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Originally Posted by SolarAngel
I feel that recently her singing style has been quite choppy, like she would end phrases very abruptly for example. You could see some signs of it in AT06 and then it becamse quite full blown CDL06-07 onwards. Maybe you could say the style of her songs have changed but the recordings of her newer songs like MW are not as jumpy as the live performances. But how do i watch it? The youtube video walking.proud put up has already been removed 
Ok never mind i got it from the downloads thread. Erm, it wasn't pretty for me at all. Her pitch was everywhere in Mirrorcle World although i thought she rescued the part where she sang wrong lyrics well. It got much better toward the end. SURREAL was, oh man. For the bridge and one of the chorus, she was perpetually in another key and even though she managed to hit the high note for the last chorus, the rest of the line was dead flat. She is really very careless in pitching. You can't just whack the note anyhow. But whatever. She looked great and it's her first tv appearance in a long time. I'll take whatever i can get. |
Yes, i agree with pretty much everything you said. I know that we should take her ear in to account too as part of the problem, but at the same time, she has had problems with that ear for almost her whole career and still managed to almost always deliver at least decent vocals. I've really thought for over a year now that something else was going on with her vocals beyond the ear problem - for example, as you mentioned, cutting lines off short should have nothing to do with the ear problem.
The up side of this I guess is that she actually wasn't vocally the worst of the night. Mochida Kaori of Every Little Thing was actually worse - it seems she really and truly just can not sing the old songs anymore. She had surgery on her throat to remove a nodule that had developed, but something must have gone wrong because her voice has never been the same since. Very unfortunate for her, but cheers to her and her bandmate for trying to continue anyways. Globes vocals weren't too hot either.
btw, what happened to TRF? They were scheduled to be on this special and then poof they were gone.