The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 327

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As soon as I threw the messy dessert wrappers into the trash can, I could hear two people’s footsteps from outside.

Soon after, the door opened.

“Wow, nice. Oh, hello.”

A woman with a gentle impression looked around the studio space while greeting me at the same time.

I hurriedly stood up and bowed my head lightly.

“Hello. Nice to meet you for the first time.”

I caught a glimpse of her face, but I still had no idea who she was.

I only knew that there was a group called Crunch, but I didn’t really know anything about that group.

Perhaps noticing from my face that I didn’t know anything about her, she introduced herself first.

“Oh my, hello, Ji-ye. Nice to meet you. You don’t really know about me, do you? I’m Jeon Ye-jin.”

“No, I do know you, sunbae-nim.”

“Liar~”

Jeon Ye-jin said warmly while laughing.

Even though she was my senior who debuted before me with Flora, she didn’t seem to mind much that I didn’t know her.

“Not many people know me, you know? Haha. Anyway, it’s nice to meet you like this after only seeing you on broadcasts. I’m a fan.”

She seems like a really good person?

Not just because she said nice things to me, but she somehow gives off a similar atmosphere to Yu-hwa.

Likeable.

“Sunbae-nim, please take care of me from now on.”

“Sunbae-nim? Haha. It’s been ages since I quit being a singer. Just call me unnie comfortably, or call me by my name.”

She seemed very awkward about being called a singer.

‘I guess her identity as someone who makes songs is stronger now than being a singer.’

Well, it’s been a while since they disbanded. Even when they were active as a group, they had so few activities that she probably didn’t really feel like she was an idol.

That’s how I was.

During my Sucream days, we had so few broadcast activities, and in the later period of our activities, we started making and releasing our own songs more often, so at some point.

I became more familiar with composing than singing, and I think I spent more time thinking about how to make good songs.

“Haha. Anyway, nice to meet you.”

Jeon Ye-jin seemed uncomfortable with talk about singers and seniors and juniors, so she hurriedly wrapped up the conversation.

“Well, let’s end the introductions here. Do you happen to have any songs you’ve worked on in advance? I don’t know Flora’s next album concept yet.”

Jeon Ye-jin took out her laptop from her bag and sat on the sofa at the back of the studio.

“Or I have a song I made, would you like to listen to it?”

“Oh, good! Is it a song you were already working on?”

At Han Da-min’s question, Jeon Ye-jin shook her head and opened a program on her laptop.

“No. I made a new one that would suit you guys well. You contacted me way in advance, so I had plenty of time.”

“What, I’m touched~”

“I didn’t make anything incredibly amazing. Just some basics. It’s kind of… embarrassing.”

Jeon Ye-jin avoided Han Da-min’s expectant gaze and pressed the play button.

“Oh.”

As the music started playing, Han Da-min also focused on the song with a serious face.

A melody that seemed familiar yet was popular while having a catchy chorus that grabbed your ears.

Actually, it wasn’t a complete song but a framework. Nothing had been added yet, so I couldn’t be certain.

But it wasn’t bad. There were unique parts here and there, and even if this song wasn’t selected, there were parts I wanted to use.

Since we were listening seriously, Jeon Ye-jin looked back and forth between me and Han Da-min, reading our reactions.

“What do you think? Should we try working with this as the base?”

She said casually that she just made it a little, but it seemed like she put quite a bit of thought into the melody line.

I could feel that she was very nervous.

“It’s good.”

“It’s good?”

Han Da-min and I answered at the same time.

“Let’s try it once. Just do it comfortably. We don’t know how it’ll turn out yet, and we’re just trying it among ourselves.”

“Right.”

Jeon Ye-jin nodded with a relieved face and asked.

“But what’s the concept for the next album? I haven’t heard yet.”

“Next album concept?”

Han Da-min and I exchanged glances. Silent response. Actually, we didn’t really know either.

We heard that the A&R team was having concept meetings, but nothing had been clearly decided yet.

Still, in the past there was always a flow that seemed different but connected to previous album concepts, so it was possible to work before the concept came out.

But this time, I really can’t predict what the next concept will be or what kind of song will be selected.

We’ve already done enough with similar concepts and achieved results, so isn’t it time to completely change the concept?

So from now on, we shouldn’t rashly make songs thinking only of previous albums. We might put in a lot of effort and still not get included.

“Huh? The concept isn’t out yet?”

Jeon Ye-jin looked surprised, took her hands off the laptop, and straightened her posture.

Her expression said ‘what work are we doing when the concept isn’t even out?’

Certainly, from her perspective, suggesting to work when the concept hasn’t even been decided might be an absurd proposal.

‘But for us, this is natural.’

Flora’s comeback schedule always ran on a tight timeline.

Once the concept and schedule are officially released, we as the idols involved have to move as if swept by currents without time to work.

Then even when the concept comes out, there’s no time to seriously think about and put care into the work.

So we always made songs first and then either discarded them after the concept came out or hurriedly modified them to fit the concept.

Jeon Ye-jin, who had no way of knowing about our chaotic work process, just looked bewildered and anxious, her eyes moving here and there.

“Is that okay? What if you work on it and it doesn’t get selected…”

“Then it becomes a disappointment…”

Only Jeon Ye-jin was confused, but Han Da-min and I understood that feeling completely.

Sucream and Rosetta had plenty of album preparation time, not much different from Crunch.

‘It was so abundant that we wondered if we were even going to make a comeback.’

An anxious feeling as if no one except us working on album songs cared about the comeback.

We even thought that maybe the agency wanted to delay the comeback as much as possible.

That thought was probably right. We were unsuccessful groups, and comebacks didn’t make money, but comebacks cost enormous amounts of money.

From the company’s perspective, they might have wished we wouldn’t bother with music work for comebacks and just quietly fulfill our contract period and leave.

Since she would have worked in such a leisurely schedule (though the people involved must have been anxious), we who work before the concept is even decided and think it can’t be helped if it gets discarded might seem strange to her.

But unfortunately, Crunch, Sucream, Rosetta and Flora are different.

Han Da-min and I smiled awkwardly.

“If we work after the concept comes out, the schedule might become too tight. We roughly predict and make things in advance. Let’s not think about the concept and just make whatever songs we want to make. That’s why we gathered today.”

Flora basically rarely lacks good songs.

If we don’t like a song, we can put in a different song or modify it.

Countless producers and workers collaborate with us.

So the pressure that my song has to be the best is also relatively less.

Of course, if I absolutely had to make a song that goes on the album, the pressure would be quite significant.

But today’s work isn’t like that. It might or might not go on the album, but it’s work with the purpose of making good songs without being constrained by concept.

During the last 【Revenge】 album work, we suffered so much being blocked by concept walls that this time I wanted to work on songs more freely.

“Is it really okay to do it like this?”

Jeon Ye-jin still looked suspicious but put her hands back on the laptop pad.

“It’s your song anyway…”

“Right, right, it’s our song. Then let’s save the song Ye-jin worked on for now and listen to the songs Ji-ye and I worked on too?”

The work began. While the songs Han Da-min and I had worked on flowed through the speakers, I glanced at Jeon Ye-jin.

‘Nothing comes to mind yet.’

[Don’t meet]

I remember the Unfortunate Idol’s memory trying to prevent me from meeting Jeon Ye-jin.

For something like that, since meeting Jeon Ye-jin, the Unfortunate Idol’s memory has been quiet so far.

‘I wish something would come up.’

Apart from the music production work, actually checking what the Unfortunate Idol’s memories would say toward Jeon Ye-jin was one of my biggest objectives today.

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