Japanese Media Addresses Ayu's Voice

[Crystal_Ageha]

Originally Posted by noidea

^ Erm...have you heard Gaga sing one of her piano versions? She belongs to the best vocalists that got succesful in the last years. Just most songs of hers are really easy to sing.

I'm not saying she's bad, just that she's average (it's not bad to be an average singer, especially since the majority of people are far~ below average), and she doesn't even have a unique voice to make up for it (not to me, at least--I could easily confuse her with several other artists :\). Yes, she's one of the best singers of the past few years (from the Western world), but........is that really saying much? XD

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by Crystal_Ageha

I'm not saying she's bad, just that she's average (it's not bad to be an average singer, especially since the majority of people are far~ below average), and she doesn't even have a unique voice to make up for it (not to me, at least--I could easily confuse her with several other artists :\). Yes, she's one of the best singers of the past few years (from the Western world), but........is that really saying much? XD

Well honestly...the American industry is a little more complex I think to debunk when it comes to singers.

Sometimes we have just, the absolute amazing singer, and then other times we have people like Taylor Swift. Gaga for me is above average, but even I confused her voice for another singer back when she was still starting.
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In Ayu's case, with Japanese standards being what they are, I think they're being a little too hard on her considering the people they have in their industry...but I think theyre being quite influenced by Western Standards...which shouldnt really be applied since vocalists in Japan and America are really really different.

I mean, we could probably find like 20 people out there who could sound like, say Beyonce, but we probably couldn't find 2 people in Japan that sound like Beyonce.

While we could find 20 people in Japan that sound like Ayu...we couldnt find them here lol I don't know if they've thought about that though.

It's kind of a touchy subject, isn't it lol But certainly interesting.