The reason why Ado got so emotional during her live performance with Hatsune Miku is because she's been a big fan of Miku for an extremely long time, she even started with covers of various Vocaloid (the technology behind Miku) songs. Not only is she on a big stage in front of thousands of people, she's living her dream here, and that was enough to break her, causing that weeping voice to come through. Truly beautiful.
Song writer for this song is a close friend vocalo-P, of ADO. Only IMO, I prefer the songs of vocalo-P such as Nukegara, "0", Value since they understand ADO (they are friends) and reflect her thinking and idea.
Since it appears that this is your first encounter with Vocaloids, the TLDR is that Vocaloids have played a huge part in improving the Japanese music industry over the past decade. Yoasobi's Ayase, Giga (who co-wrote Odo and Show) and Kitani Tatsuya are just a small handful of music producers who started as Vocaloid producers, aka VocaloP. What's unique about Vocaloids is that these producers can stretch the "singer" beyond human limits because they have infinite vocal range, they don't have to breathe and they will never have issues with annunciation. This started a cat and mouse game with the Utaite, singers who sing Vocaloid songs, including Ado. They take these virtually impossible songs and try to successfully sing them. Now you have this pool of ridiculously skilled singers that train through Vocaloids. Ado has a deep love and respect for Vocaloids and VocaloPs and not only are a lot of her covers Vocaloid songs, but a lot of her original songs are written and produced by VocaloPs.
The entire video I was thinking that he would have understood the sentiment more and see how much this song means to Ado. She was actually crying while singing the song live. She mentioned in a video that she had prepared for this for 4 years, to be on stage with her inspirations to do music. That why the song talks about time traveling, because she has dreamed of doing this since she was young. It's about seeing someone that you admire and see as a stars, worked steps after steps hoping one day you would have worked hard enough to be with all the people you looked up to. And she did it, works with people she respect deeply herself and perform with her idol.
Yep! And the vocaloid tuner on this song, Mitchie M is also an insanely talented tuner/music producer. Especially their song like FREELY TOMORROW and Ai dee. They tries to tune Miku's voice bank to be as accurate as a human being as possible. The first time I heard their music, it absolutely made me shocked at how good it was. They even made the singing have breathing sounds!
By the way ado sounds so emotional at the begining the live performance cause she was crying (atleast it sounded like she was) during the speech prior to the performance, also theres about 70k people in attendance since this was the tokyo national stadium, also she was the first solo female artist to perform there! Love your reactions by the way! ✨️
Pretty sure that it wasn't one of the goals she set for herself, but I would assume that it's still a dream come true to perform a song with Miku, who played a huge part in making her love music and set her on that career path, in front of such a big crowd. Definitely adds another layer of emotions. Not only did she sound like she was crying a bit at different points in the performance, there were also times where she sounded like she had a bit of a lump in her throat, but she worked around that pretty neatly imo.
@@tenyar2528 tokyo national stadium have 3 concerts as of now 1st Arashi japan national boy group literally everyone know them there 2nd Eikichi Yazawa 70+ years old king of rock in japan 3rd Ado 21yrs old its crazy how she can make it as the 1st female singer to sing at the tokyo national stadium at such a young age, most national stadium of every country would not allow such a thing to happen
@@Falkner94 I mean it's a whole package right. She's got famous enough super quickly because we live in an era where everything can go really fast (again i don't dismiss her talent at all there, and the producers she had !) . So i'm not that surprised about that (don't get me wrong it's still impressive as hell, it's the tokyo stadium we're talking about). I'm just thinking in my own way while taking a step back about all of that : D
As a person who grew up with vocaloid and is in the cover community as well, it’s so inspiring to see what Ado does. She’s living the dream of every Utaite and she deserves it soooo much. I just hope she knows how inspiring she is for us smaller utaites all around the world ❤ amazing video!
Just before this song, she talked about how negative and passive she used to be, but how she got her dream and became a singer by listening to vocaloids and singers using a small video game console. Sadly, after the song, she had a conversation during the MC session in which she expressed her feelings of being hurt by the vitriol directed at her from those who did not care for her. She has been severely slandered many times in Japan. She has continued to do so because she wants to give back to Vocaloid, and because she hopes that even just one person in this venue will be like her when she was a little girl. She is still young , I support her 100 percent.
She is not just about singing. Her dancing, her silhouette, the quality of her voice-she expresses everything to the fullest, including her emotions, leaving aside only surface appearance. She is an artist who brings forth maximum expression. Moreover, she creates expressions unlike anything seen before. I love her performances; she consistently adds new elements to her expression, which is incredibly captivating. She will surely become a defining artist of the next generation. She even dares to collaborate with virtual singers without hesitation.
Glad you took some time to look up Hatsune Miku. She's legendary. Performing with her was an absolute dream for Ado, especially since she has always been an utaite (someone who covers vocaloid songs). Great as always Chris!! She performed Shoka live on TV recently if you're interested. Also she just announced another world tour! I don't know about you but I'm buying tickets for sure!!
Let's hope we can beat the scalpers. I attended the Wish tour, but despite getting my ticket within the first 5 minutes, I was very close to not getting one. Good luck everybody!
Calling the blend of Ado and Miku "Big sister and Little sister" is a sentiment that I feel would make Ado unbelievably happy to hear. Before her music career she composed songs in the earlier vocaloid software with Mikus voice so in a way Miku is the big sister that may have inspired Ado to be who she is today.
It is even reflected in the covers for her new single, where one version of the single has Ado as a child, and the other version has her as a grown-up, next to Miku.
Hatsune Miku kinda is what made Ado become a singer in the first place. Performing with her is a dream come true, since she grew up with Miku and got inspired to be an Uttaite. You can hear the cries in her voice, she must've been overjoyed.
That's exactly why I haven't even been able to listen to this once without crying, it made me so happy actually seeing this happen. I can't even watch the live version without literally bawling, hearing her trying to hold back her emotions while performing, I just can't handle it, It's beautiful.
I'm commenting twice to just say that I really appreciate how open you were to the concept of a vocaloid as a vocal coach/singer. Many people who react to vocaloids tend to really bash on them because it lack the 'human' part of the music in vocals. The fanbase for vocaloid (including mysel) can be protective over the genre due to the claim that it isn't 'real music'. People often forget that humans still make everything else and that it's very much a multi-media artistic pursuit. The intersection between music, art, cover, animation, etc all come together with the genre. It's one of the only genres where full creative stories have been told through song series as well. So thank you for being so enthusiastic and interested in it! I'd love to see how you interpret voice banks in the future
Also, humans are the ones tuning the voicebanks, and the voicebanks themselves are voiced by real people (who were paid for it)! It’s almost like lending someone a voice when they can’t use their own in a way they’re not able to to share their stories and creations and stretch the limit on human capability
Ado has been singing VOCALOID covers since the beginning of his career. This collaboration marks the culmination and pinnacle of Ado and Miku's real and virtual worlds since the release of VOCALOID in 2007. 😊
VOCALOID as a product came out earlier than 2007. I believe it came out in 2004 or 2005. The VOCALOID 2 software, where Hatsune Miku was released, was released in 2007.
During the music concert before this song, she shed tears and talked about her feelings about Vocaloid and her dreams. So you can see that she was at a loss for words when she started singing. Truly such a beautiful song. 🥹
Saw another comment about this and wanted to echo it. Ado is the producer of a "retro horror" j-pop idol group that debuted earlier this year. I've been really enjoying some of their songs lately. I'd recommend giving them a listen! Some people have complained that she just recruited 5 mini Ados, but I disagree on that (and wouldn't even be mad if that Were the case lol). Would recommend checking out "Just wanna xxxx with you" or their debut song "otomodachi".
She is actually going to have a second world tour in early-mid 2025 so be ready for some great live performances to react and analyse! I'm hoping to make it to the Milan performance.
I'm really happy you discovered Miku ! A massive star in Japan (you saw the crowd in the live^^)..... When I was in Japan, in april 2024, I saw posters for her 17th birthday even she doesn't exist physically..... Japan is strange sometimes but beautiful ! One of the best duo Japan can give to us.... Sakura Biyori & Time Machine is one of my top 10 ado songs now !... The live was very emotional (we saw this in the public, tears all around the place). Ado was almost in tears too during the live (I think that because of what I hear in her voice in stage)..... That's because the young ado, when she was unknown in Japan at 15-16 years old, she was inspired by Hatsune Miku (and others vocaloid). Being grateful to a virtual singer when you are a massive faceless star in your country..... Only Japan can give us this legendary duo..... That's why I was very emotional when I saw the live 3 days ago..... By the way ado will do another world tour, the hibana one, between april and august 2025.... She will be in 33 cities for 22 countries.... And she will be in my country, in France the 25th June.... I hope I can get ticket !!
Hi Chris! I'm a choir member for 6 years in my school, and I happened to chance until one of your ado analysis and breakdowns last year. Thanks to you, I've made my own improvements and explored new boundaries of what my voice can be and the full potential of what I can do with it. Thank you very much, your opinions have breathed new life and opened a different angle of viewing the vocal technique, style and more of singing. Because of this video specifically from her, for my prom (which is happening in about a month), instead of doing Eien no Akuruhi, I'll be doing this song, and I've engineered the background track that I'm using to also include as much of MIku alongside me! I know I am unable to measure up to what Ado does, but I'll do my best! Thank you for this video, it helped give me a better understanding and tips of what I can add to my own singing.
Sakura "B"yori lol. happy to see your vids. The crying voice is because ado been a fan of miku since middle school so singing with her on stage is a dream come true. It was also the biggest venue in Japan with the capacity during Shinzou is 70k per day for 2 days.
youre genuinely the only ado reaction channel in my eyes, like you actually explore how she uses her voice and tell us what shes doing!! it makes listening to the songs more interesting and helps me appreciate them more. also youre the only youtube ive seen to say her name right
I'm happy you finally meet miku! She means a lot to ado and she always tries her best to always talk about miku and vocaloid, the producer is also a vocaloid producer and an 'utaite' (cover artist) like ado, his name is mafumafu and he's also a famous singer. This song celebrates miku and vocaloid! Thank you so much for this reaction, it was awesome.
as others have said, Hatsune Miku is a computer software, that was made by sampling a singers voice, and tuning it digital. Producers make Miku sing by plugging in words, and adjusting/placing the pitch and tone that you want her to make, kinda similar to how you make sounds with virtual instruments. You can kind of think of it as the beginnings of AI voiceover. She was HUGE back in the mid to late 2000s all the way up til now, and she let a bunch of indie music producers give a voice to their songs. ADO started her musical career by covering a lot of Miku songs back in the day, and that's why she was so emotional on stage. without Miku, its possible that ADO would've never even become a singer in the first place.
Yeeaaah!! Thank you chris! I've been waiting for this reaction and analysis video! I love Ado and her voice and I'm so excited to finally hear her live here in Milan next year! Btw look for Shoka Live by Ado!
This moment was very meaningful for Ado and she was trying her best to hold back her crying while singing but that just added more emotion to how she expressed her singing, its so beautiful.
I want to thank you for yet another amazing musical breakdown. Your comments about artist vulnerability and using technology to enhance that are really giving me a lot of productive food for thought. Also, your videos are what introduced me to Ado and because of that, I have had a lot of inspiration to pursue a more expressive voice. Thanks again, Chris!
For you guys who don't know, this channel (chris liepe) is the most detail if not the best channel in terms of reviewing ado's songs. You can all compare to other reactor on youtube and you will see that chris is noticing every detail of ado's voice and techniques.. Making us more understand and more apreciating the hardwork and the great talent ado has..
Vocaloids came out around 2010 as a kind of singing voice synthetizer based on someone else who would put their singing voice in the voice bank. It was an alternative for producers and bands that didn't have a vocalist yet or couldn't afford one. Many different "voices", called vocaloids, have been released since. But Miku is by far the most famous and popular one. In japan it created a community of producers (who are called VolcaoidP) that used vocaloids for their songs. There are some pretty famous and epic Miku concerts that feature other famous vocaloids by the same company. They basically use holograms for the presentations, live music, and a pretty impressive light show, just like you saw now. Ado started off as a singer thanks to Miku. She started covering vocaloid songs before launching her professional career. So this is literally a dream came true for her and extremely meaningful. You could hear her crying throughout the entire song, her voice breaking here and there, and yet she kept it professional and continue flawlessly. It even makes it all more exciting imo.
You should check out Phantom Siita too, Ado produces them. Also Ado is having another World Tour next year called Hibana, you may be able to go watch her live too!
She is doing her next world tour in 2025, are you going to see one of her live performances in person? Seeing Ado live is always super cool to experience for people.
during her live you can hear alot of creak and raw voice because she was crying and holding tears back i was there for this live there is 70k audience per day for 2 day
Man this song makes me so nostalgic for memories that I haven’t even made. One of Ado’s best in my opinion, especially considering Ado’s emotional connection to it. I just love the chord progressions, use of piano, and use of synth runs in the background, they really add some great motion to the track. Kudos to the producer! Also great reaction as always Chris!
Vocaloid producers are also responsible for the wacky composition and genre fusion you often see in her songs. Songs and covers of hers you have reacted to that were made by Vocaloid producers: Ussewa (Syudou), Odo and Show (Giga and Teddyloid collab), RuLe (Maretu), Readymade (Surii), Value (Police Picadilly), Aishite Aishite Aishite (Kikuo, cover) and God-ish (Pinochio-P, cover). Ado has more than a hundred Vocaloid covers under her belt going back to age 14, a few of the oldest ones have recently been remade. A comparison between her "Accident Coordinator" cover from age 15 and the one from two months ago would be really cool lol This song was made by fellow utaite MafuMafu, one of the first generation. IIRC the first concert she ever attended was one of his. Multiple layers of nostalgia in this song, hence all the tears. Mirror was written by Natori, another vocaloid cover singer. She covered his hit "Overdose" half a year before that.
It made me emotional hearing Ado’s emotional weeping and voice cracks during the live. I can’t imagine how she feels being able to perform live in front of 70,000 people with Miku, who is the main reason for her being a utaite. I can’t wait for her tour next year. I’m happy that the venues are a lot larger than last time. Also I think you’d like Hoshimachi Suisei’s discography as well. Check out her First Take version of Stellar Stellar. First ever V-Tuber to be on the First Take.
its always so hard to explain the connection of Ado and Miku to people who dont know the culture behind Vocaloid and Utaite haha Everytime i watch this live performance I tear up right along her, it's so surreal seeing the two of them on the same stage and the fact that she was able to get where she is now and to perform right next to The One And Only is just! So proud of her!
I can't wait for Chris' slow descent into VOCALOID music and the community. Thank you Ado for being the gateway we needed! (΄◞ิਊ◟ิ‵) ☆ He's learning! He's becoming interested!
Chris! Ado is doing a 2nd world tour in 2025! Perhaps a trip is in order if you wish to see her live. I cannot recommend it enough. Her stage presence and vocals are a whole different experience live! 💙
Vocaloid is based on sampling technology, the voice is taken from a voice bank. It is the same principle as in a music synthesizer. But in the bank there are recordings of a real voice. The voice provider for Hatsune Miku was Japanese voice actress and singer Saki Fujita. She gave various samples of her voice.
Ado has looked up to Mafumafu (the one in charge for the music & lyrics) for a long time, and Miku is an important part of her journey. This is like a dream collab!
You should do a vocal analysis of tokyo cannibalism! Her voice in that song is just a rollercoaster of pure craziness, definitely will be a great video
For 23:32 ... I'm just guessing here, but I don't think that she actually ran out of breath. In the studio version Ado and Miku alternate between having solo parts, "true duet" parts, where both of their vocals are equal in volume and next to each other from a layer perspective, parts where Miku does a backing vocals role for Ado and parts where Ado does a backing vocals role for Miku. The moment where you said she got quieter and maybe ran out of breath is just slightly before the switch happens, where Ado becomes the backing vocal for Miko again and I assume that she paddled back her volume to dial in on where she needs to be volume-wise to let Miku be on top of her voice. Also still hoping you might want to make a video of her cover of Annoyance. I actually left a comment on your video covering Shoka, because I thought it would be fitting as she wrote the lyrics for Shoka when she was 16/17 years old and around that time she did the cover for Annoyance, but I guess my comment was auto-deleted, because I put the video link in it since the video is a bit harder to find on her channel. That cover is from 5 years ago and it blows my mind how expressive and free she already was back then. Instead of putting the link, I will leave the video title this time in case you want to have a look at it. 【オリジナルMV】邪魔 歌いました【Ado】 On a last note, I congratulated you to 500k subscribers on that deleted comment, so I will just do it here again.
i love this videos, they are like... shering ur fav music with someone ho likes to really talk about the music and what makes feel (im not english speaker...)
I know who Hatsune Miku is and I listened to some of her music tracks and (suprisingly) enjoyed those. Their voices blend so well. I can't believe Miku is so polular while she doesn't exist but that collaboration is (oddly?) satisfying.
Not how i expected you to get introduced in to vocaloid lol but not a bad way at all, basically how a lot of people already said, Miku is pretty much the whole reason why we are able to hear Ado's beautiful vocals today 💙
hey chris, i would love if you could check out 9lana cover of propose, its got so many vocal techniques and emotion, i think you will love it and take alot from it! also great video as always! was always curious for your thoughts on a vocaloid lol
Holy hell, Chris. Now there's something I didn't know I wanted-An Ado cover of Zombie by The Cranberries. That would be an early Christmas gift for like... 8 of us.
I love how her voice and the hatsune miku vocaloid just somehow seems to absolutely meld together. insane. hilariously, Hatsune Miku is the elder sister in this context.
I think I can attest the reason as to why Ado is on another level is because she grew up singing vocaloid songs where the composers had the vocals doing humanly impossible things. She had to match up and she did.
Also Hatsune miku has her own concerts called “Magical Mirai”, you could react some songs of those annual concerts that have been done since 2013 without interruptions !
Another great Ado reaction, I love her music so much! Please keep doing these! I'll just leave this here in case you are curious about her song titles. Japanese pronunciation is super easy and the vowels never* change no matter the word! A as in br(a) I as in fr(ee) U similar to f(oo)d E as in (e)cho O as in Camb(o)dia *they sometimes are shortened or removed but don't worry about it :)
It makes me so happy to see this it brings tears of joy watching this as a old miku fan seeing someone living my dream makes everything seem so possible to do.
One of Ado's best performances honestly. I'd like to recommend an upcoming artist who seems to be getting little attention since her performance on The First Take, her debut single which is her first on a record label was written by her for My Hero Academia. It's an incredibly heartfelt performance by a passionate fan, I'd recommend checking the description as it gives some details about her, she's a relatively unknown. Zarame - Sixth Magnitude Star on The First Take Honestly, I think you'll be incredibly surprised by her range, imho she's a sleeping giant. She's done many live covers in public that have utterly floored me, as I'm still trying finding more techniques and various skills she's put to use. I'll stop now before I wax a little too poetic. XD
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The reason why Ado got so emotional during her live performance with Hatsune Miku is because she's been a big fan of Miku for an extremely long time, she even started with covers of various Vocaloid (the technology behind Miku) songs. Not only is she on a big stage in front of thousands of people, she's living her dream here, and that was enough to break her, causing that weeping voice to come through. Truly beautiful.
She just need to duet with Sheena Ringo at this point.
@@graveyardz56 Yeah, definitely the two figures she idolized the most and that pushed her forward.
@@graveyardz56 she has a song written by sheena ringo but i agree they nneeeddd to collab asapp omg...
I was very surprised at Sheena Ringo's recent album having collabs with so many female musicians but Ado wasn't one of them.
Song writer for this song is a close friend vocalo-P, of ADO. Only IMO, I prefer the songs of vocalo-P such as Nukegara, "0", Value since they understand ADO (they are friends) and reflect her thinking and idea.
Since it appears that this is your first encounter with Vocaloids, the TLDR is that Vocaloids have played a huge part in improving the Japanese music industry over the past decade. Yoasobi's Ayase, Giga (who co-wrote Odo and Show) and Kitani Tatsuya are just a small handful of music producers who started as Vocaloid producers, aka VocaloP.
What's unique about Vocaloids is that these producers can stretch the "singer" beyond human limits because they have infinite vocal range, they don't have to breathe and they will never have issues with annunciation.
This started a cat and mouse game with the Utaite, singers who sing Vocaloid songs, including Ado. They take these virtually impossible songs and try to successfully sing them. Now you have this pool of ridiculously skilled singers that train through Vocaloids. Ado has a deep love and respect for Vocaloids and VocaloPs and not only are a lot of her covers Vocaloid songs, but a lot of her original songs are written and produced by VocaloPs.
Bump this up!
This would help Chris have a deeper understanding of japanese vocalists!
The entire video I was thinking that he would have understood the sentiment more and see how much this song means to Ado. She was actually crying while singing the song live. She mentioned in a video that she had prepared for this for 4 years, to be on stage with her inspirations to do music. That why the song talks about time traveling, because she has dreamed of doing this since she was young. It's about seeing someone that you admire and see as a stars, worked steps after steps hoping one day you would have worked hard enough to be with all the people you looked up to. And she did it, works with people she respect deeply herself and perform with her idol.
Makes very much sense now, nice fun fact
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoの尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
Yep! And the vocaloid tuner on this song, Mitchie M is also an insanely talented tuner/music producer. Especially their song like FREELY TOMORROW and Ai dee. They tries to tune Miku's voice bank to be as accurate as a human being as possible. The first time I heard their music, it absolutely made me shocked at how good it was. They even made the singing have breathing sounds!
By the way ado sounds so emotional at the begining the live performance cause she was crying (atleast it sounded like she was) during the speech prior to the performance, also theres about 70k people in attendance since this was the tokyo national stadium, also she was the first solo female artist to perform there! Love your reactions by the way! ✨️
who performed there ? can you enlight me please : )
Tokyo National Stadium👏👏👏👏
Pretty sure that it wasn't one of the goals she set for herself, but I would assume that it's still a dream come true to perform a song with Miku, who played a huge part in making her love music and set her on that career path, in front of such a big crowd. Definitely adds another layer of emotions.
Not only did she sound like she was crying a bit at different points in the performance, there were also times where she sounded like she had a bit of a lump in her throat, but she worked around that pretty neatly imo.
@@tenyar2528 tokyo national stadium have 3 concerts as of now
1st Arashi japan national boy group literally everyone know them there
2nd Eikichi Yazawa 70+ years old king of rock in japan
3rd Ado 21yrs old
its crazy how she can make it as the 1st female singer to sing at the tokyo national stadium at such a young age, most national stadium of every country would not allow such a thing to happen
@@Falkner94 I mean it's a whole package right. She's got famous enough super quickly because we live in an era where everything can go really fast (again i don't dismiss her talent at all there, and the producers she had !) . So i'm not that surprised about that (don't get me wrong it's still impressive as hell, it's the tokyo stadium we're talking about). I'm just thinking in my own way while taking a step back about all of that : D
She did an emotional speech prior to performing this song, she was in tears. Hence the weeping vocals. Thank you for doing this analysis
I haven’t seen the pre performance speech. Do you know where to find it?
@@Dracossack.日本の有料ストリーミングサービスU-NEXTで期間限定配信してます。
Ado special live 2024 "Shinzou"
@@Dracossack. probably cant most people dont care sadly.
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoの尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
The songs Ado covered God-ish and Aishite Aishite Aishite which you reacted to are actually originally sung by Miku!
I thought aishite is kikuo song no?
@@WuYiQing Produced by Kikuo, Miku sings it. Ofc Kikuo also tuned her voice.
@@WuYiQing bruh.
As a person who grew up with vocaloid and is in the cover community as well, it’s so inspiring to see what Ado does. She’s living the dream of every Utaite and she deserves it soooo much. I just hope she knows how inspiring she is for us smaller utaites all around the world ❤ amazing video!
Just before this song, she talked about how negative and passive she used to be, but how she got her dream and became a singer by listening to vocaloids and singers using a small video game console.
Sadly, after the song, she had a conversation during the MC session in which she expressed her feelings of being hurt by the vitriol directed at her from those who did not care for her. She has been severely slandered many times in Japan.
She has continued to do so because she wants to give back to Vocaloid, and because she hopes that even just one person in this venue will be like her when she was a little girl.
She is still young , I support her 100 percent.
She is not just about singing. Her dancing, her silhouette, the quality of her voice-she expresses everything to the fullest, including her emotions, leaving aside only surface appearance. She is an artist who brings forth maximum expression. Moreover, she creates expressions unlike anything seen before.
I love her performances; she consistently adds new elements to her expression, which is incredibly captivating. She will surely become a defining artist of the next generation. She even dares to collaborate with virtual singers without hesitation.
even being a shadow in stage, she glows bright
Glad you took some time to look up Hatsune Miku. She's legendary. Performing with her was an absolute dream for Ado, especially since she has always been an utaite (someone who covers vocaloid songs). Great as always Chris!! She performed Shoka live on TV recently if you're interested. Also she just announced another world tour! I don't know about you but I'm buying tickets for sure!!
Let's hope we can beat the scalpers. I attended the Wish tour, but despite getting my ticket within the first 5 minutes, I was very close to not getting one. Good luck everybody!
Calling the blend of Ado and Miku "Big sister and Little sister" is a sentiment that I feel would make Ado unbelievably happy to hear. Before her music career she composed songs in the earlier vocaloid software with Mikus voice so in a way Miku is the big sister that may have inspired Ado to be who she is today.
It is even reflected in the covers for her new single, where one version of the single has Ado as a child, and the other version has her as a grown-up, next to Miku.
Hatsune Miku kinda is what made Ado become a singer in the first place. Performing with her is a dream come true, since she grew up with Miku and got inspired to be an Uttaite. You can hear the cries in her voice, she must've been overjoyed.
That's exactly why I haven't even been able to listen to this once without crying, it made me so happy actually seeing this happen.
I can't even watch the live version without literally bawling, hearing her trying to hold back her emotions while performing, I just can't handle it, It's beautiful.
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoの尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoが尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoが尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
i actually was in that concert and it was one of the best days of my life
Not me jealous of a stranger
I'm commenting twice to just say that I really appreciate how open you were to the concept of a vocaloid as a vocal coach/singer. Many people who react to vocaloids tend to really bash on them because it lack the 'human' part of the music in vocals. The fanbase for vocaloid (including mysel) can be protective over the genre due to the claim that it isn't 'real music'. People often forget that humans still make everything else and that it's very much a multi-media artistic pursuit. The intersection between music, art, cover, animation, etc all come together with the genre. It's one of the only genres where full creative stories have been told through song series as well. So thank you for being so enthusiastic and interested in it! I'd love to see how you interpret voice banks in the future
Also, humans are the ones tuning the voicebanks, and the voicebanks themselves are voiced by real people (who were paid for it)! It’s almost like lending someone a voice when they can’t use their own in a way they’re not able to to share their stories and creations and stretch the limit on human capability
Thank you so much!!! Hatsune and Ado is amazing together
Chris, you’re a genius. Ado and Miku in the sphere in Vegas. I can’t even keep my breath. That would be sold out over and over.
Mafumafu being called a genius having listened to only one song without the person even knowing who he is must be so flattering (he is a genius)
I love your videos so much!!!! 😭
IM SO EXCITED. This is my favorite live performance of Ado. Her vocals have so much emotion and her voice is just soaring in the live version
I can feel n listen how happy she was able to sing with Miku who idolist.
Ado是在初音未來的陪伴和VOCALOID 環境下汲取養分，被初音未來拯救孕育茁壯成長，成就了今日成功和不可思議的唱功，
藉此表演Ado完成了和初音未來同台表演的夢想，表達了對初音未來和VOCALOID的感恩之心，即使Ado是帶著哽咽啜泣邊哭邊唱進行這場表演，還是敬業的把歌唱好，
今天沒有初音未來大家看不到Ado，初音未來是Ado的偶像，初音未來是Ado的摯友良師，初音未來對Ado非常重要，Ado非常愛初音未來
こんにちは。私は近年Adoさんや藤井聡太さんの様な、AIと人間とが互いを高め合う良い関係を見るにつけ、嬉しく思っています。
VOCALOIDやAIに対して否定的なかたもいらっしゃるように思いますが、友好的な関係性をつくることは充分可能だと思います。ネガティブに思える側面ばかりにフォーカスせずに、前進的な現象が増えていくことを願っています。
素敵なコメントを拝見できて嬉しく思いました。ありがとうございます😊
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoの尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
Ado has been singing VOCALOID covers since the beginning of his career.
This collaboration marks the culmination and pinnacle of Ado and Miku's real and virtual worlds since the release of VOCALOID in 2007. 😊
VOCALOID as a product came out earlier than 2007. I believe it came out in 2004 or 2005. The VOCALOID 2 software, where Hatsune Miku was released, was released in 2007.
待ってました！Adoさんの解説楽しみ☆
Gah dayum, prob the only person I saw analyse Ado’s songs and how she changes pitches and stuff
During the music concert before this song, she shed tears and talked about her feelings about Vocaloid and her dreams. So you can see that she was at a loss for words when she started singing. Truly such a beautiful song. 🥹
Saw another comment about this and wanted to echo it. Ado is the producer of a "retro horror" j-pop idol group that debuted earlier this year. I've been really enjoying some of their songs lately. I'd recommend giving them a listen! Some people have complained that she just recruited 5 mini Ados, but I disagree on that (and wouldn't even be mad if that Were the case lol). Would recommend checking out "Just wanna xxxx with you" or their debut song "otomodachi".
Phantom Sitta is the name of the idol group
@@Kay33328 thanks, can’t believe I forgot to include the name lol
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoが尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
She is actually going to have a second world tour in early-mid 2025 so be ready for some great live performances to react and analyse! I'm hoping to make it to the Milan performance.
Chrisさんには、ぜひAdoちゃんのパフォーマンスを生で体験してほしいです！
I'm really happy you discovered Miku ! A massive star in Japan (you saw the crowd in the live^^)..... When I was in Japan, in april 2024, I saw posters for her 17th birthday even she doesn't exist physically..... Japan is strange sometimes but beautiful !
One of the best duo Japan can give to us.... Sakura Biyori & Time Machine is one of my top 10 ado songs now !... The live was very emotional (we saw this in the public, tears all around the place). Ado was almost in tears too during the live (I think that because of what I hear in her voice in stage)..... That's because the young ado, when she was unknown in Japan at 15-16 years old, she was inspired by Hatsune Miku (and others vocaloid). Being grateful to a virtual singer when you are a massive faceless star in your country..... Only Japan can give us this legendary duo..... That's why I was very emotional when I saw the live 3 days ago.....
By the way ado will do another world tour, the hibana one, between april and august 2025.... She will be in 33 cities for 22 countries.... And she will be in my country, in France the 25th June.... I hope I can get ticket !!
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoが尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
Imagine he started doing a voice analysis on Hatsune Miku's voice, would be kinda funny
Edit: I posted this before he started actually doing it 🧍
涙ながらにミクとのライブを続けるAdo...ファンとミクに最高の舞台を見せるためか、涙をこらえながらもっと力強く歌ってくれる姿を見るととても悲しくて頭があげられません···
この後涙ながらにMCをする時にもAdoの十代の時の痛みが少しでも伝わってくるようでもっと悲しいです..
この映像を見ると涙の海になってしまいます···
Hi Chris! I'm a choir member for 6 years in my school, and I happened to chance until one of your ado analysis and breakdowns last year. Thanks to you, I've made my own improvements and explored new boundaries of what my voice can be and the full potential of what I can do with it. Thank you very much, your opinions have breathed new life and opened a different angle of viewing the vocal technique, style and more of singing.
Because of this video specifically from her, for my prom (which is happening in about a month), instead of doing Eien no Akuruhi, I'll be doing this song, and I've engineered the background track that I'm using to also include as much of MIku alongside me! I know I am unable to measure up to what Ado does, but I'll do my best! Thank you for this video, it helped give me a better understanding and tips of what I can add to my own singing.
I would love to see this
Been waiting for this reaction from the best vocal analysis of Ado in my opinion.
i feel live version much better than studio version for this song
Me too.
It’s 100% better. You can hear all the emotion from ado
Yeah studio version is good but live is peak ado is just peak in general
live ado is peak
Ado will have a world concert tour in 2025!!! You should definitely go!
I've been waiting for this video!
I was also at this live venue! Ado will be touring 33 cities around the world next year, so be sure to go!
15:09 Ado most likely wasn't weeping on purpose. She used to be a big fan of vocaloid and to perform live with Hatsune Miku was a dream of hers.
Sakura "B"yori lol. happy to see your vids. The crying voice is because ado been a fan of miku since middle school so singing with her on stage is a dream come true. It was also the biggest venue in Japan with the capacity during Shinzou is 70k per day for 2 days.
uishh. sampai sini ehhh. hahaha
youre genuinely the only ado reaction channel in my eyes, like you actually explore how she uses her voice and tell us what shes doing!! it makes listening to the songs more interesting and helps me appreciate them more. also youre the only youtube ive seen to say her name right
You should look up some of the promotional art for this song, it's Ado as a little girl with Hatsune Miku and then adult Ado with Miku
I had tears in my eyes as I heard the live version,it was like I could feel how much this means to Ado😩🫶🏻
I'm happy you finally meet miku! She means a lot to ado and she always tries her best to always talk about miku and vocaloid, the producer is also a vocaloid producer and an 'utaite' (cover artist) like ado, his name is mafumafu and he's also a famous singer. This song celebrates miku and vocaloid! Thank you so much for this reaction, it was awesome.
as others have said, Hatsune Miku is a computer software, that was made by sampling a singers voice, and tuning it digital. Producers make Miku sing by plugging in words, and adjusting/placing the pitch and tone that you want her to make, kinda similar to how you make sounds with virtual instruments. You can kind of think of it as the beginnings of AI voiceover. She was HUGE back in the mid to late 2000s all the way up til now, and she let a bunch of indie music producers give a voice to their songs. ADO started her musical career by covering a lot of Miku songs back in the day, and that's why she was so emotional on stage. without Miku, its possible that ADO would've never even become a singer in the first place.
she crying fr on that stage, it's feels unreal for her to sing with miku, miku is the ones inspiring her, ado is miku big fan
I also can’t listen to this song without getting misty eyed because of how much this song and the performance means for Ado xD
Another Fantastic Analysis!
I've loved your series of videos on Ado, and i'm super hyped for her upcoming tour!
Yeeaaah!! Thank you chris! I've been waiting for this reaction and analysis video!
I love Ado and her voice and I'm so excited to finally hear her live here in Milan next year! Btw look for Shoka Live by Ado!
This moment was very meaningful for Ado and she was trying her best to hold back her crying while singing but that just added more emotion to how she expressed her singing, its so beautiful.
I want to thank you for yet another amazing musical breakdown. Your comments about artist vulnerability and using technology to enhance that are really giving me a lot of productive food for thought. Also, your videos are what introduced me to Ado and because of that, I have had a lot of inspiration to pursue a more expressive voice. Thanks again, Chris!
For you guys who don't know, this channel (chris liepe) is the most detail if not the best channel in terms of reviewing ado's songs. You can all compare to other reactor on youtube and you will see that chris is noticing every detail of ado's voice and techniques.. Making us more understand and more apreciating the hardwork and the great talent ado has..
I would really recommend checking out the composer/lyricist/arranger of this song, mafumafu - he's an amazing vocalist himself!
Vocaloids came out around 2010 as a kind of singing voice synthetizer based on someone else who would put their singing voice in the voice bank. It was an alternative for producers and bands that didn't have a vocalist yet or couldn't afford one. Many different "voices", called vocaloids, have been released since. But Miku is by far the most famous and popular one. In japan it created a community of producers (who are called VolcaoidP) that used vocaloids for their songs. There are some pretty famous and epic Miku concerts that feature other famous vocaloids by the same company. They basically use holograms for the presentations, live music, and a pretty impressive light show, just like you saw now.
Ado started off as a singer thanks to Miku. She started covering vocaloid songs before launching her professional career. So this is literally a dream came true for her and extremely meaningful. You could hear her crying throughout the entire song, her voice breaking here and there, and yet she kept it professional and continue flawlessly. It even makes it all more exciting imo.
You should check out Phantom Siita too, Ado produces them. Also Ado is having another World Tour next year called Hibana, you may be able to go watch her live too!
She is doing her next world tour in 2025, are you going to see one of her live performances in person? Seeing Ado live is always super cool to experience for people.
I hope I can see her live in this next tour, for sure!!
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoが尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
Chris, I love what you do!!! Maybe you could watch another one of her masterpieces (if you haven’t already) called Ready Steady!! ❤️❤️
The impression of big sister and little sister thing is actually pretty cool concept, because it means years ago the role was reversed
She is a quite naive person.She felt isolated and singing a song is everything to her.Her character is one of the reason we love her.
during her live you can hear alot of creak and raw voice because she was crying and holding tears back i was there for this live there is 70k audience per day for 2 day
I hope reaction videos are more like this. Filled with actual thoughts
Man this song makes me so nostalgic for memories that I haven’t even made. One of Ado’s best in my opinion, especially considering Ado’s emotional connection to it. I just love the chord progressions, use of piano, and use of synth runs in the background, they really add some great motion to the track. Kudos to the producer! Also great reaction as always Chris!
The producer of this song is an extraordinary person in his own right.
@@Olkam-w5u For real, it’s mafumafu right?
この曲を作った「まふまふ」は日本の歌い手の王でありAdoが尊敬する神様です。是非「まふまふ」の動画にも反応するべきです。
@@DRKSTARakaAstrogabe yes
Always love Chris' analysis of Ado. Please check out her cover of Syudou's Hindrance which she sang when she was 15-16!
Vocaloid producers are also responsible for the wacky composition and genre fusion you often see in her songs.
Songs and covers of hers you have reacted to that were made by Vocaloid producers: Ussewa (Syudou), Odo and Show (Giga and Teddyloid collab), RuLe (Maretu), Readymade (Surii), Value (Police Picadilly), Aishite Aishite Aishite (Kikuo, cover) and God-ish (Pinochio-P, cover).
Ado has more than a hundred Vocaloid covers under her belt going back to age 14, a few of the oldest ones have recently been remade. A comparison between her "Accident Coordinator" cover from age 15 and the one from two months ago would be really cool lol
This song was made by fellow utaite MafuMafu, one of the first generation. IIRC the first concert she ever attended was one of his. Multiple layers of nostalgia in this song, hence all the tears.
Mirror was written by Natori, another vocaloid cover singer. She covered his hit "Overdose" half a year before that.
Mafumafu is a very extraordinary singer in his own right, a tenor on C8
@@Olkam-w5u Yes, he has a very impressive range.
It made me emotional hearing Ado’s emotional weeping and voice cracks during the live. I can’t imagine how she feels being able to perform live in front of 70,000 people with Miku, who is the main reason for her being a utaite.
I can’t wait for her tour next year. I’m happy that the venues are a lot larger than last time.
Also I think you’d like Hoshimachi Suisei’s discography as well. Check out her First Take version of Stellar Stellar. First ever V-Tuber to be on the First Take.
you can imagine she released the song on her birthday (24.10) so she is 22 now 🥳
Thanks for the cool analysis
The Ado community loves you, Chris💙
That weep is the best part of this live
Glad that u emphasized it
its always so hard to explain the connection of Ado and Miku to people who dont know the culture behind Vocaloid and Utaite haha Everytime i watch this live performance I tear up right along her, it's so surreal seeing the two of them on the same stage and the fact that she was able to get where she is now and to perform right next to The One And Only is just! So proud of her!
i got chills listening to this.
I can't wait for Chris' slow descent into VOCALOID music and the community. Thank you Ado for being the gateway we needed! (΄◞ิਊ◟ิ‵) ☆ He's learning! He's becoming interested!
Hyped to watch this !
never crossed in my mind that you would accidentally react to Miku omgg!!
Chris! Ado is doing a 2nd world tour in 2025! Perhaps a trip is in order if you wish to see her live. I cannot recommend it enough. Her stage presence and vocals are a whole different experience live! 💙
実際のところ、卓越した歌唱技術は彼女の魅力の一面に過ぎないと感じています。
直感的に感情に訴えかけられる、魂のこもったエモーショナルな歌声。
新しい文化、価値観を広めるための第一人者となるため、もがきながら尋常ではない道のりをずっと歩き続けてきたこと。
それらによってみんなを虜にするのに、その中身は弱く繊細で、人間らしさに溢れていること。
そういった彼女を構成する全ての要素が、私たちを感動させてくれるし、彼女を支えたいと思わせてくれるのです。
彼女の魅力全てが、このライブ映像には含まれています。
とても美しい映像です。
Vocaloid is based on sampling technology, the voice is taken from a voice bank. It is the same principle as in a music synthesizer. But in the bank there are recordings of a real voice. The voice provider for Hatsune Miku was Japanese voice actress and singer Saki Fujita. She gave various samples of her voice.
Ado has looked up to Mafumafu (the one in charge for the music & lyrics) for a long time, and Miku is an important part of her journey.
This is like a dream collab!
Can you do “0” by Ado? a lot happens in it!❤
You should do a vocal analysis of tokyo cannibalism! Her voice in that song is just a rollercoaster of pure craziness, definitely will be a great video
For 23:32 ...
I'm just guessing here, but I don't think that she actually ran out of breath. In the studio version Ado and Miku alternate between having solo parts, "true duet" parts, where both of their vocals are equal in volume and next to each other from a layer perspective, parts where Miku does a backing vocals role for Ado and parts where Ado does a backing vocals role for Miku.
The moment where you said she got quieter and maybe ran out of breath is just slightly before the switch happens, where Ado becomes the backing vocal for Miko again and I assume that she paddled back her volume to dial in on where she needs to be volume-wise to let Miku be on top of her voice.
Also still hoping you might want to make a video of her cover of Annoyance. I actually left a comment on your video covering Shoka, because I thought it would be fitting as she wrote the lyrics for Shoka when she was 16/17 years old and around that time she did the cover for Annoyance, but I guess my comment was auto-deleted, because I put the video link in it since the video is a bit harder to find on her channel. That cover is from 5 years ago and it blows my mind how expressive and free she already was back then. Instead of putting the link, I will leave the video title this time in case you want to have a look at it. 【オリジナルMV】邪魔 歌いました【Ado】
On a last note, I congratulated you to 500k subscribers on that deleted comment, so I will just do it here again.
i love this videos, they are like... shering ur fav music with someone ho likes to really talk about the music and what makes feel (im not english speaker...)
Chris Liepe discovered vocaloid. I can die now
Вас очень интересно слушать! Мало того что вы пытаетесь понять текст песни, так еще и вокальный аналитик. Всего хорошего и удачи вам
Love you analysis of absolute gorgeous duet!
I know who Hatsune Miku is and I listened to some of her music tracks and (suprisingly) enjoyed those. Their voices blend so well. I can't believe Miku is so polular while she doesn't exist but that collaboration is (oddly?) satisfying.
Not how i expected you to get introduced in to vocaloid lol but not a bad way at all, basically how a lot of people already said, Miku is pretty much the whole reason why we are able to hear Ado's beautiful vocals today 💙
the thing with miku is that she sounds different depending on who is making the song, you should check out more from her!
hey chris, i would love if you could check out 9lana cover of propose, its got so many vocal techniques and emotion, i think you will love it and take alot from it! also great video as always! was always curious for your thoughts on a vocaloid lol
Holy hell, Chris. Now there's something I didn't know I wanted-An Ado cover of Zombie by The Cranberries.
That would be an early Christmas gift for like... 8 of us.
I love how her voice and the hatsune miku vocaloid just somehow seems to absolutely meld together.
insane.
hilariously, Hatsune Miku is the elder sister in this context.
I think I can attest the reason as to why Ado is on another level is because she grew up singing vocaloid songs where the composers had the vocals doing humanly impossible things. She had to match up and she did.
Also Hatsune miku has her own concerts called “Magical Mirai”, you could react some songs of those annual concerts that have been done since 2013 without interruptions !
Imagine Chris spiraling into the Vocaloid producers' songs, like Deco*27, PinocchioP, Maretu, Samfree, Wowaka, Livetune...
Another great Ado reaction, I love her music so much! Please keep doing these!
I'll just leave this here in case you are curious about her song titles.
Japanese pronunciation is super easy and the vowels never* change no matter the word!
A as in br(a)
I as in fr(ee)
U similar to f(oo)d
E as in (e)cho
O as in Camb(o)dia
*they sometimes are shortened or removed but don't worry about it :)
the fact that ado giving more power on live than the studio version, makes us crave to experience her concert.
It makes me so happy to see this it brings tears of joy watching this as a old miku fan seeing someone living my dream makes everything seem so possible to do.
日本において初音ミクは偉大で伝説的なボーカロイドです。
One of Ado's best performances honestly. I'd like to recommend an upcoming artist who seems to be getting little attention since her performance on The First Take, her debut single which is her first on a record label was written by her for My Hero Academia. It's an incredibly heartfelt performance by a passionate fan, I'd recommend checking the description as it gives some details about her, she's a relatively unknown.
Zarame - Sixth Magnitude Star on The First Take
Honestly, I think you'll be incredibly surprised by her range, imho she's a sleeping giant. She's done many live covers in public that have utterly floored me, as I'm still trying finding more techniques and various skills she's put to use.
I'll stop now before I wax a little too poetic. XD
1:23 sa ku ra, bee your ii. (sakura biyori).
Hat tsu ne. mee ku (hatsune miku). technically miku is her first name and hatsune is last name.
I've been looking for videos of professional vocal coaches reacting to Vocaloids
Welp, this is it
btw Ado just turned 22
I love your reactions to ado sooo much please never stop
4:50 yeah 🤧