curiouser and curiouser...

[jemz]

Am working on things with the NEWS pacific Concert DVD running on loop.


I have a quick question for everyone on my flist who are JE fans.

Who do you think is the best singer in JE and why?

I'm curious and nihongofrancais and I had a brief discussion about this yesterday so I want to see what others think.

Comments

[ilanala]

I think the "best" singer is to some extent a matter of opinion, since it's hard to separate whether I like the sound of someone's voice or the way they sing from whether they're actually a good singer. If I had to pick one person, probably Ohno. There are a lot of people in JE who have naturally good voices (like Jin or Subaru or Nagase) but aren't really trained singers, and it shows sometimes. Ohno is someone who actually sounds like he knows how to sing (as well as having a very good voice).

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was about to say exactly the same thing. Jin has a good voice of course, and so does Tegoshi, but I don't think either of them really know how to use it? Ohno never really sounds needlessly breathy to me. (Oh, Nagase, that's right, he has a very good voice! Since I haven't listened to TOKIO for a while I will trust ilanabean42 on how he uses it. ;D)

[ilanala]

Nagase can sound really good or he can overdo it and wind up screaming and horribly out of tune. I blame it on being overly enthusiastic, but it's a bit painful sometimes. And yeah, I think Jin and Tegoshi both have a tendency to go "Hey, look, I can sing!" and wind up blaring because they don't really know how to belt properly. (I'm hardly an expert on singing, but that's the impression I get.)

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Jin himself is like, "Yeahhhh, I never really bothered going to singing lessons!" which is... exactly what I would have guessed, given his personality, before I heard that. ._.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, almost no one in JE gets singing lessons unless they actively seek them out -- I think Nakamaru and Ueda just started getting lessons this past year, for instance.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

That was exactly what I meant -- that I always thought Jin is the type who wouldn't expend extra effort on something he's naturally good at, so when he said he never had singing lessons I wasn't surprised.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

As far as I know he had some lessons in L.A. to get him used to singing again, but nothing to actually hone his mad skillz. XD

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

*giggles* His mad skillz. ♥ That's right, though, I'd forgotten about that. (I'm thinking of all the fics that always made me go "...", where Jin is like, this committed serious musician type.)

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

He writes music for hours a day and weeps over his guitar all night, obviously.

...

Um.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

General addendum: I like Jin's voice the best, which should be a shock to absolutely no one. XD I just don't thing he's the best singer.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

Right. This is really a two-pronged question -- who do you think is the best singer technically (at which point I'm tempted to say, "Um, no one ^^;;") or who do you personally like the best.