The Healing Life of a Music Genius - Chapter 57



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57 Things that happen very occasionally

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– okay. Good work. I should have called in advance, but I was so busy… It’s late, but congratulations on passing.

The morning after ⌜Live On⌟ aired.

Manager Park Hoon called me early. And he gave us a rough idea of ​​what happened after yesterday’s broadcast.

The manager seemed to have stayed up all night. ⌜Live On⌟ He had a dinner party with officials from tvM, a broadcasting station, for the first and second rounds. Some of the PDs showed great interest in Seolha.

After that, I had a meeting with a reporter from the entertainment department.

Since ⌜Live On⌟ is a live broadcast, they thought there would be changes to the article after the broadcast, so they gave and received feedback carefully.

The first press release had already been published, and the follow-up article was scheduled to be published this morning.

In the meantime, he checked Internet public opinion, sent an inquiry email to the site administrator when he saw a malicious comment, checked NewTube and music charts, and also checked the schedule of Kwon Seol-ha, who went to a shop in Cheongdam-dong early in the morning.

It was only after completing that series of tasks that he finally found some time to call me.

It’s 7 o’clock right now.

I asked because I was worried.

“Are you feeling okay?”

– Just like that. I was able to fly until 5 years ago, but now it feels a bit stiff. I’m already going to go to the sauna for a bit and then go back to work.

“You don’t have time off from work.”

– Seojin. All office workers are like this. So, when you go to school, you should have fun with your friends. Now… what I’m saying may sound a little old-fashioned, but it’s true.

“······.”

– Have fun at school when you enter elementary school next year. Understand? Don’t leave any regrets.

“······ yes.”

I unconsciously nodded towards the manager who I couldn’t even see. Everyone is having a hard time.

He said that in the entertainment industry, this kind of schedule is normal when a singer debuts or makes a comeback.

We are busy all the time, so this period is the most important. If you forget it at this time, chances are unlikely to come again.

– Still, the picture on ⌜Live On⌟ yesterday was pretty good. You will get noticed in no time. As far as I know, there has never been a song of this quality released these days.

“So the number of views and music charts on NewTube are pretty good right now?”

– ······ Did you look for it?

“It was instinctive.”

As soon as I woke up in the morning, I naturally started checking numbers. Honestly, I thought I would be aloof from this kind of thing. It happened because my sister Seolha’s face became faint.

– Singer Kwon Seol-ha’s New Tube view posted early this morning has 70,000 views. When I appear on ⌜Live On⌟, I usually get 50,000 views, so you can say I’m cruising. As for the music charts… it’s still a bit hard to say that it charted at this level.

Just average.

I guess nothing dramatic happened.

– Not even a day has passed yet. It will take some time to get a proper response. Anyway, your ⌜TEST⌟, yesterday’s stage, and singer Kwon Seol-ha were all good. The public will also recognize all of that.

After exchanging a few more words with Manager Park, I hung up.

I found a contradiction in his words.

1. It takes some time to get a reaction.

2. But this period is the most important.

If we were to interpret this situation.

‘Should I consider it a bit like walking a tightrope?’

Since I don’t know much about how the Korean entertainment industry works, all I could do was guess.

Of course, there isn’t much the composer can do at this point.

‘Or this much…’

I looked left and right for no reason.

Then, for no reason, I went into the music app.

After searching for ⌜TEST⌟.

Favorites.

great.

Play music.

I pressed the buttons in order.

and.

‘Wow… Singer Kwon Seol-ha’s voice is amazing! You sing it so well! As expected, he’s talented! The song is great too! One person left a comment saying, ‘I’m a fan!’

Among the other comments, I also clicked ‘Like’ on the good ones.

‘Keuhum…’

But this won’t turn out to be my dark side later, right?

To be honest, I said I liked my song, so who can say anything? It’s true that Seolha’s skills are good.

Just like that, the moment you try to repeat the same thing once more in another music app.

Knock, knock, knock.

“Wow!”

Sooyeon popped her head into my room with a knock. It’s a surprise. I wasn’t guilty, but I was surprised for no reason.

Suyeon looked at me in surprise and tilted her head. She blinks her round eyes.

“Why are you so surprised? “Weren’t you listening to a song?”

In fact, ⌜TEST⌟ was playing on my smartphone. To increase the number of streams… by at least 1.

“Uh… I was trying to concentrate a little while listening.”

“Uhm. brother. No matter what, people have to eat. Mom wants to eat. “She said the food would get cold.”

“Ah… I’ll be out soon.”

“no. Don’t do that, come out right away. I do not have time.”

“······?”

Sooyeon grabbed my wrist and dragged me trudging into the living room.

And from there.

Some fireworks exploded along with the parents’ congratulatory words. There was a small cake on the table.

Suyeon looks at me and laughs.

After looking into it, it seemed like it was a surprise party of its own.

Commemorating the composer’s debut.

My mother said she did it this morning because it was too late yesterday.

Thanks to this, I was able to leave the house in the morning after eating a side dish of bulgogi and a piece of cake.

“brother.”

“huh?”

Suyeon called me and continued talking quite seriously.

“Don’t worry brother. “I will be of some help in the future.”

“······?”

“go for it! Believe me! “I’ll be back!”

Suyeon waved her hand and got on the kindergarten bus.

“······?”

My younger brother sometimes says things I don’t understand.

Suyeon seemed to have made a firm resolve.

* * *

Saebom Kindergarten.

“Uh… Suyeon, so what is that song?”

“⌜TEST⌟. teacher. We can’t just listen to ⌜Baby Shark⌟ forever. “I think our kindergarten should also listen to the latest songs sometimes.”

“Well, wouldn’t Suyeon’s friends like children’s songs more?”

“Hmm. It could be so. teacher. wait a minute.”

“······.”

Han Su-yeon searched diligently through the kindergarten bag she was wearing. She then took out her lemon candy with her tiny hands and held it out to her teacher.

“W-what is this?”

“I learned something from my brother. It’s difficult to go into detail. Then, teacher, how about listening to it just once?”

A situation that makes you laugh.

As the teacher of Jang Mi’s class who had been watching Su-yeon all along, I could barely contain my laughter and tried to compromise within a reasonable range.

The song we all sing together during dance time is ⌜Baby Shark⌟.

Instead, Sooyeon and I decided to listen to the song alone.

Despite this level of compromise, Suyeon smiled brightly and shouted, “Thank you!” When the teacher plays a song on her smartphone, her body bobs.

“But what song is this?”

“Uh… that…”

Su-yeon dragged her words and finally answered.

“I listened to it yesterday and I liked it. “I really wanted to let you know.”

“okay?”

“yes! I’m sure you will like it too!”

The teacher smiled and nodded.

But after a while.

‘Are you really…are you okay?’

This song was pretty good even for a teacher from Jang Mi’s class who doesn’t know much about popular music.

The voice of a singer I didn’t know touched my heart.

As promised, Suyeon listened to the ⌜TEST⌟ only once and left.

However, class teacher Jang Mi took the ⌜TEST⌟ several more times during lunch time and after work.

The content of the lyrics is something that anyone living in modern times has experienced at least once.

A song that anyone can relate to.

Beautiful melody there.

“It’s just… nice…”

It’s been a while since class teacher Jang Mi,

I listened to the same music for a while.

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A villa in Seoul.

A middle-aged woman speaks warmly.

“I’ll come back mom.”

“······.”

“I trust my daughter. So don’t be too discouraged. “I will be able to do well someday.”

“······.”

“I put lunch in the refrigerator, so make sure to eat it. See you in the evening~”

“······.”

The girl didn’t respond and just stared blankly at the computer in the room.

After a while.

It wasn’t until she heard the front door click that she came out into the living room.

A girl who only looks to be in her late teens.

She ate the food on the table, washed the dishes, and sat down in front of the computer again.

It has already been over a year since I stayed at home like this.

Because my mock test scores plummeted.

Because of the subtle bullying that suddenly started in class.

She was passing time like this in a daze.

I didn’t do anything special with the computer.

Childish arcade games and Internet surfing that I have been playing since I was young. And all I did was occasionally leave comments on other people’s posts.

When my mother wasn’t home, I sometimes watched TV. However, it was a little difficult to see celebrities smiling haha. Everyone in the world seemed happy. Except me.

I thoughtlessly changed the channel.

On the news, politicians were fighting.

In entertainment shows, comedians were making others laugh.

In the liberal arts, an unknown orchestra was playing strange music.

“It’s not fun…”

Words that flowed out without thinking.

Even though I could watch hundreds of channels at will, I didn’t receive any stimulation. It seemed that people who had become detached from society had no right to watch TV.

Then, a woman on crutches caught my eye. So she didn’t flip through the channels. It may have been her intention to fill her self-esteem by seeing a story worse than her own.

The girl left the channel on and began watching the broadcast with unfocused eyes.

Talk show on Sunday nights.

Now it seemed like it was time for a rerun.

The woman on TV was a pretty pitiful person. She came in third place in an audition program a few years ago and went on to become unknown. She recently had an accident.

‘Is there someone more pitiful than me?’

Who do you feel more sorry for, the person who has spent time at home for over a year or the person who has experienced such bad things in a row?

‘But that person continued to live outside…’

The singer even said that he once sang on stage without an audience.

Even after experiencing a serious accident and announcing retirement, I found myself singing again.

That’s how much I love singing.

She was someone who found something she loved to do.

‘In the end, you’re better than me.’

Entertainment programs were usually like this. Celebrities who act more pitiful than ordinary people come out and recite detailed stories. But if you listen closely, they are much happier people than me.

money.

friend.

honor.

Recognition from people around you.

These people lack nothing.

So the girl hated this program.

“I just wasted time.”

The girl let out a laugh while talking to herself. She says she has time to lose to herself.

An advertisement played on TV.

okay. These are people who make money through things like that. With words like that. With actions like that.

The girl also knew that it wasn’t that bad.

However, when I see people living a life different from my own… I feel so shabby.

It was just difficult to see a scene like that.

But then, as the commercial ended, the changed stage was shown on the TV screen.

A small island off the coast.

And a female singer sitting on a chair.

After a lyrical accompaniment, a female singer sang the first words of the song.

and.

“······.”

The girl couldn’t move.

⌜Everything around me was fear.

It seemed like there was no one around.

I always had to take the exam alone.⌟

The singer made a cheeky remark.

I would never have experienced something like this.

⌜In a place where there is no one.

I received a question written in an unknown language.

Is there any way for me?

You may have to roll your pencil to guess the answer.⌟

Lies shamelessly.

⌜There was no one around.

I am alone in the exam room.

Lonely, lonely again, I took the test.⌟

The girl bit her lip. What are you? Sing a song like this dare. Those words lingered in her mouth.

⌜On that stage with no one around.

I always had to play alone.

I just like music.

Other people just ignored me.⌟

I was out of breath.

My fists were clenched.

⌜ No one believes me.

I know very well that you won’t believe me.⌟

The girl stood quietly and listened to her song.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

I couldn’t see very well and had to rub my eyes with my hands several times.

⌜There were times like that.

There were those years.

The lonely years that only I know.⌟

no.

Lyrics like that…

You can’t move me.

But the lyrics of the second verse of this song immediately follow.

The girl burst into tears like a child.

⌜But only one.

I just need one person to trust me.

If there was no one for me in the past.

It’s a little different now.

My soul had a hole in it that I thought I had forgotten.

Because before I knew it, it had been filled by someone.⌟

The girl watched the talk show until the end. She just watched TV until the female singer finished singing and another guest appeared.

When the broadcast ended, the girl went into the bathroom. She then blindly turned on the shower. Her clothes quickly got wet. Still, it didn’t matter.

now···.

Because I wanted to come to my senses a little.

After taking a shower, the girl changed her clothes and stood in front of the front door. Her hand did not reach for the handle willingly. What should she do if she gets an electric shock? If there’s someone standing outside the door. Or maybe the lady next door walks by and she looks at me strangely.

The girl put her earphones in her ears after thinking about it a lot. And she played the song ⌜TEST⌟.

After the first and second verses, the lyrics of the last third verse came out.

⌜I’m going to take the exam today again, without fail.

Standing in front of people who won’t believe me.

To prove myself.⌟

The girl opened the door.

and.

There was no one outside.

Even people who block me.

Even people who hate me.

Even those who despise me.

There was no one.

⌜To me who was buried in darkness.

For the person who became a ray of light.

I will sing endlessly.⌟

I left the house and walked down the street. No one was looking at them. I guess there was no such thing as a monster in this world.

⌜So I’m going to take the test today too.

Just for one person.

I’m going to take the test again.⌟

The girl squatted in the middle of the road. She and she looked at the sky. How has time passed so quickly? The sky looked very clear with a cool breeze blowing.

The girl was very cold. This was because she didn’t know the weather and came out wearing short sleeves. Still, there the girl listened to her song to the end.

The song was not played on repeat.

Because the girl had work to do now.

With trembling hands, I carefully press the call button.

and.

– ··· uh! daughter! What’s going on? What’s going on at this hour?

“······ mom.”

– uh! Speak up! Should mom go home now? She’s now… I think she’ll be in 30 minutes, but can she wait a minute? where are you?

“no. That’s not it…”

The girl gathered courage.

“I’m going to go back to school. If that doesn’t work, I’ll take the qualification exam. I realized that my mother was always next to me. So I think I can do it.”

– ······.

“thank you.”

– ······.

After a while.

The woman on the phone sobbed incessantly.

And the girl,

It’s been a while since I smiled.

* * *

The Internet is a fascinating place.

When someone posts something, it gets easily buried.

When someone posts something, it can easily go viral.

One day, a post was posted on social media.

I would like to thank singer Seolha Kwon.

MJ I would like to thank the composer.

A child’s simple writing about his story quickly spread everywhere.

There were also people who posted similar stories.

Although each person’s story was slightly different, the overall story of feeling comforted after listening to the song did not change.

If you are not a famous singer, it is difficult to become popular.

Unless you are a famous composer, it is difficult to write a good song.

Still, sometimes.

Very occasionally, something miraculous happens.

One day, a week after singer Seolha Kwon’s ⌜TEST⌟ was announced.

The song reached #1 on all music sites.