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iwsynttr-project · 3 months

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WAAAHHH I just saw people have been posting about the project on Pinterest???

THANK YOU???

I am so pink oh my goodness aaa

I'll give some updates then so people know we're not just slackin', haha;;

This past week we've been hella busy with church, school, trying out programs, still figuring out the whole learning to drive thing, stuff with disability, etc... but especially with Valentine's Day & Moose's birthday.

CJ came up to visit which was really special & we got to eat out & get boba all together which was super nice as he doesn't live too close by ever since we moved a few years back.

I recently got most of my m3dz figured out so I might be able to start hrt within the next year, & it sounds like the date has been set for CJ & I to get married this April 29th!

On top of all this we recently found out that a couple other plans have been thrown into the mix:

Our folks are planning to head out for a week a few states away to spend time with family & celebrate our twin cousins' birthday & then they'll be goin to Medieval Times for Moose's birthday possibly with another friend or cousin.

My mom & I are gonna try & see a show with CJ & his mom if they're able to come for my 21st birthday (Which is March 13th!) & CJ's birthday is at the start of April.

Right before our wedding is my dad's birthday & we're gonna see another live performance in another state, & then right afterwards a few days later is gonna be the wedding.

We're just gonna make it small & Soukoku themed, but maybe years later from now when we're livin' alone & financially stable we might do a bigger more official wedding. We'll renew our vows, maybe have custom made suits, special stuff like that.

Somethin' we're hopin' to do is for the small one we might make custom Lego Minifigures to be in front of/above the cake & then if we save up... the four-six hundred bucks... we wanna get the Soukoku "wedding" figurines that came out a bit ago.

It's a dream.

Anyways, as for the actual project!

I'm still working on the script when I have time, I just got stumped since we don't have Golden Demon written yet- but I managed to come up with some content to fill in for during or after the scene plays out for now & continued from there.

Moose has decided to try & make two versions of Life's Better With A Little Party In It: one that's a trashy pop song, & one that's his own take on the song based on artists like YOASOBI. (Into the Night, Monster, Idol, etc...)

We're also thinking about making a Cover Album on the side to go with the soundtrack just for fun with covers of songs from bands & artists like ONE OK ROCK & Set It Off.

I'm still thinking I might go for making The I Was Screaming Your Name Through the Radio Project into an episodic animatic series, but with everything going on I might wait to record the actual script & songs until we've got most of the script & songs written out more at the least if not also until after I get a better microphone & possibly start injections. (Maybe I'll still do the first few chapters since they're just teens anyways but meh whatever; we'll see.)

I did do a drawing while I was free last night though & have been talking with my dad who's voice is basically his life & career about vocal training of sorts or if I should find classes online or something along those lines for it.

(Back to the drawing) I made a concept design for Moose's online/music persona AquaticSnow & a possible first EP/Album cover. I'm not sure I'll post it (yet?) since he might use it for stuff like his avatar, channel/s, music, etc but if I do it'll be on my personal main Tumblr, Instagram, & probably Deviantart & Twitter/X.

I'm also nervous about somebody tryin' to steal the art &/or concept.

Another reminder that I do have a personal server where I stream drawing, gaming, sometimes reading & writing, watch parties (movies, shows, etc...) & I post planning & updates for the project there!

.:Charli's Discord Server:.

( Don't forget to pick roles & read the rules! Otherwise you can't see the other chats;; )

Sorry 'bout the long post, haha;; we hope you all had a great Valentine's Day!

Charli

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twinhood-2dot0 · 1 year

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My adventure into J-Pop

My music taste is very multilingual. As an Indian living in another state, there's of course 4 default languages, although eh I only have like 2 or 3 Bengali songs, so let's go with 3, namely Malayalam, Hindi and English. But I have very little interest in lyrics, and don't have the listening skills to understand what they say, so that may be why I prefer EDM and songs in other languages. This past month however, I decided to try out J-Pop, after listening to all the stellar tracks from Attack On Titan. Seriously, you can't tell me there's a better soundtrack than AoT. So, what better song to try out than uh um the most popular Japanese song to ever exist. Yeah dw I'm not the kind of person who actively goes out to seek the most popular things, I just happened to fall in love with this song that happened to be the most popular J-Pop song.

Note: There's gonna be a lot of addendums. I wrote this post a while ago and watched a lot of the movies mentioned here.

夜に駆ける/Yoru Ni Kakeru/Racing Into The Night/Into The Night

Kanji (I think?), Romanised, Translated, and English release respectively. Yoru Ni Kakeru is the debut single of duo Yoasobi. Their slogan is "Novel into music". Already pretty intriguing for an avid bookworm and music...worm..? Although, it kinda disappointed because I couldn't really like too much more of their songs, wish it was otherwise. Haruka is decent, and a few other songs that I forgot to check the romanization for, but other than that, they were pretty meh. Okay, I listened to more, they have some pretty good songs, but none compare to this though. Okay anyways, onto why this song in particular became my favourite song. Damn, my favourite TV Series and comic series and movie and song are all Japanese. I might undeniably be a weeb now.

Go on, listen to the song, I'll wait. The whole thing, not the preview. I love this song so much I'm doing a part by part breakdown.

Done? Sounds peppy, doesn't it? So uh well, it's about suicide. TW for the rest of the section where I explain backstory lyrics etc.

Lyrics :P IDK how else to denote subsections better.

This song is based on a short story called An Invitation From Thanatos (translated). Read it here. If you wanna. It's pretty cool.

The basic premise of the story is that there are two kinds of people. People controlled by Thanatos and those controlled by Eros. You know who those are. Anyways, the former are destined for death, and the latter for life. The protagonist falls in love with a woman standing on a rooftop prepared to jump, and she does that a lot after their first meeting and texts him so he arrives. By the fifth time, he admits to himself and her that he doesn't want to live, and jumps off with her. It's left ambiguous as to whether she was real or a manifestation of Thanatos.

The song's lyrics are basically a retelling of the story in music form.

Here's a direct translation.

That's the direct translation. There's also the official English version of the song.

The English Version

The English version of the song is probably the best translated version of a song to exist. Don't believe me? Listen to this.

Use a headset, it's stereo.

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See what I mean? They didn't just directly translate it, they also went to the trouble of using words that match the Japanese ones, while also keeping the meaning, although sometimes they're gramatically incoherent.

The song begins like

Jap (Romaji, that's what the Japanese called Romanization. It's also shorter, so that's what I'm gonna call it too.)

Shizumu you ni tokete yuku you ni Futari dake no sora ga hirogaru yoru ni

Eng

Seize a move, you're on me Falling, and we were dissolving You and me, skies above and wide It brings on the true night on me

Yeah, "Seize a move" has no meaning in English, but it does match "Shizumu". There are some egregious examples where they take liberty with grammar like "What can "night" for you mean, infinite?" and "Locating, never tough when I'm with you" and the rapped verse

She's gonna try to me, she's gonna lie Got to force a belief and trust to keep on.

The chorus is also a work of art.

Romaji

Sawagashii hibi ni waraenai kimi ni Omoitsuku kagiri mabushii asu o Akenai yoru ni ochite yuku mae ni Boku no te o tsukande hora Wasurete shimaitakute tojikometa hibi mo Dakishimeta nukumori de tokasu kara Kowakunai yo itsuka hi ga noboru made Futari de iyou

Eng

Saw what got seen hid beneath, and louder nights keep beating I'm going to you, and giving brighter shiny tomorrows What can "night" for you mean, infinite? You could run with me Place your hand in mine, you gotta stay, hold up Want to leave it behind, dark cruel days In deep, you may have hid before I'm embracing you until more heat dissolve what is caught up Sun will soon rise up into a day you're no more too afraid Keep all of me in you

(Damn English is a really inefficient language. Oh well, I'd take less letters to memorise over really short words too ig.)

The Intro

My favourite part of the song, for some reason. It's starts with a vocal solo, then a quiet piano sets in, vocals pause, vocals start, piano intensifies, and is joined by drums and bass. I especially love the tiny bass solo after the vocals end and the piano starts.

Verse 1

The first verse is nothing much of note, except for her voice being awesome, and the instrumentals are stellar too. I have a thing for a prominent bass and piano melodies and repeated melodies.

Pre-Chorus

I love the piano that play after the first part of every line, like "Itsu dakke"-piano + "chikku takku to".

Chorus

Ah, the part that made me fall in love. Nothing much to say here tho, except for oh my lord eargasm. The piano (drop?) that follows is also awesome.

Rapped Pre-Chorus

I usually despise rapped parts of most songs, be they rap songs with a few sung parts (Like so many awesome Adam Levine verses. Oh my lord, I love his verses in Stereo Hearts and Locked Away so much, I would honestly loop them if it were just him, but the rest of the song is just insufferable.) or a pop song with an inexplicable rap part (Like See You Again and Like It Is by Kygo. That song has Zara Larsson and Kygo, could it be any more perfect? Yes, as it turns out, because some dude called Tyga is also on it for some reason. Sorry about the angry rants, I hold an intense grudge against rappers). But this one however with her great voice and Ayase's production is perfect.. I miss my laptop so much, I had spicetify installed with an extension that let's me just loop a section of any song, would have been so useful for this song, literally every section is so loopable.

This song also spawned various hilarious parodies.

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Of course you have no idea what Bing Chilling is or who that guy who vaguely looks like Mr. Beast is (if you even know who Mr Beast is lmao) so here's a more familiar one.

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Okay, that's it for this song, I have a lot more to cover, so let's get a move on. Huh. Is that what "seize a move" means? Welp, no idea.

Your Name and Weathering With You

Your Name (Romaji: Kimi No Na Wa) is a 2016 anime romantic fantasy film created by Makoto Shinkai. You may be asking, why am I talking about a movie on a post about music, and most importantly, why a romance??? Well, uh, I may have watched it and uh um l-ummm okay I'm saying it, I loved it. I stumbled upon RADWIMPS' Sparkle while discovering music on YouTube. Yes, I discover music on YouTube, I hate Spotify recommendations, that's one and probably the only thing YouTube does better. Anyways, the song starts with a enchanting piano performance. So, I was intrigued and discovered that it was composed for a movie named Your Name. So, I immediately closed the tab. I believe music in like movies, games, series are very impactful, so I didn't want to spoil that experience. I don't think like all the soundtracks would have the same impact had I not experienced the main work itself. So, knowing nothing about the movie except for it has one track with an awesome intro, I watched it. It was BEAUTIFUL! I went in expecting nothing more than idk typical Freaky Friday stuff (if you don't know what that is, don't look it up! I already regret spoiling this much) and typical romance. Oh boy was I wrong. I won't spoil much except for saying that it was so much more than that, and it's the first time, well, anything, has made me tear up. I cannot understate how good this movie was. I still have it downloaded so that I can go back and watch scenes and I do that like every day, so much so that I have the timestamps memorized by now. (Dream Lantern-1:36, Zenzenzense-29:50, Kataware-Doki-1:18:20 (hands down the best scene of the movie btw), Sparkle-1:22:00, Nandemonaiya(movie edit)-1:37:37, Nandemonaiya (movie ver.)-1:40:50. Thank me later. Actually, this is an idea for a website I had, a wiki for soundtracks and its timestamps. There's tunefind, but that only has a description of the scene. Maybe I could contribute to tunefind with timestamps. Idk.). And yes, all of the soundtrack is equally epic, and I'm so glad I put off listening to it until watching the movie. The chills when listening to them again, like wow. Best movie soundtrack ever. Sorry The Batman, you're a close second now. Okay, I need to stop talking about this movie, before I end up ugly crying.

Here's the album, although I recommend watching the movie first. I know you hate romance even more than I do, but this movie is an experience you can't miss. (The song was Sparkle btw)

Oh, and here's my jp-origin songs playlist, before I forget (Yes, Yoru Ni Kakeru is in it 4 times :P).

Also, the director behind Your Name, he's apparently a big deal. 3 out of the top ten highest grossing anime films are all his, and you know about my tendency to obsess over everything made by someone who's made something I loved, so I am probably gonna watch all his movies.

Addendum: I just finished watching Weathering With You. Like, right now, I'm watching the credits lmao. It's an awesome movie, did not disappoint, although not as good as Your Name. The songs too, when the movie just started I was kinda disappointed but it picked up real quick by the penultimate uh arc?

Here's the album.

I can't link because there's a 10 audio limit for some reason? so uh I'll just mention them by names.

There are five lyrical tracks, namely Voice Of Wind, Celebration, Is There Still Anything Love Can Do?, Grand Escape, and We'll Be Alright. I'm too lazy to find the other non-lyrical great songs, all of the lyrical ones have "(Movie Edit)" appended. My favourites are Grand Escape and We'll Be Alright. Okay, well, I loved all of them, except for Voice Of Wind. When I heard it in the movie I was like "Noooooo RADWIMPS you can't do this to me" and then everything was fine after the intro.

Fireworks

On the topic of anime soundtracks, Fireworks is another one I discovered, although I listened to the whole thing before finding out it was a movie song :P. Anyways, it's another one I really loved.

Addendum: The movie was pretty meh :P. It wasn't terrible, but was pretty ick at the starting but the rest was not so bad. And the song was just a credits song and not an awesome heartwarming moment song. The other songs were also pretty good but I'm too lazy to find them.

Yuika

Nothing much special, but really cutesy catchy songs. She's also apparently in high school??? As if I wasn't already wondering what the hell I'm doing with my life 😭. Damn, Windows emojis are very ugly. Also, I have no idea how any of these are pronounced, except for Sukidakara.

Attack On Titan

Attack On Titan was my first exposure to Japanese music, okay well, manga and anime as well :P. But Attack On Titan has a mishmash of languages. There are German songs, English songs, German and English songs, German and Japanese songs, sometimes all of them. So the first purely Japanese song I heard was Akuma No Ko (Child Of Evil) by Higuchi Ai.

It was the ending/credits song for Season 3 I think. Aside from having symbolism (akin to literally everything Attack On Titan), it's a really great song to listen to. Awesome piano, chorus you get the jist. There are more AoT songs in my playlist, you can find them, the cover art makes them obvious.

(Damn oops I forgor Shinzo Wo Sasageyo! :P I thought it had German parts. Anyways awesome song, check that out too.)

Sukitte Ii Na Yo

It's um another romance anime. Look, it's not particularly good, but it's the first manga I ever read but didn't get to finish so I'm watching it all over again because completionist. What is good, however, are the opening and ending songs.

Wow, I think I crossed like 2300 words :P. Guess that's what happens if you write it over like 3 weeks and don't cut out the rants. You seem exhausted, here, have some water🥤. Don't worry, the next post has been heavily cut down on rants. See you next week!

#Spotify #jpop #attack on titan #j pop #anime music #your name #kimi no na wa #makoto shinkai #Youtube #yoasobi #yoru ni kakeru #into the night

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