A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 558

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 558

【Double or Nothing】 created a breathtaking video atmosphere with Russian roulette where he pointed a gun at his own temple while wearing a suit, dice thrown into the air with a suit jacket draped over one shoulder, cards falling to the floor and dress shoes trampling over those cards.

However, the beat that combined clean 808 bass with trendy bounce was heavily mainstream-oriented, unlike the heavy video atmosphere.

-This kind of solo concept is always welcome!

-Phew, I’m so relieved I don’t have to see Eden as a metal-toothed gold-grilled hip-hop warrior

-SEXY…

-My heart started racing the moment I heard the beat

-This is crazy, this is crazy, hurry up and release the full version

【Double or Nothing】, which grabbed your ears and lingered in your head from just a brief listen, received good reactions even with just the teaser.

However, the teaser for the other title track 【Explicit】… it was impossible to figure out the direction of this song.

When I first played it, a familiar heavy beat flowed over a black screen, but as soon as the screen brightened, it cut off abruptly.

And then a refreshing, sweet song started playing.

The song itself was good. The problem was that the heavy beat from the beginning was nowhere to be found, you couldn’t even call it hip-hop, and Yoon Eden was singing that refreshing, sweet song with his voice.

The shock of this deceptive packaging didn’t end there.

Yoon Eden in suspenders and a beret hugging a teddy bear and biting a lollipop, Yoon Eden with wet hair in a marine look standing in front of a beach hologram, Yoon Eden in animal pajamas that were definitely cat-themed but somehow triggered PTSD in some people, wearing animal paw gloves and waving as if greeting.

And then the song naturally became sticky without anyone noticing when it changed, with Yoon Eden biting a rose in his mouth and loosening his tie.

For 10 seconds, the teaser showed only concepts that were (only to some Daydreams) cute, (to hip-hop fans) terrible, and (to the general public) no matter how you looked at it, scary and mismatched, then ended.

-Cute cute cute cute cute cute cute

-Huh?? This isn’t rap, it’s vocals??

-Wow, sorry to Eden but the suspenders really don’t suit him

-What is this, it’s scary…

-Is it okay for a cat to look that human-like?

-Why is he biting a rose lololol What kind of old-fashioned seduction method is that lololol

-What’s with the oversized marine look lol With that body type, if he wore it tight-fitting it wouldn’t be cute

-It’s about a billion light-years away from what I want to see from Eden, but still, it’s admirable that he occasionally serves us this kind of cute concept without backing down… I can’t even lie and say this concept suits him, but it seems like Eden’s way of showing us that he hasn’t caught real artist hip-hop disease and always has his idol self within him

-The song is good though? I only heard 10 seconds but it seems good?

-This would have been better as a Rev song than Eden’s solo song lol

-The only title track of Yoon Eden’s 1st full album α-betⅠ is 【Double or Nothing】. If anyone has seen the song and teaser called 【Explicit】, please do not play it and quietly press the back button. If you accidentally clicked on the teaser, please close the window immediately before 3 seconds pass.

-Is biting and smashing the lollipop a threat that he’ll smash your head like that too?

-He’s taking the teddy bear hostage and threatening, right? No wonder he was choking the teddy bear’s neck with his forearm

-Sigh, I somehow endured up to the animal pajamas, but I couldn’t stand the scene where he bit the rose and loosened his tie, so I turned it off

└That’s the end, you watched it all the way through

-Hyung, it was good until the beat came out at the beginning, give us that beat back

-How can you do this after making us anticipate so much at DTB concert and WAMA

-This is false advertising, false listing, packaging fraud

-At this point, shouldn’t hip-hop fans tactfully back out lololol It seems like he’s trying to shake off the hip-hop male fans who came in through DTB with his whole body lol

-Yoon Eden’s vocals are good, not bad, it’s the optimal difficulty level for me to follow along at karaoke, but what I wanted was rap. It’s like going to a Western-style pork cutlet restaurant and getting Japanese-style pork cutlet – I’m not grateful at all. I came to eat Western-style pork cutlet!

-You know what’s most annoying? I unconsciously thought ‘the song is good’

└That stage is still okay, as long as you don’t reach the ‘Yoon Eden is cute’ stage

-Even dressed like that, he doesn’t look ridiculous and only instills fear, truly our hyung

-How many genres are in one song? Why does it suddenly get sticky after being bright?

-Ugh… urgh… cat… feline… pajamas… ptsd…

If he had done this concept while showing off that heavy beat and incredibly cool rap that he gave us a taste of at DTB concert and WAMA, we would have giggled saying “Ah, our hyung is doing crazy stuff again” and passed it off as a meme of Yoon Eden’s crazy antics…

But Yoon Eden in the teaser was actually singing, singing! And it was a refreshing, sweet song!

-There’s a reason why the term ‘teaser fraud’ exists, you don’t know until you check it out

People desperately begging for this to become a legendary teaser fraud in the future.

-These are all hints, you idiots lol Teddy bear and lollipop = expressing Yoon Eden’s innocence, beach hologram = expressing Yoon Eden’s loneliness, marine look = preview that he’ll go to the navy when he enlists later, cat pajamas = fuck I don’t know this one, Yoon Eden likes cats…?

└It was a DTB Season 6 hint wow

People analyzing by creating hint theories and forcing interpretations from a 30-second teaser that only shows 10 seconds of footage.

-If I wanted a refreshing cute concept, I would have stanned a petite otaku-bait male idol, not you…

Daydreams who were unhappy seeing a concept they never wanted,

-Finally marine look Eden, I’m ascending!!!! I told him to wear it once when he was young and fresh, but our youngest member didn’t wear it until he became an adult, and now he surprises us by wearing it like this

-Finally Eden acknowledged in his solo album that he’s a baby cat

Daydreams who were simply happy seeing the concepts they wanted.

It was a total chaos that Yoon Eden created with just one 30-second teaser.

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At the DTB 2nd diss battle filming site, the most common thing I heard was “What’s with the teaser/song?”

Not only the producers, but also the participants preparing for the diss battle hovered around me and casually threw questions at me.

I came dressed in the most unapproachable look possible after seeing the teaser reactions, but their vigorous curiosity seemed to have overcome their reluctance.

How can they talk to someone wearing such an elegant floral gangster shirt without hesitation? I was satisfied with just a wristwatch and ring for accessories, but if I had known this would happen, I should have just worn the chain necklace that I took off after worrying it made me look too much like an actual gangster.

“Hyung-nim, have you abandoned hip-hop? Have you finally decided to take the path of a Real idol?”

“Do singing rap instead! That’s not it! And don’t you look in the mirror?”

I kept repeating like a cuckoo clock that they should check when the song and music video are released next week, while shaking off Nijeous and Choi Hyeongjin who were clinging to me most annoyingly.

Thanks to that, I almost got dead fish eyes, but since they would definitely chip away at my composure in front of the camera, I kept pinching the back of my hand to revive my focus.

I just wanted to slightly arouse curiosity about the song by capturing the teaser scenes like that, but I never expected it to draw this much aggro.

“Looking at the tracklist, there are some familiar songs?”

When I dragged my tired body and plopped down in a corner, Yongcheol hyung, who handed me a drink sponsored for the broadcast, giggled and plopped down next to me.

“I knew hyung would notice.”

As soon as I opened the drink cap, I downed half of it in one gulp, wiped my mouth with the back of my hand, and grinned.

The concept of my first solo full album, [α-betⅠ], was the past.

More precisely, the musical world of past (ED) Yoon Eden.

The reason I selected double title tracks starting with D and E, and filled it with only my songs without any featuring, was for the same reason.

Songs that remade my old music uploaded to Music Cloud, remixes of songs where I confessed my past on DTB, and songs newly created based on scribbled fragments I had jotted down in old composition notebooks.

While polishing the old songs I created during the time when I simply loved hip-hop and was driven only by passion, nostalgia for those times arose, and I could also realize how much my skills had grown.

Still, my past tastes hadn’t gone anywhere – listening to the composition and rap skills that were much inferior to now was sometimes painful, but hearing the raw beats that could only be made back then also made me admire them. I tried to preserve those parts as much as possible.

The second full album [α-betⅡ] that would come out later was planned to be filled with songs I had accumulated from debut until now, plus newly created songs.

Since I showed the past, now it was time to show the present. Of course, Rev activities were the top priority, so there was a high possibility it would be significantly delayed.

“But I don’t understand 【Explicit】. Where did you throw away what you sang at DTB concert? Is that really the teaser song?”

“Please check the details on May 22nd at 6 PM. And hyung, don’t you trust me?”

“Ugh, don’t dress like that and smile like that. It’s like a loan shark coming to collect debt I didn’t even borrow, it’s making me nervous.”

After being tormented all day at DTB with the teaser and song, I trudged back to the dormitory and lamented to the members about whether this teaser was really that strange.

“So, the current situation is like this. It’s like thinking you’re eating chicken gangjeong but it turns out to be dried pollack gangjeong.”

Ryu Jaehee shrugged his shoulders and gave me an easy-to-understand analogy of this situation.

“Then which drew more aggro, Juni’s April Fool’s confession or the 【Explicit】 teaser?”

“Honestly, in terms of pure aggro power, the 【Explicit】 teaser has the upper hand, but Hajun hyung’s concept has ‘desperation’ in it, so hmm…”

As Kim Dobin was pondering without reaching a conclusion, Gyeon Hajun subtly interjected with a comment.

“If we’re talking about resolve and mindset, I probably won, right?”

Instead of arguing against his slightly revealed, proud-looking expression, I just nodded.

“Yeah, you won, Jun.”

I didn’t particularly want to win at something like this. After all, Gyeon Hajun did it reluctantly because of Parachute, while I did it of my own accord, so how could it even be a competition?

After such a hectic week passed, the full tracklist of my solo first full album was finally revealed.

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