Popularity and singing ability of idol groups
アイドルグループの人気と歌唱力
The K-POP world is crowded with idol groups, competing for supremacy.
Why are there so many?
It is because the music of idol groups is the window to the world, that is, the face of K-POP.
Currently, K-POP is very popular throughout Asia.
This trend continues to blow outside of Asia.
However, not all K-POP is popular.
Idol group music accounts for most of the popularity, although the rest is not zero.
This has been going on for many years, so only idol group music has become trendy in K-POP.
There are various types of groups that are active as boys and girls, but basically they can be called idol groups.
Some groups have been popular for a while and are not considered idols, but if you look at it from a bird's eye view, they are not outside the idol group category.
Popular K-POP idol groups have members with excellent singing ability as main and sub members.
In terms of female girl groups, Girls' Generation had the strong twin stars of Taeyeon and Jessica (who has since left), and the four-member 2NE1 has Bom.
SISTAR has Hyolyn, Apink has Eunji, EXID has Solji, GFRIEND has Yuju, AOA has Choa, Girl's Day has Mina, Oh My Girl has Seunghee, and perhaps Lovelyz's K will also be in the mix.
4MINUTE's Gayoon was overshadowed by Hyuna and her strengths were not very noticeable, and in Miss A, Suzy's presence was so great that the main vocalist's presence was overshadowed, and the balance as a team was off.
Personally, I still don't feel that Red Velvet and MAMAMOO are a good fit.
It's not that they don't have skilled singers.
To put it in a positive way, they have secured their popularity through areas (performance) that don't rely on singing ability.
It feels like that's where their popularity comes in.
In other words, there are reasonably rational reasons why groups are popular.
This is clear when you look at their popularity spreading overseas.
For example, many fans of Apink may think that the group became popular because of Eunji's singing ability.
But that's not the case.
It's like baseball, where no matter how many hits the fourth batter makes, they can't win the championship.
For Apink to be popular, they needed not only long-range hitting like Eunji, but also running ability like Bomi and a mood maker like Naeun.
That's how they managed to secure their popularity and status as an idol group.
I just happened to use Apink as an example, but the popular groups listed above did not get to where they are today because of the strength of their main vocalist alone.
And yet, when it comes to talking about the singing ability of K-pop idols, there are always people who bring up singers from groups that don't have any notable track record.
I don't know if they want to show off their knowledge or what, but when you go to listen to them thinking, "Oh, I see," they turn out to be nothing more than a cover singer who sings someone's song from a foreign country really well.
It's often just her skill that stands out, and it can be disappointing to think that she'll never have a hit if she sings like that.
For example, does GFRIEND's YuJu sing "ROUGH" well?
No, it's not... before you can even sense her skill, you're moved by the charm and power of her singing voice.
It's the same with Eunji.
If you listen carefully, you can get a sense of how good her singing is before you can even sense her skill.
In other words, she sings by capturing the heart of the song before skill.
That's why we can listen to her voice with an open mind.
It's no good when an unproven singer is ranked above an established singer in terms of singing ability alone.
The point is that the real thing and a voice that's good at copying are completely different things.
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