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.
-Written by Tsuki
