Totally overwhelmed by Rozette’s ability to FEEL the music. She just casually heard out the background story of the song without knowing the language nor the lyrics. At the same time, Yoasobi is also astonishingly amazing that they are able to convey so many messages in the song.
Great analysis and I really like the discussion at the end. I believe music really comes down to tastes, styles, genres and preferences, certainly techniques lend to the combination of these. Without certain techniques you can't excel or achieve in that particular style. This video of the 3 performers are the very examples of that I believe. Firstly I'm a fan of YOASOBI and have seen your reactions of them in the past. You were right on the spot about Ikura performing with a certain character for this song, specifically how the Japanese idol genre is based on, and the character Ei in Oshi no ko. In interviews with YOASOBI, the composer Ayase mentioned that he purposely wants Ikura to sing the song in the cutest way possible because that was the style he wants in this song, so hence you can feel the "anime-like" tone throughout. While Ikura's voice naturally is very soft, clear, transparent and straight forward, this is probably the most anime like tone out of all the YOASOBI songs. Their other songs are very different sounding (vocally). Ikura (or Lilas) true voice is nothing like this and she uses her natural singing voice in most of YOASOBI's and her solo career work. I think the best version of her true voice is the acoustic performance they did for MTV a few years back, where she sang the song "Haven't" only with Ayase on cajon and AssH on acoustic guitar. Sorry long post because I think the magic of YOASOBI is the combination of human/art and electronic/machine. I believe there's more "human" to their music than what it looks/sounds like, yet the music probably wouldn't turn out this way without machine. I do agree totally that art will still remain human because the imperfections are what makes art/human.
The fact that Ayase works with Ikura to perform songs that he was originally created with vocaloid software says sth about Ikura's talent as a vocal. Constant key changes with almost every YOASOBI songs & voice ranges that is almost impossible to sing
Voice coach is not obsoleted for sure. Ikura (the singer of yoasobi) has a voice coach that teachs her how to sing these incredibly difficult songs for years :) ...
This song is the opening for Oshi No Ko. You figured it out perfectly. Check out the music video and the offical English version, which she also sings.
