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Utaite Spotlight: Shell

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:55:14 GMT

Posted by: fascinates

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Shell is a rather prolific utaite who started to upload covers of his songs way back in 2009. His covers are hit or miss, but most of them have over 10,000 views, the most popular being Sweet's Beast, which remains one of the best covers of the song in Nico Nico Douga.

Shell's voice is low with very minimal breathiness, which makes his covers full and solid-sounding. He can reach high notes if wants to, though, although he prefers singing in a lower pitch, probably so as not to make his voice wobbly or strained. He sings a lot of rock and upbeat pop songs, probably to fully utilize the best of his voice, although surprisingly, he pulls off singing very fast-paced and hard to sing songs. He's quite versatile in his song choices and while not all of them are hits, it shows how good he is at controlling his range and flexibility.

Most of the time, he prefers singing KAITO songs to match his range, but he also sings low and upbeat Miku and GUMI songs, all of which he performs really well. He sounds similar to Xiao and terry when it comes to range and quality, but with a fuller, deeper voice.

Aside from singing solo, Shell also participates in many choruses and collabs ^^. You can check them out in his other mylist.

sample songs
• Kimi no Taion (KuwagataP original)
• FLOWER TAIL (yuukiss original)
• Migi Hidari (koushirou original)
• Chillyditty of February (DARS original)
• Sainou Sampler (koyori original)
• Akutoku no Judgment (AkunoP original)

nikki says:
I first knew of Shell when I was collecting all my favorite covers of Migi Hidari (yes, I love that song so much IDE--). After that, I totally loved his Chilliditty cover (you can't find that many good covers of it) and eventually I got into the habit of checking out his every uploads. He might not sound very boy-next-door-ish, but it's nice listening to the solidness of his covers, especially those that require very skillfull singing (Flower Tail, Akutoku). I also like his second voices, they're very well done!

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Weekly Utaran #126 (3/28-4/4, 2011)

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:49:14 GMT

Posted by: fascinates

Weekly Utattemita Ranking #126 (March 28-April 4, 2011)

This week still has some AC's going on, but there are no other bandwagon songs, so enjoy the variety this ranking has. The top 3's quite unexpected for me, but maybe it's just me :D.

↑# - the song moved up from a previous top 30 rank
↓# - song moved down from a previous top 30 rank
↵ - song is a re-entry to the top 30 rankings

I'll be including the weekly top ten and the overall top thirty of the week. Links to the nicovideo are included as well as some information. You may download the .mp3 file by inputting the link @ nicosound. Enjoy!

Update (04-05-11): The link has been updated with a new upload, due to some errors with the naming. The ranks remain the same, though :).

original Nico Nico Douga Link

( New Upload Ranking )

( Overall Weekly Ranking )

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Weekly Utaran #113 (12/27/10 - 01/03/11)

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:24:24 GMT

Posted by: fascinates

Weekly Utattemita Ranking #113 (December 27, 2010 - January 03, 2011)

The first ranking of the new year! This week has a lot of movement because while there are new uploads, a lot of the previous week's hits managed to stay in the ranking for this week. There's a bit of a problem in the new upload ranking since the list in the mylist and in the video do not match, so at the moment, I'm waiting for confirmation/correction from the Weekly Utaran uploader. Very sorry about that! Anyway, geh, I can't say anything suspenseful since this week MIGHT be predictable to some of you ^^;.

The discrepancy has been clarified, thank you as always to @weekly_utaran

↑# - the song moved up from a previous top 30 rank
↓# - song moved down from a previous top 30 rank
↵ - song is a re-entry to the top 30 rankings

I'll be including the weekly top ten and the overall top thirty of the week. Links to the nicovideo are included as well as some information. You may download the .mp3 file by inputting the link @ nicosound. Enjoy!

original Nico Nico Douga Link

( New Upload Ranking )

( Overall Weekly Ranking )

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