Frank Kogan

Here are some examples:

Performed in front of an audience but the whole performance is pre-taped. Presumably this is one take and the audience you're hearing is the one that you're seeing, at the time of recording. I know this was pre-taped because by the time of broadcast — July 28, 2012, on Music Core — the rapper who's dancing and rapping onstage here had injured her leg and wouldn't have been dancing.



Performed in front of an audience, all in one take, with cue cards and glitches, and the group either couldn't (because the performance was at the time of broadcast), or didn't ask to, or weren't allowed to, re-do. This was broadcast on July 27, 2012, and obviously was performed later than the previous clip, though that one was broadcast later. Two of the regular performers are missing, the decision regarding one of them having reportedly been made at the last minute. It has been conjectured that this performance and the circumstances surrounding it had repercussions.



Pre-recorded, seemingly without an audience (but I don't know), with several takes and costume changes; but we're definitely hearing an audience, doing fan chants, cheers, and screams, I'm guessing from the time of the broadcast (Thursday on M! Countdown). And some or all of the leads are sung rather than lipsynched.



Entirely prerecorded, multiple takes and costume changes, seemingly all lipsynched, no audience; and at broadcast (yesterday on Music Core) you only hear audience before and after clip.



Music entirely prerecorded, performance lipsynched, but two of the performers decide to wear the other's clothes and hold the other's instrument, to see if anyone will notice.

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Performance supposed to be prerecorded and lipsynched but performers deliberately go off script, especially on second song (starting 5:33), especially w/ percussion.

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Anyway, we've had Hyomin's falling down and Hwayoung's wardrobe malfunction without second takes, so obviously this is not settled, and second takes may not always be possible.

T-ara wasn't on Music Bank on Friday, owing to the show and the agency (or whoever) being unable to agree on something or other (says Daum, translated by allkpop). I can speculate all sorts of potential reasons, but I don't know what they actually are.