BTS If you think just because BTS is now an international
phenomenon and for that they always get the top of top treatments, then well, so mistaken
to see things that way.
Just a few months ago when BTS attended TMA 2020, they had bagged home a handful of prestigious
awards including 1 Deasang, which is not very big a surprise considering their impressive
achievements for the whole year, 3 others titles: Year’s Artist, Worldwide Icon, and
Listener’s Choice.
However, things quickly turned for the worse when BTS started to do the encore of their
first no.1 Billboard Dynamite.
When the group was half way through the encore, the staff suddenly turned off the background
music and left BTS carrying the song throughout by themselves.
While shortening the performance of BTS did make every award show usually have a time
limit for airing, the staff could have better done their job by informing the group about
when to stop singing instead of cutting them off half way, which looked pretty like implicitly
shooing them away for being too afraid to tell them upfront.
And of course, for such an unprofessionalism, the staff of TMA 2020 eventually received
tons of criticism when the incident blew up online.
On theqoo, netizens couldn’t understand how a big award like TMA was even worse organized
than a weekly music show.
Plus, as the money charged for watching that online award was also not small, the fact
that they couldn’t even have the full performance of BTS was extremely ridiculous.
However, as in yin has the yang, that unfortunate incident also proved BTS is not only talented
in music but are also professional artists that could always keep their performances
in control.
Do you notice the reaction of all the members when the music went dead?
While V hadn’t finished his part, he didn’t even flinch and just kept singing like nothing.
Netizens also praised the rest of the group for showing no signs of hesitation as soon
after the abrupt ending, they even did some shout out to fans as well as TMA before rushing
off the stage.
Also, by the way Jungkook added the fading effect for his “Dy-na-na-na” part, some
believed Jungkook should have received a standing ovation for his wise adlib.
As not everyone could act with quick wit when being watched by thousands of eyes like that,
it really seems like he was born to be a star.
BLACKPINK Besides such intentional cut-offs, there are
also unexpected problems that the technical team couldn’t handle like when BLACKPINK
performed at a university in 2018.
When the group was approaching the end of BOOMBAYAH, the sound system suddenly acted
up and made the girls sing live for the rest of the song.
Though the hissing noises initially confused all the members and especially Jennie, the
one that was almost scared to death, BLACKPINK was quick to get themselves together and hype
up the stadium with their raw vocals.
After the video was posted on Youtube, the comment section was filled up with compliments
on the professionalism of BLACKPINK.
If you spend some time scrolling down the comment section, you’ll also see lots of
people come there to compliment the adlib of Rosé.
Instead of waiting for the help from technical staff, she was the first to speak up and suggested
singing raw.
Some also gave Jisoo credit as when the glitch happened and other girls looked legit rattled,
she just pulled them together with her calmness and wise sense of humor.
Obviously, TEDDY wasn’t wrong when he said Jisoo was incredibly smart when he featured
in LIGHT UP THE SKY.
G-FRIEND As one of the rare acts of KPOP that are dance-focus
but still kill it when it comes to singing, G-FRIEND has proven how powerful their vocal
was by continuing with the performance after the music got cut off halfway.
Back in 2017 when G-FRIEND was singing Rain In The Spring Time at Jeju National University,
the background music stopped all of a sudden and guess what, instead of getting confused
or looking around to seek for help, Yuju just proceeded with her part and even hit one of
the highest notes of the songs.
As the atmosphere might cool down when they sang raw like that, Umji was also quick to
implicitly ask the audience join them by waving hands and just like that, G-FRIEND smoothly
went through the whole song just by themselves.
When this part of them singing with no MR was posted on Youtube, lots of compliments
were focused on how they handled the situation professionally and especially for Yuju, many
fans were super proud of how she didn’t even flinch and just kept singing to encourage
the whole group like that.
EXO While EXO used to be criticized for being
talentless visuals and an overhyped rookie of SM, those bad words were really just a
past that haters need to get over since after the sound system incident in 2017, their vocal
capabilities were proven to be all nice and neat.
When EXO was performing their song Transformer in Mexico, the MR suddenly stopped, D.O and
Chen obviously didn’t even flinch and just kept dancing like nothing happened.
While Kai looked kinda concerned for a little bit, he and the rest of the group were also
quick to follow suit and guess what, Sehun even managed to hype up the stadium and get
everyone to sing along.
However, as Transformer was originally an upbeat song and just singing and dancing raw
like that didn’t keep the heat for long, EXO eventually stopped the performance and
interacted with fans instead.
Of course they didn’t get to finish the song like G-FRIEND because as I’ve said,
Transformer was not a ballad, but these few seconds already showed that EXO didn’t lip-sync
even when doing such an energy-consuming choreography.
GOT7 Just in the same year, GOT7 somehow got the
same sound issue as EXO and also when they were doing a concert abroad.
However, instead of being unbothered kings like Suho and Chen, the members froze for
a few seconds out of surprise.
Interestingly, Ahgases immediately got the hang of everything, pulled GOT7 together and
soon enough, the whole crew continued the song with zero care about the MR thing.
To add flavors to the chorus, Jackson even showed off his super cool beatbox skills and
quickly hyped up the room with a bunch of fun chanting that he just thought of several
seconds ago.
The interesting thing is, GOT7 and Ahgases did get much closer by that little moment
that night.
After the video got posted online, many had come to express their pride in stanning these
talented boys and though no one explicitly said this, the fact that some fans mistaken
Jackson’s beatboxing with the music starting to pick up really told a lot about how good
his skills were.
TWICE However, besides those warming moments, there
were exceptions like the time netizens threw hands at TWICE after the music got cut.
Before going deep into this incident, it seems like turning off music suddenly when idols
performed was a super big trend back in 2017 because honestly, half of the list are already
incidents in this year.
Anyway, back to the main point, when TWICE attended Dream Concert 2017 with their hit
Signal, the MR suddenly went dead and left the group frozen in confusion
They then waited for the help from the technical team and as you can tell, this way of handling
the problem had gotten them in a big mess later on.
After the performance was posted on Youtube, lots of people had come to the video and pointed
out the fact that Chaeyoung was immediately shut down and the members tried awkwardly
to play with fans proved nothing but TWICE had lip-synced for the whole performance.
Some also believed as the group had debuted for quite a long time and even came from JYP
Entertainment, they should have locked themselves in the practice room instead of performing
on a big event like that.
And you know what the worst part of all this was?
Besides baselessly accusing TWICE of lip-syncing, which was eventually proven to be false because
many people could hear Chaeryoung sing “nae” and “Signal” before the music stopped,
some even disgusted Chaeryoung and told her to stop looking at the camera with puppy eyes
to cover up her tone-deaf singing.
Woah…All these harsh words…don’t you think this world is scary as hell?
Honestly, I got chills when reading these comments.
So, what are the reasons do you think TWICE always gets so much hate and do you know any
other artists that pull off the performance like a piece of cake even without MR?
Comment down below to share your thoughts with us.