Quote:
Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
Yeah, I definitely had been noticing the difference over the tours that you mention. It's also why I don't like listening to Finally that much because her vocals sound much thinner on the re-recordings. It's not surprising to me at all that her vocal chords were deteriorating but most people didn't really seem to notice! I think because her use of back tracks became more and more as time went on.
|
I still think Finally was rushed... her voice does sounds great on the 90s album, but the 2000s and 2010s albums her voice is really bad and she kills some songs (a.k.a. GIRL TALK, SO CRAZY and some others).. but at least the 90s songs are way better than the original ones for me.
About the tours, I guess that's why she sings "Think of me" with all of her soul on past<FUTURE Tour, she sounds incredible and it really stands out as one of her best vocal performances ever. After LIVE STYLE 2011 she really runs away from almost every high note ("Love Story" I'm so sorry my dear) besides "Heaven" and "Stardust In My Eyes" (she really give life on those songs tho).. but I think she gave her voice a 'rest' for so many tours (from 2012 to 2015) that she managed to sing pretty well songs that demands vocal performances like Fashionista, Arigatou and she did a INCREDIBLE job on Dear Diary (that's probably why she only sang it during half of Live Style 2016-2017 tho ;-; ).
My conclusion is that: Namie still has some good voice there, but she can only use it really few times because it goes away too soon ;-;