Thoughts and Sounds

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And the show is almost perfectly engineered to eliminate potential for going viral lmao

Lmao I didn’t mean to start anything, and like I said it’s clearly not a “fair” comparison. I do think it’s revealing about the SM reaction to this show and why (other than Republic) people have so many issues post-show. The voting audience of this show is just not in anyway a thruline to post-show success. GNT is better positioned than any winner in recent memory with almost 200k listeners on Spotify, but odds are still super stacked against them and it’s sad. I am hoping for the best with them and maybe they’ll benefit from a fairly niche genre, but it’s hard. cuz like, when he was asking “does this show want winners with the best voice or winners who are going to chart?” the answer is none of the above dude

This guy is a relatively popular vocal reaction channel and he reacted to OTR and The Chain from the finale. Title is kinda clickbait because YouTube. I think he represents the YouTube/Twitter “hyper-casual don’t actually watch the show” reaction to the results pretty well. But to be fair, he only reacted to those two performances, and that’s Wendy’s best vocal versus a bottom half vocal from GNT. He clearly doesn’t watch the show but I think you sort of add to the sense why the voice never produces stars from how he talks about it

A popular vocal reaction channel on YT reacted to Wendy’s OTR. You can definitely tell that he doesn’t watch the show and the title is a little click-baity but he was super laudatory towards her performance.

I hope everything turns out okay with their father. Honestly super sad to hear about

I can’t believe she never explained just how severe things were on the show. If you’re gonna have a horrific injury at least play it up and get the sympathy votes! In all seriousness though I hope everything goes well. The whole situation is awful

I think you two are actually agreeing here It’s about the song, and how the listener connects with it. And that’s a personal experience, not an objective one. It’s not measured by how much emotion they show on their face, but by how much you feel. for me, Wendy was by far the contestant whose performances and songs I “felt” the most. someone else thinking Wendy didn’t “emote” enough in her performances doesn’t invalidate that and the opposite is also true — If you don’t connect, you don’t connect you just can’t make definitive statements based on whether you think someone’s facial expressions were good enough

When she gave one of the best knockouts of the season and lost I was SO pressed

Just in terms of raw vocal capability, it’s Wendy. She has so much control over every part of her register.

Honestly, I think GNT is just getting to be the unfortunate recipient of a lot of built up anger/disappointment. And then that was exaggerated by Wendy making a resurgence in the last two weeks that put her close on (non-itunes) indicators, and she would have been a very deserving winner as well. But GNT was great, and they were going to be hard to catch after the 1-2 punch of their KO and t13 performance

Definitely my #1 favorite runner up

Sometimes. It depends on who wins and who the runner-up is. In this case, GNT don't fit the mold of the facebook winner and there was also a very deserving runner-up that would have been the preference of twitter. People who are upset are generally the loudest as well, but they got the most votes, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Honestly a great winner. Hope the record label does not kill their momentum

Honestly, kinda feel a similar way, and I like GNT! I really expected her to come second, but it still feels bad because of how much she deserved it. tbh it's probably that she broke her arms and has to get a terrible elbow surgery for second You know for sure that Republic would have never done anything with her though, so I am glad she doesn't have to deal with that BS during recovery lmao