#the vibrato tho

[waitwtfismylife]

People tell us not to be jealous of others, yet expect us to live contently in a world where Pia Douwes also exists.

[mayordeas-clone]

currently in the openutau tuning dungeons... i wanna watch youtube but i cannot hoshino hanami demands my full attention

[cartoon-skeleton]

i recently unlocked a memory about how the first musician i ever stanned in my life was kelly clarkson age 5 so now i listen to since u been gone every day of my life

[bmpmp3]

EXTREMELY low effort plug n play cover with very default settings mixing i did in like 20 min but im trying out voisona and holy shit tsudumi's 2.0 sounds SO so good

honeymoon un deux trois by dateken (original vocal rin), UST by purblexber

[aduh0308]

THAT WAS REALLY FUCKING SMOOTH WHAT THE FUCK

[astral-catastrophe]

would you guys still love me if I decided to audition for my school’s spring musical?

[rvsirene]

This feels homophobic

[38across]

Some of my current fave musicals are little shop of horrors and the court jester! Speaking of music, do you have a fav djo song? If you were to direct the music video for it, what would it look like? Hope your day has been good! - joe keery anon 🎱

ty for sending this again <3 and right!! i actually have the court jester kicking around on my desktop from the first time i saw this ask :') i'm excited to get to it!!

bah, a fave djo song is so hard... i'd be curious to know what everyone's is. but i was in the middle of answering this yday and i said atm it's gloom but then figure you out came on shuffle and i think it's that actually! which is funny cuz neither of these are my fave song from decide lol. the bass is soooo good, and i love the lead up to the chorus and how it just. pulls back!! it's just really cut n dry compared to some of his other songs, but the outro still sounds MWAH so ROBUST, so catchy. and ya the vocals.... one of my favourites on this album. hehe.

if i had total control (heh) over a music video for figure you out... idk i'd definitely stick to the goofy personal injury lawyer shtick he had going for the album promo! technology n social media are recurring things that pop up, so i think it'd be cool to do something with mundane 80s/90s tech terrorizing people. maybe some stop motion with like, a photocopier printing frame after frame. or a fax machine acting as a magic 8ball that spits out increasingly specific/ obtuse answers. but ya :')

it's been a chill day!! hope your weekend was nice anon 😊

[parseisflat]

i love watching violinists play the cello it is so easy to spot

[bandsanitizer]

in the least offensive way possible to seventeen (seriously) ateez has way too much face card to be covering pretty u

[waitwtfismylife]

My toxic trait is thinking I can sing any note if I try hard enough.

[anny-chovy]

my job is creative but I am trying to spend time working my own brain before the client one for my own good (creatively and mentally). it is nicest to do this at home before my commute to the studio but that's not always possible, or becomes an ache in itself. but this morning as I haven't yet received client feedback I just spent an early hour at my bedroom desk playing my synthesisers, including the new one I haven't had much chance to do ! I used the settings my bf (non-synth-boy) played with it to and now I am not afraid of a high pass filter. sorry for being a behringer apologist but I don't have the money for moogs (my fake model D affectionately titled "the doog"). I set the glide to max and copy the Knife. I wear dark lipstick because my song of the summer is "Katarsis" by She Past Away (having a moment)

[erisolkat]

ok so earliest i can remember having actual suicidal ideation was like maybe a week after billie eilish dropped everything i wanted. it was really new but idk exact details. which was october of 2019 so three months out from the end of the year and we are currently three months out from the start of the year so 6 months then 12×4 is 48 + 6 is 54 so uh. officially at least 54 straight months or 4 and a half straight years

[lottie-loo]

I just hit a whistle note while doing my voice lessons what do I do I’m not that used to being proud of myself AHHHHH

[springcatalyst]

thinking about the awful stilted dialogue in message from space (1979)

[yuzuyoon]

can you explain more about jimin's vocals sounding different? i noticed something but i know nothing about singing 😭😭 he said that he had been taking singing classes for 2.5 months tho

Ofc I can explain. I'm not very good at explaining things and I tend to trail off into tangents, so just bear with me for this. 

To understand how his vocals have changed, we have to look back on his old vocals and what made them “bad” compared to today. I'm sure you’ve unfortunately seen the clip all the antis use to drag jimin from the fake love performance with charlie puth. I hate the clip because Jimin seemed super tired and sick, but it is regretfully the best clip to show the difference between then and now. In the clip, he sings his lines, but they’re super shaky and it just doesn't sound good. You can hear that he sounds tired. His vocals lack control and stability and pitch. It’s just not good. 

Now this doesn’t mean Jimin was a bad singer. Jimin has never actually been a bad singer, but he did use some techniques that put a lot of strain on his vocals. This on top of bts’s crazy schedules at the time meant Jimin's voice was getting overworked. It led to his voice sounding quite tired at times and fatigue in general, manifesting in sore throats, losing his voice, voice cracks and even getting sick, like the fake love performance. if you wanna kinda feel what i'm describing, just try and belt incredibly high notes for 5 minutes straight very loudly and see how your voice feels after. I mean, you can just yell for 5 minutes straight too. it's exaggerated, but your voice becomes super tired and raspy after it and trying to sing nicely after it is super hard and your voice is super shaky after it. 

In the minimoni music episode, jimin mentioned how he needs to learn balance between his new and old techniques and said to sing older songs, he sings forward and up in his head, near his nose. Generally, when belting high notes, you want to aim for the power behind it coming from your diaphragm and your abdomen. Jimin saying that's where he sang makes me think he hit all those bts high notes by tightening his vocal cords to hit high notes. This is not good technique if you want to produce healthy sounds. When you watch him sing you can tell it takes a lot of effort to reach and sustain the note. The high tone he has is beautiful but his producers assumed high tone = the capability to belt high notes.

Jimin's voice sounded best when he would use falsetto and head voice. when he would use chest or mix it could sound a bit shaky and weak. this and his vibrato was inconstant and shaky as well. Sometimes these problems would completely disappear, but that’s not a good thing at the core because it meant he lacked consistency to continue with good technique. These are the main things that I notice a difference in. The key word for Jimin's old technique would be "tight.” If there’s anything i’d want you to focus on it’s listening to how high and tight jimin’s vocals used to sound. They sounded thin. It lacked the depth it needed to thrive. 

So what’s the difference now? Well if i described jimin’s old vocals as tight, high, and thin, I would describe his new technique as open, deep, and resonant. I’ll have to find some clips to show the difference side by side. 

he's not tightening his vocal cords to produce higher notes. if there is a note that's very high, he leans more towards a mix voice (head voice and chest voice) to produce a sound that can sound like belting without actually belting and puts breath support behind it to really push the resonance or he goes straight head voice. He’s not trying to hit challenging notes by pushing himself and hurting his voice anymore. he's pulling the weight of singing from lower down now for those more middle to lower notes and then leaning more into a mix for those higher notes. you can start to hear the difference back in the like crazy jazz version. He skips the highest notes to catch his breath and his voice sits more at the back of his throat instead of up in his nose making a lovely sound. I know to make the difference happen in my own voice but i don't know how to explain it, so you’ll have to try to sing the difference for yourself?

Jimin saying that he knew his technique would hurt his voice really was the confirming detail for me. We knew he was never satisfied with his vocals, but we never saw him outright say he knew how he was singing was wrong. I think the lack of vocal lessons back then was probably from their insane schedule and simply just a lack of time to get them done. No time to do vocal lessons meant that their schedule was packed to the point of overwork, which is another reason he was sounding off at that time. With the huge break bts got to work on solo stuff, there was so much more room for lessons, and i'm glad he took the opportunity because now he sounds amazing!! All these differences aside, Jimin still sounds like Jimin, and that’s the most important part

here's a little comparison video so you can try to hear the difference

I explained the fake love clip already, but when you listen to the who clip, you can tell he’s singing from a deeper spot and he’s really pulling strength from his breathing. Those higher notes are actually easier to sing when you use a “deeper” sounding tone. (and earlier in the clip when he sings the pre-chorus the final phrase sounds so crisp and clear an resonant and i basically swoon each time i listen to it)