This blog post was inspired by my love of technology, romance and music. This post will talk about a song and then go on to talk about other songs sung by the artists and their "brothers" and "sisters".
The song that I will be showing you and talking about today is called "Go Google it, you moron" by people called "VOCALOIDS"
Definition of a VOCALOID:
Vocaloid is a singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by typing in lyrics and melody.
So there you have it!! :)
This song, 'Go Google it', is sung by two of my favourite VOCALOIDs, called Luka Megurine and Gackpoid. Gackpoid's program was voiced by Japanese singer and actor Gackt, and Luka's voice was sampled from Yū Asakawa, a Japanese voice actor.
Before I talk about the song, I'd first like to show it to you .
Isn't Luka so darn stubborn? :P
Hee hee, I love this video not only because of as mentioned, the two are my favourite Vocaloids but because of how cute the two are together.
Anyway, what really matters is how a computer program can sing THIS WELL.
And though I'll admit I've heard the Luka program sing Lady Ga Ga's 'Poker Face', at was SCARY bad. The Luka program is much more suited to sing Japanese than she is to sing English I find.
Gackpoid is a very annoying character I find in most sings but as a Samurai he never, ever gives up on anything. His singing program is better than Luka's in this song, however I have a feeling it is because there was so much work done with Gackt and Gackpoid that the Gackpoid program can sing so well.
However, at the rate our world's technology is increasing, I'm not entirely suprised, but in some songs I have to remind myself that the Vocaloids are still computers.
As I write this, I am listening to some other Vocaloid songs. I would like to share some of the amazing ones, but first I'll give their names quickly.
Meiko: Japanese female (November 5, 2004)
Kaito: Japanese male (February 17, 2006)
Hatsune Miku: Japanese female (August 31, 2007)
Kagamine Rin/Len: Japanese female and male respectively (December 27, 2007)
Megurine Luka: Japanese and English female (January 30, 2009)
Gackpoid: Japanese male (July 31, 2008)
My favourite song of the Vocaloids is called Dreaming Little Bird, and is a duet between Kaito and Gackpoid. Constantly, I must remind myself that these guys are a computer, and not real people (with the exception of Gackt) and shouldn't wish to one day meet them.
Another song I love; Cantarella. There are many different versions to this song such as Kaito and Miku and Gackpoid and Rin.
Kaito and Gackpoid have a lot of duets together, but a remix version of Gackpoid's Dancing Samurai is pretty good too.
My favourite song by Luka is Just Be Friends. Even though the song is sung by Luka, it is from a guy's point of view. I'm in particular favour of this song because of how freaking amazing it is.
Well I'll stop freaking out over Vocaloids and let you get on with your life.
For next time,
The Night Angel
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