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Re: the recent confession about how an AKB trainee who can apparently sing but was passed over in the audition because she doesn't have a h!p face. This (https://youtu.be/XHnOV1u_5v4) is their idea of "can sing well". It's not even that she can't handle the high notes, but her sense of rhythm which is way off. Doubt she can handle 16-beat songs while having to sing and dance. So in that sense she wasn't picked because of a h!p tradition, but not the one they're thinking of. I think we can safely say myth not busted, but their ears certainly are. Plus, it's an endless rabbit hole if you keep digging who failed in a H!P audition and made it somewhere else - Koda Kumi, IMALU, Kashiwagi Yuki, and probably countless others - Even members like Yuka, Miyo, Roko all failed multiple auditions each without being offered a kenshuusei spot - any one of them could have walked away at any time, as many others certainly have. Passing the audition is a matter of timing and luck, sticking with the audition is a matter of grit and persistence. 

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