Unfortunately, the first is blocked worldwide on YT, but I was able to get it up on NicoNicoDouga.
Initiation feat. Tohoku Zunko
The second, I did manage to upload to YT without any drama, so here it is:
About the Songs/Producers
I've been wanting to cover both songs for a while now. Zunko fit both really well in terms of voice type, so I went for both!
Initation:
Initiation is a collaboration between composer Keiichiro Shibuya and cultural critic Hiroki Azuma and is one of my personal favourite songs with Miku. I was introduced to it via a page about the Vocaloid Opera 'THE END', which has all music composed by Shibuya. Shibuya's music is very interesting and out-there to the common listener, as you can hear in THE END. But with this song he goes for a more conventional approach, with a kind of electro/pop/rock style that is really catchy.
The melody to this song can also be found in the 'Aria for Voices and Words' from the opera. Shibuya is not actually a Vocaloid producer, and had the help of Pinocchio-P with the tuning of Miku in both this song and THE END, which is why both Mikus sound identical in tone; very cute and whispery that sometimes borders on a bit too high-pitched.
Common World Domination:
Speaking of Pinnochio-P, I first Common World Domination during the Magical Mirai 2013 concert. The song stood out for me and eventually i got around to checking the non-concert version out. I have to say, an autotuned Miku Dark possibly has to be the best idea ever. She sounds so mature and smooth yet has that autouned sound that always works wonders on Miku. Plus the song is such a pleasure to listen to, with all those seemingly randomised electronic sounds and then vocal mash-up, spoken section and pretty much everything else is perfect too.
However, I'm not really a fan of many of his other works, it's really a one off thing for me. I do love his tuning of Miku throughout everything he does, though.
Sorry I never got around to doing that Eurovision thing, long story short almost everything that I was going to gush about didn't make the finals, and no-one had seen Austria winning until the 2nd semi-final. Conchita blew the roof off and you could hear the crowd screaming 'AUS-TRI-A' just before they announced them as the last act through to the final. After that, Armenia and Sweden didn't really have a chance (especially after we all found out Aram MP3 couldn't sing for shit live).
Anyway Albania, Estonia, Moldova and Lithuania didn't make it so I'm quite pissed. Oh well, on to (most likely) Vienna 2015!
Until next time,
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