Phuong My Chi sings a hit with 200 million views, criticized for being far inferior to 1 person, netizens argue

Despite receiving impressive scores and winning tickets to the next round, Phuong My Chi and Kha Lau's performance at Semi-final 1 of " Sing! Asia " is becoming the center of heated debates on social networks.

Mashup "Drunken Yin x Loc Hai Vi Vuong": Bold cultural exchange

Semi-final 1 of "Sing! Asia 2025" took place on July 11 and opened a dramatic round. Team Phuong My Chi and Kha Lau received enthusiastic responses from the audience. The mashup performance "Tuy Am" ( Xesi 's 200 million view hit) and "Loc Hai Vi Vuong" "processed" by music production team DTAP blew up social networks with intense EDM and Rock music, smoothly combined with traditional folk materials.

Phuong My Chi's voice is considered to be thick and warm, with the ability to flexibly change the pitch, while Kha Lau impressed with his clear, melodious voice. In particular, the harmony of Vietnamese Cai Luong and Chinese Opera created a unique blend between the two cultures. Both young artists brought a harmony that skillfully blended the intensity of the mashup with the subtlety and depth of traditional music.

In the end, the excellent duo won 190.6 points, officially advancing to Semi-final 2. However, just a few days after the broadcast, social networks suddenly appeared with mixed opinions surrounding the performance of Phuong My Chi and Kha Lau, especially the hit song "Tuy Am".

"Drunken Sound" causes controversy: Did Phuong My Chi "ruin" the original?

Specifically, some netizens said that Phuong My Chi could not express the magical, ethereal, and "floating" quality that the Xesi-born singer created for "Tụy Âm". Some even commented that her singing was "awkward", not suitable for the overall melancholy, dreamy atmosphere of the song.

It is necessary to understand the nature of "Tụy Âm" which is a combination of two words: tuy - in wine and am - in music. The original song is the lyrics of a drunkard, drunk in love and wine. Therefore, Xesi's singing style is also considered to be "in tune" with the spirit of the song: full of nostalgia, romance, and the soul of Vietnamese poetry.

However, in the performance of Phuong My Chi and Kha Lau, we must consider DTAP's intention when combining "Tụy Âm" with "Lộc Hải Vi Vương". One side is a person drunk on love, the other side is a person drunk on power. When these two worlds intersect, it creates a tragic, majestic ancient melody. Therefore, if "Sister Bay" still retains the original lingering color of "Tụy Âm", the intention that DTAP had in mind to create contrast and intersection would be broken.

Phuong My Chi demonstrates technique and flexibility

In fact, Phuong My Chi has made subtle adjustments to suit the mashup by singing more deeply in a low tone, using her chest voice to push the climax into the chorus but still flexibly jumping to high notes. Notably, in the segment "Loc Hai Vi Vuong", the female singer shows off all the diversity in tone, fully preserving the identity and meaning of the Vietnamese language.

Phuong My Chi also "went all in" with all the techniques from duration, intensity, breath control, vibrato, and trills at a very good level, showing her professionalism and ability to master the stage. Blended with Kha Lau's soft, poetic voice, the mashup "Tụy Âm x Lộc Hải Vi Vương" is currently considered the most diverse song, showing off the most vocal strengths in the Semi-final 1, and can even be said to be in the entire program from the beginning until now.

Multidimensional view from Netizens: No one "sings better than anyone else"

The debate about whether Phuong My Chi's singing is "as good as the original" has attracted a large number of netizens. Each person has their own "ears" for music, and their musical tastes are not the same. However, to say that "Sister Bay" sings worse than Xesi is not entirely correct, because the nature and circumstances in which the two singers performed were completely different.

Most netizens affirm that no one sings better than anyone else, but it depends on each person's perception and feeling. "Túy Âm" is already a "wall" in the Vietnamese EDM music genre, its reputation has spread internationally, so it is inevitable that there is a prejudice that "no one sings as well as the original singer".

The mashup with "Loc Hai Vi Vuong" - a pure Rock song - required "Tuy Am" to be refined to harmonize the two songs together, creating a new and deeper whole, instead of simply recreating the original. This shows the flexibility and creativity of Phuong My Chi and the production team.

Phuong My Chi brings 200M view hit to Sing! Asia, flies high notes like a flute but still loses Hoa Tuyết09:16:35 12/07/2025On the evening of July 11, the semi-final 1 of Sing! Asia 2025 officially took place, starting a fierce race between 5 excellent pairs of contestants. Among them, Phuong My Chi and Kha Lau had an impressive duet performance.