Soloists:
Disbanded Groups:
Boyfriend:
Hyunseong
FIESTAR:
Linzy
Miss A:
Min
Active Groups:
*Vocalists who have left their groups will be included within their groups’ lists if they were analyzed when they were still members of their groups.
15&:
Baek Yerin
Jimin
After School:
Jungah (former)
Raina
Akdong Musician:
Suhyun
AoA:
ChoA (former)
A Pink:
Eunji
B1A4:
Sandeul
B2ST:
Hyunseung (former)
Yoseob
BESTie:
U.Ji (former)
Block B:
Taeil
Brown Eyed Girls:
Gain
Jea
Narsha
BtoB:
Changsub
Eunkwang
Sungjae
CNBLUE:
Jung Yonghwa
EXID:
Solji
F.T. Island:
Lee Hongki
Fly To The Sky:
Hwanhee
Girls’ Generation:
Seohyun
Sunny
Taeyeon
Tiffany
Homme:
Lee Hyun (Former member of 8Eight)
Ladies’ Code:
Sojung
Lovelyz:
Kei
MBLAQ:
G.O.
M.C. The MAX:
Lee Soo
MYNAME:
Gunwoo
NU’EST:
Baekho
Secret:
Jieun
SS501:
Youngsaeng
Super Junior:
Kyuhyun
Sungmin
Ryeowook
Yesung
T-Ara:
Soyeon
TVXQ!:
Changmin
U-Kiss:
Kevin (former)
Soohyun
WINNER:
Seungyoon
Taehyun (Former)
Hello, may I suggest NCT for your prospect analysis? NCT is a boygroup from SM, whose current number of members is 23. It’s kinda a big group. You can pick their vocalists in each unit (NCT 127, NCT DREAM, WayV) to analyze. I am looking forward to seeing their name in your list. Thank you so much.
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hello, is Rosie’s C5 in KTL bridge in Coachella and A-Nation festival supported, i heard that she usually supports higher notes when she doesn’t add much style in her singing and i think that she didn’t add style on this part..
i attached the link so hope you’d respond to my question ( SORRY I’M NOT THAT GOOD AT ENGLISH)
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Nope.
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Ahmin, what do think about using grounded, free, tense and weak instead of strain, resonant, supported and unsupported?
I saw comments talking about how Ariana Grande grounded her Bb5 or G5 like how? I don’t think she can support that high tho. And it annoys me a lot, people using those words and saying it’s better to use those, but i don’t think so, since it doesn’t really define anything to me.
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I’m not Ahmin, and I don’t think you necessarily have to choose “one set of words” above the other, but I do think that ” grounded, free, tense and weak” bring so much more nuance that is very much needed in discussions about “vocal technique” which isn’t as black or white as a lot of “”kpop fans”” want it to be.
Ahmin has said multiple times in the past that even support is a “”spectrum””, meaning that you don’t exactly have 100% support or 0% of it, and nothing in between. So words like ” grounded, free, tense and weak” do bring so much nuance to the discussion. Because someone can be engaging their abs/core and trying to bring out a good air flow out of their diaphragm, thus giving the sound a “”grounded”” property (quite similar to what “”support”” woud sound like), but somewhere in that process they’ll raise the larynx or their jaw will lock, meaning tension will arise within the sound and make it what people call “”unsupported””, although the first few steps were “”technically good/appropriate””.
The thing is, when you say “”unsupported”” it’s like as if you took ALL OF THE nuance from the evaluation. Imagine this example.
– Singer A engage the core, try to bring a decent breath support up, the vocal chords are coming together pretty nicely, showing some form of muscle coordination – overall it all gives the sound a “grounded” property. But the larynx is not stable, so there’s a little extra effort involved – which is making the sound a little more tense. So allthough the sound does have some “”variance”” of “”early”” support and sounds “grounded”, it’s still shallow/weak. Otherwise, the sound is not pitchy nor flat, the tone is still kept up relatively well because while the larynx is raised-up, it isn’t too unstable either. And let’s say there’s otherwise some good level of musicianship involved in the performance. That’s Person A.
– Singer B is not even singing. Singer B is in fact not a singer. He’s just Person B. And he’s screaming into a microphone just for fun and giggles. Sound is flat or pitchy. Absolutely strained, pushed. There’s not even an attempt to engage the core or breath, etc. It’s just a trainwreck.
By your “”limited”” definition, you would call both person here “”unsupported””, although clearly Singer A is still showing some very different skills to Singer B, and the level of support is still very different, and it would be “hearable” in the sound of each.
Bringing words like “grounded, free, tense and weak” just give more nuance to the evaluation/analysis, and help place the voice on the “”spectrum of support””, as opposed to just pretend that you either have it absolutely or you don’t at all….which is not how it works.
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Completely agreed
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Why there is no Seventeen?
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Because they’re in the list if future analyses?
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Thoughts on Sohyang? Do you think she has good technique and do you think she is deserving of being called one of the best vocalists in Korea?
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hello, could you make an analysis of all the members of the group SS501, please! Thank you .
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