I thought so too, but it turns out a lot of the people in the comments are arguing the autotuned parts were live 😬 Maybe we have super ears or something

@@epmeats I'm pretty sure they used autotune, but they we're definitely live most of the time

@@epmeats i mean technically it was live, they just added a little bit more autotune than usual in post production editing which is why we can hear a difference with their other live performances. autotune and lip sync are different so you can definitely sing live with autotune.

@@em_pjmgroove Yeah I worded it bad, I mean people thinking the autotuned version is what their real voices sound like naturally ^^;

mamamoo in whole performance of queendom from first to finally they literally sing live there.of course when you watch on tv it's really different

I don't think it's about them getting it, it's more about not having to worry about vocals and focusing on performance. I really think every artist should use playback on TV performances, to protect their voice. Each stage takes almost 1h to record, they have to perform again and again to get all the camera angles. Can you imagine having to sing every time? For me live stage is for programs with this purpose and for concerts.

In season 1 Oh My Girl came in with a microscopic fandom and absolutely stomped (G)I-dle who came in with the biggest fandom. Your claim that the ranking will be mostly based on fandom is not backed up by any evidence. Maybe things will change, but based on what we saw, it's not the case just yet.

@@charred6683 At Queendom the result of winner was quite fair because at that time there were still live audiences and participants were judged by the audience and judges who clearly saw the show live. Yeah there's fandom voting too but not as hard as RTK and Kingdom. Meanwhile, at RTK and Kingdom last year, due to covid, there were no live audience, not even the jury. The funny eh sad thing huhu is that in RTK itself the assessment is determined from fandom voting (only in even rounds) and voting from other groups without any judgment from professional judges:') (seriously that's still hurt me seeing ONEUS almost fail 2x just bcs voting from other groups 😭) It's not that the winner doesn't deserve it, it's just that for example there are still no judges and live audience it feels like to win you can only rely on the power of the fandom :'')

@@tassiasilva5688 Ik it must be really hard to do both but at the end of the day these idols are trained for years FOR doing both. If they're just gonna dance then every amazing dancer would debut as an idol isn't it? The industry always wants more as the competition is very high.There're thousands of talented grps out there and you have to stand out to be successful. Mamamoo has my respect for showing what they're actually good at in such competitive industry where visuals and intense choreographies are given immense priority but the fact that they still try their best with amazing stage presence and charisma on stage and I think their win was amazingly fair. But I do think idols should be able to do more live stages coz the lipsync trend is even affecting artist who actually can pull off amazing live performances.

Truee i am looking forward to hyolyn too i hope mnet dont cheat in the voting just like queendom season1 coz queendom s1 is so accurate votings 💓💓

I mean it's better than Lovelyz who came out of it with a disbandment but yeah she did get nothing

​@@shaym.1372 I mean, can you really say they "came out of it with disbandment" when that disbandment happened slightly over two years later when their contracts were up?

I'm a lovelinus who started off listening to kpop with 2ne1... mnet really used her struggles and pain for the show and left her with nothing... I do feel really awful for her.

@@MichaelColey80 two years with just one comeback right in the middle (a year later) and them literally begging their company for another comeback or things to do... It's almost worst than immediate disbandment. They spent the majority of their last two years in woollim doing nothing and creating their own content for fans.

@@AddiesKpop I do wish we would have gotten to have more from them. They're all incredibly talented. I'm just glad they're each getting to do what they want to do now.

They will, it's not up to her. MNet will do it to everyone.

@@epmeats yep. MNET is the real evil deal out there.

mnet will do it, however from the intro stage we can tell she's not lipsync at all

It's not about the artist. All "live" performances are a lie unless they're straight up just standing still or sitting and focusing on singing, or if you hear them blatantly breathing. Kpop gives such a realistic expectation where gullible fans think people can sound perfect while doing insanely intensive choreo. No one can, not even Mariah Carey. Which makes it hilarious when you see fans fighting whether their favourite idols sing live or not whem it's obvious they're not. If it's live, you'll know it. If it "sounds like a cd", it probably is.

I still believe that she is too good to be on Queendom.

Yup! 100% agreed..

Esp Solar for me 😂

Lovelyz too

I was looking for someone mentioning their acapela like, can’t get more vocal focused than it even if you try! Is scary how all needed is half a dozen articles made in bad faith to mess with years of hardwork.

Seriously though, imagine if they had opened the show with an acapella arrangement of Ah Choo instead of the lazy-ass barely-a-remix with some black outfits to call it girl crush? They would've stolen the entire show

@@WhitePaintbrush they would stole the entire show but they missed the opportunity

@@WhitePaintbrush i always waited for woollim to bring back the acapella for queendom for i guess you can never trust such a shitty company

They're not disbanded

Ikr I feel like the fact that u could tell they can’t lip sync to save their lives means that they do normally sing live, I remember moomoos used to say that about mamamoo and I’m sad lovelyz didn’t

they also lipsycned in a lot of their normal performances sadly :( but they really is an amazing vocal group, i was blown away by their harmonies way back before. i really do not know what their management team was doing back in queendom. their stage presence and performance skills are all decent, none of them are bad, but ALL the stages (except final) concepts were all so bad and boring and dull. that’s why they didn’t get massive popularity after queendom. like what are u thinking, doing a sexy concept with an innocent son?????

@@user-ku9ko5pv4p yeah like all other artists, they did it mostly because they used to promote for almost 1 month every comeback and well, they needed to rest their voices. And yes, the management of their agency is trash and in 2019 was way worse than now. In that time woollim decided that Lovelyz will be left apart because the new focus will be Golden Child and Rocket Punch who debuted during Queendom.

@@emmaclarke8863 yeah, the hipocrisy on it's own

I remember them going viral for their amazing ah choo mr removed

Oh yeah I remember that!

Such a queen ✨

Stan talent stan Jung Qwheein

we dgaf

👆 troll

This isn't a response to the question, but I just wanted to genuinely thank you for recognizing Lovelyz's vocals. Since Lovelyz don't have a big international fandom, they're rarely mentioned here on KZfaq and not many people know how good they actually are. I know that it isn't a huge deal, but thank you. It means a lot to this Lovelinus. ❤ And if anybody reading this comment isn't very familiar with Lovelyz, please watch this video! I swear that you won't be disappointed! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gM2bmJCkkr3YhYU.html

one thing to note that their stage was all live and recorded multiple times. mnet combined prerecorded track and performance separately. so who actually was on that live audience recording all know that they all are capable groups. lovelyz actually gained many fans after the show.

I have a question: did you take performances from Queendom from mnet yt site, or do you have recordings of how they were aired on tv? Because I didn't watch Queends myself, but I watched Kingdom and I swear that the performances were significantly diffrent when they were on TV and what we got later on to stream (on yt). Mainly you can hear the difference in the breathing. At the end, almost every stage - on TV you could hear their breathing clearly (so mics are on) , and you could hardly hear anything on yt. So I'm not sure if you can just judge if someone sang or used autotune because they wanted to, or if it was mnet ordered to 'improve quality' in post-production.

@@MrLunea Mnets KZfaq is the only one that matters, so thats what I used. Korea only had on average 40,602 people watching every week. Give or take 10-20 thousand more for Global viewers. However each performance on KZfaq has roughly 10 - 36 MILLION views. So it doesn't matter what the live streamed version may or may not have sounded like. 99% of People around the world only saw the autotuned versions on youtube. Most people don't even know another version may have existed once upon the ethernet years ago.

That's not entirely true ... Programs like Kingdom and Queendom are all about increasing the popularity of groups. Those with a strong fandom from the rest of the world are to gain popularity in the country, and those with a lot of fans in the country are to gain fans from outside. That's why, the fanbases worked very strongly to share links where we could watched stream of TV version (e.g. twitch). I myself watched on twitch and the counter showed about 30k, and during the performances themselves sometimes the audience reached 70k. And there were at least 5 sepereted stream at that time. Additionally, on Twitter, later we could saw parts of preformances before mnet released them on yt. Also, your narration in video is about how groups use autotune/lips sink/ live and not if mnet use postproduction autotune. So you kinda try to shows that it's group that cheating not mnet/TV.

ngl it's almost only the concept change. no one really notices or cares that much with lip sync.

i think the knetz were mad bc of *how* lovelyz executed their new concept. everyone lipsynced and showcased a diff image. the dark/sexy version of Ah Choo felt unnatural to them and they lacked presence with facials etc. For sixth sense stage, they got hate for lacking originality and copying the same military concept as the sunbaenims.

Lovelyz have a chance in Queendom but I guess they made a lot of risky decisions except for Kei who pursued Hwasa. They tried being sexy with a cute song like Achoo and instead of choosing OMG song, they go with something else. If they choose Closer or Windy Day, they would have slayed it. I'm so disappointed with them. Kei is the only one who actually made the right call to stick to Hwasa.

Knetz are just bitches all the time😭✋Lovelyz didn’t deserve any of that hate😭

Yeah, this video is clickbait bs

@@NMarxx it ain't. they showed it here lol, it was pure live. the aoa cover except for the very loud backtrack for wheein which agreed.

Autotune stops when they stop singing. The singing was live but a bit of autotune added in.

We can understand that 'autotune' = pitch correction program, not lipsyncing. The pitch correction happens simultaneously with live singing to correct where it deems to be in 'wrong' pitch. So if there's no singing, there's no pitch correction. Now, the debate is whether the autotune was feed to live mic at live show or post production before tv broadcast. As we all know, the current technology allows both ways.

Yes, probably not lip syncing, but for sure the audio was edited before it was uploading

Yes i also thought of this. Yea we know like 2-3 of them have weaker vocals, but their live band concerts are gorgeous. 😍 Unfortunately the live vocals from this video are from their early debut days so it doesn't do them justice 🥲

Do you blame them. I saw a video yesterday on Oh my Girls recent comeback where Koreans are bashing OMG Arin, saying that she's tone deaf when in reality she sang live and sounded tired due to dancing and singing.

@@TT-ee1vv i mean, Im a huge fan of omg but even i cant deny that arin's voice never improved each comeback. Tho in her defence, her part in this comeback is right after a hard choreo involving them squatting and standing right back up so its amplified more

Please they were so vocally talented but the never got the recognition for their vocals

@@asy11237 you're fake haters pretending to be a fan, so shame on you say this kind of thing without knowing the truth, ARIN's vocals have been improved so much since her debuted, from a cute cheesy voice to a more mature and angelic voice on their comeback. you totally just bullshitting everything, FAKERS!!

I think you slightly missed the point, yes they're messed up lip syncing...but they didn't here, they got some autotune in some part of the singing. But they sang live.

@@Bongi344 From watching queendom, it is noticeable that there's an episode in queendom they lipsync. they only did it once but most of the performance in queendom are auto tuned

@@alfredgilfebresmago8425 oh sorry I haven't fully watched the video, yeah I forgot about the final perf. Some of their singing looks awkward in Destiny, like Solar lipsyncing Hwasa's voice behind Wheein's melody. I got your point.

@@Bongi344 mamamoo will never do lipsync the backing track was loud.

@@vadjulawakaru actually they do have videos of the them lipsyncing everywhere and they messed it up everytime that is why they prefer performing live

Their choreography is very intensive. Most groups that focus on performance are bound to use pre-recorded vocals/autone because there is just no way they can sing properly while dancing heavily. Groups like Mamamoo have choreos made specifically so they can sing live. They're not very intensive and will let the one singing only stand and just do a light dance. If you expect someone perfectly dancing while also singing perfectly, it's just impossible.

@@silentKeys20 I disagree and hate that ohhh the choreography is to hardddd. No their choreography definitely isn't to hard. If you compare it to other groups. It has something to do with how K-pop idols need to be perfect. Look at 1,2 and 3rd gen groups. Live singing was still a staple. Or at least singing partially live. And some of these groups like got7, sistar, aoa, girls day, Snsd and many more have an even more demanding choreography than aespa. And still manage to sing live, or at least partially.

@@silentKeys20 That's not entirely true. 😅 It's a misconception that MAMAMOO has easy choreography so they can sing well. It's just that they have better focus on practicing their vocals as well as breathe control. There are multiple videos, including behind the scene practice videos and videos by back dancers talking about MMM's choreos being hard. For example this video talking about how Moonbyul's Eclipse choreo is so tough that even the choreographer and dancers find it tough. But Byul was able to learn it in 2 days, and managed to sing it live + still dance it perfectly. (if you can understand korean because they don't have Eng subs) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZ53jJahsru4nZ8.html Or the video where Wheein practiced breathing and stable vocals by running and jumping while she sings Watercolour.

@@silentKeys20 Yeah and most use pre recorded vocals but not like 99% of the time. Even Ning Ning is tired about her not being able to sing. And gave the staff a notice that her mic is off but they didn't care. You don't need to sing perfectly, I know that it's hard. But at least sing live for some performances. Especially if the singer wants it themselves.

@@silentKeys20 It's just that the focus of the different companies caused the artists and groups to not allow them the chance to train up on their vocals and breathing as they are more focused on practicing for the perfect choreography and timing/stay on the beat to lipsync properly.

I mean wasn't it just because their contract ended?

@@LouiseHultcrantz yes and because woollim is an absolute trash company that didn't want to take care of them

@@everyonethinksimgay6685 Can u elaborate on this? I thought Lovelyz was fine up until Queendom. Like they were solid mid tier in Korea at least. And then Queendom happened and somehow they kinda fell off.

@@CeCe1066 they weren't getting a ton of support within the company even before queendom, honestly. it'd been more than a year since their last comeback when the show went on, and then another year until their next comeback after it. they spent 2 of their 7 years basically on hiatus. they were definitely a solid mid tier artist with one song that had major chart longevity, but weren't promoted well by the company. lack of comebacks, they didn't let a lot of them do activities up until the end... they were a group that could easily make money doing concerts twice a year but after 2017/2018 Woollim really stopped doing much with them.

​@@CeCe1066 Queendom caused the members so much mental anguish that Woollim gave them a year-long hiatus. Idunno why some Lovelinus kept saying this was neglect when the members themselves spoke about how detrimental the malicious comments caused them and how they had to rely on each other to overcome those hate comments through vlives and other platforms like Jiae's radio. Imagine giving them work when they're not in the right mental state of mind...I just don't get it. Now, Woollim did neglect Lovelyz in the last year after they came back with Obliviate. I personally think this had more to do with prioritizing other artists who’d make more profit only because Woollim almost had to file for bankrupt a couple of times while managing just Lovelyz and Golden Child. The end of 2020 and all of 2021 was a very busy time for Woollim; Sunggyu was discharged in 2020 (everyone knows he’s Woollim’s princess so he's their #1 priority), they had to re-discuss contracts with Infinite from 2020 to 2021, Drippin debuted in 2020, Golden Child had become Woollim's highest-profitable group that had to bring in a lot of the dough so they were given quite a bit of work earlier on, Rocket Punch needed a comeback after their last one in Aug of 2020, Mijoo was FINALLY making a name and breaking through the variety scene, Eunbi and Chaewon's contracts with Izone ended in 2021 so Woollim had to use up what's left of their contract with Chaewon before selling it to Hybe/Source Mu., Eunbi had to debut, Woohyun was coming back from military service & looking for a solo comeback, etc. Lovelyz's Unforgettable album sold just under 40k copies (last time I checked) and 91% of the MV's views are unauthentic. Meaning only 9% of it is unique viewers and didn’t come from bots, ads, streaming. Their concept change is no doubt a gift to fans but unfortunately, Queendom had already tarnished all that they’ve worked for and accomplished up until that point and Woollim didn’t help by hiding them after Obliviate. Whether the girls were selling at Infinite and Golden Child's level or not, Woollim should have given them their last album. If Woollim had, Lovelyz would have most likely all renewed and it sucked that the girls feel so cheated that they collectively decided not to renew. Even now, Baby Soul who's stayed out of loyalty is nowhere to be seen. I know Soul is one of the less popular members and she probably wouldn't sell as much but Woollim just hiding her without giving her any work is so odd. Soul is so smart and she can definitely go solo as she's both a phenomenal vocalist and rapper, I just don't understand why Woollim isn't putting her rap into good use. Sorry for ranting towards the end >_< I'm just frustrated when I know Woollim used to treasure Lovelyz so much

when you said jihyo i instantly had her face when singing fancy in my head, also do you mean sieun?

Ah yes you mean Sieun! From Stayc! But here you can definitely see if it’s live by their faces while sing notes. If they literally don’t make much effort and kind of seeing difficult notes in a very calm and serene way, that’ll be pretty weird and you could probably tell that it’s not live 100%.

Stayc just amazes me every time a watch their live singing performance

@정은지 Bang honey what?

I think they didnt lipsync 🤔

But somehow i like the expression of hwasa when she know she's too early to close her mouth lol XD like "oopss *give sinyal to solar* let's continue" haha

Right like girlies were living in their own world being so unproblematic dropping bangers absolutely unbothered about kpop trends and still got ppl mad

😭

Say it louder!!! I would never forgot the time linus need to try so hard protecting the girls and how the hate made our girls doubted themselvesㅠㅠ

Amen

PREACH. They're the only group who actually SANG on their stages, that alone should qualify them as winners.

@@underthegardenwall No because QUEENDOM isn't about vocals. mamamoo singing live is impressive but doesn't make their stages better. Lovelyz could have been live but their remixes were still lack luster. Aoa Egotistical or Omg's Destiny were way stronger than most of MMO's stages artistically and musically. Plus Mamamoo's one live stage of Good Luck was probably the least interesting, why was hwasa dressed like a shabby pirate? Park Bom was also mostly live and her performance's were not good compared tot he others imo

And they had interactive fun performances which def helped them win!

@@lalaloveapril8964 mamamoo stages isnt better? Are you deaf? Blind? Their stages are the best...!

They actually sang but the autotune was done after they sang

They didn’t. Prerecorded vocals were just too loud. You can hear solar screaming to be heard

@@byulkong8590 @Byul Kong nono they probably didn't sing the song but only hyped the crowd because the last episode was live they probably where told by the show to lip sync they wouldn't choose to lip sync They prefer singing

@@jyotitewari739 sure you can do that

@@gonosoi mic was on definitely and they're singing along to the backtrack that is sooo loud. moonbyul sometimes can be heard tho, you can tell. there are fancams of the finale. you can hear it.

This reminds me of the my teenage girl fans saying how vocally talented the girls are when their vocals have been so autotuned that it sounds smoother than jisoo's pick-up lines.

@@theresadavis2004 fr that show was the most obvious with their autotune

@@theresadavis2004 omg i didn't know. It really sounded live for me.

@@guinnmyahslaysstaymad coz i actually listened to chaewon singing live after mtg and she freakin sound the same as she was in mtg.

She really was done dirty. Idek if it’s bc they want to show others that she’s not relevant anymore when she’s in fact a role model for many fem vocalist idols today bc of her unique voice

Tbh Park Bom's voice hasn't been improving, I think her technique may be getting worse or she simply doesn't practice as much. I don't think we can blame Queendom for all of it. These clips are super old, and may be edited as well for all we know.

@@heloise. Lol. She is amazing.

I agree, I was so disappointed with her stages because the way other artists looked up to her seemed as if it was only because she's a senior. But seeing this video is making me realise how badly we got played and how much discrimination she faced in terms of the stages.

Thank you for giving her another chance. 🥰 She is one if the greatest vocalist of 2nd gen and after all the scandals he got really hurt and she's just returning to make music again.

yes and also at that time they were busy preparing for their concert in between practicing for this show :(

theres zero vibrato in that part, i think u meant when she switched to falsetto

@@paledangels There's a slight vibrato at the very end if you hear closely

@@Bongi344 i hear vibrato in 10:36 but not in 10:32

@@paledangels Probably the OP meant that part too 😅

also more lines

I always thought that Yuqi has always been the best vocalist after Miyeon and Minnie, because of her really nice deep tone and her stability when singing live

When I see and hear Gidle songs its always look like Soyeon ft. Gidle 🤣. Especially their new side song My Bag, the rest of the group all have a distinguishable unique voice one another but sadly they really only focused on one person

SO much of the texture of their songs rest in Miyeon and Yuqi voices, Minnie also gives a lot of character to them. Soyeon is really talented but Idle wouldn’t be the same without the vocal line.

@@andiandi9202 wdym soyeon ft. gidle in my bag??? if you just wanna complain for how she usually have a lot of lines my bag is literally the worst song you could’ve picked… my bag is a rap song yet the main rapper didn’t actually got to rap in it and everyone got their own spotlight and got to show off their rapping skills

No it's not the mic. Jimin is nasal in all her lives. Her voice is naturally like that and one of the reasons her voice got hated a lot during excuse me promos.

Encore stages are a last resort because yes the lack of ear monitor will make performing harder. BUT they don't have to dance so it's also easier. I'd argue the lack of dancing make it more accurate than not. The pros and cons of both cancel each other out. Encore is still the only time you will ever hear a 100% live performance in Kpop now. There just aren't any live performances to show the audience an idols real voice not hidden in backtrack. On the flip side, Encore stages are GREAT for legit trained vocalists like Seunghee or Mamamoo here because they always always always sound better getting to stand and properly use their diaphragm. At the end of the day delusional fans just can't scream and cry an idol sounds perfect dancing when they can barely project their voice in an encore just standing. it rips the Band-Aid off.

@@gg4taeny206 Yeah she is but an unfortunate mic choice and technique would emphasise that a lot. Like the e835 sounds always a lot less nasal all things being equal, but many people don't like it because it can sound harsh and lack 'presence', that's the tradeoff.

@@SianaGearz woah thankyou for the insight, I learned a lot

have you ever heard their collab song 4:44? It's so angelic. i hope they do a live performance together someday.

Same. I feel like people would have given them a pass if they didn’t try so hard to change their image. I feel like if they would have just chosen an oh my girl song instead of brown eyed girls they would have gotten better results. They could have done remember me by oh my girl it is both pretty and badass. Also their vocals would have been amazing. I feel like they could have eased their way to changing their image like oh my girl did instead of trying so hard to create shock because it backfired. It’s a shame because they are so talented and their final song was my favorite :(

I think they just turn off her mic in the mr parts where there should be layering. But I guess they decided just cut of that part cause.... I don't know. I really think that was heavy post-production, so live for Bom and Mamamoo were different from what was shown. -_-

Mamamoo sing live...

@@basi2292 yupzzzz

@@basi2292 yes but not in every stage

@@didu4430 they sung live every stage tho…

For those stages it looked like the only live vocals were Hyolyn (with a backing track she goes out of sync with briefly) before she moved on to Dally, which was synced like everyone else.

so far the opening stages are all lipsync except for hyolyn (intro only). idk abt stage 1 but judging by the leak for stage 2 some groups sang live and not autotuned (yet?) some used pre recorded lipsync

The video says the differences

That's why fancam are superior

they actually even have three official main vocalists

3 main vocals

4 main vocal for me

the prerecorded vocals and live were touched up and thats what they mean

@@judithkim4050 yeah I agree, but not everybody understand. Read some comments and you probably noticed that they emphasized autotune and not pre-recorded and live.

Exactly, 4+ years apart seems unfair

I agree on this.

well i agree and a little bit disagree, i know what you mean, but i think the video's maker of this video just want to highlight when artist is using auto tune, lypsinc, or not, so he/she use the other video even if that years ago or not to show it. Wheteher its actually unfair or whatever you mean, but this is actually knowledge for fans so they dont just believe that if the idol always performs live, sometimes artist have bad days so their voices are also affected by that, and also this is a lesson for fans that autotune, lypsinc, or whatever, is not the wrong thing to do if the artist dont use it excessively. but you are true tho, because rookie singer usually still need some exercise and lot of things to improve, and as time goes by and they often sing in many shows, the voice they have when they sing is really mature and good now.

@@virginia9560 I'm, saying because the maker highlighted the points that have been fixed but questioned it by comparing it with their older video, isn't it odd? the maker also said that s/he won't say that "I miss you" that was performed at 2nd round was altered "be smart" s/he said. I know that so many shows use that tool and queendom is not the exception but saying "I miss you" wasn't real and it's fake then the maker should search more before making something like this. Do you know what the scary thing is about social media? How it turned the mindset of people by just watching the content without searching whether it's true or not

I think the backtrack was really loud on their queendom stage (maybe 70 or even 90%??) and there was probably autotune, but in a lot of the parts it did sound like they were singing over the backtrack.. u could hear in soyeons rap and some of the other parts when they had to take a breath, that the audio got quieter.. I wish the backtrack wasn't super loud tho, cuz it sorta ruins the point of singing live lol.. I don't mind backtrack as long as it's like... 30% or less... maybe 50% for difficult sections

@@universeinneverland2314 yeah, maybe. You know, When I watched the show, I didn't even think about whether all the groups sing live or not. But I really remembered one point then, made me pay attention to it. When Gidle performed Put it Straight while Miyeon sings, by choreography she raises her arms twice to mouth level. And there you can hear well that her hands cover her mouth, and she sounds as if she covered her mouth with her hands.