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My mom thinks Vocaloids sound like chipmunks singing.
I don't remember when I first showed her a Vocaloid video, but it must've been pretty early on, between 2010 and 2012, because I needed her to buy me a Teto cosplay for my first anime convention in 2012 (when I was in 8th grade). I don't remember what I showed her either (probably Romeo and Cinderella live? I liked that one a lot back then. Or maybe Matryoshka) but my mom saw it and decided it sounds like Alvin and the fucking Chipmunks. When I went to Miku Expo in 2018, she asked me "how was the Chipmunk concert?" afterwards. It's a Whole Thing.
What's stuck with me about this pronouncement, after listening to hundreds of songs from hundreds of producers, is that Hatsune Miku and her virtual friends can sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks-- if you tune them that way.
( this ended up being over a thousand words so cut for length! )
I don't remember when I first showed her a Vocaloid video, but it must've been pretty early on, between 2010 and 2012, because I needed her to buy me a Teto cosplay for my first anime convention in 2012 (when I was in 8th grade). I don't remember what I showed her either (probably Romeo and Cinderella live? I liked that one a lot back then. Or maybe Matryoshka) but my mom saw it and decided it sounds like Alvin and the fucking Chipmunks. When I went to Miku Expo in 2018, she asked me "how was the Chipmunk concert?" afterwards. It's a Whole Thing.
What's stuck with me about this pronouncement, after listening to hundreds of songs from hundreds of producers, is that Hatsune Miku and her virtual friends can sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks-- if you tune them that way.
( this ended up being over a thousand words so cut for length! )
