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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 15:37:03 GMT -8
Hayun giggled when the microphone screeched and said, "Don't worry, I did that the first time I tried to use a professional level one too. It's so different from noraebang which was the only experience I'd had with singing with microphones before this."
Hayun's first lined opened the song after the instrumental introduction, and she was glad that she'd gotten to keep that line, it was catchy, and it would be a lot of people's very first impression of JBN as a group, and the CEO had trusted her with that. It was a good feeling.
She was relieved to be switching off the challenging vocal parts with another singer now though, getting more chances to catch her breath between high runs. She didn't fully do the dance while they were practicing, for one, there definitely wasn't enough room to have two people doing the dance side by side in the vocal room, and for another, she wanted to be able to focus on Elena's singing. Their first bit of harmony was something that Elena had gotten from what had previously been Seojin-unnie's lines, and Hayun wanted to be prepared for how that would go because she knew it would be different.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 26, 2020 15:51:31 GMT -8
Elena mimed the dances, but was mindful to leave Hayun enough space. She was also trying to focus on the other girl's voice so they could nail the first harmony.
She usually sang like she danced, with a lot of passion and gusto. She was more of a belter and even enjoyed rocker style singing, so in general the JBN song was a very different piece of music for her. Her voice was well suited for the regular lines, but she enjoyed the ad-libs and higher parts near the end.
When their first harmony came up, she softened her voice, letting Hayun's take the lead. She wanted to be able to get a feel for the harmony and play with where she wanted it tuned to.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 16:01:03 GMT -8
Hayun's voice had a naturally clear and lyrical quality that let it show over the music and other voices when she was taking the lead on a section well. It meant that as they entered the harmonies, she tried to bring a little bit more warmth into her voice to match to Elena's warmer, fuller tones well. She thought it was interesting how different their voices were, but they did sound good together. Whoever had picked their respective lines, probably the company VP, had known what they were doing, Hayun decided.
She still had the highest note in the song towards the end, and she was kind of pleased with that even if it was one of the trickier things to hit with the dance, coming right on the tail end of choreography that involved jumping. Even though she wasn't doing the full dance, she did the section with the jumping moves, which was fortunately in one place, or she was never going to be able to perform that right live. She was glad that her first time singing it actually in front of Elena, she nailed the note.
At the end of the song, she smiled at Elena again and said, "I can tell that you've been practicing it well! We sounded really good together."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 26, 2020 16:11:44 GMT -8
Elena was practically wriggling in excitement when they finished. She flung herself onto Hayun, hugging her again. "We sounded so good!" she said, hopping up and down while spinning with the other girl still in her arms.
She let her go and proceeded to continue dancing around happily on her own. "I was so worried that we wouldn't sound good together but it was like," she mimed her head exploding.
"We're gonna surprise everyone at our showcase!" she said.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 16:31:56 GMT -8
Hayun caught Elena in an easy hug as she launched herself at Hayun, and she let herself be danced around, laughing at Elena's enthusiasm. She nodded and said, "It's good that you're taking the high parts that Seojin-unnie had been doing. Seojin-unnie is a strong vocalist, but she's not as strong on the high notes, and it's been making her nervous even if she doesn't want the rest of us to see, and you sound amazing on those parts."
She grinned and added, "We'll practice it with everyone else. There's a group practice later this evening, which is probably why the manager wanted us to practice the two of us first. Did the manager warn you about that? We'll want to make sure that we grab a light dinner a little bit before it, but not so much that it makes dancing hard."
She knew was glad that it sounded like Elena was also a pretty strong dancer who hadn't needed a ton of work with that and would be able to mesh into the group quickly. It made things easier. She asked, "Are there any parts that you want to focus on practicing? Or do you just want to run it again?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 26, 2020 16:47:14 GMT -8
"You're right Seojin-unnie does have a pretty voice, and she's a great dancer. A great teacher too," Elena said.
"No, the manager didn't say anything about group practice," she pouted, "I'm really starting to think he doesn't like me. Would you want to eat with me? I don't really know anywhere or anything around here yet."
She shook her head at herself, "not that I need food now. We can just run through it again. Let's do it, like, twenty more times. We sounded so good!" she was still excited.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 17:17:24 GMT -8
Hayun nodded and said, "She is a really good dance teacher. I've pretty much only been working with her and Tai on dance stuff, and sometimes Taehoon-oppa because they've had me with vocal coaches so much, and it's meant that I've not worked with our dance trainer very often."
She knew that it made sense, she had enough dance background that she'd been able to keep up with the dance, and Shieon needed more help and the rest of the dance line needed to look more polished. She added, "Now I'll probably get to do dance practices when you do a lot of the time."
Hayun shook her head, hoping that Elena realized that no one was actually mad at her and said, "That's on our weekly schedule. The manager probably hasn't caught up with you not having the weekly schedule yet. Just a second."
She went to her bag and dug out her phone and pulled up the document, saying, "I can share it with you, just put in where to send it."
She held out her phone to Elena, glad that at least she would be able to fix the confusing schedule some.
She said, "I'll definitely eat with you. A lot of the time, I just heat something up in the kitchen, or go grab something warm from the convenience store on the bottom floor. Sometimes someone decides to actually cook or order take out though."
She laughed again and said, "Maybe not twenty whole more times. We don't want to strain our voices, and we've got more practices later this evening, and you're going to be doing a bunch of recording this week so that they can mix your lines in. And this weekend is MV filming, which will be exhausting."
She sounded excited even though she was talking about tiring things. Hayun was very excited to be coming up on this point with all the work that she'd been putting in.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 26, 2020 17:29:25 GMT -8
"I'm looking forward to meeting the Yuseong members, they seem nice and everyone seems to be friendly with this Taehoon-oppa I keep hearing about," Elena laughed.
She took the phone from Hayun, "I don't have a cell phone, just an email, is that okay?" she asked, already inputting her email. "I guess I should probably get one of those. My grandparents live in Apgujeong but I'm honestly not even sure if they know I'm here... I should find a way to tell them that," she'd started rambling to herself.
"I'm pretty nervous about the whole MV thing. I've never done anything like it and I was just added, so I don't even know what our theme is or anything. Plus, you guys and the manager didn't even know I was joining, so what's the likelihood that they have another makeup artists and clothes and whatever they need for a sixth person?" Elena was concerned. She understood why the CEO hadn't mentioned her, it probably would have made everyone worry about whether or not she'd make it on time. But now that she was here, she felt like a huge burden that'd just been dropped in their laps.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 17:51:03 GMT -8
Hayun smiled and said, "Taehoon-oppa is the Yuseong member you'll see the most. He's probably going to be at practice this evening if he doesn't have a schedule because he worked on our choreo, and he's been helping fine tune things."
She added, "Kangwan-oppa is probably the one who's around next most, and sometimes Josh-sunbae shows up with Taehoon-oppa. Qiwang-sunbae is really busy between schedules and school because he's in university, and Shihyun-sunbae just doesn't work with us that much. I've not really seen either of them around in the past few months, so it might be a while before you run into them."
Hayun said, "The company will probably help you get a cell phone, and you should definitely make sure that your grandparents know that you're here! I bet they'll want to see you when you have the time!"
Hayun felt like maybe she could relieve the worries a little bit, so she said, "We're going to have a very teen crush style, so cute and bright, but still kind of cool. We don't know what the MV set is going to look like yet either, but we were only going to have a few makeup artists and hair stylists to work with all of us anyhow, and none of us have debut hair or anything yet. That's all stuff happening this week. The weekend's going to be really busy, and since you're not in school, you're probably going to be one of the first ones to get hair done, since it sounds like they were going to start with Seojin-unnie and Shieon-unnie on Friday."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 26, 2020 18:35:41 GMT -8
Elena tried to absorb all the names but much like with Seojin, nothing was sticking. All she had for sure was Taehoon was the one she'd probably know first, and maybe Jane was the one she wasn't supposed to hug? "Names aren't my strong suit, so I will definitely be asking you to repeat this stuff later."
"Do you know who I'd talk to about getting a cell phone? I'm not sure I know where to begin," she walked back over to the sound system, restarting the music for them.
"Wait, what are they going to do to my hair?" she asked into the microphone as she retreated from the cabinet.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 20:55:51 GMT -8
Hayun nodded and said, "It's a lot of names to learn all at once, I get it. You'll learn them eventually."
She thought about it for a second and then said, "Probably ask the manager about a cell phone. They'll want you to be able to contact your family and the company if you need to. And he'll be able to figure out who needs to know. Or get Seojin-unnie to talk to him for you because she's leader."
Hayun shrugged a little to the hair questions and said, "We're all going to get hair styling. Some people might get dyed hair or more dramatic hair cuts, but everyone's going to at least get there haircut tidied and maybe styled a little bit, given a treatment that makes sure it's nice and shiny. The company's pretty good about listening if there's something you don't want."
She was distracted then by the music, and she dove into singing their song again, continuing to make sure that she listened to Elena's singing.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 27, 2020 9:35:05 GMT -8
Elena noted to herself to ask the manager, or maybe Seojin. She wasn't completely convinced the manager didn't hate her, but she understood, she'd be mad too if she were him.
She brushed her hair to one side and held onto it protectively. She didn't want them to cut her hair or dye it or really touch it. She knew this was what she'd signed up for, but it made her nervous still.
She held up her mic and started singing, still holding her hair, but focusing on the music more. She wanted to make sure their transitions and harmonies were flawless so eventually she was bouncing again like normal, her hair forgotten.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 27, 2020 15:37:22 GMT -8
Hayun had to resist the urge to laugh over how Elena reacted to the idea of hair stylists. She was glad for being able to focus on singing to distract her from the urge to laugh. The harmonies sounded better the second time, and Hayun was glad that the two of them seemed to be adjusting to each other's voices pretty quickly. There would of course still be the adjustment with everyone else, but she was pretty sure that they manager wanted them working together first because this was in some ways the most important part from a vocal standpoint.
She told Elena, "That was really good. Some of the harmonies were a little smoother than the first time."
She asked, "Do you want to sing it without me once so that I can listen? We can do it the other way around too, and that might help with combining if we're not listening and singing at the same time."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 27, 2020 17:17:21 GMT -8
Elena grinned, "we did sound better. Sure, and if we sing it alone, we can practice the whole dance at the same time."
She went over to restart the music and playfully dragged Hayun by the waist into a corner so she could do the full choreography without fear of hitting her.
She went through the song, focusing on the stylistic parts Seojin had pointed out to her as well as using Hayun's advice to slide to the higher note. She turned to Hayun when she finished, "how was that?" She went to the corner and traded spots with her, "your turn."
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 27, 2020 18:47:34 GMT -8
Hayun giggled again as she was dragged into the corner. Elena had the kind of enthusiastic energy that it was hard to be sad around, and Hayun could appreciate that. She listened to Elena singing carefully, and watched her dancing. Seojin-unnie's off hand comment to her that they were around the same level in dance, but very different styles seemed to match what she was seeing.
When Elena was done, she clapped and said, "You got the slide into the high note. I can tell that we're coming at the dance from very different backgrounds though."
She headed out into the middle after queuing up the music and said with a smile, "My turn," trusting Elena to get out of the way for her go at the dancing while singing."
Hayun's style had influences in ballet and modern and jazz as well as pop dance, which she'd all taken as training for figure skating. One thing that she'd really held over from figure skating was full extensions through her fingers and toes, meant to be seen from far away. She wasn't as good at isolations as Seojin or from what she'd seen Elena, but she was getting better at them, and she was very good with hand and arm details and keeping everything connected.
She was comfortable with the music, having been practicing it for a while at this point, but she was curious to see what Elena would think once she was done. She smiled and looked over at the other girl to try to judge her response.
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