Ok I can't wait for Iki permission anymore, here's my babbling:
So I just finished watching 4th Haropro Hour, hosted by Yuko Nakazawa with Kaori Iida and Airi Suzuki as guests. Yuuchan started the show by singing her first single "Karasu no Nyoubou" accompanied by piano and percussion. Thanks to my early Nakazawa fandom I knew the song (I hardly listen to her songs anymore, I know, I'm bad), but it took a while to recognize it. Either way this version of the song was absolutely beautiful and I had to listen to it twice before continuing watching. Yuuchan's voice is just incredibly lovely.
To be honest, I soon lost my interest when Yuko and Kaori started talking. The language barrier is just too much when neither of the members is one of my favourites. So let's skip to Airi. Airi's not one of my favourites either, but she has the 'freshness' factor that all kids in H!P have for me. I'm curious to learn more about them because they're supposed to be H!P's future. Airi was obviously very nervous in Yuko's presence, you could see it from how she covered her mouth continuously and hear it from her breathy voice. I found it cute how she needed to take a deep breath before playing the... whatever the instrument was, since at least she wasn't trying to hide her nervousness. It was also good she was able to laugh at herself when she messed up a bit at first. However, this also shows Airi still gets very nervous around the older members, which can be cute, but also shows she's not quite as "professional" as the previous C-ute members in HPH. At least I can't remember Megumi, Maimi or Erika get as nervous.
Airi's version of "Boogie Train '03" was pretty good. I think her singing was too loud at times, since there was little or no variation and it just sounded like she was shouting her way through. But with that being said, I really like the tone of her voice and realize she has lots of potential. Also, you could clearly see her young age from her moving on stage. There wasn't much choreography, but the little that was there was so 12-year-oldish. Enthusiastic and clumsy. It was cute, though.
Back to Yuko and Kaori. Again, I mostly ignored their talk, just listened to their loud laughter. When I did take a look at it, I saw Yuko sipping juice and Kaori calling her cute, and thought "...what the hell are they talking about?!". It was pretty amusing, but then I stopped understanding again and had to wait until Kaori started singing. I have no idea what the song she sang was, but it was alright. Her voice sounded fresh and lovely, but when it came to the chorus it sounded like she was pushing her voice too hard - it sounded a bit forced. But overall, it was a nice performance.
Now, the discussions in this episode were less interesting to me than the previous ones (mostly because Nacchi wasn't there, I'm sure), but the music performances were quite excellent and enjoyable. A must get for someone who appreciates the better vocals in Hello! Project. Next week will have interesting performances since arguably the worst singer in Morning Musume's history, Sayumi Michishige, will be hosting the show, and Saki Nakajima who has a somewhat distinctive and weird voice will be a guest. Ayumi Shibata's a guest as well.
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