Taeyeon Lee Mujin Service Reaction

Taeyeon's personality is so funny lol Fun fact, she and Key are really close friends. They have similar, yet different personalities. Taeyeon is more introverted, and it takes her a lot of effort and energy to socialize and be around big groups of people. Key is more extroverted, and while he loves to be surrounded by people, he loves his personal space and loves to relax. And in terms of personality, they are both extremely sassy and silly and like to take things slow and enjoy whatever they're doing. Of course, they have their unique traits. But it's just an interesting little fact :-)

About the "spikey" vocals, I've heard the same as what Ent wrote, that korean speakers like her pronunciation, that she has a clear korean pronunciation. I also wonder if Mujin is talking about how she has power in her vocals but it doesn't hit you like a hard punch.

I don't speak Korean, so I can't be sure what LM meant by his comment on sharpness, but the two things I frequently hear about Taeyeon's singing is that she has a rather outstanding diction that makes her sound very clear and precise (in her native language at least), and that her voice has a piercing quality to it, that really gets through one's skin. When overused, her metallic higher register can get a tad fatiguing, but most of the time it's reserved for special moments and is a very effective weapon that really breaks through one's defences. She did sound heavier in her teens and early twenties, and does use a lighter tone now, a change she herself acknowledges as something she had to learn to live with. But her falsetto is very smooth, her lower and middle registers are rather warm and relatable, so I don't think he was implying that she's someone hard to listen to. It felt more like a compliment to someone who has an edge but knows how to use it in a subtle and effective way. I'm positively surprised you've noticed her fun personality too, as both Killing Voice and Lee Mujin Service were environments where she was quite visibly out of her comfort zone. When in her element, she's really animated, witty and humorous. SNSD (Girls' Generation) as a whole are one of the most entertaining groups in the industry.

I'll defend lee mujin a little bit here 😂 since he was really complimenting taeyeon What he meant was even when taeyeon goes to that metalic sound we never get tired of her vocals...there are other singers who goes there and it tires you out by how screechy it sounds or how sharp it is to our ears, but it's not the case for taeyeon because of her tone quality, that's why he said whatever she did we received it as something round as in not stabbing our eardrums...Taeyeon once said that it used to be her worry, not having a specific color or stylistic choice while singing, if people being asked what's taeyeon characteristic is in singing it's hard to describe because when thinking of her different songs, she just did what needed to be done for the song, completely absorbing the song instead of going for a certain style for her whole career...but one think about her that we all agree she's a really good story teller and it's not limited to ballad, she's a singer who delivers the message Fun fact, there's not a single cover of Taeyeon songs that outdid the original... they're either trying to catch up with the singing, trying to get everything right so it lacks the emotion or potraying the emotion and missing the intricate mechanism taeyeon did...and one thing about taeyeon even when she didn't do belting to impress, she will always have difficult song to sing, that's why there was a phase when she didn't have that big belt on her song yet her song difficulty still up there with all the intricate riff, mixing etc that she did to give flavor to the song

I might have to request "Disaster" because I do absolutely love that song as well 🥰

fun fact about the song selection is that it's often said that if Taeyeon likes a song, it won't be a hit; if Taeyeon hates a song, it will be a huge hit. Taeyeon hated all of SNSD's biggest hits at the time of their release, like "Gee," "Lion Heart", "Kissing You." Years later, she stated that at the time she hated the cute concept, but now she'd gladly release a song with that concept. Taeyeon also initially disliked "Four Seasons," which is one of her biggest hits.