Agency (2)

What was fluttering in Myeongjeon's hands were three sheets of paper. Written on them were the full-length album concept proposals each of them had submitted. Hyuna thought it was incredibly old-fashioned of Myeongjeon to print them out on A4 paper just to read them, but wisely kept that thought to herself.

“Huh?”

“No, I mean, it’s not that much…”

Seoha spoke up in her own defense. But Myeongjeon looked incensed by what she had said.

“What do you mean, ‘not that much’? To come up with an album concept, you need at least something like the genre, the musical concept, and the overall concept…”

Myeongjeon set down Seoha’s A4 sheet. The paper was packed with her vision. The genre was groove metal. It was, in a sense, a blasphemous document steeped in Seoha’s wishes and tastes.

“I’ll give Seoha’s a pass, since she just wrote down what she wanted to do when I told you to think about our band’s story. But what’s this supposed to be? One of you just wrote [Upbeat Songs], and another says [Anime Rock]. What the hell is anime rock?”

Leaving Seoha alone as she snickered to herself, relieved to have escaped ‘Suyeon’s’ scolding, Myeongjeon laid into the other girls.

“If you act like this when you get to college and have to do group projects, you’ll get torn apart.”

“…You haven’t gone to college either, Suyeon…”...