Rapper DinDin acknowledged the learning effect of the 'Square's Dream' he endured from his older sisters.
On the 25th, a video titled "World's three icons of currency value! Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, DinDin let's go" was uploaded to the TEO channel.
Appearing as a guest on "Salon Drip" that day, DinDin recalled his foolish past and confessed, "I think a lot of the reason I can objectively meta-recognize myself well is thanks to my older sisters."
He said, "One day my older sisters — back when 'Real Men' had comments — I got a lot of flak when I went on 'Real Men.' I was really arrogant back then. I got a lot of insults, and in the comments someone wrote, 'This guy, when will he ever become a person?' That really hurt me mentally. It was the first time I experienced such severe malicious comments. But my older sisters must have been watching it together in the living room. I must have been drinking water then. What they said wasn't to me directly. Suddenly they went, 'These people don't know him at all. This guy has become a person,' and stuff like that," revealing his sisters' candid reactions and drawing laughter.
He continued, "But then I realized. 'Oh? Right. The me now is the best me' — I thought that. My older sisters told me, 'Hey, today you're the best you! You're getting better and better. Your future will be your best days. Think about when you were in Canada 10 years ago — who's better then and now? Now is better, right? You're the best you now.' And that was right. Because when I was 27–28 and acting up, even when drinking with my sister, I was of little value," he asked, and Jang Doyoun nodded, saying, "There was a lightness to you."
DinDin said, "But as I gradually felt I was becoming a pretty decent person, that became a real strength. And when something happens, my older sisters check on me. If I wear clothes to a family dinner, they'll stare at the cardigan without saying anything. If it says 'Dior' there, and I ask, 'Why?' they say, 'Dior? At Dongmyo you'd get it for 70,000 won. Is this the time for you to wear Dior?' Then at some point you go to the bathroom and see yourself — Dior starts to look tacky. You realize you don't need to spend money on that. Those things get corrected. But if I say I want to change my car, they'll say, 'That car seems fine,' and when it's necessary they'll tell me. They become my guides," expressing gratitude.
Jang Doyoun marveled, "But you don't fight back against your sisters' words. You show respect." DinDin candidly replied, "No, I do fight back. I pretend not to listen and say, 'What do you know, damn it,'" After that, Jang Doyoun sang "Square's Dream," and DinDin said, "Not like that anymore,"
Then Jang Doyoun mentioned that she had seen him sing "Square's Dream," referring to DinDin's performance of the song on KBS2's The Seasons - 10CM's SsedamSsedam. DinDin asked, "I sang it well, right?" and Jang Doyoun lamented, "You sang it so well it made me feel pitiable."
DinDin said, "They asked me to perform that song on 'SsedamSsedam.' Because it's such a familiar song, I didn't practice or even listen to it beforehand. But as soon as the instrumental came on, it just came out. So I actually sang it, and Kwon Jung-yeol hyung told me, 'You should remake this.' He said he'd never heard me sing any song this well. That's a really scary effect — it became a learning effect," he marveled.
Jang Doyoun asked, "How did it start at the very beginning — you said you were hit every time the word 'Nemo' came up, right?" DinDin recalled, "One day a record player appeared in our house. Dad must have wanted to live the life of a successful CEO at the time. With the record player, my sisters bought CDs. Then one day while watching TV, I must have done something wrong. My sisters wanted to play the 'Square's Dream' game. I didn't know what it was, so I remember saying let's play. Then the record player at the time could play one track when you pressed a button. If you pressed the B side, it would only play in my sisters' room. My sisters would press the B button and turn the volume to max so it was so loud nothing else could be heard. Then Mom and Dad would think we were having fun," he recalled the situation.
He continued, "Then suddenly they would lay me on the bed, the younger sister would sit on my chest and hold my arms, and the older sister would hold my legs. And they'd say, 'This kid, whenever Nemo comes up, beat him' or something like that? They just hit me. After that first system was established, they'd suddenly say, 'Let's play the Square's Dream game,' drag me into the room, and even if I said 'don't,' they'd pull me in. Mom and Dad would say, 'They're having fun,' so I couldn't come out of the room and I would cry alone. If they asked, 'Why are you like this, Cheol?', they'd say, 'He got hurt playing' and that would be the end. That was the daily routine," he vividly recounted, adding more laughter.
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