Ayu's Singing Voice..REAL?

[hanabiwings]

I still don't know what people are talking about when speaking of squeakiness. To squeak would be to have some sort of squeak in the voice that is unwanted (i.e. when a boy is going through puberty and his voice falters.) Her first recordings were using the way that she learned to sing. When singing higher notes, she always projected through the mask of the face (which includes the nose) and made her sound more nasally. I think this was the most comfortable way for her to hit the higher notes. She's gone away from it because this is stressful to the voice and caused her voice to become ragged in the first tour she did (2000.) Moreover, her voice has sustained trauma from overuse and thus it MAY be that she can no longer sing with the same kind of clarity she did when she debuted and uses vibrato to compensate.

On a related note, she no longer sings UNITE!, Trauma, or Duty in the same key she did when recording. I checked the latest countdown's version of Duty with the original, which I had been watching on a tour DVD from 2001. They do not match keys. I think that it was a mistake for them to have written the music so high at the beginning and now she can no longer hit those notes because of overuse and strain.

[mui-gei-tal]

i think it's real...

Thanks hanabiwings you totally answered my question! What I was trying to say that I thought Ayu was holding back vocally because she too busy sounding cute, but I guess Ayu was just used to singing that way. Haru yo Koi was wonderful when she preformed it. I always thought that was Ayu's 'REAL' voice.

[lovia]

Originally Posted by hanabiwings

I still don't know what people are talking about when speaking of squeakiness. To squeak would be to have some sort of squeak in the voice that is unwanted (i.e. when a boy is going through puberty and his voice falters.) Her first recordings were using the way that she learned to sing. When singing higher notes, she always projected through the mask of the face (which includes the nose) and made her sound more nasally. I think this was the most comfortable way for her to hit the higher notes. She's gone away from it because this is stressful to the voice and caused her voice to become ragged in the first tour she did (2000.) Moreover, her voice has sustained trauma from overuse and thus it MAY be that she can no longer sing with the same kind of clarity she did when she debuted and uses vibrato to compensate.

On a related note, she no longer sings UNITE!, Trauma, or Duty in the same key she did when recording. I checked the latest countdown's version of Duty with the original, which I had been watching on a tour DVD from 2001. They do not match keys. I think that it was a mistake for them to have written the music so high at the beginning and now she can no longer hit those notes because of overuse and strain.

yup u are right
trying to hit that extreme high note with that clarity is very difficult not everyone can do it actually... even me tried doing it (im a soprano) the way she sings for her first album's songs.. my voice got bad after half a song =\ so it is extremely straining for one's voice to do such way of singing that why i never grumble when she went out of tune.. her songs, IMO, is very difficult to sing even though the tune and melody sound easy... and IMO, she is the only one who is able to sing in that clarity... so far...

[elepop]

Originally Posted by lolo66

OK. But that doesn't make it not her real voice does it? I can make sorts of different tones while speaking the same words/phrases. But I'm sure that they're my real voices.

Choose the word to use here. Should had asked if Ayu is trying too hard and made the song sounded very differently from her usual singing style.

EXACTLY!