oh my god guys
apparently 2nd gen did it better
hi, welcome so in today's video we are going to be talking about the performances for
the mbc award shows i don't remember what it's called to be quite honest with
you they all have like ''gayo'' in them, like ''Gayodajun'', ''gayo'' this, um I don't
remember I'm sorry so much for being a seasoned Koreaboo, that being said we
are going to be talking about my honest thoughts so if that offends you keep on
watching cuz it's gonna get juicy I don't mess with disclaimers anymore
because fun fact they don't work also I haven't been cancelled in a while so I
feel I feel like no one cares I feel like I'm slowly on the road to
irrelevancy and that's fine I had my time, I shined, it was iconic, I'm ready to go
down in flames! I was actually really pleased with like the selection of
performances there was like a lot of collabs, there's a lot of covers so let's
get into that! actually I'm gonna stop you right there trying you to subscribe
to this channel and click that belt to be notified and if you'd like to help
the algorithm then comment on this video or share it with friends you don't have
or if that's too much to ask there's literally nothing stopping you from
picking another video after this one I say this time and time again there are a
lot of really..... just just be careful out there okay? also here's to hoping we don't
get a copyright claim by MBC, you never know so let's start with twice I'm gonna
start off by saying that their outfits were really incredibly cute (for fancy) there was a
lot going on but it never really felt obnoxious, their feel special outfits
were actually terrible though and the whole like you know black and white with
a pop of color to me was very um triggering, it was like unreality and
then the unreality just was very... I didn't like it so when it went back to
you know full color I liked it, I felt like Jihyo really was so bright in her
performance and I felt the most from her however this is going to be a trend for
a lot of the performances that I am about to
talk about and that is the lack of live vocals again a third gen issue that I
don't like and when I talk about this a lot of people are like you must be new
to kpop but I'm like um I'm k-pops grandmother sit the f*ck down! seriously
though if you haven't had a chance to look at 2nd gen performances I encourage
you to do so, okay boomer let's move on! my disappointment in the lack of live
vocals is pretty consistent there are a few idols that I could actually hear and
I was very you know, I was very excited about that and this wasn't the case
there twice which was a bit surprising to me because I can usually hear Nayeon
and Jihyo's voices a little bit at least they tend to overpower the backup vocals
just a little bit to a point where I can kind of hear them, but for these
performances I couldn't hear them at all and this was certainly a theme that was
brought into Jihyo and Momo's performance with Taemin and this you know, this is
ooh ooh buckle up kids grab some popcorn I have a lot to say about this
performance about what exactly ruined this performance for me let's
talk about goodbye which is a collab again with momo, jihyo and Taemin who
was my bias in 2010 but we don't need to go down that dark rabbit hole right now
first off the red was stunning I cannot accentuate this enough it was absolutely
stunning their outfits were so beautiful and as well their body movements just
evoked so much emotion don't get me wrong this performance is absolutely
amazing for the most part we had this duet at the beginning it was it was
absolutely breathtaking and then Taemin came out and you know he if he had this
piece of fabric over his mouth and he started singing and it didn't sound like
he had a piece of fabric over his mouth I'm just saying I'm not accusing anyone
of anything but this is just proof that you know the third gen kpop standards is
being applied to our faith second gen artists and it's it's it's a tragedy but
I digress his movements are so beautiful and then all of them together a
was just so majestic and I appreciated this performance so much but what really
threw everything off to me was the fact that we weren't actually hearing them
saying it was clear as day their voices did not match the movements they were
doing and it just didn't feel real to me so no matter how great the actual
performance is sorry I could hear my washing machines so loudly and it's like
all the way downstairs it's like better sound quality than MBC to me just you
know the performance value of it all was watered down by the fact that there was
a clear disconnect between what I was hearing and what I was seeing because
what I was hearing was perfect vocals but what I was seeing was like raw
movement and it just didn't match but that's the thing this performance really
didn't need vocals at all they could have just played the song and done their
dancing and it would have been equally amazing or they could have just sang
live and just showed about true rawness and it would have connected with
audiences that much more so for example an artist that I really admire is Halsey
particularly her live performances because she puts on a whole ass show and
you can hear the movement in her voice you can hear you know the breath you can
hear the struggle shall we say and you know in hearing all of these aspects
you're assured that her performance is real that is coming from her heart that
you know she's literally putting her all into it and it's all raw and authentic
and that's something that I really appreciate I decided to use a non 2NE1
example because I've decided that I'm just unpredictable like that! so on that
note we are gonna move on to Hyuna and Dawn's performance together which is so
cute, I read somewhere someone's saying like we need more k-pop couples and I
definitely agree it would definitely help the delulu's cope I know
12 year old Koreaboo me could have benefited from seeing more kpop couples
this ties back into the Taemin incident of 2010 anyways
so their performance was kind of more or less on the same wavelength except they
just weren't singing they just omitted the singing they didn't even like try to
pretend they were singing they didn't even have mics they relied solely on
their stage presence and it was the best thing they ever could have done the
performance was great and they didn't need voices to make an impact so that's
what I mean you know you don't you don't need to be
like a triple threat you don't need all of these aspects together to make
something amazing sometimes simple is better and their performance was very
simple yet still blew my mind I just love them so much like I follow
them both on Instagram I didn't really like Dawn's money it's not my favorite
song in the world not really my cup of tea
but I did want to see he seems a bit apathetic to me which is like
interesting so I wanted to see what kind of dynamic he had in a group so I
decided to look up Pentagon and I saw their song shine and I fell in love with
it I fell in love with his voice in shine because I felt like the dichotomy
of his rough-around-the-edges voice with you know paired with you know the
beautiful stunning voices of the other members made such an interesting song
and I understand why that song blew up it's amazing I'm so sad that I like I
only discovered it now but I wanted to share that information with you that I
really like shine by Pentagon that money wasn't really my cup of tea but I do
admit I love his style k-pop shake and I were talking about this the other day
but his style really reminds us of g-dragon like it's just very I don't
want to use the word eccentric what's the word high fashion and odd and I
really love that I love that I love the fit of his clothing I love that it's
outside of the box I love it so much so thumbs up for that now we're gonna talk
about the diva stage with Itzy and (G)i-dle,l I don't want to be too much of a downer
because I did like this performance it was really cute diva is a female version
of a hustler like it was really cute I loved it I enjoyed it but I do want to
point out again the mic issues and you know what we're gonna put lion into this
category as well because it's I'm gonna say the exact same thing
Soyeon is one of the very few third gen female artists that overpowers her own
backup track and that started love about her the fact that I'm able to connect
with her voice because as I've mentioned before in previous videos probably I
don't think I mentioned it yet when I watch the performance I really connect
with the artist through their voice through the rawness of their voices so
if I don't hear a raw voice I just I feel like this disconnect so I do feel
connection with her because I can hear her however if she's not doing a solo
piece it does create this imbalance that I've talked of time and time again so
you'll have one member just kind of singing and there's like this disconnect
but then she comes on and you hear her and she's so powerful and it's like oh
my goodness where did that come from so what I would really appreciate from
everyone is if we could just hear a little bit of their voices listen I
understand that third gen choreography is so intense and I understand that it's
not always possible to you know expect 2nd gen vocals in a 3rd gen choreography
I totally get that the least that I would expect is just to kind of hear
their voices a little bit right because there's lip singing then there's like
recording the live track and then playing that over them dancing but
they're not actually singing it live and then there's like the backup track where
you can hear the backup chop we can also hear them a little bit so the backup
track offers like a little bit of support I you know prefer that obviously
I would love to hear them all singing like super raw, blah blah I understand that
that's not super realistic given the dynamics of 3rd gen kpop let's take a
second to talk about Ateez because where have they been? they performed at mama, I
feel like they're best friends with m-net which is a good thing
I really appreciated their mama performance and it blew me away I didn't
talk about it too much then but let's talk a little bit about it right now
Jonghol's voice was so beautiful that's really what attracted me to a tease like
that's what drew me into Ateez was his part in goodbye baby so I personally
would have loved to see them perform again at different award shows but
unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case tonal really gives me second
gen vibes and he's one of the very few vocalists because I mentioned before in
terms of rap I find it a lot more common to overpower your backup vocals but in
terms of vocalist I find it so much more rare and he sings so loud it looks so
effortless to him and it like it just comes from his heart like
straight from his heart and I'm not trained vocally or anything but I feel
like he's very technically good at singing but he still maintained like
this very emotional aspect to his voice anyways I wanted to put that out there
that's what got me into Ateez is the goodbye baby part where he looks so like
concentrated and strained like he's really concentrating on the performance
it was absolutely beautiful I really would have loved if Ateez could have
performed more at award shows so then we have Itzy's performance with Dalla Dalla
I'm not gonna say much because I feel like the rest of the performance is
kind of follow the same trajectory where I don't feel the most connection to them
because I can't really hear them singing but I will say I loved this whole
graduation theme they had going on those sparkly gowns were adorable so yeah
that's basically all I had to say leave down in the comments below what your
favorite performances are or if I miss any
I'm sure you'll let me know we're having so much fun on Instagram I'm gonna start
sharing means that you guys create instead of comments well I'll alternate
we'll see so the meme of the day goes to this lovely individual thank you so much
for creating this it's absolutely beautiful
if you'd like to be featured in the next video then tag me on Instagram or
comment something funny that touches my heart
possibly and you know what since you made it this far into the video you
might as well subscribe click on another one of my videos because I have enemies
also Happy New Year I guess what day are we it's a second are we the second is it
the first time isn't real I would love it if you guys could let me know what
kind of videos you'd like to see from me I feel like things have been getting a
little stagnant and I don't really know what to do I don't know I don't know
what you guys want like I don't know if my content is getting boring
um so I would like some guidance from like literally the people who matter the
most literally the people who I'm making this for so if you have any suggestions
comments critiques I'm very open to that thank you guys so much for watching I
will see you guys next time bye
second-gen did it better