I'm an absolute fan of ballads. There's nothing better, no matter what time of year, than being emotionally moved by a ballad. Does IU Good Day really officially count as a ballad? For me, the song was always more of a cute upbeat song. Since you've focused on solo singers here, maybe you could make a follow-up video where you focus on groups known for good ballads. Very interesting podcast Jinri!💜
Global wise, musically the mainstream focus is on the upbeat and danceable songs, because of the western influences. Ballads is all about telling a story through music with different melody, sounds to awaken the emotion in people. In Asia ballads are more mainstream compare to USA or the western industry. I like 80s, 90s Japanese ballads, Hong Kong Cantonese ballads and Korean ost or Kpop groups b-sides ballads songs. Kpop is more like Korean Pop for me in definition then that it being a music genre on it's self. Kpop so many idols with differen voices that are wasted because they don't fit for the standard "Kpop genre" singing style. Sometimes I just want some main vocalist of a Kpop group sing Rock, Pansori or Trot 😅🤣. I think people with natural born beautiful vocal tones can make ballads sounds amazing automatically. My favorite Kpop idols that sings ballad greatly are: all SHINee members, especially Jonghyun and Onew, B.A.P Jung Dae Hyun (very underrated), SS501 members, Xia Junsu, Super Junior Kyuhyun etc.
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I'm an absolute fan of ballads. There's nothing better, no matter what time of year, than being emotionally moved by a ballad.
Does IU Good Day really officially count as a ballad? For me, the song was always more of a cute upbeat song.
Since you've focused on solo singers here, maybe you could make a follow-up video where you focus on groups known for good ballads.
Very interesting podcast Jinri!💜
Everyone should check out Taeyeon's Begin Again compilation.
Global wise, musically the mainstream focus is on the upbeat and danceable songs, because of the western influences. Ballads is all about telling a story through music with different melody, sounds to awaken the emotion in people. In Asia ballads are more mainstream compare to USA or the western industry.
I like 80s, 90s Japanese ballads, Hong Kong Cantonese ballads and Korean ost or Kpop groups b-sides ballads songs. Kpop is more like Korean Pop for me in definition then that it being a music genre on it's self. Kpop so many idols with differen voices that are wasted because they don't fit for the standard "Kpop genre" singing style. Sometimes I just want some main vocalist of a Kpop group sing Rock, Pansori or Trot 😅🤣.
I think people with natural born beautiful vocal tones can make ballads sounds amazing automatically. My favorite Kpop idols that sings ballad greatly are: all SHINee members, especially Jonghyun and Onew, B.A.P Jung Dae Hyun (very underrated), SS501 members, Xia Junsu, Super Junior Kyuhyun etc.