why does aespa never sing live?

i still can‘t believe this video blew up after 3 months 😭 i just wanna say that i‘m very happy that most people on here, no matter if they agree or not, state their opinions without attacking anybody! i was at around 150 subscribers before this blew up and now we‘re at 300 and this video has almost 100k views 😩 all of your opinions are very convincing so it‘s pretty hard for me to disagree to anybody but again, thank you for being so respectful <3

is it just me or has there been a lack of live singing in general recently because of the emphasis placed on perfect performances? it’s kind of sad tbh…

That high note ningning has in the last verse of savage is impossible to perform with that amount of dancing. like let's be real here

No but i truly love winter because she doesn't even bother to make sound like she sing live, she just stand there with a blank face. it gets me every time lmao

not singing live takes away their presence. One of the biggest reasons they seem “robotic” is because they are a smaller group that lipsyncs most of the time :( you can feel a difference between their encores and their normal stages, their encores feel more hyped up and fun bc theyre not lipsyncing (i think)

I believe they never sang live except the encores where they were not required to dance. Some fans are just delusional. I do hope SM lets them sing live for their next comeback because they are very talented.

its gotten to the point idc if their voice cracks 100 times while singing I JUST WANT TO HEAR THEM LIVE

i really think them not singing live is one of the reasons why their stage presence isnt good. idols perform very differently when they sing live and dance at the same time and i personally want them to do that as much as they can. i dont care about them not sounding perfect, i WANT to hear them sing live and its only normal for them to not sound as good when they're dancing through the whole song edit: so aespa is performing at coachella in a few days and im very excited to see if they'll finally sing live and how their stage presence will be especially on such a big stage and a large audience second edit: SO AESPA HAVE OFFICIALLY RATIOED ME AND I COULDNT BE HAPPIER IM SO HAPPY THAT THEY FINALLY SANG LIVE AND PROVED MY POINT! their stage presence was so so SO much better im so happy i still wish sm wouldnt have let coachella be their first live singing performance bc they were pretty nervous, i still think they did amazing

The line "SM doesn't let their rookies sing live" is definitely not true. EXO and Red Velvet sang their debut songs LIVE. Some were even making fun of D.O. because of his voice cracks (ofcourse there were times that they lipsync, but definitely not "always"). And also, Wendy developed vocal nodules because of singing while straining her voice in the "shine on me" part (correct me if I'm wrong). But I do hope SM would let them sing live, because they're getting tired of it that they're not even trying to make it look like they sing live anymore. Let the girls sing!

i dont care too much when a group lipsyncs, but when they/the fans act like they dont lipsync it really gets on my nervesss "omg she eating CDssss" yeah girl its prerecorded. You wont hear them breathe at all, theyll hit a g5 while doing jumping jacks, theyll have 10 layered metal necklaces right next to the mic that you wont hear, and have a completely relaxed face, and fans are still like "omg slay vocal queen, no one else doing it like her" huh???

idk but i feel like sm is sorta scared abt ruining their reputation as "the agency with the best vocalists" but at the same time this isn't rlly helping them.

the only times they've sung a performance live was when they did the encores. other than that, they still have not sung live while dancing, which is disappointing as a fan. i know it's not their fault though! i'm proud to say they're all exceptional singers. SM LET AESPA SING LIVE!!

Can i just say this video is such a breathe of fresh air. I don't even bother looking at the comments under stages because I know there are thousands of fans raving about how their group sang live when it's just so blatantly obvious that it was a pre-recorded performance, but they genuinely believe it was a live. Some of them even say things like "you have low expectations of these idols" like no they're human as well..your expectations are the ones that are high.

I find this sad because there are still some very good vocalist in kpop... Chungha in her dance rehearsal video was explaining that for making certain moves it is literally impossible for her to breathe, she has to dance couple of seconds while blocking her breathing... hard to sing at the same time. When you see the earlier gens of kpop, the emphasis was much less on the dance if you compare to today where Kpop is very popular for the choreo and the visuals, and that good singing isn't even a requirement anymore. I find that it really became a "product" and the idols are a "product" not human beings with their limitations. They have to look and be perfect in every way possible while being "live". And that it puts soooo much pressure on the idols that they don't even dare singing live anymore...

Don't worry. There are still a lot of MYs like us who are not delusional. Aespa not singing live is a huge disappointment for us every single time. Still, we love them.

It's so annoying that companies and some fans can't see that imperfections like shaky voice, voice cracks, heavy breathing are what make the performance interesting and "alive"

the reason people talk about aespa more than other groups is that they are from sm and also their main focus is vocals not dance. the other 4th gen groups also lip-sync but their choreographies are like workouts not saying aespa's choreographies are not hard but they don't have jumps or big moments for people to overlook their vocals. and lip-syncing for encores really made them look worse like some groups sing live even when they are struggling they may get criticized for vocal abilities but people praise them when they improve. for I've many people said that their vocals are not as good as aespa but on contrary, they were singing live unlike them.

TXT,ENHYPEN,Itzy actually sings live in music shows you can even hear that their voices crack sometimes yes their is backpack but you can hear when they sing their parts and also their encore stages doesn't have backtrack.

To me these ‘perfect’ performances make it a lot more empty and really fake. In my opinion singing live makes it perfect even if it the choreo is hard and it doesn’t sound perfect, its really impressive which adds to the performance

The easiest way is to just take two performances and make them play at the same time. For aespa, all that I have tried were identical. That doesn't mean they are not talented, but they are not singing live. If SM is scared they won't be able to hit so many high notes they can give them songs with less difficult parts, it's not like you can't have a good song without several high notes. The problem in general is - for aespa and also many other 4th gen idols, that they have so many pre recorded stages that a live stage would stand out maybe too much, since you would go from perfection to idols being breathless, shaky, occasionally flat (of course if the live stage wouldn't be post edited, like so many are). Older kpop fans have nothing against that (I personally think imperfect stages make a perfect performance) because we are used to see real live stages from years ago, where they had mostly one take so if they tripped, fell, had voice cracks it was all left in there, but newer fans are used more to those polished and perfect versions and could possibly react negative if the idol shatters the illusion of hitting a high note while dancing and barely moving their mouth and with absolutely zero strain.