When I had just begun my regression, I thought good music and a good stage were synonymous. I also thought that if you consistently delivered good music and good stages, album sales would inevitably trend upward. Now, I know. Show business doesn’t work that simply. But back then, that’s what I believed, and I still…

Longtime Show Me the Money viewers all know this: the finale is famously the most boring episode. There are two reasons for that. First, it’s broadcast live—so there’s no editing magic. Even if it’s the same performance, watching it edited with perfect cuts and controlled pacing is far more entertaining than watching it raw. Second, the pressure…

GOTM was completely captivated by the three songs I played for them. “If you do well on this stage, I’ll give you a few more like those.” Just that one line made them lose their minds. It was such a powerful motivator that drummer Andrew Gunn came up to me and said something I never…

Chris Edwards summed up his life with one phrase: “Seven parts luck, three parts skill.” After all, the fact that “Pelle Jørgensen,” who thought he’d live his whole life in Denmark, ended up living as “Chris Edwards” on the Billboard charts—well, that says it all. For reference, he learned that saying from Choi Jaeseong. Anyway,…

Yang Jungtae, the main producer of Masked Singer, was feeling a bit slighted by Han Sion. No—more accurately, he wasn’t exactly slighted… He was sulking. ‘No, no. Not sulking. Why would I be sulking?’ He couldn’t bring himself to admit it, even to himself, but that word best described his feelings objectively. At first, Han Sion had…

The surviving contestants of Show Me the Money Season 7’s semi-final broadcast were Saviour and Saoi. But hardly anyone was talking about who made it to the final. They were all talking about who made it to the final. It sounds the same, but it’s not. Because the conversation was all about Han Sion—who had appeared as “Saoi.” The…

-Damn, the ads are so freaking long. -Today’s gonna be good. Everyone knows the semi-final is always the best episode of Show Me lol -So true lol -I saw a spoiler that said Saoi and Breed made it to the finals. -Blus got eliminated? -Honestly, Blus was overrated even in the Top 4. Should’ve been…

Those with deep musical knowledge—especially producers, who could be considered Saoi’s potential rivals—felt a strange sensation. Technically, it was just bass and vocals. The instruments only kicked in when the vocals came in, but they weren’t leading the song’s structure. So why… did it sound so good? Of course, if the whole song stayed like…

Live finals have long been a staple of audition programs, but that tradition was also born out of necessity. If a final is pre-recorded, the winner gets leaked immediately after the shoot. And nothing is more anticlimactic than watching a finale when you already know the result. So the general format for audition shows is…