arhur12
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My problem with Kpop is not just about skills. There are very good singers in Kpop who are still forced to lip sync on music shows and award shows because giving a perfect performance is considered more important than live vocals. For example Taeyeon. She is a great singer on par with or even better than the likes of Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Lady Gaga but she lip synced all music show stages of INVU and Weekend. The songs don't have a difficult choreography and Taeyeon is a fantastic vocalist so why they made her lip sync I don't understand?? What is even the point of watching a Taeyeon live performance if we are not going to hear her sing? SM has really great vocalists but they rarely sing live. Unless, you go to their concerts you don't hear SM idols sing properly live and like you said concert tickets are very expensive nowadays so unless you are rich you aren't going to hear your favourite Kpop artist sing live. In other music industries Lip Syncing is not as widely accepted as in Kpop. Singers make mistakes all the time when they sing live but nobody cares and while vocal processing and lip syncing is becoming more common all around the world I still think Kpop does it more than most countries because some idols are even lip syncing in their concerts nowadays.agree it makes kpop seem so weak and incapable of handling all that goes on within it in fact u see the way the groups fail to put their fans in their places when they have sent hate trains to minors, someone i was commenting on their video claimed hate train did ahyeon some good so theyre practically normalising toxicity. the thing is a lot of the "scandals" also tend to ruin an idols potential even if its only a minor or non issue in the first place, theres folk around the idols who want to sabotage things and give them less than what they deserve in general (like itzy were shelved until lia came back from injury) and even when a member or two take a hiatus from the group there is not much else they usually do, a lot of idol groups tend to seem to heavily rely on both staffs and social media for their engagements and popularity growth, youd have thought a lot of their songs would keep the monentum going regardless but some idols seem to fall under backlash for non bad songs versus actually bad songs. i also think they are cutting corners in general for example 2nd were all about genuine singing skills but as more groups are debuting i can only think of a few genuinely good singers and even my faves from older groups dont fit into the category of good singers cause they have often cur corners on their performances. look at lisa at coachella versus vma... she couldve vocally went all out at vma but the songs is whats letting them down backing tracks too. at least ik my current faves sing live but other groups esp big 4 can get away with not being at their best vocally. that and pair it with the overly high energetic complex choreography and kpop can really make it seem like they have no singing abilities