Author: LyraDhani
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≫ What the hell is even happening right now?
So, PRT was acting all buddy-buddy with AO while trashing SPK, and PRT’s fans kept shielding them until they finally jumped ship, threw salt on their way out, and deleted their accounts??
└ They basically just blew up everything they’d been turning a blind eye to
└ The remaining fans are saying it’s disrespectful to the artist they once loved, but the idols were the ones who were disrespectful to the fans firstㅋㅋㅋ I totally get how those ex-fans feel
≫ Spark must have been so freaking frustrated this whole ti
The ‘didn’t greet seniors’ incident → Got trashed due to fake testimony dia play Appearing on IDC 2→ Not by choice, got dragged there by the hair, then got trashed again for supposedly making the previous season’s winner’s position awkward Concept and stage got stolen → then the issue got blurred and public opinion manipulated so only Spark fans looked oversensitive, and they got flad again for ‘acting like only they get to use youth’
└ At this point, their entire promo period is just getting unfairly screwed over
└ On a side note, it’s honestly impressive how they managed to thrive despite getting hate so regularly
└└ Their ntal strength is no joke… Except for Banana and Octopus, the others don’t seem that tough
└└└ Seeing stuff like this makes realize that for a group to last long, the eldest or the leader really needs to hold the team together. Look at AO—the oldest mber is out here doing drugs
└ It’s not a ‘miracle of a small agency’; it’s a miracle that a small agency managed to get them. UA should be grateful Spark is their idol group
≫ I seriously don’t know what Myth was thinking
Did they lose all their big-company pride? Copying Kim Pep’s one-trick bomb move and not even feeling ashad?
└ Naos are truly sothing else. Acting like they did nothing wrong and blaming it all on the ‘agency with no pride that copied a small-company junior group’;;;;
≫ Minil, if you’re that envious of UA, just change your stage na to Minil-wol and ask them to take you in.
Who knows? Maybe they’ll let you debut as Spark’s junior group
└ ???: You want to co to our company…?
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ it’s just an imagination but I can already see Spark’s awkward facesㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ That’s cruelㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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Except for a few posts saying ‘This sudden switch is disgusting’ and ‘Spark isn’t even that great’, the overall mood completely flipped.
≫ What is this, I stayed quiet and stuff just keeps floating my way
└ A gentleman’s revenge doesn’t even take ten years
Only the Sparklers, who had been sighing in relief because their boys weren’t doing drugs, were left bewildered. Once they realized the full story, the Sparklers started a festival using all sorts of party s.
“Thank goodness…”
Park Joowoo, who had just downed so calming dicine, breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn’t been able to calm down ever since he was pressured by the swarming reporters.
It was a relief he was feeling better after resting for a few days. If he hadn’t, I would have staged a one-man protest in front of the newspaper office, even if it ant getting my face plastered on the front page of internet news. I saw all the agency stickers on those caras, I knew who they were.
“What will happen to IDC?”
Kang Kiyeon asked.
“It’ll probably proceed as planned, right? No one was caught doing drugs in this season. The place identified as the ‘drug exchange hub’ was another broadcaster’s year-end stage, so that station might be the one skipping this year’s end-of-year show instead.”
For us, our nas were cleared, so we had nothing to lose. Besides, we traded our entire second-half coback for this activity. If it collapsed halfway, it’d hurt us too.
“The sunbaenims might voluntarily drop out.”
Those who knew the inside story would know the bla wasn’t only on Parthe. It was common knowledge that Parthe had been operating without much autonomy, and it was hard to believe the agency’s influence wasn’t involved.
However, the public’s perception was different. To them, it was simply: ‘So you’re saying you copied another group’s work!’ nothing more, nothing less. The public opinion they had been happily using as a shield was now blowing back as a headwind.
It’d be great if they dropped out on their own, but if they insisted on staying till the end, it would turn into a battle between agencies. I was ready to accept either outco.
*
To skip to the conclusion: Parthe did not drop out.
It seed they thought quitting the program at this point would look like an admission of guilt. Besides, their overseas votes weren’t looking too bad.
Whether it was for comparison, out of spite, or to support their bias, people watched Parthe’s videos a lot, which resulted in high view counts for their position battle fancams. Han Gawoon, who took first place in the vocal category, gave his acceptance speech with great difficulty.
“Thank you for taking good care of Seongbin.”
When I greeted Han Gawoon as he headed back to the waiting room, he gave a small smile.
Back at the dorm, I hesitated for a long while before calling out Choi Jeho.
“What?”
“There’s sothing I want to ask.”
Judging that it wouldn’t be a short conversation, Choi Jeho pulled out a chair at the dining table. I looked at him and asked,
“You know that hotel staycation you went on?”
“Yeah.”
“Did your sister like it?”
Choi Jeho’s expression changed to, ‘Why are you asking that?’.
“She liked it, I guess. Though she did nag for spending money on weird things.”
Even if he didn’t know the reason why I was asking, he answered sincerely.
“…What, you planning on going to a hotel or sothing?”
Is that the question you want to spit out after looking like you were going through fifty thousand existential crises?
I wanted to ask just how low my credibility was in his eyes, but out of gratitude for the guy who made a big decision for the team early on, I answered kindly.
“If I find my sister, I want to send her there too.”
“…”
“I heard Ms. Jukyung went with her classmates recently, so it seems like a popular thing to do. I don’t know much about that stuff, and a review from soone who’s actually been there is the most reliable. You go with your friends often, right?”
Choi Jeho, who had been slouching indifferently, straightened up. He asked for my phone, pinned a hotel location on a map app, and handed it back.
“Don’t know which floor, but they’ve got a big pool.”
“An infinity pool?”
“Dunno. My mom, noona, and Choi Miho went together, and they said it was nice.”
“Why didn’t you go?”
“In a world where dating rumors sprout just by stepping into a lobby, what kind of talk do you think would start if I went to a pool?”
Common sense actually ca out of Choi Jeho’s mouth. I was shocked.
“You’ve really beco a celebrity, haven’t you?”
“Just how much of a hopeless case do you think I am?”
Choi Jeho snapped at . Even so, he provided a detailed review by his standards.
“The bed is good. Great nap.”
“Is it noisy?”
“I was asleep, so I don’t know. Ordering food to the room was h though.”
“Why? Was it expensive?”
“No matter what you ordered, they gave you a portion the size of a fist.”
“That must have been disappointing.”
I wrote down everything Choi Jeho said in my planner without missing a single detail. He waited until I finished writing, and once I closed the planner, he left, saying he’d head out if that was all.
*
Gu Jahan sunbaenim:
[I heard so idols got caught doing drugs?]
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[Not many, just so of them.]
Gu Jahan sunbaenim:
[I heard they were people you were on a program with.]
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[We weren’t on speaking terms with them!]
After the incident settled down, I suddenly got a ssage from Gu Jahan.
Gu Jahan sunbaenim:
[Wild stuff]
[There are a lot of crazy people]
[Be careful]
For a mont, I wondered if he was doubting , but fortunately, that wasn’t it. Please, don’t make my heart drop with texts like this. I checked every ssages three tis like I was playing Bubble Pop because I never knew when or where a screenshot might start circulating.
Still, I couldn’t deny that he was looking out for in his own way, so I expressed my gratitude with a long ssage.
“Hyung, can we start the eting?”
Right after I sent the text, Jeong Seongbin gave the signal to assemble. It was ti to prepare for that headache of a departnt store performance. Given the gravity of the situation, we held an ergency strategy eting before the broadcast filming.
Despite their passion, the mbers’ complexions were sallow. It seed they had all tried to find a solution, but coming up with a counterasure wasn’t easy.
“The dedicated team narrowed down potential filming locations. They said this kind of event is more common overseas, so there aren’t many candidate departnt stores in Seoul.”
“Did they look for references globally…?”
Park Joowoo tried to phrase it kindly. From my perspective, it just looked like sloppy research. They probably watched a few outdoor performance videos and threw sothing together.
We reviewed the materials the team had gathered. After the videos finished, Kang Kiyeon spoke with a worried voice.
“If the vocal hyungs hit a high note, it feels like a piece of equipnt will tear itself apart.”
“If I shout while rapping, the mic’ll probably explode, right?”
Faced with terrible audio conditions, the guys put their heads together. Watching this, Park Joowoo opened his mouth.
“…Would it be a ‘cheat’ if we just didn’t sing at all?”
Following Lee Cheonghyeon, whose way of thinking had beco almost identical to mine, Park Joowoo had now reached the sa conclusion.
To overco a poor environnt, one of the things you must do is strip away unnecessary elents. No matter how good an orchestra is, it’s not easy to hold a concert in the middle of a traditional market. Where would you get the chairs, and where would you put the instrunt cases?
There are many causes for bad audio, but if proper audio support is difficult, it’s right to reduce the elents you need to worry about.
The MR track might skip, now imagine all six of us using handheld mics. We’d be lucky if we didn’t end up passing mics around mid-performance.
“If we’re worried about the MR cutting out, shouldn’t we be singing as much as possible? Even if the MR stops, if we keep singing, people will call it a ‘live vocal flex’ instead of a broadcast accident.”
“You can prove live vocals even without a broadcast accident. An accident is an accident. I think it’s right to minimize variables as much as possible.”
“But I don’t think we can ignore the possibility of the MR cutting out. It happens quite often.”
Jeong Seongbin said while jotting down Lee Cheonghyeon’s feedback.
“We’ll need a site visit and coordination, but… we just need to choose the equipnt with the lowest probability of failing.”
“Don’t we have to use the equipnt IDC provides?”
At Choi Jeho’s point, Kang Kiyeon nodded.
“There’s sothing better than that. Sothing easier to operate and capable of producing volu on a much larger scale.”
“What is it?”
I looked at Lee Cheonghyeon, who was ready to write, and answered.
“The departnt store’s Public Address system.”
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