#i miss writing idol meta
What I’m really enjoying about this is that Karin’s vocal performance is extremely deliberate. She knows what she wants to do with her voice, and it exerts a control over the melody to complement the arrangement. She’s not simply singing notes and dynamics, all of her notes are going somewhere, and her phrases are landing somewhere intended.Oooooh now this is fun! Very throwback to the Takahashi Yuichi days. Would not be out of place at all in Goto Maki’s discography.
This single gives me the impression that Karin is exerting creative control over the music selection, and she’s got excellent taste. (But also, that her music taste is genuinely loving that H!P sound, compare to, say, Riho, who is chasing that Taeyeon forward edge.) Both songs have a strong emphasis of rhythm in the vocal line.
This is rarer than you’d think, especially in idol music.
Sayuki-Karin reminds me of Airi-Miyabi. The former have vocal talents that can make their singing seem effortless, as well as having projection and range that the latter cannot achieve. So, the latter must compete through superior vocal interpretation, optimizing to perfection where the former land in the vicinity with talented instinct.
