Ye
Debut or Die - 285
I heard the most unexpected... No, I heard the exact opposite of what I had expected."Do I need help?"So he's not trying to argue why the facts don't fit at all, he's asking because he's concerned about what's wrong with me?"Did he asked that to create an atmosphere?"Isn't that bait thrown out to hear a more detailed explanation? I raised my head to read Ryu CheongWoo's expression.And I immediately erased that idea. His face had no sign to suggest that.Yes, he is not that kind of person.That's what he said because he really wants to help me.- ... Huuh.... I'm surprised."I didn't expect to hear him talk about help in this situation."It seems that CheongWoo kept thinking that he owed me a lot since the car accident happened until today."I didn't take that into consideration."Come to think of it, I had told him myself that he could still be "grateful" for that.I remembered what I said to CheongWoo, who seemed to be feeling indebted to me during the desert island entertainment show.- Okay. Let's say I saved your life, hyung.- ...!- You can continue to thank me in the future. I will call you without hesitation whenever I need you, so please answer me.CheongWoo really did what I told him."... At that time, we had also gone on a hiking trip for climbing."It's kind of funny to find similar words in the same situation.- Hmm.I rested my arms on the railing and smiled bitterly.Even if the situation was fixed... it felt even stranger. Receiving a helping hand instead of more doubt...."It's too weird."It's discouraging, but it's not too bad.I responded slowly.- First of all... thank you very much.- ...- It's just like you said. It's a situation that makes me angry.- That's not right.CheongWoo replied firmly and also rested his arms comfortably on the railing.- You haven't lied or hurt me, then there's no reason for you to be angry.- ...It's amazing to believe that I haven't lied to you.I was on the verge of having strange feelings, but I escaped quickly.There is still something left to answer.- My situation is indeed difficult for me to understand or explain.... But it is not difficult enough to need help.I reflected on my situation.I have been successful with this job, and my status abnormalities are gone..... The people I live with are all good guys.I'm living decently."No, that's too much of an exaggeration."This profession is meant to take a lot of risks. And compared to sudden death, there is a context.- I've overcome all the difficulties. Now I'm just... I'm having a hard time accepting it. I'm just trying to figure out why all the contradictions you mentioned happened.I just... now I can't understand why I'm in this body and doing this, so I had to know the truth."If I don't know the cause, I'll never know when this situation will suddenly change again."CheongWoo nodded his head.- That's why you need to know the whereabouts of "Ryu GunWoo".He has a good perception.- That's right. You're already helping me with that, hyung.He smiled at me, relieved.- That's okay. I'll do my best for that, so don't worry. Anything else?- No, it's okay...Ah, I think there is something.- I have to win the Daesang this time, so please cooperate with me, hyung.Because if we win the DaeSang, I'll be rewarded with a conversation with "Park MoonDae".- What?CheongWoo looked like he was beaten and then smiled comfortably.- That's what our group should aim for.- That's true.He didn't ask me the reason for these unrelated words...perhaps he misunderstood that I said them as a joke to change the topic of conversation."Even if you misunderstand it like that, I have nothing to explain."But how can I explain...? I felt a strange sense of release when I spoke like this.The weight I felt on my shoulders was gone.- That's great. I will work harder.- Thank you very much.I smiled with him and looked at the scenery on the road. The deserted space in the middle of the mountain was quiet.- It's a little hot, but the weather is nice.- Yes.The heat was more than the comfort, but I didn't point it out.CheongWoo didn't ask any more details or reasons after that.He only checked one thing as he descended.- Ryu GunWoo's situation matches yours... It's not just a coincidence, is it?- ...Yes.- Okay.That was it. Thus ended our conversation."Isn't it frustrating?If I were him, I would have gotten upset and told him to reveal everything he knew so I would judge on my own whether I understood or not, but he kept his cool in an amazing way....Instead, Ryu CheongWoo ended the conversation by saying, "You may say no now, but if you need help in the future, feel free to tell me."But that was not all.- MoonDae-ya, can we talk more comfortably?That's what CheongWoo said while driving the car back to the apartment after getting off.- Now that I think about it, I don't think I had mentioned this when we were at the villa, but I consider it unnecessary to be so polite to me.- No, I can do that.Are you complaining?- But if I spoke too casually, it would seem too bad to people. There might be a controversy.If I had spoken to him like that since we debuted... Hmm, the critics would have brutally hit me saying, "Park Gommer ignores the leader because he won 1st place."However, CheongWoo didn't give up.- Hmm, is that so? Then how about doing it differently? Just use honorifics, but without being too formal. I think you can speak by adding the "요".- ...Do I have to?Still, part of me could guess why he was asking me that.I finally smiled and answered.- If you say so, hyung.- Haha.TN: In translation, in most cases, MoonDae talked formally with CheongWoo but without becoming too formal as he does with CheongRyu. Per se, the times when they have chatted privately and casual words have slipped out was when he was angry or frustrated, but from what CheongWoo implies, is that he often has a formal and very respectful attitude towards him. What CheongWoo wants is for them to feel closer, he is uncomfortable with that formality that seems like a barrier between the two of them. Now, in the case of "요" (yo), it doesn't mean anything special, except that it emits some formality in a middle term to a word. What MoonDae said (그러든가요) means "If you say", but between them it means more like "If you say so". By the way, CheongRyu also uses the "요" when talking to MoonDae.There was no special music playing in the car on the way back, but the silence didn't bother me.And I realized that my problem was solved."... I don't think the Summer Package controversy will ever happen again."That was how I adjusted to my new roommate.However, when one problem is solved, another one arises.* * *After the conversation with Ryu CheongWoo, it dawned as I was working on our busy schedule in preparation for the comeback.[VTIC Shin CheongRyu sunbae-nim: Don't you do exercises anymore?]He contacted me out of the blue."Why is this guy texting unnecessarily...?"[VTIC Shin CheongRyu CheongRyu sunbae-nim: (Puppy photo)]- ...I reviewed a photo of a dog excitedly walking along the apartment complex's walking path.That dog is familiar to me. To be precise, I met him while jogging in the fog at dawn."Come to think of it, I haven't taken a walk there since."If I told you, you might not believe me, but I really did forget because I had been hiking up the mountain.I wrote a similar response without adding embellishments.[I switched to a different exercise.][VTIC Shin CheongRyu sunbae-nim: I see. I contacted you because I have not been seeing you. I finished today]That means I can resume my morning walks without worrying about running into that bastard. That's good news, but I'm busy getting ready for a comeback, so I can't go out anyway...."Wait, that bastard won't be able to go out anymore?"That means...Of all the possible reasons why he wouldn't be able to come out, I threw the one that worried me the most like throwing a ball.[Are you going to get ready for a comeback?]And the ball came back fast.[VTIC Shin CheongRyu sunbae-nim: I've always been working on our album ^^]"Shit."They're going to release a comeback now. Seeing him change the theme like this, it's obvious."Since when has he been preparing it?"I shook my head quickly.This year, we came back in January. Those guys did their comeback in February.It's already the end of May... So, looking at this nuance, it means VTIC will come back around June."So they will release it after 4 months... It's the perfect time for a top-tier group to release a repackage album."Usually when you release a repackage album, sales tend to drop compared to the previous album.It's an album that comes out with only one or two songs added to the previous full album, so it's a burden for consumers to spend a lot of money because the buying advantage is small and the time frame to save is short.But 4 months is enough."There is almost no loss in releasing it after a period like this."It is almost at the level of a rookie group's normal activities, and the quality of the VTIC album is so well-known that everyone who wants to purchase it will buy it.On the other hand, what we have been working on?"It will not lose in the annual ratings."TN: He means it won't lose out on year-end awards.Since the Maginot Line, which I don't want to regret, was to do our comeback at the beginning of the third quarter, it was something we had been planning since the beginning of this year."I mean, we had to get ratings for half a year."And at the same time, this guy is confident in his repackage album.- ...It's going to be tough. I smiled bitterly."They made the same plan we did."We are also aiming for a comeback this summer for the exact same reason.- MoonDae-ssi, let's start the photo shoot right now!- Okey.I put down my smart phone and followed the staff. But my head was spinning.- Lean slightly to the front... Yes, that's perfect.And I came to a conclusion as I was having my album concept photos taken."The months in which we will do a comeback will not coincide."Because, ultimately, our comeback would be in July. If we followed the schedule we had planned, our comeback would be in June, that way we could eat deliciously one month.TN: If not understood, TeSTAR is better off doing comeback in June (if it's early Q3, they would probably do it in the last week of June, but don't forget that promotions last minimum 2-3 weeks, so it's also considered as July) and, considering the 4 months MoonDae mentioned would be more appropriate for VTIC's comeback, their date would be late July or August. The expression "eat" comes from the phrase "eat a cake". If TeSTAR had no major competition, it would eat many slices of cake and the rest would be shared to the other groups or artists who could not beat it; however, if it were to promote at the same time as VTIC, it would have to share the slices with VTIC and would eat less. Those slices of the pie actually symbolize the pie charts of percentages of achievement.But after a while, the urgent news that reached the company's emergency network was the opposite of what I expected.- ... It will be in July.- Yes, it will be. Ah...Over the phone of Ryu CheongWoo, to whom the call was made, I could hear the whining of a planning team employee who was restraining himself from cursing. I held back a sigh.Two days after I received CheongRyu's text message, articles were circulated with the news of VTIC's sudden comeback in July.[VTIC's "King of K-POP" comeback in July... Countdown to the pre-order of his album]The news came out unexpectedly and exploded.- ...Well. Come to think of it... the news was released early, about more than a month and a half early.That means if you don't want a top-tier group eating your slice of the pie, you have to avoid it on your own.b"That stings."The agency's ability to keep our information secret is terrible. Our comeback timeline must have reached T1 by now."So, do you really want us to postpone our comeback until September or take off our first-level badge and hand it over to you?"CheongRyu is doing something as dangerous as this?- Did they know that our comeback would be in July?- ... No. They probably know it as June because that's how it was mentioned in the articles we published....- ...Right.Apparently, when T1 talked about TeSTAR's activity plan while publishing presentations and stock-related articles, he seemed to have announced "June", taking into account that at that time we were planning to hold the comeback between June or July, but no exact date had been chosen."June belongs to the second quarter, so it felt different when I was organizing the planning PPT."It was a commonly used trick.And if LeTi, VTIC's agency, thought our comeback was going to be in June, maybe VTIC's comeback will be... late July.But it could be worse. The dates could coincide.- Okay, I understand.I hung up the call with a cool head and handed the phone back to CheongWoo. Anyway, I couldn't talk on the phone anymore because we were mobilizing to accomplish what we had scheduled.- Hyung, here.- Yes.That also indicates that the other members were beside me listening to the phone call.- Our dates will coincide with VTIC again, right?- Yes.- Huuh.Keun SeJin sighed and smiled bitterly. The other guys also looked nervous.And understandably so. It's a repeat of the nightmare we had when they released an album at the same time we debuted.At that time, we somehow survived and won first place, but considering we had a hard time, everyone generally feels like we lost.- Hmm~ OK!Oh, except for him.Bae Sejin interjected with a rather frustrated tone.- If it's too overwhelming, can't we do something? I think it would be fine to postpone the comeback to the end of August.- If we postpone it that long... I think we'll lose out on the end-of-year grades.If we go past the beginning of the third quarter, we will lose too much score in the year-end music awards.So, we can only aim for the Daesang for Best Album, which... will probably be won by VTIC.- ...We need to make a decision.________________________Final noteSince we are going to read about a new comeback, I will post the music references and/or music video of the previous album released by TeSTAR. These references take into account the opinion of some Korean fans and mine.
Wheel
NCT DREAM - Candle Light
Just as the lyrics of "Wheel" (chapter 271 has the lyrics corrected) indicate to turn the wheel of fortune to fly away to be able to meet you even in dreams, the lyrics of "Candle Light" ask you to blow out the candle to make a wish to be reunited with you, although I wish it was every day and not only on special dates.As for the MV, it's nice to see the guys act as if they filmed their own video many times and have to redo it due to constant mistakes, to finally pull it off successfully. Interestingly, an image of a Ferris wheel appears.
BTS - Spring DayThis song also shows in its lyrics how much one misses a loved one and longs to see him or her again, but unfortunately it is a wish that will not come true due to different factors. Unlike what Wheel conveys, this song generates sadness, remorse, guilt and desire for that person to be in a better place.Although this song was a main song just like Wheel, at first glance one would think that it is melancholic and would not be one of the most successful and loved songs by South Koreans for many years. Anyone would imagine that it would be something sad and beautiful, but it would not draw attention as well as Wheel. Truth be told, this song and MV marked the history of South Koreans due to the fact that it was released almost a year after a tragedy in their nation, the Sewol ferry shipwreck. Both the lyrics and the MV in which scenes of everyone together are shown as beautiful memories and then separated as present-day scenes convey the emotions that the families of the victims must be feeling.When I translated (chapter 261, although it has an error in the lyrics), it narrates precisely that feeling that the MV scenes conveyed.As a curious fact, in the BTS MV there is no Ferris wheel, but there is a merry-go-round that says "You never walk alone", indicating that even though that person is no longer physically by your side, he or she is always accompanying you in your dreams, thoughts or memories.
DrillCRAVITY - JUMPERThe lyrics of "Drill" are basically about enjoying going fast, carefree (and riding a motorcycle lol), so I find it quite similar to the lyrics of this song, which goes "I can jump it high, jump and fly, we are JUMPER".It's not a very complex song, just to have a good time, even its rhythm is strong, a bit heavy and gives off a bad boy vibe.
NCT 127 - LemonadeThis song has no similarity with the lyrics, as it is more of a diss song to the haters and that despite what they say or do, their life is refreshing and relaxed like drinking lemonade.And just as its message says, this song is also refreshing, relaxed, but it also has its aggressive moments in which the car or motorcycle engine roars loudly.
NCT 127 - 2 Baddies
Ok, this song should not include it as a reference as it was released in September this year (2022). Rather, I would say that the production team of the MV was based on the performance and MV narration of "Drill" in the novel.Why? A bit because of the lyrics that go "0 to 100 at top speed, nothing gets in the way, my life is a highway made for me, fill up the tank, pour that gas in me"; as well as details in the video such as the luminous paint on their clothes seen under black light, LED lights, plus that more aggressive beat and more intense bad boy feel.
Daybreak (Wheel + Drill)
NCT 2020 - RESONANCEActually, I didn't find an accurate musical reference for "Daybreak", since there are almost no official medleys of several songs. I know there are medleys in concerts, but I mean other than this song, there is no other song that is a combination of several parts of different songs to make a totally new one officially."Resonance" combines different parts of the songs "Make A Wish (Birthday Song)", "90's Love", "Work It" and "Raise The Roof", that's why it's a long and experimental song that at the beginning could shock and disorient, but after hearing it several times it sticks to the ear and you manage to enjoy it.
Because of the rhythms, I feel it fits better with Drill, but there are also some melodious parts that would remind you of Wheel.
I heard the most unexpected... No, I heard the exact opposite of what I had expected."Do I need help?"So he's not trying to argue why the facts don't fit at all, he's asking because he's concerned about what's wrong with me?"Did he asked that to create an atmosphere?"Isn't that bait thrown out to hear a more detailed explanation? I raised my head to read Ryu CheongWoo's expression.And I immediately erased that idea. His face had no sign to suggest that.Yes, he is not that kind of person.That's what he said because he really wants to help me.- ... Huuh.... I'm surprised."I didn't expect to hear him talk about help in this situation."It seems that CheongWoo kept thinking that he owed me a lot since the car accident happened until today."I didn't take that into consideration."Come to think of it, I had told him myself that he could still be "grateful" for that.I remembered what I said to CheongWoo, who seemed to be feeling indebted to me during the desert island entertainment show.- Okay. Let's say I saved your life, hyung.- ...!- You can continue to thank me in the future. I will call you without hesitation whenever I need you, so please answer me.CheongWoo really did what I told him."... At that time, we had also gone on a hiking trip for climbing."It's kind of funny to find similar words in the same situation.- Hmm.I rested my arms on the railing and smiled bitterly.Even if the situation was fixed... it felt even stranger. Receiving a helping hand instead of more doubt...."It's too weird."It's discouraging, but it's not too bad.I responded slowly.- First of all... thank you very much.- ...- It's just like you said. It's a situation that makes me angry.- That's not right.CheongWoo replied firmly and also rested his arms comfortably on the railing.- You haven't lied or hurt me, then there's no reason for you to be angry.- ...It's amazing to believe that I haven't lied to you.I was on the verge of having strange feelings, but I escaped quickly.There is still something left to answer.- My situation is indeed difficult for me to understand or explain.... But it is not difficult enough to need help.I reflected on my situation.I have been successful with this job, and my status abnormalities are gone..... The people I live with are all good guys.I'm living decently."No, that's too much of an exaggeration."This profession is meant to take a lot of risks. And compared to sudden death, there is a context.- I've overcome all the difficulties. Now I'm just... I'm having a hard time accepting it. I'm just trying to figure out why all the contradictions you mentioned happened.I just... now I can't understand why I'm in this body and doing this, so I had to know the truth."If I don't know the cause, I'll never know when this situation will suddenly change again."CheongWoo nodded his head.- That's why you need to know the whereabouts of "Ryu GunWoo".He has a good perception.- That's right. You're already helping me with that, hyung.He smiled at me, relieved.- That's okay. I'll do my best for that, so don't worry. Anything else?- No, it's okay...Ah, I think there is something.- I have to win the Daesang this time, so please cooperate with me, hyung.Because if we win the DaeSang, I'll be rewarded with a conversation with "Park MoonDae".- What?CheongWoo looked like he was beaten and then smiled comfortably.- That's what our group should aim for.- That's true.He didn't ask me the reason for these unrelated words...perhaps he misunderstood that I said them as a joke to change the topic of conversation."Even if you misunderstand it like that, I have nothing to explain."But how can I explain...? I felt a strange sense of release when I spoke like this.The weight I felt on my shoulders was gone.- That's great. I will work harder.- Thank you very much.I smiled with him and looked at the scenery on the road. The deserted space in the middle of the mountain was quiet.- It's a little hot, but the weather is nice.- Yes.The heat was more than the comfort, but I didn't point it out.CheongWoo didn't ask any more details or reasons after that.He only checked one thing as he descended.- Ryu GunWoo's situation matches yours... It's not just a coincidence, is it?- ...Yes.- Okay.That was it. Thus ended our conversation."Isn't it frustrating?If I were him, I would have gotten upset and told him to reveal everything he knew so I would judge on my own whether I understood or not, but he kept his cool in an amazing way....Instead, Ryu CheongWoo ended the conversation by saying, "You may say no now, but if you need help in the future, feel free to tell me."But that was not all.- MoonDae-ya, can we talk more comfortably?That's what CheongWoo said while driving the car back to the apartment after getting off.- Now that I think about it, I don't think I had mentioned this when we were at the villa, but I consider it unnecessary to be so polite to me.- No, I can do that.Are you complaining?- But if I spoke too casually, it would seem too bad to people. There might be a controversy.If I had spoken to him like that since we debuted... Hmm, the critics would have brutally hit me saying, "Park Gommer ignores the leader because he won 1st place."However, CheongWoo didn't give up.- Hmm, is that so? Then how about doing it differently? Just use honorifics, but without being too formal. I think you can speak by adding the "요".- ...Do I have to?Still, part of me could guess why he was asking me that.I finally smiled and answered.- If you say so, hyung.- Haha.TN: In translation, in most cases, MoonDae talked formally with CheongWoo but without becoming too formal as he does with CheongRyu. Per se, the times when they have chatted privately and casual words have slipped out was when he was angry or frustrated, but from what CheongWoo implies, is that he often has a formal and very respectful attitude towards him. What CheongWoo wants is for them to feel closer, he is uncomfortable with that formality that seems like a barrier between the two of them. Now, in the case of "요" (yo), it doesn't mean anything special, except that it emits some formality in a middle term to a word. What MoonDae said (그러든가요) means "If you say", but between them it means more like "If you say so". By the way, CheongRyu also uses the "요" when talking to MoonDae.There was no special music playing in the car on the way back, but the silence didn't bother me.And I realized that my problem was solved."... I don't think the Summer Package controversy will ever happen again."That was how I adjusted to my new roommate.However, when one problem is solved, another one arises.* * *After the conversation with Ryu CheongWoo, it dawned as I was working on our busy schedule in preparation for the comeback.[VTIC Shin CheongRyu sunbae-nim: Don't you do exercises anymore?]He contacted me out of the blue."Why is this guy texting unnecessarily...?"[VTIC Shin CheongRyu CheongRyu sunbae-nim: (Puppy photo)]- ...I reviewed a photo of a dog excitedly walking along the apartment complex's walking path.That dog is familiar to me. To be precise, I met him while jogging in the fog at dawn."Come to think of it, I haven't taken a walk there since."If I told you, you might not believe me, but I really did forget because I had been hiking up the mountain.I wrote a similar response without adding embellishments.[I switched to a different exercise.][VTIC Shin CheongRyu sunbae-nim: I see. I contacted you because I have not been seeing you. I finished today]That means I can resume my morning walks without worrying about running into that bastard. That's good news, but I'm busy getting ready for a comeback, so I can't go out anyway...."Wait, that bastard won't be able to go out anymore?"That means...Of all the possible reasons why he wouldn't be able to come out, I threw the one that worried me the most like throwing a ball.[Are you going to get ready for a comeback?]And the ball came back fast.[VTIC Shin CheongRyu sunbae-nim: I've always been working on our album ^^]"Shit."They're going to release a comeback now. Seeing him change the theme like this, it's obvious."Since when has he been preparing it?"I shook my head quickly.This year, we came back in January. Those guys did their comeback in February.It's already the end of May... So, looking at this nuance, it means VTIC will come back around June."So they will release it after 4 months... It's the perfect time for a top-tier group to release a repackage album."Usually when you release a repackage album, sales tend to drop compared to the previous album.It's an album that comes out with only one or two songs added to the previous full album, so it's a burden for consumers to spend a lot of money because the buying advantage is small and the time frame to save is short.But 4 months is enough."There is almost no loss in releasing it after a period like this."It is almost at the level of a rookie group's normal activities, and the quality of the VTIC album is so well-known that everyone who wants to purchase it will buy it.On the other hand, what we have been working on?"It will not lose in the annual ratings."TN: He means it won't lose out on year-end awards.Since the Maginot Line, which I don't want to regret, was to do our comeback at the beginning of the third quarter, it was something we had been planning since the beginning of this year."I mean, we had to get ratings for half a year."And at the same time, this guy is confident in his repackage album.- ...It's going to be tough. I smiled bitterly."They made the same plan we did."We are also aiming for a comeback this summer for the exact same reason.- MoonDae-ssi, let's start the photo shoot right now!- Okey.I put down my smart phone and followed the staff. But my head was spinning.- Lean slightly to the front... Yes, that's perfect.And I came to a conclusion as I was having my album concept photos taken."The months in which we will do a comeback will not coincide."Because, ultimately, our comeback would be in July. If we followed the schedule we had planned, our comeback would be in June, that way we could eat deliciously one month.TN: If not understood, TeSTAR is better off doing comeback in June (if it's early Q3, they would probably do it in the last week of June, but don't forget that promotions last minimum 2-3 weeks, so it's also considered as July) and, considering the 4 months MoonDae mentioned would be more appropriate for VTIC's comeback, their date would be late July or August. The expression "eat" comes from the phrase "eat a cake". If TeSTAR had no major competition, it would eat many slices of cake and the rest would be shared to the other groups or artists who could not beat it; however, if it were to promote at the same time as VTIC, it would have to share the slices with VTIC and would eat less. Those slices of the pie actually symbolize the pie charts of percentages of achievement.But after a while, the urgent news that reached the company's emergency network was the opposite of what I expected.- ... It will be in July.- Yes, it will be. Ah...Over the phone of Ryu CheongWoo, to whom the call was made, I could hear the whining of a planning team employee who was restraining himself from cursing. I held back a sigh.Two days after I received CheongRyu's text message, articles were circulated with the news of VTIC's sudden comeback in July.[VTIC's "King of K-POP" comeback in July... Countdown to the pre-order of his album]The news came out unexpectedly and exploded.- ...Well. Come to think of it... the news was released early, about more than a month and a half early.That means if you don't want a top-tier group eating your slice of the pie, you have to avoid it on your own.b"That stings."The agency's ability to keep our information secret is terrible. Our comeback timeline must have reached T1 by now."So, do you really want us to postpone our comeback until September or take off our first-level badge and hand it over to you?"CheongRyu is doing something as dangerous as this?- Did they know that our comeback would be in July?- ... No. They probably know it as June because that's how it was mentioned in the articles we published....- ...Right.Apparently, when T1 talked about TeSTAR's activity plan while publishing presentations and stock-related articles, he seemed to have announced "June", taking into account that at that time we were planning to hold the comeback between June or July, but no exact date had been chosen."June belongs to the second quarter, so it felt different when I was organizing the planning PPT."It was a commonly used trick.And if LeTi, VTIC's agency, thought our comeback was going to be in June, maybe VTIC's comeback will be... late July.But it could be worse. The dates could coincide.- Okay, I understand.I hung up the call with a cool head and handed the phone back to CheongWoo. Anyway, I couldn't talk on the phone anymore because we were mobilizing to accomplish what we had scheduled.- Hyung, here.- Yes.That also indicates that the other members were beside me listening to the phone call.- Our dates will coincide with VTIC again, right?- Yes.- Huuh.Keun SeJin sighed and smiled bitterly. The other guys also looked nervous.And understandably so. It's a repeat of the nightmare we had when they released an album at the same time we debuted.At that time, we somehow survived and won first place, but considering we had a hard time, everyone generally feels like we lost.- Hmm~ OK!Oh, except for him.Bae Sejin interjected with a rather frustrated tone.- If it's too overwhelming, can't we do something? I think it would be fine to postpone the comeback to the end of August.- If we postpone it that long... I think we'll lose out on the end-of-year grades.If we go past the beginning of the third quarter, we will lose too much score in the year-end music awards.So, we can only aim for the Daesang for Best Album, which... will probably be won by VTIC.- ...We need to make a decision.________________________Final noteSince we are going to read about a new comeback, I will post the music references and/or music video of the previous album released by TeSTAR. These references take into account the opinion of some Korean fans and mine.
Wheel
NCT DREAM - Candle Light
Just as the lyrics of "Wheel" (chapter 271 has the lyrics corrected) indicate to turn the wheel of fortune to fly away to be able to meet you even in dreams, the lyrics of "Candle Light" ask you to blow out the candle to make a wish to be reunited with you, although I wish it was every day and not only on special dates.As for the MV, it's nice to see the guys act as if they filmed their own video many times and have to redo it due to constant mistakes, to finally pull it off successfully. Interestingly, an image of a Ferris wheel appears.
BTS - Spring DayThis song also shows in its lyrics how much one misses a loved one and longs to see him or her again, but unfortunately it is a wish that will not come true due to different factors. Unlike what Wheel conveys, this song generates sadness, remorse, guilt and desire for that person to be in a better place.Although this song was a main song just like Wheel, at first glance one would think that it is melancholic and would not be one of the most successful and loved songs by South Koreans for many years. Anyone would imagine that it would be something sad and beautiful, but it would not draw attention as well as Wheel. Truth be told, this song and MV marked the history of South Koreans due to the fact that it was released almost a year after a tragedy in their nation, the Sewol ferry shipwreck. Both the lyrics and the MV in which scenes of everyone together are shown as beautiful memories and then separated as present-day scenes convey the emotions that the families of the victims must be feeling.When I translated (chapter 261, although it has an error in the lyrics), it narrates precisely that feeling that the MV scenes conveyed.As a curious fact, in the BTS MV there is no Ferris wheel, but there is a merry-go-round that says "You never walk alone", indicating that even though that person is no longer physically by your side, he or she is always accompanying you in your dreams, thoughts or memories.
DrillCRAVITY - JUMPERThe lyrics of "Drill" are basically about enjoying going fast, carefree (and riding a motorcycle lol), so I find it quite similar to the lyrics of this song, which goes "I can jump it high, jump and fly, we are JUMPER".It's not a very complex song, just to have a good time, even its rhythm is strong, a bit heavy and gives off a bad boy vibe.
NCT 127 - LemonadeThis song has no similarity with the lyrics, as it is more of a diss song to the haters and that despite what they say or do, their life is refreshing and relaxed like drinking lemonade.And just as its message says, this song is also refreshing, relaxed, but it also has its aggressive moments in which the car or motorcycle engine roars loudly.
NCT 127 - 2 Baddies
Ok, this song should not include it as a reference as it was released in September this year (2022). Rather, I would say that the production team of the MV was based on the performance and MV narration of "Drill" in the novel.Why? A bit because of the lyrics that go "0 to 100 at top speed, nothing gets in the way, my life is a highway made for me, fill up the tank, pour that gas in me"; as well as details in the video such as the luminous paint on their clothes seen under black light, LED lights, plus that more aggressive beat and more intense bad boy feel.
Daybreak (Wheel + Drill)
NCT 2020 - RESONANCEActually, I didn't find an accurate musical reference for "Daybreak", since there are almost no official medleys of several songs. I know there are medleys in concerts, but I mean other than this song, there is no other song that is a combination of several parts of different songs to make a totally new one officially."Resonance" combines different parts of the songs "Make A Wish (Birthday Song)", "90's Love", "Work It" and "Raise The Roof", that's why it's a long and experimental song that at the beginning could shock and disorient, but after hearing it several times it sticks to the ear and you manage to enjoy it.
Because of the rhythms, I feel it fits better with Drill, but there are also some melodious parts that would remind you of Wheel.
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