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On Billboard JAPAN’s “Niconico VOCALOID SONGS” 2024 mid-year ranking, revealed on June 7, Yoshida Yasei’s “Override” took the leading area. This graph tracks the appeal of Vocaloid tracks on Niconico, placing the leading 20 based upon information such as the overall variety of plays, the overall variety of video clips, the variety of remarks, the variety of sort, and various other numbers, increased by coefficients created by Billboard JAPAN. Chart outcomes have actually been released on an once a week basis because December 7, 2022.
Sasuke Haraguchi’s “HITO Mania” took theNo 1 area on the “Niconico VOCALOID SONGS TOP20” for the very first time on September 20, 2023, maintaining its placement for 18 successive weeks, a brand-new document for the graph. This had a big effect on the Vocaloid scene. However, on the January 24, 2024 graph, “HITO Mania” was dismissed by Yoshida Yasei’s “Override,” falling short to get to the 19 week mark. What’s vital to note is that while jon-YAKITORY’s “Konton Boogie,” Sasuke Haraguchi’s “Medicine,” and nbaji’s “Sukina Souzai Happyou Dragon” after that took the leading settings, “Override” picked up, asserting the leading placement one more time. This is a testimony to the track’s significant energy. It integrates a catchy, distinctly Vocaloid, extraordinary tune with verses that can be taken as parodying culture itself, taking the placement that there’s no other way to understand what exists below things individuals claim. The video, including Kasane Teto, makes fairly the perception, loaded with internet memes. The appeal of “Override” likewise obtained an increase from acquired jobs.
◎Yoshida Yasei’s “Override”
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Not just have actually there been adjustments in the audio of Vocaloid tracks, however likewise in the voice synthesis software program made use of to make them. For instance, KAFU, which was launched as CeVIO AI voice synthesis software program in July 2021, was based upon the voice of KAMITSUBAKI workshop’s online vocalist KAF, and its usage came to be a significant fad beginning in 2021. The Niconico VOCALOID tracks graph has actually consisted of Tsumiki’s “Phony” (2021 ), Hiiragi Magnetite’s “Marshall Maximizer” (2021 ), and Iyowa’s “Kyu-kurarin” (2021 ), every one of which attribute KAFU. In enhancement to Yamaha’s VOCALOID, there is currently an expanding series of voice synthesis software program, consisting of VOICEROID, CeVIO AI, and Synthesizer V. This broad option has actually caused even more varied songs.
The mid-year graph for 2024 has actually been taken by tornado by tracks including Kasane Teto specifically. There’s Yoshida Yasei’s “Override” (No 1), Sasuke Haraguchi’s “HITO Mania” (No 2), Sasuke Haraguchi’s “Medicine” (No 3), 32ki’s “Mesmerizer” (No 6), nbaji’s “Sukina Souzai Happyou Dragon” (No 7) … The graph is top-heavy with tracks that make use ofKasane Teto A significant factor for this boom is the industrial launch of Synthesizer V AI Kasane Teto on April 27, 2023. This voice synthesizer, which can create even more human, sensible vocals, started as an April Fool’s scam: in March 2008, customers on the 2channel message board revealed the development of brand-new Vocaloid software program called “Kasane Teto.” Coincidentally, the complimentary UTAU voice synthesis software program had actually been launched in March of the exact same year. With UTAU, it was feasible to make use of the voice of Mayo Oyamano, that offered the phony vocals for the trick, as a voicebank. With this, Kasane Teto was released as an “official” voice synthesizer. As if to commemorate the 15th wedding anniversary of this serendipitous start, the graph for the initial fifty percent of 2024 is loaded with Kasane Teto tracks, whether used the Synthesizer V variation or the UTAU variation.
Listening once more to the tracks in the graph, a couple of various other fascinating commonness emerge. The initially that sticks out is the manner in which internet memes and usual expressions are sprayed throughout. For instance, these consist of “Override,” whose video clip seems a tribute to Surii’s “Telecaster B-Boy,” “HITO Mania,” which takes a poke at contemporary culture utilizing acquainted, cut-and-pasted expressions, and “Konton Boogie,” that includes the timeless 2000’s meme “What is that? Does it taste good?” From the very early days of the Vocaloid scene up until around 2015, verses were commonly straight, narrating, as can be listened to in ryo’s “Melt” or Scop’s “Irony.” However, over the last few years, Vocaloid tracks have actually had an expanding propensity to make use of allegories, meaning, and tough verses. We reside in an age in which things that individuals claim are commonly absorbed seclusion, separated from their context, shared and spread out, and translated in unplanned methods. Perhaps this is what lags the brand-new fad of Vocaloid verses coming to be strings of abstract expressions. In the remarks, individuals give numerous analyses, trying to decipher the messages hiding within these abstractions. The substantial hit “HITO Mania” exemplifies this, with deep verses that can be viewed as skewering culture, brought by a clipped sound support. Its verses birth broad space for analysis.
◎Sasuke Haraguchi’s “HITO Mania”
The Vocaloid scene, which derived from Niconico, is really inviting to all type of acquired jobs, such as dancing and singing covers. “Sukina Souzai Happyou Dragon” took theNo 4 area in the Neta Kyoku Tokosai (“Joke Song Festival”) group in VocaColle 2023Summer Parody comics and art by musicians like the manga developer Sakamegane created it to trend on X (Twitter), and its appeal took off. User- produced web content currently holds the essential to coming to be a hit, and in many cases designers themselves proactively motivate the development of acquired jobs. For instance, in the remarks of his video clip “Override,” Yoshida Yasei offered ideas for developing acquired jobs. nbaji composed in the summary box of his very own video clips that acquired jobs and apology tracks rated. Moves such as these have actually sped up the sharing of the tracks. The awesome songs of the Vocaloid scene aren’t simply the item of high music high quality, however include numerous intertwined variables, consisting of acquired jobs.
The graph for the initial fifty percent of 2024 attributes numerous distinct tracks with the distinct enthusiasm and originality so normal ofNiconico It will certainly be one to bear in mind and it’ll interest see what type of brand-new awesome songs will certainly eventually dismiss them.
—This short article by Mio Komachi was prepared for magazine in June 2024, however Niconico solution was put on hold as a result of a cyberattack, and is rather being released in September 2024
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