What do you think of Ayumi's voice now? - Page 3

YumeHamasaki · #41 18th October 2007, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Yuuna-chan

Her voice was super screechy in the beginning, then it got stronger and more listenable to over the years. However, IMO her voice is really starting to burn out. She can't perform live anymore =(...Personally, I think her career as well as her fame is definitely on the wane. But I'll always <3 her :3

I love her mature voice!! But on some songs, like Audience and evolution, you can still here some of her 'highpitchedness' in it, so it shows she can do different styles in vocals. I don't think her voice is anywhere near bad in performing. She used to suck at performing in her older days, she could barely move on songs like evolution or boys and girls. She can do awesome lives in both movement and singing.

**ayumisrael** · #42 18th October 2007, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Yuuna-chan

Her voice was super screechy in the beginning, then it got stronger and more listenable to over the years. However, IMO her voice is really starting to burn out. She can't perform live anymore =(...Personally, I think her career as well as her fame is definitely on the wane. But I'll always <3 her :3

Wane? how come? xD she's still one of the best selling female artists in Japan!
There are a lot of female artists that their career are already got longer than ayu and they never got to anything she did... I think it's just stable.
I do personally think that a lot of her present performances vocals ar way better than before, her voice on the whole a-nation '07 was pretty awesome ^_^.

maxikot · #43 18th October 2007, 07:29 PM

I simply adore her vocal abilities now. At the beginning she could only sing high tones, now she sings lower songs but she still has ability to sing high. I really love the way she does now vocally. On her first albums i loved her singing but i could only listen for 15-20 minutes and i needed kind of break. Now it's just amazing. She has really mature and great voice.

ComatoseBunnySnatcher · #44 19th October 2007, 02:27 AM

btw haters, fated @ a-nation 07 was AWESOME!

SunshineSlayer · #45 21st October 2007, 12:41 AM

Honestly I kind of miss the "screechiness" she had before - to me it made the songs sound more raw and emotional live.(take End of the World at CDL 00-01 for example) I like her low voice too, but I think her best combination of the lower voice and higher voice happened during 2003 - that year I thought was her best vocally. Honestly I would probably rank 2007 as her worst vocally.

Does anyone else think this year that her voice sounds for lack of a better term, "alcohol scorched." (Ayu herself admits to drinking quite a bit) Like it is too deep and low all the time (from what she has released this year I don't even know if she is capable of doing high notes anymore) and she seems unable to hold a solid note for a prolonged period of time. It's something I started noticing around last December. I went the CDL and remember thinking her voice was good, but maybe waning or starting to drop out a bit. Maybe it's just me, but I've definitely noticed that the songs this year seem to be very shortly phrased (from Glitter on so far) maybe it's just coincidence that none of the songs have notes that she really has to hold (and not drop into her vibratto after a couple of seconds) or maybe I'm overthinking. But I know for sure that the A-Nation performance I went to was the worst vocally by far of the times I've seen her live in person and she also lip synched at A-Nation more than I've ever seen her do before.(1 Love and Until that Day were for sure lip synched), so that just added to my suspicion that something might be going on with her voice.

Don't get me wrong, I love fated, Talkin' 2 Myself, and Decision. But I am worrying about her voice a bit.

Choyan · #46 21st October 2007, 01:36 AM

I like it 'now'. I don't like that highness in ASfXX and a bit to LOVEppears ....

funny thing though, you can hear her nasally singing in Concert Tour 2000/Dome Tour 2001 but then it doesn't seem to be 'there' again til AT05 (?)

elepop · #47 21st October 2007, 01:54 AM

So-so. I don't think she has been controlling her voice very well. I prefer when she sings like in RAINBOW, Close to you, or theme of a-nation '03. Her voice was a lot better between LOVEppears & Memorial address.

#48 21st October 2007, 01:58 AM

Am I the only one who thinks that Ayu's high voice was fake? I mean she can turn it off and on. Like in AT06 when she goes from singing Startin' all crazy low and then she switches to chipmunk mode with UNITE!. I prefer her lower voice though, but the high voice does hit the spot sometimes. ^.^

elepop · #49 21st October 2007, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by KaoriNeko

Am I the only one who thinks that Ayu's high voice was fake? I mean she can turn it off and on. Like in AT06 when she goes from singing Startin' all crazy low and then she switches to chipmunk mode with UNITE!. I prefer her lower voice though, but the high voice does hit the spot sometimes. ^.^

Yeah, her high voice never was her natural voice. (Her talking voice was always low.) But I think it sounded better than how it is now. Especially in her 2007 TV performances.

mininamie · #50 21st October 2007, 02:55 AM

Ayumi sometimes sounds like an old woman. I do prefer this voice because it's a lot deeper and mature, but there's also a lack of energy in her voice. Hmmmmm maybe she should take a break and get some voice training

PrincessAyu · #51 21st October 2007, 01:06 PM

I don't like her current voice. Eversince like... part of Me, she sounds meh. As if it suddenly takes SO MUCH effort to hold a tone or whatever. It's as if she can't do it anymore. Esp with those performances of evolution and Dearest(?) somewhere earlier this year, she sounded totally blah. SHe sounded the best around 2003-2004. The lives for forgiveness and RAINBOW totally rock there.

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Originally Posted by asongforXX

So-so. I don't think she has been controlling her voice very well. I prefer when she sings like in RAINBOW, Close to you, or theme of a-nation '03. Her voice was a lot better between LOVEppears & Memorial address.

as I said above! glad someone also thinks this XD aren't those lives amazing? esp my favourite song's live Close to you!! <3

afusion · #52 21st October 2007, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by PrincessAyu

I don't like her current voice. Eversince like... part of Me, she sounds meh. As if it suddenly takes SO MUCH effort to hold a tone or whatever. It's as if she can't do it anymore. Esp with those performances of evolution and Dearest(?) somewhere earlier this year, she sounded totally blah. SHe sounded the best around 2003-2004. The lives for forgiveness and RAINBOW totally rock there.

as I said above! glad someone also thinks this XD aren't those lives amazing? esp my favourite song's live Close to you!! <3

So true!!

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Originally Posted by mininamie

Ayumi sometimes sounds like an old woman.

That sums up my opinion of her new voice.

4nGeLuS · #53 22nd October 2007, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by alt.total-loser

OH. OKAY THEN.

Her 2004-2005 voice was better than now. Back then her vibrato wasn't made of death and Japanophail.

I totally agree.
And I still think her voice sounded the best during her I am/Rainbow period. But that's just me and you didn't want us to compare with ancient history.

#54 22nd October 2007, 09:06 PM

I like her voice more now. Except live. I haven't been able to listen to a single live since.. 2005? It's really bad, LOL. Still love her, (In the studio). x]

<3

kinomaniac · #55 22nd October 2007, 10:37 PM

Studio technology is amazing, that's what I think of Ayu's voice now!
It never sounded so good imo, but I don't know how much merit she deserves for it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing her, just being honest. I love Ayu and always will.

SunshineSlayer · #56 22nd October 2007, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by HJeweL

this is such a good thread =)

well, definitely prefer ayu's present low and husky voice..her voice started changing at around 05 right?..i feel that during 05 and 06 her voice sounded great..

However during secret era..i was sometimes put off by her jewel performances..in some p. she really sounded very flat and she sometimes ended her sentences abruptly without vibrato or too much vibrato..

but after that everything when smoothly again after secret era IMO...congrats to ayu and like what extepan said..it's a welcomed change.

Actually the change started back in 2002 with Rainbow and was extremely noticeable from 2003 on.

I don't think her voice becoming deeper = her voice becoming more mature. Her deep voice is really good, especially in 2003 and 2005 I thought. But ever since the Jewel performance I've thought her voice was starting to sound like it was being damaged, not being more "mature."

Coelacanth · #57 22nd October 2007, 11:45 PM

I like 'decision' as a song I guess.. but I'm iffy about the vocals. A lot of you feel that she tries too hard to put on the high voice, but I think 'decision' proves that she tries too hard to pull off the low voice. She sounds like she's in an uncomfortable key in most of the song (especially the chorus). Compare it to the kiss o' kill chorus, she sounds much more comfortable and the deepness sounds less forced.

I think talkin' 2 myself has flawless studio vocals though.

HEDOfloe · #58 23rd October 2007, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by alt.total-loser

Yes, her voice has gotten much lower over the years. Which is good. She's maturing vocally.

I wouldn't really call her voice now nasally. It seemed more nasally in the past.

Personally, I like her voice more NOW. Deep voices = better than voices that sound like dying chipmunks.

Haha, yeah I agree with this. Although, I think she is giving more of a variety now, and not just focusing on "cute" voices. I think the reason I became an Ayu fan is because of her newer music anyway