Damn Idol Chapter 61
I was deeply shaken by the devil’s words.
Then how on earth had the people who witnessed my death gone on living afterward?
I’d even once regressed right there on stage, hadn’t I?[I cannot show you a world that has already passed.][All I can tell you is that looking back at an already-passed crossroads is the same as mixing up a neatly arranged bookshelf.]
If anything, it was a relief.
Because I didn’t want to see what kind of world had unfolded after I left.
From then on, I tried to control the timing of my regressions, and I always ran away.
I folded myself into places where no one could see me and faced my regression there.
Like pet dogs hiding only their heads from their owners’ eyes before crossing the rainbow bridge.
So I hope the members of Sedalbaegil take my advice and become great vocalists.
So they can eat well and live well, even in the world where I’ll leave and disappear.
“Sion!”
“……
Yes.”
“What are you thinking so hard about?”
“Nothing. It’s nothing.”
My mood slowly sank, as if I were falling into a swamp.
Right, it was about time.
I don’t think I’d been depressed at all these past two weeks.
“Let’s just go practice.”
“I think we have to stand by. It looks like they’re going to do the next shoot in the gym.”
“Then I’ll go and come back. You all rest.”
When I rose from my seat, the members also stood up after me with bewildered looks.
Yeah, I know.
I must look like a lunatic who was laughing and chatting one moment, then got depressed for no reason the next.
It was something I was used to.
The fact that there was no one in the world who could understand me.* * *[C.
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N/Ep. 2] Flowers Bloom
– Han Sion ┃ Was it actually Fallen Flowers?[C.
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N/Ep. 2] Coming Up Next Episode 2 Unaired Footage ┃ Han Sion’s Stage Preparation Process Revealed![C.
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N/Ep. 2] Han Sion’s Tribute Stage to His Way From Flower Seniors! ┃ Comparing It to the Original and Its Key Points
-No, seriously, what kind of confidence did he have to say crap like that?
-Exactly lol. There’s an original song, but I’m the only one who could hear it~ isn’t that basically the bullshit he’s spouting?
-Wasn’t he just trying to bait some attention? The song is good, at least. I listened to it thanks to the bait too.-Fr, the song is fucking good lol-Don’t know why Way From Flower turned a god-tier song like this into trash.
-Ha, I was wondering when this take would show up. Is that Way From Flower’s fault? Isn’t it the fault of the company that gave them the song?
-Exactly. What did the idols do wrong? They just sing obediently like dolls when orders come down from above. Don’t badmouth our Way From Flower!-Fucking disgusting. You don’t even know the context and you’re just mocking them. That was their debut song, you know? What rookie idol can push their own opinion at debut?-Fuck, Han Sion is pissing me off so much. Some piece of trash went and said trashy shit.
-At this point, shouldn’t the composer or arranger step forward?
-Way From Flower’s agency should step forward. They’d know the circumstances.
-What if there really is an original song, like Han Sion said? lololol-No way lololol-But it is interesting. The fact that he could do that without touching a single note and only changing the scale.
-Ah, why won’t they release the track!
-Are there any more songs with this kind of feel? I don’t care about idols, the song is just insanely good.* * *Channel MShow began rowing now that the tide had come in.
As if it had been nursing a grudge over never having content power on YouTube, it poured out videos……
-#1 on Trending Videos.
And at last, it was chosen by the algorithm.
But people in the same industry who were watching the whole situation tilted their heads.‘What is this? It feels like MShow wants to protect Han Sion?’When you watched the videos, there was a strange sense that they were defending Han Sion.
They weren’t doing it openly.
But there was no doubt that MShow’s own judgment—that the stage Han Sion had created was legitimate—had been included.
This was quite strange.
No matter what anyone said, Coming Up Next was a program created for Take Scene’s debut.
Using kids from Team B like Han Sion to stir up early buzz?
Of course that was good.
It was a very smart move.
But if that was what they were going to do, they should have scraped up every last bit of Han Sion’s lowest points and used him as firewood to set the program ablaze.
In other words, rather than deciding on their own whether his stage was justified, the production team should have thrown every source to the public.
Then there would be people defending Han Sion, and people criticizing him.
And they would keep watching the program.
“Hey, could Han Sion have connections at MShow?”
“As far as I know, there’s nothing like that.”
“Then why is MShow working like that?”
But there was one thing they were missing: they didn’t know just how much of a genius Han Sion was.
That was why…….[Flowers Bloom was probably a song for a male vocalist in its earliest composition stage.][So I don’t think I changed anything. I think I merely sang the earliest version.]
People weren’t even considering the assumption that these words might be true.
And so, four days passed.
With only a slight exaggeration, the entire internet was talking about Han Sion.
Provocatively edited screenshots roamed every community, and countless videos were uploaded to YouTube.
On the first day, it was mainly issue-chasing drama channels that were active, but starting the second day, people who claimed to know a thing or two about music began sticking their heads in.
Most of them denied Han Sion’s words.
In particular, “BalanceQQ,” a current professional composer-arranger and a famous YouTuber in the field of composition and arrangement, criticized him fiercely.
“There is absolutely nothing worth taking seriously in what this Han Sion fellow said.”
“Ah, if there is one possibility, it would be that the original song may have been a song for a male vocalist.”
“I don’t know if he made that statement to flaunt a false genius, but I hope other aspiring composers and arrangers don’t take it to heart.”
“In a word, it’s impossible.”
The content was critical, but the tone itself was calm.
So it gained credibility.
And while he had no extremely famous hit songs, it was the opinion of a working professional, at least.
Of course, there were also people who sided with Han Sion in opposition to BalanceQQ, but they were an extreme minority.
Aside from that, the most common reactions were that it was luck, a fluke, or that Lee Hyeonseok had done it for him.
In truth, the reason YouTubers were saying such things wasn’t because they had genuinely grasped the entire situation.
It was because they thought netizens would react that way.
YouTubers who judged that nothing positive would come out for Han Sion quickly jumped on the bandwagon.
In reality, Way From Flower’s fandom—the group most sensitive to this issue—had made early public opinion negative.
But around the third day, the quicker-witted YouTubers felt a certain sense of incongruity.
The comments that received a shower of likes the moment they were posted were still negative, but when you looked at all the comments, something was a little strange.
-Wow, the song is fucking good. For real.
-Can’t Way From Flower stop being mad and allow the song to be released for the sake of the whole planet?
-They can just do a collaboration. The chorus is in the original key, so Way From Flower’s main vocalist can sing it.
-Oh, this is it
-Did you guys know? Way From Flower’s original song entered the chart. It’s only in the 100s though lol-But I also looked up the original and listened to it.
Public opinion wasn’t as bad as expected.
If you broke it down by ratio, about 65% were cursing him, and about 35% were defending him……
But if you excluded Way From Flower’s fandom, and excluded the trolls who just wanted to curse at someone?‘Isn’t it practically half and half?’That was the thought they had.
And they were right.
The reason this topic wasn’t cooling down was actually because public opinion was split exactly in half.
The reason positive public opinion had formed was astonishingly simple.
Because the song was absurdly good.
Cover videos poured out, and a video that took Han Sion’s voice and layered band instrumentals over it had three million views.
It was a flow that even made producer Kang Seoku, who had been carefully analyzing the situation, flustered.
But the people most flustered right now were.
“It’s true?”
Way From Flower and their agency, NT.* * *“Chris Edward? You’re not messing with me right now, are you?”
“No, sir. It’s true.”
“Then why are you only telling me now!”
“When this song came to our company, the composer and arranger had already finished the copyright transfer agreement, and at the time of registration, he used his Danish legal name.”
“Fuck……”The CEO of NT spat out a curse and chewed on his lip, but his head understood.
In any case, the company only checked the ownership shares of tracks related to settlements.
Whether they transferred or acquired tracks among themselves had nothing to do with them.
However, even if the copyright was transferred, the right of attribution had to remain, so the original creator’s name would be listed in the credits on music sites and platforms.
Of course, if it had been a completely private transaction between individuals, there was a high chance even the attribution wouldn’t have been displayed.
But according to what they had found out, this was a transaction that had taken place at a K-pop joint song camp.
“MShow knows too, then.”
“Given the atmosphere, I think so. Maybe they even got an interview……”
“So you’re saying we’re one step away from being the only idiots here?”
If it was revealed that the original song had been composed by Chris Edward?
All the public opinion currently attacking Han Sion would be directed at NT.
People would ask how they could turn such a masterpiece into trash and give it to Way From Flower.
“You. Get the girls right now and have them shoot a video supporting Han Sion, then contact MShow directly. Tell them we want to release the track.”
“Should we track down the arranger too?”
“Yeah. We need to turn him into the punching bag, so coax him gently and get an interview out of him. He was probably pretty upset after seeing Han Sion’s stage.”
“But sir. What happens if Chris Edward actually wrote a song for a female vocal? Even if the composer is Chris Edward, it’s possible the song itself isn’t what Han Sion said, isn’t it?”
“You dumbass, do you think that matters right now? They’ll just slap on a provocative title! The composer of Flowers Bloom was actually a Billboard No. 1!”
The CEO, who had been shouting, suddenly stopped dead.
The subordinate wondered what was wrong with the man, but an idea was forming in the CEO’s head.
“Wait a second. Coming Up Next is the program to debut Lion’s kids, right? Was it Take Scene?”
“That’s right. Take Scene.”
“Then can’t we bring Han Sion over to us?”
“Pardon?”
“If, at the end of this farce, Han Sion ends up in NT’s arms, aren’t we the winners?”
“That’s true, but would Lion let him go quietly?”
“We can work out a deal with MShow. MShow’s guys are probably splitting Take Scene’s activity profits. So when they look at Han Sion, wouldn’t they feel he’s a waste? Since they’ll want to eat Han Sion’s activity profits too?”
“Ah……!”
“Contact MShow. While talking about releasing the track, casually bring up the matter of sponsoring Han Sion too. They’ll understand just from that much.”
“Understood!”
After sending the employee out, the CEO accessed YouTube and began searching for Han Sion’s stages.
There were still only two proper stages uploaded online.
Under the Streetlight, and Flowers Bloom.
But just by watching those two stages, he could tell.
This kid was the real thing.
To think he could give off such an overwhelming feeling on a cable audition program with not a single stage device……
This was more amazing than the fact that he had recognized there was an original song.
“Ha, shit. I really want him.”It felt like if Han Sion joined LMC, the boy group NT was preparing with ambition, it would be perfect.
After thinking for a moment, the CEO sent a message to his subordinate.[Hey, track down Han Sion’s contact information and send it to me immediately.]
It seemed he would have to make the recruitment offer himself.
LMC was a group NT was putting so much effort into preparing that even the CEO would step forward personally.
Of course, working hard to prepare something didn’t mean everything would go well, but he had confidence too.
The CEO of NT didn’t know, but in reality, LMC was a group that would hit it big.
Because a few years later, it would rise to the position of K-pop world star alongside BVB Entertainment’s
But at this point in time, Han Sion was the only one who knew that.