Damn Idol Episode 108

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Filming cameras began to be installed in LB Studio.

This has happened quite often recently.

In the meantime, filming for Coming Up Next took place quite frequently at LB Studio.

However, today was not a filming conducted at a broadcasting station, but a filming conducted over three months.

To be precise, this is the work carried out by Create X, hired by Sedalbaekil.

For reference, Lee Hyun-seok received permission from Han Si-on to broadcast today's recording scene on his personal broadcast.

It is clear that viewers will like it if it is told with a side story.

Lee Hyun-seok looked at the members of Sedalbaekil who were flexing their necks while thinking about that.

'I'm saying I'm doing better than I thought.'

When I started fighting with Ryan Entertainment, I thought I would be ruined from the industry.

So I thought I should help, but that's not the case at all.

The only thing Lee Hyun-seok helped me with was giving me a studio before I could find accommodation and a practice room.

Or did you quickly get the equipment needed to set up a practice room through your personal connections?

Other than that, everything was accomplished self-made over the course of three months.

However, it is surprising that great results are being achieved.

At this point, in Lee Hyun-seok's eyes, Sedalbaekil seemed more like an indie band than an idol.

As people misunderstand, there is no law that says indie bands should be called non-mainstream bands.

All it has to do is be independent from capital, as the word independent means.

Moreover, it may be impossible to become completely independent in a capitalist society.

So, to put it more realistically, it means that even if you belong to a company, you have ownership over your own music.

In that sense, Sedalbaekil is a proper independent.

'Because K-pop has now become a type of music genre... … . 'Is this an indie band that does K-pop?'

It's a strange word, but I don't think there is anything that can express the three months and one hundred days better than this.

Moreover, in Western countries, the word 'boy band' is used more often than 'boy group'.

If Sedalbaekil were to achieve success like this, they could become the most successful indie band in Korean music history.

However, Lee Hyun-seok was a person who lacked business sense.

So, I didn't realize how big an opportunity I had and how foolishly I missed it.

In the show business industry, there was a lot of talk about the golden time of the three months.

In particular, Choi Dae-ho, who was very attentive, was the most embarrassed.

But no matter how they looked from the outside, Sedalbaekil paid no attention.

For the past week, their attention has been solely focused on recording Resume's music.

"Three months and one hundred days, you can start working now."

Han Si-on nodded at the words of the studio staff who had finished installing the filming equipment.

And then Lee Ion was pushed into the recording booth.

'huh? From Ion?'

It is common knowledge that Koo Tae-hwan is responsible for the introduction of the 3 Months and 100 Days Crew.

But, there is no law that the recording order necessarily matches the order of the verses.

With that in mind, Lee Hyun-seok crouched down somewhere among the staff so as not to interfere with the recording.

In fact, he told Han Si-on that he would help with directing.

However, I was rejected by saying that I would try it myself.

I wasn't disappointed, but I thought it was a bit ambiguous.

Of course, Han Si-on proved his recording ability.

We started under the streetlight and finished most of the song in two takes.

The longest recording that Lee Hyun-seok remembers was less than an hour.

However, recording yourself and helping others record are completely different things.

It's not about me doing it, it's about leading others in the desired direction.

This is especially difficult for geniuses like Han Si-on who can do everything with ease.

It is impossible to teach people who cannot breathe how to move their diaphragm.

That's something you can do naturally from the moment you're born.

In Lee Hyun-seok's view, for Han Si-on, music was just like breathing.

'If a problem arises, step forward, right?'

At that time, Ion Lee, who was in the recording booth, finished adjusting the vocal sound.

Recording begins.

However, something very strange caught Lee Hyun-seok's eyes.

Lee Ion was not listening to the beat.

At first, I thought it was a mistake, but looking at Han Si-on's attitude, I think it wasn't.

So Lee Ion started singing unaccompanied without listening to the beat.

Woo - hello

a little, quickly

start the day

refreshing morning

I don't know how much practice I had to do, but the beat is so perfect that it feels like a metronome has been turned on.

However, what surprised Lee Hyun-seok was not the beat, but Lee Ion's voice.

It's something different from the past.

'Has the tone changed?'

But that's not it.

The tone cannot be corrected in a short period of time, and Lee Ion's tone is a bit unusual.

Rather… … .

'Is the sound pressure different?'

The sound pressure seems to be different.

It seems as if the video that was at 720p resolution has been upgraded to 1080p resolution.

Maybe even more than that.

Clear and clear.

However, the pronunciation is not hard and has a soft feel.

Unlike English, Korean has fewer consonants and more sibilant sounds.

Of course that's not a bad thing.

Because it's just different.

However, there are certainly cases where the feeling given by language is different from the feeling required for a specific genre.

In bedroom pop, a round and fuzzy feeling is important.

It's not an easy task in Korean, but Lee Ion did it well.

Not slurring your pronunciation, but using accurate pronunciation that is easy to hear.

'How did they do it?'

The sound became clearer, the feeling it gave became clearer, and the pronunciation became more accurate.

If you look at it one by one, it is not a huge change.

However, this is not a change that can be made all at once.

In most cases, when you correct your pronunciation, the sound loses its feel, and when you try to make it clear, the sound becomes hard.

It feels like Lee Ion's vocal tier has risen a few notches.

Lee Hyun-seok was impressed, but today's director, Han Si-on, was not.

"I'm coming again. "Do it right, bro."

Do it right?

What level of sound do you want?

However, as the recording continued, I realized that what Si On Han said was correct.

Because Lee Ion could have done it better.

Two hours passed, and the recording of two perfect bars was completed.

Lee Hyun-seok didn't know this, but Lee Ion had to go into the bathroom during Resume's live performance.

It wasn't an attempt to show off the live performance, nor was it an attempt to enhance the sense of realism.

It was just a device to neutralize Lee Ion's uncomfortable tone.

But this time there was no need for that.

"next. Koo Tae-hwan."

Koo Tae-hwan also didn't listen to the beat.

What he heard was Lee Ion's recorded voice.

"It has to be subtly lower than Ion's emotions."

"I'll try."

Lee Hyun-seok does not hesitate to choose Elton John as the singer with the best sense of rhythm in the world.

Elton John is a singer who has achieved great success in popular music history.

There is no need to mention other indicators.

The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Elton John.

Album sales ranking of all singers.

In terms of album sales, the singer who has ranked fourth since the beginning of the history of popular music is Elton John.

But as for whether he has the best singing ability, that's not true.

There's no denying that she sings well, but she doesn't have the singing ability to sell more than 300 million albums as a solo singer.

Elton John had two weapons.

Sense of tone and rhythm.

If we say that voice is something one is born with, his sense of rhythm was truly strange.

It's definitely a song that's written the same way on the sheet music, but it's completely different when you listen to it.

It is a method that cannot and should not be imitated.

But now Koo Tae-hwan smells like Elton John.

Of course, Koo Tae-hwan was not close to Elton John.

But at least it tastes good.

The emphasis on the first beat is disrupted by a pianissimo that you don't know when it started, and then it suddenly bursts out, completing the auditory pleasure.

Lee Hyun-seok could not bear it any longer and approached Han Si-ion and asked.

"Elton John?"

"Ah yes. Can you feel it?"

"How did you follow that? "Isn't that what you do?"

"I didn't copy it, I just used it as a motif."

"So how?"

Han Si-on tilted his head.

"You just have to feel it, right? "Even if you can't imitate the tone, you can still create the feeling."

"… … ."

This is why geniuses are the problem.

It's easy to do, but I can't explain it.

'But how did you train? 'You can't even explain it properly?'

Actually, this was a misunderstanding on Lee Hyun-seok's part.

Si On Han just pretended to be a genius because he was too lazy to explain.

Because he is not a natural genius.

Koo Tae-hwan's recording was finished much faster than Lee Ion's.

Lee Hyun-seok was now excited.

How would Choi Jae-sung and On Sae-mi change?

Just talking about the results, Jaesung Choi improved his specifications.

It's not that any particular part has improved significantly.

However, overall, upward leveling was achieved in all areas.

This makes no more sense.

There is no trainer who can teach something like that.

It's something that can only be learned over time, so I don't know what kind of magic Han Sion used.

On the other hand, Onsaemiro made me tilt my head at first.

When I sang the song, it stayed the same without much change.

But as I got into the high notes part, I realized something.

Unlike other members, Onsaemi only refined his high notes.

Meanwhile, Onsaemi went back and forth between expressiveness and singing ability like a seesaw.

If you put 70 in your expressiveness, your singing ability becomes 30, and if you put 70 in your singing ability, your expressiveness becomes 30.

But it's different now.

Both are over 70 points.

As she entered the high notes part, she made an ecstatic sound and showed off her singing ability.

It makes me wonder what will happen when that score reaches 100.

At that time, Lee Hyun-seok suddenly had an idea.

'Aren't the members now of similar skill level to Han Si-on?'

Of course, if you look at it one by one, Hansion will do better.

Detailed and highly complete.

However, you may not feel much of a surprise in Han Si-on's song.

Because I'm not very impressed when people who are normally good at things do well.

but… … .

"I was crazy."

It's just another level.

Perhaps Han Si-on may have been able to balance the team so far.

If you go crazy alone, it could cause problems for the team.

So, I sang while keeping the line... … .

I don't know what happened, but the members' level increased tremendously.

So the temperature rose at one hour.

I couldn't help but think this way.

At that time, the director of Create

"It's really amazing. Are all other singers like this on set?"

"That can't be right."

"Will this skill be reflected in the music?"

Lee Hyun-seok laughed at the director's words.

These are not the days of sharing music via floppy disks, so what kind of question are you asking?

Excluding the tasteful aspects of analog sound, today's digital sound sources are of much higher quality than LPs of the past.

"Of course it will be included."

"But why can't other singers record it?"

"I think there's some misunderstanding, but what you're seeing right now is something other singers can't do."

The moment I said that, my heart started pounding.

What on earth will happen when this music is released?

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The recording, which lasted 14 hours, has come to an end.

There was still some mixing and mastering to do, but in my head it was already done.

I can guess the final sound.

All that's left is to do it by hand.

The members were looking at me even though they were exhausted from the long recording session.

I opened my mouth and satisfied their curiosity.

"… … 70 points."

My friends clenched their fists.