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On 5ch’s Hello! Pro board, a singing video of Rena Kamimura (Kamirena) sparked buzz over how much her singing has improved. Viewers were stunned, posting things like “Isn’t she actually good now?” and “Her voice projection has gotten so much better,” while others offered more cautious takes: “That same vocal pattern bugs me” and “She’s still not quite at the ‘good singer’ level.” The thread also debated the effect of “Sugai-chan’s” vocal coaching and compared her to Soma, widely seen as the group’s top vocalist.
Isn’t she actually good now?
Source: video.twimg.com / original source here
What people said
But that same vocal delivery pattern repeating bugs me
Cut it out, man
Doing it once as a bit is fine, but come on
you'd probably think "whoa, she can actually sing like that?!"
But honestly she's genuinely gotten better at handling the full-bodied belting parts that are common in Hello! Pro songs
And since Hello wota tend to equate "can sing" with "can belt loud with a thick voice," that part matters too
Can't just hand her over for free though, how about a trade for their sub-leader?
Ise-san and Yuppyon, who Kamirena loves, are both in ANGERME, so a transfer there makes sense — dual membership would work too
Like Inaba and Morito, popular members should keep doing more dual memberships
Re: #21
Shut it, hater scum!
Well, I knew this kid was a golden egg back when she was still a trainee
She's a crybaby, but she's got a fighting spirit
She's just still hesitant about fully letting herself go
And honestly, even now you still couldn't say she's fully let loose
But facing this crunch-time showdown, where there's no room left to be shy or embarrassed, she really did break through one shell
Sugai-chan power
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2117575614588674048/vid/avc1/1280×720/FekIRTjMJ2cRXLw1.mp4
Singing with that much of an affected style at such a young age isn't great
Though I'm sure some adult is coaching her into doing it
Though on Ookami board it seems like it's judged almost entirely on raw belting power
Huh, if this is live singing, that's real growth
You can really tell Sugai-chan's lessons are working
Sugai-chan's great at teaching vocal technique
Pretty much the same impression here
She and Sugai-chan just click
If she keeps building her fundamentals at this pace, she'll end up in a great place
Whatever happens, she shouldn't lean on surface-level tricks like fake vocal fry or breathy flourishes
Stable voice, pitch, and rhythm
That's the most basic of basics, but it's also the hardest thing to truly master — the real secret art of singing
and she's already cleared that hurdle, you could say
When you say Sugai-chan, you mean Momusu (Morning Musume), right? lol
In Momusu she's mostly just known as a running gag for her "nya~o" (meow) bit
Doko? Doko? Doko? ("Where? Where? Where?")
Doko? Doko? Doko? Everybody!
Background and Key Points of This Topic
For context, Hello! Project (“Hello! Pro”) has a fan-driven culture of ranking members’ singing ability using letter grades, and the “C~C+” mentioned in the thread belongs to that unofficial system — it’s not an official rating. The video that sparked the buzz is believed to be practice footage ahead of an in-group singing contest called “Idol Battle,” and posters interpreted her improved vocal projection and technique as the result of training for that event. Opinions in the thread split over whether a single video was enough evidence that she’d “gotten better” — praise coexisted with more cautious takes like “that same vocal pattern bothers me” and “she’s still not at the level where you’d call her good.” Several posters also credited her improvement to coaching from a specific vocal instructor, but it’s worth noting this is fan speculation, not something confirmed by the member herself.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Pro) thread “Rena Kamimura’s Singing Is Suddenly Skyrocketing!! Source: Video.”
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