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I've been listening to Pinocchio-P all day
Aug. 6th, 2021 04:13 pmI've been doing a lot of things, but this is the most immediate/recent thing. I've mentioned Pinocchio-P before in this post, and also mentioned that I'm a big fan. The reason I was listening to his music all day is he just released a new video featuring Rin (the last time he used Rin was eight whole years ago!) and then I clicked into his playlist of music videos and it was just nice to have in the background.
Pinocchio-P's trademark is using his own voice to support and back up the vocaloid voices. In his live shows, as demonstrated in this recording of Whatever Yama Says Goes, he treats it as a sort of duet with Miku's prerecorded vocals, singing live while Miku sings from the computer on account of she is not real. I love how he's just. He is just Some Guy. The archetypal Some Guy. In a red hat. I want to see him live so bad. Anyway, he works with the vocaloid voices to create a feeling of collaboration. Miku is the star, but Pinocchio-P helps make her shine.
I also love how much he loves vocaloid for what it is. He has no less than 3 songs explicitly about how much he loves vocaloid and Miku. (Because You're Here, The Vocaloid Songs Ten Years Later, and Vocaloids Are Lame). A lot of producers move on from making vocaloid music and find success as solo artists singing themselves, but Pinocchio-P chooses to continue making music with vocaloid, because he likes it. He makes non-vocaloid stuff sometimes as well, but he seems to have a lot of respect for the scene as a whole, and I like that.
Pinocchio-P's work is niche, deliberately so. He's said in an interview before "if I was the most popular vocaloid producer, that'd be a sign that something's wrong with the scene." His songs feature upbeat electronic melodies and lyrics about subjects as wide-ranging as onions and Buddhist death gods. But they're catchy and fun and I like them. My favorite is Yozurina.
Next time: possibly Russian rock? Possibly urban fantasy thoughts? We'll see.
Pinocchio-P's trademark is using his own voice to support and back up the vocaloid voices. In his live shows, as demonstrated in this recording of Whatever Yama Says Goes, he treats it as a sort of duet with Miku's prerecorded vocals, singing live while Miku sings from the computer on account of she is not real. I love how he's just. He is just Some Guy. The archetypal Some Guy. In a red hat. I want to see him live so bad. Anyway, he works with the vocaloid voices to create a feeling of collaboration. Miku is the star, but Pinocchio-P helps make her shine.
I also love how much he loves vocaloid for what it is. He has no less than 3 songs explicitly about how much he loves vocaloid and Miku. (Because You're Here, The Vocaloid Songs Ten Years Later, and Vocaloids Are Lame). A lot of producers move on from making vocaloid music and find success as solo artists singing themselves, but Pinocchio-P chooses to continue making music with vocaloid, because he likes it. He makes non-vocaloid stuff sometimes as well, but he seems to have a lot of respect for the scene as a whole, and I like that.
Pinocchio-P's work is niche, deliberately so. He's said in an interview before "if I was the most popular vocaloid producer, that'd be a sign that something's wrong with the scene." His songs feature upbeat electronic melodies and lyrics about subjects as wide-ranging as onions and Buddhist death gods. But they're catchy and fun and I like them. My favorite is Yozurina.
Next time: possibly Russian rock? Possibly urban fantasy thoughts? We'll see.
