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

[Last week, Battle Auditions finally began!]

[Kim Chae-ran showed much effort to fix her unstable tone.]

[Park Min-ji hit the almost impossible high notes easily.]

[Lee Soo-Jung, teared up everyone listening with her song filled with tears.]

I have been producing music for over 20 years,

and I produce music in hopes that someone will sing it like this.

Now.

The contestants that will advance up to the next round, top ten are...

Lee Soo-Jung, congratulations.

Thank you.

I'm sincerely clapping.

Seriously.

It seemed really hard to get into top 10...

Even when I was in Chicago, I thought, "I want to be in a top 10"

I'm very happy, now that I'm in...

The contestant who will battle again for the 2nd place...

Park Min-ji, congratulations.

And Chae-ran, we are very proud that you came this far even with such a young age.

It might be upsetting, but it's very incredible that you came this far.

I hope you are very proud of yourself.

- Thank you. - Good job!

[Because it was more fiercer than ever, her challenge was incredible.]

The winner of K-POP Star Season 5 will receive $300,000!

and plus, Hyundai Avante, a global compact car,

which has been with K-Pop Star through every season.

[While two teams have been confirmed for top 10.]

It's actually hard for us, as well as the competitors because of all the pressure

of trying to perform better, anticipation, and nervousness...

Anyways, let's cheer up and start the third round.

From JYP is Seo Kyung-deok.

From YG, Park Ka-kyung.

From Antenna, Lee Si-eun.

We'll have them out on the stage now.

[Three contestants that will compete their way into top 10.]

[The youngest contestant out of all contestants, YG Park Ka-kyung.]

[Attractive bass voice, JYP Seo Kyung-deok.]

[Crazy, powerful high pitch voice Antenna Lee Si-eun.]

[First place goes straight up to top 10. Third place is eliminated.]

[Who will be the contestant that'll go up to top 10?]

Ka-kyung's looks, isn't it too YG, YG?

For sure, YG is really good at styling, right?

I didn't realize it was you, but you look good today.

Does your stomach hurt? What's wrong?

I'm too nervous...

Oh, you're nervous.

Ka-kyung, don't think about how much you have to advance upwards, but look back.

It's very incredible, isn't it?

Out of the thousands of people in this world,

you came all the way up here and out of everyone who is up here,

you are the youngest. You've done an amazing thing.

You'll feel less nervous if you look back, got it?

- Yes. - Okay.

Now for the first contestant, Kyung-deok, a proud JYP.

Please standby first.

[How much did he change after training with Park Jin-young?]

Now, let's begin. The song he chose is actually...

The young kids these days may not really know it.

It is Lee Gwang-jo's "You're too far to be close" from 1985.

Surprisingly, his voice gave the song a unique taste,

- since Lee Gwang-jo's voice was thin, - and very high pitched.

Yes. It's incredible since his voice is bass.

[Jo Yong-pil. Even Patty Kim did a re-make of the song. 7080 hit song.]

Judge Park Jin-young suggested the song.

When I first heard the song, I was a bit surprised because it was such an old song,

but when I told my parents that I would be performing this song,

my mom was really happy.

Apparently, when my mom was in college, she used to listen to this song a lot.

It's a song that she still enjoys, and she even has the LP.

She still remembers the lyrics to the song.

I did a song that she liked during the first round,

- Hey, Kyung-deok. - Mom, I'm done.

- Did you do well? - Yeah, I did well.

Great job my son!

It feels like it's a good sign...

Seo Kyung-deok's mom.

[For the first time, his mom came out to the Seoul studio to support him.]

[Would he be able to give her happiness by advancing to top 10?]

Ah... You are...

Who are you to plant such loneliness deep down in my heart?

If you are like the wind that will just pass by...

Don’t say anything and leave me just like the strangers...

The more I try to forget about you...

I'll miss you even more and more.

But I'll forget you, who is too far to be close

The more I try to forget about you...

I'll miss you even more and more.

But I'll forget you, who is too far to be close

I'll forget about you...

[The best performance he put on, What would the judges' decision be?]

How you sang the song today,

the style was totally different from how you used to sing before.

- He sang differently. - You seemed like a different person.

Lee Jae-ha's voice was very thin, so when Seo Kyung-deok sang the song,

I thought wow, it's so different.

Lee Gwang-jo's voice is also very thin and unique,

so I listened to it hoping that it would be very different.

But, Seo Kyung-deok is gone.

You thought about being unique too much.

I've been with Judge Park Jin-young for about 5 years,

and I think, since he sees so many flaws, he keeps, and keeps fixing those flaws.

Definitely, he knew about the incorrect vocalization,

so I think he trained you specifically for that.

Looking at it on the long run, it will help you big time.

But in my opinion, it's too much to attempt in such a short period of time.

Just like what Judge Park Jin-young says all the time,

open your mouth wide,

open your airways bigger and trying to open up your vocal too much,

I think you're losing all the small details or your feelings.

I'm a little disappointed of how you portrayed your feelings.

Hyun-seok said many negative things, but personally,

during your A part specifically in the first verse,

I thought "wow, his vocalization improved!"

Your voice was very thick and just "bam"... I call it the "mature sound".

I felt that you really threw your true sound at me, and you are so powerful now.

I felt a very strong sound.

However, the power was overflowing so much that...

- He couldn't control it. Yeah. - The back part.

Going into your 2nd verse,

it felt like your power was much stronger than your feelings,

so, the melody was slightly off.

Yeah... The 2nd part.

But, since you stabled your tone after going to JYP,

I believe in the long run, it's a positive step for you.

Now you have that true voice.

So, as long as you can control your power..

But that'll take some time.

Good job.

Thank you.

[Park Jin-young, who had a meaningful expression, what will his judgment be?]

Good job.

Thank you.

When we first met,

you were a car that could go up to 300 miles per hour...

but you had something stuck in the engine, and could only go up to 100 - 150 mph...

So, now your engine got wiped down and you are able to go up to 300 mph...

And he can't control it, he can't drive it.

He wants to push it all the way to 300.

So now, he's like a car that got fixed and went on the freeway for the first time...

He's just pressing the accelerator all the way.

Now, from this moment, if you get to learn how to control, drive and move the handle,

then you're going to be great.

You found your engine.

Good job.

Thank you.

[Compared to the previous round, Kyung-deok advanced one more step.]

[Will he get to sing once again on the top 10 stage?]

[The next contestant Park Ka-kyung, who is nervous to the max.]

The people that trained with him know his personality, but we don't.

So, we are just saying it straight up.

But saying it straight up is the most accurate.

True.

But the people who know the story behind it, feel sympathetic...

Ka-kyung.

Hello.

Hi.

[The pressure of the battle audition that makes the small body seem smaller.]

You are the youngest out of all the contestants that are still here.

Yes.

It's top 10 if you go up.

- Yes. - Let me hear your resolution.

Seriously... um....

Um.. What is it...

The top 10 is right here in front of me...

So... maybe I'll regret less if I get eliminated after I go to top 10?

- I was telling the truth. - True, yes.

- For some reason, it's pressuring me. - I know right?

Now... You're 12 years old.

- Yes. - Park Ka-kyung.

It's top 10 now, top 10.

From now on, you can't get any lenience just because you're young.

Okay? It's confidence, confidence.

When the singer goes up on stage,

they're fighting with the pressure of the audience.

If I can't win the pressure of the audience,

you get pushed by the audience and can't show them your real potential, got it?

Hey, you just seem like a dad that's nagging.

My heart... I just feel like a dad!

She's the youngest contestant, and I want her to do well,

because, the song she's going to sing today is not a song that you can just sing.

The song she will be singing is by Kim Wan-sun.

She's going to be dancing while singing,

so unless you think that you're pretty and good, it's a song you can't perform well.

Okay, Ka-kyung?

Yes.

[12 year old girl researching for a video 30 years ago.]

I first listened to this song in a TV program.

After that, I enjoyed listening to it often because I liked it.

So, when they said to pick a song, I thought of this song.

For Park Ka-kyung, this stage is an adventure and a challenge.

If Park Ka-kyung advances up after winning this stage,

she is not just top 10 but something more.

This stage is very risky but I believe that it's something that she needs to pass.

Are you going to do it with MR if you're going to dance with back dancers?

Shouldn't you?

How will you dance with dancers with piano as your background.

This re-make is probably a very old re-make.

We are going to have to re-make the re-make, right?

If we can do that, I'll direct it so that YG can help you do that.

And so that you can dance right after...

- Wow. - We're going to do it like this.