Megumi likes to expose as many people to songs from “Music & Lyrics”, such as “Buddha’s Delight” and especially “Pop! Goes My Heart”. As a refresher, here are the embedded videos.
(Yes, “Buddha’s Delight” should sound like BoA’s “Did Ya”)
If there is a point to this post, it is this. What is the result of a secret Canadian pop star? Robin “Sparkles” Scherbatsky (of “How I Met Your Mother”).
Oh right, that is James Van Der Beek. XDD
Just to link it to Jpop (since it’s completely unrelated on its own), now all we need now are some crossover artists that want to cover/sample/remake it. Utada, BoA, Rain? Any takers? “But don’t forget the robot”
Wakana, Keiko and Kaori are fantastic as usual. Yuriko still hasn’t grown on me much, but she sounds fine in this.
LOL at the video’s comments and the few people jumping at like most commenters who say they like WAKANA. Dude, WAKANA has the best control out of the girls. Lol at the “no/limited/same range” comment too.
Filed under: Meg's Lists — by Megumi or Tsuki @ 8:46 am
LOL. I thought I’d take a stab at this since I only know like OH 10 members? I’m also procrastinating at 4:30 in the morning.
1. Aya Matsuura
LOL. Because I’m still obsessed with Ne~e since high school. Tis sad. Oh, and she’s not a bad singer.
2. Buono!
Blame my current obsession with cute pop. That, and they sounds nice together most of the time. I don’t have a favourite XD.
3. Miki Fujimoto
Because she was with Ayaya in GAM. And she sang nicely in it.
4. Maki Goto
Because I’ve heard her sing? XDDD. This is nearing the place where I start listing people just because I’ve listened to them. Oh, and Maki’s singing is boring. Zzzzz. Yes I said it. She’s boring. By the way, I know she’s not in the list on H!Blog.
5. Natsumi Abe
Yup, this is definitely the time when I start listing stuff because I’ve heard one song from them.
6. People I just know but I don’t remember how they sound — there’s a bunch of people whom I recognize the name, but I might be making things up, so these are the people that I for sure know XD.
- Ai Kago — because she got kicked out for smoking and other such things, and an old friend of mine obsesses over her
- Mari Yaruguchi — because she scares me
- Hitomi Yoshizawa — because Brett likes her
- Reina Tanaka — I don’t know why I know and recognize her.
- Ai Takahashi — she has a name similar to a GIZA Japanese singer-songwriter I listen to on and off (who isn’t very successful)
7. Everyone else
8. Koharu Kusumi
Self-explanatory.
See? Lame. My knowledge of H!P is non-existent, and will probably stay that way.
I’ve been avoiding electropop for some reason. LOL. I also can’t think of more at the moment and I should be studying for ANOTHER exam for tomorrow (Yay, two exams in a row!). Yes, check my last.fm. Buono! is currently my 2nd highest artist this week after Rie fu. =D
Filed under: Rants — by Megumi or Tsuki @ 3:29 am Tags: alan
I suppose Avex wants a diva on their hands, if they’re looking to achieve the same affect BoA had with the Korean and Japanese audience, but with their Chinese relations instead.
alan is the majorly talented girl Avex managed to scout, but what are they doing to her?! I was provoked to write this as a response to her two latest single releases, which attempt to showcase alan with her “chest voice” – the voice that is most often used to belt. Face it, alan is no Christina Aguilera, or even a BoA when it comes to using the chest voice, and they should really stop making her sing poorly as a trade-off.
alan has an incredibly beautiful head voice. She has so much more control, and it’s just the way she was trained to sing. I believe she is capable of developing a chest voice because she does have moments where the she sings some very strong notes using her chest voice. However, don’t make her sing stuff like “Gunjou no Tani” with that crappy technique. Most of the times, alan sings all of her songs in a head voice anyway, despite the intention to belt certain songs. The result usually is her loss of control over her voice and poor technique, all because she’s focusing too much on forcing out the diva in her.
My prime example, “Kuon no Kawa” and “Chi Bi”. The latter potentially demonstrates alan’s best singing so far from a musical and technical standpoint. To start off, “Kuon no Kawa” isn’t that bad technically, other than alan forgetting her sense of phrasing in that version (and no, it’s NOT because it’s in Japanese – if she can sing the Chinese version with that much conviction, she should be able to get pretty close in what should be the same song). Towards the end, she gets so caught up belting, her phrases aren’t carried through fully. One more thing, she was STILL singing with her head voice for the most part. I’ll give her this, it was a better attempt than what she tried to do with “Gunjou no tani”, and proved that,with time, she can develop a strong chest voice (and maybe a lower register to go with it). For now, she should be allowed to stick with what she’s comfortable with.
I’m still dying from schoolwork, so I’m leaving you guys with this:
It’s a live of ayaka with a new arrangement by Hiromi (the jazz pianist). Hiromi does eventually go into her crazy fury of notes, but it’s short. It’s out of place in Okaeri, but it would be cool in her usual piano tracks. In any case, the rest of it sounds really pretty, and Hiromi’s more laid-back jazzy sound is nice to hear after listening to too many of her super-fast jazz pieces.
