The Road To Glory [EN]: Chapter 331

Glorious Tides – Episode 33

# Episode 33: Doing Well

“The spotlight belongs where I am.”

A college student lying in his nine-pyeong [approximately 30 square meters] studio apartment, watching entertainment shows on his tablet, exclaimed, “Oh!” with his mouth open.

“Will the revolving circle tell me the reason for life?”

A man staring blankly at his phone in a dark room snapped out of it and frantically typed on his keyboard.

“They say you’re not perfect.”

Someone listened intently while driving,

“The dreams I’m painting.”

A family enjoying a late-night snack also paused their conversation to watch television.

“I’m different from you, who cuts corners.”

The faces of the three people anxiously watching the monitor screen gradually brightened.

It was a stage that none of the viewers expected, but the expressions of the judges reflected on the camera were also conveyed to them.

PD [Production Director] Gu, who had stayed up all night at the broadcasting station, received the viewership ratings and sent a text message to the writer, delighted.

At the same time, he anxiously watched the clock.

He was getting closer and closer to ‘that time.’

In fairy tales, the magic hour is midnight, which separates night and dawn, but the PD and production team chose a time when they could heat up the pan [build hype and momentum].

Waiting for office workers who spent a fiery Friday [worked hard and partied] to slowly wake up the next day and watch clips uploaded to YouTube.

They set it as a time when ‘everyone’ could access it.

When is the time with the highest accessibility?

It’s a difficult question that countless marketers have probably pondered at least once.

It varies depending on which group you belong to, such as country, generation, age, and gender, so how can you pinpoint it?

Moreover, in this era where ‘individual life’ is emphasized, the invincible logic of ‘it varies from person to person’ has always prevailed.

However, PD Gu was convinced that the most optimal time was ‘this time.’

Even if they have to work on weekends, people generally do the same thing ‘at this time.’ It’s a pattern of behavior that someone created, I don’t know who, but it has been created for a very long time.

A time that even vicious companies that don’t allow breaks must allow.

Moreover, it’s a longer time than you think, so you can press the ‘music app’ or enter the community at least once.

If I’ve said this much, everyone will have noticed.

That’s right, noon.

12 o’clock sharp. The music was released simultaneously on the [Show your Show S. 3] album.

The PD frantically pressed F5 [refresh], earnestly hoping.

That the butterfly’s wings would become a storm and sweep across the country.

HY Studio’s Kang Young-min stared at the white-haired boy beyond the glass window.

At first, Kang Young-min didn’t recognize the boy who came in, greeting him casually.

His impression had changed so much.

But the more he looked, the more it seemed to suit him. He couldn’t remember the timid impression he had when he first saw him.

It’s not that he became handsome, but what should he say?

Kang Young-min pondered for five minutes and came to a conclusion.

He was strangely noticeable.

If you put a handsome celebrity next to him, you would naturally look at the celebrity first, but soon your gaze would be fixed on Halo.

It’s not just because his hair color is unique.

What should he say? It felt like the world was shining a spotlight on that child, even though this wasn’t a stage. The saying that stars are born was realized with just that child.

Especially when he sang, he felt like the main character in a movie or drama.

Well, regardless of the atmosphere or appearance.

With singing skills like this, he can’t help but become popular. Whatever his appearance, it would just be called charm.

“How is it?”

Halo came out of the recording studio.

As always, confidently.

Halo smiled crookedly when he noticed the dazed look on his face.

“Don’t tell me you were doing something else?”

As if asking, ‘How dare you with my song?’

Kang Young-min shook his head.

“Of course, I listened.”

Did he just listen?

To the point of being sick of it. No, not sick of it, he just listened to it all day.

When he received the MR [music recorded without vocals] in advance by email and opened the music.

He knew he would do well because he had basically shown it. But when he came to his senses, he was listening to it on an infinite loop.

To be honest. This album was perfect for his taste.

The struggle drains your energy when you listen to it, but the songs on ‘Again, Spring’ have a bright atmosphere and the melody is in major key. You could say it’s more popular.

It was easy on the ears, so as he kept listening, he reached the point where the MR was lingering in his ears.

How can you make a song like this?

Following ballads and desperate, combative rock and roll, British pop. The variations don’t make sense, but what is the quality of the song?

It’s like stuffing the talents of people who have shown prominence in each genre into one body.

Now, it can only be seen as ‘outside the category.’

What’s even harder to believe is that he churned out songs that someone couldn’t do even with a lifetime of effort in just one month like a factory.

‘There is one more song made like that···.’

Suddenly, there was one more thing that came to mind.

“I saw Show Your Show. The student friend who came last time is number 56, right?”

He couldn’t watch it because the dawn flew away because of someone, but he watched it as a clip. Kang Young-min opened YouTube as he thought of it.

“The reaction is unusual. Especially the student’s song.”

It was good when recording, but it was different when he saw it on a large screen. With good sound and added directing, it felt like the broadcast was made for that song.

Even ruining the previous stage was a great production.

He was worried because he thought it was real, but he knew it was a production when he saw number 56 change.

Kang Young-min praised the stage and the song, not thinking that they showed a real mistake on the broadcast.

Halo smiled softly.

Rather than being particularly excited, he seemed to be taking it for granted. It’s like he’s saying, ‘I knew you guys would like my song’ or ‘It’s my song.’

“Your friend must be very busy. Do you keep in touch?”

“Yes, well.”

“Is he doing well? He must be busy filming these days. It must be difficult too. Filming isn’t easy.”

He doesn’t know about keeping in touch, but just yesterday.

They ate chicken together and watched the first episode of Show Your Show.

He watched it intently, maybe because he liked his appearance. Unlike when he was worried about being edited out, he had a thoughtful look on his face.

‘Is he doing well?’

Halo recalled when Jang Jin-soo went home.

He acted like he had something to say.

So he asked first.

-Is something wrong?

-That···.

He seemed to have something to say.

But Jang Jin-soo pondered for a long time, and eventually

-No.

He just said that.

Halo wondered what to say because Jang Jin-soo said it solemnly with his fist clenched.

-Hey, Noh Hae-il. You know.

-Why.

-That, you don’t have to help me anymore.

I have no intention of helping.

But he couldn’t say that because Jang Jin-soo’s face was quite serious.

-I was going to ask you to make one more song if I won the bet, but I lost anyway.

-···.

-Even if I received that song and did well, I don’t know if I did well on my own. Of course, there’s no guarantee that your song will always do well.

-So this time. I’ll try to do it myself, even if it’s hard.

There was something he wanted to refute for a moment, but Halo didn’t open his mouth. Somehow, he felt like he shouldn’t interfere.

As a senior in the industry. Or as an adult who has lived a little longer. He only knew the fragmentary information that Jang Jin-soo had experienced and felt a lot on the set.

-Okay.

Jang Jin-soo nodded at the short answer and got on the elevator. Then he waved his hand with a brighter face.

He seemed to have seen a lot.

Halo recalled that memory and chuckled.

“He’s doing well.”

The white hair moves away.

Kang Young-min, who had been staring blankly at the white hair, returned to his computer.

When he looked at the clock, it was 12:22.

It was time to eat lunch, but strangely, he wasn’t hungry.

Was it because his hunger was already filled with something else?

Kang Young-min put on his headphones and listened to the recording.

There was almost nothing he could touch.

There is a search page for ‘Show Your Show’ on the computer. He searched for it earlier and left it as it was.

Kang Young-min was about to close the search window but stopped.

“Oh.”

Since the first episode of Show Your Show, which started at 9 p.m. last night, ended, articles, blogs, and even related search terms were buzzing.

If there were real-time search terms like a dozen years ago, Show Your Show would have occupied up to 10th place.

That’s how hot the interest was.

[Is there a special screening for Show Your Show?]

[‘Show Your Show’ Episode 1… Smooth start with an average viewership rating of 2.3% and a peak viewership rating of 3.1%]

Kang Young-min glanced at the articles and was startled when he saw the official article at the top.

[‘Show Your Show’ production team makes a big decision, releases support song as a soundtrack]

“Soundtrack?”

Kang Young-min entered the PC Watermelon application and searched for the soundtrack. The first song that came to mind was [Show by show]. Above all else, it was ‘that song’ mentioned in the article.

“Really··· the soundtrack has been released?!”

It felt like two big bombs had exploded.

Once when JJ showed a surprise stage yesterday.

And when someone said that the soundtrack seemed to have been uploaded around 12:01.

[Can someone put Show by Show on the banned words list?]

Someone protested that the firepower of number 56 and that song ‘Show by Show’ was so hot.

[Is this a self-composed song made by a middle schooler? Is this a self-composed song made by a middle schooler? Is this a self-composed song made by a middle schooler?]

[Wow, the kid made a lot of mistakes at first, so my girlfriend and I were cursing at how he got in, but if he made Show by Show, he should be picked (669 dislikes)]

[Producer Hwang Je-il’s facial expression changes.jpg]

[Isn’t the middle schooler who sang Show by Show quite handsome? He’ll be really popular when he grows up]

└ Jin-soo?

└ Is 56’s real name Jin-soo?

└ Yeah, Jang Jin-soo. Jin-soo raps a bit.

[I’m majoring in composition at a music college, but Show by Show is absolutely]

That middle schooler’s song is not self-composed

Looking at the structure of the song, it’s definitely a professional

An acquaintance (a composer already working in the industry) also said that someone definitely touched it

He is a professional who can accurately understand and design popularity. There are not many such people, so if you look for them, you will probably find them. At least in their 30s, in the top ten in the industry

If you take apart the chords (see more)

Following the ending of the trailer, the impact of the ending of episode 1 was great.

Show Your Show enthusiasts, who had been picking apart everything from the judges to the contestants, were now only talking about Show by Show and number 56 (JJ).

The interest was so great that the writings of other participants or fans’ protests were buried.

Then, someone posted a post.

[Hey, Show by Show is on Watermelon now?]

└ Liar

└ Ignore the troll

Everyone ignored it because it was a topic they had been desperately searching for for a week and had been rejected.

But as one more post came up, people started to stick their heads out one by one.

‘Could it be?’

And finally, someone posted the soundtrack address that appeared on Watermelon [Korean music streaming service]. At that moment, the server crashed.

The door burst open.

Kim Kyung-jin came in with an awkward face.

He was the manager of P-R Label, Gil La-on.

“You called me, CEO?”

Kim Kyung-jin approached Samjang, the CEO of P-R Label. He watched closely to see what he was doing, and it was the Watermelon chart.

From 1st to 10th place. All the songs he had heard were still occupying the chart. For a while, he thought that chart would never change.

“La-on’s song was also uploaded today, right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Kim Kyung-jin replied as if it were something new.

As Gil La-on’s guardian, Kim Kyung-jin participated in the meeting, and Samjang also received a report.

Both of them knew that La-on’s song would be uploaded to Watermelon and music streaming services today.

Kim Kyung-jin was even monitoring the chart until Samjang called him.

“How does it look?”

Since becoming the CEO, Samjang has often asked employees about trends and opinions. Kim Kyung-jin had been asked questions several times, so he answered without hesitation.

“I think it will be difficult.”

“Why? Is La-on’s song bad?”

“No, La-on’s song is always good. But, you know.”

The chart is full right now.

It’s not just that the chart is full of soundtracks.

Formidable competitors, such as veteran singers, trot [Korean traditional pop music] emperors, soundtrack queens, and idol album tracks, were decorating the chart.

Gil La-on has just debuted on the show, and he has only appeared for a few minutes in episode 1.

The genre shown in Show Your Show, which focuses on the 1535 generation [people in their mid-teens to mid-thirties], is a smooth ballad.

I think he showed a good performance, but now that he has lost all the impact.

Kim Kyung-jin honestly thought that it would be great if he could get into the top 100. If he did, he would once again realize Gil La-on’s genius. They did not forget that Gil La-on was a diamond in the rough. A rough stone that needs to be carefully polished in the future.

Samjang was silent for a while.

Kim Kyung-jin cautiously opened his mouth.

“Can I go down now [leave]?”

“No, stay here. Then what about this song?”

“That···.”

Why are you asking me this?

Gil La-on and Samjang both asked difficult questions.

It would be a bit much if he, who evaluated that Gil La-on’s song would be difficult to get into the top 100, rated the competitor’s song higher.

Kim Kyung-jin looked around and answered.

“I think it will get into the top 100.”

Looking at the unusual public opinion, it will definitely go into the top 100. Samjang smiled slightly at the timid answer.

Kim Kyung-jin looked around even more at the sound of his laughter.

“But it will take some time. Because he’s unknown.”

The competition is fierce right now.

The reason he said 23rd place before was because he didn’t know the chart would be like this. The situation is completely different from two weeks ago.

At that time, it was a so-called empty house [lack of competition].

Now, as if it’s not the end of the year, Christmas arrangements, new songs, and covers are pouring out.

Just like the theater district is crowded in December.

“Really? Then how long do you think it will take?”

It’s a difficult question.

I always think that if I knew this, I would have made a lot of money and lived in Yeouido [affluent area in Seoul], whether I was doing Bitcoin or stocks.

“It’s okay to be wrong, so tell me.”

Samjang urged.

There are many things to think about, but his CEO has very little patience.

The point in time when soundtrack queen Liv’s Christmas carol.

The ballad album of a veteran singer and the regular album of a mid-sized idol group were released.

Kim Kyung-jin considered that Watermelon chart’s calculation method combines the usage in the last 24 hours and the usage in the last 1 hour by half.

“Because the song is good, about 1 or 2 weeks?”

Kim Kyung-jin looked at Samjang’s expression.

He couldn’t figure out what he was thinking.

“Can I go out now?”

Looking around, Kim Kyung-jin expressed his desire to leave. No answer is heard.

Kim Kyung-jin accepted it as positive and stepped back.