Debut or Die

If you can’t debut, you’ll get a fatal disease Episode 469

“Are these guys?”

“okay.”

Big Sejin, who came after finishing his personal schedule, checked the link on his smartphone.

For reference, he had been thinking about various personal projects from performance contests to exploration entertainment, and he made a fairly unexpected choice.

[Hope Game – Choice and Reversal]

It is a death game survival reality.

This program, produced by Wetube, a public television affiliate, was not that popular, but it had a strong fan base and was a hot topic on the Internet.

-And here, too, they secretly used dice as a symbol~ Because our album is ‘Roll the Dice’, do you think it would be good to sneak a peek at the publicity?

-It just seemed like if I was active, they would write our game video for the editing video.

And, like a guy who has a good way of living and has a good brain, he is taking care of his image to the extent that he is like licorice, and then plays an active role a few times at decisive moments.

On the contrary, it seems that the character image is clearer than in the normal and popular entertainment.

They shoot two episodes at a time, but even the 6th episode they are filming now is said to be alive.

‘In the first place, I’m also a person with experience in survival.’

You will never forget that the camera is rolling and you will be coping with it.

Anyway, that’s why it also meant that I had this situation sharp enough to check as soon as a guy who would have consumed a lot of energy joined.

“T-Holic seniors and juniors… . Um, the Wonder Hall agency.”

The group name is Ether.

The teaser video of him was released.

I turned my gaze back to the smartphone where the video was playing.

“… … .”

A background of muted colors.

Slightly indented sepia tone filter and sensibility like a film camera.

The view of the lawn and smile unfolds with subtle saturation and sensibility that is not strong in highlights.

and boys.

They run and jump over countless spaces.

An old school rooftop bus stop, a junkyard, a grassy playground on a bridge with a sparkling night view… .

It was dreamy to see props from past scenes appearing or being placed in the air as if they were attached to each other.

And it seemed desolate because there were no people, but I came to a vague crossroads with a neat filter.

After a few dance cuts pass sensibly to the dreamy and fresh music.

Only the sound of singing echoes in the silence. [

To you

who haven’t jumped over and seen

the time line yet]

A boy standing on a traffic light spurs up toward the sky that is still soft in the dawn light.

The white hand covered the sky and the sunlight shone.

[Show the way

– ĭter]

The white subtitles floated on the screen without sound and ended.

“… … .”

Big Sejin confirmed it all without a word. And I checked the number of views.

million units.

“hmm.”

The boy furrowed his eyebrows and smiled.

“Would you like to hear the expert opinion first?”

“So how does our Lavin feel?”

“There are some interesting parts of the chords and instruments… .”

Not long after, the ‘expert’ among the testers who all joined started to comment on the teaser.

Rabin Kim.

He is on his way to a program that gives songs to unknown singers who are being re-examined.

Of course, the identity of the composer is not revealed at first. Singers who come up through the audition listen to the given songs for just 30 seconds, then take them away, select them, and evaluate them.

and then… It is only after it becomes your own song that you can see the identity of the composer and listen to the entire song.

-MC: The identity of the composer of the 5th song ‘Melody’ is… It was Testa Kim Rae-bin!

-Kim Rae-bin: Please take good care of me in the future… .

-Participant: Aaaaaaaaa!! ah!!

-Participant: Thank you!

-Kim Rae-bin: … ??

Even though it was a place where you could properly enjoy Testa’s name value, he himself couldn’t enjoy it at all. Only the viewers are enjoying it.

Anyway, after watching all the teasers, he made this evaluation.

“You seem to have a similar reference point for choosing auxiliary instruments for melodic development! I would like to ask you how you came to choose this way.”

“… … .”

Bae Se-jin, who had endured it quietly, could not stand it any longer and cried out.

“You followed me!”

“yes?!”

Yes.

I rubbed my chin.

“I analyzed your songs and used them as references.”

“… !”

“From what I hear, it seems to be a reference to ‘Magical Boy’ or ‘Wheel’.”

Obviously, that person, the person involved, must have found in his head a lot more other songs that are partially similar.

Seon Ah-hyun opened and closed her eyes in embarrassment.

“Ugh, come to think of it, this teaser image… .”

“okay. It feels a bit like the teaser from our debut.”

However, if you only refer to the ‘Magical Boy’ teaser, that’s not the case again.

For example, the length, editing, and composition of this teaser are rather similar to those of the ‘March’.

The color is ‘airplane’ and the prop is ‘Picnic’.

In that way, it felt like they had taken several elements from Testa’s past activities to suit their tastes, mixed them well with other good looking things, and reestablished them.

‘It’s like a puzzle.’

“… ! Did they even create a world view?”

“Of course it must have been.”

These days, it would be more difficult to find a group that does not have a worldview in the male idol world.

I found the summary through a quick search.

-Boys with superpowers who travel between the past and the future in virtual reality.

A guide to dreaming eternity.

Each of them wanders in their own youth and leaves in search of light.

Show the way – ĭter

‘Oh.’

Time trip magic dream.

Sejin Bae shook his hands.

“… This is very similar to our previous concept… !”

“To be precise, only the keywords are similar.”

I took a cold look.

“The keywords don’t completely overlap.”

Time trip is a virtual reality, magic is changed to supernatural power, and it is strangely twisted.

‘It’s a bit more modern and technological.’

It will be easy to weave and write on the fortress platform.

“Besides, they’ve got their identities right.”

“where!?”

“here.”

I picked up a group name.

-ĭter

“It means length in Latin. We took the group concept as a ‘guide’ and attached a unique image to it.”

“… … .”

From the moment the group’s name was ‘Eter’, I guess I should have expected something conceptual like this.

Anyway, Bae Se-jin muttered in a somewhat vain tone.

“then… Didn’t you follow us?”

“It’s true that I followed it, but it’s called benchmarking.”

Strictly speaking, it is not plagiarism.

“Should I say that they researched the best-selling product in the market and made their own version?”

“… … .”

Bae Se-jin sat down with a embarrassed face.

‘I understand.’

Because I’m not in a good mood either.

Looking at it, it was definitely not plagiarism because it was patched together from various references and mixed with the unique points of this agency.

however… It is also true that it is a group that would not have appeared without Testa.

‘hmm.’

And that’s what everyone felt.

Bae Se-jin eventually muttered with a slightly bitter face.

“We’re not the only ones who have to do this concept… But I guess we’ve been the only ones doing this so far.”

“… … .”

Big Sejin paused for a bit, but soon opened his mouth with a shy smile.

“Um~ Actually, there were a lot of groups like this before, right?”

“Uh huh??”

Bae Se-jin was taken aback.

But it was absolutely true.

‘It’s usually what latecomers do to put out something that works well in the market right away.’

How many teams have tried to benchmark Testa’s conceptual feel over the past few years?

There was only a crucial difference.

“But everyone just didn’t respond that fast~ So hyung passed by without knowing.”

“… … .”

“It’s actually a concept that’s hard to look good at.”

Yes.

Planning and capital.

It was this kind of conceptual image that was copied in a short period of time with a small budget and manpower and was unable to even find a way to break even down.

“Then they… .”

I answered.

“20 billion in 3 years.”

“… !!”

“I heard that a new project planning team was also established… . It must have involved a lot of manpower.”

Information obtained from hints.

therefore… planning capital manpower.

It is prepared with all three elements in place.

3 years or so.

“… … .”

There was silence for a moment.

Ryu Cheng-wu, who had been listening quietly, opened his mouth.

“then… You must have prepared properly.”

And after a while, the title song of these guys was released.

* * *

[Ready and shut go!]

Laser lights split the screen along with intense Moombahton music.

A CG screen with flashy effects, a coding screen that flicks by, and a boss raid by superpowered boys wearing goggles!

And even the dance break part that looks like a huge beast that is intensely devoured.

“wow.”

Cha Yoo-jin chewed the popcorn with a sad face.

“how is it.”

“The typical nerdy things. [Seriously, isn’t there any kind of academy in K-pop?]”

Cha Yoo-jin coolly sat down on the sofa, saying that video game fanatics would go wild. It was as if he had forgotten that he had made a game for his last album.

“You did too.”

“I am cool. I’m good at anything. But they didn’t do that. [immersion]?”

hmm.

I ran the music video again.

‘The appearance stats look good.’

Also, the camera work was brilliant, and the close-up shots and dynamic compositions alternated appropriately, making it look like a cut from an action game.

I don’t know what Cha Yu-jin said, but at least it didn’t look awkward.

Thanks to this, the comments have already been joined by die-hard KPOP fans.

-The boy with silver hair has perfect skin

. -They are such a perfect five-pointed star! I’m looking forward to their music broadcast stage ?

– I think Eter will be one of the biggest K-pop groups

.

“This reminds me of ‘Better me’ or ‘Drill’.”

“Nep. The dance break is the style I did when I was on my way.”

Well, if you look at it, it’s because the interval is similar.

The composition of motorcycle props and costumes reminds me of Drill, and the combat composition… The embodied closed facility atmosphere even reminds me of ‘Better me’.

Of course, since the basic concept was different, it didn’t seem like it would come to mind right away in the eyes of the general public.

‘Still, if it came to this level, people who knew would have roughly understood it.’

No matter how much we feel it better because we are the ones who made the album while doing our own production, there is no way that we were the only ones who felt this.

“this… Are you talking to the fans as well?”

“… … .”

“Park Moon-dae, just speak comfortably.”

I briefly looked at my smartphone.

“It does come out.”

“… !”

Right now, it seems to be the best comment in English.

-Am I the only one who looks like just another Testa copycat? ?

“…As expected!”

“But it’s hard to see that it’s necessarily a good thing.”

“Kuhm.”

Bae Se-jin seemed to be screaming ‘why’ at any moment, but he seemed to have endured it with years of empirical trust

. Ahyeon muttered a little cautiously, ”

… Oh, can’t that be

considered

plagiarism

?

”

Guess it’s

funny haha Only Testa has to do

something like this ! If comparing scenes, all idols must

be plagiarized and reviewed before discourse collides.

It has become a distance worth fighting for.

‘I don’t like it.

‘ ‘ If

only the other person becomes popular!’

I immediately logged on to the entertainment gossip bulletin board and skimmed through the popular posts.

[I heard that this is the visual member of Eter]

[I think of Testa, not T-Holic, the rookie of Wonder Hall]

[Eter debut Have you heard the song?]

[Wonder Hall’s male idol rookie looks like a small and medium-sized one ㅠㅠ]

Articles that swear at rookies, articles that compliment their appearance, and articles that criticize the song as good or bad or sarcastically have been posted as popular posts

. ”

Hyung,

your expression doesn’t look good.”

“…”

Liu Cheng-wu spoke

as if he were

reading aloud

. “It’s becoming a hot topic. This group.”

“…!”

“This type of controversy is the kind that can be pushed away when fans become attached to it over time. If the song and choreography are good, it’s better to click one more time unconditionally.” ”

And

then That’s right. That

‘s right

. This is just… These guys’ buzz has increased significantly.

Viral marketing.

‘X-shot’

At the same time, I felt intuition:

“They must have been aiming for this time as well.”

“Now?

” ….”

I looked up, my eyes closed. Big Sejin, the main parent, smiled bitterly and opened his mouth.

“When we are at our worst with T1… You mean?”

“… … .”

“There’s no way people in the industry didn’t know about that carda when we were struggling to become independent for a while. If you heard then… Is it almost unconditional?”

That’s the answer.

“… … that’s right.”

“… … !”

The members’ expressions changed when they understood that.

“Then we… I’m going to debut when I’m not getting along with T1… … .”

“okay.”

This is the time when Testa is weakest.

When a broadcasting station affiliate, which was firmly connected, was just abandoned, and it was easy to create a sense of distance from the public and the frequency of exposure decreased.

When it is difficult to respond to a rising star.

“Right now, we are in a state where we can’t schedule anything related to T1. Whether it’s broadcasting or WeTube.”

but.

If you are a rookie from Wonder Hall, a large agency that has already developed a close relationship with all broadcasting companies.

“But they can go anywhere.”

An unfair game had begun.