Posts by ThePhantomThief

Ok, ok... I agree, Coachella. Can I change my vote?!

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I only voted in terms of girl groups since I don't keep up with boy groups

Me too, Girl Groups only, so had to throw a vote at ITZY.

Although I would have voted Dreamcatcher + Live Band if it was a choice

Lip Syncing well is not an easy thing to do. It does actually take a lot of skill and practice to be able to make lip sync well enough to create the illusion that you are actually singing. As others have pointed out, facial expressions are a big part of it, so is mouth movement and a range of other smaller details. If you do it properly and create the illusion properly, most viewers will be ok with it. It's kind of part of the whole "theatre" of the experience.

The biggest problem I see with aespa is that right now, they cant lip sync very well at all, and hence they keep breaking the illusion that "they really are singing live". Their facial movements and expressions give them away way, way too easily. The MAMA performance was a really good example of this. Their lip sync was... well out of sync. It almost looked like a dubbed movie, with their lips moving differently to the lyrics being sung. There were even points where some members mouths didn't appear to be moving at all when their lines were being sung.

Been saying for a while that an ITZY tour would be amazing.
ITZY musical style and songs seem made for big, brash live performances in front of large crowds.

But Covid hitting soon after their debut kind of squashed that for a while.

But now with some more songs under their belt and more time to gel and improve, they could seriously rip up some venues.

Imagine the finale part of Loco, with the clapping, when a whole, huge crowd of fans is doing the clapping part. It'd be amazing!

At least one of my faves won something tonight!

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Ok but the skipping is..painful

That and the weird... repeating as well... it doesn't skip, it kind of jumps back a few seconds and repeats. it was really bad during aespa's performance.

Finally leaving the news page to comment here.

That was such an amazing performance and really cements my theory that Itzy would be an amazing group to see live. Their music seems almost created for live, stadium style performances. So much energy and hype to them.

Hopefully they will be able to tour next year.