This performance of "Please Don't Go" was from their SHINee World Concert V (SWC5) in 2016 -- yes, their 5th world tour. (Fun fact: It's a SHINee World concert, so yes, it's a world tour. But SHINee's fans are called SHINee World (Shawol), so it's also "a concert for SHINee World." :D) This was the last SHINee group concert tour that Jonghyun was involved in. So that is why this is such a meaningful and poignant song for Shawols. On top of being a very beautiful performance, it's almost as if Onew and Jonghyun are singing to each other, asking each other to "please don't leave," etc., which in hindsight, breaks our hearts every time we hear them sing those lines. Jonghyun and Onew were a POWERFUL combo, proving why they are the vocal standard in the industry.
As you are starting to discover, Jonghyun is one of the best vocalist in Kpop and he was an expert at conveying emotion through his songs and performance. And as a musical stage actor, Onew knows how to tell a story through music and make you feel everything. As a lead actor in several musical productions, Onew knows how to project his voice to the back of the theatre and to fill a room with each note. "Please Don't Go" is a perfect example of why they are both so highly respected for their vocal talent. That's why, even as rookies, Jonghyun and Onew were vocal coaches and mentors to a lot other artists and trainees. There is almost no group that has better harmonies and vocals than SHINee. They are one of the most well rounded groups in Kpop that excel at every aspect of the entertainment industry.
The reason why the audience screams so loud and Onew cries during this performance of "Rainy Blue" is because, as others have mentioned, this was Onew's first solo performance since having vocal cord surgery. It was a really scary surgery because there was no guarantee that he would ever be able to sing again, let along at the same quality as he did before the surgery. Onew spent about 3 months after his surgery not being able to speak at all in order to give his vocal cords time to heal, and then he had to learn to sing all over again. This performance was proof to himself and fans that he could still do it and that nothing had changed. Onew chose to do a cover of this song as his first solo after the surgery because the song is connected to everything he had to go through and it is really meaningful. As I understand it, the original Japanese singer had the same surgery as Onew, and he was never able to sing quite as well again. As I have heard Onew explain, "Rainy Blue" was so meaningful to him at this time because the song is about giving up something that was so precious, etc. The song is kind of saying how the world around him kept moving forward while time stood still for him during his recovery because of how hard it was to deal with the fact that he might not be able to keep singing. Luckily Onew's surgery had a much better outcome than the original singer and it seems to not have had much of an affect on his voice. Thank goodness, because the world would be a much sadder place if we could no longer hear Onew's beautiful voice. :D Onew's performance of "Nessun Dorma" was performed in 2016 as a solo stage during one of SHINee's Japanese concerts, but it is not the first time Onew has performed this song, he has been performing it since SHINee's early days. Whether it's a performance from 2011 or this one from 2016, there isn't much difference -- his voice is a little more mature in 2016, but it was still impressive from the beginning. He even recently performed this song again a few months ago at one of his Japanese fan meetings/solo concerts. "Nessun Dorma" is an Italian song, so I am sure he spent time studying an original version of the song, and really worked on perfecting the pronunciation of the words. He doesn't speak Italian, but he could fool you into thinking he can with this performance. ;p Onew is know for having clear and perfect pronunciation and diction when it comes to languages -- he, and all the SHINee members, seem to have an ear for being able to pick up on the nuances, inflections and phrasing in different languages that make them seem like native speakers. It's that attention to detail that makes them that much more impressive. Onew is a member of SHINee, so of course he is an amazing singer and performer. That's why the members of SHINee are some of the most well respected singers and artists, and why they are one of the top groups in the industry. SHINee are the golden standard when it comes to live performances. It's literally known as the SHINee standard, and it's what all other groups strive to reach. Fun fact: This performance of "Rainy Blue" is from SHINee's SHINee World Concert 2014 in Japan, which was held at the Tokyo Dome. The Tokyo Dome is the same venue where you saw Onew perform "Nessun Dorma" (2 years after this), so there is 55,000 people in that audience. As you are starting to discover, SHINee are one of the most famous artists in Japan and they are even more famous than a lot of Japanese artists -- most Japanese people don't even consider SHINee foreign artists. SHINee debuted in Japan in 2011 and all of the members are fluent in Japanese. SHINee spends about 50% of their career in Japan and for every Korean album they have a Japanese album. And their Japanese albums are not just remakes of their Korean songs, but they have a whole host of Japanese exclusive tracks. When SHINee holds concerts in Japan they are almost entirely in Japanese and they never need a translator when they interact with the audience. They are so popular in Japan that Japanese interviewers often travel to Korea just to interview them.
Both of these performances give me goosebumps and make me cry so much. I couldn't imagine seeing these live. They make my hands shake just to hear them this way.
Me too I'm right there with you. In fact, Rainy Blue was the first solo I ever heard from Onew and I'm glad I was sitting down because I went weak in the knees and had goosebumps too 🥰
The duet Please Don't Go is one of the best duets I've seen. The vocal range, expressions and emotions are outstanding. I actually forget about the audience when watching/listening to this. There's no need for fancy stage sets, costumes, or extras because Onew and Jonghyun don't need it. Again, 2 of the best voices in the industry!
i had the privilege of hearing rainy blue twice live in 2022 and 2023 and each time was just so beautiful 😭 and each day im just grateful that jinki is still singing to this day 😭🤍
Onew was crying near the end of the song because he was so gratefull that he coould hit the high note because he had vocal issues before and did not know if he could ever song again.He's hard work paid off!
OMFG, my three favorite shining boys in the same video 😭💎✨ Onew + Jjong is an event, just like a comet that only passes from time to time!! These two performances in particular make me emotional, but in a positive way these days. Thank you so much for the reaction and SHINee's 15th birthday is coming soon!!! It will be on May 25th, if I may suggest something, choose one of their albums to react to before their official comeback in June! The 10th anniversary commemorative album called Story of Light is great for the occasion 💖
I don't mind about Rainy Blue being blurred because I have it memorized from seeing it so often! Still get chills listening to it today. This is the first Onew solo that I ever heard and it made me his fan for life (with all of SHINee of course). IMO, so far, there's no one in KPop with voices like Onew or Jonghyun and they're both in the same group, we're so lucky!
! clicked so fast. Thank you for this reaction. Love these songs sm. Jonghyun’s vocal tone and control is so Beautiful here. Yess, they are so powerful ❤️ shinee’s strength ❤️💎
I love this duet so much! Such a perfect pairing… Onew’s smooth and calming voice and Jonghyun’s raw and powerful vocals just *chef’s kiss* ❤ Thank you for your reaction!
CHILLS from head to toe every singel time!! Jjong and Onew is no joke, and yes you said it; Voices one of the century!! So proud to be a Shawol! And thank you, I love your 5HINee reactions, because it makes me live through the same excitement again! Keep up the good word!
Thank you for reacting to thes performances. Even tho it's not the whole group, it still means a lot to SHAWOLS. The whole world needs a little SHINee and every reaction is bringing them to new audiences. So, thanks again.
I am so glad that you liked this Landon. And to answer your question, I am much much better than I was back when I submitted these videos. Thank you for making sure I'm ok! ❤
When they were little babies and still had powerful vocals, Onew and Jonghyun on the radio, singing live a cover of Tragedy th-cam.com/video/7SiGLleeNeU/w-d-xo.html believe me I really like the original but as always they made the song theirs The picture is bad but the sound is good, fan fact that they were promoting Romeo Album 2009 because Jonghyun was still wearing the same clothes from the show that the song Juliette wins, being the first song he wrote for SHINee
RAINY BLUE .MARAVILLOSA interpretación en la hermosa voz de ONEW .y Acompañado al piano por nuestro amada MAKNAE TAEMIN .INNOLVIDABLE❤❤❤❤❤ PRESENTACIÓN PRESENTACIÓN performer .❤❤
At 10:45- Yes, Onew is a very handsome man! Onew's suit in this performance is impeccable! BTW search "Rainy Blue Rita Coolidge". Jonghyun's ensemble in Please Don't Go is one of my favorites.
Oh GOD! I have never seen the duet before. Two lines in and I was sobbing. He was so beautiful.
I love to see Jonghyun and Onew singing a duet together.
Onew has such a powerful, beautiful voice without even trying.
This performance of "Please Don't Go" was from their SHINee World Concert V (SWC5) in 2016 -- yes, their 5th world tour. (Fun fact: It's a SHINee World concert, so yes, it's a world tour. But SHINee's fans are called SHINee World (Shawol), so it's also "a concert for SHINee World." :D) This was the last SHINee group concert tour that Jonghyun was involved in. So that is why this is such a meaningful and poignant song for Shawols. On top of being a very beautiful performance, it's almost as if Onew and Jonghyun are singing to each other, asking each other to "please don't leave," etc., which in hindsight, breaks our hearts every time we hear them sing those lines. Jonghyun and Onew were a POWERFUL combo, proving why they are the vocal standard in the industry.
As you are starting to discover, Jonghyun is one of the best vocalist in Kpop and he was an expert at conveying emotion through his songs and performance.
And as a musical stage actor, Onew knows how to tell a story through music and make you feel everything. As a lead actor in several musical productions, Onew knows how to project his voice to the back of the theatre and to fill a room with each note.
"Please Don't Go" is a perfect example of why they are both so highly respected for their vocal talent. That's why, even as rookies, Jonghyun and Onew were vocal coaches and mentors to a lot other artists and trainees.
There is almost no group that has better harmonies and vocals than SHINee. They are one of the most well rounded groups in Kpop that excel at every aspect of the entertainment industry.
The reason why the audience screams so loud and Onew cries during this performance of "Rainy Blue" is because, as others have mentioned, this was Onew's first solo performance since having vocal cord surgery. It was a really scary surgery because there was no guarantee that he would ever be able to sing again, let along at the same quality as he did before the surgery. Onew spent about 3 months after his surgery not being able to speak at all in order to give his vocal cords time to heal, and then he had to learn to sing all over again. This performance was proof to himself and fans that he could still do it and that nothing had changed.
Onew chose to do a cover of this song as his first solo after the surgery because the song is connected to everything he had to go through and it is really meaningful. As I understand it, the original Japanese singer had the same surgery as Onew, and he was never able to sing quite as well again. As I have heard Onew explain, "Rainy Blue" was so meaningful to him at this time because the song is about giving up something that was so precious, etc. The song is kind of saying how the world around him kept moving forward while time stood still for him during his recovery because of how hard it was to deal with the fact that he might not be able to keep singing.
Luckily Onew's surgery had a much better outcome than the original singer and it seems to not have had much of an affect on his voice. Thank goodness, because the world would be a much sadder place if we could no longer hear Onew's beautiful voice. :D
Onew's performance of "Nessun Dorma" was performed in 2016 as a solo stage during one of SHINee's Japanese concerts, but it is not the first time Onew has performed this song, he has been performing it since SHINee's early days. Whether it's a performance from 2011 or this one from 2016, there isn't much difference -- his voice is a little more mature in 2016, but it was still impressive from the beginning. He even recently performed this song again a few months ago at one of his Japanese fan meetings/solo concerts.
"Nessun Dorma" is an Italian song, so I am sure he spent time studying an original version of the song, and really worked on perfecting the pronunciation of the words. He doesn't speak Italian, but he could fool you into thinking he can with this performance. ;p Onew is know for having clear and perfect pronunciation and diction when it comes to languages -- he, and all the SHINee members, seem to have an ear for being able to pick up on the nuances, inflections and phrasing in different languages that make them seem like native speakers. It's that attention to detail that makes them that much more impressive.
Onew is a member of SHINee, so of course he is an amazing singer and performer. That's why the members of SHINee are some of the most well respected singers and artists, and why they are one of the top groups in the industry. SHINee are the golden standard when it comes to live performances. It's literally known as the SHINee standard, and it's what all other groups strive to reach.
Fun fact: This performance of "Rainy Blue" is from SHINee's SHINee World Concert 2014 in Japan, which was held at the Tokyo Dome. The Tokyo Dome is the same venue where you saw Onew perform "Nessun Dorma" (2 years after this), so there is 55,000 people in that audience.
As you are starting to discover, SHINee are one of the most famous artists in Japan and they are even more famous than a lot of Japanese artists -- most Japanese people don't even consider SHINee foreign artists. SHINee debuted in Japan in 2011 and all of the members are fluent in Japanese. SHINee spends about 50% of their career in Japan and for every Korean album they have a Japanese album. And their Japanese albums are not just remakes of their Korean songs, but they have a whole host of Japanese exclusive tracks. When SHINee holds concerts in Japan they are almost entirely in Japanese and they never need a translator when they interact with the audience. They are so popular in Japan that Japanese interviewers often travel to Korea just to interview them.
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Both of these performances give me goosebumps and make me cry so much. I couldn't imagine seeing these live. They make my hands shake just to hear them this way.
Me too I'm right there with you. In fact, Rainy Blue was the first solo I ever heard from Onew and I'm glad I was sitting down because I went weak in the knees and had goosebumps too 🥰
The duet Please Don't Go is one of the best duets I've seen. The vocal range, expressions and emotions are outstanding. I actually forget about the audience when watching/listening to this. There's no need for fancy stage sets, costumes, or extras because Onew and Jonghyun don't need it. Again, 2 of the best voices in the industry!
i had the privilege of hearing rainy blue twice live in 2022 and 2023 and each time was just so beautiful 😭 and each day im just grateful that jinki is still singing to this day 😭🤍
Onew was crying near the end of the song because he was so gratefull that he coould hit the high note because he had vocal issues before and did not know if he could ever song again.He's hard work paid off!
He had his vocal chord surgery
Both of these are favorites of mine. There really aren’t any better duets than those of Jinki & Jjong! Their voices are the absolute BEST.
Missing SHINee hours open 🥹🥹🥹
Say what!?! Live performance videos! Oh I can't wait for more of these!
Ballad bois, best bois. 💎💎💎💎💎
OMFG, my three favorite shining boys in the same video 😭💎✨
Onew + Jjong is an event, just like a comet that only passes from time to time!! These two performances in particular make me emotional, but in a positive way these days.
Thank you so much for the reaction and SHINee's 15th birthday is coming soon!!! It will be on May 25th, if I may suggest something, choose one of their albums to react to before their official comeback in June! The 10th anniversary commemorative album called Story of Light is great for the occasion 💖
I don't mind about Rainy Blue being blurred because I have it memorized from seeing it so often! Still get chills listening to it today. This is the first Onew solo that I ever heard and it made me his fan for life (with all of SHINee of course). IMO, so far, there's no one in KPop with voices like Onew or Jonghyun and they're both in the same group, we're so lucky!
I miss them singing together 😢❤❤❤
! clicked so fast. Thank you for this reaction. Love these songs sm. Jonghyun’s vocal tone and control is so Beautiful here. Yess, they are so powerful ❤️ shinee’s strength ❤️💎
I love this duet so much! Such a perfect pairing… Onew’s smooth and calming voice and Jonghyun’s raw and powerful vocals just *chef’s kiss* ❤ Thank you for your reaction!
OMG, OMG, Yes!!! But I have to sleep before I work tomorrow, so I'll be back!
CHILLS from head to toe every singel time!! Jjong and Onew is no joke, and yes you said it; Voices one of the century!! So proud to be a Shawol! And thank you, I love your 5HINee reactions, because it makes me live through the same excitement again! Keep up the good word!
One of the Must watch performances ❤
I cry every time I hear these songs
Thank you for reacting to thes performances. Even tho it's not the whole group, it still means a lot to SHAWOLS. The whole world needs a little SHINee and every reaction is bringing them to new audiences. So, thanks again.
Uffff please don't go it's in another level
I am so glad that you liked this Landon.
And to answer your question, I am much much better than I was back when I submitted these videos. Thank you for making sure I'm ok! ❤
it is always time for some more shinee!
Missed you doing SHINee, Landon 🥹💜
such beautiful renditions of these songs!!
Glad to see you reacting to my men again 😍🎉
When they were little babies and still had powerful vocals, Onew and Jonghyun on the radio, singing live a cover of Tragedy th-cam.com/video/7SiGLleeNeU/w-d-xo.html believe me I really like the original but as always they made the song theirs
The picture is bad but the sound is good, fan fact that they were promoting Romeo Album 2009 because Jonghyun was still wearing the same clothes from the show that the song Juliette wins, being the first song he wrote for SHINee
So very sad..the words hit for sure. How these young men managed to carry on,it must have been so hard.absolute tragedy.😢
Onew Angel:- the songs: "Nessun Dorma" and "Blue" !!!!
RAINY BLUE .MARAVILLOSA interpretación en la hermosa voz de ONEW .y Acompañado al piano por nuestro amada MAKNAE TAEMIN .INNOLVIDABLE❤❤❤❤❤ PRESENTACIÓN PRESENTACIÓN performer .❤❤
SHINee supremacy 💯💯💯💯💯
At 10:45- Yes, Onew is a very handsome man! Onew's suit in this performance is impeccable! BTW search "Rainy Blue Rita Coolidge".
Jonghyun's ensemble in Please Don't Go is one of my favorites.
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