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[Rare!] Predebut Video of Wendy (SM Rookies) - Wendy Shon (?) SNEAK A PEEK~


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Hi yall, so I did some digging around, and I think I've found an old clip of Wendy singing!

 

This clip is from the CUBE 2011 audition finals, held in Vancouver, Canada (Gna also performed at the finals). Wendy apparently used to have a youtube channel called WendyShon, and some videos of her collaborating with other youtube coverists are still up.

 

Anyways it makes sense for this to be Wendy in the Cube finals because Wendy was casted by SM Global Auditions 2012 in Canada, a year after the Cube finals. SM held auditions in Toronto and Vancouver - and since Wendy already participated in the Cube finals in Vancouver in 2011, I'm assuming that she's from Vancouver or lives around the area, perhaps in Toronto/Ontario and flew over for the event. After not making the cut with Cube, Wendy probably saw SM as another option, and she got in.

 

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edit: someone in the thread knew Wendy and said she's from the Toronto area. 

 

Wendy Shon is in fact the the SM trainee Wendy. They both have the same birthday, and are both from Canada. To verify this information further, I can say this: she's originally from the Toronto area, she auditioned for Cube as seen at the beginning of this post, and the reason I say this is because I was originally to be producing some songs for her before I found out SM had signed her. I cannot say anything more at this point, but Wendy Shon is a SM trainee, the SM trainee in question.

 

 

 

Secretly spazzing because I'm from Toronto.... and so is Henry... TORONTO REPRESENT

 

 

 

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She looks the same in this clip, but a little fatter - I think she lost most of her weight after joining SM. You know, from all that training lol.

 

I think she's Chinese because my friend who's half-Korean half-Chinese can tell the difference. My friend also told me Wendy's Korean isn't fluent (i.e. she has a notiecable accent), and that Shon isn't a traditional Korean last name. There are also quite a lot of Chinese people living in Vancouver, lol.

 

So what do you think?

Is this Wendy, or is it not? (I think it is her though, because her voice is the same if you compare it with her OST)

Do you like her performance?

 

 

 

edit: she looks remarkably similar to her recent cover that SM posted - you can't tell me that their voices aren't similar and they don't look the same! The only instance where she has looked different was in the official photo of her that SM released along with her OST, which they arguably touched up - however you can't touch up looks in videos, and this is where Wendy looks most similar.

 

 

 

edit: Another rare video (?)

This is a youtube collaboration of Wendy and another youtube coverist. Her voice is once again the same, but what's more convincing is that they covered this in MAY 2011 - which matches the timeline. 

 

The Cube Auditions - Feb/March 2011

This cover - May 2011

SM Globals Canada (Toronto + Vancouver) - March 2012 <-- Interestingly, I went to this audition too haha.

 

If you click on the youtube link to her channel in the description, you can see that the channel "WendyShon" is closed.

Which again, makes sense because SM would want her to close all of her social media as a trainee.

 

 

 

 

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Conclusion: It's possible that Wendy Shon isn't SM rookies' Wendy, but there hasn't been any contradictory evidence so far. She has looked different in photos, but she may have gone under the knife and she definitely lost weight, grew her hair out, and started wearing more makeup. Her voice is the same and so is most of her face in new videos compared to the old video posted. 

 

I'm interested in everyone's thoughts!

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have you archived the video?

 

wait what's archived lol

It's not my video, and I don't think many people know about this video at all.

I don't even think the uploader remembers this fancam anyways lol

Actually I think I'm the first one to notice that this is Wendy from SM Rookies XDDD

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wait what's archived lol

It's not my video, and I don't think many people know about this video at all.

I don't even think the uploader remembers this fancam anyways lol

Actually I think I'm the first one to notice that this is Wendy from SM Rookies XDDD

I think you should archive it i.e. download and store it in case the video gets taken down and it turns out to be her

I think it's a good idea to screenshot the youtube page for reference as well

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wait what's archived lol

It's not my video, and I don't think many people know about this video at all.

I don't even think the uploader remembers this fancam anyways lol

Actually I think I'm the first one to notice that this is Wendy from SM Rookies XDDD

if that's the case, you will be going down in history as one of the first to dig about Wendy's past. :hurr:

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I thought this was already confirmed somewhere that WendyShon = not SMs Wendy. 

 

If you watch her singing in that video and compare it with her OST, her voice is the same though.

And WendyShon's Youtube account has been closed down.

 

so...

 

 

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wait, she is chinese?

how funny. all idols under SM mostly was rejected on previous audition by other companies. xiumin, baekhyun, tao, luhan...

 

only Baek and Xiumin were rejected.

Luhan never auditioned for JYP. And as far as i know, Tao never auditioned for another company either.

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Is that the same Wendy from SM Rookies? She looks really different...

 

Is that the same Wendy from SM Rookies? She looks really different...

 

I don't know if it's Wendy from SM but if it's her I think she lost weight and maybe plastic surgery? If you look to Irene's predebut pictures, you can see that she looks different. Her real name is Bae Ju Hyun ( 배주현 )

 

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only Baek and Xiumin were rejected.

Luhan never auditioned for JYP. And as far as i know, Tao never auditioned for another company either.

luhan auditioned for jyp in china. long before he came to korea.

tao auditioned for mnet superstar k season 5. i saw the video.

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luhan auditioned for jyp in china. long before he came to korea.

tao auditioned for mnet superstar k season 5. i saw the video.

 

those were just rumours and were never confirmed either. (referring to that one about Luhan)

and i've never seen that video about Tao tho.(do u maybe have a link for the vid lol),

and i meant he never auditioned for other companies like JYP, YG, Woolim etc

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