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What does "live" mean to you? Do you consider full on lip-synch lazy? Do you find it annoying when you notice lip-synch of a supposedly live perf.(pre-recorded live vocals)? Would you prefer to know in advance when performance is lip-synched? Or are you willing to be fooled as long as it's done well? And lastly would you prefer bad live performance to lip-synch? note: bar technical difficulties when there is no choice but lip

2020 wasn't that great of a year for kpop(at least not yet) but I still caught myself looking forward to performances at award shows. tragic

BS 2.0 stream Maria

this MV won me over gradually and by the end I was awww-ing unironically, it fits the song too

MV is awesome, the girls are gorgeous. I was hyped because the teasers were interesting and their songs usually are A-bangers but this one is not here for me. My hype has been transferred to the main release

love the group shot, they look good. wish they gave them couple more dif. styles for ind. photos

I already wrote it in yt comment but it's worth repeating: There is a worrying trend where people who enjoy the benefits of anonymity too much take it upon themselves to keep the score of missteps and condemn others. Bizarrely it makes them, who barely even moved their feet, feel good to know that they didn't stumble as much in comparison with people who walked miles upon miles. Such unforgiving judgment is hypocritical, malicious, void of love. Here is the other thing I believe - you risk offending others by just exising. Simple as that. Far from everybody who feel offended is objectively in the right. But when we feel someone's offence is justified and that it's us who did wrong if feels terrible. But the admittance makes us grow, does it not? Whatever her decision will be I just hope it isn't born out of fear.

no? it's easy for me to recall it

aha but I read it too late and I got douched just won't leave my head now lol

I usually like their jp releases and that one is no exception, really lovely

does it start with "I got douched" or is it all in my brain and I can't unhear it?

SSAK3 releasing the SOTY of 2020 is the very thing 2020 needs

this girl made watching the 1st ep worth it. while I love BoA and KJK I'm still not sure they are the type of Voice coaches that can make the show really interesting, and I'm yet to get a feel of the other 3 so I'm not sure about following the whole project but this performance is just lovely

and when your enemy is "fascist" or "racist" or "anti-feminist" or "homophobic" or "transphobic" or "TERFCISDIGAHSDGKTIS" that just certainly, without the shadow of the doubt means you are a force for good, for equality and for equity. except those who you slur at, "cancel" and bully are often none of those things and, what is more damaging, those people increasingly more often are also more rational, reasonable, nuanced and more grounded in a complex reality than those who oppose them.

Congratulations! Wish him great happiness and looking forward to see some beautiful wedding photos. If they wish to share them that is

and that is why it's annoying when fans pull "even Beyoncé" when you start discussing lip syncing in kpop. it's not about "all pop stars do it", it's about whether they are capable to sound good live. backing track is hella forgiving but remove it and there is a lot of off-pitch struggle-singing from a lot of idols.

That girl did wonders for the show and if the part about Song Ji Hyo is true.. it's just stupid. SJH is a badass but she's never been a natural, quick-witted entertainer and that has always been the main reason why her screen time is on a shoter side.

I kinda thought that BTS renegotiated terms regarding release of solo-music when they resigned what with the enlistments coming-up. though maybe they did and D-2 just fell under old terms while this release is free for fans because of Festa. Anyway it is a pitty - it seems like exactly the type of song korean gp enjoys

Are you trying to hypnotize me? because "you" don't want to believe it~ BH isn't some unbiased third party. You can take their statement at face value or you can treat it as an added bit of info that too can be a subject to critical examination. The statement is perfectly plausible, I never said it should be false.

I don't understand. The statement(that is not liable to disclose the whole truth) is out so I should stop pondering, however briefly, over any scenario but presented? And "different" means "has any interest in his own work"? However you twist it it's negligence on YG's part too imo.

No? It's literally a statement from BH's Public Relations people? And anyway what "I" want to believe is that YG would be prudent enough to ask whose words they put in his song, why and what's the translation but alas

Yeah, I know. But it's a PR-statement, not "the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth". And even that doesn't absolve YG from partial responsibility because he is still one of the idiots in this chain of idiots who allowed it to come out. All the more so cause it's his name slapped on it. The lately raised level of "dumb&careless" from BTS is upsetting, you gotta admit it.

Well, kinda understand why people might have a hard time believing the statement, the scenario is so idiotic. I personally can see them, whoever's idea it was, searching "angry man preaching" and picking it purely based of auditory feel. And even if YG is credited for the lyrics&the beat and has nothing to do with this sample, the fact that he approved it for his personal project presumably without asking who it was and what he was saying is idiotic. Well, maybe he indeed trusted BH to both clear the copyright's issue & to check if it's appropriate content. So it's either BH is covering for Yoongi or it was BH who didn't do their job. If they do have a procedure and it got past them what a fuck-up though

an unobtrusively nice song, more more more more made me think of Work from Home are they pioneering new melon's chart system or has it not been rolled out yet?

dumb&ignorant then. well that was the easiest way to take. the worst i can imagine is that Yoongi was informed about JJ, still ran with it cause "cool" and nothing more, and now back pedaled. if it is the whole truth though.. you would think they all had learned by now to be more cautious than that, i just can't.