The Birth of the Monstrous Singer-Songwriter - Chapter 243



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#243. silence

Following the love tree, a peace tree also appeared.

However, Jung Woo-dam has not yet confirmed the performance of Love Tree.

‘It’s been a month since I sold out my doorstep on the morning of the 3rd album comeback show, but I haven’t performed on stage once or twice since then, so I haven’t really felt any significant effect.’

The love tree makes the public love Udam even more. I feel excited by his singing and acting.

However, the people Woodam encounters during his activities are officials and fans who always support him passionately, so he had no choice but to know.

Moreover, even if the smoke in the hut was kind enough to inform him, Woodam would only be puzzled.

Love Tree’s rating is Ex, but the music platform Loud is discriminating against him for differentiation.

In fact, Loud’s decision was driven by oppositional bias, defiance, and rejection.

When others say they like something, there are bound to be people who dislike it even more.

Loud also promoted a chart excluding the CEO Jung Woo-dam, rather than the opinions of all executives and employees.

Thanks to this, all the swearing online has stopped, and executives and employees are having conversations about whether users keep leaving and that they need to prepare for a job change.

But what if.

If the Peace Tree, which creates synergy with the Love Tree, had come out a few days earlier, CEO Loud would have strengthened the rankings and playlists in a different way.

The Peace Tree is similar to, but different from, the option ‘Education’ of the legendary item 108 Tortures Base Drum Machine.

The 108 Torture Machine makes listeners reflect, and the Peace Tree makes people who are hostile for no reason feel self-destructive the moment they think of Udam.

Why did you start a fight with someone you love?

Although it is not limited to anti-antis, it is said to be an excellent tree for eradicating antis.

Coincidentally, everyone has antis.

Even to the general public, even if he is a popular star.

It was impossible for Woodam, who lives without controversy, to have no antis at all, and he doesn’t even care about it due to his reputation (S grade), but there is a clear difference between not paying attention and being less noticeable.

In other words, Woodam said that trees that are less and less talented as entertainers are coming out, but in fact, the exact opposite is true.

They were the ultimate support trees that helped people focus solely on creation and activities.

It wasn’t just that.

Soon Udam will become an idol and an ideology.

Of course, he had no way of knowing this, so he just guessed.

“Love & Peace. If you think about it carefully, it is a symbol that the entertainment industry particularly loves. Rock, psychedelic, folk, and reggae are popular genres, so should we try writing more rock?”

I still don’t know the details, but since Woodam is a person who strongly believes in wooden bags, I just took the money bag out of the closet.

‘There’s plenty of money left over.’

In February, the bears sleep all the time, so last month’s settlement amount remains ancient.

Thanks to you, for the first time in a while, I feel happy spending a lot of money.

“Let’s get to S rank in one shot!”

I put in 110 million won without hesitation.

It almost looked like he was in the final stages of a shopping addiction.

Flutter flutter.

-Hmph!

The bears took the gold coins generated at the altar and injected the ampoule into the Peace Tree.

-It grew into a peace (S) tree.

Next, the bears set up a swing that was too high for anyone but normal courage, and Woodam grabbed Veronica.

As I was hooked on Love & Peace, the cyborg police sent me a reference.

This is a guy who always sends me references that fit the topic I’m thinking about.

[Killing In the Name]

[Master of Puppets]

[Elephant]

Woodam had recently made a deal.

He decided to remake a song by Lim Cheong-wol, who produced an instrument for him while he was busy.

‘Honestly, from my perspective, it’s so cheap that I wonder if it’s okay to do this.’

It is scheduled to be included as a song on Vandal Band’s 2nd album.

Afterwards, Lim Cheong-wol was at a loss as to which song to remake since all of his songs failed at the box office, but he got a hint thanks to Cyborg Police.

“love&… … .”

Ding. Didding. Ding ding.

“Thunder.”

Ja-ga-ja-ga-ja-ja-jang-jang!

Lim Cheong-wol’s folk song transformed into a thunderous sound.

Woodam puts in rough accents and then palm mutes by pressing the strings with his palms.

We created a riff that would rival the title, Heart Sutra Adaptation.

I also set up a gravedigger’s electric guitar, stepped on the wah pedal, and kept the tremolo arm busy.

Waung waung!

“The man’s pride and the woman’s self-love!”

Since it is not an American single, the lyrics remain the same as the original song.

The remake theme is the Champion Song.

A grand and aggressive melody that could be used in sports games or e-sports.

With the top line completed, Woodam opened a group chat room for Bandal Band.

[Seo Ji-an and children]

-Choi Jun-seop: Late-night snack pig’s feet vs. chicken

-Park Chan-hee: I have to manage Guerrilla Con, what kind of late-night snack?

-Choi Jun-seop: Ah-young is hungry.

-Park Chan-hee: Ah, wouldn’t it be okay to eat both?

-Me: DDunder.mp3

-Seo Ji-an: What is this, No. 1 on music show?

-Me: The song included in Bandal’s 2nd album. It’s a lightning strike remake.

-Choi Jun-seop: Oh my!

-Park Chan-hee: If it’s a lightning strike, senior Lim Cheong-wol?

-Me: ㅇ I’m going to focus on slap for the bass haha.

– Seo Ji-an: I think my little finger will be harpooned.

Woodam seemed to be grinning right now even though Seo Ji-an, who was in charge of bass, seemed to be complaining.

It’s obvious even if you don’t look at it.

‘Because Seo Ji-an clearly likes difficult situations.’

I don’t choose the easy path.

Seo Ji-an has always chosen the album title herself, and recently I heard about the criteria for judging.

‘The standard was a song that didn’t seem like it could be saved easily.’

The quality of the title candidates supplied has been leveled upward. So you deliberately chose difficult songs.

For Shin Kim Choi’s debut album, Seo Ji-an chose the title and wrote the lyrics.

Woo Dam, who composed the entire song, pushed for , but it ended up being the title that Seo Ji-an fixed.

It was said that the reason was because it seemed difficult to digest, so I felt relieved later, but in the end, Seo Ji-an’s intuition was the right answer.

Even in the case of , all that was recorded was electric and acoustic guitar.

-Seo Jian: Thunder is much better than Mach?

-Park Chan-hee: Did you hear that this bass part would be more difficult?

– Seo Ji-an: Even if you take that away, the guitar riff is killer.

Seo Ji-an was not a fairy in the group chat room.

Jung Woo-dam corrected him.

-Me: Wow!

-Seo Ji-an: Are you kidding? Make it Thunder. If you shake it, the desire to press it disappears. No, the title is Do whatever you want.

– Seo Ji-an: Anyway, it must have taken a long time to come up with this riff.

Udam looked at the wall clock.

It took 5 minutes to set up the equipment and upload it to the chatroom, so it would have been half as long if I were to just count the riffs.

-Me: It wasn’t easy.

– Seo Ji-an: You worked hard. And since the title song has no meaning anyway, we didn’t push this as the title, but it would be nice to film the music video like this.

-Me: Will I get hit by lightning?

-Choi Jun-seop: Please know that I have a family.

-Seo Jian: With an occult concept

-Park Chan-hee: Why?

– Seo Ji-an: If it’s not good, try something else.

-Park Chan-hee: Oh, no… I’m sorry…

-Choi Jun-seop: LOL

-Seo Ji-an: I’m not angry~~!!!

It was definitely fun to create the Vandal Band with people of the same age group.

Herb Power also has a clear role, but Mad CS looked up to Jung Woo-dam like a god and only shouted approval out of ignorance.

Still, Woodam liked both project groups with different musicality and identities.

at that time.

Friends tell interesting stories again.

-Choi Jun-seop: Is it because Shin Kim Choi is doing well? These days, vocal group audition programs are coming out one by one.

– Seo Ji-an: The vocal group was at a level where its reputation was really cut off, but it’s amazing.

-Park Chan-hee: Band survival has existed before, but viewership ratings for new broadcasts have increased since Vandal.

It was said that Jung Woo-dam’s ability to catch a trend before it became a trend was amazing.

However, Woodam, who was sick of praise, only responded positively.

-Me: What’s fun? Let’s go for a drive during the break

-Choi Jun-seop: Rather than fun, do you feel like you created the trend? But when will Shin Kim Choi make a comeback? Ayoung also joined the fan club haha.

-Me: 2nd week after CLEF debut

-Choi Jun-seop: Huh?? Team kill again?

– Seo Ji-an: Currently, MNS has the most active teams in history, so there is no choice but to overlap. So, I can’t take first place away from Jung Woo-dam, who has finished his promotions.

Everyone is silent.

– Seo Ji-an: I tried to make you laugh, but isn’t it too quiet?

As Seo Ji-an said, there was no end to MNS’ staff expansion as the number of artists to manage increased.

Division 1 is in charge of Jung Woo-dam, Shin Kim Choi, Vandal Band, and Herb Power, and Division 2 is in charge of Liu and A Travel.

In Division 3, Seo Ji-an and CLEF are in charge.

This isn’t the end.

Division 4, a dedicated team for ZER0 Number, is responsible for the debut team of sprinting girls.

Even though we are active in Japan, overall production, including training, music, MV, and content, is done in Korea. It can be said that he stays in Korea except when he appears on Japanese broadcasts.

Excluding the two project groups and the localization group, there are 7 teams.

However, one more team will be added soon.

Also, rather than having a team ready to debut, the entire agency that only has one team is purchased and incorporated into the label.

It was not for nothing that MNS was considered to be in the ranks of large entertainment companies.

Since they do not make infrequent comebacks like other entertainment companies’ groups that have reached the end of their senior year, there is a monthly activity plan.

Because there were many teams that had to make tour schedules, the CEO and all executives attended the meeting.

And then Monday, a day later.

Jung Woo-dam prepared to go out to the MNS headquarters for the first time since returning to Korea.

“Wow, that swing is cool?”

The bears were riding the swing safely attached to the Love & Peace tree branch.

– Taaaa!

The little boy, Four Woong, gave a strong kick as if he was planning to run far.

“… … “Isn’t it too high to jump?”

If Woodam had lived in the garden, he would have told him to stop, but the bears were just waiting for their turn, looking at their wrists without watches.

at last.

Jump!

4 Woong jumped off the swing.

Whirling!

Fortunately, the hose guy wraps the four-woong, who almost fell to the floor, in the air and brings him down safely.

-Giggle!

It has become a popular attraction.

“Oh my gosh, I’m so cold. “I guess the wing bag was supposed to keep you from falling?”

A bag of wings wanders round and round under the swing like a five-minute standby.

Perhaps because the spring fever that suggested a nap contest had disappeared, the bears played more rough.

Just as boys are drawn to risky games.

“Don’t get hurt while playing.”

Relieved, Woodam walked out the front door.

Even though I received a German-made SUV for free, the van was in front of my house because my manager said he would accompany me except for personal schedules from now on.

“Mr. Woodam, did you sleep well?”

“hello. “I slept for 8 hours.”

“You slept very well.”

On the way to the office building while boarding the van.

A message came from Mad CS.

-Matthew: Director! The number of views of our music video is rising!

I wasn’t talking about Herb Power’s music video, but Mad CS’s music video.

The number of views for the song, which can be said to be Mad CS’ representative song, a year after its release, was 10 million before UMF, but doubled in just a few days.

-Me: Congratulations.

-Sebastian: I was wondering why, and when I read the comments, they thought we were Hub Power and came to see the music video. Cough, stupid people. It’s not our hub power.

-Me: You don’t have to hold me back.

-Sebastian: Is that so? It’s all thanks to the director!

-Matthew: I don’t know if it’s a dream or a birthday!

Woodam wanted to point out the typo because it was his birthday, but he was afraid that he would be wasted, so he humbly replied that he was just working hard together.

It was also true.

Even though they suffered from oxygen deprivation, they held on and held on until they retired at the last performance.

It was like that only on the first day, and on the second day, I successfully finished all 5 songs with Woodam.

And while Woodam was moving, he recorded the rhythm of with a phone composition app.

Arrived at the new MNS headquarters.

“I don’t think I’ve been here 10 times since we moved to the new building.”

“You came here three times today.”

“is it so?”

As Woodam entered the new building, still unfamiliar to him, he encountered the executive director who had come down to buy coffee at the cafe on the first floor.

Although it couldn’t compare to PEGA Entertainment, it was definitely a large agency headquarters.

“Mr. Woodam!”

“hello.”

“Haha, you’re resting at home. “You can tell me over the phone.”

“I came to watch Shin Kim Choi practice his new song and also to go to the Chungmu Gimbap restaurant that Mr. Liu mentioned.”

“I’m going with you too. Anyway, we went to the GuerillaCon meeting on Saturday, but the CEO and executives had a video meeting with ZET, right?”

That was the main point.

It was Saturday morning in Korea that day, but it was Friday afternoon in LA, where ZET’s headquarters is located, so MNS executives went to work even though it was the weekend.

It was none other than to anticipate and plan the scale of the world tour of Jung Woo-dam and A Travel, who are currently touring Asian fan meetings.

“When the U.S. album is released, Mr. Woodam says he will hold a 50-show tour.”

“It’s 5 times more than the 10 times last year?”

Last year, over 10 sessions, 95,000 people were mobilized and sales of 22 billion won were generated. With tickets + goods + sponsorship.

So Woodam thought that sales would be five times higher, and even though that alone didn’t make sense, he opened his mouth as if his jaw would drop at the executive director’s next answer.

“Ticket prices are different. Since the performance venue is to skip the dome and enter the stadium directly, ZET estimates that it will be worth at least $200 million.”

“… … “Two won dollars?”

“200 million dollars. For your information, the break-even point is better than in Korea or Japan, and Mr. Woodam is not going to receive an MG, right?”

“Ah yes.”

“Then you can think of Mr. Woodam’s share as being 1.5 times higher than that of domestic performances.”

Approximately 268 billion won in Korean won.

In addition, I used to get 10% of the sales from domestic performances, but now I get 5% more.

Of course, Woodam signed a contract that did not receive a penny of minimum guarantee, so if he couldn’t break even, he would perform for free, but ZET and MNS believed in his ticket power.

Woodam also couldn’t help but wonder why it becomes difficult to see singers in Korea when they start a world tour.

‘After the tour, can’t I leave the entertainment industry?’

Can not be done.