Become A Music Monster Overnight! [EN]: Chapter 34

11. Debut.

-Jajajajajang! Jijijijijing!-

The speed was incredible, as if he had four hands.

His guitar screamed, emitting an intense sound that sent chills down the audience’s spines with each note.

It was a primal instinct, the kind you feel when facing something unknown and unprecedented.

-Tadadadang! Dadadang!-

But the speed wasn’t the truly terrifying part.

The most amazing thing about his guitar was its rich emotion, every bit as impressive as its incredible speed.

The deeply emotional guitar melody, bursting forth with such velocity, bordered on *passion* [intense emotion]. His guitar was frantically stimulating people’s hearts and minds.

That’s why the audience was surprised at their own reactions.

After listening to three songs, each averaging six minutes, they had already reached their peak, yet they were astonished that they could be elevated even further.

That’s how profoundly Youngchan’s guitar performance shook people’s souls.

Eventually, one by one, they began to surrender themselves to that overwhelming, intense stimulation. For that moment, they were freed from everything that suppressed them, focusing solely on the guitar melody.

At some point, the cheers that had been erupting, claiming that the huge concert hall was too small to contain the energy, faded away.

The audience instinctively chose silence, allowing only Youngchan’s guitar sound to fill the massive venue.

Thus, the dreamlike 4 minutes and 32 seconds of guitar solo performance ended, leaving a deep resonance in everyone’s hearts.

-….-

Even after the performance ended, the audience remained silent, as if they had become mute, unable to easily break free from the spell.

Youngchan fully enjoyed this heat, which was even more intense because of the silence, and looked at his bandmates.

“Hahaha.”

Youngchan couldn’t help but laugh.

He found the blank faces of his colleagues, as if they had witnessed something unbelievable, amusing.

‘I got a little too excited.’

He hadn’t originally intended to show off his guitar skills to that extent.

But after being on a stage of that scale for the first time in a while, he unknowingly let go of his inhibitions.

With inspiration soaring limitlessly along with his heightened state, it was only natural to deliver a guitar performance of epic proportions.

That’s why he had reduced his colleagues, who had been with him for nearly half a year, to such a state.

After savoring their heated silence for about 30 seconds, Youngchan slowly brought the microphone to his lips.

“Everyone is too quiet. Didn’t you like my guitar performance?”

-!!!!-

The ripple effect caused by his playful, lighthearted remark was tremendous.

As if a crack the size of a finger had broken a dam, the entire concert hall seemed to shake with the audience’s cheers that erupted in an instant.

It wasn’t just the audience who were cheering.

“Fucking! You crazy monster! You’re a god! The god of guitar!”

“I thought it couldn’t get any better! You’re really crazy!”

“Waah! Ah, fuck!”

“Damn it! What did I just hear!”

“Ugh!”

The members of Black Tiger also cheered, showing how excited they were. Youngchan responded with the ‘devil horns’ hand gesture.

The hand gesture commonly used by rockers and their fans is actually American Sign Language for ‘I Love You’, a very sweet meaning. However, if you fold your thumb in, you create the ‘devil horns’ that Youngchan showed, representing the horns of the devil.

The members who knew what it meant shouted with excited expressions.

“Let’s go! Let’s go!”

“Jesus! I don’t care if I die today!”

“I’m going crazy.”

“…I’ll follow you no matter what.”

“Finally!”

Youngchan showing the devil horns gesture meant that he would also join the band’s performance.

You might wonder what’s so great about this that the members are so excited, but the difference between him joining and not joining was significant.

There were several reasons why he hadn’t participated in the performance until now.

The two biggest reasons were that it would put too much strain on the members, and he was refraining from it for fear that the band’s established style might be disrupted.

It would be at least 5 years before the members were seasoned enough for Youngchan to join without any strain, so now only one or two songs were the limit.

Youngchan folded the devil horns gesture he had shown to the members and raised his index finger to the audience.

Without any prior agreement, the audience’s cheers quickly subsided at his gesture.

“This is the last song. The name of this song is ‘Sun’.”

‘Sun,’ which occupies the last spot on the album, was a song based on modern rock.

Modern rock is a genre that emerged in the late 80s, meaning rock music tailored to modern trends. [It often incorporates elements of alternative rock, pop, and electronic music.]

It began to spread to Korea around the mid-90s, and it mainly features electric guitar sounds with plenty of reverb centered on lyrical melodies.

Even now, it is a genre that protects the foundation like a pillar in the Korean indie scene, so even those who don’t know much about rock music will likely encounter it or enjoy listening to it at least once.

For this reason, ‘Sun’ had a distinctly different atmosphere from the four songs that Black Tiger had played until just now.

This is because, compared to the previous songs, which were more technique-oriented, ‘Sun’ is an amorphous, emotional song.

It could easily be like pouring cold water on a red-hot lump of iron, but ‘Sun’ played by Black Tiger was not like that.

-Tadadadang~-

With just the first note starting with Youngchan’s guitar, the audience embarked on another journey.

They redirected their heightened emotions, that torrent of passion, and as Youngchan’s colleagues joined in the performance, the torrent gradually intensified.

“Walking home, watching the dim sky~”

The torrent turned into a huge river when Youngchan’s voice was added.

His clear and weighty voice, with the husky tone removed, was like watching a chameleon. Surprisingly, his voice had transformed into the most suitable voice for this song, ‘Sun’.

The behind-the-scenes story of ‘Sun’ is that it is an original song created by the awakened Youngchan in this world.

Before he even turned 20, he worked in a factory, and most of the scenery he saw was the dim sky.

He had to watch the same scenery for 10 years.

It was difficult and arduous, but he knew that this moment would lead him and his family to hope, so he never stopped or gave up.

In the end, he protected his family, and he felt like he was being compensated for everything.

Perhaps it was because he felt relieved that his goal had been achieved?

From one day, he started to get sick and tired for no reason. But he didn’t take his pain seriously.

This is because he had come too far to stop at this kind of pain.

Then, he faced an unexpected miracle, and from then on, he began to walk for himself, not his family.

He decided to pursue the dream he had forgotten, which he regarded as this brilliant sun.

Through this song of the sun, Youngchan hoped that people who were giving up their dreams and continuing their difficult struggles would be comforted.

Is it because it is a song containing his wishes?

-Sniff~Sniffle-

At some point, people began to wipe away tears in various parts of the audience. By the end of the song, there was no one, regardless of gender or age, who did not shed tears. Some people cried out loud, as if they were releasing years of pent-up emotions.

It wasn’t just the audience who burst into tears.

The judges, who never took off their sunglasses even in the dark indoors, were now wiping their eyes with their sunglasses down.

“W-What on earth is his identity?”

Kangchan, the leader of Hallasan, who barely managed to control his emotions, wondered if he was dreaming.

‘No, if I’m really dreaming, I hope I don’t wake up.’

It was a shocking stage that he had never felt in his rock life, which was by no means short.

It surpassed even the standard that everything was perfect.

Even without Youngchan, the Black Tiger members were so good that he couldn’t understand how they had been unknown until now. Their band music was excellent.

It was comparable to their own band’s sound.

But Black Tiger had Park Youngchan, and the band’s music with him was enough to surpass them.

Even though all the songs had different genres, their songs were amazing, as if they had extracted the essence of rock. [Each song was a masterpiece.]

It was as if a bunch of masterpieces that could be milked for decades had poured out like a lie. And these are songs that will electrify the entire world, not just for domestic consumption in Korea.

“Fucking!”

Kangchan, who had been immersed in their thrilling music, had to belatedly utter profanity.

‘This isn’t their concert! It’s going to end like this… It’s a really terrible thing!’

He wanted to beat up his past self, who had frowned at the idea of playing four songs on ‘Legends of Rock’, a popular program, before they played.

While most of the judges were in the same state of mind, the screen gradually zoomed out and then moved on to commercials.

-Gulp-

Only after the commercial started did the members of Black Tiger return to reality.

“Looking back, we were crazy at that time.”

“We weren’t crazy. Youngchan was crazy.”

“That’s the same thing, you idiot!”

“How can you say that’s the same thing! Can’t you tell the difference between poop and soybean paste?”

“Why are you crying over there again!”

“Geez! Where’s the guy who didn’t shed tears up there? I saw you crying too.”

“Is this bastard senile? Who are you saying was crying!”

“Who else but the senile old man who’s pretending to be young these days.”

Youngchan shook his head at his uncles, who were bickering over trivial things, probably because they were excited, and turned on the screen at the sound of his phone vibrating.

It was a call from Lee Gichan PD [Production Director] of ‘Legends of Rock’.

“We exceeded 20% in real-time viewership. Everything is thanks to Black Tiger. Thank you. And our director wants to prepare a special stage on ‘The Live Show’, would that be okay?”

‘The Live Show’. It is a music program that has been running for a long time on A broadcasting station.

It is not as good as terrestrial broadcasting, but it has the most influence on cable, because it does not spare investment in this unprofitable music program.

Divided into Part 1 and Part 2, Part 1 shows the behind-the-scenes stories of the singers’ stages in a documentary format, and Part 2 shows their spectacular stages.

In the case of top-tier stages, they sometimes create stage facilities worth hundreds of millions of dollars, so you can see how sincere they are about music broadcasting.

And they were offering such a special stage to Black Tiger, who are currently rookies.

Youngchan couldn’t hide his surprise and quickly replied.

“Of course. Please tell them thank you for their consideration.”

“Hahaha. I understand. And if it’s okay, could you come out again on my disciples’ stage later?”

“We would be more than happy to be on a program like ‘Legends of Rock’ again.”

“Thank you. Then I will organize the details and contact you.”

Youngchan took a long sigh as he hung up the phone with Lee Gichan PD.

He thought that the promotion, which he thought was the biggest variable in this debut, was now resolved.

And Youngchan’s thoughts were not wrong.

-Ddiriririk! Ddiririk!-

The manager’s phone, which had been silently watching the broadcast, started ringing like crazy.

The calls came from the music broadcasting staff who had struggled to schedule with the manager’s total mobilization of his connections.

It was the PDs in charge of the music programs, not the junior writers or FDs [Floor Directors].

It was really rare for PDs, who are notoriously arrogant to rookies and unknowns, to contact them first like this.

But considering the current situation, it was not surprising.

This is because the viewership ratings of the hottest ‘Legends of Rock’ these days are being watched by other broadcasting companies.

In addition, if they were to leave the items of the broadcast, which exceeded 20.3% in real-time viewership, unattended, it would be tantamount to dereliction of duty.

“Oh, PD-nim, hello? Hahaha. I’m glad you enjoyed it.”

Even though he had to answer the phone late at night, the manager’s face was bright.

Black Tiger’s mini-album was YC Entertainment’s first album, so the success of this album would affect YC Entertainment’s next albums, so it had to succeed at all costs.

However, it was showing a hotter response than expected, so he couldn’t be happier.

That night, it was difficult to fall asleep.

Black Tiger’s first album was released with such great interest.

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