Ailee: collaborations, Japanese debut, Immortal Song 2.

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

Ailee to hold a Japanese showcase in October.

Ailee will introduce herself to 1,000 fans in Japan during her upcoming showcase this October.

Ailee recently opened her new official Japanese homepage through which fans can connect with the singer and check updates on her Japanese debut. She will also hold a showcase at Shibuya O-East, Tokyo on October 21. With her powerhouse vocals, Ailee is ready to take on Japan with her Japanese debut singler "Heaven" on November 6 !

Ailee and Yiruma to release "Higher" collaboration

Aille will be taking it "Higher" with pianist Yiruma for her upcoming release!

The collaboration features Ailee's powerful vocals and strong beats as well as an orchestra element with strings. "Higher" is described as a song of hope that gives the listener an extra boost to keep going.

The track will release on September 16 KST! Look forward to it!

Ailee, ElectroBoyz and Feel Dog release a remake of DEUX's "Go Away".



Following Girl’s Day Sojin, Ailee, Electroboyz and Big Star are the next artists to participate in the special tribute album for Deux.

On September 9th, Ailee released a remake version of Deux’s “Go Away”, which was originally dropped 19 years ago. She lent her powerful voice in the song’s refrain while its rap parts were rendered by Electroboyz’ Maboos and Chakun as well as Big Star’s FeelDog.

Meanwhile, the tribute album was produced to mark 20th anniversary of DEUX and their music.


Listen to the tribute here:

Listen to the original here:

Ailee's last performance on Immortal Song 2



Ailee takes home IS2 trophy for tonight's episode of Immortal Song 2 beating EXO with 368 points. Ailee performs 'Bin Jan (빈잔) making a roar from anticipating audience who loved her breathtaking performance.

She wows the audience even her contenders when she cooly removed her heels halfway.


Watch below:

Sources:

Showcase: AllKPop,
Yiruma Collab: AllKPop and, while digging up a bit, Bugs.
DEUX Tribute: DKPopNews, .
Immortal Song 2: DKPopNews.

Excited about the Yiruma collab (the tribute is forgettable), and I really liked that IS2 performance, I couldn't help but add it to the post even though I'm not familiar with this show. By the way, there's a bonus: EXO doing faces during Ailee's performance, for those interested.

Comments

[chikage-chan.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited for her debut here in Japan! I hope i can get tickets for the showcase, but since it's only for so little people, i'm not getting my hopes up ;~;

Her perf in IS2 was really great!!! Well deserved win!!

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

I really wish you'll be able to go~
She's definitively one of the K-Pop singers that I want to hear live !

[chikage-chan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was lucky to be able to see her in Brazil last year, but she could only sing like 3 songs. Still, she was really great! ^.^

[girlknees.livejournal.com]

i applied for tickets too but, yeah, i wish they would hold the showcase at a venue with room for a little more people... u___u

[chikage-chan.livejournal.com]

Totally... Well, at least it's for free lol I hope we both get it!

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

i thought the dance break was the highlight of her performance. but she definitely killed it with her vocals too.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Ailee slayed.

I never knew ZE:A were on this. Are they any good?

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

I don't know O.o
I first saw the Yiruma collab on AllKPop so I checked the source (ugh they're not linking ANYTHING) and other information. But I wasn't found of this remix so I'm not sure I'll take a look at the others...

[toshi830.livejournal.com]

awww yeahhhh

[royu-kiyo.livejournal.com]

If I'm not mistaken, Taemin was playing this song in Wonderful Day.

[toshi830.livejournal.com]

demon child ruined a song that bastard

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

her on-stage presence is fucking amazing
i love how genuine it is and it doesn't feel like she's just doing for the camera but because she loves performing. it's very natural :)

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

It feels like she's so into the performance and into giving herself to the fans - voice, but also dancing, smiling, etc. I'm glad she's able to work as a singer because it seems to be just what she wanted, or where she belongs, idk. I love her. Like learning a whole song in Turkish because she's performing in Istanbul.
I want her to release more songs, still. Two minis are just really few.

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

seriously. i feel like she's doing it because she loves it, and like you said, i feel like she's giving herself to the fans, so generously, that it's for them and never for her herself.

her performances never cease to amaze me.

[miwa201.livejournal.com]

mte, she's just born to perform

[stephantasm.livejournal.com]

it seems that every time someone sings loud as fuck and stomps around, the audience loses their shit. like bada when she was imitating beyonce while sounding like katy perry. ヘ（。□°）ヘ Ailee is a good singer but she needs to train her voice so she can be as great as people act like she is.

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

I thought the same during the early covers she made, and some of her live performances too, but I have the impression she's getting better with that. Or the songs she pick up suit her more ?
Or maybe I just like "too much" rather than "too few" haha.

[stephantasm.livejournal.com]

she's getting better and has tons of stage presence but kinda bad control of her voice and breathing. She's already good but could be way better than singing really loud as a means of being "powerful" because that can damage your voice. I hope she hasn't taken the "Korean Beyonce" label to heart because it took Beyonce over 15 years to get to the voice she has now... she used to be kind of passable compared to Kelly in her Destiny's Child days. (her voice was kind of annoying sometimes negl)

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

I can't say about Destiny's Child, I'll believe you :)
Of course she still have a lot to work on, but that's part of being a performer ? I might have added that I like to see her getting better, too. I can't wait to see her doing different things, which could be possible if she had a full album (if she sticks to minis, she'll have the same "I'm so powerful" songs made for Korea). She's still quite new, actually.

[consequences.livejournal.com]

WOHIGRFJDKSL"JF:SDKLFSDF YIRUMA COLLAB!?

[oldwillow-brook.livejournal.com]

In all honesty her performance was amazing PER USUAL of Ailee. I don't expect any less. But I just wish she would actually sing her songs. All she does is do runs and I know she can do them, I know she has the voice for them but I'd actually like to hear her sing once in awhile.

Also, she's powerful and beautiful and one hell of a performer but when I see the same thing over and over again I tend to lose interest. Also because there's soooooo much more to Ailee than just her being able to hit some notes or do runs instead of finish the song.

In all honesty, I'm not sure if the votes were right in this sense. I don't think Exo was necessarily better, but I don't think Ailee did better than Exo (even though I think there are wayyyyy to many of them on such a small stage)

[stoppedclock321.livejournal.com]

Did you hear the cheers when they said Ailee was next? It was like 'And now for the fourth performance...Ailee!' and the crowd went fucking crazy. 'ASDLKFASD;LKFJA;AADKFJAL AILEE ALDSJFAJDFL;A!!!1!!!11!1', so there was also probably that.

I agree with you though - I kind of sometimes want her to actually sing. I love her runs, but if she keeps performing like this on IS2 it'll get old (it's kind of getting there now). I really like her voice, I'd like to hear more of it.

[oldwillow-brook.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY! It was the same for Exo. It was like say her name and the entire audience lost their damn MIND. And definitely that factored into her score.

Also ....ngl Exo probably got such a close score to Ailee because of the amount of Ahjumma fans in the audience as well as the little high schoolers who were voting in the audience. I'm kind of disappointed IS2 has come down to this because their first episode in IS2 (with Baekhyun and Chen) was so professional. It's just disturbing to see something so .... I don't know...usually about actual talent reduced to another mucore or another inkigayo makes me upset.

EXACTLY! I was watching her perform Heeya awhile ago, and I thought it was S O boring because all she does is run her voice. And I GET IT. But come on, Ailee, work on your vocal technique, work on your steady tones, and to be honest, really work on your sound quality.

[stoppedclock321.livejournal.com]

It's factoring into everything she's doing now - she has a pretty steady fanbase now, I think, and she/the agency know it. She's starting to become almost a one-trick pony - resting on being the best singer in the pop industry - and I hope it doesn't keep heading down that path. She's the best, but compared to people like Yoona (ilu bb but you can't sing seriously) or Bom (please stop yesterday) being the best isn't necessarily...that impressive. I'm not saying she doesn't have a great voice because she /does/, but I want to see her developing her own sound and style rather than just pulling a Beyonce or doing tons of (admittedly-beautiful-but-approaching-stale) runs up on stage. So far she still seems like she loves performing, but I hope she'll love finding herself as a musician as much too.

Yeah, seeing all the fans in this audience made me do a double-take. I'm used to performances like this performance of Younha's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rEad50fhI) on IS2, and while I realize that IS2 is about the whole performance and not just the singing (like I Am A Singer 2), the fact that they brought all of EXO out to essentially have four or five of them sing while the others are their back-up dancers... IDK ._. I just preferred the first EXO performance (Baekhyun/Chen) so much more, because that was just talent, not talent-and-playing-up-to-fans-for-screentime-and-votes. IDK. I know there's nothing wrong with what they're doing, especially from their perspective, but...if they want to do stuff like that they should stick to the music shows or the EOY Daejuns, because that's what this looked like.

[oldwillow-brook.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY. UGH JUST EVERYTHING. There's a lot to an amazing voice than just being able to sing well. And to be honest, I'd even file Hyorin underneath that category. Girl is stunning with amazing performance skills but she whines constantly when she sings. That's not how you emote a song all the time. Whining is just that ... annoying.

Definitely Ailee has a lot more room to perform and her newest mini-album Doll House was a SPECTACULAR mini album but as you said doesn't really show who she is as a singer but just showcases her voice. Which is great but when Wheesung get's back, I really hope he sort of changes things about and changes how and what she sounds like. She clearly has a nack for music, considering she wrote the English lyrics to all of her Korean singles but at the same time, it's figuring out how you want to portray your voice to others not just having other dictate to you (at least as much as an idol can do; but I think Wheesung is really cool about stuff like that)

E X A C T L Y. I loved loved loved the Baekhyun/Chen episode SIMPLY because it was a showcase of vocals. It told me who they were as singers and where they needed the most work. I think they should have come back JUST the two of them week 2 and 3 and really showed off their style a lot more. Baekhyun and Jongdae really are so young and haven't had any worldly experience which definitely shows but even in this Trot one, I think even shows improvement.

I think you're right but to a certain extent even Sunggyu in his performances used a lot of showy performances and showy antics to really get the crowd going and I'm all for that. I love that dynamic especially because the songs are all about showing off the Legend and if they can incorporate staging and blocking along with that without taking away from the performance itself. I'm good! I just wish there were less of them on stage. I'm all for a 12 membered group but even two weeks ago, their first large performance FELT MESSY. It was unorganized, not rehearsed properly. And this time around where they did seem to have their shit together it was almost ... still too much. Not only were there 8 of them on stage but there were seriously 4 other background dancers as well. And it was just a lot to take in at once. 3 different types of choreo, you couldn't really see where the actual singers were coming from. I don't know.

Also and as much as I love Lu Han and as much as I love Minseok, they both didn't need to sing last week or this week. I think if they were going to shuffle things around. They should have added Kyungsoo and made it a trio. THREE PART HARMONIES!!!! And reallllly blown away the audience. Kyungsoo's voice as a tenor and having them really just flower each other up and really just UGH I CAN ONLY IMAGINE. Or if they brought in Lu Han sometimes on the rare occasion and did a 4 part hARMONY?? Like they do for Open Arms?? I would die.

Also .... I'm not really sure if this was live as much as I wished it to be. I think it was live but definitely having their own vocals as backup helped them sound this solid. Because only in the Baekhyun/Chen one can you actually hear them breathing. And Idk maybe it's a techy thing or maybe it's just the sound master being BOMB at his job. But in reality it doesn't sound like they're actually .... singing?

((on a totally off topic note; BADA'S PERFORMANCE WAS SPECTACULAR. As was Bae Yumi and her entire time even though EXO was definitely their weakest link and should have gone first)

[stoppedclock321.livejournal.com]

Wow okay I fail at replying in a timely fashion I'm so sorry.

I can't agree with you more, and I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks Hyorin sounds thin and whiny a lot of the time - in terms of personal musicality Ailee might not really be getting there yet, but she has execution down pat. I'm hoping that'll come in time.

Messy and slipshod is sort of what I'd say for EXO's performance, yeah. IDK, I like performances that look pulled-together and whatnot, so things like their first appearance/Open Arms is really nice because everything works so well. It didn't sound as live as people are saying though, because I didn't hear breathing (but then I'm not the best judge of that so IDK).

BADA IS ALWAYS SO FLAWLESS AND EXCITED TO BE ON STAGE IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO SEE HER, it's a refreshing change. IDR if I mentioned this already, but her performance of Girls' Generation is my faaaavorite.

[a-cheshire-grin.livejournal.com]

I love Ailee and I'm so excited for her Japanese debut!

And she SO deserved to win on "Immortal Song", because all her performances were breathtaking and beautiful. She is such an awesome performer (and that's just one of the many reasons why Ailee is awesome! <333).