Do singers use Autotune when performing live? If so, why is it not noticeable on TV shows and other live performances?
Last Updated: 21.06.2025 11:31
And as HYBE getting better at using AI writer producers, they can make songs faster and they can own those royalties or direct where the royalty money is going. As long as they can secure a group of fans that will consume whatever songs hybe releases, that’s what BTS’ responsibilities are, they make sure the fandom is loyal, and HYBE then can use AI to write and sing, the idols don’t even have to record their own songs. Just think the all the AI covers on YouTube. That anyone can make and upload. HYBE can make a fancier version of that, their groups just have to dance to it.
Some companies with AI subsidiaries, they use artists’ voices to generate AI vocals, and it’s basically the computers singing with their voices, and the idols just dance to it. HYBE aquired Supertone in 2022, that’s exactly what that subsidiary does. Le sserafim have the worst vocal abilities in kpop history, the only ones that are worse are the illit girls. Cuz HYBE can now debut girls cant sing at all, they read and sing a bunch of materials and that material gets processed at Supertone, and supertone can use their voices to make songs, technically, these girls dont even have to record the songs themselves, think all the AI covers on YouTube. They still need to record a live version backtrack with the breathings and practice to match their mouth shapes, that’s pretty much it. That’s why they keep debuting girls cant sing, and will continue to do so.
The next step, I believe, HYBE is exploring AI song writers, they come up with a concept, and give AI the command, then AI can generate a bunch of songs in minutes and they have a human producer to touch up on it and polish it, then get a kpop producer to give it more kpop flavor, that’s it. They can make a song in a matter of days. When it used to take months to make a hit song. That’s why there’s so many catchy repetitive single syllable liners in HYBE group songs. TXT, Le sserafim, Enhypen, illit, Katseye… they all have these songs that are ‘’da dada da dada dadadada’, “yayaya”,” ”toutoutou”, “mumumumu”, ”uuuuuuu”, “”ooooooo”, “iiiiiii”, “ch ch ch ch ch”, “tidatidatidadatuda, tidatidatidadatuda…”, these are actual lyrics,, some of these lines make up half of the songs, these songs aren’t made by humans, aren’t sang by humans either. That’s HYBE AI doing the writing and singing with the girls’ voices and the girls can’t even sound like that, they just dance to all that AI singing.
That’s also the root of BSH and MHJ feud. If your intellectual capacity is limited at “MHJ is a witch”, then good luck. However, if you look at all of these controversies in pop industry across countries and decades, what are they fighting for? Sony and michael Jackson, diddy and biggie, scooter and Taylor swift…. They are fighting for one thing, the royalties on the songs. The masters is where the actual money is. The rest is all media play, he says she says. BSH and MHJ disagreed on using “attention” as New jeans’ debut song, MHJ brought her own producers from SM, who wrote these songs for nwjsn, that means they’ll be getting the master copyrights and become a lot richer. But BSH wanted to use his own producers, or producers of his choices, and MHJ wouldnt let him touch nwjns discography, that disagreement was the beginning of it all. And to BSH, the bigger nwjns get, it means the richer their producers will get. And if you look at his other groups, BSH himself is on almost all of their song credits, not as the main writer, but he’s on the list and he’s getting paid a little bit from each song. But he will never get on nwjns songs credits if MHJ is in HYBE.
Their mics are customized to each of their own voices, it’s connected to a computer program where the audio gets fixed according to a setting and then come out. That’s when they are using a mic and ear pieces. This is applicable to all current singer in all countries.
AI uses in kpop is less detectable but more common than you think.
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If the singer uses a backtrack, that backtrack is pre-recorded and pitch-corrected and they just sing along to it, you’ll still be hearing mostly the backtrack if singing is not their strong suit. In Kpop, lipsyncing used to be banned and strictly limited by TV shows, they simply dont put singers cant sing on TV. Until the beginning of 3rd gen, first half of BTS career, then autotune and EDMs heavily utilized in kpop, as the digital world taking over traditional TV shows, the show stations completely lost their ruling power, and lip-syncing rules are silently discarded. Groups with powerful vocalists were declining, groups with weak vocals using heavy backtracks were catching up, Twice is widely known as the group that lipsync, they’ve overtaken red velvet, which is put together as a vocal power house. That was the year all companies are realizing, the world has changed.
Backtracks, also have come a long way, it used to be just studio recordings, and some sharp fans are starting to notice there’s no breathing in their vocals, which gives away the lipsyncing. And they can use MR removal tool to hide the recordings and only live vocals are left, it showed most idols just mouthing along singing very minimal lines, some don’t even make any sounds. So companies now, are adding the breathing and air hitting the mic in the backtracks so it’s more believable. Also it’s not publicized, so MR removal tools can’t remove that backtrack. I believe they recorded the backtracks while dancing to it at 50% so all the breathing would line up with actual live singing, then the audio gets pitch-corrected and the lipsyncing becomes less obvious, but it’s always been obvious to me, if they are faking it, it looks fake, most fans just dont care and wanna praise their biases no matter what.