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The band => The Members => Toshi => Topic started by: sasasama on June 12, 2018, 12:44:11 PM
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj47ud6lm8Q/
So it says, that this year's request in Utage (a singing variety show) is "Love songs", and Toshi will sing the male part from female/male duets, and he wants to rap too. ;D This sounds veeery interesting! I hope someone will upload it to somewhere! I've never heard Toshi rap before, haha. What do you think?
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Insteresting, thanks for this, sasasama!
and he wants to rap too.
Uh-oh. Sugar overdose, much?
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*when you procrastinate the album so much your best friend converts to hip hop*
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That's really cool. I want to hear him sing on UTAGE! and rap(?) if that's true. Looking forward to it
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That's really cool. I want to hear him sing on UTAGE! and rap(?) if that's true. Looking forward to it
"さらにラップに初挑戦するとう意欲的は試みも." It's written there, it says: he's very motivated to try to rap for the first time. :D
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Toshi rapping... dressed as a rock-disco ball in studded leather jackets. OMG this is gonna be hilarious 8)
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This is either going to be awesome or a beautiful disaster, I can't wait.
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I can write rap lyrics for Toshi, Toshi pls hire me :P
Heeya, this is Toshl in da house
I'm rappin' here without a mouse,
just clickin' ma selfies with a finger,
da taste of cake on my tongue lingers
yo
We Are X cuz We Are Legendary
but Pata ain't gonna drink dairy.
Yoshiki likes wine and Kitty
Sugizo pretends he's pretty.
Heath's is just strummin' his bass,
while I caress his fine dayum... behind.
I ain't gonna swear live on TV,
but I have 35 years' coolness on my CV.
I'm Toshl from X in da house rockin'
haters gonna hate my hair, I'm flippin'.
I'm the coolest gangsta in my age,
now who's gonna wire me my wage?
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Ok, now my mind is going through all kinds of rap battle scenarios. Toshi on one side Sugizo on the other. I can't really picture Yoshiki as a rapper so he would have to be in Toshi's gang with Heath. Sugizo can have Pata and some of his Luna sea members.
Or the whole of X Japan in a rap battle with another band? Hmmmm.....so many possibilities.
The mental image of that, OMG ;D ;D ;D
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You guys are so good at this, I'm laughing so much! ;D ;D ;D
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Their stage name will be The GanXtas. 8)
We're chillin' in our leather panties
We got the damn coolest besties
Marylin, the Manson not the Monroe
For the new album, come back tomorrow
I'm Yoshiki, the leader of the bunch
Had fresh blood and cheesecake for lunch.
T'is my buddy Toshl the Dragonfly
His voice ain't cranky, don't you cry
Sugi-chan thinks he's prettier than me
But we all know he ain't got no Hello Kitty!
Pata loves cats and whiskey, yo
the shiny pants were my idea though.
Heath... I don't know what to say
We never really talk, but he plays.
He won't ever talk about heartache
but at least he won't steal my cheesecake.
We Are X, and I'm so pretty
All you girls are very jelly
Can't help it though, really sorry.
Now gotta go
to my studio
to shoot some selfies
with my bro.
Xoxo.
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sasasama, thank you for the information. :) I think it is written that Toshl is willing to sing both male and female parts(yes, he can) and also rap part for the first time.
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sasasama, thank you for the information. :) I think it is written that Toshl is willing to sing both male and female parts(yes, he can) and also rap part for the first time.
That’s what I thought too. I can totally see him doing a duet with himself, like Yoshiki’s piano battle with Yoshiki XD
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sasasama, thank you for the information. :) I think it is written that Toshl is willing to sing both male and female parts(yes, he can) and also rap part for the first time.
Wow! I mean yes, he can, but how he is going to make a duet with himself haha. It's very interesting! Can't wait to see!
Also: thanks for the correction. It's even more interesting now.
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sasasama, thank you for the information. :) I think it is written that Toshl is willing to sing both male and female parts(yes, he can) and also rap part for the first time.
Or maybe he'll collaborate with a woman and a man, and with the guy he will sing the female part, with the woman he will sing the male part. I really can't imagine singing both parts only by himself haha
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sasasama, thank you for the information. :) I think it is written that Toshl is willing to sing both male and female parts(yes, he can) and also rap part for the first time.
Wow! I mean yes, he can, but how he is going to make a duet with himself haha. It's very interesting! Can't wait to see!
Also: thanks for the correction. It's even more interesting now.
He sings both parts? This is getting more and more intresting. :D But it's also getting more and more weird. ^^° Just what is this going to look like in the end? :D
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I'm literally choking on my tea laughing at your rap lyrics, guys! ;D
Toshi singing rap and a duet with himself... this is equal parts awesome and terrifying. Normally I'd predict a disaster, but since this is Toshi, I've got a hunch he'll somehow do a great job.
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When I first read it, I recalled this stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSf7jR9B6c
ㄴ They are original singers(band).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12DXszAfcFM
ㄴ And this singer arranged their song and sang alone.
Of course, that is not a female&male duet song, but the singer distinguished his voice from a soft voice and a rough voice, and sang the song of two people alone. Maybe Toshi can do it that way?
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When I first read it, I recalled this stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSf7jR9B6c
ㄴ They are original singers(band).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12DXszAfcFM
ㄴ And this singer arranged their song and sang alone.
Of course, that is not a female&male duet song, but the singer distinguished his voice from a soft voice and a rough voice, and sang the song of two people alone. Maybe Toshi can do it that way?
Wow, I watched the performances! Very interesting, indeed! I'm looking forward what Toshi is going to do. (Especially the rap part) :D
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It was super funny and entertaining. ;D Great!
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Here is a high quality footage of Toshi's performance, courtesy of ironfist/Jackie from Discord. https://mega.nz/#!zypSgQbK!RF02K9WjITf6rpXxVQqm6Wqp2qh6ezwsD27BP9v3usM
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He had another performance on Utage, Say Anything acoustic. Seriously check this out, probably the best performance of this song ever. His voice is soaring in the air crystal clear, holding high notes long and clean. Ahh my heart :-*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VocCsxt5alM&feature=youtu.be
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Wow! It was a super performance from Toshi, he did everything right in this song, his voice was so clear! ;)
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That Say Anything performance was super awesome. Beautiful!
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That’s one of the most amazing performances I’ve seen. Damn Toshi, how can you be so good
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Toshi is really amazing here... he's really an incredible artist... his beautiful voice with that great inspiration... :-*
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That's very beautiful. Say Anything. One of my all time favorites as it is. Hmmm...
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It was a really amazing performance, right until the last ten seconds, he ruins so many great performances by going overboard when he's already done enough, not having proper control of his voice, and not stopping himself when he knows his voice is going. sorry guys but the ending is part of the whole thing being good, don't know why I'm seeing posts saying "perfection, he didn't put a foot wrong".
If Toshi does that in a live performance in the west on a big live tv event like the X-Factor type stuff/festivals or even potentially at the Japanese Olympics when trying to get mainstream popularity in the west, then it wont happen for them. The general public will not suddenly fanboy them they'll be put off and remember that horrible screeching hoarse throat sound they had to endure for 10+ seconds. Imagine if he did this https://youtu.be/vo7G4cTWsmI?t=422 in that kind of live tv situation, ooh yeah this is the great new band all you hundreds of millions of people should fall in love with.
I thought Toshi was finally moving away from this since he's been doing a lot smarter things with his voice recently, was so close to being the best Say Anything performance since the 2008 Tokyo Dome one imo, bleh.
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I think it is a bit harsh to say that he ruined a 4 minute performance with 10 seconds of screaming. ;) This is Japan. On top of that, Japanese TV. They work in a different way and expect different things from their guests. I think Toshi has enough work experience to know what he is doing and how he should handle things. :)
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Wow, that was beautiful. Even the screaming at the end was great, his voice didn't crack, it was crystal clear during the whole song.
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Perfect technique doesn't mean a singer can touch you. You cna have the most perfect singing technique, not make any mistake and sing everything to the exact notation, and still not be able to resonate with my heart, with my feelings. There are quite a few internationally acclaimed super-bravado singers, opera talents etc. whose voice was never able to touch me in a way Toshi's can every single time I hear him sing. What will eventually make you a fan is not whether the singer can always produce 100% perfect notes. The overall feeling you get out of the whole stage performance is what going to eventually catch you. I do believe that X is such a band. You need to see a live performance to get under the spell. However perfect or imperfecct the studio recorded version is, I always feel like the live ups it 100000 times. Most of my mp3s I listen to daily are live recordings. Incredible energy, incredible passion. If this cannot touch somebody, then nothing will. If a person won't be touched by how Toshi renders Say Anaything during any performance, they will not be touched by the perfected, autotuned (ie. digitally corrected) studio recording either. Then they are simply just not into this kind of music, which happens. ;)
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He had another performance on Utage, Say Anything acoustic. Seriously check this out, probably the best performance of this song ever. His voice is soaring in the air crystal clear, holding high notes long and clean. Ahh my heart :-*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VocCsxt5alM&feature=youtu.be
Looks like this got deleted, it was an amazing version of Say Anything and I can't find it anywhere :(
Anyone happened to save the video?
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Didn't save it :( You can watch it here:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av25337270/
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Didn't save it :( You can watch it here:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av25337270/
Here's the mp3^^
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_gePUIB9LPzWd0SDwKgfravcjy19DjPT (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_gePUIB9LPzWd0SDwKgfravcjy19DjPT)
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Didn't save it :( You can watch it here:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av25337270/
Here's the mp3^^
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_gePUIB9LPzWd0SDwKgfravcjy19DjPT (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_gePUIB9LPzWd0SDwKgfravcjy19DjPT)
Thank you!!