17 years of So Chan Whee's "Tears" [Video Heavy]

[tsubaki874.livejournal.com]

On March 3rd, 2000, So Chan Whee performed her newest song "Tears" on Music Camp. Since then it has been renowned as not only one of the toughest songs vocally to perform, but also one of the most iconic and beloved songs in Korean music history. Throughout 17 years, "Tears" is still very present in today's K-Pop industry, and the fan-chants are just as loud as they were in 2000, if not louder.

Here you'll find many performances of the song, but first let's start with the music video that started this all!

One of her most notable performances was an appearance on Infinite Challenge in 2015, the cast and crowd burst into excitement the second the song began and everyone was full of energy and jumping much to the delight of Chan Whee.

The most shocking performance wasn't even sung by the veteran idol, instead UP10TION's SunYoul stole the spotlight on King of The Masked Singer in January of 2016, where he was revealed to be a male group idol, not a female singer as everyone assumed. This lead to a live performance featuring SunYoul and Chan Whee on Music Core two months later.

The most shocking performance for OP personally was in January of this year! Oh My Girl's SeungHee was chosen to sing "Tears" on KBS Girl Group Battle. Surprisingly SeungHee was able to belt out the powerful vocals as well as Chan Whee who appeared to duet with her. 17 years later and she still nails it!

No matter where she is, the crowd goes crazy for So Chan Whee. She performed at the 5th GAON Charts Awards in 2016 and all fans, including idols were on their feet jumping and singing along!

Of course we can't end this celebration without noting some amazing and hilarious covers of the legendary song!

First let's start of with the amusing, but also impressive performance from PENTAGON's JinHo and ShinWon from last month! OP commends ShinWon he tried his hardest and that's what counts!

Next, let's have a look at Red Velvet's over-the-top karaoke cover! Wendy gained a lot of attention especially for her powerful vocals.

GFRIEND's EunHa briefly covered the song on SHOWTIME with MAMAMOO, although she had an off-start, she easily regained her voice and gave a very impressive performance.

Last but not least, this post wouldn't be complete without the hilarious performance from BTOB on Weekly Idol! No words describe this, just watch it for yourself.

Sources: MBCKpop 1, 2, 추억의뮤비 Old Kpop, TV-People, MBCentertainment 1, 2, K-POP STAR, 1theK (원더케이), Sunni not Sunny, Mnet Official, ALL THE K-POP 1, 2

This is my first time making a post like this, sorry it's a day late! I noticed no one posted Oh My Girl's SeungHee singing this back in late Jan. this year, so I thought this would be a good excuse to make a post celebrating the 17th anniversary of "Tears" since So Chan Whee is still singing this song 17 years later!!!

I've been pretty MIA from Omona due to some IRL issues, so I hope this post brings some joy to anyone else struggling right now because it sure made me super happy to make! :)

Comments

[tsubaki874.livejournal.com]

I should've added these in, this is the Rock Version of "Tears" and you can really see and hear how excited the crowd is here. Plus this was in 2015 and her vocals are still killer!


Also if you want to hear an amazing crowd sing along, this was at the 2016 DMC Festival in October, and you can see a crowd of all ages jumping and singing and chanting their hearts out and it's so heartwarming.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

This song is such a jam and it's so fun to see people doing the fanchants.This cover was pretty bomb too

[tsubaki874.livejournal.com]

Yes this one was so good! I love how everyone doubted her and she completely shocked them lol

[little-giant.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the post OP. It's always nice when someone highlights something different for a change :)

So Chan Whee is a vocal queen!

[glokmusic.livejournal.com]

"Tears" is my favorite classic Kpop song, everyone (including me) gets so hype when it starts it's just fun to listen to and watch performances of!

[dreamerbri.livejournal.com]

i don't think i've heard this song before so it's nice to learn a little bit of kpop history. i like music from that era that sounds like ddr/techno music.

[soyogi.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of this song prior to this post but it seems like such a staple karaoke song, lol. this post was such a delight! thanks OP :)

[meltedd.livejournal.com]

The first thing I thought of when I saw this post was Eunkwang covering "Tears" on My Little Television. Haha that Weekly Idol ep was epic though. I watched the Masked Singer broadcast live and Sunyoul totally caught me off guard.

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

I remember watching this clip with ohmygirl seunghee and getting goosebumps lol

to think this song was released even before some rookie idols were born .... did you realise this song is older than Arin?

its kinda mindblowing too

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of this song before but I think it just became one of my favorite Korean songs ever, it's right up my alley musically and I got so hyped listening to it! Thank you OP for making this post!