The Malicious Member is Back! - Chapter 17
“Yes. Should I also create a stage name? Oh, I never thought it was tacky….”
Because of that, I casually asked her with a shameless expression, as if I knew nothing.
Whether my strategy would work or not depended on luck, but it was far better than waiting silently for the writer to cut or giving a typical answer about creating a stage name.
Moon Yun Ha stared at me with a slow gaze, then slowly opened her mouth.
“…What kind of dragon is the ‘Yong’ character?”
“The ‘Yong’ character is ‘龍’ (dragon). It means a dragon in the spring.”
Moon Yun Ha slightly opened her mouth at my smooth answer, nodded once with her slow gaze, and replied.
“The meaning is beautiful. Cancel the word ‘tacky.’ I’ll look forward to your stage. I’m expecting good things.”
Her response was like an unexpected bomb, and the atmosphere on the set relaxed.
“Wow. I also wanted to ask about your unique name, but I didn’t expect Mentor Moon Yun Ha to talk about it so directly.”
“Chunyong! You’re so sweet. I feel like I might know why you don’t want to use a stage name?”
MC Choi Gaon smiled subtly, and Na Ji Hyuk, who alternated between looking at Moon Yun Ha and me with a stiff body, seemed to relax as well.
“…..”
While there was no reaction from Min Si Young Seonbae and Jin Dasol, this was successful enough.
In this unexpected situation eliciting a not-so-bad reaction from Moon Yun Ha and Na Ji-hyuk meant there was enough hope.
…Since I had something else prepared.
“Yes, yes! I look forward to the confident and dignified Kim Chunyong’s stage. I’ll lead you this way now.”
Following the MC’s lead, I slowly moved to the center of the stage, and thought the message X sent yesterday.
– X: Are you seriously going to practice and go on stage like that? ;;
– X: When I saw your stats, the best idol in K-pop history is like… you can’t even debut. Yeah, yeah.
– X: Do you know that if you go back, it’s when you were arrested? Can you handle it? In my opinion, no.
X was right, no matter how much I practiced and acted out all day, I couldn’t get back all my old stats. In the first place, those stats were mine as a 7-year veteran idol, so catching up with seven years of time in just a week was impossible.
‘Seriously! Why can’t I do this properly?!’
Maybe it was due to the mental and physical discrepancy in this tense situation, but my original skills wouldn’t be able to shine through at this time.
I had no choice but to choose a strategy of my own, but whether it would work or not wouldn’t be known until the end of the stage.
… It was an attempt that I couldn’t have tried or even thought about seven years ago.
“Good luck!”
I cleared my throat and the accompaniment of the song that I had been hearing for the past few days started flowing.
* * *
Whistle sounds echoed throughout the entire studio.
‘…Oh.’
Recognizing the song immediately, Na Ji Hyuk nodded and began to groove with the beat.
”The Sunshine behind me,” one of the double titles of the second album of five-member male idol Exolity, released three years ago.
It was a song that was more popular than the other titles due to the various voices of the members of Exolity and their musical stage composition.
“I’ve watched it a few times, thinking I might use it as a reference for my own festival set, but now I see it on a survival program.
Kim Chunyong bounced on his toes to match the beat, and began singing in earnest.
“Sometimes, I
Felt like I was alone in the darkness
Because I didn’t know you were behind me.”
Kim Chunyong’s vocal tone was unique.
His husky voice, which seemed to crack slightly, was unobtrusive and easy on the ears.
While he couldn’t be considered a main vocalist who excelled in singing, he had a vocal style that could shine better when mixed with others.
With a heavy bass and falsetto highs, it was the kind of voice that could only be perfected with the members.
“A touch that caresses me
The frozen steps start to run again
Cuz You’re the sunshine behind me”
In addition, his diction was really good, although Na Ji Hyuk felt it when he talked back to Moon Yun Ha earlier.
For a singer, lyric delivery is one of the most important qualities.
Moreover, Kim Chunyong’s tone seemed to suit not only singing but also rapping.
Na Ji Hyuk thought, ‘It’s good. It’s a song that can show your vocal range without overdoing it. Have you practiced it for a long time?’
However, despite his approving smile at Kim Chunyong singing passionately, soon had to return to a serious expression.
It seemed like Kim Chunyong, who chose a song where his vocal color stood out, had a fatal problem with his performance of “The Sunshine behind me.”
‘…This song isn’t danceable.’
