Poll - Do these stages contain live vocals?

I'm curious what we think live vocals sound like. Mark all the stages that you think you can clearly hear live vocals in (even if there is also some backtrack).

Just to be clear, there's nothing wrong with lipsyncing. All groups have done it some times. Plus, they will all use at least some back track on music shows.

NCT U - Make a Wish

(G)I-dle - Latata

TXT - 0X1 = Love Song

EXO - Monster (Sorry, please click to watch on youtube)

Seventeen - Fear

OnlyOneOf - Libido

BTS - On

Ateez - Deja Vu

IVE - Eleven

StayC - Stereotype

Twice - I Can't Stop Me

The Boyz - Stealer

Monsta X - Beautiful

Stray Kids - Gods Menu

Aespa - Next Level

Itzy - Loco

GOT7 - You Calling My Name

Enhypen - Fever

Quote from ViWinters

i listened to the ones where i know what the original song sounds like so i can judge it correctly. also the Exo Monster video isn't working

Quote from Charmed123

The only one of and exo video wouldn’t work

I fixed Libido

Urghhhh, will Monster work if you click on watch on YouTube? I don't want to change the videos out since some already voted

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Where’s the “none” option

I'll add it.

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It's really hard. For my fav group i would say Itzy are not live for this stage, but for (G)I-DLE i can't tell. I don't know if they really sings live or if this is the recorded version for this stage

I felt like Itzy had loud backtrack, but I also felt like I could hear them sometimes (especially the girl with the pink stripe and the one who would sing after her) and that I was hearing doubling at the start and end of some lines like the live singing and the backtrack weren't matched up so I voted for live vocals but it was mixed for me.

For Latata, I felt like I could only really hear Soyeon's rap part for the most part so I went with lipsync. I still liked the performance. I love that song and think they have good stage presence.

Quote from killthisfenty

Latata is clear live

Loco has a lot of backtrack but they sing some part

Stayc are clearly singing live

I wasn't convinced about Latata but agree with you on Itzy and stayc

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I scanned through the GGs, i think only Itzy and StayC sang live and not all the time (sometimes they let the backtrack handle the vocals).

Urgh, your un just made me realize I forgot BP.

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Yes, I like Twice.

But are they singing live tho?

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I always have a hard time judging these things, and it really doesn't matter to me.

Especially with a hard or intense choreo, lipsyncing never bothers me. It's all about if the performance is good.

Oh no. I'm not implying that lipsync is wrong and all groups have done it at times. This was more about what expectations we have for live singing and if we can tell the difference nowadays. One thing I don't like is when people complain that the singing isn't perfect when perfect isn't really achievable live, especially while dancing. And when people praise idols for having "ate the cd" well, usually that's because it is the cd their hearing mostly lol.

Quote from Minazuki

This Monster stage isnt live, but this one is

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I thought I could hear vocals in the other too, but yours does sound more live. This is hard lol

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Of course. I also find it funny that people don't realize that lipsyncing is a skill too. Especially to make it look believable without actually singing takes training and effort.

Oh yeah, I've seen plenty of terrible lipsyncing. Plus you still need to convey energy and stage presence which I think is hard when you're not really singing the song.

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EXO is one of the hardest groups for me to notice, because they sound too good performing both live and lipsyncing pre-recorded lol

I listened to it again and now I'm thinking you are right, its live

It is hard! Lol I kinda prefer when I can hear groups obviously mess up so I can know for certain :D

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I think only Monsta X, Stray Kids and Itzy, perhaps StayC

I'm surprised that there are so few votes for MX. Hyungwon and Minhyuk are difficult to hear over the backtrack, but I feel like the others can be heard clearly. Kihyun especially is obviously live and you can hear him fighting to be able to sing with that choreo.

Quote from Nakayuki

Live with loud backtrack. They did a lot of jumps, their vocal sounds shaking in some parts, clearly different with studio version.

I prefer this performance, with live band, no backtrack

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That's the performance that got me to fall in love with the song. :) I wanted to keep things fair by only using music shows with full choreo tho. I think everyone should sing live if they're standing still.

As for the video, I think the backtrack is so loud that I can't really hear them much at all.

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I'm voting none because I don't wanna watch all those videos but I wanna see the results lmao

I limited it to people who voted cuz I didn't want people to be influenced by what others thought lol

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You can hear jongin struggle at :31 and it’s a different volume since he’s literally killing him sellf dancing monster kekeke

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Anyway I don’t really consider music show performances for live locals for other reasons. They’re usually corrected in post. There are multiple takes so even when it’s live the final video may actually contain audio from a different take. Music shows are to see the choreo not live vocals Kek.

Yeah, sometimes it will sound totally live, warts and all, but won't seem to match. Those I assume are different takes.

I would do another for concert/ festival videos cuz those are more often live, but I couldn't get many people to even watch all of these! lol

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Wow I don’t want to vote any of this for live cuz none of it feels live enough for me

That's why I specified that backtrack is okay, as long as you can hear the vocals too.

I didn't see any music shows without back track

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Yeah wow the backtracks are loud on music shows kekek I never consider loud backtracks proper live Kek.

Lol yeah, they're not but I'll take what I can get. I just want to hear some real vocals even if they're supported by backtrack. I get that it's hard with choreo and in a music show environment with TV expectations.

I do expect concerts to be mostly live and also any performances where the singers are just standing still.