Become A Music Monster Overnight! [EN]: Chapter 74

Overnight, a Music Monster! Episode 65

Youngchan’s solo performance garnered increasingly enthusiastic responses as time passed.

By the end of the second week of promotions, it was like a volcano erupting.

The guitar technique he used in his solo performance began to be called the YC Technique, and it received a very hot response among guitarists.

There was one reason:

-How can anyone follow that? Is that even possible?-

-Crazy. When I first heard ‘Brilliant Struggle,’ I really thought they brought in some crazy talented engineer from Billboard, but it was just YC being insane!-

-No way. No way. I tried so hard I broke several guitar strings, but it’s impossible. Can anyone do this?-

-Even figuring it out is tough. Is it even humanly possible?

└Isn’t YC human?

└Human? That’s blasphemy. YC is a god!

└Yeah, it’s absurd for a human to try to imitate a god.

-Is it that hard? I tried it and it worked. (Video)

└ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Crazy. Missing all the notes and ignoring the rhythm, it’s so embarrassing to watch.

└Hey! Take it down. Your middle school syndrome is too much.

└Congrats! You’ve gained a lifelong memory of wanting to bury yourself in your blanket.

-Still, wouldn’t Shin Sung-il be able to do it? He’s been hot lately.-

-Damn it! Shin Sung-il or whatever, it’s impossible. It’s just a reality bug [glitch].-

-The YC Technique, they say you need that to even attempt it. But the problem is, the moment you try to follow it, you’re guaranteed a one-way ticket to hell.-

└Yeah, guaranteed hell. I tried it for a bit, and it’s just a matter of sense. It’s insane how you have to maximize the vibrato arm without overemphasizing it. It would be difficult even with an extra hand.-

└Still, geniuses like Shin Sung-il might be able to imitate it.

Originally, the guitar solo in the original ‘Brilliant Struggle’ was already notoriously difficult, enough to make most guitarists shake their heads.

But with the arrangement, it went to an entirely different level of difficulty.

Even Youngchan, who performed the solo, could only do it after perfecting what was called the YC Technique.

So, Youngchan was actually curious.

How much could other guitarists follow this YC Technique? Or was there a possible method? He was curious.

People began to respond to his question.

“I may not have money, but I have the skill.”

There were more underrated guitarists than you might think, lost in their own musical worlds.

These were pros who had been living with their guitars as part of their bodies for at least 20 years, and naturally, they were proud of their skills.

In that situation, with people fanning the flames everywhere, it would be a lie to say they didn’t feel competitive.

The YC Guitar Challenge was naturally created.

The number of guitarists who participated was enormous.

“Wow! It’s a festival. A festival!”

From the perspective of fans who enjoyed listening to even the hidden masters, they could only cheer.

These people, who were too busy with their own music to even get up, were moving.

YC Entertainment was taken aback by the unexpected appearance of the YC Guitar Challenge, but they were soon delighted and decided to openly support it.

They made a promise to give 10 million won [approximately $7,500 USD] to the person with the best cover performance each month.

With the topic becoming so popular, success would immediately raise their profile, and with a huge sum of 10 million won on the line, the already hot challenge burned even brighter.

The challenge, which had become a full-fledged event, was not only participated in by Koreans.

Guitarists from Japan, Taiwan, and, to a limited extent, China also began to participate in the challenge.

In other words, it was proof that the reaction to ‘Brilliant Struggle’ was just as enthusiastic overseas.

Japan, which could be considered Black Tiger’s home base, was a given, but it also generated a great response in China and Taiwan, where they hadn’t been very active.

In fact, by the second week of Black Tiger’s promotions, they had topped the charts in these countries.

This reaction was the same in Southeast Asia, where they hadn’t been as successful as with idol groups.

They were expecting to top the charts in these countries as well.

There was a reason why they were getting such a hot response, even with the minor element of rock, unlike in Japan.

“All the profits from ‘Brilliant Struggle’ will be donated to cancer patients in the country where the profits are made.”

It wasn’t a donation to an unfamiliar country they didn’t know.

It was a way to help someone in their own neighborhood.

They couldn’t help but be drawn to it.

On top of that, they were doing such a donation event with the hottest song in K-pop [Korean pop music], which was gaining more and more attention.

The PR team had been emphasizing this point in their promotions since they took first place immediately after their comeback, as if they had been waiting for it.

And this PR strategy worked incredibly well.

It was rapidly increasing awareness in the form of a snowball rolling into a huge snowdrift.

Most of all, it was a good thing to do just by buying or listening to the music, so it was great to post on SNS [social networking service] to show off their coolness.

#Donation #GoodAfternoon #Kpop #TrendingMusic

For example, by posting keywords like this.

This strategy was a great way to promote to teenagers, who had low awareness because they ignored minor rock music.

Interestingly, this strategy worked even better in Japan, where the reaction was already hot.

Even though Japan had the hottest reaction to Black Tiger, it didn’t generate much of a response from teenagers or those in their early twenties.

Rock was far from the culture and music they enjoyed, and it had a bad image because it was music that adults in their 30s and older, who had enjoyed the heyday of rock, liked.

But with this donation event, that share was rising like crazy.

In particular, the reaction of the girls was enormous.

“The old guys were the only ones who knew about this good stuff!”

“Was ‘Snow Country’ sung by YC? Oh my god!”

“Shimaken, you bastard! Why didn’t you tell me!”

“I did, but you said you didn’t want to listen…….”

“Shut up! Anyway, from today on, our club is the Black Cat Promotion Club!”

“Why are you changing the club name as you please?”

“Oh, come on!”

Shimaken had no choice but to raise his hands at the club president’s arbitrary decision.

But unlike that appearance, Shimaken was enthusiastically welcoming the club president’s decision.

Even as a man, he felt that YC was truly a different species.

In particular, the video of him showing his true sincerity made even the most macho men bow their heads.

Thanks to that, the posters in Shimaken’s room, which had been filled with 2D images [anime and manga art], had long been replaced with YC posters.

He had never even known the scales properly, but he had picked up a guitar, so you could see how deeply he had fallen.

In any case, thanks to this hot overseas interest, the best talents from overseas rushed to this YC Challenge.

And… people couldn’t help but admit it to the videos that were uploaded.

-……As expected of Shin Sung-il, he somehow managed to follow it. But it really just ended up being a copy.-

└I saw it on SNS, and Shin Sung-il seemed embarrassed.

└What did he post?

└I’ll copy it. “Listening to it and playing it are completely different dimensions. In fact, I was so impressed with the guitar solo part on the day ‘Brilliant Struggle’ came out that I’ve been practicing since then, but no matter how hard I try, I can only barely imitate it. Thanks to that, I realized how lacking I am. Above all, I’m really proud that YC is the same Korean as me.”

-I know Shin Sung-il has a lot of confidence in his guitar skills. Was it that crazy difficult that he said that much?-

-Lee Cheong? I’ve never seen this guitarist before… Wow! This guy is crazy. He’s as good as Shin Sung-il.-

└Yeah, his technique seems worse than Shin Sung-il, but he’s the only one in the videos that has some semblance of emotion.

-Wang Lun? Isn’t this Taiwanese guy amazing too? His technique seems better than Shin Sung-il’s.-

└Of course. He’s a legend in Taiwan. Rather, it’s amazing that he ended up just copying it.

-The final boss has appeared. (Former) Nocturnal Bloodlust guitarist Kazukyu announced last week that he would cover it.

└ㄷㄷ [sound of surprise] A monster famous for using all kinds of advanced techniques is jumping into this challenge?

└I know this guy’s speed ability is super hot in videos.

└Originally, Kazukyu is a true fan of YC. He became a stalker level fan after seeing the solo guitar performance he showed at the last concert.

-Seeing these talents jump in, it seems like YC is really in a divine realm.-

That’s right.

The more challenge videos there were, the more people realized.

How much of a fraudulent [unbelievably talented] guitarist Youngchan was, unbelievable that he appeared in the wasteland of rock.

But even as everyone was surprised, the Black Tiger members were not surprised.

“That’s ridiculous. Imitating my ass.”

“Are you crazy? Calling a guy who can’t even imitate properly a genius? The standards for genius have dropped a lot these days.”

“A monster, they say. You really don’t know rock. That guy passed the monster level a long time ago.”

“I know, right? It’s so cute to call a monster at the level of a planet devourer a genius or a monster.”

“Motherfucker!”

Far from being surprised, they were busy getting angry, saying that they were belittling their nephew’s skills when they saw the comments praising him.

“…….”

Youngchan just shook his head without saying anything at the sight of his uncles.

He didn’t understand why they bothered to look up the challenge videos every time, even though they were so angry and cursing.

But Youngchan didn’t feel the need to say it because he knew that his uncles wouldn’t listen even if he told them.

More than anything, he had too many things to do these days to worry about this.

He had to oversee the concert tour, as well as prepare for the Korea-Japan idol project led by Director Lee Jiwoo of Division 2.

To be exact, it was a step for a re-debut like Blue Rose.

Blue Rose had been a huge hit, proving that Youngchan had great skills in idol production.

Based on this recognition, Youngchan approached the girl groups he wanted to help.

Aria, who had finally made a comeback early last year after a long time but had not received a big response, and Laraland, the group of Sera, who had worked as a reporter with Black Tiger at the end of last year.

In addition, Hello and Lucky Girl, who were in the third tier like Good Night, were the main characters.

Aria was the only team that could be brought in completely.

In the case of Laraland, they had actually received a proposal in reverse. They wanted to receive Laraland’s comeback song.

In fact, he had rejected the offer, but Youngchan was not disappointed by this fact.

The best thing was to bring them in and raise them himself, but even if that wasn’t the case, it was also something he wanted as a fan if they were successful.

More than anything, Alex Entertainment, Laraland’s agency, was different from the other entertainment companies he wanted to help.

In the case of Aria, a mid-sized entertainment company, it was originally a company that dealt with actors, so there was no answer, but Alex Entertainment was a place that even fans of this field had heard of at least once.

They created Red Pink, one of the miracles of small and medium-sized enterprises [small to medium-sized businesses].

As such, if they were given a hit song that suited Laraland, there was a possibility that they could be pushed at any time.

That’s why Youngchan created five songs for Laraland.

One of them is a song that rearranges Red Nine’s super hit song ‘Liar’, which does not exist in this world.

“It will get a bigger response in Japan.”

In fact, even though it was difficult to produce, Youngchan gave out the songs with several conditions, pushing this song as the main song of the next mini-album.

The main conditions were that the songs he gave out must belong to Laraland and that rearrangement was not allowed.

This was because he knew that Red Pink, who had recently renewed their contract, was looking for a song for their comeback.

In addition, Youngchan bought a whopping 10% of Alex Entertainment’s shares.

Coincidentally, the stock price had fallen as much as it could due to Laraland’s failure and Red Pink’s long hiatus, so even 10% didn’t cost much money.

In addition, Lucky Girl and Hello had difficult aspects.

In fact, even though it wasn’t officially announced, both of these teams were as good as disbanded.

Most of them had left their idol lives behind and moved on to new paths, so even though he tried hard to persuade them, he only brought in 2 out of 7 people.