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Old 12th March 2009, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by prussian blue View Post
hahaha so true!

i've sense she's so yasutaka nakata inspired in this album! all of the tracks are so catchy and danceful! especially rollin' ! its so rare of her to use so much vocoder and edited voices, i'm sure i'll love this song!
Which honestly worries me. I've been thinking that Ayu's voice has been losing its power for a while now. The only song on the album that seems to contain her raw vocals is Curtain Call and that is the song where her voice sounds the worst imo. Very much like the scattered and kind of broken vocal performances she gave on tv last year and to a slightly lesser extent the year before that. This is another reason why I think it would be better for her, her fans, and her music to take a much needed break for a while and really recupporate everything. I don't want Ayu's voice to have to always rely on good studio engineers and vocoder effects and then have her actual live voice on music programs and what not sound shot.
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