I really dislike modern music. It has no soul, the lyrics promote bad things, and a whole lot of it is auto-tuned. I really dislike rap. Ew. I mean, I like a few artists like Daughtry and Taylor Swift, and stuff. But in general, popular music sucks right now. Because I am addicted to music (I listen to it all the time, and I feel wrong when I can't), this is a problem for me. Thankfully, I was saved by my friend late last school year. She showed me Vocaloid.
"What is Vocaloid?", you ask. Simply, it is a computer program that makes music. Each voice is represented by a made-up character. A lot of people think "wow, that's lame" and that it's pretty much auto-tune taken to the extreme. But it isn't. To get each voice, they take samples from real people. Believe it or not, they are real voices. The only drawback? Most of it is in Japanese (they made the program, after all). But that really doesn't bug me, personally. The more important thing is that a lot of them have way better messages than modern American music does. My two favorite characters are Rin and Len. They're so cool because it's a guy (Len) and girl (Rin), but their voice samples are from the same person. Their official relationship is that they are "mirrors" of each other. They are usually viewed as either twins or "lovers" (destined, made-for-each other, kind of lovers).
This is the first picture that was released of them
And when their software was updated (so that it doesn't sound as computer-y) This was released
Another reason why I love them is that they don't always follow what society says. For example, Rin (the girl) is stronger that Len (the guy). Len also cries in some songs. While there are some songs where there are typical guy-girl things (like Len protecting Rin), there are also some "abnormal" things too. Here is a song called World is Mine. This is called Paradise of Light and Shadow. There is one more here called Hot Cocoa (there are way more, but these are some of my favorites). These are all super cute, even if you watch just a little bit of one of them, you'll see how awesome they are. And they all have subtitles so you can tell what they're saying.
Next, tea is awesome. This has absolutely no relevance to what I was talking about, but I shall continue. A bunch of my friends like tea too. My mom's family drinks a lot of tea. Yes, they are British and it's very stereotypical, but it's true. Seriously, I think we drink tea anywhere from six to eight times while I'm at their house. And it's always the same brand: Tetley (Orange Peoke). A lot of people would be like "gross, why would you want the same kind of tea over and over again?" I say to them, why do people drink the same kind of coffee day after day? So I am an avid tea drinker. I love it. And thankfully, I usually get home from school before tea time (3:00 p.m.).
Finally, there's this guy on youtube called Toby Turner. He is awesome. Generally, he has three series that he does. He has Literal Trailers, where he records songs for movie/video game trailers, where he describes what is going on in the trailer. Here is a link to one of his better known Literal Trailers (and it says Tobuscus at the beginning because that's his alias). Another series that he does are his daily video blogs (vlogs). He basically walks around and randomly talks to his camera. He's a pretty weird person, so they are usually quite amusing. Here and here are some of the many. And then the third thing that he often posts are Cute Win Fail videos. Basically he gets one video that's cute, one that's a win, and one that's a fail. He comments on them and then the audience votes for which one is the most epic. Here and here are two of my favorites.
Because I know that people won't look at all of the videos, maybe not even one, Here is a picture of him, because he is just to awesome for you not to see him.
So yup, just another post about some of my many, many obsessions.
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