Which groups paved the way for pre-recorded vocals?

Like I'm not talking about lipsyncing to a backtrack, I'm talking about purposely recording a non-studio version of the song, with added "acting of breathing" and "oh my god his/her voice crack it's obviously live" bits to give the false impression of a live performance.

It wasn't really a thing back in 2nd Gen but it feels like over the years it's getting more and more popular. At least last time when groups lipsync it's so fking obvious that it's a backtrack they don't even bother hiding it, they be like "listen to this obviously autotuned backtrack of the stuiod version of the song IDGAF"

But now so many groups are hiding behind the facade of a "live performance" when it actually it isn't

Question now is, when did this actually happen? Like who paved the way for pre-recorded vocals?

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idek really suddenly almost everyone does it

But someone has to start the ball rolling right? Like I'm wondering when was it that this shit gets popular

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ohhh icy i see you want to start a war. i know who, but i will be quiet and watch others.

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Western artists?

I personally dont mind pre recorded vocals because its them singing live at least, way better then lip sync.

I dont mind them singing with backtrack either.

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Oh Western artists are hella good at it for sure and they've been doing it since forever, but it only feels like this happened in KPOP in the past couple of years?