LE SSERAFIM: I thought it was a dinosaur rookie, but it turned out to be a disaster group

LE SSERAFIM was established in 2022 with an initial lineup of 6 members. But Kim Garam's scandal broke out right after the group debuted, leading to the current lineup with 5 girls: Sakura, Chaewon, Yunjin, Kazuha and Eunchae.

LE SSERAFIM is considered "BTS's little sister" because it is the first girl group launched by HYBE - the global music group's management company. Ever since HYBE announced the lineup for the rookie girl group, LE SSERAFIM has been expected by many Kpop fans to do great things when half of the members come out of the survival show. The group's visual is also uniform as everyone has strong points in body shape and face. Therefore, LE SSERAFIM is considered one of the most talented rookie groups in 2022.

Even before its official debut, LE SSERAFIM already had a large fan base thanks to famous members from Produce 48 . Sakura, Chaewon, Kazuha and Yunjin are all female stars with high recognition. Even since her time working with IZ*ONE, Sakura has been equally famous with Jang Wonyoung, these two stars always "compared" each other for the center position.

At that time, LE SSERAFIM's singing, dancing, and performing skills were considered top-notch when 3/6 members were contestants from the survival show. In addition, Kazuha was also a Japanese child star and a professional ballerina.

It's been less than a month since the group debuted, but LE SSERAFIM's path encountered countless difficulties and obstacles as they continuously got caught up in scandals. The biggest scandal that seriously affected the group was definitely member Kim Garam being accused of school violence.

As the second member introduced in the LE SSERAFIM lineup, Kim Garam quickly received a lot of attention thanks to her bright stage appearance. However, a series of accusations broke out and evidence confirmed that Kim Garam had a past of bullying, causing her and the group's image to plummet.

Finally, member Garam - who is considered the group's fan-attractor - was officially terminated by the company after endless controversial accusations.

With 5 members, LE SSERAFIM has achieved more and more success after only a short time of debut. In 2023, "BTS sister" became the fastest Kpop girl group to enter the Top 10 of Billboard 200, after just over a year since the debut of "UNFORGIVEN". They are also the 5th Kpop girl group to reach this Top 10, after BLACKPINK, Twice, aespa and ITZY.

In addition, LE SSERAFIM is also the fastest Kpop female artist group to have 2 albums reach the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 in history. The album "ANTIFRAGILE" by five female singers, released in 2022, reached number 14 on the chart that same year.

Also in 2022, LE SSERAFIM won the Rookie of the Year award at the Golden Disk Awards 2023, and was also the Most Popular New Artist at the 2022 MAMA Awards.

Although the music and group image are extremely well built, perhaps LE SSERAFIM's biggest weakness is their ability to sing live. In early 2023, the group began to be under media scrutiny when their encore stages showed off extremely weak live performances.

Specifically, when LE SSERAFIM appeared on the show M! Countdown to participate in the encore performance for the winner. The group received a lot of criticism for singing poorly live, all 5 members were considered to sing too weak, some sang out of tune, far from the recording, especially Sakura was said to be the group's worst live singer.

Then, on Music Bank, instead of singing live, LE SSERAFIM played the flute, taking up a lot of the performance time. One fan explained that LE SSERAFIM had previously promised this flute performance if they won, so this was a gift for the fans.

But the flute performance was also considered bad even though it was prepared in advance. Many viewers believe that LE SSERAFIM intentionally plays the flute to reduce the time it takes to sing live.

From the controversy related to LE SSERAFIM, the issue of Kpop idols singing encore has also become a "hot" topic in recent days. 4th generation idols are rated lower for their live singing ability than Gen 2 and Gen 3 Kpop idols.

Not stopping there, the HYBE girl group also made Koreans feel discouraged from accepting idols after their recent disastrous stage at Coachella 2024.

On April 14, girl group LE SSERAFIM stirred up Coachella with a performance of 11 songs in about 40 minutes on the Sahara stage. The audience filled the venue, enthusiastically singing and dancing along.

Five LE SSERAFIM girls appeared on stage wearing special Louis Vuitton outfits designed exclusively by the fashion house's artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière. However, what the audience talks about is their bad singing.

The two members with the best singing ability in the group, Huh Yunjin and Chaewon, showed disappointing faces. Meanwhile, the youngest member, Eunchae, was criticized for being tone-deaf. The two Japanese members, Sakura and Kazuha, were out of breath and sang louder than the overdubbing music.

LE SSERAFIM revealed his vocal shortcomings, constantly stuttering and out of breath. The group's strength is that the choreography is not really good, the members interact quite awkwardly when they need to stir up the crowd. Many people believe that because they focused too much on singing well, the five girls quickly lost strength and were overwhelmed on stage.

Both Korean and international audiences have strongly criticized the singing skills of the group from HYBE. Unpleasant words were directed at the voices of the five girls: "They sing like they're belching", "Singing like they're punching the listener in the ear", "Do they call this a singer", "Even the one who's supposed to sing It's not even real. They're torturing the audience's ears", "The audience there sings better than this group", "Stop calling yourself Kpop. I'm ashamed of this group".. .

At the end of Coachella, the group was confirmed to perform at The Outsides Land Festival - an American Music Festival taking place in August this year in California. HYBE quickly received backlash from the online community when it did not focus on improving the artists' skills but instead let unskilled idols "fight" on international stages.

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