A review of "vocaloid" | Parting memoirs
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2023
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I never cry watching videos, but here I am with tears running down my face. As a new adult wedged between tightly clasping my childhood and moving on into work and adult life, I realize Vocaloid is still with me and likely will be for a long time, even when Miku is nowhere to be seen on my playlist. In 5th grade, my best friend showed me a music video of Electric Angel, and that’s still stuck with me. We both loved Vocaloid, but moved away from it by the time we finished middle school. I still listened to it for a little while after she had gotten over it, but it was years before I picked it up and fell in love with Vocaloid all over again. She hasn’t cared about Vocaloid for a long time. We had a falling out in high school. We’re okay now, but nothing will ever be like it was back then. Listening to Kokoro and playing Pokémon X and Y. It’s gone, but even today I listen to Additional Memory and Will Stetson’s English covers- and I still get that weird bittersweet ache in my chest when I hear Summertime Record- and I’m still playing every new Pokémon game.
Music has such an incredible power, being able to remain the same and connect you to a different time. So many people have moved on from Kagepro, but I only just found it less than 3 years ago, and there are so many wonderful people I’ve met through it. Miku has united so many, it’s incredible that a program can hold and carry the emotions and stories of anyone. I miss when days were simpler, when the Vocaloid song series were so complex that most people were better off just taking it at face value. When I knew what tomorrow or next week or next year looked like for me, and didn’t have to decide and commit to what I’m supposed to do. Everything is so different, not only have my friends and priorities changed but I’ve changed so, so much. Yet Miku is still the creative outlet of so many, and I’m sure that, someday, listening to Additional Memory will give me the same chills before the final chorus that it did the very first time I heard it.
Most of the specifics weren’t the same, but this felt like hearing my whole life up until now. This community feels so disconnected lately. It’s nice clicking on a video, and feeling like you’ve known the story from minute one because it’s the same one you lived.
While many of the Vocaloid producers that get popular are most definitely pop, there's a huge host of underappreciated indie artists using Vocaloid, Utau, SynthV, and CeVIO to tell their world. I knew a long time ago that Vocaloid wasn't what it used to be, my favorite artists grew out of it, passed away, or grew past being smalltime artists with unique songs and stories to tell, and there were years I barely listened to any of it. I remember feeling like most of the songs were samey, about the same things, were inarguably just trying to be pop music for the sake of it. I didn't enjoy the Vtuber boom, as despite being likeable personalities singing music dear to me, I knew it wasn't what Hatsune Miku stood for to me. But I've made a serious effort to find fresh and unique artists making Vocaloid music in the last year or so and maybe it means something different to them than it did to me, but there's so much good music still being made, and very little of what I listen to is what I'd call pop, despite using Hatsune Miku's voice who's become a pop icon. Some of my favorite new songs are from artists with 1000 or less subs and videos peaking at a few thousand views. There's still the indie magic fueling vocalo music, but unlike earlier days, those indie artists aren't the ones going viral and defining Hatsune Miku to the world. But I'd say they're still the backbone of the culture, and Hatsune Miku and other voice synths would struggle if it weren't for the thousands of talented artists making music in their room with little audience to speak of. In my opinion, they're the heroes of this music scene.
Do you have any recommendations I been wanting to try to look for more producers
@@steelkanade2695 I'll get you some recommendations when I can get to my computer. In the meantime, are there specific genres or artists you want something similar to? I got rock, edm, lofi, rap, happy-go-lucky, and more types of artists in my lists.
@somerandomvocaloid I'm currently into jrock and jpop and whatever beautiful insanity utsu-p is
@@steelkanade2695 I was going to post a bigger list of just artists, but I took the time to go through some of the artists in my saved lists and put some song recommendations by each. I tried to keep most on the list close to what you want but with a few unique sounds too. Utsu-P is one who's sound is not immitated much though, but you might find some of the producers similar. Note that at the time of posting, all these producers have less than 50,000 subs, and most are under 10,000, some under 1,000.
はなつばめ🌸🎵 - 探索日課, ホワイトサイダー
■37 shikakuzakana - i am mary, corn flakes!, Found Footage
Buriru / ぶりる - MementoMori, Konnichiwa/Sayonara (these works have subs :3 )
ノーコア | nocore - 愛喰らう果実, 融解螺旋 (these works are subbed too ^o^ )
OGLAGOLD - WHAT IT TAKES TO BREAK (English-speaking producer who is doing amazing work w/ Teto SV)
しおばにら - エンゼリアルイン
芥田レンリ - 衰生夢死(Life fading, death like a dream), 雨照
Aliey:S - Lethe (check description from this artist English lyrics)
R.I.P - CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE, Fruiting Bodies, It Should’ve Been Me (English-speaking producer who makes a variety of music)
MuryokaP (Powerless Sounds Official) - Isolation, Aspirin
のうきん Nokin【VOCALOID&MMD】Don't Blame Yourself, I wanna die (They English-sub their music)
NIL - アンチ・ロゴス, グランブル (part of a song series)
山田 メメ - 死ぬのは明日にしてくれないか, Disコミュニケーションゲーム
AUTO中枢 - 99F° , Regolith
eLma Music Studio - iΔoΓa, ocuΓus
21 Clown - Billie Jean?, Deja vu?
埃霧 / Im - Floating Flowers, YASEI, Wyvern
NekonoTokiwa - 「ゲド」, 「ハロウ」
MonochroMenace - Fishbowl Philosophy, Don't Hit The Lights (English-speaking SynthV producer making some pretty cool music)
ヤバス - Last Testament, About
GESO - 空中, ホロイ, 異種
@somerandomvocaloid I'll check them out after I get home I really appreciate the list and the time you took to make it
Wow. I'm actually crying. I really didn't expect to have this response to this video.
Growing up, Vocaloid was *my* thing. Others may have seen World Is Mine and dismissed it as a novelty of a silly singing hologram, but for me this was something much more. I had jumped into the rabbit hole and scoured through the sea of untranslated works, and was rewarded with grand feats of musicality. What was clear to me was that there was meaning in these one-off songs composed by strangers across the world. That was the truth, yet it was something I was never able to share with anyone because of embarrassment and anxiety.
Then 5 years ago I discovered a video on I'm Glad You're Evil Too. I think I clicked on it because it was simply amazed to see someone else gush over something in this niche subculture. Yet as I continued watching it soon became apparent that this person had experienced a journey similar to mine. And it was liberating.
I don't know what compelled me write all this, but I wanted to share a bit of my story, just like you have in this video and others in the comments are doing now.
No matter where Vocaloid goes, I'll always remember it for how it shaped me into who I am today
you have no idea how much i relate to you saying that without vocaloid, you feel like you wouldn’t fully understand joy or sadness. i feel the same thing, and i really never thought someone else felt this too.
i got into vocaloid around the same age you did, and honestly, children at that age don’t know a thing about life itself, and the complex emotions that come along with it. after all these years, i think i know who specifically it was that taught me how to feel happiness and sadness, who taught me how to feel in general.
it was siinamota, i wholeheartedly believe it was him who taught me how pretty the world is, and also how cruel it is. while my parents fed me and kept a roof above my head and while school taught me math and science and history, siinamota taught me how to feel. he was the one who raised me in that way.
and while siinamota taught me feelings, emotions, how to cry and how to smile, jin taught me how to create stories, characters, and worlds. i am currently in my third year of studying illustration, and i truly believe that if i hadn’t stumbled across kagepro around 2013, i wouldn’t have wanted to dedicate myself to illustration, drawing and creating characters and stories.
i guess what i’m saying is that entering the vocaloid scene as a child is probably one of the most important things that could’ve happened to me, if not, the most important thing. i would be different without jin, without siina, pinocchio-p, wowaka and maretu. i have been able to learn different things from each producer i love.
i loved this video because i was able to see myself reflected in it, just as vocaloid is a reflection of humanity like you say. thank you so much for this
The video is incredible.
It feels as a final goodbye to your teenage years. Of course it reaonates a lot with me and many people here. It finally dawns on me that I've grown up as well and Vocaloid is still next to me in a way. It will stay this way so long as I don't dive deaper by making my bad Vocaloid song.
Vocaloid was a home for the lonely weebs everywhere in the world, now it is not the same anymore, my love for the medium isn't the same as it was before.
I grew up, we all grew up.
The me of 2013 never ever thought that I would be here I guess bit now, I got all of these feelings and a place I got to call home.
I hope the new kids who'll fall in this rabbit hole will enjoy this.
never thought i'd end up weeping while watching a yt vid on vocaloid. i bonded with most of the friends i had back in middleschool and highschool over vocaloid. while i've fallen out of touch with most of them, i still remember going to school and listening to drop pop candy (not the deepest song, I know) and -error with them during art class. Video (especially the story about you and the upperclassmen) reminded me of the role vocaloid played when I transferred schools and had to make new friends. Thank you
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I’m definitely a newer dan, having joined the fandom when I was in middle school (around 2017-2018). Vocaloid has given me so much and definitely changed what I wanted to get out of music.
The Lost One’s Weeping was one of the first songs that made me feel truly SEEN. As a kid who struggled with school and an undiagnosed learning disorder.
Hated by Life showed me the intense pain yet beauty of simply being alive, of wanting to live for others. That it’s okay to live for others.
Seventina gave me so much perspective on what it means to grow up, to dread becoming someone you hate but to embrace the pain of being young.
I can’t express how much this video put what I’ve wanted to say all along into words.
This made me cry
As someone who's never really gotten into Vocaloid until recently ( right at Miku's 16th birthday, lol ), this is really meaningfull to watch. Unlike most people, I don't really listen to most Vocaloid songs that the masses are into, save for a few. I find myself finding covers using the obscure Vocaloids that I find myself liking, or all kinds of music mostly made by nobodies in the deep dark corner of youtube if I was feeling brave enough that day to get out of my comfort zone. I'm a youngling who you can barely call a Vocaloid fan due to me missing more than a decade worth of it, kinda suck that I missed the Golden age .
And despite all of what you said about modern Vocaloid, I still enjoy it. I am obssesed with Vocaloids for it's meaning, being everything you talked about and more. These "singing robots", as I lovingly call them, are soulless, as such, we became their souls, and in Miku's case: became both her soul and wings.
I don't know who Miku was back then, but I certainly do know who she is now: the idol who perform for the world and the instrument whom you can buy, she's soulless and because of that people can give her as much soul as they like, using the songs that come from deep inside their hearts. To quote a line from one of her birthday songs : " I am the machine designed to turn life into songs."
I've learnt that both Vocaloid and producers will inevitably move past each other like you do, but not through time but instead through songs ( ODDS&ENDS And Humansongs ). I went through a journey somewhat similar to yours in this video, but accidently speedran through it in like a couple of months due to me starting so late, so I'm not feeling so well at the moment. But despite all that, I still meant what I said, I'm still positive about modern Vocaloids and their future. I like the current memes of them, their low quality english talkloids, the fanarts, the merchs, heck I've even found a really unique song that apparently have the Japanese Vocaloid spirit of back in the time ( I can't reaaly tell because, again, I'm new and I hate it), *and it's in ENGLISH by the way !!* .
I'm looking forward to what Piappro NT, the Project Sekai game where the Cryptonloids are the supporting cast and the new voice-synths will bring to the table. I love these new things and their flaws, because just like most of us, they can't be here today without Vocaloids. As a new fan, I'm sad that I can't experience what everyone else has gone through and likely can't anymore, but I'm also happy . I'm beginning where most would consider the end, where most if not everyone: fans, producers and even the Vocaloids, has either move on to do their own things or just stop and fade away. Thus mean that I'm continuing this journey for them, to see what the future created by Vocaloid looks like...
Wasn't expecting to cry at this video, but those lyrics from "Hajimete no Oto" really got me.
You're such an eloquent speaker, thank you for this video!
Compared to others in this comment section, I'm still a newbie in this fandom as I've discovered Vocaloid at the end of last summer through Project Sekai. I wanted to try a rhythm game and, hearing that it had japanese music (I had been listening to jpop for like almost 3 years already), I instantly downloaded it.
I played that game for a couple of weeks before I gave up out of frustration (I’m really bad at rhythm games) but what ended up sticking with me was the music. I knew what a vocaloid was and yet.. I had never properly listened to it as I considered the voices to be too choppy for my liking. But I somehow fell in love after listening more. The first Miku song in my playlist was „The End of Hatsune Miku” (pretty ironic I know) and I ended up going deeper and deeper from there. Discovering what song series were, falling in love with the characters, listening to the classics posted over 10 years ago and so on. It was incredible.. it felt never-ending, it still does actually. But what felt truly magical to me was the people behind it: how any random person could make a song and how that could then be reinterpreted through covers, fanarts or fan PVs from other random people. It’s insane how connected everything felt, even after so many years, even if I never got to experience it first hand.
My favorite Vocaloid songs are the ones about, well, Vocaloid. So when I read the lyrics to Sand Planet I couldn’t help but believe Hachi was wrong. Even I could tell the fandom wasn’t what it was.. but.. it was coming back right? I didn’t want to believe the magic was dead after having such a brief time with it. So I started monitoring the top 100 on niconico. Sure enough, it felt more mainstream than the classic old songs I was used to however.. there was still a glint of that uniqueness from time to time.
I don’t want this fandom to die. I never got to experience growing up with vocaloid, how could I when Miku got created one year after I was born? I’m so jealous of those who got to grow along with this culture but even so... I’d lie if I said vocaloid didn’t impact me a lot as well despite having such a short time with it. That flame hasn’t gone out yet and I hope newer fans get to fall down this rabbit hole just like I did because it’s something that will forever stick with you. It’s definitely not the same as it was.. and maybe I’m too hopeful.. but I want to believe there’s still magic to be found.
Thank you so much for making this video. At first I was scared of watching it because it looked a bit depressing but.. after haunting my recommendations for 9 days now.. I’m really glad I watched it. It reminded me a lot of „The Vocaloid Songs 10 years later” by PinnochioP
I was a bit late to discovering Vocaloid as I found out about it around 2017 or 2018. But nevertheless it has still been a big part of my life ever since. I first got introduced to it by Jubyphonic's cover of - of all things - Ikanaide. My tastes have refined since then and I've grown to love Vocaloid even more. Irony, Hated by Life Itself and Lost One's Weeping were ones I related to a fair bit back in high school, I loved MARETU's music in all it's unsettling glory and the Kagerou Project was and still is one of my favorite things ever. While I did lose interest for a bit, I gained newfound interest in it in uni. I've even found some new favorites like Jitter Doll and Seventina from your channel. I still have a lot more to experience, both old and new songs and I'm truly glad to have it as part of my life.
While I wasn't there from the early days of Vocaloid, I can imagine it would've been tons of fun growing up with all those songs as they came out.
Not sure if what I said made much sense or was structured properly but yeah. Thanks for making this video. 😁
One I think everything will be fine I don't think nothing's going to happen to it it's still going strong so don't lose hope and only reason I even goes away people get picky but like I said it's still going strong so don't lose hope
Wow, this video was amazing. I was probably right around the same age as you were when you got into vocaloid when I heard Headphone Actor for the first time. Surprisingly, while I don't remember much from back then anymore, vocaloid is still something that persisted in my life, especially when the songs have a story to tell. I've taken breaks from listening here and there, but I haven't missed listening to Summertime Record on an August 15th since I first started that personal tradition all of those years ago. To this day, I still listen to some vocaloid songs here and there, but now it's simply something from the past that makes me nostalgic more than anything. Thanks for making me reflect on something important enough to have outlasted most other things in my life.
Shit I am crying and have to go to work! It captures a lot of feelings I have for vocaloid myself as well. Maybe I can think of more coherent thoughts later. But thank you for sharing this wonderful, wonderfull story
I also got into Vocaloid after listening to Servant of Evil.
I love when you talk about servant of evil and master of the heavenly yard💗. Your perspective of how EC impacted in your life and how important is it to you is very emotional💓
man....being a 25 years old sucks...im just starting to realize what it acutally FEELS to grow up
you and vocaloid are my favorite things
best friends forever =)!!
by the way, in case i haven't told you yet, my first vocaloid song (that i was conscious of) was reverse rainbow. the vocals, the sound, and the MV (art) was my introduction to the hyper pop world of doujin passion. i think it's so cool we had the exact same reaction to two completely different songs (for you, it was servant of evil). to this day, i don't think anything can ever capture the feeling i had when i listened to that song for the very first time. it was in such grainy quality too, but i didn't even notice it. i was so happy!
feelsoldman
Okay great vid but why is your voice so *nice*
It's one of my few accolades.
NOT ME CRYING HELP LMAO
Why must things change
hi honey
I remember when i first got into vocaloid was with the first boom on in 2012 i remember that i stumbled into cat food and told myself that this is beautiful
Hey can you possibly spell out the name for the song series you mentioned at 12:28 for me? I've been looking for that series for forever now but I can never remember how the hell its name's spelled. I remember watching the first few songs when I was younger but never having the chance to see how it finished.
It's called Shuuen no Shiori, or bookmark of demise. Also it didn't really finish, per se.