Damn Idol Episode 92
It was a question I’d fully expected.
It was an easy question to throw at an idol.
This was where it began.
I had to answer well.
Because this first answer would determine the stance of all my answers going forward.
“Are you asking about this life?”
“Of course? Do you have a past life too?”
“I might have had one.”
“If you’re trying to create loopholes like that, I’m disappointed.”
“Then, to be precise, in this life.”
Chae Myeong-ho picked up Jo Tae-hun’s words.
It probably wasn’t even in the script, but their timing was perfect.
Still, well, it wasn’t as if I’d been trying to create a loophole.
“One person, when I was in kindergarten.”
“Kindergarten?”
“Yes.”
“You really never had a girlfriend besides that?”
“I haven’t.”
In this life.
Looking at it this way, I was a little grateful to my first-life self.
Back then, I was in my middle-schooler syndrome phase and thought, “What is the meaning of love, anyway?”
As an indie snob who hated love songs with a passion, saying all their lyrics were the same, and who went to an all-boys middle school and an all-boys high school, how could it have been any different?
Naturally, “truth” came out.
“Good. So there was a reason you appeared so confidently. But what about the future, not the past?”
“I have imagined dating a woman at least once!”
I shook my head at the two MCs’ words.
“I have not.”
“Not even one person?”
“No.”
“Then what if top actresses like Choi Seung-a or Suhye confessed to you, Han Sion?”
“I’m sorry, but I would turn them down.”
“Whoa, why is it showing truth?”
“Are you impotent?”
“I’m healthy.”
Needless to say, every answer was the truth.
If you date, your albums don’t sell well.
It’s the same in America.
I’d tried dating the hottest actress in Hollywood once, thinking it would give me a hot image.
I was shocked when I saw how much my album sales dropped.
“Why on earth do you hate women?”
“I don’t hate them. I just like music more.”
“Perhaps… I am homosexual?”
“No. I’m heterosexual.”
As I passed through the questions smoothly, the production crew actually seemed pleased.
After all, the questions in the first part were meant to be funny.
“Good. Very good. You have to be at least this much for us to get motivated too. Then shall we go a little heavier?”
“Money is more important to me than my fans’ love.”
“Not at all.”
“Not at all? That kind of modifier is a little dangerous, you know?”
“Not at all.”
Money was nothing.
It couldn’t compare to the only existence that could save me from nonlinear time.
Naturally, the truth came out.
“Wow, seriously? You were born to be an idol.”
“Maybe he mind-controlled himself into thinking that fans have to love him for him to make money?”
“Ah, is that it?”
I could see the writers nodding at Chae Myeong-ho’s words.
I’d heard there were actually people who got past lie detectors through that kind of self-justification.
Before long, Jo Tae-hun revised the question.
“Ten billion won going straight into my pocket is more important than the love of fans that would earn me one hundred million won.”If one hundred million won was settled to me, how many albums would that mean had sold?
I would rather sell one hundred albums than earn ten billion won.
There was no comparison.
“I like my fans’ love far more.”
When the truth came out again, Jo Tae-hun looked dumbfounded.
“Wow, this is tough from round one.”
“There was a reason he came out so confidently.”
After that, the MCs continued asking questions related to the job of being an idol.
They were light questions.
Questions that, even if I answered incorrectly, would only leave me a little embarrassed.
Originally, round one only had questions that were merely awkward.
The truly sensitive questions poured out in round three.
In other words, I was still only in round one.
However, I was probably the first guest to avoid every single question in round one.
“Wow, he really isn’t getting caught on anything.”
“Detective Sin, isn’t this thing broken?”The MCs made a fuss, but it seemed like it would be edited down appropriately.
It didn’t seem all that entertaining, after all.
Besides, later on the MCs got stubborn and started asking truly pointless things.
In the meantime, Detective Sin asked me to tell a few lies.
“It’s working normally.”
“We were trying to get a few light things out of him…”
“I give up. Let’s move on to round two.”When the MCs started flipping through the script, I finally got nervous too.
Based on my monitoring, round one threw out ethical questions.
They were things you wouldn’t be condemned for not following, but points the public wanted you to follow.
An idol’s dating life, a sports athlete’s professionalism, things like that.
But round two was a little different.Round two asked a lot of gossip about human relationships.
Especially when someone who’d had trouble with another celebrity came on, it was merciless.
Sure enough, the first question that came out of Jo Tae-hun’s mouth was about human relationships.
“Among the cast of Coming Up Next, there was someone you disliked.”
Hmm, there was, but it would be funnier to say there wasn’t here, right?
“There wasn’t.”
For the first time today, a lie came out.
“Wow, in all my time doing this show, this is the first time I’ve been so happy to see a lie.”
“Of course there was. There’s no way there wasn’t!”
“One more time. Among the cast of Coming Up Next, there is someone you dislike.”
“……
There is, actually.”The MCs rushed in as if they’d found their prey.
“It’s Sedalbaegil!”
“No.”
“It’s Take Scene!”
“No.”
“……?”
“It’s CEO Choi Dae-ho.”
“…….”
“…….”
The mood on set went cold.
Well, you were the ones who asked.
“……
We can’t use this, so let’s move on.”* * *
At the time Han Sion was flustering the MCs of Abyss Detector.
The remaining Sedalbaegil members were at a concert venue.
Their faces were filled with tension.
Today, they had to get through five performances without Han Sion, so they had to do even better than usual.‘I’m the oldest.’‘I’m quick on the uptake.’‘Everyone else grew up without hardships.’‘I’m the most professional.’Around the time each of them was absorbed in their respective roles, the performance began.
As always, Sedalbaegil was a special guest whose appearance had not been specified.
Just yesterday, Gu Tae-hwan had said that Sedalbaegil’s actions had not become a hot topic.
And in fact, that was true.
Their actions had not been written up in articles, nor had they spread to an unspecified mass audience and been reproduced.
But more precisely, they had not become a public hot topic.
In the narrow, cramped indie scene, they had become more than enough of a topic, passed from mouth to mouth.
If Sedalbaegil had plastered their own name on the posters, indie fans would have disliked it quite a bit.
Because there was a high chance Sedalbaegil’s fandom would swarm in and ruin the atmosphere of the performance, and the main character of the show could change.
However, Sedalbaegil thoroughly hid their appearances.
To the point that even the singers appearing on stage with them often didn’t know that the special guest was Sedalbaegil.
With the situation like this, to indie fans, Sedalbaegil was “a stroke of luck I’d be happy to encounter myself.”
You went to see a concert by a singer you supported, and Sedalbaegil suddenly popped out?
They performed the stage you’d seen on TV?
People were willing to scream for them.
So long as there wasn’t some unpleasant backstory involving idols, like with the band Eoljuk-a.
Of course, there were indie fans who disliked idols, but there were also cases where their likes and dislikes changed after seeing the performance.
Because Sedalbaegil was a good team.
Thanks to that, the overall mood of the indie scene toward Sedalbaegil was favorable.
However…….‘No, why! Why on earth won’t they tell us what performance it is!’The atmosphere in Sedalbaegil’s fandom was a little different.
They wanted to see Sedalbaegil perform too.
If only someone told them where they were performing, they were confident they could run there at once.
But there was nowhere to obtain the information.
Some of Sedalbaegil’s fans even sent such inquiries to Coming Up Next.
However, there was no reply whatsoever.
At first, they thought it was being kept secret because it was part of a mission being carried out by the program.
But the timing was a little strange.
Reviews from the audience recording of the final broadcast had definitely gone up on the message board, and it was accepted as fact that filming for Coming Up Next was completely over.
On top of that, Take Scene had been spotted doing a pictorial shoot, and spoilers had spread saying that maybe Take Scene had won the final victory.
Besides, according to sightings of Sedalbaegil from the indie scene, there were no broadcast cameras or anything like that.
They suddenly popped out, sang, and suddenly disappeared.
That meant this was an activity unrelated to Coming Up Next.
By this point, the veterans of the idol scene also began to sense that something was strange.
- Could Sedalbaegil have run off because Take Scene won?
- Isn’t “run off” not really right? From the start, when Coming Up Next recruited people, they said the eliminated contestants’ future paths were up to them.
- Come on, it’s obvious Lion was trying to take all of Sedalbaegil.- Yeah, but since Take Scene won, I think they got pissed and ditched Lion.
- Considering Hip Sion’s rebellious streak, it kind of seems possible?
- If it’s Sedalbaegil, other companies would carry them off, lol.- Then are they making memories together before signing with another company?
- If that’s what it is, that’s real friendship. Even after the program ended, they’re all going around performing together.- Fuuuck, fuuuck, fuuuck, but why won’t they tell us where they’re going!
- Programs like this usually include a clause saying you can’t do SNS activities until the broadcast ends.
- No, but does it even make sense for Sedalbaegil to go somewhere other than Lion? Lion seems like he’d throw an absolute fit.- Yeah, they only said their future was free in words. They might have signed a contract when filming started.
- Something’s weird……?
Such conversations went back and forth on the neutral board, but not on the Sedalbaegil board.
Of course, they too were curious about Sedalbaegil’s future plans.
But more than that, they were curious about their immediate whereabouts.
And so posts like this began to be shared in the Sedalbaegil Gallery.- [June 16, 2017, indie performance schedules including special guests.]- 16:00 Hapjeong Brown Basic- 16:00 Hongdae Magnet- 17:00 Sangsu Yo (It’s a cocktail DJ party, so the possibility is a bit low)- 17:00 Hongdae…….
I’m planning to pick only the ones where same-day tickets are available and try going.
Leaving it to luck!- Since they’re special guests, don’t you have to watch until the end of the performance?- Yeah, special guests often come out right before the ending.
- It doesn’t seem like that’s always the case, though? I heard there were times they came out at the opening too.
- I’ll think of it as watching an indie performance for the first time in a while and give it a try too. If they don’t come out, then it can’t be helped.- Yeah, yeah, that’s right. Only people who can enjoy an indie performance even if our kids don’t come out should go. Don’t go for no reason and ruin the fandom’s image.
- Look at them poking around the indie scene because Take Scene won. Guess no one’s calling them, lololol.- Don’t feed the troll.
- More than that, I just really hope there aren’t any kids acting like sasaengs.
Thanks to that.
“Huh? Why are there so many same-day ticket sales today?”
“I don’t know? Is it some special day?”
Quite a few indie performances were able to taste interest like long-awaited rain in a drought.
“This band is good.”
“Right? Evening Promise? I’m following them.”
And talented people were able to gain precious opportunities.
Lastly…….
“Choi Jae-seong! It’s Choi Jae-seong!”
“Holy shit!”
The lucky ones were able to see Sedalbaegil in person.
At a performance venue in Hongdae.