765 Singing Test

[SideM]

I know there's already a couple topics asking who your favorite singer is, but this is a little different. I decided to throw in some numbers because who doesn't like math to see who I thought was the best singer. I tried to be as unbiased as possible, but I'm not sure how well I did, so you guys should tell me what you think!

The way I did it was I picked 10 songs that I felt were challenging to sing and covered a variety of styles. Then I rated each idol's version of a song out of 10 and added up the scores to get an overall percentage score.

The songs I chose were

• Marionette no Kokoro
• Vault That Borderline!
• Futari no Kioku
• Tonari ni...
• Kiramekirari
• Honey Heartbeat
• 99 Nights
• Here we go!!
• First Stage
• Kimi*Channel

Some other songs I considered were Overmaster, Kyun! Vampire Girl, and Watashi-tachi wa Zutto...Deshou?

Their final scores were

• Takane
• Hibiki
• Chihaya
• Azusa
• Miki
• Yukiho
• Makoto
• Mami and Ami
• Iori
• Ritsuko
• Haruka
• Yayoi

If you think there was a better way I could have graded this or better songs to use, tell me! I'd like to see what you think. I can also post their individual scores if anybody wants.

[Virgofall]

I WANT to say that this is a good idea, but even without bias there's one glaring problem here - Yukiho, because of her VA switch. Here we go and First Stage never received Asakura solos, and most of the other listed songs you judged from only have solo opportunities from one VA or the other (and I'm aware that there are solo parts of group songs you could judge from, but that muddies your goal).

[Okayu]

I'm too biased to ever join in a thread like this.

[ChocoCats]

Not sure what I feel about this as I'm not a fan of these bias-type threads, especially this one. Opinions are nice, but with the way it's written... not so much. I think you better off removing the scores and just tell it in words. Let's hope that this doesn't turn into a flame war, but that shouldn't be a problem considering our records here. I don't want to deal with... certain people here.

[DeviantProtagonist]

I'm too biased to ever join in a thread like this.

Probably this. What I will say for certain is that the likes of Hibiki has phenomenal range of voice -- from cutesy to mellow then furor, she has it down pat.

[SideM]

I WANT to say that this is a good idea, but even without bias there's one glaring problem here - Yukiho, because of her VA switch. Here we go and First Stage never received Asakura solos, and most of the other listed songs you judged from only have solo opportunities from one VA or the other (and I'm aware that there are solo parts of group songs you could judge from, but that muddies your goal).

Yeah, I definitely agree. I actually tested this by listening to both of their versions of Tonari ni, and I found that I rated Asakura's higher, but only by half a point. I like both of their voices, but they both have their own strengths. I thought about changing the list to include either one or the other, but decided against it since I didn't want to take this too seriously. Yeah I want to be unbiased, but I'm still just trying to have a bit of fun and discover what I actually think. It's not like it's government research

Also, am I wrong for thinking the First Stage from the Shiny Festa games was done by Asakura? I didn't use it because I didn't realize at the time, but now I guess I could have. Is that what you were mentioning?

Not sure what I feel about this as I'm not a fan of these bias-type threads, especially this one. Opinions are nice, but with the way it's written... not so much. I think you better off removing the scores and just tell it in words. Let's hope that this doesn't turn into a flame war, but that shouldn't be a problem considering our records here. I don't want to deal with... certain people here.

I definitely see your point, but it's not like this is the first thread of its kind. I know of at least three other threads like this, some of which have things said about the idols that are far worse than this, and they never turned into flame wars. You've already kinda said that though.

I'll remove the scores because a flame war is not my intention, but then I'll kinda feel like this topic will be pointless because I could have posted this in the topic already made. The scores were what made me decide to make this its own topic after all.

I hope this doesn't sound like I'm dismissing your opinion, because that's really not what I want at all.

As for being biased, I too thought I would be too biased for this to work. If I did feel it was, I wouldn't have posted it at all. But I was actually surprised at how much I liked some of their voices, and some of them ended up doing much better than I expected.

[seibo]

I feel like I'd be more for this topic if it wasn't a 5 hour time commitment (at least). Plus I'm having a bit of trouble finding solo medleys for most of the songs (only ones I could find were Tonari ni... and Marionette no Kokoro). Maybe I'll give it a try this weekend. Although I feel bad just listing names with little commentary and I feel like I kinda want to go in depth in each song...which is a problem when there are 12 singers for 10 songs. :/

[SideM]

I feel like I'd be more for this topic if it wasn't a 5 hour time commitment (at least). Plus I'm having a bit of trouble finding solo medleys for most of the songs (only ones I could find were Tonari ni... and Marionette no Kokoro). Maybe I'll give it a try this weekend. Although I feel bad just listing names with little commentary and I feel like I kinda want to go in depth in each song...which is a problem when there are 12 singers for 10 songs. :/

Yeah, I understand that. It took me three days to do this, but I thought that was just because I have a short attention span and get burned out easily. I didn't even realize this would be 5 hours worth of listening until after I posted and did the math.

I think the solo medleys bring up a good point. The way I did it was listening to them by idol instead of by song, meaning I listened to Chihaya's Marionette, then her Borderline, then her Futari instead of listening to everyone's Marionette, then everyone's Borderline. I wonder if doing it the second way would change any scores because of having more to compare it too.

I'd love to hear some commentary! I actually have commentary of my own, but I didn't post it because I kinda felt it would be too much in one post and I wasn't sure how well this topic would be received. I didn't go in depth for each song, but I do think I got a good feel for each of their voices. I could still post it, maybe along with their individual song scores, unless it's already been established that the scores were a bad idea.