>>58677444Agree. What a lot of vtuber fans thinks of “emotion” in singing is the imperfections of the singer’s vocal, not actual emotions. Most holomem singing sounds emotional because they are very untrained and the imperfection (like failing to hit notes, shouting or just plain fumble with lyrics) tricks an average fan who not necessarily an avid music fan into thinking they have emotional/unique singing. Some professional singers can fake their emotion when needed but normally, they don't feel shit while singing. Most professional singer sings perfectly and any kind of emotion you feel is more from the song lyrics and melody but rarely the vocal itself
You don't even need to look anywhere far, AZKi is probably the master of faking it and I'm giving her praise for it. She sings Inochi in almost every karaoke and always has the same vocal "emotion" at the same part of the song everytime. And that part always has some sort of vocal mistake, she either holds the note for too long, too breathy or doesn't hit the note. You can't honestly tell me that's not something she trains herself to do and she actually feels those emotion all 100 times she sang that song.
Back to IRyS, she's, for better or for worse, a perfectionist when it comes to singing. She refuses to make mistake, imperfection in her singing early on in her vtubing career. And to me she sounds great, perfect even, that's why I love her. But with vtuber fans are so used to SOVL singing, most don't even know what a professional singer sounds like, they branded her the label of "no emotion" and have been stuck with it for over 2 years while IRyS herself has noticed it and has been more relaxed in her karaoke. She still has moments where she goes all out and it's glorious but she also lets herself go and just has fun with the song. She knows what can create the "emotion effect" too, she once commented on how she prefer singing certain song when her vocal is strained/tired because it would make her singing sounds more emotional
