Paradise_Parade.exe

....Why not? Why shouldn't I post stuff I've done here?

Anyhow, I made a very quick video for a Tally Hall cover I did in May.


( rambling )

Well, while my brain is off zooming, bouncing back and forth between various attempts at creative efforts, I do feel like rambling a little bit.

I'm working on -- or, trying to work on -- a VSQx for the song Akuma Kourin / Devil Calling / however it gets translated by Setsuna - P. It's an old KAITO song-- and a yandere-labled one, to boot. Or... mentioned, anyhow? It's a rather dark song that I have a bit of a personal history with-- it legitimately scared the hell out of me as a kid, when I was just 14 and still very new to Vocaloid, let alone KAITO.

Like, I'm talking legitimate fear. It felt absolutely cursed, and not in the way the internet uses the word these days. Like, I felt like I would literally be summoning some sort of dark force in by listening to the song. ... it likely also felt like blasphemy at the time too, if I'm honest with myself-- I was still deep in our houses Christian beliefs and all, so seeing a song talking about The Devil, showing an image of Baphomet, and also KAITO crucified? Oh man. Tiny me was shaking in my boots.

(also, I say not cursed in the current internet usage way, but..... let's be real it's kind of that too like the song is dark and spooky but looking at the PV for it now is so over the top and the crucified KAITO is outrageously silly--)

...despite that though, I couldn't help but still feel drawn to it. I was curious. I was intrigued. I was scared, but... interested. Back then, I tried translating it myself, since it had no actual translation. Albeit, I was a 14 year old who ONLY knew English, no skills in Japanese at all, so I... went off of multiple machine translations at the time. The quality of what would come out was..... what you would expect.

But, it was enough to give me an idea of what was going on in the song. If even a slight idea. I guess I've always been enamored by darker stuff-- Akuma Kourin was a large playing factor in my overall growing love for KAITO, really. Yandere KAITO and Dark KAITO in general is what drew me to him, and... Akuma Kourin is part of that. Hell, it inspired some old stuff with Proto, and... as I look at the lyrics, I can see how I could still connect it to Kadin, hahaha.

So. I had a thought-- I have the instrumental for the song, and unfortunately the one cover I see of it does not have an UST to download. So... why not try to make my own VSQx for it? A KAITOV3 cover of it would be quite interesting to me. Along with that, I have character thoughts with it still, too... when I finish the VSQx, I'd like to try and make my own (creative liberties taken) english cover lyrics of the song.

...I would LIKE to do all of that, but while working on the VSQx... well. Luckily I had the right tempo, so getting the timing for the notes isn't a problem at all. But... the pitch. The actual notes. I didn't think I was THAT tone-deaf--- but when the notes are so close, it's genuinely hard for me to pick them apart, I realize... I just move them up and down and hope it sounds right but it kind of DOES but it kind of DOESN'T and I can't tell if that's also just KAITO V3's voice being off or ME or BOTH or---

I'm even using this guitar tuner app on my phone to try to figure it out. It's pain.

I want to do this, but man. It's a bit of a slap in the face realization/reminder that I am nottttt great with pitch actually. Hooo.