Ayu's lives sounds flat?

[Chibi_Venus]

I think her lives aren't as great as they were. Well, at least this year.

Honestly, her "Together When..." peformance at DK was horrible. She stuggled, whether or not she was supposed to sing it emotionally or not. At lot of people were also saying how we "talkin' 2 myself" performance at a-nation was flat; one of her "fated" performances was horrible at the low notes. It could be that she's trying to put emotion into everything due to the break-up, but I think it's unnecessary.

Her vibrato, live and in a recording, is becoming horribly and noticably fake. Vibrato is not supposed to come out like that at all; it's not good for your voice at all. Trust me, I've been told.

Originally Posted by PrincessAyu

Indeed now she sounds like it costs SO MUCH effort. And the result's not too good. She sounded perfect in 2004 and now she's over that. Ever since part of Me she sounds different and I don't like it, ...... everyone else seems to love it ... but, there's also those people that'll go at anything she does anyway cos "ayu is their queen" haha.

THANK YOU. *bows down* I am not worthy. I am not worthy ...

[PrincessAyu]

Originally Posted by Chibi_Venus

I think her lives aren't as great as they were. Well, at least this year.
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Her vibrato, live and in a recording, is becoming horribly and noticably fake. Vibrato is not supposed to come out like that at all; it's not good for your voice at all. Trust me, I've been told.

THANK YOU. *bows down* I am not worthy. I am not worthy ...

Haha, no worries. Glad someone agrees, too. I also agree with your post about the vibrato sounding fake now. It's like she goes into vibrato and then it's like FORCEFORCEFORCE and it comes out like.... sometimes she sounds like a sheep going MEEEEHHHHhhHHHh XD I don't know how to describe it? It doesn't sound fancy at all though. I think how she sang forgiveness a few times in 2003 and the 2003~2004 concert was AWESOME. It came so naturally then, or at least that's how it came across for sure. Do you think so too?

[netsuAi]

the 'together when' live on domoto kyodai sounded excellent to me, even after hearing the HQ mp3...