HALARA NIGHTMARE FAN SONG: Schrodinger's Cat - ft. SOLARIA(SynthV)

…You think Halara would use their lucky coin as a guitar pick?
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(This video is JJJreact friendly)
Alright! Another RAIN CODE song out of the way, and it’s another Master Detective! I think this is the longest time I spent on a song since MyWay. Usually songs take me about 3 days to complete but I wanted to make sure this song was both substantial and tweaked to (almost) perfection. I also used a new tuning method for this song. For Martina’s, I used sentence fragmenting, while I used Synth V’s built in note editor to tweak the notes, and it really makes a difference!
So for this song, I really wanted to emphasize Halara’s coolness and mysteriousness in the melody and lyrics. So the lyrics are a bit more cryptic than usual (though I do wonder if that’s more of a Vivia thing) and the instrumental has a deep, but powerful vibe to it. Calm and collected, but not afraid to land a couple punches. It gives me the feeling of a hardened noir detective prowling through a rainy city. (Though there were moments during production where I felt some bits had home depot vibes to them lol)
Speaking of the lyrics, these are my favorite lyrics I’ve ever written so far. They were so much fun to think of (both the imagery/symbolism and wordplay/rhyme structure), and I tried to capture every aspect of Halara’s character in it. I wonder if the themes of this song are a bit TOO on the nose though lol.
…And yeah, this song is VERY inspired by the Arctic Monkeys album Humbug (the name’s oddly fitting here). Let’s just hope it isn’t TOO inspired, I did try my best to make this its own thing as well.
Oh, and fun fact: This song was originally gonna be called “Astray” because it sounds kind of edgy and mysterious, but I feel Schrodinger's cat not only personifies this song a lot better, it has a more formal, composed feeling than the word astray does, which I believe fits Halara a lot more. And of course, the song HAD to relate to cats somehow (I mean, the song always was gonna, but it’s nice to have cat in the title too).
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CREDITS:
-Art/Composition/Tuning/Editing: Me
-Voice bank: SOLARIA AI (Synthesizer V)
-Sound effects:
(coin spinning) Free sound stock: freesoundstock... • Spinning Coin Sound Ef...
(money bag shake) PhilSavlem: freesound.org/...
For the coin flip, I used one of these two, but I forgot:
Bone666138: freesound.org/...
InspectorJ: freesound.org/...

[@Wince_Media]

LYRICS:
Trust is a year-long holiday
with gifts without lids, left open to all
and when the imbeciles beg for some spare change
I won’t play their game
I’m not to blame
…’cause I was robbed
Generosity once killed the cat
with [his/her] back to the floor, corpse facing the sky
but with those eight lives, the feline bounced right back
and now [she/he] carries on the carrion
Inside [their/its] eye
And it’s all thanks to you
Another me wouldn’t have a clue
You caught my tongue, you cut it off
Just look at the blood, that’s what I’m made of
If you look inside, I’m both dead and alive
You shouldn’t poke
You shouldn’t pry
Why,
you’ll be left astray
Paper or plastic
Any choice can be tragic
Only a matter of time ‘til the coin lands on a face
So I land on my feet
Never admit defeat
Sorry, this cat’s been out for a while
It’ll never stay
You tie us with that social straw
and with your Midas Touch, you put on a show
and when it’s time to set the Pandoras off,
you unleash your snip,
making us trip
to your new low
And it’s all ‘cause of you
Another me would be see-through
You broke my heart, you set it off
Now look at your sins, they’re what I’m made of
Even now, you got away
Sold a universe for some spare change
How’s it feel to take the fall?
The interest is rising, go pay your toll
[Very epic guitar solo ensues]
When you look inside, I’m both dead and alive
…and you’ll be left astray
The faults of your actions are the debt that I land in
To save up, I save myself the trouble of having faith
But with that comes a trade
In exchange, it kept me safe
from every homo-sapien who’s had the apple’s taste
Will it be paper or plastic?
Any choice can be tragic
Only a matter of time ‘til the coin lands on a face
So I land on my feet
Never admit defeat
Sorry, this cat’s been out for a while
I will never stay

[@Rosa-he6xb]

Absolute banger for the best detective. I love this song so much as it captures Halara’s character so well!

[@wafagdplqs4421]

Very cool song !

[@sparrowhawk_lastname]

I don't know the fandom(?), but dang if this isn't a good song! I'm impressed by the tuning, haven't heard Solaria singing this low before but I gotta say she sounds great!

[@Wince_Media]

Thank you! This is the first time I used SynthV's note editor to tune something (for the previous song, Dragons, i used note fragmenting) and while the changes I made were quite subtle, it really did make a difference compared to how it was originally. I really tried to capture each intended emotion whenever Solaria/Halara sang

[@issy.with.s]

MY WAWA!!! wonderful song!!!

[@luckymiku6456]

I literally cannot stop listening to this. Your Rain Code songs are AMAZING! Keep up the good work.

[@RioMonkey-qv6od]

this is actually fire

[@Kitdoesvideos]

Is this on spotify?

[@VOCAR0SE]

This is amazing!! I love the instrumental and vocals!! Solaria really fits Halara :3 but a tiny tip for future songs.. I feel like you should make the instrumental a little louder. It feels like the vocals are clogging it up. Besdies that, this is great!!

[@Wince_Media]

Yeah, I figured out why that's happening. I basically Connect the instrumental to the vocals so that it changes volume to fit the vocals... but ive been doing that TWICE without even realizing. I'll make sure to fix that when I upload my songs on other places
Not to mention, one of the sidechainings I did altered the instrumental, making it sound muddy. I've now learned how to mix vocals into instrumentals correctly