Controversy over aespa’s alleged lip-sync at 1st-ever concert, Winter playing electric guitar faces mixed reactions
aespa continues to be embroiled in a controversy related to lip-syncing.
On February 25 and 26, aespa’s first-ever concert “SYNK: HYPER LINE” took place in Korea. Attention is focused on aespa’s performance in such an important schedule amid the SM dispute. At the concert, aespa treated fans to special stages, unreleased songs and solo stages of each member. Their first concert went well, but the aespa continued to come under lip-sync controversy.
Specifically, Korean netizens pointed out that aespa’s lips did not match the music when performing the group’s most popular song “Next Level”. The topic of aespa’s alleged lip-syncing immediately trended in Korea, attracting mixed opinions. aespa is known as one of the strongest 4th gen girl groups in terms of vocals, but is constantly accused of lip-syncing.
On music shows, idols who sing over backtrack are not heavily criticized because this is normal to guarantee the recording quality. But aespa being accused of lip-syncing at not only music shows, university festivals, but now even their own concert has sparked a controversy.
The concert “SYNK: HYPER LINE” has many viral moments on social media, especially the opening where Winter played the electric guitar. Although fans are loving this moment of Winter and go crazy over how cool she was, some people think that Winter was only pretending to play the guitar.
Faced with comments criticizing aespa and attacking Winter, fans explained that the concert lasted for nearly 3 hours, it’s normal for aespa to have a backtrack. In most performances, the group sang live well. Their energy and performance skills have improved as well.
As for Winter, she doesn’t deserve such negative comments. Some even compare aespa with BLACKPINK, who also plays musical instruments at their concerts, but the way netizens react to it is completely different.
Netizens’ reaction:
- aespa was lip-syncing right at their concert. Next Level isn’t even a b-side or an unreleased song, why lip-syncing when their live skills have received a good response…?
- People bashing aespa are those who didn’t even attend the concert
- aespa is always lip syncing, except when they sing with no dancing
- aespa has a lot of live stages. At the recent awards ceremony, they sang live, and no one said anything. But now they got hate because they didn’t sing live this time.
- But this is the first time I’ve seen an artist lip sync at their own concert.
- Lip-syncing even at the concert? That’s shocking.
- Winter did well. Leave her alone.
