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I don't care for her cutesy voice either. She isn't a teenager anymore... she hasn't been for a VERY long time.
One of the problems I feel with Ayumi is that the things that made her great and connect with a lot of people back in the day are not the same things that people are concerned with now. Her fan base fell in love with what she was saying. What she was doing. Her fan base grew up. She did not. |
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I just don't think it's fair to think she didn't grow up. I have to agree that a lot of songs from her early days and incredible lyrics wise, but I don't think she's any less good today ![]() |
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I think Ayu has always been inconsistent vocally. But I always have found that interesting because I haven't really seen any other artist that can go from one extreme to the other.
Some performances are so powerful and moving and then another performance will be embarrassing and cringey with shouting or sometimes strange techniques/pronunciation. ![]() |
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Auto-tune (known for awful pitch-correction artifacts) is not the only pitch-correction software. Melodyne for example treats voice much more gently, voice still sounds pretty natural. If a person was slightly off-key, it can fix your voice the way it's even hard to tell that something was fixed. I used that program and it does wonders.
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Hmm i'm seriously curious on this whole screaming thing and her vocal technique or the lack of it. I'll have to give some TV lives for a friend of mine who's a vocalist in training to have a listen. She straight out told GACKT had folk influences on his voice not even knowing him at all. Which he did. So i think she might give some insight in this. To compare her older performances and very new ones.
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And the vocal/screaming/off key/high pitch/edition discussion is back again
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It is kind of a broken record-type discussion though since nothing new is really discussed IMO. Always the same people saying the same things. I think a big issue is that she's probably touring a bit too much since she sounds fine early on in the tours/performances but then things get way off due to illness or overdoing it. With the tour being her longest ever this year, I'm a bit worried for her midway through and during the finale.
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As someone who casually flips in and out of these threads, I always appreciate the updates from people who have seen her live more recently and can compare to older tours. I can appreciate that it's a more tired topic for those who check more regularly though.
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I mean, we already knew that she wasn't shouting in 2002. Not to mention that her voice sounds totally different nowadays than 15 years ago. |
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For me a couple of years ago means something like 4 to 7 years or something and not 2 years. 2 simply can't count as "a couple of years".
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I always felt "a couple" referred to more than merely two as well. Like I would interpret it as four or so. I know that's not really correct but in cases where someone would say something like "grab me a couple of those" and I'd say "ok like how many" and they'd say "two" it felt weird. Lol. If you use the term a couple to me it signifies that you don't have a set amount in mind, otherwise why don't you just say two?
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couple-
noun: couple; plural noun: couples 1. two individuals of the same sort considered together. "a couple of girls were playing marbles" synonyms: pair, duo, twosome, two; More informal an indefinite small number. "he hoped she'd be better in a couple of days" synonyms: some, a few, a handful of, one or two "I have a couple of things to do" That is what google says about the term "couple". ![]() To me, when someone says a "couple" years, it means at least 2 years. Not an exact time but a small amount. |
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I'm wondering if her first date of the -Just the Beginning 20- tour will be on 8th of April, it's Saturday.
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^too early. Usually it's ~2 months between announcement and first date
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Maybe she'll divide the tour in two with a month of rest in between?
I just hope she'll be touring in September/October |
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