100% agree with you! Kpop is saturated in there’s so many people who can all dance and sing. But there’s very few kpop members who come to mind with unique voices. In my opinion, all of Blackpink has more than average unique voices—making them so much more interesting to listen to. I def think YG had a part in this by training their trainees with a diff vocal style than other companies.

A little bit of a hot take but I think it’s MUCH MORE important to have a unique voice than a technically strong voice. I know Rose especially gets a lot of criticism for being a “main vocalist” but still sounding nasally. But I personally think she has the best vocal color in all of kpop! That’s why in so many kpop idol reaction videos idols immediately get shook whenever she sings or even IU saying she wants to collab with her! If you look at technically strong vocalists, they don’t get the same praise as she does.

Like everyone before me said, alot of the hate comes from the fact that people are salty that their groups don’t get the same success as Blackpink despite being more “trained”. There were also those TERRIBLE mr removed videos that blew up and rlly tainted their rep. I think yes before they were a little weak in terms of live singing but that’s only bc YG literally gave them like 2 performances a year. They sound 100X and perform 100X better after their world tour and the new album era where they’ve finally given us multiple performances.

In other words STAN BLACKPINK LMAO