So I was browsing around some Japanese clips on youtube and found this pretty cool clip of Morning Musume's vocal training, focusing on Junjun & Linlin.
They are doing some general vocal exercises, with the exception of Ai, Risa & Koharu who don't seem to be there. I turn my nose up at Koharu's exclusion. Koha, get your butt to some vocal lessons! ... where was I?... Oh yes! So they are doing some vocal exercises which kinda look like training for track and field in Beijing rather than singing, but I don't know much about singing so I'm just going to roll with it.
We then have Junjun working with the vocal coach who is trying to get a high note out of her. She puts her fingers in her ears in anticipation of the howling screech which will soon be released from her mouth. Thankfully she gives up after a tiny mouse squeak attempt and sings Ambitious! which seems more in her range.
We move onto Linlin who is having a blast doing some ridiculous looking exercises. She is laughing and smiling which the vocal coach decides to work with asking her to sing *ha ha ha he he he*. (It was prob just another vocal exercise but it reminded me of laughing!) She then sings Ai Araba It's All Right and boy does she have some vocal chops!. I remember back when she sang at her intro event and everyone got excited about her incredible voice only to be disappointed when she relegated herself to a 'cutesy idol voice' in Onna ni Sachi Are. Hopefully this is a sign that she is coming back with a vengeance.
Both girls have great voices, Linlin being the better vocalist of the two. Hopefully we see them featured more in upcoming singles. Resonant Blue was a disappointment for these two. I'd like to hear them sing more than ahs, oohs and wooo oooohs.
Hopefully everyone is getting this vocal training (I'm looking at you Koha!), I will praise the day Morning Musume walks on stage and everyone sings incredibly. *fingers crossed*