NOVEL NEXT Chapter 21 - I'm Going to Become a Singer
People are obsessed with singers’ singing, specifically their live performances.
And there was one eternal answer to this question.
Mountains are mountains and water is water. In other words, a singer is someone who sings well.
But not all singers loved by people were great vocalists.
There were clearly singers who brought joy to people with beautiful lyrics, unique aura, and impressive performances, even if their singing or live performances were lacking.
However, when Baek Yerin’s stage was revealed to the world, people realized once again.
That in the face of overwhelming vocal skills and live performance, the things mentioned earlier inevitably become meaningless.
Thanks to this, the world heated up once again.
[Is that a middle schooler’s live performance? I’m truly shocked. How can a middle schooler sing like that in a live performance?]
└Because she’s a genius. There’s a reason she released a 3rd album from debut
└A monster 3rd album rookie singer appears ㄷㄷ
└Really, only mismatching words are gathered here lol
[I heard she only started properly learning to sing half a year ago.]
└What?? She’s only been properly learning to sing for half a year? I’m still the same after going to a vocal academy for half a year
└Just give up lol
└But that’s not something you can sing by learning. Baek Yerin was born to sing well from birth ㅇㅇ
[The Baek Yerin festival video going viral is legendary too. It’s 2nd on YouTube’s real-time trending videos, check it out.]
└So that was before she properly learned to sing?
└I wonder what kind of battle Haneul Middle School has at their festival…
└Thumbs up for RT Entertainment who held back laughter until releasing this
└ㄱㅊ
└But what’s 1st on real-time trending videos?
└Of course it’s Baek Yerin’s Music Save stage video
└Oh I see
[At this point, I’m really curious. Everyone who’s heard Baek Yerin’s live performance praises it, so I want to go hear it myself. In that sense, RT Entertainment should quickly hold a Baek Yerin concert.]
└The ticket competition for that won’t be easy
└Black market tickets might really go for hundreds of thousands?
[I understand Baek Yerin’s live skills have been rediscovered, but all of this is possible because of Haon’s songs.]
└This person’s starting again lol
└Who’s Haon?
└All the songs in Baek Yerin’s album were made by a composer named Haon. But they’ve firmly stated they won’t reveal their identity in the future
└That side is a monster too, wow
└I hope it’s a woman if possible. Just imagining it is thrilling.
└?
Currently, all sorts of stories were circulating in the internet world. Fortunately, most were just about the shock and curiosity about Baek Yerin.
And as all attention focused entirely on her, interest in me gradually began to fade.
Still, like the last post I saw, my story pops up occasionally, but…
“Arghhhh! Baek Yerin! Even if everyone in the world likes you, I hate you!!!”
Could it be this bastard…?
Kim Tae-hwan screamed with a strange outburst.
It was like the reaction of a villainess in a romance fantasy who directly witnessed the male lead falling in love with the female lead.
In simple terms, it meant his appeal was no joke.
I sighed and played along with him.
“Are you having a fit because your beloved Haon is being overshadowed by Baek Yerin?”
“But they’re not overshadowed? They’re still being discussed among experts?”
“Anyway, Haon must have their own thoughts. It’s not like we can ask them directly.”
“No? I’m going to ask them directly.”
“?”
Somehow the conversation flowed naturally, but the content within was strange.
Ask Haon directly?
How?
Don’t tell me this bastard…
‘Has he noticed my identity?’
For a moment, I got goosebumps all over.
Originally, Kim Tae-hwan has pretty good instincts.
But this time, it wasn’t something to just pass over even with good instincts.
If he really noticed my identity…
Hmm. Come to think of it, nothing much would change.
I grinned and opened my mouth again.
“How are you going to ask Haon directly?”
“I’m going to become a singer.”
“Ah. I see. A singer…?”
A moment of silence fell.
And at that timing, Kim Tae-hwan continued nonchalantly:
“I’ll become famous enough as a singer to make Haon want to contact me first, and get a song from them. Simple, right?”
He said that while nodding as if it was quite a reasonable thought.
How should I put it.
Sometime, I feel like I’ve definitely had this conversation before…
And it definitely wasn’t just a feeling.
─Hey, I’m going to become a composer.
─ Oh, this joke is really novel?
─ I’m not joking, I’m serious.
─ Well… since you’re saying it with such a serious expression, it doesn’t seem like a joke. So let me ask the reason. Why are you suddenly making such a choice? You’ve never properly learned music in your life.
─ I just want Baek Yerin to sing my songs.
─ Wait. Is that all?
─ Yes. That’s purely all.
─ Wow… you’re really crazy.
Only our positions had changed, I too had once told Kim Tae-hwan about my dream.
And he just called me crazy, but never laughed at my dream.
‘Rather, he helped a lot.’
Giving feedback on my songs from a general public’s perspective.
Buying me breakfast, or lunch, or dinner when I was living as an unknown composer.
Hmm. No matter how I think about it, he’s a good guy?
So I won’t laugh at his dream either.
Just.
“Were you good at singing?”
I was just curious about his real singing skills.
When I suggested going to a karaoke, he always said what’s the point of two guys going to karaoke? and we always went somewhere else,
And during music classes, he sang half-heartedly while spouting nonsense about controlling his strength for the sake of his friends’ self-esteem.
But as his long-time friend, I have to know.
That Kim Tae-hwan is definitely not the kind of guy to blurt out that he’ll become a singer without any basis.
“Wow… you really didn’t know?”
But Kim Tae-hwan sighed at my question for some reason.
Then he naturally handed me his mobile phone.
Someone’s YouTube channel was accessed on his phone screen.
By the way, I knew this YouTuber.
Because there was a YouTuber who was active under such a name in my previous life too.
Currently with 300,000 subscribers, but in the future, a famous song cover specialist YouTuber set to have 5 million.
[Tae-E Tae]
A clear, high-pitched voice. With a very wide vocal range capable of handling even most female key songs, and above all, a voice that doesn’t stick to genres is his strength.
And ironically, no one knows Tae-E’s real face.
Because it’s just a light hobby of covering songs, he has no intention of revealing his face, just listen to the songs…
This was his direction.
But you know.
“I am that Tae-E.”
“What?”
“If you don’t believe me, click on the recent video. I covered Rewind and the views are doing quite well.”
This life’s Tae-E seemed to have changed his direction for his goal.
As he said, Tae-E’s recent videos were only ones revealing his own face.
And in that video, Kim Tae-hwan was singing. With the voice of Tae-E that I remembered.
There are people whose speaking voice and singing voice are very different, and it seems the example was right next to me.
“Oh, 300,000 subscriber YouTuber! Did you subscribe to your channel?”
“Wow~ As expected, Teacher Choi’s love for students! Thank you!”
At that moment, Kim Tae-hwan exchanged very familiar greetings with a passing teacher.
Come to think of it, Kim Tae-hwan had been popular enough to receive awards at school recently. I was too busy with Baek Yerin’s matter to know the reason, but it feels like I just took a red pill.
Now I understand why he was so interested in music-related news.
─ It feels like there’s a slight gap between the melodies? If you just fix this part, it might become a song I want to sing too?
And I think I realized why his feedback was quite useful in my previous life.
Although it was a hobby, he had immersed himself in the life of a musician to some extent.
Anyway, knowing all the truth made my head throb a bit.
Tae-E, who had been active without revealing his face, revealed his face to gain fame…
─ I’m going to enter Seolhwa Arts High School.
My sister, who had given up on the path of music, started walking the path of music again.
Probably all of this happened because of the butterfly effect caused by my return to the past.
But it’s okay.
“Welcome!”
Because I came back to the past, I can face Baek Yerin’s smile right in front of me like this.
When I visited RT Entertainment’s CEO’s office, she greeted me with her usual welcoming face.
Facing that smile, I felt like my distracting thoughts disappeared instantly.
Well… okay.
It’ll work out somehow.
I decided to just think about moving forward with Baek Yerin for now.
In that sense, the immediate task is…
“Won’t you come to my house tomorrow?”
…?
Excuse me?