It's the last day before holidaysssssss

[nekokoban]

You know, occasionally I realize that sometimes I wish I was--silly enough, or pretentious enough, or teenager enough--to do some of those things that I really want to do, and then talk myself out of. :|a Mostly this involves JOURNAL POSTS THAT ARE ONLY LYRICS!! BECAUSE THEY REALLY HAVE REAL MEANINGS GUYS!! even when a lot of the time it's just because I really like a particular line or whatever. \o_O/ I suppose that's why I have twitter, but there's only so often you can do that, too, before someone decides to take a mallet to your virtual kneecaps.

[UNPOPULAR OPINION] Okay so also a part of me is kind of irritated at the condescending "oh isn't that cute" attitude I sometimes get from my friends for liking singing robots when they're going mad over Lady GaGa. Who I don't listen to, so I cannot judge, but dude, some of the stuff I've heard off nicodouga would rival any of the pro stuff I've heard, too, and I am vaguely :\ over people cooing over how crazy/bizarre/talented/etc their pop stars are, but then are like "oh, you" if mine even get mentioned. Just because the vocals sometimes come from a synthesized program doesn't mean that the whole thing was computer-generated, and gods and fishes know there are real live human covers of robot songs that are more popular in the ratings than the original. I think this is part of why I feel so apathetic to trying to listen to Lady Gaga--I understand she's actually really good, but I'd rather give my love and attention to my "silly" singing robot fandom, which I don't think is always as silly as people act. My irritation, let me punch someone in the face with it, even if it's just myself. [/UNPOPULAR OPINION]*

Though on the musical note, I need to remember to see if there's an mp3 available of the chorus cover of Butter-fly I found last night, because damn, that was a nostalgic kick and a half. DIGIMON, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A SOFT SPOT IN MY HEART FOR YOU!

I didn't get any writing done yesterday, but man, I was so incredibly dead after a ~DAY~ that really, the fact that I managed to make all the phone calls I had to in order to kickstart repairs and fixing things that need it outside of work is an incredible achievment. CFUD people, I will pick up the chorus post tonight. /o\ THOUGH RELATEDLY, after reading this (courtesy of ysadrel and is an amazing read even for someone who doesn't know WoW, like yours truly), I really want to just. Do a text-based adventure thing and see how well I can do when I'm making things up on the fly. That's actually how I do a lot of creative things, honestly; I have learned that I cannot handle outlines that well, because then I get bored and I'm like BUT I ALREADY WROTE IT! \o_O/ and want to move on. Sob. XD Part of me just wants to make a journal post that is like, YOU WAKE UP HERE, WHERE DO YOU GO FROM THERE. Like every RP ever, only I'd want to do it with those forums where people are just giving (occasionally ridiculous) input and trying to roll with that. It seems like it'd be fun, but I don't know that people would actually be interested in it. WHY CAN'T I GET THE HANG OF FORUMS! [fistshake]

\o_O/ is still my favoritest emoticon ever.

THE END.

* PS: the UNPOPULAR OPINION is not actually meant to specifically call out people. The Vocaloid vs Lady Gaga thing is obviously the current example in my life, but it's really just an example of something that keeps happening. \o_O/ It's part of why I am really starting to hate when people say "but you're so cute!" to/about me, because I honestly feel like I'm not being taken seriously, and it drives me up the wall! SO. While I don't mind being silly and off the wall, I'd like to be taken seriously (and the things I like as a reflection of "hey, I like this unironically") as well.

Comments

[alexander.livejournal.com]

I prefer mp3s of the vocaloids before seeing the videos because I have a really hard time paying attention to the videos.

Also I have Ongoing Debates with a roommate of mine about music. She's a big pop music fan and. Well. :( yeah and we get into these weird passive aggressive moments like ". . . oh, anna, the music you listen to... have you ever noticed that noone ever sings? It's like, not real music." or whatever.

[irishninja.livejournal.com]

That link is blocked to me here at work. How did you get to it?

Tricksy... >_>

[lluvia]

I'm a crazy singing robot fangirl who also enjoys Lady GaGa (mostly because of how fucking catchy her songs are), but like... I could never even compare them, because they're completely different things. Yeah, Lady GaGa is super talented music-wise, but she's also a huge show-woman, whereas singing robots are... singing robots. And the music/arrange/tuning are what sells the whole thing to you (sometimes the videos too, but we know not all of them are that cute or whatevs).

Also sorry GaGa bb, I don't care if Poker Face is about a woman fantasizing about another woman while she's getting it on with a guy, your lyrics have got nothing on many Vocaloid songs. WHICH IS FAIR, REALLY, MINDLESS POP CAN BE FUN but looking down on singing robots really isn't.

[megido]

... yeah, what Floor said, basically. :|b

[canaa.livejournal.com]

Haha, you should have heard him while he was reading that. XD I linked it to him, so I got to hear his running commentary in IRC. It was great.

[sigelphoenix.livejournal.com]

I hate the "the thing that I geek out about is okay, but the thing you geek out about is bad/stupid/uncool" thing. :

[inarticulate.livejournal.com]

Even my mom thinks that Vocaloids are awesome and the people are incredibly talented. :|b so.

[jeva-chan.livejournal.com]

... oh honey. I love Vocaloids. I will never go "oh you" at you for it. The key to these kinds of things is to be shameless. Because really. Really? The music's pretty. Other music is pretty, too.

But to be honest, I love all kinds of music. I don't get the hype over a specific singer or band though. I'm a song lover. I hear a song and I like it. Or I hear a song and don't really pay it much mind. Ffff.

P.S. if you need someone to go squee over those kinds of things with, hit me up, I love Vocaloids |'D mostly because they DO have a lot of pretty songs and yes, I watch their videos at times. don't judge me

[mikomichan.livejournal.com]

Chorus cover of Butterfly??? Is there anyway I can steal that from you? I love that song and Digimon a lot ;o;

I wish I had more to contribute to the discussion, but I don't really listen to any Vocaloid music OR Lady Gaga, so clearly I am the most uncool person in this post so far :x Having said that, I think it's annoying when people go "Oh you and your weird interests" at me, it's belittling and I'm uncomfortable with that.

[katmaxwell.livejournal.com]

If I've ever made you feel that way, it wasn't my intention. I think it's mostly the "I don't understand this song because it's in a language I don't understand", in addition to the fact I'm not a huge fan of Jpop to begin with.

But again, I'm sorry I've made you feel this way. Next time, please say something about it because I honestly had no idea.

[vitani]

YOU CAN BE CUTE AND TAKEN SERIOUSLY AT THE SAME TIME, I PROMISE.

And I know absolutely nothing about Vocaloids so I'd never comment on it, but it's silly to hold one fandom over another. Except Twilight fandom.

[unicorn]

I HAVE YOUR SAME THING ABOUT BEING CALLED CUTE which I've actually mostly gotten over, because it's so prevalent in ljfandom and CFUD especially. But I totally see where you are coming from!

I could never judge anyone on music tastes or anything tastes really because I have no idea why I like half the things I like, so whateverrr let's do things that make us happy. :|!

[cyanwitch.livejournal.com]

I-I'm gonna jump in and encourage you to post lyrics because that is totally interesting! Like, usually I'm like "yay, song, yay, lyrics, whatever moving on" but occasionally some particular lyrics really ping, and I think it would be fun to see what lyrics hit you!

And I understand the Vocaloid thing a little, even though it's my sister and not my friends, but idk I'm used to her doing that to my interests but I kind of do that to hers a bit too, proll, so I cannot say anything. \o/ But it makes me sad that I have failed to spread singing robots to my friends past basic recognition of "oh, those are the things you like."

ALSO ALSO! I um, finally finished listening to the Protomen music. ;_; I am like, ridiculously slow, sorry. But I really, really liked it! It takes more attention to listen to than I usually divert to music, but that's kind of cool too because it's worth it, totally! And yeah. I fail at forming opinions about things past I REALLY LIKED IT YAY could you tell? Sorry.

[bromantic.livejournal.com]

LINK ME TO MORE VOCALOID STUFF!! You said you would!! Because I actually don't know a thing about it but I would like to!! I generally don't like making an opinion of something I'm completely ignorant about either.

[suzuran-lily.livejournal.com]

It's part of why I am really starting to hate when people say "but you're so cute!" to/about me, because I honestly feel like I'm not being taken seriously, and it drives me up the wall

S-sob this happens to me too /)_(\ I'm like NO I AM NOT CUTE I AM A MIGHTY WARRIOR AND YOU MUST BOW TO MEEEEE

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

...The only thing I know about Vocaloids is that I see icons for it, sometimes? Is this the same thing?

I AM INTRIGUED BY THE CONCEPT OF CATCHY ADORABLE ROBOT MUSIC AND WISH TO KNOW MORE.