Unpopular opinion about Aespa's stage presence

Yeah,pretty sure the MAMAs are what triggered it all.Weren't people constantly praising NingNing's stage presence and Karina's ''aura'' up until that point?

Next: "taking a nap on stage when it's your turn and doing absolutely nothing is actually very edgy and innovative"

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Maybe it's me, I feel like the most enjoyable ones were their debut performances with Black Mamba.

I agree. I wonder if it's the choreo to some extent.

I think Winter's amazing. I'm always drawn to her when watching their performances. Karina is also cool to watch also sometimes but she does the same expressions all the time and she can be boring after a few performances. Ning Ning I think tries too hard but I appreciate that. Giselle has some moments where she shines (I love when she drops to the floor during her second verse in Savage) but tbh is boring to watch. But again, Winter kills it every time for me. I appreciate that she switches up things a little with her expressions. Keeps it interesting to watch. And she dances amazing.

very bland imo but not as bland as some of their contemporaries

itzy still takes the cake in terms of stage presence for 4th gen groups by a huge margin

even if i dont like their songs that much, they are fun to watch once in a while

they look dead inside every time they perform litearlly the same face expressions but we are not surprised that an sm stan came with this thread best vocalists my ass

I didn’t think red velvet were very good on stage either. Not sure why SM GGs aren’t raising to the occasion. RV have my favorite songs in 3rd gen but I’d much rather see twice and bp on stage. Even great songs like Psycho and bad Boy I wasn’t interested in RV’s lives.

Is it that the songs aren’t suited for lives or is the choreo not interesting enough I wonder.

Well aespa are new let’s see how they do in the future.

I totally agree. I found their stage presence good when they debuted and in spite of one or two lacklusters performances, they are consistent with their charisma. Karina is always the one who caughts my eye on stage.

It's always convenient how some Kpop fans use one or two performances to go with their critical agenda as if a group could never improve or had one questionable performance without bouncing back afterward.

Imo they're not fun to watch for me and they need to work on their stage prescense but my God dont turn this into a witch hunt and a bandwagon hate..

They're still rookies and have their entire careers to improve and grow and I'm sure they will with time so I hope people dont hold onto this forever

Thanks OP. Finally, positive thread about aespa stage presence.

I think they are not doing that bad as they're being labelled. I agree that Giselle is lacked a bit because of her dancing but the rest of the members seem fine.

First thing first, Sm need to open their eyes and get rid of aespa performance director.

My problems with aespa's performances are a lot but "stage presence" isn't one of them. What makes their performances seem boring is the fact they're not trying to change a single thing and repeat the same format and "expressions" over and over. Black Mamba's stages especially the first few were different because they weren't like that -expression-wise- and the choreo was fun to look at. It was also lip-synced but we weren't as used to hearing the same audio over and over in every performance and everything was new. No one could say the things they say now about aespa before because they were so impressive and got many fans during that time because of their BM stages with people saying they can't believe they're rookies. The irony...

I mean my problem besides the obvious lip-syncing, is they use the exact same AR which is not even fitting for the video. The sound is lower than the original (when usually in Live it is better to be louder and livelier). There is a huge lack of effort from them and SM in making any difference which is what bothers me. I don't think having "stage presence" is hard if the performer is confident and comfortable when all of them are. Just look at Karina and Ningning, they look so captivating in gifs but watch the full video with audio on and you get bored.

Usually, when I hear that someone lacks "stage presence" I think of someone who looks awkward, insecure, or terrified from the stage. Aespa members, on the other hand, don't seem like that but they seem bored and putting no effort whatsoever on the stage. I can see the difference in Karina's attitude sometimes (like in recent KBS gayo) but that quickly crumbles when the others are doing the same on the same overused audio with an empty year-end stage (SM lack of effort).

However, I do think opportunist aespa haters used MYs frustration to spread their irrelevant negative narrtaives. If you read some of the MAMA articles' comments, some users use the opportunity to dish on everything aespa related and promote their 4th gen fav as the better performers (which frankly, none of the ones they mentioned were good except Itzy but idc about them to get frustrated over their underwhelming stages as I do with aespa). In the comments, they literally questioned how aespa was chosen by SM because "they lack skills". Suddenly they claimed the girls are bad dancers, singers, ugly and their sales/charts are fake. All because of an underwhelming stage.