Article: TWICE's 'Alcohol-Free' takes 1st place... Encore disaster controversy
Source: Hankyung
TWICE's encore stage is once again becoming a source of controversy.
Although TWICE took 1st place, it's their singing ability on encore stages that's been rising to the top.
On the SBS 'Inkigayo' broadcast on the afternoon of the 20th, Heize's 'Happy Coincidence', TWICE's 'Alcohol Free' and aespa's 'Next Level' were nominated for 1st but TWICE won with 7002 points.
TWICE thanked fans, staff, and colleagues and enjoyed the award on stage.
However, in the encore stage that followed, the members continued to deviate and performed a stage that made people doubt their ears with what was unfolding. Each time the song/part ended, the members looked at each other as if embarrassed and smiled.
Afterwards, a post titled "TWICE Encore disaster" was shared on Pann and netizens responded, "initially, their encore stage was praised because they sang in moderation while celebrating so it was enjoyable to watch but this was a bit.." "They're not singers anyway so what's there to shield."
In the meantime, 'Inkigayo' was broadcast earlier than usual due to the final round of the 35th Korea Women's Open Golf Championship being broadcast live at usual time.
- [+332, -100] This is not even their 6th but 7th year ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ. People kept saying their skills improved with recent encore ㅋㅋㅋ but isn't this their skill level??ㅋㅋㄱㅋㅋㅋㄱ Their fans were convinced their skills improved until this encore disaster happenedㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- [+274, -243] The ba$tards in the comments were never once interested if they did well ╋ Their voices have never cracked while singing until this encore stage today.
- [+197, -54] Can you even call those soft skills..?
- [+107, -19] So if they didn't practice singing during their hiatus what exactly were they doing? They couldn't even sing their own parts that lasted for a few seconds..
- [+104, -17] In that short time, even Chaeyeong and Jeongyeon who's skills are considered top tier in the group threw their hands in the air and broadcast ended in a hurry without going to Momo and Dahyun probably because even they knew it was broadcast accidentㅋㅋ
- [+98, -16] What's funny is after the song came out, fans and non-fans praised them for their skills. Even though the song itself was bland and lacking, because they had lowered the vocal range to fit their skills, it was easier and comfortable to hear them sing. But then after that, because they gained some confidence, they started doing the stage live but their skills couldn't keep up with the first encore stage and the second encore turned into a disaster ㅋㅋㅋ. I knew they were never once singing live. You could tell their fans were losing their mentals watching that stage ㅋㅋ
- [+70, -20] A group that should've disbanded sooner if judged by their skills
- [+64, -18] I honestly could care less about this knowing there are celebrities embroiled in scandals for abusing drugs, gambling and drunk driving..