Survival Audition KPOP Star S5 / K-pop Star 5 (서바이벌 오디션 K팝 스타 시즌5)

The ones that will advance to the next round is...

Ahn Ye-eun!

Park Min-ji!

Mazinger S!

Honesty, I think today may be the last.

This is the opposite of what we expected.

What happened?

I am in panic.

Jay!

The winner of KPOP STAR season 5 will receive $300,000

and also Hyundai Avante, a global compact car,

which has been with KPOP STAR every season.

Alright, we'll begin shooting in a moment. Get ready.

Okay, KPOP STAR Top 10's competition, the group A includes,

Woo Ye-rin, Lee Soo-Jung, Jung Jin-woo, Sophie Han, and Yoo Jay.

This group really is composed of all the strong contestants.

Hyun-seok, what do you expect to be the result of Group A's competition today?

In fact, it is true that Group A has more powerful contestants than Group B.

In Group A, there are four contestants I had in my mind as Top Five.

I think it will be one hell of exciting competition. I have high expectations.

Right.

I think the fiercer a competition gets,

the more potential the contestants bring out of themselves.

Right.

So, I believe that today's competition can be an opportunity

for contestants to bring out all they have.

Alright.

Okay then. Let's meet the first contestant of Group A, known as the cutthroat group.

Everyone, please welcome her with a round of applause. Here's Ms. Woo Ye-rin.

[A singer-songwriter who made to Top 10, after receiving high praise nobody expected]

Hello. -Hello.

How are you?

Nervous.

Tell us a bit about your song.

The song I will sing for you today is Yoo Jae-ha's "Gloomy Letter."

What kind of preparations did you make? You've always come up with something special.

This time, I wanted to put down the keyboard,

and wanted to focus on my singing and performance.

How did you feel when you learned that you made to top ten?

I thought I was gonna be eliminated in the battle audition.

So I was trying to let it all go in my mind,

but then I won, and I still can't believe it.

There are four contestants who I had in my mind as top five,

I am especially worried about Ye-rin.

she's gonna be competing against the strongest contestants there are.

I am happy that I've made this far.

I think today can be my last day here.

I will do my best, thinking that this can be the last stage I can have at KPOP Star.

I feel like I am gonna cry.

Gosh...

Was it intentional

or did you forget?

You had it deep inside your bag.

Only when it came the time to say goodbye,

Only then,

you took out that letter that you'd written for me.

Are you tearing up as you look at me.

Are my eyes that's locked with yours make you sad?

Then don't say anything but

just have faith in each other.

I came back home

and opened the letter slowly.

Your handwriting on that pretty sheet of paper.

Line by line, carving every word in the letter on my mind,

I let my truthful mind afloat.

Are you tearing up as you look at me.

Then no need to say anything.

In each other- In each other

Was it intentional-

Though you're strong.

Though you're strong...

Though you're wise...

but do you know

Do you know

that it doesn't matter to me any longer.

The gloomy letter...

No more...

Ye-rin. -Yes.

Were you not nervous? -I was.

Were you nervous even after the song began? -Yes.

But then how could you sing with your body so relaxed?

When you're nervous, your body gets tense.

Yet you kept singing with your body completely relaxed.

So your throat is more opened and your voice comes out more easily.

To put it in easier term, the range of your voice is getting wider.

When you began to sing the verse,

I was so surprised that the range of your voice we knew got twice wider.

That is..

When singers work with jazz or standard pop,

many of them try to make their voices thicker to add more jazzy feeling.

Like this.

But you didn't make an artificially thick sound like that.

You just relaxed your throat so that your sound is more opened. I was so surprised.

And the song you sang today is a complicated piece with lots of halfnotes.

But you got almost everything right.

So I was surprised and wondered if you've always had such precise notes.

And lastly,

you've finally begun to flirt through your performance.

Now you got me want to see your next performance more. Great job really.

You truly exceeded our expectations. You did really well.

Thank you.

Earlier I said that-

there are four people in Group A

that I had in my mind as Top 5, but honestly,

Ms. Ye-rin was not one of them.

But after watching today's performance,

I changed my mind.

I changed my mind.

The reason for that is-

you see there are so many people in the audience, including the viewer judges,

and when an amateur singer performs in front of such a big crowd,

they are bound to mess up. Really.

They can hardly keep their heads.

But out of all the performances you did in KPOP STAR, today's was the best.

I think Jin-young and I are talking from the same perspective.

You said she was flirting-

The angle of her body was-

Yes. The angle.

The fact that you could feel the groove singing the song of this tempo,

your gestures,

I was like wow, Ye-rin had something in her that I hadn't seen before.

It was such a surprising performance.

And I am also more excited to see your next performance. Well done.

Thank you.

Ye-rin,

that choreography-

when did you practice?

About a week ago...

It was your first time, right?

That's why you wore those gloves.

So you can do something like this.

To emphasize. -As an emphasis?

No wonder.

Ye-rin has always been on the stage with a piano,

but today she has left it out.

Today, she was backed by a band.

And she made the best use of it.

Her arrangement was in a way that a mute trumpet comes out at the start,

and as if to announce that it's a standard jazz, contrabass and brush drum come out.

She looked like a real diva on stage.

And her arrangement was absolutely gorgeous.

Moving from swing to bossa nova,

she showed everything that's possible in jazz,

In spite of that, her interpretation of the song had a popular appeal.

Ye-rin's voice held everything together.

I realized that today's performance was a fruit of her hard work and effort.

That's what came to my mind.

I'll wait for your next performance with greater expectations.

Everyone, it was Ms. Woo Ye-rin, the first contestant of Group A.

Please give her a big hand.

She did great.

Soo-jung's "As Time Goes By," it can be too predictable. -Right.

I'm a little worried. -I hope she comes up with something new.

Alright, let's welcome the 2nd contestant of Group A. Everyone, Ms. Lee Soo-Jung.

Hello, I'm Lee Soo-Jung.

In fact, last time, when you sang "Lies"

we were so shocked.

We couldn't believe that you took Korean pop and

make it into something completely different.

Which song did you choose to sing today?

"As Time Goes By" by Yoon Mi-Rae.

Yoon Mi-Rae is a very soulful side to her.

Honestly, I am little worried that your song might sound too similar to hers.

What do you think?

You don't have to worry about that.

You don't have to worry about that.

She's so charming. Absolutely fascinating.

Wow, isn't she really something.

I know I should focus on her performance only, not to her person but-

I get drawn to her person. -I know.

Okay. Let's do this. -Yes.

Why did you choose this song?

Because this is an important round,

I wanted to choose a song that's meaningful to me.

Why is this song meaningful to you?

I really love this song's lyrics.

And...

There is a special part...

When I think of my grandfather,

that lyrics is...