i was curious on karina solo dance and the hate so i checked it...

Wow, the way people were talking, I thought it was worse.

She rocked that white though.

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Wow, the way people were talking, I thought it was worse.

She rocked that white though.

I think they were more critical because she'd allegedly the "main dancer" of the group or considered to be like one. And that Aespa has been so well on the charts, they could have put more deserving effort in their performance.

I thinks it’s the combo of this performance (and she’s the last, so kinda like the show stopper) plus aespa’s “music show-like” performance makes it more noticeable.

I am one of the people who were vocal about being disappointed in aespa’s lackluster performance because it was redundant and lacked effort. But the Karina solo wasn’t impressive but wasn’t bad IMO. I am not a pro so I don’t know if it was technically good or not (have seen some pro dancers defend it and others don’t so idkwt).

However, I always disliked this flailing arms choreography which was overly done by many Kpop dancers who are known to be good dancers. It just always looked boring to me sorry. Some would bring technical stuff to excuse others but eventually even when pros say some artists have done it right, it still looks lacking to the untrained eye which is most fans. Unless it’s coupled with a fitting beat and fast movements to get in the mood. A good example of beat and fast movements getting the wows is the Rozalin vs Lip J battle. Most of the audience was impressed by Rozalin’s Waaking because of her choice of music and speed that was interesting to look at. While LipJ who was technically better was always not understood by many fans in other SWF battles before the Rozalin fight (Waaking is also another form of dance that is not usually understood by amateurs. Though not as much as whatever type of dance Karina's choreographer always gave her which is just again boring) until they were told by professionals that she was great. Ps Lip J was still impressive to me though.

Know your audience. You want to be artistic and technical do it on your personal platform but performing to Kpop fans and you want to impress them, you need something flashy for the untrained eye. Imo for Kpop fans doing tricks and stunts would have changed the perception completely even if the dancer wasn’t that great lol. Knowing Karina’s athletic background she can do a lot of those but she was never given the choreography that would exploit it.

To me she looked like she was doing the same dance she did when she first debuted, the same pop locking flaring arms dance that is in with 4th gen main dancers. It's really tiring and always looks very strange.

Not again

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I am one of the people who were vocal about being disappointed in aespa’s lackluster performance because it was redundant and lacked effort imo. But the Karina solo wasn’t impressive but wasn’t bad imo. I am not a pro so I don’t know if it was technically good or not (have seen some pro dancers defend it and others don’t so idkwt).

However, I always disliked this flailing hands choreography which was done by many kpop dancers who are known to be good dancers. It just always looked boring to me sorry. Some would bring technical stuff to excuse others but eventually even when pros say some artists done it right, it still looks lacking to the untrained eye which is most of fans (unless it’s coupled with a fitting beat and fast movements to get in the mood).

Know your audience. You want to be artistic and technical do it in your personal platform but performing to Kpop fans you need to impress with something flashy for the untrained eye. Imo for Kpop fans doing tricks and stunts would have changed the perception completely even if the dancer wasn’t that great lol. Knowing Karina’s athletic background she can do a lot of those but she was never given the choreography that would exploit it.

Probably the same reason people thought Ryujin's AOTM was boring. Since it was also very technical and didn't have a lot of over the top movements.

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leave. dont worry, i assure you no one will mention your fave on my thread

I don’t care about my favs lol but there are at least 6 threads about Karina dancing

Nobody said she was that terrible but the choreography wasn’t good and she didn’t suit that dance style

It was way short and seemed easy to do for most trained dancers but what's wrong with arm movements in dancing? I dont get the flailing arms criticism.