Superstar From Age 0

Chapter 409:

“Let's ask them.”

“Yes.”

The marketing team nodded at the team leader's words.

Image was important for a song, and they didn't want to be associated with a twisted doughnut.

‘It's strange.’

The team leader didn't know why he thought of his first days at the company.

They were all nice kids, but he had a hard time back then.

He shook his head and said,

“Hwang Ye-jun. Play the guide song.”

Hwang Ye-jun smiled and clicked on the file next to him.

Ding-.

“What is this?”

“It's a chime. It sounds very clear, right? It's a metal plate with rods hanging from it. It's made of a stone called gyeongseok.”

Hwang Ye-jun pretended to hit something with a transparent rod. The team leader opened his mouth in a serious tone.

“Change the file name.”

“Yes, sir.”

A moment later.

The guide song for the 37th song came out of the speaker.

There were no lyrics yet, so the song was composed of random words and ‘ah-’ sounds that came to mind.

But thanks to Hwang Ye-jun, the vocal of Brown Black, who was known as the concert idol and ranked first in the concerts that everyone wanted to see at least once, the guide song had a unique charm. It suited the mood of Blue Moon perfectly.

“This is good as it is, isn't it?”

“It's a bit different from what I imagined, but I wonder how it will sound when Blue Moon sings it.”

As soon as the guide song ended, the staff exclaimed in admiration.

The team leader looked proud.

‘Our kid sings well.’

Blue Moon, who had been listening with their mouths open, praised him endlessly.

The guide song was so cool that they were worried that they wouldn't be able to record it as well, but more than that, they were excited that this cool song was theirs.

“I made it like this for now. How is it?”

“It's awesome! Ye-jun hyung.”

Not only Seo-jun, but also the other people in the meeting room expressed their opinions with excited faces.

Hwang Ye-jun smiled broadly.

“Then we have the song ready. We need to adjust the choreography according to the song, so give the guide song to the trainer.”

“Yes.”

A team member answered.

The team leader turned his head and looked at Seo-jun.

“Seo-jun, are you okay with dance practice?”

It had been a few days since he started his first dance lesson, so he should have an idea of whether he could dance well enough for the music video or not.

It was originally a role that they planned to hire one of the dance teams for, so it could be hard for Seo-jun, who was an actor. If he was struggling, they could change it back to him appearing as an actor only.

“No, don't worry. It's fun.”

Seo-jun smiled and answered confidently.

“Team leader. Seo-jun is amazing!”

“The trainer said he's good too!”

Rather than Seo-jun himself, it was Blue Moon who boasted about his skills.

The team leader smiled at their appearance.

“Then we need to write lyrics and record them… Ye-jun will help you with recording.”

Oh. Recording! Blue Moon's faces froze with excitement.

Only Seo-jun, who had nothing to do with recording or vocals and was close to Hwang Ye-jun, tilted his head slightly with a calm face.

“Ye-jun hyung?”

“Yeah. Seo-jun is in the music video too! And since it's my song anyway, I thought it would be okay to do recording too. I have a lot of time these days!”

Hwang Ye-jun said with a smile. Choi Jae-won's face flushed and he said,

“We’re happy!”

He couldn't miss this opportunity to work with Hwang Ye-jun sunbae, who was famous for composing and producing.

“Thank you!”

The other members also stood up and bowed deeply to Hwang Ye-jun and shouted.

Their faces were so red and excited that Seo-jun and the other staff chuckled.

“And about the lyrics… Do you want to try writing them?”

“Us?!”

Baek Yi-hyun raised his voice in surprise at the team leader's words.

“Well, you know that one of the members of Brown Black composed and produced the song, right? And an actor from our company is in the music video too.”

Hwang Ye-jun and Seo-jun smiled brightly. Blue Moon nodded their heads nervously.

The team leader told them about the idea that came up during the meeting with the staff.

“So we thought it would be better to do everything internally as much as possible. And if you guys participate too, it will be a good topic. So we decided to leave the lyrics to you.”

“Yes…”

Blue Moon nodded their heads blankly.

An A&R team staff member said with a smile,

“You can write it simply. We’ll have a lyricist check it.”

“Won't it be hard? What if they say this kind of lyrics won't do?”

Park Ee-deun's worry was answered by his senior Hwang Ye-jun with a smile.

“That's how you start by getting criticized. I couldn't compose well in the past either. But once you start, it's fun!”

Hwang Ye-jun's words caught the attention of Seo-jun and Blue Moon.

“It would be good to start with brainstorming since we have a concept! The concept is self-introduction, so we need to find words that represent ourselves and then find the expressions we want to use. It might be hard to come up with good ideas sometimes, but it feels really great when you complete a song from start to finish with your own and your members’ hands!”

The A&R team members also agreed and said.

“It would suit you best to introduce yourselves by yourselves.”

“It's okay to write down the keywords or the mood of the sentences you want to include if you can't do it.”

The Blue Moon members nodded their heads after a brief thought.

After that, the meeting ended with a simple schedule adjustment.

The first ones to leave the meeting room were Blue Moon, who were lost in thought.

Kim Si-hoon opened his mouth.

“Well, since the lyricist will fix it for us, I think it's okay to write comfortably.”

“I think so too.”

“It would be interesting if the lyrics have different vibes for each part.”

They were momentarily scared by the thought of having to make their own lyrics.

But they were relieved by the fact that a lyricist would be involved.

The Blue Moon members were busy thinking about what they wanted to say in their parts.

They said it was okay to choose a few words, so it wasn't as burdensome as they thought.

“Then what should we do for the sixth part, Jae-won hyung?”

“We’ll have to discuss it together.”

Blue Moon nodded at Choi Jae-won's words.

The sixth part that combined five parts couldn't have just one person's thoughts. As Choi Jae-won said, they had to think together and make the lyrics.

“The sixth part will be really hard.”

“I know, right.”

Baek Yi-hyun and Park Ee-deun sighed lightly.

Oh.

They realized that they unintentionally neglected Seo-jun while thinking about the lyrics. The topic of conversation was not the dance that Seo-jun participated in, but the lyrics.

Park Ee-deun looked surprised at Seo-jun who was walking behind them.

Seeing Park Ee-deun's expression, the other members also turned around with a sense of regret.

Fortunately, seo-jun who followed Blue Moon seemed to be immersed in his own thoughts.

He didn't even notice that Blue Moon turned around, as if he was deep in thought.

The Blue Moon members rolled their eyes at Seo-jun's appearance.

They were worried about what to do if he was in an important dilemma.

“Seo-jun. What are you thinking?”

Among the quiet Blue Moon members, Jung Eun-sung asked without much thought.

Seo-jun snapped out of his thoughts at his call. He still seemed to have some trouble in his mind, as he slightly frowned.

“It's nothing…”

The Blue Moon members sighed in relief at Seo-jun's words that it was nothing.

“It's about the graduation performance script.”

“Huh?”

‘A graduation performance?’

The Blue Moon members tilted their heads.

“I was wondering what it would be like if I wrote it myself.”

There was a moment of silence after Seo-jun's words,

“…That's a huge deal?!”

Park Ee-deun exclaimed in surprise.

Kim Si-hoon and Baek Yi-hyun, who had their eyes wide open in shock, also nodded their heads repeatedly.

Jung Eun-sung also looked surprised.

Choi Jae-won, who blinked his eyes, asked Seo-jun in confusion.

“That means… you’re not going to adapt like Mirror, right?”

Seo-jun nodded his head.

“Yes. I'm going to write it from scratch.”

‘Oh my god.’

The members opened their mouths wide and stared at him in astonishment.

Among them, Jung Eun-sung opened his mouth.

“Can you do it?”

“Hmm. I've never tried it before, so I don't know…”

There was nothing decided except for the genre of SF.

From the characters to the background and episodes, he didn't know how much he had to think about.

‘Maybe it will just be a waste of time.’

Hwang Ye-jun hyung's words kept ringing in his head.

‘It feels really great when you complete a song from start to finish with your own and your members’ hands.’

So Seo-jun wanted to try it.

He wanted to complete a work from start to finish with his own and his team members’ hands that he would recruit in the second semester.

“I want to do it.”

He felt relieved when he said it out loud.

His mind was complicated with worries like ‘Will I have enough time?’, ‘Will I be able to do it?’.

The shadow of his worries lifted as Seo-jun smiled brightly and said.

“I’ll be back in a bit. I'm going to see Da Ho hyung. You guys go ahead to the practice room.”

“Uh, okay…”

He was quick to act once he made up his mind.

The Blue Moon members stared blankly at Seo-jun who moved right away.

Maybe that was what made Seo-jun a superstar.

The leader of Blue Moon, choi Jae-won, opened his mouth.

“Should we try it properly too?”

Not just choosing words or moods for the concept setting, but making sure that the sentences they thought of became lyrics completely.

Properly.

“And so.”

Blue Moon nodded their heads.

***

Seo-jun headed straight to the office of Team 2, where Ahn Da Ho would be.

“Hello, seo-jun.”

“You're late?”

“Hello! I was late because I went to the Blue Moon meeting!”

The Team 2 staff greeted Seo-jun with a smile, and Seo-jun also smiled brightly and greeted them.

The Team 2 staff sensed something from Seo-jun's face, which was more sparkling than usual.

‘Ah-ha. Seo-jun found something!’

Whether it was a script, a novel, or a fairy tale book.

There was no doubt that he had found a work he wanted to do.

They could tell that just by looking at Seo-jun's expression, even without any words.

The staff of Team 2, who thought they knew Seo-jun better than anyone else, regretfully gathered the scripts and books they had been looking at.

Since Seo-jun had found a work himself, there was nothing left for the staff to do.

The veteran manager of actor Lee Seo-jun, Ahn Da Ho, also closed the script he was reading with a grin and looked at Seo-jun's sparkling face.

“Seo-jun. Did you find a work?”

Seo-jun shook his head with a smile at Ahn Da Ho's question.

“No. That's not it.”

“…Not?”

The fact that their expectations were wrong surprised the staff of Team 2 and the veteran manager of actor Lee Seo-jun.

‘…Then why are you so sparkling?’

‘There should be nothing else…’

While the staff and Ahn Da Ho were wondering, seo-jun opened his mouth with a still sparkling face.

“I want to write it myself.”

…!

The staff of Team 2 and the veteran manager opened their eyes wide.

They thought they knew Seo-jun better than anyone else, but this was something they never expected.

“So… you want to write the script yourself? Not an adaptation?”

Seo-jun nodded his head and opened his mouth at Ahn Da Ho's question.

“Yes. I've been looking for it since May, but I can't find anything I like. I don't think anything suitable will come out even if I look more. So I thought it would be okay if I just wrote it myself. And I also want to create a work from the script.”

Ahn Da Ho pondered for a moment at Seo-jun's words.

‘What if Seo-jun's work doesn't get good reviews…’

The evaluation was not important.

The impact of that evaluation on Seo-jun was important.

He was worried about what to do if he got hurt by any chance.

But nothing could precede Seo-jun's will.

Ahn Da Ho asked Seo-jun, who was shining his eyes brightly.

“Do you really want to do it?”

Ahn Da Ho had no intention of stopping Seo-jun's challenge as long as it was not a wrong thing. No matter what happened,

‘We’ll cover it for him.’

That's why there was Team 2 dedicated to actor Lee Seo-jun.

Seo-jun smiled brightly at Ahn Da Ho's question.

“Yes! I want to do it.”

“Then you should do it.”

Ahn Da Ho nodded his head with a smile.

The Team 2 staff who were worried like Ahn Da Ho also shrugged their shoulders and started to move.

“What do you need to write?”

“Seo-jun has done adaptations before, so he must know the structure of the script well.”

“The important thing is the idea, right?”

“Seo-jun. Do you have anything you want to write?”

“I have to think about it from now on.”

“You’ll need some materials for SF. I’ll collect them right away.”

“You’ll also need some books on writing techniques, right? I’ll find some that have good reviews.”

“It would be good to ask some writers too.”

Seo-jun expressed his gratitude to them for moving swiftly as soon as he made his decision.

“Thank you all so much.”

The staff of Team 2 dedicated to actor Lee Seo-jun and the veteran manager smiled brightly at his sincere thanks.