Do you follows Ayu voice correctly when you sing her songs?
 

The thread Ayu's high notes inspired me to ask this one:

Do you follows Ayu voice correctly 100% when you sing her songs?
I mean like JEWEL, RAINBOW, and others..

Actually, my dad was laughing when hears Ayu voice at talkin' 2 myself Asia Tour 2008 opening.. I mean the first two lines..

Yeah, her vibra..

Yeah! haha
i always follow hear Vibrato! hahahah

Wo..o..o...o

never ever lol

LOL sometimes i try to be funny, and i sing it like that in front of my friends.

but in karaoke, i just skip it. :P

lol.. i think her vibra is kinda strange..
never followed it..

of cos follow. if not it sounds weird.

I think the songs will sound empty without her vibrato..
Actually, I dont really like when people dont use vibrato singing her songs..
It sounds so different, and I feel like "thats not what I am used to!!!!" ahahaa.

Fo' reals.

Haha her vibrato is really funny though when you watch her mouth moving. It's great XD.

To me, it feels like... a Diva Queen~
Cause whenever she is moving her mouth with vibrato,
She looks like "Im gonna to kill someone"
Or.. "I am such a pro~"
ahahaha

I love that face~

^ Ahaha, yeah it's FIERCE like Mirrorcle World (I mean in aspects of being fierce)! And whenever I'm singing Ayu's songs I will DEFINITELY vibrato... I think vibratos are like a very "Ayu" thing... the song sounds lifeless without vibrato... especially in Ayu's songs.

Yup when I am able. It is *needed* in Dearest for "aru you ni~i~i~i" it makes it sound so much more powerful and intense!

I hated her vibra at first, but now I think it's kinda her "TM".
Back to the topic I'm trying sometimes, but I can't almost always copy her at least half good. lol

If I remember correctly I thought using your jaw for vibrato was a bad thing. You're tensing it up and release it several times and can cause pain... any professionally trained singers know this to be true?


I think her vibrato is atrocious at times.

When I sing with her songs I will usually just use my normal vibrato.

Sometimes I find myself singing a lower key too.

It depends, if it's a slow song I try. If it's a face paced powerful song, I sometimes shout it for fun! I usually do this in my car while driving... the passengers usually think I'm weird xD;.... They'll be trying to talk to me and I'm like, "SHUT UP THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART, GENJITSU WA ITSUDATTE...." lol

Most people are impressed I know so many of her songs like I wrote them <_<;;;;

Her vibrato is probably what I love most.. gives the songs so much more melody!
So, yes, I end up following. It sounds wrong without it :/

You are not really supposed to move your mouth when you vibrato.
It means you are using your throat.
But most pop singers always move their mouth when they are doing it~
They are not trained to be opera singers and whatever~
I think it's most important if you are opera singer ^^)

Not all the time.

There are some songs I like to sing in harmony with her in certain places because I feel it would sound better lol

There's one note in blue bird I wish she would have changed...and I think forgiveness had one too, and endless sorrow, but I don't remember them all.

I don't follow her horrible vibrato. It's so ugly. Some songs sound okay with it in recording...but live, ew. She ruins some songs.

I try! But I don't have a natural vibrato so it's difficult for me to sing along with it! It's still fun to sing with her though!

Thank you for clearing that up with me :]

lol when it starts to sound like a mating call/banshee scream is when I turn off the live and head to the studio recording.

Of course!! it's soooo funny do it!
and once I tried to extend the vibrato all I could... and I came to a conclusion: never again xD

Besides, a song of ayu without vibrato, isn't a song of ayu!

**sorry for my bad english

Lol, I don't get why the vibrato is such an issue. It sounds normal to me. But to answer the question, I can't really use vibrato. I'm not much of a singer but I try to. Although one night when I was really bored and nobody was home I put my headphones on and belted out a few of her songs (along with a few of Gackt's) to see what I sound like but I can only sing 'decently' when I can't hear myself. Lol. So I turn my headphones up really loud. I'll record myself again one night when I'm alone and upload it for people to comment on. Lol. I'm definitely no good but I'd like to hear the comments, ha ha.

I do. I think her vibrato is beautiful, but I know some people find it ugly lol.

@_@ no not really, i don't do that much vibrato, and if i do, i try to keep it to a minimum

LOL
I laugh for a minute reading this thread..

Anyway, it sounds normal for Ayu if using vibrato like that,
Any other singers doesn't like that.. Right?

:roflmao I do that all the time. When I can hear myself, I know I don't sound so good. When I sing along, but I can't hear myself, I think I sound good.

hahaz. vibrato became part of the song.. since I've heard so much of that from Ayu.

Jus follow it. It can be fun anw :)

Yes, I do sometimes....and I think it's funny because I didn't do it on purpose but my mouth just sing like that

yea i do, but more like her voice during her My Story era... still with vibratos. i like her style of singing, which influenced my found voice, also influenced by Utada + Yui + Gackt (and his vibratos, which i love)

it seems like, if you don't sing her songs the way she does, you can't get the true feel of the song. for me, that's how it is.

Utada, Yui, and Gackt vibrato??
Wow, ur voice must be so good!!

Copying Ayu vibrato make me tired fast while singing..

i actually imitate her 100%..the tone and vibrato of her voice.. even tho im no good at vibrato xD

When I'm singing with her, I use my own vibrato (naturally). I never try to match it because when I sing with her I mostly listen to myself, but only use Ayu as like a back up.

If I'm using one of her instrumental tracks, I usually keep my own vibrato. Only in a couple of cases will I use her vibrato, like in the end of "Mirrorcle World." The back up voice uses the same exact vibrato as in the main voice, so it sounds weird if it's not matched. But even then, I don't move my jaw majorly. I simply use my voice, but that can't be good... :P

I only follow her vibrato in a few songs, like GREEN, not because it sounds wierd with Ayu, simply because i can't do it myself xD But i'm trying anyways :D

LOL...

yeah... i do... but it depends on the songs i sing... uhmm.. how should i put it.?

yah.

I usually apply vibrato when i sing ballads...

and i love imitating Ayu's vibrato as well! hahaha

sometimes, When ayu sings, she herself makes parody of her singing... LOL...

Yes.. I'm used to it.. I make my voice irritating and I tried to hit the high notes as of her high-pitched vocals until my vocal chords shout in pain!
But I don't copy ayu's vibrato when singing in karaoke..

Ayu hasnt invented a new style of music, she just made the vibrato a part of her style, if you hear her vibrato you can know that it's she even if you dont recognize the song.

I always sing her songs and i try to imitate almost all notes, but well it's hard when you are a boy and you havent got a very sweet voice, but the point is that when i sing them with vibrato i really feel that i'm singing them right.

Just like to sing an ayu song without vibrato is to sing a normal song, not an ayu song. By the way I ask myself when and why she became the vibrato her natural sign. :mischief