There are certain limitations (which will get better in time) and it's also because it is a stylistic choice. I personally like the chaotic quality that many vocaloid songs carry, and much like other somewhat experimental genre's you start to be able to follow more after listening to it over time. That being said,, , and encompass many of those feelings better than any other songs I've heard. However, anyone who has struggled with depression/self harm or has suffered abuse should not look them up if they think there is any possibility of being triggered by a mention of it (to the degree where I opened youtube in a private tab to find these links so that I wouldn't risk them being recommended while I'm in a bad headspace). IMHO, the best gateway drug is this album/series this is from, though that may just be my personal nostalgia: Īnother interesting vocaloid artist is SOOOO. I'm about 50/50 on vocaloid songs personally. The Evilious Chronicles and Kagerou Project are two multimedia fandoms that grew out of Vocaloid song cycles.It's definitely an acquired taste. Vocaloid fandom is closely enmeshed with both the UTAU fandom and the Utattemita section of Nico Nico Douga.

Writing fanfiction is a less common fan activity in this fandom. This creates a very fluid border between 'original', ' transformative', and ' derivative' works, with on one end of the spectrum original songs and PVs (Japanese fandom contains many professional songwriters) and on the other extreme covers produced by feeding saved configuration files to a different voice bank with no editing.Ĭommon fandom activities are writing songs, performing songs, covering existing songs with Vocaloid, making videos for songs, drawing fanart, singing karaoke versions of Vocaloid songs, and playing existing songs on an instrument. The fandom dynamics are somewhat special since it is not based on a source text, and all media in it are by definition fan works. The Japanese Vocaloid fandom is very large and active, mostly on the social video-sharing platform NicoNicoDouga and on 2chan. Despite early adoption being mostly on the English side of the fandom, western interest has flagged since, whereas popularity took off to stratospheric heights in Japan with the release of version 2 of the Vocaloid software and introduction of 'characters' for the voice banks, the first of which was 'android diva' Hatsune Miku. The software is capable of pronouncing the English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean languages with the appropriate voice banks, and other languages in the process of being added. Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesis software.

Ia is the worst vocaloid