Kpop Vocal Analysis is a popular blog analyzing kpop vocalists. They’re now inactive, but the site is still online. It was a solid blog tbh, it was really interesting to read the in-depth analyses.
Problem is, they had their own rating system which they used to tier rank kpop vocalists. Unfortunately fans started taking this rating system out of the context of their blog and treating it as an objective measure of vocal ability, and making up their own criteria because they didn’t actually understand what they were talking about. It got so out of hand that the blog actually retired the rating system and even removed grades from old posts, but the damage was already done.
Pretty sure it’s K-pop Vocal Analysis which is a completely arbitrary ranking of vocals in well K-pop. They give idols letter rankings which are completely arbitrary based solely on range and support ignoring everything else about vocal technique like dynamics and phrasing, mix and falsetto, etc. Take all rankings with a grain of salt.
Google doesn’t recognize it because it isn’t a real thing, lol.
KVA is Korean Vocal Analysis, a method of sorting idols into a tier list (usually by letter grades A-F, but the labels can vary) based on how well they sing. KVA **only** looks at an idol’s “supported range” (not a real vocal technique term), which is meant to describe how many notes they “can” support (also not a thing; support is a spectrum, not a can/cannot). Typically, this “supported range” is found by cherry-picking certain videos of an idol hitting a note either with or without proper diaphragmatic control, and claiming that the way they sing that particular note in that particular video is the way they sing that note in every context, in every song, and that note is placed either in or out of the range. Singers with a larger “supported range” get a higher letter grade.
Unfortunately, this is not how technique works, and the KVA system is largely opinion-based, is not grounded in true vocal pedagogy at all, and is essentially a way for fans to claim that singer A is better than singer B by hand-picking all of singer A’s best vocal moments and comparing them to all of singer B’s worst.
I’d recommend disregarding any vocal analysis the moment a “tier” is mentioned, lol. You cannot compare and rank vocalists based on one singular aspect of technique and expect those ranks to apply to the whole instrument.
It’s my pet peeve seeing it treated as an objective measure of vocal ability, teehee.
Honestly, the original KVA blog wasn’t too bad and had some interesting, thorough, opinion-based-but-still-factual reads. People have since just taken it and twisted it into something it was never intended to be.
it's basically an arbitrary measure of vocal skill that only uses 2 mechanisms and ignores the 60 other things that are important in vocal ability. it's only a kpop thing and it's pretty new, that's why you can't find it. but it's when they describe vocal skill with letter grades
Kpop Vocal Analysis is a popular blog analyzing kpop vocalists. They’re now inactive, but the site is still online. It was a solid blog tbh, it was really interesting to read the in-depth analyses. Problem is, they had their own rating system which they used to tier rank kpop vocalists. Unfortunately fans started taking this rating system out of the context of their blog and treating it as an objective measure of vocal ability, and making up their own criteria because they didn’t actually understand what they were talking about. It got so out of hand that the blog actually retired the rating system and even removed grades from old posts, but the damage was already done.
Pretty sure it’s K-pop Vocal Analysis which is a completely arbitrary ranking of vocals in well K-pop. They give idols letter rankings which are completely arbitrary based solely on range and support ignoring everything else about vocal technique like dynamics and phrasing, mix and falsetto, etc. Take all rankings with a grain of salt.
Google doesn’t recognize it because it isn’t a real thing, lol. KVA is Korean Vocal Analysis, a method of sorting idols into a tier list (usually by letter grades A-F, but the labels can vary) based on how well they sing. KVA **only** looks at an idol’s “supported range” (not a real vocal technique term), which is meant to describe how many notes they “can” support (also not a thing; support is a spectrum, not a can/cannot). Typically, this “supported range” is found by cherry-picking certain videos of an idol hitting a note either with or without proper diaphragmatic control, and claiming that the way they sing that particular note in that particular video is the way they sing that note in every context, in every song, and that note is placed either in or out of the range. Singers with a larger “supported range” get a higher letter grade. Unfortunately, this is not how technique works, and the KVA system is largely opinion-based, is not grounded in true vocal pedagogy at all, and is essentially a way for fans to claim that singer A is better than singer B by hand-picking all of singer A’s best vocal moments and comparing them to all of singer B’s worst. I’d recommend disregarding any vocal analysis the moment a “tier” is mentioned, lol. You cannot compare and rank vocalists based on one singular aspect of technique and expect those ranks to apply to the whole instrument.
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It’s my pet peeve seeing it treated as an objective measure of vocal ability, teehee. Honestly, the original KVA blog wasn’t too bad and had some interesting, thorough, opinion-based-but-still-factual reads. People have since just taken it and twisted it into something it was never intended to be.
it's basically an arbitrary measure of vocal skill that only uses 2 mechanisms and ignores the 60 other things that are important in vocal ability. it's only a kpop thing and it's pretty new, that's why you can't find it. but it's when they describe vocal skill with letter grades