Singer G-DRAGON (G-DRAGON, GD) directly revealed his feelings to fans regarding the live-performance controversy.
On the 12th at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, G-DRAGON, performing the G-DRAGON 2025 WORLD TOUR [Ubermensch] concert, opened up about the recent live-performance controversy.
That day G-DRAGON said, "Is there perhaps a bit of controversy today?" and said, "I regret it. Even if there is, please understand, it's me doing it, I'm just trying hard. If you don't like it, don't come."
G-DRAGON said, "If this is a controversy now compared with 2019, I'm surprised," and from the audience came the compliment, "perfect."
Hearing that, G-DRAGON said, "Oh, it's not perfect. There are many stages I'm disappointed in, and today isn't that it's perfect, it's just that I work hard each day; it varies with condition that day, but today is adequate. You can press like."
Previously G-DRAGON had suffered from consecutive live-performance controversies. At last year's year-end SBS Gayo Daejeon, he stood on a broadcast year-end stage for the first time in eight years, but the lagging beat and a throat-scraping vocal style made the lyrics hard to understand.
At a solo concert held in Goyang in March, he kept fans waiting for as long as 74 minutes, and in the belatedly started concert disappointed fans by omitting some sections entirely.
At the 2025 MAMA Awards held recently in Hong Kong, he began with this year's release "DRAMA" and sang "Heartbreaker," "Untitled" and others, but G-DRAGON's voice was almost inaudible.
Aside from the pre-recorded AR (recorded backing and vocals), G-DRAGON was unable to perform a significant portion, and in some sections he danced while holding the microphone without singing, effectively barely singing.
In response, G-DRAGON, expressing disappointment with his own videos using the "boom down" and "boom dda" emoticons, voiced his regret and addressed the live-performance controversy directly at his concert.
Meanwhile, G-DRAGON will wrap up the encore concert of G-DRAGON 2025 WORLD TOUR [Ubermensch] at 5 p.m. today (the 14th) at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul.
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