The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 187

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“I see.”

At my words, Han Da-min and Young Il-lin wore deeply contemplative expressions.

I hastily added more words.

“Other songs are good too. Actually, I like them all pretty much equally, so whatever we do is fine with me.”

This was just my personal opinion and not particularly a great idea, so I didn’t want to seem like I was pushing it.

“Whoa… Wait, can I think about this again for a moment?”

Min Ha-young raised her palm with a face that said she hadn’t thought of that.

“Now that I think about it, we’d have to be sexy.”

Then U&Da’s Ji-ah also muttered with a shocked expression.

“Maybe it’s better to give up one and take the other.”

A concert that will be held with so much attention.

People will be curious about how much we’ve grown, and since we’re groups famous for performing well on stage, they’ll have high expectations.

To come out with new songs and not be able to demonstrate one hundred percent of our abilities?

‘That would be a bit awkward.’

I don’t know what the fans would think, but the performers themselves wouldn’t be satisfied.

Whichever we choose, we’ll eventually have to create a decent stage, but it will be a difficult journey.

Start Plan also took on concepts that didn’t quite fit and stayed up all night to eventually pull it off.

But this stage isn’t a competition, and more realistically speaking, we’re not in a situation where we can work as hard as we did back then.

U&Da is currently pouring everything except concert practice into debut preparations.

And we also need to start preparing unit content that will be uploaded around the time SPLCON ends.

“Now that I think about it, I think Ji-ye is right too. We clearly have things we’re good at, so it’s a bit disappointing not to do those.”

“Hmm, but songs 1 and 2 are disappointing. Actually, I think these songs have concepts that we won’t get a chance to do if not now…”

Then Young Il-lin placed her hand on her member’s thigh and shook her head toward her.

The member who was about to state her opinion once more suddenly stopped talking.

I don’t know what that gesture meant, but perhaps Young Il-lin also thinks they can’t spend much time on SPLCON right now.

“Let’s do what we’re good at. Song 3 is FLORA’s concept anyway.”

Studying and contemplating each expression and gesture is enough for one song.

Since the leader spoke so firmly, U&Da’s other members eventually leaned toward songs 3 and 4.

And our members.

“What? Everyone wants to do songs 3 and 4? Then great! I like all the songs anyway!”

“If Da-min unnie and Ji-ye unnie say so, then whatever.”

We always flow with this kind of repertoire.

Our opinions also gather quite well under our leader, so when Han Da-min agrees with my opinion, FLORA’s decision is practically made at that point.

“Girls, have you given it some thought?”

With perfect timing, Rena returned to the practice room.

It seemed she had been to a cafe, as this time she was carrying beverages in both hands.

“I’m going to make you practice hard from now on, so I need to give you at least this so you won’t complain it’s tough. Drink while you practice~”

Rena distributed the beverages to the members and sat on the floor with her back to the mirror.

Following her, the members also settled into their seats.

“Have you decided which songs to do? Do you need more time?”

“Oh, we were talking about doing songs 3 and 4.”

“Huh? 3 and 4?”

At Young Il-lin’s answer, Rena smiled as if surprised.

“I thought you guys would choose 1 and 2.”

Rena’s expression became subtle.

Oh, did she secretly have a song she wanted us to do?

If so, maybe we should just follow Rena’s opinion…

Just as I was thinking that, Rena grinned and shrugged her shoulders.

“I did want to hear you sing 1 and 2 though. I was curious how you’d perform them.”

“Oh, then…”

“No. Realistically speaking, 3 and 4 are right. The other songs are, hmm.”

Rena looked around at the Members with a meaningful expression, then spoke cheerfully.

“I’ll just give them to you guys, whatever.”

“…What?”

Did we hear that correctly just now?

She was talking to us too, not just U&Da, right?

The Members unconsciously glanced at each other. Strangely, we kept looking at the U&Da Members.

Still, they talk to Senior Lena every day, so they’d probably let us know if we heard correctly.

Then Rena patted Han Da-min’s back and said.

“You heard correctly. I wrote these songs to give to you anyway, so I’ll give ‘Classic’ to FLORA and put ‘Working Title’ in our kids’ album.”

“Oh my, really?”

“Goodness, quickly contact the CEO!”

The ones who got excited weren’t us, but our Staff Members. It seems even the staff didn’t know we’d be getting separate songs.

Then Rena urgently spoke loudly enough for the staff to hear.

“Of course! I’ll be taking money for it, so please consider it carefully~”

But it’s Rena’s song, where’s the problem in that?

Whether she takes money or not, it’s unconditionally good if we get it.

Rather, if she just takes the money, that’s a win for us.

Rena watched the suddenly busy staff with satisfaction, then turned her gaze to us.

“Anyway, so it’s decided on songs 3 and 4, and Teacher Lee Si-ah will do the choreography, so you guys practice hard on your individual stages until you’re ready. Okay?”

“Yes!”

The Members answered energetically.

At the end of the long joint stage meeting, practice finally began.

“I divided the parts temporarily. The competition is over anyway, so I don’t want to create unnecessary competition over this kind of thing. That’s fine, right?”

“Yes!”

“I distributed them appropriately, so don’t worry.”

Rena immediately handed out lyric sheets with parts distributed to the Members.

‘Wait, when did she do this?’

Did she prepare everything in advance so we could start practicing right away no matter which songs we chose?

“Starting with song 3. I’ll play the guide version, so try singing it once.”

And immediately, the intro of song number 3, 【Flower】, flowed through the speaker.

I sang along lightly while looking at the distributed parts on the lyric sheet.

‘This is too perfect?’

As expected, someone who’s been a producer is different.

No, it was just a distribution where Rena’s sense really stood out.

The intro part was given to Han Da-min, who had the best stage charisma among the members, and Seo Ra-eun, U&Da’s Ji-ah, and Choi Song-i were put in the killing parts that didn’t require much vocal power.

Unfortunately, since 【Flower】 had no rap parts, Min Ha-young’s part was extremely small, but they increased her presence by adding a solo dance break as a highlight in the latter half.

On the other hand, the main vocal members from U&Da and I were given many parts so we could show off ourselves to the fullest.

Especially since 【Flower】 had a concept reminiscent of Flora, my parts were quite numerous.

‘I’m even doing the highlight high notes.’

Since Rena’s songs all tend to be high in difficulty, it seems I’ll need to take good care of my voice until the concert.

After familiarizing myself with the lyrics and melody to some extent, I immediately started vocal practice.

After practicing, as expected, I thought it was a good choice to select songs 3 and 4.

“Hmm, I think you need to go more sultry?”

“Ah. The, voice?”

“The voice too, but the rhythm. The guide is clearly off-beat, but Da-min, you start well but gradually try to go on-beat.”

“Ah…”

“The other friends need to practice much harder until tomorrow. Especially Ji-ye.”

“Yes…”

I looked at Rena with helpless eyes.

Rena softened her stern expression a bit as if she hadn’t meant to scold me, but even so, the pressure bearing down on me didn’t disappear.

“Ji-ye has more parts than the other friends, so take responsibility and practice intensely.”

“Yes, thank you.”

【Flower】 didn’t have major problems. I just needed to do what I usually do.

The problem was the next song, 【Jazz】.

As expected, from the first measure, Rena’s criticisms never stopped.

Jazz is all about its unique feel and rhythm, but how could we know that.

Of course, the song wasn’t authentic jazz either, just carrying a bit of that feeling… but even capturing that feeling was quite an ordeal.

Should I say it was a feeling I couldn’t understand at all, neither with my head nor my body.

Conversely, U&Da was also troubled when singing 【Flower】, unable to remove her characteristic sultriness and techniques.

It was practice where the sense of alienation from singing someone else’s song was clearly felt.

Rena made a troubled face as if she hadn’t expected us to struggle this much and said.

“What should we do. At this rate, it would be too embarrassing to show to other groups?”

The upcoming SPRL cast members’ group practice and rehearsal.

No matter what, we couldn’t show a poor performance to ‘that’ team, which would obviously be hostile.

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