How unusual is for boygroups to have strong vocal lines?

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Yes, variety shows, vlives, social media posts, vlogging/behind the scenes content, and other types of fan based media like those. It's kinda hard to show what you have on award shows and music shows when those are performance and dance based. So it's easier to do during a groups personal content to show to fans and potential fans. Not only that, but with the pandemic is hard to even get on one of these shows for a 4th gen group when South Korea doesn't even pay attention to them. Most people think that 4th gen is a dance competition because the most popular boy groups from big companies are "dance focused" (a false narrative). They do not take into consideration that kpop is not just the big4 and ignore smaller company groups. Newer boy groups who not only have amazing dancers, but also some of the best vocalists of the generation are: The Boyz, Treasure, P1harmony, Monsta X, and Ateez.

Stray kids, Ateez, TXT, Enhypen and The Boyz (just to name a few). As I said before, two of these groups have some of the best vocalists of their generation (one even has one of the best vocalist in kpop not just 4th gen and we all know it's Jongho of Ateez) Even if Stray kids, TXT, and Enhypen aren't as vocally strong as the other two, they are definitely not weak. Seungmin alone is a standout vocalist with a good range. Even Han their rapper has the range, technique, and tone of a main vocalist. TXT and Enhypen aren't praised enough for their vocals. They have softer tones but that doesn't affect their stability which it impressive. And we've seen on I-Land that Enhypen are more than capable of improving and getting even better. TXT get better every era they went from bright and energetic Crown to dark and raspy Lo$er=Lover, that's not easy to do. And Taehyun and Hueningkai even talked about learning new techniques and improving their overall vocal tone and it shows.

I don't think 4th gen's goal is to have a Mariah Carey Vs. Whitney Houston face off. It goes it's much deeper than "dancey songs" it's about technique, tone, vocal range, and emotions that go into a good vocalist. Strong vocals don't equal good vocals. Lots of people have strong voices but their technique, tone, vocal range, and ability to portray emotions is way off (not any idols that I can think of I'm just talking people that are interested in singing in general).

And I didn't even mention the bunch of other smaller groups with amazing vocalists but it's already a long message

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I don't consider monsta x new generation tho, they debuted same year as gfriend and twice. Kihyun is part of the older batch of main vocals who really impressed me, so far I haven't seen that much in 4th gen, and like you mentioned jongho from ateez, I know he can sing but even as someone who is not an expert I noticed the way he does high notes can be damaging him? The rest of 4th gen guys in Kingdom weren't really stand-outs imo

My point is that while each boygroup may have their one great main vocal (like ateez and oneus, groups I noticed sing well) the rest of members fall short and sometimes they even drag the whole group down, while previous generations had groups like TVXQ, exo or btob, where almost all members are vocalists and even these that didn't have that position, were above capable.

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I guess from what I have heard of them nothing is really impressive so for me they’re right there with the rest of the BGs

Guess you didn't heard enough then

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idk I don't stan Monsta X I assumed they were "newer" due to how many stans they're gaining these past few years. As for Jongho, it doesn't seem to be damaging him. He is doing just fine, he has never failed it and he has never said it was damaging his throat so I wouldn't say it is or say its a downfall of his because he is continuously singing live and giving amazing performances.

I can see why you think that but that's the point of having a main vocal. There's one that hits the high notes and sings most of the song and the other members that are there for support and to help the song and the main vocalist progress. That doesn't mean they're bad vocalists or not strong however. Take The Boyz for example, they have main 2 vocalists Sangyeon and New. Their lead vocalists, Hyunjae, Kevin, and Jacob, are amazing support. In any other group, they'd most likely be a main vocalist. But due to Sangyeon and New's strong vocals, they are lead vocalists. New and Hyunjae, who are known for their powerful and sweeter voices, covered Baekhyun's parts in Call Me Baby perfectly. A lead vocalist and a main vocalist working together, that's what good support is. Despite being lead vocalists, Kevin and Jacob hit a lot of The Boyz high notes even alibiing whistle notes in some of their songs. The same can even be said for Skz, while Seungmin is the main vocalist, I.N, Han, Bang Chan, and Lee Know are great support. I'm not a professional I only know base level vocal technique and it's very clear there are some great singers with great potential. Plus the fact that they're new, they aren't gonna debut sounding like they're in a high note competition. Also let's not forget that hitting a high note doesn't make you a good vocalist or a strong vocalist. It just means you found hit a good pitch, something anyone can do. High notes are impressive but are mistakely taken as proof for who can or can't sing.

I'll check out more singing contents from these groups now, what you said make me interested on them. I'm not an expert but I think there's a few YouTube channel that make accurate rankings so I'll check that too, I want to see how they rank in 4th gen and in general