Entertainment Life With A Camera

Chapter 64

The male rookie award goes to…

They danced around Park Seodam in the intro. 

They added unnatural movements like dolls in the middle of the choreography, following the horror version of ‘dawn’ arranged by Lee Juhyuk.

“I remember the dawn when your breath touched me”

Ian, who was pushed away after biting Park Seodam’s neck, sang. 

The fans cheered loudly at his powerful voice.

The rookies who performed before them had only lip-synced to the recorded AR with their breathing sounds. 

They couldn’t feel the live vibe.

“Wow, he’s handsome.”

“His live is amazing.”

“He doesn’t look like a rookie. He’s good.”

Seo Minho of MOM whispered to his fellow member.

“Don’t run away, I’m looking at you

Come to me, I’ll give you this night as a gift”

Park Seodam, who was caught by Park Jinhyuk, shook his shoulders and shook off his hand. 

Then he was caught by Jo Taewoong, who was singing his part. 

The stage, composed of a fleeing sacrifice and a chasing vampire, had no dull moments.

As the song was nearing the end, 20 dancers dressed as priests filled the stage.

“It’s like an end-of-year stage.”

“What if they show this at the grand prize?”

“They worked hard for this.”

The singers who reacted favorably to Awi murmured. 

Park Seodam, who showed a fierce military dance with his members in the center, suddenly stretched his arms to both sides.

A low vibration sound followed, and the people on the stage swayed.

Soon after, as if hit by a shock wave, the members and dancers fell to the floor. 

Park Seodam, who relaxed and smiled faintly at that moment.

“At the end of this dawn, I’m waiting for you”

Ian, who sang the last verse, got up slowly. 

Then he grabbed Park Seodam’s neck from behind and fell back with him.

“Gasp!”

The audience swallowed their breaths as they watched him dive back without hesitation.

The dancers who were waiting in advance caught their bodies and laid them down so they wouldn’t hit the floor.

The other members and dancers crawled toward Ian and Park Seodam like zombies approaching their prey. 

The red light went off and the stage went dark.

The people who were just gaping at the shocking ending clapped and shouted.

“It’s like watching a musical.”

“That was awesome.”

Some group members even gave them a standing ovation.

“That was Awi’s special Halloween stage, the last nominee for the rookie award.”

Ignoring MC’s progress, Awi quickly ran backstage.

-Their stage is fun. They are a stage powerhouse

-Are they really rookies?

-I was going to turn off the broadcast and watch my idols come out, but I watched their whole stage

-They are crazy

The live comment section on the portal site went up fast.

“Are you okay, Seodam?”

“Yeah, what about you, hyung?”

“The dancers caught us so we’re fine.”

Awi entered backstage and gulped down the water handed by the staff.

There was no time to go back to the waiting room because the rookie award ceremony was right after the stage. 

They took off their receivers, in-ears, and microphones and handed them to the staff.

“Wow, Seodam’s arm strength is amazing. I almost fell earlier.”

“Really, hyung?”

“I’m fine.”

Park Jinhyuk patted Park Seodam’s shoulder.

“Was our stage okay? Did anyone make a mistake?”

“Juhyuk hyung, we were perfect, right?”

“Didn’t we do our best stage ever? Listen to the cheers. I can still hear them.”

“I wish we could monitor it right away since it’s live.”

Awi members smiled with satisfaction.

While MC was hosting, the rookie nominees came backstage one by one.

“Rookie nominees, please come up now!”

Awi, who had a quick hair touch-up backstage, went up to the stage again at the staff’s shout.

Awi bowed to the other rookie nominees. The other side also politely greeted them back.

(We introduce you to the presenters of 2018 AAMA Rookie Award!)

The rookie singers stood in a line on stage. 

There were five teams each for male and female rookies. 

They awarded both female and male rookie awards at the same time.

As VCR introduced presenters on screen, fans’ cheers were louder or quieter depending on popularity. 

Finally Awi’s name appeared on screen and cheers were unusually louder.

When VCR ended and an actress in a dress came in arm in arm with an actor from left side of stage Ian knew them too.

“Hello. I’m actor Jo Minhwan.”

“I’m actress Jin Seokyeong.”

Jo Minhwan glanced over rookies standing in line and acted like he knew Ian. Ian nodded his head.

‘What, Minhwan hyung is presenting?’

[You weren’t supposed to tell anyone you’re in it, right?]

‘Well, it’s not a big secret, so I guess it’s okay.’

Jo Minhwan looked at Ian behind him with a ‘did I do well?’ expression. 

Ian shook his head slightly.

It was time for the award and Jin Seokyeong checked the name on the cue card.

“Then we’ll announce the female rookie award first. The female rookie award goes to… ‘Eos’! Congratulations!”

The girl group holding each other’s hands screamed. 

They ran to the center of the stage from the far left. 

One of the members was already crying.

[They’re the controversial ones. I thought they were next year’s rookies, but they were this year’s?]

‘Why?’

As Eos sobbed and gave their acceptance speech, Jin scanned their faces.

[They didn’t have the performance to get the rookie award, but they got it. Originally ‘Friday’ next to you had better performance and votes.]

‘But why couldn’t they get it?’

[Eos’s agency is MI Entertainment.]

‘Oh…’

The tyranny of a large agency. 

Ian glanced to his left. 

Friday was smiling hard, but the person right next to Ian had a stiff expression and bowed his head.

[Friday’s fans protested, but the organizers didn’t budge and moved on… And even a low-level employee of MI Entertainment wrote on SNS something like ‘if you don’t like it, go to a large agency’. It was exposed and only Friday’s fans were outraged.]

‘That’s too much… It’s the only rookie award they can get…’

Eos returned to his seat after finishing his acceptance speech, and Ian licked his lips that were dry. 

He knew that they would not be able to avoid the thunderbolt that Friday had received.

“And the Asia Artist Music Award for Best New Male Artist goes to…”

The members of AWY looked nervously at Jo Min-hwan’s cue card.

“AWY! Congratulations!”

“Wow!”

Park Seo-dam jumped in surprise. 

Ian laughed out loud as the tension was released, and Jo Tae-woong walked confidently to the center stand microphone. 

The rest of the members followed him.

The fans screamed, and the LED panels with AWY written on them swayed violently in the audience seats.

Kim Joo-young looked up at the sky. Ian was startled by his gesture and grabbed his shoulder.

“Are you crying? Why are you crying at this happy moment?”

“…Don’t talk to me. I’m holding it in.”

Kim Joo-young’s eyes were brimming with tears that seemed to fall at any moment.

Park Seo-dam was no different from Kim Joo-young. 

He clenched his mouth to hold back his tears, but his eyes were already dripping with tears.

[Eos didn’t cry, but these guys are crying.]

‘Eos cheated. We won this fair and square.’

“Congratulations.”

“Thank you, hyung.”

Ian received the trophy from Jo Min-hwan. 

Jo Min-hwan patted Ian’s back and left the stage.

Ian lifted the trophy and reflected it in the light. The crystal trophy had AWY’s name engraved on it clearly.

“Wow… our name is really on it.”

Ian smiled brightly as he confirmed their name. 

He had doubted the influence of this award ceremony because of the ‘Fantastic Welcome Award’, but he felt like he was flying when he received the award.

“First of all, we want to thank our agency staff, our manager hyung, our director and CEO. Thank you so much. And also, our family who always support us. Thank you very much. And…”

Lee Joo-hyuk approached the standing microphone and gave his acceptance speech.

“Lastly, I want to thank our members as well. Thank you!”

At Lee Joo-hyuk’s words, the members of AWY hugged him tightly. 

Jo Tae-woong, who was right next to him, quickly added more words.

“And our AWY fans who voted hard for us to give us this award! You worked hard! Thank you! Thank you!”

The fans cheered, and the light sticks in the audience seats flickered. 

As AWY turned around after looking at that picturesque scene, the people who were nominated for the award bowed their heads and greeted them.

“Congratulations.”

The rookie groups that had been standing like a folding screen. Ian sighed softly.

‘Who told them to stand there? That’s really cruel.’

They should have just let them sit in the singer seats and call only the winners to the stage.

[You’re too nosy. Why do you care about them? You’re the ones who won anyway.]

Jin didn’t understand him. But Ian remembered that he was just like them when he was in ‘Diamond’, so he greeted them more politely.

***

“Wow, rookie award! This is our first award.”

The trophy in Ian’s hand, who was heading to the waiting room, went through the hands of other members. 

Kim Hyun stared blankly at the trophy and said, Park Jin-hyuk said without any tact.

“Hey, why are you leaving out ‘Cheating’?”

“That’s only your award.”

“Hey, technically we all worked on it together. Let’s count it as a group award.”

“Yeah! Let’s count it as two awards.”

Jo Tae-woong and Ian teased Kim Joo-young on both sides of him.

“Did you see Kim Joo-young crying earlier?”

“Yeah, I saw him sobbing like a baby.”

“What’s wrong with crying because I’m happy! Hey, Seo-dam also cried!”

“Seo-dam is the youngest.”

Jo Tae-woong poked Kim Joo-young’s cheek and teased him.

“Guys, don’t make a fuss in the hallway.”

Lee Joo-hyuk opened the door to the waiting room, and a loud bang followed by a flower pollen firework went off.

“Wow! What a surprise!”

“What is this?”

Ian and Jo Tae-woong were more surprised by Kim Hyun’s scream than by the firework.

“Guys, congratulations on your rookie award!”

“And congratulations on Jin-hyuk’s solo award!”

It was Park Dong-soo and other staff members from their agency.

“Thank you!”

The members of AWY bowed their heads and greeted the staff members.

“If you think about it, Dong-soo hyung also did his part.”

“Yeah, yeah, he’s our eighth member.”

Ian and Jo Tae-woong high-fived with Park Dong-soo.

“What, Seo-dam is crying again?”

“Seo-dam, you can’t cry! We have to go out again!”

“I can’t stop the tears!”

The members snorted at his crying and happy face.

“The youngest is the youngest.”

“Let’s clean up the makeup first.”

The actors who received the awards left one by one, but the singers were not done just because they received the awards.

“What if Seo-dam’s eyes are swollen on the singer seat cam?”

It was impossible for a rookie to receive an award and not show up on the singer seat. 

AWY had to sit in the singer seat until the end of AAMA and watch the performances and awards.

The next day after AAMA, the fancams of the cammers flooded MyTube.

When Choi Ian’s one-shot was caught on the screen, idols’ reactions

└LOLㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└Crazy look at my idol ㅇ0ㅇㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└Wow but he’s so handsome

[2018 AAMA] AWY – dawn (Halloween ver.)

└They tore up the stage they’re so goodㅠㅠㅠㅠ

└I watched the lip-sync stage before them and then I saw them and it looked like a real award ceremony stage

└I’m a fan of another group but I came back to watch their stage because it was fun

MyDier performance, grand prize singer seat reaction

└Who are they? Their reaction is goodㅋㅋㅋ

└They’re the rookie group that won the award they’re good at performing

└The dance following is cute

└But is that pink-haired guy’s eyes naturally small? Or swollen?

└He cried after winning the rookie awardㅋㅋㅋ

└EwㅋㅋㅋReally? That’s cuteㅋㅋㅋㅋ