Became The Leader of a Girl Group Destined To Fail - Chapter 158

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Chapter 158.

Her eyes are shining—she knows StillBlue is taking first place today.

That gaze is insane.
This is why rookie stages are so good—that hunger gleaming. Perfect.

There’s something satisfying about watching the Stage when they pour everything into it.
This is exactly why people love rookie performances lol.
Don’t lose that hunger, seriously.
Of course it’s StillBlue over StillBlue;;;;;

Is it real that both first-place contenders are StillBlue?

It’s real.
Isn’t it obviously StillBlue over StillBlue?
StillBlue first place lol.

Not surprising since she obviously knew she’d take first.
Obviously both first-place contenders are StillBlue.
They hit a career high this time.

Initial sales easily breaking 500,000 copies~
The song’s so good I listen to it every day.
It’s my commute anthem, the beat is so catchy I play it constantly.
Amppeppeotol~ Amyuoreotol~
└Even my tone-deafness is showing, teacher.
StillBlue is strong in both digital and physical sales.

The digital scores and album scores are both insane;;;.
The first-place contenders are different title tracks from the same album.

Today’s broadcast allows duplicate album scoring—that’s how this miracle happened.
The fact that they’ve been splitting digital first and second place for a whole week is genuinely awe-inspiring.
Obviously I knew they’d take first.
My kid’s been singing this constantly, so I knew it’d take first.

The food court pick is seriously accurate.
It’s science.
Elementary school kids are all singing it?
It’s the biggest hit song of that year.

I also think that if the elementary school student next door sings it, it will be first place, but can you please stop singing it??????ㅠ
For real, adults don’t need ears—elementary school kids’ ears are the most accurate.
At this point, entertainment companies should hold listening sessions with elementary schoolers…
Plus they dance and upload it to TokTik too? That’s the award-winning song of the year.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
└└It’s science, I’m telling you… The song they’re practicing during break time is the annual biggest hit…

Week two music broadcast: five-time winner.
StillBlue took first place with such ease.
And no one was surprised by that first place.
If anything, wouldn’t it have been more surprising if they hadn’t taken first?
On some music broadcasts, all the first-place candidates were StillBlue.
However, there were naturally reactions expressing dissatisfaction about this.

Honestly, it’s basically picking an empty house.

The #1 performance is legit good too.
But honestly, if a first-team male idol had appeared, would he have been able to get first place? Haha.
They deliberately targeted an empty slot to get #1, the hype is way too much.

lol right now it’s possible because none of the top players have made a comeback yet
Their fans were bragging about controlling all the #1 candidates;;; They don’t even know that’s proof of picking an empty house and they’re acting out.
EVEL fans, you’re not even caterpillars, please just tone it down.
But StillBlue doesn’t seem to be doing live vocals?

Is it lip-sync… something feels unnatural.

Yeah, I thought the same thing.
Why would they lip-sync on the day they got #1;;?

They don’t even deserve to be promoted as a skilled idol, seriously lol

Only Yun Chung sings a bit, the rest sounds like pure AR.
Yeon Yeon-hong’s live is famous for not being good haha. But it has increased like that in just a few months? Ugh, hurry up!

Most of it stemmed from jealousy toward StillBlue, who was achieving overwhelming success.
So in fact, fans didn’t pay attention to these provocative reactions.
However.
The live performance controversy was so forced and absurd that fans could only laugh it off.
But even if it was a forced controversy, if people kept insisting on it, those unfamiliar with the facts would think, “Is that so?”
The live performance controversy began spreading rapidly across the community.

Female idol hyped as a skilled performer but doesn’t even do proper live vocals.jpg

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StillBlue’s stage today
So unnatural lol

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They don’t even call them for encore stages, using “no time” as an excuse haha
Everyone knows that’s where real skill shows
They don’t call them because they’re afraid their lack of skill will be exposed

So disappointing
Still, if you’re a singer, do some live vocals… If you’re not going to do live, drop the “singer” title and just keep the “idol” title
What? StillBlue didn’t become famous for singing well?? Why aren’t they doing live??
└It’s all media play. Colors has always been good at media play lol
Only Yun Chung was ever good at it anyway, the others were just so-so haha
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[Here’s a clear breakdown of the StillBlue lip-sync controversy]
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[10 pieces of evidence that StillBlue doesn’t do live performances]
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[StillBlue’s lack of skill exposed lol]

The only time StillBlue sang poorly during an encore stage was once—their very first number-one encore performance.
Fans couldn’t hide their bewilderment.
All the members were hugging each other and crying—how were they supposed to sing perfectly on top of that?
A rookie group got first place; they’re allowed to cry a little…!
All the parts where they deliberately cried were edited out, and only short clips of them composing themselves and thanking fans were maliciously uploaded.
If you’re going to bring it up, at least show everything….
Moreover, StillBlue had won first place on five different stages, so they had five encore performances.
Yet they deliberately didn’t include the encore stages with solid live vocals and only brought up that one first stage where they sang poorly.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, but it seems like our girls have gotten hit with a reverse viral trend

And it’s definitely a vicious one attached to them;;;;
They keep spreading ridiculous rumors..;;;;
No, and Steel Blue is the only one who couldn’t do a proper encore because they were crying because they won first place? LOL
Isn’t that usually when people praise them for their rookie charm?
I’ve been around the fandom for a while, but people here criticize even this
They’re seriously criticizing everything—soon they’ll start criticizing them for breathing. This excessive hate is insane

But I’m not worried

Once the girls keep doing well on their own, all this noise will disappear anyway
I’ve been thinking about this for a while—did some competent new staff join Colors or something?
Whenever hate attaches itself, it usually gets resolved after just a day or two

Wow, I was thinking the same thing
Once Kim Mo-gyeong left, the evil spirit got exorcised
Lol lol lol hahaha it’s funny, no wait actually it’s not funny…
StillBlue has done so many stages already—how is there even a skill controversy?

Just look at Yunble’s DiMadi Stage performance from last time and you’ll see what I mean????
And the other members are doing well too.

Probably because the other members haven’t done song-focused content
“Please do it for me this time.”
└└let’s hear it this time… drop some hints for us Colors fans

***

And so, after sweeping through the music broadcasts, we were finally granted a proper chance to rest.
…Though “proper” meant only seven hours of sleep.
Drifting through that sleep….
I woke to an inexplicable chill.

‘…What is this?’

I sat up and glanced at the bed beside mine—Seo Baek-young’s was empty.
Was it really possible for the absence of one person’s warmth to feel this unsettling?
It struck me anew how thoroughly I’d adapted to group activities.
Now that I thought about it, my throat was parched too.
I slipped out of the room to grab some water and find Seo Baek-young.
I moved carefully, not wanting to disturb the other members’ sleep.
That’s when I noticed light seeping from beneath one of the doors.

‘…Isn’t this Kim Geum’s room?’

What was with this girl and her constant insomnia lately?
As the leader, I reached for the doorknob with the intention of scolding her.
But in that moment.

“How did you… feel about… what you did today…”

Seo Baek-young’s voice drifted out.
I froze, unable to comprehend the situation.

“Even if it’s like this… it was good… it helped…”
“But… when did you… exactly…”

What?
Yeon Ju-hong is in there too?
The voices from inside were hushed and difficult to make out clearly, but that last one was unmistakably Yeon Ju-hong’s.

“…But if… Yun Chung finds out… she definitely will…”

Ugh.
My name’s even coming up in this.
If it were something else, I could’ve pretended not to know, but with my name involved, I couldn’t just ignore it.
But they were whispering so much I couldn’t make out what they were saying at all.
Since I couldn’t hear Ryu Bora’s voice, it seemed like the three of them were definitely scheming something together.
Why am I being left out?
I’m actually a bit hurt by this.

“Maybe you two will… understand later…”

I couldn’t take it anymore.
I finally opened the door and walked in.

“Gasp.”
“Eek.”
“…Yun Chung?”

The three of them looked at me with wide, startled eyes the moment they saw me.
Even with that shocked expression, I wasn’t going to let them off the hook.

“What are you all doing up instead of sleeping?”
“…T-the n-next album m-meeting?”

Kim Geum, please learn how to lie properly for once.
Why are you so bad at acting?

“W-we w-were p-planning a s-surprise birthday party for B-Baek-young noona!”
“…You were planning that with Baek-young noona herself?”
“Aaah.”
“Y-you know, all the M-Z generation kids d-do things like this these days, Yun Chung.”

Do you not even know what the word ‘surprise’ means?
I felt an odd sense of hurt toward my members who clearly had no intention of opening up to me.

“Is this something worth keeping secret from me?”
“…”

The three of them just exchanged nervous glances.

“When I’m made leader, you suddenly exclude me from things like this….”

This is exactly why people say you shouldn’t raise dark-haired beasts….
Keeping small animals is utterly useless.

“Hey, Yun Chung is always leaving us out and doing something with the Shop Owner and Manager!”
“That’s right! Yun Chung always excludes us and whispers about something.”
“….”

Now that they mentioned it, I couldn’t really argue back.

“…Then let me ask just one thing. Is it better that I don’t know? Is that really why you won’t tell me?”

The three of them looked down at the ground with dejected expressions at my words.
Then.

“Yun Chung.”

Seo Baek-young opened her mouth.

“It’s not that it’s better you don’t know. But.”

Seo Baek-young looked at me with that reassuring expression she always wore.

“It’s something we can handle well enough on our own.”
“….”
“It’s not that we don’t need you—it’s that we don’t want to burden you with this. You have things like that too, don’t you?”

I do.
So many that I can’t even count them.
Faced with such a persuasive argument, I couldn’t bring myself to pout any further.
I’ve done the same thing to the members countless times.
Or rather, hundreds of times more than they have.

“…I understand.”

All I can do is sigh, but there’s no helping it.
I raised both my hands.

“But it’s late today, so let’s call it a night.”

I dragged out Seo Baek-young, who didn’t want to leave, and pushed her onto the bed.

“I don’t know what this is about. We’ll talk in the morning. Get some sleep.”
“…Okay. You sleep well too, Yun Chung.”

She makes me feel sorry for her and then wants to sleep? Seriously.
I’m exhausted, so Seo Baek-young, you just get some rest.
Hmph.

***

Blank stares.

“…Why is everyone looking so out of it? We swept five awards yesterday.”

The next morning.
Only Ryu Bora emerged with a bright, energetic expression.

“We’re filming our comeback content, so why would everyone be sleep-deprived?”
“Whoa, guys. We have schedules to get to, but why do you all look like you haven’t slept?”

Even the Manager looked flustered seeing our condition.

“…We’re fine. Let’s just get to the schedule. It’s important today.”

At my words, the members’ eyes began to light up again.
…No.
Not light up—more like burning with fierce determination.

“People keep questioning our live vocal abilities.”
“And there are people insisting we didn’t sing live, even though they removed all our vocals from the recordings!”

Kim Geum and Yeon Ju-hong pounded their chests indignantly.

“Let’s think of it this way—the lip-sync controversy only happened because we performed so flawlessly.”
“Right. We just need to prove it today.”

Seo Baek-young and I exchanged words, and the members broke into grins.
That’s right.
Today would prove it all.
Because the music program we were appearing on today was 【Shin Hyun-yun’s Live Cafe】, a terrestrial broadcast show.
This late-night music program was a terrestrial music talk show with a devoted fanbase.
But what made it truly unique was this.

“It’s famous for never using AR or anything like that at all.”
“The moment we hit that stage, it’ll be proven right away? This is exciting. Let’s go!”
“Seriously, I’m going to show them today what I’m made of. After all the practice I’ve put in, there are still people saying I can’t do live vocals?! I’m going to deliver my part!”

That’s what this place was.
Yes.
Let’s go.
Let’s blow them all away.

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