Kim Jaejoong and Kim Junsu performing at JX 2024 CONCERT <IDENTITY> in Seoul.
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A concert setlist from Kim Jaejoong and Kim Junsu has drawn mixed reactions online over the inclusion of songs from their years as members of TVXQ.
The setlist was shared in a post, where commenters debated whether the two singers should continue performing songs they originally sang during their time with the group.
Some criticized the pair for relying on their past TVXQ discography, while others argued that the songs are part of Jaejoong and Junsu’s own musical history and that longtime fans specifically want to hear them perform those tracks.
Several commenters who attended the concert also defended the setlist, saying that fans who paid to attend appeared satisfied with the show.
Netizen Reactions
The sampled discussion was sharply divided. Critics accused Jaejoong and Junsu of continuing to capitalize on their TVXQ-era music, while supporters argued that they originally performed those songs themselves and that the concert was designed around what longtime fans wanted to hear.
1. Are they a TVXQ cover group or something? Aren’t they embarrassed? ㅋㅋ It’s been over 17 years since they left saying they didn’t want to be in TVXQ, and they’re still making a living off nostalgia for those days.
2. It seems like they put the concert together around what the fans who wanted to go were asking for, so whatever...
3. I went because I liked the setlist and I was satisfied. My seat was pretty far off to the side, but the people around me who seemed to have come for the nostalgia — including some who came with men — all seemed satisfied when they left. As long as the people who paid were happy, that’s what matters.
4. I honestly don’t know what’s wrong with deliberately putting on a concert that matches what fans want. And if you’re trying to put them down, don’t they both hold their own concerts and do perfectly well anyway..? Since the two of them are together, of course they’re going to sing a lot of the TVXQ songs they performed together. That was the biggest career of their lives, and TVXQ was huge in Japan too. They probably don’t care nearly as much as people here do, so I wish everyone would just let it go instead of constantly trying to tear them down... What do you gain from coming to the Hot board and arguing about who’s the “original”? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ If you dislike them, you could just not comment... Seriously, why are people like this?
5. What do you mean “cover”? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ They’re songs they sang themselves. They don’t even do these concerts every year — this is only the second one, nearly three years apart. This is ridiculous ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
6. The “cover singers” and their fans are getting more shameless together ㅋㅋㅋ Gross.
7. They’re their own songs. What do you mean “nostalgia cover”? ㅋㅋ
8. Embarrassing.
9. Aren’t they their own songs? Why shouldn’t they sing them?
10. Wouldn’t people freak out if CBX filled a setlist with EXO songs and then acted like they were the “real EXO”? ㅋㅋㅋ And this isn’t even the first time ㅋㅋ This is crazy.
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