Do you care if idols sing live at award shows?

I dont watch award shows but they only sing a couple of songs there

if they are there to be honored as the greatest, might as well make an effort

good for En- and monstax

Before I discovered K Pop I thought lip syncing should be a sin punishable by death. After a lot of kpop I get it. Kpop can have a really intense choreo. Its a hard decision and it depends on the group. Groups like itzy, LE SERRAFIM, etc that do really hard choreo I can give a free pass to. Can depend on the song though. On the other hand I think in industry has started to get lazy. I also think it's fans fault too, that groups are doing so much lip syncing. To many people out their looking for the slightest mistake and then making their life's work to make sure everyone knows about it.

it is a logical consequence of the lack of demand from the fans, they are more concerned about the outfit of the idols and the quality of the MV and the number of followers on instagram than on the performances and the real capacities of the idols. The few people in the industry who still try to do interesting things are always ignored and not rewarded.

Companies just follow the keys to success to make their group popular.

People want shit, then savor it.

Back in the day most of the big perfs of awards night were mostly/fully live. Lip sync was a big no no.

Now 90% of Kpop is lip synced to some degree so I guess that's become the standard. It shouldn't be a surprise majority lip sync, can't be disappointed if you already know it's not live.

Something I've also realized that makes kpop different it's not just about 1 part of the show. It's about the entire performance. I.E. ITZY may not have the greatest vocals, but when you put vocals, dance, performance, song choice, etc. They put on an amazing show!

No, it's not as big of a deal as some people make it out to be. I think that lip sync is acceptable, especially when performing difficult choreography. I feel like being able to sing stable while doing all that movement is difficult enough, you'll find that you can run out of breath quickly if you do it yourself. And extra props to those idols who can sing high notes, stable while doing difficult choreography (I'm looking at you, Park Jihyo)

I don't watch award shows but yes I do expect groups to sing live otherwise they're cheating their audience in my opinion. I'd much rather hear a song with live singing and a few dud notes than a polished lip sync version.

Since I am not attending the show in person I guess IDC

I don't mind either way but a lot of the time I can't even tell lol

Ngl when you think about it it's kinda sad that during a music awards show almost no one sings live

Also I find this excuse that difficult choreography means lip sync is allowable to be weird reasoning. If the choreography prevents a group from being a able to at least attempt to sing live then either clearly the choreography is too difficult for them in the first place or they’re not talented enough to sing and dance at the same time. Many groups in the past have had hard routines and still sang live.

sometimes yes

I do like to hear their voices, not recordings, yes

What's the point of performing if you won't perform

Well even if i try to enjoy lipsynced performance, they always not enjoyable to me because it just gives robotic and fake feel. I prefer a performance where I can watch the artist express themselves , not to see them show off their talents.

No actually, but if the fans all out about how their faves has the greatest and nicest vocals in kpop and drag other groups because of it, yet their idols rarely or never sing live, then yup I care.

It always feels a bit flat to me. Even if the dancing is absolutely stellar, it’s never gonna pack the emotional punch for me.

It doesn’t bother me any more than it bothers me in Western pop, where many groups and artists with intense choreography have usually lip synced a time or two for awards shows, etc.

A great performance is a great performance. And the fact that people still are often unclear on what is lipsynced, live ar or live (people will present something not live as live or assume something that is live isn’t because “it’s too perfect”) shows me that it’s not as much of an issue as people make it out to be if it’s not even obvious all the time.

I also think post production often does a disservice to these artists. For example, in the Killing Voice, they are singing live with in-ears so the vocals captured on set are pure and don’t have any background music. The producers lay in the instrumentals in post, but that addition of the perfect instrumental can contribute to the idea that people aren’t actually singing live on the show…

Yep

I don't personally care but lipsynched performances never go lengendary so its a choice I don't think its very productive, its a chance to take advantage of visibility + crowd + outfits + scenario

What are you talking about? Don't you know Aespa is the only girl group that lip syncs? /S

It's dissapointing that majority of the creme de la creme aren't allowed to sing live, because they are literally the best of the best yk?

IMO they should always sing live because being in a group means that you aren’t even singing the whole song but have breaks in between your lines. Practice also makes it easier and there is nothing better than live singing experience. Kpop fans just need to learn to not be so unjustifiably judgmental. I don’t mind a voice crack or even sounding like a hyena as long as it is live so that I know you are trying. Being perfect is for the studio/MV not for live performances. I prefer artists that strive to be better and not just faking being perfect. Kpop fans like to talk shit about western stars but some actually do hard choreography and sing live and they do a great job at it. That’s what makes a great performer vs an average one.

The only place I feel strongly about it is paid concerts. If your fans have paid money to see you perform, you should perform live.

Award shows where the audience is mostly industry peeps? Eh, can't be bothered to care either way.

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I think it was more common in the past to have whoever is singing do modified choreo or even stop dancing completely in order to sing their part. Now, it seems like all the members dance full out through most of not all of the song. I wish they would go back to the modifications coz I prefer live singing

I think lip syncing is why dances are more full out. If there's no need to sing live then they could do flying spinning heel kicks and it wouldn't make any difference to signing ability.

But like I said it could also be due to lack of talent to balance dance and signing. SNSD were mostly 17 year olds when they did ITNW with live vocals and intense choreography. Many many ggs young and old have covered it since and none of them have really come close to SNSD level.