Vocalists React: IU 'Love Poem' live vs Mayfly Vocal Unit 'Love Poem' Kingdom Stage
Added 2022-08-24 12:57:25 +0000 UTCHonest thoughts from our reactors. Didn't see that coming, but I get their points. Thoughts? 🤔
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Agreed!
ReacttotheK
2022-11-01 04:46:33 +0000 UTCI feel a little bit bias because I’m a seungmin fan, but I feel like he is a singer, a powerful one at that, who doesn’t usually get the opportunity to sing how he wants, how he was meant to, in his style. Same for Jongho from ateez. I see how you can say it’s superficial meant for views, but as an artist that doesn’t get to showcase that skill, or express emotions in the words of another that may have resonated with you so deeply, I could only imagine how an opportunity like this could effect them. It should be noted too that I am a huge IU fan, and the entire background of the song is absolutely heartbreaking. I usually stay out of the comments because I don’t want to come off as a bitter fan, I truly love everything you have said about everything except this. I just think when there’s music that’s so personal, it can mean something to others too outside of “for audience engagement”
Emma
2022-11-01 02:39:47 +0000 UTC❤️🙌
ReacttotheK
2022-08-29 02:13:17 +0000 UTCI think the best way to put it is IU's version sounds like she's singing it for us as much as she's singing it for herself. And the Kingdom version sounds like they're singing it for us. So that very very small emotional difference is particularly audible when I hear the two so close to each other. So I actually do agree with their thoughts on the comparison. But it's not necessarily a negative opinion -- just a personal observation of how it affects me specifically.
Julianne
2022-08-27 04:45:04 +0000 UTCI think... not knowing the context of the song and having heard the original, I adore the Kingdom version. But I do think IU's version definitely hits me personally more emotionally, and I think that emotional contrast and loss of intimacy is particularly strong BECAUSE they heard the 2 versions back to back.
Julianne
2022-08-27 04:38:10 +0000 UTCThis was so unexpected, because I'm so used to getting all the musical technical aspects, I don't think I've seen tears on the channel before :O and they didn't say a wordd. When I read the description of the video, I was honestly a bit scared for IU, just because vocally Mayfly was a bit more fancy, so this also took me by surprise. Really love this reaction and I personally love both performances for different reasons
kendricklmao
2022-08-26 12:25:37 +0000 UTCTears every time. Cathartic, but you are still alone in the end. But maybe we can be alone together through the energy of the musical tribute. Emotionally it's a bonfire
Sigmund Hsu
2022-08-26 01:00:43 +0000 UTC❤️❤️❤️❤️
ReacttotheK
2022-08-25 20:04:24 +0000 UTCThis may get a bit long, sorry. But I’m wordy at the best of times and when I’m emotional it can be worse. This song always makes me cry, especially how IU sings it. Knowing she has lost 3 friends, knowing the pain and even survivor’s guilt she must’ve felt and maybe still feels just gives this song so much weight. You cannot be human and not know this pain. Loss is part of the human experience and grief is so complex and varied and at the same time still so universal, that when you lose someone, everyone always says the same things, but at the same time no one knows what to say because nothing can help. I am 31 and I have dealt with grief many times. It is unending in my life, really. Grief so strong it steals my breath and tightens my throat with fire. I am the youngest of 6 siblings, but as I am 7 to 20 years younger than they are, my constant companions were my mom and dad. My mom quit working due to disability while she was pregnant with me (diagnosed with MS) so she was ALWAYS there. When my dad wasn’t at work, he was home. They never took trips without me, be it to town (until I was like 14) or a vacation. While I would go stay at a friend’s house every now and then as a teen, usually they came to my house. I didn’t leave home for college. I’m an introvert and have social anxiety. The thought of leaving home was terrifying. My brothers moved in and out of the house as needed, but a few times it was just my parents and I as they were all adults. My mom was sick my whole life. With MS, then a crushed nerve in her spine when I was 12 which caused her to be increasingly bedridden. She was diagnosed with degenerative bone disease. She had 5 spine surgeries to try to fix the problem and none worked, they just created a pocked of staph on her spine so no doctors would try to help any more. She was a liability. So she became more and more bedridden until her body weakened and she was a fall hazard. My dad and I always helped her and took care of her. My whole life felt like she was just always sick and I had to help take care of her. When I was 22 and out of college with my associates, she was diagnosed with fatty liver cirrhosis with no sure cause (though thought to be all the years of heavy pain medication and dangerous rounds of extremely strong steroids when I was young and the MS caused her to go blind). She was given 2 years to live. She lived 2 months. 2 months of my dad and I trading off all day to tend to her every need, charting her meds, feeding her and giving her liquid with a syringe. She was forced onto hospice by doctors who refused to give her anything for her pain if she didn’t agree. But they just came in once a week to supervise my charts and observe and usher her into the grave. I still remember the morning she died. My dad’s scream. I heard my dad shatter. He had been married to her for 23 years and always said she was the love of his life. After she died, my life became me devoting myself to caring for my dad. I had told my mom before she died, while she was incoherent, that I would take care of him. Every day I’d do the shopping, bill paying, the cooking, make sure he was up for work, I’d watch shows with him until bed time. Anytime I went somewhere I’d call and tell him where I was, as that was what mom always had me do. Call when I get there, before I leave, tell her where I’m going. Daddy told me I didn’t have to tell him or check in but I always did. I felt guilty leaving him home alone. Then in 2017, I received a call from his work telling me he had been having issues remembering things and for safety, he couldn’t come back without being cleared. He lost my mom, then he lost his job he loved and had had for 28 years. Then the doctors diagnosed him with depression and early onset Alzheimer’s disease. So many times I had to keep him from going to work. We eventually got a deadbolt for the doors. I still dream about it him going in and not needing to be there. He wrecked his car, thankfully no one was injured but after that we wouldn’t let him drive and that took his autonomy. Then he forgot my mom. She was the first thing he forgot. I had to tell him several times at the beginning that mom had died. He would think she had left him and would get hysterical. Then would be hysterical for her death again. It was like she died over and over. I took care of dad 24/7 at home, by myself. My sister would come in from NC every couple weeks to help out or do paperwork or court dates (we had to get custody of him and become his coguardians). My brother moved out (not that he helped with my dad anyway. Most of my siblings are ‘avoid and it doesn’t exist’ types. They didn’t help care for mom and didn’t with dad either.). So 95% of the time was me and dad. We had our weird routines. No set schedule. He stopped remembering mom, then his grandkids and kids. His mom and siblings. He remembered me the longest, I think. He couldn’t say my name, but he knew I belonged with him. He died this past February. I’ve never felt so much pain. My depression has only worsened since I was a teen, as has my anxiety. I’m practically agoraphobic. Grief…grief isn’t the hardest part. Grief is selfish, because grief is you wanting that person to be back with you, even if the state they were in was awful and they weren’t themselves. You’d still give anything for them to be back, even if it was like that. So often, with grief comes guilt. Sometimes survivor’s guilt, sometimes just guilt at feeling like you didn’t do everything possible to stop it from happening. And with someone who’s death means they aren’t in pain, you feel relief, and exhaustion, and when that person was your whole world, you feel empty. Like someone has punched a hole in your chest, carved your ribcage out until you are hollow. Every time I hear IU sing this song, it echoes in my chest. Because I know the feeling of being there and not being enough still. I know the ache of loss most intimately. I still cried hearing Eunkwang, Jongho, and Seungmin sing it, because while the show made it feel superficial, everyone has different reasons for picking songs, and this song connects and resonates with so many, who knows why they picked this one exactly. Unfortunately they had to focus on sounding skilled over emotional, so it does read a bit superficial. That’s the whole show. And it really really sucks.
I_KPOP_Fan
2022-08-25 08:00:31 +0000 UTC
