The Reincarnated Idol Hard Carries an Indie Band - Chapter 134

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The Former Idol Does an Indie Band Hard Carry
Episode 134
“Haah, haah……”
“Are you alright?”
“Yes……”
We finished filming at Banwol Park and headed back to the Practice Room.
The production crew looked ready to collapse on the floor any second.
There were other guys waiting for us in the Practice Room.
“You guys been working out?”
“Yeah, we’ll shower and be back. Let’s eat first.”
“Sounds good.”
Kang Min and I finished showering and came back, then the five of us sat in a circle on the Practice Room floor.
The beginning of a hellish meeting.
“Burgers.”
“No way, burgers this early in the morning?”
Kim Ji Hu shot down the suggestion forcefully.
“How about something simple like kalguksu?”
Lee Do Young offered an opinion, but Kang Min refused, saying he hated hot food.
“Then what about pasta for a change?”
Nobody objected to my idea, but it got rejected because nothing was open at this hour.
“Hey, let’s get bibimbap! There’s a good place right up ahead.”
“Ugh, I don’t want to go out. Can’t they deliver?”
“They don’t do delivery.”
This happened all the time.
Whenever we had to pick a menu, it felt like we were launching our 273,627th meeting—it was routine by now.
“No, no, that’s the most efficient way.”
“Hey, if that’s the case, just go out.”
“No, I don’t want to go out.”
“Hey Kim Ji Hu, stop whining about not going and just say what you want.”
“Let’s just get burgers.”
“Shut up.”
“Ugh! Fine, let’s just starve then!”
After bickering for a while, we finally settled on ordering sandwiches and coffee from our usual place.
I glanced over at the production crew’s faces—they were grinning.
Looks like the footage was coming out pretty good.
We finished eating and got down to real work.
“Hey, I worked on a sketch this morning. Want to hear it?”
I played the sketch I’d made right after waking up.
I wasn’t satisfied with it myself, but you never knew how it might be used.
The guys listened seriously, and once the track ended, they started offering opinions one by one.
“What’s the intent? The song’s concept?”
Kim Ji Hu asked first.
“It’s a bridge track to go between number four and number six.”
“No way, five is exactly the midpoint. At this intensity level, it feels lacking. The progression needs to be more passionate.”
“Oh, you’re right. Okay.”
“And did you do the Tone Making? The guitar sounds too bare.”
“Oh, I haven’t done that yet. You take care of it.”
“Okay.”
“Isn’t the bass a bit too flashy, Seo Ha?”
“Oh really? Should I take it down to something more restrained?”
“Yeah, I think that’d work better for this track.”
“Okay……”
Since we hadn’t recorded drums yet, Kang Min didn’t have any particular notes.
“Alright, so consolidating feedback……”
I quickly started polishing the track.
There was nothing suspect about the feedback from my friends.
They were all pros in their respective fields.
Since we knew each other’s strengths and weaknesses well, they’d factored that into their comments.
We’d been working on the song for a while when it happened.
The camera suddenly moved in close to Lee Do Young’s face.
“Right now, Seo Ha is composing a song.”
Lee Do Young felt awkward and started talking to the camera.
“I hope the bass turns out beautifully.”
He was practically whispering.
But the rest of us heard every word.
If it had been Heo Jun Sung instead of Lee Do Young, we’d all probably have teased him relentlessly about being cheesy.
But Lee Do Young looked so uncomfortable that we all let it slide.
“Ugh, that was so awkward.”
Lee Do Young’s face turned red.
The camera director stepped back with a proud smile on his face.
“Phew, I’m sweating.”
Lee Do Young looked like he was going to die from the awkwardness.
When this aired, the comment section would definitely be flooded with “Lee Do Young is so cute.”
I really hope they keep this scene in the broadcast.
After a while, we’d pretty much finished the song.
We decided to leave it as a sketch for now and revisit it in a few days.
That was just how music work went—you lost your objectivity the longer you kept at it.
It was more efficient to take a day or two break before revisiting the material.
“Alright, let’s start the rehearsal.”
“Okay.”
The guys each took their positions at their instruments, and we began preparing for tomorrow’s Busking.
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After rehearsal, we took a short break.
“By the way, do you guys really just do music?”
The producer went over to Kim Ji Hu and asked.
“Yeah, we don’t really do anything besides music.”
“Hmm… You don’t go out and have fun anywhere?”
“We’d go out all together sometimes, but lately we’ve been too busy with album prep.”
“I see……”
He was probably expecting a more typical twenty-year-old lifestyle.
But honestly, we really didn’t do anything but music.
Well, Kang Min had quite a few hobbies.
The rest of them genuinely spent all their time on music.
Making it, performing it, listening to it.
That was the whole of our hobbies.
I could see the disappointment on the crew’s faces, but what could I do?
I couldn’t just drag the guys to places they had no interest in.
So we spent the whole day cooped up in the Practice Room, listening to music together.
We even did freestyle singing to Heo Jun Sung’s guitar.
Except now we threw in the funniest lyrics we could come up with.
Lee Do Young burst out laughing, and Kang Min jumped in too, like he had to one-up me with lyrics so ridiculous it made my head spin.
Kim Ji Hu stood off to the side, making fun of us for being idiots.
For dinner, we had to go with Heo Jun Sung’s choice—burgers—after he won rock-paper-scissors.
Kim Ji Hu gasped when he saw what Kang Min ordered.
“Wow, Kang Min’s pretty smart, huh?”
“Yeah… Obviously. Burgers get boring, so I swapped them out for chicken nuggets.”
“Ah, I should’ve done that.”
Kim Ji Hu was crunching on french fries.
Heo Jun Sung suddenly squeezed in between us.
“Hey, give me some of those.”
“No, these are mine.”
“Ah, wait a second.”
Heo Jun Sung snatched two of Kang Min’s nuggets and made a triumphant face.
“I’ve come up with something revolutionary!”
“What is it?”
“What happens when you put a nugget between the patty and the bun?”
“High cholesterol.”
“A whole new flavor dimension, Kim Ji Hu!”
There was a stark difference between how he was during serious music sessions and his normal self.
Especially Heo Jun Sung.
Actually, Kang Min was the most extreme about it, but it’s a shame we can’t show that side of him.
In a few years, Japanese culture would flood into Korea like crazy.
All we can do is wait for that time.
After dinner, we went for an evening walk, grabbed snacks and beer from the Convenience Store, and wrapped up the day chatting.
Just us, nothing special, like always.
The crew captured it all beautifully on camera, and the first day of shooting came to an end.
* * *
-Burgers: Wait, I actually forgot we were being filmed while working
-Kim Ji Hu: It felt more relaxed thinking of the crew as just friends.
-Lee Do Young: Ugh… I’m still nervous……
-Weeaboo: Sealing away my Japanese……. This is unbearable……
-Kim Ji Hu: That guy’s going wild……
-Lee Do Young: But Min, can’t I use Korean in texts?
-Burgers: Japanese in texts is too much
The guys acted like they hated going out, but the second we split up they wouldn’t stop texting.
Seems like they had more fun than expected.
Looking back on it, I had fun too.
Lee Do Young’s awkwardness and Kang Min’s act of being normal were different from usual.
But most of it was our everyday routine, and watching that everyday life wasn’t particularly special.
Still, I got excited thinking about how many people would get to see our guys’ daily lives.
Imagining that made every moment feel fun.
Our guys are the type to get loud the moment you stick them together, and each one’s got personality for days.
People are definitely going to love them.
They already do, after all.
-Burgers: Hey Kang Min, why do I have your Drumstick?
-Weeaboo: Ha… I looked all over for it. Did you steal it?
-Burgers: No, I didn’t steal it! This is weird, why is it in my bag?
I really hope people see this side of them soon.
The true selves of these fools who turned the world upside down.
* * *
The next day’s shooting was nothing special.
We met early, rehearsed, ate.
Just like yesterday, another day unfolded the same way.
There were just minor variations in the little incidents that happened and the guys’ jokes.
The basic structure was the same.
Oh, one other thing—they did film a segment where we had a meeting with Jo Hyun Seop.
And then came evening and the start of Busking at Banwol Park.
At the Saturday evening 7 p.m. Busking slot, quite a crowd had showed up to watch.
As we were running Sound Check before the performance, I heard murmuring from the audience.
“What’s this? Some kind of broadcast filming?”
“It says SBC?”
“Oh! Insane Focus Study Report.”
“What?! Crazy! They just got a job and they’re already on a variety show?”
“Wow, insane! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing!”
The broadcast station logo and program title logo were plastered right on the camera.
The murmur from people who spotted it rippled through the entire Audience seating.
“Go Oktatop!”
We got cheers like that fairly often.
But today there was a different nuance to those voices.
It sounded like they were rooting for us to do well with the broadcast shoot.
“You ready?”
“Yes.”
“Yeah! All set.”
Kang Min tapped the kick Drum a couple times.
Once I confirmed all preparations were complete with that sound.
The Busking at Banwol Park began.
“Hello everyone!”
“Wooooooow!!”
It was the moment of Oktatop’s official first public broadcast debut.
“Oktatop, let’s go!”

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