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I've never once thought ayu sounded like a man. I mean, Akiko Wada. That's all I gotta say. Come on people, grow EARS.
I 100% agree with immel. Alot of songs on A Song for XX are utterly unlistenable, especially when I have a headache already. No amount of Excedrin can protect me from "IIIchiban NIII IIIItaIIIIII" X_X
I love ayu, but seriously. eeew. She's flat in that song to begin with, the IIIII's just make it worse. x_x
I actually first noticed her voice deepening when the song "Duty" came out. The verses in that were a very pleasant surprise compared to some of the squeaky tones of the past. Several songs since then have impressed me, she's sounded more professional and more grown-up the longer her career has gone on.
I think this change in voice is very apparent when she TRIES to go for the cuter sounds. HONEY, Greatful days, and Beautiful Fighters are great examples. She sounds downright silly when singing like that ("HONEY" was done on purpose, but in any cute & sunny song, she still sounds awkward). She really needs to embrace the more adult sound, seeing as how that's where her voice is naturally going. Songs like Beautiful fighters need to just stop, really. She can do the pop songs like Startin' and STEP you that are harder, darker, rockier pop, since they're darker & lower sounding anyway. But the sunny stuff just isn't working for her anymore. And she needs her ballads to sound more like JEWEL, criminal, and other "dark" ballads like that... poppy ones like CAROLS just won't work for her anymore, not nearly as well as they used to anyway.
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