// ( ● ) sphere ent. performance evaluations ; july 2016 !
track : [ ► ] IU - good day ( acoustic ver. )
Ears congested with Sphere’s pop music over the past few months, Myungsoo finally decides that he has had more than enough opportunities to prove that he’s exposing himself more to the company’s style. Until now he still doesn’t know what in the world Mr. Chu means, but after performing four She’z songs and two ChAOS songs for monthly evaluations during the first half of the year, he knows he’s had too much Sphere in his system. For someone like Myungsoo who frowns upon excessive lalala’s and other syllabic repetitions, it’s accomplishment enough to sit through hours of listening to his senior’s songs and surviving the challenge.
But this doesn’t mean that his journey deeper into the mainstream side of Korean music industry has ended. His song pick for that month’s evaluation is surely an unexpected one, as it is one of IU’s biggest hits. Who expects Kim Myungsoo, the nation’s biggest hater, to cover a song of the nation’s little sister?
No one, of course.
The stage is relatively bigger than the practice rooms he used to stand on in Sphere, and it makes him feel strange especially with trainees from other companies watching ( or probably forcing themselves to watch ) from the audience. Surely it would have been less uncomfortable if he didn’t stand there with Sphere or even the mere trainee label attached to him. Despite the whole foreignness of the scenario ( why did the companies agree to expose all their supposedly hidden weapons to each other, anyway ), Myungsoo has no choice but to perform, and lay out his plans for Make Korea Great Again campaign with the help of his trusty guitar.
The moment of silence after his greeting is followed by a strumming of guitar chords. It produces a lively beat that blends well with summer, an emphasis to the bright energy associated with the season. The singer plays the same succession one more time, before he begins to sing the first few lines.
Why is the sky so much more blue?
Why is the breeze so perfect today?
Pretending like I don’t know
Like I didn’t hear a thing, like I erased it
Should we start talking about something else?
Should we kiss so we can’t say anything?
While the lyrics draw the image of someone’s softer side, Myungsoo injects a more aggressive appeal to the song, accented with hard strikes of fingertips to the guitar strings. The tone builds up as it leads to the chorus, Myungsoo picking up the pace when he sings.
My eyes fill with tears, so I lift my head up I smile a little so they won’t fall
Why are you like this to me, what are you saying?
All the things we talked about go to the sky
The words I have never said
The words I didn’t know I’d say as I cried
I like you, what do I do?
Myungsoo feels hairs rising at the nape of his neck from singing the last line. Obviously he has to replace the word oppa from the lyrics with “you” for him to fit the song, but it still reminds him of just how cheesy the concept of the song is in general. After the chorus is a few more succession of chords which give his voice some rest, but the break doesn’t last long before he’s jumping into the bridge.
Myungsoo breaks into the last chorus with more challenging bits, but he manages to pull it off while sitting. He does not have any plans to surprise anyone with the original singer’s popular three-octave note ( which is not even technically three octaves ) – instead, he simply keeps one high note long and stable before following it with the closing line. The song officially ends with a soft strum, signaling the end of a purposefully different but clean performance.
He can only hope that his performance earns him nothing but a favorable response.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of two left feet, must be in want of anything but a dance performance.
Myungsoo knows he's going to screw up again for this month. Out of all the things they could do as a future entertainer, couldn't they pick something else other than the usual dancing? He's gotten tired of having to memorize choreography and executing them with his mediocre-at-best dancing abilities ( that is, if he actually possesses some ) long long ago, and he's sure that his body would not want to deal with any more dancing activity for the next fifty years of his life. But alas, the singer is running out of luck and needs to do the very exact thing he has always dreaded in each day of training. It's a wonder how he's survived twenty-something months in a company who only knew how to make him dance, sing, and dance again.
Myungsoo has no choice but to face two other trainees and cooperate as much as his uncooperative body would. He spends hours late into the night just to fulfill the bare minimum that is expected of him, which is merely memorizing the choreography -- if he can't dance to save his life, he might as well just make no mistakes throughout the performance. It's one of the most challenging things someone like Myungsoo could ever encounter; even in what seems to be a simple coordination of the upper and lower body, he still disappoints.
He deserves an award for not improving one bit over the past two years.
But like they say, there's nothing constant practice can't improve. While Myungsoo didn't exactly improve in terms of technique, over the last few weeks he's gotten accustomed to dancing the same routines over and over that some of his movements look a tad more natural. It's not an exemplary improvement, but for an unwilling body and an unwilling mind, something remotely close to improvement is noteworthy.
So they stand side by side on the stage when the moment comes, and the singer braces himself for his coaches' criticism once the song begins to drown the room with its melody.
The first verse is covered by Soojung who, despite being mainly a singer, takes over the group as the best dancer, considering that he and Chorong dances as superbly as a slug doused in acid. Albeit being a big critic of everyone ( even in aspects he's not personally good at, such as dancing ), Myungsoo has to admit that his ineptitude at dancing has made her shine more on the stage. Not that he minds -- his expertise lies somewhere else for him to even be envious of the trainee's advantage in this evaluation.
Instead of trying his best to stand out, he thinks that there is something more important: unity. The man knows that standing out in a good way wouldn't work with his skill level, but he could get plus points from his coaches if he at least made efforts to blend in as a part of the team instead of sticking out like a sore thumb. He tries to brighten up, smirk ( just because it's much harder to fake a smile ) and bounce when needed to fit the song's bubbly and lively concept.
