From “Snow Flower” sung by Park Hyo Shin and Taeyeon (Girls’ Generation)

From “Snow Flower” sung by Park Hyo Shin and Taeyeon (Girls’ Generation)
パク・ヒョシンとテヨン（少女時代）の歌った”雪の華”から




The collaboration stage (Gee) between SNSD (Girls' Generation) and Showa Era (SMAP's Nakai-kun alone), who made a surprise appearance at SMAP's Hokkaido/Sapporo Christmas event, has a really fun finish.

I thought, "This is good," and watched it over and over again.
We have also received many comments. Although there are some comments that don't make sense, there are also many comments that are taken seriously.
When I carefully picked up the latter and read it, I came across a comment that was making fun of Taeyeon's singing ability.

By criticizing Taeyeon, the first vocalist, this person also implies that Girls' Generation is not a big group. If you classify it as a malicious comment.

While repeating similar comments in exchanges with defenders, someone said, ``Look at the video of Park Hyo Shin and Taeyeon singing together to see how bad Taeyeon is,'' so I immediately posted it on YouTube. I went and watched the video.
I see, I thought this is what you were talking about.

What Park Hyo Shin and Taeyeon were singing was the famous ballad "Snow Flower," which was sung by Mika Nakashima with husky, high-pitched voices.
Taeyeon sings this song with great difficulty.
Taeyeon's vocal range and voice quality are completely different from Mika Nakashima. When she first started singing, it was okay, but after she finished singing, she felt that this song didn't suit Taeyeon.
She couldn't sing as effortlessly and smoothly as Mika Nakashima. It's not bad, but it's not her true singing style. The parts where the two sing in harmony are especially bad. You can almost feel Taeyeon singing while feeling that they are not harmonizing well (live singing may be affected by the performance at the moment. There was no rehearsal, so it was a live performance. ? It's because she's a busy girl...)

However, when she returned to singing individually, she improved considerably. As expected.
The overall performance was certainly poor. I was left with the impression that Taeyeon was unable to get along with Park Hyo Shin (although I felt that both of them had a strong desire to work together).

No matter how good a singer is, he or she cannot sing every song in the world. I think there are quite a few songs that everyone doesn't like.


Rather than being bad at it, I think Taeyeon didn't have enough time to sing this song (because she was busy).

I feel that this song is relatively easy for boys to sing.
When I sing this song at karaoke, it fits my range perfectly, and actor So Ji Sub also sings this song. Hideaki Tokunaga also sings well, and Park Hyo Shin's singing is also highly praised. I think there are many men who can sing this song easily, even if they aren't very good at it.
However, what about women? If you don't have a husky, high-pitched voice like Mika Nakashima's, it would be extremely difficult to sing with all your strength and ease. Maybe that's why I don't see many female singers doing covers.

In order to sing this song well, I feel that it is suitable for singers like Hyorin from SISTAR, who can easily move between high notes and falsetto, and singers with similar husky voices.


Taeyeon is the type of singer who can sing in all directions, such as enka and pop songs, but she may not be good at singing these kinds of songs, which have strong quirks, at the same time.
In Japan, Taeyeon can be said to be a Momoe Yamaguchi type of singer. In addition to not being a husky, he has a naturally mid-range voice, and is a hard-working singer who has expanded his high and low range evenly through voice training and continues to grow.
That's why you can mass-produce hit songs if you are loved by the listeners.

As a fan, I felt sad when I saw Taeyeon desperately trying to sing this song. Perhaps during the rehearsal stage, I realized that this song didn't suit me.
I wonder if she felt that her singing voice couldn't get close to the essence of the song's charm...?

It's a kind of torture to sing a song that you know from the beginning that doesn't go well with you until you hit it in harmony. Her role is also to cover the main melody with a low tone. It was even more painful.

Wouldn't it have been better if Taeyeon was in charge of her main melody and Park Hyo Shin was the harmonist? No, the result was the same?

In short, this song wasn't suitable for two people to sing together. If Taeyeon had been singing alone, it might have been a better stage than "I don't think it suits Taeyeon."

Park Hyo Shin is a male singer with a husky voice who can bring out the world (image) created by Mika Nakashima.

That wasn't enough for Taeyeon. However, just because she couldn't sing this one song well, it would be unreasonable to question Taeyeon's singing ability.



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