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Originally Posted by artcika
So i stumble upon this performance again and every time i hear it i'm baffled. I mean, her voice never was this nasally and super high pitched like it was when avex got hold of her, so i'm not sure what they did but it was not good. It sold but it didn't sound good at all. Like she sounds so much better here than she does on Poker Face. Like WTF?
I'm so glad she's no longer sounding like she did in Poker face. Her vocals have so much more depth and colour now. Which i love.
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Reading old interviews with Ayu from back then (I'll have to get some of them properly translated), she actually used to be REALLY self-conscious about how "husky" her voice was. (Something I can relate to)... So then when Max Matsuura discovered her, higher-pitched voices were popular at the time so he had her singing stuff like Tomomi Kahala at karaoke. So her higher-pitched vocal style from her early avex years is probably the result of a bunch of insecurity about her deeper voice not being "good enough."