Became The Leader of a Girl Group Destined To Fail - Chapter 243

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Episode 35.
 
 
 
StillBlue’s album finally arrived
 
Seriously, these online retailers ship so slowly
Anyway, starting my StillBlue limited edition album review
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The shape looks like an egg, kind of reminds me of Tamagotchi… but that’s probably just me
When you press the button-like thing on top, it opens like the egg is cracking
That’s how all the contents are packaged inside!
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The first thing you see inside is definitely the Bluetooth earbuds
Honestly, I basically bought this whole thing just for these… ^^ How could I not get StillBlue’s exclusive Bluetooth earbuds
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It’s a collaboration with ThreeStar, so the design isn’t drastically different from the existing ThreeStar earbuds
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But since it’s StillBlue exclusive, it has the blue color plus imagery of a small fireworks festival, which is this album’s concept
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When you open it, the left earbud has the StillBlue logo engraved
The right earbud has the Ever Blue engraving plus a diary logo similar to the diary charm
It seems like the concept is breaking the egg of silence and hearing StillBlue’s voice
There are so many versions of the limited album and I want them all.
StillBlue album Voice Limited edition review
 
I bought the Voice Limited version
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Since the concept is voice, the album logo features the members’ lip prints forming a fireworks design!
I was a bit worried at first, but it turned out incredibly beautiful..
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The contents include NFC cards for each member plus one group version, 6 total!
Each member’s NFC card has a solo version of a song they participated in composing or writing lyrics for
Ju-hong: Pom Pom
Bora: Saltwater Mine
Yun Chung: Adrift
Geum: Into the Silence
Baek-young: Paper Savior
 
Hearing them sing solo versions feels completely different… so good…
That’s not even all—there are separate QR cards for each member too
The design is adorable… each member’s voice frequency waveform is on the front, and the QR code is on the back!
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When you scan the QR code, a member-specific website appears like this
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Each member has a behind-the-scenes diary entry from the day they wrote their favorite song or the one they contributed most to composing and writing
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The members read this…ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Since they’re actually reading real diary entries, I got even more emotionally invested
 
Personally, Geum’s version hit me the hardest, seriously
└Yeah… I almost broke down listening to Geum’s
Kim Geum’s “Into the Silence” diary entry is genuinely real
 
During the interlude of “Into the Silence”
You hear what sounds like members laughing or people laughing layered in, and then suddenly the sound completely cuts to black
That’s when you hear something like a scream, and then the song starts again
That represents the actual emotions Kim Geum experienced
The scream: Kim Geum’s internal screams + the tinnitus she actually heard from her sudden hearing loss
It seems the fear was so great that she even had nightmares about it constantly
But she couldn’t tell fans or members because she was worried they’d be concerned, and now that she’s recovered somewhat, she’s finally expressing it through the song
 
Wow, every time I heard that song, I felt like I was watching some kind of horror movieㅠㅠㅠ…
Now I really understand what she was feeling…
For StillBlue, this is the first time
 
The album feels like it’s telling their own story
Until now, it felt like they focused somewhat on the fans while suppressing and hiding their true emotions as much as possible
But this album keeps expressing emotions like: I was actually like this… but now I’m growing stronger, even if I become this weak I want to be by your side, these kinds of feelings
 
Yeah, there were moments when I became this weak, but I’m okay now, and if I’m okay, even this weak version of me wants to protect EVEL (the fans), is that still okay? This message kept appearing
└What’s genuine about it is… it’s not “I became weak so protect me” but rather “even though I’m this powerless, I still want to look after you” and I loved that
StillBlue members keep saying like a hundred million times not to eat one
 
I can’t help it
I’m eating one anyway
 
The Blooming staff keep telling Han not to eat, like seriously why do they keep bringing it up to Blooming too lolololol
└How am I supposed to not eat it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our girls went through all this!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone’s posting their album reviews
 
I’ve failed at buying all the limited editions, so I’m just promoting the Billboard 200 chart placement instead.
Our girls placed 2nd on the Billboard 200 chart!!!!!!!!!!!! And they’re a girl group!!!!!!!!! They charted 2nd on the album chart!!!!!!!!!
 
This is seriously huge, but why is everyone so quiet about it?
└Everyone’s too busy unboxing albums right now, can’t help it
But will StillBlue enter the Billboard Hot 100 too?
 
Actually, if the fanbase is strong enough, you can still chart on Billboard 200, but Hot 100 is… genuinely difficult to crack.
 
But I heard StillBlue’s songs have been getting really good reactions in the US lately.
└That’s probably just a forced trend because they’re pushing promotion so hard in the US.
But I heard that lately SM Entertainment’s songs have been getting really good reactions, especially in the United States.
└└└There are literally hundreds of millions of idols who’ve gotten promotion pushes like StillBlue’s, so what are you talking about? Did all of them chart on Billboard Hot 100?
When does Hot 100 come out?
 
It’s Monday night 11 PM right now, so it should be coming out soon.
 
Yeah, it’ll drop in like 2-3 hours.
StillBlue’s doing a live broadcast right now.
 
“They’re in the middle of a live broadcast.”
They’re doing an album unboxing live broadcast.
So cute.
 
If they chart on Hot 100 right now, the girls’ reaction would be absolutely hilarious.
└ㅈㅂ…so satisfying…
 
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Blooming
[Yun Chung: Today, I’ve brought you all some wonderful news!]
No way
Gold..? Is that right..? ㅠㅠ
Congratulations on the Billboard 200 chart!!!! ㅠㅠ
Blooming
[StillBlue: Thanks to all of you, our album ‘Un:muted’ charted at #2 on the Billboard 200! We’re truly… so grateful…]
[Yun Chung: Our maknae Ju-hong. How are you feeling?]
[Ju-hong: I’m going crazy!!! Wow. Is it okay to say that?]
[Baek-young: It really is the best~ That’s what I mean. Haha.]
[Bora: None of our members were really expecting this at all. We were even sleeping when the results were announced.]
[Geum: We didn’t even expect it to chart… so we were just sleeping soundly…]
[Ju-hong: But then suddenly Baek-young and Yun Chung were shaking us awake. They said to get up because they had good news. So we woke up!]
[Geum: And they showed us the Billboard chart right in our faces. I thought it was a dream.]
[Bora: But there’s a slight betrayal element here.]
Betrayal??
Bora’s face is seriously pissed off lol
Angry baby deer… rippling… so cute ㅠㅠ
Blooming
[Bora: At first, we were all just so happy and celebrating together…]
[Bora: But then I smelled alcohol on these unnis.]
[Ju-hong: That’s right!]
[Ju-hong: We said we’d all celebrate together later!]
[Geum: Our two oldest members each had a can of beer. Seriously. How could they not wake us up????]
[Bora: I was so happy but so angry that I gave them a punishment.]
What… kind of punishment..?
Haha, something more important than the Billboard 200: Woongnis abandoning us.
Blooming
[Yun Chung: …For the time being, all members have to sleep together with blankets spread out in the Living Room… that’s the sentence.]
[Baek-young: They’re going to put us two in the middle… and make us sleep.]
[Geum: You can’t even go to the Restroom in the middle.]
[Ju-hong: We can’t even drink water!]
[Bora: We sleep as five and wake as five forever.]
[Yun Chung: Isn’t that a loss for you guys too…?]
[Bora: Not at all.]
 
The broadcast continued in this cheerful atmosphere.
Suddenly, the comment section erupted into chaos.
 
Guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys, Hot 100!!!!!
This is no time to waste—check the Hot 100 right now!!!!!!!!
Blooming
[Yun Chung: Huh? The comments are going crazy all of a sudden.]
[Baek-young: You want us to check the Hot 100?]
[Ju-hong: Oh my. Something must have happened!!]
[Bora: Let me search for it.]
[Geum: Guys!!!!]
 
In that moment, Kim Geum sprang to her feet and held up her phone screen for the members to see.
 
Blooming
[Geum: We charted on the Hot 100!! At #77!!]
[Yun Chung: Wow.]
[Baek-young: Really…?]
[Ju-hong: Wait, seriously…? Us? Did I read that wrong, Kim Geum?]
Hey guys, congratulations! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! I guess it’s compensation for all the hard work you’ve gone throughㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
In the meantime, Joo-hong was so shocked that she mistakenly called him Kim Geum instead of Geum-kimㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
 
The members stared blankly at each other for a moment, then turned back to the camera and broke into radiant smiles.
 
Blooming
[StillBlue: EVEL!!!!]
[Yun Chung: This is truly all thanks to our EVEL.]
[Bora: We didn’t do this—our EVEL did this for us. EVEL… we’re truly so grateful to you.]
 
After that, for quite some time.
The members talked about how grateful they were to Ever Blue, how joyful they felt—and didn’t fall asleep until 3 AM.
Yet on that night, not a single one of them looked tired.

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