Chapter 23

Chapter 23

A little later, Moon Gayoung’s stage ended, and naturally the school festival also finished.

Through the camera installed at the main gate the students who enjoyed the festival exit, and finally the school’s lights one by one turn off.

Moon Gayoung standing between that lights-off background looked a bit happy, and a bit lonely.

Over that Moon Gayoung’s voice is overlaid.

-To others it would be an ordinary, in some ways insignificant high school festival...

-To me it’s a place like a treasure I properly couldn’t have.

Following Moon Gayoung who smiled brightly leaves with the lights-off Jeongun High as background and Star Observation Cam ended.

<​Cheering all youths’ challenge toward the dream!>

Together with the extremely public wave variety-like closing subtitle.

Is there need to put that subtitle?

The picture was good so leave as aftertaste.

“Our grandson is...”

As soon as the broadcast ended looking at Grandma holding the phone and calling someone I was briefly immersed in thought.

This episode was unofficial but Moon Gayoung and Oktap’s twin protagonist system.

Of course if calculating by broadcast amount comparison doesn’t work.

Moon Gayoung came out about 70%, we came out about 20%.

The remaining 10% were external figures like practical music academy students, Yoo Yeongeun, homeroom teacher, Jeongun High students.

But more important than broadcast amount is the volume of the narrative.

So in audition programs cases of rising to stardom at once with 2~3 minute short scenes arise.

So viewing this broadcast as Moon Gayoung and Oktap’s twin system is reasonable.

This wouldn’t be only visible to my eyes.

Actual broadcast amount is a little over 15 minutes, but viewers will have the feeling that only Oktap came out throughout the broadcast.

Honestly this is a quite complicated problem.

Because genius marketing and selling-in marketing have to be carefully proceeded.

Ziiing-

-Kim Jihu

As soon as the broadcast ended looking at the call that came I grinned.

Probably clever Kim Jihu unlike thoughtless Heo Junseong would have felt that this variety is not only advantageous to us.

But it didn’t matter.

“Yeah, Kim Jihu.”

Because all these things are in the end the first step that will make Oktap a nationwide band.

* * *

Star Observation Cam’s Moon Gayoung episode was scheduled as total 3 parts, and what aired yesterday was part 2.

Part 1 had no particular reaction.

Average viewership too, momentary viewership was low, and didn’t create particular buzz amount either.

Just enough to turn on and watch, but an episode with nothing remaining in the viewers’ heads.

But part 2’s reaction was hot.

Very positive direction.

-While watching, the high school days with many dreams came to mind.

-Watched together with daughter, after ending asked. Do you have something you seriously want to do. Yesterday came to know daughter’s dream for the first time!

└What is daughter’s dream?

└3rd generation chaebol who does nothing and plays and eats.

└Daughter is wise.

└How can 3rd generation become chaebol when 2nd generation isn’t chaebol?

└Just asking with romance and going what~

Most observation varieties’ weakness was that while watching the star’s flashy life viewers feel relative deprivation.

But Moon Gayoung’s part 2 the protagonist was not actress Moon Gayoung, but 18 year old girl Moon Gayoung.

Thanks to that viewers immersed in the program without discomfort, and could feel quite big interest.

Of course.

-Look at doing poverty cosplay lol

-Anyway that composition fee or training cost is obvious all covered by the agency.

-So aren’t you sorry looking at the practical music academy kids? Those guys are the real hopeless head-butting youth.

People who appeal discomfort exist anywhere, but the number wasn’t that many.

Compared to the overall reaction only a handful.

But Oktap was different.

-Oktap? These friends really seem like born musicians ^^...

-While watching cheered a lot.

-Young friends how well they sang, my heart was pierced open.

-The future of Republic of Korea band is bright!

-Looking it up these friends do busking at Banwol Park every week. Made time on weekend and watched with husband. Really many people?

-How many were there?

-Seems like about 100 people. Originally about 50 come.

Clearly looking at overall public opinion there were many positive talks about Oktap.

Especially response was good from middle-aged and older who are fixed viewers of public wave variety.

But if looking deeply a bit different.

-Why does Oktap or something come out this long?

└Good-looking though

└Acknowledged seems like gathered celebrities

-Gathered celebrity aspirants you idiots lol

-Season nth genius appeal person appeared. I’ll bet my wrist that that isn’t those high schoolers’ song.

-Lolol I’m a person who does music and while watching the directing laughed and sprayed water.

└Why?

└Lol just the broadcast concept is too obviously visible. Who is modifying track while watching directing and playing guitar?

└If good can do right?

└Originally impossible. To go real have to stay up about two nights in the recording room.

└Then is it all directed?

└Yeah I’ll also bet my wrist that filmed about 10 takes to do that.

-100% same agency as Moon Gayoung.

└Yeah

-Looking carefully the festival video also seems post-correction entered? Guitar playing and melody strangely don’t match?

└Not hand sync?

└Lol fuck idol bands are always like that what

First was the crime of daring to appeal genius.

Because anyone looking the variety was in the midst of overrating Oktap.

Even if that has no relation to Oktap’s will, the public was not a group that cares about such things.

-Selling in to Moon Gayoung was a bit disgusting. If selling in then sell confidently. Obvious same rice bowl, pretending real lol

-No did the PD bastard receive money? Wasn’t this Star Observation Cam? Did the program change to Indie Observation Cam?

└TM probably poked some money.

-Only Moon Gayoung was pitiful. All spotlights were stolen by Oktap. Seemed to be working hard.

-While watching variety got angry and couldn’t endure. Was keeping the live broadcast because Gayoung unnie comes out, feeling scammed...

Second was the selling-in controversy.

To be precise the public isn’t that sensitive to selling-in.

Ordinary person friends coming out on Star Observation Cam isn’t a rare thing either.

But when Moon Gayoung’s fans stepped forward and manipulated public opinion, reactions of the public also seeming so arose.

And the last was...

-Did you watch Star Cam? Some fucking idol band came out.

-Before making some hip-hop whatever girl group this time boy idol band?

└Band idol originally existed too all failed that’s why

└While can’t even properly run why keep stealing band concept?

-Ah really no roots at all

The band scene’s rejection.

At a glance it might be regarded a bit strangely.

2017 is the period when the band scene died.

Players who rose above the surface went extinct, and the money circulating in the industry dried up.

So if in any way a band player goes viral it seems fans would like, but in reality it wasn’t.

Because of the characteristic bone marrow fans of minor culture have.

Originally the more minor culture fans the more anger, and many unwritten rules to strictly and solemnly keep.

Because excluding pride there was no pillar to support the scene.

What showed a similar appearance was the past hip-hop scene.

Before hip-hop became popular with Show Me the Money just a rapper doing a sweet love song became a target of criticism.

An behavior ordinary public can’t understand, but to those who supported the scene with only a handful of personnel it was an important problem.

The focus Oktap is criticized was also this.

That they love band music is because of the roots contained in the music, and because of the pride of loving the roots.

So what they want is the scene flourishing with ‘orthodox music’, not sucking the scene’s image with ‘fake music’.

-Watched outright doing viral?

-Viral okay, taking band culture also a hundred concessions okay just fakes earning money in their area. But why is Kang Min there?

└Really thought I saw wrong

└Like this again talent is stolen to the idol board

└Kang Min really thought wouldn’t do that

└So the band scene is fucking ruined

-Ones who haven’t even rolled the indie scene coming out from broadcast right away band whatever

└But isn’t the music good?

└If the music quality of kids the agency is trying to debut is good then would it be bad? How much money would have gone in.

└Ah? Acknowledged

-If debut band whatever rock whatever will pretend real and go crazy?

└Ah fucking hate

└Lololol ah vomit comes

└‘From the bottom’

└Ah bottom whatever lol

Like that Oktap’s name started slowly spreading here and there.

* * *

“Did you think up to here?”

“Roughly. But didn’t know it would be this hot-blooded.”

“I lost.”

Kim Jihu readily nodded.

It was talk about the bet done a few months ago.

About whether Oktap would be cursed in the nationwide band scene within two months or not, betting the wish ticket.

“What’s the wish?”

“I’ll use that slowly. Soon something to use will arise.”

“Scary, Seoha-kun. Too black curtain’s lines.”

Naturally ignoring Kang Min’s words, Lee Doyoung spoke.

“But is getting cursed necessarily such a good thing?”

About marketing directionality we already conversed once.

“We can make all indie scene fans curse us.”

“Curse? Why curse us?”

“Saying rootless idol band. But if such noise comes I won’t explain. I’ll gladly utilize it.”

“Why?”

“Because even wanting to curse they’ll listen to our music more. No matter what we do as long as the music is good it’s all good right?”

Lee Doyoung seemed to have a question whether it necessarily has to be this method.

Well, this part didn’t explain in detail.

“First, this is a curse we’ll eat anyway.”

“Huh?”

“When we appear in the band scene it’s a thing that will happen anyway. The scale will be a bit small though.”

“How do you know that?”

The Oktap of the original history did music much worse than now, but there was something unchanging.

Exactly looks and age.

In the past life, briefly but when we appeared in the scene, existing bands as if seeing from somewhere chattered that we were agency trainees.

Building indie career that can sell memories on variety briefly, then obvious going to agency.

Even then words of why is Kang Min there were heard not rarely.

Even when I became a celebrity, there were also those who said other friends failed debut and only I succeeded.

Then that was hated to the point of shuddering, but now thoughts are different.

Those who dislike us dislike no matter what we do.

Then shouldn’t we utilize that?