Ayu's lives sounds flat?

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Originally Posted by MYV*izm

as long as she doesn't lip sync, i'm completely fine with how she is live.
like someone previously said, not every live is perfect.
imagine having to perform the same [emotional] song over and over and over again.
don't you think it'd lose it's emotion and sound sometimes? ^^

Agreed.

I'd rather have a crappy live performance than a lip synched one. Some of her performances are better than others, but I never thought she was crappy.

[AyuGAME]

i always satisfied with everything that ayu have done..so no complaint

[/Rief]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

i always satisfied with everything that ayu have done..so no complaint

Agreed!

[Choyan]

hm I think her TW... lives is not bad really, just a tiny bit here there in a few perf.s, not all either,
a HUGE improvement compared to JEWEL lives imo~ XD

I think her TW... are probably her best lives this year XD

[ayumisrael]

Except for some lives I don't ayu ayu had really horrible singing lives.
The latest Together When... TV perfromance-s are really amazing vocal-wise.

[keikeiaznqueen]

Ayu does really differently in different lives. She sometimes does really well, but other times, her voice may be more strained than usual. I thought some of her Together When... performances were better than the others. But that's the way Ayu has always been. ^__^

[DestinyWishes]

Together When is a really hard song to sing, Ayu performed it really well in my opinion. I'm sure if you got someone like -insert band with voice altered in the studio so much it's unreal here- and they would struggle really hard, Ayu is a really talented singer and that talent is real.

[nanami606]

Yeah, lately she sounds like she's forcing it.

[PrincessAyu]

Originally Posted by nanami606

Yeah, lately she sounds like she's forcing it.

Indeed now she sounds like it costs SO MUCH effort. And the result's not too good. She sounded perfect in 2004 and now she's over that. Ever since part of Me she sounds different and I don't like it, ...... everyone else seems to love it ... but, there's also those people that'll go at anything she does anyway cos "ayu is their queen" haha.

[zoomzoom]

^ I think Leah Dizon is horrible live.. same with Kumi, it sounds weird.

Originally Posted by PrincessAyu

but, there's also those people that'll go at anything she does anyway cos "ayu is their queen" haha.

Originally Posted by UHPlus

i can bet more then 300 of them are off-key or major pitch-problem etc...

she's not perfect, guys...accept it!

Um, I dont see anyone in this thread going "oh she never fails, she's always perfect, why would you think such". Some people just want to think that ayu fans are in denial.

Most realize though, that ayu never wanted to be a singer, never aspired to be one. She is not the best singer in Japan voice wise, but she tries hard and does her best. Then you can't ask for any more. She's come a long way.

[ayumisrael]

^Better thsn just stand there and sing bad ^-^

She's not really forcing it though she just sings emotionally...

[nanami606]

forcing it and singing emotionally are two really different things.

[*Petit*]

I liked her singing better in general when she sounded more high pitched and cuter. But her lives were worse before. Now I think they're in general nice and adds a lot to the song. A live is not supposed to sound like a recording... Then they might as well lip synch.

[nanami606]

Originally Posted by *Petit*

I liked her singing better in general when she sounded more high pitched and cuter.

Me too

[bondingo]

She is most certainly flat at various points in many of her lives. Unfortunately she just isn't as vocally gifted as some singers and has to work a little harder in order to perfect her live vocals, at times ultimately resulting in performances that seem overly emotional. I did not watch a single talkin' 2 myself live that I thought was impressive because in most of them she was out of breath due to using too much energy. Overall, she's quite a mixed bag when performing live. However, like Beyond the Sea said, her DVD released lives are always of a much higher quality, which could very well be (at least in my opinion) due to editing in order to make her sound better. After all, concert lives usually need to be at least partially edited for any artist to, at the very least, remove the insane amount of noise coming from the crowd (or so I've heard).

[puddinx]

Ayu sang TW very nice at Music Japan and Domoto Kyoudai.

[yamogi]

Her singing for Together When in Music Japan is good

[bluegie]

I dunno.. She has been singing like that (sounds flat) since talkin' to myself. She wasn't like that during glitter/fated or even the A BEST 2 era. Personally I dun believe she's struggling or forcing to hit higher notes. It's just that her voice is very very flat lately. Together When... at musicstation is an obvious example. I was like, "what's going on?"
I dunno. She might sounded flat during probly 5 or 10 seconds during a live performance back then, but not like this time. Her voice was so flat for 80% of TW... weird..

[ayu_ayu301]

only thing that bugs me most is her vibrato for the last few years ..
i wish she wouldn't go all out on those vibrato .. really ruin her lives

[juunigatsu]

She sang Glitter soooo well during A nation. She didnt start with a low pitch and she was back to her chirpy voice ^^ Only for glitter, though.