The biggest music festival in the US, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, welcomed K-pop gir group LE SSERAFIM to its Sahara Stage on April 13.
Before their second anniversary, LE SSERAFIM made history this year by becoming the K-pop group invited to perform a solo stage here the quickest.
Coachella, known for producing live performances, made the fans anticipate LE SSERAFIM’s vocals even more, as they also had a recent controversy in South Korea about their live vocal issue in an encore in a music show. The “scandal” began when the members’ most recent title track, “Easy,” did not live up to expectations during an encore performance following their victory in a music show.
The group went 40 minutes with hit songs like “ANTIFRAGILE,” “FEARLESS,” “UNFORGIVEN,” “Perfect Night,” “EASY,” and “SMART.”
In addition to the recent criticism about their singing abilities during the music show’s encore, some were unimpressed with the group’s live performance and blamed Hybe for accepting the Coachella invitation when they were not prepared to perform for such a large audience.
Coachella is a festival known to really bring out the best in artist’s live performance, but fans feel that the group failed to impress their crowd.
Some fans compared them to K-pop girl groups BLACKPINK, 2NE1, and Aespa, who were able to perform on the Coachella stage and blow their audiences away.
LE SSERAFIM’s stage has also been tagged as the “WORST,” upsetting fans who thought their “poor” live performances represented K-pop.
lesserafim coachella aging already 😭 this is how u perform on that sahara stage girlpic.twitter.com/xVM6intk0v
— َ (@roseaurus) April 14, 2024
they just started the song and they already fucking up vocally…😭 GOD this group is doomed😭😭 pic.twitter.com/2AiiB3sNJ4
— 🎀 (@streamaespa) April 14, 2024
I'm not hating but le Sserafim required more training to have a stage on Coachella, they were a disappointment, they are talented but a bit more training was required in live vocals
— hanatheblink (@vjkmagical) April 15, 2024
On the contrary, FEARNOTs (the group’s fandom) defended the girls, pointing out that it should be remembered that in addition to singing, they displayed impressive choreography for 50 minutes and validated their status as “Performance Powerhouses.”
LE SSERAFIM being amazing performers with live vocals at Coachella, a thread; pic.twitter.com/9ybsMRwGIU
— 🌪fimchella (@msgzuha) April 14, 2024
it’s not 100% clean but this is the best i could get for an mr removed for le sserafim coachella performance of the great mermaid . THIS is what y’all are calling awful vocals ???? i’m not claiming they’re whitney houston but please be fucking serious i’m TIRED of the discourse pic.twitter.com/uRMCGp6HqZ
— riah (@yuqition) April 14, 2024
these were genuinely decent vocals to see for a 50 minute festival performance with tiring choreos. let’s see those who dared to speak on & bully them perform the same set, error-free at Coachella while hyping the crowds up like #LESSERAFIMatCOACHELLA did. https://t.co/4AqI5y5Pvg
— hyfluid | fuko debut when (@gointo0rbit) April 14, 2024
Many claimed that the Coachella audience still praised and enjoyed the quintet’s performance, and according to NME, they gave the group a 4/5 star review for their hot performance.
people who attended coachella praising le sserafim and their performance — a thread pic.twitter.com/OMXa2GLlFa
— ً (@echaerubim) April 15, 2024
see the whole coachella crowd and reporters loved lesserafim’s performance the only ones hating are the bitter ass kpop stans 😭
— Liabha Tariq (@Liabhatariq) April 15, 2024
Actual people who attended had so much fan but stan twt still wanna convince us otherwise pic.twitter.com/Dyo84lNaHe https://t.co/pCI2ofTnsx
— ciel (@cieloonnie) April 15, 2024
On April 15, Sakura penned a letter to her fans in Japanese, reflecting on what happened during their Coachella stage. For her, it was their best performance yet.
Some social media users and K-pop stans were not happy about Sakura’s post.
Ugh sorry but she needs to changed her mindset first. Her statement just full of she being playing victim.
They aren't asking you to sing like Beyonce or something, she just need to know the bare minimum. She already has many experiences as idol, she should know more better https://t.co/9BunBCZxGK pic.twitter.com/lH1ai4wySS
— putri (@voicexist) April 16, 2024
Knets are brutal😭 https://t.co/3dGWBAVrI9 pic.twitter.com/Ek6K7FNjbv
— ⋆ (@bromis_9) April 15, 2024
the way she isn’t even sorry for sucking at her job because she knows that her fans will baby her and make excuses no matter what i hate kpop so much https://t.co/DJOOXF2H03
— ౨ৎ (@hallofcvnt) April 15, 2024
Not the long ass essay. Girl you can't sing, stop make any excuse and go practice. https://t.co/ArTFswf21U pic.twitter.com/ODGzZNOUnr
— ♤ (@ahynskyeels_) April 16, 2024
not meeting the basic requirement for a singer to sing and blaming it on other people is crazy 😭😭 https://t.co/hxjIrI4csx
— arya (@jxnjenke) April 16, 2024
I've been a kpopper since 2009, this is my first time witnessing fans begging an idol to take vocal lessons. Never happened to any idols, just her. https://t.co/QSyj0IlKmQ
— 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓻 ❤️🖤🤍💚 (@_Saaraaaaaa) April 16, 2024
On the other hand, some also came to defend Sakura.
why are they hatin like sakura was the 2nd best singer of that night after chae like okayyy GODKURA https://t.co/DLeNummmb2 pic.twitter.com/hQcQE0k62D
— dollnation (@khiaonetrainee) April 16, 2024
crazy part is she wasn’t the one who fucked it up this time you’re
directing the criticism to the wrong person https://t.co/xn9c7DMECX pic.twitter.com/JJU1eYec9s— ali (@reputationjnk) April 15, 2024
What do you think? Did LE SSERAFIM deliver a good performance, or do they need to improve a little bit more?
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