When has Ayu's Voice...
 

When has Ayu's voice become so loooooooow??

I was watching her a-nation'06 performance of Boys & Girls..oh man, if not for her kawaii-ness, I don't think I could have managed to finish the whole thing. Her singing sounded like a she-man compared to her original studio version.

But when she performs JEWEL, it is obvious that she still has that anime-ish high voice in her, so why does she keep doing those she-man tones during lives...especially for her old songs? :irked It irks me to no end!

That said, I think she has the best stage charisma and presence in the whole of a-nation'06 :)

Her voice is just changing. I don't think she can help that she doesn't have that cutesy, really high-pitched voice anymore, but she still hits high notes [like you said, in JEWEL].

she's been gradually getting a little lower over time. i have to say, i 100% like it!

well maybe its natural... she has been singing for 8 years!! previously, her voice was high pitched and powerful.. but now, her voice is low and SEXY!! but it can be quite manly at times.. :(

It happens. In the beginning she barely had any vocal training at all, and she was just a teen. She had a pretty weak voice back then, it was squeaky and often irritating. She's gradually been evolving it over the years of singing, practiced and grown almost 10 years older, now she's a mature woman. Your voice is bound to change.

If you want some more exact date when it changed... around the release of Memorial address she started having a deeper voice, and she's been keeping it up through the following albums aswell as live performances.

Agreed.

amen. I can't stand her older voice, and sometimes in some songs her high notes still hurt my ears XD

yeah, she can hit some ear piercing notes.

i think i first noticed it lowering around the time of A BALLADS, on songs like RAINBOW and the new version of a song for xx.

Her low voice makes her sound professional. It's gorgeous.
But. I think it started to become a tiny bit lower in I am... and became more apparent in RAINBOW onwards.

Yeah, well, the older she got the more we can notice it.

In a few years she'll sound like our very own j_nerd has predicted so neatly.

I thought Ayu's lower voice during About you in Arena Tour 2005 made the song better.

I think it's pretty low already in the original version, but it's true she went even lower for the live and it was fantastic :).

I love the low voice, even when she does it for her earlier songs. It's like, compare a live of "Depend on you" from 1999 and one from more recent times, her voice really does sound so much better, and makes me enjoy the live more.

Well, for a-nation B&G she was jumping and running around and so she's probably exhausted. So can't blame her voice for being a little hoarse ;)

Like everyone said, her voice has naturally gotten lower. I have a feeling in the recordings..they edit it so she sounds alittle higher. :/

Lol all I'm going to say is:

BECAUSE OF YOU @ CDL 05-06 WAS THE WORST. She sounded like a MAN!

There must be something wrong with my ears...none of the A Song For XX originals pierced my ears ever LOL Neither does the original "kanariya". It seems to pierce everybody else's ears though :laugh

I never thought kanariya was as high as everyone makes it out to be, either...

i think her voice matured, and she uses less falsetto compared to before. especially compatred to ASFXX times.

I love Ayu's Deep Voice! It's sexy! The LIVE versions of Boys & Girls are so much better than the original. I can't even listen to the studio version because it is so diff. and I don't really like it...

I disagree completely. Beautiful Fighters is my favorite song released so far as of this year. I loved it and I also liked HONEY and Greatful Days isn't bad either... I love STEP you although but Startin' gets boring after a while. I think she needs more ballads like Moments!!

Aww, but I like HONEY the way it is. And Greatful days was just.. great. :P Yes, she can try to accept her maturity and sing like the adult she is, but it will certainly make alot of songs less enjoyable. These songs are created to be cute and fluffy and kiddish, and ayu should still have the chance to embrace that side of herself. She's still young, let her do her cute stuff ;)

I still hate that song, just because of how high pitched she sings. @_@

Oh, and Deli, you get the ROFLMAO Ayu image trophy for making me nearly die with laughter from your explanation.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...r711/349-1.jpg

TA-DA!

I guess it's so nothing happens when she sings it..
It'd be better to sing a song in a lower key than one that might possibly be too high..

PFFF! When she has the short blonde hair and is playing the guitar is more like androgynous, otherwise she looks pretty feminine in that silver dress. Not to mention the long blonde hair.

i think this she-man voice happens when she
☆see's soemthign funny
☆forget some lyrics and began humming
☆slip on the floor and begin singing
☆soemthign malfuntion
☆she jumps for joy too much
☆whiel she was walkign and thinkgin what will she sing next.

^_^

Yes, the short blonde-hair one. The one that is similar to the uraayu-punk Ayu.

She's gone slightly goth in ourselves, but nothing other than that...

And her voice is just fine. "She-male" is definitely an extreme way to describe it. Would you want her to try singing like End of the World now.. just as high pitched and nasally as before? :|

I wouldn't, especially since her voice probably can't handle that nowadays or breaks/cracks when she does try.. I mean, imagine Boys&Girls.. sung with it's.. squeakiness retained..

Fixed.

"She-male" is definitely far from what it is.. it's just deeper than the 1998-2002 vocals. It's definitely closer to her 'real voice' than the squeaky.

Because of You at CDL05-06 sounds so good on DVD :p
[it sounds just like the AT03-04 one.. so.. o_o]

i love her present voice
cant stand old voice, esp in the 1st album

A woman can't have the same voice forever.

Deal with it.

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"in order to survive"

For a moment I almost thought you were singing "Real me" :laugh

The cute voice left with the cute image

she is more serious now, i think it's a good thing

I think that now her voice is better than the past! In the past it seems that she sang with the nose.. X°°°D I quote Huyuhuyu.. now she's more serious..!^^

My world just went to pieces. :cry

Her voice has changed yep, but luckily it has gone to the right direction IMO : )

immel could you check "your" pm, thx :>

Ayu has grown up, and, bsides, comparing t how much sings, spending time in lives, tours, practising, recording...
og course her voice is low now! :)

I'm with those saying that I like her lower voice. Some of the song if ASFXX album I really like, but songs like Kanariya and For my Dear are just not listenable.

I don't really mind Carols and Dearest, because they have have lower ranges too, but For My Dear just hurts my ears.

Of course, it takes certain profession to get the III-ings right.

I quote Kikaru... I can't lisen "Poker Face" or "Depend On You".. it hurts my ears!°__° I like her voice lower.. Like in Duty, I Am, etc...

What the hell is an anime-ish voice? :rolleyes

a cute voice i think, like ai otsuka's

Sumtimes like when singin' live and u feel that your throat is dry and that u won't reach the note u can sing low (the same note but like doin' a chorus, in 2nd voice) so as to sing in tune without tryin' to do sumthin where u could fail and make it sound like ******!

i dont think that ayu's voice has change.....

I think that she just uses it differently.

:p

Pick any song from A Song for XX and listen to it, then pick any song from MY STORY or (miss)understood and listen to it, and tell me about the similarities :D.

lol
well, ayu has done also training in new york.

Ayu's vocal training in New York was before/around the release of A Song for XX, so I don't think it should really make a big difference.

I have no idea why everybody has whine about this. DO YOU BLAST YOUR SPEAKERS UP TO THE MAX? You don't get headaches from just listening to music from her younger days.

Annoying. :irked

It's almost as bad whining at people who whine, or worse.

If someone hasthat kind of ears, they shouldn't be whined at. Although, neither should anyone be whined at for having that kind of voice.


...and here am I, whining at you :D.

About Ayumi's first album - I think she manages to hit the high notes really well in the studio version. But if you watch live performances from that period, especially the 'Jpop night Channel A' concert, her voice is really off. There's nothing pleasing about her way of singing.

I think right now, even if her voice is pretty low and it's difficult for her to sing certain songs, she sounds a whole lot better and stronger than she used to.

I guess it's the intense vocal 'training' you automatically get from performing SO MUCH as well as on-the-side vocal 'lessons' when recording a song :)

i love her present voice..
much more Diva..u know?

How do you defina a diva voice?

Since Bold & Delicious.

No, seriously. I can have my volume at 2 (on headphones, i don't use speakers) and I can hear the high notes from across the room.

I guess her voice has just changed over time. But yeah, I've noticed that too.

No, she still has lessons and has had lessons ever since she started. She mention them from time to time.

I don't think her voice has changed that much, but her technique of singing has changd alot. Her voice has gotten a bit deeper, but she sings very differently from when she was younger too. She did sing very nasally and squeaky and she diden't know how to use her muscles right. That's why she had quite BIG problem with hitting the notes sometimes. Some of her songs also were higher, not just her way of singing. I think if she continued singing the way she did she would've wrecked her voice by now.

Ayu's voice has definetly changed more than most other artists I've heard, it's almost scary sometimes. I prefer her earlier voice (though not live), but not for songs like inspire and startin'. I think she sometimes manage to pull off the proper "cute" style nowadays too.

I think that her voice never changed at all..
Simply, like *Petit* said, because she uses it differently.

She can still go all nasally on HONEY and stuff too~ :)

She does not still have vocal lessons in NY, which is what was mentioned.

Her voice has always been her very own unique voice, but the fact that she does sound different now when singing, compared to back then, can be said with the words "her voice has changed", I think.

I love her lower voice! Very sexy!

I've skimmed through her songs, and for some reason, I keep noticing that there seems to be a vocal change between LOVE ~Destiny~ and TO BE. These singles were released within a month of each other, though, so I don't see how that could be. Could somebody else please verify that I'm talking absolute nonsense?

Over the years her voice has changed.Thats all.

Yeah, I guess. She just has subtle changes to her voice every so often, and it just flows... you don't notice it until you listen to songs about two years apart, and then they sound different.