- I listened to both and I gotta say, for the first one I don’t usually like slower-paced songs, but the female singer—Suzy I presume?—had such a beautiful, melodic voice. It was smooth and completely unforced, very graceful and honestly just hypnotizing. Baekhyun’s a different story though. I don’t know what it is about his voice, but it just kind of overpowering. I don’t know how else to explain it. He’s definitely got pipes and I can definitely see the appeal, but in this particular song—at least at the beginning anyway—I felt it took away from the rest of the instruments, which is a little annoying. Once Suzy came into play, however, I felt that their vocals paired very well together. Still a little much, but not distracting by any means as his prior vibes had been giving off.
As for the second one, I know Justin Bieber can sing. I’m not going to deny that he’s a good singer or anything of the sorts. This particular song, however, does not showcase that in my opinion. The beat is just so generic, sounding pretty much like every pop/rap song these days. It was repetitive and unoriginal/overused. As for the vocals, I didn’t even really feel like he sang at all, nor could I even consider it “rapping,” if I wanted to go there. It honestly felt like he was just talking, which I know he can do much better than that. I dunno, I just wasn’t a fan. I apologize.
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