What Does Singing WHILE Dancing Sound Like? 

1. (Queen) Jisoo is singing live. 2. This is one of those few times when Itzy used a pre-recorded track. 3. This part is lipped, but the rest was sung live, along with some backtrack. 4. Yep, this is live and GOOD. 5. Lipped 6. Live + some backtrack 7. Live! 8. Lipped 9. So live! 10. Also live! also God, I LOVE HER

The Lady Gaga / Beyonce method is a big sign the vocals are live. When the choreography is timed to the lyrics rather than the rhythm there's a good sign the choreo was designed with singing in mind (and it massively improves the performance) hence why they are the gold standard. I noticed KPOP artists focus almost entirely on Choreo and anthemic choruses and could benefit from better planning.

That Seulgi appreciation cause yeah, she is amazing.

People already mentioned the Beyonce/Gaga method of lyrical choreography, so I just wanted to mention that singing is an incredibly physical activity. Proper support that creates the most optimal sound - and thus is the healthiest - requires engagement from muscles throughout the body to take the stress off of the vocal cords. A lot of people don't understand just how important the hips, legs, ribs, as well as the diaphragm are in singing. That's why it frustrates me when I see people criticise singers who don't do crazy choreography when they're singing difficult phrases. I'm seeing this criticism directed towards Hyolyn on Queendom 2 a lot. "She just stands when she sings her high notes" but this standing position, with grounded legs, and upright posture, is the best way to sing difficult passages. I wish people understood this more. Choreography is fun, but don't expect to get good, complex vocal phrases whilst doing high kicks in the air. It'll naturally disrupt the airflow, weaken the support, and produce an unstable, unhealthy sound. If people understood this they'd be less defensive about accepting that many groups lip sync in order to convey their complicated choreography.

itzy might not be the best vocalists out there but one thing for sure is they will sing LIVE!

Can we just appreciate how Itzys mic is ALWAYS on and they have some of the most intense choreo in all of K-pop and they are so amazingly trained to be so stable?!?!?!?

YG is pretty smart on making music for Black Pink in the way they can utilize both live singing and dancing. One trick they usually do is to: instrumental choruses. They don't usually sing a lot in the choruses and choruses r parts where their choreographies r harder. During verses, when they actually sing way more, the choreography became slower and less exhausting. On the contrary, JYP is the dumbest company in this case. They literally milk Twice like dead cows. These girls literally jumps and dance from beginning to the end while their songs r effing challenging to sing.

No matter what they say, RV and EXO always amazes me whenever they sing live. They are sooooo good at. It just sucks that RV never sang live for their Feel My Rhythm promotion-it's an SM thing. 🙃 It's so weird that even SHINEE, Taeyeon, and NCT barely sang live these last two years even though we are all well aware that they can. Also, RV I&R will remain the most iconic live performance the kpop industry has to offer.

I love the fact that Mamamoo focuses more on vocals rather than choreo( although some ppl use that against them).They are literally known for their live vocal performance! They are true vocal queens! Love them ❤🫶

When it comes to live performances and stage presence I go to Mamamoo, Dream Catcher and Itzy. I know most of the time to expect to hear their actual vocals with maybe some backing vocals. But in talking about Mamamoo and their "easy" choreography, they started off as purely a vocal performance group and kinda lost that aspect to be more dance focused (HIP and Dinga Dinga). But With AYA we saw them coming back to their roots of showing off their vocals (Solar and Wheein) while also having medium leveled choreography. People downplay Mamamoo for their choreography but as a GROUP, they are THE top currently and are respected for it. Whereas Dream Catcher has powerful choreography and also powerful vocals, they truly are a gem among other Kpop acts.

Seulgi basically carrying the tittle ACE effortlessly 💅🏻

I did show choir for six years, but I could never imagine singing and dancing for a whole concert. You do have people who could cover up your voice, but singing and dancing while in a girl/guy group or even as a solo career seems so difficult. I appreciate anyone who can sing and dance at the same time as it takes a ton of stamina and hard work! :)

This make me miss old smtown and older snsd concerts even more specially when they perform songs that originally doesnt have mv and choreo so they would just run around the whole stage space, just whole concert vibes and you're overwhelmed with the vocals while having so much fun its like an encore but more carefree and fun 😭 Like that one time they covered Twinkle as a group and they were just in their natural dorky messy all-over-the-place environment 😭

Wendy, she's always singing live. Wendy. Her voice is heavenly.

Y’all dreamcatcher has been singing live for the most part in this comback with Masion. Stan them.

8:25 ...I felt that. The absence of Wendy, having to cover her parts, AND pull off killer choreography...Seulgi did so well. and I FELT that in the little shakiness at the end there, and weirdly enough, I teared up a bit? K-pop idols try so hard and all we do is bring them down for things that are NORMAL (e.g. not being entirely stable live, or choosing not to sing during harder parts, etc.) :( Every K-pop idol should be so proud of themselves.

Those Blackpink, Red Velvet, and Itzy clips sound awfully good. I'm so proud❤️

I'm surprised you didn't includ STAYC, they are a group which sings live quite often since their company encourages them to do so. There are performances where you can hear little to no backtracks (espescially in their Stereotype era), and I think it would fit nicely in videos like this. If youplan on doing another video like this (PLEASE OMG I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS) please consider including them!!! thansk a bunch.

itzy gives me faith in the future of kpop tbh. i will always prefer an imperfect LIVE performance over fake perfection any day. itzy usually has their mics on AND loud enough to be heard over/in conjunction with the backtrack. hopefully more companies and groups will follow itzy’s lead with performances as the 4th gen continues

Rain and JYP's performances of "Switch to Me" were live and they sounded great. It can be done but a lot of Kpop labels don't seem to have faith in their own artists.

This makes me respect KPOP performers more than ever. I always said if I wanted to be a musician/pop star I would want to study more on Broadway performers on how to sing and dance live but I do know singing in musical theatre is different than singing in popular/pop music genres in terms of technique If you did western artist as examples of this I would say tinashe, Beyoncé, Bruno mars etc are good examples

Seulgi doesn't get enough appreciation. In Wendy's absence back in 2019 Seulgi handled the psycho live performance like a champ, singing Wendy's part too. Literal Queen!!!!!

It's disappointing how noone is talking about Dreamcatcher when they are literally the only GG who has so hard choreos and always deliver hard live and stable vocals too

ITZY sounds pretty good live and I don't know why people love to take shots at them all the time. One factor in how good a group sounds live is number of members and it's something that cannot be ignored. ITZY has 5 members and 6 is really the smallest number of members you want if you want even mildly impressive choreography while maintaining vocal stability. 7 is really the golden number and many of the top groups have 7 members. 7 members means you can create beautiful pictures with just the group AND do all kinds of vocal soundscapes that a smaller and/or less skilled group will struggle with. Dreamcatcher is without a doubt the best 3rd gen girl group in terms of vocal performance while dancing at a high intensity and the fact that there 7 members is big factor. They've been doing this for 5 years(Handong & Gahyeon) and 8 years(JiU, SuA, Siyeon, Yoohyeon, and Dami) and their choreographer incorporates moments for the vocalists to go off that will aid in stability. Siyeon, the main vocalist, has many moments of standing off to the side for a belt or high note and no one ever tries to say she's a bad dancer because of that. In their most recent comeback, Maison, the bridge requires the members to drop to the floor...but JiU, who sings it, kneels instead of being almost prone like the other members. It looks amazing and JiU is able to sing clearly and without strain. I would also like to shout out SuA's, the main dancer, amazing vocal stability because she can be in almost any position and sound like she's standing still. Dreamcatcher also has a more fair line distribution and a better distribution of killing moments in the choreo because there are 7 members. You have to balance what members are going to do vocally with the demands of the choreo and it gets messy with smaller groups.

I'll talk about my girls Mamamoo: Their choreography may not be that complicated but it's ok since they don't have to do that to impress me. Just their powerful voices is enough❤️ Blackpink: They may not be able to hit crazy high notes like some groups but they're are so stable when they sing live. Blackpink always makes sure that their mics are on🔥💯

I believe red velvet is a good example of dancing and singing at the same time.. even though their choreographies are not THAT difficult, it is usual for their choreography to have many jumps and runs/changes of formations which can tire the artist and even when they sing live they always manage to deliver a good vocal (with imperfections of course) but still great vocals. I know they don't usually sing live ALL the time but that doesn't discredit their determination when they do!

Wow Seulgi really is something huh🤧🤌🧡🧸

Shocked there wasnt more Dreamcatcher on Live vocals. With all the arrangement they do to their songs, their concerts with live band, their intense choreography. I mean just the whole two Day of Crossroads concert in which they rearranged like 20 of their songs for Live band acoustic purposes. Their ability to cover any genre of song and to sing on spot without echo ir backing track. In particular Siyeon and Yoohyeon although all of them are really talented.

Dreamcatcher!! They are live vocal Queens. It's amaizing how they sing un Live while dancing those hard Choreos, mostly in this MAISON era

Wheein once said that they made the choreography to HIP more intense due to the fact that people said they only sang good live bc their choreography was simple. Which I agree to an extend, their choreography wasn’t as hard as other group but it certainly wasn’t anything easy prior to HIP. I strongly believe they sing wonderfully live no matter what. People just down play them bc they’re not part of the big 3, so happy to be a moomoo and to see Mamamoo make their own standards when it comes to both music and beauty 🥹💚💜💛🖤

I prefer to hear out of breath live singing while dancing than playback. All day, every day. I‘m very certain all the kpop stars can sing, sometimes it’s their labels/management that decide they have to lipsync.

There is a Brazilian singer that dances very energetic choreo and sings live. She said in an interview that she practices her voice while jumping rope. The aespa's performance in coachella was the first time I heard them singing live on a stage. All the music shows were clearly not live. And they did an amazing job. Sm should let them sing live.

Dreamcatcher really out there destroying live singing! Check them out

Not on the list but if u wanna see how live singing plus hard choreo Dreamcatcher always deliver that in every music show performance or go to It's live youtube you're going to hear Dreamcatcher singing and taking breath

there’s this new group called nmixx (under the same company as twice & itzy) who have been performing live with very hard choreo. honestly they really shocked me

Any then there’s Dreamcatcher with consistent live vocals and very hard choreography.

i think snsd especially during "into the new world" is one of the perfect example of good live vocal + hard choreo

please do a video on aespa's coachella performance I feel like it's the first time they were actually allowed to sing live in front of a crowd, and their vocals were incredible I've also never seen them with so much stage presence

Dreamcatcher the live vocal queens

Thank you for making this video, a lot of Kpop stans don't know how live vocals sound like, we must have realistic expectations and remember idols are human And we should appreciate more performances where idols find a great balance between giving a good dance performance and a stable vocal delivery

These videos of “singing while dancing” always remind me of Shinee. Also, autotune, pre-recorded vocals and one or two member singing live and the other don’t are others possibilities

I heard Chen singing Live before concert start. They hold the concert in small football field. I expected only shaky and something weird voice crack since they are dancing. But that Chen is just insane. I am close with organiser so I was near stage helping for make up. I was shocked and reached out to one of sound engineer ( I think he is just assistant) . I asked "will they just lip-sync? I feel like Chanyeol is not feeling well it will hard to sing live since they come from cold temperature and ours is so hot as hell " I was jaw dropped when he reply me one word " mics are on " I was like "What? " . I feel like there is no way that voice is Live. I didn't believe it but I heard Chen's loud exhale so have to accept the fact (?Idk what's call) . May be he ate CDs. I really didn't notice him before that time as much as he deserves. He is good husband, good Father and good singer. It's been 6 or 7 years old story but first time me saying it in public. I hate that his fans will come to me for more info or details. I don't like it. I don't want attention or something.

What’s even more impressive about some of the girl groups you mentioned like black pink, red velvet and itzy is that they only have 4-5 members meaning that each member has a much larger chunk of singing to do than in groups with 7-11 members. You can see that the groups with more members usually distribute the lines so that each member gets a ‘break’ in between lines to focus on just the dance and vice versa (unless they have unequal line distribution and rely too heavily on one or two members). It really makes me respect people like Jongho from ATEEZ who will always deliver an amazing live performance belting over the backing track despite extremely intense and difficult choreography. However, to do this you can tell that he generally doesn’t dance as hard as the other members so that he can focus all of his energy on singing. While there is no doubt that he is an amazing dancer, his vocals are out of this world and add so much more to their live performances - it doesn’t matter so much anyway when all of the other members are such good dancers that they draw the visual attention while Jongho draws the auditory attention.

And this isn’t even mentioning Pre-recorded vocals under backing tracks just for the MR removed vids. Companies are getting more advanced by the day instead of just training their idols vocals better 😭

6:22 That part is one of my fav lines from Wendy, and after hearing this I can say I liked Seulgi's version equally as their main vocalist, such an ace.

People discredit blackpink so much but they’re literally live queens, I don’t care how many high notes your main vocal does in a song if blackpink rapline kept singing more often than them even if they don’t even release music💀

i love all of the red velvet appreciation in this video (especially seulgi!!)-our vocal queens. so proud of how seulgi covered for most of wendy's parts when she was on hiatus. also, seulgi in that one monster performance was actually insane!! really quite impressed with blackpink as well! I don't rly stan them, but they are pretty stable live. also, dreamcatcher are one of the groups that first came to mind when discussing live vocals. like it's more rare to find them NOT singing live! i think they're one of the strongest live performers. boca and odd eye are absolutely insane songs/choreos and they pull it off!! claps to them.

I love the fact that Blackpink is always honest with the parts they sing and the part they let the backtrack sing, we can clearly hear the difference and they don't try to fool us, I love that, cause it's not bad to let the track do some service because of the choreo, but the bad thing is to try to fool the audience. And I think that's the whole reason why Blackpink have THE stage presence and charisma, cause they respect the audience and they really feel what they're singing (they also don't take the choreo too serious, they often use the choreo to play with members and change some parts to interact more)

Oh I loved how you explained everything and considering that they are humans! Some people sometimes forget that and expect them to sound the exact same as the studio version, I just love to watch my favorite artists live (kpop and non) cause we feel more close with them, I love to see the small changes that they do on live performances and how they express themselves 💕 thank you for the video!

The sign they sing live is they will set appart they microphone when reaching highnotes. I watched an idol literally eat the mic meanwhile reaching highnotes and people tought its live :"

8:38 This is what I think though I'm not 100% sure. 1. BlackPink - Live Singing 2. Itzy - Not Live Singing 3. Red Velvet - Not Live Singing 4. Red Velvet - Live Singing 5. Everglow - Not Live Singing 6. EXO - Live Singing 7. BlackPink - Not Sure ?? 8. Twice - Not Live Singing 9. Red Velvet (Irene & Seulgi) - Live Singing 10. G-idle - Live Singing

You should have put Michael Jackson in this video! He's a great example. As he got older he started lip synching cause singing and dancing at the same time requires a lot of stamina and obviously as he got older it got harder for him especially with how heavily choreographed his dances were. He also mainly lip synced in his last tour, HIStory, because he did the entire tour with laryngitis.

Dreamcatcher's "Maison" is an example of choreography interfering with vocal strength during a live performance. Belting specifically refers to opera singers using a training belt to learn how to sing and breathe properly; Otherwise, belting is shouting, thus bad singing.

Live singing is when you can hear their breath and movement. Delulus try to pass pre-recorded singing as their group having stable singing because they're experienced 🙃

I honestly prefer Vocals over choreo, since I'm going to be listening to the song not the dance(but that's on preference).

Mamamoo and Blackpink. Their choreo might be easy but at least they are quiet catchy so fans can follow them. people used to say that Mamamoo could only sing live bc their choreography wasn’t hard…Isn’t that the point? If you can’t sing while doing your choreography then what’s the point of the choreography. It’s supposed to enhance the performance, not making performing it impossible 😅 I don’t think companies so prioritize hard choreo over the performance, we are seeing this with 4th Gen. Some can do it and some can’t their companies should find things that fit their group and their abilities s Also I noticed if some idols don’t go all out on the choreography then people will call them lazy or say they can’t dance 😒 Dreamcatcher always surprises me because their choreo is a lot but they sure do sing live sooo well. Every single one of them. I love them 🤌🏾

Do make a review or reaction of Aespa's Coachella performance! The LIVE VOCALS WE'VE BEEN WAITING FORRR! (Choose fancam version as their live vocals can be heard more clearly n are not overshadowed by backtrack like in the official Coachella performance video)

I didn't know that Seulgi was so good at singing. I only kind of remember her as a lead or main dancer. She is so good at singing.

OMG I am so grateful still able to hear the prime era of SM Vocal with EXO and RV that carried the KPOP industry on their back. IDK what happen right now but I hope we can go back to that era

I love the Seulgi praise 🥰

Please do a video analyzing aespa's live performance in Coachella, the fancams to be specific.nice vid btw

My guesses 1. BP - live 2. Itzy - not live 3. RV - not live 4. RV - live 5. Everglow - not live 6. EXO - live 7. BP - live 8. Twice - not live 9. Irene & Seulgi - live 10. G-idle - live

the way I nailed the live test because years of listening to Dreamcatcher live stages trained me to spot live vocals

meanwhile DREAMCATCHER having hard choreo and sings live to every stage for their promotion 👁️🕳️👁️

I was waiting for your video about Aespa live at Coachella!

What did you think about aespa's coachella performance? Imo Winter and Ningning slayed, also I was surprised by Karina's vocals as a main dancer/sub vocalist (Giselle didn't sing much but that's because she gets all the rap parts).

this is really helpful, i'm looking for references for choreographing to my own tiny live shows.

dreamcatcher defies all rules by singing stable live vocals with extremely difficult choreo at the same time and having amazing stage presence at the same time

EXO ARE LIVE VOCAL KINGS!!!❣️Their powerful vocals never fail to amaze me!♥️

4:02 out of topic, but Yeji and Ryujin playing rock paper scissors is adorable Seulgi is a queen yall

dreamcatcher my beloved, always challenging themselves with their complex choreo and vocals, also with amazing stage presence and songs

This video needs more views. The amount of times I've watched a live performance where the whole group is lip syncing only to see all the fans in the comments exploding over how great the vocals are may actually drive me insane.

it's nice cuz all the clips of Seulgi sounded great 🥰😄

One of my favorite examples is red velvets live performance of Hit That Drum. Wendy has a very long belt in the bridge and in the studio version she pulls it off with ease (its very much in her range) but in the live version, you can hear her take a very large breath in between the note since they had been singing and performing several of their songs in a row and they were likely out of breath. THAT is what performing live sounds like. THAT is a well trained professional K-Pop idol vocalist.

For the 4th one, i remember that time how reveluvs were so happy just because of how Wendy was seen just enjoying that performance. 😊

We know it's hard singing while dancing but aren't they learning these things for years?

And that’s I appreciate Mamamoo so much

The reason why I really love BLACKPINK, RED VELVET and ITZY is because we know that their mics are always ON

i was hoping this would include aespa’s coachella performance clips 😩

I know sm idols don’t sing live much these days and it’s sad, but I don’t blame Taemin for one on music shows given the difficulty of his choreo. Also we know from concerts that he CAN sing.

After watching aespa Coachella. I can say that aespa got everything. Amazing live vocals, stage presence, amazing raps, energetic dance/choreo and aenergy of the performance. First time perform in front of huge crowd but they did great. Stan talent, stan aespa 💙🌙⭐🦋

Crazy how kpop has changed over the years, back in the day idols used to be dragged for lip syncing and even when you sang live, if you were weak the backlash would be even worse. But now lipsyncing is basically the norm lol

Jihyo and Dreamcatcher are crazyyyyyy. with the type of choreo those groups are performing. special mention to Seulbear

Aespa choreo seemed easy but its not(except next level) in Savage the chorus part, your lower body area needs full control and the fact that theyre doing it while singing live is commendable. Black Mamba is also energy consuming aswell yet the girls remain stable and sounded good. Aespa dances might less be challenging but what makes their songs hard to perform is the multiple sustaining of notes, their songs are vocal suicides and the fact that 2ning and Winter despite flatness and cracks they still able to hit it right. And that is why Kudos to them! Also they outdid themselves in Coachella!

Mamamoo sings live 💚💚💚💚 thankyou for mentioning it . Because so many channels don't mention them

It's definitely possible to sing full out and dance full out at the same time and still sound good. Musical theater actors do it all the time. From my own experience, its not dancing that makes singing hard, it's the kind of singing and the kind of dancing. Heavy Bouncing or head movements make your voice wobbly so movements should be more grounded. It's difficult to have long legato lines of singing while dancing so staccato lines work better. "America" in westside story is a great example of stacco lines that make dancing and singing easier.

dreamcatcher getting recognition they deserve 😋

Idols belting over the backtrack is so heaven You can't deny that 😌

for me singing live is not always necessarily needed when promoting mushows because imagine singing live for 3 weeks straight while having othet schedules in between. It can potentially damage their voices. I think id rather want to see them sing live in concerts and festivals than mushows.

Oh god, love the intro. Brilliant.

I love you and your channel and I watch all your videos 🥺

Enter Dreamcatcher

On the imperfection note, i noticed that Chowon, the main vocal on Lightsum, during Vanilla promotions, there is a part where she has to keep a high note while dancing on the bridge, and in some stages (for tv and live) you can hear the little jumps she is doing, aldo Nayoung sounds almost out of breath during the song (she improve by vivace comeback hahaa)

Well, there's also after the fact tuning / pitch correction for some shows and creating new backtracks (that's aren't the studio version) for the performances and adding it breaths, mic touches, etc. to make it more believable. Very few performances are actually live. I don't expect them to be, but if a group's performance is worse in the encore / singing when standing than the "official" performance then I just sigh.

The video is so well made

Early squad, this video was so good i started levitating and then singing like my girl Winter at Coachella 😫

I love how all of them are girls and then BOOM vocal kings wildly appearing. EXO vocals are no joke. Also THANK YOU so much for doing this video. A lot of kpop stans are always searching for perfect live performances and ignore important factors like how hard the choreo is, how difficult the singing is, etc. That's why I stan Mamamoo, they always bring great performances, stage presence, live vocals and don't care that much on the choreo just like 2nd gen groups

Soyeon always bringing it live, I mad respect her for it… she made the song and be damned if she’s not gonna sing it lol

10:17 Jeon Soyeon Rap In Hwaa Is SOO FKING FIRE THE WAY HER BREATHING IS HITTING THE MIC AND THE PAUSE BEFORE THE FAST RAP MY GOD 🥵

Please make a video appreciating itzy and their stable vocals pleaseeeeeee 🙏