I waited an anxious week to see her debut....
And I saw her debut performance just now (if you go to cafe.daum.net/soul48 - TVXQ's official cafe, you can find the video) and I'm kinda...well, disappointed.
In the single, her voice seemed very powerful w/wide range and I became an interested fan. The song is very difficult, melancholy, and beautiful and her voice seemed so flawlessly ranged...but in her debut performance, she was shaky and sounded...rather choked. The powerful voice I heard in the song wasn't there...and she was just...instable and was unable to control much of the song's vibrato, etc. Her pronunciation wasn't clear either, but I suppose that's expected. That's what the pessimist would say.
The optimist would mention that it was her first performance, FIRST, and for her first performance, she had a very difficult and wide-reaching song in "Timeless." No other artists, really, start with a difficult song for their "initial" song...but she did. I give her muchos props for that and being able to sing as well as she did deserves kudos all around. And for such a young girl with such difficult song in a whole another country with much pressure, she did very well. Although her voice was shaky, it was still very beautiful and it matched with Xiah's voice perfectly. Nice duet.
Xiah, by the way, did the beautiful job like the pro that he is. He sounds exactly, no, BETTER than the single itself....
Before I form my opinion of her, however, I'll need to see a couple more live performances from her. Can't wait for the Inkigayo, ladies and gents...
Hope she steps up and performs better in that one and maybe more fans will garner to her side, because I know she lost the 100% positive remarks from the people with this performance. Nonetheless, JangRiIn fighting!
BTW, I think they officially spell it Zhang Liyin, or something like that.
