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God of Music
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Rating(4.4 / 5.0, 447 votes)
5 | 69% (308 votes) |
4 | 16% (70 votes) |
3 | 8% (37 votes) |
2 | 3% (12 votes) |
1 | 4% (20 votes) |
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395 Chapters (Completed)
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Weekly Rank: #4952Monthly Rank: #3904
All Time Rank: #529
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Monthly Rank: #11966
All Time Rank: #712
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.A minus’ hand that fails every singer he put his hands on, Kang Yoon.
After being chased by loan sharks, he meets his death, losing his beloved sister and his everyday life.
However, with those 10 years earned through coincidence…
In his new life, he will walk the path to the best planner.
3rd rate or 1st rate, through his hands, they will become legends!!
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One entry per lineGoM
음악의 신
음악의 신
Related Series
N/ARecommendations
Top Management (19)God of Cooking (14)
I’m Really a Superstar (7)
God’s Song (5)
I’m in Hollywood (4)
Game Market 1983 (4)
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A poorer version of "Top Management", both written in 2015. Could have been so much better, especially since the translator is doing a decent job. Filled with author's writing inconsistencies.
If you rated 5 stars for Top Management, you CANNOT possibly rate 5 stars for God of Music. PREMISE
A down-and-out manager/planner time-travels 10 yrs into the past to relive his life and try to succeed as being a top manager/planner. He has both complete knowledge of future (who succeeds and who doesn't), along with a synesthesia-like skill that enables him to detect "talent/good performances". ISSUES (1) SKILLS
The synesthesia skill is GREAT. It's a very clever power for the MC to have, since it evokes both beautiful imagery (blending sounds/sight) and dramatic visualization, while fitting his role as a talent scout/manager to bring out the best of the stars he works with. A perfect example of magical realism. The time-travel backstory is POINTLESS, creates multiple plot holes, and ruined the story.
-- MC is middle-aged (mental age of 40s) despite his present age of 30. His stars are all in the teens (high school) or early 20s. That age gap of almost 20 yrs is a serious problem in having any meaningful relationship with his stars.
-- MC can already detect talent with his skill, why would he need knowledge of the future? It's just a weak tie-in with his life full of regrets, so he can work hard to live a better life now. Which is s*upid, since the guy has worked hard even in his past life. He doesn't need more motivation.
-- If MC knows the future clearly, then shouldn't it be easy to find ways to get rich (stocks/real estate investments, etc) ? This is going from 2017 back to 2007. That's the time of the financial crisis, and crazy global stock market recovery thereafter. Even a ret*rded hermit living under a rock would have known how to make money in this situation. But he continues working like a s*ave in his company and complains about how poor he is? (2) MC IS A 40 YR OLD ROBOT
Age 40, works and acts like a robot, is a sis-con. How is any of this relatable to most readers?
Apparently he's an amazingly productive and professional manager, yet a complete loser in his past life because he has bad luck. That's not how professional corporate life works. If MC was that talented, he could easily have still survived in a mid-level mgmt position. I doubt author ever worked in a corporation before. (3) FORGETTABLE RELATIONSHIPS AND SIDE CHARACTERS
MC's relationships with his stars are short and episodic. He goes in, turns their life/career around, and then disappears after 5 chapters. Yet it's made clear that these side characters all fall for him. Yes, it's a HAREM novel, whether you deny it or not. There's nothing wrong with a harem novel. It just doesn't work here when the only purpose is to puff-up the MC, especially with the age-gap. The side characters are poorly developed, and there are A LOT of them. Literally a new one every 3-4 chapters. They come and go, interact with the MC for 1 paragraph and either disappear or reappear a few chapters later for a paragraph. It's gotten so bad that the author doesn't even remember the background stories of side characters and author consistently makes mistakes that the translators have picked up on. Ridiculous.
-- The girl group that he was in-charge of had little to no improvement while MC keeps getting distracted with other side projects that are immediately successful. We keep losing sight of the girl group and the characters. Author realizes that and tries to reinsert them into the story via pointless interactions.
-- MC's sister keeps popping back up into the story despite being the blandest and most boring character, as if to remind us that she exists. She has zero purpose other than to serve as a handicap for the MC and play a useless damsel-in-distress role. Author eventually realizes this and tries to make her more useful, like learning from a music book (of which she doesn't understand at all), which makes her even more useless.
-- The names of several one-off characters actually change. One of the main characters was supposed to be an orphan, then had parents. WTF.
Because it's more believable, and the author took the time to develop both the side characters and their relationship with the MC Jung Sunwoo. And the author made a very distinct attempt to identify that potential love interests were 20ish and MC Jung was 27/28, since he clearly knew this would be an issue.
The author has a good grasp of the industry, adds in a lot of lexicon and technical detail that makes it sound pretty professional. It also highlights the importance of technical detail in producing stars (rather than just raw talent of a singer/actor). But it's written poorly since author ends up in situations where he uses this technical knowledge to manufacture MEDIOCRE stars, and his skills enables them to sound/appear better than they really are. He is constantly telling his proteges to develop a "hook" to draw in crowds, even though that's not part of their original personality. E.g. An aloof and reticent female idol needs to become more engaging to the public audience, some others need to dress more provocatively, etc.
WTF?? Pushing mediocre stars to the top with cheap tricks like these spoils the novel and forces celebrities to live up to unreasonable/inappropriate expectations. E.g. You want a sexy star, but she can't have sex/be in a relationship. You expect the MC with his talents to be able to rise above this crap.
In a world of Facebook, ridiculous false celebrity avatars, and all the sh*t that Kpop celebrities go through, including the recent spate of scandals and su*cides, you cannot possibly approve of MC's methods. (5) WRONG TITLE
Why is it called "God of Music"? His power enables him to identify actors too, pretty much any type of performance. The problem with a music-only theme in a novel is the difficulty in translating to audio for readers to follow. We have no tunes to reference, just random (and incomplete) lyrics used to fill in word count. You could substitute the lyrics for ANYTHING ELSE and it wouldn't matter.
Why was "I Really Am a Superstar" so popular despite the controversies? Because all the songs were pulled/pirated from real world songs so at least you could watch on YouTube and know the emotions of the song even if you didn't know the language. @Tomah said it best. Too many useless shenanigans/irrelevant elements that ruin the story. Classic case of when an author doesn't understand Chekhov's gun, trying to do too many things with too many characters at the same time and fails at most of them.