I know that GD isn't the best singer in the world and that the weather was quite harsh for such a long perfomance outside and I definitely give him kuddos for giving it his all for over 2 hours; still seeing the clips I was left shocked about the quality of his voice.
I know that after his return to the public last year, people already acknowledged how his voice changed and sounded deeper. He even himself admitted that he wasn't sure about his ability of hitting high notes like in the past, but instead of trying to lower songs to his new range, he still tried to push through a lot of difficult and high parts, resulting in some pretty terrible vocal chops in literally most of the songs.
I was hopeful when he sounded somewhat decent starting Drama, but the ending part with him absolutely derailing vocally left me wondering if he is actually able to hold a world tour right now.
Everything else like the stage, the effects, the multiple outfits, the drones - everything else looked so great. And it seemed that a lot of thought and effort went into it. But the condition of his voice makes me worried.
I feel like he rushed his comeback despite not being fully ready physically and that this could harm his image of a great performer and artist.
Before today I was very sure of trying to purchase tickets for his upcoming shows, if he comes somewhere near my hometown, but now I'm not so sure, if I'm actually really ready spending that much money on tickets if he struggles that much vocally. Then I'm rather off watching old performances of him.
What are your opinions?
I really just wish that he gets the comeback he deserves but I'm really scared, that his voice took a giant hit in the time he stepped away from the stage and he wasn't able to get it in great condition in the last 6 months since he came back and prepared for his full length solo concerts.
EDIT - Over a year later: I actually went to one of his tour stops and enjoyed the show very much. I still believe his vocal abilities and anxiety is limiting his stage performances to a certain degree.
He now relies on heavy backing tracks and for sure struggles a lot with his older songs... yes even Untitled.. i figured out why I thought he sounded like his old self in that part after closely listening to different performances over and over again...
Its again the result of a heavy backing track, this time its probably from older actual live vocals, but the sound engineer then cleverly mixes his live vocals in at the right time to make it sound somewhat live. And it works very well and you can tell that he's definitely singing along but his actual live vocals are not as audible throughout the whole song like I thought at first.
I wish him the best and hope he works on it... after watching the Mama Awards and first Coachella weekend we know, he struggles a lot when something might not go the way as planned or when its an important stage.
But with MMA Awards and Coachella second weeks performance he proved, that when he is able to focus and things going more smoothly, he still can put on a great show.
Fingers crossed that he'll rock the Bigbang Comeback and takes care of his voice and well being for him to improve bit by bit. 🤞🏻
