Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 96

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Episode 96
“So when exactly did you say the shoot was starting?”
“According to the proposal, mid-April. If we include the pre-production team meetings, we should probably prepare for survival show filming from April onward.”
“Ah, but we should still do a comeback before the broadcast airs…….”
Let me rewind to January.
Evergreat, having confirmed their participation in V-Net’s survival program (aka For The Creek), entered into a meeting to establish an overall strategy plan.
Me, Kim Yoon-joo, and Team Leader Lee Su-bin, along with the other dedicated members of Evergreat’s staff, spent a long meeting that finally reached one conclusion.
Setting a comeback date, and turning this crisis into an opportunity.
The survival competition program that fell on us unexpectedly was, to some degree, close to a crisis.
Our plan to comfortably promote a comeback in April had mysteriously fallen apart…….
“If we do the comeback as scheduled, we won’t be able to promote properly anyway, right? We probably won’t even be able to make the music shows.”
“It seems difficult to do a separate comeback while filming the program. So we need to move it up a bit…….”
“Then I think we should reduce the scale of the album we originally planned as a mini.”
“Right, a mini album comeback seems difficult this time. It should probably be a single or even a Digital Single instead…….”
Yoon-joo let out a small sigh.
It makes sense that Yoon-joo plays such a large role in establishing our overall activity schedule…….
Between myself being busy with production and activities, and not being able to participate properly in schedule adjustments, it’s Team Leader Lee Su-bin and Kim Yoon-joo who are most involved.
“What if we move it up to March and only promote for about two weeks? Just so we don’t stretch the comeback cycle too long and don’t make the fans wait too long.”
“That does sound like the best option……. Then what about a Digital Single comeback in March?”
“We’re fine with that. The members expected the comeback to be pushed up a bit after hearing about the survival show anyway.”
And so Evergreat’s third comeback became a Digital Single comeback.
Many fans seemed to be looking forward to this comeback quite a bit, but there was really no way around it…….
In the end, the scale of the planned comeback was greatly reduced.
Given how much we’d been preparing for a mini album, both the promotion and album composition were reduced significantly, and the planning team members who had been focusing a lot on the music video and other teasers were understandably disappointed.
Still, if we just get through this survival show, we’ll have even more opportunities to make a good album afterward, so I should stay positive.
“Oh, and by the way, how’s the one-year anniversary fan song coming along?”
“Um……, about that.”
“Is it not going well?”
“Well, it’s a bit ambiguous. Can’t really say it’s going well or not going well…….”
And see, there’s something ambitious that we decided to prepare for Evergreat’s first anniversary…….
“There’s some style difference, so we’re still kind of……. I guess you could say we’re stuck in the brainstorming phase.”
“Oh dear.”
“I need to coordinate things better, but it’s not easy…….”
A fan song made from start to finish by all six of our members. That’s what we’re preparing.
“Still, we have to do it. Only the fans will see this anyway, so even if the quality isn’t perfect, we should put sincerity into it.”
“Right, that’s all it takes. And Seo Ji-on, you don’t need to stress yourself out too much!”
Yoon-joo said with a bright smile.
That’s true. The fan song is really for the fans to see…….
I should make it without stress, having fun and putting sincerity into it. I know that…….
But the process isn’t easy, and that’s the real problem!
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The entire process of making our fan song was planned to be filmed and uploaded to YouTube.
The scenes of writing lyrics, brainstorming, recording and arranging—all of it.
Every single member of Evergreat touched this one song going up on YouTube, and we all made it thinking of the Every Greats.
That was the kind of message we wanted to give…….
“How many meetings is this? Feels like we’ve done a ton.”
“Exactly the eighth.”
“Oh, thanks. The Eighth Evergreat Fan Song Theme Meeting is now in session.”
“Today we really, truly, absolutely have to finalize the theme. Really…….”
The contrast between Kang Su-ah’s bright, energetic hosting and my dark-sounding voice was quite striking and funny.
“Today we’re doing a real, actual final vote. Even if no one’s totally happy with it, we’re going with this theme! If we don’t decide today, we’re putting way too much burden on Seo Ji-on!”
“No, not really……. But it’s for your sake. You all have to write lyrics, and that takes time too. I’ll handle the music with Su-ah, but you all have to write, so.”
As you can see, the members’ preferences split more than expected.
Starting from early January when the planning was decided, we held fan song theme and image meetings bit by bit, but to sum it up, we split into those who wanted a ballad style and those who wanted a pop style…….
On top of that, the lyrical themes differed slightly too, which needed adjusting, and with schedules mixed in, the meetings kept extending until we reached the eighth one.
I never imagined it would take weeks just to nail down a concept…….
The content team will handle it on their own……. but we’re already over our meeting quota. Is this okay?
“Fair warning, I’m sitting this vote out.”
“What? Seo Ji-on, how can you sit it out! You’re the producer!”
“The producer’s opinion matters most, but this is a fan song and your opinions matter more. I just need a theme to work with quickly. Even if the work moves fast, it’s better to have some breathing room, right?”
“I……, I guess…….”
Hyun Jae-yi, who was quite invested, tried to lodge a protest against my decision to abstain, but lost on logic and had it rejected.
And so, after a heated discussion among the five members excluding me and a vote, we reached a result.
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☆Fan Song☆
– Ballad Style Acoustic
– Major Scale Progression (Bright Feeling)
– Write Lyrics Like a Letter (Okay to be a bit naive! Put heart into it!!)
– Title
– Lyrical Theme: Thank You for Being With Me Every Single Day
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It was the final result written on the Mini Whiteboard we’d dragged out from the corner of the Practice Room for the first time in a while.
“Done. No objections accepted. Su-ah and I are proceeding with the sketch work?”
“Okay…….”
“Hyun Jae-yi, your face.”
“Ugh, I still think a faster-tempo pop would’ve been better.”
“Save your style preferences for later. Submit to the majority and focus on what it means to make a fan song.”
“Okayyy…….”
Hyun Jae-yi seemed somewhat unsatisfied, but we moved past it.
The fan song isn’t for us anyway—it’s for the fans. Hyun Jae-yi knows that too.
After that, our progress wasn’t bad.
Fundamentally, a fan song format is meant to express gratitude to fans, and the warm feel of an acoustic ballad suits that theme perfectly.
If it had been pop, composing it would’ve been rougher for me.
I would’ve spent a long time wondering how to capture that feeling in pop.
“B-flat definitely feels better than B. C’s definitely not it. C would make it too simple.”
“Right?! That, wait—what did they call it in Harmony Theory? Anyway. B-flat really is prettier for a major scale ballad. I think it’ll suit the pretty lyrics better too!”
And Kang Su-ah, while not versed in Harmony Theory, isn’t someone without a musical sense either.
She’s a huge help in pinning down the direction of these acoustic tracks in the Work Studio. Especially since we decided to handle every track ourselves.
“Is the Keyboard better, or would a guitar Arpeggio work? What do you think?”
“With B-flat, the Keyboard? With the flat, playing on Keyboard is easier anyway.”
“I think it’d be better with string sounds like a violin……. What if we put Synth on top of the Keyboard?”
“Hmm, doesn’t sound bad actually. Grab the Keyboard from the Vocal Room.”
“…I can bring it?”
“It’ll just be physically tough for you, but this is my Work Studio, so there’s nothing wrong with it. I’ll lay down the Chord Base, so you play the Tension part on the Synth.”
“Ah. So you’re basically telling me to create the Tension…….”
“What, you said it was fine for you to add it.”
“I mean, yeah…….”
In simpler terms, it means having high-level talent on hand who are easy to put to work.
“I wouldn’t ask you to haul the Keyboard alone. Come on.”
“I feel kind of bad putting the burden on you……. Just grab the stand for me. My hands aren’t enough…….”
“Sure, I was planning to anyway. But you’re responsible for the Keyboard itself.”
“Ugh……. That’s so annoying.”
“You’re always like this usually, so bear with it.”
Kang Su-ah grumbled a bit, but brought the Keyboard and added the strings exactly where she wanted them, according to her vision.
Even though the Top Line wasn’t properly finalized yet, it was clearly a good point that showed how sharp Kang Su-ah’s musical sense was.
***
The real problem with making the fan song erupted elsewhere.
I wasn’t particularly worried about it beforehand, but composing the track wasn’t the big issue…….
“So.”
“We were writing lyrics ourselves, but then we thought something was off, so we came to you guys for help.”
“I told you to write whatever you wanted……? This is a fan song. What matters is that your sincerity comes through.”
“…Please look at the situation and give us feedback. We don’t see a way forward right now.”
I should have known from the moment Go Hyun-seo opened the studio door with that determined expression.
Writing lyrics isn’t easy, that’s true……. But I thought a fan song would be manageable at least.
“What, there’s nothing here at all…?”
“We said we’d each write something and combine them, but none of us managed even one sentence.”
“Seriously, nobody wrote anything?”
“…Sorry about that…….”
“No, it’s not your fault exactly……. Or wait, should I feel bad about this…….”
Not that I meant for the younger members to overthink things…….
When I told the younger members not to worry, that I’d help and we’d work on it slowly, their expressions finally relaxed a bit.
What’s a bit surprising is that Go Hyun-seo, who has some experience with creative rap, couldn’t write a single character…….
“That…, before, there was a beat and I could just write whatever I wanted, but this is something we’re saying to the fans. It’s directed at the Every Greats, so it didn’t feel right to just write carelessly…….”
That’s the kind of answer she gave.
This is driving me crazy. I think I played the Music Sketch on the same day the meeting wrapped up…….
Even Hyun Jae-yi, who usually handles Univers pretty well, handed over a notebook full of crossed-out drafts.
She made various excuses, but the gist was that since this was becoming a song, she was trying to be careful, and it ended up like this…….
“Everyone.”
“Yes?”
“Lee Han-byul wrote the most ideas……. Does that make sense, you guys?”
So people who can’t even write ideas, that makes sense, does it? You all…….
Writing lyrics is hard, of course. It’s even harder if you’re aiming for completeness.
But right now we don’t even have the Top Line to match syllables to, and I told you to just write whatever ideas came to mind after hearing the Music Sketch (even if they didn’t all make it in)!
Looking at the blank Apple Pad screen that Go Hyun-seo submitted as evidence(?), I thought.
Was it a mistake to suggest making a first-anniversary fan song…….
My Hand-Written Top Girl Group Scenario
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