So…. There is a little drama over on Twitter. A guy quote-tweeted under the clip of Sakura from Le Sserafim singing a cover of I See The Light, a Disney song with challenging notes.
What the guy said translated to: “you believe it?” like implying that it wasn’t her actual voice and rather a re-record / backtrack / pitch correction mic.
The bigger context is that Sakura has been criticized for her supposedly less-than-stellar singing skill. Because of it, fans are getting sensitive for any criticism about her vocal. And a person in Le Sserafim fandom calling him out by posting his photo. Provoking everyone to calling him fat, ugly, and the like.
While what OP said is……… Not nice, I just don’t think someone saying unfavorable stuff about idols deserve to be subjected in cyber bullying, especially when it resorts to body shaming. Esp when OP does not take a dig at physical appearance but rather her singing skill. I might be on the fence if he said some offensive thing in the guise of the criticism like calling her misogynistic named. But snarking about her skill is pretty harmless, I think.
I don’t endorse being cruel in the name of criticism. I get that Sakura got unwarranted hate. Being called misogynistic slurs, and even death threat in the guise of ‘criticism’. It was heartbreaking to see her crying from all the hate and lose her confidence. I absolutely despise that bullying got so normalized in kpop (and I don’t just mean ‘knetz’ bc intl fans can be just as bad or worse) and fans can be so mean over petty stuff. But the other side of it, fans are overly protected of their idols that a very slight less-than-positive opinion perceived as attack.
The thing is at the end of the day kpop are music and music is art. We should’ve allowed to have a discussion about what we think about certain piece of art. Whether we think a song is good or not, or whether an idol’s skill hold up to their fame and recognition. Some idols are not very skilled, indeed. And I try to say this in the nicest way possible, but with thousands of people in the industry, some are bounds to be better than the others and some others would be subpar in comparison. In every other genre, there is space to talk about quality. But in kpop every criticism treated as an attack.
We should be allowed to not vibing with certain idols or group and we should know how to be normal about it. And we should be less reactive to somewhat unfavorable opinions about idols we like.
It’s not like I am not guilty of this, though. I can be upset when people say cruel shit about my faves, and I might cussed out someone when it comes to things like misogyny, racism, homophobia, body shaming, and the like. But if someone call my fave can’t sing (whether it’s true or not pffftt) or calling their songs bad, most of the time I just rolled my eyes and move on. They are annoying, yeah. But at the end of the day I have my own opinion and so does everyone else.
What do you think?
(EDIT: I actually want to include the screenshot of the tweet, but does this sub not allowed picture or?)
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