194. The long-awaited 3rd album
There were two factors that caused expectations for the 3rd album to explode.
First, Closer’s fans are extremely obsessed with the word ‘last’.
In any case, the word ‘last’ is bound to have a ripple effect, and now the number of fans has grown the largest.
Expectations for Closer’s last album were sky high.
Secondly, our company Bitdam was in charge of producing them.
My last participation album has already received very favorable reviews from both me and the teacher.
Of course, very few people knew that RKRO was active in Bitdam under the name Mini, but many people still trusted our team as if it were a religious organization.
The release date is finally upon us.
They say it will be released for the first time at 8 o’clock tomorrow, but I felt like I was several times more nervous than Doah.
“Oppa. “Stop looking at the community?”
Doa in pajamas standing behind her holding a mug.
After seeing what she was looking at, I clicked the mouse and closed the window I was looking at.
“Ah. “I feel like I’m going crazy.”
“Why are you complaining when you did a good job?”
“Just haa… I don’t know.”
Now there was nothing I could do.
I already made it and handed it over, but I can’t edit it.
Doa put down her cup and hugged me tightly.
“It’s okay. It will definitely be a hit. We.”
“That should work.”
“Let’s come out and eat together.”
I slowly started to get used to the meal that Doa prepared for her.
“Today’s menu is~ dugudugududu~”
After pounding my stomach like a drum, Doa brought out her plate.
“It’s kimchi fried rice!”
“…Wasn’t it kimchi fried rice yesterday too?”
“But the ham and green onions remained ambiguous, so I did it again.”
“Really?”
What does it mean to give something?
I had no intention of complaining about the menu and side dishes.
“Ah. Brother.”
“Yes.”
“You have to eat it and compare the taste with yesterday. “You understand.”
“What’s different?”
“The video I saw yesterday is different. What was this? Is it that dark recipe or something? “I saw that and followed suit.”
It definitely seemed more reddish in color than what I ate yesterday.
Doa did not have a great talent for cooking, but she liked watching videos and making food.
She generally made things from recipes, so the failure rate was low, but she was distressed when something went wrong once in a while.
“…How do you feel?”
“It’s delicious.”
I always had to start by saying it was delicious.
It didn’t really matter what it tasted like.
“How about comparing it to yesterday? “Does this taste better?”
“Yesterday felt a little more like home cooking…? “I think it’s more like eating outside today.”
“Oh… I see.”
Doa scooped up a large spoonful of fried rice and brought it to her mouth, nodding her head as if she agreed.
“This is a version with some chemical seasoning.”
“Somehow. “It was familiar.”
“All you need is the taste.”
For dessert, we each ate the ice cream we bought at the supermarket yesterday and turned on the TV.
There were many times when, unless I was watching a movie or drama, I would mindlessly tune in to the news, but at that moment, news about the metaverse was playing on TV.
Screens of VR World, which is often shown on Doado broadcasts, were shown all the time.
[It has already become a very common world to create human relationships through the Internet.]
[The interesting thing is that the way he does it becomes more and more realistic as technology develops.]
[If the previous generation’s communication took place through text chatting, now avatars that reflect voices and even facial expressions have appeared.]
[Online spaces will increasingly consume the demand for offline spaces in the future.]
Doa sits quietly next to her and blinks.
“What are you thinking?”
I asked her who is at the forefront of her industry.
From noble mtl dot com
“Do you think that our next generation’s children may actually not need to make friends at school?”
“A. Still, it has to be there.”
“If we progress a little further here and actually go full dive, wouldn’t there be a need for that? “I think all you have to do is sit with your honorary avatar on.”
“I saw it somewhere, but it’s a long way from coming out.”
“I don’t know. “Ten years ago, I didn’t even know we would have a thing called Virtube like we do now.”
That was correct.
Ten years ago, I didn’t know that I would become a loser and lose my brain when I saw Pantegi.
I would have believed him if I told him he was just an otaku fanatic, but I don’t think the boy Taemin would have believed me when I told him he was falling in love with a vertuber.
“Then what if later?”
IF is always unrealistic.
“We had a child, but he became a teenager.”
“Yes.”
“But he got a girlfriend inside that virtual world.”
Doah’s expression has already started to become anxious.
“So?”
“I wear that device on my head for 10 hours a day and don’t leave my room.”
Even as I spoke, I didn’t feel very good.
“Then what should I do?”
Doa, who slowly moved her eyebrows without saying a word, said just one word.
“I’m glad it’s not a man…”
You are generous. Kim Do-ah.
* * *
I often thought that it would be very touching to watch an event related to Closer with Doa.
But just as the audience and actor cannot be in the same place, Doah, the viewer and the streamer herself, had to maintain their distance at important moments.
In the end, I ended up working overtime instead of working overtime, so I bought a beer that my teacher had requested for an errand and trudged up the stairs.
“I’m here.”
“Hey! Come fast! “It begins now!”
It was awkward at first to do this with the beam projector turned on, but after spending some time here, I felt like I just got used to it.
“What rank do you see on the charts?”
If salesmen had sales and students had grades, we had music charts.
Especially in the case of the teacher, since he had already won first place several times, he must have had his own goals.
“Are those idol grades or mine?”
“But when you run a business, you use your own resume.”
“If it goes well, just spoon it on. What.”
When I sat down in the chair and took out the beer can, the entire screen turned black, like the lights going off in a movie theater.
YM Entertainment’s calligraphy that appears after about 2 seconds.
Both the teacher and I held our breath and focused our eyes on the screen.
-Ding ding ding
Although it was an animation, the style was not that chewy.
A railroad and traffic lights are featured on a watercolor-toned background.
“Oh…”
The song has an addictive melody, but isn’t this the same as the movie ending OST?
I thought it was a little surprising, but there was no defect in the quality itself, so I just watched the video in silence.
No. Rather, it would be more accurate to say that the quality is overflowing.
In particular, in the highlight chorus, there were scenes where the colors spread across the drawing paper, and as soon as the teacher and I saw it, our mouths hung open and we were speechless.
What on earth do I have to do to make that…
The song flew by in just 3 minutes, and the chat window was filled with praise in all kinds of languages.
Of course, there were the most Koreans, but English was also visible, and that unidentifiable thing… Was it… Spanish?
It felt very unfamiliar that a Spanish person living on the other side of the world was watching K Virtuber.
[Everyone! Hello!]
The screen that appears after the song ends is a group shot from the last scene of the music video.
It was a scene where colorful fireworks were blooming above their heads.
Our Doaga is bending down and making a V.
Usually at times like this, everyone comes out wearing an avatar, but I don’t see them wearing those today.
Starting with Jennifer, the other members also greeted us one by one.
[Hello everyone!]
[Luharuha~ Hello everyone~]
[What did everyone think?]
Today, Closer is said to be broadcasting in a rare radio format.
In fact, it seemed like it left a more lasting impression because I just put up that one illustration and only heard the voice.
An introduction to the song follows.
The first thing mentioned is our Bitdam story.
[It is said that many producers, led by Ashblock, helped.]
[That’s right! I heard that Mini, who did our summer records, also joined us?]
What? Kim Do-ah. Why do you mention my name?
“Hey. Taemin. You are saintly hey.”
When the teacher raised the beer can as if it was funny, I smiled and accepted the toast.
“I see. But did you miss the sensibility of the music video?”
“That’s right. I thought I’d just go with 3D modeling this time, but I ended up doing art instead.”
Art.
Yes. It would have been better to say that it was art.
If this isn’t art, what is?
[First of all, I would like to thank the producers, and our art team would also like to express our infinite gratitude. How can it be so pretty…]
On the first day of release, our music chart performance was successful in ranking 6th, beating out many famous idols.
