There are notes that the singer sounds near to the point of starting to cry.
The singer doesn't sound like he's connecting with the character, either.
He's not one of those musical therapists who make singers sound more like themselves.
While the singer from this band does sound a lot like Utada, the fact is the song was sung in the early 1980s.
But a singer who seems a diamond in the rough to one listener may sound just plain bad to another.
But when the production returned to the Met on Tuesday night, both singers sounded excellent.
Did the best medieval singers sound at all like modern lay-clerks, for example?
With few exceptions, the singers sounded too often as if they were forcing to make themselves heard.
"The effect will be that the singers sound like they are singing in a more intimate space."
The singer sounded like Noone, and many fans did not know the difference.