- Intro Undecided
- Onseol
- Ma Doun
- Park Eden
- Title track, All (K Producer)
- Seon Hobeom
- Ka Jerim
- Sub-title track, All (L Producer)
- All
- Outro Undecided
“Here.”
“What’s this?”
When the members, who had been blankly staring at him writing from 1 to 10, asked, Director Gye shrugged his shoulders with a face that said why are you asking something so obvious.
“The number of tracks.”
“Then the names written next to those numbers are……”
“The people who need to fill those tracks.”
The Abyss members blinked their eyes for a moment at what they had heard, then soon opened them wide with a gasp and opened their mouths.
“……What?”
“Ah, just so you know, the producers will only work together on the title and sub-title tracks. Do you understand what this means?”
“What?”
Why are the producers only working on the title and sub-title? Isn’t everyone supposed to do it together? The producers give the base, and they just sing following the guidelines there…… But why us?
In the midst of such great confusion, Onseol opened his mouth saying, “No way.”
“No way, you’re saying we have to make all the rest except for those two songs?”
“Oh, as expected, Seol. That’s right.”
‘No way’ killed a person.
Hearing those words, the members simultaneously grabbed their heads and thought.
‘No. I don’t understand, and I don’t want to either.’
What were they trusting about them, complete greenhorn rookies who had only debuted 2 months ago, to completely entrust the album to them— naturally, the members’ resistance was fierce.
“Director, how exactly are we supposed to fill the tracks with songs we made? Honestly, just dancing and singing is hard enough, and now you’re telling us to make songs too? No, and saying something like this so suddenly—”
“Hobeom.”
Toward Seon Hobeom, who was fiercely resisting, Director Gye lowered his voice and called his name.
“How many years were you a trainee?”
“……3 years.”
“Then let me ask you just one thing. Did we only teach you guys singing and dancing?”
At those words, Seon Hobeom shut his mouth tight like a clam and avoided eye contact.
Since the agency had set up a system to assign homework on lyrics and composition to trainees every day, trainees usually had to put effort not only into dancing and singing but also into composition and lyrics.
“We’re not confident. No matter how much we’ve done it, this is on a different level.”
But the members knew all too well that even though they had practiced composition and lyrics for a long time, they weren’t at a level to write songs and put them on an album. Above all, since a full album meant an album that would remain for life in a singer’s career, the members wanted to only put good music in it.
And as if reading their hearts, Director Gye continued speaking.
“No. You have to do it. You’re not being made, you have to make yourselves. That’s how I taught you.”
“I know. I know, but what if the songs we write get ignored or buried?”
Ma Doun also spoke with a gloomy face. Probably that reason was what all the Abyss members present were most worried about.
“That’s why you have to work hard. So you won’t be ignored for being idols, and so your efforts won’t be disparaged.”
Nevertheless, when the members’ expressions didn’t clear up, Director Gye also had a troubled face.
“I wasn’t going to say this much, but know this one thing.”
Director Gye spoke to the kids.
“You know how many idols there are who want to sing songs they wrote but can’t, right?”
It was a fact all the members knew. Especially in the case of rookies who haven’t made it big belonging to an agency, even if they have their own songs, they aren’t even given a chance to sing them.
So they knew that the opportunity that had come was a very good opportunity, but everyone’s thought was that the timing was too early and burdensome for rookies like them now.
“Then everyone’s dismissed now!”
The Abyss members tried hard to nod their heads, but they couldn’t manage their expressions and still looked gloomy.
Director Gye, knowing the kids’ hearts, didn’t just smile and encourage them but simply nodded silently and quickly sent the kids out of the conference room in case they had more to say. And as soon as the door closed, he was herded by the staff.
“No, Director! How could you say it like that!”
“Did you see the kids’ expressions? Ah, what do we do?”
The staff looked back and forth between the door and the director restlessly, but he just burst into hearty laughter at the sight of such staff.
“We also have songs we’ve been looking at, so if they can’t fill the tracks, we’ll fill them with those songs, and the producers agreed to help the kids during the work! But how could you say it to the kids like that!”
“I know, I know.”
The reality was this. All the tracks were agreed to be reviewed together with the producers, and there was already a list of music to go in if they couldn’t fill the tracks.
But the reason Director Gye didn’t open his mouth despite that was.
“If I say that to lessen the burden, what level of completion will the songs the kids write have?”
“What?”
“70%? 50%? No. I bet it won’t even reach 50%. Because it’s not their song. If they know someone else will polish it, will the song come out perfect?”
In the first place, the possibility of the kids’ songs completely going into the tracks was also low. But if he said such things, it was obvious that the completion of the songs would drop, so he placed the burden and responsibility on the kids.
“Above all, I trust the Abyss kids. Having watched them until now, they’re kids who can easily write at least one song.”
It was also a conclusion reached knowing that they were kids who would achieve beyond expectations once they set their minds to it. Just looking at the skills they’d shown until now and the appearances he’d seen throughout their trainee life was enough.
“You guys also don’t want to see our kids being ignored for being idols, right?”
Since they had already seen enough of being disparaged for being idols to be sick of it, the staff also understood Director Gye’s choice to some extent. They just felt sorry for the kids who would suffer writing songs while feeling burdened.
* * *
As soon as the door closed, the Abyss members shut their mouths.
The members each had a few self-composed songs, but most only had solo songs, and there weren’t many songs suitable as group songs, so they had to start new work. So the members’ expressions, with work that suddenly increased in a short period, could only be endlessly dark.
“Uuuuugh, psycho.”
As if Seon Hobeom making strange sounds and scratching the wall, starting strange behavior, was a signal flare, everyone simultaneously suffered.
“Aigogo……”
Park Eden kept making groaning sounds with a face that said his head hurt, tapping his head repeatedly.
“Fine, songs we wrote, fine. But what, two months after debut……”
Onseol also kept spitting out confused soliloquies full of confusion, pressing his brow with a face that had a mental breakdown.
In the midst of everyone having a mental breakdown, only Ka Jerim’s eyes were sparkling. His cheeks were even flushed red, so Park Eden discovered such a Ka Jerim and asked while tilting his head, wondering if something was strange.
“Jerim, are you sick somewhere? Your cheeks are red.”
“I’m a bit excited.”
Ka Jerim gave an awkward smile at Eden’s words. The moment Seon Hobeom, who had been whining in a corner, heard that sound like a ghost and approached Ka Jerim blinking with question marks all over, was instantaneous.
“Excited? What excitement?”
“About our songs going in this time.”
Hearing those words, Seon Hobeom made a face that said he was seeing a complete crazy lunatic and said “Huh?” then spat out words rapidly.
“What? Why? You’re quite a lunatic too, aren’t you? Hey, what, us writing songs. The company must have decided to ruin us for sure. I’m already having such a hard time making beats, and now songs too s…… Agh! Seol hyung, why are you hitting me!”
“You need to be hit more.”
Onseol hit Seon Hobeom’s head with a thwack and laughed. Park Eden standing next to him also clicked his tongue while looking at Seon Hobeom with a pathetic face.
“Hobeom, please be more like Jerim.”
“What!”
The sight of Park Eden verbally beating up Seon Hobeom, Onseol using his long limbs to skillfully just tap his head with his hand, and Ma Doun caught between the bickering members trying to stop them, just watching made laughter come naturally. But only Ka Jerim was standing still, and the reason was because of what Director Gye had said.
‘You’re not being made, you have to make yourselves.’
To Ka Jerim, these words really resonated. Because he knew all too well how amazing it was to put songs he directly wrote on an album. He had thought he wouldn’t be able to put in self-composed songs for at least 2 years after debut, but he didn’t know an opportunity would come this quickly, so his heart pounded with anticipation. He wanted to write songs as soon as possible, even if it was just one day earlier.
“Hm?”
But the thought was brief. Ka Jerim, who turned on his phone that he had turned off during the meeting, checked his phone screen and tilted his head. There was a text from Go Yoon that came before the meeting.
Although Abyss wasn’t famous, they were surprisingly busy, being inserted as last-minute replacements for canceled schedules or occasionally running small-scale events, so recently he could barely contact Go Yoon. Go Yoon also barely contacted him to be considerate of such a Ka Jerim, so it was truly contact that came after a long time.
[Your phone is off. Nothing’s wrong, right? Call me when you see this.] >
“Something wrong……”
Ka Jerim started to worry because Go Yoon had never left a message asking him to call before. He couldn’t make a call from the dorm because the members were there. But he also couldn’t make a call right here in this place because the members could also hear the phone contents, so he started to worry about how he could safely make a call with Go Yoon.
‘Where should I make the call? Should I come out of the dorm and do it?’
