Japanese Media Addresses Ayu's Voice

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Originally Posted by touchedstar

haha, i don't know if i'd go that far, but then again, in the making of for ballad she kept messing with her nose in a way that i couldn't help but wonder about.

...you titled that cokenose? Oh my, priceless.

That second one from what I can see is her blowing her nose because she had to "cry" for the final scene of BALLAD, and her nose probably got a little stuffy afterwards because she really cried... or something. The first one, I dunno.

If that's really a symptom of that though, I must be guilty every so often then... haha.

yes but seriously...how long might it take?

I imagine it'll take somewhere around the same time that it took her voice to sound better after CDL07-08... so a few months? If AT10 comes around and she's still got that out-of-breath sound going on as much as now... then it'd probably be safe to say that her vocals have been permanently damaged. If you're familiar with ELT, the female vocalist of that group had an amazing voice from 1997-2003, and then some time in 2003/2004, she had bronchitis and damaged her vocals beyond repair, so now whenever she sings classics from 1997-2003, or even new tracks from after that period, she's kind of really bad. Most of their new works, especially her solo works have been very gentle on her vocals, as well as being midtempo lounge-y tracks. To illustrate the change, here are two videos of her performances back then and a recent one:


It's very evident that her vocals were damaged... -sigh- I feel so bad for her sometimes... basically she'll never be able to sound like she did back then.