I don't watch KPop interviews much but why is it that when a group sings in English they sound natural but when a member or members speak in English they sound like they're speaking it for the first time?

you probably havent watched any monsta x interview in english lol pretty much all members are fluent by now

Recording a song takes a while im assuming, so they would have plenty of time to perfect their English pronunciation for their lines and re-record parts that aren't up to parr.

A song you can memorize and have a guideline, an interview you can't. I think every foreigner speaks better singing.

studio wise they have time

interview wise they don't

In an interview they have to think about the words and stuff. When recording they have time and they can just sing along. Much like how we kpop stans sing along to the korean words without knowing the language very well.

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A song you can memorize and have a guideline, an interview you can't. I think every foreigner speaks better singing.

Yeah, I agree with this. I've seen like behind the scenes on some KPOP artists on how they record (even in a lot of song recording in a lot of genres) they read from a certain paper while they're singing. Whether an interview is scripted or not (usually not though), they still won't most likely have the direct reference. It wouldn't make sense to do an interview reading from a paper while speaking.

Interviews are not re-recorded like songs.

That's why....

It's like me with kpop, some songs I can sing and they're in Korean as I listen to it constantly, but if I was asked to speak Korean in an interview or day to day I would struggle

A song you sort of know how to prounce things because it follows a melody and rhythm. However when you have to speak English, or any language, on the spot with zero time to think about what you exactly want to say during an interview it's obviously tough to speak.

I don't speak Korean but I can certainly copy the pronounciation of a song to make it seem like I know Korean words but ask me to have a conversation in Korean and I have no clue apart from maybe a couple basic phases I picked up.

I can sing Spring Day kinda fluently but ask me anything in Korean, I’ll surrender lol

I sing in an opera company. We sing in Italian, French, German etc... Some of us might have vaguely decent foreign language skills. We learn to sing from guides based on the specific lines we have to sing. Doesn’t mean, even though I have decentish French and Italian skills that I could answer without stumbling.

I think because, for a song, members have plenty of time to memorize and even practice correct pronunciation. Meanwhile, for interviews, they might only know a few questions that will be asked beforehand but they simply didn't have time to focus on pronunciation. They will only think about whether the answer is enough for that question.

Can you give an example of which idols that you refer to? No offense here, when I watch BP's interview Jisoo seems awkward to me when she speaks English, but I don't blame her since she still keeps learning and improving and it is not her main language after all.

Because in interview they have to build the sentence in their head to answer. They can't focus on the pronounciation.

Whereas in the song, the lyrics are already written before the recording. They can just focus on perfecting their pronounciation - they can also re-do the take if it's not perfect.

That's because singing in a different language is easier than speaking fluently in a different language.

Apart from groups that have a native speaker, most groups struggle in the sense that they utter short basic sentences, and in some cases with pauses, because this is easier for them and I think sometimes they have the answers memorized.

When you sing a song in any language you don't speak, you only need to memorize the lines and the sounds, and then repeat, repeat and repeat until you get the perfect take. But talking in a language is more than memorizing lines and sounds. It's about fluidity, flow between sentences, naturality and spontainety.

go check Stray Kids

Because music is melodic and speaking isn’t