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A rare all-star reunion during rehearsals. Ayumi Ishida, Mizuki Fukumura, Masaki Sato, Akari Takeuchi and Rina Katsuta ahead of upcoming M-line activities in Yokohama.

More than a decade later, seeing Ayumi Ishida and Masaki Sato together still feels special.

リハーサル中の豪華なオフショット。石田亜佑美、譜久村聖、佐藤優樹、竹内朱莉、勝田里奈が横浜公演に向けて集合。

10年以上経った今でも、石田亜佑美と佐藤優樹の並びは特別。

A radio segment from 07Nov2025 where Maa is talking about recording the vocals for Watashi no Nanni mo Wakacchanai.

She mentions that when she initially did it, because the arrangement was reduced, she tried to sing the lyrics with a softer dynamic/timbre , but the recording directors told her not to instead focus on bringing out the strengths of her own vocal timbre.

Google translate: "That was the first time I learned that, rather than matching the sound with the song, it's the voice that creates the atmosphere. [...] The voice is also an instrument. They told me that the sounds had to blend together. Well, my voice is pretty shrill, so I told them that it might sound too sharp, and they said it's up to me to figure out which parts blend together."

So at first, she sang the sixth-interval shift of "Ah-ah" [followed by "o-on-na nara, kankaku de, wakaru darou"] with a soft transition. After this feedback, she switched to singing it with a fresh attack on the second note.

More Google translate: "I learned from the director and Tsunku-san that there was a way to sing it that was appropriate for the scene."

The ironic thing here is that I don't hear that hard second syllable attack in the album version. The first chorus, the Ah-ah is heavily mixed with backing vocals, Maa isn't in the second chorus, and in the final chorus, she sings "sou sa" instead. Riho, Fukuchan, and Sakura all use a soft transition. But maybe the blend is the point. Maa doing a hard attack by herself would indeed be too sharp, but they allowed it knowing that they could mix with the other singers as need be.

(Maa also potentially specifies the post-bridge chorus with the reduced arrangement? But neither Riho nor Maa sing the Ah-ah for that one? As said before, they do the sou-sa line instead. Now, apparently everyone gets a chance at singing the entire song during recording sessions, but if so, then the directors ultimately chose to go with Fukuchan's soft transition vocals for that line instead of Maa's, so, uh. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

I'm reminded of this post, wherein the vocal melds during group singing in the chorus were nonetheless backboned by Sakura and Maa's hard attacks to emphasize the rhythm (with such over-enunciations being a trademark of the Tsunku singing style):

To add a little nuance to this conversation, please consider this: When singing in unison, I was someone who tended to leave it up to the ot

It also goes back to a few things I've said in the past. The more recent topic being how idol music, particularly for a group that assumes a rotating member lineup, may design the music not to be dependent on specific vocal timbres that won't be there in the long run, and so prefer an anonymized singing performance. But the best songs will be the ones where the most memorable singers put their indelible stamp on it, or even harder, the song will fail if they don't do that.

The other topic is about how oversaturation of tone will ruin a song. An arrangement that is already super cutesy/bubbly should not be accompanied by overly cutesy/bubbly singing. In culinary terms, you need a balance of flavors, contrasts and palate cleanser. Music is made of a blend of elements, and contrast is an important part of that. Which is something that Tsunku advocates for! That what a performers feels during any particular scene/song only matters as a means to an end, that end being what techniques they use musically. Vocals are an instrument, and instruments are agnostic to their players' internal states.

Thanks for the great translation, OP. This is so completely on brand for Tsunku, and something that he has been consistent on from the star

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From 2020: An M train crosses 60th Place in #Ridgewood, #Queens.

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Airi's new song/video is trying so hard to emulate Chanmina and I don't know how to feel about it. Still, it's better to see her doing something interesting and contemporary-sounding again.

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