Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 61

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Episode 61
The lights illuminating the stadium packed with people gradually dimmed.
And at the same time, the roar of the crowd grew louder.
“Finally, safety announcement! Please don’t jump too much on the Lift. It’s fine once you’re off it, but please refrain while on the Lift!”
I gave a vague nod while listening to the VMA staff member’s warning.
Lifts of this type are naturally a bit more fragile than the main stage, so you have to be careful to avoid accidents. Everyone probably knows this already.
“Once the count ends, the Lift will rise! Ten, nine……”
I adjusted the In-ear Monitor back into my ear, which I’d been holding out slightly while listening to the staff’s precautions.
Honestly, I wasn’t that worried about the performance itself. There were no issues with the In-ear Monitor, and the metronome in my ears would sound the same to everyone.
The problem was the audience reaction…….
Ah, whatever. The VMA that planned this whole thing will take the heat for it anyway. I don’t need to worry about shouldering VMA’s shameless attempt to ride the band sound boom and create a rock festival vibe.
“…Two, one!”
With the staff member’s final shout, the Lift began to move.
At the same time, I stepped on the Guitar Effector’s pedal and plucked the guitar strings in perfect timing.
Zing—
The rough metallic sound mixed in, but an appropriately pleasant electronic guitar tone filled the stadium.
The roar of the crowd was loud enough to cut through the In-ear Monitor and reach my ears. As the Lift rose enough for the audience to see, the cheers grew even louder, and in an instant, a wave of five-colored Light Sticks poured down before my eyes.
‘We need to get our Light Sticks made faster…….’
Thinking about the Everys who cheered us on so earnestly even with those crude temporary Light Sticks at AChon…….
The Everys were fighting desperately among all those Light Sticks with superior luminescence and unique designs. Wasn’t there a need to push the company into releasing Light Sticks sooner?
Or maybe we should also create an occasion like a fan meeting.
My hands naturally played the guitar while I glanced sideways. With five of us spread out across one large stage, it still didn’t feel like a team at all.
Not that we were being asked to look like a team in the first place anyway.
V-net definitely wasn’t aiming for team visuals either. If they had been, having us come here and do a half-day rehearsal for the Opening would be dereliction of duty of the highest order.
Well, whatever. As long as there are no cracks in the musical and visual performance, that’s all that matters.
A pleasant, husky voice and the sharp sound of violin pierced through the In-ear Monitor into my ears.
There was not a single problem with the Opening that we’d barely rehearsed for less than half a day.
Looking at it objectively, it was a stage that would’ve earned praise for being well-executed.
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After finishing the Opening, I didn’t even have time to head to the seating area before I touched up my hair and makeup, changed costumes, and headed straight to Backstage.
“Hey, Rock Star!”
“That Opening was great. Where did you practice? I don’t think I’ve ever heard it before.”
“The Studio. It’s soundproofed, you know. We have Monitoring speakers there too, so we just did it there.”
I brushed off Kang Su-ah’s fussing and answered Go Hyun-seo’s question, which left me with a bit of free time.
Honestly, it wasn’t that difficult a song, and the performance itself wasn’t hard. The problem was the visual performance that caught the eye. The thing I’d worried about most was ‘how can I perform in a way that looks cool without being over the top?’
In the end, it came down to ‘just play guitar honestly’……. Anyway.
We watched ASHCODE’s stage, which was almost finishing up on the monitor. I wondered how Jo Eun-bin moved so quickly, and it turned out she just changed her jacket during the Opening stage and went straight to the main stage.
ASHCODE, visible on the monitor screen in Backstage, utilized a scale of personnel that was no match for VMA’s poor drone view.
It was enough to make you think about how far you could scale up a production using keywords like apocalypse and survival.
A desolate outro flowed, and the ASHCODE members slowly turned around and walked backward.
This would’ve looked prettier shot from the front rather than from above, but VMA seemed intent on showing off the stage scale, so they filmed this scene with a drone camera.
And then, the five figures slowly stopped walking and turned around expressionlessly in sync with the music’s end. Along with a loud roar from the crowd, the screen switched to an advertisement shortly after.
‘They’re…… filming everything with Full Cam again.’
This would’ve looked best if they’d picked just one person and captured their expression.
“…What happens if our stage’s camera ends up like that?”
“…Yeah.”
Haha, how is it we’re thinking the exact same thing.
I almost let out a genuine sigh at Hyun Jae-yi’s sincere joke.
“Evergreat is moving now!”
Without time to complain further, I moved to my position following the staff’s guidance.
It was our turn to show what we’d prepared.
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[on air]
– The more I watch them, the more I wonder why they got hate at first. They do the idol essentials, looks, so damn well
– X damn Full Cam lolololol From the Opening they keep doing drone cam shots like X we get it you have a big stage
– They’re missing the close-ups here
└ Real talk, they’re missing the close-ups
– But the more I listen, ASHE’s vocal range is weird lolol It’s awkward to even do live
└ 22 It’s just a hard song
– Whether the song’s hard or not, they’re singers so they should sing……
└ “”should””
└ Can’t put idols and singers on the same level to begin with
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The internet On-air forum was at its hottest during the commercial break.
Not that any of it mattered to the college student anyway. We’re here at the venue!
The college student knew well how exhausting it was to be overly sensitive to each community reaction. The biggest thing she’d learned from being a fan of established-generation idols was this.
She’d gotten into this relatively young idol band after her sister’s recommendation and made it all the way to VMA, but the reason she was trying not to get too deeply invested was exactly this.
Idol bands in the band scene were hot potatoes that dragged along the issue of whether these kids were actually a real band or not. The college student had no intention of becoming kindling for that fire.
Watching the On-air feed, it seemed the broadcast was still airing commercials.
An idol award show viewed from a step back was actually pretty entertaining. (Though saying she’d stepped back while being at the venue itself was a bit of self-rationalization on the grounds of being her sister’s guardian.)
The stage scale incomparable to school festivals, new idol groups from major agencies with money poured into them, and the pretentious atmosphere of the award ceremony itself.
It didn’t feel particularly bad, just a bit amusing. She remembered that things probably looked like this back when she was overly invested in K-pop, except back then, instead of finding it funny, she’d been arguing fiercely online about rankings and award order with utmost seriousness.
“Those guys just now, ASHCODE, they’re PN rookies and they’re Newcomer Award candidates too. But honestly……, aren’t they too weak on skill to be giving the Newcomer Award to? What do you think, Unnie?”
“Since when did they give Newcomer Awards based on skill. We can’t tell their skill since they don’t do Live.”
“Those guys never do Live. I just hope our kids win the Newcomer Award…….”
Her sister sitting next to her, waving her Light Stick enthusiastically, was the exact image of herself from back in that era.
Even though winning a Newcomer Award doesn’t guarantee success and losing it doesn’t mean failure, her sister’s obsession with the VMA Newcomer Award was identical to her own younger self when she first got into K-pop in elementary school and became overly invested.
“Honestly, judging purely on skill, Evergreat was better from what I saw at the festival.”
“Right?! They did so well at the Moon Sung-dae Festival!”
“But if they only gave Newcomer Awards based on skill, why would there be controversy? It’s VMA, just relax and enjoy it.”
“……. Oh, yeah I guess…….”
Just from talking about the award prospects, her confidence visibly crumbled.
It’s always like this when you first start liking someone—overly invested, oversensitive even to talk of not winning awards. The college student had been exactly like this back in middle school.
“The VCR’s coming. Just watch the stage.”
I pushed away my whining sister and turned my gaze to the large screen. The screen was showing the VCR for the group my sister loved.
[EVERGREAT]
Evergreat. The group that left a deep impression on the college student at the last festival. It was the only idol group that had done a proper Live Performance, by the college student’s standards.
From information she’d heard thanks to her sister, the member who was belting out third-generation Main Vocalist-style Ad-libs back then is also the one handling the team’s Producing as a Composition member.
Even self-Producing, which has become a trend to avoid these days……. Honestly, the college student liked this team. She even thought it would be nice if Evergreat won the Newcomer Award, just like her sister said.
But this was VMA. That VMA which, despite her older brothers achieving exceptional results from a mid-sized company during their rookie years, ultimately gave the Newcomer Award to a major-agency boy group.
Would VMA really have changed? The college student didn’t feel particularly optimistic about it.
It was only after hearing the lights click off that the college student cleared her mind and turned her gaze to the stage.
A low bass line was laid down, and a hip-hop beat covered it from above.
Before the lights came up, vibrant Lasers decorated the darkness to the beat of the music, then a pin spotlight came on in sync with the music, illuminating a girl with burgundy-colored hair.
At a glance, the tall girl with an excellent physique handled an impressively powerful Dance with absolutely no difficulty, executing it with complete command.
The natural ability to draw the eye as a performer combined perfectly with the beat, creating a sense that she was consuming both the stage and attention itself.
The college student felt pure admiration. The elongated physique, the powerful and dynamic dancing, it was definitely a bit different in atmosphere from what she’d seen at the festival……. Oh!
Only then did the college student think she recognized the girl.
Are you ready?
Three, Two, One.
Go Hyun-seo smirked.
“That… that’s her, right? That DragonGirlfriend battle vid girl……. Ah, what was her name. Right, Go Hyun-seo.”
“Really, Unnie, you know about Hyun-seo?!”
“Of course. I’m an Everys……. That’s how I know Daylight too. Those kids who covered it debuted.”
“Wow, Hyun-seo was that famous…….”
That stage where my brothers’ One and Two’s hit “Bad Problem”—famous for being a disaster whenever anyone tries to cover it—was covered really well. The girl who stood out the most there!
I think I even sent a text vote during the finals asking her to debut, but even after hearing her introduce herself at the festival, I’d completely forgotten.
Yeah, she danced really well back then too. Right now she’s gathering the gazes of this entire stadium’s crowd into one focus all by herself.
The camera follows Go Hyun-seo’s gesture. At the same time, a new pin spotlight comes on in a different location, revealing a member with bright blonde hair.
Now this is my turn
The stage of opportunity that has come to me
The Paradigm to be newly presented
Look at me, I’m going to show you something amazing
Ah, she’s an idol. Anyone looking at the close-up of that face on the large screen would think that.
She’s genuinely pretty, and a member who knows how to look pretty. Watching her walk leisurely across the stage and sing her part flawlessly shows she’s a member with solid foundational skill too.
“Hyun-seo originally had an intro part too, but it looks like they changed that section to a solo in today’s Arrangement! How is that possible, are these kids geniuses……. This choreography is Hyun-seo and Jae-yi’s too? Oh, Jae-yi is the member who’s singing right now.”
Thanks to my sister rattling off information I hadn’t even asked for, a curiosity I’d felt slightly earlier was answered. That’s why the dancing between those two felt so snug to their bodies—this team creates their own choreography.
Hyun Jae-yi reaches the center of the stage and meets Go Hyun-seo, and their movements soon intersect. Other members walk out from the back of the stage, and then a moment of silence, and…….
Who is awesome new stars
Go Hyun-seo and Hyun Jae-yi, back-to-back at the center, nod their heads.
Yes, we are!
The beginning of a spectacular Dance Break centered on the two of them.
Even as the song ended and the stage continued into the next song, the college student couldn’t forget the afterimage of that performance.

Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario with My Own Hand
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: February 11, 2026
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