HONK THE HORN Sings Past the Planned Hour in Unplanned 4 a.m. Stream
Back at a singing stream after a month, the streamer turned to male-vocal songs when falsetto would not come, then kept going for nearly three hours.
RK MUSIC — HONK THE HORN, the RK Music (12KMN LABEL) talent, ran an unannounced singing stream in the early hours of Monday that went far beyond the roughly one hour the streamer said had been planned. The stream lasted about 177 minutes, and the streamer was still singing and saying goodbye to viewers about two hours and 54 minutes in.
The stream was titled as a *gerira* (guerrilla), or unannounced, session, and it opened with a detour. The streamer said it was around 4 a.m., asked chat whether it was all right to eat ice cream right after brushing their teeth, and ate it on air before singing. They said they had come home from an event they called Shinkai Fest, had already done a chat stream earlier, and could not sleep. Checking their playlist, they said, showed it had been a month since the last singing stream.
“It’s a singing stream. Technically it is a singing stream, but I want to eat ice cream first.” — HONK THE HORN, at the start of the stream
The first songs came about 18 minutes in. Unsure that their falsetto would come out and saying their throat was half asleep, the streamer decided to stick to male-vocal songs, among them a Super Beaver song, “Blueberry Nights” and a track by Frederic. Viewers asked for songs throughout, and the streamer tried several, saying after one requested song that they had managed it. Around the two-hour mark the streamer said the stream had turned into a morning one and that their throat had woken up. A female-vocal song by Aimyon followed, with the streamer saying they would probably have the voice for it.
The longest tangent began when chat joked about a missing laptop charger and drifted to saury and fried food. When viewers then asked for a Matsuken samba, the streamer turned it down for the day (“not today,” with a “someday” promise), laughed hard enough to ask for a moment and muted briefly.
The streamer said the ending was hard to find. Around the 2:43 mark they announced Pretender as the closer, and they signed off near 2:54 with a mixed farewell of “good morning, good night, goodbye.” Chat logged 964 messages and six Super Chats. Its busiest stretches were walls of clapping and deer-and-music-note emoji, and some viewers wrote that they were off to work or school as the stream wound down.
This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.