This is something I was just thinking about…While there are groups that sing live more often than not, there are also a lot of groups that rarely or in some cases almost never do so.
Now the thing is, pre-recorded vocals that have been edited/pitch corrected and recorded while the idols aren’t dancing will always sound better/cleaner than actual live vocals sung while doing choreography.
But how many regular kpop listeners can even tell the difference between actual live vocals, and lip syncing to pre-recorded track or even just the CD audio? Look at the comment sections full of people praising “live vocals” that obviously aren’t live, and the answer appears to be very few.
So what is the actual benefit of performing live vocals if most people apparently couldn’t care less about it, or otherwise just can’t tell the difference? Especially when you just end up sounding worse than the “live” but not actually live vocals many people are used to?
I point to the recent hit tweets hating on Katseye for live vocals when they performed Gabriela live once. It was a perfectly passable live performance, and the hate appeared to be full of people who have no familiarity with what live vocals really sound like. So why would they bother to do this again?
There is an apparently small minority of people who care about live vocals, can tell the difference between live and not live, and love and appreciate the efforts of idols giving fully live performances. But from a purely utilitarian standpoint there seems to be not much real justification for really singing live vs just faking it.
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