Became The Leader of a Girl Group Destined To Fail - Chapter 150

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Chapter 150.

Fans can also write diary entries in the EVEL StillBlue exchange diary.

You can write diary entries on each date’s bulletin board.
Sometimes the StillBlue members even leave comments.
(Screenshot)
One EVEL member said she was devastated because she failed all her college entrance exams and was forced to retake the exam, so Kim Geum told her to take all of her college entrance exam luck for this year.
(TMI: Kim Geum is also 19 years old and has to take the college entrance exam this year)

I’m touched, but Geum, aren’t you going to college?ㅠㅠ
Kim Geum said that she and Ryu Bora should probably graduate from StillBlue University first lol 😭
All five StillBlue members were filial daughters to the company.

Even Jakon is such a dutiful daughter, such a dutiful daughter…ㅠㅠ

└Seriously, it feels like these kids have no rest time—they’re communicating as naturally as breathing.
What’s really great about this album’s diary content is

A lot of fans were actually worried because each member has so many individual schedules.
They were concerned that individual fan bases were growing too much.
But after seeing this content, the feeling is
The members’ relationships are intact… it’s a world where the whole fandom wins…

Really, it’s great how their relationships are well-displayed.
The best part about the diary is that it’s content with all five members every single day—you can really feel that the kids are genuine friends lol

This album’s concept sparked significant resonance among fans.
The fact that StillBlue consistently shares their daily lives with fans.
And the fact that most of the diary entries aren’t about just one member, but feature the stories of all five.
The fact that it doesn’t feel artificial like something filmed by the Entertainment Company or Broadcasting Station, but rather ‘real daily life’ filmed directly by StillBlue themselves, albeit clumsily.
Although the footage was often shaky and the audio quality wasn’t always great, far more fans loved the raw, unfiltered sentiment itself.
It wasn’t simply used as a disposable item for the album and then discarded—it remained as StillBlue’s own new content that would continue on, which was a profound source of emotion for fans.

But everyone’s so caught up in the diary details that they’re forgetting about this album’s actual concept.

This album’s title is Paper dol.
It feels like a concept that combines paper dolls and idols (which is probably why it’s a diary album).
I’m genuinely dying to know.

Honestly, I’m waiting too because I think I’ll become a concept-obsessed fool once the concept photos drop.
So when are the concept photos coming out?

Colors, release StillBlue’s concept photos right now.

They’ll be released at 6 PM today, ma’am.

***

This album had been a source of great deliberation for all of us.
Because our debut album had been so successful, the pressure behind this one weighed even heavier.
Yet it wasn’t greater achievements that concerned us most.
We were all rookies who’d debuted mere months ago, yet in that brief span, we’d experienced so much.

“But honestly, when I think about everything we’ve been through, doesn’t it feel like we’ve been doing this for ten years?”

At Yeon Ju-hong’s words, I nodded absently.
My own sense of time aligned with hers.
I’m actually in my tenth year, yet what I’ve experienced these past few months feels like so much more.

“That just means we’re getting attention. Let’s see it as something good.”
“Baek-young, how do you always stay so consistent?”

Yeon Ju-hong gazed at Seo Baek-young with genuine admiration in her eyes.
I agreed with her sentiment.
Perhaps it was from her long years as a trainee.
Seo Baek-young possessed a resilience that set her apart from the rest of us.
The other members had also trained for extended periods.
Yet what had forged Seo Baek-young into such an unshakeable person?
Perhaps I’d have the chance to learn her story someday.

“Still, we all faced this challenge together and fought through it, clearing away the injustice we felt.”

Seo Baek-young tied back Yeon Ju-hong’s hair as she spoke.

“The world is rarely that fair, honestly. Sometimes injustices just remain injustices. In comparison… I think we’re actually quite fortunate.”

She had a point.
We were beginning to understand it more and more.
There were far more obstacles blocking our path than we’d anticipated.
The framework surrounding us was far more rigid than we’d imagined.
As for me, I’d grown accustomed to that feeling over the past decade—weary of it, even.
But the members hadn’t.
During the concept meeting, it was clear they each wanted to convey far more than just one or two things.
I suggested we each pick just one message we absolutely wanted to include.
At first, no one answered easily.

“But there’s so much we want to say!”
“If we’re limited to one message each, we’d have to release an album every time we take a breath….”

Yeon Ju-hong and Kim Geum seemed to have the most to say.
Truthfully, they barely stop talking even back at the Dormitory.

“We only have one body each.”
“That gives us five total, which should be manageable, shouldn’t it?”

Even Ryu Bora, whom I’d trusted, turned against me.
I looked to Seo Baek-young for support.
Seo Baek-young laughed awkwardly and avoided my gaze.
Apparently, she had plenty to say as well.
They really all wanted to express so much.

“We’ll be releasing many more albums in the future anyway…. Let’s do one message at a time. Besides, that’s already difficult and challenging. Yun Chung was right about that.”
“But….”
“Don’t rush. Whatever we can’t say this time, we can say next time.”

Only after Seo Baek-young sided with me did the situation finally settle.
Everyone returned to their rooms and spent time in careful deliberation.
Then, after we discussed and debated the opinions that emerged.
Our second conclusion was reached.

‘We hope this album will be made purely for our fans!’

Not an album for our success or popularity.
Not the wounds we’ve suffered or the walls that have blocked us.
Let’s fill it with the hearts that our fans rightfully deserve, and the wounds and walls they’ve felt.
Let’s create a place where our fans, exhausted from fighting for us, can pour out their day.
Let’s make the subject of this album not StillBlue, but Ever Blue.

***

Meanwhile.
In a self-catering room.
Kim Deputy sat biting her nails, waiting for something.
What was she waiting for, you ask?

Ding!

★
StillBlue

1st Single Album
【Paper Dol】 Concept Photo #kimgeum

#StillBlue #StillBlue #Paper_Dol
#PaperDol #StillBlue_PaperDol #1stSingleAlbum

20xx. 3. 5. Fri 6PM (KST)

This.
This right here.
Kim Geum’s concept photo.
I couldn’t begin to describe how thrilled she was when she heard that Kim Geum would be featured in the album’s first concept photo.
But then.
Something felt off.

‘Four concept photos per person…?’

Was it really true that this album’s concept was filial piety rather than Paper Dol?
What idol group in the world includes four concept photos per member?
Even as she wondered if this was allowed or if they’d lost their minds, Kim Deputy clicked on the first photo.
And the moment she saw the image, she could clearly understand the concept.

‘It really looks like a paper doll design.’

First, the background of every photograph was unified.
A sky-blue checkered pattern, like diary pages.
A white border surrounding Kim Geum and the props—something that symbolized the paper doll design aesthetic.
Especially the outfits and accessories clustered around Kim Geum like stickers, each with foldable white wing-like sections.
Yet the outfit concept differed in each design.
In the first photograph, Kim Geum wore a preppy look straight out of a high school film.
A loosely buttoned white crop shirt, a black tweed jacket, and shorts adorned with a pearl chain.
The styling screamed anything but model student.
The outfits surrounding Kim Geum were all the same.
They all appeared deliberately undone.
The next photograph featured Kim Geum in a girls’ punk look.
A choker necklace and a t-shirt with planets drawn on it, paired with a red checkered skirt.
Right beside it was a cross-shaped piercing as well.
The surrounding props included an ornately decorated guitar and microphone stickers.
This time, it seemed the paper doll design even included tattoo options, as tattoo designs were present.
It felt like she was about to perform rock instead of rap on stage.
Pure Y2K style.
Kim Geum’s hairstyle differed in each photograph.
In the first photograph, Kim Geum had long brown wavy hair with her bangs pinned back.
Facing forward with a playful expression, Kim Geum looked just like a doll.
Her rigid, perfectly maintained posture and the white border surrounding her created an inhuman quality.
In the second photograph, she had short bangs and a black bob cut with layers down to her ears.
Unlike before, she gazed to the side with an indifferent expression and blank face.
Yet this time, she looked doll-like in a different way.

‘How can she look so perfectly doll-like with different concepts and different expressions?’

Kim Deputy was on the verge of tears.
All the remaining photographs were paper doll designs created with different concepts.
A modernly reinterpreted hanbok concept, and even a casual everyday wear collection concept.
But that wasn’t the end.

Ding!

At the alarm sounding once more, Kim Deputy checked the notification in confusion.

‘Wait. There’s a video too?’

Member-by-member teaser videos?
Kim Deputy hastily pressed the play button on the video.
Then the four photographs I’d seen earlier appeared in the video one after another.
The four Kim Geum paper doll designs were cut out by someone’s hands.
Those hands dressed the paper doll Kim Geum in various outfits, ultimately settling on a punk look.
And then she pasted the punk-styled Kim Geum into a diary.

‘An EVEL StillBlue exchange diary.’

You could tell just from looking at the cover.
That very cover that had set fans’ hearts racing not long ago.
The mysterious hands opened the diary and pasted the paper doll Kim Geum onto the March page.
And so Kim Geum occupied the entire Wednesday slot for March.
The hands, seemingly satisfied, wrote “StillBlue comeback! Geum Kim, come soon” next to Kim Geum.
And then closed the diary.
The screen faded to black as if the video was ending.

‘Is it over?’

I thought the video had ended just like that….

Click.

Suddenly the screen switched.
The diary trembled as the clasp button clattered open.
And the diary opened again.
Inside it…

-Hi.

The “real” Kim Geum stood on top of the diary, smiling brightly and looking directly at the camera.

-I’m here.

Kim Geum raised her right hand, brought it to the side of her cheek, and playfully wiggled her fingers.

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