Vocal Range
C3 ~ C#6 (3 octaves and 1 semitone)
Supported Range
G3/G#3 ~ B4/C5
Voice Type
Soprano
Strengths/Achievements
- Made good progress from debut until now
- Musicality has improved since debut
- Intonation is mostly on point, rarely goes off pitch within her supported range
- Able to consistently show support up until B4 and C5, at times with resonance
- Resonance has been present in her voice, even if not consistently
- Able to use a pure connected head voice as high as F5
- Lower range is more somewhat developed, able to support G3’s at times
- Due to the headiness of her mix, strain isn’t as apparent
- One of the fewer K-pop Sopranos to have mixed a G#5
- Breath control has improved since debut
- Voice becomes very comfortable and placement is better when singing Jazz/Musical Theatre
- Able to produce a healthy even vibrato
Points for Improvement
- Notes below G3 are generally quieter and gradually become airier in tone
- Nasality is still a factor and part of her singing voice
- Her notes above C5 become inconsistent and often pushed
- Mixed voice is overly heady, voice lacks power and stability above D5
- Head voice isn’t used as often as she could, voice becomes airy too often
- Vocal runs are often messy and out of place
- Diction can come in the way from her singing and openness
- Aye (애) vowel can be an issue in her upper mix
- Vibrato becomes unstable and uneven above her supported range, or often even absent
Registers
- Lower register: Although not fully developed, her tone is very present even as low as F#3 and sometimes F3. Her voice only shows consistent support starting from G#3 and at times G3, showing improvement since debut.
- Mixed register: Her voice is supported and consistently able to sing with a relaxed tone up until the B4 area and C5 as well, even though at times the voice may show tension on C5. Straining only really happens as she ascends above C5, where her mixing is uneven and her larynx raises.
- Upper register: Head voice is present and is connected, although falsetto is more used stylistically, her voice is able to stay connected into a supported head voice up until F5 and can still stay connected above F5, even though tension is added.
Agility
Possessing a light voice, Seohyun’s voice finds itself more capable of doing vocal runs and does not have as many issues with it. At times her voice can handle easy vocal trills and isn’t incapable of traveling through notes quickly, even if the precision in pitch may be weak, such as in “Sometimes“. When her voice is required to handle more intricate runs, her ability to quickly move in between notes becomes compromised and her pitch is often loose, her runs messy and sloppy, and her separation of pitch is not precise. An example of this would be her run into F5 and descending down from the chorus of “Dancing Queen” and many of the vocal runs in her cover of “Jack“.
Overall analysis
One of the most well known groups in current Korea, Girls’ Generation is birth to many talented members and Seohyun would be no exception. Vocally speaking, the group is composed of 9 members, which creates pros and cons, giving more members the title of main and lead vocalist, but also making members too comfortable with not singing main and not having to better themselves. As a lead vocalist, Seohyun’s challenges were never as big as the main vocalists, Taeyeon and Jessica, but more recently she has gone out of her way to improve herself and has shown it very well in her vocal performances and in musical numbers. Her voice is naturally bright and light, with a girly tone, very much like every other member of Girls’ Generation she is a light lyric soprano, with a three octave range.
The bottom of Seohyun’s range is very extensive and can go down as low as C3, as she does in “처음이었죠”, however so her voice only really truly gains tone around E3, F3 and F#3. Her tone is present in the lower parts of her range, but the support is gained around G3 and G#3. Her range below G3 is often quiet, slightly clouded up by the lack of projection and tone and the vocal cords often don’t come together very well, causing her notes to many times come out as air, such as the E3’s “Girls” and the F3’s in “Day By Day”. As she ascends up to G#3, support can be clearly heard and her voice is consistently connected and well placed projecting quite well even if not as well as it could be if it had more chest resonance, such as in songs like “Diamond” and “OMG”. Her tone and support are slightly on the light side and lack in true depth in color due to lack of chest resonance in her singing.
The brightness of her voice is only further accentuated as she ascends in range. Even when singing above her supported range, Seohyun’s voice shows very little signs of strain to the head dominance in her mix. Her mixing, however, has improved since debut, becoming more powerful and more balanced, allowing for better use of dynamics and resonance. Her voice can often be very light and lack tone in her mix, but she has shown that she can produce resonance and support her voice, even as high as C5, such as in “Stuff Like That There” and her musical performance of “I Loved You“. Her overall support can be present at times even as high as C#5 and sometimes good placement is kept as high as D5 as well, such as in “I Loved You” and some occasional live performances of the japanese version of “Run Devil Run”. Due to the vowel being “Ah (아)” in the japanese version of “Run Devil Run”, her voice is able to show more of an opened sound, as opposed to the “Aye (애)” sound used in the Korean version of the song. The “Aye (애)” vowel is often an issue for vocalists, causing their throats to close and tension to happen. Tension in Seohyun’s voice can at times happen around C5 and above, where her throat will show signs of tension and tighten around her larynx when trying to sing higher, becoming more apparent as she ascends in range, such as the D5’s in “아파도 괜찮아요” and her E5 in “Winter Wonderland“. The resonance in Seohyun’s mix isn’t always present however, due to her showing an inconsistency with lifting her soft palate, causing nasality to often be present in her mix even though strain may not happen. Her mix becomes more thin and less balanced as she ascends in range, notably when hitting the F#5’s of “Twinkle” and the G#5’s of “Problem”, where her voice becomes closed, strained and lacks volume and projection.
Her head voice is a register she does not use often but has control of, for an example when doing warm up exercises in a video with Ock Joo Hyun, where she shows the ability to perform a major descend triad into a diminished triad starting on C#5 and another starting on F5. She does usually opt for a falsetto and does not show consistency with her head voice when actually singing songs, but is capable of producing a well connected head voice if required to. In the video of “Opera“, where the members of Girls’ Generation try to emulate a more classical style of singing, Seohyun shows connection with a head voice up until Eb5, and was able to stay connected with tension and strain in head voice up to G5 and Bb5. Her head voice may be connected, but issues with strain and support are apparent as she ascends in range, very clear when singing the C6 in her “Gone With The Wind” musical performance, where her vibrato is uneven and the sound is pushed and slightly strangled due to the glottal muscles being tense around her larynx. Her falsetto is often relaxed as high as F#5, however, and she does a good job for the most when transitioning into it.
One aspect of Seohyun’s voice that has improved is her ability to play with dynamics and sing a song without a single monotonous volume output throughout. Whereas she’d sing just the melody of the song back when they first debuted, more recently when performing “Sometimes” by herself, Seohyun shows more sensibility to vocal effects such as airiness and also with softer dynamics. This skill has only been further developed by her interest in Musical Theatre, such as in “What Do You Know About Love” from Gone With The Wind, where she was able to showcase her control of dynamics, an opened non-nasal sound, a steady supported tone throughout her voice and an even, controlled healthy vibrato. When singing in a more comfortable range usually from B3 ~ B4, her voice is often well supported and shows control in pitch and projection, such as in “Speak Now“. The downside of her voice however is that still her mixed voice is underdeveloped, causing her to sound strained quite often or lack power and dynamics as she ascends in range, being unable to translate her musicality into the higher and more challenging Soprano range. Although at times she may lack in terms of projection and may place her voice inward more so than outward, her support tends to be consistent and causes her voice not to strain as much as most others would.
As a vocalist and entertainer, Seohyun has shown interest and motivation with good results and was able to show vocal improvement over the years of her career as a member of Girls’ Generation. Although the improved may be small in comparison to the year she’s been actively promoting as a vocalist, due to her seriousness and work ethic, Seohyun’s progress will only developed as she further focuses on her musical identity and perhaps discovers herself when singing Musical Theatre. For the future, balancing her mixed voice would be advised, as well as consistently being able to place her voice forward and being able to show support throughout her range into a connected head voice. Hopefully Seohyun can showcase more of her singing in the future and will be able to further improve her voice to truly show the colors still hidden behind the parts of her voice that are yet to be fully developed.
Musicianship
Seohyun is many things when singing and has improved a long way, but one thing she is not is a huge risk taker with improvisation. She is very good at keeping her ear out for music and being able to adapt to different styles with enough sensibility to sound, but she is not one to deviate much from the original composition of songs, where she will preferably sing the original melody and work more on the actual interpretation, rather than altering the original song. However so, she does possess good skills when it comes to harmonization and being able to stay in pitch and blend her voice in well with others when singing with them, such as the TaeTiSeo performance of “Cater 2 U“.
Label (Type of Vocalist)
M Vocalists: Mid-Range Vocalists
ML Vocalists: Mid-Low Range Vocalists
Vocal Range Video(s)
Video by: Ahmin (Kitsunemale)
Video by: Avatarkyungsoo
Best Vocal Performance(s)
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Analyzed by Ahmin (Kitsunemale)
(Originally analyzed by: zhx)
K-pop Vocalists' Vocal Analyses 
Many people always say Tiffany more better than Seohyun because Tiffany have a husky voice and Seohyun never do high note. What do you think? And, who’s the 2nd vocalist after Taeyeon? Seohyun or Tiffany?
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We have analyses for Taeyeon, Seohyun, Tiffany, Sunny and Jessica. We ALSO have a ranking chart. I’ll link it.
https://kpopvocalanalysis.net/ranking-of-vocalists/
The answer to your questions is in the analyses AND in the chart. Because husky voice does not make anyone better than anybody, and Seohyun always sings high notes, much higher than Tiffany, like in Problem. But singing high notes doesn’t make her better than anybody. I understand that English may not be your first language but please take the time to search through the blog because we don’t write these analyses for nothing and if some users took the time to read them, their questions would be answered. Also look at the chart and you’ll see who’s better between Tiffany and Seohyun, although if you read their analyses you could figure that out as well.
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Yout link says “404 NOT FOUND” perhaps that’s why she’s asking you directly; I have read three analysis between Tae, Tiffany and Seohyun COMPLETELY and I can’t come with an answer, though by pitch, support and range I very much think Fanny is very over rated.
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At the point in which I wrote that comment, that page was available so contextually speaking the answer was a given. Well if you think that, wouldn’t that be you coming up with an answer?
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In the I love you video at around 1:10 forward I can see her head moving up and down like she is nodding very fast. I’ve seen this a lot, is it natural? Something that happens when using vibrato?
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It shouldn’t necessarily happen but people do it for a visual effect sometimes.
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Hey so Seohyun unnie had her showcase. ^^
If you can analyze her and update if there is any improvements, we’d be all thankful.
Btw just a minor question. Has her head register improved in these live performances.
i think this one was lipsync but might as well include it
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I don’t hear any change in technique for Seohyun. Light mixing, high larynx on those phrased D5’s, lots of tight high larynx mixed G5’s, lack of support but somewhat well placed head voice notes here and there, pitchy and sloppy runs. She is going outside of her comfort zone but hasn’t exactly shown changes in technique. As for Lonely Love, a pit of pitchiness, nasality, lowered larynx on the E3’s, support up to about B4/C5. I don’t really hear anything different. Lonely Love could have been a lot more opened. Her head notes sound better placed and connected though but the support still could be better. Up to E5, I’m considering it now.
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Do you think if she is a bit more consistent with her head voice, especially in future live performances, it could be a part of her usual supported range?
And would that changer her rank slightly higher in the ‘Average-Above Average’ category? Or will she remain about the same, tied with Jessica?
I hope she really does makes progress technique wise.
Thank you btw for answering, Ahmin hwaiting kekeke!!!~
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It could yes if her head voice becomes consistently supported, it’d be part of her supported range. It could potentially help her be slightly higher yes but not change the rating. Thank you as well!
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I’m honestly surprised that the comments section hasn’t been flooded with people saying that she’s improved so much since her solo debut…yet. Based on what’s been shown so far there doesn’t seem to be that much that’s improved since the analysis was last updated aside from a decent C#5 here and there – and that’s okay as long as things don’t get worse.
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How was Seohyun during this performance?
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There’s nothing especially different about her technique that we could notice.
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oh okay thank you! 🙂
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Why wouldn’t Seohyun be an above average vocalist? I tried to compare her analysis to the criteria of an Above Average vocalist and it seems that she meets the qualifications for one. Could it be because of her nasality? Or is it that she doesn’t have very consistent resonance? Or is it because of her head voice? I’m sorry to bombard you with all these questions. Thank you so much for taking your time and answering these.
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You kind of answered your own question. It’s because of nasality, lack of resonance and lack of consistency in support and placement. She doesn’t fully meet any of the criteria for an above average vocalist. She meets some of them but inconsistently which is what makes her in between, she meets the criteria for both ratings. If you listen to her sing, does she sound like she’s in the same exact rating and has the same patterns as all the other females in the above average rating?
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Compared to some of the lower above average singers I feel that she sounds around the same maybe even better but then again I haven’t listened to a lot of their videos and I haven’t even heard all of Seohyun’s.. I understand that Seohyun has qualities of both average and above average but when I read your analysis, it seemed to me that she also had qualities of an above average to proficient singer. Like that her intonation is consistent within her supported range and that her supported range is that of an above average to proficient singer and that she doesn’t strain too much because of her heady mix. I’m sorry if I come off as rude or anything. I’m just very curious on the matter. Again thank you for answering my questions, these will be the last one. I promise.
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Her supported range is that of an above average to proficient vocalist? How so? Intonation is kind of a lower requirement since the least we expect is that vocalists sing in tune, so singing is tune is a basic, not an achievement. She does strain even if her mix is heady, it may be less of an intense type of strain but it’s strain nonetheless, which again isn’t much of an achievement. Oh no you don’t seem rude at all! ^ ^ Who does she sound the same as or better than?
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I re-read her analysis and I see your points. For some reason I thought her supported range was G3-C#5 but that’s because I just read Taeyeon’s analysis and got them mixed up. Sorry… I’ve always thought that her, Dana and Minkyung sound the same. And I also thought that she sounds better than Jea but that’s really because I prefer Seohyun’s tone. I re-read Minkyung’s analysis and see that she is more consistent in support and in resonance and after looking at Dana’s I can see that she doesn’t have as much nasality and has better placement. Thanks for answering my questions. I really appreciate it! 🙂
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how well did she do here: 1:51 – 2:02???
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She sounds kind of nasal, not very opened and the note she sustained was a C#5 on an Oo vowel, which isn’t the best. The mixing was light, but she didn’t sound opened nor very well supported.
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I was just going to wait for someone else to ask but because no one did lol, what notes are she phrasing from 0:45 onwards in the chorus.
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Mostly Bb4’s, but there are some Eb5’s and F5’s here and there.
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So I have a few questions, not really Seohyun related. So you know how mixed and head voice overlap right? So say someone’s supported range with Mix was Bb3~D5 (Idk I just tried to come up with a random supported range) and they’re able to use a supported head voice up to C5, would you include that in their supported ranges, as in would you write Bb3~D5 W Mixed Voice and Bb3~C5 W Head Voice, I’m asking since I’ve only ever seen supported head voice that’s higher than the supported mixed voice. Also, can falsetto and whistle register be supported, since all the vocalists that use falsetto don’t have an upper supported range. Also, say in the rare instance that the Main Rapper of the group is the strongest vocalist, will they be analyzed? Also what’s is your policy on new members? I ask since CLC’s Elkie is pretty widely agreed on as the 2nd strongest vocalist in CLC, she is part of the vocal line, holding the position of Visual, Lead Vocalist, Lead Dancer, but she is a new member added in 2016 and she does not appear on the priority list. Will she be analyzed along with Seunghee, Sorn and Seungyeon?
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Yeah, I don’t see why wouldn’t write the supported range like that. There is no special reason as to why we haven’t. We just probably weren’t thinking about it. To my knowledge, falsetto and whistle register cannot be supported. Falsetto is when they vocal folds are not coming into contact fully so excess airy escapes. And I personally cannot explain why whistle register isn’t supported, but it isn’t. It’s not a supported sound. IF there main rapper is the strongest vocalist then we will analyze them, but that’s kind of sad if they are. Well, when we listen to CLC in depthly we will pick the two strongest vocalist to analyze.
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In that case, it wouldn’t be included but it’d be mentioned within the analysis, as it happened with Younha’s analysis. Falsetto as far as I’m aware can’t be fully properly supported, though it can be relaxed. The whistle is a register I personally can’t comment much on, I know it can be strained, but to say that it can be supported is something I don’t wanna agree nor disagree with. Yes if the main rapper is the strongest vocalist, they would be analyzed. New members are analyzed if they have sufficient material.
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Youre considering if seohyuns headvoice is supported up to E5 right? That would make her better then jessica right? Because shes able to support her head voice.
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Perhaps. Is it important if she’s better than Jessica or not?
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Actually not at all i was just wondering because i thought that Jessica has kind of a better lower range. I would also love to see Improvement or more Consistency on Jessicas side
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I see, I see. Well honestly I would have to see it happen, then we would have to take the time to look at them both and re-evaluate to see if it would overall make Seohyun better.
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I guess so. But wouldnt Jessicas lower range make her better than Seohyun because she occasionally can support F#3s? Or was that Tiffany? Or is it maybe because Jessica is to inconsistent?
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Well they’re both inconsistent and inconsistencies don’t really make them better than the other.
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Are 3:59, 4:04, 4:14 and 4:30 head voice and how high are they? I’ve noticed you saying she has support on one B4/C5 in Lonely Love and lower larynx on E3’s. So even if she has a better head voice now, but with a little worse belted notes and low range, she’s still in the same rank, not moving either forward or backward?
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3:59 the placement on the vowel is good but the support isn’t there at all. 4:04 wasn’t supported at all. 4:14 not supported either. 4:30 yeah the G5’s and F5’s aren’t supported. In general Seohyun’s technique has remained quite stagnant. Her placement, her openness, how she supports, it’s all stayed the same so even if her head voice improved a bit it wouldn’t make a drastic difference.
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How was Seohyun here?
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4 people asked about this so I’m going to copy-paste. lol Y’all need to wait until I reply to one person and check the comment section lol
She is using a better approach and fuller, she is lowering her larynx here and there and I don’t recommend that. 1:12 and 1:14 those C#5’s weren’t bad at all! They have support. 1:22 strained E5’s, down to a throaty Bb4 because of the closed aye vowel. 1:29 not bad on the C#5, but strained on the E5. She has a couple of other strained E5’s here and there throughout the performance. 2:04 closed throat C#5, pushed. 2:18 F#5 strained, followed by a sloppy run. The E5’s prior were also pretty tight.
0:16 slightly tight on the Mamamoo song, it was D5 I believe. I have some issues with her general openness and the way she shapes her vocal tract. It could be more natural but I feel like there’s a bit of obstruction on her glottal area. But this isn’t anything new. These performances don’t show anything new. She sounds somewhat supported, lacks fulness, lacks openness, has some inconsistencies with her throat shape, larynx position and stuff. 1:38 F5 to Eb5, tight very tight.
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HI~ how was Seohyun in this performance??? because there was so much highnote so plz check it from begin to the end :)))))))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VlseJqbkZ4 (1’38)
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4 people asked about this so I’m going to copy-paste. lol Y’all need to wait until I reply to one person and check the comment section lol
She is using a better approach and fuller, she is lowering her larynx here and there and I don’t recommend that. 1:12 and 1:14 those C#5’s weren’t bad at all! They have support. 1:22 strained E5’s, down to a throaty Bb4 because of the closed aye vowel. 1:29 not bad on the C#5, but strained on the E5. She has a couple of other strained E5’s here and there throughout the performance. 2:04 closed throat C#5, pushed. 2:18 F#5 strained, followed by a sloppy run. The E5’s prior were also pretty tight.
0:16 slightly tight on the Mamamoo song, it was D5 I believe. I have some issues with her general openness and the way she shapes her vocal tract. It could be more natural but I feel like there’s a bit of obstruction on her glottal area. But this isn’t anything new. These performances don’t show anything new. She sounds somewhat supported, lacks fulness, lacks openness, has some inconsistencies with her throat shape, larynx position and stuff. 1:38 F5 to Eb5, tight very tight.
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How was she in king of masked singer?
Here are the links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VlseJqbkZ4
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4 people asked about this so I’m going to copy-paste. lol Y’all need to wait until I reply to one person and check the comment section lol
She is using a better approach and fuller, she is lowering her larynx here and there and I don’t recommend that. 1:12 and 1:14 those C#5’s weren’t bad at all! They have support. 1:22 strained E5’s, down to a throaty Bb4 because of the closed aye vowel. 1:29 not bad on the C#5, but strained on the E5. She has a couple of other strained E5’s here and there throughout the performance. 2:04 closed throat C#5, pushed. 2:18 F#5 strained, followed by a sloppy run. The E5’s prior were also pretty tight.
0:16 slightly tight on the Mamamoo song, it was D5 I believe. I have some issues with her general openness and the way she shapes her vocal tract. It could be more natural but I feel like there’s a bit of obstruction on her glottal area. But this isn’t anything new. These performances don’t show anything new. She sounds somewhat supported, lacks fulness, lacks openness, has some inconsistencies with her throat shape, larynx position and stuff. 1:38 F5 to Eb5, tight very tight.
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How did she do in this performance? She starts singing at :30.
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4 people asked about this so I’m going to copy-paste. lol Y’all need to wait until I reply to one person and check the comment section lol
She is using a better approach and fuller, she is lowering her larynx here and there and I don’t recommend that. 1:12 and 1:14 those C#5’s weren’t bad at all! They have support. 1:22 strained E5’s, down to a throaty Bb4 because of the closed aye vowel. 1:29 not bad on the C#5, but strained on the E5. She has a couple of other strained E5’s here and there throughout the performance. 2:04 closed throat C#5, pushed. 2:18 F#5 strained, followed by a sloppy run. The E5’s prior were also pretty tight.
0:16 slightly tight on the Mamamoo song, it was D5 I believe. I have some issues with her general openness and the way she shapes her vocal tract. It could be more natural but I feel like there’s a bit of obstruction on her glottal area. But this isn’t anything new. These performances don’t show anything new. She sounds somewhat supported, lacks fulness, lacks openness, has some inconsistencies with her throat shape, larynx position and stuff. 1:38 F5 to Eb5, tight very tight.
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sorry but i dont know how is “tight”, is it good or bad, and also “sloppy run”. can you explain?
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Tight is bad. It means the throat muscles are tense and closing her throat. And sloppy run means a vocal run that’s not precise. If you don’t know what a vocal run is please read our about and our criteria page.
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Wonderful blog! I can’t believe it took me so long to find out about it. Anyway, Seohyun recently had her first solo concert. Did she show improvement? This audio is of the 3rd consecutive day. The high notes here, I think, are better than the first day. https://youtu.be/N1kxCLEbPvs
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Hi welcome!! Sorry I understand it’s your first time so I’ll let you know if you want to talk bout a vocalist we already analyzed, it’s okay to post videos with time stamps to check the high notes you mean but this is a 2 hour video. We don’t have the time to sit through a 2 hour concert audio. We haven’t noticed improvement with her from the past 6 months, yet.
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Hi, has Seohyun always been SNSD’s strongest lead vocalist or just past Sunny and Tiffany in improvement when Jessica left. Maybe you’ve already answered this. If so, sorry to bother you.
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As far as I remember Seohyun always had better pitch than Sunny and a healthier approach than Tiffany, the gap between them just got more and more obvious as she improved but I believe she always had the head start. I could be wrong.
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Hey Ahmin! Are you ever going to do a vocal range video for her album? 😦
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I don’t think I’ll be able to but viettien already did it!
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Who’s better breath control between Seohyun and Tiffany?
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What do you think~? ^ ^
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I think…Seohyun. Many people say Tiffany better than Seohyun because Tiffany has a husky voice and often a high note in each SNSD album. And, they say Tiffany is the 2nd vocals, because Seohyun can’t do high notes and can’t control her breathing. What do you think?
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Well we have analyses on both, have you read them? Because they address a lot of these issues.
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Hi, may I ask about seohyun voice in this dear santa performance? 😂
From 0:21-0:27, and 3:25-3:29 (esp the high note on 3:27-3:29).
How about those notes and what notes are those?
Thank u so much 🙂
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What performance?
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Eh, sorry i forgot to insert the link 😥😌 (again)..
It is the link : https://youtu.be/Jq684Fcg2WI
Thanks and sorryy
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The runs in 0:21 ~ 0:27 aren’t precise. She is using head voice, but pushing way too much air overall. G#5 was the peak. The support isn’t very clean. 3:25 ~ 3:29 D5 was the peak, it was nasal and closed. This isn’t anything new really. The C5 afterwards wasn’t as bad, but it was nasal.
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Oh okay, I do feel she’s too airy in that head voice, even I’m not really aware to differentiate it.. On G#5, she still had somewhat a support, right?
Is it hard to change the habit, to become not nasal?
Even profesional singer like Seohyun, was nasal at times.. And I find it’s really hard for myself too, to reduce the nasality..
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It’s not hard, it’s the easiest thing to change actually. It’s something that doesn’t take time, it can be turned on and off at will.
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Quick Question : Did you already decide if Seohyuns Headvoice is supported up to Eb5/E5? (Because you considered it a while ago)
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I don’t think it’s consistent enough.
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What a pity. But somewhere you said that the peak of her Support was G#5. I mean thats probably even more inconsistent than her Eb5 but did I read it right? She had some (even if its weak) support up to G#5? And maybe she shows more Consistency when GG comes back or when she attends another musical
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I said that her G#5’s from dear Santa had some support and were connected head voice but I’d never say they were fully supported.
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Well some Support is better than no Support 😀 But if shes able to keep some support even to G#5 why isnt she supporting Eb5 consistently. I mean its from Eb5 to G#5. Or is it maybe just a bad habit or maybe even laziness that keeps her from fully supporting her Head Voice?
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The support isn’t consistent as a whole throughout.
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https://youtu.be/VVaNdGO7Dn8 Have you seen this? It’s a vocal rank for GG. Totally messed up. What can you say?
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What even is there to say really lol. Just ignore, the info you need is already here 🙂
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It’s someone else’s opinion, even though they try to pass it off as being related to vocal skill, it’s just their personal opinion so let them be.
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Hi, how does Seohyun in this perform?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BS267rlAr_H/
That one was itnw ballad on her encore concert..
Much thanks 🙂
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She sounds kind of closed and nasal. She was taking Tiffany’s line? This doesn’t seem to be any different from her usual singing, with its inconsistencies.
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Yes, from her first stage love still concert, she sings this itnw ballad by herself.. (Include taeyeon lines)..
Does she so messed and even cracked in this performance?
I think it’s one of her worst performance, she did better on previous stage, but may I could be wrong surely..
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I didn’t listen until a crack but it wasn’t her best.
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Quick question: do you consider SeoHyun to have a better head voice than Ha:tfelt (YEEUN)? They have a lot of head voice moments so this can be judged easily right? I know you have an analysis on Ha:tfelt and it says she has a supported head voice up to Eb5 but you’re considering SeoHyun too, up to E5, so I’m curious.
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Theoretically speaking, YeEun is more consistent therefore she would supposedly have the better head voice. I honestly haven’t taken much time to think about this, so I’m not entirely sure.
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So in her “upper register” it states that “her voice is able to stay connected into a supported head voice up until F5”. Shouldnt it be in her supported range aswell then? Or is it a missunderstanding on my site?
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This has been addressed a few times but basically it just means that even though she can, it’s not consistent enough to make it into her supported range. ^ ^
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Well okay thanks for claryfying 😀
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What can you say about Seohyun’s high note? I feel like its lacking something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFcWUdkC0qc
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It was kind of flat, but the difference between hers and Tiffany’s is that hers is much brighter and lighter. Tiffany is shoutier, chestier so she’s a bit louder overall and Seohyun’s aye vowel got in the way when trying to project the B4 and then the C#5 was a lot better placed, but tight nonetheless. Also there’s less reverb and Tiffany’s note was dubbed.
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would you agree that the C#5 was supported at 2:27 and the B4 right afterwards was supported with better placement?
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It has support, but the vowel is very closed.
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does it carry enough support to be considered a supported C#5?
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No, I wouldn’t say so.
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Hey, could you tell me if you see any improvement of Seohyun in this song and how was she if I can ask..
She sings around 0:55 and 2:10
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I don’t hear any change in her technique but she did well. Some nasality, some lack of openness but the support was carried throughout up to those B4’s, but the strain happened on the D5’s.
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Hi, could you tell me how good (or how bad) did Seohyun cover Jessica high notes in this performance please,
around 1:07
2:09
2:50
3:20
I personnally think that she did great, but well I don’t know a thing about singing techniques, so I’m just asking you guys .
Thank you very much for all your hard work.
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1:07 2:09 she harmonized D5 and C#5, heavy, kind of strained but just the same as Jessica. 2:50 3:20 closed vowels, tight throat and a high larynx on the D5 and E5. Again Jessica strains these notes too.
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Seohyun’s supported vocal range video for anyone interested 🙂
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Why don’t you update her supported vocal in your post?
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What is there to update?
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Based on the vid above Seohyun can support to c#5 by chest voice and f5 by head voice
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At her best, that’s not a consistent supported range.
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Is supporting with a closed throat possible? ( Sorry if this was obvious I’m pretty sure it isn’t but just to make sure ) Also, if a sustained note is correctly executed ( with proper airflow, etc. ) but has a little amount of tension anywhere, does it necessarily make it unsupported? Because if I’m not wrong, Wendy’s D5 in The Late Regret was supported but had a little tension. Again, sorry for coming off as a dimwit lol but I’m slowly trying to educate myself on vocal technique and somehow train my ears to differentiate between strain and support.
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It’s possible to carry support despite a closed throat but that would be a mostly closed approach as opposed to an opened relaxed supported approach. Little tension does not make it unsupported if the amount of support is more than the amount of tension. Like everything, singing is not black and white. There’s a spectrum to it.
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Do you think her C#5 at 1:54 is supported? Is it nasal?
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The vowel is really tight, I wouldn’t say it’s supported.
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Just to let you know to update their profiles that unfortunately members have left SNSD 😦 , but I also have a question. I don’t know if you can answer this, but what song do you think is the most difficult to sing in terms of SNSD’s title tracks? I was thinking that You Think would be their hardest, but are there any other contenders?
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Yes, I know. I was waiting on the official list of what members left but don’t worry I’ll take care of it in due time. I honestly am not sure, that’s a lot of songs to think about.
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Have you heard this Into the New World solo from Seohyun? How did she do here, what note did she hit on 2:48~2:54 and how was it?
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It was D5, on a very closed and tight vowel. Pretty strained. She doesn’t sound very opened throughout.
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How was 1:26 C#5?
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The B4 and the A4 before were kind of flat, the C#5 in pitch. She sounds like she’s not breathing properly due to dancing, so it’s unfair to her. She is not opened, her throat is tight.
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Hello I’m new here and I really enjoy reading you’re analysis ! It’s very formative, like a gold mine, but there’s some things that I don’t understand, so excuse me if I ask too many questions (sorry for me bad english too I’m french).
1) Is nasality really a thing ? Can we become a good vocalist with a nasal placement ? Is nasal-resonance a bad thing ? And I don’t understand what a bad placement is tbh ? If we’re nasal, does that means that we have a bad placement ? What is the worse, throaty or nasal ?
2) Is Seohyun’s head voice always connected up to F5 or not ? Her support is inconsistent, i know, but is her connection inconsistent too ?
3) Who has the balanced mixed voice between SNSD members ? And who’s the less pushed ? Even though Tae is the best overall I think that she isn’t the most balanced and the less pushed right ? Idk
4) Is Seohyun’s head voice supported in Dear Santa ? (You know the high notes that she does on the beginning of the song)
5)Who has the best sense of pitch amongst SNSD members ?
6)Do you think that Jessica’s middle register is better than Seohyun’s one ?
What do you think about Seohyun’s low notes from 0:08 to 0:22, and from 0:29 to 0:40 ? Were they good ? And what do you think about her high note at 2:22 ? It was a C5 right ? Was it resonant ?
What do you think about her head voice from 0:01 to 0:14, 0:30 to 0:33, and 1:31 to 1:37 ? It sounds supported and connected, I’m I right ?
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It’s fine to ask questions, we encourage it! We are an educational type of blog afterall!
1. See there’s a problem here, you’re saying nasality and nasal-resonance and those aren’t always the same thing. Nasality is not unhealthy, but it isn’t ideal placement either. Nasal resonance is often used as a term but we avoid that term because what people mean with this is mask resonance, but nasality and mask resonance are not the same thing. In mask resonance, the sound is placed in the nasal cavities, around the nose and cheekbones, behind the eyes in a way that’s sort of shaped like a mask. Whereas nasality means that the sound is placed in the nose and coming out of the nose. That’s limiting to projection as there’s only so much projection one can get from projecting through their noses. It also limits the sound quality, openness and roundness of tone, as it narrows it down to a very small resonator, the nose. Bad placement is when the voice is not placed in the chest, mask or head and instead of placed in the back of the throat, or the nose, or elsewhere. Throatiness is unhealthy and limiting, nasality isn’t unhealthy but it’s limiting. If you’re not sure what it sounds like, here’s a video of ours:
2. Her connection can also be inconsistent, which comes into play with lack of support.
3. I think Seohyun is headier than Taeyeon, while Taeyeon can either be balanced or chestier. Sunny is brighter but less heady than Seohyun depending on the range. I guess Taeyeon is the closest to most balanced.
4. No, since she peaked G#5, she was singing with too much air and a high larynx from what I remember.
5. At this point, Taeyeon. Back in the day, they’d all have issues with pitchiness but Taeyeon improved a lot in this aspect.
6. The thing is neither of them is consistent enough to compare, there are times and performances in which Jessica seems to have a better middle register and other times where Seohyun seems to have a better middle register, which is why we make them equal generally.
0:08 ~ 0:22 She’s being whispery and sexy for style 0:29 ~ 0:40 She’s only singing down to A3, it’s not that low. She is supporting to an extent, but she’s letting go of it for style. 2:22 No, it is not resonant but it is C5. It has some support, but it was really inconsistent with the way she was stretching her vocal cords so she didn’t manage the air vs stretch well enough and it was kind of a lazy stretch so it wasn’t a well supported note for her.
0:01 ~ 0:14 I wouldn’t call this a head voice. It’s too breathy. 0:30 ~ 0:33 I’d say it’s relaxed, but it’s too breathy. 1:31 ~ 1:37 Same yes, you’re correct.
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Thank you very much for your answer !
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I’ve wondered about this for a while, but why does Seohyun sound slightly flat in her part compared to Jessica, Tiffany and Taeyeon in Dancing Queen? It’s even the studio version not just a live perf. which confuses me more because she should have many chances to fix it. I also wondered why Taeyeon head voiced it rather than mixing because the rest of them mixed it. Was it a stylistic thing or do you think at that time recording they couldn’t hit the notes properly? Especially Taeyeon because this would’ve been right after Twinkle and she had to hit all those strained F#5s.
Seohyun: 1:16
Jessica: 2:07
Tiffany: 2:49
Taeyeon: 3:11
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Oh I’ve noticed this too, don’t worry. It’s because she was flat. If you notice, in the vocal range video I made for her, her dancing queen high note is labeled as E5 in studio but F5 live because for some reason she was the only one who didn’t hit F5 in studio. Now what audio engineer and producer allowed this? I don’t know. I think Taeyeon’s was a stylistic choice. Actually dancing queen was recorded in 2008 or 9, but only released much later.
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Dancing Queen was actually recorded a lot earlier, like around 2008/2009 I think as it was supposed to be their release instead of Gee, so the studio recording we have could be from back then as well (just with regards to this being “right after Twinkle”)
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Thanks didn’t know that lol
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Are seohyun’s C5’s not consistent enough to labeled as a mid-range belter ?
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Same for Jessica
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If the resonance isn’t consistent, then the vocalist can’t be a mid range belter.
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I see, thank you ❤
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man standards are high this time
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hi admins, is her jaw position here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me5TWzJvhWI 2:45 weird???or not ??
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It’s a tough vowel for a high note, that’s right.
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Hi, how her c#5 here at 2:45 https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xr6DNJ9RKis and her D5 at 3:20 https://youtube.com/watch?v=0TpS8J-SV68
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How her c#5 at 2:45 https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xr6DNJ9RKis and her D5 3:22 https://youtube.com/watch?v=0TpS8J-SV68
Sorry for my english
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Hi, I’ve lurked on your blog’s comment section and I’m sure nobody has asked this before, so I want to know how TTS did in this specific video? Especially with their head voice.
Tiffany G5 at 0:10, 0:52, 1:38, 2:40
Seohyun G5 at 1:01, 1:38, Bb5 at 1:47, 2:38, 2:55
Taeyeon G5 at 1:50, 2:40.
Thanks in advance.
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i’m not the admins but i believe none of them support this G5.
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The G5s sounded really nice, however I don’t think they are supported.
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hey there! can somebody who sings nasally (like seohyun, or anybody else) change this trait of hers (by training or surgically)? thanks!
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There’s absolutely no need for a surgery at all. Nasality is a vocal habit that can be eliminated by practicing solely.
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Hey there. Can I ask for your opinion on Seohyun’s high note in this cover of Dangerous Woman? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7L-IZcp9Jk
@0:37 @1:27 @2:35 the head voice note and a bunch of belted notes afterward.
Thank you in advance.
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This song is too high, as one would expect. 2:35 pushed head voice B5, a lot of strained G5’s throughout the last chorus. The first time stamps are only B4’s, supported apart from the vowels being more closed than desired.
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“her voice is able to stay connected into a supported head voice up until F5”
If so, why isn’t she tagged as a mid-range hv vocalist and why isn’t it include in the section of her supported range?
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Because it’s not consistent enough. I believe that’s addressed in the analysis.
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I mean I guess it does but at the same time it praises her head voice it’s fair share too, so I assumed there was some other reason. Quite frankly I believe it’s consistent enough to be included, at least between brackets in her “supported range” section, but that’s just me.
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“Voice becomes very comfortable and placement is better when singing Jazz/Musical Theatre”
I always thought Seohyun’s singing performances in her Musical projects were better than when she performs in SNSD/her solo songs.
When you watch her musical perfs, you would think she’s one of a vocal powerhouses in kpop (at least that’s the impression that I get) however when you watch her idol perfs afterwards, it’s underwhelming compared to the musical perfs.
I would like to ask how is her singing better when in Musical? Like what is she doing differently that her voice and singing is done better there compared to when she performs as an idol?
No hate btw, Seohyun is my UB. Just a genuine question that I have been wondering for a long time.
I’m not really knowledgeable in the technicalities in here thus, I apologize should the answer for my question is an obvious one. Still, thank you in advance for a response.
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