it seems that a lot of people are really disappointed with the award shows thus
far in some respects I kind of understand but at the same time what
were you expecting I mean with 2NE1 out of the game this is the best you're gonna get
hi welcome so today's video is super exciting because I'm gonna be sharing my
thoughts on the performances from MMA and MAMAa aka the Melon Music Awards and
the m-net Asian Music Awards please keep in mind but I won't be talking about
every single performance because there are a lot of them and also I don't stan
every single person who has performed I'm also gonna be sharing my brutally
honest thoughts about some of your faves' performances and they might not align
with your own personal views so let's start off with BTS actually I'm gonna
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sharing my videos with people that you can hate them with, this is what I
appreciate about BTS is that they give me second gen vibes in the context of
performance meaning that you can hear them live you can hear their voices live
because if you watch a lot of second gen performances you can hear them breathing
you can hear them struggle and it's so beautiful and it's something that's
ultimately lost in a lot of third gen groups and I don't think it's their
fault I don't think these people train for years and years at a time to not be
talented I do think they are talented but I think either their companies or
these music shows just demand absolute perfection so then they have these very
loud backup vocals so that any possible mistake is hidden and it's a real shame
but I digress the BTS do bring forth a lot of energy and it's something I
appreciate I appreciate hearing a struggle and maybe struggle is not the
right word maybe rawness is a better word but I do want to paint a little bit
of a picture for you so if someone is singing and dancing that is inevitably
really hard to do and if you can't hear someone's breath or you can hear at
least little bit of a struggle it's probably
because they aren't singing live and it's not about whether or not you're
good at your job it's just about being human
I mean inevitably movement affects your voice it's just science don't at me I'm
just someone who really values energy and I value the rawness of a performance
over anything else and I have to say Jungkook's little solo part was my
absolute favorite I loved the element of water and this is something that's used
a lot in kpop music videos but this particular use of water was different
and he basically just swam and it which was a mood and then of course Jimin's
little Solo part as well was absolutely stunning but then suddenly we brought
horses on stage which is a huge no-no to me there is no context in which this
stage actually needed horses but I was like go off I guess pull a YG I
guess and finally the last aspect that I absolutely fell in love with was the
table choreography I thought that was very clever
as for the Dionysus performance or however the heck you pronounce that, on
mama I was a bit underwhelmed and I can't really use Mnet footage without
going to copyright hell but their energy was great don't get me wrong it was just
that it almost seemed like I couldn't really hear their voices or there was
some type of filter for their voices yet I could constantly hear the pop
sounds and their mics from plosive consonants or something like that I
haven't studied linguistics in a while but for example if I do like ''P'' sound, so I
have a pop filter to kind of prevent that but for them like that's all I
could hear and yet I couldn't really hear their voices about well which is
really weird but then for boy with love and the other performances where they
had their own microphones it was a lot better
moving on to Itzy's performance so I'm not gonna lie I wasn't expecting a lot I
was kind of expecting another you know music show type performance and I'm
sorry I just have theory, it's not that I have low expectations it's just I have a
certain type of expectations for like I want to call them pre-fourth gen
groups I don't believe there's a fourth gen yet I don't believe in it I still
think 2012 is second gen, argue with me in the comments but I ended up really vibing
with this performance I really love the marching band theme I love their gold
outfits and you could hear a bit of a struggle you could hear their voices and
again it doesn't mean that they're bad at their job it just means they are
humans who are singing and dancing it just means that like I believe in the
performance you know if your performance sounds so flawless you know.. it's... I'm not
interested in perfection I have zero interest in that, I want to know and be
reassured that what I'm seeing is real however in contrast their MAMA
performance mmm.. the schoolgirl outfits I blame twice! so
now we're gonna talk about mamamoo so everyone was really angry at melon for
mistreating them they gave them the least amount of time to perform they
allegedly like sped up their performance which I totally believed because it
really felt like they sped it up like they literally just sped up the music it
didn't feel very it just felt very off and then at the beginning almost seemed
like they were trying to spell out stupid melon but they just like they
just placed if you have the dancers wrong so it wasn't too like explicit I
guess I don't know and then when Massa was singing twit at the end it said PD
that was allegedly shade overall the performance did feel a bit uncomfortable
there were times when they looked visibly upset but then they would do
like a 180 and just like vibe with the music like they didn't care it was very
interesting like I'm totally here for the shade don't get me wrong but then in
contrast their MAMA performance was a lot more energetic it felt like it was a
lot more mamamoo you know what I mean to me it seems like they just have such
amazing stage presence and they make everything look so effortless so however
if some of the outfits were though there was no denim there was a lot of plastic
which it was surprising to me that there was no foggy areas but I mean cool
Moonbyul and Wheein's outfits were really nice and they fit together really well
however something was off about Solars outfit so to me her hair really threw
everything off because it was supposed to be
half yellow half black but then her hair was kind of off yellow which just threw
everything off I think had her hair just been completely black it would have
looked a lot nicer but then Hwasa had like green and purple and a lot of
plastic to me it just really didn't match anything like the cohesiveness
just went out the window the only downfall is that you couldn't really
hear their voices that clearly however they kind of balanced it out and made up
for it by having incredible stage presence then we have twice I don't know
what to say because I don't really want to offend anyone
I was just personally underwhelmed at the performance the energy was just it
just wasn't there for me and given the fact that this is an award show I was
just expecting more I feel like twice deserves something a
lot more extravagant like for example in the beginning of feel special it was
actually kind of exciting I mean I loved the way they evoked the music video and
the way they switched from one part to another it was dynamic so imagine how
cool the entirety of the performance could have been if they played off those
scenes a little bit more if they added you know new choreography to those
scenes if they had stair choreography if they had umbrella choreography if they
played off that mirror type thing with two members just a little bit more it
would have made the performance feel that much more special however for me
again it felt more or less like in music show performance and I couldn't really
hear anyone's voices except for Nayeon,s and Nana's... Nana oh my god! this isn't
after-school. we are going to move on to txt they made it look like they were
under water it was really cool and the way they used the weight of their bodies
to pull each other and create shapes it was a really fascinating experience
however on the live performance side of things I felt a little bit underwhelmed
they prepared such amazing before-and-after artistic performances
but then you know in the grandeur of the stage they really felt very small the
performance felt very small it felt no different than watching them on a music
show especially since we couldn't really hear their voices
live and that's a bit of a pet peeve of mine because if you can't hear the live
voices then I really expect a lot from your dancing I expect a lot from you
know the whole visual aspect of it so then we have Ateez okay and originally I
wasn't going to watch the performance because I was like I mean I don't really
care but then I was like okay I'm gonna go see if I could at least roast their
outfits like I don't really want to like watch their whole performance but
then I realized I didn't care about their outfits but by that time I
was so amazed by the performance that I watched the whole damn thing
I wasn't expecting them to cover blood sweat and tears and then goodbye baby
the energy was top knot and when I say second gen vibes I mean Jesus Christ
they did not need to go that hard but they did and I'm honestly questioning
why I don't stand Ateez so yeah that's all I had to say thank you guys so much for
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