Become A Music Monster Overnight! [EN]: Chapter 66

“I didn’t expect you to follow along this well.”

“….Are you serious?”

“Huh? Isn’t it? I think it’s going well.”

I couldn’t hide my bewildered expression at the words of engineer Park Won-sik, whom I remembered working for YC.

I wondered if I had missed something, so I thought about it again, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t see it.

However, I couldn’t just ignore the words of one of the few engineers I recognized in Korea.

I looked at him with eyes full of frustration, but soon flinched.

Because he was looking at me with eyes full of intense emotions that couldn’t be compared to my own feelings.

After staring at me like that for a while, he closed his eyes tightly for a moment and then spoke in his usual soft tone.

“…I can let go of you scolding me, but how can you come down so hard on the kids who are about to debut like this?”

“What? No, what do you mean ‘come down hard’! How can you say such a thing!”

It was a great shock to me to hear him say that I was ‘coming down hard’ on these kids when I was treating them as well as I would treat my own nephews.

However, even at my surprised reaction, he said with an absurd look, “I’m saying you scolded them *nicely*. To be honest, I thought one of two things while recording: either the CEO is a sociopath [someone with antisocial personality disorder] or he has a grudge against the kids.”

“Cough cough. What is that……”

I was taken aback by his harsh words and tried to say something, but I lost my train of thought.

When I thought about it, I realized that I had been a little greedier than usual.

Blue Rose followed my directions better than I expected, and since this project was meaningful to me, I think I got a little carried away, as if I were mentoring my own family.

In the process, I think I scolded engineer Park Won-sik quite a bit.

“How can you tell me to do such mixing on the spot? Does that even make sense?”

When he protested, clenching and unclenching his fists several times at my instructions, I immediately told him to step aside and showed him what I wanted right there.

“Is this difficult? If you match the beat of this and put it in like this, and adjust the pitch just a little, it’ll be over soon.”

“…..Ah~.”

I gave him back his seat and continued after he let out a sigh that seemed to contain a lot.

“I don’t want much. Just do it similar to what I showed you. Aren’t you a professional?”

“Gritting. Yes, I’m a professional.”

After that, I could often hear the sound of him grinding his teeth, but engineer Park Won-sik showed me that he was trying to follow my will.

….Yeah, I actually kept nagging him even after that.

But I couldn’t help it. I was frustrated, and the more I nagged him, the more he started to show me what I wanted.

‘Damn it!’

Anyway, this is the worst.

I never thought it would go this way in Blue Rose’s first production.

Engineer Park Won-sik said with an admiring voice to me, who was dumbfounded by my belated realization, “This is the first time I’ve worked on such a high-quality project. I’ve worked with people who are called legends, but I never thought I’d be able to release a work of this level so quickly…”

As he said that, he naturally played Blue Rose’s music.

It still had a rough feel because it hadn’t been properly mixed yet, but thanks to the nagging in the middle of recording, the raw feel was mostly gone.

‘Ari and Lee Chae-young’s vocals have improved a lot more than I thought.’

I don’t know what happened, but the two, who couldn’t pass A as a vocal evaluation standard, showed A+ level skills in this recording.

Thanks to that, I think I tried all sorts of things to put in more inspiration than originally planned.

“…..Shit!”

“???”

Engineer Park Won-sik looked back with a question at the curse. It was a look full of questions as to what was wrong when it was so good.

However, I, who had done something really bad to make this good song, couldn’t just listen to it comfortably.

When I feel frustrated like this, the best thing to do is to work.

“Let’s start mixing right away.”

“Yes?”

He was dumbfounded by my words after just finishing recording, but soon grumbled and finished preparing for mixing.

So, I started mixing, nagging him as if to relieve my anger, and he followed my instructions, grinding his teeth again.

In the middle, when I went to the bathroom, his eyes seemed to be red.

‘Well~ that’s none of my business.’

Anyway, thanks to being a little excited and engineer Park Won-sik following me well, I finished all the important parts.

Now that only minor tasks were left to improve the quality a little more, I didn’t need to touch this much.

As I was coming out of the recording studio with a slightly more comfortable mind, I came across someone who was not so welcome.

It was director Hong Eui-chan.

“Is it possible to have an interview?”

“Interview?”

I was tired, so I was going to refuse the sudden interview, but I had no choice but to change my mind at his next words.

“It’s an important interview related to Blue Rose.”

“I will.”

“Hmm.”

Director Hong Eui-chan seemed surprised that I would allow the interview so easily, and then took me to the prepared interview room with shining eyes.

“Make up should only cover blemishes. The hair should be a little more disheveled than it is now. Yes. Good.”

Then, instead of doing the interview, he decorated me with the prepared maker team, and then taught me the gestures and postures to take during the interview.

“Oh~~”

“Gasp!”

Whenever I showed gestures and postures according to his words, exclamations never stopped around me.

Director Hong Eui-chan also thought it was not appropriate to record the interview with so many people around, so he sent all the staff out and started the interview.

“What is Blue Rose to the CEO?”

I answered honestly to the first question.

“It’s a miracle. Yes. It can be said to be a miracle itself.”

“Can you tell me more about it?”

“That’s exactly what it is. Director, do you know what the flower language of Blue Rose is?”

“I know it’s ‘miracle’.”

“Yes. I also learned this time that the flower language of Blue Rose is a miracle. When I received the team name from the planning department, I couldn’t think of another name. It’s no exaggeration to say that the current situation, where I can help them, who only received strength two years ago, is really a miracle.”

“That’s interesting. Did you have a relationship with Blue Rose two years ago?”

“I was a fan. I was a fan who only received strength like fate when I was really struggling with life.”

After that, I had an interview for about an hour, and since I originally had a lot of affection for Blue Rose, I had no hesitation in answering.

“Thank you for your hard work. Thanks to you, I was able to decide how to direct this documentary…no, entertainment show.”

“Please take good care of Blue Rose.”

I was uneasy about mentioning the documentary, but I nodded because I knew his talent. Above all, I was able to relieve my anxiety because Kim Do-ah was the assistant director.

It’s a really unfortunate thing, but I couldn’t pay much attention to Blue Rose after mastering the song.

This is because I had to focus on producing Black Tiger’s first full album with Lee Na-eun, who was officially making her debut in Japan.

I had to spend a busy time in Japan again.

The entertainment and interview schedules that Lee Na-eun and I had to handle were not small, but in fact, most of the time was spent greeting high-ranking officials who had ties in the past.

“Gulp~. This is the first time I’ve seen that Congressman show such a friendly appearance.”

“…..”

Even if it wasn’t as much as Ichiro, who was surprised, I couldn’t hide my own surprise.

In fact, Japan’s political old guard were more exclusive to foreigners than I thought. Especially in the case of Koreans, they tend to look down on them, so it was actually amazing that this position was created.

However, when I actually had a seat, they came to me first and started building friendships as if it were a lie, so it’s no wonder that Ichiro is as dumbfounded as I am.

“It must be because the CEO has changed again since we last met.”

I nodded, referring to the aura that was forcibly updated during Lee Na-eun’s music video.

‘It was so excessive that it was burdensome, but if you look at it from this point of view, it’s worth it.’

From a foreigner’s point of view, if you want to do business in another country, you have no choice but to build friendships with high-ranking officials.

Usually, the cost and manpower used for this are not small, but if you can build friendships and solve it in this way, the efficiency is unbelievably high.

Like this, the reason why I am seriously increasing my friendship with Ichiro is to expand the Japanese branch.

It wasn’t just about expanding the scale.

I plan to increase the name value to the point where it won’t be easily pushed around by large entertainment companies.

Following the success of Lee Na-eun’s debut in Japan, Blue Rose will also debut in Japan and make it a success.

Since Japan is still a blue ocean [an uncontested market space] in terms of K-pop, I had to enter quickly and take that share.

Thanks to that name value, I also went out as a special guest singer at the G1 band concert and brought a lot of buzz.

“…Ichiro Branch Manager. I know you’re busy these days, but look for female idol trainees who have potential.”

“Yes? No way!”

At my words, Ichiro’s eyes sparkled even in the midst of fatigue. It was a reaction that seemed to think, ‘Are you already trying to keep the conditions you offered to acquire Red Sun Entertainment?’

However, I had other thoughts, so I showed a sorry expression and shook my head.

“I’m thinking of including Japanese members in the idol group I’m going to make next time.”

“Is that so? Actually, I’ve been worried because there are some kids I’ve been watching.”

“Hahaha. Is that so? Now that the building has been moved, if you think it’s okay, bring them in and have them train as trainees.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

Ichiro was very happy with the idea of creating a Korean idol trainee system in the Japanese branch as well.

It seems that his goal of creating the best idol in Japan is more solid than I thought.

While finishing the busy work in Japan, preparations for Black Tiger’s first full album were proceeding smoothly.

“It’s getting better to listen to now.”

I thought it was a compliment, but the uncles don’t seem to think so.

“Erai! [Damn it!]”

“Ah~. That monster! If he wasn’t so bad at music, I would have folded his waist.”

“Are you human! How can you grind people like this and say it’s getting better to listen to now?”

“You’re a psychopath. How can you be so oblivious even though I’m suffering from tendinitis?”

“You too? Me too.”

“No! Isn’t that because I didn’t know?”

How can I know if you don’t tell me? However, my aggrieved appearance seems to be more annoying.

Uncle Park Si-young threw the tissue next to him at me and said, “If you had paid even one in a hundred of the attention you paid to Blue Rose, you wouldn’t have been so clueless.”

-Tak.-

I carefully put the thrown tissue on the table next to me and replied.

“Are our uncles and our kids the same? Why are you acting like this when you’re old enough?”

“Wow~ shit! Now you’re saying we’re old!”

“……”

When the story went that far, I started to show a sorry expression and switched to appeasement mode.

Anyway, it was true that I couldn’t take care of them properly because I was paying attention to Blue Rose, Lee Na-eun, and the G1 band.

Nevertheless, the uncles have built up their skills to the point where there is no difficulty in releasing their first official album, so I could see how hard the uncles had worked in the meantime.

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