like this, I need to show my will to actively suppress those concept-obsessed guys and fix DTB that turned into a fashion show, so viewers can see it as an effort to clear my karma.

Even this crazy traditional outfit fashion was calculated and presented with all that in mind. It’s better to minimize attack points against me.

Showing this kind of fashion on broadcast only stresses me out, but me getting hate stresses out our fans and people around me too.

I saw it myself while searching – Daydream getting called fangirls in replies by hip-hop purists just for supporting me on DTB, so of course I can endure clothes like this.

Of course our Daydream didn’t lose and tore those hip-hop purists to shreds like brave beasts, but I couldn’t help feeling bothered by it.

This is why I don’t agree when people call me crazy. A crazy person would just wear whatever they want without this kind of calculation.

Still, I didn’t wear a solid waist-fit awkward quilted modified hanbok like my high school Korean history teacher. It was a modified hanbok made of thin fabric that actually looked good.

Yongcheol Hyung looked at me with a very shocked expression and said.

“Wait… for the second preliminary round, producers have to sit by teams.”

Instead of asking if he didn’t want to sit next to me, he threw me a sigh full of regret.

“Right, I should have brought an outfit for you too, Hyung. It would have looked unified and nice if we matched.”

“You punk, when did you advise me to cut my hair and go out, and now you come wearing clothes like this. You need to live up to your face value, huh?”

Yongcheol Hyung grabbed and stretched both my cheeks after makeup was done. Thanks to that, touch-up makeup before broadcast was confirmed.

If I told Yongcheol Hyung the real reason, this emotional guy would obviously get teary-eyed again and try to mess up my already-set hair by taking off my snapback saying I’m all grown up, so I decided to tell him that much later after DTB Season 6 ends.

Until last year, eight producers did individual judging like in Season 4, but since Season 5 had no ALL PASS results, it changed back to judging by producer teams.

Well, even in Season 4 when I appeared, only four people got ALL PASS in the second preliminary round. It was me, Skoen, A01, and IJM, I think.

Since two out of the four ALL PASS recipients made it to the semifinal-final route, the second preliminary ALL PASS was also a kind of device to raise expectations and interest for championship candidates.

Unless you give up ALL PASS like Yupi and go all-in on a reversal in the third preliminary round, having no ALL PASS recipients based on pure skill is a bit problematic.

After finishing touch-up makeup and as filming time approached, we all headed to the judging seats following the route guided by staff.

Unlike previous seasons where producer seats were table-style, they were sofas where we could lounge comfortably. Thanks to that, our clothes wouldn’t be blocked by the screen showing results, which I really liked.

Both the stage where participants had to show their second preliminary round and the judging seats a bit away from that stage were quite high.

The stage where participants would stand had a descending lift installed. If you pass, the door you came through in the back opens, and if you fail, the lift descends as is.

So now DTB decided to give shock through visual effects.

Rather than going back through the door you came from with drooped shoulders, dropping them down below does look more extreme.

After the four teams took their seats on each sofa and heard how to use the PASS/FAIL selection on the provided pads, the second preliminary round judging began in earnest.

When someone showing signs of concept-obsession came on stage, I would conspicuously tap the danso I was holding on my palm a couple times. Then most would obediently just rap.

Those who ignored even this crazy traditional outfit fashion and danso attack were beyond my control. They were the type who would do concept stuff even if I was wearing a T-rex balloon outfit and clapping.

I don’t know if they think it’s cool to target and diss producers sitting as judges, or if they think that’s hip-hop spirit, but there were quite a few people who filled their 60 seconds by dissing producers.

The most common target of those disses was of course me, the one among eight who ‘still’ doesn’t have a solo album.

But their common trait – while dissing, not one of them could make eye contact with me.

I understand they might miss the beat if they smile, but what kind of diss is it if you can’t even make eye contact? Give it up.

One participant dissed me asking what kind of producer sits there without even one album, saying when he looks at me with all my DTB 4 glory faded, what comes to mind now is Line 1, then suddenly shook his head and corrected it to cornflakes, which threw off his rhythm and he stumbled over lyrics and eventually got eliminated.

Was that cornflakes cosplay thing about me? But why cornflakes? Could it be… that tiger character drawn on the packaging box?

As the belated realization hit me, I was spinning the danso in my hand like a pen and nodding when the next participant on stage briefly missed the beat.

When I swung the danso through the air as a signal to get it together, he flinched as if he got hit instead of the air. Anyone watching would think I’m using air waves for indirect assault.

Of course it was elimination.

As I proceeded with the second preliminary judging, I saw quite a few familiar faces I hadn’t seen in the first preliminary round.

Not someone I knew through my connections, but a well-known rapper that anyone interested in Korean hip-hop would know came up on the DTB second preliminary stage.

Flodic in Season 3, Skoen in Season 4, Jamiro in Season 5, and HYEQ in Season 6, I guess. One came out each season.

“Wow, isn’t that HYEQ?”

“My goodness, such an esteemed person in this humble place…”

With rap and relaxed attitude definitely worthy of admiration, I clapped with the danso and pressed the PASS button together with Yongcheol Hyung.

Although he looked at me once then desperately avoided eye contact while rapping, good work is still good work. I’m not that petty.

Finally the first ALL PASS came out. But HYEQ, as if it was a natural result, calmly bowed to the producers and turned to exit through the pass door.

A junior girl group member also came up on the second preliminary stage with a very nervous face.

Did Rev overlap activities with them once or twice? It’s their third year and they’re a group that became quite well-known to the public with several hit songs. Was their visual member the most famous there too, like Rev before regression?

I remember they didn’t appear in DTB Season 6 before regression – there weren’t that many idols appearing before regression. They appeared modestly until Season 4, then flocked after I won Season 4.

When I, an acquaintance, waved the danso to help her relax, the junior became even more stiffly frozen. Why that reaction? We’re used to this from wearing stuff like this on 【My Idol’s Private Life】 and self-content. Don’t girl groups wear things like this…?

Still, she did quite well considering how nervous she was. It was skill that had been hidden behind small parts.

I heard Jiwon Hyung was producing for that group and recommended she try DTB once. Is that guy a DTB evangelist or what?

Unfortunately the junior didn’t achieve ALL PASS, but still got 3 PASS and went out the pass door with praise.

The next participant wasn’t familiar in face but familiar in rapper name and voice. Come to think of it, I never thought to search for his face.

“Was it already three years ago? I’m curious why someone who so viciously dissed DTB and DTB rappers changed their mind to appear on DTB.”

BQ9 holding the mic threw a question mixed with cynicism and sarcasm at Curdy Boy. Curdy Boy, who was scratching the back of his head, paused briefly then answered.

“I heard so much back then about dissing sneakily from behind… this time I wanted to try dissing from the front.”

His courage was quite admirable.

Opposite to how Yongcheol Hyung dissed others for a few seconds then dissed only me for a whole bowl back then, this time Curdy Boy spent 55 seconds of his 60 dissing the producers from Season 3, BQ9, and even Yongcheol Hyung, investing only the remaining 5 seconds on me.

[This person is too scary to diss, so PASS]

The last word seemed to be pronounced strongly with his own wishful thinking, but all four producer teams showed FAIL instead of PASS and Curdy Boy was gloriously eliminated like that.

Still, we once exchanged confession attacks and counter-confession attacks, so it was unfortunate.

For Curdy Boy going down on the lift toward the floor with a hollow expression, I played Arirang on the danso. It was a farewell OST.

♪~ ♪♬~ ♬♪♬

“What…? Why is he unnecessarily good at playing it?”

Bewildered comments could be heard from around.

Thanks to that, Curdy Boy was able to leave to applause on his final path. Of course it was applause for my danso performance, not for Curdy Boy.

Instead of declaring war on producers or saying please take care of me, there was also a participant who started with exclamations.

“Holy shit, I thought he was our high school ethics teacher! Exactly the same!”

“The fit is different though, Gyuchan.”

“That’s true… Wow, he even recreated the danso. Our ethics teacher used to go around tapping kids’ heads with that, but what are you planning to do with it, Hyung- I mean Producer-nim? The distance is too far to tap heads?”

When Nijeous showed interest in the danso I was holding, BQ9 answered for me.

“He plays it as a memento when you get eliminated. If you want to hear it, tell me before you perform. I’ll eliminate you.”

Nijeous shook his head vigorously.

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