/massive GUMI songs download binge
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hellzabethAhhh finally I found a Vocaloid with my voice range...
Though it seems that since she's new she doesn't have very many quality songs. Not sure I like the ones like 16 Bit Warz, but her cover of Romeo and Cinderella made me squee a little. The programmer got it spot on, perfect pitch.
But it seems like she's hard to handle; it's pretty hit or miss. Very. Very. Miss.
She seems to do a lot of duets with Gakupo. I have to admit his voice does work nicely with hers. orz but their signature colours clash horribly... orange and green with purple and black... Plus the Luka/Gakupo shippers hate them together... guys, they're computer programs, seriously. =___=;;; They don't even technically have personalities.
And as usual her version of "The Disappearence of... [Vocaloid name here]" did not fail to make me tear up a little. Noooo don't delete herrrrr ;A;
And even though it was Miku's involvement that got it noticed, no Gumi related post is complete without the glorious, the wonderful, the utterly mad Matryoshka.
Okay, coming clean; this post is basically me bookmarking GUMI songs (and of course advertising her pretty voice haha she doesn't get enough love). I have some sort of thing against cluttering up my bar with loads of bookmarks, because it means the ones I use regularly get pushed off screen or buried and I am just that level of lazy in that I can't be bothered to find them.
... sometimes I wish I wasn't so shy about entering new fandoms. I mean, I lurked Hetalia for 2 years before writing fic or even commenting. I want to find more people who I can spaz about pretty songs with...
... /sigh
I guess in the end my social anxiety issues are always going to get in the way, even on the internet.
Though it seems that since she's new she doesn't have very many quality songs. Not sure I like the ones like 16 Bit Warz, but her cover of Romeo and Cinderella made me squee a little. The programmer got it spot on, perfect pitch.
But it seems like she's hard to handle; it's pretty hit or miss. Very. Very. Miss.
She seems to do a lot of duets with Gakupo. I have to admit his voice does work nicely with hers. orz but their signature colours clash horribly... orange and green with purple and black... Plus the Luka/Gakupo shippers hate them together... guys, they're computer programs, seriously. =___=;;; They don't even technically have personalities.
And as usual her version of "The Disappearence of... [Vocaloid name here]" did not fail to make me tear up a little. Noooo don't delete herrrrr ;A;
And even though it was Miku's involvement that got it noticed, no Gumi related post is complete without the glorious, the wonderful, the utterly mad Matryoshka.
Okay, coming clean; this post is basically me bookmarking GUMI songs (and of course advertising her pretty voice haha she doesn't get enough love). I have some sort of thing against cluttering up my bar with loads of bookmarks, because it means the ones I use regularly get pushed off screen or buried and I am just that level of lazy in that I can't be bothered to find them.
... sometimes I wish I wasn't so shy about entering new fandoms. I mean, I lurked Hetalia for 2 years before writing fic or even commenting. I want to find more people who I can spaz about pretty songs with...
... /sigh
I guess in the end my social anxiety issues are always going to get in the way, even on the internet.
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Prepare for incoming 2am rambling...
Date: 2010-11-15 02:40 am (UTC)Vocaloid is a program, if we get to the basics of it. It generates voices, singing voices to be precise. Each voice has it's own name, character design, and (by this point) established fanon-character. I've never seen a fandom run on so much fanon.
People download and use the program, choosing the character/singer they want. Each character has a distinct voice. You can go from low singers like Gakupo to intensely high falsettos like the twins, Len and Rin or Miku. There's a whole lot in between, such as Luka, who has a mid-range/deep but still girly voice, or Kaito, who has a higher voice but still sounds like a dude.
Funny thing about Vocaloid: there's no anime, no manga, no book or story what so ever. The whole thing is based around the users of the program. It's not really something you can wrap your head around properly until you get into it. The fandom makes up everything.
It's more like each song is it's own enclosed little story, with the Vocaloids playing the parts. Each artist (as in, the person using the program) can change the Vocaloid's personalities to fit the song (which is why I was saying it was silly to ship them earlier for anything beyond how good they sound together; they have no set personalities). For example, we've seen Luka go from crazy stalker psycho to the embodiment of innocence and light. All between two songs.
But yeah. The fandom is more like following a band or a style of music than it is being interested in a story.
And here I thought Hetalia had to be the most unique fandom...
Date: 2010-11-15 04:32 am (UTC)Hmm.
So, wait. Do the people using the program make the songs or just listen to them and interpret?
Hahah Hetalia and Vocaloid are two different kinds of special.
Date: 2010-11-15 11:51 am (UTC)Re: Hahah Hetalia and Vocaloid are two different kinds of special.
Date: 2010-11-15 09:54 pm (UTC)Haha, so if the fandom gets too large there's gonna be so much to keep up with XD