IVE Yujin’s New “KPop Demon Hunters” Video Receives Blistering Comments Online

They believe Yujin was done dirty.

Amid the movie KPop Demon Hunters continuing to top Netflix, IVE member Yujin shared a video of her covering one of its beloved soundtracks, “Golden.” While the video was a pleasant surprise for many of her fans, it has also received blistering comments online.

IVE’s An Yujin | @_yujin_an/Instagram

Yujin does a breathtaking job singing “Golden,” which is notoriously high-pitched and now known as a challenging song.

IVE’s official YouTube channel saw a flood of positive comments praising the idol for the cover…

| @IVEstarship/YouTube

• “Between two Lollapalooza shows and a comeback in Japan, plus a schedule in the U.S., she still did this for us… She probably didn’t even have time to practice 😢 It’s admirable how she wants to do everything for her fans no matter what.”
• “This song is perfect for her.”

…but online communities expressed different opinions. One theqoo post about Yujin’s cover also saw hundreds of comments, most unsure about the use of post-editing and/or auto-tuning.

| theqoo

• “Yujin has the vocal range and power to handle it just fine… It’s just disappointing that they added unnecessary tuning.”
• “Yujin is such a good vocalist… I think the issue is the unneeded vocal editing.”
• “With this much tuning, can you even say she sang it herself? It just sounds like a machine did it.”
• “I don’t really want to hear auto-tuned stuff. Even if there are a few cracks in the voice, I want to hear it raw…”
• “I get why people are talking about the tuning now. It really does sound pretty heavily edited.”
• “Even for a cover video, there’s a lot of robotic sound coming through.”
• “The tuning is disappointing.”
• “??… Honestly, if they tuned my voice like this, I’d probably sound like that too.”
• “Yeah, the tuning really is over the top. Even someone with untrained ears can tell it sounds mechanical.”
• “I listened to it with earphones, and the robotic sound is giving old-school “Heartbreaker”-era auto-tune levels… seriously.”

Listen to the cover here:

Idols Done Dirty