Became The Leader of a Girl Group Destined To Fail - Chapter 102

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Chapter 102.

StillBlue “Watermelon” Claims #1 on Music Charts

Real-time chart: #1 achieved immediately
Congrats congrats

B-side track rankings for reference:

20℃, Clear Skies – #3 (composed by Kim Geum)
Fingertips – #5 entry (composed by D.H., Make a New Color mission track)
Bluetooth – #8 (composed by Yun Chung)

Honestly, I figured it’d hit #1, but I didn’t have high expectations. The song itself is really good though
Female idols really do need solid music…
At first I wasn’t sure about it, but the more I listened, I found myself humming it without realizing
I thought the MV would be divisive, but the song makes up for everything. It’s nice to have a light, easy-listening track like this after so long
Yun Chung composed this? She’s gonna rake in royalties from debut alone
└For real?
└└Isn’t it Kim Geum? Wow, that’s crazy
└└└Yeah, Yun Chung composed and wrote the lyrics
Congratulations guysㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠWhy am I crying so muchㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
StillBlue’s “Blue” MV surpasses 10 million views in just 24 hours

These days, they’ve got the strongest firepower among idols lol

Did they run paid promotions? This doesn’t make sense for a rookie…
└Nope, no paid promotions~
└└Even if there were, it’d still be impressive…
StillBlue first-day sales

Already over 270,000 copies
A rookie debut worth looking forward to for sure

Wow.
Seriously, they’re dominating the charts.
Is this real?
└Ah, our Jjang Blue is so specialㅠㅠ
Colors really is a powerhouse in the music industry lol
With 6 album versions in circulation, it’d be weird if they weren’t doing this well lololol
Go buy their old albums or something.
Whoever styled Kim Geum in that school uniform, step forward.

I’m bowing to you.

What camera lens did they use for the Yeon Ju-hong music video?

Please release it on OTube soon, I’m sure they will.

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Baek-young in the jungle honestly looks just like a white puppy, is this real?
The Tamla comments are hilarious because Ryu Bora gets every cute animal nickname attached to her—Ryu Bora Rabbit, Ryu Bora Deer, Ryu Bora Bunny—but I’m firmly in the Baek-young camp.
└That makes sense because when you pair her with Yun Chung she’s a rabbit, with Kim Geum she’s a deer, and with other members she’s a fawn.
└└Now that I think about it, I was always a Kim Geum and Ryu Bora supporter.
Yun Chung… me… I’m 10 years older than Yun Chung but… is it okay if I call her noona?
└Beep boop, that’s legal.
How is Yun Chung so baby fox-like? How is a person even like that?
Isn’t Joohong’s Poka so cute? ㅠㅠㅠ In the end, I couldn’t get an exchange online ㅅㅂ ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ I’m the only one who doesn’t have Joohong ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
└But seriously, their photocards came out so well… am I the only one who felt like all the exchanges were picked clean?
Looking for trades!!! Please give me Kim Geum’s V-photocard!!!! Offline trades totally welcome! I have Rabbit Ryu Bora 1, Wink Ryu Bora 1, Flower Crown Yun Chung 1, Cheek Poke Baek-young 1!!! #StillBlue #Blue #Photocard #Trade #Exchange #KimGeum #KimGeum_VPhotocard
Being under a major label is definitely a huge advantage.

They got massive attention from a survival show from the start, built their fanbase through reality content, and debuted…
It’s called their first album and debut.
But really… lol

Being under Colors definitely gives them an advantage because people take a second look.
Plus they do a lot of variety appearances, so media exposure is inevitable.
The nuance of this comment is kind of harsh though?? Basically what lol?
└No bad intent, it’s just that they keep saying this debut album is record-breaking, but other idols set records without any survival show, so I’m wondering if it’s even comparable ^^
└└Why are you so upset that your group’s records are falling behind?
└└└You sure know how to speak prettily lol
But StillBlue keeps getting linked with BunAsh.

Dan-ha is an MC, and Yun Chung appeared on a female idol music show.
Our activity periods overlap this time, so there’s no way we won’t get close.

Ah, and again…
The BunAsh members must have said they weren’t close about a hundred million times during their live streams.
└222222That’s why they said they’ve barely seen each other except during Make a New Color lolol
└└333Except for Seo Baek-young, their debut periods didn’t overlap much, so most of them said they first met during Make a New Color
I knew this would happen—no one could have predicted otherwise.
Please don’t read meaning into their business interactions.
└2222 Don’t link them together, seriously. Both groups are selling well, and we don’t want to be associated.
Logically, both groups are rookies—why would they be dating?
└Fans probably wish they would though haha

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The long-awaited first day of music broadcasts.
We were heading to the Broadcasting Station in a van.
Seo Baek-young and I sat in the front, while three others sat in the back.
As we drove, I began typing a list on my phone.

“Yun Chung, what’s that?!”
“A list of people you should avoid and people you need to be careful around.”
“?!”

Yeon Ju-hong’s pupils trembled visibly.

“…There are people we should avoid…?”

Seo Baek-young looked equally flustered.

“Quite a few.”
“If you’re talking about male idols, we wouldn’t let you interact with them anyway, would we?”

Seo Baek-young said that and glanced at the manager.

“Male idols are the default, of course…. I’m talking about other people.”
“For example?”
“A PD who acts oddly familiar, a writer who’s exceptionally skilled at leading questions, journalists who approach pretending to be fans.”
“Uh… what?”
“And there are plenty of people likely to come with all sorts of strange proposals.”

With enough experience in this industry, you naturally develop an eye for discernment.
Whether someone approaches with good intentions or malicious ones.
But right now, no matter how much I explain, they won’t understand at all.
Everyone will just seem like wonderful people, and everyone will seem so kind.
But that’s not actually the case.

“How do you know about people like that, unnie?”

Ryu Bora looked at me as if I were truly strange.

“My senior taught me. I’m the leader, after all.”
“Ah~”
“Aha!”

At the mention of seniors, everyone’s suspicions seemed to dissolve.
Everyone except Ryu Bora.

“Which senior?”
“Several of them. I compiled it all together, so memorize all of them.”

I read through the list one by one, adding explanations as I went.

“There. That’s it. Is there anyone else I should add, Min-a?”
“Uh… no.”

Min-a, one of our managers, had a very bewildered expression on her face.

“Yun Chung, you seem to know this much better than I do…?”
“And if anyone else tries to talk to you, report to me or Min-a immediately without fail.”

I know I’m treating them like children.
But I wanted to minimize the risk as much as possible.
I’ve seen more than one or two people go wrong from meeting the wrong person.

“Life in the entertainment industry is so exhausting that even meeting good people is hard to bear. Let’s not bother meeting strange ones. Okay?”
“Y-yeah… that’s right.”
“I never would have thought of that….”
“It’s natural you wouldn’t.”

I only learned these things after rolling around and struggling through it all myself.

“Oh right, everyone. We got a casting offer from Idol Caught in a Moment. Next Tuesday, two weeks from now—”
“Ah, that show….”

Here it comes.

“Don’t you think everyone’s too exhausted to appear on that show as well?”
“Still, idols have to film everything that comes their way, so we need to do it.”
“….”
“What’s wrong, Yun Chung? Is there a problem?”

Why? Because.
The MC there is going to cause a scandal within this month, so there’s no point in appearing—we won’t hear anything good anyway.
Whatever we film won’t air 100% guaranteed.

“I think Ban Aesh Dan-ha mentioned having a survival meeting that day.”
“Huh? A meeting? That day? I haven’t heard anything about it….”

Of course there’s no such thing.

“He definitely told me about it. Something must have gotten mixed up in the communication.”
“Oh, is that so? Then I should decline. Why didn’t I get that message….”
“Maybe another manager received it?”
“Ah, that could be it…. Communication really isn’t working well. Let me check on it.”

I said that and immediately texted Ban Aesh Dan-ha.

Ban Aesh Dan-ha

If you get any calls, could you please confirm them as correct? I’d really appreciate it.

Let me lean on you a bit.

Ban Aesh Dan-ha, senior

Senior, whenever you contact me, I’d really appreciate it if you could just assume I’ll agree to whatever you ask.
Yes.

What is this?
Why are the responses so sharp and direct?
Well, anyway, I like how concise it is.
Since when have you been this cooperative? Willing to ask favors like this?
…Ever since 20 boxes of aralia juice arrived at the dormitory.
Dan-ha started showing up at the company in the early mornings, and naturally, we did too.
Each time, Dan-ha would call either me or Kim Geum to lay down guide vocals for the demo tracks.
Or ask Kim Geum to arrange the compositions.
After that, a strange alliance formed between us.
We cooperated without asking each other why.
Since both BunAsh and StillBlue had equally terrible bosses, we understood the situation without needing to say much.
For example, like this.

Ban Aesh Dan-ha, senior

November xx, 20xx

A variety show that I and my junior were cast for

We decided to have only us appear to avoid overlap

I’d appreciate your understanding

In return, please have only the juniors appear next time

Yes.
If you start the public release

Could you mention that we’ve never even spoken to each other?

Of course.

I’d appreciate it if you’d mention the same thing, senior.
Yes.

20xx, November xx

I was supposed to create an OST, but I just can’t get it done.

If Kim Geum or any of you have spare tracks lying around,

could you fill in for me?

Geum sent you a song via email.

I did the guide vocal myself.
The client loved it.

They said they want you to sing it instead of just doing the guide.

I’ll make time for it.
Please let Kim Geum know as well.

The article will come out sometime next week.

Understood.

Why were we doing the managers’ jobs?
It was because Director Kim was deliberately blocking all information and appearance requests that came our way.
Whenever Lee Sol and our manager eagerly tracked down our schedule opportunities, Director Kim would sabotage them without fail.
I couldn’t understand it.
Apparently, the OST production project that Dan-ha had passed along originally came to Kim Geum.
But Director Kim had rejected it, saying that as a rookie she was swamped and didn’t have time to compose an OST on top of everything else.
…Shouldn’t she have at least asked first?
Did she not know how many songs were already on Kim Geum’s computer?

“We’ve arrived. From here on, it’s a music show appearance, so there will be a lot of fans. Everyone ready?”

At the manager’s words, I turned to look back at the others.

“Everyone ready?”
“Yes!”

This was our first time meeting fans directly since Make a New Color.
Because of that, everyone was brimming with excitement.
I was thrilled myself, so they must be even more so.

“Alright, let’s go everyone!”

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