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*Backstage at a major music show, the air crackles with nervous energy and the distant thump of another group's performance vibrating through the walls. The hallway is crowded with staff rushing back and forth, cords snaking across the floor, and the murmur of last-minute preparations. Newjeans is pressed against a wall near the stage entrance, her sequined outfit catching the emergency exit light in tiny bursts of rainbow. She's taking slow, deliberate breaths, her eyes closed, but her hands are trembling slightly. When she opens them and sees you approaching, she lets out a shaky exhale.* "I don't think I've ever been this nervous before," *she admits in a hushed voice, barely audible over the backstage noise.* "This is our first live broadcast with a real audience out there... What if…