The Real

[rvnoeul]

rvnamil​:

“it is! if it’s written on a piece of paper, it’s a recipe!” namil insisted, though he wasn’t sure what noeul meant by weird. sure, some of his culinary dabbling had been adventurous, but weird? namil didn’t see it. “your mother is cooking too– does that help?”

“Are you following it, though?” Noeul considered with some apprehension for a moment, he didn’t know much about cooking, admittedly. But that sounded like it was right.  “I guess so... yeah, it does help a little bit.”

[rvjakey]

“you know, liberty has to be going under soon at this point, right?” jaekyung said out of the blue, chewing on their thumbnail. “that’s the excuse they always give us, right? don’t have enough money for good music videos and more comebacks or promotion and shit. either they’re lying or about to go bankrupt.” @rvnoeul​ @xifengrv​ 

[rvnoeul]

“I don’t know, but it's getting ridiculous,” Noeul said, arms folded over his chest. “like is there a point to keeping us around if they're not gonna do anything with us? Or are they expecting us to pick up shit on our own?"

[rvnoeul]

rvchunja​:

“it’s so stupid– shows like sketchbook always like advertise themselves as having such a high standard for vocals and being so real, but they’re the worst culprits. and then you’ll hear the raw footage from a fancam, and it’s not even bad!”

“For real, it’s so hypocritical! Like, If you’re going to market yourself as a show with a lot of prestige, the least you can do is be transparent about what you expect from the artists going on the show and put trust in them to give a good performance.”

[rvnoeul]

rvkyuyeol​:

“i think, at the very least, we were a lot looser than groups now. if that makes sense,” he mused aloud. “we didn’t have the polished choreography, and we didn’t really lipsync. i think having a rock version for our live performances suited us. but i have to agree– travelling for concerts is exhausting, but somehow, i still got more sleep doing that than a normal promotion circuit.”

“It’s like, travelling for concerts is usually more time in transit if you’re going far away so theres more time for naps, but with promotions you kind of have to be on all day and you’re only sleep time is in the van for maybe an hour at the most.”

[rvnoeul]

rvnamil​:

“family dinner this weekend– you’ll all be there, no exceptions,” namil announced, pushing his sunglasses up his nose. “i already have talked to all of your management, so you can’t pretend like you aren’t free. i learned a new recipe just for the occasion!” @rvnoeul​ @rvbeomsoo​ @rvmiran​ @rvnari​ 

Noeul didn’t have any problems with visiting family, but the prospect of his dad’s cooking is definitely something that he’s tried to avoid in the past more than once. “Is it an actual recipe this time? Please tell me it’s not something weird!”

[rvnoeul]

rvmatty​:

“i feel like there’s no shortage of world records as long as  you put enough qualifiers,” matika agreed with a snort. “those world record books get thicker and thicker by the year.”

“I think they must be trying to get a world record for themselves of world’s thickest book or something,” Noeul said with a laugh. “There’s got to be a better way to achieve it, though.”

[rvnoeul]

soladarv​:

“super niche, but super cute– i’d love to see something like that someday! i mean, for a band group i guess. symphony groups don’t seem to be a thing on the horizon,” she laughed

“Yeah... probably not. There’s like, way too many moving parts there now that I’m really thinking about it,” Noeul laughed.

[rvnoeul]

rvhope​:

“yeah, and jei seems to really like working on terra. i mean, i don’t know her personally, but she does all her own music, right? and her boyfriend helps? which means she kinda can control when she promotes. i think all things considered, new age is doing okay,” hoa insisted optimistically. “and i know people were worried about byulbit being on all the time but…honestly the only person to worry about is tiwi. the rest of us are only in one or two units so we get long breaks, but she’s kind of always going…”

“I’m not sure exactly... that sounds right, though,” Noeul said. “Getting to be on stage that much sounds kind of ideal to me, but like -- I kinda wonder what they were thinking with putting her in so many subunits that are like... all over the world. I guess there’s not really overlap, but still.”

[rvnoeul]

rvkyuyeol​:

“mostly rock instruments. some keyboards and synths and dj set ups for looping and incorporating some other sounds too, though. i always enjoyed it– it gave the concerts a very fresh feeling compared to, say, music show lives.”

“That sounds way cool -- Empire seemed more like rockstars anyway,” Noeul said. “Concerts are definitely better than music show lives. They don’t feel as like.... squashed if that makes any sense.”

[rvnoeul]

rvmatty​:

“totally depends on who you are,” she giggled. “it’d take me a week. deokjun is mister math, though, he could do it in an hour.”

“That could make for one of the dumbest and most specific world records - shortest time counting the members of an orchestra by an idol singer. You know, you have to get all those extra qualifiers in incase someone else decided to do it first.”

[rvnoeul]

rvhope​:

“it really is! i know a lot of people kind of hate it because of like…how much new age seems to be overloading themselves, but i don’t know… maybe time will tell, but so far, no one’s really dropped off? except for like….jei and yeong sunbaenim, but that seems like more their own choice,” she mused

“Honestly, at this point it feels weird even seeing Yeong promote, because the last time he did my group was like, still a rookie. But you guys getting the attention means they can take however long they need for them to put together their stuff and come back when they’re ready so like... I think it’s worth it.”

[rvnoeul]

sangheerv​:

“oh god, don’t say that. as a loyal member of the royal family since debut, the thought of two byulah’s existing is overwhelming. i think i might die.”

"Fully, I don't the world could handle that kind of power - there'd be outages everywhere."

[rvnoeul]

soladarv​:

“oh yeah totally– it couldn’t be an inkigayo stage with a cool set. but so many shows just use the LEDs anyway, right? that could still be utilized really effectively!” sola pointed out

"Oh, what if they had like, something like the sheet music for the background so the people watching could read along? That'd be pretty cool if it worked."

[rvnoeul]

rinarv​:

“i guess inkigayo is considered a bigger show for a reason, hey?” chiharu retorted. some of the stage sets for can’t stop me were incredible

“Honestly, I think I look forward to Inkigayo the most whenever we come back, it really feels like an event,” Noeul said.

[rvnoeul]

rvahmi​:

“if they even got to record live at all– i can totally see that group being permanently slotted to a prerecording position just because of that,” ahmi pointed out.

“I understand the need for that because of time restraints, but it’s a bit of a bummer. I remember the first few times we went on music shows, I felt like a mime most of the time because we mostly did handsyncing to pre-recordings. Like... If I’m only going to do one thing, I don’t want to see people saying that I’m just faking it,” Noeul said

[rvnoeul]

rvchunja​:

“it probably wouldn’t matter– you know those shows. autotuning even the best singers. they’d probably dub over it with audio from a different show,” she laughed

“Which, I guess I get but it’s super annoying,” Noeul said. “If someone’s bringing their A game, and they sound good, don’t touch it and move on to editing a different group.”

[rvsumitra]

her heart fell– she knew that look. this person didn’t know her, but they saw all the headlines. they’d never seen her as an idol, but they saw dispatch labelling her a traitor. all the thai fans calling her a deserter for leaving her group behind for byulbit. “hey, wait, can i explain?” she asked softly. “it’s really not what you think.” 

[rvnoeul]

He wasn’t a stranger to Dispatch twisting situations to fit their narrative, to generate clicks. So really, he wants to empathize with her... he’s really just confused as hell why she’d want to leave such a good gig behind. “I mean... go ahead, I’m all ears.”