MONO - Debut exploded but was labeled "Son Tung's brother", weak live singing made the audience bored

After officially debuting, not only the voice but also the appearance of young singer MONO - Son Tung's younger brother was also enthusiastically commented on by netizens. Accordingly, MONO received mixed opinions.

Impressive debut album

Nguyen Viet Hoang was born in 2000, attended Hutech School, Ho Chi Minh City. He was famous from a young age when he appeared with Son Tung M-TP at a number of events. After moving to Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Hoang lived with his brother, guided and supported by Son Tung M-TP. He is interested by young people on social networks thanks to his dynamic fashion sense, playing musical instruments and singing.

Nguyen Viet Hoang takes the stage name MONO, is introduced as the exclusive recording artist of the Mmusic unit, working independently of the company of the hit owner Lac drift. On August 7, the guy born in 2000 debuted with the song "Forget Me", the product included in the album 22 including 11 songs composed by himself.

Right after that, the MV Forget Me is now in the top 4 of YouTube Vietnam's trending songs list. After 24 hours, the MV reached 1.5 million views, more than 100,000 likes and reached the top of some domestic music charts. By noon on August 9, "Forget me" climbed to Top 1 trending YouTube Vietnam with 1.8 million views.

The MV Forget Me opens the debut album 22 with three chapters, eight songs, revolving around the growth of a man and his love relationships. The album has pop/R&B color with songs like Em am, Bung, LIE (Love is eternal)...

The MV carries the motif of traveling through space, opening with a modern context. By chance meeting the girl in the cafe, the boy recognized his one-time lover, the memories came flooding back. The MV changes to fantasy colors, the two characters are lost in fanciful spaces: at the bottom of the deep ocean, in the middle of a galaxy full of stars, in a deserted house in the mountains...

The product is invested in the stage of staging. To portray the scene where the two characters meet in the ocean, the director built a swimming pool 3m wide and 3m high. During the implementation process, due to high water pressure, the pool rusted, the team had to urgently build another tank. The singer took nearly two days to shoot with 6-7 scenes.

Being praised for the image, the MV received many criticisms for the singer's singing style. Throughout the MV, the 22-year-old vocalist rarely sings in full and clear words. He sings and swallows words, abusing the technique of interlacing, making most listeners not recognize the content of the lyrics, especially in the fast tempo passages.

Revealing her first product, the original vocalist Thai Binh shared: "In the album, I use my experience to tell about a man's journey of adulthood. In addition, your own love stories. Friends and relatives are also the material to help me perfect my compositions. The album consists of 3 stages, from a boy who loves wholeheartedly, gradually changes his perception and becomes the most complete version."

The male singer also revealed that his brother helped a lot when starting his music career. Son Tung M-TP is the guide, contributing to shaping the musical style of the 22-year-old vocalist.

MONO said, "I myself need difficulties because it makes me mature. When I grow up, I will prove it through my music, through the stages that I perform. And my parents gave birth to me and my brother. So why should we be different, I will be different on the music path that I follow When asked how to get out of my brother's shadow, one thing is that when my parents scold me, I still have to hide behind my brother so I didn't use the word "escape" but it was my attempt to prove that I'm MONO".

The label "Son Tung's younger brother"

Invest in image, but MONO still "forces" the audience to think of Son Tung because the points are too coincidental and similar.

At the beginning of the MV "Forget me", the familiar "good boy" intro in Son Tung M-TP's products appeared, causing many people to question the intentions of the young male singer.

The music producer collaborating with MONO this time is none other than Onionn - producer who has accompanied Son Tung in many successful products such as "Run now", "Give it to me", "Are you sure love is love? here", "We of the present".

The beat Onionn performed is still modern, catchy but not new compared to what was done for Son Tung. The combination of R&B genre with familiar harmonies of electronic sounds, piano instruments, electric guitars... is Onionn's strength, most evident in "Run Now" released in 2018.

In particular, MONO's voice was commented by most of the audience to be almost similar to Son Tung, in some parts even indistinguishable. The pronunciation, the timbre, the way of releasing the words, and the singing without the words... too similar to Son Tung.

However, MONO becomes fainter when it does not have special charms like the vocal "Loc drift". The vocal performance relies too much on studio effects, not showing the true timbre in the voice, leading to incomplete conveying emotions.

On the other hand, the lyrics written by the male singer clearly show his inexperience. Common language, not many meanings and lack of expensive highlights for the audience to remember.

When collaborating on his first music product with Onionn - Son Tung's familiar producer, repeating the "good boy" intro, and performing his brother's voice... perhaps MONO had anticipated the comparison. compare.

It can be seen that the male singer born in 2000 has accepted to work under the label "son Tung's younger brother". This helps MONO attract attention and attract public opinion. But also a double-edged sword, making him always compared to his famous brother.

Therefore, in order to assert its own color, not to be called "based on older brother", MONO needs breakthroughs and a bolder and fresher personal style in music.

Criticized for weak live singing

Recently, the online community has constantly re-shared the live clip of the male singer on stage and received many different reactions from music listeners.

Accordingly, MONO appeared on stage with a fairly simple but equally fashionable outfit. The male singer brought his newly released song Forget Me to the performance stage. Not to mention the vocals, just looking at the performance style of young male singer MONO, people can't help but wonder because the shadow and performance of Son Tung is being performed by MONO on stage somewhere. .

It is undeniable that MONO is very confident and brave when singing for the first time on a music stage, but with a somewhat sassy performance style, many netizens believe that the male singer has copied "like casting" performance style of Son Tung's brother.

Next, after the part that is considered to be okay, MONO's voice is what makes people surprised. Accordingly, MONO's flat voice while trying to chase music is likened by people to reading poetry. Even the male singer's way of attachment is somewhat similar to Son Tung's, which is not appreciated by netizens as expected.

Below the clip, most of the netizens' comments frankly criticized MONO's unearthly voice when performing the first song in his career.

MONO - Em trai Sơn Tùng lần đầu hát live, khán giả than trời: "Nghe ông hàng xóm còn hay hơn" An Nhi14:06:45 19/08/2022Màn hát live của ca sĩ MONO - Em trai Sơn Tùng đang thu hút sự chú ý của công chúng và nhận về nhiều ý kiến trái chiều. Đa phần cư dân mạng đều cho rằng MONO hát live quá yếu