Episode 310
Testa’s concert started with the underwater view fully realized in the concert hall.
And what unfolded… It was an unexpected performance for a gamer who came to the concert with a friend.
‘her.’
Usually, whether the subject is a singer or an idol, when you say ‘concert’, there is a format you expect.
A performance in which the performer presents his or her own stage.
After mixing and distributing the hit songs and the latest songs, the order is adjusted so that the tension of the performance does not drop.
And, in fact, Testa has also done such a concert so far, so her friends gave her a similar explanation.
-There are a lot of songs you know, so it will be fun haha
-Yes, and all the kids are really handsome and good at it. Ticket prices are unconditional!
But not now. Instead, this concert had a story.
[
I don’t want to get out of
the night when I’m slowly submerged]
Through the dry ice, the elegant choreography from modern dance unfolds as if floating in the sea.
Selected as the first song, it is ‘Midnight and Next’ arranged with a perfect orchestra.
It was a very unique choice.
This is because it is common for idols with a lot of hit songs over the years to skip the songs they performed a lot in the beginning of their debut as a medley at best.
However, Testa dared to use this song while arranging it.
Because this is the starting point of the narrative that will be shown in this performance. [
Forget all
the songs and dreams. It’s midnight here.
Your Midnight]
The boy who fell into the sea dies in the past along with his dreams.
The mainspring turns and the members sink into the sea and experience the past.
The members lay down in the deep sea at the same time as the grandfather bell signaled the end of ‘Midnight and Next’.
[Dang-]
And the stage background naturally becomes a classroom.
As if in a dream, the lighting changes and becomes clearer.
The song that connects naturally is ‘High Five’. A bright and cheerful rock sound that sings of cheerful youth!
The members get up and run around the stage doing a choreography where they grin and roll their feet after an interlude where they are slightly bewildered.
[My feet move
faster and farther!]
The boy who went back to the past pursues his dream, falls in love, and develops the strength to meet and overcome enemies.
In each context, Testa’s songs were woven into each one.
Of course, Testa is an idol, and the story was not as explicit as a real musical or opera.
However, I was able to fully understand the context through the lyrics, the atmosphere, and the VCR that appeared in between.
Especially if you don’t have a lot of background knowledge in Testa!
‘this…Is this the song you originally made to do this?’
It was to the extent that gamers were perplexed.
Fans were familiar with the song, so it was a little smoother, but in fact, the members put in an expression that matched the story between each song.
And gamers accepted all of the text in equal proportions to the song.
Embarrassment Joy Tension Boundaries… .
Because of his overflowing talent and expressive power, gamers quickly immersed themselves in unfamiliar songs.
The main character on stage, who has grown through the realization of love, puts on an intense performance as if showing off his strength.
[Bite and enjoy
Now Spring out!]
The narrative enhances the three-dimensional effect of the stage.
In the end, by the time the concert-type performance using guns and dancers exploded intensely, she was almost unconsciously applauding and cheering at the end of the stage!
“omg.”
It’s not like they’re cheering for idol concerts, but they’re reacting like these conditional reflexes?
Asking herself what kind of musical she came to see, she was dumbfounded, but there was no need for that.
Testa was more sincere.
The lights flickered at the end of the intense ‘Spring out’ ending, with high notes and strong choreography in harmony.
A tearing roar and heart-thumping epic upsurge.
But in an instant, everything stopped as if washed.
“…!”
After the song that ended with a splendid climax… It’s time for a break.
[~Intermission~]
[Act 2 begins soon.]
They even kept the format of the intermission alive.
It’s like asking you to think over what you just saw. As if to inflate expectations further.
[Yahoo!]
The gamer opened his mouth as he watched the VCR playing, with the members running around in animal pajamas, like some kind of public service announcement.
It wasn’t just her.
Like an intermission, when the lights turned on and the atmosphere loosened up, the fans started to run amok with the tacit permission that seemed to be a ‘break time’.
“Uh uh uh uh….”
“What is this?”
There were numerous people holding their smartphones and frantically writing something down.
And gamers also got a message.
-The great genius, the great genius, the great genius,
-(collapsed emoticon)
They were two friends.
When I visually checked where they were sitting, it seemed that both of them were sending KakaoTalk messages with their eyes completely fixed on the VCR.
‘Huh.’
It was kind of scary.
But I got a little bit of understanding. ‘It’s well made so that even people like me who don’t know anything can enjoy it.’
A concert like this is worth seeing at least once. Saying that she knew the reason for the force, she admitted inwardly.
It was the first time that Testa had performed this type of performance, and thanks to this, she did not even guess that SNS was a mess. Unlike before, she waited for the second act with more excitement.
‘Am I just about to fight?’
Because she was familiar with the narrative of the main character of the royal road game! There was no fun without the colorful dancing and singing!
Soon, the performance resumed with lively announcements.
[Audience, were you a little surprised by what these guys were thinking when they put on a performance like this? Are you somewhat curious?]
This is Lee Se-jin.
When the audience is buzzing with laughter and reactions to that clever comment.
[However, you will soon see what happens to the testa. Then Act 2 begins now.
The lights go out.
When the light orchestra flows and the performers cut the tempo appropriately, people’s hearts are filled with anticipation again.
Now gamers are easily impressed.
‘Did you do it with the feeling that the audience is participating on the stage?’
There was an aspect of this perverted level of detail that stimulated the hearts of maniacs!
‘It was completely determined!’
Yes.
Testa delicately framed and poured her skills into this performance to give it a story context and immersion.
However, no matter how they were put together, there was an unavoidable gap between them.
Testa’s songs weren’t composed for a single story, and they weren’t as rich in variety as musicians’ songs in musicals.
So, the cover stage fills that void.
It was a solo and unit performance.
The second act was filled with the latest popular songs to be highlights and cover songs to support them.
So Testa had to calculate and move very elaborately even behind the scenes.
* * *
“Heo Eok.”
“Three minutes!”
Backstage where moaning and short-answering shouts come and go.
It’s a nerve-wracking noise, and it’s nasty, and I keep counting.
‘It’s tight.’
As the connection between the stage and the feeling of the stage became more important, the time to catch my breath was reduced. Because there is no time to talk or relax between stages.
– Wow!
I clicked my tongue to avoid being swept away by the cheers I had just heard.
And I thought soberly.
‘As expected, likes and dislikes will be divided.’
Right now, the audience will love it because it’s fresh and fun, but the moment their heads cool down, the words come out.
There will be fans who want to communicate more interactively at concerts.
To make up for that, it was the right decision to plan W Live communication after the performance.
‘good.’
There was no more time to be satisfied. Just in time, the guy next to me who was going up on the next stage was dying.
I asked Kim Rae-bin, whose face was white.
“Are you worried?”
“yes? Oh no We will do our best to show you a stage that will satisfy the fans… !”
Kim Rae-bin answered quickly, but he was opening and closing his hands.
It means you are more nervous than usual.
‘It’s no wonder.’
I crossed my arms.
We lacked this experience.
Efforts to understand and implement the songs unilaterally given by others without touching them.
After debuting, there was almost no career that fit oneself into a work that was already completed according to the composer’s intention.
‘Because I continued to participate in the song and concept.’
It is no different from omitting the training that a rookie would originally practice over 45 years and use as a foundation.
I can’t touch the sound source, so everything else… Especially learning how to use yourself to the limit.
‘I will learn this opportunity.’
That was also the part where we had to tear apart one by one today and show them properly.
Why did Keun Se-jin revise the set list in such a way that the story stands out in the first place?
It was simple.
-You decided not to touch the song~ Are you using that time here?
Excluding the time for arranging, he added the ability to further refine himself in that void.
The factor that the performer considers and expresses on stage even includes ‘context’.
I hit Raebin Kim on the back.
“Practice was good, so come comfortably.”
A swallowing sound was heard.
“…yes.”
Kim Rae-bin nodded firmly.
Well, actually, it’s a problem that’s okay if you don’t do this.
“It’s Mumundae, I have to move with Lavin over there….”
The guy who had finished his transformation came sneaking up in front of Kim Rae-bin.
Seon Ah-hyun.
He is the member who will do a unit performance with Raebin Kim on the next stage. I smiled and opened my mouth.
“Seon Ah-hyun.”
“Yes?”
“I think Kim Rae-bin will do well on stage.”
Seon Ah-hyun answered without blinking an eye.
“huh.”
Resoluteness without a single hesitation. It was a rare self-confidence for a guy.
“thank you…!”
Thanks to that, Kim Rae-bin seemed to be impressed by the momentum. The two shook hands before running away.
“Ooh, let’s do well and come!”
“yep!”
‘It’s good that I pasted it.’
There is a basis for Seon Ah-hyun’s conviction. Because he’s the only one of us who doesn’t need to lay a foundation like this.
because it’s already
Sun Ah-hyun devoted her childhood to the goal of presenting perfect interpretations of the intentions of her previous works.
Nome was a senior ballet major.
“Ooh we’re going…!”
“okay.”
I saw Kim Rae-bin and Seon Ah-hyun running.
The picture was fine.
* * *
Right before the stage.
[This is the sound that calls you]
The performance of the boy’s inner temptation called ‘Call’ is over. Bae Se-jin, whose throat was caught, glared at the audience.
‘Ahhhh!!’
Park Mun-dae’s Homma swallowed the cry inside.
‘How can you come up with such a cute and lively genius plan at a concert and not even promote it! Could it be that ‘as rich as a musical’ was a hint in the description of the detail page!’
And I took a deep breath. I had to calm down.
Even if Park Moon-dae’s gloomy solo part added to the calling performance was so incredibly sexy that I wanted to chew on it, I had to watch the next stage closely!
[Tuk.]
But when I looked at the VCR, it seemed that the unit stage would appear next.
‘hmm.’
Just by looking at the two hands shaking hands, she guessed that it was not Park Moon-dae. So I relaxed a bit.
‘Let’s enjoy it as a stage.’
Taking care of her reason, she fixed her gaze again.
At that moment, even under the stage, the members of Testa, who had also changed their outfits, were waiting and watching the monitors.
“Start!”
Park Moon-dae tried to touch his chin, but he lowered his hand, conscious of his makeup.
And I focused on the screen.
The stage scene was being broadcast on a large monitor installed by the dedicated team.
For the unit stage inserted in the final build-up stage of the climax, the VCR turns off and the music starts playing.
Rrrrrrrrrrr!
It is the intense sound of a progressive rock band that was responsible for the end-of-the-century experimentation of the 90s.
‘Implementation may be good.’
A boy who was defeated at the decisive moment in a confrontation with the enemy.
The performance following the ‘Call’, which was a temptation for greater power, is ultimately an inner conflict.
The thunderous electrification that raged like an intense temptation soon fades away, and the elegant and agile sound that was active in the first act fills its place.
Orchestral violin solo and low vocals.
[A place to stay dizzy]
So, Sun Ah-hyun is the first to go up on stage.
Symbols that symbolize reason and intellect are all expressed through directing, and the characters gently cross the stage.
A white spotlight falls along with the motion applied to modern dance.
[Standing on tiptoe]
It was an experimental song, but it did not harm the performance performed with Seo on stage.
Because the delivery power was unbelievably good.
“and.”
“Cooool.”
Ahyeon, wearing a white outfit and drawing straight lines, perfectly portrayed the whole scene of the song.
The unshakable vocals even melt into one of the accompaniment, making the performance stand out.
[Even if the lights change, I have to keep my voice]
[Step by step]
The fabric flutters as she stretches out her hands, flips back, and lands softly.
The power of that proficiency level, which seemed to use up to one inch of remaining capacity, was extraordinary.
‘really….’
The static climax that the audience falls in love with.
But the dissonance comes into play here.
thud.
the violin breaks
Rrrrrrrrrrr!
Elec rushes in.
Then, with a flashing spotlight, another person appears from the other side of the stage.
[Red light]
This is Kim Rae-bin wearing clothes tightened with countless black buckles.
He didn’t dance or anything.
Instead, they just moved forward slowly with head microphones.
slowly overbearingly.
[You’ll fall if you walk,
stop there and go back]
Then, the rap shot out.
The mixed rap in English and Korean started slowly and then got faster.
And an electronic crackle from the microphone.
It was a song performed in collaboration with a Korean rapper at a band concert in the 2000s.
At that time, the focus of the performance of this song remained in the interview.
-A song where you have to break in like an uninvited guest in the middle of the stage and become the owner,
and Raebin Kim did just that. He pushed the orchestra away and forced himself onto the stage to the tempo of the electrics.
[Tick-tock Tick-tock]
[When the lines change, you are not you.
Where your feet are, your heart is.]
The rap enters, the gestures grow, and the choreography expands.
take the stage
Accompanied by the sound of the orchestra, Seon Ah-hyun faced a short and intense performance like a final resistance, but it was already eaten away by all directing.
Thus, the orchestra disappears and Seon Ah-hyun falls impressively from one side along with the stage equipment and disappears.
Rrrrrrrrrrr!
The stage completely changed the tone. And only then, Rabin Kim’s short and intense choreography with dancers fills the stage as much as the time Seon Ah-hyun dominated in the beginning.
-Wak. Wak. Wak. Wak!
In the midst of the dancers’ group dance mixed with dominant and intense krump, Kim Rae-bin matched his feet and fluttered the hem of his coat.
Inwardly, impulses ruled.
In this way, the song was reproduced in the 2020s with the meaning of the original songwriter’s intention.
Except for the single ending.
– Um-um-um.
Jisung did not come back.
The only thing that stood until the end was impulse. -Ending of
Get off
song Raebin Kim turned back and disappeared under the stage.
* * *
Wow!!!
“Wow!”
The screams of the concert hall resonate as if they would shatter even the framework of the narrow hallway in the backstage.
Originally, I am generous with cheers, but this is enough to be honest impressions.
‘It means that unit’s cover song was as good as the original stage.’
It was a success. I was happy to open my mouth.
“It was good.”
“Thank you…!”
Seon Ah-hyun, who returned first, smiled while covering herself with a towel. And the one remaining has now appeared in the hallway. The members cheered generously.
“Kim Raebin!!”
“Really good job! It was so cool!”
“thank you…!”
Kim Rae-bin, who took off his coat, nodded his head with a flushed face.
‘I must have done quite well even in my own opinion.’
It’s rare to find someone so honest.
I chuckled.
“good job.”
“yes…!”
Without saying anything further, I tapped Kim Rae-bin on the shoulder a few times.
There won’t be any more time to do it anyway.
“Change your costume.”
“ah!!”
Kim Rae-bin opened his mouth as if he was about to say something, but immediately entrusted himself to the staff to carry out the mission of ‘recovering in 20 seconds’.
“Now, there are 150 seconds left~ Shall we go to the parade?”
“Come!”
Yes, the concert is still not over.
And that wasn’t all I had prepared.
