The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 186

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This is also my personal desire.

Since they’re people who are so outstanding on stage, I’ve been hoping that U&Da could perform together with them someday.

And if we’re going to perform together, I wanted to collaborate with the entire group.

Of course, fans who saw the interactions on Start Plan also hoped there would be opportunities for collaboration.

Dance battles were stage events that were frequently shown on Start Plan too.

Then song switching?

This is just my prediction, but wouldn’t there be opportunities for U&Da to do this with their own songs rather than competition songs after they debut?

UNET would probably create such a stage around the end of the year when U&Da debuts.

Anyway, for that reason, I think it would be better for everyone to perform together on stage with a new song rather than doing something where we could be compared to each other at a concert that also serves as an after-party.

“What do you all think? I also want to perform together with a new song like Ji-ye said.”

Han Da-min said, placing her hand on my back.

“Honestly, if it’s a battle between us, it’s getting tiresome now.”

Then Young Il-lin immediately agreed.

“That’s true. I’m also a bit hesitant about dance battles. Though I would like to try singing ‘Famous Paintings.'”

“When U&Da debuts, it would be fun for us to do song switching among ourselves too.”

“I like it.”

“I like it too! I’m so excited!”

The members said with faces full of anticipation.

I’ve thought this before, but both U&Da and Flora seem to follow their leaders’ opinions really well.

Not much discussion has taken place yet, but opinions are coming together just from the leaders’ conversation.

So the stage direction seems to be decided on a new song. What song would be good to do?

‘I wonder if the company has something in mind?’

And a little while later, Lee Si-ah and the MN and Day Entertainment staff members who had gone out with her returned to the practice room.

“Have you thought about it?”

“Oh, yes! We were talking about how we want to choose a new song and perform on stage together.”

At Han Da-min’s words, the MN and Day Entertainment staff members grinned and showed us a song list as if they had been waiting for this.

“Huh? What’s this?”

About ten members gathered closely together and tilted their heads in unison.

Then U&Da’s producer Rena smiled brightly and said,

“Surprise~”

The list given to us contained songs we had never seen or heard before.

So they were truly songs we were meeting for the first time.

What does she mean by surprise? The members all looked at Rena with puzzled faces.

South Korea’s top solo artist.

Rena, who started as the faceless singer Eden and is now making a name for herself as a rising new producer and composer.

She pointed to the songs with a very meaningful expression.

“Girls, just pick any two songs.”

“Huh?”

“Because they’re your songs.”

“…What? Huh? What?”

Senior, what do you mean by that?

All the members looked at Rena with eyes twice their normal size.

I did the same.

“I thought you guys would want to perform with your new song. If you’re going to do it anyway, it would be better to use your own song instead of some other existing singer’s song~”

“Excuse me?”

No wonder. Even though Kim Ja-in was the person who directly discovered Rena during her MN days, the exchanges between our staff and MN’s staff had become too frequent in such a short time.

This was something even I didn’t know about.

To think they had gone beyond just choosing songs and actually created a song for FLORA and U&DA to sing together.

And the composition and lyrics were by Rena, no less.

Without even hearing it, I was certain all the songs would be good.

“Senior, by any chance, us too?”

Han Da-min asked back as if she couldn’t believe it.

Rena’s composition and lyric writing abilities had become famous through countless hit songs, but she was still a singer first and foremost.

She mainly composed her own songs, and while many people wanted her songs, those who had actually received them could be counted on one hand.

Mainly singers she had produced or those called her muses.

It was like an extremely exclusive privilege that only such singers received…

Especially since our FLORA was a group with no connection to Rena whatsoever, I thought we would never receive such a thing.

But Rena nodded at Han Da-min.

“Of course it’s a song I’m giving to FLORA too! Would I really be so petty as to give a song only to U&DA right in front of you guys?”

“Uh… W-wow.”

“Thank you so much…”

Is this a dream?

It was such an unexpected turn of events that I couldn’t think of anything to say other than words of gratitude.

Both I and all the members were so moved that we couldn’t escape from our emotions.

But why would Rena want to give us songs too?

To her, as U&DA’s producer, we who were rivals to Start Plan and U&DA wouldn’t be particularly welcome.

However, in a situation where just receiving songs was more than enough, I couldn’t voice such thoughts out loud.

As all the members just hesitated and kept saying “thank you” repeatedly, did she perhaps notice what we were thinking?

Rena smiled bitterly and said in passing.

“I have a rebellious streak…”

Then, as if she had no intention of hearing a response or giving an explanation, she headed to the center of the practice room and gathered the members.

“Alright, girls. You can’t tell what kind of songs they are just from the titles, right? I’ll play them one by one, so listen.”

“Yes!”

The members of both groups sat closely together with Rena in the center.

And shortly after, the first song flowed through the speaker.

A refreshing feast of lo-fi sounds.

A sensual melody that captivated the ears from the intro.

It was a song that evoked images of a cool summer night pool party.

The song title was 【Working Title】.

It wasn’t that the title hadn’t been decided yet – the title was literally 【Working Title】.

“It’s so good…”

Overall refreshing and fast-paced, but the song composition itself flows very easily, and it seemed like they considered making it easy to apply choreography for large groups, fitting for a song made for two groups.

After the first song ended, Rena didn’t ask for impressions and immediately played the second song.

The title of the second song was 【Classic】.

It was an incredibly elegant song.

It felt like an appropriate mix of U&Da’s sultry jazz-style concept and Flora’s 【Blooming】 concept.

Yet the lyrics depicted walking straight ahead for one’s dreams.

Anyone would think this song was written with U&Da and Flora as motifs.

And the third song was 【Flower】.

It was an easy listening song mixed with classical elements that would remind you of Flora, and the fourth was 【Jazz】.

It was a song that would remind you of U&Da.

After listening to all the songs, Rena asked.

“How is it? Which song do you want to do?”

“Hmm…”

They’re all so good that it’s hard to decide.

Are we really allowed to enjoy such luxury?

When the members couldn’t readily choose, Rena smiled brightly.

“They’re all good, right? Take your time discussing among the members. The songs you don’t choose can be given to others, so don’t feel too pressured.”

Her expression was full of confidence that whichever song they chose would definitely get a good response.

As she thought, whatever they chose would surely get a good response.

Then should we think about what concept stage the fans would want to see more?

“Think about it slowly.”

Whether her words about greatly reflecting our opinions were true, Rena and the staff members stepped aside once again.

The practice room with only members left. Han Da-min played the songs once more with a troubled expression.

Because all the songs were good, the deliberation took longer instead.

“Still, since we decided to perform like one group. How about songs 1 and 2?”

“I also think songs 1 and 2. It’s just my opinion, but I think they’re concepts right in between Flora and U&Da.”

“I choose 1 and 4 purely based on my taste!”

“I choose 2 and 3! Actually, I really like Flora’s concept so I wanted to try it once, and it feels exactly like that.”

While the members gave their opinions one by one, I also made up my mind.

“I choose 3 and 4.”

When I casually spoke while watching for timing, the members’ gazes immediately focused on me.

“Ji-ye chooses 3 and 4? Why?”

“…Why are you all staring at me so intensely?”

Wasn’t this just a time to casually exchange opinions? There’s no need to stop the ongoing conversation and look at me.

Then Young Il-lin smiled brightly and said.

“I know because I’ve worked with you. Your opinions always have good reasons.”

“Il-lin knows too? Ji-ye’s opinions have a good batting average.”

At Han Da-min’s words, the other members also nodded.

Thankfully. It seems I’m quite trusted.

“So why did Ji-ye choose 3 and 4?”

Han Da-min brought both hands to her ears, playfully acting like she was ready to listen intently.

Well, she seems to think I had some amazing reason for pondering the song selection for so long.

Actually, this time there’s no such grand reason.

It’s just…

“We’re not good at jazz.”

“Ah.”

The Flora members belatedly realized the reality and let out sighs.

I looked at U&Da with the same expression and asked.

“Do you happen to be good at elegant and pure concepts too?”

“No… we’re not…”

Come to think of it, that was right.

Flora and U&Da’s concepts are clear, and what each group excels at is extremely different.

But how would these two groups, who aren’t even used to the stage yet, handle songs that are simultaneously sexy yet elegant, jazz yet classical, sultry yet pure?

No matter how skilled these groups are, they’re still trainees and rookies who just debuted.

‘If we could handle them skillfully, I would have pushed for songs 1 and 2.’

The members of both groups still wouldn’t be able to handle them properly on average.

Then wouldn’t it be better to choose songs 3 and 4, hear people say “This concept really suits this group!” and show a completely different side with opposite concepts? That was my thinking.

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