Bang PD nim clinks his beer glass with SM.
"You were right!" Utters Bang PD, lifting his glass in SM's direction.
SM chugs his beer. Of course he was.
"The rat put the bois out the second he got wind of my bois." Bang PD nim exclaims, disbelief evident in his voice. "What are they called? Lunch Box?"
SM sneers. A rare occurence. He rarely shows his emotions. But he had done his job so well. It called for a little emotions on the face.
SM recalls an encounter, sometime back, in that very same spot in The Gangnam Bar in an evening like this.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to debut Treasure Box bois with T-REX? " YG had been sceptical.
SM had nodded with absolute confidence. "Positive." He had assured. "Fangirls love competing with other fandoms for their oppars. It's gonna be good buzz for Treasure Box. "
It wasn't. And he had known it with perfect clarity, when he had said it. TXT was too big. Treaure Box was in no way a match for em. TXT had stolen all the thunder from The Box....just like he had intended.
YG's NBG gonna flop!
"Congrats on putting out a new group!" SM raises his beer in a toast to Bang PD. "They are killing it these days!"
Bang PD nim smiles weakly at SM & proceeds to take a sip of his beer.
All had been well at the beginning. The buzz had been explosive, the biggest a predebut group had ever received in recent history.
Then things had taken a tumble.
The buzz had fizzed out. Lil by lil. The teasers got lesser views, tweets got lesser RTs, subscribers slowed down.
Bang PD nim remembers the exact date it started happening. 20th January 2019! Right as the Gangnam Clock struck 12 midnight!
ITZY.
Blasted JYP had dropped the blasted teasers of blasted Itzy gals.
Itzy! The hell does that even mean?
He had been shookt. For as long as he remembered, there had been an unspoken understanding between him & JYP. They'd never overlap their groups comebacks!
So why had the fella gone ahead & dropped the bomb right when he's in the middle of his bois debut?
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"Can you believe him-" JYP starts at SM. "-trynna steal the spotlight from ma gurls" JYP finishes giving a skank eye at the Bang PD nim who's now leaving The Gangnam Bar.
SM shrugs. JYP interprets it as 'Ikr'. But what SM truly meant was 'Your dumb'.
"Ma Itzy gurls would of gotten so much more hype if it weren't for his stoopid Text group." JYP whines.
"I can't believe the git moved his bois debut all the way from August to February, to clash with my girls!" JYP whines more noisily. "I trusted him!"
SM takes a sip of his second beer of the evening. A flashback from sometime ago crosses his mind.
"You sure his bois gonna debut in August?" JYP had asked, uncertainty evident in his eyes.
SM had nodded with absolute confidence. They weren't. TXT were looking for a February debut.
"So that means I can debut my girls in February?" JYP had said slowly. His eyes had twinkled as realization finally hit him.
"There's not gonna be anybody to steal your girls' spotlight! Go ahead & let em shine all by themselves!" SM had said reassuringly.
They hadn't. And he had known it with absolute certainty, when he had uttered those words.
ITZY & TXT had to share the spotlight & each had stolen a bit of each other's thunder!
SM chugs down the last boggy sediment at the bottom of his beer & smacks his lips.
It tastes like double crossing & pitting others against each other!
So friggin delicious!
"You were right!" Utters Bang PD, lifting his glass in SM's direction.
SM chugs his beer. Of course he was.
"The rat put the bois out the second he got wind of my bois." Bang PD nim exclaims, disbelief evident in his voice. "What are they called? Lunch Box?"
SM sneers. A rare occurence. He rarely shows his emotions. But he had done his job so well. It called for a little emotions on the face.
SM recalls an encounter, sometime back, in that very same spot in The Gangnam Bar in an evening like this.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to debut Treasure Box bois with T-REX? " YG had been sceptical.
SM had nodded with absolute confidence. "Positive." He had assured. "Fangirls love competing with other fandoms for their oppars. It's gonna be good buzz for Treasure Box. "
It wasn't. And he had known it with perfect clarity, when he had said it. TXT was too big. Treaure Box was in no way a match for em. TXT had stolen all the thunder from The Box....just like he had intended.
YG's NBG gonna flop!
"Congrats on putting out a new group!" SM raises his beer in a toast to Bang PD. "They are killing it these days!"
Bang PD nim smiles weakly at SM & proceeds to take a sip of his beer.
All had been well at the beginning. The buzz had been explosive, the biggest a predebut group had ever received in recent history.
Then things had taken a tumble.
The buzz had fizzed out. Lil by lil. The teasers got lesser views, tweets got lesser RTs, subscribers slowed down.
Bang PD nim remembers the exact date it started happening. 20th January 2019! Right as the Gangnam Clock struck 12 midnight!
ITZY.
Blasted JYP had dropped the blasted teasers of blasted Itzy gals.
Itzy! The hell does that even mean?
He had been shookt. For as long as he remembered, there had been an unspoken understanding between him & JYP. They'd never overlap their groups comebacks!
So why had the fella gone ahead & dropped the bomb right when he's in the middle of his bois debut?
--------------------------------------
"Can you believe him-" JYP starts at SM. "-trynna steal the spotlight from ma gurls" JYP finishes giving a skank eye at the Bang PD nim who's now leaving The Gangnam Bar.
SM shrugs. JYP interprets it as 'Ikr'. But what SM truly meant was 'Your dumb'.
"Ma Itzy gurls would of gotten so much more hype if it weren't for his stoopid Text group." JYP whines.
"I can't believe the git moved his bois debut all the way from August to February, to clash with my girls!" JYP whines more noisily. "I trusted him!"
SM takes a sip of his second beer of the evening. A flashback from sometime ago crosses his mind.
"You sure his bois gonna debut in August?" JYP had asked, uncertainty evident in his eyes.
SM had nodded with absolute confidence. They weren't. TXT were looking for a February debut.
"So that means I can debut my girls in February?" JYP had said slowly. His eyes had twinkled as realization finally hit him.
"There's not gonna be anybody to steal your girls' spotlight! Go ahead & let em shine all by themselves!" SM had said reassuringly.
They hadn't. And he had known it with absolute certainty, when he had uttered those words.
ITZY & TXT had to share the spotlight & each had stolen a bit of each other's thunder!
SM chugs down the last boggy sediment at the bottom of his beer & smacks his lips.
It tastes like double crossing & pitting others against each other!
So friggin delicious!
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