Peninsula Cicada Song Diary

On November 9th, SM Entertainment officially announced that Red Velvet would be making a comeback on the 30th, and revealed the album specifications for their fifth mini-album, titled "rbb".

The album contains six songs, with the title track being "rbb (really bad boy)," produced by SM Entertainment's top producer, Kenzie Kim Yeon-jung.

As a top-tier producer in K-pop, Kenzie's abilities are beyond question. She and Yoo Young-jin are two indispensable branches of SM Entertainment, supporting its growth into its current flourishing state.

Riding on Red Velvet's current popularity, the abbreviation "rbb" quickly became a trending topic shortly after the album's release, followed by a small tagline:

Where did Cicada go?

[Although Kenzie is a great teacher, having written so many wonderful songs, where has our Cicada gone? (Question)]

[Cicada won't abandon our Ryderbabe, will they? (Panic)?!]

[Our beloved Chan didn't participate in a single song on this album! What's going on?]

[I didn't see Chan's name during EXO's comeback a few days ago (crying).]

[Who caught our cicada in a net?! (Angry!) Give our cicada back!]

[Could the cicada have gone back to hibernate underground? Maybe we won't see it again until next summer (suspicion).]

[kkkkk, the comment above is too meticulous, it really cracked me up.]

[Who is Cicada?] Some clueless netizens posted this thought-provoking question under the entry.

Then a series of songs began: [Have you heard "Red Flavor"?]

[Have you heard of "Peek-a-boo"?]

[Have you heard of "Bad Boy"?]

[Have you heard of "Power Up"?]

[Have you heard of "The Passage of Time"?]

[He wrote all of this?! (Surprised)]

[Cicada is definitely the most outstanding among the new generation of producers!]

[Cicada is our favorite producer at ReVeluv~]

[The amazing producer who helped Ryderbabe achieve four consecutive "hot" tracks from the summer of 2017 to the summer of 2018~]

[Ever since Chan-sama took over, our Rider Baby has taken off! Do you even understand the significance of "Power Up," SM's only PAK song?! This is our Summer Queen!]

[Cicada+RedVelvet=hit song! ]

[We EXO-Ls also really like Cicada!] EXO fans have also joined the discussion.

[Although "Tempo" is also very good, I still prefer "The Eve" and "Kokobop" from before. P.S.: Music Bank is on today, EXO-Ls, go vote for me!]

[I've already voted, but has the person upstairs forgotten about our "Love Shot"?]

[The taste upstairs is absolutely superb!]

So where did Cicada go?

[Went to write songs for someone else.] Reply from ID: Kind Person.

[Does the person upstairs know the news? (Looking forward to it)?]

"I know." In a dormitory at Yonsei University, Lee Sun-ryung smiled mysteriously at the computer screen, "but I won't tell."

He felt that he was probably one of the few people in Yonse who knew Cicada's true identity.

At the last fan meeting, Pei Xiyan said he was working at JYP Entertainment. If I deduce a little, he must be writing songs for JYP groups.

[I'm just guessing, after all, someone as excellent as Chan-sama must have plenty of work.] He typed on the keyboard.

[You're right. Alas, it's a pity that Master Chan is too low-key. Apart from some basic information, nothing else is known about her online.]

"Indeed," he replied.

He was so low-key that even after Pei Xiyan studied at Yonsei University for four years, very few people knew his identity as "Cicada".

After discovering that Pei Xiyan was "Cicada" that day, Li Shanliang didn't know how to describe his feelings at that moment. He felt that it was like a volcano with the power of Yellowstone National Park erupting directly in his brain. The volcanic ash filled the sky, obscuring his nerves, and the impact knocked him unconscious on the spot.

Meanwhile, his clueless roommate was still asking him, quite puzzled, why he had snatched the phone, before he had even finished looking at the photos.

Coming to her senses, Li Shanliang looked at her clueless roommate with pity, like Jesus looking at the world.

That night, he tossed and turned in bed, pondering for a long time, and finally decided to keep the secret.

"My senior is such a low-key person, I'd better not disturb his life by exposing him," he thought.

And the coffee in the morning is really delicious.

Just as the internet says, as a ReVeluv, Lee Sun-ryong understands what the name "Cicada" means to Red Velvet. The four title tracks he wrote can be said to be the steps that propelled Red Velvet to godhood, step by step making Red Velvet grow into the top three girl groups they are today.

Although it's a pity that we can't see the familiar "Composer: Cicada, Lyricist: Cicada, Producer: Cicada" at the beginning of the song this time, at least Kenzie is in charge this time, so the quality of the song is definitely guaranteed.

Lee Sun-silk is already looking forward to No. 30's return.

"Ding-dong." A message popped up on his phone, which was lying to the side. It was a reminder he had set up.

The notification above says that today is Momo's birthday.

Li Shanliang perked up, then suddenly sighed, "It's a pity the first week doesn't count towards the music show rankings, otherwise I would have definitely gotten Momo a number one spot as a birthday present."

After browsing the web for a while, he shut down his computer, grabbed his umbrella and textbooks, and left the dormitory.

It's raining in Seoul today.

The entire city was shrouded in a misty veil, and the continuous drizzle, like a spray from the sky, hit the pure white umbrellas, making a negligible sound.

At the photo area by the side entrance of KBS Hall in Yeouido, Sana Minatozaki held an umbrella with a faint smile on her face. The flashes of reporters holding cameras in front of her illuminated her and the street behind her.

This is the commute every idol who comes to work at Music Bank has to go through.

Looking at the various cameras in front of her, a hint of weariness flashed in Sana Minatozaki's smiling eyes.

After the photoshoot, Kim Da-hyun, who was sharing an umbrella with Minatozaki Sana, immediately took her arm and said, "Unnie, hold me up."

"Inside." Leaning slightly against Kim Da-hyun, Minatozaki Sana used Kim Da-hyun's strength to walk towards the side door. Each step felt unsteady, as if she were walking on clay instead of hard bluestone.

Grandma once said that people are like kites; if the string breaks, the kite will be blown away, and people will get sick.

When she was little, Sana Minatozaki didn't understand anything. She only knew that she would get sick if the kite string broke. So, she would always fly the kite very low. It would float in the sky for a short while before falling down. She would run over to pick up the kite, hold it up, run up, and fly it again. The height was still very low, and then she would have to pick it up again... Because it was too tiring to go back and forth like this, she, who originally loved flying kites, began to resist kites for a while.

It wasn't until she grew up that she gradually understood what her grandmother meant.

That string represents the body; various factors will stretch it longer and longer, and the kite will fly higher and higher. When the string exceeds a certain limit, it will break.

Amidst her busy schedule, today, Sana Minatozaki discovered her thread...

It seems to have broken.