Chapter 21
After going to their training room and listening to the song, Dohyun commented, "She's really amazing, isn't she? C'mon, just how can one write songs so easily without even dropping quality? But I want to ask, whether it would suit the concept of our alb.u.m or not." Minho replied, "What's the concept of our alb.u.m, anyways? They never told us and we never asked."
Jun the spoke, "guys, everyone here is pressing with time. We don't have such a luxury of discussion. I guess, by the end of this week, we'll complete the audio recording. Anyway, back to practice. C'mon, let's do this."
On the following day, the recording was finished by 3 o'clock, way earlier than they expected because of easy lyrics. After the recording finished, as Jun and the other four bowed and about to leave, Sujin stopped them, "wait. You can't go home, yet. There's still a lot of time." As they looked at her in confusion, Sujin gave Jun, five papers and said with a smile, "You guys got very lucky this time. I wrote and saved this song for "Emphasis" for their next alb.u.m but the Chairman ordered me to just give this one to you.
Although it is such a piece of great news because Emphasis is the most popular male group of Echo, Jun, and other's expressions weren't that good as they were dead tired mentally because of the continuous recording for 7 hours straight.
After they bowed and slowly left the recording studio, the sound engineer said to Sujin, "you are pressuring them too much. This is just the audio recording. At this rate, they'll break." Sujin shook her head, "Nah, they aren't some newbie trainees that they can't even handle this much pressure. At the very least, I'm confident that three of them would have no problems and will complete the shootings of all the videos perfectly.
Even that dancer would be fine. The main problem is the rapper. Minho neither has stamina levels like
Meanwhile, the five of them returned to the training room. After taking a nap for an hour, Jun woke up and saw everyone is still sleeping. Looking at Dohyun, who was mumbling, "I'm getting hungry," Jun thought, "I forgot that we skipped lunch during the recording. I wonder if everyone's hungry too."
Jun went to the second-floor cafeteria and bought a lot of Gimbap with various flavors, sufficient enough for five of them. Then, after returning to the training room, he woke up everyone, "guys, wake up. It's almost 4:30. We need to start practicing the lines. As everyone woke up and washed their faces to clear their drowsiness, Jun placed the cover in front of them, "c'mon, let's fill our stomach, first."
After finis.h.i.+ng their meal, everyone started listening to the song as Jun played it. After listening to the entire song, everyone's tired mood immediately lifted as it was indeed a catchy song. Minho commented, "Now, this was my type of song. I'm sure after arranging and production is over, this will be popular for sure." Minsu snorted, "Please, you are just too happy that you have more lines."
Minho then scratched his cheek in embarra.s.sment, "well, that's one of the reasons." Jun laughed while slapping on his back, lightly, "Just do your best, Minho." But his mood became crest-fallen lightly as some of his parts were given to Minsu and HaeSeong, which made everyone, got almost equal number.
After the fourth and final track recording completed by the 12th of August, a new teaser released on their website and other SNS accounts.
At 21:00 hours, members of Unlimited were sitting on their sofas and watching the video on their official website on television, forgetting all the headaches they had, an hour ago. Meanwhile, somewhere in Seoul, in their crew van, Sparkles group are also watching in the Tab, while they were returning from the shooting of a variety show.
This time, the intro was a little bit different. Instead of the name appearing, the footsteps were heard first, then followed by the boys throwing the glowing b.a.l.l.s and breaking the screen. Slowly, the name, Unlimited, appeared with the broken gla.s.s pieces followed by a sentence "those who break the limits," with catchy electronic music.
After the intro was done, the screen blackout and then, Dohyun picture appeared. As they were giving out his introduction, his photos began to change, in various poses; he has given in the photoshoot. He was sometimes Solo and other times with instruments. Name, Birthday, height and weight, position, training period appeared along with them and at last, twenty-five seconds of his best clip in the past year, him, playing the piano and singing a melody, without any mic or makeup.
After his introduction was over, the words, "Next up," and the photo of HaeSeong appeared. Then, it went blackout again. After clapping lightly, Jun and others scroll down the comments in various SNS and their expressions became dark as the new teaser has mixed critics.
While most of them were praising that their maknae is talented and cute, some commented that despite having four years of training, his performance is only above average and not a top-level. The hater netizens are normal. They just hate and complain about everything whether it's good or bad. There are also netizens, who are interested in the profile of Jun. And these are all just a few hundreds, who became interested in the new group, which was about to debut.
As Dohyun became a little bit angry, looking at the negative comments and busy cursing them in a muttering, Jun patted his shoulder, "it's fine. They'll change opinions once our song is out." Dohyun looked at him and nodded with a smile.
Looking at the announcement that HaeSeong is going to be next, Minsu commented, "At this rate, Hyung going to be the last one, right?" Jun nodded, "I guess. Ok, guys go and sleep, right now. Our shooting will start in the afternoon. Even though we have enough time, it's better to stay in our optimal condition to complete the shooting quickly. After all, we don't even know the Ch.o.r.eography and will be taught there directly. Dohyun, stop staring at those comments, and go to your room." Minsu chuckled, "everyone must also pray that we don't get a devil director like Sujin."
The next day afternoon, as they reached the location of the film studio, rented for them, everyone looked at Minho and he closed his mouth with his hands and spoke, "oops, sorry." Before them, the director, who is standing is one of the famous directors, who directed famous music videos of famous groups like Clover, Resonance, Y Vision, etc... But the most problem is that he is well known for insults.